Terms of Service

Deep Discourse — deepdiscourse.com and the Deep Discourse mobile app

Welcome to Deep Discourse. These Terms of Service (“Terms”) are an agreement between you and Deft Dynamics, LLC governing your use of the Deep Discourse app and website (together, the “Service”). By using the Service you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the Service.

1. What Deep Discourse is — and isn’t

Deep Discourse lets you converse with AI characters built from the public-domain writings of historical thinkers, and to build characters of your own from texts you provide.

These characters are AI reconstructions, not the actual people. Their responses are generated by artificial intelligence drawing on historical texts. They are offered for reflection, education, and enjoyment. They are not the views of the historical figures themselves, and they are not professional advice of any kind — medical, legal, financial, psychological, religious, or otherwise. AI-generated responses can be incomplete, mistaken, or misattributed, even when a citation is shown. Please verify anything that matters against the original sources, which the app links wherever it can.

2. Your account

You may use parts of the Service without an account. Signing in (e.g. with Apple or Google) lets you sync conversations across devices, build custom characters, and subscribe. You are responsible for activity under your account. You must be at least 13 years old (or the minimum age of digital consent where you live) to use the Service.

3. Subscriptions and billing

Some features require a paid subscription (“Premium”). Subscriptions are purchased through, and billed by, the Apple App Store or Google Play, and renew automatically until cancelled. Where offered, a free trial converts to a paid subscription unless cancelled before the trial ends. You can manage or cancel your subscription anytime in your App Store or Google Play account settings; cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. Refunds are handled by Apple or Google under their policies. Prices and included features may change; changes apply from your next renewal.

4. Texts you upload

When you build a custom character, you upload documents that the Service processes (extracts, indexes, and summarizes) to power that character.

You promise that you have the right to upload each document — because it is in the public domain, you hold the rights, or you otherwise have permission.
You keep ownership of your documents. You grant us a limited license to store and process them solely to provide the Service to you (indexing, retrieval, and generating your character’s responses).
We may remove content that we reasonably believe infringes the rights of others or violates these Terms.

5. Acceptable use

You agree not to: use the Service to generate or spread unlawful, harassing, or deceptive content; attempt to break, overload, probe, or reverse-engineer the Service; misrepresent AI-generated output as the authentic statements of a real person; resell or scrape the Service; or upload content you have no right to use. We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these Terms.

6. AI-generated content

Responses are generated per conversation and may differ each time. To the extent we hold any rights in responses generated for you, we license them to you for your personal, non-commercial use. You are responsible for how you use them. Quotations shown as citations come from public-domain source texts.

7. Privacy

Our Privacy Policy describes what we collect and how we use it. It is part of these Terms.

8. Termination

You may stop using the Service and delete your custom characters in the app at any time. To delete your account and associated data, see the Privacy Policy. We may suspend or end the Service (or your access to it) for violation of these Terms, legal requirements, or discontinuation of the Service; if we discontinue paid features you have paid for, Apple’s or Google’s refund policies apply.

9. Disclaimers

The Service is provided “as is” and “as available.” To the fullest extent allowed by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that AI responses will be accurate or reliable.

10. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent allowed by law, we will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits or data, arising from your use of the Service. Our total liability for any claim relating to the Service will not exceed the greater of (a) the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, or (b) US $50. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

11. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. If a change is material we will give reasonable notice (for example, in the app or on this page). Continuing to use the Service after a change takes effect means you accept the updated Terms.

12. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the state of Alabama, without regard to conflict-of-law rules.

13. Contact

Questions about these Terms: [email protected]