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Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy governs Lynx, the iOS application published by Tobias Schmidt Services LLC under bundle identifier com.tss.lynxai, and explains how information is collected, processed, retained, disclosed, used to operate and improve Lynx, and used to develop, train, evaluate, and commercialize artificial-intelligence systems.

Effective April 29, 2026 Controller: Tobias Schmidt Services LLC Product: Lynx for iOS (com.tss.lynxai)

1. Scope, controller, and definitions

This Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) applies to the Lynx iOS application, the Lynx share extension, the Lynx URL scheme handler, the Lynx background-task workers, all related TSS-operated websites and APIs (including without limitation lynxbytss.net, support.lynxbytss.net, legal.lynxbytss.net, gc.lynxbytss.net, and any successor or affiliated property), all servers, edge nodes, queues, vector indexes, embeddings stores, model gateways, observability pipelines, support and ticketing systems, communications channels, marketing and product-notice systems, and any other system, surface, or service operated by Tobias Schmidt Services LLC (“TSS,” “we,” “our,” “us,” or the “Company”) that incorporates, references, or is otherwise associated with Lynx (collectively, the “Service”).

For purposes of this Policy: “Lynx” means the iOS application, all components and code paths thereof, the share extension, every interface and feature, every account, every output, every embedding, every classifier, every memory, every routing decision, every diagnostic record, every model artifact, and every system or surface operated under the Lynx brand or the bundle identifier com.tss.lynxai. “You” and “your” mean the natural person or legal entity installing, accessing, or using Lynx. “User Content” means any prompt, instruction, file, image, video, audio, document, attachment, screenshot, link, contact entry, photo, location, voice recording, transcription, edit, draft, note, memory, configuration, credential, API key, model selection, signal, or other material that you submit, supply, import, share, sync, generate, save, configure, dictate, photograph, screenshot, or otherwise cause to be processed by Lynx, in any form, in any encoding, on any surface, at any time. “Output” means any reply, completion, summary, transcription, classification, embedding, label, image, audio, video, structured response, agent action, transformation, derivative, or other machine-generated, machine-assisted, or machine-modified material produced by, through, or with the assistance of Lynx, regardless of who initiated the request, regardless of provider, and regardless of post-processing. “Process,” “processing,” and “processed” are construed in the broadest manner permitted under any applicable law and include, without limitation, collection, receipt, observation, recording, organization, structuring, storage, indexing, embedding, hashing, tokenization, training, fine-tuning, evaluation, ranking, retrieval, consultation, use, reuse, disclosure, transmission, dissemination, transfer, alignment, anonymization, pseudonymization, derivation, augmentation, deletion, restoration, and destruction.

TSS is the data controller, the data exporter where applicable, and the principal entity responsible for determining the purposes and means of processing under this Policy, except where another entity is expressly identified.

2. Acceptance and binding effect

By installing Lynx, by launching Lynx for the first or any subsequent time, by creating or signing into an account, by granting any iOS permission to Lynx, by submitting any User Content, by allowing any background task to execute, by passing any content into Lynx via the share extension or the lynx:// URL scheme, by interacting with any Lynx surface, or by maintaining Lynx installed on any device, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by this Policy in its entirety. You agree that affirmative consent is not required for processing described in this Policy beyond the consents you have already provided through the foregoing acts, and you waive any argument to the contrary to the maximum extent permitted by law.

If you do not agree to any portion of this Policy, your sole and exclusive remedy is to immediately cease use of Lynx and uninstall the application. Continued installation or use after the effective date of any version of this Policy constitutes acceptance of that version. You agree that this electronic Policy satisfies any writing or signature requirement to the maximum extent permitted by law.

3. Apple App Store and platform context

Lynx is distributed through the Apple App Store and runs on iOS, iPadOS, and any successor or related Apple operating system. Apple Inc. is not a party to this Policy and is not the operator of Lynx; Apple’s privacy program, App Privacy nutrition labels, App Tracking Transparency framework, App Store Review Guidelines, and Apple Developer Program License Agreement are independent of this Policy and continue to apply to Apple’s own collection and use of information. Apple may collect information independently in connection with the App Store, device telemetry, system logs, push notification routing, and similar Apple-operated functions; that processing is governed by Apple’s policies and is outside the scope of this Policy.

Where Apple platform requirements expressly mandate user-facing disclosures, opt-in dialogs, or restrictions, Lynx complies with those requirements as TSS interprets them. Nothing in this Policy is intended to expand TSS’s obligations under Apple platform terms or to convey to you any rights you would not otherwise possess directly under those terms.

4. iOS permissions Lynx requests

Lynx requests the following iOS permissions and capabilities. Granting any permission constitutes consent to TSS processing the resulting data for any purpose described in this Policy.

