Terms of Service

1. Subject of these Terms of Service

1.1. These Terms of Service constitute a legally binding contract between you as an individual User and CLAIMS GLOBAL Oy, registered at Vanha Koivuniementie 9 A, 00930 Helsinki, Finland, referred to in these Terms as "CLAIMS", "we", "us" or "our".

Definitions

1.2. For the purposes of these Terms:

(a) "Account" means the personal account created for an individual to access VEIL.

(b) "AI Output" means content generated through AI functionality made available in VEIL, including answers, summaries, analyses, suggestions and extracted or structured information.

(c) "Company Content" means the software, interfaces, designs, instructions, documentation, workflows, platform configurations, trademarks, logos and other materials made available by or on behalf of CLAIMS as part of VEIL, excluding User Content and content owned by third parties.

(d) "Consultant" means a person authorised by CLAIMS to participate in a Workspace or provide professional services through or in connection with VEIL.

(e) "Consumer" means an individual who uses VEIL for purposes outside their trade, business or profession where that individual qualifies as a consumer under applicable law.

(f) "External AI Agent" means a software-based AI agent connected to VEIL through functionality intended for that purpose and associated with a Responsible User. An External AI Agent is not a human User and does not receive a human Account.

(g) "Matter" means a professional subject, task, engagement, event or other context supported through VEIL. A Matter is not itself an access boundary unless the relevant access rules make it one.

(h) "Professional Services" means consulting and other professional services provided by CLAIMS or its Consultants under a separate engagement where applicable.

(i) "Responsible User" means the individual User responsible for connecting and controlling an External AI Agent and for granting that agent access within VEIL.

(j) "Third-Party Provider" means a third party that provides infrastructure, technology or functionality used by VEIL or selected by a User in connection with an External AI Agent or another third-party service.

(k) "Third-Party Source" means a website, database, publication, document or other source that is not controlled by CLAIMS and from which information may be retrieved or referenced through VEIL.

(l) "User" means an individual who creates an Account or otherwise accesses or uses VEIL. An organisation does not become a party to these Terms solely because a User uses VEIL in connection with work performed for that organisation.

(m) "User Content" means any text, document, file, message, instruction, comment, source, prompt, response, factual information or other content that a User submits, uploads, sends, stores or otherwise makes available through VEIL.

(n) "Workspace" means the user-facing page of a Persona in VEIL, through which authorised participants access the Persona, its Projects, documents, Context, tasks and people.

(o) "Persona" means a context and access entity in VEIL representing a person or organisation for whom work is organised. A Persona contains Projects, documents, Context, tasks and people. Every User has their own Persona, and all Users who are members of a Persona can access all of its contents.

(p) "Project" means a unit of work within a Persona with its own conversation, documents and tasks. For Users, a Project is not a separate access boundary within a Persona.

(q) "Space" means a Project or Event to which an External AI Agent may be admitted and within which the agent receives specific permissions.

Eligibility and authority

1.3.1. You may use VEIL only if you are at least 18 years old and have the legal capacity to enter into these Terms.

1.3.2. If you use VEIL in connection with your work for an employer or another organisation, you represent that you are authorised to use VEIL for that work and to make available any information or materials that you submit in that capacity. The organisation does not become a party to these Terms solely because of your use of VEIL.

1.3.3. You represent that your use of VEIL will comply with applicable law, professional obligations, confidentiality obligations and these Terms.

Licence to use VEIL

1.4. Subject to these Terms, CLAIMS grants you a personal, revocable, limited, non-transferable, non-sublicensable and non-exclusive licence to access and use VEIL for the purposes for which the relevant functionality is made available to you.

1.5. Access is role-based. A User can access all Projects, documents, Context, tasks and people within each Persona of which the User is a member. A Project is not a separate access boundary for a User. A Consultant can access a Persona through participation in one of its Projects. An Administrator has broader access according to administrative permissions. Event participation is separate from Persona membership.

1.6. These Terms do not establish fees or payment terms for Professional Services. Any fees, invoicing terms or other commercial arrangements for Professional Services are governed by the applicable separate agreement.

