Terms of Use

In this Agreement, the following capitalised terms shall have the meanings set out below. Defined terms bear the same meaning in the singular and the plural.

By downloading, installing, accessing or using the Software, the Notion Connection or the Site, You acknowledge that You have read this Agreement, that You understand it, and that You agree to be bound by it.

If You do not agree to this Agreement in its entirety, You must not download, install, access or use the Software, the Notion Connection or the Site.

If You accept this Agreement on behalf of a legal entity, You represent and warrant that You have authority to bind that entity, and references to “You” shall mean that entity.

You must be at least the age of majority in Your jurisdiction of residence to accept this Agreement.

This Agreement governs three things and no others: (a) Your use of the Software; (b) Your use of the Notion Connection; and (c) Your use of the Site.

The Provider does not offer a hosted or managed BitBrief service, and no BitBrief user account exists. The Software executes on equipment You control, using Your hardware and Your own Third-Party Services accounts. Should the Provider offer a hosted service in future, that service shall be governed by separate terms and not by this Agreement.

This Agreement does not govern Your relationship with any Third-Party Service, which is addressed at Section 09.

The Software is free and open source and is licensed, not sold, to You under the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3.0 (the “AGPL-3.0”). Subject to Your compliance with the Licence, You may use, copy, modify, distribute and prepare derivative works of the Software, and may execute it for Your own purposes or those of Your organisation, without charge.

The Licence imposes conditions upon those rights rather than restrictions upon Your field of use. Where You convey the Software or any modified version of it, You must license the whole under the same Licence, must make the corresponding source available to each recipient, and must preserve all licensing, copyright and attribution notices. Section 13 of the Licence extends that obligation to network use: where You modify the Software and make it available to others who interact with it remotely over a computer network, You must offer those users access to the corresponding source of Your modified version, at no charge.

For the avoidance of doubt, the AGPL-3.0 is published by the Free Software Foundation and is approved by the Open Source Initiative. The Provider accordingly describes the Software as open source, and the Licence permits You to run it as a hosted or managed service for others upon the conditions stated above.

All rights not expressly granted under the Licence are reserved to the Provider.

The Software incorporates, and on first execution downloads, components licensed by third parties. Such components are governed by their respective licence terms, which are binding upon You. Certain of those terms impose use restrictions in addition to those set out in this Agreement.

Where You select a Gemma model for summarization, the Google Gemma Terms of Use and the Gemma Prohibited Use Policy shall apply to Your use of that model, and You agree to comply with them. Other models are subject to their own terms. It is Your responsibility to review and comply with the terms applicable to any model You select.

The Software executes locally on equipment You control. All Meeting Content is stored on that equipment and remains within Your possession and control at all times.

The Provider has no access to Your Meeting Content and no technical means of obtaining it. Accordingly, the Provider cannot inspect, retrieve, restore, reset, export or delete any Meeting Content on Your behalf, and shall have no obligation to do so.

You are solely responsible for: (a) the security of the equipment on which the Software executes; (b) the creation and retention of backups of Meeting Content; (c) the configuration of the Software, including the selection of a summarization provider; and (d) the safekeeping of any credentials or API keys You supply to the Software.

Laws governing the recording of conversations vary by jurisdiction. A number of jurisdictions, including several States of the United States, require the consent of every party to a conversation before it may lawfully be recorded. The applicable law may be determined by the location of each participant and not solely by Your own location.

You are solely and exclusively responsible for: (a) obtaining every consent required by applicable law prior to recording; (b) providing every notice required by applicable law to each participant; (c) complying with all applicable wiretap, eavesdropping, interception, privacy, data protection and employment laws in every relevant jurisdiction; and (d) the storage, disclosure, transmission and further use of any recording You create.

The Provider supplies a recording tool only. The Provider does not, and by the design of the Software cannot, monitor, review, verify or approve the lawfulness of Your use of it. The Provider makes no representation that any particular use of the Software complies with applicable law, and You should obtain Your own legal advice where the position is unclear.

Your obligations under this Section 07 are a material term of this Agreement. Breach of this Section shall entitle the Provider to terminate this Agreement immediately under Section 19.

You may enable the Software to write Output to a Notion workspace You control by creating an integration within that workspace and supplying its token to the Software. Doing so is an affirmative act performed by You, and the scope of access is that which You grant to Your own integration.

Within the scope so authorised, the Software shall write only such pages as You direct and shall read only such resources as You select. The Software does not browse, crawl, enumerate, search or index Your workspace.

You may revoke access at any time, whether by removing the token from the Software or by revoking or deleting the integration within Your Notion workspace. Revocation shall terminate all further access. Output already written to Your workspace shall remain there and shall remain Your property. The treatment of authorisation data is described in the Privacy Policy.

The Notion Connection is not a Provider-Operated Service. It executes upon Your equipment, against an integration You control, and no part of it is hosted by the Provider.

The Software interoperates with Third-Party Services under accounts belonging to You, namely Your Notion workspace and, where and only where You elect to configure summarization to a hosted provider in place of the local default, an account with that provider.

