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Terms and Conditions

Effective date: 2025-12-09

Summary of Terms & Conditions

For convenience only, the full Terms and Conditions below are legally binding.

  • You own your IP and data. Anything you upload or create in Valigent, including ideas, inventions and documents, remains fully yours.

  • Not a public disclosure. Uploading an invention to Valigent is confidential and does not constitute public disclosure. Use of the service does not affect patentability.

  • We only use your data to operate the service. We process Customer Data solely to provide, support and secure the Valigent platform.

  • No model training on your data. Neither Valigent nor our AI providers use your data to train general AI models. No rights are transferred to us or to them.

  • Data security is a priority. We use reputable infrastructure and AI providers, apply standard security measures (incl. encryption and access control), and ensure our subprocessors meet equivalent protection requirements.

  • We own the platform. The software, interface and underlying technology are Valigent’s. You receive a limited licence to use it.

  • Trials are free and limited. The trial is time-limited, does not automatically convert into a paid subscription, and can be ended by either party.

  • No legal advice. The platform and AI outputs are tools to support your work. They are not legal, patent or professional advice.

  • Liability is reasonably limited. During trials, the service is provided “as is” and our liability is capped, as is standard for early-stage SaaS tools.

  • Swedish law applies. Disputes go to the Stockholm District Court unless mandatory law requires otherwise.

These Terms and Conditions (“Terms”) govern the use of the Valigent software-as-a-service platform (the “Valigent Platform” or the “Service”) provided by Valigent AB, a company incorporated in Sweden (“Valigent”, “we”, “us” or “our”).

These Terms apply only to business customers (legal entities) and not to consumers.

By accessing or using the Valigent Platform, clicking “Accept”, or starting a trial, the customer (“Customer”) agrees to be bound by these Terms. If Customer does not agree, it must not use the Valigent Platform.

If Valigent and Customer have entered into a separate signed agreement (for example, a subscription or licence agreement) that refers to these Terms (“Main Agreement”), that Main Agreement will prevail over these Terms in case of conflict.

1. Definitions

In these Terms:

  • “Authorized Users” means employees, consultants or contractors of Customer who are authorised by Customer to access and use the Valigent Platform.
  • “Confidential Information” means non-public information disclosed by one party to the other, directly or indirectly, that is marked or identified as confidential, or that reasonably should be understood as confidential given the nature of the information and the circumstances of disclosure. Customer Data is Confidential Information of Customer.
  • “Customer Data” means all data, information, documents, ideas, inventions, content and other material that is uploaded to, submitted to, stored in or otherwise made available in the Valigent Platform by or on behalf of Customer or its Authorized Users. For clarity, Customer Data includes any confidential or unpublished inventions, ideas, concepts or documents provided by Customer for analysis or processing within the Valigent Platform.
  • “Feedback” means any suggestions, ideas, enhancement requests, recommendations, comments, or other feedback provided by Customer or its Authorized Users relating to the Valigent Platform, but excluding Customer’s underlying inventions or substantive IP contained in Customer Data.
  • “Third-Party Providers” means third-party service providers engaged by Valigent to provide infrastructure, hosting, AI/LLM models or other components of the Service.
  • “Trial Period” means the period during which Customer is granted free access to the Valigent Platform for evaluation, as agreed in writing (including by email) between Customer and Valigent.
  • “Main Agreement” means any written agreement between Customer and Valigent that governs Customer’s paid subscription to the Valigent Platform and that expressly refers to these Terms (for example, a B2B SaaS Purchase and License Agreement or similar contract).

2. Scope and Applicability

2.1 Trial and Paid Use. These Terms apply to Customer’s use of the Valigent Platform:

  • during any Trial Period; and

  • thereafter, for as long as Customer uses the Valigent Platform or has an active subscription under a Main Agreement.

Where a Main Agreement is in place, these Terms form part of the overall agreement between Customer and Valigent. If there is any conflict between these Terms and a Main Agreement, the Main Agreement (as applicable) will prevail to the extent of that conflict.