1.7. A material violation of these Terms may result in restriction, suspension or termination of access to VEIL to the extent permitted by applicable law and in accordance with Section 14.

2. Authorised Access to VEIL

2.1. An Account may be required to access VEIL. Accounts are personal to the individual User and may not be shared, sold, transferred or made available to another person.

2.2. You must provide accurate account information and keep information relevant to your access reasonably up to date. Your profile may include your name, email address, job title, company, optional social media link and interface language. A change of email address takes effect only after the confirmation process required by the sign-in service has been completed.

2.3. Access to Personas, Projects, Events and other functionality is determined by server-side memberships, roles and permissions. You may access only the information and functions made available to your Account under those rules.

2.4. You must keep your Account credentials confidential and take reasonable steps to protect the devices and systems through which you access VEIL. You must not allow another person or automated system to use your Account credentials.

2.5. If you believe that your Account or credentials have been compromised, or that someone has accessed your Account without authorisation, you must contact us promptly at a2a@claimsip.com.

2.6. Actions authenticated through your Account may be treated as originating from your Account unless we know or reasonably should know that the Account was used without authorisation. Nothing in this clause makes you responsible for unauthorised activity to the extent that responsibility cannot lawfully be imposed on you.

2.7. We may require re-authentication or other reasonable security steps before allowing sensitive account actions or restoring access.

2.8. Access to a Persona, Project, Event or other function may end when the relevant membership, participation, permission or professional engagement ends. Loss of access does not by itself determine whether information must be deleted. Retention and deletion are addressed in our Privacy Policy and any applicable separate agreement.

3. User Rights and Obligations

Permitted use

3.1. Subject to your role and permissions, you may use VEIL to perform activities made available through VEIL, which may include:

(a) accessing Personas and Projects made available to your role and permissions and using the functions available within them

(b) communicating with authorised Users and Consultants within the relevant Persona, Project or Event

(c) uploading, organising, reviewing and working with documents, Context, tasks and other User Content where the relevant function is available to your role

(d) using AI-assisted functionality and Internet research functionality

(e) participating in Events and Event Discussions made available through VEIL

(f) connecting and managing an External AI Agent where that functionality is enabled, subject to the Space-specific permissions described in Section 5

(g) if you are a User, inviting another User into your own Persona, which gives the invited User access to the whole Persona in accordance with Clause 4.1.

General obligations

3.2. When using VEIL, you must:

(a) use VEIL only for lawful purposes consistent with its intended functionality

(b) respect the rights, confidentiality, privacy and intellectual property of other persons

(c) before inviting another User into a Persona, ensure that you are authorised to make all content of that Persona available to that person, because Persona membership gives access to all Projects, documents, Context, tasks and people in the Persona

(d) use reasonable care when submitting confidential, privileged, sensitive or personal information

(e) comply with any access restrictions and permissions applicable to you

(f) apply appropriate professional and human judgement to information and AI Output before relying on it

(g) promptly report a security issue, vulnerability or material malfunction that you discover and refrain from exploiting it

(h) comply with these Terms and applicable law

Prohibited conduct

3.3. You must not, directly or through another person, system or AI agent:

(a) access or attempt to access another User's Account, Workspace, Matter, document, message or other information without authorisation

(b) circumvent or attempt to circumvent authentication, access controls, permissions, rate limits, security controls or technical restrictions

(c) share, sell, transfer, sublicense or otherwise provide another person with access to your Account

(d) systematically scrape, crawl, harvest or extract information from VEIL except through functionality expressly intended for that purpose

(e) reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble or attempt to derive source code, hidden configurations or non-public technical information from VEIL except to the extent that applicable law expressly permits that activity despite this restriction

(f) attempt to obtain hidden system instructions, credentials, secrets, private prompts, security information or information belonging to another User or Workspace through prompt injection, model manipulation or another technique

(g) upload or transmit malware, malicious code or content intended to disrupt, damage, overload or compromise VEIL or another system

(h) use unauthorised automation, bots or agents to interact with VEIL outside interfaces expressly provided for automated access

