These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your access to and use of read2listen, including the website at read2listen.com, the web app, the desktop and Android apps, and related services (together, the "Service"). They are a binding agreement between you and Ma-anah Corp, a sole proprietorship registered in Tamil Nadu, India (GSTIN: 33BPWPA1564F2ZY), with its principal place of business at 18, Radhakrishnan Nagar Main Road, Thiruvanmiyur, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600041, India ("read2listen", "we", "us", "our").
By joining the waiting list, signing in, or otherwise using the Service, you accept these Terms and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.
1. The Service
read2listen lets you upload your own books, articles and other documents and listen to them read aloud, keeping your place and listening progress across your devices.
The Service is in an early, invitation-only beta. Features may change, be limited or be removed, and the Service may contain errors. The Service is currently free of charge.
2. Eligibility and accounts
You must be at least 18 years old and able to form a binding contract to use the Service. You sign in with a Google account; access may be limited to invited accounts.
You are responsible for activity under your account and for keeping your devices and Google account secure. Approve a desktop or app sign-in only if you started it yourself. Tell us at privacy@read2listen.com if you suspect unauthorised access.
3. Licence to use the Service
Subject to these Terms, we grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to use the Service for your own personal, non-commercial use.
The read2listen source code is published under the MIT License, and nothing in these Terms limits the rights that licence gives you in the code. These Terms govern the Service we operate and the apps we distribute.
4. Your documents
You keep all rights in the documents you upload ("Your Content"). You grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to store, copy, process and convert Your Content into speech, and to display it back to you, only as needed to provide the Service to you. This licence ends when Your Content is deleted from our servers, except where the law requires us to keep it.
You are responsible for Your Content. You confirm that you have the right to upload it and to have it read aloud for your personal use, and that doing so does not infringe anyone's copyright or other rights or break any law. read2listen is for listening to your own material; it is not an audiobook store or a way to distribute content to others.
Keep your own copies of anything important. The Service is not a backup service, and documents or listening history may be lost.
5. Copyright complaints
If you believe content on the Service infringes your copyright or other rights, send a notice to privacy@read2listen.com identifying the work, the content concerned, your contact details, and a statement that you are the rights holder or authorised to act for them. We will act on valid notices as required by law, including the Information Technology Act, 2000 and its rules, and may suspend accounts of repeat infringers.
6. Acceptable use
You agree not to:
use the Service to break any law or infringe anyone's rights;
upload content you do not have the right to use, or content that is unlawful, harmful, harassing, hateful or sexually exploits anyone;
upload malicious files or anything designed to disrupt, damage or gain unauthorised access to the Service or other people's data;
publicly share, sell or distribute audio or text produced from content you do not own, or otherwise use the Service commercially without our written permission;
bypass invitations, access controls, rate limits or the separation between accounts;
scrape, overload or interfere with the Service, or access it by automated means other than the apps and interfaces we provide.
We may investigate suspected violations and remove content or suspend or close accounts that we reasonably believe break these Terms.
7. Voices and third-party services
Speech is produced by your device's operating-system voices or by a voice model that runs on your device, as described in the Privacy Policy. Voices provided by your operating system, sign-in with Google, and other third-party services are governed by their providers' own terms, and we are not responsible for them.
Generated speech can mispronounce words or misread text, tables and layouts. Do not rely on it where accuracy matters.
8. Availability and changes
We aim to keep the Service available but do not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free access. It may be unavailable because of maintenance, outages of our providers, or other problems. We may change, suspend or discontinue all or part of the Service; where reasonably possible, we will give notice before discontinuing it so you can retrieve your documents.
9. Fees
The Service is free during the beta. If we introduce paid plans, we will tell you in advance, and paid features will be subject to additional terms you accept at the time. We will not charge you without your agreement.
10. Our intellectual property
The read2listen name, logo, website and Service design belong to Ma-anah Corp. Except for the open-source code licence above, these Terms do not grant you rights in them. If you send us feedback or suggestions, we may use them without restriction or payment to you.
11. Disclaimers
THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE", WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT AND ACCURACY. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, secure or free of errors, or that documents and listening data will never be lost.
12. Limitation of liability
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE ARE NOT LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF DATA, PROFITS, REVENUE OR GOODWILL, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICE.
Our total liability for all claims related to these Terms or the Service will not exceed the greater of (a) the amount you paid us for the Service in the 12 months before the claim arose, or (b) one hundred US dollars (USD 100).
Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, or any rights you have as a consumer that cannot be waived.
13. Indemnity
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Ma-anah Corp, its proprietor, employees, contractors and agents from third-party claims, losses and reasonable legal costs arising from Your Content or from your breach of these Terms or of anyone's rights.
14. Ending your use
You can stop using the Service at any time. To close your account and have your data deleted from our servers, email privacy@read2listen.com from your account's email address.
We may suspend or close your account, with notice where reasonably possible, if you breach these Terms, if the law requires it, if your use creates risk for the Service or other users, or if we discontinue the Service or your invitation.
When an account is closed, we delete its account, documents and listening data from our servers within 30 days, except where the law requires us to keep it. Copies already stored on your devices stay there until you remove them, as described in the Privacy Policy. Sections on your documents, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnity, governing law and dispute resolution survive.
15. Privacy
Our Privacy Policy at read2listen.com/privacy explains how we handle personal data and forms part of these Terms.
16. Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms. We will post the new version with a new "Last updated" date and, for material changes, give you at least 30 days' notice by email or in the app before they take effect. If you keep using the Service after that, you accept the updated Terms; if you do not agree, stop using the Service before then.
17. Governing law and jurisdiction
These Terms and any dispute related to them or the Service are governed by the laws of India, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. Subject to the next section, the courts of Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India have exclusive jurisdiction, unless the law of your country gives you the right to bring a claim in your local courts.
18. Dispute resolution
Before starting formal proceedings, please contact us at privacy@read2listen.com describing the problem and the outcome you want. We will try in good faith to resolve it. If it is not resolved within 30 days, either party may pursue any remedy available under these Terms and the law.
19. General
Entire agreement: these Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and us about the Service.
Severability: if any provision is unenforceable, the rest remain in effect.
No waiver: not enforcing a provision is not a waiver of our right to do so later.
Assignment: you may not transfer these Terms without our consent; we may transfer them as part of a merger, acquisition or sale of assets.
Force majeure: neither party is liable for delays or failures caused by events beyond its reasonable control.
Notices: notices to us must be sent to privacy@read2listen.com; we may send notices to the email address on your account.
20. Contact
Company: Ma-anah Corp (read2listen)
Address: 18, Radhakrishnan Nagar Main Road, Thiruvanmiyur, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600041, India