Terms & Conditions

Effective Date: August 21, 2026
Last Updated: August 21, 2026
Version: terms-v1

These Terms & Conditions (“Terms”) are an agreement between you and Silas for your use of the Silas mobile app and related services (the “Service”).

These Terms include our Privacy Policy. When you accept these Terms, you also accept the Privacy Policy. This edition replaces earlier beta terms (beta-terms-v1).

If you do not agree, do not create an account and do not use the Service.

1. Who we are

Silas is operated by Silas.AI LLC (“Silas,” “we,” “us,” or “our”).

We may assign these Terms, and transfer the Service, to a successor organization we control (for example, in a reorganization, merger, or sale of the Service). If that happens, that successor will step into our place under these Terms.

Contact: admin@silasapp.ai

2. Eligibility

You must be at least 13 years old to use Silas.

If you are 13–17, you may use Silas only if you have permission from a parent or guardian where that is required, and only in a way that is consistent with the rules of your family, school, or ministry.

You may not use Silas if we have previously closed your account for a violation of these Terms.

Silas is offered for use in the United States.

3. What Silas is — and what it is not

Silas is a spiritual companion. It is designed to help you become more grounded in Scripture, less isolated, and more consistent in your walk with Christ. Silas provides daily Scripture, reflection, and encouragement. It is an on-ramp to Scripture, prayer, and brotherhood — not a replacement for church, pastors, or mentors.

Silas is not:

• A substitute for pastoral care, professional counseling, medical advice, or mental health care
• A crisis or emergency service
• Monitored in real time by a person
• A public social network

If you are in immediate danger, call emergency services. In the United States, you can also call or text 988 for the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. If you need pastoral or professional help, please reach out to a trusted person, your church, or a qualified professional.

Use your own judgment. Consult trusted sources when you need them.

4. Your account

You need an account to use most of the Service. You agree to:

• Provide accurate information (including a preferred first name you are willing for Brotherhood members to see, if you join a group)
• Keep your password confidential
• Use only one account, unless we agree otherwise
• Tell us promptly at admin@silasapp.ai if you think someone else is using your account

You are responsible for activity that happens under your account, except where we caused the problem.

We may refuse, suspend, or close an account as described in Section 11.

You may delete your account in the app: Profile → Delete account. Deletion is immediate after you confirm. If that flow fails, email admin@silasapp.ai. Details are in the Privacy Policy.

5. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• Use Silas if you are under 13
• Break the law, or encourage others to break the law
• Harass, threaten, sexually exploit, or shame another person
• Post content that is hateful, pornographic, or that exploits children
• Share another person’s private information or Brotherhood content outside the group without their permission
• Impersonate someone else, or misrepresent your affiliation with a church, school, or ministry
• Attempt to access another user’s account, journals, or chat
• Probe, scan, or disrupt the Service, or bypass security or rate limits
• Scrape, harvest, or bulk-export content except as we expressly allow
• Use Silas to build a competing dataset or to train an AI model
• Reverse engineer the app except where the law allows it
• Send spam, or use Brotherhood invites to contact people who did not expect an invite from you

We want Brotherhood to be a place of honesty and care. Disagreement is allowed. Contempt is not.

6. Brotherhood and Organizations

6.1 Brotherhood

Brotherhood is a small group for prayer, discussion, and accountability. If you join a group, other members of that group can see your preferred name, commitments, completion status, prayer requests, and discussion posts. That visibility is part of the product. Do not post what you are not willing for your brothers in that group to see.

You may delete discussion posts you authored. Deleted posts are hidden immediately. They may remain in our systems for up to 30 days before permanent removal, as described in the Privacy Policy.

In this version of Silas, only the author can delete a discussion post. Group members and Organization leaders do not have a separate moderation-delete tool.

6.2 Organizations

An Organization (for example, a church or ministry) may offer programs, events, and a larger Brotherhood capacity. Leaders can manage content, membership, branding, and events. Leaders cannot read your journals or private Silas Chat history.

If a leader is also in your Brotherhood, they see only what other members of that Brotherhood see.

Partners such as Fellowship of Christian Athletes use Silas as a platform. They do not receive a side channel of your private spiritual data.

6.3 Invites

If you invite someone to Brotherhood, you should only invite a person who would reasonably expect to hear from you. Invite emails are used to deliver the invitation and are handled as described in the Privacy Policy.

