Agreement to Our Legal Terms
We are Volta Instruments LLC, doing business as Volta ("Company," "we," "us," "our"), a company registered in New York, United States at 418 Broadway STE N, Albany, NY 12207.
We operate mobile applications including mercuri, and any future applications that reference these Legal Terms (collectively, the "Services"). Additional applications published by Volta Instruments LLC will be added to these Terms as they become available.
You can contact us by email at studio@byvolta.app or by mail to 418 Broadway STE N, Albany, NY 12207, United States.
These Legal Terms constitute a legally binding agreement between you and Volta Instruments LLC, concerning your access to and use of the Services. You agree that by accessing the Services, you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by all of these Legal Terms. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH ALL OF THESE LEGAL TERMS, THEN YOU ARE EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED FROM USING THE SERVICES AND YOU MUST DISCONTINUE USE IMMEDIATELY.
mercuri links to these Legal Terms from within the application; using mercuri constitutes your agreement to these Terms, including the mercuri-specific terms in Sections 26 through 33 below. Please read these Legal Terms before accepting.
The Services are intended for users who are at least 18 years old. Persons under the age of 18 are not permitted to use or register for the Services.
We recommend that you save a copy of these Legal Terms for your records. These Terms are available at byvolta.app/terms.
The following terms apply to all applications published by Volta Instruments LLC. App-specific terms are listed separately below and apply only to users of the designated application.
1. Our Services
The information provided when using the Services is not intended for distribution to or use by any person or entity in any jurisdiction or country where such distribution or use would be contrary to law or regulation or which would subject us to any registration requirement within such jurisdiction or country. Accordingly, those persons who choose to access the Services from other locations do so on their own initiative and are solely responsible for compliance with local laws, if and to the extent local laws are applicable.
Volta Instruments applications are not medical devices and are not designed to comply with medical device regulations or healthcare-specific laws, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). If your use of any application requires a medically regulated device or service, Volta Instruments applications are not appropriate for your purposes.
2. Intellectual Property Rights
Our intellectual property
We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our Services, including all source code, functionality, software, designs, audio, video, text, photographs, and graphics in the Services (collectively, the "Content"), as well as the trademarks, service marks, and logos contained therein (the "Marks").
Our Content and Marks are protected by copyright and trademark laws (and various other intellectual property rights and unfair competition laws) and treaties in the United States and around the world.
The Content and Marks are provided in or through the Services "AS IS" for your personal, non-commercial use only.
Your use of our Services
Subject to your compliance with these Legal Terms, including the "Prohibited Activities" section below, we grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access the Services solely for your personal, non-commercial use. For mobile applications, the specific license terms in Section 9 apply and govern over this general provision.
Except as set out in this section or elsewhere in our Legal Terms, no part of the Services and no Content or Marks may be copied, reproduced, aggregated, republished, uploaded, posted, publicly displayed, encoded, translated, transmitted, distributed, sold, licensed, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose whatsoever, without our express prior written permission.
If you wish to make any use of the Services, Content, or Marks other than as set out in this section, please address your request to: studio@byvolta.app.
We reserve all rights not expressly granted to you in and to the Services, Content, and Marks.
Any breach of these Intellectual Property Rights will constitute a material breach of our Legal Terms and your right to use our Services will terminate immediately.
Your submissions
By directly sending us any question, comment, suggestion, idea, feedback, or other information about the Services ("Submissions"), you grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, perpetual license to use, reproduce, modify, and incorporate such Submission into our Services for any lawful purpose. This license does not transfer ownership of your Submission, and we will not claim ownership of personal communications or support requests.
3. User Representations
By using the Services, you represent and warrant that: (1) you are at least 18 years of age; (2) you have the legal capacity and you agree to comply with these Legal Terms; (3) you will not access the Services through automated or non-human means, whether through a bot, script, or otherwise; (4) you will not use the Services for any illegal or unauthorized purpose; and (5) your use of the Services will not violate any applicable law or regulation.
4. Products
All products are subject to availability. We reserve the right to discontinue any products at any time for any reason. Prices for all products are subject to change.
In the event that a paid application is discontinued, we will provide reasonable advance notice to existing users. Nothing in this section limits rights you may have under applicable consumer protection law, including any right to refunds or compensation under the EU Digital Content Directive or equivalent legislation in your jurisdiction.
