Terms of Use

Last updated and effective: 9 October 2026

Lightfast Pty Ltd (ABN 35 690 889 984) ("Lightfast", "we", "us", or "our") is an Australian company that studies how people, machines, and artificial intelligence can work together. We are based in Victoria, Australia.

These Terms of Use ("Terms") apply to lightfast.ai and everything we publish or offer on it: our writing and research, our brand materials, our newsletter, and any waitlist we open (together, the "Site"). By using the Site you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, please do not use it.

1. What These Terms Cover

1.1 The Site

The Site is free and public. It has no accounts and nothing on it is for sale.

1.2 Products

If we later offer apps, APIs, hosted services, previews, or other products, they will come with their own terms. Where those terms differ from these, the product's terms apply to the product.

1.3 Open Source

Code and other materials we release under an open-source licence are governed by that licence, not by these Terms.

2. Using the Site

2.1 Who May Use It

Anyone may read the Site. To subscribe to the newsletter or join a waitlist you must be at least 16. If you are not old enough to enter a binding agreement where you live, a parent or guardian must agree to these Terms for you.

2.2 Wherever You Are

We run the Site from Australia and it can be read around the world. You are responsible for following the laws that apply to you where you are.

If you subscribe, we will send you our writing, research notes, project updates, and announcements. Every email includes a way to unsubscribe.

3.2 Waitlist

If we open a waitlist and you join it, we may contact you about access. Joining is not a promise that you will receive access, that we will release a product, or that a product will have any particular features, price, or timing.

3.3 Your Information

Subscribing and joining a waitlist are separate choices. Our Privacy Policy explains what we do with your email address and the rest of the information the Site handles.

4. What We Publish

4.1 Research and Opinion

The Site describes research, technical ideas, prototypes, experiments, and opinions. Much of it is work in progress. It may be incomplete, it may turn out to be wrong, and it may change. A statement about what we plan or hope to do is not a commitment to do it.

4.2 Not Advice

What we publish is general information. It is not legal, financial, medical, security, or other professional advice, and you should not rely on it in place of your own judgment or advice from a qualified person.

4.3 Accuracy

We try to be accurate. We do not promise that everything on the Site is complete, current, or free of error. If you find a mistake, please tell us.

5. Ownership and What You May Do

5.1 Ownership

Lightfast or its licensors own the Site and what is on it, including the text, design, graphics, diagrams, logos, and trade marks. Intellectual property laws protect them.

5.2 What You May Do

You may read the Site, link to it, and share its pages. You may quote reasonable portions of our writing for research, teaching, commentary, criticism, or news, if you credit Lightfast and link to the source.

Nothing in these Terms limits what copyright law already allows you to do without permission.

5.3 What Needs Our Permission

Apart from what Section 5.2 allows, and unless we agree in writing or an accompanying licence allows it, you must not republish substantial parts of the Site, sell or otherwise commercially exploit its content, remove copyright or attribution notices, or present our work as your own.

5.4 Brand

Use of the Lightfast name, logo, and other brand assets must follow our Brand Guidelines or be approved by us in writing.

5.5 Feedback

If you send us feedback or suggestions, you allow us to use them freely, worldwide and without time limit, with no payment or other obligation to you. You keep any rights you have in them. Please do not send us anything you consider confidential.

6. Automated Access

The Site publishes robots.txt, which says what automated programs may fetch, and llms.txt, which lists pages for them to read. You may access public pages with automated tools, including search engines and AI agents, if those tools follow robots.txt, identify themselves honestly, and do not place an unreasonable load on the Site.

Fetching a page does not give you any rights in its content beyond those in Section 5 and those the law gives you.

7. Acceptable Use

You must not:

use the Site unlawfully or to infringe anyone's rights;
try to gain unauthorised access to the Site or the systems behind it;
interfere with, disrupt, or overload the Site;
get around rate limits, bot protection, or other security measures;
submit false information, automated sign-ups, or someone else's email address without their permission;
send malware, spam, or phishing content through the Site;
collect personal information about other people from the Site; or
misrepresent who you are, or suggest that Lightfast sponsors, endorses, or is affiliated with you when it is not.

