Terms of use

These are the terms between you and Indepth Solutions EOOD, which runs Vinegard for the members of one teaching group. By using the app you agree to them. How we handle your personal data is in the privacy policy, which is part of these terms.

Vinegard is private. It is not open to the public, and an account is for the one person it was issued to.

• You must be 16 or older to hold an account.
• Your account is yours alone. Keep your password to yourself, and tell us at once if you think someone else has used it.
• Your display name is how other members see you. Use your own name, or a name the group knows you by.
• You can change your name and picture, reset your password, and delete your account at any time from your profile.

Notes, replies and reactions are the only things members publish, and every member sees public ones under the recording they belong to. When you post, you agree to these rules:

1. Write about the teaching. A note belongs to the moment of the recording it sits on.
2. Be kind. No insults, harassment, threats, or contempt for anyone, inside the group or outside it.
3. Nothing unlawful, sexual, or violent, and nothing that urges harm to any person or group.
4. Respect privacy. Do not post personal details about others, or private conversations, without their consent.
5. Your own words. Do not paste text you have no right to share, and do not advertise or spam.
6. Be yourself. Your display name is your own name or one the group knows you by, never somebody else’s.

A private note is yours alone and is never shown to another member or to an admin, but it is still held on our systems and is still subject to the law, so the rules about unlawful content apply to it as well.

The group’s admins look after the library and the community. They may:

• Remove any public note or reply that breaks the posting rules. If replies hang off a removed note, a placeholder stays so the replies keep their place; it says only that the note was removed, never by whom.
• Pin public notes above the others on a recording.
• Deactivate an account that breaks these terms, and reactivate it. A deactivated account cannot sign in. What it wrote stays unless and until the account is deleted.
• Change an account’s role, and send announcements to every member.

Admins cannot read your private notes, and cannot change your display name. The record of who removed a note is kept in our logs, not shown in the app.

What you write stays yours. By posting a public note or reply you let us show it to the group’s members, with your display name, for as long as it stays posted. You are responsible for what you post and for having the right to post it.

The recordings, transcripts, summaries, chapters and artwork in the library belong to the group and the speakers. They are for your own listening and study as a member. Do not copy, download, republish or share them outside the group without the group’s permission.

Transcripts, summaries and descriptions are drafted by automated speech recognition and language models and reviewed by the group’s admins before they are published. They are an aid to listening, not a record of what was said. If you need the speaker’s exact words, listen to the recording.

You can delete your account at any time under Profile → Settings, or by writing to asen.angelov@indepthwebsolutions.com. Deletion is permanent. What happens to your notes and your data is set out in the privacy policy.

We may deactivate or delete an account that breaks these terms, that someone else is using, or that was issued by mistake. Where we can, we will tell you why. We may also end the service as a whole; if we do, we will tell members in advance and you can take a copy of your notes before it closes.

Vinegard is provided free of charge to the group’s members, as it is and as it is available. We work to keep it running and to keep your data safe, but we cannot promise it will always be available or free of mistakes, and we are not liable for loss that comes from relying on it, except where the law does not let us exclude liability. Nothing in these terms limits your rights as a consumer under the law of the country you live in.

When these terms change, the date at the top changes with them, and a change that affects what you may post or what we may do is announced in the app before it takes effect. Using the app after that is agreeing to the new terms.

These terms are governed by the law of Bulgaria, and disputes under them are for the Bulgarian courts, without taking away any protection the law of your own country gives you.

Questions about these terms go to asen.angelov@indepthwebsolutions.com, or through the support page.