5. Purchases and Payment
All purchases of Volta Instruments applications are processed exclusively by Apple through the Apple App Store. Volta Instruments LLC does not directly collect, store, or have access to your payment information, including credit card numbers, billing addresses, or any other financial data. All payment processing is subject to Apple's terms of service and privacy policy.
Prices for our applications are established in US dollars and may be displayed in local currency by Apple at applicable exchange rates. Applicable taxes may be added to the price of purchases as required by applicable law and are handled by Apple.
We may change prices at any time for future purchases. Price changes do not affect purchases already completed.
6. Refunds Policy
All refund requests for Volta Instruments applications must be submitted directly to Apple in accordance with Apple's App Store refund policy. Volta Instruments LLC does not process refunds directly. To request a refund, visit reportaproblem.apple.com.
7. Software
We grant to you a non-exclusive, revocable, personal, and non-transferable license to use our applications solely in connection with our Services and in accordance with these Legal Terms. For mobile applications, the terms of Section 9 apply and govern. Any software and any related documentation is provided "AS IS" without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including, without limitation, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. You accept any and all risk arising out of use or performance of any software, except as provided by applicable consumer protection law. For risks specific to particular applications, please review the app-specific sections of these Terms. You may not reproduce or redistribute any software except in accordance with these Legal Terms.
8. Prohibited Activities
You may not access or use the Services for any purpose other than that for which we make the Services available. The Services may not be used in connection with any commercial endeavors except those that are specifically endorsed or approved by us.
As a user of the Services, you agree not to:
- Systematically retrieve data or other content from the Services to create or compile, directly or indirectly, a collection, compilation, database, or directory without written permission from us.
- Trick, defraud, or mislead us or other users in any way.
- Circumvent, disable, or otherwise interfere with security-related features of the Services.
- Use any information obtained from the Services in order to harass, abuse, or harm another person.
- Make improper use of our support services or submit false reports of abuse or misconduct.
- Use the Services in a manner inconsistent with any applicable laws or regulations, including operating the Services while driving or operating heavy machinery.
- Upload or transmit viruses, Trojan horses, or other malicious material that interferes with any party's uninterrupted use and enjoyment of the Services.
- Engage in any automated use of the system, such as using scripts, bots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools.
- Delete the copyright or other proprietary rights notice from any Content.
- Attempt to impersonate another user or person.
- Interfere with, disrupt, or create an undue burden on the Services or the networks or services connected to the Services.
- Attempt to bypass any measures of the Services designed to prevent or restrict access to the Services, or any portion of the Services.
- Attempt to reverse engineer, decompile, or otherwise attempt to extract the source code of any Volta Instruments application.
- Use the Services to create a product, service, or software that is, directly or indirectly, competitive with or in any way a substitute for the Services.
- Post or submit false, misleading, or defamatory content about Volta Instruments or the Services.
9. Mobile Application License
Use License
We grant you a revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited right to install and use our applications on devices owned or controlled by you, and to access and use the applications on such devices strictly in accordance with the terms and conditions of this mobile application license contained in these Legal Terms. You shall not: (1) except as permitted by applicable law, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, attempt to derive the source code of, or decrypt any application; (2) make any modification, adaptation, improvement, enhancement, translation, or derivative work from any application; (3) violate any applicable laws, rules, or regulations in connection with your access or use of the applications; (4) remove, alter, or obscure any proprietary notice posted by us or the licensors of the applications; (5) use the applications to offer commercial services to third parties, including reselling access to the applications or incorporating them into paid service offerings without our written permission; or (6) use the applications to send automated queries to any website or to send any unsolicited commercial email.
Trial Period
Some Volta Instruments applications offer a limited free trial period prior to purchase. The same license terms apply during the trial period as apply after purchase. Trial access may be revoked at any time. Volta Instruments LLC does not represent or warrant that the trial period will be available for any specific duration. Any data created during the trial period is governed by the same terms as data created after purchase.
