Terms of Use

1. Accounts

You must be at least 13 years old (16 in the European Economic Area) to use Ideabud. When you create an account you agree to provide accurate information and to keep it current. You are responsible for safeguarding your account and for any activity that happens under it.

Accounts are created through Google or Apple sign-in. You are responsible for maintaining the security of the third-party account you use to sign in.

2. Plans, Payment and Renewal

Ideabud offers a free tier with usage limits and a paid subscription that removes them. Paid plans are $19 per month or $199 per year, in US dollars, exclusive of any taxes that may apply in your jurisdiction. Prices may change; we will give you notice before a change affects your renewal.

How you are billed

• On the web, payments are processed by Stripe. We do not receive or store your full card details.
• On iOS and Android, payments are processed by the Apple App Store or Google Play under their terms, and are managed through your store account.

Renewal and cancellation

Subscriptions are charged on a pre-pay basis at signup and before each renewal period, and renew automatically unless you cancel. To avoid being charged for the next period, cancel at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Cancelling stops future charges; you keep paid access until the end of the period you have already paid for.

Web subscriptions can be cancelled from your account settings. App Store and Google Play subscriptions must be cancelled through those stores — we cannot cancel them on your behalf.

Refunds

Payments are not refundable except where required by applicable law. For web subscriptions, contact us at ideabud1996@gmail.com and we will deal with the request ourselves. For App Store or Google Play subscriptions, refunds are handled entirely by Apple or Google under their policies.

3. Nature of the Service

Ideabud helps you capture ideas, asks you questions about them, and generates written drafts based on your answers. It is a creative and writing tool.

Drafts are produced by automated systems and may be inaccurate, incomplete, or unsuitable for publication. You are responsible for reviewing, editing, fact-checking and deciding whether to publish anything Ideabud generates for you. Ideabud does not provide legal, medical, financial, or professional advice, and is not a substitute for professional judgement.

4. Your Content and Your Drafts

You own what you put in and what comes out. The ideas, recordings and text you submit remain yours, and as between you and us, the drafts Ideabud generates from them are yours to use, edit and publish however you like, including commercially.

You grant us a limited licence to store, process and transmit your content solely in order to operate the Service for you — for example, to transcribe a recording, generate a question, or produce a draft. This licence exists only to run the Service and ends when you delete the content or your account.

We do not use your content to train AI models, and we do not sell it. How we handle it is described in our Privacy Policy.

Because AI systems generate text from patterns, output is not guaranteed to be unique, and similar prompts may produce similar results for different users. You are responsible for ensuring what you publish does not infringe anyone else's rights.

5. Acceptable Use

You agree not to use Ideabud to:

• break any law, or infringe the intellectual property, privacy or other rights of anyone else;
• generate or distribute content that is unlawful, harassing, hateful, deceptive, or sexually exploitative of minors;
• impersonate another person, or publish generated content in a way that misleads people about who wrote it in a context where that matters;
• upload content you do not have the right to submit, including other people's confidential information;
• attempt to reverse engineer, scrape, overload, or gain unauthorised access to the Service or its underlying systems;
• resell, sublicense or automate access to the Service without our written permission.

We may suspend or terminate accounts that breach this section, and we may apply reasonable rate limits to protect the Service.

6. Intellectual Property

The Service itself — its software, design, branding, name and logo — remains the exclusive property of Ideabud.ai and its licensors. These Terms grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the Service, and nothing more. Your content is not covered by this section; see Section 4.

7. Third-Party Services and Links

Ideabud relies on third-party providers to function, and may link to or integrate with services we do not control. We are not responsible for the content, policies or practices of any third-party service. The providers we use are listed in our Privacy Policy.

8. Support

Support is offered by email at ideabud1996@gmail.com. We aim to respond within a few working days, but we do not guarantee a response time.

9. Termination

You may stop using Ideabud and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate your access immediately, without prior notice, if you breach these Terms or if we are required to do so by law.

On termination your right to use the Service ends at once. Your data is handled as set out in our Privacy Policy. Sections that by their nature should survive termination — including Sections 4, 6, 10, 11 and 12 — will do so.

10. Disclaimer

The Service is provided on an "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE" basis, without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, secure, error-free, or that any generated draft will meet your requirements.

11. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Ideabud.ai and its maker will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, data, goodwill or reputation, arising out of your use of or inability to use the Service — including anything arising from content you chose to publish.

Our total liability for any claim relating to the Service is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, or USD 100. Nothing in these Terms excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.

12. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Ideabud.ai and its maker from any claim or demand, including reasonable legal fees, arising from your use of the Service, your content, anything you publish, or your breach of these Terms.

13. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of India, without regard to its conflict of law provisions. The courts of India will have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute, except where mandatory consumer protection law in your country of residence gives you the right to bring proceedings locally.

14. Changes to These Terms

We may revise these Terms from time to time. If a change is material we will give reasonable notice — by email or in the app — before it takes effect. Continuing to use the Service after a revision takes effect means you accept the new Terms.

15. Contact Us

Questions about these Terms? Email ideabud1996@gmail.com, or visit ideabud.ai.