Terms of Service

Effective date: September 1, 2025

Last Updated: May 12, 2026

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern your use of Authorlytica (“Service”), operated by Studio Adam Rendo in the Netherlands (“we,” “our,” “us”). By using the Service, you agree to these Terms.

1. Eligibility

  • You must be at least 13 years old to use the Service.
  • If you are under 16, you confirm you have parental or guardian consent where required by law.
  • The Service is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect data from them.
  • Accounts must be created and used by real human individuals.

2. Your Account

  • You are responsible for keeping your login credentials secure.
  • You are responsible for all activity under your account.
  • Do not share accounts with others or attempt to access another user’s data.
  • If you believe your account is compromised, contact us immediately.
  • One account per person unless we explicitly permit otherwise. We may merge, limit, or remove duplicate accounts at our discretion.

3. Acceptable Use

Your use of the Service must comply with our Acceptable Use Policy, which outlines prohibited conduct and usage guidelines.

We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate the Terms or the Acceptable Use Policy.

4. Social Features

The Service includes optional social features that allow you to connect with other writers:

4.1 Friend Connections

  • Friend requests require mutual acceptance
  • You can remove friends at any time
  • Removing a friend removes mutual access to each other's activity

4.2 Activity Feed & Interactions

  • Your writing milestones and achievements may appear in your friends' activity feeds
  • Friends can give hearts (kudos) and post comments on your activities
  • You can delete any comment on your own activities
  • You can delete your own comments on others' activities
  • Comments are subject to length and rate limits that we may adjust at any time

4.3 Nudges

  • Friends can send you a "nudge" to encourage writing
  • Nudges are rate-limited; we may adjust these limits at any time
  • You can disable nudges in your privacy settings

4.4 Privacy Controls

You can control social visibility in Settings:

  • Show/hide your "wrote today" badge
  • Enable/disable incoming nudges
  • Enable/disable comments on your activities

Misuse of social features (harassment, spam, abuse) may result in account suspension. See the Acceptable Use Policy for details.

4.5 User-Generated Content

You grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to host, store, display, reproduce, and moderate content you post through social features (comments, activity feed posts, nudges) for the purpose of operating the Service. We may remove or hide any content that violates the Acceptable Use Policy or applicable law, with or without prior notice.

You are solely responsible for content you post. You must have the right to post it, and you agree to indemnify us against third-party claims arising from your posts. We are not obligated to pre-screen user content but reserve the right to do so.

4.6 Reporting

To report a post or user that violates the Acceptable Use Policy or your rights, email contact@adamrendo.com. See the Acceptable Use Policy for our response timeline.

5. Your Content and Data (including Social Content)

  • You retain full ownership of your writing, logs, and projects (“Customer Content”).
  • You grant us a limited, worldwide, royalty-free license to process, store, and display your Customer Content as needed to operate the Service.
  • You additionally grant us a perpetual, royalty-free license to use aggregated and anonymized data derived from your Customer Content for product improvement, research, and publication of aggregate statistics. This license survives account deletion because anonymized data cannot be linked back to you.
  • This aggregated-data license does not extend to identifiable writing content, session notes, or project details.
  • We do not sell your identifiable content.
  • We do not train AI models on your identifiable writing content — first-party or third-party — without your explicit, separate consent. We may train internal models on anonymized patterns derived from aggregated data (see Privacy Policy §8).
  • We access your identifiable writing content only when necessary for maintenance, debugging, support, security, abuse investigation, content moderation, product improvement (including anonymization for aggregate analysis), enforcement of these Terms, or legal compliance.
  • Feedback you submit via in-app forms or email is non-confidential. We may quote feedback publicly using first-name or username only; we will remove attribution on request.

Social content (comments, activity posts) may be visible to your friends. You are responsible for backing up your own work. While we take reasonable measures to protect data, no system is perfect.

6. Privacy

Your use of the Service is governed by our Privacy Policy, which explains what data we collect, how it’s used, and your rights.

