Raxha — Personal Safety Guardian
Effective Date: August 20, 2026 · Version: v1.4 (supersedes v1.2 · July 10, 2026; v1.3 was drafted but never published)
These Terms of Service ("Terms") form a binding agreement between you ("you", "your", or "User") and Raxha, Inc., a Delaware corporation ("Raxha", "we", "our", or "us"). By creating an account, installing, or using the Raxha mobile or wearable application (the "App") or any associated services (together, the "Service"), you confirm that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms and by our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated by reference. If you do not agree to these Terms, you must not use the Service.
If you accept these Terms on behalf of a child whose profile you create and manage, you accept them both for yourself and on that child's behalf, and you are responsible for their use of the Service.
Raxha is a personal safety application that runs on your smartphone and paired smartwatch. The Service provides best-effort safety features that may include:
The specific features available to you may change over time as Raxha is updated. Some features are off until you turn them on, and some are available only in certain countries. Raxha is offered as a supplement to, not a replacement for, traditional emergency services and personal vigilance.
Raxha is a supplemental tool. It is not a replacement for, and does not connect you directly to, emergency dispatchers, police, fire, ambulance, or any other emergency response service. In an emergency you must contact your local emergency services using a phone, recognized emergency button, or other reliable means. We do not guarantee that any alert, message, or notification originating from the Service will reach any specific recipient or any emergency authority within any specific time, or at all.
Raxha is not a medical device and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, prevent, or monitor any disease, condition, or injury. Health-related metrics shown by the Service, including heart rate, heart rate variability, and any derived stress or baseline figure, are for general awareness only. They are not clinical readings and must not be used to make medical decisions. If you have a health concern, consult a qualified healthcare professional.
Raxha's safety detections rely on smartphone and smartwatch sensors, on-device processing, and connectivity infrastructure that is outside our control. Detections may produce false positives or false negatives. Factors including but not limited to low battery, lost connectivity, sensor drift, how the watch is worn, body position, environmental conditions, background noise, and software bugs can cause the Service to behave unexpectedly. This applies to every detection the Service performs, including the detection of a spoken call for help, of a fall or impact, and of unusual physiological or behavioral patterns: each may fail to detect a real emergency, and each may fire when nothing is wrong. You must not rely on Raxha as your sole or primary safety mechanism.
Several Service features (alert delivery to contacts, family group visibility, trip backup, account login) require a working internet connection on at least one of your devices. The Service may degrade or stop working entirely if your device is offline, in airplane mode, has insufficient battery, or is in an area without cellular or Wi-Fi coverage.
You agree to use common sense, situational awareness, and traditional safety practices, and to not place yourself in dangerous situations on the assumption that the Service will protect you.
If you are part of someone's family group, or are listed as one of their emergency contacts, you may receive alerts about them. Please understand what such an alert is.
An alert is an automated inference drawn from sensor readings. It is not a verified fact. Wording such as "is in danger" describes what Raxha's detection logic concluded from signals like motion and heart rate; it does not mean that danger has been confirmed by any person. Alerts are worded urgently and shown prominently so that a genuine emergency is not missed, and that same design means a false alarm will also reach you urgently.
False alarms do occur. Ordinary activity such as exercise, climbing stairs, a crowded or noisy place, or a jolt while travelling can produce readings that resemble an emergency while the person is completely safe.
Receiving an alert of this kind can be distressing. If you have a medical or psychological condition that could be aggravated by a sudden alarming notification, please take that into account before joining a family group as a recipient, and speak with a qualified healthcare professional if you are unsure. You can leave a family group, or ask to be removed as an emergency contact, at any time.
When an alert arrives, verify before you act. Try to reach the person directly. Do not drive dangerously, break traffic laws, enter unsafe places, or otherwise put yourself or anyone else at risk in response to an alert. If you believe there is a real emergency, contact your local emergency services.
By using the Service as a recipient of alerts, you acknowledge that alerts may be inaccurate, that they may be distressing, and that you are responsible for how you choose to respond to them.
If you turn on the optional check-in feature, Raxha may learn what is ordinary for you (the places you are usually in, the hours you are usually active, and your usual physiological range) and ask whether you are all right at moments that depart from that pattern. A check-in is a question shown to you. It never, by itself, raises an SOS or alerts anyone. It is a best-effort inference and will sometimes ask when nothing is wrong and stay silent when something is. It is off until you turn it on, and is not available on profiles for people under 18.
The Service does not monitor you when monitoring is off, does not call emergency services on your behalf, does not dispatch responders, and does not guarantee that any person, whether a family member, an emergency contact, or a Community Help volunteer, will see an alert or act on it.
You agree that you will not:
What it is. Raxha offers an optional "Community Help" feature that, when you enable it, (a) sends limited information about your active SOS (your first name, your location at the moment of the SOS, and your approximate distance) to a limited number of nearby Raxha users who have opted in to receive such alerts, and/or (b) notifies you when a nearby Raxha user has an active SOS. Both settings are off by default and can be changed at any time in the app.
Helpers are volunteers. Users who receive Community Help alerts are independent volunteers. They are not employees, agents, contractors, or representatives of Raxha; Raxha does not vet, screen, train, certify, supervise, or dispatch them and makes no representation about their identity, ability, intent, or conduct.