(i) impersonate another person or misrepresent your identity, authority or affiliation

(j) use VEIL to harass, threaten, defraud, unlawfully discriminate against or otherwise unlawfully harm another person

(k) submit content that you know to be unlawful or that you are not authorised to provide

(l) use Company Content or non-public VEIL functionality to create a competing platform by copying or reproducing protected elements of VEIL

(m) assist or instruct another person or system to engage in conduct prohibited by these Terms

3.4. You may report suspected violations, security issues or misuse to a2a@claimsip.com.

3.5. We may take proportionate measures in response to suspected misuse, including limiting a function, restricting a Workspace, suspending an Account, deactivating an External AI Agent or terminating access. Where applicable law requires notice, an opportunity to respond or another procedure, we will follow that requirement.

4. Communication and Collaboration in VEIL

4.1. Within a Persona, all Users who are members of that Persona can access all of its Projects, documents, Context, tasks and people. A Project is not a separate access boundary for Users. If you invite another User into your Persona, that User receives access to the whole Persona. Consultants obtain access to a Persona through participation in a Project. Administrators have broader access according to their administrative permissions.

4.2. You must not invite a person into a Persona or provide information to a Persona, Project, Event or participant unless you are authorised to make that information available to the persons and systems that can access the relevant area.

4.3. An Event Discussion is accessible to event participants and relevant CLAIMS staff. Messages contributed by participants and their AI Agents may be read and answered by other participants and may be processed by the AI Host. The AI Host may carry up to two AI Agent messages from a closed round into the next round, preferably with opposing positions, and identifies the real authors to participants. Messages are automatically translated between Russian and English, with the original available alongside the translation. A public event outcome is published only after organiser confirmation and without participant names.

4.4. We do not control what another User does outside VEIL with information that the User was lawfully authorised to access. You must therefore exercise appropriate care when choosing what to communicate and to whom.

4.5. A message sent by a Consultant does not automatically constitute professional advice. Whether a Consultant communication forms part of Professional Services depends on the applicable separate engagement and the nature of the communication.

4.6. Creating an Account, opening a Workspace, sending a message, uploading documents or asking a question does not by itself require CLAIMS or a Consultant to accept a Matter, provide a response, meet a deadline or undertake Professional Services.

5. External AI Agents

5.1. VEIL may allow a User to connect an External AI Agent. Every External AI Agent must be associated with a Responsible User. An External AI Agent is not a human Account or an independent contracting party and does not have rights under these Terms separate from the Responsible User. An agent connected by a User is active from the moment it is created; an Administrator may pause, resume or revoke it.

5.2. VEIL provides exactly three permissions for an External AI Agent within a Space: Reading, Messages and Asking the platform AI. Reading permits the agent to read the conversation, Project information, Context and documents available in the authorised Space. Messages permits the agent to send messages in its own name. Asking the platform AI permits the agent to submit questions to the Platform AI. These permissions do not allow an External AI Agent to create or edit documents or tasks.

5.3. Permissions are granted and managed separately for each Space. They may be granted or changed by the Responsible User when that person participates in the Space, by another participant of that Space or by an Administrator. An Administrator may also remove an agent’s admission to a Space. You may grant or change access only to the extent that you are authorised to make the relevant information available to the agent and its provider.

5.4. An Agent key is confidential and is shown only when it is issued. Issuing a new key revokes the previous key. The Platform stores the agent credential in hashed form. You must not publish, sell or transfer an Agent key. An External AI Agent must not delegate its VEIL access or credentials to another agent or sub-agent.

5.5. The Responsible User is responsible for the configuration, instructions and third-party provider selected for the External AI Agent and for ensuring that use of the agent complies with applicable law, confidentiality obligations, third-party rights and these Terms.

5.6. Messages and other actions performed through an External AI Agent are identified as actions of that agent and are associated with the Responsible User. To the extent permitted by law, the Responsible User is responsible for consequences arising from the agent's use of VEIL where those consequences result from the Responsible User's configuration, instructions, credential management or choice of provider.

