Tea, Myself & I

Terms of Service

Effective date: May 27, 2026    Last updated: July 6, 2026

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are a binding agreement between you and Tea, Myself & I ("we," "us," "our"). They govern your access to and use of our app, website at teamyselfandi.com, SMS service, and related features (collectively, the "Service").

Please read these Terms carefully. They include an arbitration agreement and a class action waiver in Section 16 that affects your legal rights, a limitation of our liability in Section 14, and important disclosures about the nature of the Service in Sections 2, 9, and 10.

By creating an account, completing signup, paying for a subscription, or otherwise using the Service in any way, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to these Terms and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

1. Who can use the Service

You must be at least 18 years of age to use the Service. The Service is intended exclusively for adults. By creating an account or otherwise using the Service, you represent and warrant that:

If we have a reasonable basis to believe you are under 18, or that any of the representations above is false, we may suspend or terminate your account immediately and without notice, and you forfeit any unused portion of fees paid.

The Service is designed for users in the United States. If you access it from elsewhere, you do so at your own risk and are responsible for compliance with all local laws.

2. What the Service is — and what it is not

Tea, Myself & I provides an AI-powered chat companion. You select one of three named personas (Maya, Sloane, or Iris) and interact with her through the app, and optionally by text message. She is designed to feel conversational, but she is software.

AstroTea. We also offer AstroTea, a service that provides a daily astrology reading generated from the birth date, time, and place you provide, a journaling prompt, and conversational chat with an AI astrologer persona, delivered through the app and optionally by text message. AstroTea readings are generated by artificial intelligence and are offered solely for entertainment, reflection, and journaling purposes. Astrology has no scientific basis. AstroTea readings are not predictions of future events and are not advice of any kind — medical, mental health, legal, financial, relationship, career, or otherwise. Do not make any decision based on an AstroTea reading. Everything in these Terms that applies to a persona, the Service, AI limitations (Section 10), crisis content (Section 9), and disclaimers (Section 13) applies equally to AstroTea.

She is not a human. She is not a friend, partner, therapist, doctor, lawyer, financial advisor, counselor, coach, or any other licensed or unlicensed professional. She has no consciousness, no feelings, no continuing relationship with you, and no genuine understanding of your life. Every response she produces is generated by a large language model on a per-message basis and may be inaccurate, incomplete, contradictory, fabricated, or wrong.

The Service is offered solely for entertainment, casual conversation, journaling, and personal reflection. It is not:

You acknowledge and agree that any feelings of attachment, intimacy, friendship, romance, trust, dependence, or emotional connection you may develop toward a persona are directed at software, not at a person, and are not reciprocated. The personas do not exist outside of the messages they produce. If you find yourself relying on the Service for emotional support, replacing human relationships with it, or experiencing distress related to your use of it, you agree to reduce or discontinue use and consult a qualified human professional.

If you are in crisis or need professional help, contact a qualified professional or, in an emergency, call 911 or the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.

3. Your account

You create your account using your mobile phone number. You are responsible for keeping access to your phone secure and for all activity on your account, whether authorized by you or not. You agree to notify us immediately at support@teamyselfandi.com if you suspect unauthorized access to your account.

If your phone number changes or you lose access to your phone, contact support@teamyselfandi.com to update or recover your account. We may require identity verification before making changes and may decline to transfer an account at our discretion.

You may have only one account at a time. Creating multiple accounts, sharing your account, or transferring your account to another person is a violation of these Terms.

4. Subscriptions, free trial, billing, and cancellation

The Service is offered on a paid subscription basis in two tiers:

Bestie. $14.95 per month or $99.95 per year. Includes private messaging with one bestie of your choice (Maya, Sloane, or Iris), an optional text-message line you can turn on, persistent memory, and monthly usage caps as described in the Service.

Full Squad. $29.95 per month or $199.95 per year. Includes everything in Bestie tier, plus access to all three besties, the ability to @-tag a specific bestie via SMS, and higher monthly usage caps.