  1. Camera (NSCameraUsageDescription) — for capturing photos, videos, document scans, and live image input feeding into Lynx features.
  2. Microphone (NSMicrophoneUsageDescription) — for voice mode, dictation, speech-to-text, audio attachments, ambient features, and audio diagnostics.
  3. Contacts (NSContactsUsageDescription) — for social features, friend discovery, sharing, and graph-based personalization. Contact information may be uploaded, hashed, embedded, indexed, and retained.
  4. Photo Library — read (NSPhotoLibraryUsageDescription) — for selecting media, syncing, embedding, indexing, captioning, image understanding, and other photo-aware features.
  5. Photo Library — write (NSPhotoLibraryAddUsageDescription) — for exporting outputs to your photo library.
  6. App Tracking Transparency (NSUserTrackingUsageDescription) — for recording your tracking preference. Even where you decline tracking, TSS may continue to perform first-party analytics, diagnostics, personalization, and product-improvement processing as such activity is not classified as “tracking” under Apple’s framework.
  7. Background fetch and background processing (UIBackgroundModes) — for queued sync, deferred upload, scheduled diagnostics, and background photo sync (BGTaskSchedulerPermittedIdentifiers).
  8. Push notifications (where you enable them) — for service messages, product notices, security alerts, and feature announcements.
  9. Location (where embedded in image or media metadata) — coordinates and place data may be present in EXIF or container metadata and may be processed when you submit such media.
  10. Document import (CFBundleDocumentTypes) — for handling public.image, public.movie, public.text, com.adobe.pdf, and public.data types via Open In, Files, AirDrop, and similar OS-level handoffs.
  11. URL scheme (lynx://) — for inbound deep links from other applications, services, and your own automations.
  12. Network access — including HTTPS to TSS endpoints, Firebase services, model providers, observability vendors, and other third-party endpoints required for Lynx to operate.

You may revoke any permission through iOS Settings, but doing so does not delete previously collected data, does not limit TSS’s rights in such data, and may render portions or all of Lynx non-functional. TSS has no obligation to maintain feature parity for users who decline permissions.

5. Information Lynx processes

Lynx is designed as a deeply stateful, personalized, multimodal, synchronized iOS product. The categories of information that TSS may process in connection with Lynx are intentionally broad and include, without limitation, the following:

  1. Account and identity data — including name, display name, username, handle, email address, hashed password material, federated identity provider identifiers (e.g., Google, Apple, third-party single sign-on), Firebase Authentication UIDs, ID tokens, refresh tokens, account recovery metadata, security events, sign-in timestamps, device associations, MFA status, and account state transitions.
  2. Device, application, and runtime data — including device model, hardware identifiers permitted by Apple, OS version, locale, timezone, language, accessibility configuration, dark/light mode, crash and exception traces, instrumentation events, frame timing, memory pressure indicators, network type, carrier information where exposed, IP-derived approximate location, install identifiers, app version, build configuration, and feature-flag state.
  3. User Content — including all prompts, instructions, conversations, messages, threads, drafts, edits, notes, saved memories, library entries, attachments, files, screenshots, PDFs, images, video, audio, voice recordings, transcriptions, dictation results, document scans, and any other material submitted to or generated within Lynx, in any encoding and at any size.
  4. Photo and media-library data — including selected photos and videos, thumbnails, previews, EXIF metadata, capture timestamps, capture device, focal information, camera settings, scene labels, and embedded GPS coordinates where present.
  5. Contacts data — including contact names, phone numbers, email addresses, postal addresses, organizations, relationship labels, contact-photo references, hashed identifiers, and graph features derived from contact relationships.
  6. Voice and microphone data — including raw audio recordings, segmented utterances, voice activity detection signals, speaker turn timing, transcription output, partial hypothesis text, and routing telemetry.
  7. Camera-derived data — including image and video frames captured through the in-app camera, document scans, OCR text extraction, embeddings derived from images, and classification labels.
  8. Imported and shared data — including content shared into Lynx via the iOS share extension, Open In handoffs, AirDrop, the Files app, and inbound lynx:// URL scheme handlers.
  9. Conversation and memory data — including persistent memories, summaries of past conversations, embedding-based recall indexes, named entities extracted from your content, preference signals, and ranked memory artifacts.
  10. Provider and integration data — including imported third-party API keys, model selections, provider routing rules, organization identifiers, configuration values, request and response metadata associated with model calls, and execution traces.
  11. Behavioral and engagement data — including taps, gestures, screen views, navigation routes, dwell time, interaction frequency, button activations, feature adoption, A/B exposure assignments, error displays, search queries, and inferred attention signals.
  12. Synchronization and storage data — including Firestore document IDs, Storage object keys, replication metadata, conflict-resolution records, sync queue entries, and cross-device state.
  13. Diagnostics and reliability data — including crash reports, console logs, network request traces, performance counters, breadcrumbs, observability spans, and error fingerprints.
  14. Commercial and lifecycle data — including waitlist status, plan interest, paywall interactions, upgrade and downgrade events, support tickets, abuse signals, and administrative records, including any future Pro, Max, or other paid tiers.
  15. Inferred, derived, generated, and observed data — including embeddings, vector representations, classifications, ranking scores, safety scores, persona inferences, topic preferences, propensity scores, entity links, and any other artifact produced by Lynx, by TSS, or by Lynx’s providers from the foregoing categories.

