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Website Terms of Use

Last updated: 13 September 2026

These terms of use (Website Terms) govern your access to and use of www.techieray.com and every page, tool, dataset and feature made available on it (Website), operated by Raymond Sun (ABN 39 348 769 519) trading as techie_ray® labs (Developer).

By accessing or using the Website, you confirm you have read, understood and agreed to be bound by these Website Terms. If you do not agree to these Website Terms, you must not access or use the Website.

1. About these Website Terms
   1. The Website includes the Global AI Regulation Tracker in its English and Chinese editions, Global Tech Law News, the Live and Breathing Essay, the AI Risk Matrix, the AI Governance Library, the subscription portal and every other page published at www.techieray.com.
   2. Content means all information, data, text, graphics, maps, datasets, summaries, categorisations, tags, code, documentation and other material made available on or through the Website, other than Third Party Content.
   3. Third Party Content means material originating from a person other than the Developer, including advertisements, syndicated news items, links to external sources and embedded media.
   4. The Developer may amend these Website Terms at any time by publishing an updated version on this page. The "Last updated" date at the top of this page records when the current version took effect. Your continued use of the Website after that date constitutes acceptance of the updated Website Terms.
2. Relationship with other terms
   1. Certain features of the Website are governed by a separate agreement. In particular, the application programming interface, the MCP server, the AI search function, the embeddable widget and any subscription plan are governed by the Global AI Regulation Tracker Commercial Terms of Service (Commercial Terms).
   2. If there is any inconsistency between these Website Terms and the Commercial Terms, the Commercial Terms prevail to the extent of the inconsistency, but only in respect of the services governed by them.
   3. The Developer's Privacy Policy forms part of these Website Terms and is incorporated into them by reference. It describes how the Developer collects, uses, discloses and secures personal information.
   4. These Website Terms govern all other access to and use of the Website.
3. Permitted use
   1. Subject to your compliance with these Website Terms, the Developer grants you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable and non-sublicensable licence to access and use the Website, and to view, download and print reasonable extracts of the Content, for your personal, non-commercial research purposes.
   2. Use of the Website within an organisation for its internal operations, and any commercial use, requires a subscription plan under the Commercial Terms. In this clause, commercial use means use that is intended to benefit external parties, for example customers, clients or the public, with the primary goal of generating revenue, profit or other commercial advantage.
   3. Where you quote or reproduce any Content as permitted under clause 3(a), you must attribute the Global AI Regulation Tracker (www.techieray.com/GlobalAIRegulationTracker) as the source, and the attribution must be visible to the recipient.
   4. Some Content is published under a separate open licence, and the Live and Breathing Essay is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence. Where Content is published under a separate licence, that licence governs your use of that Content and prevails over clauses 3(a), 6, 7 and 8 to the extent of any inconsistency, for that Content only. The separate licence does not extend to the Website's code, design or any other Content.
   5. The Developer may withdraw or vary the licence in clause 3(a) at any time.
4. No professional advice
   1. The Website was developed by the Developer as a starting point for your research.
   2. None of the Content, including any AI generated information, chatbot response, summary, categorisation or tag, is a substitute for legal or professional advice, and none of it may be relied upon for any such purpose.
   3. AI regulation changes frequently. The Content may be incomplete, out of date, inaccurate or inapplicable to your circumstances. You must verify any Content against the official source before relying on it.
   4. You are responsible for obtaining your own legal or professional advice in respect of your circumstances.
   5. The views and opinions expressed on the Website are those of the Developer alone, and do not reflect the views of any employer, client, donor, sponsor or organisation with which the Developer is or has been associated.
5. AI generated content
   1. Parts of the Website generate responses using artificial intelligence, including the AI search function and any chatbot made available on the Website.
   2. AI generated responses may be inaccurate, incomplete or misleading, may misstate the underlying source, and may differ between requests. You must verify every AI generated response against the source cited before relying on it.
   3. You must not input into any AI feature on the Website:
      1. personal information, or any information that may reasonably identify an individual; or
      2. confidential, privileged or commercially sensitive information.
   4. The Developer records the questions submitted to the AI search function and the responses returned. What is recorded, why, and for how long, is described in the Privacy Policy.
6. Intellectual property
   1. The Developer retains all right, title and interest in and to the Website and the Content, including all intellectual property rights in them.
   2. Without limiting clause 6(a), the Developer's rights extend to the selection, arrangement, compilation, structure, labels, categorisations, tags and summaries comprising the Global AI Regulation Tracker dataset, whether that material appears in its original form on the Website, in an export, or as incorporated into, summarised or reproduced within the output of any artificial intelligence system.
   3. Nothing in these Website Terms grants you or any third party any right, title or interest in or to the Website or the Content, other than the limited licence in clause 3(a).
   4. Third Party Content remains the property of its respective owner, and nothing in these Website Terms grants you any right in respect of it.
   5. If you provide the Developer with feedback about the Website, the Developer is free to use that feedback without restriction or compensation, and you assign to the Developer all intellectual property rights, if any, in that feedback.
7. Restrictions
   1. You must not, and must not permit any third party to:
      1. scrape, crawl, spider, harvest or otherwise extract the Content by automated means;
      2. systematically accumulate, cache, index or store the Content, whether in a single request or across multiple requests, in a manner that creates, or is reasonably likely to create, a substantial reproduction of the Global AI Regulation Tracker dataset or any material part of it;