Apple Devices
The following terms apply when you use our applications obtained from the Apple App Store: (1) the license granted to you for our applications is limited to a non-transferable license to use the application on a device that utilizes the Apple iOS operating system, in accordance with the usage rules set forth in Apple's terms of service; (2) we are responsible for providing any maintenance and support services with respect to the applications as specified in these Legal Terms or as otherwise required under applicable law, and you acknowledge that Apple has no obligation whatsoever to furnish any maintenance and support services with respect to the applications; (3) in the event of any failure of the application to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple, in accordance with its terms and policies, may refund the purchase price, if any, paid for the application, and to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Apple will have no other warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to the application; (4) you represent and warrant that you are not located in a country that is subject to a US government embargo, or that has been designated by the US government as a "terrorist supporting" country, and you are not listed on any US government list of prohibited or restricted parties; and (5) you acknowledge and agree that Apple is a third-party beneficiary of the terms and conditions in this mobile application license, and that Apple will have the right to enforce these terms and conditions against you as a third-party beneficiary thereof.
10. Services Management
We reserve the right, but not the obligation, to: (1) monitor the Services for violations of these Legal Terms; (2) take appropriate legal action against anyone who, in our sole discretion, violates the law or these Legal Terms; (3) in our sole discretion and without limitation, refuse, restrict access to, or limit the availability of the Services or any portion thereof; and (4) otherwise manage the Services in a manner designed to protect our rights and property and to facilitate the proper functioning of the Services.
11. Privacy Policy
We care about data privacy and security. Please review our Privacy Policy. By using the Services, you agree to be bound by our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into these Legal Terms.
12. Term and Termination
These Legal Terms shall remain in full force and effect while you use the Services. WITHOUT LIMITING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF THESE LEGAL TERMS, WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO, IN OUR SOLE DISCRETION AND WITHOUT NOTICE OR LIABILITY, DENY ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE SERVICES TO ANY PERSON FOR ANY REASON OR FOR NO REASON, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION FOR BREACH OF ANY REPRESENTATION, WARRANTY, OR COVENANT CONTAINED IN THESE LEGAL TERMS OR OF ANY APPLICABLE LAW OR REGULATION. WE MAY TERMINATE YOUR USE OR PARTICIPATION IN THE SERVICES AT ANY TIME, WITHOUT WARNING, IN OUR SOLE DISCRETION.
If we terminate or suspend your access for any reason, you are prohibited from circumventing this termination by any means.
Nothing in this section limits your rights under applicable consumer protection law, including any right to a refund or compensation for prepaid access that is terminated without cause.
13. Modifications and Interruptions
We reserve the right to change, modify, or remove the contents of the Services at any time or for any reason at our sole discretion. We cannot guarantee the Services will be available at all times. We will not be liable to you or any third party for any modification, suspension, or discontinuance of the Services, subject to applicable consumer protection law.
14. Governing Law
These Legal Terms and your use of the Services are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York applicable to agreements made and to be entirely performed within the State of New York, without regard to its conflict of law principles.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, consumers in the European Union, United Kingdom, Australia, and other jurisdictions retain the benefit of any mandatory provisions of consumer protection law applicable in their country of residence that cannot be excluded by contract.
15. Dispute Resolution
Informal Negotiations
To expedite resolution and control the cost of any dispute, controversy, or claim related to these Legal Terms (each a "Dispute"), the parties agree to first attempt to negotiate any Dispute informally for at least thirty (30) days before initiating arbitration. Such informal negotiations commence upon written notice from one party to the other party at studio@byvolta.app.
Binding Arbitration
If the parties are unable to resolve a Dispute through informal negotiations, the Dispute will be finally and exclusively resolved by binding arbitration. YOU UNDERSTAND THAT WITHOUT THIS PROVISION, YOU WOULD HAVE THE RIGHT TO SUE IN COURT AND HAVE A JURY TRIAL. The arbitration shall be commenced and conducted under the AAA Consumer Arbitration Rules of the American Arbitration Association ("AAA") and the AAA's Consumer Due Process Protocol. If arbitration costs are determined by the arbitrator to be excessive, we will pay all arbitration fees and expenses. The arbitration will take place in Kings County, New York.
If for any reason a Dispute proceeds in court rather than arbitration, the Dispute shall be commenced or prosecuted in the state and federal courts located in Kings County, New York, and the parties hereby consent to personal jurisdiction in such courts.
