Intellectual Property & Content Policy

AISDI™ Intellectual Property & Content Policy

This Intellectual Property & Content Policy explains how AISDI™ intellectual property, course content, learning materials, ALMA™ interactions, ALMA Activities™, certificates, brand assets, user content, learner outputs, and related materials may and may not be used.

This Policy applies to Artificial Intelligence Skills Development Institute (Pty) Ltd (t/a AISDI™), its websites, learning environment, subscriptions, free access, paid access, business access, partner access, enterprise access, course materials, certificates, ALMA™, ALMA Activities™, communications, downloads, and related services.

This Policy should be read together with the AISDI™ Terms & Conditions, Privacy & Data Protection Policy, Cookie & Tracking Notice, and Communications & Marketing Policy.

1. Who we are

AISDI™ is operated by:

Artificial Intelligence Skills Development Institute (Pty) Ltd (t/a AISDI™)

Registration number: 2025/544994/07

Registered business address: 15 De Witt Street, Van Dyk's Bay, Gansbaai, 7220, Western Cape, South Africa

IP, legal, support, and abuse contact: support@aisdi.ai

2. Scope of this Policy

This Policy applies to all AISDI™ intellectual property and content, including:

1. website content;
2. course materials;
3. course structures;
4. module structures;
5. lesson text;
6. visual materials;
7. videos, where included;
8. downloads;
9. templates;
10. prompts;
11. assessments;
12. ALMA™ interaction structures;
13. ALMA Activities™;
14. certificates and validated completion records;
15. learning paths;
16. course metadata;
17. product names;
18. brand names;
19. logos and visual identity elements;
20. methodologies, frameworks, systems, and content architecture;
21. platform interface text and learning-environment elements;
22. emails, support materials, campaign materials, and public communications;
23. custom, enterprise, partner, or commissioned learning materials unless a separate written agreement says otherwise.

This Policy applies whether access is free, no-charge, trial, promotional, paid, subscription-based, partner-mediated, business, enterprise, or otherwise provided.

3. AISDI™ ownership and licensed rights

AISDI™ and its licensors retain all rights, title, and interest in and to AISDI™ intellectual property, content, course materials, learning structures, methodologies, brand assets, platform elements, certificates, and related materials.

This includes rights in:

1. AISDI™ course content;
2. course and module sequencing;
3. instructional structures;
4. ALMA™ interaction patterns;
5. ALMA Activities™;
6. learning prompts and prompt architectures;
7. certificates and certificate designs;
8. validated completion processes;
9. templates and downloads;
10. assessment structures;
11. course metadata and learning paths;
12. portfolio architecture;
13. visual and written brand assets;
14. proprietary methods, frameworks, systems, and content-development approaches;
15. content produced, adapted, transformed, organized, or delivered through AISDI™ systems.

Access to AISDI™ services does not transfer ownership of any AISDI™ intellectual property.

4. Licence granted to users

Subject to the Terms & Conditions and any applicable access rules, AISDI™ grants users a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, time-bound licence to access and use the applicable AISDI™ materials during the active access period.

This licence is for:

1. personal learning;
2. individual professional development;
3. legitimate internal professional use;
4. course participation;
5. ALMA™-supported learning;
6. completion of ALMA Activities™;
7. certificate and validated completion use, where applicable.

This licence does not allow users to copy, resell, redistribute, publish, externalize, train models on, commercialize, or use AISDI™ materials outside the permitted scope.

Where a separate written agreement, order form, partner agreement, enterprise agreement, statement of work, or licence applies, that document may define additional rights or restrictions.

5. No ownership, permanent access, or transfer

AISDI™ access is licensed, not sold.

Free access, no-charge access, trial access, promotional access, paid subscriptions, course passes, bundles, business access, partner access, enterprise access, certificates, validated completion records, or downloaded materials do not transfer ownership of AISDI™ content, methodologies, systems, frameworks, course structures, certificates, brand assets, ALMA™ structures, or ALMA Activities™.

No access type creates lifetime access, permanent access, ongoing no-cost access, or a right to continue receiving the same content, features, certificates, library structure, pricing, or access model indefinitely.

6. Permitted use of AISDI™ content

Users may use AISDI™ content only within the permitted learning and access scope.

