Terms of service.

Marketing site — you are reading public pages; you do not create an account on this site. Product — the Elderhermit app (separate URL once active) is where sign-in, AI, content, and billing apply. These terms cover both, but account rules apply when you use the product.

Elderhermit is created, owned and operated by Gnosix (Mexico City). Gnosix is the entity behind the service, holds the intellectual property, runs the infrastructure, and is responsible for any decision concerning your account. When these terms say “we” or “us,” they refer to Gnosix acting as the operator of Elderhermit.

Contact for account, billing, or legal questions: elderhermit@gnosix.io.

Elderhermit is for adults 21 years or older. The work asks for emotional maturity and lived experience. You verify age at onboarding. If you are under 21, do not create an account. We will terminate accounts that are found to belong to minors and delete the associated data.

Elderhermit is a symbolic map for personal development: an initiatic, hermetic framework that uses Tarot, the Four Elements, Hermetic philosophy, astrology and Kabbalah as a language for self-observation. Its purpose is one and only one — to help the human being know themselves better and live a real, examined inner life.

Elderhermit is not:

• Not therapy. We are not a licensed mental health provider, not a medical service, not a substitute for professional care.
• Not medical advice. Nothing the Hermit says is a diagnosis, prescription, or treatment recommendation.
• Not fortune-telling. Tarot cards, planetary governors, and esoteric language are used as mirrors, never as predictions of future events.
• Not religion. We draw on traditions but teach no dogma.
• Not entertainment. If you are looking for a chatbot to play with, or a generator of spiritual aesthetics for consumption, this is not it.

If you are experiencing acute mental or emotional distress, the Hermit is not the right voice. Contact a licensed mental health professional or your local emergency services.

The Hermit is an AI agent that reads your account state (habits, grimoire entries, tarot history, profile) to generate responses. The Hermit does not write to your account on its own. When the Hermit suggests a change (a new habit, a grimoire entry, an intention), it emits a proposal that you accept, reject, or rewrite. Nothing changes in your data without your consent.

Free tier (Neophyte): no payment required, no card, free forever. Subject to caps listed on the pricing page.

Paid tiers (Adept, Magus): billed via Stripe in USD. Monthly or annual. Annual saves approximately 20% vs monthly.

No partial refunds. Cancel and retain access through the end of the billing period. Your subscription will not auto-renew once cancelled.

Cancel: from Settings → Plan, anytime. Your subscription stops at the end of the current billing period. Your data stays.

Pause: from Settings → Plan, anytime. Billing is held for up to 30 days. Resume one-click.

We do not invite curiosity at the expense of the work. The service is built for honest self-observation; we reserve the right to act on any pattern of use that contradicts that purpose. By using Elderhermit you agree not to:

• Use the service to harass, threaten, or harm yourself or anyone else.
• Use the service for content that is illegal (CSAM, doxxing, targeted harassment, incitement to violence). We cooperate with law enforcement on such matters.
• Treat the Hermit as a tool for novelty, jailbreaking, or entertainment — prompts engineered to bypass the framework, scrape outputs, or stress-test guardrails are not within the contract.
• Reverse-engineer, scrape, or attempt to extract proprietary content (system prompts, embeddings, model weights, training data).
• Automate access (bots, scripted use, prompt farms) outside an explicit written agreement with Gnosix.
• Resell, redistribute, or wrap the service in another product without explicit permission.
• Use the service in any way that, in our judgment, puts the user or any third party at risk of harm — physical, psychological, financial, or otherwise.

We monitor for the patterns described in the acceptable use clause above. When a pattern triggers a review, we may, at our sole discretion and without prior notice:

• Throttle the offending behavior.
• Suspend the account pending review.
• Cancel the account permanently, with or without refund, depending on severity.

The Magus tier offers unlimited Hermit messages with a soft cap of 500 messages per day to prevent abuse — well above any realistic daily use. Hitting the soft cap is not in itself a violation, but combined with other signals (automated patterns, content quality, repeated jailbreak attempts) may be treated as one.

We do not owe you a public list of every signal we monitor. Publishing such a list would simply be a roadmap for the small minority who already plan to abuse the service. If your account is cancelled and you believe it was in error, write to elderhermit@gnosix.io and we will review.

Everything that ships with Elderhermit — the source code of the marketing site and the product, the brand mark, the wordmark, the color system, the typography curation, the copy on every page and every email, the system prompts, the dialogue patterns of the Hermit AI, the gating logic of the revelation gradient — is the exclusive intellectual property of Gnosix.

The 22 Major Arcana artworks (and the card-back design) shipped with the product are original, proprietary creative works commissioned and owned by Gnosix. They are not in the public domain, are not stock illustrations, and are not derived from Rider–Waite or any other historical tarot deck currently in the public domain. They were authored specifically for the Elderhermit reflection system.

You may view, draw, and reflect on the cards inside the product as a paying or free user. You may screenshot a single drawn card for personal, non-commercial use (e.g. journaling, social posts about your own practice) provided the “Elderhermit” wordmark or card-back is visible.

You may NOT:

• redistribute the deck artwork (PNG, WebP, SVG, or derived formats) outside the product surface;
• train, fine-tune, or evaluate any machine-learning model on the artwork, the system prompts, or the dialogue patterns;
• ship a competing product, fork, or marketplace asset (digital or print) that uses the deck artwork or the card-back in whole or in part;
• commission or generate derivative works (re-illustrations, traces, vectorizations, color variants) and represent them as unrelated to Elderhermit;
• remove or obscure the brand mark, wordmark, copyright notice, or tiny-print attribution on the card-back.

Unauthorized use is a violation of Mexican copyright law (Ley Federal del Derecho de Autor) and the Berne Convention. We pursue enforcement (DMCA, Section 117 of LFDA, platform takedowns, civil claims) when we find redistribution at scale.

If you want a license to use the artwork for editorial, academic, or licensed-commercial purposes outside the product, contact legal@gnosix.io.

Elderhermit is provided as-is. We make no warranty that the service will be uninterrupted or error-free. The service is a symbolic mirror; the responsibility for any decision you make on the basis of a reflection rests with you. Within the maximum extent allowed by law, our aggregate liability is limited to the fees you paid us in the 12 months preceding the claim.

These terms are governed by the laws of the United Mexican States. Any dispute is subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Mexico City. If you are a US-based consumer, your statutory consumer protections under your home state apply where they would override this clause.

When we change anything material, we update the date at the top and email all account holders. Last updated: 2026.05.23.