In no event shall any Dispute be commenced more than two (2) years after the cause of action arose.
Restrictions
Any arbitration shall be limited to the Dispute between the parties individually. No arbitration shall be joined with any other proceeding, and there is no right or authority for any Dispute to be arbitrated on a class-action basis.
Exceptions
The following Disputes are not subject to the above arbitration provisions: (a) any Disputes seeking to enforce or protect intellectual property rights; (b) any Dispute related to allegations of theft, piracy, invasion of privacy, or unauthorized use; and (c) any claim for injunctive relief.
International Users
Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in this Dispute Resolution section shall limit the rights of consumers in the European Union, United Kingdom, or other jurisdictions where mandatory consumer protection laws apply. Users in such jurisdictions retain all rights afforded to them under applicable local law, and any arbitration provision that conflicts with mandatory consumer protection rights in those jurisdictions shall not apply to such users.
16. Corrections
There may be information on the Services that contains typographical errors, inaccuracies, or omissions. We reserve the right to correct any errors, inaccuracies, or omissions and to change or update the information on the Services at any time, without prior notice.
17. Disclaimer
THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED ON AN AS-IS AND AS-AVAILABLE BASIS. YOU AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES WILL BE AT YOUR SOLE RISK. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, IN CONNECTION WITH THE SERVICES AND YOUR USE THEREOF, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE MAKE NO WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THE SERVICES' CONTENT. CERTAIN US STATE LAWS AND INTERNATIONAL LAWS DO NOT ALLOW LIMITATIONS ON IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF CERTAIN DAMAGES. IF THESE LAWS APPLY TO YOU, SOME OR ALL OF THE ABOVE DISCLAIMERS OR LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU, AND YOU MAY HAVE ADDITIONAL RIGHTS.
NOTHING IN THIS DISCLAIMER LIMITS OR EXCLUDES OUR LIABILITY FOR DEATH OR PERSONAL INJURY CAUSED BY OUR NEGLIGENCE, FOR FRAUD OR FRAUDULENT MISREPRESENTATION, OR FOR ANY OTHER LIABILITY THAT CANNOT BE EXCLUDED OR LIMITED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW.
CONSUMERS IN AUSTRALIA HAVE STATUTORY GUARANTEES UNDER THE AUSTRALIAN CONSUMER LAW THAT CANNOT BE EXCLUDED BY THESE TERMS. CONSUMERS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM HAVE RIGHTS UNDER THE CONSUMER RIGHTS ACT 2015 THAT CANNOT BE EXCLUDED BY THESE TERMS.
18. Limitations of Liability
IN NO EVENT WILL WE OR OUR DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, OR AGENTS BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOST PROFIT, LOST REVENUE, LOSS OF DATA, OR OTHER SIMILAR DAMAGES ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED HEREIN, OUR LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY CAUSE WHATSOEVER AND REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF THE ACTION, WILL AT ALL TIMES BE LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT PAID, IF ANY, BY YOU TO US FOR THE SPECIFIC APPLICATION GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM.
NOTWITHSTANDING THE FOREGOING, NOTHING IN THESE LEGAL TERMS LIMITS OR EXCLUDES OUR LIABILITY FOR: (A) DEATH OR PERSONAL INJURY CAUSED BY OUR NEGLIGENCE OR WILFUL MISCONDUCT; (B) FRAUD OR FRAUDULENT MISREPRESENTATION; OR (C) ANY OTHER LIABILITY THAT CANNOT BE EXCLUDED OR LIMITED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW. THESE CARVE-OUTS ARE REQUIRED BY LAW AND ARE INCLUDED TO ENSURE THE REMAINDER OF THIS LIMITATIONS SECTION IS ENFORCEABLE.
19. Indemnification
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold us harmless, including our officers, agents, partners, and employees, from and against any loss, damage, liability, claim, or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees and expenses, made by any third party due to or arising out of: (1) your use of the Services; (2) breach of these Legal Terms; (3) any breach of your representations and warranties set forth in these Legal Terms; or (4) your violation of the rights of a third party, including but not limited to intellectual property rights. This indemnification obligation applies to the extent permitted by applicable consumer protection law in your jurisdiction.
