Terms of Service

1. Your account

• You need an account to use the Service. Sign-in and identity verification go through Clerk (you can also sign in with Google). Registration may be limited to people invited from the waitlist.
• You must be at least 13 years old. If we learn that someone under 13 has registered, we will delete the account and its data.
• If you are under 18 (a minor under the laws of Japan), get the consent of a parent or legal guardian before using the Service. A minor who uses the Service by falsely claiming to be an adult or to have that consent cannot cancel the agreement on the ground of being a minor.
• You may not use the Service if you are, or are involved with, an organized crime group or other antisocial force.
• Keep the information you register accurate and up to date.
• Your account is for you alone. Keep your sign-in and devices secure, and do not let others use, transfer or lend your account. Actions taken with your account are treated as yours.
• If you suspect someone else is using your account, sign out or disconnect the device and let us know.

2. What the Service does

• When you save the URL of a web page you choose, our servers fetch the page and store its text and images, and AI creates a summary, topics, concepts, claims and the relations between them.
• Other features include the graph, search, reading position sync, on-device translation, offline reading (Android), public graph links, the MCP connector and Dig deeper with AI. Each works as described in the app, and the descriptions and usage limits shown in the app are part of these Terms.
• The Service is for organizing your own personal reading.

3. Saved pages and your content

• The rights to the URLs you save, the fetched text, text you paste, notes, labels and your edits to topics and concepts ("Your Content") stay with you or the original rights holders. We do not acquire them.
• You allow us, and the providers that process data on our behalf (listed in the Privacy Policy), to handle Your Content as needed to provide, maintain and improve the Service: storing, displaying, analyzing with AI, turning into vectors, backing up, and exporting or sharing it when you ask. This permission ends when you delete that content or your account. We never use Your Content for promotion or show it to others, and we never train AI models on your data.
• Save pages only for your own private reading and use. The copyright in a saved page belongs to its site's rights holders, and the Service does not grant you any right to use it.
• Our servers respect robots.txt and opt-outs, and do not get around sign-ins, paywalls or CAPTCHAs. Some pages therefore cannot be fetched, or only part of their text is saved.
• Do not put content that infringes others' rights, or more of other people's personal information than needed, in the text you paste or your notes.

4. What AI creates

• Summaries, topics, concepts, claims, relations and insights across articles are generated automatically by AI and can be wrong, incomplete or out of date. We do not guarantee their accuracy or fitness for any purpose. Check the original article before relying on them for anything important.
• AI output is not medical, legal, financial or other professional advice.
• The Service treats the text of saved pages as untrusted data and is built so that AI does not follow instructions in it, but we cannot guarantee this always works.

5. Intellectual property

• The rights to the Service's software, design, logo and text belong to us or their rightful owners. These Terms let you use the Service; they do not transfer any of those rights to you.
• You may use AI output such as summaries for your own purposes outside the Service too, as long as you do not infringe the copyright or other rights of others, including those in the original articles.

6. Other services

• AI apps you connect through the MCP connector (such as Claude and ChatGPT), and AI apps you send text to with Dig deeper with AI, handle your data under their own terms and policies. We are not responsible for those services.
• The MCP connector is read-only, and you can disconnect it from the connected app at any time.
• We are not responsible for the content of saved pages or the sites they link to, including its accuracy or legality.

7. Public graph links

• When you create a public link, anyone with the link can see the graph as it was when you created it (node names and types, connections and article URLs) until you revoke it. Make sure the content is fine to publish before you create the link.
• Do not use public links to spread illegal content or content that infringes others' rights. We may disable public links that break these Terms without notice.

8. Reporting infringement

If you believe a public link or other part of the Service infringes your copyright or other rights, write to the contact address at the end of this page with the link, the right infringed and why, and how to reach you. We will look into it and, where needed, disable the public link or take other action.

9. Plans and credits

• There are two plans, Free and Pro, which differ in the number of credits you get each month. Operations that use AI, such as analyzing an article, use credits, and the app shows how many before you use them. Saving, reading, the graph, exporting, deleting and the MCP connector use no credits.
• Saving still works when you run low on credits; only the AI analysis waits.
• Credits are granted again at the start of each period, and unused credits do not carry over. Credits cannot be exchanged for money or anything else, refunded or transferred, and they end when you delete your account.
• To prevent abuse, every plan has limits such as saves per day, MCP connector calls and the number of public links.
• We may change the number of credits, the prices of operations and what each plan includes. We will tell you in the app or otherwise before a change that is unfavorable to you.
• Pro is not on sale yet. Before it goes on sale, we will add its price, period, renewal and cancellation terms to these Terms and show them on the purchase screen.
• If your plan returns to Free, your analyzed data and public links stay.

