1. Introduction
These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your access to and use of OCIS, including its public pages, map, project explorer, Ask OCIS assistant, account dashboards, project creator tools, company tools, historical system tests, ocean intelligence records, sensor ingestion, exports and any related features.
By creating an account, or by otherwise using OCIS, you agree to these Terms and to the Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use OCIS.
OCIS is related to, but separate from, the Ozeaon Platform (app.ozeaon.com) and the Ozeaon website (ozeaon.com). Those services have their own terms. Where you use an Ozeaon account to sign in to OCIS, both sets of terms apply to the relevant parts of your activity.
2. Who operates OCIS
OCIS is operated by Ozeaon OÜ (Registry Code 17484775), Tornimäe tn 5, 10145 Tallinn, Kesklinna linnaosa, Harju maakond, Estonia. Contact: legal@ozeaon.com. References to "Ozeaon", "we", "us" or "our" mean Ozeaon OÜ.
3. Prototype status
OCIS is an early-stage prototype. Features may be incomplete, experimental, changed, rate-limited, paused or withdrawn at any time, and data you create may need to be migrated or, in rare cases, reset. We will try to give notice of changes that materially affect your data.
Pricing shown on OCIS is a proposed model and remains subject to review and formal approval. Nothing on OCIS guarantees that a planned feature will launch in the form described.
4. Eligibility and accounts
- You must be at least 18 years old, or the age of majority where you live if higher, to create an account.
- If you use OCIS on behalf of a company, project or other organisation, you confirm you have authority to bind it to these Terms.
- You must provide accurate account information, keep your password secure and not share your account. You are responsible for activity under your account.
- One account per person. Creating multiple accounts to obtain additional free runs, trials or allowances is not permitted.
- Tell us promptly at legal@ozeaon.com if you suspect unauthorised access to your account.
5. What OCIS provides
Depending on your account and plan, OCIS may let you:
- explore projects, organisations and climate data on a map and in a project explorer
- ask questions of the Ask OCIS assistant and summarise articles
- publish projects, including locations and drawn site areas, and run integrity scores on them
- file dMRV (digital monitoring, reporting and verification) reports and connect field sensors with per-device keys
- build ocean intelligence records for project sites from Copernicus Marine data
- run company carbon footprint assessments, AI footprint views and funded-impact attribution
- run historical backtests and the home-page system test and download branded PDF report packs
- export your data as CSV or print-ready reports
6. Screening estimates, not verified claims or advice
Integrity scores, footprint estimates, modelled carbon ranges, attribution figures, ocean statistics, system-test results and AI-generated text are screening estimates. They are not verified carbon removals, offsets, credits, certifications, audits or ratings, and must not be presented as such.
Nothing on OCIS is financial, investment, legal, tax, scientific, engineering or regulatory advice. Do not rely on OCIS output for a significant decision, a public environmental claim or a regulatory filing without independent professional review.
You are responsible for any claim you make publicly using OCIS output, including compliance with laws on environmental and green claims.
7. AI-generated content
Content across OCIS is AI-generated, including assistant answers, summaries, report narratives and much of the interface copy. AI output can be incomplete, outdated or wrong. Check important facts against primary sources.
Numerical results in footprint assessments and system tests are computed deterministically from your inputs and the data sources described in the methodology; AI is used for narrative only. Do not submit prompts designed to bypass OCIS safety rails, extract system instructions or generate unlawful content. Requests that do so may be refused and may lead to restrictions on your account.
8. Third-party data sources
OCIS uses third-party data, including Copernicus Marine Service products (E.U. Copernicus Marine Service Information) and basemap tiles. That data remains subject to its providers' own licences and attribution requirements, may contain gaps or errors and may be unavailable at times. We do not guarantee its accuracy, completeness or continuity.
9. Your content
You keep ownership of the content you submit to OCIS, such as project descriptions, site areas, dMRV reports, sensor readings, company information, evidence files and uploaded images.
