Terms and Conditions of the Plugin

Purpose of the contract and parties

The purpose of these Terms is to regulate the contractual relationship between the Owner and the Customer regarding the granting of a use licence over the Plugin, including the right to receive updates, the optional technical support and access to the integrations described in this document.

Owner

Customer

"Customer" means the natural or legal person who acquires a Plugin licence through the website www.4linking.com and provides their identification, billing and contact data during the purchase process. The Customer warrants that the data provided is true, accurate and complete, and undertakes to keep it duly updated.

Definitions

For the purposes of these Terms, the following terms shall have the meaning set out below:

• Plugin: the "4Linking" software, in any of its commercial editions (Starter, Pro or Agency), distributed by the Owner.
• Licence: the personal, non-exclusive and non-transferable authorisation that the Owner grants to the Customer to install and use the Plugin on the number of Sites contracted, in the conditions described in these Terms.
• Site: a unique domain (or subdomain) where the Plugin is installed and activated. Each activation consumes one slot of the contracted licence.
• Slot: each one of the Sites included in the Customer's licence. The total number of slots depends on the edition acquired (Starter: 1 slot, Pro: 5 slots, Agency: 25 slots).
• Annuity: period of twelve consecutive months during which the licence is in force, including updates and standard technical support.
• Generated Content: any text, image or material produced by the Plugin's artificial intelligence functions and applied to the Customer's WordPress site.
• BYOK (Bring Your Own Key): operating model whereby the Customer provides their own OpenAI API key to use the Plugin's artificial intelligence functions, paying for AI consumption directly to OpenAI.
• OpenAI: the company OpenAI, L.L.C. (United States), provider of the artificial intelligence services used by the Plugin under the BYOK model.

Licence and use rights

By contracting the Plugin, the Owner grants the Customer a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable and limited use licence for the duration of the contracted annuity, subject to compliance with these Terms.

The licence authorises the Customer to:

• Install and activate the Plugin on as many Sites as slots are included in their edition.
• Use all the Plugin's functions on the activated Sites during the validity period of the licence.
• Receive available updates during the validity period of the licence.
• Access the technical support associated with their edition, in the terms described in section 7.

The licence does NOT authorise the Customer to:

• Resell, sublicense, rent, lend or assign the Plugin to third parties.
• Distribute the Plugin's source code or modified copies thereof.
• Decompile, reverse engineer or extract algorithms from the Plugin, except where such activities are permitted by Spanish Royal Legislative Decree 1/1996, of 12 April, on the consolidated text of the Intellectual Property Law.
• Remove or alter copyright, authorship or licence notices included in the Plugin.

Commercial editions and Sites limit

The Plugin is marketed in three commercial editions, identical in functionality but different in the maximum number of Sites on which it can be activated:

• Starter: 1 active Site (1 slot).
• Pro: up to 5 active Sites (5 slots).
• Agency: up to 25 active Sites (25 slots).

Additionally, a Free edition is distributed through the official WordPress.org plugin directory, with reduced functionality, no Site limit and no associated payment. The Free edition is not regulated by this contract; the terms applicable to it are those derived from its GPLv2-or-later licence.

Activation, deactivation and migration between domains

Activation

After acquiring the licence, the Customer receives by email a unique licence key associated with their account. To activate the Plugin on a Site, the Customer must paste this key in the Plugin settings panel within their WordPress installation and confirm the activation.

Each successful activation consumes one slot of those included in the edition. The system automatically records the activated domain.

Deactivation

The Customer may deactivate the Plugin on any of the activated Sites at any time from the Plugin settings panel itself. Deactivation releases the consumed slot, which becomes available again to activate the Plugin on another Site.

Migration between domains

The Customer may move the licence from one Site to another through the standard procedure of deactivating in the origin and activating in the destination. There is no limit on the number of deactivations/reactivations during the annuity, provided the maximum number of slots in the contracted edition is not exceeded simultaneously.

Term, automatic renewal and cancellation

Automatic renewal

The licence has a duration of twelve months from the date of activation. Unless cancelled in advance, the licence is automatically renewed for additional annual periods, charging the price in force at the time of renewal to the payment method registered by the Customer.