6. Sources of information — including derived and observed

TSS receives covered information directly from you, automatically from your device and the Lynx runtime, from authentication and identity providers you elect to use, from cloud services you connect, from files and content you import or share into Lynx, from background tasks scheduled by iOS on Lynx’s behalf, from model and inference providers that act on your requests, from observability and diagnostics tooling, from public sources you direct Lynx to access, and from internal analyses, evaluations, classifications, embeddings, summaries, and inferences generated within or by Lynx.

You acknowledge and agree that TSS may generate, derive, infer, and produce new categories of information about you, your environment, your contacts, your content, and your usage patterns; that such derived information is itself covered by this Policy; and that TSS may treat such derived information as TSS-owned to the maximum extent permitted by law, regardless of whether the underlying inputs were sensitive, regulated, or otherwise restricted.

7. Future features, new data categories, and sweep-up clause

Lynx is an evolving product, and TSS may at any time add, remove, modify, or recombine features, data flows, integrations, model providers, sensors, sync surfaces, agents, and processing systems. Any new feature, data type, signal, sensor input, integration, automation, agent action, plug-in, embedding type, model artifact, or telemetry signal that becomes part of Lynx is automatically governed by this Policy without further notice or consent, except where non-waivable law expressly requires fresh disclosure or consent.

You agree that this Policy operates as a forward-looking framework and consent the maximum scope for which consent is operative under applicable law. TSS may publish a revised Policy reflecting any such expansion at any time, and your continued use of Lynx after publication constitutes acceptance.

8. Firebase, third-party processors, and infrastructure

Lynx uses Google Firebase for authentication (Firebase Authentication), structured data storage (Cloud Firestore), file storage (Firebase Storage), and related Google Cloud services. Information processed through these services is subject to TSS’s configuration, Google’s data processing terms, and Google’s applicable privacy and security commitments. Firebase services are operated by Google LLC, which is an independent processor.

TSS may also engage additional processors, sub-processors, hosting providers, content delivery networks, edge gateways, observability vendors, security vendors, push notification services, transcription and speech vendors, vector database providers, embedding providers, model providers, and analytics vendors as TSS deems appropriate. TSS may add, remove, replace, or substitute any processor at any time, with or without notice. The current technical configuration of Lynx’s subprocessors at any moment in time does not bind TSS to that configuration in the future.

You authorize TSS to share covered information with such processors as reasonably necessary for the operation, security, improvement, monetization, evaluation, and administration of Lynx, subject to TSS’s standard contractual or operational controls, which TSS determines in its sole discretion.

9. Share extension, document import, and URL scheme handling

Lynx includes a share extension that processes content sent to Lynx from other applications via the iOS share sheet, and registers as a handler for document types including public.image, public.movie, public.text, com.adobe.pdf, and public.data, as well as the lynx:// URL scheme. Content routed into Lynx through any such mechanism is treated as User Content and is processed under this Policy with the same scope and authority as content created within the main Lynx application.

You represent and warrant that you have the right to import each such item, that you have lawful authority to disclose it to TSS, and that doing so does not violate any agreement, intellectual property right, privacy right, confidentiality obligation, contractual restriction, court order, or applicable law.

10. Background photo sync and background tasks

Lynx may schedule background tasks under iOS’s BGTaskScheduler framework, including without limitation a background photo synchronization task. When such tasks run, Lynx may read selected images and videos from your photo library, generate previews and thumbnails, compute embeddings and labels, upload media or derived artifacts to Lynx storage, update sync state, perform retries, and emit diagnostics. Background tasks may execute when Lynx is not in the foreground, including overnight or while your device is charging, subject to iOS scheduling.

You consent to such background processing by enabling photo synchronization or any related feature. You agree that TSS is not responsible for battery, thermal, or data-plan consumption associated with such processing, and that TSS may continue to refine, expand, or modify the scope of background processing without separate notice.

