These terms are the agreement between you and Alpha Intel Labs for the use of Collecta. Four things matter more than the rest, and they are the four people actually get caught by: everything Collecta writes is generated by AI and can be wrong (section 4); you must not rely on it for medical, legal or financial decisions (section 5); you are responsible for what you share into it, including other people's content and other people's voices (sections 7–9); and a public share link is public (section 10).

1. Accepting these terms

By creating an account, capturing anything, or otherwise using Collecta ("the Service"), you agree to these terms. If you do not agree with them, do not use the Service. If you are using it on behalf of an organisation, you confirm you have authority to bind that organisation.

2. What Collecta is

Collecta is a personal knowledge tool. You share content into it — links, articles, social posts, videos, PDFs, images, voice notes, recorded conversations, exported chat logs, or your own typed thoughts — and a large language model reads that content, writes a structured note about it, and files that note into one of the interest "buckets" you have defined. It also offers question-answering across your own library, periodic briefings, web-grounded research reports, and conversation with individual notes and buckets.

Collecta is a tool, not a service performed by people. Nobody at Alpha Intel Labs reads your library. That also means nobody at Alpha Intel Labs is checking the machine's work for you.

3. Accounts and eligibility

• You must be at least 13 years old. If the country you live in sets a higher minimum age for consenting to online services, you must meet that age instead.
• You are responsible for keeping your credentials secure and for everything done under your account.
• One account is for one person. Accounts may not be shared between people or resold.
• You must give a working email address. Password resets and account notices go there, and we cannot recover an account without it.
• We may suspend or terminate an account that breaches these terms.

4. AI-generated output

Every summary, breakdown, title, tag, bucket suggestion, transcript, translation, briefing, research report and chat reply in Collecta is generated by an AI model. It can be incomplete, wrong, out of date, or inconsistent with what the same model said yesterday about the same source.

We have built the product to fail honestly rather than confidently — it is designed to tell you when a page could not be read rather than invent a summary of it, to mark inaudible speech as inaudible, and to report a thin source as thin. That is a design goal we take seriously, and it is not a warranty. Do not treat any output as verified fact. Where accuracy matters, open the original source, which Collecta keeps alongside every note precisely so you can.

Transcription and speaker separation are likewise imperfect, particularly with overlapping speech, accents, background noise, and languages other than English. A transcript is a best effort, not a record of what was said.

5. No reliance

Nothing in Collecta is medical, psychological, legal, financial, pharmaceutical, nutritional or other professional advice, and no relationship of professional care is created by using it. This applies to the notes it writes, to research reports it generates, and to anything the chat or briefing surfaces says. In particular, do not use Collecta to decide whether to:

• take, stop, or change a medicine, supplement, or treatment;
• consult, or delay consulting, a doctor, midwife, or therapist;
• act or not act on anything concerning a pregnancy, a child, or a medical condition;
• make, hold, or dispose of an investment, or take on debt;
• sign, terminate, or rely on a contract; or
• take any other decision with material consequences for your health, your money, or your legal position.

Take those decisions with a qualified professional, using the original sources. If you are in crisis or at risk of harming yourself, contact your local emergency service or a crisis line — Collecta cannot help and must not be used for it.

6. Your content and who owns it

Everything you put into Collecta — the sources you share, the notes it writes from them, your annotations, your buckets, your preferences and your recordings — is yours. We claim no ownership of it.

You grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to store, copy, transmit and process that content for the sole purpose of operating the Service for you: fetching a URL you shared, sending content to our AI providers to be analysed, generating embeddings so search works, rendering it back to you, and delivering it to anyone you choose to share it with. That licence exists only so the product can function, it ends when you delete the content, and it permits nothing else.

Notes Collecta generates for you are yours to keep, edit, export, print and share privately. AI-generated text may not attract copyright protection in your jurisdiction, and comparable output may be generated for other users from the same source.

7. Third-party content you capture

Collecta is built to be pointed at other people's work — articles, videos, posts, papers. That is the point of it, and it does not transfer any rights in that work to you or to us.