10. What you must not do

When using the Service, you must not:

• Break the law or public order, or take part in crime.
• Infringe the copyright, privacy or other rights or interests of us or anyone else.
• Show others someone's identification documents, credit card numbers or other sensitive information, through public links or otherwise.
• Try to make the Service fetch internal networks or pages you are not allowed to access, or get around fetching limits (robots.txt, the blocking of internal addresses, usage limits and the like).
• Access the Service without authorization, exploit vulnerabilities, send malware, put excessive load on our servers, or use the Service or collect data from it in bulk by automated means.
• Decompile or reverse engineer the Service's software, except where the law allows it.
• Impersonate others, or use multiple accounts to get credits or limits you are not entitled to.
• Use AI or the connector to try to extract data from the Service or from other users without authorization.
• Copy, resell or provide the Service to others without our permission.
• Do anything else we reasonably consider inappropriate.

11. When we look at your data

Your Content is stored so that only you can see it. We look at it, or disclose it to others, only when you ask us to in a support request, to investigate a breach of these Terms, fraud or a security issue, to respond to a disclosure request based on law, or when needed to protect the life or property of us, our users or others, and then only as far as needed.

12. Suspension

• If you break these Terms, or if your account may be being used without authorization, we may suspend all or part of your use of the Service, or your account, without prior notice.
• We may delete accounts suspended for a serious breach of these Terms.

13. Exporting and closing your account

• You can export your saved articles, topics and relations as JSON from Settings at any time.
• You can delete your account at any time with Delete account in Settings. This erases all your data, including articles, notes, labels, knowledge, public links and connections to connectors and the extension, and cannot be undone. Export first if you need it.

14. Changes, interruptions and ending the Service

• We may change, add or remove features of the Service.
• We may pause the Service temporarily for maintenance, failures, outages of the services we rely on (such as Cloudflare, Amazon Web Services and Clerk) or other unavoidable reasons.
• If we end the Service entirely, we will tell you a reasonable time in advance so that you can export your data.

15. Disclaimer and limitation of liability

• The Service is provided as is. We do not guarantee that it will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that data will never be lost. Keep a copy of anything important by exporting it.
• We are not liable for damage you suffer that is not caused by our intent or negligence, including damage from causes beyond our reasonable control such as natural disasters or failures of networks or of services we rely on.
• If our negligence (other than gross negligence) causes you damage, our liability is limited to direct damage that would ordinarily arise, up to the greater of the amount you paid for the Service in the 12 months before the damage occurred and 10,000 yen. This limit does not apply to damage caused by our intent or gross negligence.
• You are responsible for resolving any dispute between you and a third party about pages you saved or public links you created.
• If you cause us damage by breaking these Terms, including costs of responding to claims by third parties, you must compensate us for it.

16. Notices

We give notices in the Service, by posting them on this site, or by email to the address you registered. A notice by email is given when it is sent, and a posted notice when it is posted.

17. Changes to these Terms

We may change these Terms in accordance with the provisions of the Civil Code of Japan on changing standard terms. Before a change takes effect, we will announce what changes and when it takes effect on this page and in the Service. If you keep using the Service after the change takes effect, you agree to the changed Terms.

18. Assignment

• You may not transfer your position, rights or obligations under these Terms to anyone without our consent.
• If we transfer the business of the Service to someone else, we may transfer our position, rights and obligations under these Terms, together with your registered information and Your Content, to them, and you agree to this in advance. We will tell you before it happens.

19. Governing law and jurisdiction

• These Terms are governed by the laws of Japan.
• The district court with jurisdiction over our location has exclusive jurisdiction in the first instance over any dispute about the Service.
• If any part of these Terms is found invalid, the rest remains in effect.
• Provisions that by their nature should survive, such as the limitation of liability, compensation, and governing law and jurisdiction, survive closing your account or a suspension.
• These Terms are written in Japanese and English. If the two differ, the Japanese version prevails.

Contact

Questions about these Terms, or reports of infringement: contact@usepickmeup.com