Prior notice

The Owner will send the Customer an email at least 15 calendar days before the renewal date, indicating the price to be charged and the date of charge. This communication will be sent to the email address provided during purchase. If the Customer does not wish the licence to be automatically renewed, they may cancel it before that date following the procedure described below.

Cancellation

The Customer may cancel the automatic renewal at any time through:

• Their customer area on www.4linking.com.
• An email to legal@4linking.com requesting the cancellation.

Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current annuity. The Customer keeps full access to the Plugin and its functions until that date.

Money-back guarantee

The conditions under which a refund may be requested are described in detail in the Refund Policy, which is an integral part of these Terms.

Updates and technical support

Updates

During the validity period of the licence, the Customer is entitled to receive all the Plugin updates published by the Owner: corrective updates (bug fixes), security updates, evolutionary updates (new features) and adaptations to new versions of WordPress.

Updates are delivered automatically through the Plugin's own update system, integrated with the WordPress administration panel.

Technical support

Standard technical support is included in all paid editions and covers:

• Resolution of bugs and malfunctions of the Plugin.
• Assistance with the initial installation and configuration.
• Clarification of doubts about how to use the Plugin's functions.
• Help with the management of the licence, slots and renewals.

Standard support is provided by email at contacto@4linking.com, with response within a reasonable period during business days. Standard support does NOT include:

• WordPress installation, hosting configuration or general system administration.
• Configuration of third-party plugins or themes that are not part of 4Linking.
• Editorial review or quality control of the content generated by the Plugin (this is the Customer's responsibility).
• Custom development, adaptation to specific business processes or integration with third-party systems.
• SEO consultancy, content strategy or digital marketing services.

After licence expiration

When a licence expires without renewal, the Customer:

• Keeps the Plugin installed and operational with all its functions, in the version installed at the time of expiration.
• Loses the right to receive updates until they renew the licence.
• Loses access to technical support until they renew the licence.

The configuration, data and Content Generated by the Customer remain intact and accessible regardless of the state of the licence.

BYOK model and use of artificial intelligence services

The artificial intelligence functions of the Plugin (content generation, image generation, translation, semantic analysis, knowledge bases) operate under a "Bring Your Own Key" (BYOK) model: the Customer provides their own OpenAI API key, configured in the Plugin settings panel, and the requests to the artificial intelligence are sent directly from the Customer's WordPress server to OpenAI's servers, with no intermediation by the Owner.

Consequences of the BYOK model

• The Customer contracts the artificial intelligence services directly with OpenAI and is bound by the terms of use and privacy policies of that company.
• The cost of using artificial intelligence (tokens consumed in OpenAI's API) is paid by the Customer directly to OpenAI, on top of the Plugin licence. The Owner does not invoice for AI consumption and does not act as an intermediary in those operations.
• The Owner does not have technical access to the content processed by artificial intelligence, nor does it store copies of it.
• The Customer's OpenAI API key is stored exclusively in the WordPress database of the Customer's site, encrypted insofar as the WordPress storage system allows.
• The Customer is responsible for managing their own spending limits in OpenAI, as well as for the security of their API key.

Other third-party services

For specific functions, the Plugin may interact with other third-party services (for example, Polylang for translation management). The use of these services is subject to their own terms and conditions, and it is the Customer's responsibility to comply with them.

Ownership of the content generated by the Plugin

All the Content Generated by the Plugin from prompts, knowledge bases, configurations or instructions provided by the Customer is the exclusive property of the Customer, without limitation as to use, modification, distribution or commercialisation.

The Customer may use, modify, publish, distribute and commercialise the Generated Content without need for permission or prior notification to the Owner.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the ownership of the Generated Content is subject to the OpenAI Terms of Use, which the Customer accepts when contracting OpenAI's services directly under the BYOK model. The Owner does not claim any intellectual property right or right of exploitation over such content.

Responsibility for content generated by AI

The Plugin incorporates mechanisms to reduce the probability of errors —refined prompt system, post-filters, knowledge bases, automatic editorial audit— but none of these mechanisms substitutes human review nor guarantees the correctness of the content.

