Terms of Service for Scinta

Effective date: 5 July 2026

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are a binding agreement between you and Alex Ovdienko, an individual based in Portugal, EU ("we," "us," "the provider"), governing your use of the Scinta mobile application and related services (the "App"). By creating an account or using the App, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the App.

Please also read our Privacy Policy, which explains how we handle your data and forms part of these Terms.

1. Eligibility

You must be at least 16 years old (or the minimum age of digital consent in your country, which under EU law may be as low as 13) to use the App. By using the App you confirm that you meet this requirement and that you can form a binding contract.

2. Your account

You sign in using Sign in with Apple or Sign in with Google. You are responsible for maintaining the security of the Apple ID or Google account you use to sign in, and for activity that occurs under your Scinta account. Notify us at scinta.support@gmail.com if you believe your account has been compromised.

3. Licence to use the App

We grant you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the App on Apple devices you own or control, for your own personal, non-commercial use, subject to these Terms and the Apple App Store Terms of Service. We reserve all rights not expressly granted.

4. Your content and the licence you grant us

You own your content. As between you and us, you retain all rights to the voice recordings you make and the notes, transcripts, titles, tags, and other content created from them ("Your Content").

To operate the App and provide its features, you grant us a limited, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, transmit, encrypt, transcribe, process, analyse, and display Your Content solely for the purpose of providing the App's features to you (for example: transcribing your audio, generating titles, surfacing themes and summaries, enabling search, syncing your notes across your devices, and answering your "ask your notes" questions). This licence exists only to run the service for you, ends when you delete the relevant content or your account, and does not permit us to use Your Content to advertise to you, sell it, or train general-purpose AI models on it.

To deliver these features, Your Content (or parts of it) is processed by the third-party providers listed in our Privacy Policy (OpenAI, Anthropic, Voyage AI, Supabase, Trigger.dev, Vercel). Your audio recordings remain on your device and are not stored on our servers.

5. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• use the App for any unlawful purpose or to record or process content you have no right to record or process (including others' private conversations without lawful basis or consent);
• upload content that is illegal, infringing, or that violates others' privacy or rights;
• attempt to gain unauthorised access to the App, our backend, our providers, or other users' data;
• interfere with, overload, reverse-engineer, or disrupt the App or its infrastructure, except to the extent such restriction is prohibited by applicable law;
• use the App to build a competing product, or resell or redistribute the App or its outputs as a service.

6. AI output disclaimer

The App uses automated speech-to-text and AI systems to produce transcripts, titles, themes, summaries, and answers. These outputs may be inaccurate, incomplete, or misleading. Transcription can mishear words; AI-generated summaries and answers can be wrong or "hallucinate." You should not rely on the App's outputs as a record of fact or as a substitute for your own judgement.

The App's outputs are not professional advice of any kind — not legal, medical, financial, or other professional advice. Always verify anything important. You are responsible for how you use the outputs.

7. Service availability and changes

The App is provided on an evolving basis. We may add, change, suspend, or remove features at any time. We may also need to take the service offline for maintenance or for reasons outside our control (including outages at the third-party providers the App depends on). We are an independent developer and do not guarantee uninterrupted availability.

8. Fees, subscriptions, and credits

The App is free to download and includes a free tier with limited usage. Optional paid plans (auto-renewing subscriptions) and credit top-up packs (one-time purchases) unlock higher usage limits and additional features. All purchases are made through Apple In-App Purchase; Apple's payment terms, billing, and refund policies apply.

• Prices and plan details are always shown in the App before you buy, in your local currency as determined by Apple.
• Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled. You can manage or cancel at any time in your Apple ID subscription settings (also reachable via Settings → Subscription in the App); cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period.
• Credits meter the App's AI features (transcription, synthesis, questions). Subscription plans include a credit allowance that resets each billing period; credits bought as top-up packs remain available until used.
• Refunds are handled by Apple under Apple's refund policies; we cannot issue App Store refunds directly.

We may change prices or plan composition going forward; changes apply prospectively and will be shown in the App before they affect you. Your statutory consumer rights under EU and Portuguese law remain unaffected.

9. Termination and suspension

You may stop using the App at any time and may delete your account from within the App (Settings → Account → Delete account), which removes your server-side data and wipes your notes and recordings from your device, as described in the Privacy Policy.

We may suspend or terminate your access if you materially breach these Terms, use the App unlawfully, or where required by law. Where reasonable and lawful, we will give you notice. On termination, the licences granted in Section 3 end; Sections 4 (ownership), 6, 10, 11, and 13 survive.

10. Disclaimer of warranties

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the App is provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the App will be error-free, secure, uninterrupted, or that transcripts or AI outputs will be accurate.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits any rights you have as a consumer under mandatory Portuguese or EU law that cannot lawfully be excluded.

11. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law:

• We will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for loss of data, profits, or goodwill, arising out of or related to your use of (or inability to use) the App.
• Our total aggregate liability arising out of or related to the App will not exceed the greater of (a) the total amount you paid us for the App in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the liability, or (b) EUR 50.

Nothing in this section limits liability that cannot be limited under applicable law, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, fraud, or your mandatory consumer rights.

12. Your responsibility to keep your own copies

Your notes are stored as plain Markdown files on your device and can be exported at any time. Because your audio is stored only on your device, and because deleting the App or your account removes local data, you are responsible for keeping your own backups of anything you want to preserve.

13. Governing law and jurisdiction

These Terms are governed by the laws of Portugal, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. The courts of Portugal will have jurisdiction over any dispute, except that, if you are a consumer, you may also benefit from the mandatory protections and the competent courts of your country of residence in the EU.

14. Apple App Store terms

The App is distributed through the Apple App Store. You acknowledge that these Terms are between you and us, not Apple, and that Apple is not responsible for the App or its content. Apple is a third-party beneficiary of these Terms and may enforce them against you. Your use of the App must also comply with the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions.

15. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms as the App evolves or as legal requirements change. When we make material changes, we will update the "Effective date" above and, where appropriate, notify you in the App. Continued use of the App after an update means you accept the revised Terms.

16. Contact

Alex Ovdienko — scinta.support@gmail.com Portugal, EU