Permitted use includes:

1. viewing course content during the active access period;
2. completing course activities;
3. interacting with ALMA™ inside the learning experience;
4. completing ALMA Activities™;
5. taking personal learning notes;
6. using permitted downloads or templates for personal learning or legitimate internal professional use;
7. using learner outputs produced during the course for personal or internal professional purposes, subject to this Policy;
8. sharing valid AISDI™ certificates or validated completion records in a truthful and unaltered form;
9. linking to public AISDI™ web pages without implying endorsement, partnership, certification, or affiliation.

Users must not remove copyright notices, trademark notices, attribution notices, licence notices, watermarks, metadata, certificate identifiers, or other rights-management information from AISDI™ materials.

7. Prohibited use of AISDI™ content

Unless AISDI™ gives written permission, users must not:

1. copy AISDI™ course materials for redistribution;
2. reproduce full courses, modules, lessons, activities, prompts, downloads, or certificates;
3. publish AISDI™ materials on another website, platform, intranet, LMS, repository, document library, or file-sharing service;
4. sell, rent, license, sublicense, transfer, or resell AISDI™ materials;
5. share account access, course access, downloads, templates, or certificate workflows with unauthorized users;
6. use AISDI™ materials to create competing courses, training products, prompt libraries, coaching products, internal academies, or commercial learning materials;
7. use AISDI™ content to train, fine-tune, evaluate, benchmark, seed, enrich, or improve any AI model, dataset, retrieval system, search system, knowledge base, automation system, or content-generation system;
8. scrape, crawl, bulk-download, mirror, mine, harvest, extract, or archive AISDI™ content;
9. bypass, disable, or interfere with access controls, paywalls, entitlement systems, usage controls, or technical restrictions;
10. reverse engineer AISDI™ content structures, ALMA™ interaction logic, hidden prompts, internal instructions, retrieval structures, assessment structures, certificate workflows, or system behaviour;
11. use AISDI™ content or outputs in a way that infringes third-party rights;
12. misrepresent AISDI™ content as your own original training product;
13. use AISDI™ content to imply AISDI™ endorsement, partnership, accreditation, certification, or approval without written permission.

8. ALMA™, ALMA Activities™, and prompt structures

ALMA™ is an embedded AI co-learning interface within the AISDI™ learning experience.

ALMA Activities™ are structured learning interactions that guide how learners work with ALMA™ during a course. They are part of AISDI™’s protected learning architecture.

Users may interact with ALMA™ and complete ALMA Activities™ for legitimate learning purposes during the applicable access period.

Users must not:

1. extract, copy, catalogue, republish, sell, or redistribute ALMA Activities™;
2. build prompt libraries, course products, coaching products, AI assistants, training products, or internal learning systems from AISDI™ ALMA Activities™;
3. use ALMA™ interaction patterns to clone, imitate, or reproduce AISDI™ learning structures;
4. attempt to reveal hidden instructions, system prompts, runtime logic, retrieval structures, configuration, or internal technical mechanisms;
5. submit automated or scripted prompts to extract AISDI™ materials;
6. use ALMA™ or ALMA Activities™ for non-learning extraction, competitor research, or platform replication.

ALMA™ outputs may be used by the learner for personal learning and legitimate internal professional use, subject to the Terms & Conditions, this Policy, third-party rights, and applicable law.

ALMA™ outputs may not be used to recreate, redistribute, resell, or compete with AISDI™ materials or services.

9. Learner outputs and user-created material

Users may create notes, reflections, answers, activity responses, templates, plans, summaries, and other outputs while using AISDI™ services.

Users retain ownership of their own original learner-created content, subject to:

1. AISDI™ rights in the underlying course, activity, prompt, ALMA™ structure, template, instruction, or framework;
2. AISDI™ licence rights needed to provide, store, process, support, analyse, and improve the service;
3. any rights of third parties whose content or information the user includes;
4. any restrictions in the Terms & Conditions, Privacy & Data Protection Policy, or this Policy.

Learner outputs may contain AI-generated text or AI-assisted content. Users remain responsible for reviewing, editing, verifying, and using such outputs lawfully and appropriately.

