Terms of Service

1Agreement and Definitions

These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) govern access to and use of Argotu and the related websites, applications, and services that incorporate these Terms (the “Service”). The contracting parties are Auxerta, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Auxerta,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), and the person using the Service (“you” or “User”). Subscriptions purchased on the Argotu website are sold by Auxerta LLC, a Wyoming limited liability company affiliated with Auxerta (“Auxerta LLC”), as described in Section 8. By affirmatively accepting these Terms, or by creating an Account after being provided conspicuous notice of these Terms and their application to registration, you agree to be bound by them. You must not use the Service if you do not agree.

NOTICE OF DISPUTE RESOLUTION. Section 14 provides for individual arbitration of certain disputes, includes a class-action waiver, and explains the right to opt out within thirty (30) days. That Section applies only where legally enforceable and does not restrict the nonwaivable rights identified in it.

PUBLIC ALPHA. Argotu is a personal blogging and review service made available to the public in an experimental, pre-release state (“Public Alpha”). All development phases are experimental, and the Service is incomplete. This status applies to all Users, including Users with Subscriber Access. Section 11 describes the applicable limitations.

The Privacy Policy describes the processing of personal information. Acknowledgment of that Policy is not consent to optional analytics, AI Licensing, or any other processing for which separate consent is required. The Refund Policy and Copyright / DMCA Policy supplement these Terms in their respective subject matters.

• “Account” means a registered account for the Service.
• “Your Content” means material you submit through the Service, including posts, reviews, comments, messages, photographs, profile information, and associated text and metadata.
• “Entry” means a saved post or review. An Entry is created when it is first saved to the Service, including when it is private or awaiting moderation; subsequent approval or a change of audience does not create a new Entry.
• “Subscriber Access” means the subscription entitlement currently recognized for an Account, whether purchased through a supported payment channel or expressly provided by Auxerta. Staff entitlements and discretionary grants are not evidence of a paid subscription.
• “AI Licensing” means the separately authorized use and licensing of eligible text for artificial-intelligence development under Section 5.
• “Assistant Output” means text, notices, search results, or suggestions displayed by the optional Assistant described in Section 5A.

If provisions conflict, mandatory law prevails. The Privacy Policy controls the description of personal-information processing; any separately accepted AI Licensing consent controls its authorized scope. Specific subscription purchase disclosures govern the price, billing period, and benefits purchased, subject to mandatory law. No provision of these Terms retroactively expands a previously granted consent or license.

2Eligibility

You must be at least sixteen (16) years old. If you have not reached the age of legal majority in your jurisdiction, you may use the Service only with the permission of a parent or legal guardian who has reviewed and agreed to these Terms. That parent or guardian is responsible for supervising the permitted use. You represent that the eligibility information you provide is accurate. Auxerta may require information reasonably necessary to verify eligibility and may restrict or refuse access where eligibility cannot be established.

The Service is not directed to persons under sixteen (16). The date of birth supplied at registration is used for age-related restrictions, safety administration, and the other purposes expressly described in the Privacy Policy, including an optional display of birthday information. Entering a date of birth does not constitute independent verification of identity or age. Auxerta may suspend or terminate an Account it reasonably believes belongs to a person under sixteen (16) and handle the Account’s information as the Privacy Policy describes.

You may not use the Service if applicable sanctions or export-control laws prohibit Auxerta from providing it to you, or if you seek to evade an existing restriction. Availability in a particular location does not constitute a representation that every feature is available or lawful there. Auxerta may limit availability by jurisdiction where required by law or reasonably necessary for operation of the Service.

3Accounts, Identity, and Security

Registration. You shall provide accurate registration information, maintain access to your registered email address, and keep relevant Account information current. An Account is personal to one individual. Unless Auxerta expressly authorizes otherwise, you may not maintain multiple Accounts, transfer an Account, share credentials, register for another person, or operate an automated Account. Duplicate, fraudulent, or automated Accounts may be restricted or removed under Section 10.

Email confirmation. Until the registered email address is confirmed, Entries are restricted to the private audience, and access to other Users’ content, search, connections, and other features may be unavailable. Verification does not override eligibility, moderation, security, or subscription restrictions. Requests to resend a confirmation are subject to rate limits. Unconfirmed Accounts may be removed after the applicable verification period.

Profile identifiers. A username change is ordinarily permitted no more than once in thirty (30) days. After a change to an established full name, another change is ordinarily restricted for three hundred sixty-five (365) days; setting the initial name is treated separately. Where a restriction applies, the Account settings identify the applicable eligibility date. A subscription does not waive the username or full-name restriction. Auxerta may permit corrections or require changes for administration, safety, impersonation, or legal reasons.

Star identity and background. Changes to the star’s color or illustrated identity are ordinarily restricted for thirty (30) days following a change. Accounts with Subscriber Access may change that identity without the thirty-day restriction. Background and other separately available appearance settings are governed by their own controls. Access to particular illustrations may vary; staff-only assets and insignia are reserved for authorized staff.

Usernames and badges. No ownership or transferable right is granted in a username, Account, badge, or Service-provided avatar. Changing a username may invalidate existing links. Reserved usernames and usernames associated with suspended, banned, or otherwise sanctioned Accounts, including recorded former usernames, may be unavailable for registration. Auxerta may reclaim or require correction of an identifier that infringes rights, impersonates another person, or violates these Terms. A staff or subscriber badge identifies the relevant Account status; it does not certify the accuracy of that person’s content or authorize that person to enter contracts on Auxerta’s behalf.

Account security. You shall safeguard your credentials and promptly report suspected unauthorized access to contact@auxerta.com. You are responsible for activity you authorize and for losses attributable to your failure to exercise reasonable care, subject to applicable law. This provision does not transfer responsibility for Auxerta’s own breach of a legal duty to you. Auxerta may invalidate sessions, require reauthentication, or restrict access in response to a suspected compromise.

