Terms of use

These terms are between you and AMARA AI PTY LTD, an Australian proprietary company registered in New South Wales, ACN 696 682 827, ABN 73 696 682 827. Amara AI is a trading name of that company. They govern your use of the website at amaraai.cc and of anything this company publishes later under that name.

If you do not accept them, the remedy is to stop reading and close the page. There is nothing to sign, no account to create and no fee.

What this document is not

• It is not a contract to supply anything, because nothing is being supplied. That is dealt with in the next section.
• It is not a licence to any software, because no software has been published.
• It does not, and cannot, limit the consumer guarantees you have under Australian law. That is dealt with in its own section and it comes before everything else in this document.

Contact

Anything arising from these terms goes to [email protected]. There is no other channel, and any address or account claiming to represent this company elsewhere does not.

As at the effective date of this document, AMARA AI PTY LTD supplies nothing. There is no product, no application, no service, no download, no application programming interface, no beta, no early access programme and no waiting list. Nothing on this website can be purchased and no payment mechanism exists.

This section is first for a reason. A terms of use document that reads as though a service exists creates an impression that the company then benefits from, and a reader who has to reach clause 14 before discovering there is no product has been misled by the structure of the document rather than by any single sentence in it.

What the website is

A description of a design and a set of commitments, published by a company that intends to build the thing described. The pages about capture, transcription, note generation and deletion describe intent. They are not a specification of a delivered product, they are not an offer, and they are not a representation that any of it will be built or will work as described.

What you may rely on

• The registry facts. The legal name, ACN and ABN can be checked against Australian public registers, and they are correct.
• The negative statements. Where this site says there are no customers, no revenue, no funding, no certifications and no released product, those statements are accurate and are meant to be relied on.
• The privacy commitments, as commitments about how we intend to behave, published in advance so that a later departure from them is visible.

What you may not rely on

• Any implication that a product will be released, on any timetable, at any price, with any particular feature.
• Any implication that the design described will prove technically or commercially workable. It may not.
• Anything said about this company anywhere other than on this website or from the mailbox above.

There is an established and unrelated company trading as AmaraAI at amaraai.com. These terms do not apply to that company, do not bind it, and give you no rights against it.

• AMARA AI PTY LTD has no relationship with it. No shared ownership, no shared directors, no shared personnel, no partnership, no licence, no reseller arrangement, no joint venture and no common investor.
• Neither company is responsible for the other's products, statements, contracts, debts or conduct.
• A contract you have with that company is not a contract with us, and a complaint about that company sent to us cannot be acted on. We cannot forward it, look up your account or answer for their service.
• Nothing on this website is an endorsement of, comparison with, or claim of association with that company.

If you reached this site while looking for them, amaraai.com is where to go. If the similarity of the names has caused you an actual problem, write to [email protected] with "Name confusion" in the subject line and tell us what happened.

The Australian Consumer Law, which is Schedule 2 to the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth), gives consumers guarantees that cannot be excluded, restricted or modified by contract. Nothing in this document does so, and any part of it that appeared to would be void to that extent rather than effective.

The guarantees

Where the Australian Consumer Law applies, goods must be of acceptable quality, match their description, be fit for any disclosed purpose and match any sample. Services must be supplied with due care and skill, be fit for the purpose you told the supplier about, and be supplied within a reasonable time. If a failure is major you may cancel and obtain a refund or a replacement, and you may recover compensation for reasonably foreseeable loss caused by the failure. If it is not major you are entitled to have the problem fixed within a reasonable time.

How that interacts with this site

Nothing is currently supplied, so in practice no guarantee is presently engaged by anything we do. If a product is released later, these guarantees will apply to it to the extent the Australian Consumer Law says they do, and we will not attempt to contract out of them in the terms that accompany it.