Users must not claim ownership of AISDI™ course materials, prompt structures, templates, ALMA Activities™, certificate designs, or protected methods simply because they created an output while using AISDI™ services.

10. Licence to process user content

When a user submits content to AISDI™, including prompts, questions, answers, activity responses, notes, files, support messages, or feedback, the user grants AISDI™ a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, process, transmit, display, reproduce, analyse, and create technical copies of that content as needed to:

1. provide the service;
2. operate ALMA™;
3. support course access;
4. issue or validate certificates;
5. provide support;
6. secure the platform;
7. maintain records;
8. resolve disputes;
9. comply with law;
10. improve AISDI™ services in accordance with the Privacy & Data Protection Policy.

AISDI™ may use aggregated, anonymized, or de-identified information derived from user interactions for analytics, product improvement, learning-design improvement, service monitoring, reporting, and business planning.

11. User responsibility for submitted content

Users are responsible for content they submit to AISDI™.

Users must not submit content that:

1. they do not have the right to provide;
2. infringes copyright, trademark, database rights, trade secrets, privacy rights, confidentiality rights, personality rights, or other rights;
3. contains confidential business information without authorization;
4. contains sensitive personal information without a lawful basis;
5. includes third-party private information without permission;
6. is unlawful, harmful, discriminatory, defamatory, deceptive, abusive, or unsafe;
7. breaches a contract, employment duty, policy, professional rule, or legal duty.

AISDI™ may remove, restrict, refuse, or investigate user content where it reasonably believes that the content breaches this Policy, the Terms & Conditions, applicable law, or third-party rights.

12. Certificates and validated completion records

AISDI™ may issue certificates, validated completion records, learning records, or related recognition documents where the applicable course or access model supports them.

AISDI™ owns or controls the design, format, branding, naming, validation structure, certificate language, certificate identifiers, and certificate workflows.

Users may share valid AISDI™ certificates for personal, professional, portfolio, or social proof purposes, provided they do not:

1. alter the certificate;
2. remove AISDI™ marks;
3. change the learner name, course name, date, certificate ID, or validation details;
4. imply a higher level of recognition than was granted;
5. claim accreditation, licensing, professional certification, or formal qualification status unless AISDI™ states this in writing;
6. use a certificate in a misleading way;
7. create, sell, issue, or distribute fake AISDI™ certificates.

AISDI™ may correct, withdraw, reissue, refuse, or revoke a certificate or validated completion record where it was issued in error, obtained through misuse, affected by technical error, based on inaccurate information, linked to account sharing, linked to breach of the Terms, or used in a misleading way.

13. Trademarks, names, and brand assets

AISDI™ names, marks, logos, product names, course names, certificate names, framework names, visual identity elements, and brand assets are protected.

Protected names and marks include AISDI™, ALMA™, ALMA Activities™, and other AISDI™ or licensor marks used in connection with AISDI™ services.

Users must not use AISDI™ marks in a way that suggests:

1. endorsement;
2. sponsorship;
3. partnership;
4. reseller status;
5. certification provider status;
6. accreditation;
7. official representation;
8. employment relationship;
9. ownership;
10. approval by AISDI™.

Users must not register or use domain names, social media handles, business names, product names, app names, course names, company names, advertising keywords, logos, or brand assets that are confusingly similar to AISDI™ marks.

Users may refer to AISDI™ by name for truthful identification, such as stating that they completed an AISDI™ course, provided that the statement is accurate and not misleading.

14. Third-party names, tools, and marks

AISDI™ courses may refer to third-party tools, platforms, AI systems, software, companies, standards, frameworks, laws, or public resources for educational purposes.

All third-party names, trademarks, logos, and brand references belong to their respective owners.

Reference to a third-party tool, platform, product, or company does not imply endorsement, sponsorship, partnership, certification, approval, or affiliation unless AISDI™ states this in writing.

Users must comply with third-party terms, licences, and policies when using third-party tools or materials.

15. Public materials and separate licences

Some AISDI™ or licensor materials may be made public for informational, academic, research, marketing, or educational purposes.

Unless a material states a separate licence, public availability does not mean that the material is free to copy, modify, resell, train AI systems on, redistribute, or incorporate into another product.

Where a specific document, paper, template, resource, or public material states a separate licence, that licence applies only to that specific material and only within its stated scope.

