RISE

Terms and Conditions

Version 1.0 · Effective date October 8, 2026

These Terms and Conditions govern access to and use of the Rise website, mobile applications, artificial intelligence features, community spaces, content, subscriptions, and related services. They form a binding agreement between you and Hanson Birringer, doing business as Rise, referred to as Rise, we, us, or our. By creating an account, purchasing a subscription, clicking to accept, or using the Services, you agree to these Terms and acknowledge our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Services.

If you are in the United States, please read the Dispute Resolution and Arbitration section carefully. Except for limited exceptions and where prohibited by law, it requires individual binding arbitration, waives jury trials and class or representative proceedings, and permits you to opt out within 30 days.

1 Eligibility and authority

You must be at least 18 years old and legally capable of entering a binding contract to use the Services. The Services are not directed to children or minors. By using the Services, you represent that you meet these requirements and are not barred from using the Services under applicable law. If you use the Services for an organization, you represent that you have authority to bind that organization, and you and the organization are each responsible under these Terms.

2 The Services

Rise provides faith-oriented tools that may include personalized AI-generated reflections and prayers based on information you submit, Scripture-related content, prompts, journaling, reminders, summaries, habit or engagement features, community prayer spaces such as Rise Together, and other features we make available. Rise is not designed or offered as an AI companion, human relationship, therapist, clergy member, or substitute for real-world support. Features may change, be limited by location or device, require payment, or be offered as a test or beta. We may add, change, suspend, or discontinue any feature when reasonably necessary for product, legal, security, or business reasons. We do not guarantee that any feature or content will always be available.

3 Artificial intelligence disclosures

3.1 You are interacting with artificial intelligence

Certain features use artificial intelligence and third-party model providers to generate text, recommendations, summaries, prayers, reflections, or other output. Unless Rise clearly states otherwise, AI output is generated by software, not by a human, clergy member, counselor, or licensed professional. Conversational language, personalization, memory, a caring tone, or references to faith do not change that fact. Rise does not have feelings, consciousness, spiritual authority, or a personal relationship with you, and output must not be understood as reciprocal affection, human presence, or divine communication.

3.2 AI output may be wrong

AI systems can misunderstand context and produce incomplete, inaccurate, misleading, biased, offensive, outdated, or fabricated output. Rise does not warrant the factual, theological, scriptural, medical, psychological, legal, financial, or other accuracy of AI output. You must use independent judgment and verify important information with reliable sources and appropriately qualified people before acting on it.

3.3 No divine or authoritative religious communication

Rise does not speak for God and does not provide divine revelation, prophecy, a word from God, sacramental guidance, or authoritative interpretation of Scripture or doctrine. AI output should not be treated as a command, guarantee, sign, spiritual diagnosis, or substitute for personal discernment, Scripture, prayer, or guidance from trusted faith leaders. Religious traditions differ, and output may not reflect your beliefs or denomination.

3.4 No professional relationship or advice

The Services are for general informational, reflective, spiritual-wellness, and entertainment purposes. They do not provide medical care, diagnosis, treatment, psychotherapy, emergency response, legal advice, financial advice, or professional pastoral counseling. Automated safety features, supportive prompts, crisis-resource displays, or other risk responses are not clinical care or a crisis-intervention service. Using the Services does not create a physician-patient, therapist-client, attorney-client, clergy-penitent, fiduciary, or other professional relationship. Do not delay or disregard professional help because of anything in the Services.

3.5 Your responsibility for decisions

You are responsible for evaluating and using all output and for decisions, actions, or omissions based on it. Do not use output as the sole basis for decisions that could affect health, safety, legal rights, finances, employment, housing, education, or another person. You may not represent AI output as human-authored or professionally approved when it is not.

4 Emergencies and safety

Rise is not an emergency service, crisis line, medical provider, or continuously staffed monitoring service. The Services may use automated systems to identify potential safety concerns. These systems can fail, misunderstand context, or respond too late. We do not guarantee that a safety signal will be detected, that a human will review or respond to a disclosure, or that Rise can determine a user's location or contact local responders. Do not use Rise to request or provide emergency assistance.

If you or another person may be in immediate danger, contact local emergency services now. In the United States or Canada, call or text 988 for the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. Elsewhere, contact your local emergency number or crisis service. If you are concerned about abuse or exploitation, contact an appropriate local authority or qualified support organization.

Depending on the feature, information available to Rise, location, risk level, and applicable law, Rise may use automated safety classifications, interrupt or withhold generated content, present local or general crisis resources, encourage contact with a trusted person or qualified professional, restrict features, preserve relevant records, or route content for authorized human review. Where legally permitted and reasonably necessary to address a credible imminent threat, child exploitation, abuse, or another serious safety concern, Rise may disclose relevant information to emergency services, law enforcement, child-protection authorities, or another appropriate recipient. Rise does not promise that it will make such a disclosure or that a recipient will act. These measures may not be available in every country or language and do not create a guarantee or duty to monitor, intervene, rescue, or protect.

