Terms of Use — Florn
Version: 2026-08-02
Preamble
These Terms of Use, hereinafter the “Terms,” govern access to and use of the Florn service, accessible in particular at www.florn.dev.
Florn is operated by:
H INNOV LLC 8 The Green Dover, Delaware 19901 United States Email: [email protected]
Florn is an autonomous deterministic certification engine intended to examine data, identify candidate relationships and issue reproducible and auditable Verdicts according to the available evidence and applicable rules.
Use of Florn constitutes unconditional acceptance of these Terms.
The English version of these Terms is authoritative. The French and Polish versions are provided for information and shall have the same purpose and structure; in the event of a discrepancy, the English version shall prevail, subject to mandatory applicable law.
Article 1 — Definitions
For the purposes of these Terms, the following terms have the meanings set out below.
1.1. Florn or the Service
The IT service operated by H INNOV LLC, which enables in particular:
* the submission and ingestion of data; * the recognition of their structure; * the generation of candidate relationships or assertions; * the examination of such candidates by deterministic rules and laws; * the production of Verdicts; * the creation and consultation of a Shared Knowledge Base; * the provision of explanations, reasons for abstention and, where available, indications concerning the data or experiments needed to enable a new assessment.
1.2. User
Any adult natural person with legal capacity, or any person validly acting on behalf of a legal entity, who accesses Florn or submits an Analysis.
1.3. Analysis or Run
An execution of Florn relating to a file, set of files or experimental bundle submitted by the User.
The same Analysis may include several tables, environments, logical components, protocols or sub-analyses.
1.4. Raw Data
Files, tables, values, metadata and other elements directly submitted by the User.
1.5. Derived Knowledge
Candidate relationships, rules, constraints, dependencies, Verdicts, reasons, analyzed subjects, structural properties, provenance elements and other information established or produced from an Analysis.
1.6. Shared Knowledge Base
Florn’s common memory comprising Derived Knowledge that may be used, consulted or taken into account in subsequent Analyses, including Analyses performed by other Users.
1.7. Candidate Relationship
A relationship, constraint or assertion proposed for examination by the engine, without its generation alone constituting certification.
1.8. Verdict
The conclusion issued by Florn regarding a Candidate Relationship, including:
* CERTIFIED; * REFUTED; * ABSTAIN; * or any other distinct technical category expressly defined by the Service.
1.9. Standard Analysis
An Analysis that contributes, under the conditions provided for in these Terms, to the Shared Knowledge Base.
1.10. Isolated Analysis
A possible separate offering, unavailable as of the date of these Terms unless expressly indicated otherwise in the interface, in which Derived Knowledge would not be included in the Shared Knowledge Base. Unless and until such offering is expressly presented by Florn as available, all Analyses are Standard Analyses.
Article 2 — Purpose and scope of the Terms
2.1. Purpose
These Terms define:
* the conditions for access to Florn; * the rules applicable to Analyses; * the rights and obligations of Users; * the conditions governing the processing of Raw Data; * the conditions for creating the Shared Knowledge Base; * the scope of Verdicts; * the respective responsibilities of H INNOV LLC and the User.
2.2. Supplementary contractual documents
Supplementary documents may apply, including:
* a privacy policy; * a data retention policy; * pricing terms; * terms specific to a professional or isolated offering, if such an offering exists; * specific security or use rules.
In the event of inconsistency, expressly accepted special terms shall prevail for their specific subject matter.
2.3. Capacity
The User represents that they:
* are an adult or have reached the legal age required in their country; * have the necessary legal capacity; * where acting for a legal entity, are authorized to bind it.
Article 3 — Nature and operation of Florn
3.1. Deterministic engine
Florn is designed as a deterministic engine.
Subject to an identical software environment, parameters, engine version and Knowledge Base, the same input is intended to produce the same output.
Verdicts are based on rules, laws, evidence contracts and control mechanisms explicitly applied by the engine.
3.2. No training on submitted files
Florn:
* does not train any model using submitted Raw Data; * does not perform any fine-tuning on such data; * does not adjust statistical weights based on submitted files; * does not transform files into embeddings intended to train a model; * does not produce its Verdicts through mere probabilistic estimation or statistical imitation of prior examples.
Florn’s enrichment is based on the accumulation of Derived Knowledge, rules or examined relationships, and not on training a predictive model on Users’ data.
3.3. Generation of candidates and adjudicatory authority
Certain steps may identify, propose, orient or structure Candidate Relationships.
The proposal of a relationship never, by itself, constitutes certification.
