AI Transparency Notice

Auryth, version 1.0, effective 14 August 2026

These documents apply to each of the following products. Where a fact differs between them — the processors, where processing takes place, what the Corpus contains — it is stated per product below.

This notice implements Article 50 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (the AI Act), as amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, and explains what the Service is, what it is not, and what we expect of you as a user.

1. You are interacting with an AI system

Auryth is an AI system. The answers you read are generated automatically by a language model. There is no lawyer, no managing agent, no lawyer, no tax adviser and no lawyer, no customs representative and no other human between your question and the answer you receive.

The Service acts solely on behalf of Original Media BV and not on behalf of you, your organisation, an opposing party or any authority.

2. How the Service works

1. Your question is analysed and turned into search queries.
2. Those queries run against the Corpus: a collection of Belgian legal sources we have assembled (legislation, implementing decrees, case law, disciplinary decisions, technical standards and official guidance, legislation, implementing decrees, administrative guidelines and circulars, case law and doctrine and the Union Customs Code with its delegated and implementing acts, the CN/TARIC nomenclature, binding tariff information (BTI) rulings and the case law of the Court of Justice) in Dutch and French and Dutch, French and English.
3. The passages found are put to a language model, which composes an answer with source references.
4. The answer appears with references to the documents used, so you can open them and read them yourself.

Auryth Vastgoed

By default the language model runs on our own servers in Germany (Frankfurt am Main): your question does not leave our infrastructure. A tier may in addition be configured to an external provider: Anthropic PBC, OpenAI, or OpenRouter, Inc. routing to Cerebras or Groq. Point 6 of the Privacy Policy states which providers are involved and when.

Auryth Tax

The language model runs at an external provider. Auryth Tax has no model of its own: your question is sent to Anthropic PBC, OpenAI or Groq, Inc., depending on the lane configured for your tier. Point 6 of the Privacy Policy states which providers are involved and when.

Auryth Customs

The language model runs at an external provider. Auryth Customs has no model of its own: your question is sent to Anthropic PBC, OpenAI or Groq, Inc., depending on the lane configured for your tier. Point 6 of the Privacy Policy states which providers are involved and when. We do not develop those models ourselves; we are the provider of the AI system that puts them to work.

3. Intended purpose

The Service is intended as an aid to legal source research for private-sector real-estate professionals: managing agents (syndics), estate agents, property managers, and legal or notarial staff, and for associations of co-owners assisted by such professionals, private-sector tax professionals: accountants, tax advisers, auditors, lawyers, and in-house tax departments and private-sector customs and trade professionals: customs representatives, declarants, trade compliance officers, and in-house customs departments.

The Service helps you find the right source and understand it quickly. The judgment about what that source means in your file remains yours.

4. Excluded uses

The Service is not intended for and must not be used:

• by or on behalf of a judicial authority to assist in researching and interpreting facts and the law, or in applying the law to a concrete set of facts, nor for binding alternative dispute resolution;
• by or on behalf of a public authority, including social housing companies, woonmaatschappijen, public social welfare centres (OCMW/CPAS), SISP/SLRB and equivalent bodies, to evaluate the eligibility of natural persons for essential public services including social housing, or to grant, reduce, revoke or reclaim such services;
• as an automated basis for a decision producing legal effects or similarly significant effects concerning a natural person: access to housing, creditworthiness, insurance, recruitment, or termination of a contract and access to a social benefit, creditworthiness, insurance, recruitment, or termination of a contract;
• to evaluate, screen or rank prospective tenants, prospective buyers, job applicants or employees and job applicants, employees or prospective clients;
• as a substitute for a regulated profession: lawyer, notary, judicial officer, auditor, accountant, architect, energy-performance assessor and safety coordinator, lawyer, notary, judicial officer, auditor, accountant and tax adviser and lawyer, customs representative, auditor, accountant and tax adviser;
• in emergencies, or for decisions affecting the safety of persons or property.

Important. We hereby expressly specify that the Service is not to be changed into a high-risk AI system within the meaning of Article 6 of the AI Act. If you modify the intended purpose of the Service such that it becomes a high-risk AI system (Article 25(1)(c)), or place the Service on the market under your own name or trademark (Article 25(1)(a)), you become the provider of that system and the provider obligations in Article 16 fall on you. For Annex III systems those obligations apply from 2 December 2027. Use outside the intended purpose does not by itself make you a provider, but is prohibited under clause 3 of the Terms of Service.

5. Risk classification

Within the intended purpose described in point 3, the Service is not a high-risk AI system within the meaning of Article 6 of the AI Act:

• it is not a safety component of a product covered by Annex I;
• it does not fall within a category of Annex III. Point 8(a) concerns AI systems intended to be used by or on behalf of a judicial authority; point 5(a) concerns systems intended to be used by or on behalf of a public authority to evaluate eligibility for essential public services. The Service is intended for private professionals, and point 4 expressly excludes both uses.

Nor does the Service fall within the prohibited practices of Article 5, including the provisions inserted by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 which apply from 2 December 2026. It performs no emotion recognition, no biometric categorisation and no biometric identification, and it generates no image, audio or video: the obligations in Article 50(3) and Article 50(4), first subparagraph, do not fall on us. What Article 50(4), second subparagraph requires of you as a deployer is set out in point 8.

6. What the Service is not

The Service gives no legal, tax, accounting, technical, construction or financial advice, legal, tax, accounting or financial advice and legal, customs, tax or financial advice. No advisory relationship and no professional relationship arises. We are not a law firm and we do not practise any regulated profession.