For example, if a public methodology paper is released under a Creative Commons or other stated licence, that licence applies to that paper as published. It does not grant rights to AISDI™ courses, ALMA™, ALMA Activities™, internal systems, course libraries, paid materials, certificate designs, platform components, or other AISDI™ services unless those materials also state that licence.

16. Limited quotation and public reference

Users may quote short excerpts from public AISDI™ website content for fair reference, commentary, or citation where permitted by law, provided that:

1. the quote is limited and proportionate;
2. AISDI™ is attributed;
3. the quote is not misleading;
4. the quote is not used to imply endorsement or affiliation;
5. the quote is not used to recreate or substitute for AISDI™ content;
6. the quote is not used in a competing product, course, prompt library, or AI system.

This permission does not apply to paid course content, subscriber-only materials, ALMA Activities™, templates, downloads, certificate designs, or other restricted materials unless AISDI™ gives written permission.

17. Downloads, templates, and work products

AISDI™ may provide downloads, templates, checklists, prompts, worksheets, examples, frameworks, or other materials as part of a course or service.

Unless AISDI™ states otherwise in writing, these materials may be used only for the learner’s personal learning and legitimate internal professional use.

Users must not:

1. republish downloads or templates;
2. resell them;
3. upload them to public repositories;
4. include them in another course, workshop, training product, AI assistant, or commercial tool;
5. distribute them across an organization beyond the permitted access scope;
6. remove AISDI™ notices or branding;
7. use them to build a competing product.

Where an organization needs broader internal use, redistribution, cohort access, reporting, training deployment, or enterprise use, that must be agreed with AISDI™ in writing.

18. Feedback and suggestions

Users may provide suggestions, comments, ideas, corrections, feature requests, course feedback, ALMA™ feedback, or other input to AISDI™.

Unless AISDI™ agrees otherwise in writing, AISDI™ may use feedback without restriction or payment to:

1. improve services;
2. correct errors;
3. refine courses;
4. improve ALMA™ behaviour;
5. improve support;
6. plan new content;
7. develop features;
8. improve product design.

Providing feedback does not give the user ownership rights in AISDI™ improvements, course changes, product changes, ALMA™ changes, or related developments.

19. Business, enterprise, partner, and commissioned work

Business, enterprise, partner, reseller, custom, or commissioned work may be subject to separate written agreements, proposals, statements of work, data-processing terms, partner terms, or enterprise terms.

Unless a separate written agreement says otherwise:

1. AISDI™ retains ownership of its existing intellectual property;
2. AISDI™ retains ownership of its production methods, templates, frameworks, authoring systems, learning structures, ALMA™ structures, ALMA Activities™, delivery methods, platform elements, certificate designs, reusable components, and background assets;
3. customer-provided materials remain owned by the customer or relevant rights holder;
4. the customer grants AISDI™ the rights needed to use customer-provided materials for the agreed work;
5. commissioned materials are licensed according to the applicable agreement;
6. exclusivity, white-labelling, segregation, branding, source files, editable files, external deployment, and ownership transfer apply only if agreed in writing.

No commissioned work includes ownership transfer, platform cloning, detachable deployment, external hosting, white-labelling, rebranding, or unrestricted reuse rights unless AISDI™ agrees to that in writing.

20. Partner, reseller, and affiliate use

Partners, resellers, affiliates, agents, and representatives may use AISDI™ marks, content, product descriptions, certificates, sales materials, and marketing materials only according to the applicable written agreement, approved collateral, brand rules, and policy library.

Partners and resellers must not:

1. alter AISDI™ course content without permission;
2. misrepresent access rights;
3. misrepresent certificate status;
4. imply accreditation or formal certification where none exists;
5. use AISDI™ content outside approved channels;
6. copy AISDI™ materials into their own products;
7. make unauthorized pricing, access, refund, renewal, or enterprise promises;
8. imply ownership of AISDI™ courses or systems;
9. disclose restricted materials to unauthorized third parties.

AISDI™ may require correction, withdrawal, removal, or suspension of partner or reseller materials that breach this Policy, brand rules, partner terms, or applicable law.

