Back

Ai-Fi Terms & Privacy Policy

Effective May 1, 2020 | Archived versions

Ai-Fi.net, Incorporated (the “Ai-Fi” or "We"), a Delaware corporation, utilizes state-of-the-art security and end-to-end encryption to provide private messaging, secure emailing, Internet addressability for private/home servers, and other services to users worldwide.

You agree to our Terms of Service (“Terms”) by installing or using our apps, services, or related documents published in ai-fi.net website (together, “Services”, "Core Services"). Other non-Core-Services, such as community forum, promotional campaign, airdrop award program, etc., involving Ai-Fi directly or indirectly, are covered by their own Terms of Service and Privacy Policy separately.

Ai-Fi Services are designed to never collect or store any sensitive information. Ai-Fi-protected emailing, including its associated content, encryption, transport, and delivery, cannot be accessed by us or other third parties because they are always end-to-end encrypted, private, and secure.

The end points in any end-to-end transactions referred to within the Ai-Fi Services context are further described here.

Terms of Service

Updates

Ai-Fi may update the Terms from time to time. When we update our Terms, we will update the “Last Modified” date associated with the updated Terms. Your continued use of our Services confirms your acceptance of our updated Terms which supersedes any prior Terms. You will comply with all applicable export control and trade sanctions laws. Our Terms cover the entire agreement between you and Ai-Fi regarding our Services. If you do not agree with our Terms, you should stop using our Services.

If we fail to enforce any of our Terms, that does not mean we waive the right to enforce them. If any provision of the Terms is deemed unlawful, void, or unenforceable, that provision shall be deemed severable from our Terms and shall not affect the enforceability of the remaining provisions. Our Services are not intended for distribution to or use in any country where such distribution or use would violate local law or would subject us to any regulations in another country. We reserve the right to limit our Services in any country. If you have specific questions about these Terms, please contact us at privacy@ai-fi.net.

About our Services

Minimum Age. You must be at least 13 years old to use our Services. The minimum age to use our Services without parental approval may be higher in your home country.

No Registration. Ai-Fi Services embraces privacy by design and is account-less without requiring users to register. It does include a payment scheme built on a cryptocurrency wallet, the Ai-Fi Wallet ("Wallet"), from which we charges fees for services rendered on a per-transaction basis. Currently the Wallet accepts XLM (Lumen) of Stellar Network as the cryptocurrency for service payment. Unlike the traditional user registration account, which invariably is tied to some user PII (Personally Identifiable Information), Ai-Fi Wallet takes advantage of the proven permissionless Blockchain technology to achieve the pseudonymity for our users.

Privacy of user data. Ai-Fi does not sell, rent or monetize your personal data or content in any way. Please read our Privacy Policy to understand how we safeguard the information you provide to us when using our Services. For the purpose of operating our Services, you agree to our data practices as described in our Privacy Policy, as well as the transfer of your encrypted information and metadata to the United States and other countries where we have or use facilities, service providers or partners. Examples would be Third Party Providers sending you a verification code and processing your support tickets.

Software Updates. In order to enable new features and enhanced functionality, you consent to downloading and installing updates to our Services.

Fees and Taxes. You are responsible for data and mobile carrier fees and taxes associated with the devices on which you use our Services. For Ai-Fi Services rendered, you may be charged a fee based on a published fee schedule. The requests for those chargeable Ai-Fi Services are usually accompanied with crypto addresses generated by the Wallet from which the payments are to be made.

Using Ai-Fi Services

Our Terms and Policies. You must use our Services according to our Terms and posted policies. We may disable your payment account for a violation of our Terms, under which circumstance You will not re-submit any new service requests with other payment accounts without our permission.

Legal and Acceptable Use. You agree to use our Services only for legal, authorized, and acceptable purposes. You will not use (or assist others in using) our Services in ways that: (a) violate or infringe the rights of Ai-Fi, our users, or others, including privacy, publicity, intellectual property, or other proprietary rights; (b) involve sending illegal or impermissible communications such as bulk messaging, auto-messaging, and auto-dialing.

Harm to Ai-Fi. You must not (or assist others to) access, use, modify, distribute, transfer, or exploit our Services in unauthorized manners, or in ways that harm Ai-Fi, our Services, or systems. For example you must not (a) gain or try to gain unauthorized access to our Services or systems; (b) disrupt the integrity or performance of our Services; (c) access our Services through unauthorized or automated means; (d) collect information about our users in any unauthorized manner; or (e) sell, rent, or charge for our Services.

