Terms of Service — Pub Studio

These Terms of Service ("Terms") form a binding agreement between you and Pub Studio (operated by [TODO: legal entity name], [TODO: registered address]) whenever you use our website or the Pub Studio service ("Service").

By creating an account or otherwise using the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you don't agree, please don't use the Service.

1. Who can use Pub Studio

You can use the Service if you are at least 16 years old and legally able to enter into a contract in your jurisdiction. If you're using the Service on behalf of a company or other organisation, you confirm that you have authority to bind that organisation to these Terms.

2. Your account

You're responsible for keeping your login credentials safe and for everything that happens under your account. Tell us as soon as possible at [TODO: support contact email] if you suspect your account has been compromised.

You can have one personal account. You may belong to or own multiple organisations (teams).

3. The service

Pub Studio is a social-media-scheduling and AI-native publishing tool. We connect to third-party platforms (such as Bluesky, X, Meta, LinkedIn, Google/YouTube, TikTok, Pinterest) on your behalf using the OAuth credentials you provide.

We may add, change, or remove features at any time. We'll give reasonable advance notice of material reductions to functionality you're paying for.

4. Your content

You keep all rights to the content you upload, draft, schedule, or publish through Pub Studio ("Your Content").

You grant us a limited, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, transmit, and display Your Content only to the extent necessary to operate the Service for you (for example: storing media in our object storage, transmitting posts to the third-party platforms you target, generating previews in our UI). This licence ends when you delete the content or your account, except to the extent we are legally required to retain copies.

You're responsible for Your Content. You confirm that you have the rights to publish it and that doing so does not violate any third party's rights or any applicable law.

5. Acceptable use

Don't use Pub Studio to:

publish content that is illegal where it's published, infringes someone else's rights, or that you don't have the right to share;
spam, scrape, or send automated traffic in volumes the third-party platforms or we did not authorise;
bypass rate limits, technical safeguards, or platform policies of the social networks you connect;
distribute malware, phishing pages, or sexual content involving minors;
harass, threaten, or impersonate others;
reverse-engineer or attempt to extract source code from the Service, except to the extent permitted by applicable law;
use the Service in a way that materially harms us or our other users.

We may suspend or terminate accounts that breach this section. For severe breaches we'll act immediately; otherwise we'll usually give you a chance to fix it first.

6. Third-party platforms

Pub Studio is a tool to help you work with third-party social platforms. Each of those platforms has its own terms — you remain bound by them, and we have no control over their decisions (rate limits, content policies, suspension of your account, API changes, downtime). If a third-party platform refuses or removes a post, we will report that to you in the UI.

7. Plans, billing, and refunds

Some features of the Service are paid. Pricing is shown on our Pricing page and confirmed at checkout. Subscriptions are processed by Polar, our payment provider.

Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each billing period until you cancel.
You can cancel any time from your account settings; the cancellation takes effect at the end of the current paid period.
We may change prices for future billing periods with at least [TODO: notice period, e.g. 30 days] notice. Price changes don't apply to the current paid period.
Taxes (VAT, sales tax) are added where required.
Refunds are handled at our discretion in line with consumer-protection law in your jurisdiction. EU consumers retain the statutory right of withdrawal where applicable.
If you don't pay, we may suspend the Service after reasonable notice.

8. Beta features

We may label some features "beta", "preview", or "experimental". They're provided as-is, may change without notice, and may be removed at any time. Don't rely on beta features for anything mission-critical.

9. Suspension and termination

You can stop using the Service and delete your account at any time from your settings.

We may suspend or terminate your access if:

you breach these Terms (in particular Section 5),
we are required to by law,
continued provision would expose us, you, or third parties to material harm.

After termination, we may keep limited records (for example billing records or content needed for ongoing legal matters) for the period required by law. Otherwise we delete your data within the timelines described in our Privacy Policy.

10. Warranties and disclaimers

We do our best to keep the Service running, but we don't guarantee that it will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that it will meet every specific requirement you have. The Service is provided "as is" and "as available", to the maximum extent permitted by law. Mandatory consumer rights you have under applicable law are not affected.

11. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law:

For damage caused by slight negligence we're only liable for breach of essential contractual obligations ("cardinal duties"), and our liability is limited to the amount you paid us for the Service in the 12 months before the event causing the damage.
We're not liable for indirect or consequential damage, lost profits, lost data, or business interruption.
Statutory liability for intent, gross negligence, injury to life, body or health, fraudulent misrepresentation, or under the Product Liability Act ([TODO: confirm jurisdiction-specific equivalent]) remains unaffected.

If you're a consumer in the EU, nothing in these Terms removes the rights you have under mandatory consumer-protection law.

12. Indemnification

You agree to defend and hold us harmless against claims by third parties arising from Your Content or from your breach of these Terms, except to the extent the claim is caused by us. If we're going to make a claim, we'll tell you in writing first and let you cooperate on the defence.

13. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. The "Last updated" date at the top tells you when. We'll notify you of material changes by email or in-app notice at least [TODO: notice period, e.g. 30 days] before they take effect. If you keep using the Service after that, you accept the new Terms.

14. Governing law and venue

These Terms are governed by the laws of [TODO: jurisdiction, e.g. Germany], excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods and conflict-of-law rules. The exclusive venue for disputes between businesses is [TODO: city of court]. If you're a consumer, you can also sue and be sued in the courts of your habitual residence as required by mandatory law.

15. Online dispute resolution (EU consumers)

The European Commission provides an online dispute-resolution platform at https://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr. We are not obliged or willing to participate in dispute-resolution proceedings before a consumer-arbitration board.

16. Contact

[TODO: legal entity name] [TODO: postal address] Email: [TODO: support contact email]