Private Beta Terms

1. Who provides the beta

Second Brain is provided by Nicholas Hoff (“Second Brain,” “we,” or “us”). Contact: nick@nicholashoff.com.

2. Acceptance and eligibility

You accept these Terms by expressly accepting the linked legal documents during account creation or a later reacceptance flow. You must be at least 18, have a personal invitation, and have legal capacity to agree. An invitation and account are personal and may not be transferred.

The Privacy Notice explains our data practices. The Experimental Agent Risk Notice is part of these Terms.

3. Experimental service

The beta may be changed, interrupted, limited, or withdrawn. Features may fail, misunderstand you, produce inaccurate information, or take an unintended action. Occasional errors are an expected characteristic of current AI systems, but this does not waive rights or liabilities that cannot lawfully be waived.

4. Computer access and your authority

If you grant macOS, iOS, browser, microphone, screen-recording, accessibility, automation, file, or account permissions, you authorize Second Brain to use those permissions only to provide the service and respond to your requests. You remain responsible for choosing which permissions, accounts, files, and services to connect.

You may use Second Brain only with devices, data, accounts, and communications you are authorized to access. Do not use it to evade security controls, impersonate another person without authority, violate privacy, infringe rights, or break the law.

5. Supervision and confirmation

Review important inputs, actions, drafts, recipients, destinations, and results. Majel is instructed to ask for verbal confirmation before actions it recognizes as consequential, such as sending a message, deleting information, submitting a form, making a purchase, changing security settings, or exposing sensitive data.

This is a model-level safeguard, not a guarantee. Majel may fail to recognize a consequential action or may misunderstand speech. Silence, uncertainty, or unrelated speech is not intended as confirmation, but you must still supervise the system and stop it when necessary.

6. Excluded uses

Do not use the private beta for emergencies or to make or carry out financial, legal, medical, employment, housing, insurance, credit, education-admission, public-benefit, safety-critical, or similarly high-stakes decisions. Do not rely on it where an error could cause death, injury, unlawful discrimination, loss of liberty, or substantial financial or legal harm.

7. Your content

You retain your rights in content you provide. You give us a limited right to host, copy, transmit, transform, and otherwise process that content only as reasonably needed to provide, secure, maintain, and support the beta and comply with law. You represent that you have the rights and permissions needed for content you provide.

AI output may not be unique, accurate, or protectable. Verify output before using or sharing it.

8. Third-party services

The beta relies on service providers and may interact with third-party apps or sites at your direction. Their terms and privacy practices also apply to your relationship with them. We do not control changes, outages, or decisions made by those third parties.

9. Account security

Protect your devices and account, use available authentication safeguards, and notify us promptly of suspected unauthorized access. You are responsible for activity under your account except to the extent caused by our breach of duty.

10. Suspension and ending the beta

You may stop using the beta at any time and may request deletion by email. We may suspend or end access to protect users or systems, respond to legal requirements, address misuse, or discontinue the beta. Ending access does not itself erase all product data; use the process in the Privacy Notice to request erasure.

11. Disclaimers

To the extent permitted by law, the beta is provided “as is” and “as available,” without promises that it will be uninterrupted, error-free, accurate, secure against every threat, or suitable for a particular purpose. Nothing here limits mandatory consumer guarantees or other rights that cannot be excluded.

12. Liability

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability for intent, gross negligence, death or personal injury caused by negligence, fraud, or any liability that law does not permit us to limit. For slight negligence, we are liable only for breach of an essential contractual obligation and only for loss that was reasonably foreseeable and typical when you accepted these Terms. Mandatory consumer rights remain unaffected.

13. Changes

We may make minor changes after giving appropriate notice; continued use after the stated effective date means acceptance of those minor changes. A material change affecting user rights, data use, computer-control authority, liability, dispute terms, or payment obligations will require renewed express acceptance before continued use.

14. Law and disputes

Applicable law and courts are determined by ordinary conflict-of-law and jurisdiction rules. If you are a consumer, nothing in these Terms deprives you of mandatory protections or the courts available to you in your country of residence. Please contact us first so we can try to resolve a concern informally.