Only the application of authorized rules and adjudication contracts may produce a public Verdict.
3.4. Possible use of language models
Florn may use a language model for auxiliary functions, for example to:
* formulate a documentary query; * translate or rephrase an explanation; * organize a search of public sources.
Such a model:
* does not constitute the adjudicatory authority; * certifies no relationship; * does not decide whether an assertion is true; * cannot, by itself, modify a rule or a Verdict.
3.5. Autonomous search for evidence
Florn may search databases, publications or public sources for materials.
The discovery of a publication, correlation or documentary reference does not automatically constitute admissible evidence.
Retrieved materials must still satisfy the conditions set out by the applicable rules.
3.6. Technical evolution
Florn may evolve to improve:
* its ingestion capabilities; * its robustness; * its performance; * its explanations; * its control mechanisms; * its presentation rules.
Any evolution may change the results of a subsequent Analysis.
The version of the engine used must remain identifiable in the technical elements of the Run where that information is retained.
Article 4 — Verdicts and scope of results
4.1. CERTIFIED
A CERTIFIED Verdict means that the relationship satisfied, within the analyzed scope, the certification conditions applicable at the time of the Analysis.
It does not necessarily mean:
* that the relationship is a universal truth; * that it remains valid in all systems or contexts; * that it is direct rather than indirect, unless the evidence contract expressly establishes this; * that it replaces any required scientific, technical, clinical, regulatory or human validation.
4.2. REFUTED
A REFUTED Verdict means that a relationship, direction or assertion was excluded under an admissible refutation rule.
The Refuted Relationship concerns the proposal and scope examined. It must not be generalized beyond them without separate justification.
4.3. ABSTAIN
An ABSTAIN Verdict means that Florn does not have the conditions necessary to certify or refute the candidate.
Abstention / Unable to Certify:
* is not certification; * is not refutation; * is not necessarily an absence of effect; * does not mean that the relationship is false; * may result in particular from a lack of controls, repetitions, usable temporality, metadata, stability, identification of the target or experimental resolution.
4.4. Indications enabling abstention to be lifted
Where it has the necessary information, Florn may indicate:
* the missing observations; * the number of controls or repetitions required; * the necessary metadata; * the protocols to be distinguished; * useful additional temporal measurements; * additional experiments enabling a new assessment.
These indications describe the conditions necessary for a new examination. They do not guarantee that a new Analysis will result in certification.
4.5. Supplementary categories
Florn may display non-decisional elements, for example:
* unresolved temporal order; * agreement or contradiction between protocols; * complex context; * joint intervention; * stability; * descriptive information.
Such elements must be distinguished from public Verdicts and do not modify them except through the express application of an authorized rule.
4.6. No guarantee of a positive result
An Analysis may legitimately produce:
* no Certified Relationship; * only Abstentions / Unable to Certify; * only Refuted Relationships; * no usable result.
Any payment for an Analysis pays for access to and execution of the Service, and not for obtaining a specified number of certifications.
Article 5 — Access to the Service
5.1. Access by authenticated session or account
Florn may be accessible:
* through an authenticated session; * by account; * through any other authentication procedure offered by the Service.
5.2. Personal nature of access credentials
The User is responsible for:
* keeping their session credentials confidential; * Analyses performed using them; * any unauthorized use resulting from their disclosure.
Access credentials must not be resold, publicly shared or used to circumvent Service limitations.
5.3. Availability
H INNOV LLC may temporarily suspend Florn for:
* maintenance; * security; * correction of a defect; * resource saturation; * technical evolution; * legal obligation; * protection of the Service or Users.
Continuous and uninterrupted availability is not guaranteed.
Article 6 — Free Analyses, paid offerings and quotas
6.1. Economic model
Certain Analyses may be offered free of charge.
Other usage volumes, features, processing priorities, capacities or offerings may be paid.
The applicable terms are those presented to the User at the time of subscription or use.
6.2. Quotas
Where Florn grants a quota of free Analyses, the Service specifies in particular:
* the unit counted; * the number of Analyses concerned; * any validity period; * renewal conditions; * any exclusions.
A file containing several tables or components may nevertheless constitute a single submitted Analysis, unless otherwise indicated before it is launched.
6.3. Changes to offerings
H INNOV LLC may modify:
* quotas; * prices; * included features; * size limits; * computing capacities; * access conditions.
Changes do not apply retroactively to an offering already paid for, except where expressly justified by legal, technical or security necessity.
6.4. Standard Analyses and Isolated Analyses
Whether an Analysis is free or paid is distinct from its contribution to the Shared Knowledge Base.
