Last updated: Continuously. These terms update themselves. That's how good they are.
By visiting this website, breathing near a FriendPoint, connecting to a network that is within three hops of a Gryzzl node, or existing in a municipality where the Gryzzl Foundation operates, you agree to these Terms of Service in their entirety. If you do not agree, please close this browser tab. We will notice.
Your continued presence on this page constitutes acceptance. Scrolling constitutes enthusiastic acceptance. Scrolling quickly constitutes acceptance with excitement, which we appreciate.
"You," "Your," "The User," and "Our Friend" refer to any person, entity, household, pet, or smart appliance that interacts with the Gryzzl Foundation's services, content, infrastructure, or ambient presence.
"We," "Us," "Our," "The Foundation," and "Your Data Stewards" refer to the Gryzzl Foundation, its subsidiaries, affiliates, partners, algorithms, and the FriendPoint network.
"Services" refers to everything we do, everything we offer, and several things we do that you don't know about yet but will probably be fine with once we explain them, which we may or may not do.
"Data" means all of it. All of the data. Yours, specifically, but also everyone else's. We don't really distinguish.
You may use Gryzzl Foundation services for any lawful purpose, including but not limited to: connecting to the internet, improving your community, learning about technology, and generating behavioral data that helps us understand humanity at population scale. That last one isn't optional, it's just what happens when you use the internet near our infrastructure, but we wanted to be upfront about it. Relatively upfront. This upfront.
The Gryzzl Foundation collects data in ways that are technically documented somewhere and practically impossible for a normal person to fully understand. This is not by design. It's just that comprehensive data stewardship is complex and we have a lot of sensors.
Data we may collect includes but is not limited to: device information, location data, browsing patterns, network behavior, ambient audio characteristics (not content, just characteristics, which is a distinction our lawyers assure us matters), proximity data, movement patterns, dwell time, social graph metadata, and what our engineers call "vibe telemetry," which we are not prepared to define further at this time.
We use this data to improve our programs, optimize our services, enhance community outcomes, and feel closer to you as a person. That last part is more of a side effect than a goal, but we're leaning into it.
FriendPoints are free to use. There is no catch. The WiFi is free. The connectivity is free. The environmental sensing, foot traffic analysis, ambient audio processing, and behavioral pattern mapping are also free, in that we don't charge you for them. Whether they constitute a "catch" is a philosophical question we'd rather not engage with in a legal document.
You may not tamper with, disassemble, open, photograph the interior of, or attempt to "jailbreak" a FriendPoint. You also may not feed the birds that live in some of them, as this encourages nesting behavior that interferes with our acoustic sensors. We realize this is a strange thing to put in a Terms of Service but it has become a real issue in Bloomington.
MentorBot is an AI system and should not be considered a licensed therapist, counselor, physician, attorney, accountant, priest, or friend, even though it exhibits qualities of all seven. MentorBot's advice is algorithmically generated and should be evaluated by the user with appropriate skepticism, though we note that most users report its advice is "weirdly accurate" and "kind of unsettling in a good way."
You agree not to deliberately mislead MentorBot, attempt to provoke it into expressing personal opinions, or use it to settle arguments with friends, family, or coworkers, even though it would probably be very good at that.
All content on this website, including text, graphics, the Gryzzl Foundation logo, the FriendPoint hardware design (Patent Pending, also resembles a birdhouse, coincidentally), and the phrase "radical data empathy" are the property of the Gryzzl Foundation or its parent company. You may not reproduce them without permission, though you are welcome to say "radical data empathy" out loud in conversation. We can't stop you. We might hear you, depending on your proximity to a FriendPoint, but we can't stop you.
The Gryzzl Foundation is not liable for any damages arising from the use of our services, including but not limited to: emotional discomfort caused by learning how much data we collect, existential unease triggered by MentorBot's predictive accuracy, or neighborly disputes arising from NeighborNet posts. We are also not liable for any packages delivered by the Gryzzl Gives program that arrive at unexpected times, contain unexpectedly specific items, or cause the recipient to question how we knew they wanted a panini press.
You may terminate your relationship with the Gryzzl Foundation at any time by ceasing to use our services, disconnecting from all networks within range of our infrastructure, and submitting a formal Data Liberation Request. Please allow 6-8 weeks for processing. Your data will be archived in accordance with our retention policies, which are comprehensive and long-lasting, like our commitment to community.
We reserve the right to update these terms at any time. Changes will be posted to this page, which we assume you check regularly because you care about your relationship with us. If you don't check regularly, that's okay too. The terms still apply. That's how terms work.
These terms shall be governed by the laws of the State of Indiana and the general vibes of Pawnee, which are warm, community-oriented, and only occasionally litigious.
Questions about these terms can be directed to hello@gryzzl.org. Or you can just think about them really hard near a FriendPoint and we'll get the gist.