2.2 Access by Invitation. At the moment, access to the Valigent Platform is granted by invitation or agreement between Valigent and Customer (including any Main Agreement). Valigent may introduce self-service sign-up in the future, in which case these Terms will also apply to such sign-ups.

3. Access to the Service

3.1 Trial Access

3.1.1 Grant of Rights. During the Trial Period, Valigent grants Customer a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right for its Authorized Users to access and use the Valigent Platform solely for Customer’s internal evaluation purposes.

3.1.2 Duration. The default Trial Period is two (2) weeks, unless otherwise agreed in writing. Valigent may extend the Trial Period at its discretion by written confirmation (including email).

3.1.3 No Obligation to Purchase. Customer is not obligated to purchase a subscription at the end of the Trial Period. Valigent is not obligated to continue providing access to the Valigent Platform after the Trial Period, unless Customer and Valigent enter into a Main Agreement.

3.1.4 Right to Suspend or Terminate. Valigent may suspend or terminate trial access at any time and for any reason, including suspected misuse, security risks or non-business use.

3.2 Access After the Trial

3.2.1 Subscription Required. Continued access to and use of the Valigent Platform after the Trial Period requires a Main Agreement (such as a subscription or licence agreement) between Valigent and Customer.

3.2.2 No Automatic Conversion. The Trial Period does not automatically convert into a paid subscription. A separate agreement is required to continue use.

4. Customer Responsibilities and Acceptable Use

4.1 Account Management. Customer is responsible for:

  • creating and managing Authorized User accounts;
  • ensuring that login credentials are kept secure and used only by the assigned Authorized User; and
  • promptly notifying Valigent if it suspects any unauthorised access to the Valigent Platform.

4.2 Lawful Use. Customer is responsible for ensuring that:

  • Customer Data and Customer’s use of the Valigent Platform comply with all applicable laws and regulations;
  • Customer has obtained all necessary rights, consents and authorisations to upload and process Customer Data in the Valigent Platform.

4.3 Prohibited Use. Customer and Authorized Users must not:

  • use the Valigent Platform to store or transmit any unlawful content, or content that infringes third-party intellectual property, privacy or other rights;
  • attempt to interfere with or disrupt the integrity or performance of the Valigent Platform or its underlying infrastructure;
  • attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Valigent Platform, related systems or networks;
  • reverse engineer, decompile or otherwise attempt to derive source code from the Valigent Platform, except to the extent expressly permitted by mandatory law;
  • use the Valigent Platform to build a competing product or service that is substantially similar to the Valigent Platform.

5. Intellectual Property

5.1 Ownership of the Valigent Platform

5.1.1 Valigent IP. Valigent and its licensors own all rights, title and interest in and to the Valigent Platform, including all software, interfaces, workflows, algorithms, prompts, models provided by Valigent, designs, documentation and any improvements or derivative works thereof (“Valigent IP”).

5.1.2 Licence to Use the Service. Subject to these Terms and, where applicable, the Main Agreement, Valigent grants Customer a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable right for its Authorized Users to access and use the Valigent Platform for Customer’s internal business purposes during the Trial Period and any subscription term.

5.1.3 Reservation of Rights. Except for the limited rights expressly granted in these Terms and any Main Agreement, no rights or licences are granted to Customer, and all rights in the Valigent IP are reserved by Valigent.

5.2 Ownership of Customer Data and Inventions

5.2.1 Customer Ownership. Customer retains all rights, title and interest in and to Customer Data, including any inventions, ideas, concepts, designs, documents and other intellectual property contained in Customer Data. Nothing in these Terms transfers ownership of Customer Data or Customer’s intellectual property to Valigent or to any Third-Party Provider.

5.2.2 Licence to Provide the Service. Customer grants Valigent a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, copy, process, transmit and display Customer Data solely:

  • to provide, maintain and support the Valigent Platform to Customer;
  • to implement security, backup, logging and disaster recovery; and
  • to comply with applicable laws and legal obligations.

