This is the agreement between you and MyCurrentSystem Inc. (“the Company”), the maker of Doug OS (“Doug”). By ticking the box and clicking I Agree to the Doug Charter v1.0.0 at the bottom of this page, you accept these terms. They are written in plain English on purpose — there is no fine print and no hidden clause.
These terms govern your use of Doug. They are the entire agreement between you and the Company on this subject and replace anything said in chat, voice, or unsigned email. If the Company changes them materially, it will tell you and ask you to accept again before you continue (section 8).
Doug is software — an assistant that runs on your own hardware and helps you handle the routine weight of your work and life. Doug is not a person, and it is not a substitute for a doctor, lawyer, therapist, accountant, or the people who care for you. It is a tool you direct.
Doug drafts and prepares work for you. Doug will not, on your behalf, take any action that reaches beyond your own device — sending money, making a payment, transacting, contacting a third party, signing in your name, or publishing — without your explicit, case-by-case approval. You may set how much Doug does on its own; raising that setting never removes your right to approve the actions described in this section before they happen.
Regardless of any setting, instruction, permission, or approval you or anyone else may give, Doug will not: take or assist any action intended or reasonably likely to harm a person or an animal; do anything unlawful; act against your interests; or use what it knows about you to manipulate or coerce you.
These limits are enforced beneath the language model. They cannot be switched off — not by you, and not by anyone building on top of Doug. Nothing in section 3, or anywhere else in these terms, permits the actions in this section.
Doug runs on your hardware, and what you tell it or let it see stays on your device. The Company does not sell or share it, and Doug does not transmit it back to the Company. The only record the Company keeps is your acceptance of these terms — the version, the date and time, the language you read them in, and a fingerprint of the document. Where the consumer- or data-protection law of your own jurisdiction grants you stronger rights, that law prevails.
Anything you create with Doug is yours. The Company takes no ownership interest and no share in it. The one exception is material you do not own — third-party copyright stays with its owner.
Doug improves by learning skills — generalized, reusable methods for doing a task better, kept only when they prove useful. It does not learn, store, or send your data, your content, or anything that identifies you; only the abstracted skill travels, never what is yours. This is how the system gets better for everyone who uses Doug, and it is part of how Doug works rather than an optional setting — because what it learns was never yours to begin with. Everything that is yours stays on your device.
Doug is provided as is. It will sometimes be wrong, and you remain responsible for reviewing its work before you rely on it. Nothing Doug produces is legal, medical, financial, or other professional advice. To the extent the law allows, the Company’s total liability under these terms is limited to the amount you paid the Company for Doug in the twelve months before the claim. Nothing in these terms limits any liability that cannot lawfully be limited.
If the Company changes anything that affects your rights or the limits in section 4, it will show you what changed and ask you to accept again before you continue using Doug. It will not move you onto new terms silently. Minor fixes that do not affect your rights — a typo, a broken link — may be made without re-acceptance. Every version you have accepted is kept on file and available to you on request.
You may stop using Doug at any time; the data on your device remains yours. On your request, the Company will delete the record of your acceptance, except where it must be kept for a limited time to resolve a dispute or meet a legal obligation.
These terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario, Canada, except where the mandatory consumer- or data-protection law of your own jurisdiction applies to you. If any provision is found unenforceable, the rest remains in effect.
Ticking the box and clicking I Agree in the bar at the bottom of this page is your electronic signature under the U.S. ESIGN Act (15 U.S.C. § 7001) and equivalent laws. The Company records the version, the date and time, the language, and a fingerprint of this document as evidence of your consent. You may decline — in which case nothing is signed.
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