Terms of Service

Effective date: November 9, 2026 · Version 1.4

Full Terms of Service

Welcome to Clipnote. These Terms of Service ("Terms") are a binding agreement between you and the individual who operates the Clipnote app ("we," "us," or "our"), governing your access to and use of the Clipnote mobile app, the website at clipnote.social, and related services (together, the "Service"). Today we are one person. No company operates Clipnote. Section 23 explains what happens if that changes. In these Terms, "Clipnote" on its own means the Service and our brand, and never a post. If you signed a Beta Tester Agreement or any other agreement about Clipnote, the person named in it is the same operator. If you need our legal name and address for a legal notice or a legal claim, email legal@clipnote.social and we will give them to you.

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS CAREFULLY. THEY INCLUDE IMPORTANT LIMITATIONS ON OUR LIABILITY, YOUR OBLIGATION TO INDEMNIFY US FOR CONTENT YOU UPLOAD, AND (IN SECTION 18) A BINDING ARBITRATION AGREEMENT AND CLASS-ACTION WAIVER.

By tapping Continue with Apple or Continue with Google on the sign-in screen, accepting these Terms in the app, or otherwise accessing or using the Service, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy and Copyright Policy, each incorporated by reference. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

1. Eligibility

You must be at least 18 years old to use the Service. By using the Service you represent that you are 18 or older, that you have the legal capacity to enter into these Terms, and that we have not banned you from the Service.

2. Your Account

You are responsible for your account, for keeping access to your sign-in method secure, and for all activity under your account. Tell us promptly at support@clipnote.social about any unauthorized use. You agree to provide accurate information and keep it up to date. We may refuse, suspend, or close accounts as described in Section 14.

3. The Service

Clipnote lets you create, upload, publish, and share short audio works with accompanying text and artwork ("posts." The app may call a post a "Note" or a "Clipnote"). It also lets you add background video, share photos and videos for a limited time ("Sidenotes"), organize posts into collections ("Volumes"), mark a moment you loved in a post (a "Clip"), message other users, and discover and interact with content published by others. Some features rely on outside processing, such as speech-to-text transcription and AI voice narration, as described in our Privacy Policy. Accounts labeled "Clipnote Sample" are run by us to show how the app works, using writing we believe is in the public domain in the United States, read by volunteers or AI voices. We may add, change, or remove features at any time.

4. Beta Testing

4.1 Unfinished. Clipnote is in beta. The Service is provided as is. It may be incomplete, change often, contain errors, or stop working.

4.2 Your data. We may lose, reset, or delete anything on the Service during the beta, including your posts and files. Our backups cover database records, not your audio, image, or video files. Keep your own copies of anything important.

4.3 Ending the beta. We may end your access or end the beta at any time, with or without notice. We do not promise that Clipnote will launch, or that your account or content will carry over if it does.

4.4 Beta Tester Agreement. If you join the beta, the Beta Tester Agreement you sign in the app also applies to you. If it conflicts with these Terms on something it covers, the Beta Tester Agreement controls. We will not treat your User Content as Feedback under that agreement, even if it appears in something you send us. Otherwise, for example, its Feedback section controls over Section 5.3, and its Section 16 sends disputes about that agreement or the beta to courts in Texas. Where it applies to a dispute, Section 18 of these Terms does not. Everything else in these Terms still applies to you.

5. User Content: Ownership and License

"User Content" means everything you submit, upload, record, generate, publish, or otherwise make available through the Service, including audio recordings, uploaded audio files, video, cover images and other artwork, titles, descriptions, documents and other text, drafts, comments, messages, Sidenotes, Volumes, and links you attach to posts.

5.1 You keep ownership. As between you and us, you keep all ownership rights you already hold in your User Content. We do not claim ownership of it.

5.2 License you grant to us. Your work belongs to you, and we claim no ownership of it. You grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to do only what the app needs to do with your User Content, at your direction:

(a) host, store, back up, and play it, and reformat it so it plays on different devices;

(b) transcribe it, make time-synced text, pull the text from a document you upload, and read your writing aloud when you choose an AI voice;

(c) make the thumbnails, cover framing, and previews the app shows for it;

(d) show and distribute what you publish to its audience inside the Service, such as feeds, Discover, search, profiles, and Volumes, and to anyone who has a share link;

(e) make it work with the sharing features people use, such as reposts, saves, Clips, shared 5-second clips, and messages; and

(f) send it to the companies listed in Section 4 of our Privacy Policy, only as needed to do these things.