This licence does not permit Valigent or its Third-Party Providers to use Customer Data to train general-purpose machine learning models, nor to claim any ownership in Customer Data.

5.3 Feedback

5.3.1 Use of Feedback. Customer may provide Feedback about the Valigent Platform. Customer grants Valigent a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, worldwide licence to use such Feedback for the purpose of improving and developing the Valigent Platform and Valigent’s related products and services.

5.3.2 No Transfer of Underlying IP. The licence to Feedback does not transfer ownership of Customer’s underlying inventions, ideas or other intellectual property described in Customer Data. Such underlying IP remains the property of Customer.

6. Use of AI and Third-Party Providers

6.1 Third-Party Providers. Valigent uses Third-Party Providers to host, process and store data, and to provide certain functionalities, including large language model (LLM) services. Valigent remains responsible for the relationship with such Third-Party Providers.

6.2 Data Handling by Third-Party Providers. Valigent contracts with Third-Party Providers on terms that:

  • do not transfer ownership of Customer Data to the Third-Party Provider;
  • prohibit the Third-Party Provider from using Customer Data to train their general models; and
  • limit retention of Customer Data to what is necessary to provide the relevant services.

Valigent may change Third-Party Providers from time to time, provided that materially equivalent protections for Customer Data are maintained.

Third-Party Providers engaged by Valigent are bound by confidentiality obligations and are not permitted to make Customer Data publicly available.

6.3 AI-Generated Outputs. The Valigent Platform may generate outputs using AI or LLM functionality (“AI Outputs”). Customer acknowledges and agrees that:

  • AI Outputs are generated from statistical models and may be inaccurate, incomplete or not suitable for Customer’s specific use case;
  • AI Outputs must be reviewed, checked and validated by Customer before being relied upon; and
  • Valigent does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness or suitability of AI Outputs.

7. Data Protection, Privacy and Security

7.1 Roles under Data Protection Law. For personal data contained in Customer Data, Customer is the data controller and Valigent is the data processor (or equivalent roles under applicable data protection laws), unless otherwise agreed in a separate data processing agreement.

7.2 Data Processing Agreement. Where required under applicable data protection laws (including the GDPR), Valigent and Customer shall enter into a separate data processing agreement (“DPA”) that forms part of the contractual relationship between the parties. In case of conflict between these Terms and the DPA regarding the processing of personal data, the DPA shall prevail.

7.3 Privacy Policy. Valigent’s handling of personal data is further described in Valigent’s Privacy Policy, available at: https://valigent.io/privacy (“Privacy Policy”). The Privacy Policy does not form part of these Terms but explains how Valigent collects and processes personal data as controller.

7.4 Security Measures. Valigent will implement appropriate technical and organisational measures designed to protect Customer Data against unauthorised access, loss or alteration, taking into account the nature of the Service, the type of data and the associated risks. However, Customer acknowledges that no system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

7.5 Data Breaches. In the event of a personal data breach affecting Customer Data for which Valigent is responsible, Valigent will notify Customer without undue delay after becoming aware of the breach, in accordance with the DPA and applicable law.

8. Confidentiality

8.1 Obligation of Confidentiality. Each party shall treat the other party’s Confidential Information as confidential and shall not use it for any purpose other than performing its obligations or exercising its rights under these Terms and any Main Agreement.

8.2 Confidentiality of Inventions Customer may upload inventions, technical disclosures, unpublished ideas or similar confidential information to the Valigent Platform for analysis. Such information is treated as Customer’s Confidential Information. Uploading or processing such information in the Valigent Platform does not constitute public disclosure, does not make the information available to any unauthorised party, and does not affect the novelty or patentability of Customer’s inventions. Valigent will not publish, disclose or otherwise make such information publicly available and will only process it as necessary to provide the Service, using subprocessors bound by equivalent confidentiality obligations.

