Terms of Service

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These Terms are the agreement between you and the company named in section 22 ("9to95", "we", "us") for your use of the 9to95 retirement projection service, the 9to95.com website and the instruction files we publish for AI assistants (together, the "Service"). By creating an account or using the Service you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

1. What the Service is

9to95 is a calculator. You connect your own AI assistant (for example Gemini, Claude or ChatGPT) to the Service. Your assistant asks you about your household, writes a scenario (ages, balances, income, spending and assumptions) and sends it to us. We run the arithmetic: a year-by-year projection and Monte Carlo simulations that include estimates of federal and state tax, Social Security, health-insurance costs, required distributions and estate figures. We send numbers back to your assistant, and your assistant explains them to you.

2. IMPORTANT: THIS IS NOT ADVICE

Please read this section carefully. It limits what you can rely on.

The Service produces educational modeling output from the inputs you provide. It is not financial, investment, tax, legal, accounting or insurance advice, and it is not a recommendation to do or not do anything.

We are not an investment adviser, financial planner, broker, tax preparer, accountant, attorney or fiduciary, and using the Service does not create any advisory, fiduciary or professional relationship between you and us.

The Service does not recommend any security, fund, product, provider, asset allocation or strategy. It does not tell you when to retire, how much to spend, when to claim Social Security, or what to buy, sell or hold. It compares scenarios that you define. Which plan is right for you depends on things the model cannot see, and the choice is yours.

Every result is hypothetical. Results are estimates under stated assumptions. They are not predictions or guarantees, and actual outcomes will differ.

Tax figures are planning estimates only. They are not a tax return, must not be used to prepare or file a return, and may differ from what you actually owe.

Before you make a financial, tax or legal decision, consider speaking with a licensed professional who can look at your whole situation.

3. Who can use the Service

You must be at least 18 years old. The Service is operated from the United States, models United States tax and benefit rules, and is intended for people who live in the United States. It is for your own personal and household planning. You may not use it to provide services to clients or to anyone outside your household.

4. Your account

You need an account and a paid subscription to use the Service with your own figures. The demo described in section 8 needs neither. Give us a working email address, keep your sign-in details to yourself, and tell us at [email protected] if you think someone else has used your account. You are responsible for activity under your account. Never paste a password, sign-in code or key into a conversation with your assistant. We will never ask you to.

5. Your AI assistant

Your assistant is yours, not ours. It is provided by another company under that company's terms and privacy policy. When it interviews you, writes a scenario, calls the Service and explains results, it acts for you and at your direction. It is not our agent, employee or representative, and it does not speak for us.

We do not control, see or review what your assistant says to you. We receive only the tool requests it sends and we return only numbers, warnings and a disclaimer. We publish instructions that ask assistants to present results as comparisons, to show every warning and to include our disclaimer. Assistants do not always follow instructions. An assistant can mishear you, enter a wrong figure, leave something out, misstate a result, or produce numbers the Service never calculated.

So:

• Only figures actually returned by the Service are our output. Anything else your assistant says, including any opinion, ranking or recommendation, comes from your assistant and not from us.
• Check the scenario your assistant wrote before you rely on any result. The inputs are yours, and a wrong input gives a wrong result.
• Read every warning the Service returns.
• What your assistant's provider does with your conversation is governed by its terms, not ours.

6. Accuracy, assumptions and data dates

We work to make the calculations correct, but we do not promise that they are. In particular:

• Models simplify. The Service does not capture every rule, account type, state or personal circumstance. A list of what it does not cover is on our known limits page.
• Assumptions drive results. Returns, inflation, life expectancy and spending are assumptions. Default assumptions are ours, are stated in the results, and can be changed by you. Different assumptions give different answers.
• Reference data has a date. Tax brackets, benefit formulas, contribution limits and similar tables are updated periodically and can lag current law. Some data is confirmed against official sources and some is not yet fully confirmed. The current data dates will be published on this site before subscriptions open.
• The law changes. The Service models the rules in its data. It does not predict future changes in tax or benefit law.
• Simulations vary. Monte Carlo results change with the random seed and the number of trials. A probability shown by the Service describes the model, not your future.
• Software has defects. If you find an error, please tell us at [email protected].

7. We do not keep your scenarios

The Service is built so that scenarios and results are used to run a calculation and are then discarded. We cannot retrieve, resend or restore a scenario or a result. Keep your own copy. Our Privacy Policy explains what we do keep.

8. The paid plan, prices and the demo

• Paid plan. Using the Service with your own figures requires the paid plan. It includes all calculator tools. It costs 69 US dollars per year or 9 US dollars per month, plus any sales tax.
• Founding price. For the first 100 subscribers, the price of the annual plan today is 49 US dollars per year instead of 69. A founding subscriber pays 49 US dollars for the first year. The founding price is not a locked or lifetime price. It renews at 49 US dollars unless we change it, and we may end it or change it at a renewal under the price-change rule in section 10, like any other price. A subscriber who leaves and later returns pays the price then on offer.
• No free plan and no trial. There is no free plan and no trial period. If you subscribe and the Service is not for you, the 30-day refund in section 11 gets your money back.