      3. copy, reproduce, republish, rehost, redistribute, sell, licence, transfer, frame, mirror or pass off as your own any part of the Content, except as expressly permitted by clause 3(a);
      4. reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, decode or otherwise attempt to derive the source code, algorithms or underlying data structures of the Website, except to the extent such restriction is contrary to applicable law;
      5. circumvent, disable or interfere with any access restriction, rate limit, paywall, usage allowance or security feature of the Website;
      6. access the Website by automated means, including bots, scripts and headless browsers, other than a search engine crawler that obeys the Website's robots directives;
      7. use the Website to develop, train or distribute a product or service that is, or is reasonably likely to be, competitive with the Website;
      8. introduce any virus, worm, defect, Trojan horse or malware to the Website, use unreasonable bandwidth, or otherwise adversely affect the stability of the Website;
      9. use the Website in any manner that infringes, misappropriates or otherwise violates the rights of any person, or that breaches any applicable law; or
      10. use the Website to provide legal or any other professional advice.
   2. The restrictions in clause 7(a) apply to the Content however it is obtained, including where it is obtained through a third party.
8. Text and data mining, and AI training
   1. The Developer expressly reserves all rights in the Website and the Content in respect of text and data mining, including for the purposes of Article 4(3) of Directive (EU) 2019/790 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market, and any equivalent or successor provision under the law of the United Kingdom or any other jurisdiction. This clause constitutes an express reservation of those rights in an appropriate manner for the purposes of that Article.
   2. You must not use any part of the Website or the Content to train, fine-tune, pre-train, ground, retrieve for, benchmark, evaluate or otherwise develop any machine learning model or artificial intelligence system, whether for commercial or non-commercial purposes.
   3. You must not access the Website by means of an automated agent, crawler or bot operated for any purpose described in clause 8(b), without the Developer's prior written permission.
   4. The restrictions in this clause 8 apply in addition to, and do not limit, clause 7.
   5. To request permission under this clause 8, contact info@techieray.com.
9. Third Party Content
   1. The Website displays Third Party Content, including advertisements served by third party advertising networks, links to official and unofficial sources, syndicated news items and embedded media.
   2. The Developer does not endorse, recommend, verify or accept responsibility for any Third Party Content, and its inclusion does not imply any association between the Developer and the person who provided it.
   3. Your access to and use of Third Party Content, and any dealing you have with the person who provided it, is at your own risk and may be governed by that person's own terms.
10. Availability and changes
    1. The Developer may add to, modify, suspend or withdraw all or any part of the Website, including any Content or feature, at any time and without notice.
    2. The Developer does not guarantee any specific or minimum availability of the Website, which may be unavailable from time to time, including for scheduled or unscheduled maintenance.
    3. The Developer does not provide support in connection with free access to the Website. Support, where it is offered at all, is provided under the Commercial Terms.
11. Disclaimers and liability
    1. The Website and the Content are provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis.
    2. To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Developer disclaims all express and implied guarantees, warranties, conditions and representations as to the accuracy, completeness, currency, reliability, suitability, adequacy, continuity, security or fitness for any particular purpose of the Website and the Content.
    3. To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Developer is not liable to you for any loss or damage suffered by you arising from or in connection with your access to, use of, or reliance on the Website or the Content, including any loss arising from your misuse of the Website.
    4. To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Developer is not liable to you for any consequential loss, including loss of revenue or profit, loss of data or loss of opportunity.
    5. Nothing in these Website Terms excludes, restricts or modifies any guarantee, right or remedy you have under the Australian Consumer Law or under any other law where to do so would be unlawful. Where the Developer is liable under a guarantee that cannot be excluded in respect of the supply of services, the Developer's liability is limited, at its option, to resupplying the services or paying the cost of having them resupplied.
    6. If you are a consumer resident outside Australia, nothing in these Website Terms deprives you of the protection of any mandatory provision of the law of your country of residence.
12. Your responsibilities and termination
    1. You are responsible for all activity in connection with your access to and use of the Website.
    2. The Developer may suspend or terminate your access to the Website, in whole or in part, immediately and without notice, if you breach these Website Terms or if the Developer reasonably suspects that you have done so.
    3. You agree to compensate the Developer for any loss the Developer suffers or incurs as a result of a third party claim arising from your knowing breach of clause 6, 7 or 8.
    4. Clauses 4, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13 and 14 survive termination.
13. Governing law and disputes
    1. These Website Terms, and any dispute arising out of or in connection with them or the Website, are governed by the laws of New South Wales, Australia.
    2. You and the Developer submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of New South Wales, Australia, and of the courts competent to hear appeals from them.
    3. Clause 13(b) does not deprive you of any right you have under a mandatory law of your country of residence to bring proceedings in the courts of that country.
    4. Before commencing proceedings, you agree to first attempt to resolve the dispute informally by contacting the Developer at info@techieray.com, and to allow 30 days for a response.
14. General
    1. Nothing in these Website Terms creates an agency, partnership, joint venture or employment relationship.
    2. If any part of these Website Terms is or becomes unenforceable, that part is severed and the remainder continues in full effect.
    3. A failure or delay by the Developer in enforcing any part of these Website Terms is not a waiver of the Developer's right to enforce it later.
    4. You may not assign or transfer your rights under these Website Terms. The Developer may assign or transfer its rights.
15. Contact
    1. Questions about these Website Terms may be sent to info@techieray.com.