Terms of Service

These terms govern your use of hearthli.com, the Hearthli waitlist, and — once you have access — the Hearthli application and service (“Hearthli”, “the service”), operated from Melbourne, Australia. By using the service you agree to these terms. Questions: [email protected].

The service

Hearthli is a virtual office for teams: a macOS application and companion web access for real-time voice, video, screen sharing, and collaboration. Hearthli is currently in private beta. Joining the waitlist registers your interest; it does not create an account or guarantee access, timing, or any particular feature.

Beta status

While in beta, the service is provided as a work in progress. Features may change or be removed, availability is not guaranteed, and we may suspend or reset beta accounts and their data where reasonably necessary. We’ll communicate disruptive changes when we can.

Your account

You must provide accurate information and keep control of the email address or Google account you sign in with — it is your key to the service. You’re responsible for activity under your account. You must be at least 16 years old to use Hearthli.

Acceptable use

Don’t misuse the service. In particular, don’t:

• break the law, infringe others’ rights, or use Hearthli to harass or harm anyone;
• attempt to access other workspaces, accounts, or data you aren’t authorized to access;
• probe, overload, disrupt, or circumvent security or rate limits;
• resell or white-label the service without our written agreement;
• upload content you don’t have the right to share.

We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these rules.

Your content

Workspace content — messages, links, notes, memos, whiteboards, anything your team creates — belongs to you and your team. You grant us only the license needed to store, transmit, and display it in order to operate the service. We don’t claim ownership and we don’t use your content for advertising or to train AI models.

Our property

The Hearthli software, brand, and site are ours and protected by intellectual-property law. We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the app to access the service while these terms are in effect.

Pricing

During the private beta the service is free for participants. Published pricing (including the Free tier and Hearthli Team) is indicative until public launch and may change before then. When paid plans become available, billing terms will be presented at checkout and handled by Stripe.

Privacy

Our Privacy Policy describes what we collect and how we handle it, including our end-to-end encryption of calls and our positive-only approach to presence. It forms part of these terms.

Disclaimers

The service is provided “as is” and “as available”. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. Nothing in these terms excludes rights you have under the Australian Consumer Law or other law that cannot be excluded.

Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Hearthli will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue, or data, arising from your use of the service. Our total liability for any claim is limited to the greater of AUD $100 or the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim arose. Where liability cannot be excluded but can be limited, it is limited to re-supplying the service.

Termination

You can stop using Hearthli and request account deletion at any time. We may suspend or terminate access for breach of these terms, for legal reasons, or — during beta — as part of operating the beta program, with notice where practicable.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of Victoria, Australia, and disputes are subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Victoria.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms as the service evolves. For material changes we’ll give notice (on this page, and by email for account holders) before they take effect. Continuing to use the service after changes take effect means you accept them.