7. Silas Chat and AI

Silas uses artificial intelligence (provided by OpenAI, acting for us) to generate Chat replies.

You understand and agree that:

• Replies may be incomplete, unhelpful, or wrong — including about Scripture, your situation, or advice
• Chat may process relevant content you created in Silas — including journal reflections and commitments when that context is needed for a reply — as described in the Privacy Policy
• Chat is not a human pastor, counselor, or doctor, and it does not create a confidential clergy or therapist relationship
• You will not rely on Silas as your only source of spiritual, medical, legal, or safety guidance

We work to keep responses grounded and appropriate. We do not guarantee any particular result.

8. Your content and our license

Your content. You keep whatever rights you have in the content you create in Silas (journals, chat messages, commitments, prayers, discussion posts, and similar).

License you grant us. You grant Silas a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, process, display, and transmit that content only as needed to operate the Service. That includes:

• Showing Brotherhood content to members of your group
• Sending Chat context to our AI provider to generate a reply
• Backing up, securing, and debugging the Service
• Creating de-identified or aggregated information that does not identify you

This license ends when we no longer need the content to operate the Service, subject to the retention and deletion rules in the Privacy Policy.

You promise that you have the right to post your content and that it does not violate these Terms or someone else’s rights.

Our content. The Silas app, name, design, original writing (other than Scripture), and software are owned by us or our licensors. We grant you a personal, limited, revocable, non-transferable license to use the app for your own spiritual growth, not to copy, resell, or create a derivative service.

Scripture. Bible text used in Silas remains subject to the rights of its publishers and translators. We do not claim to own Scripture.

9. Notifications

If you enable follow-through reminders, we will send push notifications using a device token. You can turn reminders off in Profile or in your device settings. Notification delivery depends on Apple, Google, and our notification provider, and is not guaranteed.

10. Privacy

Our Privacy Policy explains what we collect, how Silas Chat uses your content, what Brotherhood members can see, how long we keep information, and how to delete your account. It is part of these Terms.

11. Suspension and termination

You may stop using Silas at any time and may delete your account as described in Section 4.

We may suspend or close your account, or limit features, if:

• You violate these Terms
• We must do so to protect the Service, another user, or a minor
• We are required to do so by law
• We discontinue the Service

If we close your account for a violation, we may refuse a new account. If we discontinue Silas entirely, we will try to give reasonable notice when we can.

Provisions that should survive will survive, including Sections 7 (as to past use), 8, 12, 13, and 14.

12. Disclaimers

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE.” TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT THE LAW ALLOWS, WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

We do not warrant that Silas will be uninterrupted, error-free, or free of harmful components, or that Chat replies will be accurate, complete, or suitable for your circumstances.

Some states do not allow certain disclaimers. If those laws apply to you, some of the above may not apply, and you may have additional rights.

13. Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT THE LAW ALLOWS, SILAS AND ITS OWNER, SUCCESSORS, AND SERVICE PROVIDERS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, LOST DATA, OR LOSS OF GOODWILL, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICE, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT THE LAW ALLOWS, OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ANY CLAIM ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICE WILL NOT EXCEED ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS (US $100).

The Service is offered without a fee in this version. The limits above allocate risk in a way that lets us provide Silas.

These limits do not apply to liability that the law does not allow us to limit, including (where applicable) liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or for fraud.

14. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the United States, without regard to conflict-of-law rules that would apply a different jurisdiction’s law.

If a dispute cannot be resolved informally, you and we agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts in the United States as allowed by law, except that you may bring an eligible claim in small-claims court in your county of residence.

If a court finds part of these Terms unenforceable, the rest remains in effect. If we do not enforce a provision, we have not waived it.

15. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. We will change the “Last Updated” date when we do. If a change is material, we will give additional notice in the app — for example, by asking you to accept the new version before you continue.

The version identifier for this edition is terms-v1. Accepting terms-v1 means you accept these Terms and Privacy Policy privacy-v1.

If you do not agree to an update, you should stop using Silas and delete your account.

16. Other terms

These Terms are the entire agreement between you and us about the Service, and they replace prior beta terms and any other prior agreement about the same subject.

You may not assign these Terms without our consent. We may assign them as described in Section 1.

There are no third-party beneficiaries except as the law requires.

Headings are for convenience only.

Contact: admin@silasapp.ai

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