Terms of Use

Agreement to These Terms

These Terms of Use ("Terms") are a binding agreement between you and Optofriend ("Optofriend", "we", "our", or "us") and govern your access to and use of our websites, applications, YouTube optimization tools, analytics reports, content, community, software, subscriptions, and related support services (collectively, the "Services"). By accessing or using the Services, creating an account, connecting a Google or YouTube account, or purchasing a paid plan, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy.

If you use the Services on behalf of a company, organization, or other entity, you represent that you have authority to bind that entity to these Terms. If you do not agree to these Terms, you must not use the Services.

Eligibility and Accounts

You must be at least 13 years old, or the minimum age required in your country, to use the Services. If you are under the age of majority where you live, you may use the Services only with consent and supervision from a parent or legal guardian. You must be at least 18 years old, or the age of majority where you live, to purchase a paid plan.

You agree to provide accurate account information, keep it current, and maintain the confidentiality of your login credentials. You are responsible for activity under your account, including activity by anyone who uses your credentials. You must notify us promptly if you believe your account has been compromised.

Changes to the Services and Terms

We may modify, suspend, or discontinue any part of the Services at any time, including free tools, paid features, usage limits, integrations, AI models, and third-party dependencies. We may update these Terms from time to time. The updated Terms are effective when posted unless they state otherwise. Your continued use of the Services after updated Terms are posted means you accept the updated Terms.

License to Use the Services

Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable right to access and use the Services for your own lawful business, creator, research, or educational purposes. You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, lease, sublicense, reverse engineer, decompile, or otherwise exploit the Services except as these Terms or applicable law expressly allow.

Optofriend Content and Intellectual Property

The Services, including our software, design, user interface, text, logos, names, graphics, icons, workflows, prompts, templates, documentation, and other materials, are owned by Optofriend or our licensors and are protected by intellectual property and other laws. Except for the limited right to use the Services described above, we reserve all rights in the Services.

You may not remove proprietary notices, use our brand in a misleading way, imply an endorsement or partnership without written permission, or use the Services to build or train a competing product or service.

Your Content and Data

You retain the rights you have in information, prompts, titles, descriptions, tags, keywords, transcripts, links, notes, channel goals, files, and other content that you submit to the Services ("User Content"). You grant Optofriend a limited, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, process, transmit, display, format, reproduce, and create technical copies of User Content only as reasonably necessary to provide, secure, support, maintain, and improve the Services; comply with law; enforce these Terms; and prevent fraud, abuse, or security issues.

This license is not a transfer of ownership. It ends when your User Content is deleted from our active systems, except that backup copies, audit logs, billing records, security records, legally retained records, and aggregated or de-identified information may be retained as described in our Privacy Policy.

You represent and warrant that you have all rights, permissions, and lawful bases needed to submit User Content to the Services and to let us process it under these Terms. You are responsible for reviewing generated outputs before publishing or relying on them.

YouTube API Services

Some Services use YouTube API Services to retrieve public YouTube information or, if you connect a YouTube account, read-only channel and analytics information authorized by you. By using features that access YouTube content or by connecting a YouTube account, you agree to be bound by the YouTube Terms of Service. YouTube API Services data is also subject to the Google Privacy Policy.

Optofriend requests only read-only YouTube permissions currently used by the Services. We use YouTube API Data and Google user data only for the disclosed purposes of providing account connection, YouTube analytics reports, channel audits, optimization recommendations, transcript and metadata workflows, dashboard history, support, security, and compliance. We do not use YouTube API Data or Google user data to train generalized AI or machine learning models, serve targeted advertising, or perform YouTube write actions such as uploading videos, modifying videos, posting comments, managing playlists, or subscribing to channels.

When you request AI-assisted analytics recommendations or similar connected-account features, you instruct us to send the Google user data and YouTube API Data needed for that request to OpenAI for processing and to send keywords or topics, including derived keywords or topics, to DataForSEO for keyword research and search-volume information. The data sent may include video and channel identifiers, titles, descriptions, tags, transcripts or transcript summaries, analytics and performance metrics, and your goals or instructions. These transfers are limited to providing the feature you requested and are further described in our Privacy Policy.

