Version 1.0 — Effective date: 2026-09-02
These Terms of Use are an agreement between you and Zhang Liu, an individual developer based in South Carolina, United States ("we", "us"), about the BeyondRead app for iOS.
By tapping Agree, you agree to these Terms of Use, including the binding arbitration provision and class-action waiver described in Section 12. If you do not accept them, do not use the app. Reading features that work without an account are provided under these terms as well.
Apple is not a party to these terms. See §13 for terms that App Store rules require us to state about Apple.
We may change, add or remove features. If a change removes something material you paid for, §8 (subscriptions) governs.
AI output is generated by a machine and can be wrong, incomplete, or misleading, even when it sounds confident. Every digest carries an AI-generated notice.
You agree not to: probe, overload, or interfere with the service; bypass quotas, rate limits, or technical protections (including by fabricating failures to farm refunds); resell or programmatically harvest the AI features; use the service to violate law or third-party rights; or attempt to identify other users. We may throttle, suspend, or terminate accounts engaged in abuse (§9).
Each plan (including the free plan) has quotas that refill with the calendar month — on the 1st, United States Eastern time — independently of when your subscription renews (see §8). The current figures are shown in the app. A failed AI call is refunded to your quota, but the number of attempts is capped separately and attempts are not refunded — this is the mechanism that stops manufactured-failure abuse; occasional real failures leave you ample retries. Unused quota does not roll over to the next month. Quotas and plan contents may be adjusted; changes apply from the next calendar month.
One consequence worth stating plainly: because the allowance follows the calendar and the charge follows your renewal date, moving to a lower plan mid-month leaves you with whatever remains of that plan's allowance after what you have already spent this month. If you have already used more than the lower plan allows, you have none left until the 1st.
You can stop using the app, or delete your account, at any time. We may suspend or terminate your access to the AI features (or, for serious abuse, your account) if you materially breach these terms, with notice where practicable. Sections that by their nature survive (3, 5, 10, 11, 12) survive termination.
THE APP AND THE AI FEATURES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE", WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE OPERATION. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW CERTAIN WARRANTY EXCLUSIONS; IN THAT CASE THE EXCLUSIONS APPLY TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED.
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW: (a) WE ARE NOT LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR LOSS OF DATA, PROFITS OR GOODWILL; AND (b) OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS RELATING TO THE APP IS LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF US $100 OR THE AMOUNTS YOU PAID US THROUGH THE APP IN THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM. NOTHING IN THESE TERMS LIMITS LIABILITY THAT CANNOT BE LIMITED BY LAW (INCLUDING FOR GROSS NEGLIGENCE OR WILLFUL MISCONDUCT).
Please read this section carefully. It affects your rights: it requires individual arbitration of most disputes and waives class actions. You can opt out within 30 days (§12.5).
12.1 Governing law. These terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. The Federal Arbitration Act governs the interpretation and enforcement of this §12.
12.2 Talk to us first. Before filing any claim, you agree to email zhang3917@hotmail.com with a description of the dispute and give us 60 days to try to resolve it informally. Most issues get fixed this way, faster than any proceeding.
12.3 Binding individual arbitration. Except as provided in §12.4, any dispute arising out of or relating to the app or these terms shall be resolved by binding arbitration on an individual basis, administered by the American Arbitration Association ("AAA") under its Consumer Arbitration Rules and, where applicable, its Mass Arbitration Supplementary Rules, in each case as then in effect. The arbitration will be conducted in English, by videoconference, or — if an in-person hearing is required — in the county where you live. Fees are allocated under the AAA Consumer Arbitration Rules; if your claim is for less than US $10,000, we will pay the administrative and arbitrator fees other than your initial filing fee, unless the arbitrator finds the claim frivolous. The arbitrator's award is final and may be entered in any court with jurisdiction.
12.4 What stays out of arbitration. Either party may (a) bring qualifying claims in small claims court, and (b) seek injunctive or equitable relief in court for infringement or misuse of intellectual property.
Nothing in this Section waives or limits any right to seek public injunctive relief where such a waiver or limitation is prohibited by applicable law.
For anything not subject to arbitration, the state and federal courts located in Santa Clara County, California have exclusive jurisdiction, except to the extent applicable law gives you the right to bring a claim in another jurisdiction.
12.5 Your right to opt out. You may reject this arbitration agreement, without any penalty, by emailing zhang3917@hotmail.com within 30 days of first accepting these terms, stating your account identifier and that you opt out of arbitration. If you timely opt out, this arbitration agreement, including the arbitration-related jury-trial and class-action waivers, will not apply to you. Any dispute will instead be resolved in court as provided in §12.4, subject to applicable law.
12.6 Class action waiver. BOTH PARTIES WAIVE THE RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL AND THE RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS, COLLECTIVE, CONSOLIDATED OR REPRESENTATIVE ACTION. Claims may be brought only in an individual capacity. If this waiver is found unenforceable as to a particular claim, then that claim (and only that claim) must proceed in court under §12.4, not in arbitration.
12.7 Severability of this section. If any part of this §12 other than §12.6 is found unenforceable, the rest of §12 still applies.
We may update these terms. For material changes we will present the new version in the app and ask you to accept before continuing to use the AI features; reading features are not gated. The version and effective date at the top tell you what you are looking at.
Zhang Liu — zhang3917@hotmail.com