Optional usage recording and referrals. Optional usage recording requires a separate election and may be disabled in Account settings. Disabling it stops future optional recording and deletes the identifiable usage and attributed-referral records described in the Privacy Policy. Referral attribution is recorded only where the required participating Users have enabled usage recording. Security, fraud-prevention, billing, and legally required records are governed separately. Aggregate information that no longer identifies any person may be retained and used without compensation; this does not limit rights in personal information under applicable law.

4Content, License, and Retention

Ownership and authority. As between you and Auxerta, you retain ownership of Your Content, excluding pre-existing material supplied by Auxerta or its licensors. You represent that you possess all rights, permissions, and consents necessary to submit Your Content, select its audience, and grant the licenses expressly stated in these Terms. You shall not submit content that infringes copyright, privacy, publicity, confidentiality, or other rights.

Operational license. You grant Auxerta a worldwide, nonexclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, transmit, format, render, and display Your Content to provide the Service, implement your instructions, secure and moderate the Service, and comply with applicable law. Auxerta may permit its service providers to perform those functions under appropriate contractual restrictions. This license does not authorize unrelated advertising use, transfer ownership of Your Content, or authorize AI Licensing without the separate authorization required by Section 5. To the extent permitted by applicable law, you agree not to assert moral rights, or rights of attribution or integrity, against Auxerta, its affiliates, or their service providers in connection with uses authorized by these Terms, including formatting, excerpting, and rendering Your Content across devices and interfaces.

Audience controls. Entries may be private, shared with accepted mutual friends (also identified as the “Group” audience), or public. Following an Account does not itself establish a mutual friendship. Audience settings apply to an Entry’s media as well as its text, subject to moderation, blocking, Account restrictions, and the retention rules below. “Private” limits ordinary access by other Users; it does not prevent processing by authorized personnel and service providers for the purposes disclosed in the Privacy Policy. Public content may be accessible outside the Service. Auxerta cannot prevent an authorized recipient from independently recording, copying, or disclosing content.

Reviews. A review must reflect your own experience of, or considered opinion about, the work, title, or item reviewed. You shall disclose any material connection to the subject of a review, and you shall not review your own work, offer or accept consideration for a review or rating, or coordinate ratings with others. Auxerta may remove or restrict a review, exclude a noncompliant review from aggregate ratings, and limit an Account’s review privileges. A review states the opinion of its author and is not a statement or endorsement by Auxerta.

Photographs and moderation. An Entry may contain up to two photographs. User-uploaded video is not supported as an ordinary post attachment; advertising media is a distinct feature. An Entry containing member imagery and selecting an audience other than private is withheld from other Users until approved. Replacing or adding imagery, or changing an imagery-bearing private Entry to a shared audience, requires renewed review. A text-only correction does not necessarily trigger a new imagery review. Automated screening and other moderation rules may apply to any submission. No review deadline, approval, audience size, or continued distribution is guaranteed.

Usage allowances. Photographs draw on a calendar-month media allowance: ordinarily ten (10) credits without Subscriber Access and forty (40) with Subscriber Access. Each photograph in a new Entry consumes one credit. An edit that introduces newly uploaded image data may consume additional credits. Removing an Entry or its media does not restore credits. Unused credits do not accumulate and have no monetary, transferable, or redeemable value. The ordinary reset occurs at 00:00 UTC on the first day of the next month; the interface displays the reset date. Auxerta may make corrective or discretionary resets without an obligation to repeat them. Other posting, review, response, storage, and request limits may apply as disclosed in the Service and Section 8.

Ordinary Entry archiving. The thirty-day limitation for Entries created without Subscriber Access is stated in Section 8.1a. Archiving restricts continued distribution; it is not the deletion of the Entry. Subscriber Access does not exempt any content from moderation, Account deletion, or legal removal.

Deletion and operational copies. Following successful deletion of an Entry or Account, the affected content ceases to be available through the Service, subject to the limited preservation provisions below. Unreferenced uploaded files are queued for erasure. A file independently referenced by remaining content is retained for that use. The cleanup process normally runs at five-minute intervals; workload and storage failures may delay physical erasure. Routine versioned backups may contain residual copies for up to ninety (90) additional days. Such backups are not served as live content. The operational license terminates when its applicable operational, backup, or lawful-preservation purpose ends. Section 5 separately governs material previously licensed under a valid AI Licensing authorization.

Evidence preservation. Where lawful and necessary to investigate abuse, protect persons or the Service, comply with a legal obligation, or establish, exercise, or defend a legal claim, Auxerta may preserve specific relevant evidence separately from the live Account. Account deletion does not itself authorize an account-wide copy. A reported message may be preserved with limited surrounding conversation context. A report or staff investigation is not a finding that a violation occurred.

Ordinary evidence deadlines. A report snapshot has an initial thirty (30) day review period from the report date; a staff-initiated investigation has that period from capture. Further retention requires authorized staff to identify the necessary material, record the purpose and justification, and set a deadline no more than ninety (90) days after that decision. Legal-purpose holds also require a recorded legal basis or request or claim reference. Each extension requires a further documented review; repeated reports, Account deletion, and an open case do not automatically restart an existing deadline. Material no longer necessary must be released earlier.

Evidence restrictions. Retained evidence is accessible only through restricted, audited staff access for its authorized purpose. It is not republished, used for advertising, or included in AI Licensing or training datasets. At release or expiry, access ends and retained evidence and detailed case notes are erased; unused media is queued for deletion. Limited audit, outcome, and enforcement-restriction records may remain as specified in Section 8 of the Privacy Policy. Preservation does not provide Account recovery or a right to restore deleted content.

Mandatory preservation. The ordinary evidence deadlines do not supersede a binding preservation obligation, legal order, or statutory child-safety requirement. Those obligations are administered separately for the period lawfully required. Nothing in this Section waives a nonwaivable data-protection right or supplies a legal basis for retention that applicable law does not permit.

