Terms of Service

Last updated: 10 September 2026

These Terms of Service are the agreement between you and Hamid Manafov, an individual developer, for the Micnoteai iOS app and the services behind it. In plain English: Micnoteai records or imports audio, PDFs and YouTube links, turns them into transcripts and AI-generated notes, and lets you ask questions about your own material. By downloading, signing into or using the app, you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, please do not use the app and delete it from your device. How your data is handled is explained separately in our Privacy Policy, which forms part of this agreement.

1. Acceptance of these terms and eligibility

By creating an account, signing in, or otherwise using Micnoteai, you confirm that you have read these terms and agree to be bound by them. If you are using the app on behalf of an organisation, you confirm that you have authority to accept these terms for that organisation.

Minimum age. You must be at least 13 years old to use Micnoteai. If you are in the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom or Switzerland, you must be at least 16 years old, or the higher minimum age of digital consent set by the law of your country. If you are under the age of majority where you live but above the minimum age above, you may only use the app with the involvement and consent of a parent or legal guardian, who accepts these terms on your behalf.

Capacity. You confirm that you have the legal capacity to enter into a binding contract and that you are not barred from using the app under the laws of your country, the laws of your place of residence, or applicable export and sanctions rules.

We may terminate or suspend access to an account that does not meet these requirements. If you believe an account was created by someone below the minimum age, contact us at hamidmanafov7@gmail.com and we will delete it.

The developer is established in Azerbaijan, and these terms are governed by the law of the Republic of Azerbaijan as set out in section 15. Where the mandatory consumer law of your own country of residence gives you stronger rights, that law continues to protect you.

2. What Micnoteai does

Micnoteai is a note-taking app built around audio and AI. It is distributed on the App Store (bundle identifier com.hamidmanafov.Micnoteai) and works together with our backend services, which do most of the processing.

• Recording. You can record audio with the device microphone. Recording continues in the background, and the app pauses and resumes around system interruptions such as incoming calls.
• Importing. Instead of recording, you can import an existing audio file, a PDF document, or a YouTube link, and the app will process it in the same way.
• Transcription. Your material is uploaded to our backend and converted into a text transcript, including speaker separation where the audio allows it. You can rename speakers.
• AI-assisted notes. The transcript is turned into an AI-generated summary and structured note content. You can ask the app to regenerate the summary or reprocess a note.
• AI chat. You can ask questions about a note in a chat and receive answers generated from that note's content.
• Sync and notifications. Notes are stored in your account so they are available on your devices, and the app can send push notifications, for example when processing finishes.

AI output is not guaranteed to be accurate. Transcripts, summaries and chat answers are produced automatically and can be incomplete, mistaken, or misleading — including for names, numbers, dates and technical terms. You are responsible for checking anything important before relying on it. Micnoteai is a productivity tool, not a source of professional advice: do not use its output as a substitute for legal, medical, financial or other professional judgement, and do not treat a transcript as a certified or verbatim record.

The service will change. We may add, modify, limit or remove features, models, processing providers and usage limits at any time, including features that are currently part of the free tier. We may also suspend the service temporarily for maintenance. Where a change materially reduces what a paid subscription gives you, section 4 and the cancellation route through Apple apply.

Internet connection required. Recording works offline, but transcription, summaries and chat require a connection to our servers. You are responsible for your own device, operating system version and any mobile data charges.

3. Your account

Signing in. Micnoteai requires an account. There is no email-and-password sign-up: you can only sign in with Sign in with Apple or Google Sign-In. We therefore never create, receive or store a password for you. Your sign-in tokens are kept in the device Keychain and are refreshed automatically while you stay signed in.

Your responsibility. You are responsible for keeping your Apple ID or Google Account secure, including the device passcode, biometrics and two-factor settings that protect them. Anyone who can sign in with your Apple ID or Google Account can reach your notes. You are responsible for activity that happens under your account, and you must tell us promptly at hamidmanafov7@gmail.com if you believe it has been accessed without your permission.

