Terms & Policies

The Platform is intended solely for users who are at least eighteen (18) years of age. By accessing or using the Platform, you warrant and represent that you are at least 18 years old and possess the legal capacity, authority, and right to enter into these Terms. If you are under 18, you are strictly prohibited from installing, downloading, or registering an account with the Platform.

WhisprBar is a real-time AI-powered contextual assistance software platform. The Platform provides screen overlay utilities, local system audio transcription, microphone capture handling, and contextual semantic processing assistance. The User acknowledges that the application runs as a local-first overlay assistant providing real-time AI-powered contextual support across various contexts, including professional meetings, interviews, presentations, and skill assessments. The User bears sole responsibility for ensuring their use of WhisprBar complies with all applicable laws, employer policies, academic integrity codes, and third-party rules.

a. Single-Machine Licensing: Purchase of a monthly or recurring subscription grants the User a strict, non-transferable license tied to exactly one (1) physical machine via hardware fingerprinting technology.

b. Hardware Locking and Migration Restrictions: Account sharing, software deployment across multiple machines under a single subscription, or simultaneous usage on more than one machine is completely prohibited. Self-managed transfer of a license between different machines is technically blocked. Any attempt to modify, spoof, or switch hardware identifiers to bypass this restriction shall result in immediate account suspension or permanent termination without notice.

c. Non-Refundability: All fees and subscription payments made to WhisprBar are non-refundable except as required by applicable law. Given the digital nature of the software delivery, no refunds, partial credits, or pro-rated adjustments will be issued for cancellations, technical incompatibility, or account termination due to policy violations, unless otherwise mandated by applicable consumer protection law.

The User agrees to comply with this Acceptable Use framework. Any violation of this Section constitutes a material breach of these Terms, subjecting the User to immediate termination of their license, legal prosecution, and permanent platform blacklisting.

5.1 User Responsibility for Compliance

The User bears sole, exclusive, and absolute responsibility for verifying that their use of WhisprBar complies fully with all applicable laws, employer policies, academic integrity codes, professional certification rules, recruiter instructions, third-party terms of service, and any other applicable rules or regulations. WhisprBar is a general-purpose real-time AI assistance tool. The User acknowledges that it is their sole obligation to determine whether use of the Platform is permitted in any given context. WhisprBar disclaims all liability arising from any unauthorized, prohibited, or illegal use of the Platform by the User.

5.2 Recording Consent, System Audio, and Privacy Laws

The Platform possesses capabilities to capture microphone input, system audio, and desktop screenshots locally to facilitate real-time transcription and contextual assistance. The User is solely responsible for obtaining explicit, legally valid consent from all participants in any meeting, audio call, or video stream before activating any capture mechanics. The User guarantees full compliance with all local, state, national, and international eavesdropping, wiretapping, call recording, and data privacy statutes (including but not limited to the Indian Penal Code, Information Technology Act, 2000, and global equivalents). The Company disclaims all liability stemming from unauthorized local recording or data capture.

5.3 DMCA / Copyright Takedown

WhisprBar respects the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe that any content available through the Platform infringes your copyright, please notify our designated copyright agent at support@whisprbar.com with the following information: (i) your physical or electronic signature; (ii) identification of the copyrighted work claimed to be infringed; (iii) identification of the infringing material and its location; (iv) your contact information; (v) a statement that you have a good faith belief that the use is not authorized; and (vi) a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on their behalf. We will respond to valid DMCA notices and may remove or disable access to allegedly infringing material.

The Platform integrates with third-party artificial intelligence providers (including but not limited to Google LLC and OpenAI LLC) to process contextual assistance requests. The User explicitly acknowledges and agrees that:

The User shall not, and shall not permit any third party to: (i) reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or attempt to derive the source code, internal logic, or structural architecture of the Platform; (ii) execute the software within virtual machines, emulators, hypervisors, or simulated sandbox environments engineered to mask hardware identifiers; (iii) use spoofing techniques, hardware ID cloners, or MAC address rotators to bypass the single-machine binding restriction; (iv) build a competitive product or derivative work utilizing technical insights derived from the Platform's overlay mechanisms.

