Terms of Service

Gotcha is a browser extension and accompanying web application that produces AI-generated verdicts on user-highlighted text. The Service retrieves evidence from public sources, ranks it against a stated claim, and returns a verdict label (such as “True, False, Misleading, Unverifiable, Outdated”) with cited sources.

Verdicts are best-effort summaries produced by automated systems including large language models. They are not authoritative, guaranteed correct, or a substitute for professional research, journalism, legal, medical, or financial advice. You are responsible for verifying any claim before acting on it.

You must be at least 16 years old to use the Service. You are responsible for the security of your account credentials and for all activity that occurs under your account. We use Clerk as our identity provider; their terms also apply to your authentication data.

Paid plans are sold by Paddle.com Market Ltd (“Paddle”) acting as our Merchant of Record. Paddle handles payment processing, invoicing, tax calculation, and tax remittance in your jurisdiction. When you purchase a subscription, your contract for payment is with Paddle; your contract for use of the Service is with us.

Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each billing period unless you cancel beforehand. Prices include VAT and other applicable taxes where Paddle is required to collect them. You can cancel at any time from your account page or via Paddle’s customer portal; cancellation stops future charges but does not refund prior payments. Refunds are available within 7 days of your first paid subscription charge; renewals are not refundable (cancel before the renewal date to avoid the charge). See our Refund Policy for full details, including the limited exceptions.

By starting your subscription you expressly request that the Service begin immediately and acknowledge that you thereby waive the 14-day right of withdrawal that would otherwise apply to digital services under Article 16(m) of EU Directive 2011/83/EU. The 7-day refund window in our Refund Policy is offered as a contractual remedy that exceeds your statutory rights in this respect.

You agree not to:

• Use the Service to harass, defame, threaten, dox, or harm any identifiable individual.
• Submit content that is unlawful, infringing, obscene, or that you do not have the right to submit.
• Attempt to reverse engineer, scrape, programmatically extract verdicts in bulk, or circumvent rate limits without a written agreement with us.
• Use the Service to generate content that violates the Chrome Web Store Developer Program Policies or any applicable law.
• Use the Service to verify claims for the purpose of misleading others (such as creating bad-faith “fact-checked” disinformation).
• Resell, sublicense, or commercially redistribute the Service or its verdicts without prior written consent.

We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these rules without prior notice.

You retain ownership of any text you submit for fact-checking (your “User Content”). By submitting it you grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to process, transmit to our third-party processors (such as LLM providers and search APIs), store, and display it back to you, solely to operate and improve the Service.

We do not sell User Content to third parties. We do not knowingly permit our LLM providers to use your User Content for training their foundation models (per their data-processing agreements with us).

Verdicts, summaries, and citations produced by the Service are generated by automated systems and may contain errors, misclassifications, or hallucinated citations. The Service does not guarantee that:

• any given verdict is correct or complete;
• cited sources are accurate, current, or authoritative;
• the Service will detect or correctly classify every factual error in submitted text.

Always check primary sources before acting on a verdict. The Service is an aid to critical reading, not a replacement for it.

The Service, including its code, design, and brand, is owned by us or our licensors. We grant you a limited, non-transferable, revocable license to use the Service in accordance with these Terms. No other rights are granted by implication.

The Service relies on third-party providers, including but not limited to: Clerk (authentication), Paddle (payments and tax), Google Cloud (hosting), Cloudflare (DNS), OpenRouter, Anthropic, and Groq (large language models), Wikipedia (retrieval), and search APIs. Your use of the Service is also subject to their respective terms. We are not responsible for the availability or behaviour of third-party services.

You may stop using the Service at any time and delete your account from the dashboard. We may suspend or terminate your access if you breach these Terms or if continued provision of the Service to you exposes us to legal risk. Termination does not entitle you to a refund except as set out in the Refund Policy.

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ACCURACY, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT, TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. NOTHING IN THESE TERMS LIMITS CONSUMER RIGHTS YOU HAVE UNDER MANDATORY LAW IN YOUR JURISDICTION.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, our aggregate liability arising out of or related to the Service is limited to the greater of (a) the amount you paid us in the twelve months preceding the claim, or (b) EUR 50. We are not liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages, or for loss of profits, revenue, data, or goodwill.

These limitations do not apply to liability that cannot be limited under applicable law (such as for gross negligence or wilful misconduct under Italian law, or to consumer rights under EU Directive 2011/83/EU).

You agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from any third-party claim arising from your User Content, your use of the Service in breach of these Terms, or your violation of any law.

We may update these Terms from time to time. Material changes will be announced via email or in the Service at least 14 days before they take effect. Continued use of the Service after the effective date constitutes acceptance.

These Terms are governed by the laws of Italy, without regard to conflict of laws principles. Disputes shall be brought before the competent courts of Caserta, Italy. If you are a consumer resident in the European Union, you may also bring proceedings in the courts of your member state of residence as permitted by EU Regulation 1215/2012.

EU consumers may use the European Commission’s Online Dispute Resolution platform at ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr to resolve disputes out of court.

KIAN ARAEEAZAR
Caserta (CE), Italy
VAT / P.IVA: 13041790018
Email: support@gotcha.wiki