Terms and Conditions
Effective Date: 5th March 2024. Last Published: 10th Sep 2026. Current date: 10th Sep 2026 • Silenus Ventures Pty Ltd (ACN: 676 724 584)
These Terms and Conditions constitute a legally binding commercial agreement governing the access to and use of all software, online portals, smart contracts, and decentralized distribution platforms operated by Silenus Ventures Pty Ltd, including Respondable, Siebsab, Frankl, and MapleLeafAI.
1. Binding Agreement & Corporate Parties
These Terms and Conditions ("Terms") are entered into by and between you ("User", "Creator", "you", or "your") and Silenus Ventures Pty Ltd (ACN: 676 724 584), a company duly incorporated and registered under the laws of New South Wales, Australia ("Silenus Ventures", "Company", "we", "our", or "us").
By accessing, browsing, registering an account on, connecting an unhosted Web3 wallet to, or uploading content to any of our websites or software applications, you represent that you have read, understood, and irrevocably agree to be bound by these Terms and our companion Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, you must immediately terminate your use of our platforms.
2. Ecosystem Scope & Multi-Platform Services
Silenus Ventures designs, architects, hosts, and deploys high-performance software systems emphasizing encryption, decentralization, and digital content distribution. These Terms comprehensively govern your interaction with all Silenus platforms, including without limitation:
- Respondable (respondable.web.app): AI-assisted YouTube comment management with tone-aware intelligence, fan support subscriptions, creator video requests, and multi-platform backup distribution.
- Siebsab (siebsab.web.app): Decentralized streaming network and media discovery protocol operating on Layer-2 blockchain smart contracts (Arbitrum One) and peer-to-peer storage networks (IPFS).
- Frankl (frankl.web.app): Open science platform hosting validated neurodevelopmental, cognitive, and mental health screening instruments featuring zero-server client-side scoring and on-chain notarization.
- MapleLeafAI (mapleleafai.web.app): Secure artificial intelligence infrastructure facilitating enterprise data enclaves, permissioned RAG, and community archive preservation.
3. Accounts, OAuth & Self-Custodied Keys
Depending on the platform, access may require federated OAuth authentication (e.g., Google Sign-In on Respondable) or cryptographic connection of an unhosted Web3 wallet (e.g., MetaMask, Rabby, or WalletConnect on Siebsab and Frankl).
Cryptographic Self-Custody & Key Management:
You acknowledge that Silenus Ventures does not hold, maintain, recover, or possess access to your private cryptographic keys, seed phrases, or client-side encryption passwords.
You are solely responsible for safeguarding your credentials, hardware, and private keys. Silenus Ventures shall bear zero liability for unauthorized transactions, forgotten keys, or irreparable loss of encrypted records resulting from your failure to preserve your credentials.
4. Non-Exclusive Licence for Digital Content Distribution
When you upload, submit, pin, stream, transcode, or transmit digital content — including without limitation audiovisual works, videos, sound recordings, metadata, comments, text, imagery, or digital files ("Digital Content") — through Respondable, Siebsab, or any Silenus platform, you retain all underlying intellectual property rights and copyright in your original content.
Grant of Distribution Licence
By submitting or distributing Digital Content via our services, you hereby grant to Silenus Ventures Pty Ltd a non-exclusive, worldwide, transferable, sublicensable (through multiple tiers), royalty-bearing licence to:
- Host, cache, store, duplicate, reproduce, ingest, and transcode your Digital Content into multiple bitrates, streaming resolutions, and web-compatible codecs;
- Distribute, stream, publicly perform, publicly display, transmit, and broadcast your Digital Content across Silenus networks, consumer-facing portals, peer-to-peer content-addressed protocols (including the InterPlanetary File System — IPFS), and Layer-2 blockchain communication channels;
- Index, catalogue, generate cryptographically verifiable hashes, extract searchable transcripts or descriptive metadata, and facilitate discovery and recommendation across the network; and
- Syndicate, bridge, and back up your Digital Content across authorized partner nodes, federated mirrors, and creator studios as configured in your user settings.