5Optional AI Licensing

Invitation and authorization. Participation in the Contributor Programme requires an invitation from Auxerta and the User’s separate affirmative acceptance. Ordinary use, a subscription, optional usage recording, or activation of the Assistant does not provide that authorization. Auxerta may decline to invite or include any User. Eligibility remains subject to the Service’s minimum age and any additional consent requirements of applicable law.

Limited grant. Subject to the accepted consent’s scope and applicable law, a participating User grants Auxerta a worldwide, nonexclusive, royalty-free, fully paid-up, sublicensable license to reproduce, store, adapt, and license Eligible Content for developing, training, evaluating, and improving artificial-intelligence models. Distribution may be to third-party research partners and laboratories (“Licensees”). No fee, royalty, revenue share, attribution, or other compensation is due unless separately agreed in writing. Any waiver of attribution applies only to rights lawfully waivable and does not transfer ownership of the underlying content.

Eligible Content. Eligible Content consists of qualifying Entry title and body text and permitted associated metadata. The Entry must satisfy the User’s recorded consent version and authorized audience scope, have been created while the relevant authorization was effective, remain available for the authorized purpose, and fall outside the exclusions below. Eligibility is rechecked before an export or recorded distribution. Consent does not guarantee selection, and Auxerta may exclude otherwise eligible content.

Audience scope and prior versions. Version 3 of the Contributor consent covers public and Group Entries. Private Entries require a separate affirmative extension, effective only from its recorded time. Withdrawal of that extension excludes the covered private material from subsequent exports and distributions. Earlier consent versions retain their narrower recorded scope unless the User separately accepts a replacement. These Terms do not expand an earlier authorization.

Archiving and audience changes. Under version 3, automatic thirty-day archiving under Section 8.1a does not by itself remove an otherwise eligible Entry from AI Licensing. Manually changing an Entry to private excludes it unless a valid, separately recorded private-scope authorization covers that Entry. Deleting an Entry or withdrawing participation excludes it from subsequent distributions. Content removals are not overridden by Contributor status.

Excluded material. Photographs, private messages and calls, retained moderation evidence, support and crisis-related material, and content withheld by moderation or carrying an AI label are not included. Material must also satisfy the consent, account-status, safety, and selection requirements applied by the Service.

De-identification and notification. Before distribution, Auxerta applies measures to remove direct identifiers, substitutes pseudonymous references for account and entry identifiers, coarsens dates, and excludes free-text tags. These measures do not establish anonymity: identifying context may remain and re-identification may be possible. Information that remains personal information is subject to the Privacy Policy and applicable law. Auxerta provides an in-Service notice no later than the first recorded use for training or distribution to a Licensee.

Withdrawal. A User may withdraw participation in Account settings without deleting the Account. Withdrawal stops further inclusion and distribution under that authorization. It does not render processing lawfully completed before withdrawal unlawful. Where applicable law requires erasure, restriction, recipient notification, or other action concerning personal information already distributed, Auxerta shall comply with those requirements and applicable agreements. A contractual license does not override those obligations.

Previously distributed material. Withdrawal cannot guarantee reversal of completed model training or recall of every previously distributed copy. Subject to mandatory personal-information rights, the license applicable to material lawfully distributed before withdrawal survives only for uses permitted by the authorization under which it was distributed and the applicable Licensee agreement. This provision does not authorize a new distribution after withdrawal or continued unlawful processing. Account deletion withdraws the Account’s participation on the same basis.

Licensee restrictions. Authorized distribution requires written terms restricting use to the permitted purpose, prohibiting attempted re-identification, and limiting further distribution. Paid licensing of pseudonymous content may constitute a sale of personal information under an applicable privacy statute; removing direct identifiers does not determine that legal classification. The Privacy Policy describes the relevant choices and rights. Auxerta does not sell Account email addresses or contact lists to advertisers.

AI labels. Auxerta may, following human review, label content as AI writing, AI-generated imagery, or both. A label is a moderation determination and not conclusive proof of authorship. A labeled Entry may be restricted pending acceptance of the label or review of a revision. Accepting a label does not override any other applicable moderation, audience, or retention restriction. A User may dispute a label through the review procedure in Section 7.9. Repeated deceptive representations of authorship may result in enforcement action.

5AThe Assistant

Optional activation. The Assistant is optional and is disabled unless the User activates it through the applicable controls. The activation flow requires the acknowledgments presented there. Declining or disabling the Assistant does not itself revoke other Account access or constitute participation in AI Licensing. A response to the Assistant’s activation prompt is distinct from the formation or modification of the overall Service agreement.

Current operation. The Assistant uses predefined text, request matching, shortcuts, and searches of content the User is authorized to access. It may direct a User to draft controls, reviews, saved or prior posts, visibility information, or support controls. It does not currently use a generative model. Requests are not retained as a chat history or forwarded to a third-party AI service. The Assistant does not itself publish posts, send messages, delete content, or change Account settings; those actions require the applicable User controls.

Permission and ownership. While enabled, the Assistant may process content and requests to provide the requested functionality under the operational license in Section 4. Disabling it ends that permission for subsequent Assistant processing, without affecting other authorized Service operations. Auxerta retains rights in its software, predefined text, and other original materials and grants the User a nonexclusive, royalty-free license to use Assistant Output for personal use. No ownership of the User’s underlying content or quoted third-party material transfers to Auxerta. Assistant Output does not authorize Auxerta to publish private content or use it for AI Licensing.

Limitations. The Assistant is not a person, an emergency service, a professional adviser, or a channel for delivering legal notice. Results may be incomplete, incorrect, or unavailable and may be limited to the records and search scope disclosed in the interface. Output may be identical for multiple Users. The User remains responsible for reviewing content and confirming any subsequent action. The presence or absence of Output is not a moderation decision, a safety assurance, or a guarantee that a notice has been delivered. No compensation is payable for use of the Assistant or for displaying Output.

