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Dictum Terms of Service (including End User License Agreement)

Last updated: July 5, 2026

Last updated: July 5, 2026

These Terms govern your use of the macOS application "Dictum" (including updates and documentation, the "App") provided by Narelio (a sole proprietorship, "we", "us"). By downloading, installing, or using the App, you agree to these Terms.

1. License Grant

  1. Subject to these Terms, we grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the App.
  2. Free plan: recording, transcription, and storage are unlimited. AI document generation is subject to a monthly limit shown in the App.
  3. Paid plans: the applicable device count, term, and update-entitlement period are as displayed at the time of purchase. A personal license may be used on Macs used by you personally.
  4. You may not copy (except for backup), redistribute, rent, sell, reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the App (except to the extent expressly permitted by applicable law), nor circumvent license enforcement.

2. Purchases, Payment, Refunds

  1. Paid licenses are sold by Paddle.com Market Ltd. ("Paddle") as Merchant of Record. Your purchase contract is with Paddle under Paddle's Checkout Buyer Terms (https://www.paddle.com/legal/checkout-buyer-terms).
  2. Prices, payment methods, invoicing, and refunds follow the information displayed at purchase and Paddle's policies.
  3. Subscriptions may be cancelled up to the day before renewal and remain usable until the end of the paid period.

3. Important Disclaimer Regarding AI-Generated Output

The App uses on-device speech recognition and large language models to produce transcripts and draft documents. You acknowledge and agree that:

  1. Output is an automatically generated draft; its accuracy, completeness, and currency are not guaranteed. It may contain recognition errors, omissions, and statements that do not reflect the facts ("hallucinations").
  2. Output is not legal, medical, tax, accounting, or other professional advice and does not substitute for professional judgment. You are responsible for reviewing and correcting output before sharing it or relying on it for business or legal purposes.
  3. Where output is used as minutes or records, verifying consistency with the original speech is your responsibility.
  4. Our liability for your or any third party's use of output is limited as set out in Section 7.

4. Your Responsibilities

  1. Lawfulness of recording: you are responsible for complying with all laws applicable to recording screens, meetings, and calls (including consent and wiretapping/privacy rules in your jurisdiction) and for obtaining any required consents from participants.
  2. Data management: managing, backing up, and deleting data the App stores on your device is your responsibility. We cannot access or recover it.
  3. You must not use the App for unlawful purposes.

5. Intellectual Property

  1. All rights in the App belong to us or our licensors.
  2. You (or the original rights holders) retain all rights to your inputs (recordings, audio) and to transcripts and documents generated from them. We claim no rights in them.
  3. The App includes third-party open-source software and AI models, each governed by its own license (see in-app credits).

6. Disclaimer of Warranties

THE APP IS PROVIDED "AS IS". TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE OPERATION. Performance depends on your device (including installed memory).

7. Limitation of Liability

  1. Except in cases of our willful misconduct or gross negligence, we shall not be liable for lost profits, loss or corruption of data, business interruption, or any indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages arising out of or relating to the App or these Terms.
  2. Our total aggregate liability shall not exceed the amount you actually paid for the App in the 12 months preceding the event giving rise to liability (zero for the free plan).
  3. These limitations apply to the maximum extent permitted by mandatory consumer-protection law in your jurisdiction.

8. Support & Updates

  1. The App is developed and operated by a single individual; support is provided on a reasonable best-effort basis without guaranteed response times, uptime, or fix deadlines.
  2. We may add or change features and change OS requirements. If we discontinue the App, we will give reasonable advance notice; perpetual licenses continue to work with the then-current version (without warranty).

9. Termination

We may terminate your license if you breach these Terms; upon termination you must stop using and delete the App. Sections 3–7 and 10 survive termination.

10. Governing Law & Venue

These Terms are governed by the laws of Japan. The Tokyo District Court shall have exclusive jurisdiction in the first instance over disputes arising from these Terms or the App, without depriving consumers of mandatory venue protections available under applicable law.

11. Miscellaneous

  1. If any provision is held invalid, the remaining provisions remain in effect.
  2. We may amend these Terms; material changes will be announced on the website and in the App, and continued use constitutes acceptance.
  3. If the Japanese and English versions conflict, the Japanese version prevails for customers in Japan.

Contact: support@narelio.com (Narelio / [proprietor name])