Terms of Use

1. Introduction and acceptance of Terms

These Terms of Use ("Terms") constitute a legally binding agreement between the operator of the Lyra platform ("Lyra", the "Company", "we", "us", or "our") and any individual or entity that accesses or uses the website at www.trylyra.ai (the "Site") or the Lyra application at app.trylyra.ai (together with the Site, the "Service"). If you use the Service on behalf of an organization, you represent that you have authority to bind that organization, and "you" refers to that organization.

BY ACCESSING OR USING THE SERVICE, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ, UNDERSTOOD, AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS, TOGETHER WITH OUR Privacy Policy, WHICH IS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS, YOU MUST NOT ACCESS OR USE THE SERVICE.

We reserve the right to modify these Terms at any time. When we do, we will post the revised Terms on this page and update the "Last updated" date above. Your continued use of the Service after a modification constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.

2. Definitions

• "Service" means the Site, the Lyra application, and all related features, software, and content provided by the Company.
• "User" means any individual or entity that accesses or uses the Service, whether on a free or paid Plan.
• "Plan" means a subscription tier of the Service, such as the Free, Starter, Growth, or Scale plans described on our pricing page.
• "User Content" means any data, text, code, repositories, files, style guides, instructions, or other materials that you submit to or connect with the Service.
• "Generated Post" means any blog post, draft, image prompt, pull request, or other output produced by the Service from your User Content and instructions.
• "Third-Party Services" means products and services not operated by the Company that interoperate with the Service, such as GitHub, Anthropic, Google, and Vercel.

3. Service overview and the role of Lyra

Lyra is an autonomous AI blog writer. The Service connects to your content repository, discovers search topics, researches and drafts posts in your existing voice, fact-checks claims, and opens ready-to-merge pull requests for your review. Access to the application is provisioned by the Company and may be granted, limited, or revoked at our discretion, subject to these Terms.

The Company acts as a software provider. Lyra does not publish anything on your behalf without your approval: a Generated Post is delivered as a draft pull request, and it becomes public only when you or your team review and merge it. You are the publisher of record for all content produced through the Service.

The Service relies on Third-Party Services, including large language model providers such as Anthropic and platforms such as GitHub. The Company does not control and is not responsible for the availability, performance, or output of Third-Party Services.

4. Accounts and access

• You must provide accurate, current, and complete registration information and keep it up to date.
• You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials and for all activity that occurs under your account.
• You must promptly notify us at info@trylyra.ai if you become aware of any unauthorized use of your account.
• You must be at least 18 years old and capable of forming a binding contract to use the Service.
• Access may be subject to reasonable limits described in your Plan, such as the number of posts, repositories, or seats included.

5. Plans, billing, and refunds

The Service is offered under the Plans described on our pricing page, including a free Plan with a limited number of posts and paid Plans billed monthly. Current Plan features and prices are published on the pricing page and may change with reasonable notice; changes do not affect a billing period already paid for.

• Paid Plans renew automatically at the end of each billing period unless cancelled before the renewal date.
• Fees are exclusive of taxes. You are responsible for all applicable sales, use, value-added, or similar taxes.
• Except as required by applicable law, fees are non-refundable and non-transferable, including for partial billing periods and unused post allowances.
• Some features require you to supply your own third-party API key (for example, an Anthropic API key). Usage consumed through your own key is billed by that provider under your agreement with them, and we do not control or refund those charges.
• If a payment fails, we may suspend paid features until the outstanding amount is settled.

6. Acceptable use

You agree not to use the Service to:

• Violate any applicable law, regulation, or third-party right, including intellectual property, privacy, and publicity rights.
• Generate, publish, or distribute content that is defamatory, deceptive, fraudulent, harassing, hateful, obscene, or that constitutes misinformation, spam, or undisclosed advertising.
• Infringe or misappropriate the intellectual property rights of any person, or submit User Content you do not have the right to use.
• Upload or transmit malware, viruses, or other harmful code, or attempt to probe, scan, breach, or disrupt the Service, its infrastructure, or any connected system.
• Attempt to reverse engineer, copy, resell, sublicense, or create derivative services from the Service, except as permitted by applicable law.
• Use the Service to develop or train a competing product or model.
• Circumvent access controls, rate limits, or Plan restrictions, or share account access with unauthorized persons.
• Use the Service in any manner that violates the acceptable use policies of the Third-Party Services the Service relies on.

We reserve the right to investigate violations and to remove content or suspend access where we reasonably believe these Terms have been breached.

7. User Content and Generated Posts

You retain all intellectual property rights in your User Content. The Company claims no ownership over your repositories, drafts, or Generated Posts. To the extent any rights in a Generated Post vest in the Company by operation of law, the Company assigns those rights to you upon creation, subject to your compliance with these Terms.

You grant the Company a limited, non-exclusive, worldwide license to host, process, transmit, and display your User Content solely as needed to operate and provide the Service. We do not use your User Content or Generated Posts to train our own models, and we do not permit third-party model providers to train on your data.