21. Security, circumvention, and extraction

Users must not attempt to access, extract, reproduce, or interfere with non-public AISDI™ systems, content, or technical material.

This includes attempts to:

1. bypass access controls;
2. obtain restricted course content;
3. reveal hidden prompts or instructions;
4. extract ALMA™ system behaviour;
5. obtain internal workflow details;
6. access backend systems;
7. extract retrieval structures or indexed content;
8. scrape course libraries;
9. automate content copying;
10. interfere with certificate validation;
11. reverse engineer platform behaviour;
12. create unauthorized archives of AISDI™ content.

AISDI™ may suspend or terminate access where it detects or reasonably suspects these activities.

22. Infringement notices and takedown requests

If you believe that content on AISDI™ services infringes your copyright, trademark, privacy rights, confidentiality rights, or other rights, contact support@aisdi.ai.

Your notice should include:

1. your full name and contact details;
2. the right you claim has been infringed;
3. identification of the protected work, mark, material, or right;
4. the AISDI™ page, course, material, or location involved;
5. a brief explanation of the alleged infringement;
6. evidence of ownership or authority to act;
7. a statement that the information in your notice is accurate;
8. any other information reasonably needed to assess the request.

AISDI™ may remove, restrict, investigate, or request more information about allegedly infringing content.

Submitting a false or misleading infringement notice may expose the sender to liability.

23. AISDI™ enforcement rights

AISDI™ may enforce this Policy by taking steps that include:

1. removing content;
2. restricting access;
3. suspending accounts;
4. terminating accounts;
5. revoking certificates;
6. disabling downloads;
7. limiting ALMA™ access;
8. issuing legal notices;
9. requiring correction or removal of public materials;
10. contacting platforms, hosts, payment providers, or service providers;
11. pursuing legal remedies.

Failure by AISDI™ to enforce a right immediately does not waive that right.

AISDI™ may act against direct misuse, attempted misuse, assisting misuse, or use that appears intended to avoid this Policy.

24. Reporting misuse

Users may report suspected misuse of AISDI™ intellectual property, certificates, marks, course content, ALMA Activities™, or public materials to support@aisdi.ai.

Reports may include:

1. unauthorized course sharing;
2. copied course material;
3. fake certificates;
4. altered certificates;
5. misleading use of AISDI™ marks;
6. unauthorized reseller claims;
7. competing products built from AISDI™ content;
8. AI model training using AISDI™ materials;
9. public reposting of restricted materials;
10. scraping or extraction attempts.

AISDI™ may investigate and take action where appropriate.

25. Relationship with other AISDI™ policies

This Policy works together with the AISDI™ Terms & Conditions.

If a user breaches this Policy, the user may also breach the Terms & Conditions.

The Privacy & Data Protection Policy governs personal information and data protection. The Cookie & Tracking Notice governs cookies and tracking technologies. The Communications & Marketing Policy governs AISDI™ communications and marketing contact.

Where a separate written agreement gives a customer or partner additional rights, that agreement applies only to the specific scope it covers.

26. Changes to this Policy

AISDI™ may change this Policy from time to time.

The effective date and version number show when this Policy was last changed.

AISDI™ may notify users of material changes through the website, account notices, email, customer portal, checkout notices, or another reasonable method.

Changes may apply immediately to new users, new access, free access, no-charge access, new purchases, and new subscriptions. For existing paid users, material changes may apply from the next renewal, next billing period, plan change, or another date communicated by AISDI™, subject to applicable law.

Continued use of AISDI™ services after a change takes effect means the user accepts the changed Policy.

27. Contact

IP, content, certificate, trademark, takedown, abuse, and legal questions can be sent to:

Artificial Intelligence Skills Development Institute (Pty) Ltd (t/a AISDI™)

Registration number: 2025/544994/07

Registered business address: 15 De Witt Street, Van Dyk's Bay, Gansbaai, 7220, Western Cape, South Africa

Email: support@aisdi.ai

Use this email for:

1. intellectual property notices;
2. copyright concerns;
3. trademark concerns;
4. certificate misuse reports;
5. unauthorized content-sharing reports;
6. takedown requests;
7. brand-use questions;
8. partner or reseller misuse reports;
9. ALMA Activities™ misuse reports;
10. public-policy questions.