Accurate information. Keep the details associated with your account, such as your name and email address, accurate and up to date. One person may not maintain multiple accounts in order to work around free-tier limits (see section 4).

Deleting your account. You can delete your account yourself at any time: open Settings in the app and choose Delete account. This sends a deletion request to our backend and clears the data held on the device, including your notes cache, local recordings, sign-in tokens and stored identifiers. Deletion is permanent and cannot be undone, so export anything you want to keep first.

Deleting your account does not cancel a subscription. An active App Store subscription keeps renewing and being billed until you cancel it in iOS Settings → your name → Subscriptions. Cancel there before deleting your account. Certain counters that prevent repeated use of the free tier on the same device are retained after deletion, as described in section 4.

Suspension and termination by us. We may suspend or terminate your account if you breach these terms, if your use puts the service or other users at risk, or if we are required to do so by law. Where it is reasonable and lawful to do so, we will tell you why. You may stop using the app at any time.

4. Free tier, premium subscription and payments

4.1 The free tier

Micnoteai can be used without paying. The free tier lets you try the full pipeline — recording or importing, transcription, AI summary and chat — but under usage limits. The limits are set by our servers and can change; if the app cannot reach the server it falls back to the values built into it, which are currently:

When a limit is reached, the app shows the subscription screen instead of creating the note. We may change these limits, including for existing free users.

4.2 What the subscription unlocks

Micnoteai offers a premium auto-renewing subscription, sold as an in-app purchase. Premium lifts the free-tier caps above on how many notes you may create in total, how many you may keep at once, and how many a single device may create, and it raises the maximum recording length. It also unlocks the premium actions on an existing note, namely regenerating the summary and reprocessing the whole note (transcript and summary), along with the other features described in the app and on our App Store listing.

Premium is not unlimited. Usage limits still apply to a paid subscription — for example a maximum recording length, and limits on the number of notes and the size of a file you may upload. The limits in force are shown in the app, on the subscription screen and where a limit applies, and we may change them as described in section 2. Recording stops automatically when the maximum length for your plan is reached.

The subscription plans, their billing periods and their prices in your local currency are shown in the app on the subscription screen and on the App Store product page before you confirm the purchase. Offers are managed through RevenueCat and may differ by country and over time, so we do not restate prices here — the price you see in the app at the moment of purchase is the price that applies.

4.3 Free trial — weekly plan only

A 3-day free trial is offered on the weekly subscription only. The annual subscription has no free trial and is charged from the start.

• The trial gives you full premium access for 3 days at no charge.
• It converts automatically. Unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the trial ends, it turns into a paid weekly subscription and your App Store account is charged for the first week.
• Cancel in iOS Settings → your name → Subscriptions. Cancelling during the trial keeps your access until the trial period ends.
• Eligibility for the trial is determined by Apple, per Apple ID; if you have used it before, Apple may not offer it again.
• Any unused part of a trial is forfeited if you buy a subscription covering the same period.

4.4 Payment, renewal and cancellation

• Apple processes the payment. All purchases are made through Apple's In-App Purchase system and charged to your App Store account. We never receive your card number or billing address. Payment is taken when you confirm the purchase.
• Auto-renewal. The subscription renews automatically for the same period at the then-current price, and your App Store account is charged within 24 hours before the end of the current period, unless you cancel first.
• How to cancel. Cancel at any time in iOS Settings → your name → Subscriptions, at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Cancelling stops future renewals; premium stays active until the end of the period you already paid for. Deleting the app does not cancel the subscription.
• Restoring purchases. If you reinstall the app or sign in on another device, use Restore purchases; your entitlement is re-checked with Apple through RevenueCat. Premium follows the account you subscribed with, and cannot be shared or transferred.
• Refunds are handled by Apple. We cannot cancel a subscription, change a price, or issue a refund on your behalf. Refund requests go to Apple at reportaproblem.apple.com, under Apple's Media Services Terms. Outside a statutory right, payments are non-refundable and unused allowance does not carry over.
• Price changes. If we change the price of a running subscription, Apple will notify you and, where Apple's rules require it, ask for your consent before the next renewal. If you do not agree, cancel before that renewal.