You may disconnect a YouTube account in Optofriend, revoke Optofriend's access through Google security settings, or request deletion by contacting support@optofriend.com. When you disconnect a YouTube account in Optofriend or delete your account, we delete stored Authorized Data associated with that connection as soon as reasonably possible and within 7 calendar days, except for legal, security, fraud-prevention, billing, and de-identified data exceptions. If you revoke access through Google security settings and we detect or are notified of the revocation, we delete stored Authorized Data associated with that connection as soon as reasonably possible and within 30 calendar days, subject to the same exceptions.

YouTube and Third-Party Platform Restrictions

You must not use the Services to violate YouTube's terms, Google's policies, or any third-party platform rules. Without limiting the rest of these Terms, you must not use the Services to:

• Scrape, bulk harvest, cache, resell, sublicense, redistribute, or create a standalone database of YouTube API Data or third-party platform data.
• Use YouTube API Data outside the Services or for purposes not disclosed in these Terms and our Privacy Policy.
• Reverse engineer, circumvent, interfere with, or bypass YouTube, Google, Stripe, OpenAI, DataForSEO, SerpApi, Supadata, or any other third-party service, quota, restriction, security measure, or access control.
• Misrepresent YouTube API Data, remove attribution, obscure the source of YouTube content, or imply that Optofriend, YouTube, Google, or another platform endorses your content.
• Use automated means, bots, scripts, or excessive requests to extract data, avoid rate limits, or degrade the Services.
• Submit or generate content that infringes, misappropriates, or violates someone else's rights, including copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity, or contractual rights.

Acceptable Use

You agree not to misuse the Services. You must not use the Services to break the law; transmit malware; interfere with security or availability; probe, scan, or test vulnerabilities without permission; impersonate others; submit false or misleading information; harass, abuse, defame, threaten, or discriminate against others; upload unlawful, obscene, exploitative, or harmful content; send spam; manipulate billing or payment systems; create accounts by automated means; or use the Services in a way that could harm Optofriend, our users, third-party providers, or the public.

We may suspend, throttle, restrict, or terminate access if we believe your use violates these Terms, creates legal risk, threatens security or availability, exceeds reasonable usage, or could harm the Services or others.

AI Outputs and Professional Responsibility

The Services may generate titles, descriptions, keywords, tags, timestamps, transcripts, video ideas, audits, analytics summaries, recommendations, and other outputs using AI and third-party data. Outputs may be incomplete, inaccurate, outdated, offensive, non-compliant with platform rules, or similar to content generated for others. You are responsible for reviewing, editing, and validating outputs before publishing, relying on, or using them.

Optofriend does not provide legal, financial, tax, marketing, platform-compliance, or professional advice. You are responsible for your YouTube channel, videos, metadata, publishing decisions, and compliance with applicable laws and platform terms.

Plans, Billing, and Stripe

Optofriend offers free tools and paid plans with additional features, higher usage limits, or subscription access. Paid plan payments are processed by Stripe. By purchasing a paid plan, you authorize us and Stripe to charge your payment method for subscription fees, renewals, applicable taxes, and other amounts disclosed at checkout. Your payment is also subject to Stripe's terms and privacy notices.

Unless checkout states otherwise, fees are charged in U.S. dollars. Prices do not include taxes unless stated at checkout. You are responsible for taxes, duties, bank fees, currency conversion charges, and other charges imposed by your payment provider or applicable law.

Subscriptions renew automatically for the billing interval selected at checkout until canceled. You can manage or cancel a paid plan through the Optofriend application or Stripe customer portal. If you cancel, downgrade, fail to pay, initiate a chargeback, or if Stripe reports that a subscription has ended, failed, or become disputed, we may suspend, limit, or downgrade paid features. We may retry failed payments as permitted by Stripe and applicable law.

Fees are non-refundable except where required by law or expressly stated by Optofriend. Chargebacks or payment disputes do not cancel your obligation to pay undisputed amounts owed. If you believe a charge is incorrect, contact us at support@optofriend.com before initiating a dispute so we can try to resolve it.

Usage Limits

Plans and features are subject to the usage limits displayed in the Services or at checkout. We may enforce those limits and apply rate limits, queues, throttling, manual review, temporary suspension, or other controls to protect system performance, prevent spam or abuse, maintain third-party quota compliance, and provide equitable access for users.

