Terms of Service

These terms are an agreement between you and Yiddish Tools ("we"). By creating an account or using our website, apps or API, you agree to them and to our Privacy Policy. If you use Yiddish Tools for an organization, you confirm that you may agree on its behalf.

You must be old enough to enter a contract where you live, and at least 13.

The service

Yiddish Tools offers tools for transcribing, speaking, translating and adding nikud to Yiddish and English, along with audio enhancement, an audio archive, meeting notes and an API. We add, change and retire features over time.

Accounts and teams

• Keep your sign-in details safe. You are responsible for what happens under your account.
• Work happens in teams. Everything in a team's library is visible to every member of the team.
• Plans and credits belong to the team, and the team's owner manages billing.
• Any team member can create API keys, and what those keys use is billed to the team. The team is responsible for its members and its keys.

Credits

• On pay as you go, $1 buys 1,000 credits. Tools take credits as you use them, at the prices shown in the app.
• Credits never expire while your account is open. They have no cash value and cannot be transferred or sold.
• New accounts receive starter credits once.
• If you turn on auto-refill, we charge your saved card whenever the balance falls below the level you chose, up to the monthly cap shown in the app.
• A meeting can start on any available credit and is billed for its real length when it ends. This can take your balance below zero. You owe that amount, and it comes out of the credits you buy next.

Plans

• Paid plans are monthly subscriptions that renew automatically until you cancel, and are charged through Stripe.
• You can cancel at any time. Your plan stays active until the end of the period you paid for and then does not renew.
• Plans include limits, such as how much audio can be in progress at a time and how many files can wait in the queue. "Unlimited" means unlimited use within those limits. The current limits are listed on our pricing section and in the app.
• We may change prices and limits. A price change to your subscription applies from your next renewal after we tell you about it.
• Prices are in US dollars and do not include any taxes that may apply.

Refunds

Credits are non-refundable, and so are subscription payments, including for the unused part of a period. This does not limit any right to a refund that the law gives you and that cannot be waived.

Your content

What you upload stays yours, and so do the results the tools produce for you, as far as the law allows. You give us permission to store, process and transmit your content as needed to run the service for you, including through the providers listed in our Privacy Policy.

While your team's training setting is on, which is the default, you also give us permission to use your recordings and transcripts to train and improve our models. Team owners and admins can turn it off in the team's settings.

You confirm that you have the rights and permissions needed for everything you upload.

Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• Break the law or violate anyone's rights, including copyright and privacy.
• Clone a voice without the speaker's permission. Cloning someone's voice without consent is unethical and may be illegal.
• Use a voice to impersonate, deceive or defraud anyone.
• Record people, or send our notetaker into a call, without the consent the law requires. Telling the participants and getting their consent is your job.
• Attack, overload or probe the service, or get around its limits, for example by using several accounts to avoid them.
• Copy or extract our models, or use the service's output to train a competing model.

Commercial licenses and dedicated servers

Regular plans are for your own team's work. If you want to resell Yiddish Tools, build it into a product you offer to others, use it beyond the limits of a plan, or have a dedicated server, write to hello@yiddish.tools. We arrange these under a separate signed contract, which takes priority over these terms where the two differ.

Accuracy

Our tools use machine learning and can make mistakes. A transcript, translation, nikud or voice may be wrong, and a marked source may be wrong or incomplete, even when it was checked automatically. Review anything important yourself. Do not rely on the results alone for halachic, legal, medical or financial decisions.

Availability

We work to keep the service running, but it may slow down or stop at times, for example for maintenance or when a provider has an outage. Unless a signed contract says otherwise, we do not promise any level of uptime, and audio jobs may wait in a queue.

Ending your use

You can delete your account at any time from your settings. We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms, does not pay, or puts the service or other people at risk. Unused credits are not refunded when an account is closed. What happens to your data afterwards is described in our Privacy Policy.

Disclaimer

The service is provided "as is" and "as available". As far as the law allows, we disclaim all warranties, including that it is fit for a particular purpose, accurate or free of errors.

Limit of liability

As far as the law allows, we are not liable for indirect, incidental or consequential damages, or for lost profits, revenue or data. Our total liability for any claim is limited to the greater of what you paid us in the 12 months before the claim and $100.

Claims about your use

You agree to cover our reasonable losses if someone brings a claim against us because of your content or because you broke these terms.

Changes to these terms

If we change these terms, we will update the date at the top of this page. If a change is significant, we will also tell you by email or in the app. By continuing to use Yiddish Tools after a change, you accept the new terms.

Contact

Write to us at hello@yiddish.tools.