Terms of use

The provider is AUVY GmbH, Am Haag 8, 82166 Gräfelfing, Germany ("AUVY", "OpenPulse", "we"). OpenPulse is a brand of AUVY. These terms apply when you use openpulse.org, claim an @handle, use the OpenPulse services within the free amounts or under an agreement with us, or use Pulse Pay on pay.openpulse.org.

Using the free amounts or requesting access creates no payment obligation. A paid contract starts only when your organisation and AUVY sign an order form or another written agreement (section 4). If an order form, enterprise agreement, data processing agreement or product-specific terms apply, those documents prevail for their subject matter.

You must have legal capacity to use the service. If you act for an organisation, you confirm that you may bind or administer access for that organisation. You must provide accurate information, protect credentials and recovery material, and notify us promptly of suspected compromise.

Handles must not impersonate another person or organisation, violate rights, mislead users, or be reserved primarily for resale. We may reject, suspend or reassign a handle where reasonably necessary to address abuse, infringement, security risk or a verified superior right.

Preview services are pre-general-availability. Features, limits, interfaces and data formats may change. We may limit or withdraw access, but will use reasonable efforts to provide notice where practical. No service-level commitment, permanent storage promise or production-readiness warranty applies unless stated in a separate signed agreement.

Keep independent copies of important data and keys. Do not use a preview as the sole system for safety-critical, emergency, regulated, or irreversible transactions.

Free amounts. Every organisation may use OpenPulse up to the free amounts listed in the developer documentation each calendar month (UTC), across all of its realms, without payment. The free amounts are for evaluation and for personal and non-commercial projects. A project that earns money or serves a business, including one run for an employer or a client, needs an agreement with us. If a meter's usage in a month passes 110% of its free amount, we may pause new usage of that meter until the next calendar month or until an agreement covers it; reading your data and the other meters keep working. Fair-use rate limits per realm, described in the developer documentation, apply to every organisation.

Agreements. Commercial use, usage past the free amounts, higher rate limits, support and regions planned with you are available under a written agreement between your organisation and AUVY, such as an order form. The agreement sets the prices, the usage it covers, its term and how it ends, and prevails over this section for its subject matter. Agreements are offered to businesses only: by signing one you confirm that you act as an entrepreneur within the meaning of § 14 BGB, not as a consumer. To ask for one, write to us through openpulse.org/contact.

Invoices and payment. AUVY invoices directly under the agreement and is paid by bank transfer. Prices exclude VAT, which is added where it applies; the reverse-charge rules apply to eligible business customers in the EU. Invoices are due as the agreement states. There is no online checkout.

Late payment. If an invoice stays unpaid after its due date and a reminder, we may suspend the usage the agreement adds beyond the free amounts until it is paid; the amount remains due.

Pulse Pay gives your OpenPulse identity self-custodied wallets for EURC and USDC on the Base blockchain. It currently runs only on the Base Sepolia test network: tokens there have no value and may not be exchanged for money. We will change these terms before real funds are supported.

You hold the keys. Each wallet is controlled by a passkey on your device and, if you set one up, a recovery phrase that only you keep. We never hold your keys, balances or recovery phrase. We cannot move, freeze, reverse or recover funds in your wallet, and we cannot restore access if you lose every passkey and your recovery phrase. OpenPulse is not a bank, e-money institution or crypto-asset custodian, and balances are not deposits and earn no interest.

Payments are final. A payment is complete when its transfer is recorded on the blockchain and cannot be reversed. Check the recipient, amount, token and network before you confirm with your passkey. Send only EURC or USDC on the network shown in Pulse Pay; tokens sent on another network or of another type may be lost.

Third parties. Circle issues EURC and USDC and provides the wallet infrastructure; its terms apply to the tokens, and a token issuer can block addresses or freeze tokens under its own rules. We currently pay network fees for you and may stop doing so with notice. Blockchains, token issuers and wallet providers can have outages or change behaviour outside our control.

Lawful use. You must not use Pulse Pay if you are subject to sanctions, or to pay sanctioned persons, finance unlawful activity or hide the origin of funds. We may refuse to prepare a payment, restrict your use of our Pulse Pay interfaces, or report to authorities where the law requires it or where we reasonably suspect misuse.

You must comply with the Acceptable Use Policy. In particular, do not use OpenPulse for unlawful content, spam, malware, exploitation, rights infringement, deceptive identity, attacks on systems, or attempts to bypass access, rate, security or payment controls.

You retain rights in content and data you submit. You grant us the limited rights necessary to host, route, secure and support the service. You are responsible for having a lawful basis and the permissions required for data you send through OpenPulse.

Our handling of personal data is described in the Privacy Notice. An organisation using managed OpenPulse for others may be the controller and may need a data processing agreement before production use.

OpenPulse names, marks, hosted interfaces and non-public service components remain owned by AUVY or its licensors. Open-source SDK and protocol code is governed by the licence published with that code; these hosted-service terms do not replace an open-source licence.

You may give feedback. Unless agreed otherwise, we may use feedback without restriction or payment, while avoiding disclosure of your confidential information.

You may stop using OpenPulse at any time; an agreement ends as it states (section 4). We may suspend or terminate access for non-payment under section 4, a material breach, security risk, unlawful use, harm to others, legal requirement, or discontinuation of the preview. Where the issue can reasonably be cured, we will normally give notice and an opportunity to cure.

Provisions that by their nature should continue, including ownership, liability and governing law, survive termination. Data deletion follows the Privacy Notice and any separate agreement.

Statutory rights that cannot be excluded remain unaffected. For free previews, the service is provided without a guarantee of uninterrupted or error-free operation and with the preview limitations described above.

We are liable without limitation for intent and gross negligence, injury to life, body or health, fraudulent concealment, an expressly assumed guarantee, and liability under the German Product Liability Act. For ordinary negligence, we are liable only for breach of a material contractual duty and only for foreseeable damage typical of the contract. Where legally permitted, the same limitations apply to our representatives and agents.

German law applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. Mandatory consumer protection rules of the country in which a consumer habitually resides remain unaffected. For merchants, public-law entities and special public-law funds, the exclusive venue is Munich, Germany.

We are not obliged or willing to participate in dispute-resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board.

We may update these terms for future use to reflect service or legal changes. Material changes affecting an active managed service will be communicated reasonably in advance where required. The version accepted for an existing paid agreement is not replaced retroactively unless that agreement permits it.

Legal questions: legal@auvy.ai.