Terms of Service

1. Agreement to these Terms

These Terms of Service (the "Terms") are a binding agreement between you and AdReed, LLC. By downloading, installing or using the TypoZap application, creating an account, or purchasing a subscription, you agree to these Terms and acknowledge our Privacy Policy and Cookie Notice, which describe how we handle your data. If you do not agree, do not use the service.

2. What TypoZap is

TypoZap is a desktop application for Windows and macOS that transforms text you select - fixing grammar, changing style or tone, translating, and similar operations - using artificial-intelligence language models ("AI"). The application, our relay service at api.typozap.app, our update service and our websites are together the "Service". The Service can be used in the following modes:

• Guest trial. A limited number of edits without an account, processed through our relay, to let you try the app.
• Free account. A daily allowance of edits processed through our relay, tied to an account you create with your email address.
• Pro subscription. A paid plan with expanded usage processed through our relay, plus paid-only features. The current price and billing period are always shown at checkout before you pay.
• Bring-your-own-key ("BYOK") mode. A free mode in which the app sends your text directly from your computer to an AI provider (such as Google, OpenAI or Anthropic) using an API key you obtained from that provider yourself. In BYOK mode you contract with the provider directly: their terms govern that processing, and any provider fees are yours. We recommend reviewing the provider's data-use terms - some free API tiers allow the provider to use submitted content for model training.

What the Service is for. TypoZap is a text-transformation tool, not a content generator. It operates on text that you supply: it corrects spelling, grammar and punctuation, adjusts style or tone, shortens or expands, and translates. It is not designed to compose new content on a topic you name, and it is not designed to change what your text means or to introduce meaning that was not there. AI is imperfect, so this is a statement of purpose, not a guarantee of accuracy - see Section 8.

3. Eligibility

You must be at least 18 years old to use the Service. The Service relies on third-party AI providers whose terms require users to be 18 or older, and we therefore do not offer the Service to anyone under 18. If you use the Service on behalf of a company, you confirm you have authority to bind it, and "you" includes that company.

4. Accounts

Some features require an account, created with your email address and one-time sign-in codes - there is no password. Keep access to your email secure: it is the key to your account, and you are responsible for activity under it. Accounts are limited to a reasonable number of active devices (currently 5); signing in on an additional device may sign out the least recently used one. Provide accurate information and keep it current.

5. Subscriptions and billing

• Pro is billed through our payment processor, Stripe, on a recurring basis (monthly or yearly) and renews automatically until cancelled. The price, billing period and any applicable taxes are shown at checkout before you pay.
• Taxes (VAT, sales tax, GST) may be added based on your billing location and are collected by Stripe on our behalf.
• Cancelling is as easy as subscribing. You can cancel at any time in the customer portal (available from the app and via a link on our website), or simply by emailing [email protected] from your account address. Cancelling stops future charges; Pro remains active until the end of the period you already paid for.
• For yearly plans we send a reminder email before each renewal.
• If a renewal payment fails, we keep Pro working for a short grace period while payment is retried; if payment is not completed, the account reverts to the free tier. Your account, settings and data are not deleted - you simply return to the free tier.
• We may change prices with at least 30 days' notice by email or in-app; changes take effect from your next billing period. If you disagree, cancel before the next renewal.

6. Refunds and withdrawal

• 14-day guarantee on your first purchase: if you are unhappy for any reason, email [email protected] within 14 days of your first payment and we will refund it in full.
• EEA and UK consumers: you have a statutory 14-day right of withdrawal for digital services. By subscribing you expressly request that the Service begin immediately during that period. You may withdraw within 14 days of purchase by a clear statement to [email protected]; our 14-day full-refund guarantee gives you at least the same protection.
• After the first 14 days, payments for a started billing period are non-refundable, except where required by law or stated otherwise in these Terms. Renewals can always be prevented by cancelling in advance.

7. Fair use

Pro usage covers normal interactive use by one person. Because AI processing has a real per-request cost, Pro is subject to a fair-use policy measured in processed volume (tokens): at unusually high volumes we may first slow processing down, and at extreme volumes far beyond human typing speed we may temporarily pause relay processing until the next day or month, or ask you to use BYOK mode. We may also apply reasonable technical limits (such as requests per minute or maximum text length) to prevent abuse, automated bulk processing, resale of capacity, or degradation of the Service for others. These mechanisms protect the Service; they are not used to penalize ordinary use.

