Terms of Service

Effective date: 2026-05-18 Last updated: 2026-05-18

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your access to and use of Alpha Rhythm Reader at reader.alpharhythm.org (the "Service"). By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

1. The Service

Alpha Rhythm Reader is a private, invite-based application for triaging and curating neurotechnology-related items collected by the Alpha Rhythm pipeline from public sources (arXiv, the U.S. National Library of Medicine's PubMed, ClinicalTrials.gov, the openFDA Device 510(k) endpoint, and SEC EDGAR). The Service surfaces metadata and short summaries and links to the source; it is a metadata, curation, and analysis layer — not a host or republisher. See our Data Sourcing & Compliance Policy for the operating rules.

2. Your account

• Accounts are issued at our discretion. The Service is currently invite-only.
• Keep your information accurate and your credentials secure. You are responsible for activity under your account.
• One account per person. Do not share credentials.
• You must be at least 13 (16 in the EEA / UK).

3. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• Use the Service to violate any law or any third party's rights.
• Access accounts, data, or systems you are not authorized to access.
• Scrape, crawl, or systematically extract content from the Service. The Service surfaces our curation work; bulk extraction defeats its purpose.
• Automate access without prior written permission (programmatic keys, headless browsers, etc.).
• Interfere with the Service's availability, security, or integrity (rate-limit evasion, denial-of-service, vulnerability probing outside a coordinated disclosure).
• Use the Service to develop or train a competing product.

We may suspend or terminate access if you violate this section.

4. Intellectual property

• Our work. The user interface, curation logic, tier taxonomy, editorial commentary, and the selection and arrangement of source items are ours, protected by copyright and other IP laws.
• Your contributions. Notes and library annotations you create remain yours. You grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, display, and process them solely to operate and improve the Service. The license ends for new uses on account deletion, subject to the Privacy Policy's retention period.
• Source content. Item metadata and abstracts originate with the upstream source listed for each row and are governed by that source's terms; we link to canonical URLs for full text. We do not claim ownership of source content and do not warrant its accuracy.

5. Third-party content disclaimer

The Service is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by arXiv, the U.S. National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, or any other source whose data appears in the Service. All trademarks belong to their respective owners. If you intend to rely on any source item for a decision, click through to the canonical link and read it on the source's own site.

6. Disclaimer of warranties and limitation of liability

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranty of any kind, express, implied, or statutory, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, completeness, or non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or free of harmful components, or that surfaced content is accurate or current. Nothing in the Service is medical, legal, financial, or investment advice.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for loss of profits, revenue, goodwill, data, or opportunity. Our total cumulative liability arising out of or related to these Terms or the Service is limited to US$100 or amounts you have paid us in the prior twelve months, whichever is greater. Where law does not permit some of these limits, our liability is limited to the maximum the law allows.

7. Assignment

You may not assign or transfer these Terms or any rights or obligations under them, in whole or in part, without our prior written consent; any attempt to do so is void.

We may assign these Terms, in whole or in part, and our rights and obligations under them, to any successor entity in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization, sale of all or substantially all of our assets, or change of control, without notice to you or your consent. Your account and all data associated with it (subject to the Privacy Policy) may be transferred as part of any such transaction. By continuing to use the Service after such an assignment, you accept the successor entity as the counterparty to these Terms.

8. Termination

• By you. You may delete your account at any time, which terminates your rights under these Terms. The Privacy Policy governs data handling after deletion.
• By us. We may suspend or terminate your access, with or without notice, for violation of these Terms, to mitigate legal or operational risk, or if we discontinue the Service. We will give reasonable notice where feasible and lawful.
• Survival. Sections 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, and 10 survive any termination.

9. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Exclusive jurisdiction and venue for any dispute that cannot be informally resolved is the state or federal courts located in Delaware, and you and we each consent to personal jurisdiction there. If you are an EU / UK consumer, this clause does not deprive you of the protection of mandatory provisions of the law of your country of residence.

10. Miscellaneous

• Changes. We may update these Terms; if a change is material we will email you at least 14 days before it takes effect and update the "Last updated" date. Continued use after the effective date constitutes acceptance.
• Entire agreement. These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement regarding the Service and supersede any prior agreement on the same subject.
• Severability. If any provision is unenforceable, the remainder remains in effect and the provision is reformed to the minimum extent necessary.
• No waiver. Failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of the right to do so later.
• No third-party beneficiaries. These Terms create no rights in any person who is not a party to them.

11. Contact

• Email: austin@alpharhythm.org
• Operator: Alpha Rhythm (sole proprietorship, operated by Austin Jones, an individual)