Terms of Service
Effective July 30, 2026 · Protocol, operated by Stevesaiguide (“we,” “us”) — the “Service.”
Plain-language summary; not a substitute for legal review.
1. Acceptance
By using the Service you agree to these Terms, the Privacy Policy, and the Acceptable Use Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.
2. What the Service is
Protocol teaches AI skills and generates draft text and analysis from the inputs you provide. It is an educational and drafting tool. Every output is a first draft for a qualified person — you — to review, verify, and approve before it is used.
3. Your content, and our license to process it
You own the inputs you provide and the outputs you generate. By submitting content (text, documents, photos), you authorize us to process it — including sending it to our AI model provider — solely to produce your outputs and operate the Service, as described in the Privacy Policy. You are responsible for having the right to submit what you paste and for your use of what comes back.
4. AI output — accuracy and your responsibility
AI output is generated by probabilistic models and may be inaccurate, incomplete, or outdated even when it looks authoritative. You are solely responsible for reviewing, verifying, and editing every output before you rely on it, publish it, or share it.
5. No professional advice
The Service does not provide legal, regulatory, clinical, or intellectual-property advice, and using it creates no professional relationship. It does not determine whether you may disclose anything: whether material is confidential, patentable, export-controlled, or covered by a sponsor agreement is a question for your technology transfer office, your sponsor agreement, or your IRB, and the Service never resolves it for you.
Drafts are built only from what you provide. You remain responsible for tracing every number back to your own data, for confirming that every reference resolves to a real work before you cite it, and for the scientific decisions the Service may only propose — the statistical test, the quality thresholds, the outlier calls, the normalisation. Output is a working draft, never a result, a finding, or a conclusion, and it is not an official record of any experiment until you have checked and adopted it.
Confidential and unpublished material. You are responsible for what you submit. Disclosure cannot be undone: unpublished results, sequences, and structures may affect patentability, and material received under agreement belongs to someone who is not a party to these terms. De-identify human-subject data before you paste it, and leave identifiers out entirely.
6. Accounts
Sign-in is by email link. Provide an accurate address, keep control of your inbox, and you’re responsible for activity under your account. You must be at least 18 and use the Service for lawful business purposes.
7. Plans and payment
Paid plans are billed as described at the point of purchase, including cycle, renewal, and cancellation. Fees already paid are non-refundable except where required by law or stated at checkout. Free-tier access and metered usage limits may change on notice.
8. Acceptable use
Your use is subject to the Acceptable Use Policy, including the bar on generating discriminatory, deceptive, or unlawful content.
9. Intellectual property
We own the Service, its lessons, skills, and prompt library. Subject to these Terms, you own your inputs and outputs.
10. No warranty
The Service and all output are provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, and any warranty of accuracy, compliance, or outcomes.
11. Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss arising from your use of or reliance on any output. Our total liability for any claim is capped at the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim.
12. Indemnification
You agree to indemnify us against claims arising from your use of the Service or your publication of any generated content.
13. Changes, termination, governing law
We may modify the Service or these Terms on reasonable notice, and may suspend or terminate accounts for violations. These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Tennessee, without regard to conflict-of-law rules, and disputes belong to the state or federal courts located in Tennessee, except where you have a right to bring a qualifying claim in small-claims court.
14. Contact
Questions: [email protected].