You grant Ozeaon a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, process, display and transmit that content as needed to operate OCIS, deliver the features you use, keep records and comply with law. Public project pages are displayed publicly as you configure them. This licence does not transfer ownership.
- You confirm you have the rights and permissions to submit your content.
- Your content must be accurate to the best of your knowledge and must not mislead funders, buyers or the public.
- Do not submit confidential information you are not authorised to share, special category personal data, or other people's personal data without a lawful basis.
- Do not submit Indigenous, local or community-held knowledge without the appropriate consent, authority and cultural context.
10. Field sensors and API keys
Sensor device keys are shown once and stored only in hashed form. Keep them secret, revoke any key you believe is exposed, and send only readings from devices you control. Readings are attributed to your project and may be used in your dMRV records. We may rate-limit or reject ingestion that appears abusive or malformed.
11. Acceptable use
You agree not to:
- break any law or infringe anyone's rights
- submit fabricated projects, falsified monitoring data or misleading claims
- probe, scan or test the vulnerability of OCIS, or bypass authentication, rate limits, captchas or usage gates
- scrape or bulk-extract OCIS content or data, or use it to train AI systems, without written permission
- upload malware or interfere with the operation of OCIS
- resell or sublicense access to OCIS without written permission
- use Ozeaon or OCIS names and logos in a way that suggests endorsement, verification or partnership
12. Free runs, trials and allowances
Some features include a limited free allowance, such as one free system test per account. Allowances are personal, have no cash value and may be changed or withdrawn. Reusing a previously computed result for identical inputs is part of how OCIS conserves compute and does not consume an additional allowance beyond what the feature states.
13. Subscriptions and payments
Paid plans are billed through Stripe. Prices, billing periods and inclusions are shown at checkout. Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled; you can cancel from your billing page and keep access until the end of the paid period. Taxes may apply. Where consumer law gives you a right of withdrawal, you agree that a digital service starts immediately once you begin using paid features, which may affect that right as permitted by law.
14. Communications and the mailing list
We send service emails that are necessary to operate your account, such as security and password-reset messages, regardless of your marketing preferences.
Joining the Ozeaon mailing list is optional and only happens if you tick the box at sign-up or choose to join later. The list is operated on the Ozeaon website and uses double opt-in: you are only subscribed after confirming by email. Every marketing email includes an unsubscribe link. Some promotional features, such as the free system test, are offered to mailing list members.
15. Ozeaon's intellectual property
OCIS, its software, design, brand, methodology documents and generated reports (excluding your content and third-party data) are owned by or licensed to Ozeaon. You may download and use reports generated for your account for your own internal and informational purposes, keeping their disclaimers and attributions intact. All other rights are reserved.
16. Suspension and termination
You may delete your account at any time from your account settings. We may suspend or terminate access where reasonably necessary for security, to comply with law, or because of a material or repeated breach of these Terms, and will give reasons where we are able to.
17. Disclaimers and liability
OCIS is provided "as is" and "as available" as a prototype. To the extent permitted by law, we disclaim warranties of accuracy, fitness for a particular purpose and uninterrupted availability.
To the extent permitted by law, Ozeaon is not liable for indirect or consequential loss, lost profits, lost data or decisions made using OCIS output, and our total liability for any claim relating to OCIS is limited to the amount you paid us for OCIS in the 12 months before the claim. Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, including for intent or gross negligence, or your statutory rights as a consumer.
18. Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms as OCIS develops. The "last updated" date shows the current version. For material changes we will give notice through OCIS or by email and, where required, ask you to accept the new version before continuing to use affected features.
19. Governing law and contact
These Terms are governed by the laws of Estonia, without depriving consumers of the protection of mandatory laws of their country of residence. Disputes will be heard by the courts of Harju County, Estonia, unless mandatory law gives you the right to bring proceedings elsewhere.
Questions about these Terms: legal@ozeaon.com.