Dot Terms of Service
Effective 28 August 2026. Rewritten because the product changed. Dot no longer operates your Mac: it works on a computer of its own, it requires an account, and it has a mailbox of its own.
These Terms govern your use of Dot, an assistant for macOS, together with use-dot.com and related services (the "Service"), provided by Provable, a sole proprietorship ("we", "us"). By installing or using the Service you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.
Please read section 5, sections 9 to 11, and section 16 carefully. They describe what Dot does to your computer, disclaim warranties, limit our liability, and require most disputes to be resolved by individual arbitration rather than in court or as part of a class action.
1. The Service
Dot takes a request you type and carries it out on a computer of its own: a browser it drives and a shell, running on a machine we operate. It does not move your pointer, type into your applications, or raise windows on your Mac. It can run commands on your Mac and look at your screen where a request is specifically about your own files or applications.
Where a website needs you rather than Dot, such as a sign-in, Dot shows you that page inside its own window and passes your clicks and keystrokes to it. What you type there is not sent to any model.
Dot is given an email address of its own, and can send and receive mail at it on your behalf when you ask it to.
Dot uses third-party artificial intelligence models, currently from Anthropic and OpenAI, to interpret your requests. Its behaviour is probabilistic and will not always be correct.
2. Eligibility
You must be at least 13 years old, and old enough to form a binding contract where you live. If you use the Service for an organisation, you represent that you are authorised to bind it to these Terms.
3. Licence
We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to install and use Dot for its intended purpose, subject to these Terms. We reserve all rights not expressly granted.
4. Acceptable use
You must not:
- use the Service unlawfully, or to facilitate unlawful activity;
- use it to access accounts, systems, or data you are not authorised to access;
- use it to defeat security measures, solve or bypass CAPTCHAs, evade rate limits, impersonate others, or send unsolicited or automated communications at scale;
- attempt to extract credentials, keys, or secrets from the software or our servers, or to reverse engineer, decompile, or tamper with the Service except where that restriction is prohibited by law;
- circumvent usage limits, register device identifiers programmatically or in bulk, or resell or provide the Service to third parties as a service;
- interfere with, overload, or disrupt the Service or its infrastructure;
- use the Service to generate or act upon content that is illegal, harmful, or infringes the rights of others.
We may suspend or terminate access immediately if we reasonably believe you have breached this section.
5. Your responsibility for what Dot does
This is the most important term in this document.
Dot acts on your instruction, on your computer, with your permissions. You are solely responsible for the instructions you give it and for the consequences of the actions it takes.
You acknowledge and agree that:
- Dot may misinterpret a request, act on the wrong element, act in the wrong application or window, or take an action you did not intend;
- actions taken on your computer may be irreversible, including sending messages, submitting forms, making purchases, changing settings, and deleting data;
- you are responsible for supervising Dot while it is acting, and for stopping it, tapping Right Option or pressing Escape halts any action in progress;
- you should not use Dot for tasks where an incorrect action could cause serious harm, including but not limited to financial transactions, medical or legal decisions, safety-critical systems, or the handling of credentials;
- you are responsible for maintaining your own backups.
Dot includes protections. It works on a computer of its own and cannot reach your keyboard, your pointer or any application on your Mac. It offers a setting that leaves your Mac alone entirely, and it asks for confirmation according to a setting whose default asks before anything on your Mac that cannot be undone and before spending, and does not ask before work on its own computer. These are safeguards, not guarantees. They reduce risk; they do not eliminate it, and you must not rely on them as your only protection.
6. Output
Output produced by the Service may be inaccurate, incomplete, or unsuitable for your purpose. You must evaluate output for accuracy and appropriateness before relying on it. We make no representation that output is correct, and you use it at your own risk.
As between you and us, you retain your rights in the content you provide and in output generated from your requests, to the extent such rights exist. Similar or identical output may be generated for other users.
7. Usage limits and availability
The Service is subject to usage limits, which we may set, change, or enforce at our discretion to keep it available and affordable. We may modify, suspend, or discontinue any part of the Service at any time, with or without notice. We do not guarantee uptime, availability, or that the Service will be error-free or uninterrupted.
8. Fees
Dot is free to use within a monthly allowance. Paid plans raise that allowance and are sold as monthly subscriptions. Prices are shown at use-dot.com/pricing and on the checkout page before you are charged, in US dollars and exclusive of any tax, which is added at checkout where it applies.
A subscription renews automatically each month until you cancel it, and the charge is taken on the renewal date. You may switch plans at any time from the same place you cancel. Moving to a larger plan takes effect at once and is charged only for the days remaining in the month, so it costs the difference rather than a second subscription. Moving to a smaller plan takes effect at your next renewal, so the month you have already paid for runs its course on the plan you paid for. You may cancel at any time, from the "Manage Subscription" item in Dot's menu or at use-dot.com/pricing, using the email address you paid with. Cancelling stops the next renewal; the plan continues for the rest of the month you have already paid for. Fees already paid are non-refundable except where required by law.
