Terms of Service, Risks & Disclaimers

KNOW ME - SHOW ME is owned and operated by Geargasm LLC ("we", "us", "our"), trading as KNOW ME - SHOW ME. When you use this service or buy a membership, you are entering into an agreement with Geargasm LLC. By continuing to use the service you agree to these terms.

KNOW ME - SHOW ME is a website and app for private journaling, writing, reflection, project organization, and preserving material for people you choose. It can store text, imported documents, audio recordings, photographs, questions, and AI answers; organize material in vaults and Project Folders; generate literary-voice answers from your writing; summarize and rank sources; let you consult books, podcasts, research, art, and Great Minds; connect you with Trusted Advisors; share material according to your choices; prepare Future Letters; name successors; and export your material.

Every AI response, summary, source note, ranking, citation, interpretation, or literary-voice answer is machine-generated. It is not you, not a recording or spoken clone of you, not the actual person, author, artist, researcher, podcaster, advisor, or source speaking, and not a statement of fact about you or anyone else. Features, source availability, and generated results may change, fail, or be removed.

The service offers free and paid access. Paid memberships provide plan features and periodic AI credits; one-time credit packs add AI usage credits. Purchases, renewals, cancellations, upgrades, downgrades, and refunds are governed by Section 16A.

THIS SERVICE IS NOT PROMISED TO BE ACCURATE AND IS NOT TO BE USED FOR ANY MEDICAL, HEALTH, MENTAL-HEALTH, LEGAL, INVESTMENT, FINANCIAL, TAX, INSURANCE, SAFETY OR OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICES ADVICE — EXCEPT AS THE VOICE OF A PARENT OR FRIEND. USE YOUR OWN JUDGMENT WHEN CONSIDERING WHETHER TO IMPLEMENT ANY SUGGESTION.

Answers are generated by artificial intelligence from material a member has stored. They are personal reflection and opinion in the spirit of a family conversation. They are not diagnosis, treatment, therapy, legal opinion, investment recommendation, or any other regulated professional service, and no doctor-patient, attorney-client, adviser-client, fiduciary or other professional relationship is created by using this service.

No output has been reviewed or verified by any licensed professional. Before acting on anything that affects your health, safety, money, legal rights, employment or wellbeing, you must consult a qualified professional licensed in your jurisdiction. You agree that you will independently evaluate every suggestion and that you alone decide whether to act on it. You assume all risk of any decision you make and of its consequences.

Nothing on this service is an offer, solicitation, or recommendation to buy or sell any security or financial product, and nothing is a substitute for emergency, medical, or crisis care.

THIS SERVICE IS A JOURNALING AND REFLECTION TOOL. IT IS NOT A MEDICAL OR THERAPEUTIC DEVICE AND IS NOT INTENDED TO DIAGNOSE, TREAT, CURE, OR PREVENT ANY DISEASE OR CONDITION. ITS MOOD TRACKING, COACHING, AND AI-GUIDED REFLECTION FEATURES ARE FOR PERSONAL JOURNALING AND MINDFULNESS ONLY. THEY ARE NOT MEDICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, OR CRISIS CARE, AND THEY DO NOT MONITOR YOU OR RESPOND IN AN EMERGENCY.

ANY BOOK SUMMARY, EXCERPT, OR AI INTERPRETATION IS NOT GUARANTEED TO BE ACCURATE, COMPLETE, OR FAITHFUL TO THE ORIGINAL TEXT. IT IS NOT THE AUTHOR, PUBLISHER, OR ANY RELIGIOUS, PHILOSOPHICAL, OR AUTHORITATIVE SOURCE SPEAKING. IT IS NOT PROFESSIONAL, MEDICAL, LEGAL, SAFETY, OR SPIRITUAL ADVICE, AND YOU MUST NOT ACT ON IT IN WAYS THAT COULD HARM YOURSELF OR OTHERS.

The "Ask a Book" feature lets you explore classic books by having an AI model respond in the spirit of an informed conversation partner. Those responses are generated by artificial intelligence from the book's text and from your own entries. They are an interpretation, not a verbatim reproduction or an authoritative ruling on what the book means.

