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            <h1 class="page-title">Terms of Service</h1>
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              These terms govern access to the Ambient API, hosted coordinator, and related beta services. They are
              a practical draft for pilot use and remain subject to lawyer review before a public launch.
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              <span class="tag">Effective April 7, 2026</span>
              <span class="tag">Beta only</span>
              <span class="tag">Lawyer review pending</span>
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              <strong>Clients</strong>
              <span>These terms apply to teams creating API keys, submitting audio, and receiving transcripts.</span>
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              <strong>Usage</strong>
              <span>You are responsible for lawful audio collection, consent, and downstream use of the transcript.</span>
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              <strong>Beta</strong>
              <span>The service may change quickly while pilot integrations are still being hardened.</span>
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              <h3>1. Service scope</h3>
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                Ambient provides a hosted coordinator that accepts transcription jobs, splits audio into shards,
                dispatches work to enrolled workers, and returns merged transcript results. During beta, uptime targets,
                supported regions, and rate limits may change with notice.
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              <h3>2. Account responsibilities</h3>
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                You must keep API keys confidential, restrict access to authorized personnel, and notify Ambient if
                you believe credentials were exposed. You are responsible for all activity performed with your keys until
                they are revoked or rotated.
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              <h3>3. Acceptable use</h3>
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                You may not use Ambient to process unlawful material, evade privacy or wiretapping laws, attack the
                service, or submit workloads that would damage shared infrastructure. Ambient may suspend abusive or
                risky usage immediately.
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              <h3>4. Customer data</h3>
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                You represent that you have the rights and permissions needed to upload audio and receive transcripts.
                You retain ownership of your submitted content and resulting transcript, subject to the limited rights
                needed for Ambient to operate the service.
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              <h3>5. Fees and pilot pricing</h3>
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                Pilot pricing, credits, and monthly budget caps are defined in your partner record or written pilot
                agreement. Usage is measured by processed audio duration and related billing records maintained by the
                coordinator.
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              <h3>6. Availability and warranties</h3>
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                Ambient is offered on an “as is” and “as available” basis during beta. Transcription output may
                contain errors, and the service may experience interruptions while features are being tested or deployed.
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              <h3>7. Limitation of liability</h3>
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                To the maximum extent permitted by law, Ambient is not liable for indirect, incidental, special,
                consequential, or exemplary damages. Direct liability for beta use is limited to the amount you paid in
                the three months before the event giving rise to the claim.
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              <h3>8. Termination</h3>
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                Either party may stop using the beta at any time. Ambient may suspend or terminate access for policy
                violations, security incidents, non-payment, or material misuse of the service.
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              Contact the Ambient team before sending production or regulated workloads. This beta draft does not
              claim HIPAA, CJIS, or other sector-specific compliance coverage.
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