1. Your agreement with AskRabbi
These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of askarabbi.ai, the installed AskRabbi web app, and the related account, AI conversation, source-reading, teaching, audio, and calendar services (together, the "Service"). In these Terms, "AskRabbi," "we," "us," and "our" refer to the provider of the Service. Contact us about these Terms or send legal notices to support@askarabbi.ai.
When you create an account or choose to sign in after being presented with these Terms, you agree to them. If you do not agree, do not create an account or use account features. If you act for an organization, you confirm that you have authority to bind it. The Privacy Policy explains our handling of personal information; accepting these Terms is not blanket consent to optional marketing or sensitive-data processing.
These Terms do not limit rights that applicable law does not allow you to waive. A feature may require additional terms, which must be presented before you use that feature. Specific additional terms control only to the extent of a conflict concerning that feature.
2. Eligibility and account responsibilities
You must be at least 13 and meet any higher minimum age required where you live. If you have not reached the legal age of majority, a parent or legal guardian must permit and supervise your use and agree to these Terms on your behalf where required. The Service is not directed to children below the applicable minimum age.
Provide accurate account information, use a sign-in identity you are authorized to use, and keep access credentials and devices secure. Do not sell, transfer, share, or impersonate another person's account. You are responsible for activity you authorize through your account and for notifying us of suspected unauthorized access. You are not responsible under these Terms for activity to the extent that applicable law places responsibility elsewhere.
WorkOS/AuthKit and offered identity providers support sign-in. Their independent services may have separate terms. We may require renewed authentication, suspend a compromised session, or require reasonable verification to protect an account.
3. Educational purpose and limits of AI
AskRabbi is an AI study companion. It is not a human rabbi, a rabbinical court, or a source of binding religious rulings (psak). An answer, citation, source excerpt, translation, weekly teaching, or audio recording can contain errors or omit relevant context and disagreement. A citation is not a guarantee that an interpretation is correct or appropriate to your circumstances.
Use the Service to support study and discussion. Check original sources and seek a qualified rabbi familiar with your circumstances before acting on a practical religious question. Do not rely on an output to determine conversion, personal status, marriage or divorce, kosher certification, or any other matter requiring an authorized human determination.
The Service does not provide professional medical, mental-health, legal, financial, or emergency advice and does not create a professional-client, clergy-counseling, fiduciary, or privileged relationship. Do not delay appropriate professional help because of an answer. For an emergency or immediate danger, contact local emergency services.
We do not guarantee that every output is reviewed by a person. Our safety checks, source validation, and usage controls reduce some risks but cannot eliminate mistakes. You are responsible for assessing whether an output is suitable for your intended use.
4. Calendar, location, narration, and offline limits
Holiday dates, weekly readings, sunset, candle-lighting, and related times depend on the selected location, time zone, date, Israel or diaspora schedule, calculation settings, available provider data, and local custom. A city or ZIP code may not match your precise circumstances. Confirm practical observance times with a reliable local authority.
Generated narration may mispronounce names, Hebrew, or transliterations; synchronized text may not align perfectly. Consult the written source when meaning matters. Offline teachings and calendars are saved snapshots and may omit later corrections or current local times. Reconnect to refresh information. Offline availability, background downloads, and storage depend on your device and browser and are not guaranteed.
5. Acceptable use
Use the Service lawfully and with respect for others. You must not:
- Use it to facilitate violence, exploitation, fraud, harassment, threats, unlawful discrimination, or other illegal conduct.
- Submit content you have no right to use, disclose another person's private information without authority, or infringe intellectual-property, confidentiality, or privacy rights.
- Attempt unauthorized access, disrupt the Service, introduce malware, evade security protections, or extract private information, credentials, or protected system material.
- Bypass usage limits, create accounts to evade restrictions, resell access without permission, or automate requests in a way that harms availability or violates a communicated access restriction.
