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Terms of Service

1. The app

Privio is a PDF utility app for iOS and Android. It runs on your phone or tablet and gives you tools to scan, OCR, merge, split, compress, sign, redact, fill forms, and otherwise manipulate PDF files. All file processing happens locally on your device; Privio does not transmit your files to our servers, because Privio has no servers.

The app is offered as-is. We will improve it over time but make no guarantee of feature stability between versions.

2. License

We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, revocable, non-transferable license to use Privio on devices you own or control, for personal or business purposes consistent with these terms. You may not:

• Reverse-engineer, decompile, or disassemble the app except as permitted by applicable law.
• Redistribute, sell, rent, or sublicense Privio.
• Remove or alter copyright notices or trademarks inside the app.
• Use Privio in any way that violates applicable law.

The license is granted under the terms of the store you installed Privio from — Apple's App Store EULA on iOS, or the Google Play Terms of Service on Android — with these terms layered on top where the store's terms are silent.

3. Paid features (Pro)

Some features in Privio are gated behind paid tiers (Pro Monthly, Pro Yearly, Pro Lifetime). Pricing and feature lists are shown in-app. Purchases are processed by the store you bought from — Apple's App Store on iOS, or Google Play on Android — and are governed by that store's billing terms; we are not party to that payment relationship.

Refunds are handled by Apple or Google according to their respective policies:

• Apple: support.apple.com/HT204084
• Google: support.google.com/googleplay/answer/2479637

We may add or remove features from each tier as the product evolves, with the constraint that paid users will not lose access to a feature that was the primary reason for purchase without a reasonable equivalent or pro-rata refund.

4. Free tier and Pro tier

Privio is free to download. Every tool opens and runs on your own document for free — releasing the result (save, share, export) is where the free tier asks you to watch a short ad. Two power features (batch processing and the receipt scanner) also ask for an ad, or Pro, from the start. Pro is available as a Monthly or Yearly subscription or a one-time Lifetime purchase. Pricing and feature lists are shown in-app and may change between app versions. Privio does not currently offer a free trial.

The free tier is supported by advertising, served by Google AdMob: a rewarded ad you choose to watch, or an interstitial where no rewarded ad is available. If no ad can be served — you are offline, or the network returns none — the action is granted anyway rather than blocked. Privio Pro removes ads entirely; for a Pro user the ad SDK is never started. The advertising system never receives your documents. See our Privacy Policy for the full data statement.

5. Acceptable use

Privio is a general-purpose tool. You are responsible for what you do with it. You agree not to use Privio to:

• Create, edit, or distribute material that infringes someone else's copyright, trademark, or other intellectual-property rights.
• Forge documents, signatures, or audit trails. Privio's e-signature feature is intended for legitimate document signing — using it to fake someone else's signature is fraud and is your liability, not ours.
• Redact or remove evidence in violation of any legal-hold, preservation, or discovery obligation.
• Distribute malware, illegal content, or anything that violates the laws of your country.

We may not even notice you doing any of this (Privio runs locally) but it's still your responsibility.

6. No legal, medical, or financial advice

Privio is a tool, not a service that gives legal, medical, accounting, or financial advice.

In particular:

• Our PII Scan tool uses pattern matching plus heuristics to flag likely sensitive data. It is helpful but not perfect — it can miss things and it can flag false positives. Always review redactions and PII findings by eye before sharing a sensitive document. We are not liable if a leak occurs because the auto-scan missed something.
• Our Sign + ESIGN audit trail feature is designed to support legitimate electronic signatures. We do not provide a certified e-signature service. Whether a Privio-signed document is legally binding depends on your jurisdiction and the specific use; consult a licensed attorney if it matters.
• Our redaction tool truly removes the matched text from the affected pages (text layer flattened, image-burned black bars). However: documents have many surfaces — embedded objects, attachments, metadata, prior versions, comments. Before sending a sensitive document externally, you should verify the redacted PDF in a separate viewer.
• Templates we may bundle (court forms, tax forms, immigration forms) are provided as-is for convenience. Forms change. Verify the latest version on the issuing agency's website before filing.

7. ESIGN Act / UETA notice (United States)

When you use Privio's Sign tool to e-sign a document, you agree that:

• You intend your drawn signature to constitute your electronic signature on that specific document at the moment you tap "Sign".
• The audit trail Privio embeds (SHA-256 hash of the pre-signed document, UTC timestamp, signer name if provided) is a record we generate to help authenticate that signing event. It is not a guarantee of legal enforceability, which depends on the recipient's acceptance, the transaction type, and applicable state/federal law.
• You may withdraw consent to receive or sign documents electronically by not using the Sign tool.

This notice satisfies the consumer-disclosure requirement under 15 U.S.C. § 7001(c)(1) for transactions conducted via Privio.

8. Disclaimer of warranties

Privio is provided "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE" without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the app will be uninterrupted, error-free, or completely secure.

9. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law:

• We are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising from your use of Privio.
• Our total liability for any direct damages is capped at the amount you paid us for Privio in the 12 months before the claim arose, or USD 50, whichever is greater.

Some jurisdictions don't allow these limitations, so they may not apply to you.

10. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold Erek Studio harmless from any claim, loss, or expense (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of:

• Your violation of these terms.
• Your use of Privio to handle content you did not have the right to handle.
• Your reliance on auto-generated outputs (redactions, PII scans, OCR, signatures) without independent verification.

11. Changes

We may update these terms. Material changes will be noted in the next app update's "What's New". Continued use after the effective date of the change is acceptance.

12. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of Türkiye (where Erek Studio is operated), without regard to conflict-of-law principles. For users outside Türkiye, any mandatory consumer-protection rights in your jurisdiction still apply.

13. Contact

Email: mustafasalimerek@gmail.com

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