AI-generated output may contain errors, omissions, or statements that require verification. Although the Service fact-checks claims and generates citations, you are solely responsible for reviewing, editing, and approving every Generated Post before publication, and for the legality and accuracy of the content you publish.

8. Third-Party Services

The Service interoperates with Third-Party Services, including GitHub (repository access and pull requests), Anthropic (language model inference), Google (sign-in), and Vercel (hosting). Your use of those services is governed by their own terms and privacy policies, which you agree to comply with.

The Company is not responsible for Third-Party Services, including their availability, security, acts, or omissions, and is not liable for any loss or damage arising from your use of them. Where a feature depends on a Third-Party Service, the Company makes no independent warranty regarding that feature's uptime, output, or continued availability.

9. Intellectual property

The Service, including its software, design, text, graphics, logos, and the Lyra name and marks, is owned by or licensed to the Company and is protected by intellectual property laws. Except for the limited right to use the Service under these Terms, no rights are granted to you in the Service.

If you send us feedback, ideas, or suggestions about the Service, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free license to use them for any purpose, without obligation or compensation to you.

10. Confidentiality

Each party may receive non-public information from the other in connection with the Service ("Confidential Information"). The receiving party will use Confidential Information only to exercise its rights and perform its obligations under these Terms, and will protect it with at least reasonable care.

Confidential Information does not include information that:

• is or becomes publicly available through no fault of the receiving party;
• was known to the receiving party without a duty of confidentiality before disclosure;
• is independently developed without use of the disclosing party's information; or
• is required to be disclosed by law or legal process, provided the receiving party gives reasonable prior notice where lawful.

Your private repositories and their contents are treated as Confidential Information and are handled as described in our Privacy Policy.

11. Disclaimers

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE COMPANY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTIES ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE.

WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, THE COMPANY MAKES NO WARRANTY THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE; THAT GENERATED POSTS WILL BE ACCURATE, ORIGINAL, OR FREE OF ERRORS; OR THAT USE OF THE SERVICE WILL PRODUCE ANY PARTICULAR SEARCH RANKING, TRAFFIC, OR COMMERCIAL RESULT.

12. Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL THE COMPANY, ITS AFFILIATES, OR THEIR RESPECTIVE OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, OR AGENTS BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, GOODWILL, OR BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICE, HOWEVER CAUSED AND UNDER ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY.

THE COMPANY'S TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICE WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNTS YOU PAID TO THE COMPANY FOR THE SERVICE IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS PRECEDING THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR (B) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS (USD 100). SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF CERTAIN DAMAGES, SO SOME OF THE ABOVE MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

13. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the Company and its officers, directors, employees, and agents from and against any and all claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or related to:

1. your User Content or content you publish through the Service;
2. your use of the Service in violation of these Terms or applicable law;
3. your violation of any third-party right, including intellectual property and privacy rights; or
4. your breach of any representation or warranty in these Terms.

14. Termination and suspension

• By you. You may stop using the Service and cancel your Plan at any time through the application or by contacting us.
• By us. We may suspend or terminate your access immediately if you breach these Terms, if your use poses a security or legal risk, or if required by law. We may also discontinue the Service with reasonable notice.
• Effect. Upon termination, your right to use the Service ends. We will delete or de-identify your personal data in line with our Privacy Policy. Provisions that by their nature should survive, including ownership, disclaimers, limitation of liability, and indemnification, survive termination.

15. Force majeure

Neither party is liable for any delay or failure to perform caused by events beyond its reasonable control, including natural disasters, war, terrorism, civil unrest, labor disputes, government actions, epidemics, failures of telecommunications or cloud infrastructure, or outages of Third-Party Services. The affected party will use reasonable efforts to resume performance as soon as practicable.

16. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the jurisdiction in which the Company is established, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles. The parties will first attempt to resolve any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms through good-faith negotiation. If a dispute is not resolved within thirty (30) days, it will be finally resolved by binding arbitration or, where arbitration is not permitted, by the competent courts of that jurisdiction, and each party consents to their exclusive jurisdiction.

Nothing in this section prevents either party from seeking injunctive or other equitable relief in any court of competent jurisdiction to protect its intellectual property or Confidential Information.

17. General provisions

• Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between you and the Company regarding the Service and supersede all prior agreements on that subject.
• Severability. If any provision of these Terms is held invalid or unenforceable, it will be enforced to the maximum extent permissible and the remaining provisions will remain in full force.
• Waiver. A failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of that or any other provision.
• Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our prior written consent. We may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of assets.
• Notices. We may provide notices through the Service or by email to the address on your account. Notices to the Company must be sent to the contact address below.
• Relationship. The parties are independent contractors; nothing in these Terms creates a partnership, agency, joint venture, or employment relationship.
• Third-party rights. There are no third-party beneficiaries to these Terms.

18. Contact

If you have any questions about these Terms, contact us at info@trylyra.ai. You can also reach the team through our contact page.