In particular, the Customer is responsible for verifying:

• Quantitative data: figures, percentages, dates, statistics, citations of studies or authorities.
• Attributions: names of people, companies, products or brands.
• Factual statements capable of causing reputational damage to third parties if they were inaccurate.
• Sensitive information: medical, legal, financial, tax-related topics or those requiring professional advice.
• Regulatory compliance of the published content (advertising, intellectual property, image rights, etc.).

Third-party intellectual property and inadvertent plagiarism

Generative artificial intelligence models may, in certain circumstances, reproduce fragments of works protected by copyright of third parties without the model signalling it or the system detecting it. This can occur with texts, literary fragments, product descriptions, quotes, marketing slogans, source code or any other material that the model has seen during its training. The probability is low but not zero, and the Owner does not have technical means to guarantee one hundred per cent the originality of the Generated Content.

Before publishing or commercially using the Generated Content, the Customer is advised to:

• Verify the originality of the content using anti-plagiarism tools (Copyscape, Originality.ai, Quetext or equivalents), especially for long pieces or on topics with abundant published material.
• Check that trademarks, slogans, product descriptions of competitors or other protected distinctive signs are not reproduced literally.
• Review quotes, phrases attributed to real persons and references to studies or publications, given that AI may invent authorship or attribute phrases incorrectly.
• For sensitive content (legal, medical, financial sector), consult a professional from the sector before publication.

The use of the Plugin does not exempt the Customer from compliance with the laws applicable to the publication of content on the internet, nor from the specific regulations of their professional sector.

Prohibited uses of the Plugin

The Customer undertakes NOT to use the Plugin or the Generated Content to:

• Generate, distribute or publish content that infringes third-party intellectual property, industrial property or image rights.
• Generate content of illicit, defamatory, threatening, harassing, discriminatory, sexually explicit involving minors, or that incites violence or hatred.
• Disseminate disinformation deliberately, especially on matters of public health, electoral processes or social emergency situations.
• Impersonate the identity of real persons or attribute statements, opinions or actions to identifiable persons without their consent.
• Engage in massive automated spam practices, abusive sending of unsolicited emails or any other activity contrary to anti-spam regulations.
• Carry out fraudulent, deceptive or pyramidal marketing activities, or that infringe Spanish Law 34/2002 on Information Society Services or any other applicable regulation.
• Generate fake reviews, fake testimonials or any other type of manipulated content intended to deceive consumers.
• Use the Plugin or the Generated Content through it as a training dataset for generative artificial intelligence models that compete with OpenAI or with the Plugin itself.
• Resell, sublicense or share the Plugin, the licence key or the OpenAI API key with third parties not authorised by the Owner.

The breach of any of these prohibitions may lead to the immediate suspension of the licence in the terms described in section 15, without prejudice to the additional legal actions that the Owner may exercise.

Intellectual property of the Plugin and the website

The Plugin, its source code, its documentation, the materials on the website www.4linking.com, the visual designs, the trademarks, the logos and any other industrial or intellectual property element associated with the product are the exclusive property of the Owner or of the third parties who have licensed their use.

Acquisition of the licence does not imply any transfer of ownership over these elements, beyond the use rights expressly described in section 3.

Any unauthorised use of these elements may give rise to civil or criminal actions in defence of the Owner's intellectual and industrial property rights.

Warranties, disclaimers and "as-is" delivery

The Owner provides the Plugin "as is", warranting that, to the best of its knowledge, the Plugin performs the functions described in the product documentation in force at the time of acquisition.

However, the Owner does NOT warrant:

• That the Plugin operates without interruption or errors.
• That the Plugin is compatible with all themes, plugins, server configurations or specific WordPress versions.
• That the Generated Content meets specific quality, ranking or commercial conversion objectives.
• That the Plugin produces specific results in terms of SEO positioning, web traffic or business metrics.
• That OpenAI's services are continuously available or with stable pricing.

The express warranties of this section replace any other implicit warranty under applicable law, to the maximum extent permitted by Spanish legislation.

Limitation of liability of the Owner

To the maximum extent permitted by Spanish legislation, the Owner's total liability arising from these Terms or from the use of the Plugin shall be limited to the amount actually paid by the Customer during the twelve (12) months immediately preceding the event giving rise to the claim.