8. AI output - important disclaimer

9. Acceptable use

Content you must not submit. Do not submit text to the Service - for any operation, including correction, restyling or translation - if that text, or the result of processing it, would relate to or facilitate:

• sexual content involving minors, or any exploitation of minors;
• terrorism, violent extremism, or incitement to violence;
• weapons development, procurement or use, including chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or explosive material;
• other serious criminal activity, including fraud, scams, phishing, malware, or trafficking in illegal goods or services;
• non-consensual intimate imagery, or sexual content depicting real people without their consent;
• harassment, threats, defamation, or hate speech targeting people because of who they are;
• encouragement of suicide, self-harm or disordered eating;
• impersonation of a real person or organisation in order to deceive, or other deliberate deception of others;
• infringement of someone else's intellectual property or privacy rights, including text you have no right to process.

This list is illustrative and not exhaustive; it includes, but is not limited to, the categories above.

It does not matter who wrote the text. These restrictions apply to the content you submit regardless of whether you wrote it, whether you received it from someone else, and regardless of the instruction you give the Service. Asking us only to correct or restyle such text is still a prohibited use.

Provider policies. Relay modes send your text to third-party AI providers. You must also comply with those providers' acceptable-use policies, currently Google's Generative AI Prohibited Use Policy and Anthropic's Usage Policy (in BYOK mode, the policy of the provider whose key you use). Where those policies are stricter than this Section, they apply.

Use of the Service itself. Do not attempt to circumvent quotas, fair-use limits or safety measures; probe, disrupt or overload the Service; interfere with other users; extract, reverse-engineer or attack the underlying AI models; resell or sublicense the relay, or use it for automated bulk processing.

Requests may be refused. The Service, or a provider it relies on, may automatically decline to process particular text. We do not guarantee that any given text will be processed, and a refusal is not a defect.

Enforcement. We may limit, suspend or terminate access, with or without prior notice, where we reasonably believe this Section has been violated or where continued service would put our provider accounts, other users, or us at risk. For serious violations - in particular those involving minors - we act immediately and permanently. We may also be obliged to report certain content to the competent authorities. Unless the violation was intentional abuse, we will refund the unused portion of any prepaid period.

10. Your content

Your texts remain yours. You grant us only the limited, non-exclusive right to transmit and process them for the sole purpose of providing the Service, for the moment of processing. We do not store the content of your texts on our servers, and we do not use it to train AI models - see the Privacy Policy for exactly what is and is not retained. You are responsible for the texts you process and for the rights needed to process them. If conversation context is enabled, the Service also transmits, for the same moment of processing and under the same conditions, the corrections you already made in the same window and any excerpt you explicitly marked as context; that material is treated exactly like the selected text, and the same responsibility for the necessary rights applies to it, including where it contains messages written by other people. You can switch this off, or clear what the app remembers, at any time in the app.

11. Our software and intellectual property

TypoZap, its name, logo, design and software are the property of AdReed, LLC. TypoZap™ is a trademark of AdReed, LLC. Subject to these Terms, we grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to install and use the application on devices you control, for its intended purpose. You may not copy (except for reasonable backup), modify, distribute, sell, rent, or create derivative works of the software, and you may not reverse-engineer or decompile it except to the extent such a restriction is prohibited by applicable law.

The application checks for updates automatically and notifies you when a new version is available; security-critical updates may be required to keep using the relay. The application includes third-party and open-source components licensed under their own terms; a list of these components and their licenses is available in the app or on request.

12. Pre-release and beta versions

We may offer early-access, beta or test builds, marked as such or provided as part of a closed test. They are provided for evaluation, may be less stable, may change or stop working without notice, and are provided "as is" to the maximum extent permitted by law. Feedback you choose to send us may be used to improve the Service without obligation to you.

13. Third-party services

The Service depends on third-party providers - currently AI providers (Google, Anthropic, and in BYOK mode also OpenAI), payment processing (Stripe), infrastructure (Cloudflare) and email delivery (Resend). Their availability is outside our control, and temporary degradation of a provider may affect the Service. In BYOK mode, your relationship with the AI provider is direct, we are not a party to it, and you are responsible for complying with that provider's own terms. One restriction is worth naming because it is easy to miss: Google's Gemini API terms permit users located in the European Economic Area, Switzerland or the United Kingdom to use paid services only. If you are in one of those regions, do not use an unpaid Gemini API key with the Service; our own relay processing is unaffected, because the key we use is on a paid plan.