Changes. Auxerta may modify, rename, suspend, or discontinue the Assistant subject to Sections 8 and 15 and mandatory law. It is not currently a separately purchased subscription benefit. If Auxerta introduces model-based processing or a materially different use of personal information, it will provide the disclosures and obtain any additional authorization required by applicable law before that processing occurs. This Section is not advance consent to an undisclosed processing purpose or an expansion of AI Licensing.

6Acceptable Use and Intellectual Property

You shall not, and shall not assist another person to:

• submit unlawful, infringing, defamatory, fraudulent, threatening, harassing, exploitative, or malicious material; disclose another person’s confidential or private information without lawful authority; or violate an applicable court order or legal obligation;
• create, obtain, distribute, solicit, or facilitate child sexual abuse or exploitation material, grooming, trafficking, or any sexual exploitation of a minor;
• impersonate another person, misrepresent age, identity, affiliation, endorsement, review experience, or staff status, or use the Service for spam, deceptive solicitation, or coordinated manipulation;
• circumvent an Account, email-address, IP-address, device, age, moderation, rate, payment, or access restriction, including through replacement Accounts or intermediary services;
• access another person’s Account or nonpublic data without authorization; deploy malware; interfere with Service availability; scrape, harvest, or bulk-export Service content without authorization; or reverse engineer protected software except where applicable law expressly permits the activity;
• use Service content to train an artificial-intelligence model or construct a competing database or service without the necessary authorization and rights; or
• engage in conduct prohibited by Section 7.

Restricted organizations and persons. Auxerta may restrict Accounts reasonably associated with terrorist or violent extremist activity, exploitation, or prohibited sanctions dealings. “Designated Entity” includes a person or entity on applicable U.S. Treasury sanctions lists, an organization designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the U.S. Department of State, a person on relevant FBI terrorism wanted lists, and a non-state group that promotes or commits violence against civilians to advance its objectives. You shall not use the Service to represent, recruit or raise funds for, or promote the prohibited activity of a Designated Entity. Use of a government list does not imply government affiliation or endorsement. Auxerta does not represent that every User has been screened.

Child-safety reporting. Auxerta prohibits child sexual exploitation and shall report and preserve material when required by applicable law, including 18 U.S.C. § 2258A. The Privacy Policy describes the categories of information that may be disclosed and the separate statutory preservation process. A User report does not itself constitute a report to law enforcement, and the Service must not be used instead of contacting emergency services where immediate assistance is required.

Service intellectual property. Auxerta and its licensors retain rights in the Service’s software, design, trademarks, and supplied assets. Subject to these Terms, Auxerta grants a limited, personal, nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access the Service through its authorized interfaces. No other right is granted by implication. Rights in third-party or open-source materials remain subject to their applicable licenses.

Copyright complaints. Alleged copyright infringement and counter-notices may be submitted through the Copyright / DMCA Policy. Auxerta may remove or disable access to disputed content, notify the affected parties where appropriate, and terminate repeat infringers in appropriate circumstances. A complaint must be accurate and authorized. Auxerta reserves all applicable statutory defenses and limitations of liability.

Feedback. You may voluntarily submit suggestions about the Service. To the extent you own rights in those suggestions, you permit Auxerta to use them to improve its products without confidentiality or compensation obligations, unless separately agreed. This permission does not include private posts or messages merely because the Service processes them and does not restrict lawful criticism, consumer reviews, regulatory reports, or protected disclosures.

7Content Standards and Moderation

7.1 Application. These standards apply to all submitted material and conduct, including private content, reviews, and private communications. Moderation may include automated screening and human review. Auxerta is not obligated to pre-screen, monitor, or retain any content, and no failure or delay in removing material waives Auxerta’s right to act later. Publication, prior approval, or failure to remove material does not constitute endorsement or a representation that the material complies with law or these Terms.

7.2 Restricted subject matter. The Service restricts content that references, describes, depicts, promotes, glorifies, facilitates, solicits, or instructs in the acquisition, manufacture, supply, distribution, possession, use, or sale of controlled substances; criminal conduct; or violence against a person or group. Auxerta may refuse distribution, cover, label, or remove such content according to context and applicable law.

7.3 Context. Personal experience, reportage, criticism, condemnation, memorialization, or discussion of a work under review does not automatically exempt material from Section 7.2. The restriction concerns the Service’s distribution rules and is not a finding that a User committed an offense. Nothing in this Section prohibits a lawful report to Auxerta, a regulator, law enforcement, legal counsel, or an emergency service.

7.4 Factual assertions. Auxerta may restrict the distribution of an Entry principally asserting a proposition about health, safety, science, law, or current events. A request for public-distribution review may be sent to contact@auxerta.com with at least five (5) credible, independent supporting sources. Auxerta will evaluate the submission but may maintain restrictions on other applicable grounds. A distribution decision is not a certification of truth or falsity. Setting an Entry to private restricts it to its author under the ordinary audience controls, subject to the authorized processing described in the Privacy Policy.

7.5 Religious, political, and ideological advocacy. Entries principally advancing religious belief, practice, or observance must use the private audience. Auxerta may similarly restrict Entries principally advancing a political or ideological position. A User may request review under Section 7.4; factual substantiation does not itself waive another content standard. These restrictions do not prevent recording personal beliefs in private, subject to the generally applicable prohibitions.

7.6 Campaigning. You shall not use the Service to organize, recruit for, solicit funds for, or coordinate amplification of a cause, campaign, or organization. Ordinary use of an authorized friend-invitation feature is permitted, provided it does not involve spam, deception, or prohibited coordination.

7.7 Enforcement. Measures may include warnings, labels, removal, audience restrictions, feature restrictions, suspension, termination, and restrictions on specified email addresses, IP addresses, or other abuse indicators. Auxerta may impose measures without first issuing a warning where reasonably warranted by the severity, recurrence, legal requirement, or risk involved. A restriction may prevent registration, login, or access to the website itself. Access to private material or settings during suspension is subject to the restriction actually imposed and is not guaranteed.

