Terms of Service

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern your use of the PodInk website, browser extension, workspace, and related services (together, the “Service”). The Service is provided by Ye Haotian, an individual operating from Hong Kong SAR, China under the PodInk product name (“PodInk,” “we,” “us,” or “our”).

These Terms are effective on September 15, 2026. By accessing or using the Service on or after that date, you agree to these Terms and our Privacy Policy.

1. Who may use the Service

You must be at least 18 years old and legally able to enter into a binding agreement to use the Service. If you use the Service for a company or other organization, you represent that you have authority to bind that organization to these Terms.

2. What the Service does

The Service helps you capture timestamped reactions while listening to or watching supported podcast content, preserve relevant source context, organize a user-confirmed Mother Draft, and adapt that draft into content for X and LinkedIn.

Depending on availability and configuration, the Service may:

• read episode metadata, playback position, and available captions or transcripts from a supported YouTube page;
• accept text reactions, short voice reactions, or subtitles you provide;
• transcribe voice reactions and use AI services to analyze context and generate drafts;
• store source references, speaker mappings, themes, decisions, edits, and version history;
• generate X and LinkedIn versions from a Mother Draft you confirm;
• help you manually publish to X or, when available and authorized, publish a confirmed text post to LinkedIn after you explicitly start the publish action; and
• let you review workspace data, download a JSON snapshot of data visible in Settings, request account deletion, or submit another verified privacy request.

Features, limits, supported sources, and platform integrations may change. The Service is an editorial aid, not an autonomous publisher.

3. Accounts and security

The browser extension may create a limited guest session before you sign in. Some features require a Google-connected account.

You are responsible for:

• providing accurate account information;
• protecting your devices, browser profile, session, and account access;
• all activity performed through your account; and
• notifying us promptly at podink1@outlook.com if you suspect unauthorized access.

You may not sell, transfer, or share account access in a way that undermines Service security or plan limits.

4. Third-party services

The Service interacts with services we do not control, including Google/YouTube, X, LinkedIn, cloud hosting providers, job-processing providers, transcription providers, and AI model providers. Your use of a third-party service remains subject to that third party’s terms and privacy policy.

You authorize us to exchange information with a third-party service only as needed to provide the feature you request. We are not responsible for a third party’s availability, content, policies, moderation decisions, or use of information after you direct information to that service.

You can revoke PodInk’s access through the platform’s own account settings. For verified assistance removing the connection record from PodInk, contact privacy support. Removing access or a connection record does not remove posts already published there.

5. Your Content

“User Content” means content you submit to or create through the Service, including reactions, voice recordings, transcripts or subtitles you provide, instructions, edits, Mother Drafts, platform outputs, and feedback. “Source Material” means podcast audio, video, captions, transcripts, names, voices, likenesses, or other third-party material that you ask the Service to process.

Your ownership

You keep your ownership rights in User Content. To the extent permitted by applicable law, you may use AI-generated output created for you, subject to any rights in the Source Material and any third-party terms that apply.

AI-generated material may not qualify for intellectual-property protection in every jurisdiction and may be similar to material generated for others. We do not promise that an output is unique, accurate, non-infringing, or eligible for copyright or other protection.

License you grant us

You grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, transmit, format, analyze, transcribe, adapt, and display User Content and Source Material only as reasonably necessary to:

• operate, secure, support, and troubleshoot the Service;
• perform the processing and generation you request;
• maintain your private workspace and version history;
• prepare information needed to answer a verified access or export request; and
• send a confirmed post to a connected platform when you explicitly instruct us to do so.

This license does not transfer ownership to us. It ends when the relevant content is deleted from the Service, except to the limited extent retention is required for security, legal compliance, dispute resolution, or the deletion schedule described in the Privacy Policy.

Rights and permissions you must have

You represent that you have all rights, permissions, notices, and lawful bases needed to submit and process User Content and Source Material. In particular, you must not use the Service to infringe copyright, privacy, publicity, confidentiality, contractual, or other rights.

Public availability of a podcast, video, caption, or transcript does not by itself give you every right to reproduce or republish it. You are responsible for reviewing your sources and obtaining any permission needed for your intended use.

6. AI output and editorial responsibility

Transcription and AI-generated output may contain errors, omissions, invented details, incorrect attribution, or unsuitable language. Timestamps and source references are provided to help review; they are not a guarantee of accuracy or rights clearance.

You are responsible for reviewing, editing, and approving any output before relying on or publishing it. You remain responsible for the final post, including its truthfulness, legality, attribution, disclosures, and compliance with professional or platform rules.

The Service does not provide legal, financial, medical, employment, or other professional advice.

7. Publishing to X and LinkedIn

X

The current Service does not use an X publishing API. It may copy text or open an X compose page, but you review and publish the post yourself on X.

LinkedIn

If LinkedIn direct publishing is available, you must first connect your account and grant the permissions displayed in LinkedIn’s authorization screen. The current integration requests basic profile authorization and the ability to create a member post.

We publish only the confirmed text associated with the action you explicitly start. We do not schedule recurring posts or silently publish in the background. If authorization is unavailable, expired, or insufficient, the Service falls back to copy-and-open where possible.

