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Lava Terms of Use

Effective date: 12 July 2026

These Terms of Use (“Terms”) are a legal agreement between you and Timur Darmaev, an individual operating Lava (“Lava,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). They govern your access to and use of the Lava website, closed beta, Obsidian plugin, and related services (collectively, the “Service”).

By joining the closed beta, creating an account, or using the Service, you agree to these Terms and the Lava Privacy Policy available at https://getlava.me/confidential. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

Lava is an independent third-party plugin. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Dynalist Inc. or Obsidian. “Obsidian” is the property of its respective owner.

Eligibility

You must be at least 18 years old and legally capable of entering into these Terms. If you use Lava for an organization, you represent that you have authority to bind that organization, and “you” includes the organization.

The closed beta is invitation-only. Invitations and accounts are personal and may not be sold, transferred, or shared.

Closed-beta service

During the closed beta:

  • the Service is provided without charge and with limited usage;
  • features, models, usage limits, availability, and access rules may change at any time;
  • the Service may contain errors, lose functionality, or be unavailable;
  • we may reset beta data or discontinue all or part of the beta; and
  • participation does not guarantee access to a future commercial version.

No paid subscription, automatic renewal, or purchase is offered under these Terms. We will provide updated terms before introducing paid service.

Accounts and security

You must provide accurate account information and keep your email account and authentication credentials secure. You are responsible for activity conducted through your account.

You must promptly notify us through the Lava contact form if you suspect unauthorized access. We may suspend access to protect you, other users, or the Service.

Notes and other user content

You retain ownership of notes, prompts, instructions, feedback, and other content you submit through the Service (“User Content”). These Terms do not transfer ownership of your User Content to Lava.

You grant Lava a limited, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, transmit, reproduce, and process User Content solely as needed to provide, secure, and support the Service. This license ends when the relevant processing is complete or the content is deleted, except where continued retention is required by law or needed to resolve a security incident or legal claim.

You represent that:

  • you own or have all necessary rights and permissions to submit User Content;
  • processing User Content through Lava does not violate law, contract, confidentiality, privacy, intellectual-property, or other rights; and
  • you will not submit content whose processing by third-party AI providers is prohibited.

Lava may send the note content you select or reference, together with your prompt, through OpenRouter to a model provider. Review the Privacy Policy before using notes containing personal, confidential, or sensitive information.

AI output

AI-generated output may be inaccurate, incomplete, offensive, outdated, or misleading. It may reproduce errors or similarities found in third-party material. You must independently review output before using or relying on it.

The Service does not provide legal, medical, financial, tax, employment, security, or other professional advice. Do not use output as a substitute for qualified professional judgment or as the sole basis for decisions that could materially affect a person’s rights, safety, health, finances, employment, education, housing, insurance, or access to essential services.

You are responsible for your use of AI output and for determining whether that use is lawful, appropriate, and subject to disclosure, attribution, human review, or other obligations.

Acceptable use

You may not use the Service to:

  • violate law or another person’s rights;
  • submit content you are not authorized to disclose or process;
  • generate, distribute, or facilitate malware, credential theft, unauthorized access, fraud, abuse, harassment, exploitation, or violence;
  • infringe intellectual-property, privacy, confidentiality, publicity, or contractual rights;
  • impersonate another person or misrepresent the source of content;
  • bypass usage limits, account controls, safety measures, or access restrictions;
  • probe, scan, disrupt, overload, reverse engineer, or compromise the Service, except to the extent a restriction is prohibited by applicable law;
  • resell, sublicense, or provide the Service to third parties without written permission;
  • use automated means to access the Service beyond documented interfaces or limits; or
  • use the Service or output to build or train a competing model or service where prohibited by applicable third-party terms.

We may investigate suspected violations and suspend or terminate access.

Lava intellectual property

Except for User Content and third-party materials, Lava and its licensors retain all rights in the Service, including its software, design, documentation, branding, and related intellectual property.

Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable right to install and use the beta plugin for your personal or internal business use during the beta.

Any open-source components are governed by their applicable licenses. If an open-source license conflicts with these Terms for a particular component, that license controls for that component.

If you send feedback or suggestions, you grant Lava a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free right to use, modify, and incorporate them into the Service without compensation, provided we do not publicly identify you as the source without permission.

Third-party services and terms

The Service depends on third-party services, including Obsidian, Supabase, Render, Resend, OpenRouter, and model providers. Your use of third-party products may be governed by their separate terms. We do not control and are not responsible for third-party services, changes, outages, or content.

You are responsible for complying with terms that apply to your use of Obsidian and any third-party model or service.

Changes, suspension, and termination

You may stop using the Service at any time and may request account deletion through the Lava contact form.

We may limit, suspend, or terminate your access immediately if:

  • you violate these Terms;
  • your use creates legal, security, or operational risk;
  • a provider requires us to do so;
  • maintaining the Service becomes impractical; or
  • we discontinue the closed beta.

Where reasonably practical, we will provide notice. Sections that by their nature should survive termination, including ownership, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnity, and dispute resolution, will survive.

Disclaimers

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Service is provided “as is” and “as available.” Lava disclaims all express, implied, and statutory warranties, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, accuracy, availability, security, and quiet enjoyment.

We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, or compatible with every device, Obsidian version, plugin, model, or provider. We do not warrant that AI output is accurate or suitable for your purpose.

Nothing in these Terms excludes warranties or consumer rights that cannot lawfully be excluded.

Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Lava and its operator, licensors, and service providers will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for loss of profits, revenue, business, goodwill, data, or use, arising from or related to the Service.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Lava’s total aggregate liability arising from or related to the closed-beta Service will not exceed the greater of:

  • the amount you paid Lava for the Service during the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim; or
  • USD 100.

The limitations apply regardless of the legal theory and even if a remedy fails of its essential purpose. They do not apply to liability that cannot lawfully be limited or excluded, including where applicable liability for fraud, willful misconduct, gross negligence, death or personal injury caused by negligence, or statutory consumer rights and guarantees that cannot lawfully be limited under the law of your country of residence.

Indemnity for business users

If you use the Service on behalf of a business or organization, you will indemnify and hold harmless Lava and its operator from third-party claims, damages, and reasonable costs arising from your unlawful User Content, your material violation of these Terms, or your infringement of another person’s rights.

This section does not apply to consumers to the extent prohibited by applicable law.

Disputes

If a dispute arises from or relates to the Service or these Terms, you and Lava agree to first try to resolve it informally and in good faith. Submit a notice describing the dispute and the resolution you seek through the Lava contact form. The parties will try to resolve the dispute within 30 days after the notice is received.

This informal process does not prevent either party from seeking urgent relief, filing a claim where an immediate filing is permitted or required, or exercising any right or remedy available under applicable law.

If the dispute is not resolved informally, either party may bring a claim before a court or other tribunal that has jurisdiction under applicable law. These Terms do not limit any mandatory consumer-protection rights or remedies available to you under applicable law.

Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms as the Service develops. We will post the revised Terms with a new effective date and provide additional notice of material changes where required.

If you do not agree to revised Terms, you must stop using the Service. Changes do not retroactively reduce rights or alter disputes that arose before the revised Terms took effect unless applicable law permits it.

General terms

If a provision of these Terms is unenforceable, it will be enforced to the maximum lawful extent and the remaining provisions will remain effective. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver.

You may not assign these Terms without our written consent. We may assign them in connection with a reorganization, financing, merger, acquisition, or transfer of the Service, subject to applicable law.

These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement regarding the closed-beta Service and supersede prior discussions about it. They do not create a partnership, agency, employment, or joint venture.

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