The license also covers two things you don't direct. We review User Content for moderation and safety, as Section 11 describes, including automated word checks. And we keep it or disclose it when the law requires it or to protect someone's safety, such as a report to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children or an answer to a valid legal demand, as Section 11 and our Privacy Policy describe.

We may pass these rights only to those companies, to other users through those features, to a successor under Section 23 with these same limits, and to authorities or others when the law requires it or to protect someone's safety.

What this license does not allow. We do not train AI models on your User Content, and we do not sell it or license it for use outside the Service. We do not use it in Clipnote's advertising or marketing, on our app store pages, or on our website, unless you give us separate permission for that use. A share link's own page on our website is not marketing: it shows your post only to people who open that link.

When it ends. This license ends when you delete the content or your account, except for (i) copies in our database backups, for up to 30 days; (ii) evidence and copies kept for moderation, safety, or legal reasons, as Section 8 of our Privacy Policy describes; (iii) a delivery network's short-lived copy, and what the companies in Section 4 of our Privacy Policy keep on their own schedules under their own terms; and (iv) anything someone already copied outside the Service, which we cannot recall. Reposts, saves, and Clips of your post inside the Service go away with it.

Removing your content. You may remove a post or Sidenote, or delete your account, at any time, as described in Section 14, except that while a report on a post is open, or after we have taken it down, you can't delete that post or change its audio, cover, or video, and a suspended account can only delete the whole account. If we review a report and take no action, that lock ends. To remove a comment or message, delete your account, or email support@clipnote.social and ask us to. Section 8 of our Privacy Policy says what we keep.

5.3 Feedback. If you send us suggestions or feedback about the Service, you grant us an unrestricted, perpetual, royalty-free license to use those ideas without obligation to you. Feedback does not include your User Content, even if it appears in a message or screenshot you send us. We use that only to look into what you told us.

5.4 Moral rights. To the extent the law allows, you waive and agree not to assert any moral rights in your User Content against the specific uses in Section 5.2, such as reformatting it, excerpting it, or showing it with captions or a background. You keep those rights for anything else.

5.5 Right to remove. We may remove any User Content as described in Section 11. We are not required to store it or to keep it available.

6. Your Promises About What You Upload

This section is important. You are solely responsible for your User Content. By submitting any User Content, you represent and warrant, for each item you upload or create, that:

(a) You own it or have all necessary rights. You either own all rights in the User Content, or you have every license, right, consent, release, and permission needed to submit it and to grant the license in Section 5.2, including rights in any music, sound, audio recording, voice, composition, video, image, photograph, artwork, logo, text, writing, or other material in or with it.

(b) It does not infringe. Your User Content, and our use of it as these Terms allow, does not infringe, misappropriate, or violate anyone's intellectual property rights (including copyrights, trademarks, and rights in sound recordings and musical works), rights of publicity or privacy, moral rights, or other rights, and does not violate any law, regulation, or contract.

(c) Consents obtained. You have every consent, release, or permission required from each identifiable person whose name, voice, likeness, image, or personal information appears in your User Content. Some places require everyone's consent before a conversation can be recorded. That is your responsibility to check.

(d) No unauthorized third-party content. You will not upload audio, writing, images, or other material you did not create unless you own it or are authorized to use and license it. For example, you will not upload commercially released music, audiobooks, podcasts, or copyrighted texts you do not have the rights to. Reading a book aloud counts too. Authors may read their own book, as long as they still hold those rights. Reading someone else's copyrighted book aloud needs permission from whoever holds the rights, unless the book is in the public domain.

(e) Public domain and fair use are your call. If you rely on the public domain, a license, or fair use, you are the one making that judgment, and you carry the risk if it is wrong. A work's status can differ by country. A translation, edition, or recording can still be protected when the original work is not.

(f) It is truthful and lawful. Your User Content is not fraudulent, defamatory, obscene, harassing, or otherwise unlawful, and it complies with these Terms and our policies.

