Terms and Conditions

1. Acceptance of these Terms

These Terms and Conditions (“Terms”) are a binding agreement between you and Abhay Srivatsa, the individual operator of Readspace (“Readspace,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). By creating an account, purchasing a subscription, or accessing the hosted Readspace services, applications, extensions, or website (collectively, the “Service”), you agree to these Terms and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

If you use the Service for an organization, you represent that you have authority to bind that organization, and “you” includes that organization.

2. Eligibility and accounts

You must be at least 18 years old and legally able to enter this agreement. The Service is not offered to anyone under 18.

You must provide accurate account information, keep your credentials secure, and promptly notify us of suspected unauthorized access. You are responsible for activity through your account unless caused by our breach of these Terms. You may not sell, transfer, or share an account in a way that compromises its security.

3. The Service

Readspace helps you subscribe to feeds and newsletters, save and organize articles, synchronize reading activity, and use optional discovery, digest, search, extraction, translation, summarization, and related features. Features, limits, availability, and supported platforms may vary by plan or change over time.

You are responsible for the devices, connectivity, third-party accounts, and permissions needed to use the Service. We may modify, add, or discontinue features. If we discontinue a paid Service as a whole, we will provide notice and any refund required by applicable law.

4. Your content

You retain any rights you have in feeds, saved links, notes, highlights, imported content, and other material you submit or create (“User Content”). You grant Readspace a limited, worldwide, non-exclusive license to host, copy, process, transmit, display, and adapt User Content only as needed to operate, secure, and provide the Service and features you request. This license ends when the content is deleted from our systems, subject to reasonable backup and legal-retention periods.

You represent that you have the rights and permissions needed to provide User Content and use it with the Service. You must not use Readspace to reproduce, distribute, or make available content in violation of copyright, privacy, contract, or other rights.

5. Third-party content and services

Readspace retrieves and links to content published by third parties. We do not control or endorse that content and are not responsible for its accuracy, legality, availability, safety, or licensing. Publishers may change or remove content, restrict automated access, or impose their own terms. You are responsible for complying with applicable publisher terms and law.

The Service may depend on or link to third-party services, including app stores, payment providers, AI providers, and websites. Their terms and privacy policies govern your direct relationship with them.

6. AI-assisted features

Some features use automated systems to summarize, translate, rank, extract, recommend, or synthesize content. AI-generated output may be incomplete, inaccurate, offensive, or misleading and may not reflect the source. Review important information against the original material. Do not rely on AI output as professional medical, legal, financial, or other expert advice.

You authorize us to process relevant User Content and prompts through configured AI providers when you request or enable these features. Availability and output can vary by plan, provider, language, and source content.

7. Acceptable use

You may not use the Service to:

• violate law or another person’s intellectual-property, privacy, publicity, or contractual rights;
• store or distribute malware, unlawful content, or material that facilitates exploitation or serious harm;
• harass, impersonate, deceive, or attempt to gain unauthorized access to any account or system;
• interfere with the Service, bypass access or usage limits, probe vulnerabilities without permission, or place an unreasonable load on our infrastructure;
• use automated means to scrape the hosted Service or resell access without our written permission; or
• use the Service or its output to develop or operate an unlawful competing dataset or service.

We may investigate suspected violations and remove content, limit access, or cooperate with lawful requests when reasonably necessary.

8. Open source and self-hosting

Readspace source code made publicly available is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License version 3 (AGPL-3.0), unless a specific file states otherwise. That license—not these Terms—governs your copying, modification, and distribution of the code. These Terms still govern any hosted Service, account, proprietary asset, or third-party integration you use.

If you operate a self-hosted instance, you are responsible for deployment, security, backups, users, content, legal compliance, notices, third-party credentials, and support. We do not control self-hosted instances and are not responsible for their operation or data practices.

9. Paid subscriptions

Plan features, billing period, price, renewal frequency, and applicable taxes are shown at checkout. Subscriptions automatically renew for the same period until canceled unless the checkout terms expressly state otherwise. You authorize Polar, Apple, Google Play, or the applicable payment provider to charge the payment method associated with your purchase.

You can cancel through the provider or app-store account used to subscribe. Cancellation stops future renewals but does not itself refund the current billing period. Refund eligibility and processing are governed by applicable law and the policies of Polar, Apple, Google Play, or the provider that processed your purchase. We may change prices for a future renewal after providing any notice required by law.

10. Readspace ownership

Except for open-source components and User Content, Readspace and its licensors own the Service, including its software, design, branding, documentation, and other materials. Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to use the Service for its intended purpose. No rights are granted by implication. “Readspace” and associated branding may not be used in a way that suggests endorsement without permission.

If you send feedback, you grant us a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free right to use it without restriction or compensation, provided we do not publicly identify you without permission.

11. Suspension and termination

You may stop using the Service or delete your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate access if you materially or repeatedly breach these Terms, create security or legal risk, fail to pay applicable fees, or if we discontinue the Service. Where reasonable, we will give notice and an opportunity to cure.

After termination, your right to use the Service ends. Provisions that by their nature should survive—including ownership, disclaimers, liability limits, indemnity, disputes, and general terms—will survive. Data is handled as described in the Privacy Policy.

12. Disclaimers

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Service is provided “as is” and “as available.” Readspace disclaims all express, implied, and statutory warranties, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, and any warranty arising from course of dealing or usage of trade.

We do not warrant that the Service or any third-party or AI-generated content will be uninterrupted, secure, accurate, complete, available, or error-free. Nothing in these Terms excludes warranties or rights that cannot lawfully be excluded.

13. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Readspace and its contributors, affiliates, licensors, and service providers will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages; loss of profits, data, goodwill, or business opportunity; or the cost of substitute services, arising from or related to the Service.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the total liability of those parties for all claims arising from or related to the Service will not exceed the greater of (a) the amount you paid Readspace for the Service during the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim or (b) US $100.

These limits apply regardless of the legal theory and even if a remedy fails of its essential purpose. They do not apply where prohibited by law or to liability that cannot legally be limited.

14. Indemnity

To the extent permitted by law, you will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Readspace and its contributors, affiliates, and service providers from third-party claims, damages, and reasonable costs arising from your unlawful use of the Service, your User Content, or your material breach of these Terms. This obligation does not apply to the extent a claim results from Readspace’s own unlawful conduct.

15. Governing law and disputes

Except where the law where you live requires otherwise, these Terms and disputes arising from them are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Any court proceeding must be brought in a court of competent jurisdiction in Texas.

Before filing a formal claim, you and Readspace agree to try in good faith to resolve the dispute informally for 30 days after written notice. Send notices to support@readspace.ai with a description of the issue and requested resolution. This section does not prevent either party from seeking urgent injunctive relief or using an eligible small-claims process.

16. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms to reflect changes in the Service, law, or our operations. We will post the revised Terms and update the date above. If a change materially affects your rights, we will provide additional notice when required. Changes apply prospectively. Continuing to use the Service after the effective date means you accept the revised Terms; otherwise, you must stop using the Service.

17. General terms

If a provision of these Terms is unenforceable, it will be modified to the minimum extent necessary and the remaining provisions will continue in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; we may assign them as part of a merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of assets. These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement about the hosted Service and supersede prior agreements on that subject.

Nothing in these Terms limits any non-waivable consumer right available under the law where you live.

18. Contact us

Readspace is operated by Abhay Srivatsa in Texas, United States. Questions about these Terms can be sent to support@readspace.ai or through our contact page.