8.3 Permitted Disclosure. A party may disclose Confidential Information:

  • to its employees, contractors and advisors who need to know such information for the purposes of these Terms, provided they are bound by confidentiality obligations; and
  • when required to do so by law, court order or regulatory authority, provided the receiving party, to the extent legally permitted, gives the disclosing party reasonable prior notice.

8.4 Exclusions. Confidential Information does not include information that:

  • is or becomes publicly available through no fault of the receiving party;
  • was lawfully known to the receiving party before disclosure;
  • is received from a third party without breach of any obligation of confidentiality; or
  • is independently developed by the receiving party without use of the disclosing party’s Confidential Information.

9.1 No Legal Advice. The Valigent Platform, including any AI Outputs and other results, does not constitute legal advice, patent advice, or any other form of professional advice.

9.2 No Attorney-Client Relationship. Use of the Valigent Platform does not create an attorney-client relationship, patent attorney-client relationship, or any similar professional relationship between Customer and Valigent.

9.3 Customer Responsibility. Customer is solely responsible for:

  • evaluating and verifying any outputs and information obtained through the Valigent Platform; and
  • making decisions regarding, for example, filing patent applications, freedom-to-operate analyses, and other IP or legal matters.

Customer should seek advice from qualified legal or other professional advisors before making decisions based on outputs from the Valigent Platform.

9.4 No Publication or Disclosure by Valigent. Valigent will not publish, disclose or otherwise make available any Customer Data, including inventions or technical information, to any public source or unauthorised third party.

10. Warranties and Disclaimers

10.1 Trial – “As Is”. During the Trial Period, the Valigent Platform is provided “as is” and “as available”, without any warranties of any kind, whether express, implied or statutory.

10.2 General Disclaimer. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Valigent disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, and any warranties arising out of course of dealing or usage of trade. Valigent does not warrant that:

  • the Valigent Platform will be error-free or uninterrupted;
  • any defects will be corrected; or
  • the Valigent Platform or AI Outputs will meet Customer’s requirements or expectations.

10.3 Third-Party Services. Valigent is not responsible for the acts or omissions of Third-Party Providers beyond what is required under its agreements with them, except to the extent required by mandatory law.

11. Limitation of Liability

11.1 Indirect Damages. To the maximum extent permitted by law, neither party shall be liable to the other for any indirect, incidental, consequential or special damages, including lost profits, loss of business, loss of data or loss of goodwill, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.

11.2 Liability Cap. Except for Excluded Claims and Customer’s payment obligations under these Terms or any Main Agreement, each party’s aggregate liability arising out of or in connection with these Terms and Customer’s use of the Valigent Platform, whether in contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise, shall be limited to:

  • during the Trial Period: EUR 1 000; and

  • during any paid subscription term (if no Main Agreement specifies otherwise): the total fees paid by Customer to Valigent for the Valigent Platform during the 12 months immediately preceding the event giving rise to the claim.

11.3 Excluded Claims. “Excluded Claims” means:

  • liability that cannot be limited or excluded under applicable mandatory law;
  • liability arising from a party’s intentional misconduct or gross negligence, to the extent such limitation is prohibited by applicable law; and
  • liability arising from a party’s breach of Section 8 (Confidentiality) or from a personal data breach for which that party is responsible under the applicable data processing agreement.

In respect of Excluded Claims, each party’s aggregate liability shall be limited to two (2) times the cap that would otherwise apply under Section 11.2, unless applicable mandatory law requires a higher or unlimited liability.

12. Term, Suspension and Termination

12.1 Term. These Terms apply from the earlier of (i) Customer’s first access to the Valigent Platform, or (ii) acceptance of these Terms, and continue for as long as Customer uses the Valigent Platform or has an active subscription under a Main Agreement, unless terminated earlier in accordance with this Section 12 and any applicable Main Agreement.

12.2 Termination of Trial. The Trial Period ends automatically at the end of the agreed duration, unless extended by Valigent in writing or replaced by a Main Agreement.

12.3 Suspension. Valigent may suspend Customer’s or any Authorized User’s access to the Valigent Platform, in whole or in part, if:

  • Valigent reasonably believes there is a security risk or misuse;
  • Customer is in material breach of these Terms; or
  • Valigent is required to do so by law or by a governmental authority.

