Terms of Service

1. The agreement

By downloading Chamber, creating an account, or using the app in your browser, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use Chamber. Our Privacy Policy is part of this agreement and explains how we handle data; read it, because Chamber's design decisions live there.

"Chamber", "we" and "us" mean Mua Media LLC. "You" means the person using the service. "The Commons" means the shared feed, cheers, leaderboards and community features that a membership unlocks.

2. Who may use Chamber

You must be at least 16 years old. Chamber records screens and can use a camera, so this is a substantive requirement, not a checkbox. If you are using Chamber for an employer or a client, you confirm you are allowed to do so and that you have the authority to accept these Terms on their behalf.

You may not use Chamber if you are barred from doing so under applicable sanctions or export control law.

3. Your account

You can use the core of Chamber with no account at all. If you create one: keep your password and recovery code safe, use a real email address you control, and tell us promptly at y@muamedia.com if you think someone else is in your account. You are responsible for what happens under your account.

One human, one account. Your handle is yours while you hold it, but handles are not property: we may reclaim one that impersonates someone, infringes a trademark, or is used to abuse other people.

Password recovery works through a one-time code you were given when you signed up. If you lose both your password and that code, we cannot restore access — there is no back door for us to use on your behalf, and that is deliberate.

4. What Chamber is

Chamber measures focused work in one-hour blocks and keeps score. Two clients exist and they are honestly different:

• The desktop app can read signals only an installed application can see, and scores a block against the standard for the activity you chose. Hours it produces carry the machine tier and the word verified.
• The browser app cannot see the frontmost application, cannot read system idle at second resolution, and cannot follow the pointer outside its own tab. It is scored against its own, weaker standard — a camera saw you, and a whole screen was recorded throughout — and its hours carry the presence tier and the word present, never verified.

Which tier an hour receives is decided by our server from the request's origin and the client your session token was issued to. It is never taken from what the client sends. A browser cannot mint a machine-tier hour, and we will not issue one on request.

5. What "verified" means

A verified hour means Chamber's checks were satisfied for that block, under the standard for the activity you selected, at the strictness you chose. It is a measurement made by software from imperfect signals. It is not:

• a guarantee that the work was good, useful, or in fact yours;
• proof admissible against you or anyone else in an employment or legal dispute;
• infallible. Chamber will sometimes credit an hour it should not have, and will sometimes fail to credit an hour you genuinely worked.

We may change scoring standards as we learn more about how each kind of work actually looks. We will not silently relabel work you already did, and where a change would alter historical scores we will say so rather than quietly rewriting your record.

Do not use Chamber as the sole basis for paying, disciplining or evaluating anyone. It was built to help you keep an honest promise to yourself, and it is not a surveillance instrument for use on other people.

6. Membership and billing

The instrument — sessions, verification, history, timelapses, exports — is free and uncapped, and we intend to keep it that way. A Commons membership is what costs money, and it buys participation: publishing your hours, cheering, the weekly leagues, and cloud storage for your timelapses. Watching the feed is free.

Membership is $8 per month or $64 per year in US dollars, plus any tax that applies where you are. Prices are shown at checkout and that is the price that binds.

Payment is handled by Stripe. By subscribing you authorise us, through Stripe, to charge your payment method the then-current fee automatically at the start of each billing period until you cancel. If a charge fails, we may retry it and may suspend Commons access until it succeeds.

We may change the price. If we do, we will give at least 30 days' notice to the email on your account before it takes effect on your next renewal, and you may cancel before then. Existing annual terms already paid for are not repriced mid-term.

7. Cancellation and refunds

Cancel at any time from your account's billing portal. Cancellation stops the next charge; your membership stays active until the end of the period you have already paid for, and then lapses to a free account. We do not delete your published hours when a membership lapses, but timelapses fall back to the free retention window (see section 9).

Fees already paid are non-refundable except where the law says otherwise or where we have plainly failed to deliver the service — in which case, write to us and we will make it right rather than argue about it.

If you are a consumer in the EU or UK, you have a statutory 14-day right to withdraw from a new subscription. By starting your membership immediately you ask us to begin the service within that period; you may still withdraw, and we will refund you in proportion to what remains unused.

