Terms of Service

Effective: 2026-09-02

Operator: HigherEdPods Inc., a corporation incorporated in Alberta, Canada, operating intelligence.fm ("we", "us").

This is the beta-period version of our terms. intelligence.fm is in private beta: it is free, it changes often, and some things described here as "may" are plans rather than features.

1. The agreement

These Terms of Service (the "Terms") are a contract between you and HigherEdPods Inc. You accept them by clicking Approve on our sign-in page when you connect intelligence.fm to Claude, or by using the Service in any other way. If you are accepting on behalf of a company or a show you do not own personally, you confirm you have authority to bind it, and "you" means that organisation too.

Our Privacy Policy (https://mcp.intelligence.fm/privacy) is part of these Terms.

2. Definitions

• Service: intelligence.fm, meaning the connector at https://mcp.intelligence.fm, the Skills, the emails we send, and our website.
• Connector: the MCP server your Claude connects to.
• Skills: the step-by-step collection instructions and browser blueprints we serve to your Claude so it can download exports from a Platform.
• Platform: a podcast distribution service whose analytics we support: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, Amazon Music, and any we add later.
• Platform Data: the exports, files and figures your Claude downloads from a Platform and pushes to us, and the metrics we derive from them.
• Workspace and Show: your account container and the podcast(s) inside it. Each podcaster has their own Workspace.
• Your Claude: your own account with Anthropic's Claude, on which the Service runs.
• Your Content: Platform Data, your RSS feed, the annotations you write, and anything else you provide.

3. Accounts and eligibility

• You must be at least 18 and using the Service for a business purpose (running a podcast).
• Your account is controlled by the email address you sign in with. Keep that mailbox secure; anyone who can read it can sign in as you. Tell us at support@intelligence.fm if you think it has been compromised.
• During the beta we create your Workspace and Show for you from the email you give us. You may not create an account for a show you have no right to collect data for.
• You are responsible for everyone you let use your account.

4. What the Service is, and is not

intelligence.fm has no dashboard. Its interface is a conversation: you ask your Claude, your Claude calls the Connector, and the answer comes back with the definitions and caveats that make it honest. To do that, the Service depends on things we do not control: Anthropic's Claude, Google Chrome and the Claude in Chrome extension, and the Platforms themselves. If any of them changes, breaks, or withdraws a feature, the Service may stop working in part or in whole until we adapt.

The numbers come from the Platforms. Each Platform defines its own metrics, revises recent figures, and sometimes reports wrongly. We label provisional numbers, carry each Platform's definition with every answer, and refuse to compute things the data cannot support (for example, adding unique listeners across platforms). We do not guarantee that any figure is accurate, complete, or final, and nothing the Service produces is financial, tax or investment advice.

5. Your authorisations and responsibilities

Collection happens in your own browser, under your own logins, driven by your own Claude. That design puts certain things on you:

• You must own, or be authorised by the owner to access, every Platform account you collect from. If you lose that authorisation, stop collecting from it.
• You are responsible for complying with each Platform's own terms when you download your own exports. We believe downloading your own analytics is exactly what those export features are for, but the relationship with the Platform is yours.
• Push only files you are entitled to. The Connector refuses files that belong to another podcaster's show, without telling you whose they are. Do not try to get around that.
• Your Claude account, its plan, and Anthropic's terms are your responsibility. So are your Chrome installation and any password manager you choose to connect.
• Keep your Platform credentials to yourself. We never ask for them, and no one acting for us ever will. If you opt into an optional API route, the credential stays in your own computer's keychain.

6. Licence to the Skills

We grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use the Skills solely to collect Platform Data for Shows in your Workspace, through your own Claude. The Skills are our confidential and proprietary work, and each copy we serve is watermarked to your account.

You may not: share, publish, sell or otherwise distribute the Skills or any part of them; remove or alter the watermark; adapt them to collect data from accounts you are not authorised on; or use them to build a competing service. This licence ends when your account ends or when we revoke it for breach.

7. Your Content

You own Your Content. We claim no ownership of your Platform Data, your feed, or your notes.

You grant us a licence to host, store, copy, parse, and process Your Content, to derive metrics from it, and to generate answers, digests and reminders from it, for the purpose of providing the Service to you. That licence lasts as long as we hold Your Content under the Privacy Policy.

We may also use Your Content in aggregated and de-identified form, meaning combined with other customers' data so that neither you nor your show can be identified, to understand and improve the Service. We will never publish or sell anything that identifies you or your show without your permission.

If you send us ideas, suggestions or feedback, we may use them without obligation to you.

