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Terms of Service

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Draft for review. This is a working draft tailored to how Tape actually works. It is not legal advice. Have counsel review it — especially governing law, the recording-consent and liability sections, consumer-law refund rights, and the Apple App Store requirements — before publishing. Placeholders: [Company Legal Name], [Company Address], [publication date].

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are a binding agreement between you and [Company Legal Name] ("Tape," "we," "us") and govern your use of the Tape apps, website, and related services (together, the "Service"). By downloading, signing in to, or using Tape, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you don't agree, don't use the Service.

1. What Tape is

Tape captures conversations and transcribes them on your device, in Hebrew or English. Your audio and transcripts stay on your device. Optional, paid cloud features (such as summaries and, later, chat) send your transcript text to our servers to be processed — these are off by default and clearly marked. See the Privacy Policy for exactly what happens to your data.

Beta. Parts of the Service are pre-release. Beta features are provided "as is," may change or be removed, may contain bugs, and come with no service-level commitment. Don't rely on a beta feature for anything critical.

2. Who can use Tape

You must be at least 16 years old (or the age of digital consent in your country, if higher) and able to form a binding contract. If you use Tape on behalf of an organization, you represent that you're authorized to bind that organization to these Terms.

3. Your account

You sign in with Google or Apple. You're responsible for keeping access to your sign-in method secure and for activity under your account. Tell us promptly at [security/support email] if you suspect unauthorized use. We use a backend-for-frontend model: we never receive your Google/Apple passwords, and we hold calendar tokens encrypted (see the Privacy Policy).

4. Recording, consent, and your responsibilities

This section matters — read it. Tape is a tool you control: you decide when to capture a conversation. You are solely responsible for using Tape lawfully.

Laws differ by place. Some countries, U.S. states, and regions require that all parties consent before a conversation is recorded or transcribed; others require only one party. You are responsible for knowing and following the recording, wiretapping, eavesdropping, and privacy laws that apply to you and to everyone in the conversation.
Get consent. Where consent is required, you must obtain it from the other participants before capturing, and you must tell people they're being captured when the law requires it.
Capture only what you're entitled to. Don't use Tape to capture conversations you have no right to capture, to record people without a lawful basis, or in places or situations where capture is prohibited.
You control your captures. Because your audio, transcripts, and notes live on your device, you decide what to keep, delete, share, or send for an optional cloud summary.

Any on-screen indicator Tape shows while capturing is a courtesy to participants; it does not replace your legal duty to obtain the consent the law requires.

You agree that you, not Tape, are responsible for compliance, consent, and the lawfulness of your captures, and for any use you make of the resulting transcripts, summaries, or notes. To the extent permitted by law, you'll indemnify us for claims arising from your failure to do so (see Section 13).

5. Your content

You own the conversations you capture and the transcripts, notes, edits, and summaries created from them ("Your Content"). We don't claim ownership of Your Content.

Most of Your Content never reaches us — it stays on your device. The narrow exception is the opt-in cloud features: when you request a summary, you grant us a limited, temporary license to transmit and process the transcript text you send solely to generate that summary and return it to you. We don't store it, analyze it for other purposes, or use it to train models. (See the Privacy Policy, Section 5.)

6. Free and paid features; billing

Free. Capture and on-device transcription are free to use. They run on your device.
Paid. Cloud features such as summaries (and, later, chat) are paid and require an active subscription or entitlement. We may change which features are free or paid, with notice; changes won't reduce features you've already paid for during a paid term.
Purchases go through the Apple App Store. Subscriptions are billed and managed by Apple under your App Store account. Subscriptions auto-renew unless you turn off renewal at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel a subscription in your App Store account settings.
Refunds are handled by Apple under Apple's policies, except where applicable law (including EU/UK and Israeli consumer-protection law) gives you additional rights, which we honor. [Confirm statutory withdrawal/refund language with counsel.]
Cancelling stops future auto-renewals; your access continues until the end of the current paid period (refunds, if any, are handled by Apple as above).
Price changes apply only to future billing periods after notice; for App Store subscriptions, Apple will ask for your consent to a price increase, as Apple requires.
Trials and promotions. If we offer a free trial or promotional credit, its terms are shown when offered.
Usage limits. Paid cloud features may include fair-use or per-period limits to keep the Service sustainable; we'll make these reasonable and let you know.

7. AI features and accuracy

Transcription and summaries are produced by automated models and may contain errors, omissions, or misattributions — including wrong words, wrong speakers, or inaccurate summaries, especially with overlapping speech, accents, background noise, or domain-specific terms. Tape is an aid, not a system of record.

Don't rely on Tape's output as professional advice (legal, medical, financial, or otherwise) or as an authoritative or verbatim record. Review important output and verify anything that matters before acting on it. You're responsible for how you use the output.

