Athena Beta
These terms govern your access to and use of the Athena beta, an evaluation sandbox operated by Polstar Holdings Pty Ltd trading as Aristos AI ("Aristos", "we", "us"). Please read them before you use Athena.
These terms form an agreement between Polstar Holdings Pty Ltd (trading as Aristos AI), of 26 Anzac Terrace, Geraldton WA 6530, Australia, and you, the individual accessing the Athena beta ("you", the "Participant").
If you are accessing Athena in the course of your employment or engagement by a government agency or other organisation, you confirm that you are authorised by that organisation to participate in the beta on the terms set out here, and that you have advised it of the offshore data flows described in clause 4. Where these terms refer to "your agency", they mean that organisation.
By accessing or using the Athena beta you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, do not use Athena.
Athena is made available to you solely for the purpose of evaluation, feedback and demonstration. It is:
You must keep your own authoritative copy of anything you value. We do not undertake to preserve, back up or return any content you place in Athena.
Subject to clause 9 (Australian Consumer Law), the Athena beta is supplied "as is" and "as available", and to the maximum extent permitted by law Aristos:
Aristos holds no IRAP assessment, ISO/IEC 27001 certification, SOC 2 attestation, or any other independent security certification, accreditation or attestation covering Athena or its infrastructure. No such assessment has been performed, commenced or scheduled, and we make no claim of alignment with any of those frameworks.
Athena has not been assessed against the Protective Security Policy Framework, the Information Security Manual, the Hosting Certification Framework, or any equivalent Commonwealth, State or Territory requirement. Athena is not listed on any government procurement panel or certified hosting register for the purposes of this beta.
You acknowledge and agree that content you submit to Athena is processed in the following locations. The Data Flows & Subprocessor Register gives the full detail; this clause is the short version and forms part of these terms.
| Component | Location | What goes there |
|---|---|---|
| Web application and SQLite database | Virtual private server — Contabo, Sydney, Australia | Accounts, conversations, messages, uploaded files, recordings, usage logs, settings. |
| Self-hosted model inference (shown in-product as “Aristos Sovereign AI”) |
Prague, Czech Republic (EU) — NVIDIA L40S GPU reached over a private Tailscale network | Your prompts, conversation history sent as context, and attached file content for those requests. |
| Frontier / fallback models (Frontier Access) | United States and other jurisdictions, depending on which provider Frontier Access routes to | Your prompts, conversation history sent as context, and attached file content for those requests. |
| Voice: speech-to-text and text-to-speech (Whisper, Kokoro TTS) |
Prague, Czech Republic (EU) — same Tailscale GPU infrastructure | Your voice audio and the resulting transcripts; text you have Athena read aloud. |
| Meeting / audio recording transcription and summarisation | Prague, Czech Republic (EU) — always, regardless of your selected chat model | The full uploaded recording, its transcript, speaker labels, and the generated summary. |
| Image generation (ComfyUI) | Prague, Czech Republic (EU) — same Tailscale GPU infrastructure | Your image prompts and any reference images you supply. |
| Payments and credit top-ups (Stripe) | Stripe entity and processing locations, including the United States | Billing and transaction data. Card details are entered with Stripe, not held by Aristos. |
If you upload a meeting or audio recording to Athena, that recording is transcribed and summarised on the Prague GPU regardless of which chat model you have selected. There is no setting in the beta that keeps a recording in Australia. Do not upload a recording of any meeting whose contents you are not permitted to disclose to an overseas processor.
We do not claim, and you must not assume, that any data in the Athena beta remains in Australia. Athena's use of the words "sovereign" and "Aristos Sovereign AI" in the product interface is a product name for our self-hosted model stack. It is not a statement about the physical location of hardware, and it does not mean data residency in Australia. We are correcting that naming.
You must not enter, upload, paste, dictate or otherwise submit to the Athena beta:
The Athena beta is not suitable for, assessed for, or approved for any of the above. Use synthetic, de-identified, publicly available or otherwise unclassified and non-personal material for your evaluation.
You are responsible for what you submit. You warrant that you are entitled to submit it and that submitting it — including its disclosure to overseas recipients described in clause 4 — does not breach any law, policy, classification, contract or duty binding on you or your agency.
You must not:
Please report any security weakness you find to support@aristosai.com rather than exploiting it. See Incident Response.
We would like your feedback and you are under no obligation to give it. If you do give us feedback, suggestions or bug reports, you grant Aristos a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide licence to use them to improve our products, without obligation of confidence or payment. Do not include anything confidential or classified in your feedback.
Nothing in these terms excludes, restricts or modifies any consumer guarantee, right or remedy conferred on you by the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth), including the Australian Consumer Law in Schedule 2, or by any other law, to the extent that it cannot lawfully be excluded, restricted or modified.
Where we are permitted by law to limit our liability for a breach of a non-excludable guarantee in relation to services, our liability is limited, at our election, to supplying the services again or paying the cost of having them supplied again.
Clauses 3 and 10 apply only to the extent they are lawful, and are read subject to this clause 9.