7. Beta Disclaimer

Authorlytica is currently in beta. Features may change, break, or be removed.
Data loss and downtime may occur. By using the beta, you accept these risks.

8. Subscriptions & Billing

8.1 Plans

Premium plan. Paid subscription with expanded features. Details are listed on the pricing page.

Free plan. The Free plan is provided as a courtesy. It comes with limited features, storage, usage caps, and no guarantees. By using the Free plan you acknowledge and agree that:

  • Free-tier features, limits, storage, rate limits, and capacity may be added, reduced, gated, throttled, paused, or removed at any time, for any reason, without notice and without compensation.
  • We may display promotional content, upsell prompts, sponsored messages, ads, or product announcements to Free-plan users.
  • The 98% uptime target in §12 does not apply to the Free plan, which is provided on a best-effort basis only.
  • We do not commit to providing customer support to Free-plan users, though we may do so at our discretion.
  • Data exports, download formats, and import tools may be limited or unavailable on the Free plan.
  • We may delete, archive, or reduce-in-size Free-plan account data when it exceeds any applicable limit, after reasonable notice where practical.
  • We may at any time require Free-plan users to migrate to a paid plan for continued access, or discontinue the Free plan entirely, with reasonable notice.
  • Nothing on the Free plan constitutes a commercial commitment or grants any contractual expectation of continued service.
  • You will use the Free plan in good faith and within any documented or reasonable limits. Usage that substantially exceeds typical individual use — including automated scripts, bulk data generation, or shared/team use of a single account — may be throttled, restricted, or terminated without notice.
  • We may require verified email, proof that the account is operated by a human, or other anti-abuse checks to grant or maintain Free-plan access.

8.1.1 Product Experiments

We may run A/B tests, UX experiments, feature flags, pricing experiments, and usability research on any account, with priority on Free-plan accounts. These experiments are product improvement activities under GDPR legitimate interests and do not produce decisions with legal or similarly significant effects on you (see Privacy Policy §7).

8.2 Automatic Renewal

Paid subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each billing cycle (monthly or yearly).
By subscribing, you agree that:

  • Your payment method will be charged at renewal
  • Prices may change; you will be notified at least 30 days in advance
  • You may cancel anytime before renewal to avoid future charges

8.3 Cancellation

You can cancel from your account settings or by contacting contact@adamrendo.com.
Cancelling stops future charges but does not, by itself, refund the current period. You retain Premium access until your current paid period ends.

If you also want a refund of the current period, see §8.4 and the Refund Policy.

8.4 Refunds

Refunds are governed by our Refund Policy, which forms part of these Terms and is incorporated by reference. In summary:

  • You may request a full refund within 14 days of any paid charge, for any reason or no reason.
  • After 14 days, paid fees for the current billing period are non-refundable, except where mandatory consumer-protection law requires otherwise.
  • The 14-day window meets or exceeds the statutory right of withdrawal under EU Directive 2011/83/EU and Article 6:230o of the Dutch Civil Code for EU and EEA consumers.

In the event of any conflict between these Terms and the Refund Policy on the subject of refunds, the Refund Policy controls.

9. Account Termination & Deletion

9.1 Account Deletion

You may choose to delete your data and account at any time.

  • You may reset your writing data anytime in the app.
  • To delete your account completely, contact contact@adamrendo.com.
  • After deletion, your data will be removed from active systems. Data in backups is removed when those backups expire through normal rotation; we will not restore backups in a way that reinstates deleted data.
  • If we terminate your account without fault on your part, and you had a premium account, you will receive a pro-rated refund for the unused portion of the current billing period.

9.2 Inactive Account Removal

We reserve the right to delete inactive free accounts without prior notice if all of the following conditions are met:

  • The account has been inactive for at least 30 days (no logins or activity)
  • The email address is unverified
  • The account contains little to no user data (e.g., few projects or minimal entries)
  • The account is not a premium/paid subscription

This policy helps us maintain system performance and security. Premium accounts and active free accounts are never subject to automatic deletion.

