Terms of Service

01. Acceptance

These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) form a binding agreement between you and Minine Inc (“we”, “us”) covering your use of MinineSTT (the “App”) and any related services we provide (together, the “Service”). By installing or using MinineSTT, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please do not use the App.

These Terms supplement, and where permitted modify, the Apple-issued standard EULA referenced in §14. Where the two conflict, these Terms control to the maximum extent permitted by Apple’s rules.

02. License

We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to install and use MinineSTT on Apple devices that you own or control, in accordance with the Apple Media Services Terms and these Terms.

You may not: (a) copy, modify, or create derivative works of the App; (b) reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract source code, except where applicable law expressly permits despite this limitation; (c) rent, lease, sub-license, or resell the App; (d) remove proprietary notices; or (e) use the App to build a competing product.

03. Account

Most of MinineSTT’s features work without an account. To use cross-device sync, teams, or to restore a Pro subscription on a new device, you sign in with Apple or Google.

You are responsible for keeping your sign-in credentials secure and for activity on your account. If you suspect unauthorized access, write to [email protected].

04. Your content

You retain all rights to the audio you record, the transcripts and translations the App produces from it, and any other content you create inside MinineSTT (collectively, “Your Content”).

To operate the Service, you grant us a limited, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, transmit, and process Your Content solely for the purpose of providing the features you use (e.g. running cloud transcription, syncing across your devices, sharing into a team you joined). This licence ends when you delete the content or your account, subject to the deletion windows described in our Privacy Policy §5.

We do not use Your Content to train any artificial-intelligence model, and we do not sell, rent, or trade it to anyone.

05. Recording responsibility

Read this section carefully. Audio recording laws vary by country, state, province, and even by venue. By using MinineSTT, you confirm that you will comply with the laws and rules that apply to you, including but not limited to:

• Consent. Many jurisdictions require all-party consent (everyone in the room must agree) before audio of a conversation can lawfully be captured. Some require only one-party consent. Some forbid recording in specific contexts (e.g. courtrooms, certain workplaces). It is your responsibility to know which applies to you and to obtain the necessary consent.
• Workplace and confidentiality rules. Recording meetings, calls, or interviews may breach an employer’s policy or a non-disclosure agreement.
• Sensitive contexts. Do not use MinineSTT to record minors, healthcare interactions, legal proceedings, or other sensitive contexts unless you have a clear legal basis to do so.

We provide a tool. We do not, and cannot, supervise how it is used. If you use the App in a way that violates someone else’s rights, we may suspend or terminate your access (see §11) and you may face legal consequences for which you alone are responsible.

06. Subscriptions

MinineSTT offers an optional Pro subscription, sold through Apple’s App Store via StoreKit. Two plans are currently offered:

• Pro · Monthly — product ID com.mininegame.stt.monthly.
• Pro · Yearly — product ID com.mininegame.stt.yearly.

Pricing. The price you pay is shown in the App at the moment of purchase and is set per region by App Store Connect. Apple converts to your local currency and applies any applicable tax.

Auto-renewal. Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each billing period unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, through Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions on your device. The App cannot cancel for you.

Refunds. Apple, not us, processes refunds. Eligibility is governed by the Apple Media Services Terms in your country. You can request a refund at reportaproblem.apple.com. Where consumer-protection law (e.g. the EU 14-day right of withdrawal) gives you stronger rights, those rights apply.

Changes. We may change subscription pricing or available plans, with notice through the App and the App Store; existing subscribers will be notified per Apple’s rules and given the chance to cancel before any change takes effect.

Restoring purchases. The “Restore” control inside the App lets you re-link an existing subscription on a new device using the same Apple ID.

07. Third-party services

Some features rely on third-party services (Apple, Google, AWS, OpenAI, AssemblyAI, DeepL). We list each one and what data it sees in our Privacy Policy §4. Your use of those features is subject to those third parties’ own terms and privacy policies. We are not responsible for the availability or behaviour of services we do not operate.