7.8 Privacy rights and evidence. Enforcement does not transfer ownership of Your Content or waive applicable privacy rights. Where in-product controls are unavailable, requests concerning access, export, correction, or withdrawal may be sent to contact@auxerta.com, subject to identity verification and lawful limitations. No export of content already erased or unlawfully held is guaranteed. Retention of evidence remains subject to Section 4 and the Privacy Policy; an unresolved enforcement matter does not authorize indefinite retention.

7.9 Review and appeal. A User may request human review of a content removal, AI label, Account restriction, or access ban by emailing contact@auxerta.com with the relevant Account or content identifier and grounds for review. Auxerta will arrange human review of a properly identified appeal. Notices, reasons, and review opportunities will be provided where required by applicable law, subject to lawful confidentiality and safety restrictions. An appeal does not guarantee reinstatement, delay an applicable deletion deadline, or restore erased content.

7.10 Private messaging and voice calls. Where enabled, Ping and one-to-one calling require access granted to both participants and an accepted mutual connection. Additional age and safety restrictions apply. Adult-to-minor messaging requires an individual staff-granted exemption for the younger participant; each participant under eighteen (18) also requires the separate calling exemption to use voice calling. Exemptions do not waive the Service’s minimum age and may be withdrawn. The ordinary private-message retention period is thirty (30) days from sending, subject to earlier deletion and Section 4’s evidence exceptions. Account deletion removes the affected conversation records, including the other participant’s messages in those conversations. Auxerta does not record call audio; signaling and call metadata may be processed as described in the Privacy Policy. Neither feature is an emergency communications service.

8Subscriptions and Billing

8.1 Plans and benefits. A paid subscription is optional. The currently advertised direct monthly price is US $4.99, plus applicable taxes. App Store prices, currencies, taxes, and availability may differ; the purchase screen and receipt identify the applicable charge and billing period. Current ordinary allowances include four (4) reviews per UTC calendar week without Subscriber Access and ten (10) with Subscriber Access, and post limits of four hundred (400) and forty thousand (40,000) characters respectively. Media allowances are stated in Section 4. Daily usage and security limits also apply. A subscription does not purchase a particular audience, moderation outcome, unrestricted use, or permanent content storage.

8.1a Thirty-day archiving without Subscriber Access. A public or Group Entry created without Subscriber Access ceases ordinary distribution thirty (30) days after creation. It remains available to its author and qualifying Users who bookmarked or replied to it before archiving, subject to current audience, friendship, blocking, moderation, and Account restrictions. Existing responses are retained, but further responses cannot be added, including by the author. Private Entries are not distributed by this rule.

8.1b Status at creation. The ordinary archiving rule is determined by the Account’s Subscriber Access when the Entry is created. A later subscription does not reopen earlier Entries, and a later lapse does not impose this thirty-day rule on Entries created with Subscriber Access. This exemption concerns only ordinary archiving; all other removal and moderation provisions remain applicable.

8.2 Recurring charges. A subscription renews automatically for the billing period disclosed at purchase until canceled through the applicable billing channel. By completing the subscription purchase, you authorize recurring charges at the disclosed price, together with applicable taxes, subject to any notice or renewed consent required for a price change. Payment authorization is obtained in the purchase flow; these Terms alone do not authorize an undisclosed charge. You shall maintain accurate billing information and use a payment method you are authorized to use. Prices are stated in United States dollars unless the purchase screen states otherwise. Charges imposed by your payment provider or bank, including currency-conversion fees, are your responsibility.

8.3 Website purchases and cancellation. Subscriptions purchased on the Argotu website are sold by Auxerta LLC, processed by Stripe, and managed through the website’s subscription page and hosted billing portal. Apple’s subscription controls do not manage those purchases. Canceling renewal ordinarily preserves access until the end of the paid period, except where a refund, revocation, or lawful Account restriction ends access earlier. Cancellation does not itself refund prior charges. If the cancellation control is unavailable, contact contact@auxerta.com for assistance.

8.4 iOS purchases through Apple. Subscriptions purchased within the Argotu iOS application are billed by Apple and must be managed through the Apple Account associated with the purchase, using Apple’s subscription controls. Apple processes cancellation and refund requests under its applicable terms and mandatory law. Refund requests may be submitted at reportaproblem.apple.com. Deleting the Argotu application or Account does not automatically cancel an Apple subscription. Auxerta cannot cancel that subscription through its Stripe portal. A purchase-restoration facility, where available, restores a verified entitlement; it does not restore deleted content or an erased Account.

8.5 Refunds and statutory remedies. Direct payments are not ordinarily prorated or refunded for unused portions of a billing period, except where required by applicable law or granted by Auxerta. The Refund Policy identifies the appropriate request channel. This provision does not exclude mandatory withdrawal, cancellation, refund, repair, price-reduction, or other consumer remedies. A statutory cancellation right is not waived merely by accepting these Terms. Apple’s role as billing provider does not extinguish obligations imposed directly on Auxerta by law.

8.6 Price and paid-benefit changes. Auxerta may change future subscription prices or benefits for operational, legal, security, cost, or product-development reasons. For direct subscriptions, a price increase or material reduction of a paid benefit will be notified at least thirty (30) days before the affected renewal, with an opportunity to cancel. Apple-billed changes follow applicable platform notice and consent requirements and mandatory law. A price increase is not applied to an already paid period. If a paid benefit must be materially withdrawn during that period, applicable remedies remain available; Auxerta will provide an appropriate alternative or refund for the unused affected portion where required by law or where the paid service is discontinued without User breach.

