Terms of Service

1. The Service

The App lets you create, view and edit Markdown documents with in-place live styling. There are three places your documents can live:

• Your own Google Drive, accessed through the limited drive.file scope, meaning the App can only touch files it created or that you explicitly open;
• A folder on your device (macOS and Windows), which involves no communication with the Operator at all;
• A team space, which is stored on servers the Operator runs so that several people can edit the same document at the same time.

Handling of your information is described in our Privacy Policy.

2. Accounts and sign-in

Using the Service requires signing in with a supported provider (currently Google) and, for Google Drive storage, granting access to Google Drive. You are responsible for the security of the account you sign in with and for complying with that provider’s terms. You may revoke the App’s access at any time from your provider’s account settings. You must give accurate information, and you may not let anyone else use your account.

3. Teams

• A team has an owner, and may have administrators, members and guests. The owner and administrators can invite people, change roles, remove members, adjust sharing, and — for the owner — enter into and cancel the paid plan.
• Everyone in a team can see the display name and profile picture of everyone else, including live cursor positions while editing the same document. Owners and administrators can additionally see members’ email addresses.
• If you invite someone by entering their email address, you are responsible for having a proper basis to do so. Where the team is used by an organisation, that organisation is responsible towards its own members for how the team is administered.
• Administrators can read, edit and delete documents in the team’s spaces according to the permissions set on them. Do not put anything in a team space that you are not willing for the team’s administrators to see.
• Removing a member, or the member leaving, does not remove the documents they wrote in the team’s spaces; those remain with the team.

4. Your content

• You retain all rights to the files and content you create or edit with the App. The Operator claims no ownership over them.
• For content stored in a team space, you grant the Operator only the limited, non-exclusive licence needed to store, transmit, back up and display it in order to run the Service — including delivering it to the other members you have shared it with. Nothing more. Your content is never used to train machine learning or AI models.
• You are solely responsible for your content and for having the right to create, edit and store it.
• You are responsible for maintaining your own backups. The Operator is not responsible for loss of data. For content in team spaces the Operator takes reasonable care, but this is not a backup service.

5. Fees

• Using the App with Google Drive or a local folder is free of charge.
• Team collaboration is free for up to five active members. From the sixth active member onward, the price is JPY 300 per additional member per month [confirm: tax treatment — the pricing page states tax-included]. Only the members beyond the fifth are charged.
• Charges are based on the number of active members, not on the number of documents or the amount of storage used. If the number changes during a billing period, the amount is prorated by Stripe and settled on the following invoice.
• Subscriptions renew monthly until cancelled.
• Contracts are entered into on the web only (app.monoshiri.jp), through Stripe. The Operator does not use in-app purchases and does not receive your card details.
• Statutory disclosures for the paid plan are published at 特定商取引法に基づく表記 (disclosure under Japan’s Act on Specified Commercial Transactions).
• The Operator may change prices. [decide: notice period, e.g. 30 days] notice will be given before a change takes effect for an existing subscription, and you may cancel before then.

6. Cancellation and refunds

• You can cancel at any time from the billing portal. The paid plan remains in effect until the end of the period already paid for, after which the team returns to the free tier.
• Fees already paid are not refunded for the unused part of a period, except where a refund is required by law or where the Service was unavailable due to a fault on the Operator’s side. [decide: refund policy — confirm this matches what you are willing to do]
• Because this is the supply of a digital service, there is no cooling-off period under Japan’s Act on Specified Commercial Transactions. Rights you have as a consumer under applicable law are not affected by these Terms.
• After the paid plan ends, a team over the five-member limit cannot add members and [decide: what happens to a team that is over the limit when payment stops — read-only, or members suspended down to five?]. Your documents are not deleted merely because payment stops; deletion follows section 8.
• If payment fails, the Operator may suspend the paid features after notifying you.

7. Acceptable use

You agree not to use the Service to violate any law or the rights of others; to store or distribute content that is unlawful, infringing or harmful; to interfere with or disrupt the Service or its underlying infrastructure; to attempt to gain unauthorised access to any system or data; or to place an unreasonable load on the Service. The Operator does not routinely inspect the contents of team documents, but may access them where necessary to investigate a fault, respond to a report of abuse, or comply with the law.

8. Deletion, export and leaving

• You can delete documents and folders in the App; deleted items go to a trash state before removal.
• Deleting your account, disbanding a team, or exporting a team’s documents in bulk is done on request — write to [Contact email]. See the Privacy Policy for what each of those does.
• Files kept in your Google Drive or in a local folder are unaffected by any of this. They remain readable with any Markdown editor, whether or not you keep using the App.

9. Suspension and termination by the Operator

The Operator may suspend or terminate your access if you materially breach these Terms, if required by law, or if your use threatens the security or availability of the Service. Except where immediate action is necessary, notice will be given first. If a paid team is terminated other than for breach, the unused portion of the fees paid will be refunded.

10. Intellectual property

The App itself, including its software, design and branding, is owned by the Operator and protected by applicable laws. These Terms do not grant you any rights to the App other than the right to use it in accordance with these Terms.

11. Disclaimer of warranties

The Service is provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including but not limited to fitness for a particular purpose, availability, or that it will be error-free or uninterrupted. No specific uptime is guaranteed.

12. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Operator shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental or consequential damages, or for any loss of data or profits, arising out of or in connection with your use of the Service. Where the Operator is nonetheless liable, its total liability is limited to the fees you paid for the Service in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim.

These limits do not apply to damage caused intentionally or by gross negligence, nor where the contract is a consumer contract under Japan’s Consumer Contract Act and the limitation would be void under that Act, nor to any other liability that cannot be excluded by law.

13. Changes to the Service

The Operator may change, suspend or discontinue all or part of the Service at any time. Where reasonably practicable, notice of significant changes will be provided, and for the paid plan a reasonable period of notice will be given before a feature that materially affects it is withdrawn.

14. Changes to these Terms

The Operator may revise these Terms where the change benefits you, or where it is reasonable in light of the purpose of the contract and the circumstances (Article 548-4 of the Civil Code of Japan). Notice of the change and of its effective date will be posted on this page, and given in the App or by email where the change is significant. Your continued use after the effective date constitutes acceptance.

15. Governing law and jurisdiction

These Terms are governed by the laws of Japan. Any disputes arising out of or in connection with the Service or these Terms shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Tokyo District Court as the court of first instance. This does not deprive a consumer of any protection afforded by mandatory provisions of the law of the country in which they reside.

16. Contact

For inquiries regarding these Terms, write to [Contact email], or use the contact form.