Terms of Service

These Terms govern your access to and use of ISO 26262 Academy at iso26262.academy and any related services, content, software and applications (together, the “Service”). By creating an account, paying for a subscription, or otherwise using the Service, you accept these Terms in full. If you do not accept them, please do not use the Service.

The Service is provided from Germany by ISO 26262 Academy (referred to as the “Academy”, “we” or “us”). You can reach us at [email protected] for any question about these Terms.

If you use the Service in connection with your trade, business, craft or profession, you are a business user, and the consumer-specific provisions in these Terms do not apply to you. Statutory consumer rights remain unaffected for consumers in the European Economic Area.

You must be at least 16 years old to create an account. By registering you confirm that you have the legal capacity to enter into a binding agreement and that the information you provide is accurate and kept current.

Your account is personal to you. You must:

• choose a strong password and keep your credentials confidential
• use the account only yourself, on devices you control
• promptly notify us at [email protected] if you suspect any unauthorized access

You are responsible for all activity that takes place under your account, except where that activity results from our failure to apply reasonable security on our side. Sharing your account, selling access, or letting other people use the Service under your credentials is a material breach of these Terms.

Each account, and each paid plan, is licensed to you as a single named individual for your own use. The plans and prices shown on the Pricing page are per individual. You may not use the Service, or allow it to be used, on behalf of or for the benefit of a company, team or other group, and you may not pool, resell or share a single subscription among several people. Organizations that need access for more than one person must use a Teams plan; contact us at [email protected] or see our Teams options.

ISO 26262 Academy provides training, study material, exam practice, reference material and related tools focused on functional safety for road vehicles. The content is educational. It is not:

• accredited certification by ISO, IEC, TÜV, any notified body or national accreditation authority
• legal, safety, engineering or compliance advice on a specific product
• a substitute for project-specific analysis carried out by qualified professionals

Completing courses, passing internal exams or earning Academy badges does not by itself confer any official qualification. Decisions you make in real automotive projects remain your responsibility and the responsibility of your organization.

Subject to your compliance with these Terms and payment of any applicable fees, we grant you a limited, personal, worldwide, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to access and use the Service and its content for your own individual study and professional development.

You may:

• stream and view course materials on your own devices
• take personal notes for your own use
• discuss general concepts with colleagues in your own words

You may not, and you must not allow any third party to:

• download, store, copy, reproduce, mirror, screenshot, screen-record or otherwise extract the content beyond what is technically necessary to stream and view it on the Service
• distribute, publish, broadcast, transmit, lend, rent, lease, resell, sublicense, host or otherwise make the content available to any other person, whether for free or for value
• share account credentials or grant any other person access to the Service under your account
• use the content or any output of the Service to train, fine-tune, evaluate or otherwise develop any machine learning or artificial intelligence model
• scrape, crawl, harvest, index or otherwise collect content using any automated means
• reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, attempt to derive source code, or remove, alter or obscure any proprietary notice, watermark, identifier or technical protection measure
• use the Service in violation of any applicable law, regulation, export control rule or sanctions program

All rights not expressly granted to you are reserved by us and our licensors.

You agree not to use the Service to:

• infringe the intellectual property, privacy, publicity or other rights of any person
• upload, transmit or generate unlawful, defamatory, harassing, hateful or sexually explicit material
• introduce malware, exploit security vulnerabilities, or probe, scan or test the integrity of the Service or any connected system without our prior written authorization
• interfere with the operation of the Service, with other users, or with the underlying infrastructure
• attempt to gain unauthorized access to any account, system or data
• circumvent any rate limit, billing control, geographic restriction or technical access control

We may investigate suspected violations and cooperate with law enforcement and competent authorities where required.

You may submit content to the Service such as exam answers, support messages, feedback, forum posts, work products or AI prompts (“Your Content”). You keep ownership of Your Content. You grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to host, store, reproduce, display, adapt and process Your Content as needed to operate, secure, improve and support the Service, including aggregated and de-identified analytics. This license ends when you delete Your Content or close your account, except for backups and legal records we are required or reasonably entitled to keep.

You represent that you have the rights necessary to grant this license and that Your Content does not violate any law or third-party right.

Some parts of the Service require a paid subscription. The plan, price, billing cycle and what is included are described on the Pricing page at the time you subscribe. By subscribing you authorize us, and our payment processors, to charge your chosen payment method for the agreed fees.

Unless you have purchased a Teams plan, the plans and prices shown are for a single individual and cover use by you alone. They may not be shared with, or used on behalf of, colleagues, a team or a company. Organizations that need to provide access to more than one person should contact us at [email protected] about a Teams plan.

Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each billing period at the then-current price, unless you cancel before renewal. We will give you reasonable advance notice of any price change for an upcoming renewal cycle, and you may cancel before the new price takes effect.

Prices are stated exclusive of value added tax and similar indirect taxes unless we say otherwise. Where we are required to collect VAT or another tax, it is added at checkout based on your location. You are responsible for any other taxes, fees or charges that apply to your purchase.

