Terms of Service

You may use the Service only if you have legal capacity to enter into a binding contract. If you use the Service on behalf of a company or other legal entity, you represent and warrant that you have authority to bind that entity to these Terms, and “you” includes that entity.

The Service is intended for users who are at least 18 years old. If local law allows a younger user to validly use the Service with parental or guardian consent, such use is only permitted with that consent and under that adult's supervision.

CastNova is an AI-assisted content repurposing platform. It allows users to upload audio, video, transcripts, and related materials and receive generated outputs such as transcripts, summaries, social media copy, blog drafts, newsletter drafts, show notes, titles, hooks, and similar text-based materials.

We may improve, modify, replace, suspend, or discontinue features from time to time. Where mandatory consumer law applies, Sections 14 and 18 of these Terms apply in addition.

You may need to create an account to use some or all parts of the Service. You agree to provide accurate, complete, and up-to-date information and to keep it updated.

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your login credentials, all activities occurring under your account, and promptly notifying us if you believe your account has been accessed without authorization.

You may not share your account except where your plan explicitly permits team access.

4.1 Plans

CastNova may offer free plans, trial access, paid subscriptions, usage-based limits, add-ons, and promotional offers. The features, limits, and prices of each plan are shown at checkout or on the pricing page.

4.2 Recurring billing

If you subscribe to a paid plan, you authorize us and our payment processor to charge the applicable fees and taxes on a recurring basis using your selected payment method until you cancel.

4.3 Renewal and cancellation

Unless stated otherwise at checkout, paid subscriptions renew automatically for the same billing period. You can cancel renewal at any time through your account billing settings. Cancellation stops future renewals and takes effect at the end of the current paid billing period unless applicable law requires otherwise.

4.4 Failed payments

If a charge is declined or cannot be completed, we may retry the payment method, suspend access to paid features, downgrade your account, or cancel the subscription after reasonable notice.

4.5 Price changes

We may change prices from time to time. For existing paid subscriptions, price changes will apply no earlier than the next billing cycle after we have given you reasonable prior notice. If you do not agree to the new price, you may cancel before the change takes effect.

4.6 Taxes

Prices may be shown exclusive or inclusive of VAT, sales tax, or other applicable taxes depending on your location and checkout flow. You are responsible for any applicable taxes except taxes based on our net income.

4.7 No automatic refunds for unused time

Except where required by law or where we expressly state otherwise, we do not automatically provide prorated refunds for unused portions of a billing period after cancellation. This does not limit any mandatory statutory refund or reimbursement rights.

4.8 Payment processor

Payments may be processed by third-party payment providers such as Stripe. Your use of those payment services may also be subject to the provider's own terms and privacy notice.

Any free plan, free credits, trials, beta access, or promotional usage limits are offered at our discretion and may be modified, restricted, or discontinued.

You may not abuse free access, including by creating multiple accounts to circumvent limits, bypassing technical restrictions, or using the Service in a way that unreasonably interferes with other users or our infrastructure.

6.1 Ownership

You retain ownership of the content you upload, submit, import, or otherwise provide to the Service (“Input”), subject to the rights you grant in these Terms.

6.2 License to operate the Service

You grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, limited license to host, store, copy, transmit, process, transform, and display your Input only as necessary to provide, maintain, secure, and improve the Service; create the requested outputs; prevent abuse and enforce these Terms; and comply with legal obligations.

6.3 Your responsibility for Input

You are responsible for your Input and for ensuring that you have all rights, permissions, consents, and legal bases necessary to upload and use it with the Service.

You must not upload or submit content that is unlawful, infringing, defamatory, fraudulent, deceptive, or abusive; violates privacy, publicity, confidentiality, or data protection rights of others; contains malware or harmful code; or that you do not have the right to process, publish, or repurpose.

As between you and CastNova, and subject to applicable law and third-party rights, we assign to you any rights we may have in the text outputs generated for you by the Service based on your Input (“Output”).

