Terms of Use
Also see the Privacy Policy.
1. Agreement to these Terms
These Terms of Use (“Terms”) are a legally binding agreement between you and R Gold NY, LLC, doing business as OTTO Mastery (“OTTO Mastery,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), governing your access to and use of the OTTO product and related websites, applications, and services (collectively, the “Service”).
By accessing or using the Service, creating or activating an account, or clicking or checking any box indicating acceptance, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.
If you use the Service on behalf of an educational institution, course, or other organization, you represent that you have authority to accept these Terms for that organization where applicable. Separate institutional agreements may also apply; if there is a conflict between those agreements and these Terms for that institution’s relationship with us, the institutional agreement controls for that relationship.
2. Eligibility and beta access
The Service is currently offered as beta software for higher-education courses and related institutional pilots. You must be at least 18 years old and capable of forming a binding contract to use the Service.
Access is invite-based. Accounts are generally created or activated through an invitation issued by an educational institution, instructor, or OTTO Mastery administrator. You may use the Service only if you have a valid invitation or other authorized access.
Features, availability, and behavior may change without notice during the beta. We may add, modify, or remove functionality; interrupt or discontinue parts of the Service; reset or delete beta data where necessary for operations, security, or institutional direction; and invite only selected courses, organizations, or users.
3. The OTTO service
OTTO is an AI coaching layer that instructors can attach to course assignments. Depending on how an assignment is configured, students may upload coursework, hold text or voice conversations with an AI coach, and receive session summaries or related outputs. Instructors and authorized institutional users may review assignment activity, transcripts, summaries, themes, and submitted materials for teaching, coaching, and evaluation.
The Service is an educational aid. It is not a substitute for an instructor, teaching assistant, academic advisor, counselor, attorney, or other professional. OTTO does not make final grading decisions, award academic credit, or certify mastery on behalf of your institution.
4. Roles and responsibilities
Educational institutions and instructors decide whether and how OTTO is used in a course, configure assignments, invite participants, and control legitimate educational access to course materials and student activity within the Service.
Students and other authorized users use the Service only for authorized educational purposes, comply with institutional policies and academic-integrity rules, and provide accurate account information.
OTTO Mastery provides and operates the Service, including AI coaching features and related infrastructure, subject to these Terms, our Privacy Policy, and any applicable institutional agreement.
5. Accounts and security
You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your login credentials and for activity under your account. Notify us promptly at legal@ottomastery.com if you suspect unauthorized access.
You must provide accurate registration information and keep it reasonably up to date. We may suspend or disable accounts that appear compromised, inactive, unauthorized, or in violation of these Terms or institutional direction.
6. Content, licenses, and education records
As between you and OTTO Mastery, you and/or your educational institution retain ownership of coursework, submissions, prompts, transcripts, and other materials you or your institution provide to the Service (“User Content”), subject to institutional policies and applicable law.
You grant OTTO Mastery a limited, worldwide, non-exclusive license to host, store, process, transmit, display, and create derivative works from User Content solely as needed to provide, secure, support, and improve the Service (including generating coaching responses, transcripts, summaries, themes, and course analytics), and as otherwise described in our Privacy Policy or directed by your institution.
Session processing and instructor review
If you participate in a text or voice coaching session, your conversation content may be processed by the Service and by subprocessors that help us operate AI and voice features. For voice sessions, audio is processed in real time to generate speech recognition and coaching responses. OTTO does not currently retain a separate audio recording of the session; the resulting transcript, summary, themes, and related session data are retained.
Transcripts, submissions, summaries, themes, coaching outputs, and related assignment activity may be reviewed by your instructor and other authorized institutional users, and may constitute education records under institutional policy and applicable law, including FERPA where it applies. Do not use the Service to submit content you are not authorized to share for educational review.
We and our licensors retain all rights in the Service itself, including software, models configuration, prompts we supply, designs, trademarks, and documentation. Feedback you provide may be used to improve the Service without obligation to you.
7. AI coaching and beta limitations
OTTO uses artificial intelligence and third-party AI, speech, and hosting services. Outputs may be incomplete, inaccurate, inconsistent, biased, or otherwise unsuitable for your purpose. You and your institution are responsible for reviewing outputs before relying on them for academic, evaluative, or other decisions.
Because the Service is beta software, it may contain bugs, experience outages, lose data, or behave unexpectedly. We provide the Service on an “as is” and “as available” basis during the beta, except where applicable law requires otherwise.
8. Acceptable use
You agree not to:
- use the Service in violation of law, institutional policy, or academic integrity rules;
- share accounts, bypass invitation or access controls, or attempt to access another user’s data without authorization;
- upload malware or attempt to probe, disrupt, reverse engineer, or overload the Service;
- use the Service to harass, discriminate, or generate unlawful, harmful, or infringing content;
- scrape or extract data from the Service except as expressly permitted by us or your institution;
- use identifiable student or course content obtained through the Service for advertising, resale, or unrelated commercial purposes; or
- misrepresent AI-generated outputs as solely human work where disclosure is required by your course or institution.
9. Third-party services
The Service depends on third-party providers for hosting, databases, email, authentication, AI language models, speech recognition, text-to-speech, and real-time voice infrastructure. Your use of those providers through the Service is subject to these Terms and, where applicable, the providers’ terms. We are not responsible for third-party services we do not control, except as required by law or an institutional agreement.
10. Suspension and termination
We or your institution may suspend or terminate access to the Service at any time, including for security, abuse, inactivity, end of a course or pilot, non-compliance with these Terms, or institutional direction. You may stop using the Service at any time.
Provisions that by their nature should survive termination—including ownership, licenses granted to operate the Service, disclaimers, limitations of liability, and governing law—will survive.
11. Disclaimers
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE SERVICE AND ALL RELATED CONTENT AND OUTPUTS ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE,” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE, ERROR-FREE, OR THAT AI OUTPUTS WILL BE ACCURATE OR APPROPRIATE FOR ANY PARTICULAR USE.
12. Limitation of liability
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, OTTO MASTERY AND ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, AND SUPPLIERS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, GOODWILL, OR BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, 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 AMOUNTS YOU PAID US FOR ACCESS TO THE SERVICE IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM OR (B) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS (US$100). BECAUSE THE CURRENT BETA IS NOT OFFERED AS A PAID CONSUMER SUBSCRIPTION, CLAUSE (B) WILL OFTEN BE THE APPLICABLE CAP FOR INDIVIDUAL USERS.
Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations; in those jurisdictions, our liability is limited to the fullest extent permitted by law.
13. Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms from time to time. When we do, we will post the revised Terms with a new version and effective date. Material changes may also be communicated through the Service or by email where appropriate. Continued use after the effective date constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms, except where applicable law or an institutional agreement requires a different process. We may require re-acceptance before continued access.
14. Governing law and disputes
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of New York, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Except where prohibited by applicable law or an institutional agreement, exclusive venue for disputes arising out of these Terms or the Service will be the state or federal courts located in New York City, New York, and you consent to personal jurisdiction there.
Before filing a formal claim, you agree to contact us at legal@ottomastery.com and attempt to resolve the dispute informally for at least 30 days.
15. Contact
Questions about these Terms may be sent to legal@ottomastery.com.
R Gold NY, LLC d/b/a OTTO Mastery
116 Storer Ave., New Rochelle, NY 10801