7. Known limitations

Read this list before relying on an answer.

The model can be wrong. Language models generate text on a statistical basis. They can produce inaccurate, incomplete or fabricated information, including where the answer sounds confident and carries source references.

A citation is not proof. The reference shows which document was consulted; it does not warrant that the document supports the statement, nor that the cited passage is reproduced correctly. Open the source.

The Corpus is a selection. It does not contain every Belgian legal source. Some fields are covered deeply, others thinly. Auryth Vastgoed

It does contain the statutory provisions on mortgage credit and mortgage security, but no advisory or product-level financing material, and it contains no registration-duty legislation.

Auryth Tax

The Corpus covers Belgian and Dutch tax law only: no other field of law, no other jurisdiction, and no advisory or product-level material.

Auryth Customs

The Corpus covers EU customs law only: no other field of law, no national practice beyond Union law, and no advisory or product-level material. Any description of the Corpus’s scope is indicative and is not a warranty.

Currency is not guaranteed. Sources are refreshed periodically. A recent legislative change, a new judgment or a newly published implementing decree may be missing. We give no undertaking as to any update interval.

Coverage differs by language and by region. Auryth Vastgoed

Flemish, Walloon and Brussels rules are not present to the same extent, and the Dutch and French parts of the Corpus are not identical. The same question in a different language can produce a different result.

Auryth Tax

The Belgian and Dutch parts are not developed to the same extent, and the language versions of the Corpus are not identical. The same question in a different language can produce a different result.

Auryth Customs

The Corpus is Union law: the practice of individual Member States is not present to the same extent. The same question in a different language can produce a different result.

Retrieval can fail. If the search step does not find the right document, the model answers on the basis of what it did find. That produces a plausible but incomplete answer.

Answers are not reproducible. The same question can produce a different answer at a different time, among other things because the underlying model or the Corpus changes.

8. What we expect of you

Verify at the source. Check every answer against the original, authentic text (the Belgian Official Journal, the official code, the full judgment) before using it in your professional practice, towards a client, towards a general meeting of co-owners, or in proceedings, in your professional practice, towards a client, before the tax authorities, or in proceedings and in your professional practice, towards a client, before the customs authorities, or in proceedings.

Let a human decide. Use the Output as the starting point of your own reasoning, not as its conclusion.

Label publication to the public. If you publish Output in order to inform the public on a matter of public interest (the administration of justice, fundamental rights, consumer safety, or economic and social developments that may be a subject of public debate), Article 50(4), second subparagraph of the AI Act requires you, as deployer, to disclose clearly that the text is AI-generated or manipulated. That obligation falls away only where the text has undergone substantive human review or editorial control and a natural or legal person holds editorial responsibility. A spelling or formatting check does not qualify.

Be clear about provenance. If you reuse Output in correspondence or in a report to a third party, do not present it as human-authored advice and do not present it as our position.

Support AI literacy. Article 4 of the AI Act, as amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, requires both us and you to take measures supporting the development of AI literacy among your staff, proportionate to their technical knowledge, experience, education and context of use. That obligation does not require you to guarantee any particular level of AI literacy in any individual. You may use this notice and the in-product explanations for that purpose.

Be sparing with personal data. Do not enter more third-party data than your question requires. See the Privacy Policy.

9. Marking of generated content

Article 50(2) of the AI Act requires us to mark the outputs of the Service in a machine-readable format and make them detectable as AI-generated. That obligation applies to the Service from the moment it is placed on the market. It is not limited to exports: it applies to every output.

(The date of 2 December 2026 cited elsewhere is a transitional period available only to generative systems placed on the market before 2 August 2026. It does not apply to this Service.)

10. Use of your input

What happens to your questions and answers is set out in point 4 of the Privacy Policy. In short: we do not use the content of your conversations for our own purposes, and for improving the Corpus and the search methods we use only material from which personal data has been removed.

Auryth Vastgoed

Where the model runs on our own servers there is no model provider: your input goes nowhere. Where an external provider is used we choose it so that your input is not used to train models: contractually with Anthropic PBC and OpenAI, and with OpenRouter, Inc. by refusing training on every call and not falling back to providers outside the fixed list. The current list is in point 6 of the Privacy Policy.

Auryth Tax

We choose our providers so that your input is not used to train models: contractually with Anthropic PBC and OpenAI, and with Groq, Inc. by refusing training on every call. The current list is in point 6 of the Privacy Policy.

Auryth Customs

We choose our providers so that your input is not used to train models: contractually with Anthropic PBC and OpenAI, and with Groq, Inc. by refusing training on every call. The current list is in point 6 of the Privacy Policy.

11. Human contact and complaints

To speak to a human about an answer, report a suspected error, or object to how the Service works: [email protected]. We answer every substantiated report and correct demonstrable errors in the Corpus.

If you consider that the Service infringes the AI Act, Article 85 of that Regulation entitles you to lodge a complaint with the competent market surveillance authority. For Belgium, the BIPT/IBPT acts as coordinating authority for the AI Act (Belgian Institute for Postal Services and Telecommunications, Ellipse Building, Koning Albert II-laan 35, 1030 Brussels, ibpt.be). Complaints about the processing of personal data go to the Data Protection Authority; see the Privacy Policy.

Original Media BV, Achtzalighedenlaan 9, 2920 Kalmthout, België, [email protected], +32 3 667 17 61