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Terms of Service

Last updated: August 4, 2026 · Effective: August 4, 2026
Draft status — this document is a comprehensive first draft, structured to match the depth and formality of an established SaaS terms of service agreement. It should be reviewed by qualified legal counsel before publication — particularly Sections 11 (Disclaimers), 12 (Limitation of Liability), 13 (Indemnification), and 16 (Dispute Resolution), which carry real legal weight and depend on decisions not yet finalized. Bracketed items mark those open decisions.

1. Agreement to Terms

These Terms of Service ("Terms") form a binding agreement between you and packaged ("packaged," "we," "us," or "our") governing your access to and use of our website, application, and related services (collectively, the "Service"). By creating an account or otherwise using the Service, you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

If you are using the Service on behalf of a company or other legal entity, you represent that you have the authority to bind that entity to these Terms, in which case "you" refers to that entity.

2. Description of the Service

packaged is a software tool that generates YouTube video metadata — titles, descriptions, chapter markers, hashtags, category and compliance-toggle recommendations, tags, and thumbnail guidance — from a video transcript that you provide.

What the Service does not do. packaged does not access, connect to, publish to, or modify your YouTube channel or any video on it. All generated content is a suggestion for you to review and manually apply within YouTube Studio or your own workflow. packaged does not generate finished thumbnail images — only text guidance, layout suggestions, and a prompt you can use in an image-generation tool of your choosing.

No performance guarantee. Generated metadata is produced based on the content of the transcript you provide. We do not guarantee any particular outcome from using generated metadata, including view count, click-through rate, watch time, search ranking, or monetization eligibility. You are solely responsible for reviewing generated content, including compliance-toggle recommendations, before publishing it.

3. Eligibility and Accounts

You must be at least 18 years old, or the age of legal majority in your jurisdiction if higher, to create an account. By creating an account, you represent that you meet this requirement.

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials and for all activity that occurs under your account. Notify us immediately at the contact address in Section 19 if you suspect unauthorized use of your account.

4. Subscription Plans, Credits, and Billing

4.1 Plans and pricing

The Service is offered on four subscription tiers — Uploader, Operator, Network, and Empire — each with a monthly credit allotment. Current pricing and credit allotments for each tier are displayed on our pricing page and at checkout, and form part of these Terms for the plan you select.

4.2 Billing cycles

You may subscribe on a monthly, 3-month, or annual billing cycle. Quarterly and annual cycles are offered at a discount to the monthly rate, as shown at checkout. Your subscription renews automatically at the end of each billing period unless you cancel before the renewal date, as described in Section 4.6.

4.3 Credits

  • Each subscription tier includes a monthly allotment of credits. One unit of usage (a full metadata generation, or a single block regeneration) consumes a fixed number of credits, as shown in-product.
  • You may spend your credit allotment however you choose across the available blocks — there is no requirement to spend credits evenly or on any particular block type.
  • Subscription credits expire at the end of each billing period and do not carry over. Your current balance and next reset date are always visible in your account dashboard.
  • There is no unlimited-usage plan; all usage draws down from your credit balance.

4.4 Top-up credit packs

While you hold an active paid subscription, you may purchase additional credit packs at any time, priced at the same per-credit rate as our Operator tier, with no additional markup. Top-up credits do not expire and are applied only after your subscription credits for the current period have been used. Top-up packs are not available to accounts without an active paid subscription.

4.5 New-account credit bonus

New accounts receive a one-time grant of 50 credits at no cost, subject to phone-number verification to prevent abuse. This bonus is limited to one grant per person and is not available in connection with any paid subscription purchase.

4.6 Cancellation

You may cancel your subscription at any time from your account settings, effective at the end of your current billing period; you will retain access and any remaining credit balance through that date. We do not offer partial-period refunds for cancellation, since you retain full access through the period you've already paid for.

4.7 Notice before renewal

We will send you an email notice in advance of each renewal charge. We do not renew subscriptions silently without this notice, and we do not use retention interfaces designed to obstruct cancellation.

4.8 Price changes

We may change subscription pricing prospectively. Any price change will apply to your next billing period following notice and will not retroactively affect a period you have already paid for.

4.9 Payment processing

All payments are processed by a third-party payment processor acting as merchant of record, which handles payment collection, applicable sales tax, VAT, or similar indirect taxes, and related compliance obligations. [Processor name to be added once verification resolves.] By subscribing, you also agree to that processor's own terms of service, which govern the payment transaction itself.

4.10 Refunds

  • If you have used less than 20% of your plan's credit allotment within the first 7 days of your first-ever subscription payment, you may request a full refund of that payment.
  • Renewal payments are generally non-refundable; since cancellation is available at any time and takes effect at the end of the paid period, you are never charged for a period you did not have the opportunity to cancel in advance of.
  • Unused top-up packs may be refunded within 7 days of purchase; packs with any credits already used are non-refundable.
  • Billing errors, including duplicate charges or charges processed after a properly submitted cancellation, will be corrected and refunded in full.
  • Refunds are processed by our payment processor and may be subject to that processor's own refund-handling timelines.

This refund framework reflects our intended policy; the specific percentage threshold in the first bullet, and the final structure, should be confirmed against whichever payment processor is selected, as processors may impose their own constraints on refund and chargeback handling.