Rise may test and evaluate its safety systems using synthetic, de-identified, consented, or otherwise lawfully processed data. Safety testing may address explicit and implicit risk, first- and third-person statements, historical and current events, religious framing, ambiguity, multi-turn escalation, language variation, and attempts to bypass safeguards. Testing and evaluation reduce risk but do not establish that the Services are error free or appropriate for emergency use.

5 Accounts and security

You must provide accurate information and keep it current. You are responsible for safeguarding your credentials and for activity under your account, except to the extent caused by Rise. Do not share credentials, allow unauthorized access, or create an account for another person without authority. Promptly notify support@risefaith.app if you suspect unauthorized access. We may require identity or account verification before acting on sensitive requests.

You may close your account through the available account controls or by contacting us. Account closure does not automatically cancel a subscription managed by Apple, Google, or another billing provider; you must cancel through that provider. Deletion is subject to the Privacy Policy, legal retention duties, backup cycles, fraud prevention, and content that other users have independently posted or retained.

6 Subscriptions purchases and renewals

Some features require payment. Prices, billing periods, trial terms, and material conditions will be shown before purchase. Taxes may apply. Unless the offer says otherwise, subscriptions automatically renew for successive periods at the then-current disclosed price until canceled.

Purchases made through the Apple App Store, Google Play, or another platform are processed by that platform and are also governed by its billing, cancellation, and refund terms. You authorize the applicable provider to charge your selected payment method. Rise does not receive or store full payment-card details when a platform or payment processor handles payment.

You may cancel before renewal through the account or platform used to subscribe. Cancellation stops future renewal but ordinarily does not provide a refund for the current period, except where required by law or the applicable platform's policy. Deleting the app or your Rise account does not by itself cancel a platform subscription. Free trials convert to paid subscriptions if not canceled before the disclosed deadline. Promotional offers may be subject to additional terms and may be changed or withdrawn as permitted by law.

We may change subscription prices on advance notice required by law or the applicable platform. If a payment fails, we or the provider may retry the charge, suspend paid access, or end the subscription. Nothing in this section limits nonwaivable consumer rights.

7 Your content

7.1 Ownership

You retain ownership of content you submit, record, upload, post, or transmit through the Services, including journal entries, prayers, prompts, messages, profile information, audio, images, comments, and community posts, collectively User Content. You are responsible for User Content and must have the rights and permissions needed to submit it.

7.2 Private content license

For User Content you designate as private, such as private journals, private prayers, or private interactions, you grant Rise and its service providers a limited, nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, copy, transmit, process, format, and display that content only as reasonably necessary to provide the feature you request; apply the disclosed safety and security functions; comply with your settings and requests; prevent fraud or abuse; and comply with law. This license ends when the content is deleted from active systems, subject to reasonable backup, legal, security, and evidentiary retention.

7.3 Community content license

For User Content you choose to post in a community or public area, you grant Rise a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable license to host, reproduce, format, adapt for technical display, distribute, publicly display, moderate, and otherwise use that content to operate and secure the Services. Rise will not use identifiable community content in external advertising or testimonials without a separate permission or release. This license lasts until the content is removed from active public display, except that it continues for copies already shared by others, reasonable archival and backup copies, and uses made before removal.

Do not post anything you wish to keep confidential. Community content may be viewed, copied, captured, or reshared by others despite our controls. Do not include another person's private information, health information, prayer request, image, story, or identity without permission.

7.4 AI input and output

As between you and Rise, and to the extent permitted by law, you retain rights in your input and own any rights Rise may have in output generated specifically for you. Similar or identical output may be generated for others, and output may not qualify for intellectual property protection. Your use of input and output must comply with these Terms and third-party rights.

7.5 Feedback

If you voluntarily send ideas or product feedback, you grant Rise a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free right to use it without restriction or compensation. This does not apply to private journals, prayers, or conversations merely because they mention the product.

7.6 AI model training choice

Rise does not use identifiable private journals, private prayers, or private interactions to train general-purpose AI models and contractually restricts its AI providers from doing so, unless you separately give informed affirmative consent to a clearly described training program.

8 Community standards and prohibited conduct

You may not use the Services to do or facilitate any of the following:

Good-faith requests for help, disclosures of distress or victimization, and discussion of difficult topics are not prohibited merely because they concern these subjects. The restrictions apply to encouragement, instructions, exploitation, targeted abuse, evasion of safeguards, or other harmful or unlawful use.