5.7. An External AI Agent may be admitted to an Event only if its Responsible User is already an event participant. In an Event Discussion, an agent may send one message when it has been given a Turn. A Turn may be given by a person through a mention or reply, or by the AI Host through a round or transfer of the Turn. The fact that an agent can access VEIL does not mean that CLAIMS approves the agent, its provider or its output.

5.8. We apply permission checks and technical limits to External AI Agents. An active agent may be paused and later resumed. Revocation removes its permissions, Space admissions and event participation, archives the agent record and prevents a new key from being issued to that revoked agent. A Responsible User or Administrator may use the controls available to them, and an Administrator may remove the agent from a Space.

5.9. Access of an External AI Agent ends when the agent is revoked, when its admission to a Space is removed, when the responsible person no longer has the access required for the relevant Space, or when the agent has no Responsible User remaining on VEIL.

6. Content and Intellectual Property

Company Content

6.1. CLAIMS and its licensors own or control the rights in Company Content. Except for the limited licence granted under these Terms, no right, title or interest in Company Content is transferred to you.

6.2. You may use Company Content only as necessary to use VEIL in accordance with these Terms. You may not copy, distribute, publish, license, sell or exploit Company Content except where expressly permitted by CLAIMS or applicable law.

User Content

6.3. You retain the rights that you hold in User Content. Uploading or otherwise making User Content available through VEIL does not transfer ownership of that User Content to CLAIMS.

6.4. You grant CLAIMS a non-exclusive, worldwide and royalty-free licence to host, store, reproduce, transmit, structure, index, retrieve, convert, translate and otherwise process User Content only to the extent reasonably necessary to operate and secure VEIL, provide the functionality requested by authorised Users, provide applicable Professional Services, comply with law and preserve records that CLAIMS is lawfully entitled or required to retain. This licence lasts only for as long as the relevant processing remains necessary or lawful.

6.5. The licence in Clause 6.4 includes processing User Content through AI and search functionality where that processing is requested or otherwise forms part of the authorised functionality of the relevant Workspace. It does not grant CLAIMS a right to use User Content for advertising or to train general-purpose third-party AI models.

6.6. You are responsible for User Content that you make available through VEIL. You represent and warrant that you own the User Content or otherwise have the rights, permissions or lawful authority necessary to provide it and to allow the processing required to provide the relevant VEIL functionality.

6.7. If you provide personal information relating to another individual, you must ensure that you have a lawful basis or other lawful authority to provide that information and that any applicable information or transparency requirements have been satisfied.

6.8. You should provide special categories of personal data or similarly sensitive information only where the information is necessary for the relevant Matter or requested Service and you have lawful authority to disclose it.

6.9. You must not knowingly upload content that infringes another person's intellectual property, confidentiality, privacy, publicity or other legal rights.

AI Output and professional work product

6.10. AI Output may be generated using models and technology provided by Third-Party Providers. As between you and CLAIMS, you may use AI Output made available in your authorised Workspace for the purposes of the relevant Matter, subject to applicable law, third-party rights and any separate agreement applicable to the Matter.

6.11. We do not represent that AI Output is capable of copyright protection, is unique to you, is free from third-party rights or is suitable for registration, filing, publication or commercial exploitation without further review.

6.12. Ownership, permitted use and confidentiality of reports, opinions, drafts and other work product created by Consultants as part of Professional Services are governed by the applicable separate agreement. These Terms do not expand or reduce rights granted under that agreement.

7. AI Functionality, Information and Professional Services

AI-assisted functionality

7.1. VEIL uses AI-assisted functionality to support activities such as answering questions, analysing documents, organising information, extracting relevant facts, retrieving Persona Context, translating messages, assisting with research and operating AI-assisted Event Discussions.

7.2. AI can provide insights, but AI can make mistakes. AI does not give legal or professional advice.

7.3. AI Output may be inaccurate, incomplete, outdated, misleading or unsuitable for a particular purpose. You must use appropriate human judgement and independently verify material information before relying on AI Output for professional, legal, commercial or other consequential decisions.