20. User Data
What personal data, if any, Volta Instruments LLC collects depends entirely on which application you use — some of our applications collect nothing at all, others collect a limited, specific set of information necessary to operate. Individual applications may interact with third-party services — such as payment processing through Apple or AI processing through third-party providers — whose own data practices are governed by their respective privacy policies. The specific third-party interactions for each application are detailed in the app-specific sections below. Specific data practices for each application are also described in our Privacy Policy. You are solely responsible for any data stored locally on your device in connection with your use of our Services.
21. Electronic Communications, Transactions, and Signatures
Sending us emails and completing electronic forms constitute electronic communications. You consent to receive electronic communications, and you agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communications we provide to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communication be in writing. YOU HEREBY AGREE TO THE USE OF ELECTRONIC SIGNATURES, CONTRACTS, ORDERS, AND OTHER RECORDS, AND TO ELECTRONIC DELIVERY OF NOTICES, POLICIES, AND RECORDS OF TRANSACTIONS INITIATED OR COMPLETED BY US OR VIA THE SERVICES.
22. California Users and Residents
If any complaint with us is not satisfactorily resolved, you can contact the Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Services of the California Department of Consumer Affairs in writing at 1625 North Market Blvd., Suite N 112, Sacramento, California 95834 or by telephone at (800) 952-5210 or (916) 445-1254.
23. Miscellaneous
These Legal Terms and any policies or operating rules posted by us on the Services constitute the entire agreement and understanding between you and us. Our failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Legal Terms shall not operate as a waiver of such right or provision. These Legal Terms operate to the fullest extent permissible by law. If any provision or part of a provision of these Legal Terms is determined to be unlawful, void, or unenforceable, that provision is deemed severable from these Legal Terms and does not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions. There is no joint venture, partnership, employment, or agency relationship created between you and us as a result of these Legal Terms or use of the Services.
We may assign our rights and obligations under these Legal Terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, sale of assets, or similar transaction, provided that any successor entity honors the commitments made in these Legal Terms, including those specific to each application as described in the app-specific sections.
24. Updates to These Terms
Volta Instruments LLC reserves the right to update these Terms at any time.
For material changes — meaning changes that affect your rights, your obligations, or how we handle your data in connection with applications you currently use — we will note the change at the top of this page at the time it takes effect.
For non-material changes — including the addition of terms governing new Volta Instruments applications that do not affect your existing use of applications you already use — we will update the "Last updated" date at the top of this document without prior notification.
Continuing to use any Volta Instruments application after an update to these Terms takes effect constitutes your agreement to the updated Terms. If you do not agree, please stop using the application.
25. Contact Us
In order to resolve a complaint regarding the Services or to receive further information regarding use of the Services, please contact us at:
Volta Instruments LLC
418 Broadway STE N
Albany, NY 12207
United States
studio@byvolta.app
The following terms apply exclusively to users of mercuri. If you do not use mercuri, these terms do not apply to you.
26. Entertainment Only; Not Professional Advice
mercuri provides tarot readings generated for entertainment and personal reflection. Readings have no predictive, diagnostic, or professional value. mercuri is not a substitute for professional medical, psychological, financial, or legal advice, and nothing in a reading should be relied upon as such. If you are facing a medical, psychological, financial, or legal decision, consult a qualified professional.
27. Crisis Support
mercuri includes a feature that recognizes when a question you submit contains language suggestive of a mental health crisis. When this occurs, mercuri interrupts the reading and displays the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, which you can call or text, available 24 hours a day in both the United States and Canada. mercuri does not show, store, or log the content of your question when this feature is triggered — it registers only that a crisis indicator was present, not what it was.
mercuri is not a crisis service, is not staffed by trained counselors, and is not a substitute for emergency services. If you are in immediate danger, contact 911 or your local emergency services. This feature is presently available only within the United States and Canada; mercuri does not currently direct users in other countries to a local equivalent.
28. AI-Generated Readings
Tarot readings, card selections, and related interpretive text in mercuri are generated using Anthropic's Claude models (Claude Haiku and Claude Sonnet), accessed through Anthropic's commercial API under Anthropic's Commercial Terms of Service (available at anthropic.com/legal/commercial-terms). Under those terms, Anthropic does not train its models on the content mercuri sends it, and automatically deletes that content from its systems within 30 days, except as required for legal compliance or to enforce Anthropic's own usage policies.