We do not review most User Content before it is published, and we are not obligated to. Automated checks run on some public text, and a post they flag waits for a person to read it before it goes public. You, not us, bear all responsibility and liability for your User Content and for the consequences of submitting or publishing it.

7. AI Features

7.1 Mistakes. Some features use artificial intelligence, such as transcribing speech into text and reading writing aloud in an AI voice. AI output can contain mistakes, so check it before you publish. It is not professional advice. You are responsible for content you publish using these features.

7.2 Who owns AI output. You keep your rights in the writing you give the AI voice, and we claim no ownership of the audio it produces. Other people may get similar output. AI-generated audio may not be protected by copyright, and we make no promise that it is.

7.3 Real people's voices. You may not use our AI voices or any other tool to clone or imitate a real person's voice, or to make audio that falsely appears to be a real person speaking, unless you have that person's explicit, informed consent (or, if they have died, the authorization the law requires) and can show it to us if we ask. You may not imitate candidates or elected officials, use recordings of anyone under 18 to create a synthetic voice, or mislead people about who is speaking. Posts read by our AI voices carry a label in the app. Do not remove or hide that label, or any watermark or other signal that audio was made with AI.

7.4 Rules from our AI voice provider. Our AI voices come from ElevenLabs. When you use them you also agree to follow its Prohibited Use Policy, at elevenlabs.io/use-policy, and you may not use its services for anything these Terms or that policy do not allow. You grant ElevenLabs, its affiliates, and its subcontractors a non-exclusive right to process and use what you submit through this feature to provide and support its services. You are not ElevenLabs' agent or partner. ElevenLabs is a third-party beneficiary of this Section 7. If we change providers, these rules apply to the new provider's equivalent policy.

7.5 Training. We do not train AI models on your content. We have opted out of model training with Deepgram. We have also opted out of model training with ElevenLabs, our AI voice provider, for what it receives from November 6, 2026 on. Section 4 of our Privacy Policy explains this.

8. Acceptable Use

We have no tolerance for objectionable content or abusive users. You agree not to, and not to try to or help anyone else to: (a) upload or publish infringing or unlawful content; (b) attack or demean people because of race, ethnicity, national origin, caste, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, or serious illness, including by using slurs against them; (c) harass or bully anyone, threaten or encourage violence, encourage self-harm, or publish someone's private information without their permission; (d) upload or publish sexual content the rule below doesn't allow, or any intimate image of a person without their consent, whether real or AI-generated; (e) upload or publish content that sexualizes, endangers, or exploits minors; (f) impersonate any person or entity or misrepresent your affiliation; (g) upload content you do not have the rights to (see Section 6); (h) violate anyone's intellectual property, privacy, or publicity rights; (i) upload malware or try to disrupt, overload, or gain unauthorized access to the Service or its systems; (j) scrape, harvest, or collect data about other users except as expressly allowed; (k) use the Service to send spam or unsolicited promotions, including through direct messages; (l) get around any access, usage, or content limits, or create accounts to evade a block, suspension, or ban; (m) artificially inflate plays, likes, follows, or other activity; or (n) use the Service in violation of any applicable law. We may investigate and act on any violation, including removing content and closing accounts.

Sexual content. For now, sexual content isn't allowed on Clipnote. We plan to add a Mature (18+) label. Once it exists, romance and sex scenes that are part of a story are allowed if they carry that label. These are never allowed, with or without a label: pornography; anything primarily intended to arouse; anything involving anyone under 18; non-consensual content; using a real person without their consent; and anything the policy in Section 7.4 prohibits.

We have zero tolerance for child sexual abuse and exploitation. We remove it, ban the accounts involved, preserve evidence as the law requires, and report it to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. Our Child Safety Standards, at clipnote.social/child-safety, are part of these Terms.

9. Links

You can attach one link to a post. A link is User Content, so the rest of these Terms apply to it too.

9.1 What is allowed. Links must use https. You may not use a deceptive link, such as one that hides where it goes, pretends to be another site, or leads to a scam, malware, or anything else these Terms do not allow.

9.2 You are responsible for your link. You, not us, are responsible for where your link goes and for what you say about it.

9.3 Commission links. If you earn a commission or anything else of value from a link, you must mark it when you add it, and we show "Paid link" next to it. You cannot change that wording. The label does not replace any other disclosure that the law or an affiliate program requires of you. If your audio or text recommends what the link leads to, say in that audio or text that you are paid for it, so people who only listen still hear it.

