Terms of Service

Effective May 16, 2026 · Last updated May 16, 2026

1. What this is

Parents Circle ("the service," "we," "us") is a personal project that reads your Gmail with your permission and produces a daily email brief and an Ask chat. It is operated by an individual developer.

2. Who can use it

• You must be at least 18 years old, or the age of majority in your jurisdiction.
• You must have a Google account you control and the legal right to grant us read access to it.
• You agree to comply with Google's Terms of Service while using the service.

3. Beta status

Parents Circle is in private beta. That means:

• Access is invite-only.
• Features may change, break, or be removed without notice.
• There is no uptime guarantee.
• The service is free during the beta. We may introduce pricing in the future; we'll give you at least 14 days' notice and a chance to cancel before any charge.

4. Your responsibilities

You agree that:

• You verify anything that matters. The brief and the Ask chat are generated by AI. They can miss things, misread things, or be plain wrong. Treat them as a triage helper, not a system of record. Do not rely on Parents Circle for legally, medically, or financially consequential decisions without independent verification.
• You manage your own recipients. If you add extra email addresses (partner, nanny, etc.) to receive your brief, you are responsible for having their permission. Misuse — adding people who haven't consented, harassment, etc. — is grounds for immediate termination.
• You don't try to abuse the system. No scraping, no automated mass signups, no attempting to break our security, no overloading the chat or brief endpoints.

5. What we provide

• A daily brief generated from your Gmail, delivered at the time you choose.
• An Ask chat grounded in the last 14 days of your inbox.
• The ability to change your settings, see your data, and delete your account.

6. What we don't provide

The service is offered "as is" and "as available" with no warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, or non-infringement. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we disclaim liability for missed deadlines, missed RSVPs, missed appointments, financial loss, family conflict, or any other damages arising from your use of the service.

If you live somewhere that doesn't allow these disclaimers, our total liability to you for any claim is capped at the greater of $50 USD or the amount you paid us in the past 12 months (which during the beta is $0).

7. Account termination

You can stop using Parents Circle anytime by:

• Revoking our Gmail access at myaccount.google.com/permissions, and
• Emailing service@parentscircleapp.com to delete your data (we do it within 48 hours).

We can suspend or terminate your account at any time if you violate these terms, if Google revokes our access, or if the service is shut down. We'll give you reasonable notice when possible and let you export anything we have on you.

8. Intellectual property

Parents Circle (the code, brand, design) is owned by the developer and licensed to you under these terms for personal use only. You retain all rights to the content of your Gmail and to anything you write into the chat.

9. Changes to these terms

If we make material changes we'll email signed-in users at least 14 days before the change takes effect, and update the "Last updated" date at the top. Continuing to use the service after that constitutes acceptance.

10. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the United States and the State of Connecticut, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles. Any dispute will be brought in the state or federal courts located in Connecticut, and you consent to that jurisdiction.

11. Contact

Questions about these terms: service@parentscircleapp.com.

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