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Fair Human-centric Image Benchmark

Website Terms of Use

Last Updated: October 8, 2026

Thank you for your interest in Sony Corporate Technology Center America Inc. (f/k/a Sony AI America Inc.) (“Sony,” “we,” or “us”) and our Fair Human-centric Image Benchmark (“FHIBE”), along with our related website (“https://fairnessbenchmark.ai.sony/”) (the “Site”). These Terms of Use (these “Terms”) are a legally binding contract between you and Sony regarding your access to and use of the Site. Please read the following terms carefully:

BY ACCESSING OR USING THE SITE, YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE READ AND UNDERSTOOD, AND, AS A CONDITION TO YOUR ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE SITE, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY, THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS, THEN YOU DO NOT HAVE OUR PERMISSION TO ACCESS OR USE THE SITE.

  1. Access to the Site
    The Site is provided for marketing, archival, and informational purposes only. No registration or account is required to browse or use the Site, and you may browse and click through the Site without providing personal information. You are responsible for ensuring that your use of the Site complies with all applicable laws and regulations. Any information you voluntarily provide when contacting us, and data collected through cookies, analytics, or similar technologies, will be handled as described in Sony’s Privacy Policy for website visitors or, if you also download FHIBE through Mozilla Data Collective, Sony’s Privacy Policy for website visitors and dataset downloaders (as applicable, the “Privacy Policy”), available at here and here, and in our Cookie Policy, available here.
  1. Use of the Site
    2.1. License. Subject to your complete and ongoing compliance with these Terms, Sony grants you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to access and view the content made available on the Site solely for your personal, informational purposes. The FHIBE dataset is no longer available for download from the Site, and the Site does not grant any license or other right to download or use the FHIBE dataset. FHIBE is now made available through Mozilla Data Collective, subject to the terms of that platform and the applicable FHIBE dataset license. Sony may receive information from Mozilla Data Collective about your access to and download of FHIBE, which Sony will process as described in the Privacy Policy. If you downloaded or otherwise obtained FHIBE before the dataset was removed from the Site, your license under the Dataset Terms of Use last updated November 5, 2025 (the “Prior Dataset Terms”) has been terminated, and you must delete all copies of FHIBE in your possession or control. Provisions of the Prior Dataset Terms that survive termination by their terms, including your deletion obligations and the Data Sharing Addendum, remain in effect, and nothing in these Terms releases you from them. If you need continued access to FHIBE, you may obtain it through Mozilla Data Collective, subject to the terms described above. Any personal information Sony retains in connection with your prior download of FHIBE is handled as described in the Privacy Policy.
    2.2. Proprietary Rights. The Site and all content made available through it, including any archival or informational content relating to FHIBE, are protected by intellectual property and other laws. All rights in and to the Site and its content are managed, owned, or used with permission, by Sony. Sony reserves all rights not expressly granted in these Terms.
    2.3. Restrictions. Except as otherwise expressly permitted by these Terms or applicable law, you may not: (a) scrape, crawl, harvest, data mine, download, extract, or otherwise obtain data from the Site, including through automated means; (b) interfere with or disrupt the Site or any server, network, or service connected to the Site; (c) reproduce, distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, or create derivative works based on the Site or its content, except as expressly permitted by applicable law; (d) remove, alter, or obscure any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary notices; (e) use the Site or its content in violation of any applicable law or to infringe, misappropriate, or otherwise violate any third-party right; (f) identify or attempt to identify any individual depicted in, or whose personal data is included in, any image or other content made available on the Site; (g) use the Site or any content made available on the Site to train, fine-tune, test, evaluate, or otherwise develop any artificial intelligence or machine learning model, algorithm, or system; or (h) assist or permit any person to engage in any of the acts described in this Section 2.3.