Creator Representations:
You warrant and represent that you are the sole creator and copyright owner of your Digital Content, or that you hold all valid, subsisting, and enforceable licences, releases, consents, and permissions necessary to grant the distribution licence set forth herein, without infringing or violating any copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity, or contract rights of any third party.
5. Royalty Collection & Revenue Distribution
To foster fair creator economies and sustainable digital distribution, Silenus Ventures provides monetization, subscription, and distribution mechanisms.
Authorisation to Collect Royalties & Fees
Under the non-exclusive distribution licence granted above, you expressly authorize Silenus Ventures Pty Ltd to act as a digital distributor and agent to collect all royalties, pay-per-view fees, fan support subscriptions, video request fees, streaming micropayments, and licensing revenues generated from the access, consumption, or syndication of your Digital Content across our ecosystem.
Revenue Sharing & Remittance
Silenus Ventures agrees to collect, account for, and remit royalties and revenues to creators and rights holders in strict accordance with the specific commercial revenue-share schedules, platform agreements, or automated smart contract splits established for each service (for example, creator-first fee models on Respondable and Siebsab).
Remittances are subject to deduction of verifiable third-party processing expenses, including payment gateway fees, applicable statutory GST or withholding taxes, smart contract blockchain gas fees, and the platform's agreed service margin.
Accounting & Disputed Balances
Platform balances are calculated based on transparent digital records. Any dispute concerning royalty calculations must be formally submitted in writing within ninety (90) days of the relevant accounting period.
6. Blockchain Tokens & Ledger Balances (Financial Product Exclusion)
Technical Ledger Units • Not Financial Products or Bank Accounts:
Silenus Ventures platforms (including Siebsab and Frankl) utilize cryptographic tokens, on-chain balances, smart contract gas pools, and digital ledger units recorded on the Arbitrum One network or other distributed ledgers. You expressly acknowledge, agree, and accept that:
- Purely a Technical Ledger Mechanism: Blockchain tokens, smart contract balances, and protocol accounting units serve exclusively as an internal technological ledger mechanism to coordinate computational bandwidth, gas pool subsidies, content distribution rights, and platform balances.
- Not a Financial Product: Such tokens, ledger units, and balances are NOT bank accounts, deposit accounts, currency, legal tender, debentures, shares, securities, collective or managed investment schemes, derivatives, or financial products under the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth), ASIC Regulatory Guides, or the laws of any jurisdiction.
- No Inherent Value or Redemption Claim: Tokens and ledger balances do not carry any right to dividends, interest payments, voting power, corporate ownership, equity participation, or claim against the earnings, property, or liquidation proceeds of Silenus Ventures Pty Ltd.
- No Guarantee of Fiat Conversion: Silenus Ventures offers no guarantee, representation, or legal commitment that any token or ledger balance can be redeemed for, converted into, or pegged against Australian Dollars (AUD), US Dollars (USD), or any sovereign fiat currency.
- Cryptographic & Network Risks: Blockchain interactions are non-reversible. You bear all risks of network downtime, hard forks, smart contract bugs, gas volatility, or blockchain reorganizations.
7. Platform-Specific Commercial Terms
By linking your YouTube channel or Google account, you warrant that you are authorized to manage that channel. You acknowledge that Respondable generates suggested comment replies and analytics using artificial intelligence. You remain the sole author and publisher of record for any comment published to YouTube and agree to comply at all times with the YouTube Terms of Service and Community Guidelines.
Siebsab provides an uncaptured decentralized streaming network. Content pinned to IPFS is distributed across independent nodes and cannot be unilaterally erased from decentralized networks once broadcast. You agree not to upload pirated works, non-consensual imagery, or unlawful content. Silenus maintains a designated copyright agent under the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) to receive infringement notices.