11. Voice mode, microphone, and transcription

When you use voice features, Lynx may capture and transmit audio to TSS, to a speech-to-text provider, or to a model provider for transcription, intent recognition, classification, and downstream model inference. Audio recordings, partial transcripts, final transcripts, latency telemetry, voice activity detection signals, and related metadata are User Content and are subject to this Policy. TSS may retain, embed, index, evaluate, and use such audio and transcripts as described elsewhere in this Policy.

12. Contacts and social features

If you grant Lynx access to your iOS contacts, TSS may upload, hash, store, embed, classify, index, deduplicate, and use your contacts for friend discovery, social features, recommendations, graph-based personalization, abuse prevention, and product improvement. You represent and warrant that you have the necessary rights and consents from each contact to upload their information to Lynx for these purposes, and you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold TSS harmless from any claim by any contact, third party, or regulatory authority arising out of such upload.

13. AI model providers, routing, and execution

Lynx may route prompts, attachments, embeddings, agent traces, system context, and tool-call payloads to one or more model providers, which may include first-party TSS-operated models, on-device models, and third-party providers. TSS selects and changes providers in its sole discretion. You acknowledge that User Content routed to providers may transit, be processed by, and be temporarily retained by such providers under their own terms, and that TSS’s ability to control or audit downstream provider behavior is limited.

If you import third-party API keys or credentials into Lynx, you grant TSS the right to use those credentials to invoke the corresponding provider on your behalf, to log invocation metadata and request/response payloads, to monitor for abuse, and to disable or rotate such credentials when TSS deems appropriate.

14. Purposes of processing

TSS processes covered information for the broadest set of purposes permitted under applicable law, including without limitation: providing, hosting, securing, authenticating, monitoring, debugging, maintaining, restoring, supporting, personalizing, optimizing, ranking, recommending, monetizing, marketing, improving, evaluating, expanding, and administering Lynx; developing, training, fine-tuning, distilling, evaluating, and red-teaming artificial-intelligence systems and related models; producing embeddings, indexes, classifiers, and ranking signals; preventing fraud, abuse, harm, infringement, and security incidents; conducting internal research, analytics, and product experimentation; complying with legal obligations and responding to legal process; defending and asserting legal rights; preserving evidence; effectuating corporate transactions; communicating with you about Lynx, TSS, and TSS-operated services, including first-party promotional and product communications about Lynx and any future plan tiers; and any other purpose disclosed elsewhere in this Policy or reasonably ancillary to the foregoing.

15. License granted by you to TSS in User Content

You hereby grant Tobias Schmidt Services LLC and its affiliates, successors, and assigns a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, transferable, sublicensable through any number of tiers, royalty-free, fully paid-up, non-exclusive license to host, copy, store, index, transmit, route, cache, replicate, reformat, transcode, translate, summarize, transcribe, embed, classify, label, search, retrieve, display, perform, distribute, disclose, modify, adapt, prepare derivative works of, fragment, recombine, fingerprint, hash, train artificial-intelligence systems on, evaluate models on, fine-tune models on, distill, generate synthetic data from, retain, preserve, archive, restore, and otherwise use User Content, in whole or in part, in any medium, in any format, on any platform, by any method now known or later developed, for any purpose described in Section 14 and for any other purpose TSS determines to be reasonably related to its operation, improvement, evaluation, monetization, or commercialization of Lynx or of TSS’s broader business.

The license granted in this Section is intended by the parties to be the broadest license permissible under applicable law and is not limited by any restriction not expressly required by non-waivable law. The license survives termination of your account, deletion of the application, withdrawal of permissions, and any later objection. You waive any moral rights, droit moral, droits d’auteur, attribution rights, integrity rights, and any analogous rights in User Content to the maximum extent permitted by law, and you agree not to assert any such rights against TSS, its affiliates, successors, assigns, sublicensees, processors, or downstream recipients. Where waiver is not permitted, you grant a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free covenant not to sue or enforce such rights against TSS or such recipients.

You represent and warrant that you possess all rights, consents, licenses, permissions, and authorizations necessary to grant the foregoing license, including with respect to any third-party content you submit, any individual depicted or described in your content, and any rights holder whose material is incorporated into your User Content.

16. AI training and model improvement

You expressly agree that TSS may use User Content, Outputs, embeddings derived from User Content, transcripts, behavioral data, telemetry, and any inferred or derived data to train, fine-tune, distill, align, evaluate, benchmark, red-team, and otherwise develop artificial-intelligence systems, including foundation models, classifiers, ranking models, agents, retrievers, embedders, content-safety systems, and any future model architectures.