    2.4. Feedback. We respect and appreciate thoughts and comments regarding the Site. If you choose to provide input or suggestions regarding the Site or its content (“Feedback”), then you grant Sony an unrestricted, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, fully-paid, worldwide, royalty-free right and license to exploit the Feedback in any manner and for any purpose, including to improve the Site and create other products and services. We will have no obligation to provide you with attribution for any Feedback you provide to us.
  1. Email
    If you voluntarily contact us, we may use the information you provide to respond to your inquiry. Any handling of information you provide is subject to the Privacy Policy.
  1. Modification of the Terms of Use
    We may, from time to time, change these Terms. Please check these Terms periodically for changes. Revisions will be effective immediately upon posting unless otherwise stated. If you do not agree to modified Terms, you should discontinue your use of the Site. Except as expressly permitted in this Section 4 (Modification of the Terms of Use), these Terms may be amended only by a written agreement signed by authorized representatives of the parties to these Terms.
  1. Termination
    We may suspend or terminate your access to the Site, or discontinue the Site or any portion of it, at any time, with or without notice, and without liability to you, including if we believe you have breached these Terms. You may stop using the Site at any time. Upon termination or discontinuation, your license under Section 2.1 ends, and you must cease using the Site. Provisions that by their nature should survive termination, including Section 2 (Use of the Site), Section 6 (Indemnity), Section 7 (Disclaimers; No Warranties by Sony), Section 8 (Limitation of Liability), Section 9 (Disputes; Applicable Laws and Jurisdiction; Waiver of Jury Trial), Section 10 (General), and Section 11 (Links to Non-Sony Sites), will survive.
  1. Indemnity
    To the fullest extent permitted by law, you are responsible for your use of the Site, and you will defend and indemnify Sony, its affiliates (including its parent company) and their respective shareholders, directors, managers, members, officers, employees, consultants, and agents (together, the “Sony Entities”) from and against every claim brought by a third party, and any related liability, damage, loss, and expense, including attorneys’ fees and costs, arising out of or connected with: (1) your unauthorized use of, or misuse of, the Site or its content; (2) your violation of any portion of these Terms, any representation, warranty, or agreement referenced in these Terms, or any applicable law or regulation; (3) your violation of any third-party right, including any intellectual property right or publicity, confidentiality, other property, or privacy right; or (4) any dispute or issue between you and any third party. We reserve the right, at our own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you (without limiting your indemnification obligations with respect to that matter), and in that case, you agree to cooperate with our defense of those claims.
  1. Disclaimers; No Warranties by Sony
    THE SITE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND ON AN “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS. SONY ENTITIES MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS WITH RESPECT TO THE ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, COMPLETENESS, FITNESS FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD-PARTY RIGHTS AND/OR SAFETY OF THE SITE OR THE CONTENTS OF THE SITE, AND ANY REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES RELATING THERETO ARE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMED. NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM SONY ENTITIES OR ANY MATERIALS OR CONTENT AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SITE WILL CREATE ANY WARRANTY REGARDING ANY OF THE SONY ENTITIES OR THE SITE THAT IS NOT EXPRESSLY STATED IN THESE TERMS. THE LIMITATIONS, EXCLUSIONS AND DISCLAIMERS IN THIS SECTION APPLY TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. Sony does not disclaim any warranty or other right that Sony is prohibited from disclaiming under applicable law. The Site and its content are made available for historical, archival, and informational purposes only, may not be current, complete, or accurate, and Sony has no obligation to update the Site or any of its content.
  1. Limitation of Liability
    TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL THE SONY ENTITIES BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES (INCLUDING DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL, OR ANY OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSS) ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO YOUR USE OF THE SITE OR ANY MATERIALS OR CONTENT ON THE SITE, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STATUTE, OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, AND WHETHER OR NOT ANY SONY ENTITY HAS BEEN INFORMED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGE. THE AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF THE SONY ENTITIES TO YOU FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SITE OR OTHERWISE UNDER THESE TERMS, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT, OR OTHERWISE, IS LIMITED TO $100 USD. EACH PROVISION OF THESE TERMS THAT PROVIDES FOR A LIMITATION OF LIABILITY, DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES, OR EXCLUSION OF DAMAGES IS INTENDED TO AND DOES ALLOCATE THE RISKS BETWEEN THE PARTIES UNDER THESE TERMS. THIS ALLOCATION IS AN ESSENTIAL ELEMENT OF THE BASIS OF THE BARGAIN BETWEEN THE PARTIES. EACH OF THESE PROVISIONS IS SEVERABLE AND INDEPENDENT OF ALL OTHER PROVISIONS OF THESE TERMS. THE LIMITATIONS IN THIS SECTION WILL APPLY EVEN IF ANY LIMITED REMEDY FAILS OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE.
  1. Disputes; Applicable Laws and Jurisdiction; Waiver of Jury Trial
    9.1. General. These Terms shall be deemed to have been entered into in the State of Delaware and any Dispute arising hereunder shall be resolved in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware, without reference to its conflict of laws principles. To the extent permitted by applicable law, these Terms and any and all Disputes (as defined below) arising out of or related to their subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims) will be governed by and resolved in accordance with the provisions of this Section 9. “Dispute” is defined as any disagreement, cause of action, claim, controversy, or proceeding between you and a Sony Entity related to or arising out of these Terms, the Site, or communications from us. Dispute is to be given the broadest possible meaning that will be enforced.
    9.2. Informal Dispute Resolution. If a Dispute arises, the parties must first attempt in good faith to resolve it informally. A party must first send a written notice of the Dispute to the other party by certified mail (signature required) or, only if that other party has not provided a current physical address, then by electronic mail (“Notice of Dispute”). Sony’s address for Notice is: Sony Corporate Technology Center America Inc. (f/k/a Sony AI America Inc.), Attn: General Counsel, 25 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10010. The Notice of Dispute must: (a) identify the name of the party making the claim; (b) describe the nature and basis of the claim or dispute; and (c) set forth the specific relief sought (“Demand”). The parties will make good faith efforts to resolve the claim directly within 60 days after the Notice of Dispute is received.
    9.3. Delaware Courts. If the parties do not reach an agreement pursuant to the dispute-resolution contemplated in Section 9.2 of these Terms, you and Sony agree to submit any Dispute relating to the Site or the Terms or the breach, enforcement, interpretation or validity thereof, to the jurisdiction of the federal or state courts within the County of New Castle within the State of Delaware, and the parties hereby submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of such courts. In the event of any Dispute, the prevailing party shall be entitled to recover all its expenses related to such Dispute, including reasonable and documented attorneys’ fees and court costs.
    9.4. THE PARTIES SHALL NOT RAISE IN CONNECTION THEREWITH, AND HEREBY WAIVE, TRIAL BY JURY AND/OR ANY DEFENSES BASED UPON THE VENUE, THE INCONVENIENCE OF THE FORUM, THE LACK OF PERSONAL JURISDICTION, THE SUFFICIENCY OF SERVICE OF PROCESS OR THE LIKE IN ANY SUCH ACTION OR SUIT.
  1. General
    These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, are the entire and exclusive understanding and agreement between you and Sony regarding your use of the Site. You may not assign or transfer these Terms or your rights under these Terms, in whole or in part, by operation of law or otherwise, without our prior written consent. We may assign these Terms and all rights granted under these Terms at any time without notice or consent. If any portion of these Terms shall be deemed invalid, void, or for any reason unenforceable, such portion shall be deemed severable and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining portion.
  1. LINKS TO NON-SONY SITES
    The third parties’ web sites (other than the Site) linked to or from this Site (“Linked Sites”) are independently operated and maintained by such third parties and are not under the control and/or supervision of Sony. Use of the Linked Sites shall be subject to the terms and conditions stipulated by the operator of each Linked Site. Sony would not be responsible for any loss or damage, however caused, in connection with the use of any Linked Site and your access to any of the Linked Sites shall be at your own risk.
    Nothing contained in this Site shall be interpreted as a recommendation and/or endorsement by Sony of the contents of the Linked Sites or any products and/or services appearing on and/or provided through such Linked Sites. Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to constitute a partnership or the like between the operators of the Linked Sites and Sony.