Terms of use

The service

encourages.me helps you remember and draft encouragement for people in your circle. We email you nudges. You edit and send from your own email or text client. Digital encouragement through the product is free; we may offer paid add-ons later (for example physical cards) without paywalling the act of encouraging itself.

Your account

You’re responsible for the email inbox you use to sign in and for activity under your account. Keep your magic-link emails private — anyone with a valid link can sign in as you until it expires.

Your circle and other people’s information

You may store information about other people (names, seasons, hard dates, notes, contact hints). You represent that you have a legitimate personal reason to keep those reminders, that you’ll keep them respectful and reasonably accurate, and that you won’t use the service to harass, stalk, or harm anyone. Contact hints are for your sending convenience only; we never message those people for you.

Content and scripture

Drafts may include scripture from public-domain translations we host, verified quotes from our library, and framing text (sometimes AI-assisted for light seasons). You are responsible for what you actually send. We do not invent scripture or fabricate attributed quotes. Heavy-season content is intended to come only from a human-reviewed pool — still, no automated system is perfect; use judgment before you send.

Acceptable use

Don’t use encourages.me to:

• Break the law or anyone’s rights
• Spam, phish, or send deceptive messages
• Probe, overload, or disrupt the service
• Scrape keepsake pages or other users’ data

Availability

We aim for reliability but don’t promise uninterrupted uptime. Features may change as we learn. Early versions are offered as-is while we validate whether nudged people actually send.

Disclaimers

The service is not medical, mental-health, legal, or pastoral advice. Encouragement drafts are starting points, not a substitute for showing up in person or getting professional help when that’s needed. To the fullest extent allowed by law, the service is provided “as is” without warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement.

Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent allowed by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits or data, arising from your use of the service. Our total liability for any claim relating to the service is limited to the greater of (a) amounts you paid us in the 12 months before the claim or (b) zero dollars if the service was free for you.

Termination

You may delete your account anytime in Settings. We may suspend or end access if these terms are violated or if we discontinue the service. We’ll try to give notice when we reasonably can.

Changes

We may update these terms. The effective date above will change when we do. Continued use after an update means you accept the revised terms.

Contact

jonathan@encourages.me