Terms of service

§ 1 Scope and provider

These terms of service ("terms") govern the use of Studim.ai at www.studim.ai (the "service"). The provider of the service is [FULL NAME], [COMPANY LEGAL FORM], [STREET AND NUMBER], [POSTCODE CITY], Germany ("we"). Further details are in the legal notice.

The service is aimed at students and other learners. Consumers within the meaning of § 13 BGB (German Civil Code) are not placed in a worse position by these terms than mandatory consumer law allows. Deviating terms of users do not apply.

§ 2 Description of the service

Studim.ai is a study assistant for lectures. Depending on the plan, the service offers:

• Live transcription: your device's microphone captures the lecture, the service writes it down in real time.
• Live translation of the transcript into your language.
• Reader cards: automatic call-outs of questions from the lecturer with suggested answers, exam hints, assignments and important remarks.
• Library: saved lectures with summary, bilingual glossary, practice quiz and key moments, full-text search and export of each lecture as a text file.
• Audio recording and replay of the lecture, only on the Professor and Dean plans and only after your confirmation per lecture (§ 8).
• Data export and account deletion in Settings.

The service is in beta. We develop it continuously and may change, add or discontinue features as long as the core of the service (transcription, translation, Library) remains available for the paid term. The service requires a device with a microphone, a current browser and a stable internet connection.

§ 3 Registration, account and minimum age

1. Sign-in works only with a Google account. The first sign-in creates a usage contract for the free plan.
2. The service may only be used by people who are at least 16 years old. Paid plans are for adults, or for minors with a guardian's consent. [LAWYER: Align the age limit and any check at sign-up; the service does not ask for the age today.]
3. Each person may hold only one account. The account is personal and must not be passed on. You are responsible for all actions taken through your account as far as you are accountable for them.
4. The service is intended for personal use for studying. Commercial use or passing the results to third parties for commercial purposes requires our prior consent in text form.

§ 4 Plans, limits and fair use

We offer the following plans. Hours are transcription hours per calendar month (UTC).

1. The Free plan includes: 5 hours of transcription per month, the Library with the full summary, the first 5 glossary terms, the first 3 quiz questions, all key moments, search and export. Audio recording is not included in the Free plan.
2. The Lecturer, Professor and Dean plans include the Library and all study tools in full. Audio recording is included in the Professor and Dean plans.
3. Yearly plans cost ten monthly prices and include the monthly limits of the respective plan for twelve months. [CONFIRM WHEN G3 PAYMENTS GO LIVE]
4. The limit applies per calendar month (UTC) and resets at the start of the next calendar month. Unused hours do not carry over. [LAWYER: No carry-over of unused hours is a common but reviewable clause.]
5. The 100 hours of the Dean plan are a fair-use ceiling. It is set well above the lecture load of a semester. When the limit is used up, transcription pauses until the next calendar month; saved lectures and the Library remain usable.
6. All limits are checked on our servers. You can see your current usage on the live lecture screen.
7. Coupon codes grant the benefit described with them, are not transferable, cannot be combined with other promotions and can be redeemed only once per account.

§ 5 Conclusion of contract and payment

1. Paid plans are sold through Lemon Squeezy. The contracting party for the purchase (merchant of record) is Sold through Link, LLC (formerly Lemon Squeezy LLC), Utah, USA. Lemon Squeezy processes the payment, issues the invoice, remits VAT and offers you a customer portal for invoices, payment methods and cancellation. Lemon Squeezy's terms, shown during checkout, apply to the purchase in addition. [LAWYER: Clearly define the relationship between the purchase contract with Lemon Squeezy and the usage contract with us.]
2. The purchase is concluded when you complete the checkout at Lemon Squeezy and the payment is confirmed. We then activate the booked plan in your account.
3. All prices are in euros and include the applicable VAT. Lemon Squeezy calculates VAT based on the country you state during checkout.
4. Monthly plans are charged monthly in advance, yearly plans yearly in advance. The plan renews for the booked term unless it is cancelled under § 6.
5. During checkout we ask for your express consent that we start the service immediately, that is before the withdrawal period ends. The consent and its wording are stored with your purchase. Details are in the withdrawal policy.
6. Note: payments are not switched on yet. Until then only the Free plan can be booked. [CONFIRM WHEN G3 PAYMENTS GO LIVE]