We may investigate, remove, restrict, label, or preserve content; reduce visibility; disable features; suspend or terminate accounts; or report conduct to authorities. We are not required to pre-screen content and do not endorse User Content. Moderation involves judgment and may be incomplete or mistaken. If a reporting tool is available, use it for community concerns; use emergency services for emergencies.

9 Rise intellectual property and license

The Services, including software, design, text, graphics, trademarks, interfaces, compilations, and Rise-created content, are owned by Rise or its licensors and are protected by intellectual property laws. Subject to these Terms, Rise grants you a personal, limited, revocable, nonexclusive, nontransferable, nonsublicensable license to access and use the Services for lawful, noncommercial purposes. No other rights are granted.

You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, lease, create derivative works from, publicly display, reverse engineer, or exploit the Services except as expressly allowed by these Terms or mandatory law. You must retain proprietary notices. Rise and its logos are trademarks of Rise. Scripture translations and other licensed materials may be subject to separate notices and restrictions.

10 Third party services and app stores

The Services may link to or interoperate with third-party services, AI providers, app stores, payment processors, content licensors, authentication providers, or websites. Their terms and privacy practices govern their services. Rise does not control and is not responsible for third-party services, content, availability, or conduct. A link or integration is not an endorsement.

If you obtained the app from Apple, Apple is not a party to these Terms and has no obligation to provide maintenance or support. To the extent required by Apple's applicable terms, Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce the applicable app-license provisions. Similar platform-specific terms apply to other app stores.

11 Privacy

The Rise Privacy Policy explains how Rise collects, uses, discloses, retains, and protects personal information. It is incorporated into these Terms by reference. The Privacy Policy is a notice, not a waiver of any rights or duties under applicable law.

12 Copyright complaints

If you believe content on the Services infringes copyright, send a notice to our designated agent containing the information required by 17 U.S.C. section 512(c)(3): your signature; identification of the copyrighted work; identification and location of the allegedly infringing material; your contact information; a good-faith statement that the use is not authorized; and a statement under penalty of perjury that the notice is accurate and you are authorized to act. Notices should be sent to Hanson Birringer at support@risefaith.app. Knowingly material misrepresentations may create liability under 17 U.S.C. section 512(f). We may terminate repeat infringers where appropriate.

13 Suspension and termination

You may stop using the Services at any time. We may suspend, limit, or terminate access, remove content, or refuse service if we reasonably believe you violated these Terms; created legal, security, safety, or abuse risk; failed to pay; or if suspension is necessary to protect Rise, users, or others. When practical and lawful, we may provide notice and an opportunity to appeal, but we may act immediately where risk requires.

Upon termination, your license ends. Provisions that by their nature should survive will survive, including ownership, content licenses for permitted retained copies, disclaimers, limitations, indemnity, dispute resolution, and general terms.

14 Disclaimers

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Services and all content and output are provided as is and as available, with all faults. Rise and its affiliates, licensors, suppliers, and service providers disclaim all express, implied, and statutory warranties, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, quiet enjoyment, accuracy, noninfringement, and warranties arising from course of dealing or usage of trade. We do not warrant that the Services will be uninterrupted, secure, error free, accurate, complete, safe, or free of harmful code, or that content will be preserved.

Rise does not warrant or endorse User Content, AI output, religious interpretations, third-party content, or interactions between users. You assume the risk of relying on them. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain exclusions, so some disclaimers may not apply to you.

15 Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Rise and its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, agents, licensors, suppliers, and service providers will not be liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, or punitive damages; loss of profits, revenue, goodwill, data, or use; personal or spiritual distress; or the cost of substitute services, arising from or related to the Services or these Terms, even if advised that such damages were possible.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the total aggregate liability of the Rise parties for all claims arising from or related to the Services or these Terms will not exceed the greater of 100 US dollars or the amount you paid Rise for the Services during the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim.

These limits apply regardless of the theory of liability and even if a remedy fails of its essential purpose. They do not limit liability that cannot lawfully be limited, which may include liability for fraud, gross negligence, willful misconduct, or personal injury caused by negligence in some jurisdictions. Your nonwaivable consumer rights remain intact.

16 Indemnification

To the fullest extent permitted by law, you will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the Rise parties from third-party claims, damages, judgments, losses, liabilities, costs, and reasonable attorneys' fees arising from your User Content, unlawful or prohibited use of the Services, violation of these Terms, or infringement of another person's rights. Rise may control the defense and settlement of a covered claim, and you will reasonably cooperate. You may not settle a claim imposing liability or obligations on a Rise party without written consent. This section does not require indemnification for a Rise party's own unlawful conduct and may not apply where prohibited by law.