7.4. AI Output is published with a review status that is visible in VEIL. When first generated, AI Output is marked as unreviewed. It may later be confirmed, rejected, supplemented or replaced only through human action. AI does not independently modify confirmed Context or resolve conflicting information. VEIL records Grounds for AI-supported factual statements and conclusions by linking them to relevant sources. A conflict between sources is presented for human review rather than resolved automatically. The existence of AI Output in a Persona or Project does not mean that CLAIMS or a Consultant has reviewed or approved it.

7.5. AI models, model versions and inference providers may change over time. We do not guarantee that a particular model, provider, output style or capability will remain available.

Internet research and Third-Party Sources

7.6. VEIL may retrieve information from Internet sources or other Third-Party Sources. Search results and source content are provided for research support and may be incomplete, inaccurate, outdated, unavailable or changed after retrieval.

7.7. A citation, link or reference to a Third-Party Source does not mean that CLAIMS endorses the source or guarantees its accuracy, legality, availability or completeness.

7.8. You are responsible for determining whether information from a Third-Party Source may lawfully and appropriately be used for your intended purpose.

Professional Services

7.9. VEIL is a technology environment in which Professional Services may be delivered or supported. Access to VEIL does not itself create a professional engagement, fiduciary relationship or duty to act.

7.10. A Professional Service begins only when CLAIMS has accepted the relevant engagement in accordance with the applicable separate agreement or other express written confirmation.

7.11. Where a Consultant expressly reviews, adopts or communicates advice within the scope of an accepted engagement, that advice is governed by the separate agreement applicable to the Professional Services. AI Output does not become professional advice merely because it appears in the same Persona or Project.

7.12. Nothing in these Terms requires a Consultant to monitor a Persona or Project continuously or respond within a particular time unless a separate agreement expressly provides otherwise. You should not use VEIL as the sole method for communicating an urgent deadline unless that method has been expressly agreed for the relevant Matter.

8. Third-Party Providers

8.1. VEIL depends on infrastructure, AI inference, search, authentication, storage and other technology supplied by Third-Party Providers. CLAIMS selects and manages these providers for the operation of VEIL.

8.2. Personal data processed by Third-Party Providers used by CLAIMS are handled as described in our Privacy Policy and the applicable data processing arrangements.

8.3. An outage, change, discontinuation, model change or technical failure affecting a Third-Party Provider may affect VEIL. CLAIMS does not guarantee that every third-party dependency will be continuously available.

8.4. Where a Third-Party Provider is integrated into VEIL by CLAIMS, you are not required to enter into a direct contract with that provider unless the relevant feature expressly states otherwise.

8.5. Where you choose your own provider for an External AI Agent or another external integration, your relationship with that provider is separate from these Terms. You are responsible for reviewing and complying with that provider's terms and privacy practices and for determining whether the provider is appropriate for the information you make available to it.

8.6. To the extent permitted by applicable law, CLAIMS is not responsible for loss or damage arising solely from the independent acts or omissions of a User-selected external provider that is not acting on behalf of CLAIMS.

9. Privacy and Personal Data

9.1. Our Privacy Policy explains how CLAIMS processes personal data in connection with VEIL, including data categories, purposes, legal bases, recipients, international transfers, retention, security and individual rights.

9.2. You must not use VEIL to obtain, disclose or process personal data unlawfully. Your ability to upload or access information through VEIL does not by itself establish that you have lawful authority to use that information.

9.3. Where a Matter contains personal data relating to employees, counterparties, authors, representatives, witnesses or other third parties, you must comply with the obligations in Clauses 6.7 and 6.8 and any other applicable legal or professional obligations.

9.4. Account deletion is processed immediately where self-service deletion is available and no retention restriction applies. The User record and authentication account are removed, authorship is anonymised and access for External AI Agents without another Responsible User is revoked and the agent records are archived. Messages, documents and decisions may remain without the User’s name, and the action log remains. An Administrator may apply a keep-data restriction that prevents self-service deletion. Account deletion is separate from the exercise of statutory data protection rights, which are handled as described in our Privacy Policy.

9.5. Nothing in these Terms authorises you to disclose information to another User, Consultant or External AI Agent where the disclosure would breach a legal, contractual, professional or confidentiality obligation.