For example, asking a religious text such as The Bible will produce an AI's reading of the passage — it is not a sermon, a doctrinal instruction, a divine command, or advice from a religious authority. If a book answer could affect your health, safety, money, legal rights, relationships, or wellbeing, you must consult the original source and a qualified professional licensed in your jurisdiction before acting on it. You alone are responsible for any decision you make or action you take after reading a book-generated answer.

• Wrong or made-up answers. AI can invent facts, misread your notes, and state falsehoods with total confidence.
• Not professional advice. Nothing here is medical, mental-health, legal, financial, tax, safety, or crisis advice, and no professional relationship is created.
• Emotional impact. Talking to an imitation of a real person, especially one who is unwell or has died, can be upsetting, confusing, or hard to stop. Personal "portraits" describing someone's blind spots or weaknesses can land badly.
• Harmful reliance. Acting on generated guidance in high-stakes matters (health, money, relationships, employment, safety) can cause real loss.
• Privacy and sharing. Anyone holding a share link can use the persona it points to. Links can be forwarded. Anonymity of askers is a product design choice, not a guarantee against legal process, hosting providers, or technical failure.
• Third-party AI processing. Your content is transmitted to third-party AI providers for processing. We do not control their systems.
• Content about other people. Uploading notes, photos, recordings, or portraits describing others may affect their privacy and may require their consent where you live.
• Literary voice and likeness. AI may imitate a person's writing style or point of view, but it is never that person speaking. Using another person's name, likeness, writing, photograph, or recording may require permission and can violate privacy, publicity, copyright, or other rights.
• Shared wisdom. Highly rated answers may be distilled and shared with other members in de-identified form. De-identification is best-effort, not perfect.
• Data loss and downtime. The service can lose data, break, or be discontinued. Keep your own copies of anything irreplaceable.
• Security. No system is fully secure. Do not store passwords, government identifiers, or information you cannot afford to have exposed.

Your entries are stored encrypted, and the text you send for an answer is transmitted to the AI provider over an encrypted connection. We want to be straight with you about what that does and does not mean:

• This is not zero-knowledge or end-to-end encryption. The encryption keys are held by the service so that the AI can read your entries to answer you, and so the uses described in Sections 9 and 16 are possible. Geargasm LLC can, under controlled circumstances, access stored content — for example for safety moderation described in these terms.
• Encryption reduces risk; it does not remove it. A breach, a bug, or legal process directed at us or our providers could expose stored content. That is why Section 3 tells you not to store passwords, government identifiers, or anything you cannot afford to have exposed.
• What is sent to AI providers is the text of the entries selected for a given answer, your question, and any audio or image you send in — not your whole vault. Providers are listed on the Privacy page.

This service is not for emergencies and is not monitored by a human. If you or someone else may be in danger, contact your local emergency number or a crisis line immediately.

• You must be 18 or older to create or use an account.
• You own or have the right to upload everything you add, including photos and audio.
• You will not use the service to impersonate someone without their permission, harass anyone, or generate illegal content.
• You will use judgment before acting on any generated answer.
• You are responsible for keeping your account credentials and share links safe.
• You are responsible for reviewing AI answers, summaries, citations, source rankings, reminders, Future Letters, successor instructions, audience choices, and exports before relying on, sending, sharing, or publishing them.

This service is intended for adults. You must be 18 or older to create an account. The service is not directed to children, we do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 13, and an account found to belong to a minor is closed and its data deleted. The service can surface mature themes — grief, illness, addiction, violence and other hard parts of a life — because that is what honest journals contain.

There is zero tolerance for objectionable content or abusive behaviour toward another member. Anything another person can see — shared wisdom, questions sent to someone else's AI, profiles, nicknames, bios and suggestions — is filtered automatically before it posts.

• Every member can report any content or member, and can block a member instantly so no further contact is possible.
• We review every report and act on it — removing content, warning, suspending or permanently ejecting the member responsible — within 24 hours of the report being filed.
• Sexual content involving minors, threats of violence and targeted harassment result in immediate removal, a permanent ban, and referral to authorities where required.
• By posting anything another member can see, you agree to these standards. Repeat or severe violations end your account without refund.