8. Your recordings and your content

You own your recordings. A session's full-resolution screen capture is never stored at all — not by you, not by us — and what survives it is a short timelapse condensed on your own device. That clip is stored in your cloud library, and storing it does not make it ours: nothing in these Terms gives us a claim over it, we do not use it for any purpose other than storing and serving it back to you, and you can delete it at any time, whereupon we delete the stored objects too.

We do hold the bytes, and we would rather say so plainly than let "you own it" do work it cannot do. Your library is not end-to-end encrypted today. We can be compelled by a lawful order to produce what we hold, and we will tell you when we are permitted to. If a block's screen is not yours to hand over, blur it — a blurred clip has no legible content in any copy, including ours.

That changes only for what you deliberately publish. When you attach a timelapse to a post, you grant Chamber a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to store, reproduce and display that clip and its poster frame, for the sole purpose of operating the Commons and showing your post to the people it is meant for. That licence lasts as long as the post does. Delete the post and it ends, and we delete the stored object.

We will not use your published clips in advertising or marketing without asking you first.

You are responsible for what you publish. You confirm you have the right to publish it, and that doing so does not break the law, breach a contract you are under, or expose someone else's confidential information.

9. Cloud storage and limits

Making a timelapse is free forever, because it runs on your machine and costs us nothing. Storing and serving one is the paid part. Current limits, which we may adjust as costs change:

• Free accounts: 5 stored clips, kept 30 days, up to 6 uploads a day.
• Members: 500 stored clips, kept 400 days, up to 24 uploads a day.
• A single clip may not exceed 12 MB, which is generous for a decimated timelapse.

When an unpublished clip's retention window expires it is deleted automatically. Since the timelapse is the only recording of that session, this deletion is final and there is no copy behind it. The Library warns you on any clip within two weeks of expiring; publishing a clip stops it ageing out, and the player offers Save a copy so you can keep the file on your own disk.

A clip that cannot be uploaded — no account yet, no connection, or a full library — waits on your device until it can be, and is not lost in the meantime. Chamber is not a backup service. If a recording matters to you, save a copy of it yourself.

10. Rules of the Commons

The Commons is a quiet place on purpose. There are no ads, no algorithm and no engagement bait; posting costs a membership and a finished hour. Keep it that way. Do not:

• harass, threaten, demean or target anyone;
• post sexual content involving minors, content that promotes self-harm, or content that incites violence — these end an account immediately and permanently;
• publish other people's private or confidential information, whether captured on your screen or otherwise;
• advertise, spam, or farm the feed for reach;
• impersonate another person or organisation;
• scrape the Commons, or use automated means to access the API beyond ordinary use of the app;
• attempt to break, overload or circumvent the service's technical limits.

We moderate by hand and at our discretion. We may remove a post or restrict an account when we believe these rules were broken, and we will tell you what happened and why unless doing so would itself cause harm.

11. Integrity and anti-gaming

The score is the product. An hour that can be faked is worth nothing to the person who earned one honestly, so this is the rule we enforce hardest. You may not:

• submit sessions you did not actually work, by script, replay, forged request, stolen token or any other means;
• use another person, a recording, or an image to satisfy the camera check on your behalf;
• simulate activity in order to keep the clock running while you are away;
• run multiple accounts to inflate a streak, a league position or a cheer count;
• misrepresent the tier of an hour, or attempt to have a browser session credited as machine-verified.

Where we find this, we may void the affected hours, reset a streak, remove a leaderboard placement, or terminate the account. For deliberate, repeated forgery we will terminate without refund.

Please do report weaknesses in the verification model to y@muamedia.com. Finding a hole and telling us is welcome and always has been; finding one and farming it is not.

12. Recording other people

A screen recording can capture people who never agreed to be captured — a colleague on a call, a client's document, someone else's messages. Recording and consent laws vary by country and by state, and some require every participant on a call to agree.

Complying with those laws is your responsibility, not ours, and we cannot do it for you. Blur any block whose screen is not yours to share — the blur is applied on your device before the clip exists, so no legible copy is ever created. Ask before recording a call, and follow your employer's policy. If something you published exposes another person, delete the post and email us so we can purge the stored object.