4.5 Right of withdrawal (EU/EEA and UK consumers)

If you are a consumer in the EU, EEA or the UK, you normally have 14 days to withdraw from a distance contract for digital content or services without giving a reason. By starting to use premium immediately after purchase, you request that we begin performance during the withdrawal period and acknowledge that, once the service has been fully performed, you lose the right of withdrawal; for a continuing service you may still withdraw within the 14 days, and we may charge you in proportion to what you used before withdrawing.

Because Apple is the seller of record for in-app purchases, withdrawal and refund requests are handled by Apple through reportaproblem.apple.com, and Apple's own 14-day cancellation policy for App Store purchases applies. If Apple's process does not resolve your request, contact us at hamidmanafov7@gmail.com and we will help. Nothing in this section limits your statutory rights as a consumer, including rights in respect of digital content that is faulty or not as described.

5. Acceptable use

Micnoteai is for recording and organising material you have the right to record and process. You agree not to use the app, the backend services or the AI features to:

• Break the law. Create, upload, store or generate content that is illegal where you are, or that infringes someone else's copyright, trademark, trade secret, privacy or other rights — including uploading audio, PDFs or YouTube content you have no right to use.
• Record people without the consent the law requires. Recording conversations is regulated differently from country to country and, in some places, from state to state: some require the consent of everyone being recorded, others require notice. It is your responsibility to know and follow the rules that apply to you, to obtain any consent required, and to respect confidentiality obligations you are under. Do not record covertly where that is unlawful, and do not record in places where recording is prohibited.
• Upload especially sensitive material you are not entitled to process, such as another person's medical, biometric or financial records, material about children, or information covered by professional secrecy, unless you have a lawful basis and any consent required.
• Harm or harass others. Use the app to threaten, stalk, defame, impersonate or abuse anyone, or to produce content that sexualises minors, incites violence, or promotes hate against a protected group.
• Abuse the AI features. Attempt to bypass safety filters or usage limits, generate content aimed at deceiving or defrauding people, use the output to train or fine-tune a competing model or dataset, or resell the AI features as your own service.
• Reverse engineer the app. Decompile, disassemble, tamper with, or otherwise attempt to derive the source code of the app or our services, remove or obscure any proprietary notice, or run the app on a jailbroken or modified system in order to defeat purchase verification, entitlement checks or usage limits.
• Access the service by unauthorised means. Use bots, scripts, scrapers or any automated system against our APIs, create accounts in bulk, or reuse or resell access to your account or your premium entitlement.
• Overload or endanger the service. Interfere with the availability, integrity or security of the app or our servers, including denial-of-service attempts, probing or penetration testing without our written permission, uploading malware, or generating traffic that is excessive or automated rather than genuine personal use.
• Circumvent the free tier. Create multiple accounts, reset device identifiers or otherwise work around the limits described in section 4 to obtain paid features without paying.

You are responsible for the content you put into the app and for the way you use what the app produces. If your use breaches this section, we may remove the content in question, apply rate limits, or suspend or terminate your account under section 3.

6. Your content and who owns it

You own your content. "Your content" means everything you put into Micnoteai or that the app produces from it for you: your audio recordings, imported audio files and PDFs, the YouTube links you submit, the resulting transcripts, speaker names, AI-generated summaries and note content, and your chat messages. As between you and us, you keep all ownership and all rights in your content. We claim no ownership of it.

The licence you give us. To run the service at all, we need permission to handle your content — the app cannot transcribe a recording it is not allowed to store or send for processing. You therefore grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, back up, transmit, and process your content, and to have it processed by our service providers, strictly for the purpose of operating the service for you: uploading and storing it in your account, transcribing it, separating speakers, generating summaries and note content, answering your chat questions about it, syncing it to your devices, and playing your audio back to you.