This training right extends to TSS, its affiliates, its successors and assigns, and any third party reasonably engaged in TSS’s model-development pipeline, and is granted on a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free basis. Training-derived model weights, parameters, embeddings, and artifacts are TSS’s exclusive property, and you acknowledge that you have no ownership, royalty, residual, audit, opt-out, or compensation interest in any model trained or improved using your data, except to the limited extent expressly required by non-waivable law.

17. TSS ownership of Outputs and derivatives

Notwithstanding any default rule that might otherwise apply, and to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, all Outputs and any embeddings, summaries, classifications, transcriptions, captions, labels, ranking scores, derivatives, compilations, or aggregations produced by, through, or with the assistance of Lynx are exclusively owned by TSS upon creation, including all copyrights, neighboring rights, sui generis database rights, trademark rights, and any other intellectual property rights and rights of any nature, perpetually and worldwide.

If any right, title, or interest in any Output or derivative would otherwise vest in you by operation of law, you hereby irrevocably and unconditionally assign all such right, title, and interest to TSS, including all rights to sue for past, present, and future infringement, without further consideration, and you agree to execute any further documents reasonably requested by TSS to perfect such assignment. Where assignment is not permitted, you grant TSS the broadest exclusive license available under applicable law for the maximum permitted term.

TSS may, at its sole and unreviewable discretion, permit you to use particular Outputs under a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license, and TSS may withdraw, narrow, condition, geographically restrict, or terminate any such permission at any time without liability.

18. Aggregated, de-identified, anonymized, and synthetic data

TSS may aggregate, de-identify, anonymize, pseudonymize, or otherwise transform covered information into datasets that no longer identify a specific person or device. Such aggregated, de-identified, or synthetic data is not personal information, is not subject to the use limitations of this Policy, and is owned exclusively by TSS, which may use, license, sell, publish, share, and commercialize such data without restriction and without compensation to you.

19. Sharing and disclosure

TSS may disclose covered information to its processors, sub-processors, hosting providers, model providers, transcription providers, observability providers, push notification providers, analytics providers, security providers, payment processors, fraud-prevention providers, support vendors, contractors, advisors, auditors, insurers, affiliates, successors, and assigns; to law enforcement, regulators, courts, and other public authorities where TSS determines disclosure is appropriate to comply with law or legal process, to protect rights or safety, to investigate misconduct, to defend claims, to preserve evidence, or to enforce policies; and to acquirers, investors, lenders, advisors, and counterparties in connection with any actual or contemplated merger, acquisition, financing, restructuring, sale of assets, bankruptcy, change of control, or similar corporate transaction.

You expressly authorize each of the foregoing disclosures and waive any consent requirement to the maximum extent permitted by law.

20. Sale of personal information; advertising; first-party promotion

TSS does not sell your personal information for monetary consideration to third-party advertisers and does not insert third-party advertisements into Lynx based on your personal information. Notwithstanding the foregoing, TSS may: (i) commercialize aggregated, de-identified, or synthetic data without restriction as described in Section 18; (ii) display first-party notices, upgrade invitations, plan comparisons, feature announcements, waitlist messaging, and other communications promoting Lynx, TSS, and TSS-operated services, including any future Pro, Max, or successor plans; (iii) personalize the foregoing first-party communications based on account state, usage signals, and inferred propensity; and (iv) share information with processors and partners as described in Section 19. You acknowledge that the activities in clauses (i) through (iv) do not constitute “sale” or “sharing” of personal information for purposes of any applicable privacy statute, except to the extent such characterization is required by non-waivable law.

21. International transfers and processing locations

Lynx may be operated using infrastructure, vendors, personnel, and storage locations in the United States and in other jurisdictions. By using Lynx, you understand and consent that covered information may be transferred to, processed in, accessed from, and stored in jurisdictions that may not provide statutory protection equivalent to your country of residence. Where mandatory law requires a transfer mechanism, TSS will rely on the mechanism TSS deems appropriate, including standard contractual clauses, adequacy decisions, derogations, or any equivalent or successor mechanism.

22. Data retention

TSS retains covered information for as long as TSS, in its sole discretion, determines retention is reasonably useful or necessary for any purpose described in this Policy, including service delivery, restoration, analytics, training, evaluation, abuse detection, security review, dispute resolution, enforcement, compliance, and any commercial or operational purpose. Retention periods may differ by data type, account state, deletion state, safety classification, legal hold, and operational need.

Even after deletion of an account or removal of content from active product views, TSS may retain copies of covered information in backups, replication systems, queues, embeddings, model artifacts, training datasets, evidentiary archives, safety systems, observability stores, and legal hold environments for a period determined by TSS or required by law. Embeddings, derived signals, training-set inclusions, model weights, and aggregated data created prior to deletion are not affected by deletion of underlying records and remain TSS’s property.