§ 6 Term and termination

1. The free plan runs for an indefinite period. You can end it at any time by deleting your account in Settings.
2. Monthly plans run for one month, yearly plans for one year from the purchase date, and renew for the same term. You can cancel a paid plan at any time with effect from the end of the current billing period: in the Lemon Squeezy customer portal, through the link in your purchase confirmation or on the cancellation page Cancel contracts here (§ 312k BGB). The cancellation page is reachable without signing in and confirms receipt of your cancellation immediately on screen with a reference number and the date and time. [LAWYER: The confirmation of receipt by email under § 312k (4) BGB follows once email sending is set up in phase G5; until then the page offers a prefilled email link to support@studim.ai so the customer keeps a copy.]
3. After a cancellation the paid plan stays active until the end of the billing period. Then your account switches to the Free plan. Saved lectures are kept; features the Free plan does not include are restricted accordingly. Audio files already saved remain accessible, new recordings are not possible on the Free plan. [LAWYER: Decide how existing audio files are handled after the switch to Free.]
4. In case of a refund under § 7 (3) your account switches to the Free plan immediately.
5. The right to terminate for cause remains unaffected. For us, cause exists in particular if you breach § 8 or § 9 despite a warning.
6. We may terminate the free plan with four weeks' notice in text form, for example if we discontinue the service. We terminate paid plans in the ordinary way only with effect from the end of the paid term. Before discontinuing the service we give you the opportunity to export your data.

§ 7 Right of withdrawal and voluntary refund

1. Consumers have the statutory right of withdrawal for paid plans. The instructions, the model withdrawal form and the consequences of an early start of the service are in the withdrawal policy.
2. With your consent to the immediate start of the service (§ 5 (5)) the right of withdrawal expires under the statutory rules; until then you owe a proportionate amount for the service already provided if you withdraw.
3. In addition to the statutory right of withdrawal we grant a refund as a goodwill gesture: if you are not satisfied with the service within 14 days of your first purchase of a paid plan, we refund the full purchase price on request to support@studim.ai. The refund runs through Lemon Squeezy to the payment method used. With the refund your account switches to the Free plan immediately. The goodwill rule applies once per person and not to renewals. It does not restrict the statutory right of withdrawal. [CONFIRM WHEN G3 PAYMENTS GO LIVE]

§ 8 Your responsibility for recording and note-taking

1. Studim.ai processes what your microphone captures. Whether you may take notes of, transcribe or record a lecture depends on the law where you study and on the rules of your institution. That check is yours alone. Before your first lecture the service shows the notice: "Transcripts are your personal study notes. You are responsible for following your institution's rules on note-taking and recording in class. AI output (answers, summaries, glossaries, quizzes) can be wrong and does not replace the lecture." By confirming this notice you acknowledge this responsibility.
2. Audio recording of a lecture is only possible if you expressly confirm before the lecture starts: "I confirm I have permission from the lecturer and my institution to record this lecture's audio." This confirmation is an assurance towards us. Recording a person's voice without their permission can be a criminal offence (§ 201 StGB, German Criminal Code) and can violate personality rights.
3. Whoever records other people in the room needs their permission. You indemnify us against third-party claims that arise because you recorded or transcribed without the required permission, as far as you are accountable for it. [LAWYER: Check the reach of the indemnity clause towards consumers.]
4. Transcripts, translations and study tools are your personal study notes. You must not publish or sell them where rights of the lecturer, the institution or third parties stand against it.

§ 9 Prohibited use

It is prohibited to

• record or transcribe people without their permission,
• use the service for unlawful content or purposes, in particular to infringe the rights of third parties,
• overload the service, query it automatically, circumvent limits, bypass security measures or inject malicious code,
• pass on access data or operate accounts for other people,
• use the results of the service in a way that breaches the examination regulations or the rules of your institution, for example in exams without permission.