You are responsible for reviewing, editing, fact-checking, and legally clearing Output before publishing or relying on it.

We do not guarantee that Output will be unique, accurate, non-infringing, or suitable for any particular purpose.

The Service uses artificial intelligence and automated systems. Because of the probabilistic nature of AI systems:

• Output may contain errors, omissions, bias, hallucinations, or outdated information
• Output may resemble content generated for other users
• Output may require human review before publication or commercial use
• The Service is not a substitute for professional legal, medical, tax, financial, or regulatory advice

You must not rely on Output as the sole basis for decisions where errors could cause material harm.

You agree not to, and not to help others to, use the Service to:

• Engage in unlawful, infringing, deceptive, or harmful activities
• Generate or distribute spam, scams, impersonation, or disinformation
• Upload third-party audio, video, or transcripts without sufficient rights
• Reverse engineer, scrape, benchmark, probe, extract, copy, or otherwise attempt to derive source code, models, prompts, or underlying components of the Service except to the extent such restriction is prohibited by law
• Circumvent account, seat, storage, or usage limits
• Interfere with security, integrity, or availability of the Service
• Use the Service in a manner that violates any documentation, API restrictions, or plan restrictions made available to you

The Service may rely on or integrate with third-party providers, including hosting, analytics, payment, transcription, and AI providers. We may change such providers from time to time.

Where your Input is processed by such providers on our behalf, that processing is governed by our privacy documentation and, where applicable, a data processing agreement.

We are not responsible for third-party services that you choose to connect or use separately from the Service.

Our processing of personal data is governed by our Privacy Policy.

If you use the Service as a business customer and submit personal data for which you act as controller, and we process that personal data on your behalf as processor, the parties shall enter into a separate Data Processing Agreement (DPA) where required by applicable data protection law.

You acknowledge that providing the Service may require us to use subprocessors and cross-border data transfers, subject to applicable data protection law and the safeguards described in our privacy documentation or DPA.

We may temporarily store uploads, generated files, logs, and related metadata as necessary to operate, secure, troubleshoot, and improve the Service. Retention periods may vary based on plan, feature, legal requirements, and backup cycles.

We aim to provide a reliable Service, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free availability.

We may perform maintenance, deploy updates, patch security issues, or temporarily restrict access when reasonably necessary.

Features labeled alpha, beta, preview, or similar may be incomplete, changed, or removed at any time.

We may suspend or limit access to the Service, in whole or in part, if we reasonably believe that you breached these Terms; your use creates security, legal, or technical risk; payment is overdue; we are required to do so by law or by a competent authority; or your use materially harms other users, third parties, or the Service.

Where reasonably possible, we will notify you in advance and give you an opportunity to remedy the issue. We may act without prior notice where immediate action is reasonably necessary for security, fraud prevention, abuse prevention, or legal compliance.

We may modify the Service, features, technical requirements, usage limits, supported file types, integrations, or user interface for valid reasons, including improving functionality, enhancing security, complying with law, preventing abuse, or adapting to technical developments.

If you are a consumer and a change materially negatively affects your access to, or use of, a continuously supplied digital service, your mandatory statutory rights remain unaffected.

You may stop using the Service at any time.

You may delete your account through the Service interface or by contacting us. Unless we tell you otherwise in the product interface, account deletion may trigger a retention or grace period of up to thirty (30) days for security, fraud prevention, dispute handling, backup integrity, or restoration requests.

If you delete your account or these Terms end, your right to use the Service ends immediately, but the following survive to the extent applicable: payment obligations, intellectual property provisions, disclaimers, liability limitations, dispute provisions, and any clauses that by their nature should survive.

Where technically feasible and legally permissible, we may allow you a limited opportunity to export your Input and Output before deletion. Nothing in this Section limits any mandatory statutory rights you may have to obtain certain data or content after termination. You are responsible for keeping your own backups.