Keeping Your Ai-Fi Wallet Secure. You are responsible for keeping your device and your Wallet safe and secure. If you lose your phone, follow the steps in our documentation or on our Support site to recover your Ai-Fi Wallet and its various associated Ai-Fi Service contexts. When you create a new Ai-Fi Wallet on the same device, your device will stop receiving all messages and calls destined to the old Ai-Fi Wallet.

No Access to Emergency Services. Our Services do not provide access to emergency service providers like the police, fire department, hospitals, or other public safety organizations. Make sure you can contact emergency service providers through a mobile, fixed-line telephone, or other service.

Third-party services. Our Services may allow you to access, use, or interact with third-party websites, apps, content, and other products and services. When you use third-party services, their terms and privacy policies govern your use of those services.

Your Rights and License with Ai-Fi Services

Your Rights. You own the information you submit through our Services. You must have the rights to the Ai-Fi Wallet you use to pay for your consumed Ai-Fi Services.

Ai-Fi’s Rights. We own all copyrights, trademarks, domains, logos, trade dress, trade secrets, patents, and other intellectual property rights associated with our Services. You may not use our copyrights, trademarks, domains, logos, trade dress, patents, and other intellectual property rights unless you have our written permission. To report copyright, trademark, or other intellectual property infringement, please contact abuse@Ai-Fi.net.

Ai-Fi’s License to You. Ai-Fi grants you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, and non-transferable license to use our Services in accordance with these Terms.

Disclaimers and Limitations

Disclaimers. YOU USE OUR SERVICES AT YOUR OWN RISK AND SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING DISCLAIMERS. WE PROVIDE OUR SERVICES ON AN “AS IS” BASIS WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND FREEDOM FROM COMPUTER VIRUS OR OTHER HARMFUL CODE. Ai-Fi DOES NOT WARRANT THAT ANY INFORMATION PROVIDED BY US IS ACCURATE, COMPLETE, OR USEFUL, THAT OUR SERVICES WILL BE OPERATIONAL, ERROR-FREE, SECURE, OR SAFE, OR THAT OUR SERVICES WILL FUNCTION WITHOUT DISRUPTIONS, DELAYS, OR IMPERFECTIONS. WE DO NOT CONTROL, AND ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR, CONTROLLING HOW OR WHEN OUR USERS USE OUR SERVICES. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ACTIONS OR INFORMATION (INCLUDING CONTENT) OF OUR USERS OR OTHER THIRD PARTIES. YOU RELEASE US, AFFILIATES, DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, PARTNERS, AND AGENTS (TOGETHER, “Ai-Fi PARTIES”) FROM ANY CLAIM, COMPLAINT, CAUSE OF ACTION, CONTROVERSY, OR DISPUTE (TOGETHER, “CLAIM”) AND DAMAGES, KNOWN AND UNKNOWN, RELATING TO, ARISING OUT OF, OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH ANY SUCH CLAIM YOU HAVE AGAINST ANY THIRD PARTIES.

Limitation of liability. THE Ai-Fi PARTIES WILL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY LOST PROFITS OR CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE, INDIRECT, OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES RELATING TO, ARISING OUT OF, OR IN ANY WAY IN CONNECTION WITH OUR TERMS, US, OR OUR SERVICES, EVEN IF THE Ai-Fi PARTIES HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. OUR AGGREGATE LIABILITY RELATING TO, ARISING OUT OF, OR IN ANY WAY IN CONNECTION WITH OUR TERMS, US, OR OUR SERVICES WILL NOT EXCEED ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100). THE FOREGOING DISCLAIMER OF CERTAIN DAMAGES AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY WILL APPLY TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. THE LAWS OF SOME STATES OR JURISDICTIONS MAY NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF CERTAIN DAMAGES, SO SOME OR ALL OF THE EXCLUSIONS AND LIMITATIONS SET FORTH ABOVE MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY IN OUR TERMS, IN SUCH CASES, THE LIABILITY OF THE Ai-Fi PARTIES WILL BE LIMITED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.

Availability of Our Services. Our Services may be interrupted, including for maintenance, upgrades, or network or equipment failures. We may discontinue some or all of our Services, including certain features and the support for certain devices and platforms, at any time.

Resolving Disputes and Ending Terms

Resolving disputes. You agree to resolve any Claim you have with us relating to or arising out of our Terms, us, or our Services exclusively in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California or a state court in San Mateo County, California. You also agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction of such courts for the purpose of litigating all such disputes. The laws of the State of California govern our Terms, as well as any disputes, whether in court or arbitration, which might arise between Ai-Fi and you, without regard to conflict of law provisions.

