Terms of Use

Effective [publication date].

These terms cover your use of BardBoard, the iPhone keyboard and app, and the BardBoard Pro subscription, provided by James Hawkins ("we"). They add to Apple's standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement, which also applies. By using BardBoard you agree to both.

1. What BardBoard does

BardBoard is a keyboard. Its Bardify feature sends the text you choose to our server and to our AI provider, OpenAI, and replaces it with a rewrite in a Shakespearean style. How your text is handled is described in the Privacy Policy.

2. BardBoard Pro subscription

• What you get: Bardify in the keyboard and the app, up to 60 rewrites per day and 1,000 per calendar month (days and months are measured in UTC), on up to 3 devices. Typing with the keyboard does not require a subscription. There is no free tier.
• Price and period: $4.99 USD per month, or the local price shown in the App Store before you buy.
• Payment: charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase.
• Automatic renewal: the subscription renews automatically each month at the then-current price unless you cancel it at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your Apple Account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the current period ends. If the price changes, Apple will notify you as its rules require.
• Cancelling: cancel at any time in your iPhone's Settings, under your name, then Subscriptions (or in the App Store app, under your account). Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current paid period, and Bardify works until then. Deleting the app does not cancel the subscription.
• Refunds: all payments are processed by Apple, and refund requests are handled by Apple under its policies at reportaproblem.apple.com. We cannot issue refunds ourselves. A refunded subscription stops working on every device it was used on.
• Restoring: use Restore Purchases in the app to restore an active subscription on a new or reinstalled device, within the 3 device limit.
• Limits: the daily and monthly limits reset at midnight UTC and on the 1st of each month. To keep the service affordable, we may temporarily lower the daily limit (never below 30 rewrites per day) when AI costs are unusually high. The app always shows your current limit.

3. Acceptable use

Don't use BardBoard to:

• harass, threaten, defame or impersonate anyone, or create content that targets people for who they are;
• break the law or infringe anyone's rights;
• send content you don't have the right to share, or other people's private information without their permission;
• attempt to get around the usage limits, reverse engineer or overload the service, or access it other than through the app;
• violate OpenAI's usage policies, which apply to text processed by OpenAI.

We may suspend access for an installation that breaks these rules or harms the service.

4. Your content and responsibility

Your messages are yours, and so are the rewrites. You are responsible for what you choose to send to Bardify and for anything you send to other people, including rewrites. Read each rewrite before you send it.

5. No warranty on output

Rewrites are generated by an AI model. They are meant to be funny and are often exaggerated on purpose. They may be inaccurate, change your meaning, drop or alter a detail, or read in a way you didn't intend, even though BardBoard is designed to keep names, numbers and meaning intact. Check names, times, amounts and links before sending. Bardify may be unavailable at times, and some apps and fields do not allow third-party keyboards.

BardBoard is provided "as is" and "as available". To the extent the law allows, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose and accuracy of output.

6. Limitation of liability

To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect, incidental or consequential damages, or for any loss arising from messages you send, and our total liability for any claim is limited to the amount you paid for BardBoard Pro in the 3 months before the claim. Nothing in these terms limits rights you have under consumer protection law that cannot be waived.

7. Apple

These terms are between you and us, not Apple. Apple is not responsible for BardBoard or its content, has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for it, and is a third-party beneficiary of these terms with the right to enforce them against you.

8. Changes and ending

We may update these terms. If a change is significant we will say so in the app or its release notes before it takes effect. You can stop using BardBoard at any time by cancelling your subscription and deleting the app. We may discontinue the service; if we do, we will give reasonable notice in the app, and you can request a refund for the unused period from Apple.

9. Law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Washington, United States, except where the law of the country you live in gives you protections that cannot be waived.

10. Contact

James Hawkins. Email: support@bardboard.app.