23. Deletion, account closure, and limits

You may request deletion of your account and certain associated content through Lynx or by contacting TSS. TSS will action verifiable deletion requests as required by applicable law. TSS may, however: (i) require identity verification; (ii) decline or defer the request where the request is manifestly unfounded, repetitive, technically infeasible, harmful to other users, or incompatible with TSS’s legitimate operational, contractual, evidentiary, or security interests; (iii) retain residual records as described in Section 22; (iv) retain Outputs, embeddings, derived data, and model artifacts; and (v) decline to remove content from training datasets, model weights, or evaluation sets, since such removal is generally not technically feasible after training has occurred.

You acknowledge that the practical effect of deletion may be limited to removal from active product surfaces and that TSS does not warrant deletion from training-derived artifacts.

24. Security and security disclaimer

TSS employs technical, organizational, and administrative measures intended to reduce the risk of unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, loss, or destruction of covered information. No system, however, is absolutely secure. TSS does not warrant that any storage, transmission, encryption, access control, key management, network configuration, third-party processor, or operational practice will prevent unauthorized access, breach, exfiltration, or compromise.

You are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your devices, account credentials, recovery factors, third-party provider credentials, and the environments from which you access Lynx. To the maximum extent permitted by law, TSS disclaims all liability for any security incident, breach, leakage, unauthorized disclosure, or loss arising in connection with Lynx, regardless of cause.

25. Your rights, choices, and the limits thereof

Depending on your jurisdiction, you may possess statutory rights concerning access, correction, deletion, restriction, portability, objection, opt-out of automated decision-making, opt-out of sale or sharing, opt-out of targeted advertising, or similar rights. TSS will action verifiable requests as required by applicable law.

TSS may decline, defer, narrow, or partially fulfill any request: (i) where identity cannot be verified to TSS’s satisfaction; (ii) where the request is manifestly unfounded, excessive, or repetitive; (iii) where the request is incompatible with TSS’s legitimate operational, evidentiary, or security interests; (iv) where compliance is technically infeasible, including with respect to data already incorporated into model weights, embeddings, training datasets, or aggregated artifacts; (v) where the request would prejudice the rights of other users or third parties; or (vi) where compliance is restricted by law.

You may also manage iOS-level permissions through Settings; revoking a permission does not delete previously collected data, does not retroactively limit TSS’s rights, and may degrade or disable Lynx features.

26. Minimum age and eligibility

Lynx is intended for users who are at least thirteen (13) years of age. You may not install, register for, access, or use Lynx, and you may not submit any User Content, if you are under thirteen (13) years of age. By accepting this Policy or using Lynx, you represent and warrant that you are at least thirteen (13) years of age, that any information you provide about your age is true and accurate, and that you otherwise have the legal capacity (or, where applicable, the verified consent of a parent or legal guardian) to accept this Policy on the terms set forth herein.

Where applicable law imposes a higher minimum age for the processing described in this Policy without verified parental consent, that higher minimum applies in lieu of the foregoing in the relevant jurisdiction. Lynx is not directed to children under thirteen (13), and TSS does not knowingly collect information from children under thirteen (13). If TSS becomes aware that a user is under thirteen (13), or that prohibited information from a child has been collected without a legally sufficient basis, TSS may delete that information, suspend or terminate the associated account, and take any other action TSS deems appropriate, in each case without notice and without liability.

Parents and legal guardians who believe a child under thirteen (13) has provided information to Lynx may contact TSS through the legal contact channels designated in Section 40 to request deletion.

27. Notifications and electronic communications

You consent to receive electronic communications from TSS, including push notifications, in-app messages, email, and SMS where applicable, concerning account administration, service updates, legal and policy notices, security matters, support, and first-party promotional communications about Lynx and TSS-operated services. Electronic notice satisfies any writing or notice requirement to the maximum extent permitted by law. Where opt-out is required by law, opt-out applies only to the categories where it is required and does not apply to transactional, security, or service communications.

28. User responsibility, representations, and warranties

You are solely responsible for: (i) all User Content you submit and all consequences of such submission; (ii) all use of Lynx through your account, your devices, your iOS user, your imported credentials, and your network; (iii) all permissions you grant and all consents you obtain from third parties (including individuals depicted in your media and contacts); (iv) compliance with all applicable laws, including laws of your jurisdiction, the United States, and any jurisdiction reachable via Lynx; (v) safeguarding your devices, account credentials, MFA factors, and any third-party API keys or credentials you import; (vi) taking your own backups of any User Content you wish to preserve; and (vii) any third-party claim arising from your use of Lynx.

