Terms of Use

Last updated: 30 October 2026

1. About these terms

These terms are an agreement between you and Jarno van Kessel ("we", "us"), based in the Netherlands, about your use of the Lighthouse app ("Lighthouse"). By creating an account or using Lighthouse, you agree to these terms. Our Privacy Policy explains what we do with your data.

2. Who can use Lighthouse

You must be 16 or older. You confirm this when you start using Lighthouse. One account per person; keep your sign-in details to yourself, because you are responsible for what happens under your account.

3. What Lighthouse is, and isn't

Lighthouse helps you get to know your skills, interests and wishes and plan your career: short questionnaires and what they show about you, a goal with steps and small Actions, jobs you can compare, and feedback rounds where people you know answer a few questions about you. All of that works without AI. AI coaches are there to think along when you want them to.

Lighthouse is not a recruitment agency, career counsellor, psychologist, financial adviser or lawyer. Scores, strengths, comparisons with others, salary indications and job listings are indications, not guarantees. Decisions about your career, job applications and negotiations stay yours.

Job listings come from an outside job search service (Adzuna). We don't check them and aren't responsible for them or for the employers behind them.

4. The AI coaches

• The coaches are AI, powered by Anthropic's Claude models. They are not people, even though they have names and faces.
• Their answers are generated automatically and can be wrong, incomplete or out of date. Check anything important (salary figures, legal or financial points, facts about employers) before you rely on it.
• The same goes for other texts Lighthouse writes for you, such as suggestions in Explore, your weekly reminders and your Wrapped.
• A coach can propose a step or Action for your plan; it is only added when you say yes.
• Don't use the coaches for emergencies or for medical, psychological, legal or financial advice. If you are in crisis, contact a professional or emergency services (in the Netherlands: 112, or 113 / 0800-0113 for suicide prevention).
• What you write to a coach is sent to Anthropic to generate the answer, as described in the Privacy Policy. Anthropic doesn't train its models on it.
• If a reply is wrong or inappropriate, report it (press and hold the reply). We read the reports to improve the coaches.
• To keep Lighthouse available and affordable, AI features have usage limits per account (per minute, day and month). When you reach one, the app tells you when it resets.

5. Your content

"Your content" is what you put into Lighthouse: questionnaire answers, your details and work experience, CVs, your goal, steps and Actions, reflections and chat messages. It stays yours. You give us permission to store and process it only to provide Lighthouse to you (for example, to show your results or to let a coach answer you). We don't use it for advertising and we don't sell it.

You can export all of it or delete your account at any time in Settings. Deletion is immediate and permanent.

Feedback rounds: if you invite other people to give you feedback, share the link only with people who are happy to answer, and treat their answers with care. The people who answer don't need an account; their answers are part of your content.

6. Acceptable use

Don't:

• break the law, or use Lighthouse to harass, deceive or harm anyone;
• upload content you have no right to share, such as someone else's CV without their permission;
• try to get around the usage limits, get into other accounts or our systems, or overload the service (scripts, scraping, automated sign-ups);
• try to make the coaches produce harmful or illegal content, or to extract their instructions;
• resell Lighthouse or its output as a service.

We may limit, suspend or close an account that breaks these rules. Where reasonable, we'll tell you why first.

7. Price

Lighthouse is free. If we ever introduce paid features, we'll tell you in advance, and nothing will be charged without your explicit choice.

8. Availability and changes

We work to keep Lighthouse running well, but we can't promise it will always be available or error-free. During a test phase in particular, things can break. We may change, add or remove features. If we stop Lighthouse altogether, we'll give at least 30 days' notice so you can export your data.

9. Liability

Lighthouse is provided "as is". To the extent the law allows, we're not liable for decisions you make based on Lighthouse, including scores, AI answers, salary indications or job listings, or for indirect or consequential loss. Nothing in these terms limits liability that can't be limited by law, such as liability for intent or gross negligence, or your rights as a consumer.

10. Ending

You can stop at any time by deleting your account in Settings. We can end these terms on 30 days' notice, or immediately for serious breaches of Section 6.

11. Changes to these terms

If we change these terms in a way that matters, we'll tell you in the app before the change takes effect. If you don't agree, you can delete your account; continuing to use Lighthouse means you accept the new terms.

12. Law and disputes

These terms are governed by Dutch law. If you're a consumer living in the EU, you also keep the protection of the mandatory laws of your own country, and you can go to the court where you live. Contact us first at jarnovankessel@gmail.com; most things can be solved that way.

13. Contact

Jarno van Kessel · the Netherlands · jarnovankessel@gmail.com