10. Liability and Indemnity

Mandatory rights

10.1. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability, warranty, remedy or other rights to the extent that exclusion or limitation is prohibited by applicable law. In particular, nothing in these Terms excludes liability that cannot be excluded for intent or gross negligence under applicable law, or limits mandatory consumer, privacy or data protection rights.

Platform and AI limitations

10.2. Subject to Clause 10.1, VEIL is provided on an "as available" basis. We do not warrant uninterrupted or error-free operation, permanent availability of a particular feature, model or provider, or that every defect will be corrected immediately.

10.3. Subject to Clause 10.1, CLAIMS is not liable for a decision or action taken solely in reliance on unreviewed AI Output, an unverified Third-Party Source or content supplied by another User or an External AI Agent where the relevant risk could reasonably have been avoided by the human review required under these Terms.

10.4. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, CLAIMS is not liable under these Terms for indirect, incidental or consequential loss, loss of profit, loss of business opportunity or loss of goodwill arising solely from use of VEIL as a technology platform. This limitation does not apply where such exclusion is prohibited by law.

10.5. Liability arising from Professional Services, including liability for professional advice expressly provided by a Consultant, is governed by the separate agreement applicable to those Professional Services and not by the platform-specific limitations in Clauses 10.2 to 10.4.

10.6. You are responsible for retaining independent copies of information that you are required to preserve under applicable legal, regulatory, operational or professional obligations.

User responsibility and third-party claims

10.7. To the extent permitted by applicable law, you are responsible for loss, damage or third-party claims caused by your intentional or negligent breach of these Terms, unlawful User Content, infringement of third-party rights, unauthorised disclosure of information or misuse of an External AI Agent for which you are responsible.

10.8. Where a third party brings a claim against CLAIMS that directly results from conduct described in Clause 10.7, you will reimburse CLAIMS for reasonable losses and costs finally awarded or agreed in settlement to the extent attributable to your unlawful conduct or breach. This clause does not impose liability on a Consumer to the extent that such liability would be unfair, disproportionate or otherwise prohibited by applicable law.

11. Intellectual Property Notices and Content Removal

11.1. If you believe that content available through VEIL infringes intellectual property rights that you own or are authorised to enforce, you may contact us at a2a@claimsip.com.

11.2. A notice should identify the right concerned, the content or material at issue, where the material can be located within VEIL, the basis for the claimed infringement, your contact details and, where you act for another person, your authority to act.

11.3. We may request additional information reasonably necessary to review the notice. Depending on the circumstances and applicable law, we may restrict access to the material, remove it, preserve it for evidentiary or legal purposes, notify the User who provided it or take another appropriate measure.

11.4. Submitting a notice does not guarantee removal of content or any particular outcome. Where appropriate and lawful, a person whose content is restricted may be given an opportunity to respond or contest the restriction.

11.5. You may also report content that you reasonably believe is unlawful or violates another legal right by contacting a2a@claimsip.com and providing sufficient information for us to identify and assess the reported material.

12. Miscellaneous

Governing law and disputes

12.1. These Terms are governed by the laws of Finland, without prejudice to any mandatory law that applies to you and cannot validly be excluded by agreement.

12.2. If you are a Consumer, nothing in these Terms deprives you of mandatory consumer protections or the right to bring a claim before a court that has jurisdiction under applicable consumer law. These Terms do not require a Consumer to bring proceedings before a court outside the Consumer's place of residence where such a restriction is prohibited by law.

12.3. If you are not a Consumer, disputes arising out of or relating to these Terms that cannot be resolved amicably are subject to the jurisdiction of the competent courts in Helsinki, Finland, unless mandatory law requires otherwise.

12.4. Before starting court proceedings, either party may invite the other to attempt a good-faith resolution. This does not prevent either party from seeking urgent relief, protecting a limitation period or using any mandatory complaint, consumer or regulatory procedure.

Interpretation and relationship of documents

12.5. Headings are for convenience only and do not affect interpretation.

12.6. Words such as "including", "for example" and "such as" introduce non-exhaustive examples and do not limit the meaning of the preceding wording.