9.4 We may remove any link. We may refuse or remove any link at any time, with or without notice, and with or without removing the post.

9.5 We are not a store. We do not sell anything through links, take no payment for anything you buy through one, and have no part in any sale. Any purchase is between you and the seller.

9.6 Other sites. A link takes you to a site we do not run. That site is responsible for its own content, products, terms, and privacy practices. We do not endorse or guarantee it.

10. Copyright

We respect intellectual property rights and expect you to do the same. We respond to notices of claimed copyright infringement and close the accounts of repeat infringers in appropriate circumstances, as described in our Copyright Policy, which is part of these Terms. You can read it in the app (Settings, then Legal) and at clipnote.social/copyright. To report infringement, send a notice to legal@clipnote.social.

11. Content Moderation and Removal

We may, but do not have to, review, monitor, remove, disable access to, or refuse to publish any User Content, and may suspend or close accounts, at any time, with or without notice, including for content we believe violates these Terms or the law or that is the subject of a complaint. We are not the author or publisher of User Content, and removing or leaving up any item does not change that. We do not promise to find or remove everything that breaks these Terms. We are not liable for removing, or failing to remove or store, any User Content.

Moderation can mean removing a post, a Sidenote, a comment, or a link, hiding a direct message that was reported, or suspending an account. While an account is suspended, its profile shows as unavailable, its posts, comments, and other public activity are hidden, and it can't post, comment, message, like, or change its profile. You can still sign in, download your data, and delete your account. Deleting a suspended account does not let you make a new one with the same sign-in or email. We aim to review reports within 24 hours. We also automatically refuse a short list of slurs in most public text when it is saved. A post containing one of those words is held until a person reads it, because quoting those words in history, memoir, reporting, or fiction is allowed, and using them casually, at someone, or to promote hatred is not. If you think we got something wrong, email support@clipnote.social and a person will read it.

Federal law asks us to tell you that parental control tools, such as hardware, software, and filtering services, are commercially available and may help limit access to material harmful to minors. Clipnote itself is only for adults.

12. Reporting and Blocking

12.1 Reports. You can report a post, a Sidenote, a comment, a direct message, or an account, and choose why. You can also block other users. Reports are reviewed by a person, and we don't tell someone who reported them unless the law requires it. While a report on your post is open, you can't delete that post, as Section 5.2 explains. If you see content you believe breaks these Terms, report it in the app or email support@clipnote.social. For copyright, use the process in Section 10, which works differently: the person whose content is removed gets a copy of the notice.

12.2 Intimate images shared without consent. If an intimate image or video of you, real or AI-generated, was shared on Clipnote without your consent, you or someone authorized to act for you can ask us to remove it. Email legal@clipnote.social with the subject "Intimate image removal." Include your physical or electronic signature, enough detail for us to find it (such as a link or the account handle), a short statement that you believe in good faith it was shared without consent, and how to reach you. Please do not attach the image. We remove it, and any identical copies we know of, within 48 hours of a valid request.

13. Intellectual Property in the Service

The Service itself, including our software, design, logos, trademarks (including Clipnote™), and all content we provide (other than User Content), is owned by us or our licensors and protected by intellectual property laws. We grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use the Service for its intended purpose under these Terms, on devices you own or control and as the app store you got it from allows. You may not copy, modify, distribute, reverse engineer, or create derivative works of the Service except as the law allows.

14. Termination

You may stop using the Service and delete your account at any time in the app (Settings, then Delete Account). Deleting your account removes your profile and published content from the Service; some data stays, as described in Section 5.2 and Section 8 of the Privacy Policy, and more stays if your account is suspended or has an open report. We may suspend or close your access at any time, with or without notice, including for any violation of these Terms or the law. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (including Sections 4.4, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 6, 7, 9, 12.2, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, and 23) will survive.

15. Indemnification

To the extent the law allows, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless us and our owners, officers, employees, contractors, agents, and successors (the "Protected Parties") from and against all third-party claims, demands, actions, and investigations, and the resulting liabilities, damages, losses, judgments, settlements, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees), arising out of: (a) your User Content, including any claim that it infringes or harmed someone; (b) your breach of these Terms or of your promises in Section 6; or (c) your violation of any law or of anyone's rights, including intellectual property, publicity, or privacy rights. This does not cover any part of a claim caused by a Protected Party's own negligence or misconduct.

