Terms of Service

Effective: October 18, 2023

Noodle Factory is an AI-teaching assistant platform that enables educators to effortlessly create AI tutors with their curated content, so as to better engage students through personalised learning conversations. These terms of service (“Terms”) cover your use and access to our services, client software, and websites ("Services"). Your agreement is with Noodle Factory Pte Ltd. Our Privacy Policy explains how we collect and use your information while our Acceptable Use Policy outlines your responsibilities when using our Services. By using our Services, you are agreeing to be bound by these Terms, our Privacy Policy, and Acceptable Use Policy.

Your Information & Your Permissions

When you use our Services, you may choose to upload things like your files, content, messages, contacts, and so on (“Your Information”). Your Information is yours. These Terms don’t give us any rights to Your Information except for the limited rights that enable us to offer our Services to you.

We need your permission to do things like processing Your Information, categorising Your Information, and using it to conduct chat sessions with your users. Our Services also provide you with features like data classification, data categorisation, prediction of question and answer pairs, reporting, and analytics. To provide these and other features, Noodle Factory accesses, stores, and scans Your Information. You give us permission to do those things.

Your Responsibilities

Your use of our Services must comply with our Acceptable Use Policy. Content in the Services may be protected by others’ intellectual property rights. Please don’t copy, upload, download, link to, or share content unless you have the right to do so.

Noodle Factory may review compliance with these Terms and our Acceptable Use Policy. We are not responsible for the content people post and share via the Services.

Help us keep Your Information protected. Safeguard your password to the Services, and keep your account information current. Don’t share your account credentials or give others access to your account.

You may use our Services only as permitted by applicable law, including export control laws and regulations.

Software

Some of our Services may allow you to download client software (“Software”) which may update automatically. So long as you comply with these Terms, we give you a limited, nonexclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use the Software, solely to access the Services. To the extent any component of the Software may be offered under an open source license, we’ll make that license available to you and the provisions of that license may expressly override some of these Terms. Unless the following restrictions are prohibited by law, you agree not to reverse engineer or decompile the Services, attempt to do so, or assist anyone in doing so.

Beta Services

We may from time to time release products and features that we are still testing and evaluating (“Beta Services”). Beta Services are labelled “alpha,” “beta,” “preview,” “early access,” or “evaluation” (or with words or phrases with similar meanings) and may not be as reliable as Noodle Factory’s other services. Beta Services are made available so that we can collect user feedback, and by using our Beta Services, you agree that we may contact you to collect such feedback.

Beta Services are confidential until official launch. If you use any Beta Services, you agree not to disclose any information about those Services to anyone else without our permission.

Our Information

The Services are protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws of the Republic of Singapore and foreign laws. These Terms do not grant you any right, title, or interest in the Services, others’ content in the Services, Noodle Factory trademarks, logos and other brand features. We welcome feedback, but note that we may use comments or suggestions without any obligation to you.

IP AND CONTENT RIGHTS

Noodle Factory does not provide any content; all content originates from the organisation's administrators/educators who use the platform. You retain full ownership and responsibility for all submitted materials by uploading content to our platform. Ownership and responsibility include copyrighted materials, original creations, and any associated intellectual property.

Our platform serves as a secure container for your data, and we want to emphasize that:

  1. Ownership: You maintain ownership of all content you upload. Our platform does not claim any rights or ownership over your materials.
  2. Confidentiality: We respect the privacy and confidentiality of your content. Your materials are not used, accessed, or shared outside your organisation.
  3. Use Limitation: Our platform is designed to facilitate the creation of AI tutors. We commit to not using your content for any purpose beyond the scope of providing our services to you.
  4. Copyright and IP Responsibility: You are solely responsible for ensuring that any materials uploaded do not infringe on the copyright or intellectual property rights of others. We encourage you to upload content for which you hold the necessary rights or have obtained appropriate permissions.
  5. Data Containerisation: Our platform operates on the principle of individualised data containerisation. Containerization means that each organisation utilising our services maintains a dedicated and distinct container for any data that the organisation has uploaded.
Billing

If you are on an annual subscription plan, you will receive an email reminding you that your plan is about to renew within a reasonable period of time prior to the renewal date. You are responsible for all applicable taxes, and we will charge tax (such as GST in Singapore) when required to do so. Some countries have mandatory local laws regarding your cancellation rights, and this paragraph does not override these laws.

You may cancel your Noodle Factory account at any time. Refunds are only issued if required by law. For example, users residing in the European Union have the right to cancel their subscriptions within 14 days of signing up for, upgrading to, or renewing their account.