- Falsely represent an AI response as a binding ruling or a statement endorsed by a particular rabbi, community, source publisher, or AskRabbi.
- Remove required attribution or licensing notices when reusing third-party material.
Nothing here prohibits activity protected by non-waivable law, lawful accessibility tools, or good-faith security reporting that does not access another person's information or disrupt the Service. Contact us about a suspected vulnerability without publishing personal data or secrets.
6. Your content and our limited permission to use it
You retain rights you have in your questions, profile text, and other material you submit ("Your Content"). You confirm that you have the rights and authority necessary to submit it and permit the processing described here. Do not include confidential material that should not be processed by the Service or its providers.
You grant AskRabbi a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty-free permission to host, store, copy, process, transmit, and display Your Content only as reasonably necessary to provide the requested Service, personalize and generate responses, maintain and troubleshoot it, protect it from abuse, comply with law, and carry out your instructions. This permission extends to service providers acting for these purposes and is subject to the Privacy Policy. It does not authorize selling Your Content or using your conversations to train a general-purpose AI model.
The permission ends when the relevant content is deleted, except as needed for deletion processing, lawful retention, backup expiry, security investigations, or legal obligations described in the Privacy Policy. Submitting a question does not by itself grant permission to publish it as a public testimonial or public conversation.
7. AI outputs and source rights
Subject to these Terms, you may use generated responses for lawful purposes. To the extent AskRabbi holds transferable rights in an output created for you, we assign those rights to you. This does not grant rights in underlying third-party sources, the Service, or another user's information. AI-generated material may not qualify for copyright, may resemble outputs provided to others, and is not promised to be unique or free of third-party claims.
Quoted texts, editions, translations, recordings, source metadata, and linked resources may have separate licenses or usage restrictions. Follow the attribution and license information supplied with the material or on its original source. A public-domain underlying religious text does not make every modern translation or edition public domain. Our access to a source does not authorize you to redistribute an entire edition.
Check outputs before publishing, presenting, or relying on them. Preserve applicable source credits and do not mislead others about AI generation or human endorsement.
8. Rights in the Service
AskRabbi and its licensors retain their rights in the Service's software, design, branding, and other materials, excluding Your Content and rights expressly granted to you. We give you a limited, nonexclusive, revocable permission to access and use the Service for its intended purposes in accordance with these Terms. No trademark permission or ownership in the Service is transferred.
Open-source components and third-party materials remain governed by their applicable licenses. These Terms do not take away permissions those licenses grant independently.
9. Availability, usage limits, and future paid features
Features, available sources, model behavior, supported locations, and usage allowances may change. We may limit requests or temporarily interrupt access for maintenance, capacity, abuse prevention, provider outages, or legal reasons. We do not promise uninterrupted access, any particular answer, or permanent availability of stored content. Keep your own lawful copies of material you need.
Any price, subscription, renewal, or paid-feature conditions must be disclosed separately before you purchase. Creating an account or accepting these Terms does not authorize a charge, automatic subscription, or paid renewal. If we offer paid features, applicable purchase terms and non-waivable consumer cancellation and refund rights will apply. A displayed usage allowance is not a promise that unused capacity carries over.
10. Privacy, security review, and communications
The Privacy Policy explains the information processed by AskRabbi, our AI and authentication providers, and other recipients, including sensitive profile context, security review, retention, and your choices. Conversations are not end-to-end encrypted or privileged clergy communications. Do not assume that deleting a saved chat immediately removes every provider, backup, or legally retained record.
We may send essential account, security, privacy, and service notices using your registered email or the application. Product-update emails follow your separate settings and applicable consent requirements. You may contact us using the details below; this address is not an emergency service.
11. Suspension, termination, and deletion
You may stop using the Service at any time. Use Settings & Personalization → Your data to delete all chats or request account deletion. Deletion is generally irreversible. Deleting chats does not delete your account or reset usage. Account deletion also removes the AskRabbi sign-in identity, but does not delete your separate Google or other provider account.