Unless an isolated offering is expressly identified and available in the interface, an Analysis contributes to the Shared Knowledge Base, including where paid. As of the date of these Terms, no isolated offering is available.
Article 7 — Submission and content of data
7.1. Responsibility for submission
The User is solely responsible for the Raw Data they submit.
The User warrants that they:
* have the necessary rights, authorizations and legal bases; * are authorized to have the data processed by Florn; * are authorized to permit the production and sharing of Derived Knowledge; * do not infringe third-party rights; * comply with applicable confidentiality obligations.
7.2. Prohibited data
The User must not submit, except with H INNOV LLC’s prior written consent and in an expressly adapted environment:
* classified data; * state secrets; * trade secrets that they cannot authorize for processing; * nominative medical data; * identifying biometric data; * complete banking data; * passwords or private keys; * unnecessary sensitive personal data; * unlawful content; * malware; * files intended to compromise the Service.
7.3. Minimization
The User must remove or anonymize identifying elements that are not necessary for the Analysis.
7.4. Formats and limits
Florn may impose:
* permitted formats; * a maximum size; * a maximum number of rows; * limits on tables, columns or components; * structural or security rules.
Files are processed as data and are not intentionally executed as programs.
7.5. Refusal of a file
Florn may refuse or stop processing a file that is:
* invalid; * corrupted; * dangerous; * excessively large; * incompatible; * manifestly unlawful; * liable to compromise the Service.
Article 8 — Processing of Raw Data
8.1. Purposes
Raw Data are processed to:
* execute the Analysis; * recognize file structure; * produce the necessary artifacts; * generate and examine candidates; * produce Verdicts; * ensure Service security and auditability; * create the Derived Knowledge provided for in these Terms.
8.2. No automatic publication of raw files
Raw files are not published as such to other Users as part of the Shared Knowledge Base.
This rule must not be confused with the shared nature of Derived Knowledge.
8.3. Deletion of Raw Data at the end of the Run
Raw Data submitted by the User are subject to no retention period after the end of the Run.
They are deleted at the end of the Analysis.
This deletion concerns the submitted file. It does not automatically extend to Derived Knowledge, results, Run metadata or artifacts necessary for auditing and operation of the Shared Knowledge Base.
8.4. Backups and logs
Technical traces may temporarily remain in logs, caches or security systems, without constituting a permanent usable copy of the submitted file.
8.5. Data requests
Any request may be sent to:
The end of the Run and deletion of Raw Data do not result in deletion of Derived Knowledge already included in the Shared Knowledge Base.
Article 9 — Shared Knowledge Base
9.1. Central function
The Shared Knowledge Base is a central function of Florn.
Each User may benefit from:
* subjects already analyzed; * rules already established; * relationships already certified or refuted; * knowledge produced by prior Analyses; * the reduction of redundant work made possible by this common memory.
9.2. User contribution
By submitting a Standard Analysis, the User accepts that eligible Derived Knowledge contributes to this Shared Knowledge Base.
This contribution may include in particular:
* variable names or identifiers; * analyzed domains or subjects; * Candidate Relationships; * Certified Relationships; * Verdicts; * reasons; * structural properties; * information necessary for provenance and audit; * results enabling unnecessary repetition of an analysis already performed to be avoided.
Your Verdicts enrich the Shared Knowledge Base.
9.3. Visibility between Users
Other Users may see and use knowledge made common, without necessarily accessing the raw file that enabled its establishment.
In functional consideration, a User contributing to the Shared Knowledge Base obtains access to common knowledge contributed by other Users.
This is not consideration for free access, but the ordinary operation of the Standard Analysis.
9.4. No exclusivity
The User may not claim exclusivity over:
* a general relationship; * a fact; * a rule; * a constraint; * abstract knowledge; * a general scientific or structural result,
solely because they were the first to submit data enabling Florn to establish it.
9.5. Traceability, refutation and revocation
Knowledge included in the Shared Knowledge Base is intended to remain traceable.
It may nevertheless be:
* refuted; * revoked; * neutralized; * limited to a context; * replaced by a better-supported version; * made non-decisional,
according to the engine’s governance rules.
Florn therefore does not guarantee the absolute irrevocability of a Verdict.
However, the history must not be silently modified so as to remove the trace of an earlier decision where retaining it is necessary for audit.
9.6. Isolated Analyses
As of the date of these Terms, Florn does not offer an Isolated Analysis.
