Terms of use.

This website and the Cortexa app for iPhone, iPad and Android are operated by Cortexa Consulting LLC (“Cortexa,” “we,” “us”). By using the site or the app, or by creating an account, you agree to these terms and to our privacy policy. If you don't agree, please don't use them.

This is an informational marketing site. Its content, including our Ground Truth articles, is provided for general information — it is not professional, legal, financial, or technical advice for your specific situation, and using the site doesn't create a consulting or client relationship.

Nothing on the site is an offer or a binding proposal. Any engagement between you and Cortexa is governed only by a separate written agreement we both sign.

Our on-site assistant and contact form are ways to reach us and learn what we do. The assistant is automated and may be incomplete or occasionally wrong, so treat it as a helpful guide, not a definitive answer, and verify anything that matters.

Please don't send confidential, sensitive, or regulated information (trade secrets, personal data of others, protected health or financial information) through the chat or contact form. Share those only under a signed agreement through an appropriate channel.

Who may use it. The app is for adults. You must be at least 18 to create an account or use it. If we learn that an account belongs to someone younger, we will delete it.

Your account. There is no password. You sign in with a one-time code we email you, so keep your inbox secure and don't share a code with anyone. You are responsible for what happens under your account, and you agree to give us an email address that is yours. One person, one account.

Courses and Cortexa Learn. Courses are added to an account by invitation, under the agreement that covers your program. Cortexa Learn, the short daily lesson on working with AI, is free and open to anyone with an account. We may change, pause or end Learn or any course at any time; the content is educational, not professional advice, and you use what you learn at your own judgment.

Automated feedback. Some Learn steps ask you to explain an idea in your own words. Your answer is graded by an automated model against a rubric we wrote, and the feedback can be incomplete or wrong. It is a study aid, not an assessment of you, and it is not stored. Graded checks are limited per day; when the day's allowance is spent you can still finish the lesson.

Acceptable use. The rules for the website apply in the app too. In addition: don't create accounts with addresses you don't control, don't automate sign-ups or lesson play, don't try to alter your progress or points outside the app, and don't use the app to harass anyone or to send us abusive content. We may disable or delete an account that breaks these rules.

Guest play. You may play Cortexa Learn as a guest before creating an account. Guest progress is tied to the phone it was made on and to a random identifier, not to you; if you delete the app, reset the phone or do not use Learn for 60 days, it is gone, and we cannot recover it. Saving your progress to an email address makes it an account under these terms. Guests cannot request course access.

Inactive accounts. A free account that is not used for 60 days is deleted, along with its Learn progress. We do this so we don't keep personal information we have no reason to hold. Opening the app or finishing a lesson counts as use. Accounts placed on a course by invitation are deleted after a year without use, in the same way.

Ending things. You can delete your account at any time inside the app under Settings; deletion removes your profile and everything tied to it, as described in the privacy policy. We may disable or delete accounts that break these terms or that we reasonably believe are fraudulent or automated, and we may discontinue the app. Where we can, we will tell you first.

The site, the app and their content — text, the Ground Truth articles and artwork, the course material, the Cortexa Learn lessons and characters, graphics, the Cortexa and Ground Truth marks, and the design — are owned by Cortexa or its licensors and protected by law. We give you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the app and view the content for your own learning and reference.

Please don't copy, republish, scrape, or use our content or marks commercially without our written permission. Short, attributed quotations of our articles with a link back are welcome.

Use the site lawfully. Don't attempt to break, overload, or gain unauthorized access to it; don't probe or bypass its security; don't misuse the assistant or forms to send spam, malware, or abusive content; and don't scrape it in a way that burdens the service.

We link to outside sources (for example, the references in our articles). We don't control those sites and aren't responsible for their content or practices, and visiting them is at your own discretion.

The site is provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We don't warrant that the site will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that its information is complete or current.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Cortexa will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or any loss arising from your use of (or inability to use) the site or its content. Where liability cannot be excluded, it is limited to the greatest extent the law allows.

You agree to cover reasonable losses we incur from your misuse of the site or your violation of these terms.

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of North Carolina, USA, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. Any dispute will be handled in the state or federal courts located in North Carolina.

We may update these terms; we'll revise the “last updated” date above, and material changes will be clear on this page. Continuing to use the site means you accept the current terms.

Questions about these terms? Reach us through the contact page or at legal@cortexa-consulting.ai.