Terms of Service
These terms cover your use of Raven. They are short on purpose. Using Raven means you agree to them.
1. What Raven is
Raven records your lectures — in person or in an online class — transcribes them, and generates summaries, notes and study material. It is a study tool. It is not a substitute for attending class, and the notes it produces are generated by AI and can be wrong.
2. Recording is your responsibility
This is the most important clause here, so read it properly.
You are solely responsible for ensuring you have the right to record. Recording laws vary by jurisdiction — some places require every person being recorded to consent — and nearly every university has its own policy on recording lectures. Many require your instructor’s explicit permission and prohibit sharing recordings, transcripts or notes with anyone else.
You agree that you will:
- obtain whatever permission your instructor, institution and local law require, before recording;
- use recordings, transcripts and notes only for your own studying;
- not share, publish, sell or distribute them without written permission from the people recorded;
- stop recording if asked to.
If you record without permission, that is your decision and your responsibility — not Raven’s. You agree to indemnify Raven against claims arising from recordings you made.
Raven does not join your meeting and is not visible to other participants. That is about not disrupting your class. It is not consent, and it does not make an unpermitted recording acceptable.
3. Your account
You need an account, you must give accurate information, and you are responsible for what happens under it. One account per person. You must be at least 13, and if you are under 18, you should have a parent or guardian’s permission.
4. Acceptable use
Don’t:
- record people who have not agreed to be recorded;
- upload content you have no right to;
- resell Raven or its output as your own service;
- attempt to break, overload or circumvent limits on the service, including usage allowances;
- use Raven to break your institution’s academic-integrity rules. Notes from your own lecture are a study aid; using them where they are not permitted is on you.
5. Your content is yours
You own your recordings, transcripts and notes. You grant us only the permission needed to run the service — to store your content, send it to our transcription and AI providers, and show it back to you. We do not use your lectures to train our own models, and we do not sell them.
6. Pricing
Raven is currently free while in pilot. There is no billing system connected, so you cannot be charged today. We intend to introduce paid plans, and we will tell you before that happens and before any charge is made. Nothing on the site is a binding offer of a future price.
7. Availability and no warranty
Raven is provided “as is”. It is a new product built by a student, and it can fail. A recording can be interrupted, a transcript can be incomplete, AI-generated notes can be inaccurate or miss things, and the service can be unavailable.
Do not rely on Raven as the only record of a lecture you cannot afford to lose. We make no guarantee about accuracy, availability or the preservation of your data, and we recommend exporting anything critical.
8. Limitation of liability
To the extent the law allows, Raven and its creator are not liable for indirect or consequential damages, lost data, or academic consequences arising from your use of the service. Where liability cannot be excluded, it is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the past twelve months or $50.
9. Ending things
You can stop using Raven and request deletion of your account at any time. We may suspend an account that breaks these terms — in particular one recording people without permission. If we shut the service down, we will give notice and an opportunity to export your content.
10. Changes
We may update these terms. Material changes will be announced before they take effect, not applied silently.
11. Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of North Carolina, USA.