1. Agreement and eligibility
By downloading, accessing, creating an account for, purchasing, or using Jotchi (the “Service”), you agree to these Terms and the Privacy Policy. If you use the Service for an organization, you represent that you can bind it to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.
You must be at least 13 and legally able to enter this agreement. If local law sets a higher age for independent consent, a parent or guardian must agree on your behalf. The Service is not directed to children under 13.
2. The Service and local-first storage
Jotchi is a notes application with an optional account and paid cloud features. Local mode does not require an account. Local-only notes are stored on your device, and you are responsible for backups and device security. Clearing browser storage, deleting application data, losing a device, or uninstalling the app may permanently remove local-only content.
Jotchi Cloud adds server-backed note sync and related features. Cloud sync is not an archival or disaster-recovery guarantee, is not end-to-end encrypted, and does not replace an independent backup for important content. Sync conflicts, network interruptions, software defects, expired subscriptions, or third-party outages can affect availability.
3. License
Subject to these Terms, Jotchi grants you a limited, personal, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to install and use the apps and access the Service for lawful personal or internal business purposes. You may not sell, sublicense, rent, distribute, copy beyond lawful backup needs, reverse engineer except where the law forbids that restriction, bypass security or payment controls, or use Jotchi’s branding without permission.
4. Accounts and credentials
Provide accurate account information and keep it current. You are responsible for activity under your account and for protecting passwords, device tokens, API keys, and connected-provider access. Notify Jotchi promptly through the contact form if you suspect unauthorized use. API keys can read and change your cloud notes and must be treated like passwords.
5. Subscriptions, renewal, cancellation, and refunds
Jotchi Cloud is offered as an automatically renewing monthly subscription at the price and currency shown before purchase. Taxes may apply. Web subscriptions are processed by Stripe; App Store subscriptions are processed by Apple and also subject to Apple’s purchase and subscription terms.
Unless you cancel before renewal, the payment provider may charge the next period automatically. Cancel a web subscription through the account billing portal or contact Jotchi; cancel an App Store subscription in your Apple Account subscription settings. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current paid period. Except where required by law or expressly offered at purchase, charges are non-refundable and partial periods are not prorated. Apple controls refunds for App Store purchases.
Prices or plan features may change prospectively. We will provide notice required by law and, where practical, advance notice before a new price applies to an existing subscription. If payment fails or a subscription expires, paid features may stop; your local notes remain available, but continued cloud retention is governed by the Privacy Policy.
6. Your content
You retain ownership of content you create or upload. You grant Jotchi a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, copy, transmit, format, and process that content only as reasonably necessary to provide, secure, maintain, and support the Service and comply with law. This license ends when the content is deleted from active systems, subject to legal retention and backup cycles.
You are responsible for your content and must have the rights needed to use it. Do not upload unlawful, infringing, malicious, or privacy-violating material. Jotchi does not claim ownership of your notes and does not use private note content to train advertising profiles.
7. Acceptable use
You may not use the Service to:
- break the law, infringe rights, harass others, distribute malware, or facilitate fraud or abuse;
- gain unauthorized access, probe or disrupt security, interfere with other users, or overload the Service;
- evade subscription, authentication, rate, or technical limits; scrape or automate access except through documented interfaces; or share credentials in a way that compromises an account;
- use the Service or its output as the sole basis for emergency, medical, legal, financial, safety-critical, or other high-risk decisions.
When using the API or MCP server, you are responsible for applications and agents you authorize, their instructions, and all changes they make. Jotchi may apply reasonable rate and usage limits.
8. Third-party services
Stripe, Apple, Google Drive, Dropbox, operating-system platforms, and third-party clients are independent services governed by their own terms and privacy policies. You choose whether to connect them. Jotchi is not responsible for their content, availability, security, changes, or actions, but will handle credentials and data under the Privacy Policy. Disconnecting an integration may make linked attachments unavailable inside notes.
9. Jotchi ownership and feedback
Jotchi and its licensors own the Service, software, design, branding, and related intellectual property, excluding your content and third-party components. If you voluntarily provide feedback, you grant Jotchi a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free right to use it without restriction or compensation, provided this does not grant rights in private note content.
10. Changes, availability, and beta features
We may improve, modify, limit, or discontinue parts of the Service. We will provide reasonable notice of material changes that negatively affect paid use when practical, except for urgent security, legal, or operational needs. Preview or beta features may be incomplete, change, or stop without notice.
11. Suspension, termination, and deletion
You may stop using Jotchi at any time. Canceling a subscription does not itself delete your account. To request deletion, follow the process in the Privacy Policy. We may suspend or terminate access for a material or repeated breach, fraud, security risk, nonpayment, legal requirement, or conduct that threatens the Service or others. Where reasonable, we will give notice and an opportunity to cure.
On termination, the license ends. Provisions that by their nature should survive—including ownership, payment obligations, warranty disclaimers, liability limits, and dispute terms—remain effective. Export important cloud content before termination when possible.
12. Disclaimers
To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Service is provided “as is” and “as available.” Jotchi disclaims implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, and quiet enjoyment. We do not promise uninterrupted or error-free operation, perfect sync, preservation of local or cloud content, or that results will meet every requirement. Nothing in these Terms excludes a warranty or consumer right that cannot lawfully be excluded.
13. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, Jotchi and its suppliers will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenues, goodwill, data, or business interruption arising from the Service. Jotchi’s total liability for all claims relating to the Service will not exceed the greater of US $100 or the amount you paid Jotchi for the Service during the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim.
These limits do not apply where prohibited by law and do not limit liability for fraud, willful misconduct, death or personal injury caused by negligence, or other liability that cannot legally be limited. Some jurisdictions provide additional mandatory rights.
14. Disputes and general terms
Before filing a formal claim, please contact Jotchi and give us 30 days to try to resolve it informally. These Terms are governed by the law that applies to the Jotchi operator, without regard to conflict-of-law rules, while preserving any mandatory protections and courts available to you under consumer law where you live.
If part of these Terms is unenforceable, the rest remains effective. A failure to enforce a term is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without consent; Jotchi may assign them as part of a reorganization, financing, merger, acquisition, or sale of assets. These Terms, the Privacy Policy, and any purchase terms shown at checkout are the entire agreement about the Service.
15. Apple App Store terms
For an app obtained through Apple’s App Store, Apple’s Standard End User License Agreement applies to the licensed application, and these Terms govern Jotchi’s online Service and supplement that agreement. You and Jotchi acknowledge that this agreement is between you and Jotchi, not Apple; Jotchi, not Apple, is responsible for the Service, maintenance and support, and addressing claims relating to it, subject to these Terms and applicable law.
- If the app fails to conform to an applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple may refund the purchase price, if any, as provided by its rules. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation.
- Jotchi, not Apple, is responsible for addressing product-liability, regulatory, consumer-protection, and intellectual-property claims relating to the app.
- You represent that you are not located in a country or region subject to a U.S. government embargo and are not listed on a U.S. government restricted-party list.
- You must comply with applicable third-party terms, including wireless-data and connected-service terms.
- Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of this section and may enforce it against you.
16. Updates and contact
We may update these Terms. We will post the revised version, update the date above, and provide additional notice when required. Continued use after the effective date means you accept the revised Terms; if you do not agree, stop using the Service and cancel any subscription.
Questions, legal notices, support requests, and billing concerns can be sent through the Jotchi contact form.