This limitation applies regardless of the legal grounds of the claim (contractual, non-contractual, statutory or otherwise) and includes both direct and indirect, consequential, special or punitive damages.

In particular, the Owner shall not be liable for:

• Loss of profits, loss of business opportunities, loss of expected revenue.
• Loss of data, regardless of the cause, when adequate backups are not in place.
• Damage to the Customer's image or reputation derived from the use or publication of the Generated Content.
• Costs derived from artificial intelligence consumption invoiced by OpenAI to the Customer.
• Penalties imposed by search engines, social networks or any other third-party platform, derived from the use of the Generated Content.
• Indirect damages caused to the Customer's website by interactions between the Plugin and other software not directly supported by the Owner.

The limitations of this section do not apply in cases of gross negligence or wilful misconduct of the Owner, nor in those areas where Spanish legislation does not permit the exclusion or limitation of liability.

Suspension and termination of the licence

The Owner reserves the right to suspend or terminate the Customer's licence, with prior notice when possible, in the following cases:

• Breach by the Customer of any of these Terms, especially the prohibited uses described in section 11.
• Lack of payment, refund of charges, partial or fraudulent payments.
• Use of the Plugin that endangers the security or stability of the Owner's services or those of third parties.
• Court or administrative orders requiring the cessation of the service.

Procedure

Whenever possible, the Owner will notify the Customer in advance of any suspension or termination, granting a reasonable period to remedy the breach. In cases of serious breach or risk to third parties, the suspension may be immediate.

Effects of termination

Termination of the licence entails the immediate cessation of the Customer's right to use the Plugin and access to associated services (updates, support). The Customer's data and the Generated Content remain in the Customer's WordPress installations; the Owner does not retain copies.

Processing of personal data

The processing of the Customer's personal data is governed by the Privacy Policy, which is an integral part of these Terms.

The Owner processes the Customer's personal data exclusively for the purpose of managing the contractual relationship, generating and validating licences, sending administrative communications related to the service and complying with applicable legal obligations.

For all matters relating to data protection (access, rectification, deletion, opposition, portability), the Customer can contact legal@4linking.com.

Assignment of the contract

The Customer may not assign these Terms or the rights derived from them to third parties without the prior written authorisation of the Owner. Such authorisation will not be unreasonably withheld in cases of business succession, corporate restructuring or transfer of the digital business unit.

The Owner may freely assign these Terms to a third party in cases of sale, merger, restructuring or transfer of its business, prior notification to the Customer with a minimum of 30 days notice.

Force majeure

Neither of the parties shall be liable for breach or delay in the performance of its obligations under these Terms when such breach or delay arises from causes of force majeure or fortuitous event, including but not limited to: natural disasters, wars, terrorist acts, pandemics, total or partial failures of internet, electricity or telecommunications infrastructure, court or administrative decisions, strikes or labour disputes outside the affected party's control.

The party affected by force majeure will notify the other of this situation as soon as possible and will use reasonable efforts to mitigate its effects.

Modifications to these Terms

The Owner reserves the right to modify these Terms at any time. Modifications will be notified to the Customer by email and through the website www.4linking.com with at least 30 calendar days notice before they come into effect.

If the modifications substantially alter the Customer's rights or obligations, the Customer will have the right to terminate the contract without penalty, requesting a proportional refund of the unused part of the current annuity, in the terms of the Refund Policy.

The continued use of the Plugin after the entry into force of the new Terms implies acceptance of those Terms.

Applicable law, jurisdiction and contact

These Terms are governed by Spanish law.

For the resolution of any controversy or claim derived from these Terms, the parties expressly submit to the jurisdiction of the Courts and Tribunals of A Coruña (Spain), expressly waiving any other jurisdiction that might correspond to them.

If the Customer is a consumer or user (Customer who is not acting in the framework of a commercial or professional activity), this jurisdictional submission shall not affect the rights that the corresponding consumer protection regulations may grant them to bring an action before the courts of their place of residence.

Alternative dispute resolution

In accordance with EU Regulation 524/2013, on online dispute resolution in consumer matters, EU consumers may access the European Commission's online dispute resolution platform, available at: ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr/.

Legal contact

For any matter relating to these Terms, contractual disputes or formal communications, please contact: