Terms of Service
Effective: 2026-08-08 Provider: Tejerwon Joel Gbayea-DeJonge, sole proprietor, trading as Nodemancy Contact: support@nodemancy.com
1. Agreement
By using Nodemancy you agree to these terms. If you do not, do not use it.
You must be at least 16 to hold an account.
(Chosen 2026-08-08. Sixteen is the GDPR default age of digital consent, and it sits above the under-13 line that triggers COPPA in the US — so one number is coherent in both places we might plausibly have users, rather than a US number that fails in Europe or the reverse. Some EU member states lower theirs to 13; holding at 16 is the conservative side of that variation and needs no per-country logic.)
How agreement is recorded. You are asked to agree before an account is created, and we record which version of these terms and of the privacy policy you accepted, and when. If either document changes, you are asked again — your earlier agreement stands for the earlier version and is not silently carried forward onto text you never saw. See §2.4b of the privacy policy for what that record contains and when it is deleted.
(Added 2026-08-05, active from 2026-08-08. account_consents, migration
20260805190000. The mechanism was built dormant and deliberately left that way
until these documents were published, because recording agreement to an
unpublished version would be a false record — worse than no record. It went live
with the publication of this document.)
2. Your account
You are responsible for keeping your credentials safe and for what happens under your account. Tell us promptly at support@nodemancy.com if you believe someone else has access.
One person per account. You may not share an account with others.
3. What you make is yours
You own everything you write. We claim no ownership of your entries, links, lenses, cards, or uploads.
You grant us only the permission needed to run the service: to store your content, display it back to you, and show it to the specific people you choose to share it with. That permission ends when you delete the content or your account.
We do not use your content to train AI models.
4. Sharing, and what it means
You control visibility per lens — private, friends, or public — and per entry. Understand what each choice does:
- Public means anyone on the internet, signed in or not, can read it.
- Friends means people whose friend request you have accepted.
- Grants mean the specific people you name.
Sharing is a decision you make. Once something is public, assume it may have been read, copied, or archived by others, and that making it private again cannot retrieve those copies.
5. Starter content
New accounts receive a copy of starter material we author. It is licensed to you for use within the product; you may edit or delete your copy freely. It remains our work, and republishing it wholesale as your own is not permitted.
Because it is a copy, changes we make later do not alter palaces that already exist.
6. Assisted generation
Optional and off by default. If you enable it:
- Output from an AI model may be wrong, and you are responsible for what you keep. It is a drafting aid, not a source of truth.
- Entries marked
restrictedare never sent to a hosted model, in any mode. - Usage is metered and subject to plan limits. Hosted generation is not included on the free plan — it requires a paid plan or your own API key.
- Generated entries arrive as drafts. They are marked unread until you open them, and cannot become flashcards until you do. This is deliberate: nothing a model wrote should end up in a memorisation deck without a person having read it once.
- We keep the request you typed alongside the result, so you can see and re-edit the instructions that produced a set. It is removed when you delete that set or your account.
- Anthropic's own usage policies also apply to what you submit through hosted AI.
You can also bring content in from an AI you use elsewhere, by pasting it or by downloading your lens as an Agent Skill. Content that arrives this way is treated the same as content we generated: yours, and marked for review.
7. Acceptable use
Do not use Nodemancy to:
- break the law, or infringe anyone's rights;
- store or share material that is unlawful — in particular, do not upload content that sexualises minors. Accounts doing so are terminated immediately and reported;
- harass, impersonate, or endanger anyone;
- attack, overload, or probe the service, or try to reach data that is not yours;
- scrape or bulk-extract other users' public content;
- resell or white-label the service without written agreement.
We may suspend or terminate accounts that do these things. Where we reasonably can, we will tell you why.
8. Payment
(Rewritten 2026-08-08, the day subscriptions went live. This section was bracketed placeholders while money was already moving, which is the wrong order and is noted so the next person understands why it reads as though it was written in a hurry.)
The plan. $13 per month. It covers hosted AI — asking questions of your own graph, and assisted generation — which costs us money per request to run.
What is not behind it, and will not be. The number of nodes, lenses, links or files you may create is not limited by plan, and your own writing is never held back from you by one. If you would rather not subscribe, you can supply your own model key and pay your provider directly, or use Nodemancy with no AI at all — it is a knowledge graph first.
Renewal. Monthly, automatically, until you cancel.
Cancellation. Any time, from Polar's customer portal. Access continues to the end of the period you have already paid for — cancelling on day two of a month does not end your access on day two. (This is not merely a promise: the system that receives cancellation events deliberately does not downgrade an account when you cancel. It waits for the separate event that means the paid period has actually run out. Implemented and tested 2026-08-08.)
Refunds. We do not offer refunds for time already elapsed. You can cancel whenever you like and keep access until the period you paid for runs out.
The reason, since a refusal deserves one. The free tier is not a crippled version — nodes, lenses, links and files are uncapped on it, and always will be. The only thing a subscription buys is hosted AI, which costs us money per request the moment it is used. So the evaluation period other products call a trial is simply the product, for as long as you want it, and a refund window on top of that would mean paying a model provider for work already done and returning the fee for it.
Statutory withdrawal rights are not affected by any of the above. If you are a consumer in the EU or the UK, you have a statutory right to withdraw from a distance contract within 14 days. That right can lapse for digital content that is supplied immediately, but only where you expressly consented to immediate performance and acknowledged losing it at the point of purchase. Unless you gave that consent, the 14-day right stands and we will honour it on request — this paragraph does not override it, and no clause here attempts to. The same applies to any equivalent right your own country grants you.
(Decided 2026-08-08, and the reasoning is recorded because the first draft of this section proposed a 14-day no-questions window for everyone. That is the conventional answer and it is the wrong default here: it is functionally a second trial layered on a free tier that already serves that purpose, and it exposes a sole proprietor to somebody spending a month of metered model budget and reclaiming the fee. The statutory right is a different thing from a discretionary window, it is not ours to decline, and it is stated above rather than folded into the refusal.)
Price changes. Announced at least 30 days ahead by email, and never applied to a period you have already paid for. If you do not want the new price, cancel before it takes effect.
Failed payments. If a renewal payment fails, Polar retries on their schedule. If it ultimately fails, the subscription ends and the account returns to the free tier. Nothing you wrote is deleted, hidden, or held hostage — you lose the hosted AI allowance and nothing else. Export remains available on the free tier.
8b. How sales are handled
Sales are handled by Polar, who is the seller of record and handles billing and applicable taxes — including VAT and sales tax in your own jurisdiction. Your contract for the payment itself is with Polar; your contract for the service is with us. (Polar was set up as Merchant of Record on 2026-07-30. A merchant of record rather than a plain payment processor specifically so that global tax obligations sit with them rather than with a sole proprietor.)
Contributions are not subscriptions. The landing page also offers a one-off contribution. It grants nothing, unlocks nothing, and is attached to no account — it is a tip, not a purchase, and no term here applies to it beyond the fact that it is non-refundable because nothing was sold.
What exists in the code today (re-verified 2026-08-08): three tiers —
free, trial and paid. Free includes zero hosted-AI units, and trial
is priced at zero today. There is also a global monthly ceiling and a kill
switch that apply across all accounts, so hosted AI can be paused entirely
without a deploy.
That kill switch is a term, not just a mechanism, and it needs saying out loud: it can pause hosted AI for paying accounts as well as free ones. It exists so that a runaway cost or an abuse incident does not take down the whole service, but a paid feature that can be switched off has to be disclosed as such.
What is owed if it is used. If hosted AI is paused for a sustained period and your account is paying for it, write to support@nodemancy.com and we will credit you pro rata for the time it was unavailable. Stating this is deliberate: a disclosed switch with no stated remedy is the arrangement that turns into a dispute, and the remedy here is small enough to name plainly.
9. Your data — export and deletion
- Export is self-serve and complete: a .zip with your entries as Markdown, every row as JSON, and your files. No request, no delay.
