Terms of Use

Last updated: April 2026

Welcome to the Terms of Use for The Audacity website. We know, we know — you came here for a visionary regenerative community network and now you're reading legal language. We promise to make this as painless as possible. Get a cup of tea. We'll be brief.

By using this website, you agree to these terms. If you disagree with them, you're welcome to leave, though we'd prefer you stayed and told us why.


1. Who We Are

The Audacity is a community project and vision initiative — currently in the dreaming and gathering phase. The website is tended by the project's founding visionary. You can reach us via the contact form on the main page or by messaging us on Substack.


2. What This Website Is

This website is an expression of a vision, a gathering place for people who feel called to it, and a platform for sharing information about The Audacity project. It is not a financial prospectus, a legal offering of securities, or a binding commitment to any specific outcome. We are building something extraordinary, and that process involves uncertainty — which we embrace as a feature, not a bug.

(If you need certainty, the actuarial tables are that way. We wish you well.)


3. No Financial Promises

Any mention of tokens or community access and governance structures on this website represents a vision in development, not a current offering. Tokens, if and when issued, are utility instruments only — they represent future access rights and governance participation, not financial assets, equity, dividends, or investment returns. Nothing on this site constitutes financial advice, an offer to sell securities, or a guarantee of return. When and if token structures are formally established, they will be governed by proper legal documentation at that time.

If you're a finance lawyer reading this and thinking "there's more you should say here" — yes, you're probably right, and also, we'd love to hear from you.

4. Substack Pledges and Subscriptions

You may choose to support this work by subscribing to or pledging on our Substack publication. Free subscriptions are exactly that — free. Pledges allow readers to express future support: payment information is collected, but no charge is made unless and until paid subscriptions are formally activated, at which point pledges convert to recurring subscriptions per Substack's terms. Readers may cancel a pledge at any time before that conversion. All payment processing, refunds, and account management for Substack subscriptions are handled by Substack and its payment processor, Stripe. Subscriptions are not tax-deductible. For full details on how pledges and subscriptions work, see Substack's Terms of Service.


5. Contact Form Submissions

When you submit our contact form, you're expressing interest in the project. You are not entering into a binding contract, a partnership agreement, or any obligation. We're not either. We're just getting to know each other. It's quite nice, actually.

Submitting the form does not guarantee you a specific role, a place in a community, a token allocation, or anything other than a genuine response from someone who is genuinely happy you found us.


6. Intellectual Property

The Audacity name, logo, visual identity, and original written content on this website are the intellectual property of the project. You're welcome to share links to the site, quote small passages with attribution, and talk about us enthusiastically to everyone you know. Please don't reproduce our content wholesale or use our brand without asking.

(Asking is, as you may have noticed from the rest of this site, something we're very much in favor of.)

AI tools may be used in the research and development of some content on this site and in our publications, but the ideas and thoughts reflected here do come from a real human, who takes every reasonable effort to review content for accuracy and alignment with our vision and values before publishing. If you spot something that doesn't look right, we genuinely welcome the heads up. You can reach us via the contact form.


7. The Nerve

The Nerve is an attention training game on this website. It's free to play, requires no account, and the game itself does not track you — no data is collected or transmitted while you play. The only information that ever leaves your device is what you choose to submit at the end.

The game includes a public leaderboard called "Those Who Dared." Submitting a score is entirely voluntary. If you choose to add your score to the board, any display name and optional location information you submit, along with your score, level achieved, and date of play, will be publicly visible to anyone who views the leaderboard.

Please don't submit a display name or location containing anything you wouldn't want displayed publicly — including profanity, offensive language, or personally identifying information you wish to keep private. We reserve the right to remove any leaderboard entry at our discretion, including entries containing offensive, abusive, or inappropriate content.

(We built this to celebrate our collective attention-honing efforts and enhance the overall experience of warmth, belonging, and community in this space. Play nice.)


8. Third-Party Links

This site links to Substack, Instagram, and potentially other external platforms. We are not responsible for the content, policies, or practices of any third-party sites. Please read their terms and privacy policies too — they are their own thing, entirely.


9. Disclaimer of Warranties

This website is provided "as is" — which in plain English means: we've done our best to make it accurate and wonderful, but we can't legally promise it's perfect. We don't warrant that the site will be continuously available, error-free, or virus-free (though we're doing our best on all fronts). Use it in the spirit it's intended: with hope, curiosity, and a healthy dose of audacity.


10. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, we are not liable for any indirect, incidental, or consequential damages arising from your use of this site. This includes, but is not limited to: lost profits, lost data, emotional investment in a dream that is still becoming real, or the inexplicable urge to quit your job and move to Costa Rica.

(We take no responsibility for the Costa Rica urge. That one's on you. Though honestly — we get it.)


11. Governing Law

These terms are governed by the laws of the United States, specifically the state of Texas (current home base of the project's founding visionary). Any disputes will be resolved in the applicable courts of Texas, which we genuinely hope never happens because it sounds tedious for everyone.


12. Changes to These Terms

As our vision for The Audacity evolves, these terms will evolve too. We'll update the effective date when we make significant changes. The most current version will always be on this page.


13. The Part Where We Remember This Is a Dream

These terms exist because the internet requires them and because we want to be transparent and trustworthy with everyone who finds us. But we want to end with this: The Audacity is a good-faith effort to build something genuinely beautiful in the world. We are not here to take advantage of anyone. We are here because we believe this is possible, and we believe the right people will help make it real.

If anything on this site ever feels off to you, please tell us. We'd rather know. You can reach us via the contact form on the main page.