5. Acceptable Use

You agree not to:

  • Use the Service to generate metadata for content that is illegal, that infringes the intellectual property or other rights of any third party, or that is intended to materially mislead viewers about a video's actual content;
  • Attempt to circumvent, disable, or interfere with any security-related or rate-limiting feature of the Service, including measures related to the new-account credit bonus;
  • Reverse-engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract the underlying models, prompts, or source code used to provide the Service, except to the extent such restriction is prohibited by applicable law;
  • Resell, sublicense, or provide access to the Service to third parties without our prior written consent;
  • Use automated means (bots, scripts) to create multiple accounts or otherwise circumvent usage or billing limitations;
  • Use the Service in any manner that could disable, overburden, damage, or impair it, or interfere with any other party's use of the Service.

We reserve the right to suspend or terminate accounts that violate this section, as described in Section 14.

6. Your Content

6.1 Ownership

You retain all ownership rights in the transcripts, reference images, and other content you submit to the Service ("Your Content"), and in the metadata the Service generates for you from it ("Generated Content"). We do not claim ownership of Your Content or Generated Content.

6.2 License to us

You grant us a limited, non-exclusive, worldwide license to access, process, and store Your Content solely as necessary to provide, maintain, and improve the Service for your own account, as described in our Privacy Policy. This license ends when you delete the relevant content or close your account, except for residual copies retained in routine backups for a limited period.

6.3 Your responsibility for content

You represent that you have all necessary rights to submit Your Content to the Service, and that doing so does not infringe any third party's rights. You are solely responsible for Generated Content you choose to publish, including its accuracy, compliance with YouTube's policies, and compliance with applicable law.

7. Our Intellectual Property

The Service itself — including its software, design, trademarks (including the packaged name and logo), and underlying technology — is owned by packaged or its licensors and is protected by intellectual property law. These Terms do not grant you any right to use our trademarks, branding, or underlying technology outside of your ordinary use of the Service as intended.

8. Third-Party Services

The Service relies on third-party infrastructure and service providers, including hosting and database infrastructure, an AI model provider, a payment processor, and an identity verification provider, as described in our Privacy Policy. Your use of the Service is also subject to the applicable terms of those providers to the extent they interact with your use of the Service (for example, the payment processor's own terms govern the payment transaction itself).

9. Fees for Third-Party Tools

If you choose to use any third-party tool referenced or suggested by the Service (for example, an image-generation tool to act on a thumbnail prompt we provide), any fees, terms, or content policies of that third-party tool are between you and that tool's provider. We are not responsible for third-party tools we do not operate.

10. Feedback

If you provide us with feedback, suggestions, or ideas about the Service, you grant us the right to use that feedback without restriction or compensation to you.

11. Disclaimers (requires legal review)

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, OR THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, OR SECURE.

WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT GENERATED CONTENT WILL BE ACCURATE, COMPLETE, OR WILL RESULT IN ANY PARTICULAR PERFORMANCE OUTCOME ON YOUTUBE, INCLUDING WITH RESPECT TO VIEWS, WATCH TIME, MONETIZATION ELIGIBILITY, OR COMPLIANCE WITH YOUTUBE'S OWN POLICIES, WHICH MAY CHANGE AT ANY TIME AND WHICH ARE OUTSIDE OUR CONTROL.

[Jurisdiction-specific disclaimer language — some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain implied warranties, so this section may need to be adjusted to comply with local law.]

12. Limitation of Liability (requires legal review)

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL PACKAGED, ITS OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, OR SERVICE PROVIDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, OR GOODWILL, ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, OUR TOTAL LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY CLAIM ARISING FROM THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICE WILL NOT EXCEED THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS PRECEDING THE CLAIM.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain damages, so some of the above limitations may not apply to you.

13. Indemnification (requires legal review)

You agree to indemnify and hold packaged harmless from any claims, damages, liabilities, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising from: (a) Your Content or Generated Content you choose to publish; (b) your violation of these Terms; or (c) your violation of any applicable law or third-party right in connection with your use of the Service.

14. Suspension and Termination

We may suspend or terminate your access to the Service, with or without notice, if we reasonably believe you have violated these Terms, including the Acceptable Use provisions in Section 5, or if required to do so by law or by a third-party service provider we rely on to operate the Service.

You may terminate your account at any time by canceling your subscription and closing your account through your account settings, or by contacting us.

Sections that by their nature should survive termination — including Sections 7 (Our Intellectual Property), 11 through 13 (Disclaimers, Limitation of Liability, Indemnification), and 16 (Dispute Resolution) — will survive termination of these Terms.

15. Changes to the Service or These Terms

We may modify or discontinue features of the Service, and may update these Terms from time to time. If we make material changes to these Terms, we will provide notice by email or through an in-product notice before the changes take effect. Your continued use of the Service after a change takes effect constitutes your acceptance of the revised Terms.

16. Dispute Resolution and Governing Law (requires legal review — placeholder structure)

These Terms are governed by the laws of [jurisdiction to be determined by counsel], without regard to its conflict-of-law principles.

[This section requires counsel to determine the appropriate governing law and dispute-resolution mechanism — including whether to include an arbitration clause, class-action waiver, or venue selection — based on the company's registration jurisdiction and the jurisdictions of its customer base. These are consequential legal choices that should not be finalized without professional advice.]

17. Severability and Waiver

If any provision of these Terms is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect. Our failure to enforce any provision of these Terms is not a waiver of our right to do so later.

18. Entire Agreement

These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy and any plan-specific terms shown at checkout, constitute the entire agreement between you and packaged regarding the Service, and supersede any prior agreements on the same subject.

19. Contact Us

Questions about these Terms can be directed to:

packaged
[Operated as a sole proprietorship — registered business name to follow]
support@usepackaged.com

These Terms are effective as of August 4, 2026.

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