Terms of use

Your account

One account, one person. You are responsible for keeping it — a password or a passkey — out of anyone else’s hands, and for what happens under it. Confirming your email address is required before you can do anything that matters.

Verifying who you are

Verification is a fact about a person, done once and reused. Attesting to an identity that is not yours is the line you must not cross: every claim you go on to make rests on that attestation, and a false one invalidates all of them.

Claiming a company

You may claim an officer role only if you actually hold it on the register. The first claim to a role locks it, and a rival claim to the same role is decided by a human reviewing both — never by an automatic override, and never by whoever shouts loudest. Claiming a company you have no standing in is grounds for losing the account.

Your content

Your files stay yours. The platform stores, indexes, and serves them so the product can work, and the assistant reads them to answer your questions — that is the whole point of it being grounded. Nothing about running the service makes your content the platform’s to use elsewhere.

Cayso

Cayso is the community’s internal currency, not money and not an investment. It has no exchange rate to anything, restricted holdings cannot be spent until their restriction expires, and earning it by pretending to contribute storage you do not provide is fraud against the other citizens rather than a clever trick.

Running a storage node

If you contribute disk space you are expected to keep it available and to return data when audited. Nodes that fail audits stop being paid. The network is other citizens’ files; treating it casually costs them, not you.

The software itself

Piper is licensed under the AGPL, and that licence governs the code no matter what this page eventually says about the hosted service. You can run your own copy. If you run a modified version as a service, you owe those modifications to the people using it.

What a real agreement still has to cover

• Who the contracting party is, and under which country’s law.
• Availability commitments, and what happens when they are missed.
• Limits of liability, and the warranties disclaimed.
• Suspension and termination, and what happens to your data after.
• How changes to the terms are notified.

Until it exists, treat this page as an intention and not a contract. See also Privacy, which is placeholder text in the same way, and Contact if you need to reach someone.