08. Prohibited use

You agree not to use MinineSTT to:

• Record any person without the consent required by applicable law (see §5).
• Capture confidential, classified, or otherwise protected information that you are not authorised to capture.
• Process or share content that is unlawful, harassing, defamatory, or that infringes another’s rights.
• Attempt to access another user’s account, sessions, or team without their permission.
• Probe, scan, or stress-test our infrastructure, except via good-faith security research disclosed to [email protected].
• Circumvent rate limits, paywalls, or access controls.
• Use the Service to develop a competing product, or to scrape data from it.

09. Disclaimer

The Service is provided “as is” and “as available”. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, and non-infringement.

Speech-to-text and translation are inherently imperfect. The transcripts and translations produced by MinineSTT may contain errors. You should not rely on them as the sole source of truth for legal, medical, financial, safety-critical, or emergency purposes. Always check the underlying audio for anything that matters.

10. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, neither we nor our affiliates, officers, employees, or agents will be liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, profits, revenue, or goodwill, arising out of or related to the Service, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.

Our aggregate liability under these Terms for any claim is limited to the greater of: (a) the amount you paid us for the Service in the 12 months preceding the claim, and (b) US$50.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain damages or warranties; in those jurisdictions our liability is limited only to the minimum extent permitted by law, and statutory rights you have as a consumer are not affected by this section.

11. Termination

You may stop using the Service at any time by uninstalling the App. You may close your account by following the instructions in Contact.

We may suspend or terminate your access to the Service if you breach these Terms, abuse the Service, or expose us to legal risk. Where the breach is curable and the situation allows, we will give you a reasonable chance to fix it before terminating.

On termination: §4 (your content), §9 (disclaimer), §10 (liability), §13 (disputes & arbitration) and §15 (contact) survive. Apple-issued subscription rules continue to apply to active subscriptions until they expire or are refunded by Apple.

12. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. The “Effective” date at the top reflects the latest version. For material changes (e.g. that affect your rights or our obligations) we will notify you in the App on next launch and give you a reasonable chance to review them. Continued use after the change takes effect constitutes acceptance of the new Terms; if you do not agree, stop using the App and you may close your account.

13. Disputes & arbitration

13.1 Governing law

These Terms, and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them, are governed by the laws of the State of California, USA, and (for arbitrability questions) by the U.S. Federal Arbitration Act (9 U.S.C. §§ 1–16), in each case without regard to conflict-of-laws principles, and without prejudice to mandatory consumer-protection rules of your country of residence.

13.2 Informal resolution first

Before starting any formal proceeding, you and Minine Inc agree to try to resolve the dispute informally. Send a written notice describing the claim to Minine Inc, 18952 MacArthur Blvd, Irvine, CA 92612, United States, with a copy to [email protected]. We will negotiate in good faith for 60 days from receipt of the notice before either party may start arbitration or litigation.

13.3 Binding arbitration

Except for the matters in §13.5, any dispute, controversy, or claim arising out of or relating to these Terms or the App — including the validity, scope, or enforceability of this arbitration agreement — will be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association ("AAA") under the AAA Consumer Arbitration Rules then in effect (adr.org), conducted by a single arbitrator. The seat of the arbitration is Orange County, California, USA. Arbitration may be conducted in person, by document submission, by telephone, or online; any in-person hearing will take place in Orange County, California unless the arbitrator orders otherwise. The arbitrator’s award is final and binding and may be entered as a judgment in any court of competent jurisdiction. Each party bears its own attorneys’ fees and costs unless the arbitrator awards them under applicable law or AAA rules.