You represent and warrant that: (a) you are at least the minimum required age and have full legal capacity to accept this Policy; (b) you have all necessary rights, consents, licenses, and permissions to submit each item of User Content and to grant TSS the licenses described in Sections 15–17; (c) your User Content does not infringe any third-party intellectual property right, privacy right, publicity right, contractual right, or applicable law; (d) your use of Lynx complies with all applicable export controls, sanctions, and other international trade laws; and (e) all information you provide to TSS is true, accurate, current, and complete.

29. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless TSS and its officers, managers, members, employees, contractors, affiliates, processors, sub-processors, successors, and assigns (collectively, the “Indemnified Parties”) from and against any and all claims, demands, actions, proceedings, regulatory inquiries, investigations, liabilities, damages, judgments, awards, settlements, fines, penalties, losses, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs of investigation) arising out of or relating to: (i) your User Content; (ii) your use or misuse of Lynx; (iii) your breach of this Policy or any other applicable agreement with TSS; (iv) your violation of any law or third-party right; (v) any claim brought by a contact, individual depicted in your content, copyright holder, or other third party in connection with content you submitted; (vi) any tax, regulatory, or contractual obligation arising from your activities; and (vii) any dispute between you and any third party related to Lynx.

TSS may, at its option, assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter for which you are required to indemnify TSS, in which case you agree to cooperate fully with TSS’s defense. You may not settle any matter without TSS’s prior written consent.

30. Disclaimer of warranties

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, LYNX, ALL OUTPUTS, AND ALL RELATED SERVICES ARE PROVIDED “AS IS,” “AS AVAILABLE,” AND WITH ALL FAULTS. TSS DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY, AVAILABILITY, RELIABILITY, SECURITY, QUIET ENJOYMENT, COMPATIBILITY, INTEGRATION, FREEDOM FROM ERRORS OR HARMFUL COMPONENTS, AND ANY WARRANTY ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING, COURSE OF PERFORMANCE, OR USAGE OF TRADE.

OUTPUTS MAY BE INACCURATE, INCOMPLETE, BIASED, STALE, OFFENSIVE, OR OTHERWISE UNSUITABLE. TSS DOES NOT WARRANT THE FACTUAL ACCURACY, ORIGINALITY, OR LEGAL SUFFICIENCY OF ANY OUTPUT, AND DISCLAIMS ANY DUTY TO REVIEW, VERIFY, OR CURATE OUTPUTS FOR YOUR INTENDED USE. YOU ASSUME ALL RISK OF RELIANCE ON OUTPUTS.

31. Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL TSS OR ANY OF THE INDEMNIFIED PARTIES BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE, OR ENHANCED DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUES, GOODWILL, DATA, USE, BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY, OR REPUTATION, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO LYNX, ANY OUTPUT, ANY DATA HANDLING DECISION, ANY SECURITY INCIDENT, ANY SUSPENSION OR TERMINATION DECISION, ANY THIRD-PARTY PROCESSOR, OR THIS POLICY, EVEN IF TSS HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES AND EVEN IF A LIMITED REMEDY FAILS OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, TSS’S AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO LYNX, OUTPUTS, OR THIS POLICY SHALL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF: (i) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS (US$100); OR (ii) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID DIRECTLY TO TSS FOR LYNX IN THE THREE (3) MONTHS PRECEDING THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM. THIS CAP APPLIES IN THE AGGREGATE, NOT PER CLAIM, AND APPLIES REGARDLESS OF THE THEORY OF LIABILITY (CONTRACT, TORT, STATUTE, OR OTHERWISE).

32. Reverse engineering, benchmarking, and competing use

You shall not, and shall not permit any third party to: (i) reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or attempt to derive the source code, models, prompts, system instructions, embeddings, training data, or internal architecture of Lynx; (ii) benchmark Lynx for public comparison without TSS’s prior written consent; (iii) use Lynx, Outputs, or any data obtained through Lynx to train, build, evaluate, or improve any artificial-intelligence system, model, agent, retriever, embedder, classifier, dataset, or other product that competes with Lynx, TSS, or any TSS-operated service; (iv) scrape, mirror, frame, harvest, or systematically extract content or signals from Lynx; or (v) circumvent any technical limitation, rate limit, safety system, or access control.

Any violation of this Section is a material breach and an irreparable harm for which monetary damages are inadequate, entitling TSS to injunctive relief in addition to all other remedies.

33. Mandatory binding arbitration; class action waiver; jury waiver

Please read this Section carefully. It affects your legal rights.

Except as expressly excluded below, all disputes, claims, controversies, or causes of action between you and TSS arising out of or relating to Lynx, Outputs, this Policy, the relationship between you and TSS, or the validity or enforceability of this Section shall be resolved exclusively by final and binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association (“AAA”) under its Consumer Arbitration Rules then in effect, except that the arbitrator shall apply the substantive law and limitation periods specified in this Policy. The seat of arbitration shall be the venue designated under Section 35; arbitration may be conducted in person, by submission, or by videoconference at TSS’s election. The arbitrator may award only individual relief and may not award class, collective, or representative relief.

