Terms of Service
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Last Updated: October 13, 2026
Effective Date: October 13, 2026
These Terms of Service ("Terms") constitute a legally binding agreement between Richard Hieb, an individual doing business as The Self Mirror ("Operator," "we," "us," or "our"), and you ("User," "you," or "your").
BY ACCESSING OR USING THE SELF MIRROR (THE "SERVICE"), CREATING AN ACCOUNT, OR ACCEPTING THESE TERMS, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY ALL PROVISIONS HEREIN. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE, DO NOT USE THE SERVICE.
1. ELIGIBILITY & TERRITORIAL RESTRICTIONS
1.1 Age Floor (18+). You must be at least eighteen (18) years of age to create an account or use the Service. By accessing the Service, you represent and warrant that you are 18 years of age or older.
1.2 United States Only. The Service is controlled, operated, and hosted within the United States and is intended exclusively for residents of the United States. Access from outside the United States—including the European Union, the United Kingdom, and Canada—is unauthorized.
2. ENTERTAINMENT & SELF-REFLECTION DISCLAIMER
2.1 Entertainment and Self-Reflection Only. The Service calculates astrological, numerological, and metaphysical frameworks and synthesizes them using third-party artificial intelligence ("AI"). THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED SOLELY FOR SELF-REFLECTION AND ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES.
2.2 Not Scientific Fact; Not Clinical Diagnosis.
- Astrological, Human Design, numerological, and esoteric calculations are not empirical scientific fact.
- Psychometric questionnaires (including the Big Five / IPIP-50 inventory) provide self-reported scoring and DO NOT constitute a psychological evaluation, psychiatric assessment, or mental health diagnosis.
- AI-generated syntheses, readings and answers do not constitute medical, mental health, legal, financial, career, relationship, marital or parenting advice, or advice of any other kind.
2.3 No Reliance; No Life Decisions. You agree not to use any output, profile, reading, answer or relationship profile generated by the Service to make medical, mental health, legal, financial, career, employment, relationship, marital or parenting decisions, or any other decision about your life or anyone else's. Any reliance is solely at your own risk.
2.4 Not Therapy. The Service is not therapy, counseling, coaching, treatment or any form of clinical or professional help, and does not create any professional relationship. The Big Five is a researched self-report questionnaire, not a clinical instrument. If you need help with your health, mental health, relationships or safety, contact a qualified professional; in an emergency in the US, call 911, or call or text 988.
3. THIRD-PARTY DATA ENTRY & USER RESPONSIBILITY
3.1 Submission of Non-User Details. The Service enables you to input names, birthdates, exact birth times, birthplaces, notes, and personality test scores of third-party individuals (e.g., partners, relatives, children, or friends).
3.2 User Warranties. You acknowledge that you are solely responsible for all third-party details you enter. You represent and warrant that:
(a) You have obtained all necessary, informed permissions and consents from each individual before entering their data; or
(b) You are the legal parent or court-appointed legal guardian of any minor whose birth details you submit.
3.3 No Platform Verification. We do not independently verify or police the consent status of third-party details entered into private accounts.
3.4 Indemnification. You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the Operator from and against any claims, damages, liabilities, losses, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or related to:
(a) Your submission of any third party's personal or birth data without their authorization;
(b) Any third-party dispute concerning a profile generated at your direction; or
(c) Your downstream sharing or distribution of generated profiles;
(d) Information you share with other users through the Service; or
(e) Any use you make of, or decision you take based on, any output.
3.5 Sharing With Other Users. The Service lets you connect with other users and share people, profiles and relationship profiles with them. When you share:
(a) You confirm, as the app asks each time, that you have their permission to share this, or you're their parent or guardian.
(b) You choose what to share and with whom. We carry out your choices; we don't review what's shared.
(c) A share is read-only. When you stop sharing, or either of you disconnects, the other user loses access. A copy you approve is different: it becomes theirs and stays with them, and we can't take it back.
(d) We're not responsible for what another user does with information you share with them, or for information another user shares with you. Disputes about shared information are between the users involved.
3.6 Acceptable Use. You may not use the Service to harass, embarrass, stalk or harm anyone, to make profiles of people for that purpose, or to make decisions about another person's employment, housing, credit, insurance or education.