Ending these Terms. You may end these Terms with Ai-Fi Services at any time by deleting Ai-Fi Central from your device and discontinuing use of our Services. We may modify, suspend, or terminate your access to or use of our Services anytime for any reason, such as if you violate the letter or spirit of our Terms or create harm, risk, or possible legal exposure for Ai-Fi. The following provisions will survive termination of your relationship with Ai-Fi: “Licenses,” “Disclaimers,” “Limitation of Liability,” “Resolving dispute,” “Availability” and “Ending these Terms,” and “General”.

Privacy Policy

Ai-Fi Services utilize state-of-the-art security and end-to-end encryption to provide private messaging, emailing, and Internet file services to users worldwide (“Services”). Your calls and messages are always encrypted, so they can never be shared or viewed by anyone but yourself and the intended recipients.

Information You Provide

No Registration or Profile. Ai-Fi Services embrace privacy by design and is account-less without requiring users to register.

End Points. Ai-Fi Services provide secure messaging, device discovery, Internet addressability and routing services for the following end points owned and operated by individual users:

• Portable devices such as intelligent mobile phones and tablets where the Ai-Fi Central client software is supported. The ownership is maintained through the Ai-Fi Wallet created by the owning individual without the permission or recognition by the Ai-Fi Services. For usability and portability, each Ai-Fi Central may be represented by an email address (through Email Binding), which is the only PII involved within the Ai-Fi Services infrastructure. Only the ownership of the email address will be verified without the requirement to tie in with any other users' PIIs. Ai-Fi Services maintain and publish this binding information on a public blockchain (more detail later) exclusively to facilitate the creation of keying information for end-to-end encryption.
• Desktop devices such as Windows PCs, Apple Macs, and Linux devices where the Ai-Fi Desktop client software is supported. These are extensions of their owning Ai-Fi Central without their own recognizable identities.
• Server devices where the Ai-Fi server applications ("HomeServer", "HomeCloud") are supported, with or without public IP addresses. Ai-Fi Services maintain a name services for locating and identifying these service devices, owned by a specific Ai-Fi Wallet, without the ability to identify their owners.

Messages. Ai-Fi Services cannot decrypt or otherwise access the content of your messages or calls. Ai-Fi Services sometimes queue end-to-end encrypted messages on its servers for certain Ai-Fi applications for delivery to devices that are temporarily offline (e.g. a phone whose battery has died). Your message history is stored on your own devices.

You may opt to store additional technical information on our servers, including randomly generated authentication tokens, keys, push tokens, and other material that is necessary to establish calls and transmit messages. Ai-Fi Services limit this additional technical information to the minimum required to operate the Services. In most cases you are allowed to use your own servers for assisting or facilitating Ai-Fi Services.

Ai-Fi Incognito Clouds. Ai-Fi users may store their files in the Ai-Fi Incognito Clouds as Krypton Tokens, each is individually encrypted and retrievable by user end devices without sharing key information with Ai-Fi Services. There is no PII involved in this class of transactions.

Ai-Fi Services Involving PII. As the service infrastructure is account-less, it does not have the ability to attribute any service activities or data to any specific personal identity except the following functional elements:

• SecureEmail Address Binding: In addition to protect your communication and privacy, Ai-Fi builds into its foundational layer the mechanism for safeguarding your digital assets, such as your wallets, passwords (thru Ai-Fi Krypton Tokens) and your email addresses. This mechanism is based on the Cryptographic Blockchain technology by attaching to the immutable Blockchain leger the public aspects of your digital assets, owned and kept safe by the private key in your Wallet. Once bound to the public leger, your SecureEmail addresses also cryptographically identify you while you conduct social networking with other Ai-Fi members.
• SecureEmail Cover Addresses: Ai-Fi Services offer an email proxy that maps the incoming Cover Address to one of your email addresses, encrypts and forwards it after receiving it. For example: from ca2s94hc62h7@ai-fi.net to one-of-my-shopping-addr@gmail.com. This is to prevent your email providers from reading, , profiling, cross-referencing, or selling your shopping, shipping and payment activities as a man-in-the-middle (MITM). The best practice is to adopt an unrelatable email address for each of the merchants you make purchase from to reduce the risk exposure even to Ai-Fi Services as a MITM. This function is optional and can be opted out.

