AGB & End User License Agreement

NovAI is a free AI assistant application that runs entirely within your web browser. It is developed and maintained as an independent project. NovAI does not require an account, does not connect to any external server for inference, and does not transmit your data to any third party.

The AI model powering NovAI is downloaded once to your browser's local cache and subsequently runs entirely on your own device. This means:

• Your conversations never leave your device.
• NovAI can operate without an internet connection after the initial model download.
• There is no backend, no user database, and no analytics infrastructure.

Subject to your acceptance of and compliance with these terms, the developer grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, royalty-free license to use NovAI for personal, non-commercial purposes.

This license permits you to:

• Access and use NovAI in a web browser on any device you personally own or control.
• Use NovAI for private conversations, learning, creative writing, and general informational queries.

This license does not permit you to:

• Redistribute, sublicense, sell, or commercially exploit NovAI or its underlying source code without express written permission from the developer.
• Reverse-engineer, decompile, or disassemble the application code, except where expressly permitted by applicable EU law (Directive 2009/24/EC on the legal protection of computer programs, specifically Art. 6 on interoperability).
• Remove or alter any proprietary notices, copyright statements, or branding within the application.

You must be at least 13 years of age to use NovAI. By accepting these terms, you confirm that you meet this minimum age requirement.

In EU member states where the age of digital consent under GDPR Art. 8 is higher than 13 — most notably Germany, where it is 16 years — users below that age should obtain verifiable parental or guardian consent before using NovAI.

NovAI is provided as a tool for constructive, lawful, and ethical purposes. You agree that you will not use NovAI to:

• Generate, distribute, or promote content that is illegal under applicable law, including content that infringes intellectual property rights, violates privacy, or constitutes criminal speech.
• Produce harmful content — including instructions for physical harm, sexual content involving minors, or material designed to incite hatred or violence on the basis of protected characteristics such as race, religion, gender, or sexual orientation.
• Create deceptive content intended to mislead others, including deliberate misinformation, phishing text, impersonation, or fraudulent communications.
• Facilitate spam or unsolicited bulk commercial messaging.
• Probe, test, or circumvent security measures of any system, including NovAI itself.
• Generate content that violates the dignity or privacy of identifiable individuals.

Because NovAI runs locally and generates no server-side logs, enforcement of this policy depends on your personal responsibility. Misuse does not diminish your obligations under applicable law.

NovAI is provided AS IS and AS AVAILABLE, without warranty of any kind, express or implied. The developer makes no representations about the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of any response generated by NovAI.

You acknowledge and agree that:

• NovAI is in beta. It may contain bugs, produce unexpected behaviour, or become unavailable without notice.
• AI responses may be inaccurate, outdated, or incomplete. The AI model has a training cutoff date and no access to real-time information unless a web search feature is explicitly active and disclosed within the interface.
• NovAI is not a substitute for professional advice. Nothing generated by NovAI constitutes legal, medical, financial, psychological, or other specialist professional advice. Always consult a qualified professional for matters of personal consequence.
• The developer may modify, suspend, or discontinue NovAI at any time without prior notice or liability.

Because NovAI does not transmit, store on external systems, or process any personal data within the meaning of GDPR Art. 4(1) (Regulation (EU) 2016/679), the developer acts as neither a data controller nor a data processor with respect to user conversations.

Specifically:

• No cookies are set by NovAI. The browser's localStorage API is used solely to persist your chat history and preferences on your own device — data that remains under your full control and is never transmitted externally.
• No tracking technologies — pixels, device fingerprinting, or analytics SDKs — are embedded in NovAI.
• No server-side logs of conversations exist. NovAI has no backend capable of receiving message content.
• AI inference runs locally. No prompt or response is sent to a remote model API. Inference is performed by the WebLLM runtime within your browser.
• No IP address or device identifier is recorded by NovAI in connection with your use of the application.

Where NovAI's optional web search feature makes outbound HTTP requests to retrieve publicly available information, those requests originate from your browser and are subject to the privacy policies of any third-party search or content providers involved. NovAI itself does not retain the content or metadata of those requests.

Because no personal data is processed by NovAI, there is no applicable legal basis for processing under GDPR Art. 6, and no data retention period to declare. You retain full control over all locally stored data and may delete it at any time via your browser settings or NovAI's built-in "Clear all chat history" function.

For the full text of the General Data Protection Regulation, see eur-lex.europa.eu.

NovAI application code, design, branding, and name are proprietary to the developer and protected by applicable copyright law (Urheberrechtsgesetz — UrhG — and Directive 2009/24/EC). No rights beyond the limited usage license in § 2 are granted by these terms.

Your conversations belong to you. NovAI makes no claim to ownership of any content you input or any output generated during your session. Because conversation data is stored only locally on your device, the developer has no access to it and asserts no rights over it.

AI-generated output. The legal status of AI-generated content under copyright law is evolving. Under current EU and German copyright doctrine, output produced by an AI system without sufficient human creative contribution may not qualify for copyright protection. You use AI-generated output at your own discretion and assume any legal responsibility arising from its further use or publication.

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the developer of NovAI shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising out of or in connection with your use of, or inability to use, NovAI — including but not limited to loss of data, loss of profits, or reputational harm.

Under German law (§ 521 BGB; §§ 276, 309 Nr. 7 BGB), liability for intentional misconduct (Vorsatz) cannot be excluded. Liability for damages resulting from injury to life, body, or health caused by any degree of negligence also cannot be excluded. Nothing in these terms is intended to contravene these mandatory statutory provisions.

For all other categories of damage arising from simple negligence (einfache Fahrlässigkeit), liability is excluded to the maximum extent permitted under §§ 305 et seq. BGB (standard business terms) and applicable German and EU case law.

These terms are governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, without regard to conflict-of-law principles, except where the mandatory consumer protection laws of your EU member state of habitual residence afford you stronger protections — in which case those protections apply.

If you are a consumer in the European Union, you retain all rights afforded by:

• The EU Consumer Rights Directive (Directive 2011/83/EU), including the right to clear and comprehensive information about the service prior to use.
• The Unfair Contract Terms Directive (Directive 93/13/EEC), which provides protection against unfair standard terms.
• The Digital Content Directive (Directive 2019/770/EU), which applies to digital services. As noted in § 6, NovAI does not collect personal data; the Digital Content Directive's provisions regarding data-as-counter-performance therefore do not apply.

The European Commission provides a platform for online dispute resolution (ODR) at ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr. The developer is not obligated to participate in alternative dispute resolution (ADR) proceedings but will in good faith consider reasonable attempts at amicable resolution before any formal proceedings are initiated.

Where no amicable resolution is reached, the competent courts of Germany shall have jurisdiction, subject to any mandatory jurisdictional rules in your country of residence.

For questions about these terms, data protection matters, or NovAI in general, please get in touch:

These terms may be updated from time to time as NovAI evolves. Continued use of NovAI after a material change constitutes acceptance of the revised terms. The current version of this document is always accessible at this URL.