Valigent will notify Customer of the suspension where reasonably possible.

12.4 Termination for Cause. Either party may terminate Customer’s access to the Valigent Platform immediately upon written notice if the other party commits a material breach of these Terms and, where the breach can be remedied, fails to remedy such breach within thirty (30) days after receiving written notice.

12.5 Effect of Termination. Upon termination or expiry:

  • Customer’s right to access and use the Valigent Platform ceases; and
  • Valigent will, within a reasonable period, delete or anonymise Customer Data from active systems, except where retention is required by law or for legitimate business records (such as backup archives).

Upon request made within 30 days of termination, Valigent will provide Customer with a one-time export of Customer Data in a commonly used format, subject to technical feasibility.

13. Changes to the Service and to these Terms

13.1 Changes to the Service. Valigent may improve, update or modify the Valigent Platform from time to time. Where a change materially reduces core functionality of the Valigent Platform used by Customer in production, Valigent will use reasonable efforts to notify affected Customers in advance. Valigent will not intentionally make changes that materially reduce the overall core functionality of the Valigent Platform during an ongoing paid subscription term, except where required by law or necessary for security, stability or to address a material risk.

13.2 Changes to the Terms. Valigent may update these Terms from time to time. For material changes, Valigent will provide notice to Customer (for example, by email or in the Valigent Platform).

  • For Customers using the Valigent Platform only under a Trial Period or without a Main Agreement, the updated Terms will apply from the date specified in the notice, and Customer’s continued use of the Valigent Platform after that date will constitute acceptance of the updated Terms.
  • For Customers with an active paid subscription under a Main Agreement, material changes to these Terms will take effect from the start of the next renewal subscription term, unless earlier application is (i) required by applicable law or necessary for security, stability or to address a material risk, or (ii) expressly agreed in writing by both parties (for example, in a new or updated Main Agreement or Order Form that refers to the updated Terms). If there is a Main Agreement in place, any changes to these Terms will not override that Main Agreement, and in case of conflict, the Main Agreement prevails.

14. Governing Law and Disputes

14.1 Governing Law. These Terms and any dispute arising out of or in connection with them shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Sweden, without regard to its conflict of law rules.

14.2 Jurisdiction. Any dispute, controversy or claim arising out of or in connection with these Terms shall be finally settled by the courts of Sweden, with the Stockholm District Court as the court of first instance, unless mandatory law provides otherwise.

15. Miscellaneous

15.1 Assignment. Customer may not assign or transfer its rights or obligations under these Terms without Valigent’s prior written consent. Valigent may assign or transfer its rights and obligations under these Terms (in whole or in part) to an affiliate or in connection with a merger, acquisition, corporate reorganisation or sale of all or substantially all of its assets.

15.2 Force Majeure. Neither party shall be liable for any failure or delay in performance caused by circumstances beyond its reasonable control, including acts of God, war, terrorism, labour disputes, power failures, internet outages or governmental actions, provided that the affected party uses reasonable efforts to mitigate the impact.

15.3 Entire Agreement. These Terms, together with any Main Agreement, DPA and documents expressly referenced in these Terms, constitute the entire agreement between the parties regarding the subject matter and supersede all prior or contemporaneous agreements, understandings or representations, whether written or oral.

15.4 Severability. If any provision of these Terms is held invalid or unenforceable by a court or competent authority, the remaining provisions shall remain in full force and effect, and the invalid or unenforceable provision shall be replaced by a valid provision that best reflects the original intent.

15.5 No Waiver. Failure or delay by either party to enforce any provision of these Terms shall not be deemed a waiver of that provision or any other provision.

15.6 Notices. Notices under these Terms shall be in writing and may be given by email or other electronic means. Notices to Valigent shall be sent to: legal@valigent.io. Notices to Customer may be sent to the email address associated with Customer’s account or any other email address provided by Customer.