Misleading conduct

Section 18 of the Australian Consumer Law prohibits conduct that is misleading or deceptive or likely to mislead or deceive, and section 29 prohibits false or misleading representations about goods or services. Those provisions are the reason this website carries no accuracy figures, no customer counts, no certifications and no claims about a product that does not exist. If you think something on this site is misleading, tell us and we will correct it rather than argue about it.

You may read this website, print it, quote it with attribution, link to it, and use anything you learn from it. No permission is needed for any of that.

What you may not do

• Attempt to gain unauthorised access to any system associated with this site, or interfere with its availability for other people.
• Use the site to distribute malware, or attempt to introduce anything of that kind through it.
• Copy the site wholesale and republish it as though it described your own company.
• Use our name, ACN or ABN in a way that suggests we endorse, supply or are associated with something we are not.
• Scrape the site in a way that degrades it for other readers. Reading it with a machine is otherwise fine, and the site is static so there is nothing to overload gently.

Availability

The site is static and cheap to serve, which is not the same as guaranteed. It may be unavailable for maintenance, because of a hosting failure, or because a domain or certificate lapses. We do not promise uptime and there is no service level attached to a page you are reading for free.

Links out

Where we link to another site, including the Australian Business Register, ASIC, the OAIC, Google Fonts or amaraai.com, we do not control it and we are not responsible for its content, its availability or its privacy practices. A link is a pointer rather than an endorsement.

If this company publishes software or a service, that release will carry its own terms covering the things this document cannot sensibly cover in advance, including price, payment, licence scope, support and termination. This section states the constraints those future terms will be written inside, so that they can be compared against what was promised beforehand.

• The consumer guarantees will not be excluded. Not by a limitation clause, not by a jurisdiction clause and not by calling the product a beta.
• Export will not sit behind a paywall. Getting your notes out in a format you can read without us will be available in every tier, including a free one if one exists.
• Retention will not be loosened silently. Any change to the deletion commitments in the privacy policy will be published as its own change with its own notice period.
• Training rights will not be bundled. Accepting terms of use will never constitute consent to train a model on your speech, transcripts or notes. That consent, if we ever seek it, will be separate, specific, optional and revocable.
• No covert recording feature. Any released product will make the fact of recording visible in the room and will not offer a mode that hides it.

These are commitments about the shape of a future contract rather than a contract themselves. They are published now because a promise made before there is anything to lose is worth more than one made afterwards, and because a reader can hold this page up against whatever we eventually ship.

This section applies only if and when a product is released. It is here now because it describes an obligation that would sit on you rather than on us, and it would be unreasonable to spring it on somebody at the point of installation.

Your obligations if you record other people

• You are responsible for the legality of the recording. Whether you may record a private conversation you are part of depends on the state or territory you are in, and in several of them every principal party must consent. The privacy policy lists the governing statute for each jurisdiction.
• You are responsible for telling the room. Not us. The product would be designed to make that easy and to make it obvious that recording is happening, which is not the same as doing it for you.
• You are responsible for your own employer's rules, for any confidentiality obligation you are under, and for any contractual restriction on recording a meeting.
• You must stop if somebody objects. Continuing to record a person who has said no is your act, and nothing about the tool makes it ours.

What we would do

• Refuse to build a covert mode, in any form, at any price.
• Destroy the audio once the note exists, so that a recording made without proper consent stops existing quickly rather than persisting on our systems.
• Create no voiceprint, so that nobody who spoke in a meeting becomes identifiable in a future one.
• Deal directly and on the merits with any person who contacts us about a recording they were part of, without requiring the permission of whoever made it.

To the extent the law allows, you indemnify us against a claim brought by a third party that arises from your recording of them in breach of the obligations in this section. That indemnity does not apply to anything caused by our own breach, negligence or wrongdoing, and it does not limit any right you have under the Australian Consumer Law.

The text, layout, stylesheet, images and source of this website are owned by AMARA AI PTY LTD or used with permission. The company name, the trading name Amara AI and the mark used on this site belong to the company.

