Terms of Service

1. Who can use Boswell

You need to be able to enter into a contract where you live, and you can't be banned from using our kind of service under the law. If you're under 18, a parent or guardian needs to be involved.

2. Your account

To use most of Boswell, you'll need an account. Give us accurate information, keep your password to yourself, and update your details if they change. Whatever happens under your account is your responsibility, so don't share your login.

You can sign in with Google if you'd rather not manage another password. If you do, Google's terms apply to that part too.

3. What Boswell is

Boswell helps you collect and organize your life stories through guided interviews, topic prompts, and AI-assisted writing. We store your interview messages, biographical details, summaries, and any drafts we generate for you.

We're still building Boswell, so we may change, add, remove, or pause features as we go. We'll try not to break things you love, but we can't promise the product will always look the same.

4. Your stories belong to you

The stories, answers, and biographical material you put into Boswell ("your content") are yours. We don't claim ownership of any of it.

That said, we need your permission to actually run the product — to store your content on our servers, display it back to you, send relevant pieces to AI providers when you ask for a draft, and so on. So by using Boswell, you're giving us a license to do those things, but only for the purpose of running the Service for you. We're not licensing your life story to do whatever we want with.

You also need to promise that you have the right to share what you upload — meaning you're not dumping in copyrighted books or someone else's private writing you don't have permission to use.

5. About the AI

Boswell uses third-party AI models to generate questions, summaries, and drafts. AI gets things wrong. It invents details, misremembers dates, and sometimes produces stuff that's just off. Read what it writes before you trust it, publish it, or share it with family — especially when the story is about someone real.

6. Things not to do

Don't use Boswell to break the law, defraud people, or hurt anyone. Don't upload content you don't have rights to. Don't try to hack us, scrape the site, or interfere with how the product runs. Don't reverse engineer Boswell to build a competitor. Basically: be a good neighbor.

7. Feedback

If you send us ideas or suggestions, we're allowed to use them to improve Boswell without owing you anything. We love feedback and we want to be able to act on it freely.

8. Other services we rely on

Boswell runs on top of other companies' tools — hosting, email, sign-in, AI. If one of those services has a problem or its own terms that apply to you, that's between you and them; we can't take responsibility for how they operate.

9. Ending things

You can stop using Boswell whenever you want. We can suspend or close your account if you're breaking these terms, putting us or other users at risk, or if the law requires it. We'll try to be reasonable about it.

10. Our stuff

The Boswell software, design, name, and branding belong to us. You get to use the Service under these terms, but you don't get ownership of the product itself.

11. The "as is" part (this is the formal bit)

Boswell is provided as is and as available. To the fullest extent allowed by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement. We don't guarantee that the Service will be uninterrupted, secure, error-free, or that anything the AI produces will be accurate or suitable for your purposes.

In plain English: we're doing our best, but we can't promise Boswell will always work perfectly or that the AI won't sometimes write nonsense. Back up anything that matters to you.

12. Limits on what we owe you (also formal)

To the fullest extent allowed by law, Biographer and its people won't be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or business opportunities arising from your use of the Service. Our total liability for any claims related to Boswell or these Terms won't exceed $100.

In plain English: if something goes wrong, the most we'd owe you is $100. We know that's not a lot — it's a standard clause for products at our stage, and it's part of how we can offer the Service.

13. If you get us sued

If someone comes after us because of something you uploaded, something you did with Boswell you shouldn't have, or a violation of these terms, you agree to cover our costs — including reasonable legal fees.

14. Where disputes get handled

These Terms are governed by New York law. If there's a legal dispute between us, it has to be handled in the state or federal courts in New York, New York, and you agree to that.

15. Changes to these terms

We may update these Terms now and then. If we do, we'll update the date at the top, and for meaningful changes we'll give you a heads-up in the app or by email. Continuing to use Boswell after a change means you're good with the new version.

16. The legal odds and ends

• The whole deal. These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the complete agreement between you and us about Boswell.
• If one part fails. If a court decides one provision doesn't hold up, the rest still applies.
• Letting things slide. If we don't enforce something once, we haven't given up the right to enforce it later.
• Transfers. You can't hand your account or these Terms off to someone else without us agreeing. We can transfer them if we're acquired or merged.

17. Get in touch

Questions about these terms? We'd rather hear from you than have you guess.