We may, at our own expense, take over the exclusive defense and control of any matter you must indemnify us for, and you agree to cooperate with our defense. You will not settle any matter that affects the Protected Parties without our prior written consent. This Section survives termination of these Terms.

16. Disclaimers

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT THE LAW ALLOWS, THE SERVICE AND ALL CONTENT ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, THAT YOUR CONTENT WILL BE PRESERVED, OR THAT ANY CONTENT, INCLUDING AI OUTPUT, SAMPLE CONTENT, AND LINKS, IS ACCURATE, LAWFUL, OR NON-INFRINGING. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR USER CONTENT OR FOR THE CONDUCT OF ANY USER. THIS SECTION DOES NOT TAKE AWAY ANY RIGHT THE LAW SAYS YOU CANNOT GIVE UP.

17. Limitation of Liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE PROTECTED PARTIES WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, GOODWILL, OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OF (OR INABILITY TO USE) THE SERVICE OR ANY USER CONTENT, WHETHER BASED IN CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE TOTAL LIABILITY OF THE PROTECTED PARTIES FOR ALL CLAIMS RELATING TO THE SERVICE WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US, IF ANY, IN THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR (B) US $100. THIS SECTION DOES NOT LIMIT LIABILITY FOR FRAUD OR INTENTIONAL WRONGDOING, OR ANY OTHER LIABILITY THE LAW DOES NOT ALLOW US TO LIMIT.

18. Governing Law; Dispute Resolution; Arbitration

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, USA, and applicable federal law, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. Please read this section carefully. It affects how disputes are resolved.

18.1 Informal resolution. Before filing a claim, each of us agrees to try to resolve the dispute informally for 30 days. You start by emailing legal@clipnote.social with your name, your handle, and what you want. We start by emailing the address on your account. Any filing deadline pauses during those 30 days.

18.2 Binding arbitration. Except for the exceptions below, any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service will be resolved by final and binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, rather than in court. The Federal Arbitration Act governs this Section. The arbitration will be in English and may be held by video or telephone, or in the county where you live. Fees are split as the AAA's consumer rules provide. The arbitrator may award the same individual relief a court could, but only for the person bringing the claim. If the AAA will not or cannot administer the arbitration, we will agree on another neutral arbitrator or ask a court to appoint one.

18.3 Class-action waiver. You and we each may bring claims against the other only individually, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any class, collective, or representative proceeding. The arbitrator may not combine more than one person's claims, except as Section 18.6 allows.

18.4 Exceptions. This arbitration agreement does not apply to: (a) an individual claim in small-claims court; (b) a request to a court for injunctive or equitable relief for actual or threatened infringement or misuse of intellectual property; (c) any dispute that federal or state law says cannot be sent to arbitration by a pre-dispute agreement, including where you elect court for a sexual assault or sexual harassment dispute under federal law; or (d) a dispute covered by a signed Beta Tester Agreement (Section 4.4).

18.5 Opt-out. You may opt out of this arbitration agreement by emailing legal@clipnote.social within 30 days of first accepting these Terms, or within 30 days of our notice of a material change to this Section 18, with your name, your Clipnote handle, and a statement that you opt out of arbitration. Opting out does not affect any other part of these Terms.

18.6 Many similar claims. If 25 or more similar demands are filed against us by or with the same or coordinated lawyers, the AAA's Mass Arbitration Supplementary Rules apply to them.

18.7 If part of this Section fails. A court, not an arbitrator, decides whether Section 18.3 can be enforced. If it cannot be enforced for a claim or a type of relief, that claim or relief goes to court, and the rest stays in arbitration. If any other part of this Section is found unenforceable, the rest stays in effect.

18.8 Courts. Anything that is not arbitrated will be decided only in the state or federal courts located in Bexar County, Texas, and you and we consent to those courts' jurisdiction and venue, except for small-claims court and any right the law gives you to sue where you live. To the extent the law allows, you and we each give up any right to a jury trial in those courts.

