Terms of Service

1. Agreement and operator

These Terms govern your access to Paused FYI (the “Service”), operated by TableHQ LLC(“Paused,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). By accessing the Service, creating an account, or starting a trial or subscription, you agree to these Terms and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

2. Eligibility and accounts

You must be at least 18 years old and legally able to enter this agreement. You are responsible for providing accurate account information, protecting login links, codes, connected accounts, and devices, and for activity through your account. Tell us promptly if you suspect unauthorized access.

Your Paused account, private archive, custom tables, and subscription are separate from accounts and subscriptions you may have with other products.

3. The Service

Paused lets you import RSS Podcasts and YouTube Episodes; save playback positions, Moment titles and notes, and tracking fields; curate Collections; publish listener-owned Moment and Collection pages at their canonical URLs; and export an archive. Public Podcast and Episode metadata is normalized into a shared catalog, while Moments, Collections, listening records, and Your Content remain attached to your workspace so supported records stay coherent across refreshes and temporary provider failures.

We may improve, limit, replace, or discontinue content, features, or provider integrations. We will give reasonable notice when a material change would significantly reduce a paid feature, when practical. The Service is not a permanent media archive and does not store or promise continued access to every underlying audio file or video.

4. Trials, subscriptions, and billing

Access to the private archive requires a subscription after any offered trial. The available plan, billing interval, currency, trial length, and price are shown before you choose a plan and in Billing. A no-card trial does not create a charge by itself. If you add a payment method and continue paid service, you authorize Stripe to charge the disclosed price and applicable taxes automatically at the stated interval until you pause or cancel as Billing allows.

You may manage, pause when offered, resume, or cancel online from Billing. Unless the Service says otherwise, cancellation takes effect at the end of the current paid period and trial cancellation may end access immediately. Except where law requires otherwise, charges already paid are nonrefundable and we do not provide partial period credits.

We may change future pricing with reasonable advance notice. Price changes do not alter charges already paid and take effect no earlier than a later renewal unless you affirmatively select another plan.

5. Your content

You retain any rights you have in Moment titles, notes, collection descriptions, custom field values, and other material you submit (“Your Content”). You grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, copy, process, and display Your Content only as needed to operate, secure, and improve the Service and provide the export you request.

You are responsible for Your Content and must have the rights needed to submit it. Do not store confidential information that the Service does not need or copy protected transcripts or media without permission.

Podcast and Episode source metadata is public by nature. When you publish a listener-owned Moment or Collection, you direct us to display its live public projection to anyone with its canonical URL and to generate supported embeds or previews. Publishing a Collection makes its current Episode and Moment items visible in that Collection context but does not make its Moments independently public. Unpublishing makes the URL unavailable to non-owners without rotating its stable ID. It cannot recall copies, previews, screenshots, or caches made while the resource was available.

6. Providers and media rights

Podcast Index, YouTube, podcast publishers and hosts, and other providers control their content, feeds, players, availability, and data practices. Artwork, descriptions, audio, videos, transcripts, and links remain the property of their respective owners. Importing a public link or metadata does not grant you or us a license to the underlying media.

YouTube features use YouTube API Services. By using those features, you also agree to the YouTube Terms of Service.

Provider content can change, disappear, become unavailable in your region, or require separate terms. We are not responsible for third-party content, recommendations, advertising, security, or availability.

A public Podcast, Episode, Moment, or Collection page opens the provider's original stream, using the complete Episode for a Podcast row or full-episode Moment and the saved range for an excerpt. YouTube playback uses its visible embedded player; range boundaries are approximate and YouTube controls advertising and availability. Paused does not create a downloadable copy, media clip, or audiogram of the provider media. Sharing a short quote or excerpt is not automatically authorized or fair use; you are responsible for having a sufficient right or lawful basis for the text you choose to publish.

7. Acceptable use

You may not use the Service to:

• break the law or violate another person's rights;
• copy, distribute, or provide unauthorized access to protected media or transcripts;
• harass another person or store unlawful, abusive, or malicious material;
• probe, disrupt, overload, scrape, or bypass security, subscriptions, provider restrictions, rate limits, or access controls; or
• introduce malware or interfere with another person's use.

We may remove content or restrict access when reasonably necessary to enforce these Terms, protect people, providers, or the Service, or comply with law.

8. Our intellectual property

The Service, software, design, branding, and original materials belong to us or our licensors. Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, revocable, non-transferable right to use the Service for its intended purpose. No other rights are granted. If you provide feedback, we may use it without restriction or payment to you.

9. Export, backups, and account closure

Account & data can create a JSON export of the supported archive, referenced Podcast and Episode sources, and listener-owned resource visibility, including an identified error when external custom-table data cannot be read. You are responsible for downloading and safely storing any copy you need. An export may not contain media hosted by third parties.

You may stop using the Service, cancel a subscription, or request account deletion at any time. We may suspend or terminate access for a material or repeated breach, nonpayment, legal risk, abuse, or a threat to the Service or others. When reasonable, we will provide notice and an opportunity to correct the issue.

Provisions that by their nature should continue after termination survive, including ownership, payment obligations, disclaimers, liability limits, and dispute terms.

10. Disclaimers

TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE.” WE DISCLAIM IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT GUARANTEE UNINTERRUPTED OPERATION, PRESERVATION OR ACCURACY OF METADATA, SUCCESSFUL IMPORTS, OR CONTINUED ACCESS TO PROVIDER CONTENT OR SERVICES.

Nothing in these Terms excludes a warranty or consumer right that cannot lawfully be excluded.

11. Limitation of liability

TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, NEITHER WE NOR OUR SUPPLIERS WILL BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, LISTENING HISTORY, GOODWILL, OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION.

OUR TOTAL LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF $100 OR THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US FOR THE SERVICE DURING THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM. THESE LIMITS APPLY TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.

12. Indemnification

To the extent permitted by law, you will defend and indemnify us from third-party claims arising from Your Content, your misuse of the Service, or your violation of these Terms or another person's rights. This does not require indemnification for our own unlawful conduct.

13. Governing law and disputes

Washington law governs these Terms, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Before filing a claim, contact us and allow 30 days for an informal resolution. If that does not resolve the dispute, the state and federal courts with jurisdiction in King County, Washington will have exclusive jurisdiction, except that an eligible individual claim may be brought in small claims court.

Mandatory consumer protections in your home jurisdiction continue to apply where they cannot be waived.

14. Changes and general terms

We may update these Terms. We will post the updated date and provide reasonable notice before a material change takes effect. Continued use after the effective date means you accept the updated Terms.

These Terms and the policies they incorporate are the entire agreement about the Service. If one provision is unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue. A failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not transfer this agreement without our consent; we may transfer it as part of a reorganization, financing, merger, or sale of the Service.

15. Contact

Questions about these Terms may be sent to support@paused.fyi.