Quoting from this site with attribution is fine and needs no permission, including quoting it critically. Reproducing it in bulk as your own material is not.

Trade marks

We make no claim to any right in the name "AmaraAI" as used by the unrelated company at amaraai.com, and nothing on this site should be read as asserting one. Our use of our own registered company name is not a representation about anybody else's rights.

If a product is released

Whatever you record, transcribe or produce with it would be yours. The company would claim no ownership of your audio, your transcripts or your notes, would take no licence over them beyond the technical permission needed to produce the thing you asked for, and would take no licence at all for training, publication or any other purpose.

Personal information is handled as described in the privacy policy, which forms part of these terms and is considerably longer than they are. Where the two documents differ on how personal information is handled, the privacy policy governs.

The commitments in that document about audio retention, training and voiceprints are intended to be binding statements about our conduct rather than marketing copy. If we breach them, saying so is the point of having written them down.

Cookies and anything else stored on your device are covered by the cookie notice. The short version is that this site stores nothing.

This section is subject to the consumer guarantees section above. Nothing here excludes, restricts or modifies a right you have under the Australian Consumer Law or any other law that cannot be contracted out of.

The website is information, not advice

Nothing on this site is legal, privacy, security, medical, financial or professional advice. The summary of Australian recording law in the privacy policy is a pointer to the governing statutes and is not a substitute for advice on your own situation. Acting on a web page rather than on advice is a decision you make.

Accuracy

We try to keep this site accurate and we correct it when we find an error. Legislation changes, commencement dates move, and a statement about the law that was right when it was written may not be right when you read it. Check the effective date at the top of the document you are relying on.

Limitation

To the extent permitted by law, and subject to the consumer guarantees, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, loss of profit, loss of data or loss of opportunity arising from your use of this website. Where liability cannot lawfully be excluded but can be limited, our liability for a failure to comply with a consumer guarantee in relation to services is limited, at our election, to supplying the services again or paying the cost of having them supplied again.

We are not trying to be clever here. Nothing is being supplied, no money changes hands, and the realistic exposure from a static website is small. The clause exists because its absence would be strange rather than because we expect to rely on it.

These terms are governed by the law of New South Wales and the Commonwealth of Australia. The courts of New South Wales have jurisdiction, and you may also use any court that the law entitles you to use regardless of what this clause says. If you are a consumer in another country, this clause does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory law where you live.

Complaints before litigation

Write to [email protected] and set out the problem. We will acknowledge within 5 business days and answer substantively within 30 days. Most things that would otherwise become a dispute are a misunderstanding that survives only because nobody wrote it down.

Other routes that do not go through us

• A privacy complaint may go to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC), GPO Box 5218, Sydney NSW 2001, telephone 1300 363 992, oaic.gov.au, and you do not need our agreement or our involvement to make one.
• A consumer complaint may go to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission or to the consumer affairs or fair trading body in your state or territory.
• We will not require you to sign a non-disclosure agreement as a condition of dealing with a complaint, and we will not treat making one as a breach of these terms.

Changes

We may change these terms. The effective date and version at the top of this page change when we do. A change does not apply retrospectively to something that happened before it took effect.

Severability

If a provision is unenforceable, it is severed to the minimum extent necessary and the rest continues. A provision that would exclude a consumer guarantee is read down rather than allowed to invalidate the surrounding clause.

No waiver

If we do not enforce something immediately, we have not given it up.

Assignment

You may not assign your rights under these terms. We may assign ours as part of a sale or restructure of the business, and if we do, the privacy policy commitments travel with the information as described in that document.

Entire agreement

These terms, the privacy policy and the cookie notice are the whole of what is agreed between us in relation to this website. Nothing said elsewhere, by anybody, forms part of it.

Interpretation

Headings are for convenience. "Including" means including without limitation. A reference to a statute includes that statute as amended and any statute that replaces it.