8. Acceptable use

Don't:

use Tape to break the law or to violate others' rights (including recording or privacy laws — see Section 4);
capture, transcribe, or process conversations without the consent the law requires;
reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract source code, except where that restriction is prohibited by law;
probe, scan, or breach the security of the Service, or interfere with its normal operation or others' use of it;
resell, sublicense, or commercially exploit the Service except as expressly permitted;
use the Service to build a competing product, or to abuse the cloud features (for example, automated bulk requests beyond fair use).

We may suspend or limit access to protect the Service, our users, or third parties, and to address violations of these Terms.

9. Third-party services

Tape works with third-party services — including Google (Sign-In, Calendar, and Vertex AI/Gemini for summaries), Apple (App Store, sign-in, and platform services), and others. Your use of those services is also governed by their terms and privacy policies. We're not responsible for third-party services, and their availability or terms may change.

10. Our intellectual property

The Tape apps, website, brand, logos, design, and software are owned by [Company Legal Name] and protected by intellectual-property laws. We grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use the Service as intended by these Terms. We reserve all rights not expressly granted. "Tape" and our logos are our trademarks; don't use them without permission.

11. Feedback

If you send us ideas, suggestions, or feedback, you grant us a perpetual, royalty-free license to use them to improve the Service, without obligation to you. Feedback is given voluntarily.

12. Disclaimers

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Service is provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, and any warranty about accuracy, reliability, or availability, or about transcription or summary quality. We don't warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or secure, or that output will be accurate or complete.

Some jurisdictions don't allow certain warranty exclusions, so some of the above may not apply to you; in that case, statutory warranties apply to the minimum extent required.

13. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law:

We are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, data, goodwill, or business, arising from or related to the Service.
Our total liability for any claim relating to the Service is limited to the greater of (a) the amount you paid us for the Service in the 12 months before the claim, or (b) [USD 50 / local equivalent].

Nothing in these Terms excludes liability that can't be excluded by law (for example, for fraud, or for death or personal injury caused by negligence). Where mandatory consumer-protection law applies, these limits apply only to the extent that law allows.

14. Indemnification

To the extent permitted by law, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless [Company Legal Name] and its team from claims, damages, and reasonable costs arising from your use of the Service, Your Content, your failure to obtain required recording consent or to comply with applicable law (Section 4), or your breach of these Terms.

15. Termination

You may stop using Tape and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate your access if you breach these Terms, if required by law, or if we discontinue the Service (we'll give reasonable notice of a planned discontinuation where we can). On termination, your right to use the Service ends; the data on your device remains yours, and you can delete it. Sections that by their nature should survive (ownership, disclaimers, liability limits, indemnity, governing law) survive termination.

16. Changes to the Service and these Terms

We may change the Service and update these Terms as Tape evolves. For material changes to the Terms, we'll update the "Last updated" date and give reasonable notice (in the app, by email, or on the website). Continuing to use the Service after a change takes effect means you accept the updated Terms; if you don't agree, stop using the Service.

17. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of [the State of Israel], without regard to conflict-of-law rules, and the competent courts of [Tel Aviv–Jaffa, Israel] have exclusive jurisdiction — except where mandatory consumer-protection law in your country of residence gives you the right to bring claims locally or to rely on your local law, which we don't take away. [Confirm forum, and consider an informal dispute-resolution / arbitration approach with counsel and against Apple's App Store requirements.]

18. Apple App Store terms

If you obtained Tape from the Apple App Store, the following apply to that copy, and Apple's standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement also applies:

These Terms are between you and us, not Apple, and Apple is not responsible for the app or its content.
You're granted a license to use Tape only on Apple-branded devices you own or control, as permitted by the App Store Terms of Service.
Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for Tape.
If Tape fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple may refund the purchase price (if any); to the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation with respect to Tape.
Apple is not responsible for addressing any claims relating to Tape, including product-liability, legal/regulatory, or intellectual-property claims.
You represent that you're not located in a U.S.-embargoed country or on a U.S. prohibited-parties list, as required by Apple.
Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce them against you.

19. General

Entire agreement. These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and us about the Service.
Severability. If a provision is unenforceable, the rest stays in effect.
No waiver. Our not enforcing a right isn't a waiver of it.
Assignment. You may not assign these Terms; we may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.
Force majeure. Neither party is liable for delays or failures caused by events beyond its reasonable control.
Relationship. These Terms don't create a partnership, agency, joint venture, or employment relationship between you and us.
Notices. We send legal notices to your account email or post them in the app or on the website; electronic notice counts as written notice.
Language. [If a Hebrew version is published, state which version controls.]

20. Contact us

[Company Legal Name] [support/legal email] [Company Address]