Imperial Eminence Cyberguard Corporation · The Ivory Index
Intellectual Property Policy
Tier II — Financial Risk · Ref: IECC-T2-003 · Version 2.0 · Effective 14 June 2026
The Ivory Index software, including all source code, object code, algorithms, machine learning pipeline architecture, user interface design, visual assets, documentation, brand assets (including "The Ivory Index", "AOArose", "IECC", and the IECC crest), and all derivatives thereof, is the exclusive intellectual property of Imperial Eminence Cyberguard Corporation. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.
Personal statements, essays, and other creative works authored by you and stored in the Software remain your intellectual property. IECC claims no ownership in your original creative works.
IECC makes no warranty that AI-assisted outputs meet the threshold of originality required for copyright protection under any jurisdiction's law. The User is solely responsible for ensuring that materials submitted to institutions represent the User's own work as required by those institutions' policies.
IECC retains ownership of the evaluation methodologies, algorithms, and scoring frameworks underlying all evaluation outputs. Users receive a perpetual, non-exclusive licence to use, reproduce, and share evaluation outputs relating to their own content — including exporting reports, sharing with advisers, or presenting to institutions. This licence does not extend to commercialising, reselling, or representing IECC evaluation outputs as independent expert assessments. IECC retains all rights in the underlying generation methodology.
Open-source AI model weights distributed via Ollama are the intellectual property of their respective creators and are subject to their respective licences (including Meta's Llama Community Licence for llama3.2 variants). IECC's intellectual property covers only the Software integration layer.
To the extent necessary to operate the Software locally on your device, you grant IECC a limited, non-exclusive, revocable licence to process your content within the local runtime environment solely to the extent necessary to provide the Software's functionality to you. This licence does not extend to cloud processing, model training, or sharing with third parties.
No licence is granted by implication, estoppel, or otherwise. All rights not expressly stated in the EULA or this Policy are reserved by IECC.
The parties acknowledge that unauthorised use, reproduction, distribution, or misappropriation of IECC's intellectual property may cause irreparable harm to IECC for which monetary damages would be an inadequate remedy. IECC shall be entitled to seek injunctive or other equitable relief from any court of competent jurisdiction to prevent or restrain such unauthorised use, without the requirement to post bond or other security and without prejudice to any other rights or remedies available at law or in equity.
"The Ivory Index", "AOArose", and "IECC" are proprietary brand assets of Imperial Eminence Cyberguard Corporation. These names, logos, and associated marks are used under claim of common law rights where applicable. No formal trademark registration is asserted at this stage; formal registration applications are part of IECC's intellectual property programme. Unauthorised use of these brand assets is prohibited and may give rise to common law passing-off or unfair competition claims.
