Terms of Service

Agreement to these terms

These Terms apply to Ameeba Chat, Ameeba Workspace, Max AI, Vault, Nucleus, Notes, Secret Notes, Spaces, Inbox, Ameeba Compute, and other Ameeba features that link to these Terms. Certain products, organizations, beta features, paid offerings, or integrations may include additional terms. If additional terms conflict with these Terms for a particular feature, the additional terms control for that feature to the extent of the conflict.

Our Privacy Policy explains how we process information and is incorporated by reference where applicable.

Eligibility and access

You must be legally capable of entering into these Terms and must meet any minimum age required by applicable law. If you use the Services for an organization, you represent that you have authority to bind that organization to these Terms, and “you” includes that organization where applicable.

Encrypted identity and trusted devices

Ameeba is built around aliases, encrypted identifiers, and trusted-device authentication rather than requiring a phone number, email address, or password as the foundation of your Ameeba identity. You are responsible for your devices, active sessions, alias, Recovery Ameeba Code or other recovery material, and actions taken through access you authorize.

Never provide recovery material to someone claiming it is required for ordinary support or QR sign-in. Notify Ameeba promptly if you believe access to your Ameeba environment has been compromised.

Your responsibilities

You may use the Services only in compliance with these Terms and applicable law. You are responsible for content you submit, people and devices you authorize, tools you connect, workloads you run, and actions you direct through the Services.

You may not:

• use the Services to violate law or the rights of others;
• harass, exploit, defraud, impersonate, or intentionally harm another person;
• distribute malware, destructive code, spam, or unauthorized automated traffic;
• attempt to bypass access controls, probe or disrupt systems without authorization, or interfere with the security or availability of the Services;
• use another person's account, alias, device, organization, or resources without authorization;
• use Ameeba Compute to execute workloads on hardware you are not authorized to use;
• reverse engineer or circumvent technical protections except to the extent such restriction is prohibited by law;
• use the Services in a way that creates unreasonable risk, load, or harm to Ameeba, its infrastructure, or other users.

We may investigate suspected violations and take proportionate action, including limiting features, removing content where technically and legally possible, suspending access, or terminating use of the Services.

Your content

You retain ownership of content you create or submit to the Services as between you and Ameeba. You give Ameeba a limited, non-exclusive license to host, transmit, process, reproduce, and otherwise handle your content only as reasonably necessary to provide, secure, maintain, and improve the Services, comply with your instructions, or meet legal obligations.

You represent that you have the rights necessary to submit content and authorize its processing. You are responsible for deciding what information to share with other participants, connected services, AI systems, or remote compute hosts.

Ameeba services

Ameeba Chat and collaboration

Ameeba Chat provides encrypted communication and collaboration features that may include messages, calls, files, Notes, Secret Notes, Tasks, Events, Pods, Spaces, and organizational workflows. Feature availability can vary by platform, version, organization, or deployment.

Vault

Vault provides encrypted storage and related synchronization or retrieval functionality. You are responsible for maintaining access to trusted devices and recovery material. Ameeba cannot guarantee recovery of information when the cryptographic material necessary to decrypt it is unavailable.

Ameeba Workspace

Ameeba Workspace is an encrypted workspace for AI, communication, knowledge, files, tools, connected applications, browsing, code, terminal workflows, and local computing. Actions you take on third-party websites or through connected applications remain subject to those services' terms and policies.

Nucleus and organizations

Nucleus and organizational features can provide verification, membership, roles, Spaces, and access controls. Organization administrators may manage membership and organization-controlled resources. You are responsible for following the policies of an organization whose workspace you use.

AI and Compute

Max AI

Max can generate text, summaries, analysis, code, recommendations, and actions based on prompts and available context. AI output is probabilistic and may be inaccurate, incomplete, outdated, misleading, or unsuitable for your situation. You must evaluate output before relying on it, especially for medical, legal, financial, security, safety-critical, or other high-impact decisions.

When you authorize Max to use tools, files, connected applications, commands, or workspace context, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of that authorization and for actions you approve or direct.

Local and remote inference

Ameeba Workspace may allow Max or compatible models to run locally on hardware you control. Other workflows may use hosted infrastructure, connected providers, or another eligible Ameeba Workspace. The execution environment matters: information required to perform a workload is processed by the environment performing that work.

Ameeba Compute

Share Compute is opt in. A Compute Pool can distribute independent jobs among eligible devices; a Compute Cluster can allow compatible nodes to cooperate on a larger workload. Separate GPUs do not automatically become one larger GPU, and performance, capacity, compatibility, availability, and results are not guaranteed.