Cancellation, Termination, and Deletion

You may stop using the Services at any time. You are responsible for canceling paid plans through the Optofriend application or Stripe customer portal. Deleting your account is irreversible and may delete account data, saved runs, connected accounts, generated outputs, and related content, subject to legal, security, fraud-prevention, billing, backup, and de-identified data exceptions described in our Privacy Policy.

We may suspend or terminate your access to the Services at any time if we believe you violated these Terms, pose a security or legal risk, fail to pay amounts owed, misuse third-party integrations, or create risk for Optofriend, our users, our service providers, or the public. Termination does not waive any rights or remedies that arose before termination.

Copyright Complaints

If you believe content available through the Services infringes your copyright, send a notice to support@optofriend.com with: your name and contact information; identification of the copyrighted work; identification of the allegedly infringing material and where it appears in the Services; a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized; a statement that the information in your notice is accurate; and your physical or electronic signature. We may remove or disable content and may terminate repeat infringers where appropriate.

Feedback

If you provide suggestions, ideas, requests, or other feedback about the Services, you grant Optofriend a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free right to use that feedback without restriction or compensation. Feedback does not include User Content or YouTube API Data.

Privacy and Data Protection

Our Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, share, retain, and protect personal information, including Google user data, YouTube API Data, Google Analytics data, billing records, and user-generated content. For users in the EU, EEA, United Kingdom, Switzerland, California, and other jurisdictions with privacy laws, our Privacy Policy also describes rights and request methods. These Terms do not limit mandatory privacy or consumer rights that cannot be waived by contract.

Third-Party Services

The Services depend on third-party providers, APIs, platforms, models, infrastructure, and content sources, including Google, YouTube, Google Analytics, Stripe, OpenAI, DataForSEO, SerpApi, Supadata, hosting providers, and storage or backup providers. We do not control third-party services and are not responsible for their availability, data, policies, decisions, outages, quota limits, or changes. Your use of third-party services may be subject to their own terms and privacy policies.

Warranty Disclaimer

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Services are provided "as is" and "as available" without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, statutory, or otherwise. We disclaim warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, accuracy, availability, reliability, security, and uninterrupted or error-free operation. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain warranty exclusions, so some exclusions may not apply to you.

Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Optofriend and our owners, employees, contractors, service providers, licensors, and affiliates will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, punitive, or enhanced damages; lost profits; lost revenue; lost business opportunities; loss of goodwill; loss of data; service interruption; third-party platform action; or substitute services, even if we have been advised of the possibility of those damages.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total liability for all claims relating to the Services or these Terms will not exceed the greater of the amount you paid Optofriend for the Services in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim or 100 U.S. dollars. Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited under applicable law.

Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Optofriend and our owners, employees, contractors, service providers, licensors, and affiliates from and against claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising from or related to your User Content, your use of the Services, your violation of these Terms, your violation of law or third-party rights, your misuse of YouTube API Data or third-party platform data, or activity under your account.

Governing Law and Disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, United States, without regard to conflict-of-law rules, except that mandatory consumer protection, privacy, and data protection laws of your country or state of residence may apply where they cannot be waived by contract.

Before filing a claim, you agree to contact us at support@optofriend.com and attempt to resolve the dispute informally for 30 days. If a dispute is not resolved informally, the state and federal courts located in Delaware will have exclusive jurisdiction, except where applicable law gives you a non-waivable right to bring claims elsewhere. You and Optofriend waive any right to a jury trial to the extent permitted by law.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, disputes must be brought only on an individual basis and not as a plaintiff or class member in any class, collective, consolidated, private attorney general, or representative action. This class action waiver does not limit rights that cannot be waived under applicable law.

General Terms

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any plan-specific terms shown at checkout, are the entire agreement between you and Optofriend regarding the Services. If any provision is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without our prior written consent. We may assign these Terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, sale of assets, or by operation of law. Provisions that by their nature should survive termination will survive, including intellectual property, payment, disclaimers, limitations of liability, indemnity, dispute, and general terms.

Contact Us

If you have questions or concerns about these Terms, contact us at support@optofriend.com.