Terms of Use — Bellwether

These Terms govern Bellwether, made by Bravely Studios LLC: the Mac app, the Bellwether Cloud service at bellwether.bravely.dev with its web viewer, and the viewer app for iPhone and iPad (together, the "App"). By downloading, installing or using any of them you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the App.

Bellwether is a data visualization tool. In the Mac app you connect to databases and files, pull extracts of their data onto your Mac, and build worksheets and dashboards from them. With a Bravely Account you can publish a workbook and snapshots of its data to Bellwether Cloud, open them on your other devices, in a browser and in the viewer for iPhone and iPad, create share links, and schedule refreshes that run on your Mac. The Mac app is a direct download from bravely.dev. The iPhone and iPad viewer is distributed through Apple's TestFlight during early access, under Apple's own terms for that program.

You must be at least 13 years old to use the App. If you are in the EEA, the UK, or another place where 16 is the age of consent for online services, you must be at least 16. If you are under the age of majority where you live, you may use the App only with the involvement of a parent or guardian who agrees to these Terms. By using the App you confirm you meet these requirements and that you are not barred from using it under the law that applies to you.

Bellwether is in early access. In this release there is nothing to buy: using the Mac app on your own Mac needs no account, and the cloud features need only a Bravely Account. That describes this release and is not a promise about the future. Bellwether may become a paid product, and its features, limits and availability may change. If a price is introduced it will be shown to you before you are asked to pay, and these Terms will be updated first. These Terms do not create a purchase, a subscription or a storage entitlement. Where something about Bellwether is described as planned or in development, that is a statement of intent and not a commitment until it ships in the build you are running.

The cloud features need a Bravely Account, which has its own terms at bravely.dev/terms/bravely-account. You are responsible for what happens under your account, including what is published from a Mac you set up for background publishing and whatever is done with a share link you created. Keep your sign-in secure, and stop background publishing on a Mac you no longer control.

Your workbooks, your queries and the data in your extracts and snapshots are yours, and we claim no ownership of them. You grant us only the permission we need to store, transmit and display what you choose to publish, to you, to your devices and to anyone you give a share link to, and to operate and maintain the service. You are responsible for having the right to connect to each data source you use and to publish what you publish, including any personal information about other people it contains. Passwords and access tokens for your data sources stay on your own devices. Do not put one into a workbook, a query, a field name or a table you publish.

Publishing copies a workbook and the snapshots you choose to Bellwether Cloud. A share link is public to anyone who has it. Anyone with the link can view what was published, without signing in, until you revoke the link: the dashboards and worksheets, the data in the snapshots, and the workbook's definition, which includes its queries and the names, addresses and user names of its connections. Treat a share link like the data itself and send it only to people you intend to see that data. Revoking a link stops it working from then on. It cannot recall a copy that someone has already opened or saved. You are responsible for what you publish and for who you share it with. Do not publish anything unlawful or infringing, and do not publish personal, confidential or regulated data unless you have the right to and the openness of a share link is acceptable for it.

Schedules run on your own Mac, in the app or in its background helper, and depend on that Mac being on, connected and authorized for the connection. A refresh can fail or be missed. Viewers mark data as out of date when an expected refresh has not arrived, and we email you when a refresh of a published workbook starts failing, but neither is a guarantee. Bellwether shows what your data sources returned when they were last read. Check important numbers against the source before you rely on them.

Bellwether Cloud limits the size of a snapshot and the total a workspace may store, and the app tells you when a limit is reached. Older snapshots are removed on the schedule described in the Privacy Policy at bravely.dev/privacy/bellwether. We may change these limits. Bellwether Cloud is a place to publish and view, not a backup. Keep your own copies of your workbooks and your source data.

You agree not to: • connect to a data source, or publish data, that you do not have the right to use • use Bellwether Cloud or a share link to distribute unlawful, infringing or malicious content • access or attempt to access another person's workspace, workbooks or share links without permission • probe, overload or interfere with the service, or get around its limits • resell the service or present it as your own • reverse-engineer, decompile or disassemble the apps except where applicable law expressly permits it

We may suspend an account, revoke a share link or remove published content that breaks these Terms, that is the subject of a valid legal complaint, or that puts the service or other people at risk. Where it is reasonable we will tell you why. You can stop using Bellwether at any time. This release has no control in the apps that deletes a published workbook or a whole workspace: to have either deleted, email privacy@bravely.dev from the address on your account.

The Bellwether Privacy Policy at bravely.dev/privacy/bellwether explains what stays on your Mac, what publishing sends, who can see it, and how long it is kept.

Bellwether is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, to the extent the law allows. It is early-access software. We do not warrant that it is error-free or uninterrupted, that every data source, query or file format will work, that a chart or a total is correct for your purpose, that a scheduled refresh will run, or that published content will be preserved. You are responsible for checking results before you rely on them and for keeping your own backups.

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Bravely Studios LLC and its officers, directors, employees, and agents are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or any loss of profits, data, use, or goodwill, arising out of or related to Bellwether, including decisions made using it. While nothing is charged for Bellwether, our total aggregate liability to you in connection with it shall not exceed one hundred US dollars. This does not limit any liability that cannot be limited under applicable law.

We may update these Terms from time to time. The effective date at the top of this page will be updated accordingly. Continued use of Bellwether after changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.

