These Terms govern your use of the Deban application, the account service and the website (together, the “Service”), provided by the operator of Deban (“Deban”, “we”). By installing or using the Service you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you use Deban on behalf of an organisation, you confirm you are authorised to bind it.
Paid plans are sold by Polar Software Inc. (“Polar”) as merchant of record. Your purchase contract, invoices, taxes and refunds are with Polar under Polar's terms; these Terms govern the use of the Service itself.
Nothing in these Terms limits rights you have as a consumer under mandatory law in your country of residence.
Deban listens to meetings on your device, transcribes and recognises speakers locally, and — on paid plans and during trials — suggests when you might respond and what you might say, using third-party language models. Suggestions are generated automatically and may be wrong, incomplete, out of context or inappropriate. They are not professional, legal, medical or financial advice. You alone decide what you say and do in a meeting.
We may change, add or remove features, and may discontinue the Service with at least 90 days' notice, in which case any prepaid period will be refunded pro rata by Polar. Your local data remains yours and exportable at all times.
We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to install and use the Deban application on devices you own or control, for your own use, in accordance with these Terms. You may not copy (other than for backup), modify, distribute, sell, rent, sublicense, or reverse engineer the software or circumvent its licensing or usage controls, except to the extent applicable law expressly permits. The application checks for updates and may download and install them; updates never touch your data folder. Open-source components are licensed under their respective licences, listed in the application.
You own your meeting data — audio, transcripts, notes, files and everything derived from them. It stays on your device. To the extent you use AI features, you grant us the limited right to transmit the necessary text to the language-model provider solely to return the result to you. We claim no other rights in your content and do not use it to train models. You are responsible for the content you process and for your compliance with confidentiality obligations you owe to others.
The Service relies on third-party providers: a language-model provider for AI features, Polar for payments, Google and Apple for optional sign-in, and hosting and content-delivery providers. Their availability and terms are outside our control; where a third party changes or withdraws a service we will use reasonable efforts to provide an alternative. Meeting platforms (Google Meet, Zoom, Microsoft Teams and others) are not affiliated with Deban.
The Deban software, brand, website and documentation are owned by us or our licensors and protected by intellectual-property laws. If you send us suggestions or feedback, you allow us to use them without obligation to you. In-app 👍/👎 ratings are used only to tune the Service.
Features marked as beta, preview or pre-release may change or be removed without notice and are provided with reduced warranties. Keep exports of data you cannot afford to lose.
Except as expressly stated in these Terms or required by mandatory law, the Service is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, including accuracy of transcription, translation, speaker recognition or AI suggestions, fitness for a particular purpose, or uninterrupted availability. Speech recognition and language models make mistakes, including in names, numbers, dates and negations; verify anything that matters before relying on it.
To the extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages, loss of profits, business or data, or for decisions you make or statements you make in meetings based on the Service. Our total liability for all claims relating to the Service in any 12-month period is limited to the amount you paid for the Service in that period (or JPY 10,000 if you paid nothing). These limits do not apply to liability for death or personal injury, for wilful misconduct or gross negligence, or to any liability that cannot be limited under the law applicable to you, including the Japanese Consumer Contract Act where it applies.
You may stop using the Service and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate your account if you materially breach these Terms, if required by law, or if the Service is discontinued under Section 2; where reasonable we will give notice and an opportunity to remedy. On termination your licence ends; your local data remains on your device, and any unused prepaid period is handled under Section 4.
We may update these Terms. For material changes we will give at least 30 days' notice in the app or by e-mail. If you do not agree, you may cancel before the change takes effect; continuing to use the Service afterwards means you accept the new Terms.
These Terms are governed by the laws of Japan. Disputes are subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Tokyo District Court as the court of first instance, except that if you are a consumer you may also rely on the mandatory consumer-protection rules and courts of your country of residence. Before starting proceedings, please contact us at support@deban.app; most issues can be resolved directly.
If any provision is held unenforceable, the rest remains in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms; we may assign them to a successor operator of Deban. These Terms, the Privacy Policy and Polar's purchase terms are the entire agreement between us regarding the Service. Translations are provided for convenience; in case of conflict the English version prevails to the extent permitted by law.
Questions, bugs, requests: support@deban.app. We usually reply within 1–2 business days.
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