Failed payments may result in suspension of access until payment is brought up to date.

If you are a consumer in the European Union or European Economic Area, EU law gives you the right to withdraw from a distance contract for a paid subscription within 14 days of entering into it, without giving a reason.

Because our Service is digital content and access is normally provided immediately, by starting your subscription you expressly:

• request that we begin providing the digital content and online services to you before the 14-day withdrawal period ends, and
• acknowledge that you therefore lose your right of withdrawal once we have begun performance, in accordance with Article 16(m) of Directive 2011/83/EU as implemented in your national law

If you have not yet used the Service and the 14 days have not passed, you may withdraw by writing to [email protected] with “Right of withdrawal” in the subject line. We will refund any payment for that subscription period within 14 days using the same payment method.

This section does not apply to business users.

You can cancel auto-renewal at any time from your account settings. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. You retain access until then, and we do not pro-rate refunds for unused time within a billing period unless required by law or expressly stated by us.

Outside the EU statutory right of withdrawal described in section 8, fees are non-refundable except where required by mandatory law. Where a refund is due, we issue it through the original payment method.

You can stop using the Service at any time and may close your account from account settings. Closure is processed as a soft-deletion in line with our Privacy Policy.

We may suspend or terminate your access immediately if:

• you materially breach these Terms, in particular the license and acceptable use rules in sections 4 and 5
• you fail to pay fees that are due
• continued provision would expose us or other users to legal, security or operational risk
• we are required to do so by law, court order or competent authority

For non-material issues we will, where reasonable, give you notice and a chance to fix the problem before suspending or terminating. On termination, your license to use the Service ends and you must stop accessing the content. Sections that by their nature should survive termination will continue to apply.

The Service, including all course materials, text, graphics, video, audio, software, design, structure, selection, arrangement, trademarks, logos and the “ISO 26262 Academy” name, are owned by us or our licensors and are protected by copyright, trademark, database and other intellectual property laws in the EU, the US and internationally.

“ISO 26262” and other standard designations are trademarks of their respective owners and are used only to describe the subject matter of our content. We are not affiliated with or endorsed by ISO, IEC, SAE or any standards body unless we explicitly say so.

Nothing in these Terms transfers any ownership in our intellectual property to you. Your only rights are the license described in section 4.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Service is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied or statutory, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, non-infringement and uninterrupted availability.

If you are a consumer in the European Union or European Economic Area, your mandatory statutory rights, including conformity rights for digital content and digital services under Directive (EU) 2019/770 as implemented in your national law, are not affected by this section. If you are a consumer in the United States, this section does not limit any non-waivable rights you may have under the consumer-protection law of your state.

Nothing in these Terms limits or excludes our liability for:

• death or personal injury caused by our negligence
• fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation
• gross negligence or intentional misconduct
• any liability that cannot be limited or excluded under mandatory applicable law, including statutory consumer rights and data-protection law

Subject to the paragraph above, and to the maximum extent permitted by law:

• we are not liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, special or punitive damages, loss of profits, loss of revenue, loss of goodwill, loss of data (other than as a direct result of our breach) or business interruption
• our total aggregate liability for all claims arising out of or in connection with the Service or these Terms is limited to the greater of (a) the fees you paid to us for the Service in the twelve months immediately before the event giving rise to the claim, and (b) one hundred euros

The Service is educational. Decisions made by you or your organization in any real safety, regulatory or commercial context remain your own responsibility. We are not liable for losses caused by relying on the content for such decisions.

If you breach these Terms, including the license restrictions in section 4 (in particular by distributing, sharing, reselling, scraping or using the content to train AI models) or the acceptable use rules in section 5, you are responsible for the loss or damage that breach causes to us, to other users or to third parties.

If you are a business user, you will indemnify and hold us, our employees, contractors and partners harmless against all claims, damages, losses, fines, penalties, reasonable legal costs and expenses arising out of or related to:

• your breach of these Terms
• your use of the Service in violation of applicable law or third-party rights
• your unauthorized distribution, sharing or commercial exploitation of the content

For consumers, your liability is limited to the loss or damage that arises as a foreseeable consequence of your breach, in line with applicable national law.

These Terms, and any dispute or claim (including non-contractual disputes) arising out of or in connection with them, are governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, without regard to conflict-of-law rules and excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG).

If you are a consumer in the European Union or European Economic Area, this choice of law does not deprive you of the protection of mandatory provisions of the law of the country where you have your habitual residence, and you may bring proceedings in the courts of that country.

If you are a business user, the exclusive jurisdiction for any dispute is the competent courts of Berlin, Germany, except where mandatory law requires otherwise.

Before going to court we encourage you to contact us at [email protected] so we can try to resolve the issue informally. EU consumers may also use the European Commission’s online dispute resolution platform at https://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr. We are not obliged to participate in alternative dispute resolution before a consumer ADR body, but we will consider it on a case-by-case basis.