Subject to clause 9, to the maximum extent permitted by law:
Each party's liability is reduced to the extent the other party's act or omission caused or contributed to the loss. Nothing in this clause limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited, including liability for fraud or for death or personal injury caused by negligence.
We hold business insurance consistent with the obligations in our client agreements, and will provide certificates of currency on request. No insurance cover is specific to this beta, and the existence of insurance does not extend the liability limits in clause 10.
Our handling of personal information is described in the Athena Beta Privacy Notice and APP Collection Statement, which includes the cross-border disclosure statement required by Australian Privacy Principle 8. By participating in the beta you acknowledge that notice and consent to the offshore disclosures it describes. Our storage, access, retention and deletion commitments are in Beta Data Handling Commitments.
The beta is free, but it is not unlimited. Each beta tester is capped at AUD $50 of token usage per calendar month, calculated from the per-request cost recorded in the Athena token ledger. The cap is a hard cut-off: once you have consumed $50 of usage in a calendar month, requests are blocked until the first day of the following month. There is no overage billing on the beta tier — access simply pauses and resumes at the start of the next period.
We have put this limit in place so a small evaluation cohort can share the underlying GPU without any one participant consuming a disproportionate share of the compute budget. The cap is generous enough for genuine evaluation and feedback but is not intended to support production workloads.
These limits are also explained in the follow-up email sent to every beta participant when their beta access is activated, so that the cut-off is not unexpected.
Aristos may suspend, restrict, modify or withdraw your access to the Athena beta at any time, for any reason or no reason, with or without notice. That includes withdrawing the beta entirely, changing or removing features, changing which models or providers are used, and ending the evaluation.
You may stop participating at any time. On termination or withdrawal for any reason:
We commit to giving beta participants at least 60 days' written notice of a planned end to the evaluation, sent to the email address associated with their account, and to maintaining access for 30 days after shutdown so you can export or request deletion of your content.
We may change these terms during the beta. We will publish the updated version at this URL and, where the change is material, notify participants by email to the address associated with their account. Continuing to use Athena after a change takes effect means you accept the updated terms. If you do not accept them, stop using Athena.
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Western Australia and the Commonwealth of Australia as applicable. You and Aristos submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Western Australia and of the courts competent to hear appeals from them.
Nothing in this clause affects any right you or your agency has to bring a complaint to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner or another regulator.
Companion Agreement
This clause is a standalone mutual non-disclosure agreement ("NDA") that forms part of these terms. It applies from the moment you accept these terms and continues after your access to the beta ends, as set out below. By accepting these terms you accept this NDA.
Aristos and you (the "Parties", each a "Party") wish to explore and evaluate Athena. In the course of that evaluation each Party may disclose information to the other that is confidential. This NDA sets out how that information must be treated.
"Confidential Information" means all non-public information disclosed by one Party (the "Discloser") to the other (the "Recipient"), whether before or after the date you accept these terms, in any form, that is marked or identified as confidential or that a reasonable person would understand to be confidential given its nature or the circumstances of disclosure.
Confidential Information includes, without limitation:
Confidential Information does not include information that the Recipient can demonstrate:
The Recipient must:
The Recipient may disclose Confidential Information if required to do so by law, court order, or by a regulator with lawful authority to compel it, provided that, where legally permitted, the Recipient gives the Discloser prompt written notice of the requirement before disclosure (so the Discloser may seek a protective order or other remedy) and discloses only the portion of the Confidential Information it is legally required to disclose.
On written request from the Discloser at any time, or on the end of your participation in the beta, the Recipient must, at the Discloser's option, return or destroy all copies of the Discloser's Confidential Information in the Recipient's possession or control, and certify in writing that it has done so, except for a single archival copy that may be retained solely for the purpose of complying with legal, regulatory or internal record-keeping obligations, which copy remains subject to this NDA.
Nothing in this NDA grants the Recipient any licence, right, title or interest in or to the Discloser's Confidential Information or intellectual property. All Confidential Information remains the sole property of the Discloser. Confidential Information is provided "as is" and the Discloser makes no warranty, express or implied, as to its accuracy or completeness.
The obligations in this NDA apply from the date you accept these terms and continue for three (3) years after the end of your participation in the beta, after which they expire in respect of non-trade-secret information. Obligations relating to trade secrets, source code, and security architecture or vulnerability information survive indefinitely for as long as the information remains a trade secret.
The Recipient acknowledges that a breach of this NDA may cause the Discloser irreparable harm for which monetary damages alone may be an inadequate remedy. The Discloser may seek injunctive relief, specific performance, or other equitable relief to prevent or stop a breach, in addition to any other remedies available at law or in equity, without the need to post a bond or prove actual damage.
This NDA is incorporated into and forms part of the Beta Participation Terms. If there is an inconsistency between this NDA and any other clause of these terms on the subject of confidentiality, this NDA prevails. The governing law and jurisdiction in clause 15 apply to this NDA.
When you check the non-disclosure acceptance box on the sign-in page and request a magic link, you are accepting both the Beta Participation Terms and this Mutual Non-Disclosure Agreement on behalf of yourself and, if applicable, your agency or organisation.