The limits of that licence. The licence is limited to what is described above. In particular:

• We do not use your recordings, transcripts, notes or chat messages to train our own AI models, and we do not sell, license or otherwise make them available to anyone for that purpose.
• We do not publish your content, show it to other users, or use it for advertising or marketing.
• Our service providers act as our processors: they receive only what they need to return a result to us and process it on our instructions. We engage AI providers under business/API terms rather than consumer terms, which normally excludes customer content from their model training. The Privacy Policy sets out what each provider receives.
• The developer accesses your content only where strictly necessary — for example to investigate a fault you have reported, or where the law requires it.

The licence ends when the content goes. The licence for a given item ends when you delete it, or when you delete your account, except that (a) it may persist for a short period in routine backups until those are overwritten, and (b) it continues where we are required to retain something by law. Retention periods are set out in the Privacy Policy. Deleting a note also deletes the transcript, summary and chat that belong to it.

Your promises about your content. You confirm that you have the rights needed to upload and process the content you submit, including any consent required from people who appear in a recording, and that doing so does not breach section 5 or anyone else's rights.

Our content. The app itself — its software, design, name, logo and text — belongs to Hamid Manafov and is protected by intellectual property law. These terms give you a personal, revocable, non-transferable licence to use the app on Apple-branded devices you own or control, in line with the App Store Terms of Service; they do not transfer any ownership to you.

Feedback. If you send us suggestions or feature ideas, we may use them without obligation, payment or attribution to you. Do not send us anything you consider confidential.

7. AI-generated output

Transcripts, summaries, note content and chat answers in Micnoteai are produced by automated speech-recognition and large language models. You should treat them as a draft to be checked, not as a record of fact.

• Output can be wrong. AI systems mis-hear words, mishandle accents, crosstalk and background noise, mis-assign speakers, omit parts of a recording, and can state things confidently that were never said — including invented names, figures, dates and quotations. A transcript is not a certified, verbatim or legally admissible record.
• Output is not deterministic. The same recording, document or question can produce a different transcript, summary or answer each time it is processed. Regenerating a summary or reprocessing a note will not necessarily reproduce the earlier result, and may replace a result you preferred. Nothing about the output is guaranteed to be reproducible or consistent between runs.
• You must verify it. You are responsible for checking AI output against the original audio or document before you rely on it, share it, or act on it.
• Not professional advice. Micnoteai is a productivity tool. Do not rely on its output for medical, legal, financial, employment, safety or other consequential decisions, and do not use it as a substitute for a qualified professional. We are not liable for decisions you take on the basis of AI output.
• Ownership and originality. As between you and us, output generated from your content is yours (section 6). However, AI systems can produce similar output for different users from similar input, so we cannot promise that output is unique, or that it is free of third-party rights. Check before you publish or use it commercially.
• Models change. We may change the models and providers behind these features at any time, which may change the style, quality or length of the output.

8. Third-party services

Micnoteai only works because other companies do part of the job. Their own terms and privacy policies apply to you alongside these terms, and we are not responsible for their services, their availability, or the way they handle what they receive.

We may add, replace or remove providers at any time. If a third-party service fails, is discontinued, or changes its terms or pricing, the affected Micnoteai features may stop working, change, or be withdrawn; section 10 applies.

9. Privacy

How we collect, use, share and retain your personal data — including your recordings, transcripts, notes and chat messages, how long each category is kept, where it is stored, and your rights under the GDPR and CCPA/CPRA — is explained in our Privacy Policy, which forms part of these terms. Please read it: it is the authoritative description of our data handling, and if anything in these terms appears to conflict with it on a data-protection question, the Privacy Policy governs. In short, your content is uploaded to our backend and processed there so the app can transcribe and summarise it; we do not sell your personal information, there is no advertising or ad-tracking in the app, and we do not use your content to train AI models.

