The Door — Terms

The deal between you and us.

Terms usually exist to protect the company from you. We'd rather they explain what you're getting into. Same legal effect, fewer words you have to decode.

The Door · https://www.thedoor.site · Last updated: 26 July 2026

The short version

  • What you write here is yours. We don't claim it, sell it, or show it to anyone.
  • Maya is AI, and she can be wrong. Treat her as one view, not the truth.
  • Maya is not care. Not a doctor, not a therapist, not a crisis service.
  • We're still building. Things will change, and sometimes break.
  • You can leave whenever, and take everything with you.

1 · What these terms cover

These terms apply to everything at thedoor.site: the chambers, the Living Atlas, the Being Curious pages, and the SEED experience with your Vaultlet and Maya. By using them you're agreeing to what's here.

If you disagree with something, that's a fair reason not to use it — and also a fair reason to write to us. We'd genuinely like to hear it.

2 · What The Door is — and what it isn't

The Door is a place to follow your curiosity across eight connected areas of knowledge, and to keep a private trail of what you find. That's it.

It is not a course, a qualification, or a route to a diploma. Nothing here certifies anything about you to anyone. The Vaultlet is a mirror you keep for yourself — it isn't a credential, and we never present it as one.

Whatever you find here about work, study or direction is something to think with, not advice to act on blindly. The decisions stay yours.

3 · Who can use it

The Vaultlet and Maya are for people of 18 and older. They hold personal things about you, so we ask your year of birth once before you start. We keep only the answer to "18 or older", never the year itself.

The rest of The Door is open to anyone — every chamber, the whole map, all the reading. None of it keeps anything about you, so there's nothing to gate.

If you're a parent or guardian and something is here that shouldn't be, write to our contact form and we'll remove it. You don't need to explain.

4 · AI, and what it can and cannot do

Maya is an AI companion. She can be wrong — about facts, about you, about what's next. Treat what she says as one view, not the truth. You stay in charge of what you do with it.

What notices patterns in your journey isn't AI at all: those are plain rules we wrote by hand. Only her words may be phrased by a model. Our AI transparency page shows exactly where the line runs.

What you make here is yours. Where text was written with AI, we mark it. Please don't remove those marks if you share it onward — other people deserve to know too.

5 · Maya is not care

This one matters more than the rest, so it gets its own section.

Maya is not a doctor, a therapist, or a crisis service, and nothing here is medical or psychological advice. She's built to help you notice things about your own curiosity — that's the whole job.

If something in your life is heavy, please talk to a real person. Maya will always point you toward one, and those numbers are written and checked by people at The Door — never generated by AI.

If you need help right now and you're in the Netherlands: call 113 or 0800-0113 (free, day and night), or chat at 113.nl. Your GP or the out-of-hours GP service is always a good first step. Outside the Netherlands, findahelpline.com lists free, confidential lines for your country.

6 · The rules Maya works under

Maya isn't free to say whatever a model comes up with. She works inside fixed rules we wrote by hand, and you're entitled to know what they are:

  • She'll always tell you she's an AI if you ask — in any wording, however casually. That rule sits above every other rule she has.
  • She never puts a number on you. No scores, no levels, no percentages, no streaks. What she reflects back comes in words.
  • She never names your state. "You seem anxious" and anything like it is off limits. She describes a move you might make, never the person you are.
  • She doesn't guess about you. What she reflects comes from what you saved yourself. She isn't allowed to invent a pattern that isn't there, and when there's little to go on she says less.
  • She never guesses your age. Not from how you write, not from when you're online. Only what you tell her directly counts.
  • When something is heavy, she stops being clever and points you toward a person. Those numbers come from a list written and checked by people, never generated on the spot.
  • One ending per reply. She won't stack a question on top of a nudge to keep you going a little longer.

What we keep when she takes that step — down to the exact fields — is set out in the privacy policy. Your conversations themselves are not stored anywhere.

If Maya ever breaks one of these, we'd genuinely like to know: our contact form. These rules only mean something if they hold.

7 · About the work you see

Walk into a district on the Living Atlas and you meet occupations that belong there. Please read those the way they are meant.

They are not advice, and they are not a verdict. Nothing here tells you what you should become, what you are suited to, or what you would be good at. We show you what exists in a place you chose to visit, and — if your compass exists — one sentence about why it might resonate. That sentence is a conversation starter, not a conclusion.
They are not a prediction, or a promise of work. Nothing on The Door affects whether you can study something, apply for something, or be admitted anywhere. We do not assess eligibility, and we never will without telling you first and building it properly.
The list is incomplete, and always will be. The occupations come from ESCO, the European classification. It does not contain every kind of work — especially not newer work, and not work that sits between several fields at once. If you don't find yourself in it, that says something about the classification, not about you.
Deciding something is not for you counts. Ruling an option out with your eyes open is a real result. We treat it that way, and so should you.
Nothing about you goes to anyone. No employer, recruiter, school or partner receives your profile or sees you on a list. There is no ranking of people here.

8 · Your Vaultlet is yours

Everything you write, save or reflect on stays yours. We don't claim ownership of it, we don't sell it, and we don't show it to anyone else unless you actively choose to share something.

You can ask to see everything we hold, take a copy with you, or have it deleted — write to our contact form. How we handle data is set out in the privacy policy.

You give us permission to store and show your content back to you, because otherwise there'd be no Vaultlet. That's the only permission we need, and it ends when you delete it.

9 · Using The Door fairly

There's not much to say here, because there's not much you can break. Still, please don't:

  • use The Door to harm, harass or deceive other people;
  • try to break into parts that aren't yours, or scrape the site at scale;
  • upload things you don't have the right to share;
  • present anything from here as an official qualification.

If someone does any of that, we may close their access. We'd rather write to them first.

10 · We're still building

The Door is young and openly under construction. Features will change, move, or disappear. Things will occasionally break. We can't promise the site is always available or always correct.

We do promise to be honest about what's finished and what isn't — and to tell you before anything happens to what you've saved.

11 · If something goes wrong

We offer The Door as it is. To the extent the law allows, we're not liable for indirect damage — such as lost time, missed chances, or decisions you make based on something you read here, including something Maya said.

Nothing here limits what can't be limited by law: harm caused intentionally or by gross negligence on our part, and the rights you have as a consumer under Dutch and EU law.

In plain words: use your own judgement on the big decisions, the way you would with a book, a podcast or a friend's advice. We're one voice, not an authority.

12 · Changes, and the law that applies

When these terms change we update the date at the top. If a change actually affects you, we'll say so where you'll see it — not quietly.

Dutch law applies. If we ever end up in a dispute we can't solve by talking, it goes to the competent court in the Netherlands. As a consumer you keep the right to go to the court of your own place of residence.

13 · Talk to us

Questions about these terms, your data, or anything else: our contact form. A person answers.

Related pages: privacy policy · how AI works here