The demo. The demo opens when the service goes live. From then, anyone can try it without an account and without paying. The demo runs only the sample households that come with it. Those households are invented and are not real people. The demo does not accept your own figures, its simulations are limited to 500 trials, and each demo result includes a line pointing to the paid plan. Because the demo knows nothing about you, demo results say nothing about your situation and you must not rely on them for any decision. Sections 2, 5, 6, 16 and 17 apply to the demo. We may change or withdraw the demo at any time. The demo collects no personal information from you beyond ordinary access logs, as our Privacy Policy explains.

We may apply reasonable technical limits to the Service (for example on request size, calls per minute or simulation trials) to keep it working for everyone.

Your assistant provider may charge you separately for its own product. That is between you and the provider.

9. Payment through Paddle

Our order process is run by our online reseller, Paddle (Paddle.com Market Limited and its affiliates, including Paddle.com Inc. for buyers in the United States). Paddle is the merchant of record for all paid orders. That means you buy your subscription from Paddle, Paddle charges your payment method, collects and remits any sales tax, and handles billing questions, refunds and payment disputes. Paddle's Buyer Terms and privacy policy apply to the purchase. These Terms govern your use of the Service itself. We never receive your full card number.

10. Automatic renewal and cancellation

Paid subscriptions renew automatically. An annual subscription renews every year, and a monthly subscription renews every month, at the price then in effect for your plan, until you cancel.

• How to cancel. You can cancel at any time, online, in Paddle's customer portal. Reach it from the link in your Paddle receipt or from the link in any reminder we send you. The direct portal link will be listed here when subscriptions open. You can also cancel by email: write to [email protected] from your account email address and say "cancel". A ready-made cancellation email is on our support page at https://9to95.com/support.html. No phone call and no reason are needed.
• When to cancel. To avoid the next charge, cancel before the renewal date shown in your receipt, in our confirmation email and in Paddle's customer portal. An emailed request counts from the time you send it.
• What happens. Cancelling stops future charges. You keep access until the end of the period you already paid for. After that your access to the Service ends, because there is no free plan. Your account is then frozen and is deleted 90 days later, as section 15 explains. You can subscribe again at any time at the price then offered. We will email you a confirmation.
• Reminders. For annual subscriptions we will email you a reminder between 15 and 45 days before each renewal, with the amount and a link to cancel.
• Price changes. We may change the price of any plan, and we may end the founding price. These rules apply to every price change:
  • A new price never applies in the middle of a period you have already paid for. It applies only from a renewal.
  • Annual plan. A new price takes effect at your next annual renewal, and only if we emailed you at least 30 days before that renewal. If we give you less notice than that, that renewal is at your old price.
  • Monthly plan. A new price takes effect at the first monthly renewal that falls at least 30 days after we emailed you.
  • The email will state your current price, the new price, the date the new price takes effect and how to cancel. If the price is going up, we will also send a reminder closer to that date.
  • You do not have to accept a new price. Cancel before the renewal at which it takes effect and you will not be charged it. If you do not cancel, your subscription renews at the new price.
  • If you are charged a higher price than at your last renewal and decide you do not want it, ask within 30 days of that charge and you will get that charge back in full.

11. Refunds

If you are not satisfied, ask for a refund within 30 days of a charge and you will get that charge back in full. This applies to your first payment and to any renewal payment. Refunds are issued by Paddle to your original payment method. A refund ends your subscription, and your access to the Service ends when the refund is issued. See our Refund Policy at https://9to95.com/refund.html for the steps. We may decline repeated refund requests that show a pattern of abuse. Nothing in these Terms limits refund or cancellation rights that the law of your home state gives you.

12. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• use the Service for anyone outside your household, resell it, or use it to give advice or services to others;
• present the Service's output to anyone as advice from us, or as a recommendation, endorsement or guarantee;
• share your account or sign-in, or get around usage limits, the limits of the demo, or access controls;
• probe, scan or attack the Service, disrupt it, or send it harmful code;
• copy, scrape or reverse engineer the Service, except where the law gives you that right regardless of contract;
• send another person's personal information without their permission, other than members of your household whose finances are part of your plan;
• use the Service to break the law.

Do not send us information the Service does not need, such as account numbers, Social Security numbers or passwords.

13. Ownership and feedback

We own the Service, including the software, the reference data as we have compiled it, the instruction files and the 9to95 name. While you follow these Terms, you may use the Service, and let your assistant use the instruction files, for your own household planning. Your scenarios and your results are yours. If you send us suggestions, we may use them without owing you anything.

14. Privacy

Our Privacy Policy explains what we collect and what we never store. It is part of these Terms.

15. Availability, changes, suspension and closing your account

We try to keep the Service available but do not promise that it will be uninterrupted. We may change, add or remove features. If we remove a paid feature that matters to you, or if we stop offering the Service, you may cancel and we will refund the unused part of the period you paid for.