We may block or limit access to the Site if we reasonably believe these Terms have been breached, or where that is reasonably necessary to protect the Site, Lightfast, or other people.

If you find a security problem on the Site, please report it to legal@lightfast.ai and do not test it further.

8. Third-Party Links and Services

The Site links to websites, tools, and communities that we do not run. Their own terms and privacy policies govern your use of them, and we are not responsible for their content, availability, or practices.

9. Your Rights Under the Law

Nothing in these Terms excludes, restricts, or modifies any guarantee, right, or remedy you have under the Australian Consumer Law (Schedule 2 to the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth)), or under any other law that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited. That includes the consumer protection law of the country where you live.

Sections 10, 11, and 12 apply only to the extent those laws allow.

10. No Other Promises

We provide the Site free of charge, as it is and as it is available. Apart from the guarantees and rights described in Section 9, we make no promise that:

the Site will be uninterrupted, secure, or free of error;
its content is accurate, complete, or suitable for your purpose; or
any research direction, prototype, product, or early access programme will continue or become available.

11. Liability

11.1 What Is Never Limited

Nothing in these Terms limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, for deliberate wrongdoing, or for anything else that the law does not allow to be limited.

11.2 Where a Consumer Guarantee Applies

If a guarantee under the Australian Consumer Law applies to something we supply through the Site, and the law allows us to limit what we owe for failing to meet it, then what we owe is limited, at our choice, to supplying the service again or paying the cost of having it supplied again.

11.3 Otherwise

To the extent the law allows:

neither you nor we are liable to the other for indirect or consequential loss, or for loss of profit, revenue, business opportunity, goodwill, or data; and
because the Site is free, the total liability of each of us to the other for all claims connected with the Site or these Terms is limited to AUD $100. This limit does not apply to Section 12.

11.4 Shared Responsibility

A party's liability is reduced to the extent the other party caused or contributed to the loss. Each of us must take reasonable steps to reduce any loss we suffer.

12. Your Responsibility for Misuse

If you breach Section 7, or use the Site to infringe someone else's rights, and a third party brings a claim against us as a result, you must compensate us for the reasonable loss and cost that follows. This does not apply to the extent that we caused or contributed to the loss.

13. Changes

13.1 To the Site

We may change, suspend, or stop any part of the Site at any time.

13.2 To These Terms

We may update these Terms when the Site, the law, or the way we work changes. We will post the new version here with a new date. Changes apply from that date to your use of the Site after it, and do not apply to anything that happened before. If you do not agree with a change, please stop using the Site.

14. Law and Disputes

14.1 Talk to Us First

If you have a complaint, please write to legal@lightfast.ai. We will try to resolve it with you within 30 days. This does not stop either of us from seeking urgent relief from a court, or stop you from going to a regulator or consumer protection body.

14.2 Governing Law

The laws of Victoria, Australia govern these Terms.

14.3 Courts

The courts of Victoria, Australia have non-exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute connected with these Terms or the Site.

14.4 If You Are a Consumer Elsewhere

If you use the Site as a consumer, you keep the benefit of any protection that the law of the country where you live says cannot be taken away by agreement. Where that law gives you the right to bring proceedings in your own country's courts, Sections 14.2 and 14.3 do not take it away.

15. General

Severability. If a court finds part of these Terms invalid or unenforceable, the rest continues to apply.
No waiver. If we do not enforce a provision, we have not given it up.
Transfer. We may transfer our rights and obligations under these Terms to a successor as part of a merger, acquisition, restructure, or sale of assets, provided that this does not reduce your rights. You may not transfer yours without our written consent.
Language. We publish these Terms in English. If we provide a translation and it differs from the English, the English version applies to the extent the law allows.

16. Contact

Lightfast Pty Ltd
ABN 35 690 889 984
Victoria, Australia
Email: legal@lightfast.ai