If you are a consumer, mandatory consumer protection rights under the law applicable to you remain unaffected by these Terms.

If and to the extent applicable law grants you a statutory right of withdrawal for a paid distance contract, information about that right must be provided to you during checkout or in a separate consumer notice.

If you request immediate access to paid digital services before the withdrawal period expires, you expressly request that performance begin immediately. Where and to the extent permitted by law, this may affect your withdrawal rights or entitle us to payment for the portion of the Service already provided before withdrawal.

This Section applies only if you use the Service in the course of a trade, business, or profession.

You will indemnify and hold harmless CastNova, Kevin Sander, and our affiliates, service providers, and personnel from third-party claims, damages, liabilities, losses, and reasonable legal costs arising out of or related to your Input; your use of the Service in violation of these Terms; your violation of law; or your infringement of third-party rights.

18.1 No exclusion of mandatory rights

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits rights that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law, including mandatory consumer rights, liability under the German Product Liability Act, and liability for death, personal injury, fraud, or intent.

18.2 Consumer rights for digital products

If you are a consumer, your statutory rights in relation to digital products, including rights in case of non-supply, defects, updates, modification, price reduction, termination, and damages, remain unaffected.

18.3 Availability and suitability disclaimer

Except as expressly stated in these Terms and except where mandatory law provides otherwise, the Service is provided on an “as available” basis. We do not promise that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or suitable for every workflow or jurisdiction.

18.4 Liability standard

If you are a business customer, our liability is governed as follows: we are liable without limitation for intent and gross negligence; in cases of slight negligence, we are liable only for breach of an essential contractual obligation (cardinal duty), and then only for the foreseeable damage typical for the contract; in all other cases of slight negligence, liability is excluded to the extent permitted by law.

The above limitations do not apply where liability is mandatory by law.

18.5 Liability cap for business customers

If you are a business customer, and unless mandatory law requires otherwise, our aggregate liability arising out of or in connection with the Service and these Terms is limited to the total amount paid by you to us for the Service in the twelve (12) months preceding the event giving rise to the claim.

We and our licensors retain all rights, title, and interest in and to the Service, including the software, design, branding, documentation, workflows, prompts, compilations, and all related intellectual property rights, except for the rights expressly granted to you in these Terms.

“CastNova”, logos, and related branding may not be used without our prior written permission.

We may update these Terms from time to time.

If we make material changes, we will provide notice by appropriate means, such as within the Service, by email, or by updating the date at the top of the Terms. The updated Terms will take effect on the date stated in the notice.

If you do not agree to the updated Terms, you must stop using the Service and, if applicable, cancel your subscription before the updated Terms take effect.

If you are a consumer, mandatory statutory restrictions on unilateral changes remain unaffected.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, excluding conflict-of-law rules and the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG).

If you are a consumer and have your habitual residence in the European Union, mandatory consumer protection provisions of the country in which you have your habitual residence remain unaffected.

If you are a merchant, legal entity under public law, or special fund under public law, and mandatory law does not provide otherwise, the exclusive place of jurisdiction for disputes arising out of or in connection with these Terms shall be our registered seat in Germany.

For consumers, statutory jurisdiction rules remain unaffected.

22.1 Entire agreement

These Terms, together with any plan-specific terms, order forms, DPA, and policies expressly incorporated by reference, form the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Service.

22.2 Severability

If any provision of these Terms is held invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in full force to the fullest extent permitted by law.

22.3 No waiver

Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of our right to do so later.

22.4 Assignment

You may not assign or transfer these Terms without our prior consent, except where mandatory law provides otherwise. We may assign these Terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, corporate reorganization, or sale of assets.

22.5 Language

If we provide translations of these Terms, the English version controls unless mandatory law requires otherwise.

Operator: Kevin Sander

Email: contact@castnova.app

Imprint / Legal Notice: versteckmich.de/curtive/impressum