Your account will remain in effect until it's cancelled or terminated under these Terms. If you don’t pay for your account on time, we reserve the right to suspend it or remove certain features.

We may change the fees related to your account but we will give you advance notice of these changes via a message to the email address associated with the administration of your account.

Noodle Factory Platform Use

If you sign up for a Noodle Factory account with an email address provisioned by your organization, your organisation may choose to block your use of the Noodle Factory platform until your use of the platform has been approved by your organisation.

If you use the Noodle Factory platform, you must use it in compliance with your organisation’s terms and policies. Please note that Noodle Factory platform are subject to your organisation's control. Your administrators may be able to access, disclose, restrict, or remove information in or from your Noodle Factory account. They may also be able to restrict or terminate your access to a Noodle Factory account.

Termination

You are free to stop using the Noodle Factory platform Services at any time. We reserve the right to suspend or terminate your access to the Services with notice to you if:

  1. you are in breach of these Terms,
  2. your use of the Services would cause a real risk of harm or loss to us or other users, or
  3. you don’t have an active account and haven't accessed our Services for 12 consecutive months.

We will provide you with reasonable advance notice via the email address associated with your account to remedy the activity that prompted us to contact you and give you the opportunity to export Your Information from our Services. If after such notice you fail to take the steps we ask of you, we will terminate or suspend your access to the Services.

We will not provide notice before termination where:

  1. you are in material breach of these Terms,
  2. doing so would cause us legal liability or compromise our ability to provide the Services to our other users, or
  3. we are prohibited from doing so by law.
Discontinuation of Services

We may decide to discontinue the Services in response to unforeseen circumstances beyond Noodle Factory’s control or to comply with a legal requirement. If we do so, we will give you reasonable prior notice so that you can export Your Information from our systems. If we discontinue the Services in this way before the end of any fixed or minimum term you have paid us for, we will refund the portion of the fees you have pre-paid but for which you have not received Services.

Services “AS IS”

We strive to provide great Services, but there are certain things that we cannot guarantee. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, NOODLE FACTORY AND ITS AFFILIATES, SUPPLIERS AND DISTRIBUTORS MAKE NO WARRANTIES, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, ABOUT THE SERVICES. THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS." WE ALSO DISCLAIM ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. Some jurisdictions do not allow the disclaimers in this paragraph, so they may not apply to you.

Limitation of Liability

WE DO NOT EXCLUDE OR LIMIT OUR LIABILITY TO YOU WHERE IT WOULD BE ILLEGAL TO DO SO—THIS INCLUDES ANY LIABILITY FOR NOODLE FACTORY’S OR ITS AFFILIATES’ FRAUD OR FRAUDULENT MISREPRESENTATION IN PROVIDING THE SERVICES. IN COUNTRIES WHERE THE FOLLOWING TYPES OF EXCLUSIONS AREN’T ALLOWED, WE ARE RESPONSIBLE TO YOU ONLY FOR LOSSES AND DAMAGES THAT ARE A REASONABLY FORESEEABLE RESULT OF OUR FAILURE TO USE REASONABLE CARE AND SKILL OR OUR BREACH OF OUR CONTRACT WITH YOU. THIS PARAGRAPH DOESN’T AFFECT CONSUMER RIGHTS THAT CAN'T BE WAIVED OR LIMITED BY ANY CONTRACT OR AGREEMENT.

IN COUNTRIES WHERE EXCLUSIONS OR LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY ARE ALLOWED, NOODLE FACTORY, ITS AFFILIATES, SUPPLIERS OR DISTRIBUTORS WON’T BE LIABLE FOR:

  1. ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, OR
  2. ANY LOSS OF USE, DATA, BUSINESS, OR PROFITS, REGARDLESS OF LEGAL THEORY.

THESE EXCLUSIONS OR LIMITATIONS WILL APPLY REGARDLESS OF WHETHER OR NOT NOODLE FACTORY OR ANY OF ITS AFFILIATES HAS BEEN WARNED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

IF YOU USE THE SERVICES FOR ANY COMMERCIAL, BUSINESS, OR RE-SALE PURPOSE, NOODLE FACTORY, ITS AFFILIATES, SUPPLIERS OR DISTRIBUTORS WILL HAVE NO LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFIT, LOSS OF BUSINESS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, OR LOSS OF BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY. NOODLE FACTORY AND ITS AFFILIATES AREN’T RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONDUCT, WHETHER ONLINE OR OFFLINE, OF ANY USER OF THE SERVICES.

OTHER THAN FOR THE TYPES OF LIABILITY WE CANNOT LIMIT BY LAW (AS DESCRIBED IN THIS SECTION), WE LIMIT OUR LIABILITY TO YOU TO THE GREATER OF $20 SGD OR 100% OF ANY AMOUNT YOU'VE PAID UNDER YOUR CURRENT SERVICE PLAN WITH NOODLE FACTORY.