Readings are generated in real time and may vary between readings of the same cards. mercuri makes no representation that a reading is accurate, complete, or free of error, and you should exercise your own judgment in interpreting and acting on any reading.
You agree not to attempt to bypass, manipulate, or extract the underlying instructions given to the AI models used by mercuri, including through prompt injection, jailbreak attempts, or similar techniques, and not to use mercuri to generate content that is unlawful or that depicts a real, identifiable individual in a false or harmful manner.
29. How mercuri Handles Your Question and Your Reading
The question you ask mercuri is transmitted in order to generate your reading and is not saved by Volta Instruments LLC: it exists only in the request itself and briefly in memory while your reading is being written, and is discarded once the reading is complete. The only exception is a temporary internal queue that can hold the request for a few minutes at most if the step that starts writing your reading fails, after which it is deleted automatically. The name mercuri’s AI gives your reading’s spread and its positions, which come from your question, is kept only while your reading is being written, or for about a day if it fails, and is gone from our systems within three days, apart from backups (see Section 22 of the Privacy Policy).
The finished reading is stored, but it is encrypted, before it is ever written to Volta Instruments LLC's servers, to keys created on your own devices and held only by you: one that never leaves the phone you asked on and, if you use iCloud Keychain, one that travels with you to your other devices, end-to-end encrypted by Apple. Volta Instruments LLC cannot decrypt or read a stored reading; only your own devices can open it. Put simply: the copy we keep is one we cannot read. Claude does read your question in the moment it writes your reading, because that is how a reading is written at all — but nothing readable is retained afterward.
This is a technical limit, not only a policy: no function anywhere in mercuri's own systems can decrypt a stored reading. If Volta Instruments LLC were ever legally compelled to produce a reading, the most it could produce is the encrypted file itself, unreadable without keys that live only on your own devices and in your own iCloud Keychain, and that Volta Instruments LLC has never had access to. This applies specifically to the contents of a stored reading — it does not extend to account information such as your subscription status, which Volta Instruments LLC does hold and would have to produce if legally required to.
Full details of mercuri's data practices are set out in the Privacy Policy.
30. Your Journal
If you save readings or notes to your journal within mercuri, that content is stored using Apple's iCloud, synced only to your own personal iCloud account across your own devices, in the same way Apple Notes or Reminders sync. Volta Instruments LLC does not have access to your journal content, and your journal is subject to Apple's own iCloud terms and your own iCloud account settings.
Your journal is never on Volta Instruments LLC's own servers at all, in any form, encrypted or otherwise — it exists only on Apple's infrastructure and your own devices.
31. Free Readings and Subscription Renewal
mercuri's free tier provides a total of three (3) readings, available once per account for the lifetime of that account. These do not renew monthly or on any other recurring basis. Free readings are also limited per device: a device that has already provided free readings to other accounts may offer fewer, or none.
If you subscribe to mercuri, your monthly reading allowance renews on the monthly anniversary of the date you subscribed, not on the first day of the calendar month. For example, if you subscribe on the 20th of a month, your allowance renews on the 20th of each following month.
A daily limit applies to every account, subscribers included: if the cards decline several of your questions in one day (we count days in UTC), mercuri stops taking new questions from your account until the day ends. It never uses up any of your readings, and your allowance, your finished readings, your journal and the daily card are not affected.
32. Additional Prohibited Uses
In addition to the prohibited activities described in the general terms above, you agree not to use mercuri to attempt to identify, contact, or harm another individual on the basis of a reading, and not to use mercuri's outputs to make medical, legal, financial, or safety-critical decisions. You also agree not to attempt to obtain additional free readings beyond the allowance described in Section 31, including by creating multiple accounts, repeatedly reinstalling the application, or attempting to circumvent, spoof, or interfere with mercuri's device-verification mechanisms.
33. Assumption of Risk
Tarot readings generated by mercuri reflect a randomized card draw interpreted by an AI model, and outcomes described in a reading are not predictions of future events. By using mercuri, you acknowledge that any decision you make in response to a reading is made at your own discretion and risk, and that Volta Instruments LLC is not responsible for the consequences of decisions made in reliance on a reading.