AstroTea. $9.95 per month. Includes a daily reading generated from your birth chart, a daily journaling prompt, persistent chart and conversation memory, an optional text-message line, and usage caps as described in the Service.

Free trial. All new subscriptions include a 7-day free trial. No payment method is required to start the trial. To continue past the trial, you must add a valid payment method, at which point your paid subscription begins. You will not be charged during the trial period.

Auto-renewal. If you do not cancel before the trial ends, your selected plan will automatically convert to a paid subscription and renew automatically at the price shown above. Annual subscriptions renew annually; monthly subscriptions renew monthly. You authorize us, through our payment processor Stripe, to charge your payment method on each renewal until you cancel. Prices are in U.S. dollars and exclude any applicable taxes; you are responsible for any sales tax or other taxes that may apply.

Cancellation. You may cancel at any time via the Stripe Customer Portal accessible from your account settings, or by emailing support@teamyselfandi.com. Cancellation takes effect at the end of your current billing period; you will continue to have access through the end of that period and will not be charged again.

Refunds. All subscription fees are non-refundable except where required by law. We do not provide partial-period refunds for cancellations, downgrades, account terminations, or unused portions of a billing period. We may, at our sole discretion, offer refunds in limited circumstances (such as a confirmed billing error).

Price changes. We may change prices for future billing periods. We will notify you in-app or by email at least 30 days before any price change takes effect. If you do not agree to the new price, you may cancel before it takes effect; continued use after the change constitutes acceptance.

Failed payments. If a renewal payment fails, we may suspend your access until payment is resolved. Repeated failures may result in account termination.

5. Usage limits

Each plan has monthly limits on app messages, SMS messages, and Read uploads, and per-day safety limits to prevent runaway usage. Your bestie may also pace conversations during long sessions. These limits exist to keep the Service sustainable and cannot be bypassed.

We may adjust limits over time, including reducing limits where necessary to protect the Service. Material adverse changes will be communicated in-app or by email.

6. SMS terms

The Service uses a text-messaging number for sending and receiving messages. Text messaging is optional and is turned off by default; you can create an account, sign in, subscribe, and use every feature of the Service without it.

When you enter your phone number and request a sign-in code, we send you a one-time verification code by text. This code is transactional and is sent because you requested it.

Recurring text messages are sent only if you separately turn on text messaging from within your account after signing in. By turning it on, you consent to receive recurring automated text messages from us at the number you provide, which may include conversational replies from your bestie when you text her and account, billing, and service notifications. You are never required to turn on text messaging as a condition of creating an account, subscribing, or using the Service.

Message and data rates from your mobile carrier may apply. Message frequency varies based on your usage. You can turn text messaging off at any time in your settings or by replying STOP to any message; reply HELP for help. Opting out of SMS does not cancel your subscription; to cancel billing, follow the cancellation process in Section 4. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages, and we cannot guarantee delivery of any particular message.

7. Your content and our license to use it

You retain ownership of the messages, images, and other content you submit through the Service ("Your Content").

By submitting Your Content, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable license to host, store, process, transmit, display, and otherwise use Your Content solely as needed to operate, maintain, secure, and improve the Service for you. This license includes the right to transmit Your Content to our AI provider (Anthropic) for the sole purpose of generating responses to you. This license ends when we delete Your Content as described in our Privacy Policy, except for backup copies retained for a reasonable transition period and for any content we are required to retain by law.

You represent and warrant that you have all rights necessary to submit Your Content and that doing so does not violate any third party's rights or any law.

8. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

We may suspend or terminate your access for any violation of these rules, immediately and without notice, and you forfeit any unused portion of fees paid.

9. Crisis content and safety

If you express thoughts of self-harm, suicide, or harm to others, the Service is designed to detect such expressions and direct you to professional resources, including the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. This safety behavior is non-negotiable and cannot be disabled.

