Terms of Service

1. Acceptance of these terms

By signing in to or otherwise using the hosted Notex application at app.notex.me (the "Service"), you agree to these Terms of Service (the "Terms") and to the Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

2. Who provides the Service

The hosted Service is operated by the maintainer of the open-source Notex project (github.com/mazoqui/notex) on a best-effort, no-fee basis. The maintainer is not a company; there is no support contract. For instances that you or a third party self-host, the operator of that instance — not Notex's maintainer — is your counterparty for these terms.

3. Eligibility

You must be old enough in your jurisdiction to (a) consent to these Terms and (b) hold a Google account. By using the Service you confirm both.

4. What the Service does (and what it doesn't)

Notex accepts text or transcribed speech, forwards it to a large-language-model provider you choose, and translates the model's tool calls into changes to a Google Sheet you control via a Google Apps Script you deploy. It is, deliberately, a thin layer.

The Service does not:

• Store your lists. Your lists live in your Google Sheet.
• Store your conversation history on the server.
• Provide its own LLM. Quality and content of the model's replies are the provider's responsibility.
• Guarantee uptime, performance, or accuracy.

5. Your account

Sign-in uses Google Identity Services. You authenticate with your Google account; Notex receives an OAuth access token, your email, and the scopes you grant. You are responsible for the security of the Google account used to access the Service and for the activity that happens through it.

6. Your API keys and third-party providers

Notex does not ship with bundled LLM access. You must:

• Bring your own API key from Gemini, OpenAI, or Anthropic, configured in the Settings dialog.
• Comply with the terms of service and acceptable-use policies of whichever provider you pick.
• Pay any usage fees the provider charges. Notex never bills you and cannot refund provider charges.
• Take responsibility for rotating, revoking, or scoping your key as you see fit.

Notex forwards your prompts to the provider on your behalf, using your key. It does not pre-screen content. Any moderation or filtering applied by the provider is the provider's.

7. Your data

Your list contents are stored in a Google Sheet on your Google Drive. You own that data. Revoking Notex's access from your Google account (myaccount.google.com/permissions) immediately cuts the Service off from your sheet. See the Privacy Policy for the full picture of what passes through Notex's servers.

8. Acceptable use

You agree not to use the Service to:

• Violate any applicable law or the rights of others.
• Generate, store, or transmit content that is illegal, harassing, defamatory, infringing, or hateful.
• Attempt to access another user's data, account, or per-user database.
• Probe, scan, or attempt to compromise the security of the Service, its infrastructure, or the third-party services it integrates with.
• Use the Service to develop a directly competing product by scraping or reverse-engineering it (the source is open — read it instead).
• Submit prompts or store content that violates the terms of your chosen LLM provider.
• Send automated, abusive, or otherwise excessive traffic that degrades the Service for other users.

9. Open source & intellectual property

The Notex source code is published at github.com/mazoqui/notex under the license in that repository. You may inspect, modify, and self-host the code subject to that license. These Terms cover use of the hosted Service, not your use of the source code, which is governed by the license.

The "Notex" name and logo are project marks of the maintainer. Self-hosted forks should not present themselves as the official Notex service.

10. No warranty

The Service is provided "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE", without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including but not limited to merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, reliability, availability, and non-infringement. You use the Service at your own risk. The Service may change, break, or be discontinued at any time without notice.

11. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, in no event shall the maintainer of Notex be liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or exemplary damages, including but not limited to lost profits, lost data, lost lists, business interruption, or charges incurred at any third-party provider, arising out of or in connection with your use of the Service — even if the maintainer has been advised of the possibility of such damages. The total aggregate liability for any claim arising out of these Terms or your use of the Service is limited to the amount you have paid for the Service, which, for the hosted instance, is zero.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain warranties or liabilities. In those jurisdictions, the limitations above apply to the maximum extent permitted by law.

12. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the maintainer of Notex from any claim, loss, or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of your use of the Service in violation of these Terms or applicable law, or out of content you submit through the Service.

13. Suspension and termination

You may stop using the Service at any time by signing out, revoking Notex's access from your Google account, and (optionally) requesting deletion of your per-user database via the contact in §16.

The maintainer may suspend or terminate your access to the hosted Service, with or without notice, if your use breaches these Terms, threatens the stability or security of the Service, or otherwise creates risk for the maintainer or other users. Termination of access to the hosted Service does not affect your Google Sheet, which remains on your Drive.

14. Third-party services

The Service depends on third-party services — at minimum Google Identity Services, the Google Apps Script you deploy, Google Sheets, and the LLM provider you select. Those services have their own terms; you are responsible for complying with them. The maintainer of Notex is not responsible for outages, changes, or actions of those third parties.

15. Changes to these Terms

These Terms may change. Material changes will be reflected in the "last updated" date at the top of this page and, where reasonable, announced in the project's GitHub repository. Your continued use of the hosted Service after a change constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms. If you do not accept a change, stop using the Service and (optionally) request deletion of your data per §13.

16. Contact

Questions about these Terms, takedown requests, account-deletion requests, or anything else: open an issue at github.com/mazoqui/notex/issues. Do not include API keys or secrets in public issues — if a topic requires confidentiality, say so and a private channel will be arranged.

See also: Privacy Policy.