8.7 Entitlements and failed payments. Access is determined by the entitlement confirmed by the applicable billing provider, including any supported grace period. Failed payments, refunds, revocations, expiry, or enforcement action may end or restrict paid access. You shall not use more than one billing channel to obtain overlapping subscriptions unless expressly supported. A subscription does not exempt an Account from enforcement; any resulting refund entitlement is governed by applicable law and the billing provider’s terms.

8.8 Deletion and billing. Before completing Account deletion, the Service attempts to cancel associated direct Stripe subscriptions. If that cancellation fails, deletion may remain incomplete and an error will be displayed. Apple subscriptions require the separate cancellation described in Section 8.4. Deletion does not itself create a refund entitlement, and legally required payment or transaction records may remain with Auxerta or the billing provider as disclosed in the Privacy Policy.

8.9 Payment disputes. Before disputing a charge with a card issuer or payment provider, you shall give Auxerta a reasonable opportunity to resolve the matter through the channel identified in the Refund Policy. Where a charge is reversed, disputed, or returned unpaid, Subscriber Access for the affected period may be suspended or ended until the matter is resolved, and Auxerta may decline further direct purchases from an Account that has disputed a charge without a good-faith basis. This provision does not restrict a statutory right to dispute an unauthorized or defective charge.

9Advertising and Third-Party Materials

The Service may display advertising sold and selected directly by Auxerta and identified as advertising. Placements may contain text, images, or supported video. Availability and presentation may vary by platform, placement, schedule, and device capability. The Service does not select advertising using a User’s private content or optional reading history and does not operate a behavioral advertising auction.

Advertising media is served through Auxerta’s infrastructure rather than an advertiser tracking pixel. Auxerta does not provide advertisers with an identified viewer or clicker list. Selecting an advertiser’s link may disclose information directly to the destination operator under that operator’s policies. The Privacy Policy governs Auxerta’s own processing.

Third-party content, reviews, catalogue information, advertising, and external links are provided by persons other than Auxerta unless expressly identified otherwise. Listing, hosting, or moderating that material does not constitute endorsement, verification, or a guarantee of its accuracy, safety, legality, or availability. Transactions with an advertiser or another User are between the participating parties, except for obligations imposed on Auxerta by applicable law. Separate written advertising agreements govern purchases of advertising inventory.

10Suspension and Termination

You may discontinue use and request Account deletion through the available controls. Export any content you are entitled and able to retain before deletion or an applicable expiry date. Successful deletion is not a thirty-day deactivation or recovery process. Section 4 governs the limited material that may remain, and Section 8 governs outstanding billing.

Auxerta may restrict, suspend, or terminate access where it reasonably determines that a User has violated these Terms or applicable law, failed to satisfy eligibility requirements, evaded restrictions, created a material security or safety risk, or used the Service fraudulently. Auxerta may also refuse access to a person reasonably identified as a Designated Entity or as having been convicted of a sexual offense against a child. Auxerta does not conduct general criminal-background screening or warrant that all such persons are identified.

Discontinuation of the Service. Auxerta reserves the right to suspend or permanently discontinue the Service, in whole or in part, at any time for any lawful reason, including operational, financial, technical, or product-development reasons, subject to the notice provisions in this Section, Section 8, and applicable law. Participation in Public Alpha, creation of an Account, or purchase of a subscription does not guarantee continued operation of the Service.

Notice. For a planned discontinuation of the Service, Auxerta will provide at least thirty (30) days’ notice to the registered email address. Auxerta may also suspend or terminate an Account for a lawful reason unrelated to User breach on the same notice. Shorter notice, including immediate action, may be necessary where required by law, to address a material safety or security incident, or following the loss of an essential third-party platform or service. Auxerta will provide any additional notice required by applicable law.

Notice may be withheld or delayed where immediate action is reasonably necessary, disclosure would undermine a safety or security measure, or law prohibits it. Otherwise, Auxerta will provide notice and any reasons or appeal information required by applicable law. Termination for breach does not excuse Auxerta from nonwaivable obligations concerning payments, personal information, or lawful review. Discontinuation of the Service for reasons unrelated to User breach is subject to the paid-service provisions in Section 8.

Effect of closure. Where lawful and reasonably practicable, Auxerta will provide an opportunity to export eligible content before permanent discontinuation. Content removal and any permitted retention remain subject to Section 4 and the Privacy Policy. Direct subscription renewals for a discontinued paid service will be canceled; Apple-billed subscriptions are administered through Apple as described in Section 8.4. Refunds and other remedies remain governed by Section 8 and the Refund Policy.

Upon termination, your right to access the affected Service ceases. Content ownership, licenses expressly stated to survive, accrued payment obligations, lawful retention duties, Sections 11 through 14, and provisions that by their nature must survive remain effective only to their stated extent. Termination does not expand a license, continue withdrawn consent, or authorize retention otherwise prohibited by law.

11Warranties and Service Limitations

SUBJECT TO THE NONEXCLUDABLE RIGHTS IN SECTION 12, THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE.” AUXERTA DISCLAIMS WARRANTIES NOT EXPRESSLY GIVEN IN THESE TERMS, INCLUDING IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NONINFRINGEMENT, TO THE EXTENT THOSE WARRANTIES MAY LAWFULLY BE DISCLAIMED.

Auxerta does not guarantee uninterrupted operation, error-free software, compatibility with every device, preservation beyond the stated retention periods, approval of submitted content, identification of every violation, or a particular result from using the Service. Reasonable security measures reduce but do not eliminate the risk of unauthorized access, loss, or disclosure. These limitations do not excuse the failure to exercise a legally required standard of care.

User content, catalogue entries, advertisements, and Assistant Output do not constitute legal, medical, financial, or other professional advice from Auxerta. You remain responsible for obtaining advice appropriate to your circumstances. No informal statement, demonstration, roadmap, or previous feature creates a warranty or development commitment unless expressly incorporated into a binding agreement or otherwise required by law.