Resolving Disputes

Ideally, we want to address your concerns without needing a formal legal case. Before filing a claim against Noodle Factory, you agree to try to resolve the dispute informally by contacting admin@noodlefactory.ai. We will try to resolve the dispute informally by contacting you via email. If a dispute is not resolved within 15 days of submission, you or Noodle Factory may bring a formal proceeding.

You and Noodle Factory agree that any judicial proceeding to resolve claims relating to these Terms or the Services will be brought in the courts of the Republic of Singapore, subject to the mandatory arbitration provisions below. Both you and Noodle Factory consent to venue and personal jurisdiction in such courts. If you reside in a country (for example, a member state of the European Union) with laws that give consumers the right to bring disputes in their local courts, this paragraph doesn’t affect those requirements.

IF YOU ARE A U.S. RESIDENT, YOU ALSO AGREE TO THE FOLLOWING MANDATORY ARBITRATION PROVISIONS:

You and Noodle Factory agree to resolve any claims relating to these Terms or the Services through final and binding arbitration by a single arbitrator, except as set forth under Exceptions to Agreement to Arbitrate below. This includes disputes arising out of or relating to interpretation or application of this “Mandatory Arbitration Provisions” section, including its enforceability, revocability, or validity.

You can decline this agreement to arbitrate by submitting an opt-out form within 30 days of first registering your account. If you agreed to a previous version of these Terms that allowed you to opt out of arbitration, your previous choice to opt out or not opt out remains binding.

The American Arbitration Association (AAA) will administer the arbitration under its Commercial Arbitration Rules and the Supplementary Procedures for Consumer Related Disputes. The arbitration can be held in the United States county where you live or work or any other location we agree to.

The AAA rules will govern payment of all arbitration fees. Noodle Factory will pay all arbitration fees for individual arbitration for claims less than $10,000 USD. If you receive an arbitration award that is more favourable than any offer we make to resolve the claim, we will pay you $1,000 USD in addition to the award. Noodle Factory will not seek its attorneys' fees and costs in arbitration unless the arbitrator determines that your claim is frivolous.

Either you or Noodle Factory may assert claims, if they qualify, in small claims court in Travis County, Texas or the United States county where you live or work. Either party may bring a lawsuit solely for injunctive relief to stop unauthorised use or abuse of the Services, or intellectual property infringement (for example, trademark, trade secret, copyright, or patent rights) without first engaging in arbitration or the informal dispute-resolution process described above. If the agreement to arbitrate is found not to apply to you or your claim, you agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts in Travis County, Texas to resolve your claim.

You may only resolve disputes with us on an individual basis, and may not bring a claim as a plaintiff or a class member in a class, consolidated, or representative action. Class arbitrations, class actions, private attorney general actions, and consolidation with other arbitrations aren’t allowed. If this specific paragraph is held unenforceable, then the entirety of this “Mandatory Arbitration Provisions” section will be deemed void.

Controlling Law

These Terms will be governed by the laws of the Republic of Singapore except for its conflicts of laws principles. However, some countries (including those in the European Union) have laws that require agreements to be governed by the local laws of the consumer's country. This paragraph does not override those laws.

Entire Agreement

These Terms constitute the entire agreement between you and Noodle Factory with respect to the subject matter of these Terms, and supersede and replace any other prior or contemporaneous agreements, or terms and conditions applicable to the subject matter of these Terms. These Terms create no third party beneficiary rights.

Waiver, Severability & Assignment

Noodle Factory’s failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of its right to do so later. If a provision is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions of the Terms will remain in full effect and an enforceable term will be substituted reflecting our intent as closely as possible. You may not assign any of your rights under these Terms, and any such attempt will be void. Noodle Factory may assign its rights to any of its affiliates or subsidiaries, or to any successor in interest of any business associated with the Services.

Modifications

We may revise these Terms from time to time to better reflect:

  1. changes to the law,
  2. new regulatory requirements, or
  3. improvements or enhancements made to our Services.

If an update affects your use of the Services or your legal rights as a user of our Services, we will notify you prior to the update's effective date by sending an email to the email address associated with your account or via an in-product notification. These updated terms will be effective no less than 30 days from when we notify you.

If you don’t agree to the updates we make, please cancel your account before they become effective. Where applicable, we will offer you a prorated refund based on the amounts you have prepaid for Services and your account cancellation date. By continuing to use or access the Services after the updates come into effect, you agree to be bound by the revised Terms.