We may suspend or close an account that breaks these Terms, puts the Service or other users at risk, or is the subject of a payment dispute. If we close a paid account for a reason other than your breach, we will refund the unused part of the paid period. You may close your account at any time by emailing [email protected]. Closing an account does not by itself cancel a subscription. Cancel the subscription first, as described in section 10.

Accounts without a subscription. When your subscription ends, whether by cancellation at the end of the paid period, by refund, or because a renewal payment failed, your account is frozen: it cannot be used and we do nothing with it. We delete a frozen account 90 days after the day your access ended. If you want it deleted sooner, email [email protected]. Our Privacy Policy explains the one record we keep after deletion.

16. NO WARRANTIES

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE". TO THE FULLEST EXTENT THE LAW ALLOWS, WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTY THAT THE SERVICE OR ITS RESULTS WILL BE ACCURATE, COMPLETE, CURRENT, ERROR-FREE OR UNINTERRUPTED.

WE MAKE NO WARRANTY ABOUT YOUR AI ASSISTANT OR ANYTHING IT SAYS OR DOES.

Some states do not allow certain warranty disclaimers, so parts of this section may not apply to you. Our 30-day refund in section 11 is a promise we do make.

17. LIMIT OF LIABILITY

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT THE LAW ALLOWS:

(A) WE ARE NOT LIABLE FOR ANY DECISION YOU MAKE OR ACTION YOU TAKE OR DO NOT TAKE BASED ON THE SERVICE'S OUTPUT OR ON ANYTHING YOUR AI ASSISTANT SAYS, OR FOR ANY INVESTMENT LOSS, TAX, PENALTY, INTEREST, LOST BENEFIT OR LOST OPPORTUNITY THAT RESULTS.

(B) WE ARE NOT LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, LOST SAVINGS OR LOST DATA.

(C) OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS RELATING TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS IS LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF (1) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID FOR THE SERVICE IN THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT THAT GAVE RISE TO THE CLAIM AND (2) 100 US DOLLARS.

(D) THESE LIMITS ALSO PROTECT OUR OWNERS, EMPLOYEES AND CONTRACTORS. YOU AGREE TO BRING ANY CLAIM ABOUT THE SERVICE AGAINST THE COMPANY NAMED IN SECTION 22 AND NOT AGAINST ANY INDIVIDUAL.

These limits apply to every kind of claim, whether in contract, negligence or otherwise, and even if a remedy fails. They do not apply to liability that cannot be limited by law, including liability for our gross negligence, intentional misconduct or fraud. Some states do not allow some of these limits, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

You agree that these limits are a fair allocation of risk for a low-cost calculator, and that we could not offer the Service at this price without them.

18. Misuse

If you use the Service for someone outside your household or otherwise in breach of section 12, and that person or anyone else brings a claim against us because of it, you will reimburse our reasonable costs and losses from that claim.

19. Governing law and disputes

Talk to us first. Most problems can be fixed by email. Before starting a legal claim, write to [email protected] and describe the problem and what you want. We will try to resolve it within 30 days.

Governing law. New York law governs these Terms and any dispute about the Service, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. If you live in another state, you keep any consumer protections of your home state that cannot be waived by contract.

Where claims are heard. Any claim that is not resolved informally must be brought in the state or federal courts located in Queens County, New York, and you and we consent to those courts. As an exception, either of us may bring a qualifying claim in small claims court in Queens County, New York or in the county where you live.

Individual claims only. To the extent the law allows, you and we will each bring claims only on our own behalf, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any class, collective or representative proceeding.

No jury. To the extent the law allows, you and we each give up the right to a jury trial.

Time limit. Where the law allows, a claim must be filed within one year after it arose. If the law of your state gives you longer and does not allow that time to be shortened, that law applies.

20. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. If a change is material, we will email you and post the new Terms at least 30 days before the change takes effect. If you have a paid subscription, a material change will not apply to you before your next renewal unless you accept it sooner. If you do not agree to a change, cancel before it takes effect. If you cancel for that reason, we will refund the unused part of the period you paid for. Continuing to use the Service after a change takes effect means you accept it.

21. General

• Electronic communications. You agree that we may send you notices about your account and these Terms by email to your account address, and that these electronic notices satisfy any requirement that a notice be in writing. Keep your email address current.
• Whole agreement. These Terms, the Privacy Policy and the Refund Policy are the whole agreement between you and us about the Service. Paddle's Buyer Terms separately govern your purchase from Paddle.
• If part is unenforceable. If a court finds part of these Terms unenforceable, the rest stays in effect.
• No waiver. If we do not enforce a term, we have not given it up.
• Transfer. You may not transfer your account or these Terms. We may transfer them to a successor that takes over the Service and agrees to honor them.
• What survives. Sections 2, 5, 6, 13 and 16 to 21 continue to apply after your account closes.

22. Who we are and how to contact us

The Service is operated by, and these Terms are an agreement with:

9to95 LLC, a New York limited liability company now being formed
[email protected]

Our business mailing address will be published on this page before subscriptions open.

9to95 is the name we use for the Service. Our owners, employees and contractors are not personally parties to these Terms.

Billing, payment and refund requests can also be made directly to Paddle at https://paddle.net.