Public Alpha development. The Service remains in Public Alpha across all development phases. By participating, you acknowledge that the platform is under development and is not a completed product. Features and interfaces may be incomplete, contain defects, operate inconsistently, or become unavailable. Auxerta may modify or discontinue experimental functionality or the Service itself, subject to Sections 8, 10, and 15, applicable purchase disclosures, and mandatory law. No development phase, release designation, roadmap, or payment constitutes a commitment to general availability, a completion date, or delivery of a future feature.

The Public Alpha designation applies to free and paid use. It does not displace expressly purchased subscription benefits, the Refund Policy, Auxerta’s obligations under the Privacy Policy, or any nonwaivable right or remedy. Optional analytics and AI Licensing remain subject to their separate consent requirements; participation in Public Alpha does not itself authorize either activity.

12Limitation of Liability

Nonexcludable liability. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, willful misconduct, death or personal injury caused by negligence, or any other liability, statutory remedy, or consumer right that applicable law does not permit the parties to exclude or limit. Any restriction in Sections 11 through 14 must be read subject to this paragraph.

Excluded loss. Where permitted by applicable law, Auxerta, its affiliates (including Auxerta LLC), and their respective officers, employees, agents, and suppliers shall not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or loss of business profits, revenue, business opportunity, or goodwill arising from the Service or these Terms. This exclusion applies regardless of the legal theory asserted or prior notice of the possibility of such loss. It does not exclude ordinary foreseeable consumer loss where that exclusion would be unlawful.

Aggregate limit. Where permitted by applicable law, the aggregate liability of Auxerta and the foregoing persons for claims arising from the Service or these Terms shall not exceed the greater of (a) the amounts paid by you for Argotu subscriptions, including through a supported app store, during the twelve (12) months preceding the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) US $100. Claims arising from the same or related events are subject to one aggregate limit, not a separate limit per claim.

Consumers. Where mandatory consumer law requires otherwise, Auxerta remains responsible for losses that are the reasonably foreseeable result of its breach or failure to exercise required care, and the exclusions and cap above apply only to the extent compatible with that law. The stated cap does not substitute for a mandatory refund, statutory guarantee, or other remedy that cannot lawfully be reduced.

Disputes between Users and third parties. Where permitted by applicable law, you release Auxerta and the persons identified above from claims, demands, and damages of every kind, known or unknown, arising from a dispute between you and another User, an advertiser, or another third party, including claims concerning content those persons submitted. If you are a California resident, you waive California Civil Code section 1542, which provides: “A general release does not extend to claims that the creditor or releasing party does not know or suspect to exist in his or her favor at the time of executing the release and that, if known by him or her, would have materially affected his or her settlement with the debtor or released party.”

13Indemnification

To the extent permitted by applicable law, you shall indemnify Auxerta, its affiliates (including Auxerta LLC), and their respective officers, employees, and agents against third-party claims, damages, liabilities, and reasonable external legal expenses to the extent caused by Your Content infringing a third party’s rights, your unlawful conduct, or your material breach of these Terms. This obligation does not apply to the extent a claim results from the negligence, willful misconduct, or breach of law or contract of the person seeking indemnification.

Auxerta shall provide reasonable notice of a claim for which it seeks indemnification and reasonable cooperation, subject to protection of confidential information. Auxerta may control the defense with reasonably qualified counsel. No settlement imposing an admission, nonmonetary obligation, or unreimbursed payment on you may be entered without your consent, which shall not be unreasonably withheld. You may participate through your own counsel at your expense. If you are a consumer, this Section applies only to the extent a reimbursement obligation is enforceable under the mandatory law protecting you; it does not require you to indemnify Auxerta merely for bringing a good-faith claim against it.

14Governing Law and Dispute Resolution

14.1 Governing law. Wyoming law governs these Terms, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules, except that the Federal Arbitration Act governs the interpretation and enforcement of an enforceable arbitration agreement under this Section. A consumer retains the protections of mandatory law applicable in the consumer’s country or state of residence.

14.2 Informal notice. Before initiating arbitration, the claimant shall send the other party a notice identifying the Account, the material facts, the requested relief, and a means of contact. Notices to Auxerta may be sent to contact@auxerta.com; Auxerta will use the Account’s registered email address for notices to you. The parties shall attempt resolution for thirty (30) days after receipt. This requirement does not prevent timely filing to preserve a limitation period, an application for urgent relief, a regulatory complaint, or use of a nonwaivable statutory remedy.

14.3 Individual arbitration. For Users residing in the United States, and only to the extent enforceable, disputes arising from the Service or these Terms that are not resolved informally shall be determined by a single neutral arbitrator administered by the American Arbitration Association (“AAA”) under its applicable Consumer Arbitration Rules. This provision applies to claims by either party. It does not apply to a qualifying individual small-claims action, a dispute excluded from predispute arbitration by law, or a User who timely opts out. A court shall determine whether an arbitration agreement was formed and whether the arbitration or class waiver is enforceable; the arbitrator shall determine other arbitrable issues. Either party may seek injunctive or other equitable relief in a court of competent jurisdiction to prevent infringement or misuse of intellectual property or unauthorized access to the Service, without first completing the informal process or arbitration.

14.4 Procedure and costs. Arbitration may proceed remotely or on written submissions where permitted by the AAA rules. If an in-person hearing is required, its location shall comply with the rules’ consumer-access requirements. Auxerta shall pay the fees allocated to the business by those rules; the User’s fees shall not exceed the applicable consumer fee requirements, subject to available waivers. The arbitrator may award the individual relief a court could award, including statutory remedies and recoverable legal fees, and shall issue a written decision. Judgment may be entered by a court with jurisdiction. These Terms do not impose confidential treatment beyond applicable law or an appropriate protective order.

