Terms of Service
In short. Blocks is software you run on your own Mac, during a private beta, at no charge. You may use it for your own mail. We provide it as is, we do not have access to your data, and the accounts you connect remain subject to your provider's terms. Please read the rest; it is short.
1. Agreement
These terms are an agreement between you and Amor fati ("we", "us") about the Blocks and Blocks-lite applications for macOS (the "App") and this website. By installing or using the App you agree to them. If you do not agree, do not use the App.
2. Licence
We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to install and use the App on Macs you own or control, for your own use, in accordance with these terms. The App is licensed, not sold. We keep all rights in it that these terms do not expressly grant.
You may not: copy the App except for backup; modify, reverse engineer or decompile it except where the law allows; remove notices from it; redistribute, sell, rent or sublicense it; or use it to break the law or the terms of your mail or calendar provider.
3. Beta software
The App is currently provided as a private beta. Features may change or be removed, and the App may contain errors. We may end the beta, or your access to it, at any time. Keep your own backups; the App keeps its data on your Mac, and you are responsible for that Mac.
4. Your accounts and your data
The App connects to Google or Microsoft accounts that you own or are authorised to use. Your use of those accounts remains governed by their terms. You are responsible for keeping your Mac and your accounts secure, and for the mail you send with the App.
The App does not send your data to us. How it handles data is described in the Privacy Policy, which forms part of these terms.
5. Third-party services and content
The App works with services run by others (Google, Microsoft, and the files you choose to link). We are not responsible for those services, their availability, or changes they make that affect the App. The full build of the App includes the Phi-4-mini-instruct language model (© Microsoft Corporation, MIT License) and the llama.cpp runtime (MIT License); their notices are included with the App.
6. On-device AI
Where the App includes an on-device language model, its output is a suggestion only. It can mark, label and propose; it cannot send, forward, delete or archive mail. You remain responsible for every action taken in your account, including actions you confirm on the basis of a suggestion.
7. Acceptable use
You agree not to use the App to send spam or unlawful content, to access accounts you are not authorised to use, or to interfere with any service it connects to.
8. Updates
The App does not update itself. New versions are published for you to install when you choose. These terms apply to every version.
9. No warranty
To the fullest extent permitted by law, the App and this website are provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose, merchantability and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the App will be error-free or uninterrupted, or that it will meet your requirements.
10. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, mail, profits or business, arising from your use of or inability to use the App, even if advised of the possibility. Our total liability for all claims relating to the App will not exceed the amount you paid for it, which during the beta is nothing. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law.
11. Termination
You may stop using the App at any time by uninstalling it and, if you wish, erasing its data from Settings → Data. We may terminate the licence if you breach these terms. Sections 4, 5, 9, 10, 12 and 13 survive termination.
12. Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of New York, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules, and any dispute will be brought in the courts located there, unless the law of the place where you live gives you rights that cannot be waived.
13. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms by publishing a new version at this address with a new effective date. Continued use of the App after that date means you accept the new terms.
14. Contact
Amor fati · [email address]