In case of a breach we may suspend or terminate the account after a warning, in serious cases also immediately. Further claims remain unaffected.

§ 10 AI-generated content

1. Transcripts, translations, reader cards, suggested answers, summaries, glossaries and quiz questions are generated automatically by speech recognition and language models. They can be incomplete, inaccurate or wrong, even when they sound convincing.
2. The results replace neither the lecture nor the official materials of your institution. Always check important content, in particular exam hints, deadlines and assignments, against the original source.
3. We give no warranty for the accuracy, completeness or fitness of the automatically generated content for a particular purpose.

§ 11 Availability and changes to the service

1. The service is beta software. We strive for reliable operation but owe no particular availability. Maintenance, outages at our providers, changes in browsers or devices and network problems can restrict the service temporarily.
2. During a lecture the transcription can stop, for example when the connection is lost. We recommend taking notes of important content in the usual way as well.
3. We may develop the service further and change features as far as that is reasonable for you and the core of the service remains (§ 2). We announce major changes in the dashboard or by email.
4. We back up your data within the offerings of our providers. For your own backup of your lectures, the export is available at any time.

§ 12 Price changes

1. We may change the prices of paid plans, for example when the costs of our providers change. A price change does not apply to the current, already paid term.
2. We announce a price increase by email at least six weeks before it takes effect. You can cancel the plan with effect from the end of the current term until the increase takes effect. We point this out in the announcement. If you do not cancel, the new price applies from the next renewal. [LAWYER: Check the price change clause towards consumers; deemed consent is permitted only within narrow limits under German Federal Court case law.]

§ 13 Liability

1. We are liable without limitation for intent and gross negligence and for damage from injury to life, body or health.
2. In case of slight negligence we are liable only for the breach of essential contractual duties (cardinal duties), that is duties whose fulfilment makes the proper performance of the contract possible in the first place and on whose observance you may regularly rely. In that case liability is limited to the typical, foreseeable damage.
3. Otherwise liability is excluded. Liability under the German Product Liability Act and for a guarantee we have given remains unaffected.
4. For the free plan: we are liable only for intent and gross negligence; liability for life, body and health remains unaffected. [LAWYER: Check liability for a free service.]
5. The above limitations also apply to the personal liability of our agents.

§ 14 Data protection

How we process your data is described in the privacy policy. It is not part of these terms; it informs you about the processing under Art. 13 GDPR.

§ 15 Rights to content

1. The content you enter into the service or that results from your lectures (audio, transcripts, translations, study tools) remains your content. You grant us the right to store, process and transmit this content to our providers as far as that is necessary to provide the service. We do not use your content for other purposes, in particular not for advertising or for training our own models.
2. The software, the design and the Studim.ai name remain our property or that of our licensors. You receive a simple, non-transferable right to use the service for your own purposes during the contract term.

§ 16 Final provisions

1. The law of the Federal Republic of Germany applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. For consumers habitually resident in another state, the mandatory consumer protection rules of that state remain applicable.
2. The place of jurisdiction is [POSTCODE CITY] if you are a merchant, a legal entity under public law or a special fund under public law, or if you have no general place of jurisdiction in Germany. For consumers the statutory place of jurisdiction applies.
3. We are neither obliged nor willing to take part in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board (§ 36 VSBG).
4. Should a provision of these terms be invalid, the rest of the contract remains valid. The statutory rule takes the place of the invalid provision.
5. We may change these terms when that is necessary for valid reasons, for example legal changes or new features, and the change is reasonable for you. We announce changes at least four weeks in advance by email or in the dashboard. If you do not object before they take effect, the changed terms apply; we point out this consequence specifically in the announcement. For paid plans you can cancel with effect from the end of the current term until the change takes effect. [LAWYER: Check the change clause with deemed consent towards consumers.]
6. These terms are available in German and English. In case of differences the German version is authoritative.
7. We do not store the contract text separately; you can view and print the current version of these terms at any time at www.studim.ai/legal/agb.

Last updated: 8 October 2026