You contract directly with each such provider, are responsible for all fees payable to it, and are bound by its terms of service and privacy policy in respect of any material transmitted to it. The Provider is not a party to those relationships, exercises no control over those providers, and gives no undertaking on their behalf.

The Provider shall have no liability arising from the acts, omissions, availability, security practices, or terms of any Third-Party Service.

Output is generated by machine-learning models operating on audio input. Output is probabilistic in nature and will contain errors. Such errors include, without limitation, misrecognised speech, misattributed speakers, incorrectly detected names, incorrect figures and dates, unsupported emphasis, and material omissions.

Output is not a verbatim record and must not be treated as one. You must not rely upon Output as the sole or primary basis for any legal, medical, financial, employment, disciplinary, regulatory, or other consequential decision. You shall verify Output against the underlying recording before acting upon it or disclosing it to any third party.

The Provider gives no warranty as to the accuracy, completeness, or fitness of Output for any purpose, and disclaims all liability arising from Your reliance upon it, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.

The Software may query a Provider-operated manifest to determine whether a later version is available. The content of that request is described in the Privacy Policy.

The Provider may modify, supersede, or discontinue support for any version of the Software at its discretion, and is under no obligation to maintain compatibility with earlier versions.

This Section applies to the Provider-Operated Services only. In relation to those services You shall not: (a) interfere with or disrupt their operation or integrity; (b) impose an unreasonable or disproportionate load upon them, whether by automated means or otherwise; (c) attempt to gain unauthorised access to them or to any system or network connected to them; (d) probe, scan or test their vulnerability without the Provider's prior written consent; or (e) use them in violation of any applicable law.

The Provider may suspend or restrict access to any Provider-Operated Service, in whole or in part and with or without notice, where it reasonably considers that this Section has been or is likely to be breached.

As between You and the Provider, the Provider retains all right, title and interest in and to the Software, subject to the rights expressly granted under the Licence. You retain all right, title and interest in and to Your Meeting Content and Output. The Provider claims no ownership of, and acquires no licence in, either.

The Licence grants rights in the code only. It grants no right in any trade mark, service mark, trade name, or logo of the Provider. “BitBrief”, “Bit Brief”, “Barebones”, and the associated logos and trade dress are and remain the property of the Provider.

You may make accurate factual reference to the Software, including a statement that Your work is built upon or derived from it. You shall not use any mark of the Provider in a manner likely to cause confusion, or in a manner suggesting that the Provider publishes, sponsors, endorses, or is affiliated with any modified version or derivative work.

Where You provide suggestions, feedback, or recommendations concerning the Software, You grant the Provider a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free licence to use and exploit them without restriction or obligation to You.

THE SOFTWARE, THE NOTION CONNECTION AND THE SITE ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OR CONDITION OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE PROVIDER EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, QUIET ENJOYMENT, ACCURACY, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTY ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING, COURSE OF PERFORMANCE, OR USAGE OF TRADE.

THE PROVIDER DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE SOFTWARE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE; THAT ANY DEFECT WILL BE CORRECTED; THAT THE SOFTWARE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS; OR THAT OUTPUT WILL BE ACCURATE OR COMPLETE.

Certain jurisdictions do not permit the exclusion of implied warranties. Where and to the extent that such an exclusion is not permitted, the exclusions in this Section shall apply to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, and You may have additional rights that this Agreement does not affect.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE PROVIDER SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, GOODWILL, BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY, DATA, RECORDINGS, OR OUTPUT, HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STRICT LIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE, AND WHETHER OR NOT THE PROVIDER HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

THE SOFTWARE, THE NOTION CONNECTION AND THE SITE ARE PROVIDED WITHOUT CHARGE. ACCORDINGLY, THE PROVIDER'S TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT SHALL NOT EXCEED ONE HUNDRED UNITED STATES DOLLARS (USD 100).

The limitations in this Section 15 shall apply notwithstanding the failure of any limited remedy of its essential purpose, and reflect a reasonable allocation of risk between the parties which forms an essential basis of the bargain between them.

Nothing in this Agreement shall exclude or limit liability for fraud, fraudulent misrepresentation, death or personal injury caused by negligence, or any other liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited. Certain jurisdictions do not permit the exclusion or limitation of certain damages; where and to the extent such exclusion is not permitted, this Section shall apply to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.

You shall indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Provider and its officers, directors, employees, contractors and agents from and against any and all claims, demands, proceedings, damages, liabilities, losses, costs and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or relating to: (a) Your use of the Software, the Notion Connection or the Site; (b) Your Meeting Content or Output, including the recording, storage, disclosure or transmission of it; (c) Your breach of Section 07 or of any applicable recording, privacy, data protection or employment law; (d) Your breach of any other provision of this Agreement or of the Licence; or (e) Your infringement of the rights of any third party.

The Provider shall give You reasonable notice of any claim to which this Section applies and may, at its option and expense, participate in the defence of that claim. You shall not settle any claim in a manner that imposes any obligation or admission upon the Provider without its prior written consent.