18.9 Changes to this Section. A change to this Section 18 does not apply to a claim that arose, or that either of us knew about, before the change took effect.

19. App Store Terms (Apple and Google)

You may download Clipnote from the Apple App Store or Google Play. These Terms are between you and us only, not with Apple Inc. or Google LLC (each an "App Provider"). We, not the App Provider, are solely responsible for the app and its content. If you got the app from the Apple App Store, Apple's Licensed Application End User License Agreement also applies, and your use must follow the App Store's usage rules.

(a) License. Your license to the app is non-transferable. If you got it from Apple, you may use it only on Apple-branded products you own or control, as the App Store's usage rules allow.

(b) Maintenance and support. We alone are responsible for any maintenance and support the law or these Terms require. The App Provider has no obligation to provide any.

(c) Warranty. If the app fails to conform to a warranty that applies and has not been effectively disclaimed, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price, if any. To the maximum extent permitted by law, the App Provider has no other warranty obligation for the app. Any other claims, losses, or costs from such a failure are ours to address, subject to Sections 16 and 17.

(d) Claims. We, not the App Provider, are responsible for addressing any claims by you or anyone else relating to the app or your possession or use of it, including: (i) product-liability claims; (ii) any claim that the app fails to meet a legal or regulatory requirement; and (iii) claims under consumer-protection, privacy, or similar laws.

(e) Intellectual property claims. If anyone claims the app or your possession or use of it infringes their intellectual property rights, we, not the App Provider, are solely responsible for investigating, defending, settling, and discharging that claim.

(f) Compliance. You represent that you are not located in a country subject to a US Government embargo or designated as a "terrorist-supporting" country, and that you are not on any US Government list of prohibited or restricted parties. You will not use or export the Service in violation of US export laws.

(g) Third-party terms. You must follow the app store terms and any other third-party terms that apply to you when you use the app, such as your wireless data agreement.

(h) Questions. Questions, complaints, or claims about the app go to us, using the contact details in Section 24.

(i) Third-party beneficiaries. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and, once you accept these Terms, may enforce them against you.

20. Paid Features

The Service is free today. Paid subscriptions and creator payments are not available. If we offer paid features in the future, we will show you the price and terms before you pay, and purchases will be handled by the Apple App Store or Google Play under their payment and refund policies.

21. Electronic Communications

By using the Service, you agree to receive communications from us electronically, including in-app messages, notifications, and emails to the address on your account. Agreements, notices, and other communications we send electronically satisfy any legal requirement that they be in writing. If you use a private relay address, such as Apple's Hide My Email, keep it working so our notices reach you.

22. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. If we make material changes, we will tell you in the app or by email before they take effect and update the date and version at the top. If you keep using the Service after the changes take effect, you accept the updated Terms. If you do not agree, stop using the Service and delete your account. Changes apply going forward only, as Section 18.9 explains for disputes.

23. Miscellaneous

Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, Copyright Policy, Child Safety Standards, and (for beta testers) the Beta Tester Agreement, are the entire agreement between you and us about your use of the Service and replace any earlier agreements on that subject. They do not replace a separate signed agreement on another subject, such as a non-disclosure agreement.

Moving Clipnote to a company. You may not assign these Terms without our consent. We may assign or transfer these Terms and everything under them, including the licenses you gave us, Section 18, and your account and User Content, to a company formed or owned by the operator, or to anyone who takes over Clipnote through a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets. You agree to that transfer now, and no further consent from you is needed. The new operator gets only the rights we have, with the same limits in Section 5.2, including no AI training and no marketing use without separate permission. From the date of transfer, the new operator is "we" in these Terms and is responsible for them, and the earlier operator has no further duties under these Terms for anything that happens after that date. We will tell you after any such transfer.

Other terms. If any provision is found unenforceable, the rest stays in effect and that provision will be changed only as much as needed to make it enforceable. Not enforcing a provision is not a waiver. Nothing in these Terms creates an agency, partnership, or employment relationship. Apart from Sections 7.4 and 19, these Terms give no rights to anyone who is not a party to them. Notices to you may be given in the app or by email; notices to us go to legal@clipnote.social.

24. Contact

Questions about these Terms: support@clipnote.social. Legal notices and copyright notices: legal@clipnote.social. Privacy questions: support@clipnote.social (subject "Privacy request").