The service and all generated content are provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, or that any answer is accurate, complete, or suitable for your situation.

YOU USE THE SERVICE, AND RELY ON ANYTHING IT STORES OR GENERATES, ENTIRELY AT YOUR OWN RISK. THIS INCLUDES THE STORAGE OF YOUR JOURNAL ENTRIES: OUTAGES, ERRORS, BUGS, ACCOUNT CLOSURE, OR SECURITY INCIDENTS MAY DAMAGE, EXPOSE, OR PERMANENTLY DELETE THEM. KEEP YOUR OWN COPIES OF ANYTHING IRREPLACEABLE — THE EXPORT TOOL IS PROVIDED FOR EXACTLY THIS PURPOSE. IF YOU CHOOSE NOT TO KEEP COPIES, THAT RISK IS YOURS.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, you release, waive, and hold harmless KNOW ME - SHOW ME, Geargasm LLC, and each of Geargasm LLC's owners, members, directors, officers, managers, employees, administrators, agents, affiliates, contractors, advisors, licensors, hosting providers, AI providers, and other service providers (together, the “Released Parties”) from claims arising out of or related to your access to, use of, inability to use, or misuse of the website or app; generated content; your reliance on an answer, summary, ranking, citation, reminder, or source; content or conduct of another user; sharing or successor features; or any loss, exposure, alteration, nondelivery, or deletion of data.

We are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost data, emotional distress, or business interruption. Our total aggregate liability for all claims is limited to the greater of the amount you paid to use the service in the twelve months before the claim, or one hundred United States dollars.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain exclusions; in those places the limitations apply only to the extent permitted.

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, YOU AGREE TO DEFEND, INDEMNIFY, RELEASE, AND HOLD HARMLESS KNOW ME - SHOW ME, GEARGASM LLC, AND EACH OF GEARGASM LLC'S OWNERS, MEMBERS, DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, MANAGERS, EMPLOYEES, ADMINISTRATORS, AGENTS, AFFILIATES, CONTRACTORS, ADVISORS, LICENSORS, HOSTING PROVIDERS, AI PROVIDERS, AND OTHER SERVICE PROVIDERS FROM AND AGAINST EVERY COVERED CLAIM, DEMAND, ACTION, SUIT, INVESTIGATION, LOSS, LIABILITY, DAMAGE, JUDGMENT, SETTLEMENT, FINE, PENALTY, COST, OR EXPENSE — INCLUDING REASONABLE ATTORNEYS' FEES AND OTHER DEFENSE COSTS — ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO YOUR CONTENT, CONDUCT, SHARING, GENERATED OUTPUTS, VIOLATION OF LAW OR ANOTHER PERSON'S RIGHTS, BREACH OF THESE TERMS, OR ACCESS TO, USE OF, INABILITY TO USE, OR MISUSE OF THE WEBSITE OR APP.

Who is protected. The “covered parties” include all Released Parties defined in Section 7: KNOW ME - SHOW ME, Geargasm LLC, and each of its present and former owners, members, directors, officers, managers, employees, administrators, agents, affiliates, contractors, advisors, licensors, hosting providers, AI providers, and other service providers, in each case in their individual and official capacities. Where applicable, covered parties also include another member with whom you interact through the service.

What is covered. You will indemnify covered parties for claims, losses, damages, judgments, settlements, fines, penalties, and legal costs — including the cost of defending a claim — arising out of: (a) anything you upload, post, record, write, or share through the service, including entries, profiles, photos, audio, comments, ratings, source material, or information about another person; (b) any AI answer, summary, source note, ranking, citation, interpretation, or other output generated from, for, or at your request; (c) your access to, use of, inability to use, or misuse of the website or app; (d) your audience settings, sharing, forwarding, publication, or delivery of links, profiles, Trusted Advisor content, Future Letters, successor material, or exports; (e) your breach of these Terms or another agreement; (f) your violation of any law or any third party's rights, including privacy, publicity, intellectual-property, confidentiality, contract, or personality rights; (g) your fraud, negligence, willful misconduct, or unlawful act; and (h) any dispute between you and another member, recipient, successor, Trusted Advisor, source owner, or other user of the service.