These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Kansas, United States, without regard to its conflict of law provisions. Except that the Resolving a Dispute section of these Terms is governed by the Federal Arbitration Act, and subject to that section, which sends most disputes to individual arbitration, any dispute not subject to arbitration shall be resolved in the state or federal courts located in Kansas, and you and we consent to their jurisdiction. This does not apply to a claim brought in small claims court, or to any claim severed to court under the Resolving a Dispute section, either of which may be brought where you live. Nothing in this section removes a consumer-protection right, or the right to bring a claim in the courts of your own country, that the mandatory law of your place of residence gives you.

If any provision of these Terms is found to be unenforceable or invalid, that provision shall be limited or eliminated to the minimum extent necessary, and the remaining provisions shall remain in full force and effect.

If you believe content published through the App infringes your copyright, email support@bravely.dev with enough detail for us to act: identify the work, identify the content and where to find it, give your contact details, and include a statement that you believe in good faith the use is not authorized and that the information in your notice is accurate. We remove or disable infringing content and may suspend accounts that repeatedly infringe. If your content was removed and you believe that was a mistake, reply to us and we will review it.

This section was added on July 26, 2026. It applies to disputes that arise on or after that date. It does not apply to any dispute that had already arisen, or that you had already raised with us, before then. Talk to us first. Before starting arbitration or a lawsuit, send a Notice of Dispute to legal@bravely.dev describing what happened, what you want, and how to reach you. We will do the same for you at the address on your account. All limitations periods are paused from the date a Notice of Dispute is sent until 60 days later, or until either of us says in writing that talks have ended, whichever comes first. Not sending a Notice of Dispute does not bar you from filing. Individual arbitration. If we cannot resolve it, you and Bravely Studios LLC agree that any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms, the App, or our relationship will be settled by binding individual arbitration rather than in court, except for the carve-outs below. Arbitration is less formal than a lawsuit: a neutral arbitrator decides instead of a judge or jury, discovery is more limited, and the decision is final and enforceable in any court with jurisdiction. Notwithstanding the Governing Law section, this section is governed by the Federal Arbitration Act. Who runs it. Arbitration is administered by the American Arbitration Association under its rules then in effect, including the Consumer Arbitration Rules and the Consumer Due Process Protocol where those apply to you. The AAA's rules are at adr.org. If the AAA is unavailable or declines to administer the case, the arbitration will be administered by JAMS under its Streamlined Arbitration Rules and its Consumer Arbitration Minimum Standards. If neither is available, either of us may ask a court to appoint an administrator or arbitrator under Section 5 of the Federal Arbitration Act. Who pays. We pay all AAA filing, administration, and arbitrator fees for any arbitration you begin, other than the initial filing fee set by the applicable AAA fee schedule, and we will pay that too if you tell us it is a hardship. We pay these regardless of who wins. We will not seek our attorneys' fees or costs from you unless the arbitrator finds your claim was frivolous as measured by Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11(b). Nothing here limits your right to recover attorneys' fees where a statute provides for them. Where it happens. You may have the arbitration conducted on documents only, by telephone or video, or in person in the county where you live or have your principal place of business. You never have to travel to Kansas to bring a claim against us. What is carved out. Either of us may bring an individual claim in small claims court where you live, if it qualifies. Either of us may ask any court for an injunction or other equitable relief to stop actual or threatened infringement or misuse of intellectual property, credentials, or confidential information. Nothing here stops you from reporting anything to a government agency. Individual basis only. Claims are brought only in your own individual capacity, not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class, collective, consolidated, private attorney general, or representative proceeding. The arbitrator may award relief only to the individual party seeking relief and only to the extent needed for that party's own claim. If a court decides this individual-basis requirement is unenforceable as to a particular claim or request for relief — including any request for public injunctive relief that the law says cannot be waived — then that specific claim or request is severed and proceeds in court, and everything else remains in arbitration. Any claim or request severed to court is stayed until the arbitration of the remaining claims is complete. Jury trial. To the extent any dispute does proceed in court, you and we each waive the right to a jury trial, except where that waiver is not permitted by the law that applies to you. If a court finds this jury-trial waiver unenforceable, only that waiver is severed and the rest of this section still applies. If we change this section. If we change this Resolving a Dispute section after the date you accepted it, the change does not apply to any dispute we already had written notice of, and you may reject the change by emailing legal@bravely.dev within 30 days of it taking effect. Rejecting a change leaves the version you accepted in force. You can opt out. You may reject this Resolving a Dispute section entirely by emailing legal@bravely.dev on or before August 25, 2026, or, if you first accept these Terms after July 26, 2026, within 30 days of doing so. Put "Arbitration Opt-Out" in the subject and include the name and email address on your account. That is all it takes. Opting out affects nothing else — your account, your purchases, and your rights under the rest of these Terms are untouched, and we will not refuse or withdraw service because you opted out. If you opt out, disputes go to the courts named under Governing Law. Where this does not apply. This section does not apply where the law that protects you does not allow it. If you are a consumer resident in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Australia, or anywhere else whose mandatory consumer law gives you a non-waivable right to bring a claim in your local courts or to use a local dispute-resolution body, that right stands and this section does not limit it. This section survives the end of your account or these Terms. If any part of it is found unenforceable, that part is severed and the rest still applies; the individual-basis requirement is severed in the specific manner described above and not otherwise. Where this section and the general Severability section conflict, this section controls.

Bravely Studios LLC Support and general questions: support@bravely.dev Privacy and data rights: privacy@bravely.dev Legal notices and arbitration opt-outs: legal@bravely.dev Website: https://bravely.dev Postal address: available on request.