4. TECHNICAL SECURITY & "BEST EFFORTS" SAFEGUARDS
4.1 Application Privacy Safeguards. We employ application-level privacy measures, including sanitizing application-level log streams to avoid logging names, birth parameters, or raw IP addresses, and utilizing keyed account tokens in operational records. However, edge-level infrastructure (Google Cloud) automatically logs inbound request metadata (including visitor IP addresses and browser headers).
4.2 Best Efforts Only; No Security Guarantees. WE OPERATE ON A REASONABLE COMMERCIAL "BEST EFFORTS" BASIS ONLY. WE MAKE NO WARRANTIES OR GUARANTEES OF UNBREAKABLE SECURITY, ZERO-VULNERABILITY OPERATION, OR CONTINUOUS AVAILABILITY. You submit all data at your own risk.
5. ACCOUNTS, PLANS & USAGE LIMITS
5.1 Beta Invitations. During invite-only phases, access is granted solely to approved email addresses. We reserve the absolute right to pause, revoke, or terminate invitations or accounts at our sole discretion.
5.2 Allowances & Quotas.
- Free Plan: Free tier allowances are provided on a one-time, non-replenishing basis.
- Paid Plans: Profile generation allowances reset on the first calendar day of each month (UTC) and do not roll over.
- Regenerating a profile consumes an allowance unit. Failed generations caused by system errors are automatically re-credited to your account balance.
5.3 Compute Throttling & Daily Spending Caps. To manage cloud operational costs, we enforce global daily spending limits and automated abuse controls. If global limits are reached, profile generation capabilities may be paused for all users for the remainder of the day without liability.
5.4 Billing via Merchant of Record. Commercial subscriptions will be handled by a third-party Merchant of Record. Your payment terms, tax handling, and billing disputes will be governed directly by that merchant's checkout agreement.
6. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY & AI OUTPUTS
6.1 User Input License. You retain ownership of your submitted inputs. You grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to process, store, and transmit your inputs to third-party sub-processors solely to provide the Service.
6.2 AI-Generated Text. Profiles are generated probabilistically using machine learning models. We do not warrant that outputs are unique, accurate, flattering, or error-free. You receive a personal, non-exclusive license to use, download, and export generated text for non-commercial purposes. No output, including the professional version of a profile, may be used for hiring, promotion, performance, pay or other employment decisions.
7. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES & LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
7.1 As-Is Provision. THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. THE OPERATOR EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
7.2 Limitation of Liability. IN NO EVENT SHALL RICHARD HIEB OR THE OPERATOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES (INCLUDING LOSS OF DATA, GOODWILL, OR EMOTIONAL DISTRESS).
OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING FROM ALL CLAIMS RELATING TO THE SERVICE SHALL BE STRICTLY LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF:
(A) THE TOTAL AMOUNT PAID BY YOU TO THE SERVICE IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS PRECEDING THE CLAIM; OR
(B) FIFTY UNITED STATES DOLLARS ($50.00 USD).
7.3 Your Decisions. You are solely responsible for what you do with any information from the Service; the Operator is not responsible for any decision, action or outcome based on it.
7.4 To the Fullest Extent Permitted by Law. These disclaimers and limits apply to the fullest extent permitted by law; where a law doesn't allow a limitation, it applies to the maximum extent allowed, and the rest of these Terms remain in effect.
8. GOVERNING LAW & VENUE
These Terms and any disputes arising out of the Service shall be governed exclusively by the laws of the State of Texas, without regard to conflict of law principles. Any legal suit, action, or proceeding shall be instituted exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Tarrant County, Texas.
9. CONTACT
Direct legal and operational inquiries to:
Richard Hieb / The Self Mirror
Email: rich.hieb@gmail.com
10. SUSPENSION AND TERMINATION
We may pause, limit, suspend or close any account at any time, including automatically to prevent abuse, and you may delete your account at any time from the Account menu. If your plan changes and you have more people than it allows, the most recently added people over the limit are deleted 30 days later (never you), after email reminders.
11. CHANGES TO THESE TERMS
We may change these Terms; for material changes we'll ask you to accept again before you continue.