Third-party claims and direct claims. Your duty to defend and indemnify applies to claims brought by another user, recipient, successor, rights holder, regulator, government body, or other third party. Your release and hold-harmless obligations apply to your own claims against a covered party to the fullest extent permitted by law. Nothing in these Terms requires you to indemnify a covered party for that party's fraud, willful misconduct, or liability that applicable law does not allow to be waived or indemnified.

No litigation against other members or covered parties. To the fullest extent permitted by law, you agree not to sue, bring, join, or participate in any lawsuit, claim, or legal action against any covered party or any other member of the service based on content generated, shared, posted, or distributed through the platform, or based on any interaction, advice, answer, or communication that takes place on or through the platform. Disputes covered by this agreement are subject to the arbitration and class action waiver in Section 12, and any claims not covered by arbitration must be brought only in the venue described in Section 14.

Litigation costs when the service is sued by another user. If another member, user, or third party sues, investigates, demands relief from, or makes a claim against a covered party because of your content, conduct, sharing, generated output, or use or misuse of the service, you will pay the covered party's reasonable costs of responding to and defending that matter, including reasonable attorneys' fees, to the extent the claim is covered by this Section and applicable law.

Cross-member indemnity. In any dispute, lawsuit, or claim between you and another member or user of the service, both you and that other member or user agree to defend, indemnify, release, and hold harmless every covered party from covered costs, expenses, liabilities, damages, and reasonable attorneys' fees arising from that dispute, to the fullest extent permitted by law.

Cooperation. If a claim arises that is covered by this section, you will cooperate fully and promptly with the covered party's defense. We reserve the right to control the defense of any claim for which we are entitled to indemnification, and you will not settle any such claim without our prior written consent.

You keep ownership of what you add. You grant Geargasm LLC and its authorized administrators a broad, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable license to use, copy, store, process, analyze, transmit, display, distribute, and create derivative works from all material you provide, including entries, recordings, photographs, AI conversations, profile information, and usage data, for any purpose. This includes operating and improving the service, creating marketing and advertising campaigns, building targeting segments and lookalike audiences, conducting research, training and improving models, generating insights, and sharing de-identified or aggregated findings with partners or affiliates.

You understand that the actual contents of your vault may be used for these purposes, and that de-identification or aggregation is best-effort, not a guarantee that no one can recognise patterns from what you have written. You can delete your entries at any time, but deletion may not remove copies already used in research, model training, or aggregated insights, or held in backups for a limited period.

When you close your account you choose one of two outcomes, and we do what you chose:

• Delete everything. Your vault is closed to new questions immediately and your public profile is switched off. After a 30-day grace period, during which you may cancel, your entries, recordings, photos, working profiles, questions, answers and encryption key are permanently destroyed and cannot be recovered.
• Seal the vault. Your account closes and no new question may ever be asked of it — not by you, not by anyone linked to you, not by the public — but the contents are retained rather than destroyed, so a future steward or successor you have named can be given access, and so time capsules you scheduled can still be delivered. You may reopen a sealed vault at any time while you can still sign in.

Sealing is a retention choice, not a deletion. Whatever you choose, you may later demand a full permanent erase and we will carry it out. If the law where you live gives you a right to erasure — for example the GDPR in the UK and EU, or the CCPA in California — that right overrides the sealed option and we will delete on request. Some records we are required to keep for legal, tax, security or abuse-prevention reasons may survive a deletion, in the narrowest form and for the shortest time needed. Rolling backups are overwritten within 30 days. De-identified distilled lessons you opted into contributing may remain, because they are no longer linked to you.

We may change these terms, change or remove features, or suspend accounts that create risk for others. Continued use after an update means you accept the updated terms. You may stop using the service and delete your account at any time.

PLEASE READ. THIS SECTION REQUIRES MOST DISPUTES TO BE RESOLVED BY BINDING INDIVIDUAL ARBITRATION AND WAIVES YOUR RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL AND TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS ACTION.

