Terms & Conditions of Use — Briefly iQ
By installing or using Briefly iQ (“the App”), you agree to these Terms & Conditions of Use (“Terms”). If you do not agree, do not install or use the App.
1. Product status — prototype
Briefly iQ is an early prototype / MVP provided for testing and evaluation. It may contain bugs, incomplete features, and behavior that changes between versions without notice. It is not represented as production-grade software, and you should not rely on it as your sole record of any meeting or decision.
2. License
Subject to these Terms, we grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to install and use the App on Windows devices you control, for evaluation and internal business or personal use.
You may not:
reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the App except where permitted by mandatory law;
redistribute, sell, rent, sublicense, or offer the App as a service to third parties;
remove or alter branding, notices, or attributions;
use the App to develop a competing product by systematic extraction of its behavior.
The App is currently provided without charge and without built-in payments, accounts, or subscriptions. Future versions may introduce personal, business, enterprise, trial, or paid tiers under separate license terms; nothing in these Terms entitles you to free use of future versions.
3. Third-party AI providers
The App connects, at your instruction, to third-party AI providers (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Groq, Mistral) or to a locally installed Ollama runtime.
Your keys, your account, your costs. Cloud providers require your own API key. You are solely responsible for obtaining keys, complying with the provider’s terms, and paying all fees the provider charges. The App does not include paid AI usage.
Their terms govern your data. Content you submit to a cloud provider is processed under that provider’s terms and privacy policy. We do not control provider pricing, rate limits, retention, or data handling and accept no responsibility for them.
Ollama Local is a separate third-party tool you install and operate yourself. Its performance depends on your hardware; initial installation and model downloads require an internet connection. We make no guarantee of offline operation except where a local model is installed and functioning on capable hardware.
4. AI output disclaimer
AI-generated output is probabilistic and may be wrong. Summaries may be incomplete; decisions, actions, owners, deadlines, and risks may be misattributed, misinterpreted, or fabricated (“hallucinated”).
You must review and validate all output before using or distributing it.
You are solely responsible for the accuracy, completeness, and appropriateness of any final content you export, email, archive, or share.
Output is not legal, financial, HR, compliance, medical, or other professional advice, and must not be treated as such.
5. Your content and responsibilities
You are responsible for the content you paste, upload, or process, including:
having all rights, consents, and permissions required to process it (including personal data of meeting participants and confidential information of your employer or clients);
complying with applicable law and your organization’s policies, in particular for regulated or sensitive data;
understanding whether your selected provider is online or local before submitting content;
managing, backing up, and securing your local archives, settings, and API keys, which are stored unencrypted on your device in the current version.
6. Data and privacy
The App stores settings, API keys, theme profiles, and archives locally on your device and transmits content only to the AI provider you select. Details are set out in the Privacy Policy, which forms part of these Terms.
7. Known limitations
Without limiting Section 8, you acknowledge the following current limitations: DOCX export may not perfectly reproduce complex formatting; email formatting depends on your mail client; very large transcripts may exceed provider context limits; local model quality and speed depend on your hardware; archives are local-only with no cloud sync; there are no user accounts, encryption vault, or collaborative features in this version.
8. No warranty
THE APP IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE”, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ACCURACY, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE APP WILL BE ERROR-FREE, UNINTERRUPTED, OR THAT OUTPUT WILL BE ACCURATE OR RELIABLE.
9. Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Publisher shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, or special damages, loss of profits, loss of data, business interruption, or damages arising from (a) reliance on AI-generated output, (b) third-party AI provider acts, omissions, costs, or data handling, or (c) loss of locally stored data. Where liability cannot be excluded, it is limited to the amount you paid for the App (currently zero) or the minimum permitted by law.
Nothing in these Terms excludes liability that cannot be excluded under mandatory law, including under EU and Bulgarian consumer protection rules where they apply to you.
10. Intellectual property
The App, the Briefly iQ name, the iQ ecosystem branding, and related logos are the property of the Publisher. You retain all rights to your input content and to the output you generate, subject to any rights of your AI provider under its terms.
11. Termination
The license terminates automatically if you materially breach these Terms. You may terminate at any time by uninstalling the App and deleting its local data. Sections 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, and 12 survive termination.
12. Governing law and disputes
These Terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of Bulgaria, without prejudice to mandatory consumer protections of your country of residence within the EU. Disputes shall be subject to the competent courts of Bulgaria, unless mandatory law provides otherwise. EU consumers may also use the European Commission’s Online Dispute Resolution platform: https://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr.
13. Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms as the product evolves. The effective date above will be updated; continued use of the App after changes constitutes acceptance. Material changes will be highlighted in release notes.
If any provision of these Terms is held invalid, the remaining provisions remain in effect.