Terms of Service

These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) are a legal agreement between you and Luis Flavio Carvalho Cipparrone Serviços Administrativos Ltda. (CNPJ 51.033.169/0001-89), doing business as “Shoulders of Giants” (“Shoulders of Giants,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). They govern your access to and use of the website at shouldersofgiants.app and any related products, voice services, applications, and APIs we provide (collectively, the “Service”). If you do not agree to these Terms, do not use the Service.

The Service uses large language models, text-to-speech systems, and curated corpora of writings, letters, notebooks, transcripts, and recordings to generate text- and voice-based conversational outputs in the style of historical figures (each a “Sage”). The outputs are synthetic: they are not actual statements by the historical figures depicted, their estates, descendants, or any living person. The Service is intended for entertainment, exploration, and educational engagement with public-domain or otherwise lawfully available source material.

You must be at least 18 years old, or the age of majority in your jurisdiction, to create an account and pay for the Service. Users between 13 and 18 may use the Service only with the consent and supervision of a parent or legal guardian. The Service is not directed to children under 13.

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials and for all activity that occurs under your account. Notify us immediately of any unauthorized use.

• Payments. Subscriptions and one-time purchases are processed by Paddle.com Market Ltd. (“Paddle”), which acts as the Merchant of Record for the Service. By providing payment information, you authorize us and Paddle to charge the applicable fees, taxes, and any usage overages to your chosen payment method. Paddle’s buyer terms, available at paddle.com/legal/checkout-buyer-terms, also apply to your purchase.
• Auto-renewal. Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each billing cycle at the then-current rate until you cancel. You may cancel at any time from your account; cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period.
• Price changes. We may change subscription prices on notice. Price changes take effect at the start of your next billing cycle following the notice period required by law.
• Refunds. Refund eligibility, including our 14-day satisfaction window, is described in our Refund Policy.
• Taxes. Prices are exclusive of applicable taxes, which we will add where required.
• Credits. Where the Service offers usage credits, credits have no cash value, are non-transferable, and expire as disclosed at the time of purchase.

You agree not to:

• Use the Service to harass, defame, impersonate, or harm any person, living or deceased, or any group.
• Attempt to obtain from the Service any output that impersonates a specific living person or that is designed to deceive a third party into believing the output came from a specific living person.
• Use the Service to generate sexual content involving minors, content that incites violence, content that promotes self-harm, or content that violates applicable law.
• Use the Service to generate medical, legal, financial, psychological, or other professional advice presented as authoritative.
• Reverse engineer, decompile, scrape, or attempt to extract source data, prompts, or model weights, except to the extent applicable law expressly permits.
• Use automated means to access the Service outside of any APIs we publish.
• Resell, sublicense, or commercially redistribute the Service or its outputs without our prior written permission.
• Use the Service to develop a competing product or to train another machine-learning model.
• Bypass any usage limits, security measures, content filters, or rate limits.

We may suspend or terminate your access for any violation of these acceptable-use rules, with or without prior notice, and without refund where consistent with applicable law.

You retain ownership of the text, audio, files, and other content you submit to the Service (“Inputs”). You grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, process, transmit, and display your Inputs solely as necessary to provide and improve the Service, to comply with law, and to enforce these Terms.

You represent and warrant that you have the right to submit your Inputs, that they do not infringe any third-party rights, and that they do not violate applicable law or these Terms.

Subject to your compliance with these Terms, we assign to you our rights, if any, in the text and audio responses generated by the Service in response to your Inputs (“Outputs”) for your personal, non-commercial use. To the extent Outputs incorporate underlying public-domain source material, the assignment does not extend to that underlying material.

You understand that other users may receive similar or identical Outputs from the Service for similar prompts; assignment is non-exclusive with respect to any such common content. Outputs are provided to you on an as-is basis with all the disclaimers set out in Section 11.