You and Geargasm LLC agree that any dispute, claim or controversy arising out of or relating to the service, these terms, or any generated content — whether based in contract, tort, statute, fraud, misrepresentation or any other legal theory — will be resolved exclusively by final and binding individual arbitration administered under the consumer arbitration rules of a nationally recognised arbitration provider, before a single arbitrator, seated in Fairfax County, Virginia or, at your election, by telephone, video or on written submissions.

Class action and jury waiver. Claims must be brought only in your individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class, collective, consolidated, private attorney general or representative proceeding. The arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person's claims and may not preside over any form of representative proceeding. You and Geargasm LLC each waive any right to a jury trial.

30-day right to opt out. You may reject this arbitration agreement by sending written notice, within 30 days of first accepting these terms, that includes your name, the email on your account, and a clear statement that you opt out of arbitration. Send it to the contact address published on the service. Opting out affects only this section — the rest of these terms still apply, and opting out will not affect your account in any way.

Exceptions. Either party may bring an individual claim in small-claims court, and either party may seek injunctive relief in court to protect intellectual property or stop unauthorised access. If the class action waiver above is found unenforceable as to a particular claim, that claim proceeds in court and the rest of this section still applies to all other claims.

ANY CLAIM ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE MUST BE FILED WITHIN 12 MONTHS AFTER THE EVENTS GIVING RISE TO IT, OR IT IS PERMANENTLY BARRED.

You and Geargasm LLC agree to shorten any otherwise applicable statute of limitations to this period, to the fullest extent permitted by law.

These terms and any dispute are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth/State of Virginia, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. For any matter not subject to arbitration, you and Geargasm LLC consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the state and federal courts located in Fairfax County, Virginia, and each waives any objection to that venue.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain exclusions, waivers or limitations. Where that is the case, those provisions apply only to the maximum extent the law allows, and nothing in these terms limits any right you have that cannot be waived.

When you tick the single box and continue, you are confirming each of the following. They summarise the sections above and carry the same force.

• I understand answers are generated by artificial intelligence, are not promised to be accurate, and may be incomplete, outdated, mistaken or entirely invented.
• I understand this service speaks only in the voice of a parent or friend. It is NOT medical, health, mental-health, legal, investment, financial, tax, accounting, insurance, safety or any other professional advice, and no professional or fiduciary relationship is created.
• I understand this service is a journaling and reflection tool only. It is not a medical or therapeutic device, it is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease or condition, and it is not a substitute for a doctor, therapist, or crisis service — including any mood tracking, coaching, or AI-guided reflection features.
• I use the service entirely at my own risk. I will keep my own copies of anything irreplaceable, and I understand that outages, errors, or security incidents could expose or destroy what I store, and that the service's total liability is capped as described in the Terms.
• I will consult a qualified licensed professional before acting on anything that affects my health, safety, money, legal rights or wellbeing, and I will use my own independent judgment before implementing any suggestion.
• I accept sole responsibility for any decision I make or action I take after using this service, and for the outcome of that decision, and I understand this service is not for emergencies.
• I understand that any book summaries, excerpts, or AI-generated interpretations of books, texts, or other sources are not guaranteed to be accurate, complete, or faithful to the original work. They are not the author, publisher, or any religious, philosophical, or authoritative source speaking, and I will not treat them as professional advice, religious authority, or as an instruction to do anything that could harm myself or others.
• I agree that any dispute will be resolved by individual binding arbitration and I waive any class action and jury trial, that any claim must be brought within 12 months of the events giving rise to it, and that Virginia law governs — and I understand I may opt out of arbitration within 30 days as described in the Terms.
• I understand that what I write and send to the AI is automatically screened for safety. Content that threatens or targets another person, and content involving minors sexually, is blocked and my account is automatically frozen for 72 hours while a moderator reviews it — during a freeze I can still read, write privately and export my vault. I understand that writing about my own pain, grief or suicidal feelings never freezes my account: I am shown crisis helpline resources instead, that this service is not a crisis line and is not monitored around the clock, and that flagged excerpts are kept in a staff-only review log which I can appeal through support.
• I understand the service includes comedians, humour and satire — including a Comedians shelf in ASK GREAT MINDS. Any joke, satirical quote or comic framing the service returns is offered as commentary on the point, topic or question I asked about, and is never intended to mock, insult or make fun of me, my family or anyone I write about. I will not treat comedic material as advice.
• I am 18 or older and I agree to the Terms of Service, including the disclaimer of warranties, release and waiver of claims, limitation of liability, and indemnification provisions. To the fullest extent permitted by law, I agree to defend, indemnify, release, and hold harmless Geargasm LLC and its owners, members, directors, officers, managers, employees, administrators, agents, affiliates, contractors, and service providers from covered claims, liabilities, losses, damages, judgments, settlements, penalties, costs, and reasonable attorneys' fees arising from my content, conduct, sharing, generated outputs, legal violations, or use or misuse of the service.
• I agree that Geargasm LLC may use all data, entries, recordings, photographs, AI conversations, profile information, and usage data I provide for any purpose, including data analysis, marketing, advertising targeting, research, product development, and creating derivative or aggregated works, and that this may involve combining my data with other data and sharing de-identified insights with partners. I understand the contents of my vault may be used for these purposes, and that I can opt out of marketing targeting and research uses at any time using the toggle in Settings, where applicable by law.

