Terms of Service

Availa records lectures you choose to record, transcribes them, and builds notes, study questions, drafts, and tutoring from your own course material. It is a personal study tool for you, about your classes. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting on behalf of any school.

You must be at least 16 years old and old enough to form a binding contract where you live. You need a Google account to sign in, and the account is yours alone: you are responsible for what happens under it, and you may not share, sell, or transfer it.

You press record; we never do. Laws on recording other people vary by state and country, and some states, including Massachusetts, require the consent of everyone being recorded. Many schools also have their own rules about recording lectures. Before you record, you are responsible for getting whatever permission the law and your school require, normally by asking your professor. By uploading a recording you represent that you had the right to make it. If you did not, that is on you, and we may remove the recording and, for repeated or serious violations, close the account.

Availa can draft, edit, and explain work for your classes. Every school has its own academic integrity policy, and those policies differ on what help is allowed, from “AI tools are fine” to “any outside assistance is a violation.” You are responsible for knowing your school’s policy and for how you use anything the Service produces. Work you submit anywhere is submitted by you, as yours, at your own risk. Availa is not responsible for academic consequences of how you use it.

Transcripts, notes, answers, and drafts are generated by machine learning systems. They are usually right and sometimes wrong, and they can be wrong confidently. Check anything that matters, especially anything you will be graded on or make a decision from. The Service is provided for study assistance, not as a source of professional advice of any kind.

Recordings, documents, and writing you upload remain yours. You give us a license to host, process, transcribe, and transform that content solely to run the Service for you, including sending it to the service providers who do the transcription and AI processing on our behalf. We do not sell your content and we do not use it to train models. The license ends for content you delete, except for copies in routine backups that expire on their own schedule.

You agree not to upload content you have no right to upload, and not to use the Service to harass anyone, to break the law, or to probe, overload, or interfere with the Service itself.

New accounts get a one-time free grant of 3 lectures, 5 documents, and 30 tutor questions. It does not renew. After that, the Service costs $19.99/month or $49.99/semester, billed through Stripe. Prices can change; we will tell you before a change affects a renewal.

Subscriptions renew automatically until you cancel. You can cancel any time and keep access through the period you paid for. Payments are non-refundable except where the law requires otherwise, but if something went genuinely wrong, write to us and we will be reasonable. If a payment fails we keep processing your lectures while Stripe retries the card; if it never clears, new processing pauses but nothing you recorded is lost.

You can stop using Availa and delete your account whenever you want. We can suspend or close an account that violates these terms, abuses the Service, or creates legal risk for us or anyone else. If we close your account without cause, we will refund the unused portion of anything you prepaid.

The Service is provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not promise the Service will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that any output will be accurate.

To the fullest extent the law allows, Availa is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost data, lost grades, lost opportunities, or academic discipline arising from your use of the Service. Our total liability for any claim is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose, or $100, whichever is greater. Some places do not allow some of these limits, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

These terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and disputes belong in the state or federal courts located there, unless the law where you live gives you a non-waivable right to something else. If part of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest still applies. These terms plus the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between us about the Service.

We can update these terms as the product changes. For material changes we will notify you in the app or by email before they take effect; continuing to use the Service after that is acceptance of the new terms.

Questions, complaints, refunds, anything: matthew@availalabs.com.