Professional Terms of Use
These terms govern decision support for professional business use. The liability limit in section 8 applies only between businesses, subject to section 9. These terms do not provide complete immunity from liability. Legal review and enforceability have not been confirmed.
1. Contracting party and prices
NorthSmith is provided by STORBEKK NORDLOGIX, organisation no. 936 628 400, using the brand Norlogix. The seller is not registered in the Norwegian VAT Register. No VAT is charged on the displayed prices. The seller is a Norwegian sole proprietorship (ENK), not a limited liability company. These terms do not establish a corporate separation or limited personal liability for its proprietor.
2. Limited purpose of the service
NorthSmith provides software-based decision support, calculations and working material. Using the service does not appoint the seller as the project designer, independent inspector, consulting engineer, contractor or construction manager. Any such engagement requires a separate express agreement. NorthSmith does not issue professional release, certification, regulatory approval or authorization to procure, pour concrete or carry out construction.
3. Review before consequential use
The user must check the project, object, zone, source revision, units, inputs, assumptions, applicability of standards and results. Before any reliance for design, safety-relevant procurement, construction, HSE, compliance or handover, an independent qualified professional must review the basis and conclusions using appropriate professional methods. Review must be real and proportionate to the risk; a checkbox or AI answer does not replace it. Users retain responsibility for their project decisions and statutory roles, without excluding the seller’s contractual or mandatory legal liability.
4. Errors, uncertainty and standards references
AI, software, calculations and third-party services can produce errors, omissions or contradictions even where an answer appears confident. Error-free operation, a particular project outcome and uninterrupted availability are not promised. A standards reference is not proof of a current national annex, complete code checking or compliance. Rely on documented verification only within its stated scope. The seller must perform agreed obligations with reasonable professional care; this qualification does not remove expressly agreed functionality or mandatory remedies for defects.
5. Held and historical results
A held, provisional, unverified or historical result must not be treated as current approval. Changed sources, calculations or assumptions can invalidate earlier results. Check the current revision and open review points before further use, and retain sources, history and report limitations when sharing output. Do not remove review boundaries or represent NorthSmith as professional approval.
6. Inputs, access and incidents
Users must have authority to upload and process material and must not submit personal data, sensitive information or third-party confidential information without the necessary legal basis and authorization. Acceptance of these terms is not privacy consent or a data processing agreement. Consult the privacy notice for the separate facts and limits of processing. Keep necessary copies of your work; a local copy and confirmed cloud storage are different states. If an error may have consequences, stop the affected use, reasonably mitigate loss, preserve the basis and notify through the service’s available support channel.
7. Subscriptions, changes and suspension
Where paid subscriptions are offered, the price, period, renewal and cancellation method must be presented before purchase. These terms initiate no payment. Payment does not provide professional approval or unlimited AI capacity. Access may be suspended or restricted where necessary for safety, legal requirements or misuse. Material changes to an ongoing paid service require reasonable advance notice where possible, a reasonable cancellation opportunity and any refund for undelivered prepaid service required by the agreement and law. New material liability limits do not apply to events that have already occurred merely because a web page changes.
8. Agreed liability limits between businesses
Subject to section 9, the seller’s aggregate liability for direct loss arising from the same or connected events is limited to the greater of NOK 4,900 and the fees the customer actually paid for the affected NorthSmith service in the 12 months before the first loss-causing event. Related claims arising from the same error are treated together. Between businesses, indirect loss, including lost profit, lost revenue, production interruption or lost business opportunities, is excluded subject to the same exceptions. This cap does not limit any duty to refund fees for an undelivered service.
9. Rights and liability not excluded
The cap and exclusion of indirect loss do not apply to intentional misconduct or gross negligence, death or personal injury, statutory compensation claims for breaches of data protection law, or other liability that cannot lawfully be limited. These terms do not restrict data subjects’ rights, regulatory powers or mandatory third-party claims. No provision is an unlawful exclusion of liability or a guarantee that a limit is enforceable in a particular case.
10. Consumers and mandatory rules
The service and B2B liability limits are designed for business use. An individual’s actual contractual purpose determines consumer status; a checkbox or professional title does not change it. If the customer is a consumer, section 8 does not apply and no provision reduces mandatory rights under applicable digital-services, withdrawal or other consumer-protection law. Required information, remedies and any applicable withdrawal rights must still be provided.
11. Acceptance, version and governing law
Read the full text before expressly accepting. The existing Studio gate stores only this browser’s terms version and time; it does not establish account-bound or durable server-side contractual acceptance, a purchase, privacy consent or completed professional review. Material changes require renewed express acceptance where the existing gate is used. Norwegian law applies subject to mandatory customer protections; disputes are heard by the competent court under applicable jurisdiction rules.