Only a future offering expressly designated as isolated or private in the interface could derogate from the standard contribution to the Shared Knowledge Base.
The User must not assume that an Analysis is isolated in the absence of an express indication.
Article 10 — Intellectual property
10.1. Elements belonging to H INNOV LLC
H INNOV LLC retains rights in particular relating to:
* the Florn software; * its source code; * its architecture; * its interfaces; * its documentation; * its trademarks; * its technical databases; * its protectable internal rules; * its graphic elements; * its presentation tools; * its operating mechanisms.
These Terms transfer no ownership right in the Service.
10.2. Data submitted by the User
The User retains the rights they hold in their Raw Data.
For the period necessary for operation of the Service, the User grants H INNOV LLC the indispensable authorizations to:
* host temporarily; * make technical copies; * analyze; * transform; * structure; * compare; * produce Derived Knowledge; * perform the obligations provided for in these Terms,
until Raw Data are deleted at the end of the Run.
This authorization does not constitute a general assignment of ownership in submitted files.
10.3. General Derived Knowledge
Derived facts, relationships, rules, constraints, Verdicts and general knowledge do not become the exclusive property of H INNOV LLC or of the User who caused them to appear.
They may be included in the Shared Knowledge Base and used for the operation of Florn.
10.4. Commitment concerning patents
H INNOV LLC undertakes not to file a patent application for, or claim as an exclusive invention, a general rule or Certified Relationship solely because it was contributed or revealed by a User’s data.
This commitment does not deprive H INNOV LLC of its rights in:
* Florn’s technical architecture; * its own software processes; * its original mechanisms; * its tools and implementations.
10.5. Commercial use
Commercial operation of Florn, in particular through paid offerings, does not transform general knowledge in the Shared Knowledge Base into the exclusive property of H INNOV LLC.
Such knowledge may nevertheless be used by the Service in the ordinary course of its commercial activity.
Article 11 — User obligations
The User undertakes to:
* comply with these Terms; * provide data which they have the right to have processed; * not attempt to circumvent quotas; * not disrupt operation of the Service; * not seek unauthorized access; * not extract the Knowledge Base massively by unauthorized automated means; * not reproduce or exploit the code or interface in breach of H INNOV LLC’s rights; * not present a Florn Verdict in a misleading manner; * retain information necessary to understand the scope of the Analysis; * carry out the professional validations necessary before any important decision.
Article 12 — Prohibited or regulated uses
12.1. Critical decisions
Florn must not be used as the sole basis for a:
* medical; * diagnostic; * therapeutic; * legal; * judicial; * financial; * banking; * insurance; * regulatory; * industrial safety; * decision directly affecting a person’s life, health or fundamental rights,
without appropriate review by a qualified person.
12.2. Unlawful uses
It is prohibited to use Florn to:
* commit or facilitate an offense; * circumvent a legal obligation; * unlawfully discriminate; * infringe third-party rights; * unlawfully monitor persons; * develop or improve malware; * compromise a system; * produce deliberately misleading conclusions.
12.3. Sanctions
H INNOV LLC may:
* suspend access; * invalidate a session credential; * block a file; * stop an Analysis; * delete an account; * preserve necessary evidence,
in the event of a breach or serious risk.
Article 13 — Service limitations
13.1. Dependence on data
The quality and scope of results depend in particular on:
* data quality; * their structure; * their completeness; * available metadata; * experimental controls; * the number of observations; * temporal resolution; * comparability of environments; * available rules.
13.2. No absolute guarantee
Florn’s design doctrine favors abstention over issuing a certification that is insufficiently proven.
However, it does not constitute an absolute contractual guarantee:
* that no error will occur; * that no false positive will occur; * of completeness; * of detection of all existing relationships; * of conformity with every future state of science.
13.3. Additional information
Experimental plans and recommendations generated by Florn identify conditions missing as identified by the engine.
They do not constitute personalized scientific consulting and do not guarantee the success of a future experiment.
13.4. Third-party sources
External content, publications or databases remain subject to:
* their own terms; * their limitations; * their availability; * their quality.
H INNOV LLC is not responsible for the accuracy of a third-party source.
Article 14 — Liability
14.1. User liability
The User assumes responsibility for:
* submitted data; * their lawfulness; * their interpretation; * decisions made on the basis of results; * appropriate professional verification; * consequences of using Verdicts outside their scope.
14.2. Liability of H INNOV LLC
H INNOV LLC is liable within the limits imposed by applicable law.
