Terms of service

1. Who this is

Meander is made and sold by one person trading as Meander, not by a company. Email meanderai@gmail.com and you reach that person directly. The name and address on your card statement and on the receipt come from Stripe, who process the payment.

2. What you are buying

A licence to use the Meander desktop application. On the managed plan it also includes a monthly allowance of model usage that we arrange on your behalf. You are not buying a server, a hosted service, or storage. The software runs on your computer.

3. What Meander is, and what it is not

Meander is an assistant, not an authority. It notices claims and shows you what a source says, with a citation so you can check it. It can be wrong: it can miss a claim, flag something that is fine, retrieve a passage that is not relevant, or produce a sentence that misreads the evidence. Every note it produces cites its source precisely so that you can verify it, and you are expected to.

Nothing Meander produces is professional advice of any kind, and it must not be relied on as the basis of a decision without checking the source it cites.

4. Recording, and your responsibility for it

Meander can listen to your meetings. Whether you may record or transcribe a conversation is your responsibility and depends on where you and the other participants are. Some places require every participant to consent. Meander offers to announce that it is listening and provides wording for it; using that, and obtaining consent, is yours to do.

You agree that you have the right to capture the meetings you point Meander at, and that you will comply with the law that applies to you.

5. Your data

Your meetings and everything derived from them stay on your machine. See the privacy notice for what leaves it and when. You keep all rights to your own content; we claim none.

6. Model usage and allowances

On the managed plan a monthly allowance is included and enforced by the model provider, so you cannot be billed beyond it. When the allowance is reached, model-backed features stop until it resets, and the rest of Meander keeps working. If you bring your own provider key, you pay that provider directly under their terms, and we are not party to it.

7. If your licence lapses

Meander continues to work on its local-only path. Managed model access stops. We do not disable the application, delete your data, or prevent you from opening past meetings.

8. Subscription, renewal and cancellation

Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled. You can cancel at any time from the billing portal, reachable from the activation page. Cancelling stops the next renewal; see the refund policy for the current period.

9. Acceptable use

Do not use Meander to record people unlawfully, and do not resell or redistribute the licence you were issued. Do not attempt to defeat the allowance enforcement. The allowance is what stops a bill surprising you, so working around it mostly costs you.

10. Availability

The application runs locally and does not need us to be online. Licence activation and managed model access do, and those are offered without an uptime guarantee. A lapse in our availability does not stop the software working, by design.

11. Warranty and liability

Meander is provided as it is, without warranty that it will find every checkable claim or that what it retrieves will be correct. To the fullest extent the law allows, our liability is limited to the amount you paid in the twelve months before the claim. Nothing here excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.

12. Changes

We may change these terms. If a change is material we will say so before your next renewal, and continuing to use Meander after that is acceptance. A licence already issued keeps the terms it was issued under until it renews.

13. Governing law

Not yet stated, and deliberately left so rather than guessed at. Naming the wrong forum is worse than naming none: it is unenforceable where it conflicts with local consumer law, and it can read as an attempt to move a dispute somewhere inconvenient. Your own consumer rights are unaffected either way. This clause will name a jurisdiction before anything is charged.

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