1. Acceptance of these terms
Bean is an iOS app published by the Bean team ("Bean," "we," "us"). By downloading, opening, or using Bean, you agree to these Terms of Service. When you first open the app, Bean also shows you a short disclosure about the data it sends to its AI provider and asks you to agree before you can start a session. If you do not agree to these terms or to that disclosure, please don't use Bean.
You must be at least 13 years old (or the minimum age of digital consent in your country, if higher) to use Bean.
2. What Bean is
Bean is a voice assistant for your iPhone. You talk to it out loud, and — when you choose to share your screen — it can look at what's on your screen to help you with it. Bean answers by voice in real time.
Bean is a thin client. It does not run the AI itself; it streams your request to a third-party AI provider, which generates the response. See the next section.
3. The AI provider and what's shared
The AI that understands your requests and generates Bean's answers is operated by xAI Corp., a third-party AI provider, accessed through their commercial API. To provide the service, Bean sends the following to xAI, in real time and over an encrypted connection:
- Your microphone audio during an active session, so the assistant can hear you.
- Images of your screen, but only when you have started screen sharing and ask Bean about what's on your screen.
- The text of your requests, so the model can understand what you're asking.
xAI processes your inputs to generate Bean's response and does not use them to train its AI models. For the full detail of what is and isn't sent, see our Privacy Policy. xAI's own privacy practices are published at x.ai/legal/privacy-policy.
By agreeing to the in-app disclosure and using Bean, you consent to your audio, screen images, and request text being sent to xAI for the purpose of generating responses, as described here and in the Privacy Policy.
4. Acceptable use
When you use Bean, you agree not to:
- Use Bean for anything unlawful, or to produce content that is illegal, harmful, or infringes someone else's rights.
- Share another person's private or sensitive information through Bean without their permission.
- Deliberately put payment card numbers, passwords, or other credentials on screen that you don't want processed by an AI provider.
- Attempt to break, overload, reverse-engineer, or abuse the app or the underlying API.
- Use Bean in a way that violates xAI's usage policies.
You're responsible for what you say to Bean and what you choose to show it on your screen.
5. AI answers are not professional advice
Bean's responses are generated by an AI model and can be wrong, incomplete, or misleading. Bean does not provide medical, legal, financial, or other professional advice. Don't rely on Bean for important decisions without checking the facts yourself or consulting a qualified professional. You use Bean's output at your own discretion and risk.
6. Service provided "as is"
Bean is provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, or uninterrupted availability. We don't guarantee that Bean will always be available, error-free, or that the AI provider will remain available to us.
7. Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Bean and its team will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages, or for any loss arising from your use of — or reliance on — Bean or its AI-generated output. Some jurisdictions don't allow certain limitations, so some of these may not apply to you.
8. Changes
We may update Bean and these terms from time to time — for example, if we add a feature or change a provider. When we make material changes, we'll update the "Last updated" date above, and where the change affects what data is shared, Bean will show you an updated disclosure in the app and ask you to agree again. Continuing to use Bean after a change means you accept the updated terms.
9. Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Quebec, Canada, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, except where mandatory local consumer-protection laws give you stronger rights.
10. Contact
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