By creating an account you agree that Geargasm LLC and its authorized administrators may use the email address and phone number you provide, together with all other data you provide (including entries, recordings, photographs, AI conversations, profile information, and usage data), for service messages, marketing, advertising targeting, research, product development, and creating derivative or aggregated works.

What we may do. We may use the contents of your vault — your entries, recordings, photographs, AI conversations, and anything about the people in your profiles — to build profiles, segments, and lookalike audiences; to deliver or personalise marketing and advertising; to study how the service is used; to train and improve models; and to share de-identified or aggregated insights with partners or affiliates. This may involve combining your data with other data.

What we will not do. We do not sell your raw contact details or raw vault contents to unrelated third parties. We do not use your data for marketing in jurisdictions where the law requires prior consent and you have not provided it.

Your control. You can opt out of promotional messages at any time using the unsubscribe link in any marketing email, by replying STOP to a text, or from your account settings. You can also switch on "Opt out of marketing targeting & research" in Settings at any time, and your data, entries and profile information will be excluded from marketing targeting and research uses, where applicable by law. Service and security messages — password resets, billing, legal or safety notices — are not marketing and will continue while you have an account. Where the law in your country requires prior consent (for example the EU/UK, or for text messages in the US), we will only send marketing after you have opted in, and your consent can be withdrawn at any time.

Reseller and Merchant of Record. Our order process is conducted by our online reseller Paddle.com. Paddle.com is the Merchant of Record for all our orders. Paddle provides all customer service inquiries and handles returns. Your purchase is also subject to Paddle's Buyer Terms, which govern payment, billing, tax, cancellation and refund mechanics.

Plans and billing. Writing, saving, importing and reading your own vault are free. Paid memberships are offered monthly or yearly and renew automatically at the start of each new billing period, at the price shown at checkout, until cancelled. One-time credit packs are charged once and add AI credits to your balance. Applicable sales tax or VAT is calculated and collected by Paddle at checkout.

Cancellation and plan changes. You can cancel from your Account page or through paddle.net at any time. Access continues until the end of the period you already paid for, after which the account returns to the free level. Upgrades and downgrades take effect immediately, with any proration handled by Paddle.

Price changes. We may change prices or plan contents. Changes never apply to a period you have already paid for, and we will give notice before a renewal at a new price so you can cancel first.

Refunds. We offer a 14-day money-back guarantee. See the Refund Policy for how to request one. Refunds are processed by Paddle at paddle.net.

Non-payment. If a charge fails and is not resolved, paid features may be suspended until payment is completed.

If any part of these terms is unenforceable, the rest stays in force. These terms are the whole agreement between you and us about the service. Each version of these terms is kept on record with the date and version you accepted.

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