Terms of Service

Version 2026-05-13.2 · Effective May 13, 2026

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of the Relay platform ("Service") operated by Sandy Brook DevWorks LLC ("SandyBrook," "we," "us," or "our"). By accessing or using the Service, you agree to be bound by these Terms.

1. Eligibility

You must be at least 18 years old and capable of forming a binding contract to use the Service. By using the Service, you represent that you meet these requirements.

2. Account Registration

You must sign in using a supported authentication method (Google, email/password, or passkey). You are responsible for maintaining the security of your account and for all activities that occur under your account.

3. AI-Generated Output — Your Responsibility to Review

The Service uses generative AI (Google Vertex AI / Gemini Live) to transcribe, summarize, and classify phone calls. AI output can be inaccurate, incomplete, or misleading. You are solely responsible for:

  • Reviewing AI-generated transcripts, summaries, and urgency classifications before acting on them.
  • Verifying caller identity and the accuracy of any facts extracted from a call before relying on them.
  • Any decisions, actions, or communications you take in reliance on AI output.

4. Sensitive Data — Prohibited

You may not configure, prompt, or otherwise use the Service to collect, process, or store Sensitive Data. "Sensitive Data" includes, without limitation:

  • Protected Health Information (PHI) as defined under HIPAA.
  • Payment card data (PCI), bank account numbers, or other financial account credentials.
  • Social Security Numbers, driver's license numbers, passport numbers, or other government identifiers.
  • Consumer report data regulated by the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA).
  • Biometric identifiers, precise geolocation, or categories of data considered sensitive under applicable data-protection law (e.g., GDPR Article 9 categories).

The Service is not certified for HIPAA, PCI-DSS, or GLBA use. If a caller discloses Sensitive Data during a call, you are responsible for handling the resulting recording and transcript in accordance with applicable law.

5. Prohibited Uses

Relay is a message-taking receptionist, not a decision-making system. You agree not to use the Service for any High-Risk Activity, including:

  • Operation of nuclear facilities, aircraft navigation or air-traffic control, weapons systems, or other activities where failure of the Service could lead to death, personal injury, or severe environmental damage.
  • Life-support or life-sustaining systems, or any use where the Service's output is relied on to preserve human life.
  • Medical advice, clinical triage, diagnosis, or any use case covered by HIPAA.
  • Emergency services, crisis hotlines, life-safety calls, or 911 handling.
  • Legal advice or any activity requiring a licensed attorney–client relationship.
  • Fully automated decisions about individuals that produce legal or similarly significant effects, including credit decisions, hiring or employment decisions, tenant or rental-applicant screening, insurance eligibility, benefits eligibility, or educational admissions.
  • Activities regulated by HIPAA, GLBA, FCRA, FERPA, or similar domain-specific statutes.
  • Deceptive impersonation of a real human, political or electioneering outreach designed to mislead, or any use that violates applicable law.

Violation of this section is a material breach of these Terms. See Section 15 (Termination) for the consequences.

6. Call Recording, Storage, and Consent

The Service records every call handled on your behalf and stores the audio recording and AI-generated transcript according to the retention window configured on your tenant (Settings → Retention; default 90 days). The numbers you provision through Relay are voice-only; inbound SMS to those numbers is silently dropped at the carrier and never processed by the Service.

Before each call reaches the AI assistant, the Service plays a disclosure message informing the caller that the call may be recorded and that an AI assistant will handle it. You are nonetheless responsible for complying with all applicable federal, state, and local laws regarding call recording and consent, including but not limited to all-party-consent jurisdictions.

You are responsible for informing your own employees, contractors, and any other downstream stakeholders that call audio and transcripts are stored by the Service and may be reviewed by you, your designated recipients, or our sub-processors.

7. Sub-processors

To deliver the Service, we use the following sub-processors. By using the Service, you acknowledge and agree that call audio, transcripts, and related metadata may be transmitted to and processed by:

Core (always active)

  • Twilio, Inc. — voice telephony, call origination/termination, and media streaming.
  • Google LLC (Vertex AI / Gemini Live) — real-time speech recognition, natural language understanding, text generation, and text-to-speech.
  • Google LLC (Google Cloud Platform) — hosting, storage, logging, and infrastructure.
  • Stripe, Inc. — subscription billing, payment processing, and invoicing.
  • Brevo (Sendinblue SAS) — transactional email delivery for call summaries and notifications.

