Last updated: 22 August 2026
These terms cover the Cognitive Atoms beta. They are deliberately short and plain, because terms nobody reads protect nobody.
By installing or using Cognitive Atoms you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, do not use it.
Cognitive Atoms is in beta and is provided “as is”. It may contain defects, change substantially, or be discontinued. Do not rely on it as the only copy of anything you cannot afford to lose. Keep your own backups.
You must be at least 13 years old, and old enough to form a binding contract where you live.
You retain all rights to the thinking you capture. We claim no ownership of it and no licence to use it. It is stored on your device; we do not receive a copy.
You are responsible for what you choose to capture, including making sure you are permitted to record anything involving other people.
AI features require you to connect your own provider account or key. Charges from that provider are yours. Their terms govern their handling of what you send them. We do not resell provider access and do not fall back to a key of ours.
Do not use Cognitive Atoms to break the law, to infringe anyone’s rights, or to attack the service or other users. Do not attempt to use the relay described in our Privacy Policy as general-purpose network infrastructure — it exists to connect an AI app to your own machine and nothing else.
We operate a relay so AI apps can reach the Cognitive Atoms instance on your machine. It forwards encrypted traffic it cannot read. We do not guarantee its availability, and we may change or discontinue it. If it is unavailable, the software on your machine continues to work — your cognition is on your device, not behind the relay.
Cognitive Atoms includes open-source software, each under its own licence. Those licences govern those components and nothing here limits your rights under them.
Apart from your own content and the open-source components, Cognitive Atoms and its underlying technology remain ours. These terms grant you a personal, non-exclusive, revocable licence to use the software during the beta.
You may stop using Cognitive Atoms at any time by uninstalling it. We may suspend or end beta access, with notice where practical. Your local data remains yours and stays on your machine.
To the fullest extent the law allows, Cognitive Atoms is provided without warranties of any kind, and we are not liable for indirect, incidental, or consequential damages, or for lost data or lost profits. Nothing here excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.
We may update these terms. If a change is material we will say so rather than quietly changing the date.
Cognitive Atoms, Inc.
legal@cognitiveatoms.com