However, you understand and agree that:

You agree that we are not liable for any harm arising from your reliance on the Service in connection with a mental health, crisis, safety, or emergency situation, except where liability cannot be disclaimed by law.

10. AI limitations and no reliance

You understand and accept that:

No reliance. You agree that you will use your own independent judgment and will not rely on any output of the Service for any consequential decision, including but not limited to medical, mental health, legal, financial, relationship, parenting, employment, or safety-related decisions. You assume sole responsibility for any action you take or refrain from taking based on the Service's output. We are not responsible for any decision you make or any outcome that follows from your use of the Service.

11. Intellectual property

The Service, including its software, design, user interface, brand, name, logo, AstroTea, the three persona names and characterizations (Maya, Sloane, Iris, and the AstroTea astrologer persona), and all underlying content, is owned by us or our licensors and protected by copyright, trademark, trade dress, and other intellectual property laws. We grant you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to use the Service for your personal, non-commercial use, subject to these Terms.

You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, lease, sublicense, or create derivative works of the Service or any part of it except as expressly allowed by these Terms. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.

12. Third-party services

The Service relies on third-party providers including Anthropic (AI), Twilio (SMS and phone numbers), Stripe (payments), Replit (hosting and database), Resend (email), Cloudflare (DNS and security), and Google (Workspace). Your use of the Service is also subject to their applicable terms. We are not responsible for outages, errors, data loss, security incidents, or other actions or failures of these third parties, and your sole remedy for any such issue is to discontinue use of the Service.

13. Disclaimers

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTIES ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING, USAGE, OR TRADE PRACTICE.

WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, ERROR-FREE, OR FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS; THAT AI OUTPUT WILL BE ACCURATE, COMPLETE, RELIABLE, OR APPROPRIATE FOR YOUR SITUATION; THAT MESSAGES WILL BE DELIVERED; OR THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED.

SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES. IN SUCH JURISDICTIONS, THE EXCLUSIONS ABOVE APPLY TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.

14. Limitation of liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE AND OUR OFFICERS, MEMBERS, EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS, AGENTS, AND LICENSORS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, USE, BUSINESS, OR GOODWILL, OR ANY EMOTIONAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, REPUTATIONAL, OR RELATIONAL HARM, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICE, WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STRICT LIABILITY, OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, AND WHETHER OR NOT WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

OUR TOTAL CUMULATIVE LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS, IN THE AGGREGATE, WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU ACTUALLY PAID US IN THE 12 MONTHS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR (B) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS ($100).

THESE LIMITATIONS APPLY EVEN IF A REMEDY FAILS OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE AND ARE A FUNDAMENTAL BASIS OF THE BARGAIN BETWEEN YOU AND US. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATION OF CERTAIN DAMAGES; IN SUCH JURISDICTIONS, OUR LIABILITY IS LIMITED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.

15. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold us and our officers, members, employees, contractors, agents, and licensors harmless from and against any and all claims, demands, losses, liabilities, damages, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees and court costs) arising out of or related to:

We reserve the right, at our own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, in which case you agree to cooperate with our defense.

16. Arbitration agreement and class action waiver

Please read this section carefully. It affects your legal rights, including your right to file a lawsuit in court and your right to participate in a class action.

16.1 Informal resolution first. Before initiating arbitration, you agree to first attempt to resolve any dispute informally by emailing us at support@teamyselfandi.com with a detailed description of the dispute, the relief you seek, and your contact information. We will attempt to resolve the dispute through good-faith discussions within 30 days of receipt. If we cannot resolve the dispute within 30 days, either party may proceed to arbitration. Completion of this informal process is a condition precedent to filing arbitration.

16.2 Binding arbitration. Any dispute, claim, or controversy between you and us arising out of or relating to the Service or these Terms, including the formation, interpretation, breach, or termination of these Terms, and whether the claims are arbitrable, will be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association ("AAA") under its Consumer Arbitration Rules then in effect, rather than in court. The arbitrator, and not any federal, state, or local court, has exclusive authority to resolve any dispute relating to the interpretation, applicability, enforceability, or formation of this arbitration agreement.

