NOUS — Terms of Use

Effective Date: June 16, 2026
Developer: Daniel Carrera (Apple Team ID B9ZZ7FBM78)
Contact: [email protected]

These Terms of Use ("Terms") are a legal agreement between you and Daniel Carrera ("we," "us," "the developer"), the developer of NOUS ("the app," "NOUS"). Please read them together with our Privacy Policy.

1. Acceptance

By downloading, installing, or using NOUS, you agree to these Terms and to the Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not install or use the app.

2. Your license

Subject to these Terms and your active trial or subscription, we grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to download and use NOUS on Mac computers you own or control, for your personal or internal business use. This is a license, not a sale; we and our licensors retain all rights not expressly granted to you.

3. Subscription, free trial, and billing

NOUS is offered as an auto-renewable subscription: $8.99 per month or $69.99 per year, with a 14-day free trial.

• Billing is handled by our payment provider, Lemon Squeezy, acting as Merchant of Record. Lemon Squeezy processes your payment (card or PayPal); we never see your card number or billing details.
• After you subscribe, a license key is emailed to you and activates the app on your Mac.
• Your subscription auto-renews until canceled. You can view, manage, or cancel it from the customer portal linked in your Lemon Squeezy receipt email. Canceling stops future renewals; it does not retroactively refund the current period except as required by law or our refund practices.
• If your trial or subscription lapses, NOUS stops generating new responses, but your local data — your conversations, documents, and memories — remains on your Mac and accessible to you, and resumes when you reactivate.
• Prices may change; we will give reasonable notice of any change before it applies to your next renewal.

4. Acceptable use and your responsibilities

NOUS can, with your permission, see your screen and operate other apps on your Mac. You decide what to allow, and you are responsible for the actions you approve. You agree to:

• Use NOUS only for lawful purposes and in compliance with applicable laws and the terms of any other software or service you direct it to operate.
• Not use NOUS to create, distribute, or facilitate anything illegal, harmful, infringing, or that violates others' rights or privacy.
• Not resell, sublicense, rent, or redistribute the app, your license key, or the bundled models and runtime.
• Not attempt to circumvent the license check, and not reverse-engineer, decompile, or disassemble the app except to the limited extent that applicable law expressly permits despite this restriction.

5. AI output — no guarantees

NOUS generates text, summaries, transcriptions, and other content using on-device AI models. This output can be inaccurate, incomplete, or unsuitable for a given purpose. It is not professional advice — legal, medical, financial, or otherwise. You are responsible for reviewing and verifying anything important before relying on it, and for any action you take or authorize based on it.

6. Privacy

NOUS is local-first: your conversations, documents, and memories stay on your Mac. How NOUS handles information is described in our Privacy Policy, which forms part of these Terms.

7. Third-party components

NOUS downloads and runs open AI models and a Python runtime that are provided under their own open-source licenses (for example, Apache 2.0). Those components remain subject to their respective licenses, which govern your use of those components. Nothing in these Terms grants you rights in third-party components beyond what their licenses allow.

8. Intellectual property

The NOUS application, its design, and the NOUS name and marks are owned by the developer and protected by intellectual-property laws. Your content is yours: the text you write, the documents you open, and the memories NOUS keeps belong to you, stay on your Mac, and we claim no ownership of them.

9. Disclaimer of warranties

NOUS is provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement, to the fullest extent permitted by law. We do not warrant that the app will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that its output will be accurate.

10. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the developer will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, profits, or goodwill, arising out of or relating to your use of NOUS. To the extent liability cannot be excluded, our total liability is limited to the amount you paid for NOUS in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim.

11. Termination

You may stop using NOUS at any time by canceling your subscription and deleting the app and its data (see the Privacy Policy, Section 9). We may suspend or terminate your license if you materially breach these Terms. On termination, the license granted to you ends; sections that by their nature should survive (including Sections 5, 8, 9, 10, and 13) survive.

12. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time — for example, if we add a feature or change how billing works. When we make a material change, we will update the Effective Date above and post the revised Terms at this page. Your continued use of NOUS after an update takes effect constitutes acceptance of the changes.

13. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Illinois, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles. They should be read together with NOUS's Privacy Policy.

14. Contact

• Email: [email protected]
• Developer: Daniel Carrera (Apple Team ID B9ZZ7FBM78)

NOUS is a local-first application. Your conversations, documents, and memories stay on your Mac. We designed it that way on purpose.