Every plan, including the largest, stops when its monthly allowance and a small allowance beyond it are exhausted. We may change prices or what a plan includes; a change affecting a subscription you already hold takes effect at your next renewal, and we will tell you before it does.
9. Disclaimer of warranties
THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express, implied, or statutory, including any warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, accuracy, and any warranty arising from course of dealing or usage of trade.
We do not warrant that the Service will meet your requirements, that it will operate without interruption or error, or that any action it takes will be correct or appropriate.
Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so some of the above may not apply to you.
10. Limitation of liability
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, GOODWILL, OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT, OR ANY OTHER THEORY, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US IN THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR (B) ONE HUNDRED US DOLLARS ($100).
These limitations apply to all claims, including those arising from actions Dot took on your computer, data loss or corruption, and any inaccuracy in output.
Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain damages, so some of the above may not apply to you. Nothing in these Terms excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, including for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud.
11. Indemnification
You will indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Provable and its officers, employees, and agents from any claim, demand, loss, liability, or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of your use of the Service, the instructions you give it, the actions it takes at your direction, your breach of these Terms, or your violation of any law or the rights of a third party.
12. Third-party services
The Service relies on third parties, and Dot acts within applications and websites you direct it to. Your use of those applications and services is governed by their own terms, and we are not responsible for them or for the consequences of Dot interacting with them at your direction.
Accounts Dot opens are yours. Where doing what you asked requires an account somewhere, Dot may open one on your behalf. That account is yours, not ours and not Dot's: it is opened in your name, it is governed by that site's own terms, which you are agreeing to, and you are responsible for it exactly as if you had filled the form in yourself. It uses an address we provide for its mail, because a mailbox has to keep working while your Mac is shut, but the mailbox is not the account holder. You are.
Where such a form asks for something about you that Dot does not know, it stops and asks you rather than inventing an answer.
You must not direct Dot to open an account in anyone else's name, or on any service whose terms prohibit automated signup or agent use. If you do, section 5 applies: that is your instruction and your responsibility.
13. Privacy
Our handling of information is described in our Privacy Policy at use-dot.com/privacy, which forms part of these Terms.
14. Termination
You may stop using the Service at any time by uninstalling Dot, and cancel a subscription as described in section 8. We may suspend or terminate your access at any time, with or without notice, including for breach of these Terms or to protect the Service; if we do so other than for breach, we will refund the unused part of any subscription month you have paid for. Sections 5, 6, and 9 to 17 survive termination.
15. Changes
We may modify these Terms. The effective date above will be revised and the current version published at use-dot.com/terms. For material changes we will provide reasonable notice in the application or by other means. Continued use after changes take effect constitutes acceptance. If you do not agree, stop using the Service.
16. Governing law and dispute resolution
Please read this section carefully. It affects how disputes between us are resolved, and it limits your right to bring a claim in court or as part of a class action.
Governing law. These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, United States, without regard to conflict of laws principles.
Talk to us first. Before starting a formal proceeding, you agree to try to resolve the dispute informally by sending a written description of it to admin@provableintelligence.com and giving us thirty days to respond. Most problems can be settled this way, and both of us are better off if they are.
Binding individual arbitration. If we cannot resolve it informally, you and we agree that any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service will be settled by binding arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, rather than in court. The arbitrator's decision is final and may be entered as a judgment in any court of competent jurisdiction. The arbitration will take place in the county where you live or by videoconference, and may proceed on written submissions alone if the amount in dispute allows.
Class action waiver. You and we agree to bring claims only in an individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class, collective, consolidated, or representative proceeding. The arbitrator may not consolidate claims or preside over any form of representative proceeding. If this waiver is held unenforceable as to a particular claim, that claim, and only that claim, will be severed and heard in court.
Jury trial waiver. To the extent any dispute proceeds in court rather than arbitration, you and we each waive any right to a jury trial.
Small claims. Either of us may instead bring an individual claim in small claims court, if it qualifies.
Injunctive relief. Either of us may seek injunctive or equitable relief in any court of competent jurisdiction to protect intellectual property or prevent unauthorised access to the Service.
How to opt out. You may decline this arbitration agreement by emailing admin@provableintelligence.com with your device identifier and the words "arbitration opt-out" within thirty days of first using the Service. Opting out affects nothing else in these Terms.
Consumers. If you are a consumer, you may have the benefit of mandatory provisions of the law of your country of residence, including any right to bring proceedings there, and nothing in this section deprives you of them. Where mandatory local law conflicts with this section, that law prevails.
17. General
These Terms, with the Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Service. If any provision is held unenforceable, it will be limited or severed and the remainder will remain in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms; we may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.
18. Contact
admin@provableintelligence.com
Provable, a sole proprietorship, United States.