Optional (activated by you)

  • HubSpot, Inc. — when you connect HubSpot, completed call data (contact identity, AI summary, urgency, appointment details) is written to your HubSpot tenant via OAuth-authorized API calls.
  • HighLevel Inc. (GoHighLevel) — when you connect GoHighLevel, the same completed call data is written to your GoHighLevel sub-account.
  • Google LLC (Calendar API) — when you authorize the calendar integration, appointment availability and booking events are read/written from the dedicated "Relay Bookings" calendar in your Google account.
  • Zapier, Inc. — when you install Relay's Zapier app and create a Zap, call events you've subscribed to are delivered to Zapier and routed to the downstream tools you've configured.

You agree to follow each sub-processor's acceptable-use policy as it applies to the portion of the Service it supports. We may update this list from time to time; material changes will result in a new version of these Terms and a re-acceptance prompt on next login.

8. Acceptable Use

You agree not to use the Service to:

  • Violate any applicable law, regulation, or third-party rights.
  • Transmit unlawful, harassing, abusive, or fraudulent content.
  • Interfere with or disrupt the integrity or performance of the Service.
  • Attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Service or its related systems.
  • Use the Service for any purpose that is deceptive, misleading, or harmful to callers.

9. Intellectual Property

The Service, including its design, software, and documentation, is owned by SandyBrook and protected by intellectual property laws. You retain ownership of your data, including call recordings, transcriptions, and business information you provide.

10. Data and Privacy

Your use of the Service is also governed by our Privacy Policy. By using the Service, you consent to the collection and use of your information as described therein.

11. Service Levels

Relay is delivered as a best-effort service. We do not offer a contractual SLA with service credits at this time, but we commit to the following operational targets:

Uptime target: 99.5% monthly for the core voice-call pipeline (the Twilio inbound webhook, the AI bridge, and post-call enrichment), calculated as (total_minutes − downtime_minutes) / total_minutes over a calendar month. 99.5% allows for roughly 3.6 hours of unplanned downtime per month. Downtime upstream of Relay — a Twilio outage, a Vertex AI degradation, a Cloud Run regional incident — counts against this target.

Scheduled maintenance is excluded from the uptime calculation. We aim to schedule maintenance windows outside US business hours and to give at least 24 hours of notice via email to active tenants for any window expected to exceed 5 minutes.

Support response: 2 business days for normal-priority requests submitted to support@sandybrook.io. Business days are Monday–Friday excluding US federal holidays. We aim to acknowledge issues that block usage (billing or authentication failures, integration outages) within 1 business day.

Status communications. Outage notices are posted by email to affected tenants and on the dashboard. A public status page is on the roadmap.

No service credits. As a pre-V1 product, Relay does not issue automatic refunds for missed targets. If you experience material downtime that affected your business, contact us and we'll resolve it on a case-by-case basis — we'd rather make individual customers whole than commit to a credit formula we can't underwrite yet.

We may modify, suspend, or discontinue the Service (or any part of it) at any time. Material changes will be communicated to active tenants by email at least 30 days in advance where practicable.

12. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, SandyBrook shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, including but not limited to loss of profits, data, or business opportunities, arising out of or related to your use of the Service.

13. Disclaimer of Warranties

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available" without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. AI output is probabilistic and may be incorrect.

14. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless SandyBrook, its officers, directors, employees, and agents from any claims, damages, losses, or expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of your use of the Service or violation of these Terms.

15. Termination

We may suspend or terminate your access to the Service at any time, with or without cause or notice. Upon termination, your right to use the Service ceases immediately. You may request deletion of your data upon account termination.

Immediate termination for Prohibited Uses. Configuring the Service for any High-Risk Activity listed in Section 5 — including medical triage, emergency response, automated decisions about individuals (credit, hiring, tenant screening, insurance, benefits, or educational admissions), life-support systems, or nuclear facilities — constitutes a material breach. We may suspend or terminate the account immediately and without prior notice upon discovering such use, retain or delete associated data as required by law, and refuse to provide refunds for the remainder of the billing cycle.

16. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Texas, without regard to its conflict of law provisions.

17. Changes to These Terms

We reserve the right to modify these Terms at any time. Material changes are published with a new version number; on your next login you will be asked to review and re-accept the updated Terms before continuing to use the Service.

18. Contact Us

If you have questions about these Terms, contact us at legal@sandybrook.io.

Sandy Brook DevWorks LLC
5900 Balcones Dr Ste 100
Austin, TX 78731-4298
United States