Terms of Service

1. Acceptance of Terms

By using Aftertape you agree to these Terms of Service. If you do not agree, please do not use the service.

2. Permitted Use

Aftertape is an educational tool designed to help you study YouTube video content. You may use it to process publicly available YouTube videos for personal study and educational purposes.

3. Prohibited Content

You must not use Aftertape to process content that:

• Contains graphic violence, gore or content designed to shock or disturb
• Is sexually explicit or pornographic in nature
• Promotes hate speech, discrimination or violence against any group
• Contains extremist or terrorist ideology
• Is designed to harass, bully or target individuals
• Facilitates or promotes illegal activities
• Exploits, harms or targets minors
• Violates the intellectual property rights of others

We reserve the right to terminate accounts found to be in violation of these restrictions.

4. AI-Generated Content

Vocabulary, summaries and commentary are generated by AI language models. While we strive for accuracy, AI-generated content may contain errors. Do not rely solely on our output for medical, legal, financial or safety-critical decisions.

5. Usage Limits

To ensure fair access for all users and to control our third-party API costs, we apply usage limits:

• Without an account (guest): 3 videos per day per device
• Free registered account: 10 videos per day
• aftertape+ subscribers: unlimited videos
• Specific limits may change as we scale and will be announced in advance

5a. Refund Policy

If you upgrade to aftertape+ and are not satisfied, email us within 30 days of your first payment for a full refund — no questions asked. After 30 days, subscriptions are non-refundable but you retain access until the end of your billing period.

5b. Service Continuity & Provider-Initiated Cancellation

Aftertape relies on third-party APIs and infrastructure providers to operate. The pricing of these providers is outside our control and can change.

If our underlying costs become unsustainable — for example, a third-party provider raises its prices materially, withdraws a free tier we depend on, or discontinues a service we use — we reserve the right to either (a) adjust the price of new aftertape+ subscriptions with at least 30 days' notice to existing subscribers, who may cancel before the new price applies, or (b) discontinue the paid service altogether.

If we discontinue aftertape+ during your paid period, we will issue a pro-rata refund of the unused portion of your subscription, calculated from the date the service is discontinued. Annual subscribers receive a proportionally larger refund than monthly subscribers. Refunds are returned to the original payment method via Stripe within 14 business days.

You may cancel your aftertape+ subscription at any time from your account settings or via our contact page. Cancellation takes effect at the end of your current billing period; you retain access until that date.

This clause does not override the 30-day money-back guarantee in §5a, which remains the primary remedy for new subscribers who are not satisfied. §5b applies specifically to changes initiated by us rather than by you.

6. Privacy

We store your email address, processed video history and feedback. We do not sell your data to third parties. Your history is private and visible only to you. You may request deletion of your account and data by contacting us. For full details see our Privacy Policy.

7. Intellectual Property & Fair Use

Third-party content. Aftertape processes publicly available YouTube content to generate derivative study materials. YouTube content accessed through Aftertape remains subject to all intellectual property rights of its original creators. Aftertape does not claim ownership of any content derived from YouTube videos and is not affiliated with or endorsed by YouTube or Google LLC.

Fair use / fair dealing basis. The vocabulary flashcards, summaries, idiom lists and timed commentary we generate are transformative derivative works intended solely for personal, non-commercial study by the individual user. We rely on fair use (17 U.S.C. § 107 for US users), the EU text-and-data-mining exception (Directive (EU) 2019/790, Article 4 for EU users) and fair dealing for research and private study (UK CDPA 1988, §§ 29–29A) for this transformation.

Output use. You may use Aftertape outputs for your own personal study only. You may not republish, redistribute, resell, share publicly, or commercially exploit content owned by third parties using outputs produced by this service. You may not use Aftertape outputs to train or fine-tune machine-learning models.

7a. User Responsibility

You are solely responsible for ensuring that your use of Aftertape and of any study materials it generates complies with the intellectual property rights of content creators and the Terms of Service of the platforms from which content is sourced (including but not limited to YouTube Terms of Service). Aftertape is a processing tool; it does not authorise any use of third-party content that would otherwise be impermissible. You must not use Aftertape to process content that is private, age-restricted, geoblocked from you, or otherwise unavailable to the public.

8. Service Disclosures & Limitations

The table below describes what Aftertape does and does not do, and which third-party services are involved in delivering the product.

Area	What we do	Limitation
Transcript access	Fetch publicly available YouTube captions	Does not work for private videos, or videos without captions. Auto-generated captions may reduce output quality.
Vocabulary extraction	AI selects and CEFR-tags key terms from the transcript	AI may miss terms or assign incorrect CEFR levels. Output is a study aid, not a certified language assessment.
Summary & commentary	AI generates a paraphrased summary and timed notes	Not verbatim transcription. May omit details or contain inaccuracies. Do not use for legal, medical or safety-critical purposes.
Translation	AI translates vocabulary terms into Italian, German, French or Spanish	Machine translation only. Verify with a native speaker for high-stakes use.
File storage	Generated PDFs and Word files stored securely in the cloud	Files may be deleted after 90 days of inactivity. We recommend downloading files you want to keep.
Service availability	99%+ uptime target	Processing may be slower during peak hours. Third-party provider outages may temporarily interrupt service.

Aftertape depends on a number of third-party APIs and infrastructure providers to deliver the service. Each such provider operates under its own terms and privacy policy.

8a. Copyright Complaints (DMCA / EU)

If you are a content creator and believe that Aftertape has been used to generate materials that infringe your intellectual property rights, please email us at our contact page with: (i) identification of the copyrighted work; (ii) the YouTube URL processed; (iii) your contact details; and (iv) a statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is unauthorised. We will review and act on valid notices promptly. Repeat infringement of creators' rights by users will result in account termination.

9. Disclaimer of Warranties

Aftertape is provided "as is" without any warranty of any kind, express or implied. We do not guarantee uninterrupted access, accuracy of AI output, or that the service will meet your specific requirements. Aftertape relies on third-party services for transcript access, AI processing, file storage and email delivery. We cannot guarantee continued availability of any specific YouTube video's transcript and bear no liability if such access is restricted or discontinued due to changes in third-party platform policies or technical measures. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we disclaim all liability for indirect, incidental or consequential damages arising from your use of the service.

10. Changes to Terms

We may update these terms at any time. Continued use of the service after changes constitutes acceptance of the new terms.

11. Contact

Questions about these terms? Contact us.