AI providers operate their own abuse monitoring. They may retain the text sent to them, together with the model's response, for a limited period in order to detect violations of their policies, and their staff may review content that their systems flag. See the Privacy Policy for what this means in practice.

14. Service changes

The Service evolves: we may add, change or remove features, AI models and limits. We will not materially reduce what a paid plan includes during a period you have already paid for; if we ever do, you may cancel and receive a pro-rated refund of the remainder.

15. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. For material changes we will give at least 14 days' notice by email or in-app before they take effect, except where a change is required by law or urgently needed for security, in which case we will give as much notice as reasonably possible. If you disagree with a change, stop using the Service and, if you have an active subscription, contact us for a pro-rated refund of the remaining period. Continued use after the effective date means you accept the updated Terms.

16. Termination

You may stop using the Service and request deletion of your account at any time (see the Privacy Policy). We may suspend or terminate access as described in Section 9, or discontinue the Service entirely with reasonable notice, in which case prepaid unused periods will be refunded pro-rata.

17. Warranty disclaimer

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 UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE OPERATION. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties; in those jurisdictions the exclusions apply to the fullest extent permitted.

18. Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW: (A) OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE IS LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US IN THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM (OR USD 10 IF YOU PAID NOTHING); AND (B) WE ARE NOT LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOSS OF DATA, PROFITS, GOODWILL OR BUSINESS, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY. Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law (including for intentional misconduct or gross negligence where such limits are not permitted), or affects mandatory consumer rights in your country of residence.

19. Indemnification

If you use the Service in violation of these Terms or applicable law and this results in a third-party claim against us, you agree to indemnify us for reasonable costs and damages arising from that claim, to the extent permitted by the law of your country of residence.

20. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, USA, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. If you are a consumer in the EEA, UK or another jurisdiction with mandatory consumer-protection law, you additionally keep the protections of the law of your country of habitual residence, and nothing in these Terms deprives you of them.

21. Dispute resolution; arbitration; class-action waiver

Please read this section carefully - it affects your rights.

• Informal resolution first. Before starting a formal dispute, contact us at [email protected] - most issues are resolved quickly and informally. Both parties agree to try in good faith for 30 days.
• Binding arbitration. Any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service that is not resolved informally will be finally resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) under its Consumer Arbitration Rules. This agreement is governed by the Federal Arbitration Act. The seat of arbitration is Delaware, USA; hearings may be conducted remotely (by video or phone), and you may participate from wherever you are. Fees are allocated as the AAA Consumer Arbitration Rules provide.
• Exceptions. Either party may instead bring an individual claim in small-claims court, and either party may seek injunctive relief in court for infringement or misuse of intellectual property.
• Class-action waiver. Disputes will be resolved only on an individual basis. Neither party may participate in a class, consolidated or representative action. If this waiver is found unenforceable as to a particular claim, that claim - and only that claim - must be brought in court, and the rest of this arbitration agreement remains in force; in no event may arbitration proceed on a class or consolidated basis.
• Opt-out. You may opt out of this arbitration agreement within 30 days of first accepting these Terms by emailing [email protected] with the subject "Arbitration opt-out" from the email associated with your account or purchase - or, if you have neither, with enough information to identify you. Opting out does not affect any other part of these Terms.
• Court forum. For US users, any dispute not subject to arbitration (other than small-claims matters) must be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Delaware, and both parties consent to their jurisdiction.
• Consumers outside the USA. If the law of your country of residence does not permit mandatory arbitration or this waiver, they do not apply to you, and you may bring proceedings in the courts of your country of residence.

22. Export and sanctions compliance

You may not use the Service if doing so violates applicable export-control or sanctions laws, or if you are located in an embargoed jurisdiction or on a restricted-party list.

23. Miscellaneous

These Terms are the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Service. If any provision is found unenforceable, the rest remains in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; we may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition or sale of assets, with notice to you. Neither party is liable for delay or failure caused by events beyond its reasonable control. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (including Sections 8, 10, 11, 17, 18, 19 and 21) survive. Notices to you may be given by email or in-app; notices to us go to the address below.

24. Contact

AdReed, LLC · 131 Continental Dr, Suite 305, Newark, DE 19713, USA · [email protected]