The Provider is under no obligation to provide support, maintenance, updates, or error correction in respect of the Software. Any support in fact provided is offered on a discretionary, best-efforts, community basis and creates no obligation as to future support.

No service level, availability commitment, uptime guarantee, or response-time undertaking applies to any Provider-Operated Service. The Provider may modify, suspend, or discontinue any Provider-Operated Service at any time, and shall use reasonable efforts to give notice on the Site before doing so permanently.

The source distribution also contains a server edition capable of deployment upon infrastructure You control. The server edition is licensed under the same Licence and is subject to the same disclaimers and limitations set out in Sections 14, 15 and 16. Where You deploy a modified server edition and permit others to interact with it over a network, Section 13 of the Licence obliges You to offer those users the corresponding source of Your modified version.

The server edition is a distinct program whose default configuration differs from that of the Software. In particular, its summarization step is configured by default to transmit transcripts to a hosted model provider, whereas the Software defaults to local execution.

Where You deploy the server edition, You do so as an independent operator. You are solely responsible for its configuration, its security, the data it processes, and for all obligations owed under applicable law to persons whose communications it handles, including any obligation arising in Your capacity as a controller of personal data.

This Agreement takes effect upon Your first use of the Software, the Notion Connection or the Site, and continues until terminated in accordance with this Section.

You may terminate this Agreement at any time by ceasing all use of the Software, the Notion Connection and the Site and by removing the Software from Your equipment.

The Provider may terminate this Agreement, or suspend Your access to any Provider-Operated Service, with immediate effect and without notice, where You are in material breach of this Agreement, including any breach of Section 07 or Section 12. Termination of the rights granted under the Licence is governed by the Licence.

Sections 01, 09, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 20, 21 and 22 shall survive termination of this Agreement, together with any other provision which by its nature is intended to survive.

The Provider may amend this Agreement from time to time. The date stated at the head of this document shall be updated upon any amendment, and any material amendment shall be identified on this page.

Your continued use of the Software, the Notion Connection or the Site following the effective date of an amendment constitutes acceptance of the amended Agreement. Where You do not accept an amendment, Your sole remedy is to cease such use and terminate this Agreement under Section 19.

This Agreement, and any dispute, claim or obligation (whether contractual or non-contractual) arising out of or in connection with it or its subject matter, shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware, United States of America, without regard to any conflict-of-laws principle that would result in the application of the law of another jurisdiction.

The state and federal courts located in the State of Delaware shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any such dispute or claim, and each party irrevocably submits to the jurisdiction of those courts and waives any objection on grounds of venue or forum non conveniens.

The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods shall not apply to this Agreement.

Entire agreement. This Agreement, together with the Licence and the Privacy Policy, constitutes the entire agreement between the parties in respect of its subject matter and supersedes all prior or contemporaneous understandings, representations and communications, whether written or oral. Where this Agreement conflicts with the Licence in respect of rights in the Software, the Licence shall prevail.

Severability. If any provision of this Agreement is held invalid, illegal or unenforceable, that provision shall be modified to the minimum extent necessary to render it enforceable, or if modification is not possible, severed. The remaining provisions shall continue in full force and effect.

No waiver. No failure or delay by the Provider in exercising any right under this Agreement shall operate as a waiver of that right, and no single or partial exercise shall preclude any further exercise. A waiver is effective only if given in writing.

Assignment. You may not assign, transfer, or delegate this Agreement or any right or obligation under it, whether by operation of law or otherwise, without the Provider's prior written consent. Any purported assignment in breach of this provision is void. The Provider may assign this Agreement in whole or in part without restriction, including in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganisation, or sale of assets.

Relationship of the parties. Nothing in this Agreement creates any partnership, joint venture, agency, fiduciary, or employment relationship between the parties.

No third-party beneficiaries. This Agreement is for the benefit of the parties only and confers no right or remedy upon any other person.

Force majeure. The Provider shall not be liable for any failure or delay in performance of a Provider-Operated Service arising from any cause beyond its reasonable control.

Export and sanctions compliance. You shall comply with all applicable export control, economic sanctions, and trade laws, and represent that You are not located in, and are not a national of or ordinarily resident in, any jurisdiction subject to comprehensive sanctions, and that You are not a person with whom dealings are prohibited under such laws.

Notices. Notices to the Provider shall be given in writing by electronic mail to the address stated at Section 23, and are deemed received on the next business day following transmission unless the sender receives notification of delivery failure. Notices to You may be given by posting on the Site, and are deemed received upon posting.

Interpretation. Section headings are for convenience only and do not affect construction. The words “include”, “includes” and “including” shall be construed without limitation. References to a statute include any amendment or re-enactment of it.

Language. This Agreement is made in the English language. Any translation is provided for convenience only, and the English text shall prevail.

Enquiries concerning this Agreement may be directed to [email protected].

Formal legal notices shall be addressed to Ethique AI Inc., [email protected].