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Agreement and eligibility
These Terms of Use form an agreement between you and Daniel Schwarz, the independent developer operating Tappex from Spain. They apply to the Tappex website, local applications, accounts, and connected features. The Privacy Policy explains how personal data is handled.
You must be at least 16 and legally able to enter this agreement. If local law requires a higher age or parental authorization, that rule applies. Features marked “coming soon,” beta, preview, or experimental are provided as they become available to you.
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The service
Tappex is free. It provides local text and voice capture, local editing and archive, on-device transcription where supported, basic local search, standard export, platform sharing, and optional end-to-end encrypted text sync. Local use does not require a Tappex account; enabling sync does. The initial sync allowance is 100 MiB of relay-retained ciphertext and five active approved devices per account. Audio recordings and attachments are not synced in protocol v1.
Tappex does not promise a higher sync-storage allowance.
Every capture is committed locally before authentication or sync begins. A network failure should not prevent the original local capture from being saved.
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Accounts and recovery
You are responsible for protecting your device, account session, approved-device keys, and printable recovery key. Do not share access tokens or recovery material. Notify us promptly if you suspect unauthorized access.
A new device may sign in but cannot sync until it is approved by an existing approved device or a supported recovery flow,. Tappex does not hold your vault key or recovery key. If all approved devices and the recovery key are lost, encrypted vault data cannot be recovered by Tappex.
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Your content
You retain ownership of your captures. You give Tappex only the limited permission needed to encrypt, transmit, store, process, and return data as required for features you request. Tappex does not acquire a license to advertise with your content or train a general model on it.
You are responsible for having the right to capture, upload, or share content and for complying with laws and third-party obligations that apply to it. Do not use Tappex to unlawfully process another person’s confidential or personal information.
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Acceptable use
You may not abuse Tappex, bypass quotas or access controls, extract or misuse service credentials, interfere with other users, probe systems without written authorization, automate requests in a way that harms the service, or use Tappex for unlawful, deceptive, infringing, or harmful activity.
You may inspect and use documented interoperability and export features. Nothing in these terms restricts rights to reverse engineer that cannot lawfully be waived.
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Availability and changes
Local capture is designed to work without the network. Sync and downloads depend on networks and providers and may be interrupted for security, maintenance, abuse prevention, legal requirements, or circumstances outside reasonable control.
We may improve, replace, or discontinue a feature. We will not remove access to local notes because a feature changes.
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Suspension and termination
We may limit or suspend service when reasonably necessary to address security, fraud, serious abuse, legal requirements, or material breach of these terms. Where practical and lawful, we will explain the reason and offer a way to appeal. Termination does not remove rights or obligations that arose before termination.
You may stop using Tappex at any time and may delete your Tappex account.
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Service responsibility
Tappex is provided with reasonable care and skill. Because software and third-party services can fail, keep appropriate exports or backups for critical data. We do not promise uninterrupted service, or compatibility with every device or provider.
Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability, guarantees, remedies, or consumer rights that cannot legally be excluded. Subject to those mandatory rights, Tappex is not responsible for indirect losses that were not reasonably foreseeable when you agreed to these terms, or for failures caused solely by a third-party service or event outside reasonable control.
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Governing law and disputes
These terms are governed by Spanish law. If you are a consumer, you also retain mandatory protections and court rights provided by the law of your country of residence. Before starting a formal dispute, contact daniels@tappex.app so we can try to resolve it.
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Changes to these terms
We may update these terms to reflect product, provider, security, or legal changes. We will publish the new effective date and give reasonable advance notice of material changes when required. Changes do not retroactively remove rights you already have.