- Deletion is self-serve, immediate, and irreversible. It destroys your entries, links, lenses, cards, review history, uploaded files, friendships and follows. There is no grace period and nothing to restore from. Export first.
Two operational records outlive deletion, and neither contains anything you wrote: encrypted backups age out after 30 days, and error reports — which are stripped of entry content before they are sent — are held 30 days by our error-reporting provider. Privacy policy §6 and §8 describe both in detail.
We may retain minimal records where the law requires it — for example, transaction records kept for tax purposes. Those are held by Polar as seller of record rather than by us; see §2.7 of the privacy policy.
10. Availability
We aim to keep the service running and make no uptime guarantee. It may be unavailable for maintenance, provider outages, or reasons outside our control.
This is a young product run by one person. Keep your own copies of anything you cannot afford to lose — the export exists for exactly that, and using it periodically is a reasonable habit rather than an insult.
11. Changes to the service
We may change or discontinue features. For material reductions in what you are paying for, we will give 30 days' notice and a pro-rata refund on request.
If the service shuts down entirely, we will give 60 days' notice and keep export working throughout. This is a commitment, not an aspiration: it is the promise a single-operator product can most credibly make, and it is the thing prospective users most reasonably worry about.
12. Disclaimers and liability
Sections 12–14 are standard-form and have not been reviewed by a lawyer. Values chosen 2026-08-08: liability capped at the greater of $100 or twelve months of fees, Michigan law, standard warranty disclaimer — all conventional for consumer SaaS. They are published rather than withheld because operating with no stated terms at all is the larger exposure, and every one of them is a string that can be amended. Amendment re-asks for consent automatically (§1), so correcting these after review costs nothing but a version bump.
THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, OUR TOTAL LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICE WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF $100 OR THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US IN THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM. WE ARE NOT LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS OR LOST DATA.
SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THESE EXCLUSIONS, IN WHICH CASE THEY MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. In particular, nothing here limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot be limited under the law that applies to you.
13. Indemnity
You agree to indemnify us against claims arising from your content or your use of the service in breach of these terms.
14. Governing law and disputes
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Michigan, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. Any dispute arising out of them or out of the service will be brought in the state or federal courts located in Michigan, and by using Nodemancy you agree to those courts having jurisdiction over you.
Except in small claims. Either of us may bring a qualifying claim in small claims court instead, in whichever venue that court's own rules allow. This is carved out deliberately: the alternative is telling somebody with a $13 complaint that their only route is a lawsuit in another state, which is a way of saying they have no route at all.
There is no arbitration clause and no class-action waiver here, and their absence is a choice rather than an oversight.
Binding arbitration with a class-action waiver is the conventional answer and was rejected on 2026-08-08. Under consumer arbitration rules the customer pays a capped filing fee of roughly $200 and the business pays the remainder — often $1,500 to $5,000 per case, win or lose. That structure is affordable to a company with a legal department and is the reason mass-arbitration campaigns exist: filing hundreds of individual claims at once turns a defensive clause into a bill a sole proprietor cannot pay. Choosing courts keeps the cost of a dispute proportional to the dispute.
The class-action waiver went with it. Outside arbitration such waivers are unreliably enforced — the Federal Arbitration Act is what normally makes them stick — so keeping one would have meant printing an adversarial sentence in exchange for protection that might not survive contact with a court.
If you are a consumer in the EU or UK, mandatory local protections apply regardless of what this section says, including the right to bring proceedings in your own country. Nothing here removes them.
15. Changes to these terms
We will post changes here and update the date. Material changes are notified by email 30 days before they take effect, and continued use after that is acceptance. Because consent is recorded per version (§1), an amendment also asks you again on next load rather than relying on that email having been read.
16. Contact
On the missing postal address. Most jurisdictions expect an identifiable legal entity at a contactable location, and this document does not yet carry one. It is published without it rather than delayed for it, because the larger exposure was operating with no stated terms at all while subscriptions were live. A postal address will be added by amendment — which, per §15, re-asks for your agreement rather than slipping in unannounced. Until then, the email address above is monitored and is the contact route for everything in this document.