Terms of service
Oscar is run by David Stall as a personal deployment, offered to a small number of people by invitation. These terms say what you may do with it, what it may do on your behalf, and what happens when it gets something wrong. Using the service means you accept them.
1. What Oscar is
Oscar is an AI assistant you reach through a website, an iOS Shortcut, or a scheduled task. It answers questions, and it can use tools: searching the web, reading pages, checking weather and places, looking up public profiles, remembering things about you and the people you mention, keeping plans and schedules, and — where you have connected them — using your Google account and running commands on your own laptop.
It is a personal project. It is not a company, not a commercial product, and carries no service-level commitment of any kind.
2. Access is granted, and can be taken away
Accounts exist by approval. You request one, the owner decides, and the decision is theirs alone — it may be declined without a reason being given. An approved account may be suspended or reinstated at any time, at the owner's discretion, including where the owner believes these terms have been broken or where the deployment simply needs to be smaller.
Access is personal to you. Do not share your account, and do not hand your Shortcut key to somebody else so they can use Oscar through it.
3. Your account and your keys
You are responsible for keeping your password, your Shortcut key, your write key, and any runner key confidential, and for everything done through them. The Shortcut key in particular sits in plain text inside a Shortcut on your phone: anybody with your unlocked phone can ask Oscar questions as you. If a device is lost, rotate the key from the settings page — that immediately invalidates the old one.
Tell the owner promptly at [CONTACT EMAIL] if you believe your account has been used by someone else.
4. Oscar acts in the real world
When writes are enabled and you have connected the relevant accounts, Oscar can send email as you, create and delete calendar events, modify and trash files in your Drive, edit documents, change task lists, and run shell commands on a laptop you have connected. These actions are real, some of them are visible to other people, and some cannot be undone.
Confirmation gates exist for exactly this reason, and some of them can be switched off. Actions Oscar takes on your instruction are your actions. You are responsible for what it sends, deletes, changes and runs on your behalf, including where it misunderstands you.
If a laptop runner is connected, that machine — not this service — decides what it is willing to execute. Commands it considers dangerous are refused or held for your explicit confirmation. Do not attempt to work around those checks.
5. Acceptable use
You agree not to use Oscar:
- for anything unlawful, or to produce or distribute unlawful material;
- to harass, stalk, threaten, impersonate, defame or intimidate anyone, including through the profile-lookup and web-search tools;
- to send email you would not be entitled to send yourself — bulk unsolicited mail, spoofed senders, phishing, or anything that would put the owner's sending reputation or mail accounts at risk;
- to reach, or to try to reach, another user's data, the owner's credentials, or any part of the system your account is not meant to have;
- to attack the service or anything it connects to — including probing for vulnerabilities without permission, overwhelming it with requests, or using it as a relay to attack a third party;
- to run commands, through a connected runner, on machines you do not own or are not authorised to use;
- in any way that breaches the terms of the services it depends on, or that would cost the owner money at a scale not agreed in advance.
Automated or unusually heavy use is not permitted without asking first. The owner pays per request for the models Oscar runs on.
6. Information about other people
Oscar stores information about people you mention — names, contact details, relationships, and free-text facts — and can look up public information about a named person. Those people are not parties to these terms.
You are responsible for what you cause Oscar to record and look up about others, and for having a proper basis for doing so. Do not use it to build profiles of people who would object, and remove anything that should not be there. See the privacy policy for what is actually stored.
7. Oscar will sometimes be wrong
Oscar's answers are generated by a language model. They can be confidently incorrect, out of date, or entirely invented, and the tools it uses can return bad data. Answers are provided for general information only and are not professional advice — not medical, legal, financial, or safety advice. Verify anything that matters before acting on it.
This applies with particular force to actions: an answer that looks right is not a guarantee that the email it just sent went to the right person.
8. Third-party services
Oscar depends on services it does not control, including OpenAI, Supabase, Vercel, an email provider, a search provider, and — where you connect them — Google and any MCP server you add. Your use of Oscar is also subject to those services' own terms, and where you connect an account, to whatever you agreed with that provider.
MCP servers are yours, not the owner's. A server you add receives whatever its tools are called with, and the owner makes no representation about what it does with that.
9. Availability, warranty and liability
The service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement.
There is no uptime commitment. It may be slow, break, lose data, or stop existing entirely, at any time and without notice. Keep your own copy of anything you cannot afford to lose — this is not a backup service and it is not a system of record.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, the owner is not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or exemplary damages, nor for any loss of data, profits, revenue, or goodwill, arising from your use of or inability to use the service — including from an action Oscar took on your instruction. Where liability cannot lawfully be excluded, it is limited to the amount you have paid to use the service, which is nothing.
Nothing here excludes liability that cannot be excluded under the law that applies to you, including for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud.
10. Ending your use
You may stop at any time. To have your account and its data deleted, ask the owner at davidstall312@gmail.com; deletion cascades through everything stored for you, as described in the privacy policy.
The owner may suspend or close your account at any time. Sections 6 to 9 and section 11 survive the end of your access.
11. Changes, law and contact
These terms may change. The date at the top will change with them, and material changes will be emailed to approved accounts. Continuing to use Oscar after a change means you accept the revised terms.
These terms are governed by the laws of the United States of America, and the courts of the United States of America have exclusive jurisdiction, without prejudice to any mandatory consumer protections available to you where you live.
Contact: davidstall312@gmail.com.