Terms of Service

Who these terms cover

These Terms of Service (the "Terms") govern your use of apprika.ca and the software, design, AI and related services Apprika ("Apprika", "we", "us") provides to clients. By using this website or engaging us, you agree to these Terms.

Paid work is also governed by a written proposal, statement of work or services agreement between you and Apprika (an "Agreement"). If an Agreement conflicts with these Terms, the Agreement controls.

Using this website

The website is provided for general information about our services. Nothing on it is a binding offer. You agree not to misuse it: no attempts to disrupt, scrape at scale, probe for vulnerabilities without permission, or use it unlawfully.

Content on this site, including text, design, logos and code that we have written, belongs to Apprika or its licensors. Project names, logos and images shown in our work belong to their respective owners and are displayed to describe work we delivered.

Our services and how engagements work

We build web and mobile apps, blockchain products, AI agents and custom models, AR and VR experiences, brand design and social media content, and offer Aurakil, our forward-deployed engineering service in which an engineer embeds with your business.

Scope, timelines, deliverables and fees are set in your Agreement. Estimates are good-faith projections, not guarantees. Changes to scope are agreed in writing and may change fees or timelines.

Fees, payment and equity

Fees are billed monthly, yearly or up front as set in your Agreement. Unless the Agreement says otherwise, invoices are due on receipt and amounts are in Canadian dollars, plus applicable taxes. We may pause work on overdue invoices.

Aurakil engagements may be paid by fee, by equity, or a combination. We do not accept or hold equity, or provide services in exchange for it, without a signed written agreement that sets out the equity terms, vesting, rights and any intellectual property arrangements. Nothing on this website or in conversation creates an equity relationship.

Ownership of your work

Subject to the exceptions below, you own the custom code, designs, copy, models fine-tuned on your data and other deliverables that we create specifically for you and identify as deliverables under your Agreement (the "Deliverables"), once the fees for them have been paid in full. Everything is handed over to your repositories and accounts, or we keep operating it for you if you ask us to.

The exceptions, which are what the asterisk on our site refers to:

• Payment. Ownership of Deliverables transfers on full payment. Until then you hold a license to use work in progress for the agreed purpose.
• Equity and special arrangements. If we work for equity or another non-cash arrangement, ownership and licensing of Deliverables follow the signed agreement for that arrangement, which may differ from this section.
• Third-party and open-source components. Libraries, frameworks, fonts, stock assets, models, APIs and platforms we use remain the property of their owners and stay under their own licenses and terms. We tell you what you need to know to comply with them.
• Model providers. If your solution uses a third-party AI model or service, you must also accept that provider's terms and fees. We are model agnostic and use the models you prefer or recommend the one that fits.
• Our background tools. Pre-existing and general-purpose tools, templates, libraries, prompts, workflows and know-how that Apprika owns or develops independently of your project ("Background IP") remain ours. Where Background IP is embedded in a Deliverable, we grant you a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use it as part of that Deliverable.
• Your materials. You keep ownership of anything you give us (your brand, data, content and existing code) and grant us the right to use it to perform the work.
• Portfolio. Unless your Agreement says otherwise, we may mention the project and show non-confidential parts of the finished work in our portfolio and marketing. Tell us in writing if you want a project kept private.

Confidentiality

Each of us will keep the other's non-public business, technical and personal information confidential, use it only for the engagement, and protect it with reasonable care. This does not cover information that is public, already known, independently developed, or that we are legally required to disclose.

AI features and outputs

AI systems can produce inaccurate, incomplete or unexpected output. You are responsible for reviewing outputs and for decisions made using them. Where we build agents that can take actions, we design them so that consequential actions require approval, but you remain responsible for how the agents are configured and used in your business.

Third-party services

Our site and services rely on third parties, including hosting and delivery (Cloudflare), email and workspace tools (Google Workspace), scheduling (Calendly) and fonts (Google Fonts). Their terms and privacy practices apply to your use of those services. We are not responsible for third-party sites we link to.

Warranties and limits of liability

We perform services with reasonable skill and care. Except as stated in an Agreement, the website and services are provided "as is" and we disclaim all other warranties to the fullest extent permitted by law, including fitness for a particular purpose and uninterrupted or error-free operation.

To the extent permitted by law, Apprika will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages, loss of profits, revenue or data, and our total liability arising from an engagement is limited to the fees you paid us for the work giving rise to the claim in the twelve months before it. Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law.

Term and termination

Monthly engagements can be paused or cancelled at any time with written notice, effective at the end of the current billing period. Yearly and up-front engagements are governed by the Agreement. On termination you pay for work performed and committed costs up to the termination date, and we hand over completed Deliverables on payment.

Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of Canada and of the province in which Apprika is established, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Courts of that province have exclusive jurisdiction, except where the law gives you the right to bring a claim elsewhere.

Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. The date below shows the latest revision. Continued use of the website after a change means you accept the updated Terms. Changes do not alter an Agreement already signed.

Contact

Questions about these Terms: hello@apprika.ca.

Last updated: October 2, 2026.