• You may only capture content you are lawfully entitled to access. Do not use Collecta to get around a paywall, a login wall, a licence restriction, or a site's terms.
• Notes generated from someone else's content are for your own private reference. Do not republish them, sell them, or present them as your own summary of that work.
• Sharing a note publicly (section 10) means publishing a derivative description of someone else's work. That is your call to make and your responsibility. Attribute it, and take it down if the rights holder objects.
• We respond to valid copyright complaints and will remove or disable access to shared material where required. Write to alphaintellabs@gmail.com.

8. Recording conversations

Collecta can record audio of a live conversation from your device and turn it into a transcript and a written synthesis. Whether you are allowed to make that recording is entirely your responsibility.

• Recording laws differ by country and by state. Some places require only your own consent; many require the consent of everyone being recorded, and some make an undisclosed recording a criminal offence.
• You confirm that, for every recording you make, you have whatever consent or legal basis your jurisdiction and everyone else's jurisdiction requires.
• Your employer, your client, or the platform hosting a call may prohibit recording independently of the law. That is between you and them.
• We do not verify consent, do not prompt participants, and do not act as a compliance layer. Collecta is a recorder, not a lawyer.

9. Other people's information

Things you capture will frequently contain information about other people: the voices and names in a recording, faces in a photograph, a colleague's email in a screenshot, a friend's message in a shared thread. By putting them into Collecta you confirm you are entitled to do so, and you take responsibility for it. Do not capture material about someone who has asked you not to, and do not use Collecta to build a file on a private individual.

10. Sharing and contributions

• A public share link is public. Anyone holding the URL can read the note or bucket without an account, and search engines or messaging previews may reach it if the link escapes. Treat it as publishing, not as sending.
• You can revoke a link at any time, which stops future access. It cannot un-read anything already read, or delete a copy someone made.
• A bucket opened for contributions lets people you invite capture into it. What they contribute appears in your bucket and also stays in their own library — that is by design and cannot be reversed by you.
• You are responsible for what you publish and for what you invite in. We may disable a share link that breaches these terms or the law, without notice where the breach is serious.
• Do not use sharing to distribute someone else's paid or copyrighted material.

11. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• use the Service for anything unlawful, or to harass, threaten, defame or abuse anyone;
• capture or store child sexual abuse material, non-consensual intimate imagery, or content that incites violence;
• attempt to reach another user's account, library, buckets, files or share links;
• probe, scan, or attack the Service or its infrastructure, or use it to reach systems you do not own — including by submitting URLs crafted to make our servers request internal or private addresses;
• scrape or crawl the Service, automate it beyond ordinary personal use, or circumvent rate limits, usage allowances or plan gating;
• resell access to the Service, or run it as a backend for a product of your own;
• use the Service or its output to build, train, fine-tune or evaluate a competing model or service;
• reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble any part of it, except where that right cannot lawfully be excluded;
• submit content that infringes another person's rights or that you have no right to submit; or
• present AI-generated output to other people as professional advice, as verified fact, or as human-authored.

12. Plans, billing and refunds

Collecta has a free tier and paid tiers. Current prices and the full allowance table for every tier are published at collecta-ai.vercel.app/pricing and form part of these terms.

• Renewal. Paid plans renew automatically each period until you cancel. Cancelling stops the next renewal; you keep the paid plan until the end of the period you have already paid for.
• Where you bought it. Subscriptions bought on the web are processed by our payment provider. Subscriptions bought inside a future iOS or Android app are billed by Apple or Google under their own terms, and are cancelled through your store account rather than through us.
• Refunds. We refund a subscription within 14 days of the charge if you have not made substantial use of the period. Store purchases are refunded by the store under its own policy, and we cannot issue those on the store's behalf. Nothing here limits a statutory right of withdrawal you have where you live.
• Taxes. Prices may exclude VAT, GST or sales tax, which is added at checkout where applicable.
• Promotional codes and granted plans. Codes we issue have no cash value, may be limited in number or duration, and may be withdrawn if misused. A granted plan can be ended at any time.
• Price changes. We may change prices. A change never applies to a period you have already paid for, and we will give notice before it takes effect.
• Failed payment. If a renewal fails, the account reverts to free-tier allowances. Nothing you have collected is deleted.

13. Usage limits and fair use

Every plan carries published allowances — captures, sub-allowances for PDFs, images and voice notes, hours of recording, longest single recording, and per-period counts for questions, briefings, research reports, chat messages, re-analyses and dictation. They exist because each of those actions costs us real money in AI compute, and a plan without limits is a plan that gets abused until it is withdrawn.

• A capture that fails does not count against your allowance. You are not charged for our errors.
• When you reach an allowance, that action pauses until your next period. Nothing is deleted, nothing is downgraded, and everything already in your library stays readable, searchable and exportable.
• Free-tier allowances are one-time rather than monthly.
• Rate limits also apply, to protect the service against bursts and abuse.
• We may adjust allowances. We will not reduce a paid tier's allowances so far that the features you paid for stop being usable during a period you have already paid for.
• We may suspend an account whose usage is automated, resold, or clearly outside personal use, after contacting you where circumstances allow.

14. Retention, export and deletion

• Export is available on every plan, including free. You can download a complete archive of your notes, buckets, transcripts, reports and attachments at any time, in both Markdown and JSON.
• Deleted items go to Trash and are permanently removed after 30 days. Until then you can restore them.
• Recorded audio is deleted 30 days after capture. The transcript and the written note survive permanently; the note page tells you when the audio has expired. If you need to keep the audio, export it inside that window.
• You may ask us to delete your account and everything in it by writing to alphaintellabs@gmail.com from your account address. Deletion is irreversible — export first.

15. Availability and changes

We aim to keep the Service available but do not promise uninterrupted operation. Features may be added, altered or removed, AI models may be changed for reasons of cost or quality (which can change how output reads), and the Service may be suspended for maintenance. Some features may be offered as previews and withdrawn.

If we discontinue the Service entirely, we will give reasonable notice and a period in which to export your data.

16. Intellectual property

The Service, its software, its design, its prompts and pipelines, its name and its branding belong to Alpha Intel Labs. Nothing in these terms transfers any of it to you. Feedback you send us may be used without obligation or compensation.

17. Disclaimer of warranties

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, or non-infringement. We do not warrant that notes, transcripts, research or answers are accurate or complete, that a source will be readable, that filing will be correct, or that the Service will meet your requirements or be free of interruption or data loss.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, in which case the exclusions above apply to the extent permitted by law, and nothing here limits your non-excludable statutory rights as a consumer.

18. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost data, or lost opportunity, arising from your use of the Service — including any decision you took in reliance on generated output, any inaccurate transcript or summary, any misfiled or unretrieved content, any consequence of a recording you made, any consequence of a link you shared, and any service interruption or data loss.

Our total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to the Service is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose, or ten US dollars.

Nothing in these terms excludes liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded.

19. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify us against claims, losses and reasonable legal costs arising from your breach of these terms, your misuse of the Service, content you captured or published without the right to do so, or a recording you made without the consent your jurisdiction required.

20. Termination

You may stop using the Service at any time and may request deletion as set out in section 14. We may terminate or suspend access for breach of these terms, for unlawful use, for non-payment, or where required by law. Where we terminate for anything other than serious breach, we will give you a reasonable opportunity to export your data first. Sections 6, 7, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 21 survive termination.

21. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, United States, without regard to its conflict of law rules. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.

Before filing anything, write to us at alphaintellabs@gmail.com and describe the problem. We will respond within 30 days, and most things end there.

If that does not resolve it, you and we agree that the state and federal courts located in California have exclusive jurisdiction, and each of us consents to venue there.

If you are a consumer, none of the above removes the protection of the mandatory consumer laws of the country or state where you live, or your right to bring proceedings there where local law gives you that right. Either of us may always bring an individual claim in small claims court.

22. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. The date at the top of this page changes when we do. If a change materially reduces your rights, we will notify you by email or in the app before it takes effect, and continuing to use the Service afterwards means you accept the updated terms.

23. Contact