Terms of Service

These terms are an agreement between you and Consula. By using the waitlist, the website, or the application, you agree to them. Please read them. If you do not agree, please do not use the service.

1. Who we are

The service is provided by Consula, based in the Netherlands. For our full legal and registration details, write to hello@consula.nl.

2. What Consula does

Consula helps you turn a short brief into a presentation, an audience handout, and a facilitator plan, with tools to edit, present, and export them. The service generates this content automatically from the information you provide.

3. Early access

Consula is currently in early access (a "beta"). This means it is still being built and tested. Features may change, pause, or break, and the service may be unavailable at times. We offer it on an invite basis and we may change or end the beta at any time.

4. Who may use it

You must be at least 16 years old to use Consula, or older if the law in your country requires it. By using the service you confirm that you meet this requirement and that the details you give us are accurate.

5. Accounts and invite codes

• Access during the beta requires a valid invite code. Invite codes are personal, and we ask you not to share them.
• You are responsible for your account and for keeping your password safe. Tell us promptly if you think someone else has access.
• We may issue, limit, or revoke invite codes and accounts, including to protect the service or other users.

6. Acceptable use

When you use Consula, you agree not to:

• break the law, or use the service to create unlawful, harmful, hateful, or deceptive content,
• upload material you do not have the right to use, or that infringes someone else's rights or confidentiality,
• attempt to disrupt, overload, reverse engineer, or gain unauthorised access to the service,
• resell or commercially exploit the service without our written permission,
• use the service to build a competing product, or to abuse the providers behind it.

7. Your content

You keep ownership of the material you put into Consula and of the outputs the service generates for you. You are responsible for that material, including having the right to use it and to share it with us for processing.

You grant us a limited licence to host, copy, and process your material only as needed to run the service for you (for example, to generate, save, and export your work). We do not claim ownership of your content and we do not use it to advertise.

8. About the generated outputs

Automatically generated content can be wrong. The slides, handouts, and plans Consula produces are a starting point, not finished, verified work. They may contain mistakes, outdated information, or content that does not fit your situation. You are responsible for reviewing and correcting any output before you rely on it or share it. Consula does not provide legal, financial, medical, or other professional advice, and outputs should not be treated as such.

9. Our intellectual property

The Consula name, logo, design, and software belong to us and are protected by law. These terms do not give you any right to use our brand except as needed to use the service normally.

10. Third party services

Consula relies on third party providers for hosting, data storage, and content generation. Your use of the service is also subject to those providers' terms where they apply. We are not responsible for third party services that we do not control.

11. Availability and changes

We work to keep the service running, but we do not promise it will always be available, uninterrupted, or error free, especially during the beta. We may add, change, or remove features, and we may update these terms (see section 16).

12. No warranty

The service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, to the fullest extent permitted by law. We do not warrant that the service or its outputs will meet your needs or be accurate, reliable, or fit for a particular purpose.

13. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Consula is not liable for indirect or consequential loss, lost profit, lost data, or loss arising from your reliance on outputs. Nothing in these terms limits any liability that cannot be limited by law, such as liability for intent or gross negligence. Where our liability is limited rather than excluded, it is limited to the amount you paid us, if any, in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim. During the free beta, that amount may be zero.

14. Your responsibility to us

You agree to cover reasonable losses we suffer because you broke these terms or the law, or because of content you submitted, to the extent the law allows.

15. Suspension and ending access

You may stop using Consula at any time and ask us to close your account. We may suspend or end your access if you break these terms, if we need to protect the service or others, or if we discontinue the beta. Sections that by their nature should survive (such as content rights, disclaimers, and liability) continue to apply after access ends.

16. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms from time to time. When we make a material change, we will update the date above and, where appropriate, let you know. If you keep using the service after a change takes effect, you accept the updated terms.

17. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the law of the Netherlands. Any dispute will be brought before the competent court in the Netherlands, unless mandatory consumer law gives you the right to bring it elsewhere. We would always rather sort things out directly first, so please contact us before taking any formal step.

18. Contact

Questions about these terms? Write to hello@consula.nl.