14.5 Class and representative proceedings. Where lawful, claims subject to this arbitration agreement must proceed on an individual basis, and neither party may require class, collective, consolidated, or representative arbitration without the other’s agreement. This does not waive a right to seek public injunctive relief or another remedy that cannot lawfully be waived, restrict a government authority, or bar participation in a protected regulatory process. If this waiver is unenforceable for a particular claim or remedy, that claim or remedy shall proceed in a competent court; the enforceable remainder continues to apply.

14.6 Opt-out. You may opt out of Sections 14.3 through 14.5 by emailing contact@auxerta.com within thirty (30) days after first accepting this arbitration provision. Identify your full name, Account email or username, and your election to opt out. No explanation is required. Opting out does not affect other Service rights, and a previously valid opt-out remains effective. A material amendment to this arbitration provision requires legally effective notice and assent and does not apply retroactively to a dispute already notified.

14.7 Court proceedings and unavailable administration. If AAA declines administration and the parties cannot agree on an eligible alternative, or if a dispute is otherwise not subject to enforceable arbitration, it may proceed in court. Subject to mandatory consumer venue rights and the small-claims exception, the parties consent to the state and federal courts located in Wyoming. A consumer may use a court in the consumer’s place of residence where applicable law permits. No provision requires a consumer outside the United States to submit to predispute arbitration under these Terms. TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, EACH PARTY WAIVES TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY COURT PROCEEDING ARISING FROM THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS.

14.8 Coordinated filings. If twenty-five (25) or more arbitration demands raising similar claims are filed against Auxerta within ninety (90) days by or with the assistance of the same law firm or coordinated group, the AAA’s Mass Arbitration Supplementary Rules apply, the demands shall be batched for administration and fee purposes, and the parties shall cooperate in a staged process in which a representative set of demands proceeds first and the remainder are stayed. Any applicable limitation period is tolled for a stayed demand from its filing until its stage begins. If a court finds this Section unenforceable as to a batch, the affected demands shall proceed in court under Section 14.7.

14.9 Time limit on claims. To the extent permitted by applicable law, a claim arising from the Service or these Terms must be commenced within one (1) year after it accrues; a claim not commenced within that period is permanently barred. This limit does not shorten a period that mandatory law does not permit the parties to shorten.

15Changes to the Terms and Service

Auxerta may amend these Terms to address changes in law, security, operation, or the Service. The revised document will identify its revision date. Material amendments will be communicated through reasonably prominent in-Service notice or email before they are intended to take effect, except where an immediate change is required by law or reasonably necessary to address an urgent security issue.

A revised date alone is not a representation that an existing User affirmatively accepted new obligations. Where affirmative assent or renewed consent is legally required, Auxerta must obtain it before applying the affected change. A change does not retroactively enlarge an AI Licensing authorization, revive withdrawn consent, alter a previously accrued claim, or eliminate a valid arbitration opt-out. If you decline an amendment required for continued provision of the Service, you may discontinue use, cancel a subscription through the relevant provider, and exercise available export or deletion rights.

Auxerta may add, modify, limit, rename, suspend, or discontinue features or the Service for operational, financial, technical, security, legal, or product-development reasons. Suspension, discontinuation, and related notice remain subject to Section 10; paid benefits and subscription pricing remain subject to Section 8. A service change does not create an unrestricted right to change a paid contract during its current period or dispense with mandatory consumer remedies.

16General Provisions

Entire agreement. These Terms, the incorporated policies, applicable purchase disclosures, and separately accepted feature-specific agreements constitute the agreement concerning their subject matter. The priority rules in Section 1 apply. No informal description overrides a specific contractual obligation or a mandatory legal right.

Severability and waiver. An unenforceable provision shall be severed or limited only to the extent permitted by law, leaving the remainder effective where it can operate independently. Section 14 contains the specific rule for an unenforceable arbitration or class waiver. Failure to enforce a provision on one occasion does not waive enforcement on another.

Assignment. You may not assign an Account or these Terms without Auxerta’s written consent. Auxerta may assign the agreement in connection with a merger, reorganization, or transfer of the relevant business, provided the transfer does not reduce mandatory consumer protections or authorize inconsistent personal-information processing. Notice will be given where required by law.

Events beyond reasonable control. Neither party is responsible for delay caused by circumstances beyond its reasonable control to the extent the failure could not reasonably have been prevented or mitigated. This provision does not excuse accrued payment obligations, legally required safeguards, or nonwaivable consumer remedies.

Relationship and third-party rights. These Terms do not create an agency, partnership, joint venture, employment, or fiduciary relationship between you and Auxerta. Auxerta LLC, Auxerta’s other affiliates, and their respective officers, employees, and agents may enforce Sections 8 and 11 through 14 to the extent those Sections protect them; no other third party obtains enforcement rights except where expressly provided in an applicable agreement or required by law.

Electronic notices. Operational and contractual communications may be provided electronically using the registered email address or appropriate in-Service notices, subject to any specific notice requirements in these Terms or applicable law. Keep your contact information current. Formal legal process must be served in the manner required by law; an Assistant request is not service of process.

Interpretation and language. Headings are for convenience and do not affect interpretation. “Including” means including without limitation. The English-language version of these Terms controls over any translation, to the extent permitted by law.

17Contact

Questions, notices, appeals, billing requests, and requests concerning personal-information rights may be directed to Auxerta, Inc. at contact@auxerta.com or +1 408-752-2933. Notices that require a written record must be submitted in writing. Include sufficient information to identify the matter without transmitting passwords, full payment-card details, or unnecessary sensitive information. Copyright notices must follow the Copyright / DMCA Policy. Additional disclosures appear in the Privacy Policy and Refund Policy.

Notice to California residents. Under California Civil Code section 1789.3, the Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Services of the California Department of Consumer Affairs may be contacted in writing at 1625 North Market Boulevard, Suite N 112, Sacramento, California 95834, or by telephone at 1-800-952-5210. Auxerta’s contact details appear above; the charges for the Service are stated in Section 8 and on the purchase screen.