13. Our intellectual property

Chamber's software, design, wordmark and written material are ours and remain ours. We grant you a personal, revocable, non-transferable licence to use the app as intended. You may not resell it, rent it, sublicense it, or reverse engineer it except to the extent the law expressly permits you to.

Feedback you send us is a gift with no strings: we may use it freely to improve Chamber, and we owe you nothing for it. We appreciate it anyway.

14. Availability and change

Chamber is early software offered without an uptime guarantee. We may change, suspend or discontinue features. If we discontinue something you paid for, we will give reasonable notice and refund the unused part of a prepaid term.

The desktop app currently requires macOS and appropriate system permissions; without them, sessions still run on activity signals alone, at a lower standard. Platform availability may change.

15. Suspension and termination

You can stop using Chamber whenever you like, and you can delete your account yourself from Settings → Community, or ask us to at y@muamedia.com. Deleting your account deletes your cloud library with it, and those clips are the only copies — save anything you want to keep first. Your local stats and history sit on your own device and stay there until you delete them yourself.

We may suspend or terminate an account that breaks these Terms, that exposes us or other users to legal risk, or that we are required to act on by law. Except for serious or repeated breaches, we will give you notice and a chance to put it right. On termination, your published posts and stored clips may be deleted; the sections that by their nature should survive — ownership, disclaimers, liability, governing law — do survive.

16. Disclaimers

Chamber is provided "as is" and "as available". To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim all implied warranties, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that Chamber will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that its verification will be accurate in every case.

Chamber is a focus tool. It is not a medical device and gives no medical, psychological, financial or legal advice. It is not a treatment for ADHD or any other condition, and it is not a substitute for professional care. If your relationship with work is causing you harm, please talk to a professional rather than to a scoreboard.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties, so parts of this section may not apply to you. Nothing here limits rights you have as a consumer that cannot lawfully be limited.

17. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, neither party is liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost data, or lost work, arising out of or relating to Chamber.

Our total liability to you for all claims relating to Chamber is limited to the greater of (a) the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose, or (b) fifty US dollars.

In particular, and because it is the most likely thing to go wrong: we are not liable for the loss of any recording, whether it was still waiting to upload, stored in your cloud library, or removed when its retention window ran out. Chamber is not a backup service, and keeping a copy of anything you care about is your responsibility.

Nothing in this section excludes liability for fraud, for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded.

18. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold Mua Media LLC harmless from claims, damages and reasonable legal costs arising from content you published, from your breach of these Terms, or from your violation of a law or a third party's rights — including recording or publishing another person without the consent their jurisdiction requires.

19. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. The state and federal courts located in Delaware have exclusive jurisdiction, and both parties consent to venue there. If you are a consumer, this does not deprive you of the protection of mandatory laws, or of the right to bring proceedings in the courts, of the country where you live.

Talk to us first. Before filing anything, email y@muamedia.com with a description of the problem and what you want. We commit to responding within 30 days and trying, in good faith, to resolve it. Most things end here.

There is no forced arbitration clause in these Terms and no class action waiver. We would rather earn your trust than sign it away.

20. General

Whole agreement. These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between us about Chamber, replacing anything said earlier.

Changes. We may update these Terms. We will change the date at the top, and for material changes we will notify account holders by email at least 14 days before they take effect. Continuing to use Chamber after that means you accept the new version; if you do not, cancel and stop using it, and we will refund the unused part of a prepaid term.

Severability. If a clause is unenforceable, it is trimmed to the minimum needed to make it valid and the rest stands.

No waiver. If we do not enforce something immediately, we have not given up the right to enforce it later.

Assignment. You may not assign these Terms. We may assign them to a successor in a merger or acquisition, on notice to you.

Force majeure. Neither party is liable for a failure caused by something genuinely outside its control.

21. Contact

Mua Media LLC
Legal notices, disputes, and everything else: y@muamedia.com

If a term on this page and the way Chamber behaves ever disagree, tell us. We would treat that as a bug in one of the two.