8. Acceptable use

Do not:

• attempt to access another Workspace's data, or probe, test or circumvent the isolation between customers;
• load-test, scrape, or otherwise put abnormal load on the Connector;
• resell, sublicense, or provide the Service to third parties as a bureau service;
• use the Skills or the Connector to collect data from Platform accounts you are not authorised on;
• reverse engineer the Service except to the extent applicable law expressly permits it despite this clause;
• interfere with other users' collection sessions;
• use the Service for anything unlawful.

We may suspend an account immediately while we investigate a suspected breach of this section.

9. Beta status and changes to the Service

• The Service is free during the beta. We may end the beta, change or remove features, or discontinue the Service at any time. We will try to give reasonable notice and to let you retrieve your data.
• There is no service-level commitment. We aim for reliability and we tell you plainly when something is provisional or broken.
• We may introduce paid plans. If we do, we will give you at least 30 days' notice, and nothing you have already collected will be held hostage: you can request your data at any time under the Privacy Policy.
• When plans exist, the billing unit is the Show. We will never meter or charge by the question.
• Accounts whose trial or plan has ended may move to a read-only state with access to a limited recent window of already-collected data, as described in the Privacy Policy's retention section, before eventual deletion.

10. Fees

There are no fees today. If we introduce fees: prices will be stated before you commit; fees are payable in advance for the billing period and are non-refundable except where the law requires otherwise; applicable taxes are added; and we may change prices with at least 30 days' notice, taking effect at your next renewal.

11. Privacy and the question log

Our Privacy Policy explains what we collect and why. One thing bears repeating here because you agree to it when you click Approve: every call your Claude makes through the Connector is recorded in a question log, with file contents and secret-shaped values removed, and that log is visible to the members of your Workspace and to intelligence.fm staff.

12. Third-party services

The Service works with Anthropic's Claude, Google Chrome, the Platforms, and optionally your password manager. Each has its own terms and privacy policy, which you accept separately. We are not responsible for them, for changes they make, or for what they do with your data.

13. Intellectual property

The Service, including the Connector, the Skills, our metric definitions and caveat catalogue (the "Playbook"), our software, designs and documentation, and the intelligence.fm name and marks, are owned by HigherEdPods Inc. or our licensors and protected by copyright, trade-mark and other laws. Apart from the licences expressly granted in these Terms, we grant you no rights, and no rights are implied.

14. Suspension and termination

• You can stop at any time by disconnecting the Connector from your Claude and, if you wish, asking us to delete your account under the Privacy Policy.
• We may suspend or terminate your access if you breach these Terms, if we reasonably believe your use creates a security or legal risk, or if we discontinue the Service. Where practical we will tell you why and give you a chance to fix it.
• On termination: your licence to the Skills ends immediately; you must stop using them; and we will handle your data as the Privacy Policy describes, including deletion on request.
• Sections 6 (as to restrictions), 7, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 20 survive termination.

15. Disclaimers

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available", during the beta and after it. To the fullest extent permitted by law we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, and any warranty that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that any Platform figure is accurate, complete or final. You rely on the figures at your own judgement.

16. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, HigherEdPods Inc., its directors, officers, employees and contractors will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill or business opportunity, arising out of or related to the Service or these Terms, even if we were advised of the possibility.

Our total liability for all claims arising out of or related to the Service or these Terms will not exceed the greater of (a) the fees you paid us in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim, and (b) CAD $100.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain exclusions or limitations; in those places, the exclusions and limitations above apply only to the extent permitted.

17. Indemnity

You will defend and indemnify HigherEdPods Inc. against third-party claims, and the reasonable costs of them, arising from your breach of a Platform's terms, your collection from an account you were not authorised on, Your Content, or your breach of these Terms.

18. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Alberta and the federal laws of Canada applicable there, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. The courts of Alberta have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising out of or related to these Terms or the Service, and you consent to their jurisdiction. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.

19. Changes to these Terms

We will update these Terms as the Service grows. The effective date at the top shows the current version. For material changes we will email the address on your account at least 14 days before they take effect. Continuing to use the Service after that date means you accept the new Terms; if you do not, disconnect and ask us to delete your account.

20. General

• Entire agreement. These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between you and us about the Service, and replace any earlier understanding, including anything in our onboarding materials that conflicts with them.
• Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our consent. We may assign them to a successor to the business, with notice to you.
• Severability. If any part of these Terms is unenforceable, the rest stays in force.
• Waiver. Not enforcing a term is not a waiver of it.
• Force majeure. We are not liable for delay or failure caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including Platform or Anthropic outages and changes.
• Notices. Notices to us go to support@intelligence.fm. Notices to you go to the email on your account.
• Language. These Terms are written in English.
• Export and sanctions. You confirm you are not in a jurisdiction, or on a list, that Canadian law prohibits us from dealing with.

21. Contact

• HigherEdPods Inc.
• Edmonton, Alberta
• support@intelligence.fm