Terms of Use

1. Acceptance

Tradutur Ladin is operated by the University of Innsbruck (Universität Innsbruck, Innrain 52, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria) as a research project at the Department of Computer Science, in cooperation with the Istitut Ladin Micurá de Rü. See the Impressum for details. By using the service, you agree to these Terms of Use. How data is processed is explained in the Privacy Notice.

The service is offered in the context of Ladin language technology, research, education, and community support. It may change, be limited, or be discontinued as the project evolves.

2. Service description

Tradutur Ladin provides tools such as machine translation, dictionary lookup, writing assistance, spelling correction, phrase resources, feedback, contribution workflows, and related research functions. Some functions are public; others require an account or specific permission.

The service is provided free of charge unless a separate written agreement says otherwise. Commercial use, bulk extraction, resale, or integration beyond ordinary use requires prior written permission.

3. No professional advice or guaranteed accuracy

Machine translation and language tools can be wrong, incomplete, biased, or unsuitable for a specific context. Output may require human review by a qualified speaker, translator, teacher, editor, or domain expert.

The service does not provide legal, medical, financial, professional, or emergency advice. Do not rely on it where an error could cause harm, legal consequences, financial loss, reputational damage, or safety risks.

4. Sensitive and confidential data

You must not submit sensitive or confidential content unless you have a lawful basis, appropriate permissions, and understand that the service is not designed for that purpose. This includes medical records, legal cases, contracts, financial data, identity documents, passwords, private correspondence, confidential business information, and personal data about third parties.

If you choose to submit content through feedback, memorisation, contribution, document upload, or revision features, that content may be stored and reviewed. Remove or anonymise sensitive information before submitting anything.

5. Accounts and security

You are responsible for keeping your login credentials secure and for activity under your account. Provide accurate account information and notify the project contact if you suspect unauthorised access.

We may suspend, restrict, or terminate accounts or API access if needed to protect users, data, infrastructure, research integrity, or the service.

6. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• Submit sensitive, confidential, unlawful, harmful, or third-party private data without the necessary rights and safeguards.
• Use the service to create, translate, or distribute unlawful, abusive, discriminatory, threatening, defamatory, or rights-infringing content.
• Attempt to bypass authentication, rate limits, permissions, or security controls.
• Scrape, bulk-download, copy, or redistribute dictionary, corpus, model, or service data without permission.
• Reverse engineer, attack, overload, disrupt, or misuse the platform or infrastructure.
• Misrepresent generated output as professionally verified when it has not been reviewed.
• Use API tokens or accounts belonging to another person without authorisation.

7. User content and contributions

You keep the rights you already have in content you submit. By voluntarily submitting feedback, corrections, memorised translations, contributions, glossary entries, document data, or revision edits, you allow the project to process, store, review, and use that material as reasonably necessary for service operation, quality control, language-resource development, and research. If a separate written agreement applies, that agreement controls.

Only submit content that you have the right to submit. You are responsible for ensuring your submissions do not infringe copyright, privacy, confidentiality, employment, contractual, or other third-party rights.

8. Intellectual property

The platform, design, code, compiled resources, datasets, models, documentation, and trademarks may be protected by intellectual-property rights of the University of Innsbruck, the Istitut Ladin Micurá de Rü, or other rights holders and licensors. These Terms do not grant you ownership of the platform or permission for commercial exploitation.

Open-source components remain governed by their own licences. Public dictionary entries, phrase resources, or other linguistic resources may have separate rights and reuse conditions.

9. Privacy

Use of the service is also governed by the Privacy Notice. The Privacy Notice explains what data may be processed, when text may be stored, and why sensitive content should not be submitted.

10. Availability and changes

The service is provided as a research prototype and may be unavailable, slow, inaccurate, or changed without prior notice. Features, limits, models, datasets, and access rules may be modified or removed.

We may perform maintenance, restrict high-volume use, change rate limits, or block abusive traffic to protect the platform and its users.

11. Disclaimers

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the service is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of accuracy, completeness, fitness for a particular purpose, uninterrupted operation, or error-free results.

The service is free of charge. To the extent permitted by law, the University of Innsbruck, the Istitut Ladin Micurá de Rü and the persons working on the project are not liable for damages arising from the use of the service or its output. This includes damages caused by inaccurate output, loss of data, or interruptions. This does not apply to damages caused intentionally or through gross negligence, or to personal injury. Liability that cannot legally be excluded remains unaffected.

Output of the tools (including chat answers) is generated automatically. It does not represent the views of the University of Innsbruck, the Istitut Ladin Micurá de Rü or the project members.

12. User responsibility and service limits

Users are responsible for reviewing output before use, keeping independent copies of important material, and deciding whether the service is suitable for a specific context.

The service is not intended for high-risk, professional, confidential, emergency, medical, legal, financial, or safety-critical decisions. Nothing in these Terms limits rights or responsibilities that cannot legally be limited.

13. External links and third-party services

The service may link to external resources, add-ons, project pages, or institutional websites. We are not responsible for external content, availability, security, or privacy practices. External sites are governed by their own terms and notices.

14. Termination

We may suspend or terminate access if you breach these Terms, misuse the platform, create security or legal risks, infringe rights, or interfere with research and service operation.

15. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms when the service, legal requirements, infrastructure, or project governance changes. The date at the top shows the latest revision. Continued use after a change means you accept the updated Terms.

16. Questions and dispute resolution

If a concern arises, please contact the project first through Samuel Frontull at samuel.frontull@uibk.ac.at so the issue can be reviewed and resolved informally where possible.

These Terms are governed by Austrian law, excluding its conflict-of-law rules and the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. Mandatory consumer protection rights under the law of your country of residence remain unaffected. If any provision is invalid, the remaining provisions remain in force.

17. Contact

Universität Innsbruck (University of Innsbruck)
Department of Computer Science, Technikerstraße 21a, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Project contact: Samuel Frontull
Email: samuel.frontull@uibk.ac.at