Terms of Service

These terms govern your use of vournal, operated by Mohamad El Naboulsi ("we", "us"). By creating an account or using the app, you agree to them. If you do not agree, please do not use vournal.

1. What vournal is

vournal is a voice journal. You speak; the app records you, converts your speech to text, and automatically organises it into a journal entry, tasks, and calendar items, along with an estimated mood and the topics, places, and people that recur. You can optionally link a person in your journal to a contact on your phone, have vournal copy your tasks and appointments into Apple Reminders and Apple Calendar, and share an entry to other apps.

How your data is handled is described in our Privacy Policy, which forms part of these terms.

2. Eligibility

You must be at least 16 years old to use vournal. By using it, you confirm that you are.

3. Your account

You are responsible for keeping your login credentials secure and for activity that occurs under your account. Tell us promptly at hello@vournal.app if you believe your account has been accessed without your permission.

4. Your content belongs to you

You retain all rights to your recordings, transcripts, and entries. We claim no ownership of them.

You grant us a limited licence to store, transmit, and process your content solely to operate the service for you — including sending it to the providers listed in the Privacy Policy for transcription and organisation. This licence exists only so the app can function, ends when you delete the content or your account, and does not permit us to publish your content, sell it, or use it for advertising.

5. Accuracy — please read

Automated transcription and organisation are imperfect, and vournal may get things wrong.

Specifically, the app may mishear words, transcribe the wrong thing, assign the wrong date or time to a task, miss a task you mentioned, or create one you did not intend. This is more likely with background noise, accents, dialects, and speech that mixes languages.

Do not rely on vournal as your only record of anything important. It is a journaling aid, not a system of record. You are responsible for verifying anything that matters — appointments, deadlines, medication schedules, commitments to other people. We are not liable for anything missed, mistimed, or misrecorded.

If you turn on copying to Apple Reminders or Apple Calendar, the copies reflect what vournal extracted, with the same possibility of error, and they follow changes made in vournal, not the other way round. Check them as you would check vournal itself.

6. Mood features are not health care

vournal estimates a mood rating and emotion words from your entries and shows trends over time. These are automated impressions of your own words, offered for personal reflection.

vournal is not a medical device, and it does not provide medical, psychological, or mental-health advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Nothing it shows you should be treated as a clinical assessment or used to make health decisions.

If you are struggling with your mental health, please contact a qualified professional or a local support service. If you are in immediate danger, contact your local emergency number.

7. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• use vournal for anything unlawful, or to record anyone in a way that breaks the law where you are
• upload content you have no right to record or share
• attempt to access another user's account or data
• probe, disrupt, overload, or reverse-engineer the service, or bypass its security or usage limits
• use automated means to access the service outside of normal app use
• resell or commercially redistribute the service

8. Free and paid access

Free accounts have usage limits (entries per month and recording length), which we may change. vournal Plus is an optional monthly subscription that raises those limits. Its price is shown before you buy.

• In the app: vournal Plus is sold through Apple In-App Purchase and charged to your Apple Account when you confirm. It renews automatically each month unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; your account is charged for the next month within 24 hours before it ends. You can manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. Refunds are handled by Apple under Apple's terms.
• When you cancel, Plus stays active until the end of the period you paid for, then your account returns to the free limits. Nothing in your journal is deleted.
• If we change the price, we will tell you before the new price applies, and you can cancel before it does.
• Free trial: vournal Plus may start with a free trial, which you can get once. The trial's length and the price after it are shown before you confirm. Nothing is charged during the trial. Unless you cancel at least 24 hours before it ends, your subscription starts when the trial ends and you are charged the price shown, then every month after. If you cancel during the trial, Plus stays on until the trial ends.

• On our website: vournal Plus is sold by Paddle (paddle.com), our reseller and merchant of record, under Paddle's terms. It renews automatically each month until you cancel; you can cancel at any time from the Paddle customer portal or the receipt and account emails Paddle sends. Refund requests go to Paddle and are handled under its refund policy and applicable law.

9. Availability and changes

We aim to keep vournal running well, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free service. We may change, suspend, or discontinue features. If we plan to discontinue the service entirely, we will give you reasonable notice and an opportunity to export your data.

10. Ending your use

You may delete your account at any time in the app. We may suspend or terminate accounts that breach these terms, or where required by law. On termination, your content is deleted as described in the Privacy Policy.

11. Disclaimers

To the fullest extent permitted by law, vournal is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, or non-infringement.

12. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost data, or missed obligations arising from your use of vournal.

Where liability cannot be excluded, our total liability is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, or US$100.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain exclusions, so parts of this section may not apply to you. Nothing here limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited.

13. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify us against claims arising from your misuse of the service or your breach of these terms.

14. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of Lebanon, and disputes will be handled by the courts of Lebanon, without affecting mandatory consumer protections available to you where you live.

15. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. If changes are material, we will notify you in the app or by email before they take effect. Continuing to use vournal after that means you accept the updated terms.

16. If you got vournal from the Apple App Store

These additional terms apply to the iOS app. Where they conflict with anything above, these terms apply.

• Who the agreement is with. These terms are between you and us only, not Apple. We, not Apple, are solely responsible for vournal and its content.
• Your licence. We grant you a non-transferable licence to use vournal on Apple devices that you own or control, as permitted by the Usage Rules in the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions, except that vournal may also be used by other accounts associated with the purchaser through Family Sharing or volume purchasing.
• Maintenance and support. We are solely responsible for maintaining and supporting vournal. Apple has no obligation to provide any maintenance or support for it.
• Warranty. To the extent any warranty applies and vournal fails to conform to it, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price, if any, that you paid for the app. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation for vournal.
• Claims. We, not Apple, are responsible for addressing any claims by you or a third party relating to vournal or your use of it, including product-liability claims, claims that vournal fails to meet a legal or regulatory requirement, and claims under consumer-protection, privacy, or similar law.
• Intellectual property. If a third party claims that vournal or your use of it infringes their intellectual-property rights, we, not Apple, are responsible for investigating, defending, settling, and discharging that claim.
• Legal compliance. You confirm that you are not located in a country subject to a United States Government embargo or designated by it as a terrorist-supporting country, and that you are not on any United States Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
• Third-party terms. You must comply with any third-party terms that apply to you when using vournal, such as your mobile carrier's.
• Apple as a beneficiary. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms. Once you accept them, Apple has the right to enforce these terms against you as a third-party beneficiary.

17. Contact

Mohamad El Naboulsi, Tripoli, Lebanon. hello@vournal.app