To the extent permitted by law, H INNOV LLC is not liable for indirect damages, including:
* business interruption; * loss of opportunity; * loss of profit; * loss of data not attributable to gross negligence; * harm resulting from incorrect interpretation; * a decision made without appropriate validation; * temporary unavailability.
14.3. Cap
Where the law permits a limitation, H INNOV LLC’s total liability in connection with the Service is capped at the amount actually paid by the User for the Service during the twelve months preceding the event giving rise to liability.
For entirely free use, this cap may not have the effect of excluding liability that cannot legally be excluded.
14.4. Inapplicable exclusions
Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law, including in the event of:
* fraud; * intentional misconduct; * gross negligence where the law prohibits exclusion; * attributable bodily injury; * infringement of mandatory consumer rights.
Article 15 — Suspension and termination
15.1. Suspension by H INNOV LLC
H INNOV LLC may suspend access in the event of:
* breach of the Terms; * a security risk; * fraud; * abusive use; * non-payment; * legal injunction; * serious technical necessity.
15.2. Termination by the User
The User may stop using the Service or request closure of their account, where an account exists.
15.3. Consequences
Termination of access does not automatically result in:
* withdrawal of Derived Knowledge already included in the Shared Knowledge Base; * deletion of audit trails; * deletion of information that H INNOV LLC must retain under a legal obligation; * immediate deletion of all technical backups.
15.4. Surviving clauses
Clauses relating in particular to:
* the Shared Knowledge Base; * intellectual property; * liabilities; * confidentiality obligations; * traceability; * applicable law,
continue to have effect after termination of access where their nature requires it.
Article 16 — Modification of the Terms
16.1. Evolution
H INNOV LLC may amend these Terms to take account of:
* an evolution of the Service; * a legal change; * a new offering; * a change in data processing; * an evolution of the Knowledge Base; * a security requirement.
16.2. Version
Each version is identified by a date or number.
The version applicable to an Analysis is the version accepted by the User and recorded by the Service at the relevant time.
16.3. New acceptance
A substantial amendment may require new acceptance before submission of a new Analysis.
The history of acceptances may be retained for evidentiary and audit purposes.
16.4. Refusal
A User who refuses the new Terms may no longer submit new Analyses subject to them.
Refusal does not retroactively invalidate processing and contributions validly made under an earlier version.
Article 17 — Applicable law and dispute resolution
17.1. Applicable law
Subject to mandatory provisions applicable to the User, these Terms are governed by the law of the State of Delaware and applicable federal law of the United States.
17.2. Professional Users
For Users acting in the course of a professional activity, the competent courts of Delaware shall have jurisdiction, unless otherwise agreed in writing or a different mandatory rule applies.
17.3. Consumers
These Terms do not deprive a consumer of mandatory protections available in their country of residence.
Where permitted by applicable law, the parties shall endeavor to resolve any dispute amicably before commencing proceedings.
17.4. Prior contact
Any complaint may be sent to:
Article 18 — General provisions
18.1. Entire agreement
These Terms and the documents expressly incorporated into them constitute the agreement applicable to the use of Florn.
18.2. Partial invalidity
If a clause is held invalid or unenforceable, the remaining clauses remain in force.
The clause concerned must, to the extent possible, be interpreted or replaced so as to preserve its lawful purpose.
18.3. No waiver
H INNOV LLC’s failure to exercise a right immediately does not constitute a waiver.
18.4. Assignment
The User may not assign their rights or obligations without H INNOV LLC’s prior consent.
H INNOV LLC may transfer the Service and related contracts as part of a restructuring, transfer of business, merger or equivalent transaction, subject to continuity of applicable obligations.
18.5. Headings
Headings are provided for ease of reading and do not affect interpretation of the clauses.
18.6. Languages
The Terms are offered in French, English and Polish.
The three versions have the same purpose and structure.
The English version is authoritative. In the event of a discrepancy between language versions, the English version prevails, subject to mandatory applicable law.
Article 19 — Contact
For any question concerning:
* these Terms; * an Analysis; * data; * an access request; * a complaint; * the Shared Knowledge Base;
the User may contact:
H INNOV LLC 8 The Green Dover, Delaware 19901 United States
[email protected] www.florn.dev
Acceptance
By accessing Florn or submitting an Analysis after being asked to accept these Terms, the User acknowledges:
* having read them; * having understood them; * accepting them; * having understood that Standard Analyses contribute to a Shared Knowledge Base; * having understood that Raw Data are deleted at the end of the Run and that Derived Knowledge is not subject to the same regime; * having the necessary rights in the submitted data; * having understood that the English version of the Terms is authoritative.