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Terms of Use
Last updated: 17 May 2026
These terms govern your use of the trace macOS desktop app, iOS app, and supporting services (together, the “Service”), operated by trace. By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to these terms.
Who the Service is for
trace is a personal context capture tool for individual use. One account is one person. By using the Service you confirm you are at least 18 years old.
Your responsibility for recordings
trace records audio from your microphone and, on macOS, from your system speakers. Recording-consent law varies by jurisdiction — some places require all-party consent before a conversation can be recorded, others one-party. You are responsible for obtaining whatever consent is required by the law of your jurisdiction before you record. By using the Service you accept that obligation and agree not to use trace to record anyone who has not given you the consent that local law requires.
Not professional advice
trace summarises discussions, extracts decisions and action items, and answers questions across your captured context using large language models. These outputs are auto-generated and may contain errors, omissions, or simplifications. They are not legal, financial, medical, or other professional advice. Review the underlying transcript before acting on any summary, decision, or answer.
Your account
You sign in with Google. You are responsible for keeping access to your Google account secure. Notify us promptly if you suspect unauthorised access.
Acceptable use
You agree not to:
- Attempt to defeat, probe, or stress-test the authentication, rate limits, or backend infrastructure of the Service.
- Record any person without the consent required by the law of your jurisdiction.
- Use the Service to harass, defame, or harm another person, or in any way that violates applicable law or the rights of others.
- Create or use an account on behalf of another person without their permission.
- Reverse engineer, scrape, or attempt to extract the prompts, models, or non-public infrastructure that power the Service.
Your content
You own the recordings, transcripts, summaries, and other content you create with trace. You grant us a limited licence to store, process, and transmit that content as needed to operate the Service — including sending transcripts and summaries to our LLM providers (OpenAI and Anthropic) for transcription, summarization, and knowledge-graph extraction. We do not use your content to train models, and our LLM providers do not use API content to train their models per their published policies.
Service availability
The Service is provided as-is and on a best-effort basis. We do not guarantee uninterrupted availability, a specific transcription latency, or that any specific feature will remain available in future versions.
Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, trace and its operators are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages arising from your use of the Service, including any consequence of an inaccurate transcript, summary, decision, or Ask Trace answer, or of a recording made in breach of applicable consent law. Your sole remedy if you are dissatisfied is to stop using the Service.
Termination
You may delete your account at any time by emailing adhyan@usetrace.ai. We may suspend or terminate access without notice if we reasonably believe you have breached these terms or attempted to harm the Service or its users.
Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of India. Any dispute will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts at Bengaluru, Karnataka.
Changes
We may update these terms from time to time. Material changes will be notified in-app before they take effect, and the “Last updated” date above will reflect the change.