User Forum and Marketing Campaign. There are a few other web-based support and marketing activities that may involves the collection of user data, outside of Ai-Fi Core Services, exampled below:

• A user forum designed for collecting feedbacks from the Ai-Fi community. Participating forum users need to sign up and offer some identification info, which may not necessarily be the PII in their real life.
• From time to time Ai-Fi may launch some Airdrop Campaigns to entice potential users into adopting Ai-Fi Services and to ease their first exposure to cryptocurrency trading (in order to make service payment to Ai-Fi). To follow up with interested users and prevent illegal repeat collections of airdrop awards, we may require users to submit certain type of their PII when claiming the airdrop awards.

PII Information collected in abovementioned cases outside of the Ai-Fi Core Services are strictly firewalled against cross-referencing and bundling from Ai-Fi Services.

User Support. If you contact Ai-Fi User Support, any personal data you may share with us is kept only for the purposes of researching the issue and contacting you about your case.

Managing your information. Ai-Fi Services are account-less and therefore keeps no user information. However, you may find some profile information handy while interacting with your personal or business partners. You can manage your personal information in Ai-Fi’s application Settings, which is relevant only to your private end-to-end social networking. For example, you can update your profile information or choose to enable additional privacy features like the device Lock PIN.

Information We May Share

Third Parties. We work with third parties to provide some of our Services. For example, our Third-Party Providers send a verification code to your device when you sign up for our SecureEmail Services. These providers are bound by their Privacy Policies to safeguard that information. If you use other Third-Party Services like Gmail, Outlook or Hotmail mail, Yahoo Mail, YouTube, Spotify, Giphy, etc. in connection with our Services, their Terms and Privacy Policies govern your use of those services.

Other instances where Ai-Fi may need to share your data

• To meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request.
• To enforce applicable Terms, including investigation of potential violations.
• To detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security, or technical issues.
• To protect against harm to the rights, property, or safety of Ai-Fi, our users, or the public as required or permitted by law.

Updates

We will update this privacy policy as needed so that it is current, accurate, and as clear as possible. Your continued use of our Services confirms your acceptance of our updated Privacy Policy.

Terms

Please also read our Terms which also governs the terms of this Privacy Policy.

Ai-Fi and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

Ai-Fi is committed to protecting your privacy and the security of your data. Ai-Fi cannot sell, rent, or monetize your data or content in any way.

The information provided below applies only to those products and services included in the Ai-Fi Core Services with the documented Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.

Updated Terms and privacy policy

Ai-Fi Services are designed to never collect or store any sensitive information. Ai-Fi messages and calls cannot be accessed by us or other third parties because they are always end-to-end encrypted, private, and secure.

Can I export my data out of Ai-Fi?

Ai-Fi messages, pictures, files, and other contents are stored locally on your device. These contents are readable by the Ai-Fi clients based on the Open Ai-Fi Standards. Because everything in Ai-Fi is end-to-end encrypted, the Ai-Fi services do not have access to any of this data.

How do I permanently disable my account?

You can permanently disable your mobile phone from being recognized as an Ai-Fi user by deleting your Wallet. You will need physical access to the mobile phone where the Wallet resides to verify and complete this action.

What about other information in Ai-Fi?

Ai-Fi does not store any PII related information under any circumstances. That information resides solely on your device, on an publicly available Blockchain, or in their encrypted from stored as Ai-Fi Krypton Tokens.

What efforts is Ai-Fi taking to comply with GDPR?

Ai-Fi is specifically designed to protect user privacy and uses only the minimum information needed to deliver our service. This is an evolving process, and we will continue to update Ai-Fi's Privacy Policy & Terms along with our Support Center content.

How do I contact your Data Protection Officer?

You can contact our Data Protection Officer by sending an email to privacy@ai-fi.net.

What is the minimum age to use Ai-Fi?

You must be at least 13 years of age to use Ai-Fi. The minimum age to use our Services without parental approval may be higher in your home country.

What has not changed?

Ai-Fi's ongoing commitment to protecting your privacy using state-of-the-art security and end-to-end encryption will never change. Our goal has always been to develop open source privacy technology that protects free expression and enables secure global communication.

More questions?

If you have more questions about our data privacy practices, please contact us at privacy@ai-fi.net.

Contact Us

If you have questions about our Privacy Policy please contact us at:

privacy@Ai-Fi.net.

Attn: Privacy Ai-Fi.net, 121 S. Hope Street, Unit 209, Los Angeles, CA 90012

Effective as of May 1, 2020

Updated May 1, 2020