10. Intellectual Property

Our IP. The Service, including its design, code, UI, workflows, copy, blog content, logos, branding, trade dress, charts, visualizations, analytics methods, XP and streak logic, and all derivative outputs, is owned by Studio Adam Rendo and protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws. "Authorlytica" and the Authorlytica logo are trademarks of Studio Adam Rendo.

Your license from us. We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use the Service for your personal writing-tracking purposes while complying with these Terms. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.

What you may not do. You may not:

  • Copy, reproduce, republish, or redistribute the Service, its code, UI, or content outside of normal personal use
  • Reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to derive source code, except for good-faith security research under §20 or where applicable law prohibits this restriction
  • Scrape, crawl, harvest, or use automated tools to extract data, content, or outputs from the Service
  • Use the Service, its outputs, or any content we publish to train, fine-tune, or develop AI or machine-learning models, whether for your own use or for third parties
  • Use "Authorlytica" or confusingly similar names, logos, or trade dress in domain names, app names, product names, social handles, or paid advertising
  • Resell, sublicense, or offer the Service as part of another product without written permission

Customer Content warranty. You warrant that you own or have all necessary rights to the content you upload, post, or submit through the Service, and that your content does not infringe any third party's copyright, trademark, privacy, or other rights.

Feedback and suggestions. Any ideas, suggestions, feature requests, or feedback you send us, whether through in-app forms, email, social channels, or public posts, may be used by us for any purpose without compensation, attribution, or confidentiality obligation. You assign to us any rights necessary to do so.

Copyright complaints. If you believe content on the Service infringes your copyright, send a notice to contact@adamrendo.com that includes: identification of the copyrighted work, the location of the allegedly infringing content, your contact information, and a good-faith statement that you are authorized to act. We will investigate and, where appropriate, remove the content.

Reservation. All rights not expressly granted to you in these Terms are reserved by Studio Adam Rendo.

11. Third-Party Services

The Service may link to or rely on third-party providers (e.g., Stripe, hosting, analytics).
We are not responsible for their content, policies, or actions.

12. Service Availability

We aim to maintain 98% uptime for paid plans, measured on a monthly basis on a best-effort basis. The Free plan is provided on a best-effort basis only and is not covered by any uptime target (see §8.1).

This target excludes:

  • Scheduled maintenance — We will attempt to notify users in advance of planned downtime, but may perform urgent maintenance without notice.
  • Force majeure events — Including cyberattacks, DDoS attacks, natural disasters, hosting provider outages, internet disruptions, government actions, or other circumstances beyond our reasonable control.
  • Third-party service failures — Outages caused by payment processors, authentication providers, or other external dependencies.

This is a target, not a guarantee. We do not offer service level agreements (SLAs) or credits for downtime. The Service is provided "as is" as described in the Warranty Disclaimer below.

12.1 Changes to the Service

We may add, modify, limit, or discontinue any feature, list, threshold, metric, or component of the Service at any time, for any reason, with or without notice. If we permanently remove a feature that was explicitly part of a paid plan, we will offer a reasonable alternative or a pro-rated refund for the unused portion of the current billing period.

12.2 Suspension

We may suspend or restrict access to the Service, in whole or in part, at any time for maintenance, security, abuse investigation, legal compliance, or other operational reasons, without liability.

13. Warranty Disclaimer

The Service is provided “as is” and “as available.”
We make no promises that it will be uninterrupted, error-free, or meet your expectations.

We do not guarantee:

  • Data will never be lost
  • Bugs will be fixed on a specific timeline
  • Compatibility with every device or browser
  • Any particular writing outcome or productivity result
  • Accuracy of statistics, streaks, levels, or other calculated metrics

The Service is provided for productivity tracking and entertainment purposes. Nothing in the Service constitutes professional, medical, mental-health, therapeutic, career, financial, or legal advice. You should not rely on the Service as a substitute for qualified professional guidance.

14. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law:

  • We are not liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages.
  • We are not liable for loss of data, revenue, profits, goodwill, or opportunities.
  • Total liability for any claim will not exceed the lesser of:
    • The amount you paid us in the past 12 months, or
    • Fifty euros (€50)

Nothing in these Terms excludes liability where it cannot legally be excluded (e.g., fraud, gross negligence, death or personal injury caused by negligence).

Limitation period. Any claim arising from these Terms or your use of the Service must be brought within one (1) year of the event giving rise to the claim, or be permanently waived, to the extent permitted by applicable law.

These limitations form an essential basis of our agreement.

15. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from claims arising from:

  • Your use of the Service
  • Your violation of these Terms
  • Your infringement of another person’s rights

16. Force Majeure

We are not responsible for delays or failures caused by events outside our control, including outages, cyberattacks, natural disasters, government actions, or service provider failures.

17. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms at any time, for any reason. If changes are material, we will notify you by email or in-app notice as required by applicable law. Non-material updates (typos, clarifications, formatting, threshold adjustments, feature list changes) may be made without prior notice.

Continued use of the Service after changes take effect means you accept the updated Terms. If you do not accept an update, your remedy is to stop using the Service and delete your account.

18. Dispute Resolution

18.1 Informal Resolution

Most issues can be resolved quickly.
Contact contact@adamrendo.com before starting any formal dispute process.
We will attempt to resolve the issue in good faith, typically within 30 days.

18.2 U.S. Users – Individual Dispute Requirement

If you live in the United States:

  • Any dispute must be resolved individually.
  • You agree not to participate in class actions, representative actions, or collective claims, to the extent permitted by law.
  • If the class-action waiver is unenforceable in your state, the remainder of this section remains in effect.

19. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Netherlands.

  • EU consumers may bring disputes in their country of residence.
  • U.S. users must follow the individual dispute requirement above.
  • For all other users, disputes will be handled by the competent courts in the Netherlands.

20. Security and Vulnerability Disclosure

If you discover a security vulnerability, please report it to contact@adamrendo.com. We ask that you:

  • Give us a reasonable window to investigate and remediate before public disclosure
  • Avoid accessing or modifying data that is not your own
  • Avoid actions that degrade the Service for other users

We appreciate responsible disclosure and will credit reporters on request.

21. General Provisions

  • Severability. If any part of these Terms is invalid or unenforceable, the rest remains in effect.
  • Assignment. You may not assign your rights under these Terms without our consent. We may assign these Terms, in whole or in part, if the Service or its assets are transferred, merged, or sold.
  • Notices to you. Notices will be sent to the email associated with your account, posted in-app, or published on the Service website, at our choice.
  • Formal notices to us. Any legal notice must be sent by email to contact@adamrendo.com. Informal communications — social media posts, support chats, DMs, comments — do not constitute legal notice and are not binding.
  • Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, Acceptable Use Policy, and Cookie Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Service and supersede any prior marketing communications, emails, or understandings.
  • No waiver. Our failure to enforce any provision on one occasion is not a waiver of our right to enforce it on any other occasion.
  • No implied license. Nothing in these Terms grants any implied license, trademark, patent, or other intellectual property right beyond what is expressly stated.
  • Survival. The following sections survive termination of your account or these Terms: §5 (Your Content and Data), §10 (Intellectual Property), §13 (Warranty Disclaimer), §14 (Limitation of Liability), §15 (Indemnification), §18 (Dispute Resolution), §19 (Governing Law), §20 (Security and Vulnerability Disclosure), and this §21.
  • No third-party beneficiaries. These Terms create rights and obligations only between you and us.
  • Electronic acceptance. Your use of the Service constitutes your electronic acceptance of these Terms.

Contact
For any questions or requests:
contact@adamrendo.com