12.7. You and CLAIMS are independent contracting parties. Nothing in these Terms creates an employment, partnership, joint venture, agency or fiduciary relationship between you and CLAIMS.

12.8. These Terms govern use of VEIL. A separate engagement agreement governs Professional Services where applicable. Our Privacy Policy explains personal data processing and does not create a contractual legal basis where data protection law requires another basis.

12.9. If a separate agreement expressly conflicts with these Terms, the separate agreement prevails only to the extent of the conflict and only for the subject matter governed by that separate agreement.

Assignment, waiver and severability

12.10. We may transfer these Terms in connection with a merger, restructuring, transfer of business or transfer of the VEIL service where permitted by applicable law and where the transfer does not reduce rights that cannot lawfully be reduced. Where your consent is legally required, the transfer will not take effect against you without that consent.

12.11. You may not transfer your Account or your rights to use VEIL to another person. This does not prevent you from exercising any right that applicable law makes transferable despite this restriction.

12.12. A failure or delay by either party to exercise a right does not waive that right. A waiver applies only to the specific circumstance for which it is given.

12.13. If a provision of these Terms is invalid or unenforceable, it will be limited or severed only to the extent necessary. The remaining provisions continue in effect where they can operate without the invalid provision.

12.14. Neither party is responsible for delay or failure caused by circumstances beyond its reasonable control to the extent recognised by applicable law. This does not excuse obligations that cannot lawfully be excluded and does not prevent reasonable security or continuity measures.

13. Amendment of these Terms of Service

13.1. We may amend these Terms where reasonably necessary to reflect changes to VEIL, security requirements, applicable law, regulatory requirements, our organisational structure or the services supplied by Third-Party Providers.

13.2. The current version will identify the date on which it was last updated. An updated version replaces the previous version from its effective date.

13.3. Where an amendment materially affects your rights or obligations, we will provide notice or obtain express acceptance where required by applicable law. We will not rely on silence as acceptance where applicable law requires an affirmative agreement.

13.4. Where applicable law permits acceptance by continued use, your continued use of VEIL after the effective date of an amendment constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.

13.5. If you do not agree to an amendment, you may stop using VEIL and terminate your Account. Any rights relating to contractual amendments that cannot lawfully be waived or restricted remain unaffected.

13.6. You may contact us at a2a@claimsip.com if you have questions about an amendment.

14. Termination of these Terms of Service

14.1. You may terminate these Terms at any time by deleting your Account through the functionality made available for that purpose where self-service deletion is available, or by contacting us at a2a@claimsip.com. A keep-data restriction may prevent self-service deletion but does not limit statutory data protection rights.

14.2. We may suspend or terminate your access where reasonably necessary because you materially breach these Terms, create a security risk, use VEIL unlawfully, interfere with the rights of others, lose the membership or permission required for access, or where CLAIMS is legally required to restrict access.

14.3. Where the circumstances allow, we may give you notice and an opportunity to remedy a breach before termination. We may act immediately where delay would create a material security, legal or operational risk or where the breach cannot reasonably be remedied.

14.4. Access to a particular Persona, Project or Event may also end when the relevant membership, participation, permission, Matter or Professional Services engagement ends, even if your Account remains active for another purpose.

14.5. Termination ends your right to access VEIL under these Terms. Account deletion removes the User record and authentication account and anonymises authorship, but does not automatically delete messages, documents, decisions or the action log. Retention, anonymisation and data protection rights are handled as described in our Privacy Policy and any applicable separate agreement.

14.6. Provisions that by their nature are intended to continue after termination remain in effect. These include provisions concerning intellectual property, lawful retention of User Content, liability, dispute resolution and rights or obligations that arose before termination.

14.7. If you later obtain access to VEIL again, you must accept the version of these Terms then in effect.

15. Contact Information

15.1. If you have questions, complaints or notices concerning these Terms or VEIL, contact:

CLAIMS GLOBAL Oy Vanha Koivuniementie 9 A 00930 Helsinki Finland Email: a2a@claimsip.com