Terms of Use

The website and PCGA are provided by Care Resources International LLC (“Care Resources International”, “we” or “us”), a California limited liability company led by Brent Lindquist, PhD. PCGA runs on a platform provided for us by Manifest Automation. Our Privacy Notice explains how we handle information and forms part of these terms.

PCGA is for adults 18 and older. By using PCGA, you confirm that you are at least 18 years old.

A person under 18 may take part only together with a parent or legal guardian who is present throughout the conversation, uses PCGA with the minor, and takes responsibility for that use. A minor may not use PCGA on their own, and a parent or guardian must not allow a minor to do so.

PCGA does not currently require an account. If we offer accounts in future, they will be available only to adults. Each account will belong to the adult who creates it, who is responsible for activity under it and must not share it or allow a minor to use it alone.

PCGA is an AI tool that offers Christian pastoral-care ideas, caregiving strategies, Bible passages and suggested prayers for everyday life situations. Its responses are generated by artificial intelligence. PCGA is not a live pastor, counselor or other person, and it is not conscious or spiritually authoritative.

PCGA can make mistakes. Its responses may be incomplete, inaccurate, out of date, or inconsistent with Scripture or with your Christian convictions. You are responsible for evaluating what it says, including its faithfulness to Scripture, and for deciding what to do with it.

Do not rely on PCGA as the basis for decisions about your health, safety, legal rights, finances or relationships, or for the care of another person, without seeking appropriate human help. PCGA is designed to support, not replace, your pastor, physician, counselor or other qualified professional.

PCGA does not provide medical, psychological, psychiatric, legal, emergency or other professional diagnosis, treatment or advice. Using PCGA, reading our resources or writing to us does not create a medical, mental-health, counseling, legal, pastoral or other professional relationship with Care Resources International, Brent Lindquist or anyone else.

PCGA is not confidential pastoral counseling. Conversations are stored and may be read as described in our Privacy Notice.

PCGA is not an emergency or crisis service. If you or another person may be in immediate danger, may harm yourself or someone else, or needs urgent medical or mental-health help, call emergency services where you are. In the United States, call or text 988 for the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. Do not wait for a PCGA response.

Please use the website and PCGA respectfully and lawfully. You agree not to:

• break any law, or help anyone else to do so;
• submit content that is threatening, harassing, hateful, sexually explicit, or that exploits or endangers children;
• try to make PCGA produce harmful, deceptive or unlawful content, or to get around its safeguards;
• enter another person’s private information without their permission;
• pretend to be someone else, or misrepresent your connection with any person or organization;
• use automated tools to access, copy or overload the website or PCGA, or interfere with their security or operation;
• copy, resell or build a competing service from PCGA or its responses, or try to extract its instructions or underlying systems;
• use the contact form to send advertising, spam or bulk messages;
• share access to PCGA in a way that allows a minor to use it alone, or use another person’s account if accounts are introduced.

Do not enter information into PCGA or the contact form that you do not want processed and stored as described in our Privacy Notice. You are responsible for what you choose to share, including any information about other people.

If you send us suggestions or feedback, we may use them to improve our work without any obligation to you.

The website, its text and design, the resources we publish, and the PCGA name belong to Care Resources International or to the people who license them to us, and are protected by copyright and other laws.

Unless a resource states other terms, you may view, download and print our free resources, and share unchanged copies, for your personal use and for non-commercial use within your church or ministry, as long as you keep any copyright notice and credit Care Resources International. You may not sell them, charge for access to them, change them and present the result as ours, or republish them on another website without our written permission.

You may use PCGA’s responses for your personal, pastoral and non-commercial ministry purposes. Bible translations and other quoted works belong to their copyright holders and are used under their terms.

PCGA relies on services provided by others, including Manifest Automation and OpenAI. The website also links to other websites, such as brentlindquist.com and crosstalk.ai. We are not responsible for websites and services we do not control, and your use of them is governed by their own terms and policies.

We offer the website and PCGA free of charge and hope to keep them available, but we do not promise that they will always be available, uninterrupted or free of errors. PCGA depends on services provided by others, and it may be unavailable when they are.

We may change, suspend or stop any part of the website or PCGA at any time, including its features, its responses and the resources we offer. We may limit, suspend or end anyone’s access, without notice, if we believe they have broken these terms, or to protect the safety of any person or the security of the service.

The website, our resources and PCGA are provided “as is” and “as available”. To the fullest extent the law allows, we make no warranties of any kind, express or implied, including warranties of accuracy, completeness, reliability, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We do not warrant that any response from PCGA is accurate, complete, appropriate for your situation or consistent with any particular theological tradition.

To the fullest extent the law allows, Care Resources International, its members, managers and volunteers, and its service providers will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, goodwill or opportunity, arising from your use of, or inability to use, the website, our resources or PCGA, or from any decision you make based on them.

To the fullest extent the law allows, our total liability for any claim connected with the website, our resources or PCGA is limited to one hundred United States dollars (US$100). Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited under the law that applies to you.

To the extent the law allows, you agree to be responsible for, and to reimburse us for, claims, losses and reasonable costs that arise from your breach of these terms or your misuse of the website or PCGA.

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, United States, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. If a concern arises, please write to us first so that we can try to resolve it informally. Any dispute that cannot be resolved this way will be heard in the state or federal courts located in California, unless the law where you live gives you the right to bring it elsewhere.

We may update these terms from time to time. When we do, we will post the new version on this page and change the effective date at the top. If a change is significant, we will also post a notice on this website before it takes effect where we can. Changes apply from their effective date, and if you keep using the website or PCGA after that date, you accept the updated terms. If you do not agree with a change, please stop using them.

If we introduce accounts, we will ask account holders to review and accept updated terms when significant changes are made.

These terms and our Privacy Notice are the whole agreement between you and us about the website and PCGA. If any part of these terms cannot be enforced, the rest remains in effect. If we do not enforce a term straight away, we have not given up the right to enforce it later. We may transfer these terms to a successor that continues our work. You may not transfer your rights under them.

Questions about these terms are welcome. Write to Care Resources International LLC at [email protected] or use the contact form.