Fees we pay for you. For any individual arbitration you initiate in good faith under this §13.3, Minine Inc will pay all AAA filing, administration, and arbitrator fees, regardless of the outcome — except where the arbitrator finds that your claim is frivolous or brought for an improper purpose (as defined by Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11(b) or by the analogous AAA standard), in which case fee allocation will follow the AAA Consumer Arbitration Rules. This commitment does not apply to your own attorneys’ fees, expert witness fees, or travel costs, which remain governed by the preceding paragraph.

13.4 Class-action and jury-trial waiver

YOU AND MININE INC EACH WAIVE THE RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY AND THE RIGHT TO BRING OR PARTICIPATE IN ANY CLASS, COLLECTIVE, CONSOLIDATED, OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. Disputes will be resolved on an individual basis. The arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person’s claims and may not preside over any form of class or representative proceeding. If a court finally decides this class-action waiver to be unenforceable as to any particular claim, that claim (and only that claim) will proceed in court rather than in arbitration; the rest of these Terms, including this §13, will continue to apply.

13.5 Exceptions

Either party may bring an individual action in a small-claims court for disputes within that court’s jurisdiction in lieu of arbitration. Either party may also seek injunctive or other equitable relief in a court of competent jurisdiction to prevent the actual or threatened infringement, misappropriation, or violation of intellectual-property rights, or to address unauthorized access to the App or our service.

13.6 30-day opt-out

You may opt out of §13.3 (binding arbitration) and §13.4 (class-action and jury-trial waiver) by sending an email to [email protected] with the subject line “Arbitration opt-out” within 30 days of first accepting these Terms (or, for users who already accepted an earlier version, within 30 days of the effective date of this version). Your email must include the email address and display name associated with your account. If you opt out, §13.7 governs any dispute between you and us. Opting out has no effect on any other part of these Terms.

13.7 Court proceedings (if arbitration does not apply)

If §13.3 does not apply to a dispute — because you opted out under §13.6, because the dispute falls within §13.5, or because the arbitration agreement is held unenforceable for any other reason — the state and federal courts located in Orange County, California will have exclusive jurisdiction, except where a mandatory consumer-protection rule of your country of residence requires otherwise.

13.8 Consumers outside the United States

If you are a consumer domiciled in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, the People’s Republic of China, or any other jurisdiction in which a pre-dispute mandatory arbitration agreement or a class-action waiver against a consumer is unenforceable, then §13.3 (binding arbitration) and §13.4 (class-action and jury-trial waiver) do not apply to you. You may bring proceedings in the courts of your country of residence, and we may bring proceedings against you only in the courts of your country of residence, in each case applying the mandatory consumer-protection rules of that country.

13.9 Changes to this section

If we make a material change to this §13 in the future, you may reject the change by emailing [email protected] within 30 days of the new effective date, in which case the prior version of this §13 continues to apply to disputes between you and Minine Inc.

14. Apple-specific terms

The following terms apply to MinineSTT to the extent it is downloaded through the Apple App Store, in accordance with Schedule 1 of the Apple Developer Program Licence Agreement:

• These Terms are entered into solely between you and Minine Inc; Apple is not a party.
• The licence in §2 is limited to use of the App on Apple-branded products that you own or control, as permitted by the Usage Rules in the Apple Media Services Terms.
• Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for the App. Maintenance and support, where offered, are provided by us.
• We are responsible for any product warranties, whether express or implied by law, to the extent not effectively disclaimed. If the App fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, who will refund the purchase price; to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Apple has no other warranty obligation.
• We, not Apple, are responsible for addressing claims by you or any third party relating to the App or your possession or use of it, including product-liability, regulatory-compliance, and intellectual-property claims.
• You represent and warrant that you are not located in a country that is subject to a U.S. Government embargo, and that you are not listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
• Apple and Apple’s subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms, and upon your acceptance, will have the right (and will be deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce these Terms against you as a third-party beneficiary thereof.

15. Contact

Minine Inc
18952 MacArthur Blvd
Irvine, CA 92612
United States

Legal: [email protected]
Privacy: [email protected]
Security: [email protected]
General: [email protected]