Terms of Service

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your access to and use of Socrian, including the Socrian Chrome extension, related websites, Cloudflare Worker services, subscription and billing flows, AI generation features, saved/shared materials features, and any related support or operational services (collectively, the "Service"). "Socrian," "we," "our," and "us" refer to the operator of Socrian. "You" and "your" refer to the person who installs, accesses, or uses the Service.

Please read these Terms carefully. By installing, accessing, purchasing, subscribing to, or using Socrian, you agree to these Terms and to Socrian's Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use Socrian.

These Terms are intended as practical product terms and should be reviewed by qualified counsel before publication.

1. Eligibility

You may use Socrian only if you are legally able to agree to these Terms and if your use is permitted by applicable law, your school or institution's rules, your learning management system's rules, and any third-party terms that apply to the services Socrian connects with.

Because Socrian uses Google Gemini API services, you must also satisfy the eligibility requirements that apply to those services. You may not use Socrian if you are prohibited from using Google Gemini API, Stripe, Chrome extensions, Canvas, Brightspace, or any other integrated service in your location or under the applicable third-party terms.

2. What Socrian Does

Socrian helps students and authorized users turn selected course materials into study aids such as flashcards, study notes, practice questions, explanations, chat responses, lecture notes, and related learning materials. Socrian may connect to Canvas, Brightspace, Google Gemini, Firebase, Stripe, Chrome APIs, and other services needed to provide the Service.

Socrian is an independent tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or officially connected to Instructure, Canvas, D2L, Brightspace, Google, Stripe, any school, university, instructor, or educational institution unless we expressly state otherwise in writing.

3. Your Responsibility for Course Content

You are solely responsible for the course content, files, screenshots, lecture transcripts, prompts, notes, and other materials you select, upload, paste, record, transmit, process, save, share, or otherwise use with Socrian ("User Content").

By using Socrian with any User Content, you represent and agree that:

• You own the User Content or have all rights, licenses, consents, and permissions necessary to access it, use it with Socrian, submit it to third-party AI services for processing, and receive AI-generated outputs from it.
• You are authorized to access the LMS account, course, classroom, files, pages, assignments, modules, recordings, discussions, or other materials you use with Socrian.
• Your use of Socrian with the User Content does not violate copyright law, privacy law, your school's policies, your instructor's rules, an LMS provider's terms, or any confidentiality, academic, contractual, or institutional restriction.
• You will not use Socrian to access another person's account, scrape institutional data, bypass access controls, redistribute restricted course materials, or process materials marked confidential, embargoed, proprietary, private, or otherwise restricted from external processing.
• If you use recording or transcription features, you have all legally required consent from instructors, speakers, classmates, meeting participants, and any other affected people before recording, transcribing, summarizing, or processing the content.

Socrian does not independently verify that you have permission to use course content. If you are unsure whether you may use specific materials with Socrian, do not submit them until you have permission.

4. License You Grant to Socrian

You retain whatever rights you have in your User Content. You grant Socrian a limited, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to access, transmit, process, format, display, and otherwise use User Content only as necessary to provide, secure, maintain, troubleshoot, and improve the Service as described in these Terms and the Privacy Policy.

This license includes permission for Socrian to transmit selected User Content and prompts to Google Gemini or another AI provider used by Socrian to generate study materials. Socrian does not claim ownership of your User Content.

5. AI Processing and Third-Party Services

Socrian uses third-party services, including Google Gemini, to process prompts and selected materials. Your use of those features is subject to the third-party terms and privacy policies that apply to those services.

AI-generated outputs can be inaccurate, incomplete, misleading, offensive, outdated, or inappropriate for your specific course or assignment. You are responsible for reviewing outputs and comparing them against official course materials, instructor guidance, and reliable sources before relying on them.

Socrian does not guarantee grades, test scores, academic performance, learning outcomes, admission outcomes, employment outcomes, or any other result.

6. Academic Integrity

Socrian is a study aid. You agree not to use Socrian to cheat, plagiarize, impersonate another person, complete graded work dishonestly, bypass proctoring or assessment rules, violate academic integrity policies, or use AI-generated content in a way your instructor or institution prohibits.

You are solely responsible for understanding and following your school, course, instructor, department, employer, and institution rules about AI tools, collaboration, recordings, citations, and submitted work.

7. Usage Limits and Fair Use

Socrian may apply usage limits, rate limits, token limits, file-size limits, request-size limits, feature limits, free-trial limits, anti-abuse checks, and other technical or operational restrictions. These limits help keep the Service reliable, affordable, and available.

Unless a different limit is shown in the product or agreed by Socrian in writing, each user is limited to 50,000 total AI tokens per day. This daily token limit may include prompt tokens, selected file or context tokens, cached-context tokens, output tokens, and other token usage reported by the applicable AI provider or measured by Socrian's systems. Daily limits reset according to Socrian's server-side usage systems and may not match your local time zone exactly.

Socrian may count usage by Chrome profile email, account identifier, install identifier, Stripe customer, IP address, subscription record, device, or other operational signals. Socrian may block, throttle, suspend, or terminate use that exceeds limits, appears abusive, attempts to evade limits, or threatens the reliability or cost structure of the Service.

Published usage limits are not guaranteed entitlements. Socrian may modify limits, add limits, reduce limits, or temporarily disable features at any time to address cost, security, capacity, abuse, reliability, legal, or product concerns.

8. Free Access, Trials, Subscriptions, and Billing

Socrian may offer free access, free trials, paid subscriptions, promotional access, coupons, referral credits, or other purchase options. Free access and trials may be limited by number of generations, tokens, features, time, email, device, Chrome profile, install, or other anti-abuse signals.

Paid subscriptions are processed by Stripe or another payment provider. Socrian does not store your full payment card number. Billing, payment methods, invoices, renewals, cancellations, and payment-provider data handling may be subject to Stripe's terms and privacy policy.

Unless otherwise stated at checkout:

• Subscription fees are charged in advance.
• Subscriptions may renew automatically until canceled.
• You are responsible for canceling before renewal if you do not want to continue.
• Loss of access, failed payment, cancellation, chargeback, refund, abuse, or violation of these Terms may affect your ability to use paid features.

Refunds, if any, are provided at Socrian's discretion unless required by law or expressly stated in a written refund policy.

9. Privacy and Data Handling

Socrian's Privacy Policy explains what information Socrian collects, uses, stores, transmits, and shares. By using Socrian, you agree that Socrian may process information as described in the Privacy Policy.

Prompts and selected materials are transmitted over encrypted HTTPS connections, but Socrian does not provide end-to-end encryption for AI processing. Socrian's Worker and the applicable AI provider must be able to read prompts and selected materials to process requests.

Do not submit sensitive personal information, protected health information, financial information, government identifiers, confidential institutional records, or other highly sensitive materials unless you have the right to do so and are comfortable with the processing described in these Terms and the Privacy Policy.

10. Saved and Shared Materials

Socrian may allow you to save, rename, delete, import, or share generated materials. You are responsible for what you save or share and for ensuring you have permission to share any underlying content or derivative study materials.

Sharing features may create share codes, access records, metadata, or stored generated materials. Do not share materials that reveal private, confidential, copyrighted, restricted, or personally identifying information unless you have permission and the sharing is lawful.

11. Acceptable Use

You agree not to:

• Use Socrian for unlawful, harmful, abusive, deceptive, infringing, or unauthorized purposes.
• Violate academic integrity rules or help others do so.
• Upload or process content you are not authorized to use.
• Circumvent usage limits, paywalls, security checks, subscription checks, rate limits, or access controls.
• Reverse engineer, decompile, modify, tamper with, overload, scrape, resell, sublicense, or interfere with Socrian or its infrastructure.
• Use Socrian to generate malware, harassment, threats, hate, sexual content involving minors, illegal instructions, or other prohibited content.
• Submit content that violates third-party rights, privacy rights, publicity rights, copyright, trademark, trade secret law, school policy, or any applicable terms.

12. Intellectual Property

Socrian, including its name, logo, code, design, interface, workflows, documentation, and related materials, is owned by Socrian or its licensors and is protected by intellectual property laws. These Terms do not transfer ownership of Socrian to you.

Subject to your compliance with these Terms, Socrian grants you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the Service for personal educational study purposes or other purposes expressly allowed by Socrian.

13. Feedback

If you send ideas, suggestions, bug reports, or other feedback, you grant Socrian permission to use that feedback without restriction or compensation. You agree that feedback is not confidential unless Socrian separately agrees in writing.

14. Changes, Suspension, and Termination

Socrian may modify, suspend, or discontinue any part of the Service at any time. Socrian may suspend or terminate your access if we believe you violated these Terms, created risk, caused harm, exceeded usage limits, attempted to bypass controls, or used the Service in a way that could expose Socrian, users, schools, third parties, or infrastructure to legal, security, financial, or operational risk.

You may stop using Socrian at any time by uninstalling the extension and canceling any active subscription.

15. Disclaimers

Socrian is provided "as is" and "as available." To the maximum extent permitted by law, Socrian disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including warranties of accuracy, reliability, availability, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, academic usefulness, and uninterrupted or error-free operation.

Socrian does not guarantee that the Service will be secure, available, accurate, compatible with every school or LMS, free of bugs, free of data loss, accepted by your institution, or suitable for any particular academic or professional purpose.

16. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Socrian will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, punitive, or lost-profit damages, or for academic, disciplinary, professional, financial, reputational, data-loss, or business consequences arising from or related to your use of the Service.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Socrian's total liability for any claim related to the Service will not exceed the amount you paid Socrian for the Service during the three months before the event giving rise to the claim, or 50 dollars if you did not pay Socrian during that period.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations of liability, so some of these limits may not apply to you.

17. Indemnification

To the maximum extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Socrian from and against claims, damages, liabilities, losses, costs, and expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising from or related to your User Content, your use of Socrian, your violation of these Terms, your violation of law or school policy, your violation of third-party rights, or your lack of permission to use course content.

18. Governing Law and Disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws applicable to Socrian's operator, without regard to conflict-of-law rules, except where applicable law requires otherwise. Any dispute must be brought in a court with proper jurisdiction over the parties and the dispute, unless the parties agree otherwise in writing.

If you plan to publish these Terms commercially, this section should be reviewed and customized by legal counsel for the operator's actual jurisdiction.

19. Changes to These Terms

Socrian may update these Terms from time to time. When we make material changes, we will update the "Last Updated" date and may provide notice through the Service, Chrome Web Store listing, website, or another reasonable method. Your continued use of Socrian after changes become effective means you accept the updated Terms.

20. Contact

If you have questions about these Terms, contact Socrian at support@socrian.com or through the Chrome Web Store listing.