Frankl cognitive and behavioral screening instruments are provided solely for educational, preliminary screening, and academic research purposes. They do not constitute medical, psychiatric, or psychological diagnoses. Always consult a qualified registered medical practitioner or clinical psychologist for medical advice. Silenus accepts zero liability for health-related decisions made on the basis of screening instruments.
Enterprise data enclaves are provisioned subject to dedicated service level agreements. Organizations retain full ownership of proprietary data ingested into their enclaves. Community archive preservation projects must respect moral rights and cultural heritage clearances before public distribution.
8. Acceptable Use & Prohibited Conduct
You expressly covenant that you will not:
- Engage in any activity that infringes the intellectual property, privacy, or statutory rights of any person;
- Deploy automated bots, spiders, or scripts that impair network performance or exploit smart contract gas funds;
- Circumvent client-side envelope encryption, reverse engineer proprietary source code, or breach data enclaves;
- Transmit malware, viruses, harmful payloads, or abusive, defamatory, or illegal media;
- Violate the Criminal Code Act 1995 (Cth), the Cybercrime Act 2001 (Cth), or applicable international sanctions.
9. Proprietary Intellectual Property Rights
All trademarks, service marks, trade names, UI designs, codebases, smart contract bytecode, algorithms, and documentation developed by Silenus Ventures are the proprietary intellectual property of Silenus Ventures Pty Ltd or its licensors. Except for the limited licenses expressly granted herein, no title or rights are transferred to you.
10. Australian Consumer Law & Disclaimers
Our services come with guarantees that cannot be excluded under Schedule 2 of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth) ("Australian Consumer Law"). Nothing in these Terms modifies, restricts, or excludes any consumer guarantees or non-excludable statutory rights.
Subject to the Australian Consumer Law, all services, software, and protocols are provided strictly on an "as is" and "as available" basis, without express or implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or uninterrupted availability.
11. Limitation of Liability
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Silenus Ventures Pty Ltd, its directors, officers, employees, agents, and affiliates shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or punitive damages, including loss of profits, lost revenue, lost data, blockchain transaction losses, loss of cryptographic keys, or business interruption.
To the extent permitted by law, our aggregate aggregate liability for all claims arising out of or related to these Terms or our services shall be strictly capped at the total amount paid by you to Silenus Ventures in the six (6) months preceding the event giving rise to liability, or fifty Australian Dollars (AUD $50.00), whichever is greater.
12. Indemnification
You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Silenus Ventures Pty Ltd and its directors, officers, employees, contractors, and agents from and against any third-party claims, proceedings, liabilities, losses, damages, costs, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees on a solicitor-client basis) arising out of or relating to: (a) your Digital Content; (b) your breach of these Terms; (c) your violation of third-party rights; or (d) your misuse of our platforms.
13. Termination, Suspension & Immutability
Silenus Ventures reserves the right to suspend or terminate your access to centralized services, user dashboards, or API endpoints immediately and without notice if you breach these Terms.
*(You acknowledge that transactions executed on decentralized blockchains or media pinned across decentralized IPFS networks are immutable and outside the centralized power of Silenus Ventures to revoke or undo).*
14. Governing Law & NSW Jurisdiction
These Terms, and any dispute, controversy, or claim arising out of or in connection with them, shall be governed by, construed, and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the State of New South Wales, Australia and the Commonwealth of Australia, without regard to conflict of law principles.
The parties irrevocably submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of New South Wales and courts entitled to hear appeals therefrom.
15. Amendments & Contact Inquiries
We reserve the right to revise or amend these Terms at any time by publishing the updated version on our website. Continued use of our platforms constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.
Commercial Legal Inquiries:
Silenus Ventures Pty Ltd (ACN: 676 724 584)
Email: info@silenusventures.com / hello@silenusventures.com
Jurisdiction: New South Wales, Australia