Terms and Conditions

Updated 9.26.204

1. Acceptance of Terms

The following terms and conditions govern your access and use of Aggie AI (herein referred to as the “Service”). By using any of the Services, you (the “User”) agree to the following terms and conditions (“Terms”):

2. Minimum Requirements

The Services are not intended for use by non-UC Davis affiliates. Users must have an active UC Davis computing account to use the Services. UC Davis also reserves the right to refuse use of the Service to any User for any reason. These reasons include but are not limited to violations of the UC Davis Allowable and Acceptable Use Policies, cybersecurity considerations, use of Service which conflicts with the UC Davis Principles of Community, technical and Service delivery considerations, and others.

The Services are not directed to, or intended for, children under 13. You must be at least 13 years old, or the minimum age required in your country to consent to use the Service. If you are under 18 you must have your parent or legal guardian’s permission to use the Service.

3. Prohibited Uses

You may not use the Services for any manner that violates UC Davis policy, UC policy, applicable laws, OpenAI’s Service Terms, or applicable laws. For example, you may not:

• Use the Services in a manner that infringes, misappropriates, or otherwise violates anyone’s third party’s rights;
• Reverse assemble, reverse compile, decompile, translate, engage in model extraction or stealing attacks, or otherwise attempt to discover the source code or underlying components of the Services, algorithms, and systems of the Services;
• Use any method to extract data from the Services other than as permitted through the API; or
• Buy, sell, or transfer API keys from, to or with a third party.

4. User Content

You may provide input to the Services (“Input”) and receive output from the Services based on the Input (“Output”). Input and Output are collectively “User Content.” You are responsible for your User Content, including ensuring that it does not violate UC Davis policy, any applicable law, or these Terms.

To the extent permitted by applicable law, UC Davis policy, UC policy, or these Terms, you retain your ownership rights to your User Content. Your use of these Services does not limit or otherwise diminish UC’s rights or ownership to data, including User Content where applicable.

By using the Services, you consent to UC processing and storing User Content. Pursuant to the UC license with third-party vendors used to provide the Service (Microsoft Azure and OpenAI), these vendors do not use your User Content to improve the Services and do not use your User Content to develop or improve its models.

Access to User Content may be accessed by or provided to the IET Cloud Services team and/or the Information Security Office in accordance with the UC Davis Acceptable Use policy, UC Davis Web Privacy Policy,  and the UC policy on non-consensual access. Except as noted within these policies, no University member will access User Content without the express permission from the User.

5. Data Protection and Processing Sensitive Data

The Services have been approved to process up to P3 data (see UC Protection Level Classification Guide). Users must ensure that they have appropriate permission from the data owner(s) and Unit Information Security Leads before processing the sensitive data of others. Users must protect and maintain the privacy and confidentiality of UC Institutional information and disclose confidential information only under conditions allowed by UC Davis policy and UC policy.

The processing of any confidential medical information with this Service, including protected health information (“PHI”), as defined by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and implementing regulations (“HIPAA”) or medical information as defined by the California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act, is prohibited. Users wishing to process confidential medical information must make other arrangements with their information technology leadership.

Only the officially licensed Services provided by UC have been approved to process sensitive Institutional Information. You are prohibited from processing any P3 or P4 Institutional Information on any other version of the Services which provide similar functionality.

6. Accuracy

User is solely responsible for all use of the Outputs and for evaluating the accuracy and appropriateness of Output for User’s use case, including by utilizing human review as appropriate. Use of Outputs from the Service must comply with applicable law, as well as UC Davis policies, UC policies, governance, and other guidance.

7. Modifications and Limitations

UC Davis reserves the right to modify these Terms at any time. Use of the Service constitutes acceptance of the Terms. Failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of the right to do so later. By using the Service, you represent and warrant that you are not based in or a resident of South Korea or otherwise subject to South Korean privacy laws.