Who you are agreeing with

Tern is made and run by Jay Graves, an individual in Texas, United States. "We" below means that person. There is no company standing between you and whoever answers your email.

Your notes are yours

Everything you write in Tern belongs to you. We claim no ownership of it and no licence to use it, beyond the strictly technical permission needed to store it, sync it between your devices, and show it to someone you have deliberately shared a link with. We do not use your notes to train anything.

You can export it and leave at any time. We would rather you stayed because it is good than because leaving is hard.

Your account

You are responsible for what happens under your account, so keep your sign-in to yourself. Tell us promptly if you think someone else has got into it. You must be old enough to enter a contract where you live, and at least 13.

What you agree not to do

• Use Tern to store or share anything unlawful, or anything you have no right to.
• Attempt to break, overload or get around the service's limits or security, or access anyone else's data.
• Resell the service, or use it to build a competing one.

We may suspend an account that is doing these things. Where it is reasonable to warn you first, we will.

Paying for it

• Tern has a free part and a paid subscription. What each includes is on the pricing page, and that page is part of these terms.
• A subscription renews automatically until you cancel it. You cancel in the App Store or Google Play, whichever you bought it through, and it keeps working until the end of the period you have paid for.
• Refunds are handled by whichever store you bought it through, under that store's policy.
• Template packs are bought once and kept. They are not part of the subscription and they do not stop working if you stop subscribing.
• If the price changes, we will tell you before it applies to you, and you will have the chance to cancel first.

If you stop paying

Your notes are not held hostage. Everything you have written stays readable and exportable, and nothing is deleted for not paying. What you lose is the paid features, not the work.

Links you share

A share link is yours to create and yours to revoke. You are responsible for who you send it to and for what is on the page you shared. We can remove a shared page that is reported as unlawful.

Ending it

You can delete your account from inside the app at any time, which removes everything in it for good. We can end or suspend an account that breaks these terms, or if we stop offering the service — in which case we will give you reasonable notice and time to export your notes.

What we do not promise

We work hard to make Tern reliable, but it is provided as it is. We do not promise it will never be unavailable or never lose anything, which is exactly why it keeps a full copy on your device and lets you export everything. Keep your own backups of anything you cannot afford to lose.

To the extent the law allows, Jay Graves is not liable for indirect or consequential loss, and our total liability is limited to what you have paid us in the twelve months before the claim. Nothing here limits anything that cannot lawfully be limited.

Changes to these terms

If these terms change in a way that matters, we will tell you in the app before the change takes effect, not by editing this page quietly.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the law of the State of Texas, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute goes to the state or federal courts sitting there, and you and we both agree to that.

Getting in touch

support@ternnotes.app — or the support page.