Terms of Service

1. Acceptance

Using SurvivalOps means you accept these terms. If you do not, do not use it.

2. What SurvivalOps is

SurvivalOps is an offline reference tool. It carries a library of documents and a language model that runs on your device, and it answers questions by quoting and summarising the library.

It is a way to search and read documents you already have, faster and without a signal. It is not an authority, and the page it cites is always more reliable than the summary it writes.

3. It is not professional advice, and this matters more here than elsewhere

SurvivalOps does not give medical, veterinary, legal, structural or electrical advice, and nothing it tells you is a substitute for a professional or for emergency services.

If someone is badly hurt, call emergency services. If you have a signal, a phone call to a doctor, a vet, a poison centre or a lineman beats anything this app will tell you, every time.

The library is written for a wide range of readers and conditions, and a document that is right in one situation can be dangerous in another. The app can also be wrong: a language model can misread a table, mix two sources or state a number with more confidence than the page behind it deserves. Open the cited page before you act on a number. That is why every answer carries its sources.

4. Your responsibilities

You are responsible for what you do with what you read. Judge whether a document applies to your situation, and follow the law where you are, including any law about what you may do with the material in the library.

Keep your own backups of anything you cannot afford to lose.

5. Licence

We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use SurvivalOps. You may not resell it, sublicense it, or redistribute the app or its library as your own.

You keep whatever you write. We claim nothing in your questions, and in any case we never receive them.

6. The library and third-party material

The library is assembled from public and licensed sources, including government and agency publications and material published under open licences. Those documents remain the property of their authors and publishers, and their own licence terms govern what you may do with them.

Where a document requires attribution, the app shows it with the source. Redistributing a document out of the library is governed by that document's licence and not by ours.

7. Beta releases

Before release, and during any beta, the app may be incomplete, may change without notice, and may lose data between versions. Anything labelled beta or preview is offered as it stands.

8. No warranty

SurvivalOps is provided as it is, without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, or non-infringement.

We do not warrant that the app will be available, that it will be free of errors, or that anything in the library is accurate, current or suitable for what you intend to do with it.

9. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, Defcon One is not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, property, profit, injury or life, arising out of your use of SurvivalOps or your reliance on anything it tells you.

Some jurisdictions do not allow limits of this kind, in which case the limit applies as far as it lawfully can and no further, and nothing here removes a right you have that cannot be waived.

10. Changes to these terms

If these terms change, the new version will be published at this address with a revised date at the top.

11. Contact

SurvivalOps is built by Defcon One. For any question about this page, including a request to remove your details from the waitlist, use the message box on the waitlist page and say what you want. It reaches us whether or not you are on the list.