The Sages are fictional reconstructions. They are synthesized from public-domain writings, letters, notebooks, transcripts, and other source materials that we believe to be lawfully available, and rendered through large language models and synthetic voices. The outputs are:

• Not statements by the real historical figures they represent, their estates, descendants, or any third party.
• Not historically authoritative. They may misrepresent the views, attitudes, or biographical facts of the persons depicted, and they may include fabricated details.
• Not professional advice. They are not, and must not be relied on as, medical, mental-health, legal, financial, psychological, religious, or other professional advice.

If you are a rights-holder and believe a Sage’s corpus contains material to which you hold rights, contact us at luis@getlocus.tech and we will respond promptly.

When you place or receive a voice call through the Service, you consent to the recording, transcription, processing, and short-term storage of the audio for the purpose of generating Sage responses and supporting service quality. See our Privacy Policy for retention details. If other individuals are present where you place a call, you are responsible for obtaining their consent as required by the call-recording laws of your jurisdiction.

The Service, including its software, designs, trademarks, curated corpora, and brand assets, is owned by Shoulders of Giants or its licensors and is protected by intellectual property laws. Except for the limited rights expressly granted to you in these Terms, no rights are granted to you.

The Service and all Outputs are provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranty of any kind, express or implied. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy, and availability.

Without limiting the foregoing, we do not warrant that: (a) Outputs will be accurate, complete, current, reliable, or historically faithful; (b) the Service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free; (c) any defect will be corrected; or (d) Outputs are appropriate for any specific use case.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties; in such jurisdictions, the foregoing exclusions may not apply to you, and the warranties last only for the shortest period allowed by law.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, in no event will Shoulders of Giants, its affiliates, officers, employees, or agents be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or business opportunity, arising out of or related to the Service, whether based on warranty, contract, tort (including negligence), strict liability, or any other legal theory, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.

Our aggregate liability for all claims arising out of or related to the Service will not exceed the greater of (a) the total amount you paid to us for the Service in the twelve (12) months immediately preceding the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) one hundred U.S. dollars (US$100).

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain damages; in such jurisdictions, the foregoing limitations may not apply to you.

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Shoulders of Giants and its affiliates, officers, employees, and agents from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of or in any way connected with: (a) your use of the Service; (b) your Inputs; (c) your violation of these Terms; or (d) your violation of any rights of a third party.

You may stop using the Service at any time and may cancel your subscription as described in Section 4. We may suspend or terminate your access for any reason, including violation of these Terms, with or without notice. Upon termination, your right to use the Service ends; provisions that by their nature should survive termination (including Sections 6–13, 15–17) will survive.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Federative Republic of Brazil, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.

Any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service will be brought before the courts of the District of São Paulo, State of São Paulo, Brazil, except where Brazilian law — including the Consumer Defense Code (Código de Defesa do Consumidor, Law No. 8.078/1990) — entitles a consumer to bring the dispute before the courts of their own domicile, in which case that right prevails.

Informal resolution first. Before initiating formal proceedings, you agree to contact us at luis@getlocus.tech so we may attempt to resolve the matter informally within thirty (30) days of receipt of your written notice.

We may modify, suspend, or discontinue any part of the Service at any time. We may update these Terms from time to time. If we make material changes, we will notify you by email or by notice on the Service before the changes take effect. Your continued use of the Service after the effective date constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.

• Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any order forms or supplemental terms we present, are the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Service.
• Severability. If any provision is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect.
• No waiver. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of our right to do so later.
• Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our prior written consent. We may assign these Terms freely.
• Force majeure. We are not liable for delays or failures caused by circumstances beyond our reasonable control.
• Notices. Notices to us must be sent to luis@getlocus.tech. Notices to you may be sent to the email associated with your account.

LUIS FLAVIO CARVALHO CIPPARRONE SERVICOS ADMINISTRATIVOS LTDA
CNPJ 51.033.169/0001-89
Rua Vicente Oropallo, 70 — São Paulo/SP, 05351-025, Brasil
luis@getlocus.tech