16.3 Exceptions. Either party may bring an individual claim in small claims court if the claim qualifies. Either party may also seek injunctive or equitable relief in court to protect intellectual property rights or to prevent unauthorized access to the Service.

16.4 Location and format. The arbitration will take place in Palm Beach County, Florida, or, at your election, by video, telephone, or written submissions. Arbitration is more informal than court. There is no judge or jury, discovery is limited, and review is limited.

16.5 Class action waiver. YOU AND WE AGREE THAT EACH MAY BRING CLAIMS AGAINST THE OTHER ONLY IN AN INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS, COLLECTIVE, CONSOLIDATED, MASS, REPRESENTATIVE, OR PRIVATE ATTORNEY GENERAL ACTION OR PROCEEDING. The arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person's claims and may not preside over any form of representative, class, or mass proceeding. The arbitrator may award relief only in favor of the individual party seeking relief and only to the extent necessary to provide relief warranted by that party's individual claim.

16.6 Severability of class action waiver. If the class action waiver in Section 16.5 is found to be unenforceable as to a particular claim or request for relief, then that claim or request will be severed from the arbitration and brought in a court of competent jurisdiction in Palm Beach County, Florida, but the rest of the arbitration agreement and these Terms will remain in full force and effect. If the class action waiver is found unenforceable as to all claims, then the entire arbitration agreement in this Section 16 will be void, but the remainder of these Terms will remain in effect.

16.7 Opt-out. You may opt out of this arbitration agreement and class action waiver within 30 days of first agreeing to these Terms by emailing privacy@teamyselfandi.com with the subject line "Arbitration Opt-Out" and including your full name, the phone number associated with your account, and a clear statement that you wish to opt out. A timely opt-out will not affect any other provision of these Terms.

16.8 Survival. This Section 16 survives termination of these Terms and of your account.

17. Governing law

These Terms and any dispute arising out of or related to them or the Service are governed by the laws of the State of Florida, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules, and, where applicable, by the Federal Arbitration Act. Subject to the arbitration agreement above, any court proceeding permitted by these Terms must take place in the state or federal courts located in Palm Beach County, Florida, and you consent to personal jurisdiction in those courts.

18. Termination

You may stop using the Service and delete your account at any time. Cancellation of your subscription is governed by Section 4.

We may suspend or terminate your access to the Service, in whole or in part, with or without notice and at our sole discretion, if:

On termination, your right to use the Service immediately ends. Sections that by their nature should survive termination — including Sections 2, 7, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 20, and 22 — will survive.

19. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. When we do, we will update the "Last updated" date above. For material changes, we will provide notice in-app or by email at least 7 days before the changes take effect. Your continued use of the Service after the effective date of any updated Terms constitutes your acceptance of those updated Terms. If you do not agree to the updated Terms, you must stop using the Service before the effective date.

20. Force majeure

We are not liable for any failure or delay in performance to the extent caused by circumstances beyond our reasonable control, including acts of God, natural disasters, war, terrorism, civil unrest, pandemic, government action, labor disputes, internet or telecommunications failures, power outages, denial-of-service attacks, or failures, outages, or changes by third-party providers (including Anthropic, Twilio, Stripe, Replit, Resend, Cloudflare, or Google).

21. Miscellaneous

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Service and supersede any prior agreements between you and us on the subject. If any provision of these Terms is found to be unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect, and the unenforceable provision will be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable. Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of that provision or any other provision. You may not assign or transfer these Terms or your account, by operation of law or otherwise, without our prior written consent; any attempted assignment without consent is void. We may assign these Terms freely. The headings in these Terms are for convenience only and do not affect interpretation.

22. Contact

Questions about these Terms, requests for support, or notices required under these Terms:

support@teamyselfandi.com

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