We may restrict or terminate access when reasonably necessary because of a material violation of these Terms, unlawful activity, an account-security issue, harm to users or providers, a legal requirement, or discontinuation of the Service. When reasonable and lawful, we will provide notice and an opportunity to address the issue; immediate action may be necessary for safety or security. Contact us if you believe a restriction is mistaken.
If account cleanup is temporarily unavailable, the account may remain disabled while cleanup is retried. Retention exceptions and local-device copies are described in the Privacy Policy. Terms that by their nature need to survive termination, including accrued rights, source-license obligations, lawful retention permissions, disclaimers, and dispute provisions, continue to apply.
12. Warranties and disclaimers
To the extent permitted by applicable law, the Service is provided "as is" and "as available." We disclaim implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and noninfringement, and do not warrant accuracy, completeness, reliability, uninterrupted availability, or a particular outcome. Third-party services and source content have their own limitations.
These disclaimers do not exclude an express promise we separately make to you in writing, statutory guarantees that cannot be excluded, or responsibility that applicable law does not permit us to disclaim. If your jurisdiction limits a disclaimer, it applies only to the lawful extent.
13. Limits of liability
To the extent permitted by law, AskRabbi and its service providers are not liable under these Terms for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive losses, or lost profits, arising from use of or inability to use the Service, even if the possibility was foreseeable.
To the extent permitted by law, our total aggregate liability arising from the Service or these Terms is limited to the greater of US $100 or the amount you paid AskRabbi for the Service in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim.
These limits do not apply to fraud, willful misconduct, gross negligence, death or personal injury caused by negligence, or any liability or consumer remedy that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited. They do not remove statutory data-protection rights or remedies where doing so is prohibited. If a limit is not enforceable in your situation, the applicable law controls.
14. Resolving concerns and disputes
Please contact us with a description of your concern and the outcome you seek so we can try to resolve it. Informal contact is encouraged but is not a mandatory waiting period and does not prevent urgent relief, a regulator complaint, or a claim within a legal deadline.
Applicable law determines governing law and the courts with jurisdiction, including any mandatory protections and local-forum rights available to consumers. These Terms do not impose mandatory arbitration, a class-action waiver, or a waiver of access to regulators or courts.
15. Copyright and other rights complaints
If you believe material in the Service infringes your copyright or another right, email the contact below. Identify the work or right concerned, the specific material and where it appears, your contact details, your authority to act, and the basis of the complaint. Do not include unnecessary sensitive information. We may request further information and restrict material while investigating.
This general complaints process does not replace any statutory notice procedure or designate a registered copyright agent. You retain any notice, counter-notice, or other rights available under applicable law.
16. Changes to the Terms
We may revise these Terms to reflect changes in the Service, law, or operating needs. We will update the effective date and version and provide appropriate notice of material changes, including renewed agreement where required. Changes do not retroactively remove accrued rights or resolve an existing dispute in our favor. If you do not agree to new Terms, you may stop using the Service and delete your account.
17. General provisions
If a provision is invalid or unenforceable, it will be limited to the extent necessary and the remaining provisions will continue, unless that would defeat their essential purpose. Our delay in enforcing a term is not a waiver. Neither party may transfer obligations in a way that reduces the other's mandatory rights; we may transfer the Service and these Terms to a successor subject to applicable law and the Privacy Policy.
These Terms, applicable feature or purchase terms, and any separate agreement we expressly make with you govern the Service. They do not override non-waivable law or third-party licenses. No agency, partnership, employment, or fiduciary relationship is created merely by use of the Service.
18. Contact and legal notices
Service: AskRabbi at askarabbi.ai
Email: support@askarabbi.ai
For Terms questions, account appeals, or legal notices, use the subject "AskRabbi legal notice" and provide enough detail for us to respond. For personal-information requests, follow the process in the Privacy Policy.