17 Dispute resolution and arbitration

17.1 Informal resolution

Before filing a claim, each party must send an individualized written Notice of Dispute and try in good faith to resolve the matter for 60 days. A notice to Rise must be sent to support@risefaith.app and include the claimant's name, account email, contact information, facts, legal basis, requested relief, and a good-faith calculation of any monetary demand. Rise will send notices to the email or address associated with your account. Any limitations period is tolled during this 60-day process. Either party may request an individual telephone or video settlement conference.

17.2 Agreement to arbitrate

This arbitration section applies only to users in the United States. Except for the exceptions below and where prohibited by law, you and Rise agree that every dispute, claim, or controversy arising from or relating to the Services, these Terms, the Privacy Policy, communications, purchases, or the relationship between you and Rise will be resolved by final and binding individual arbitration under the Federal Arbitration Act. The arbitrator, and not a court, will decide issues of scope, arbitrability, and enforceability, except that a court will decide disputes about the class-action waiver, public injunctive relief, mass-filing procedures, and satisfaction of pre-arbitration conditions.

17.3 Exceptions

Either party may bring an individual action in small claims court if eligible. Either party may seek temporary or preliminary injunctive relief in court to prevent unauthorized access, misuse, or infringement of intellectual property while arbitration is pending. Claims for public injunctive relief that applicable law requires a court to decide may proceed in court after all arbitrable claims are resolved.

17.4 Arbitration rules and location

Arbitration will be administered by JAMS under its then-current Streamlined Rules for claims under 250,000 US dollars and its Comprehensive Rules for larger claims, as modified by these Terms. If JAMS is unavailable, the parties will select a comparable provider or a court will appoint one. Hearings may occur by video, telephone, documents, or in the county where you live, unless the parties agree otherwise. Fees will be allocated under the provider's rules and applicable law. Rise will not seek attorneys' fees from an individual consumer unless the arbitrator finds the claim frivolous or brought for an improper purpose.

17.5 No jury or class proceedings

You and Rise waive the right to a jury trial. Each party may bring claims only in an individual capacity, not as a plaintiff or member in a class, collective, consolidated, mass, coordinated, private-attorney-general, or representative proceeding. The arbitrator may award relief only to the individual claimant and only as needed to resolve that claimant's claim, except where applicable law requires otherwise.

17.6 Coordinated filings

If 25 or more substantially similar arbitration demands are submitted against Rise within 180 days by the same or coordinated counsel or organizations, the demands will be administered in staged batches of up to 25. One arbitrator will decide each batch on a coordinated schedule while preserving individual decisions and remedies. No more than one batch may proceed at a time unless the parties agree otherwise. Limitations periods are tolled for demands awaiting a batch. If a court finally determines that this procedure is unenforceable for a particular claimant, that claimant's demand will proceed individually. This subsection does not authorize class arbitration.

17.7 Opt out

You may opt out of arbitration by sending an individualized notice to support@risefaith.app within 30 days after you first accept these Terms. Include your name, account email, mailing address, and a clear statement that you opt out of arbitration. Opting out does not affect any other part of these Terms or a prior arbitration agreement.

17.8 Changes to arbitration terms

If Rise materially changes this arbitration section, you may reject the change within 30 days after notice by using the opt-out contacts above. A rejection applies only to the change and leaves the prior arbitration agreement in effect. Rise will honor valid prior opt-outs.

18 Governing law and courts

The Federal Arbitration Act governs the arbitration provisions for U.S. users. Except to the extent preempted by federal law or prohibited by the law where you reside, these Terms are governed by the laws of the State of New York, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Any court proceeding permitted under these Terms must be brought in the state or federal courts located in New York County, New York, and each party consents to personal jurisdiction there, except that an individual consumer may bring an eligible small-claims action in the consumer's home county. Nothing in these Terms deprives a consumer of protections or access to courts that cannot be waived under the law of the consumer's habitual residence.

19 Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. If a change materially affects your rights, we will provide advance notice through the Services, email, or another reasonable method and state when it takes effect. Changes will apply prospectively. If you do not agree, you must stop using the Services and cancel any subscription. Continued use after the effective date constitutes acceptance to the extent permitted by law. The arbitration-change process above controls changes to arbitration.

20 General terms

These Terms, the Privacy Policy, and any feature-specific or purchase terms are the entire agreement about the Services. If a conflict exists, specific purchase or feature terms control for that subject. If a provision is unenforceable, it will be modified only as needed or severed, and the remainder will continue, except as stated in the arbitration section. Failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without our written consent; Rise may assign them in connection with a merger, reorganization, sale of assets, financing, or by operation of law. No agency, partnership, joint venture, employment, fiduciary, or franchise relationship is created. Headings are for convenience. The words including and such as mean without limitation. Electronic notices and signatures satisfy legal writing requirements to the extent permitted by law. These Terms do not confer rights on third parties except as expressly stated for app-store beneficiaries.

21 Contact information

Hanson Birringer

Legal, support and copyright questions: support@risefaith.app