10. Availability, changes and interruptions

No uptime guarantee. Micnoteai is operated by one person and depends on third-party infrastructure. We do not promise that the app or the backend will be available at any particular time, uninterrupted, or error-free, and we offer no service level agreement or uptime commitment. Recording works offline, but transcription, summaries and chat need our servers; if they are unavailable, those features will not work until service is restored.

Maintenance. We may take the service down for maintenance, updates or migrations, with or without notice. We will try to keep planned downtime short and, where practical, outside peak hours.

Changes to the service. As stated in section 2, we may add, change, limit or remove features, models, providers and usage limits at any time. Changes may be needed for legal, security, technical or commercial reasons. Where a change materially and permanently reduces the core functionality of a paid subscription, you may cancel through Apple as described in section 4, and any statutory refund rights you have as a consumer are unaffected.

Discontinuing the service. We may discontinue Micnoteai altogether. If we do, we will give you reasonable advance notice — normally at least 30 days by email or in-app notice, unless a shorter period is unavoidable for legal or safety reasons — so that you can export or otherwise secure your notes before access ends. We will also stop selling new subscriptions and, where legally required, deal fairly with any period you have already paid for; refunds for App Store purchases remain Apple's process.

Keep your own copies. We take reasonable care of your data as described in the Privacy Policy, but we do not guarantee against data loss and Micnoteai is not a backup service. Keep your own copies of anything you cannot afford to lose.

Device and OS support. We support recent versions of iOS and may drop support for older versions or devices in a future update.

11. Suspension and termination

You can leave at any time. You may stop using Micnoteai whenever you like, delete the app, and delete your account from Settings → Delete account. Remember that deleting the app or the account does not cancel an App Store subscription — cancel that separately in iOS Settings, as described in section 4.

When we may suspend or terminate. We may suspend your access, limit your usage, remove specific content, or terminate your account if:

• you breach these terms, in particular the acceptable-use rules in section 5;
• your use threatens the security, integrity or availability of the service, or harms other users;
• we reasonably suspect fraud, abuse of the free tier, chargeback abuse, or unauthorised access;
• we are required to act by law, by a competent authority, or by Apple; or
• we discontinue the service under section 10.

Notice and proportionality. We will use suspension or termination proportionately and, where it is reasonable and lawful, we will tell you the reason and give you a chance to put things right. For a serious or unlawful breach we may act immediately and without notice.

What happens to your data. If you delete your account, it and its server-side data are deleted as described in section 3 and in the Privacy Policy; deletion is permanent. If we terminate your account, we will delete your content on the same basis, subject to any retention the law requires. Where we suspend rather than terminate, your content is retained during the suspension so that it can be restored if the suspension is lifted. Some records survive in either case: purchase and tax records, an internal security and abuse-prevention audit log, AI processing job records, and the per-device free-tier counter described in section 4. The Privacy Policy lists these exceptions precisely, including how to ask us to remove the AI processing job records.

Survival. Sections 6 (as to ownership and your promises), 7, 12, 13, 14 and 15 continue to apply after your account ends. Termination does not entitle you to a refund except where the law or Apple's policy provides one.

12. Disclaimer of warranties

THE APP AND THE SERVICE ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE", WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE DISCLAIM ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTY ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE.

IN PARTICULAR, WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT: THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE OR ERROR-FREE; THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED; THAT YOUR DATA WILL NOT BE LOST; OR THAT ANY TRANSCRIPT, SUMMARY, NOTE OR CHAT ANSWER WILL BE ACCURATE, COMPLETE, RELIABLE, REPRODUCIBLE OR FIT FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE. AI OUTPUT IS PROVIDED FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE AND MUST BE VERIFIED BY YOU, AS EXPLAINED IN SECTION 7.

No advice or information, whether oral or written, obtained from us or through the app creates any warranty not expressly stated in these terms.

13. Limitation of liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, HAMID MANAFOV WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, BUSINESS, GOODWILL, OPPORTUNITY, ANTICIPATED SAVINGS, OR FOR LOSS OR CORRUPTION OF DATA, RECORDINGS, TRANSCRIPTS OR NOTES, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO YOUR USE OF — OR INABILITY TO USE — THE APP OR THE SERVICE, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, AND REGARDLESS OF THE LEGAL THEORY ON WHICH THE CLAIM IS BASED.

This expressly includes loss or damage arising from: inaccurate, incomplete or non-reproducible AI output, or any decision taken in reliance on it; a failed, delayed or partial recording, upload or transcription; unavailability, interruption or discontinuation of the service; and the acts, omissions or outages of the third-party services listed in section 8.

Aggregate cap. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICE IS LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF (A) THE TOTAL AMOUNT YOU ACTUALLY PAID FOR MICNOTEAI SUBSCRIPTIONS IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS IMMEDIATELY BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR (B) USD 50. IF YOU HAVE ONLY EVER USED THE FREE TIER, OUR TOTAL LIABILITY IS LIMITED TO USD 50.

These limits apply in aggregate across all claims, not per claim, and they reflect a reasonable allocation of risk for a low-cost consumer app operated by an individual developer.

14. Indemnification

To the extent permitted by law, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless Hamid Manafov against any third-party claim, demand, proceeding, loss, liability, damage, cost or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or connected with:

• your content — including a claim that a recording was made without a consent the law required, or that content you uploaded infringes someone's intellectual property, privacy, confidentiality or other rights;
• your breach of these terms, in particular section 5 (acceptable use) and section 6 (your promises about your content);
• your use of AI output, including any decision you or someone else took in reliance on it; or
• your violation of any applicable law or of the rights of a third party.

We will notify you of any claim we seek indemnification for, and you may not settle it in a way that imposes an obligation or admission on us without our written agreement. We may take over the defence of such a claim at our own expense, and you agree to cooperate reasonably.

If you are a consumer, this section applies only to the extent permitted by the mandatory consumer law of your country of residence, and it does not apply to matters caused by our own breach or negligence.

15. Governing law and dispute resolution

These terms, and any dispute arising out of or in connection with them or with your use of Micnoteai, are governed by the laws of the Republic of Azerbaijan, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. The courts of the Republic of Azerbaijan have jurisdiction, subject to the consumer paragraph below.

Talk to us first. Most problems can be sorted out quickly. Before starting formal proceedings, please email hamidmanafov7@gmail.com with a description of the issue and what you would like us to do, and we will try to resolve it in good faith within 30 days. This step is a request, not a condition of your right to go to court.

Consumer dispute resolution. The European Commission provides information about consumer dispute resolution bodies. Its former Online Dispute Resolution platform closed on 20 July 2025. We are not obliged, and do not undertake, to participate in proceedings before a consumer arbitration body.

Purchases. Disputes about payment, billing or refunds for in-app purchases are between you and Apple in the first instance and follow Apple's process, as described in section 4.

16. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms — for example when features change, when a provider changes, or when the law requires it. The current version is always published at this address, and the date at the top shows when it last changed.

If a change materially affects your rights or obligations, we will give you reasonable advance notice before it takes effect — normally at least 30 days, by in-app notice or by email to the address associated with your account — unless the change must take effect sooner for legal or security reasons. Minor changes, such as clarifications or corrections, take effect when published.

Continued use is acceptance. If you keep using Micnoteai after a change takes effect, you accept the updated terms. If you do not accept them, stop using the app, delete your account from Settings, and cancel any subscription in iOS Settings. Changes never apply retroactively to a dispute that arose before they took effect.

17. Contact

Micnoteai is developed and operated by Hamid Manafov, an individual developer.

• General, legal and account matters: hamidmanafov7@gmail.com
• In-app support: support@micnoteai.com
• Privacy requests: see the Privacy Policy
• Established in: Azerbaijan. A postal address is available on request by email.
• Purchases, refunds and subscription management: Apple — reportaproblem.apple.com

We aim to reply to messages within a few business days. If your message is about a problem with a note, telling us roughly when it was created helps us find it faster — please do not send us the recording itself unless we ask for it.