Network or provider failures can sometimes make a publish result uncertain. In that case, the Service may pause instead of retrying automatically to reduce the risk of duplicate posts. You are responsible for checking the external platform before trying again.

Posts published to X or LinkedIn are stored and governed by that platform. Deleting an episode, disconnecting a platform, or deleting your Service account does not delete an external post. You must delete or edit the post on the external platform.

8. Acceptable use

You may not use the Service to:

• violate any law or another person’s intellectual-property, privacy, publicity, confidentiality, or contractual rights;
• process private, restricted, or access-controlled material without authorization;
• upload another person’s personal or sensitive information without a lawful basis and any required notice or consent;
• impersonate a person, misrepresent the source of content, or misuse a person’s voice or likeness;
• create or distribute unlawful, fraudulent, defamatory, harassing, hateful, exploitative, or sexually abusive content;
• facilitate spam, platform manipulation, deceptive engagement, or violations of X, LinkedIn, YouTube, or Google rules;
• interfere with, probe, overload, bypass, or compromise the Service or its security controls;
• use automated means to scrape the Service or evade usage limits;
• reverse engineer the Service except where applicable law expressly permits it; or
• use Service output to train or develop a competing model or service in violation of these Terms or applicable law.

We may investigate suspected abuse and remove content or suspend access where reasonably necessary to protect users, third parties, the Service, or legal compliance.

9. Plans, usage limits, and billing

The current public plan and price displays are previews. Billing is not connected, and the Service does not currently sell or automatically renew a paid subscription through the website.

Free or preview access may have limits on episodes, transcript generation, voice minutes, AI usage, or other operations. Limits may vary by feature and may change as the Service develops.

Before paid billing is enabled, we will present the applicable price, billing cycle, renewal, cancellation, tax, and refund terms before purchase and update these Terms, our Refund Policy, and the Privacy Policy as necessary. A price shown on a preview page does not create a right to purchase or receive a paid plan.

10. Our intellectual property

The Service, including its software, interface, visual design, documentation, trademarks, and other materials we provide, is owned by us or our licensors and is protected by applicable law.

Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to use the Service for its intended purpose. We do not grant you any right to our source code, branding, models, systems, or other intellectual property except as expressly stated.

11. Feedback

If you send us ideas or feedback, you allow us to use them without restriction or compensation. This does not give us ownership of the User Content in your workspace.

12. Service availability and changes

The Service may be offered as a preview or beta and may contain errors. We may add, remove, suspend, or change features, providers, integrations, or usage limits. Where reasonably practicable, we will provide notice before a material change that adversely affects users.

You should keep your own copy of content you need. The current Settings download is a client-generated JSON snapshot of data visible in the workspace; it is not a complete account export or a substitute for your own backups. For a complete account copy, contact podink1@outlook.com.

13. Suspension, termination, and deletion

You may stop using the Service at any time. To request episode deletion or another privacy action that is not exposed as a working account control, use the privacy contact in our Privacy Policy. A person will verify and handle the request.

We may limit, suspend, or terminate access if we reasonably believe that you violated these Terms, created a security or legal risk, failed to pay an amount that later becomes due, or used the Service in a way that could harm another person, a platform, or the Service.

When an account-deletion request is accepted, sign-in and publishing access are blocked and application-owned account content is scheduled for permanent deletion within 30 days. External social posts and files you already downloaded remain outside our control. Additional details are in the Privacy Policy.

14. Disclaimers

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Service is provided “as is” and “as available.” We disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, accuracy, and uninterrupted or error-free operation.

We do not warrant that a transcript, source match, AI output, platform adaptation, or publish status is accurate or complete. Nothing in these Terms excludes a warranty or consumer right that cannot lawfully be excluded.

15. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, neither party will be liable for indirect, incidental, special, exemplary, punitive, or consequential damages, or for lost profits, revenues, goodwill, data, or business opportunities arising from the Service.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, our aggregate liability arising out of or relating to the Service will not exceed the greater of the amount you paid for the Service during the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim or USD 100.

These limitations do not apply where liability cannot lawfully be limited, including liability for fraud, willful misconduct, or any other category that applicable law protects.

16. Indemnity

If you use the Service on behalf of a business, you will defend and indemnify us and our affiliates, officers, employees, and agents against third-party claims, losses, and reasonable legal costs arising from your User Content, your use of Source Material, your published posts, or your violation of these Terms or another person’s rights, except to the extent caused by our breach of these Terms or unlawful conduct.

17. Governing law and disputes

These Terms and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or the Service are governed by the laws of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. The courts of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region have non-exclusive jurisdiction. This section does not limit any mandatory consumer right to bring a claim in another court or under another law.

18. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms to reflect changes in the Service, law, providers, or business practices. We will update the “Last updated” date and provide additional notice when required by law or when a change materially reduces your rights.

If you continue using the Service after updated Terms become effective, you agree to the updated Terms. If you do not agree, you must stop using the Service.

19. General terms

If any provision is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in effect. A failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; we may assign them in connection with a merger, reorganization, financing, or sale of assets. These Terms and the Privacy Policy form the entire agreement concerning the Service unless a separate written agreement applies.

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