Terms of Service

1. Acceptance

By creating an account or using PodBright ("the Service"), you agree to these Terms of Service. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

2. Personal Use Only

PodBright is a personal accessibility tool designed for personal, non-commercial use. You may submit emails, newsletters, articles, and supported PDFs to the Service solely for your own private listening. PDF support is plan-limited and currently capped at the page limit shown for your plan (currently 30 pages on Free and 50 on Pro). You must not use the Service to process, distribute, or republish content that you do not have the right to use.

3. Your Responsibility for Content

You are solely responsible for any content you submit to PodBright. By submitting content, you represent that you are authorized to access and view that content and that processing it for your own personal listening does not violate any applicable law or third-party rights. PodBright does not screen, review, or take responsibility for submitted content.

You agree not to submit content that:

• Infringes any third party's copyright, trademark, or other intellectual property rights
• You do not have permission to access or reproduce for personal use
• Is illegal, harmful, threatening, or violates any applicable law
• Was obtained by circumventing digital rights management (DRM) protections
• You intend to redistribute, share, or publish beyond your own private listening

4. Copyright and Content Rights

Content submitted to PodBright belongs to its respective authors and publishers. PodBright converts content to audio solely as a personal accessibility tool. Source text is discarded after audio is generated. Episode metadata, a brief AI-generated summary, processing logs, and generated audio are retained so the Service can operate.

Your private RSS feed URL and generated audio files are for your personal use only. You agree not to share your RSS feed URL or audio files with others, as your feed may contain content for which you do not hold redistribution rights.

5. AI Processing

PodBright uses artificial intelligence and large language models (LLMs) to rewrite submitted content for audio listening. This includes summarization, reformatting, and language simplification. By submitting content, you consent to it being processed by these AI systems. PodBright does not use your submitted content to train AI models.

6. Third-Party Services

PodBright uses third-party services to deliver functionality, including OpenAI (rewriting and summarization), Unreal Speech (text-to-speech), Cloudflare (email routing and storage), Supabase (database and authentication), Railway (hosting), Stripe (payments), and Resend (transactional email). Your use of PodBright is subject to those services' terms and privacy policies. Content you submit is transmitted to and processed by these services.

7. No Warranty

The Service is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind. We do not guarantee uninterrupted service, successful conversion of every submission, or compatibility with every podcast app. PodBright is not a legal, financial, medical, or professional advice service. We may modify or discontinue the Service at any time without notice.

8. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, PodBright and its operators shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, or consequential damages arising from your use of the Service, including any loss of data, failed conversions, or third-party claims related to content you submitted. Our total liability to you for any claim shall not exceed the amount you paid us in the 12 months preceding the claim.

9. Payments and Subscriptions

PodBright's Pro plan is a paid monthly subscription billed through Stripe, our payment processor. By subscribing, you authorize us to charge your payment method $5.99 per month (or the then-current price) on a recurring basis.

Your subscription automatically renews each month at the same price until you cancel it. You do not need to take any action to continue being charged — renewal is automatic unless you cancel before the next billing date.

You may cancel your subscription at any time from your account dashboard. Cancellation takes effect at the end of your current billing period — you will keep Pro access until then and will not be charged again afterward. We do not provide partial refunds for unused time in a billing period.

We may change our prices from time to time. If we do, we will give you at least 30 days' notice before the new price takes effect. Continuing to use the Pro plan after a price change takes effect constitutes acceptance of the new price.

10. Termination

We reserve the right to suspend or terminate your account at any time if we believe you are violating these Terms. You may delete your account at any time from your account settings or by contacting us.

11. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of Singapore, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Subject to any mandatory consumer rights or jurisdiction rules that apply to you, the courts of Singapore have exclusive jurisdiction over disputes arising from these Terms or the Service.

12. Changes

We may update these Terms from time to time. We will update the "Last updated" date at the top of this page. Continued use of the Service after changes constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.

13. DMCA / Copyright Takedown Policy

PodBright respects intellectual property rights and complies with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), 17 U.S.C. § 512. If you believe content processed through PodBright infringes your copyright, you may submit a written takedown notice to our designated DMCA agent.

Takedown notices must include:

• Your name and contact information (email, phone, or mailing address)
• A description of the copyrighted work you claim is infringed
• Identification of the specific infringing content and where it is located
• A statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law
• A statement that the information in the notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on their behalf
• Your physical or electronic signature

Send takedown notices to our designated agent (Unna Muthiah, PodBright): [email protected] (Registration No. DMCA-1071705)

Counter-notification: If you believe content was wrongly removed, you may submit a counter-notification. Counter-notifications must include your name and contact information, identification of the removed content, a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief the content was removed by mistake, and your physical or electronic signature. Send counter-notifications to the same address above.

We will respond to valid notices promptly and remove content as required by law. Accounts with repeat copyright violations will be terminated.

14. Contact

Questions about these Terms? Email us at [email protected].