No duty; no guarantee. Neither Raxha nor any user owes you a duty to respond to a Community Help alert. Raxha does not guarantee that any alert will be delivered, seen, or acted on, or that help of any kind will arrive. Community Help supplements, and never replaces, contacting emergency services, your family alerts, and your own judgment.
Assumption of risk. If you choose to respond to a Community Help alert, you do so voluntarily and at your own risk. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Raxha is not liable for any injury, loss, or damage arising out of any user's response or non-response to an alert, or out of interactions between users in connection with Community Help. Nothing in this section limits liability that cannot be limited by applicable law, and nothing in it is intended to displace protections available to volunteers under applicable Good Samaritan or equivalent laws.
Misuse. You must not trigger a false SOS; use Community Help to locate, track, harass, stalk, lure, or harm any person; or attempt to infer another user's identity or movements from alerts. Raxha maintains a record of every Community Help notification (sender, recipient, distance, time) and may use it to investigate misuse, enforce these Terms (including termination), and comply with law.
Adults only. Community Help is available only on self-managed adult accounts. It is not offered on managed profiles.
When someone is alerted to your emergency, they may send a short, fixed reply: for example that they are calling you, that they are coming, or that they cannot come. If they do, we record that choice and the time our servers received it, and show it to you and to the other people alerted about the same emergency.
A reply is that person's statement of intent at that moment. It is not a commitment, it is not verified by us, and it is not a substitute for emergency services. We do not confirm that anyone arrived, and the absence of a reply does not mean nobody is coming. You should contact emergency services whenever you would otherwise do so, regardless of any reply you see.
If you accept a request to be alerted about someone's emergencies, your replies to those alerts, and the times you send them, are shown to that person and to the others alerted about the same emergency. You can stop sending replies at any time without losing the ability to receive alerts.
Before a child's profile can be activated, we verify that the consenting adult is an adult, by having them present a government-issued identity document in the app. You agree that any document you present is your own and that you are the child's parent or legal guardian. What we read, what we keep, and what we discard is described in the Privacy Policy. We may refuse or reverse an activation if a document cannot be verified, if it has already been used to verify a different account, or if we have reason to believe the declaration of parenthood or guardianship is untrue.
The verification confirms that a genuine identity document belonging to an adult was presented. It does not by itself prove that the person presenting it is that individual, and it does not verify the family relationship, which remains your declaration.
The core Service is currently offered free of charge. We may, in the future, introduce paid plans, premium features, or in-app purchases, for example monitoring more than a small number of managed profiles. If we do, we will give you advance notice and an opportunity to review and accept the applicable pricing terms before any charge is made. Continued use of paid features will be governed by the pricing terms presented to you at the time of purchase, which form part of these Terms.
The App, the Service, and all associated trademarks, logos, designs, source code, models, content, and documentation are owned by Raxha or our licensors and are protected by copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property laws. We grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to install and use the App on devices you own or control, solely for personal, non-commercial use in accordance with these Terms. No other rights are granted, expressly or by implication.
Third-party notices. The App includes a speech-recognition model trained in part on the Speech Commands dataset (Warden, 2018), used under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY 4.0) license.
You retain ownership of personal information you provide to the Service (for example, your profile, emergency contacts you choose to add, family group membership, and trip records). You grant Raxha a limited, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, transmit, and process this information solely for the purpose of providing, securing, and improving the Service, in accordance with our Privacy Policy. This includes using sensor measurements recorded around a safety event, and whether you confirmed or cancelled that event, to improve the accuracy of our detection, as described in the Privacy Policy. You represent and warrant that you have the right to share any information you provide and that doing so does not violate the rights or privacy of any third party.
Our handling of your personal information is described in the Privacy Policy, which is part of these Terms. By accepting these Terms you also acknowledge that you have read and accept the Privacy Policy.
The Service is provided on an "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE" basis, without warranties of any kind, either express or implied. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Raxha disclaims all warranties, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, non-infringement, and uninterrupted or error-free operation. Without limiting the foregoing, we do not warrant that:
Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties; in those jurisdictions, the exclusions above apply only to the maximum extent permitted by law.
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law:
You acknowledge that the Service is not designed for, and we have not priced it for, scenarios in which Raxha could be exposed to unlimited liability. The above caps reflect a fair allocation of risk between you and us given the nature of the Service.
You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Raxha and its officers, directors, employees, contractors, affiliates, and licensors from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or in any way connected with:
We may modify, suspend, or discontinue any part of the Service at any time. We may also update these Terms from time to time, including to reflect changes in the law, in our practices, or in the features we offer. When we make material changes, we will:
Continued use of the Service after the updated Terms become effective constitutes your acceptance of the changes. If you do not agree, you must stop using the Service and may delete your account as described in Section 18.
These Terms and any dispute arising out of or relating to them or to the Service are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. Subject to Section 21 (Dispute Resolution), the state and federal courts located in Santa Clara County, California will have exclusive jurisdiction over any claim that is not subject to arbitration, and each party consents to personal jurisdiction and venue there. If you are using the Service from outside the United States (including from India), you remain responsible for compliance with applicable local laws. The above choice of law and jurisdiction does not deprive you of the protection of any mandatory consumer-protection rules of your country of residence that cannot be derogated from by agreement.
If you have questions about these Terms, contact us at: