Terms of Service

Eligibility

You must be at least 16 years old to use Jørnal. If you’re younger, ask an adult to set things up with you—we don’t process accounts for children under 16.

Your account

You sign in with a Google or GitHub account. Keep that account secure; anyone who can sign in there can read and write your journal. We don’t store passwords—authentication happens through your provider. You can stop using Jørnal at any time and request deletion of your data (see the Privacy Notice).

Subscriptions and payment

Jørnal is free to use. The optional Supporter plan adds “Recall”, scheduled backups, and custom books. Subscriptions are processed by Lemon Squeezy, which acts as the Merchant of Record—they handle billing, taxes, and the customer portal. By subscribing you also accept Lemon Squeezy’s terms.

Subscriptions auto-renew at the end of each billing period. You can cancel any time from the customer portal; cancellation stops the next renewal but doesn’t refund the period you’ve already paid for. See the Refund Policy for details.

Lifetime Supporter grants (one-time codes) don’t renew and aren’t billed. They’re gifts or promotional grants and remain in force for the lifetime of the Service.

Acceptable use

Jørnal is your private writing space, but a few things still aren’t allowed:

• Don’t store content that’s illegal where you live or where the Service is operated.
• Don’t try to break the Service—no automated scraping, no probing for vulnerabilities outside a coordinated disclosure, no denial-of-service attacks, no impersonation.
• Don’t resell, sublicense, or redistribute access to your account.
• Don’t use Jørnal to harass, threaten, or doxx anyone (including yourself; be nice to yourself, even in your own journal).

If we discover the Service is being used in violation of these rules we may suspend or close the account. We’ll send you a copy of your full archive first whenever we can.

Your content

Your entries are yours. We don’t claim ownership, we don’t license them out, and we don’t use them to train any model. We only need the operational rights to store, display, back up, and (for Supporters) generate semantic embeddings of your entries on our own servers, strictly to provide the Service to you.

If we ever shut down, every account gets an email with their full archive before the lights go out.

Service availability

Jørnal is provided on a best-effort basis. There’s no uptime SLA; short outages may happen for deploys, infrastructure issues, or vendor problems. We don’t guarantee that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that any specific feature will keep existing in its current form forever.

Disclaimer of warranties

The Service is provided “as is.” To the maximum extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties—express, implied, or statutory— including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. Your statutory consumer rights under the law of your country of residence are not affected by this disclaimer.

Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, our total liability for any claim arising out of or relating to the Service is limited to what you’ve paid us in the 12 months before the claim. We’re not liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages, or for loss of data caused by force majeure or your own actions (including losing access to the SSO account you signed up with). Nothing in this clause excludes liability we can’t lawfully exclude.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms occasionally—usually for clarity, sometimes because the law or our infrastructure changed. The “Last updated” date at the top reflects the most recent change. If a change materially affects your rights, we’ll notify you by email before it takes effect.

Governing law

These terms are governed by Norwegian law. Disputes that can’t be resolved by friendly email exchange will be brought before the ordinary courts of Norway, with Oslo District Court as the venue of first instance, unless mandatory consumer-protection law assigns a different venue.

Contact

Questions about these terms: hi@jornal.ink.