Terms of Use
These terms govern your use of the Cairn macOS application ("Cairn", "the app") and the cairn.software website ("the site"). By using either, you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, do not use the app or the site.
1. The product
Cairn is a macOS application distributed through the Apple Mac App Store. It captures screenshots and voice notes locally on the user's Mac, processes them on-device using on-device machine-learning models, and stores them in a local database. Detailed behavior is described in the Privacy Policy and the Privacy Pledge.
2. License to use Cairn
Subject to your compliance with these Terms, we grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to install and use Cairn on Apple-branded Macs that you own or control, for personal or internal business purposes. Distribution through the App Store is also subject to Apple's standard EULA, which controls in case of conflict.
3. Your content stays yours
You retain 100% of all rights, title, and interest in the screenshots, voice recordings, transcripts, tags, and any other data you create using Cairn. We claim no licence to your content. We have no access to it, because Cairn does not transmit your content off your device.
4. Acceptable use
You must not use Cairn to capture or process:
- Content you are not legally entitled to capture (e.g. another person's private communications in jurisdictions with two-party-consent recording laws).
- Material protected by third-party intellectual-property rights in a manner that exceeds applicable fair-use or quotation exceptions.
- Child sexual abuse material, content depicting non-consensual intimate imagery, or any other content prohibited under applicable criminal law.
- Material whose capture or storage would violate workplace policies, NDAs, professional-confidentiality obligations, or applicable data-protection law you are subject to.
You are solely responsible for the legality of the content you choose to capture.
5. AI-generated outputs
Cairn uses on-device AI models to generate transcripts of voice notes and short descriptive tags of screenshots. These outputs may be inaccurate. Do not rely on them for decisions where accuracy matters (legal, medical, financial, or safety contexts). The accuracy of the underlying open-source models is outside our control.
6. No warranty
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Cairn and the site are provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. Mandatory consumer-protection rights under EU law (including in Italy and Germany) are not affected by this clause.
7. Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, our aggregate liability arising out of or relating to these Terms or your use of Cairn shall not exceed the greater of (a) the amount you paid for Cairn in the twelve months preceding the claim, or (b) fifty euros (€50). Nothing in these Terms limits liability for death, personal injury caused by negligence, fraud, or any liability that cannot be limited by law.
8. Termination
Your license to use Cairn terminates automatically when you uninstall the app. You may delete the Cairn application and its local data at any time. We may discontinue the app or the site at any time, in which case existing local data on your Mac is unaffected.
9. Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms from time to time. Material changes will be reflected with a new version number and effective date at the top of this page. If you continue to use Cairn after a material change, you accept the updated Terms.
10. Governing law and forum
These Terms are governed by Italian law, without regard to its conflict-of-laws provisions. For consumers domiciled in the European Union, mandatory consumer-protection law and the right to bring proceedings in the consumer's country of domicile are not affected. For non-consumer users, the courts of Bologna, Italy shall have exclusive jurisdiction.
11. Contact
Questions about these Terms: [email protected]. Full operator details: imprint.html.