Terms of Service

Effective date: June 8, 2026

These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) are an agreement between you and The Palaz Company LLC, 1209 Mountain Road PL NE STE N, Albuquerque, NM 87110, USA (“NodePad,” “we,” “us”). They govern your access to and use of the NodePad websites and application at node-pad.com and app.node-pad.com (together, the “Service”).

By creating an account or using the Service, you accept these Terms and our Privacy Policy. If you purchase a subscription, the Subscription & Billing Terms also apply and form part of these Terms.

1. Eligibility

You must be at least 13 years old, or the higher minimum age required in your country for consenting to online services (up to 16 in certain EU member states), and capable of entering into a binding contract. If you use the Service on behalf of an organization, you represent that you are authorized to bind that organization, and “you” includes it.

2. Your account

You are responsible for your account, for keeping your credentials confidential, and for all activity that occurs under your account. Keep the email address on your account current. Notify us promptly at [email protected] if you believe your account has been accessed without authorization.

3. Acceptable use

You agree that you will not, and will not permit any third party to:

(a) use the Service in violation of applicable law or to infringe the rights of others, including intellectual-property and privacy rights;

(b) generate or distribute content that is unlawful, harmful, or abusive, or that violates the usage policies of the underlying model providers (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google);

(c) circumvent or attempt to circumvent usage allowances, metering, billing, rate limits, or security measures;

(d) probe, scan, scrape, or overload the Service, or access it by automated means except as we expressly permit;

(e) create accounts or accumulate usage by automated or fraudulent means;

(f) reverse engineer, copy, resell, or sublicense the Service, except to the extent such a restriction is prohibited by applicable law; or

(g) upload malicious code or otherwise use the Service to harm others.

We may investigate suspected violations and take appropriate action, including suspension or termination under Section 9.

4. Your content

You retain all rights in the content you submit to or create in the Service, including workspaces, messages, notes, and attachments (“User Content”). You grant us a limited, worldwide, non-exclusive license to host, store, process, transmit, and display User Content solely as necessary to operate, secure, and improve the Service for you. This includes transmitting the content you submit to the model provider that serves your selected model in order to generate a response.

We claim no ownership of User Content. We do not use your private User Content to train machine learning models, and we access model providers under commercial API terms pursuant to which they do not use it to train theirs. You are responsible for User Content and represent that you have the rights necessary to submit it.

5. AI-generated output

Output produced by AI models may be inaccurate, incomplete, offensive, or unsuitable for your purposes, and may not be unique to you: similar or identical output may be generated for other users, and the same prompt may produce different results. Output is not professional advice of any kind, including legal, medical, or financial advice. You are responsible for evaluating output before relying on or distributing it.

6. Our intellectual property

The Service, including its software, design, and branding (but excluding User Content), is owned by us or our licensors and is protected by intellectual-property laws. We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to use the Service in accordance with these Terms. No other rights are granted by implication.

7. Third-party services

The Service depends on third-party services, including model providers and Stripe. Your use of those services through the Service may be subject to their own terms, and we are not responsible for third-party services we do not control.

8. Changes to the Service

We may add, modify, or discontinue features of the Service at any time. If a change materially and adversely affects a paid feature during a period you have already paid for, we will give you reasonable advance notice, and you may cancel your subscription as described in the Subscription & Billing Terms. Nothing in this section limits any rights you have under applicable consumer law that cannot be excluded.

9. Suspension and termination

You may stop using the Service and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate your access if you materially breach these Terms, fail to pay amounts due, or where we reasonably believe suspension is necessary for legal or security reasons. Where practicable, we will give you notice and an opportunity to cure. Upon termination, your right to use the Service ends. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (including Sections 4 through 6 and 10 through 15) survive.

10. Disclaimers

The Service is provided “as is” and “as available.” To the maximum extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, whether express, implied, or statutory, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that AI-generated output will be accurate or reliable. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits rights that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law, including the statutory rights of consumers in the EU and the UK.

11. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law: (a) we will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenues, data, or goodwill, arising out of or relating to the Service; and (b) our total aggregate liability for all claims arising out of or relating to the Service will not exceed the amounts you paid us for the Service in the twelve months preceding the event giving rise to liability or, if greater, USD 100.

These limitations do not apply where prohibited by law, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law, including the non-excludable rights of EU and UK consumers.

12. Indemnity

To the extent permitted by applicable law, you will defend and indemnify us against third-party claims and associated costs (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising from your User Content or from your use of the Service in breach of these Terms or applicable law, except to the extent a claim arises from our own breach or negligence. This section does not apply to consumers where, or to the extent, such an obligation is unenforceable under the law of their country of residence.

13. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of New Mexico, USA, excluding its conflict-of-laws rules, and the state and federal courts located in New Mexico have jurisdiction over disputes arising out of these Terms. These Terms do not require arbitration. If you are a consumer, this section does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory consumer-protection laws of your country of residence, and consumers in the EU and the UK retain the right to bring proceedings in the courts of their place of residence.

14. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. We will post the updated Terms with a new effective date and, for material changes, provide reasonable advance notice (for example, by email or an in-product notice). Your continued use of the Service after the effective date constitutes acceptance. If you do not accept the updated Terms, you must stop using the Service and may cancel any subscription.

15. General

Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the documents they incorporate by reference, constitute the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Service.

Severability. If any provision of these Terms is held unenforceable, it will be enforced to the maximum extent permissible and the remaining provisions will remain in full force.

No waiver. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of our right to enforce it later.

Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our prior written consent. We may assign these Terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, or by operation of law.

Export compliance. You may not use the Service in violation of applicable export-control or sanctions laws.

Notices. We may provide notices to the email address associated with your account. You may send notices to the contact address below.

16. Contact

The Palaz Company LLC, 1209 Mountain Road PL NE STE N, Albuquerque, NM 87110, USA. Email: [email protected].