If you contribute hardware, you authorize Ameeba to route eligible workloads to the resources you explicitly make available, subject to the workspace and controls you select. You are responsible for electricity, bandwidth, hardware wear, local security, permissions, and legal compliance associated with your contributed device.

If you send work to remote compute, you acknowledge that the remote host processes that workload. Encryption in transit does not make a remote execution environment confidential. Do not submit a remote workload unless you trust the relevant participants and devices for the information involved.

Third-party services

The Services may link to or interact with websites, models, APIs, app stores, operating systems, connected applications, infrastructure, or other services operated by third parties. Ameeba does not control those third parties and is not responsible for their content, availability, security, accuracy, terms, or privacy practices. Your use of third-party services is governed by your relationship with those providers.

Intellectual property

Except for your content and third-party materials, the Services, software, design, branding, documentation, and other materials provided by Ameeba are owned by Ameeba or its licensors and are protected by intellectual-property laws. Subject to these Terms, Ameeba grants you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the Services for their intended purpose.

“Ameeba,” associated marks, product names, logos, and trade dress are protected. These Terms do not grant you a right to use Ameeba branding in a way that suggests sponsorship, endorsement, or affiliation without permission.

If you provide feedback, you authorize Ameeba to use it without restriction or obligation to you, provided we do not publicly identify you as the source without permission.

Suspension and termination

You may stop using the Services at any time. We may suspend, limit, or terminate access where reasonably necessary to protect the Services or others, address violations of these Terms, comply with law, respond to security risk, or discontinue a feature or Service.

Termination may result in loss of access to information associated with the terminated environment. Because encrypted or distributed information can exist on participant devices, backups, or third-party systems, termination does not necessarily erase every copy held outside Ameeba's control. Provisions that by their nature should survive termination, including ownership, disclaimers, liability limitations, indemnification, and dispute provisions, will survive.

Disclaimers

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE.” AMEEBA DISCLAIMS WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTIES ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE.

We do not warrant that the Services will always be available, uninterrupted, secure, error-free, or free of harmful components; that encrypted data can always be recovered; that AI output will be accurate; that threat or security analysis will identify every issue; or that Compute will provide any particular performance, capacity, compatibility, or result.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain warranty exclusions, so some of the above may not apply to you.

Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, AMEEBA AND ITS AFFILIATES, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, LICENSORS, AND SERVICE PROVIDERS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, GOODWILL, BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY, OR COMPUTING RESOURCES, ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO THE SERVICES, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, AMEEBA'S AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICES OR THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID AMEEBA FOR THE APPLICABLE SERVICE DURING THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM OR (B) US $100.

These limitations do not apply where prohibited by law and do not limit liability that cannot legally be limited.

Indemnification

To the extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Ameeba and its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, and agents from claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising from your content, your misuse of the Services, your violation of these Terms or applicable law, or your infringement of another person's rights.

Disputes and governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to conflict-of-law principles, except where applicable law requires otherwise.

Before filing a formal claim, you and Ameeba agree to try in good faith to resolve the dispute informally for at least 30 days after written notice of the dispute. Unless applicable law requires a different forum or the parties separately agree to arbitration, disputes that cannot be resolved informally will be brought in the state or federal courts with jurisdiction over Orange County, California, and each party consents to personal jurisdiction and venue there.

Nothing in this section prevents either party from seeking emergency or injunctive relief where appropriate, or from bringing an eligible claim in small claims court.

Changes to services and terms

We continually develop Ameeba and may add, change, limit, suspend, or discontinue features. We may update these Terms to reflect changes to the Services, law, security, or our business. When changes are material, we will provide notice appropriate to the circumstances. The updated Terms will identify their effective date. If you do not agree to an updated version, you must stop using the affected Services.

General terms

These Terms and any applicable additional terms constitute the agreement between you and Ameeba concerning the Services they govern. If a provision is unenforceable, it will be enforced to the maximum extent permitted and the remaining provisions remain in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; Ameeba may assign them as part of a merger, reorganization, sale, or transfer of the relevant business or assets.

Headings are for convenience only. The word “including” means “including without limitation.” Electronic notices and records may satisfy legal writing requirements where permitted by law.

Contact

Questions about these Terms? Contact us through the Ameeba Support Center.

Do not send your Recovery Ameeba Code, private keys, passwords, or other sensitive recovery material to support.