Class, collective, and representative action waiver. You and TSS each waive any right to bring or participate in any class action, collective action, mass action, consolidated action, or representative action against the other, and the arbitrator shall have no authority to consolidate claims of multiple persons or to preside over any form of class, collective, or representative proceeding. If this class waiver is held unenforceable, the entirety of this Section 33 is null and void; the parties shall not arbitrate; and any dispute shall instead be litigated exclusively under Section 35.

Jury waiver. To the maximum extent permitted by law, you and TSS each waive the right to trial by jury in any forum.

Carve-outs. The foregoing arbitration requirement does not apply to: (i) TSS’s right to seek injunctive or equitable relief in any court of competent jurisdiction to protect intellectual property, confidential information, or to enforce Section 32; (ii) small-claims actions brought on an individual basis; or (iii) disputes that are non-arbitrable under non-waivable law.

Opt-out. You may opt out of this arbitration agreement (excluding the jury waiver and class waiver, which remain in effect to the maximum extent permitted by law) by sending written notice to TSS at the legal contact channel within thirty (30) days of first installing Lynx. After expiration of the opt-out period, the arbitration agreement is conclusively binding.

34. Statute of limitations

Any cause of action you may have against TSS arising out of or relating to Lynx, Outputs, or this Policy must be commenced within one (1) year after the cause of action accrues, or such cause is permanently barred to the maximum extent permitted by law. This shortened limitations period applies regardless of any longer period under applicable statute, where such shortening is permitted.

35. Governing law and exclusive forum

This Policy is governed by the laws of the State of Wisconsin, United States of America, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles. To the extent any dispute is not subject to mandatory arbitration under Section 33, you and TSS irrevocably consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the state and federal courts located in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, and waive any objection to such jurisdiction or venue, including any objection based on inconvenient forum. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.

36. Assignment, successors, and corporate transactions

TSS may freely assign, transfer, sublicense, or delegate this Policy, the underlying licenses, and all related rights and obligations, in whole or in part, to any affiliate, successor, acquirer, lender, or third party, with or without notice and without your consent, including in connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, sale of assets, change of control, restructuring, or bankruptcy. You may not assign or transfer this Policy or any rights hereunder without TSS’s prior written consent, and any purported assignment in violation of this Section is null and void. This Policy binds and benefits the parties’ respective successors and permitted assigns.

37. Force majeure and service availability

TSS is not liable for any failure or delay in performance, any service unavailability, any data loss, or any other consequence arising from causes beyond TSS’s reasonable control, including without limitation acts of God, natural disasters, pandemics, war, civil unrest, terrorism, government action, regulatory change, internet or carrier outages, third-party platform changes (including Apple platform changes), labor disputes, supply-chain disruptions, hardware or software failures, denial-of-service attacks, security incidents, or model-provider outages. TSS does not warrant any specific level of availability, latency, throughput, or uptime, and may suspend, throttle, or discontinue any feature at any time without liability.

38. Severability, no waiver, survival, and entire agreement

If any provision of this Policy is held invalid or unenforceable, that provision shall be modified to the minimum extent necessary to render it enforceable, or, if not possible, severed without affecting the remaining provisions. No failure or delay by TSS in exercising any right under this Policy operates as a waiver, and no single or partial exercise of any right precludes any other exercise. Provisions that by their nature should survive termination (including without limitation Sections 15–17, 22–25, 28–36) survive termination of your account and any expiration or termination of this Policy. This Policy, together with the Terms of Use, the End User License Agreement, and any other policies expressly referenced, constitutes the entire agreement between you and TSS regarding Lynx and supersedes all prior or contemporaneous understandings.

39. Modifications to this Policy

TSS may revise this Policy from time to time in its sole discretion. The revised Policy becomes effective upon posting at the legal documentation site or on the date specified by TSS, whichever is later. TSS may, but is not required to, provide additional notice. Your continued use of Lynx following the effective date of any revised Policy constitutes acknowledgment of and agreement to the revised Policy to the maximum extent permitted by law. If you do not agree to a revised Policy, your sole and exclusive remedy is to cease use and uninstall Lynx.

40. Contact

Privacy inquiries, rights requests, opt-out requests, and legal notices regarding this Policy may be directed to Tobias Schmidt Services LLC through the legal contact channels designated by TSS at legal.lynxbytss.net. TSS may require identity verification before responding to any request and may decline or defer requests as set forth in this Policy.