7.1 Account Termination and Data Deletion

Upon termination of your account for any reason — whether by your voluntary deactivation, non-payment, or breach of these Terms — the following will occur: (i) your license key will be revoked; (ii) your account credentials will be deactivated; (iii) your chat history and associated data will be permanently deleted from our servers within 90 days; and (iv) hardware fingerprints will be disassociated from your account. You may request expedited deletion by contacting support@whisprbar.com. Certain records may be retained where required by applicable law (e.g., tax records).

THE PLATFORM IS PROVIDED ENTIRELY ON AN "AS-IS" AND "AS-AVAILABLE" BASIS WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR OTHERWISE. WHISPRBAR EXPLICITLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Company gives absolutely no guarantees, representations, or assurances regarding:

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL WHISPRBAR, ITS FOUNDERS, AFFILIATES, EMPLOYEES, OR AGENTS BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE, OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, LOSS OF EMPLOYMENT, TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT CONTRACTS, LOSS OF REPUTATION, LEGAL SANCTIONS, ACADEMIC SUSPENSION, OR COMPUTATIONAL DATA LOSS, ARISING OUT OF OR CONNECTED WITH YOUR USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PLATFORM.

NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED HEREIN, THE CUMULATIVE, MAXIMUM AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF THE COMPANY TO YOU FOR ANY CAUSE WHATSOEVER, AND REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF ACTION (WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR BREACH OF WARRANTY), SHALL AT ALL TIMES BE STRICTLY LIMITED TO THE TOTAL AMOUNT PAID BY YOU TO WHISPRBAR FOR THE INDIVIDUAL SUBSCRIPTION CYCLE DURING WHICH THE LIABILITY AROSE, OR A MAXIMUM CAP OF INR 5,000 (FIVE THOUSAND INDIAN RUPEES), WHICHEVER IS LOWER.

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold completely harmless WhisprBar, its operational team, contractors, and corporate parents from and against any and all claims, liabilities, damages, losses, costs, demands, obligations, or expenses (including reasonable attorney fees) arising from: (i) your unauthorized, illegal, or non-compliant use of the Platform; (ii) your violation of these Terms; (iii) your failure to secure appropriate recording consent from third parties; (iv) any allegation of fraud, cheating, misrepresentation, or intellectual property infringement brought against you by an employer, prospective employer, recruiter, academic institution, or third-party AI api provider.

These Terms, their interpretation, and any disputes or claims arising out of or in connection with them shall be governed exclusively by, and construed strictly in accordance with, the laws of the Government of India, without regard to its conflict of law principles.

Any dispute, controversy, or claim arising out of or relating to these Terms shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. Each party irrevocably submits to the personal jurisdiction of such courts for the purpose of any such dispute. For users located in the European Union, nothing in this section deprives you of the protection of mandatory consumer protection laws of your country of residence, and you may bring proceedings in the courts of that country.

The Platform is initiated and managed from India. The Company makes no representations that the Platform is legally compliant, appropriate, or available for use in all global jurisdictions. If you access or use the Platform from outside India, you do so entirely at your own volition, initiative, and risk, and you are solely and un-shiftably responsible for local law compliance, international trade restrictions, and cross-border software regulations.

These Terms, alongside the Privacy Policy and End User License Agreement (EULA), constitute the entire legal agreement between you and WhisprBar regarding the Platform. If any provision of these Terms is found by an arbitral tribunal or competent court to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable, that specific provision shall be severed, and the remaining provisions shall continue in full force and effect with absolute validity.

The Company reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to modify, amend, or update these Terms at any time. Material modifications will be communicated to Users via the desktop application interface or the registered email address at least fourteen (14) calendar days before they take effect. Continued use of the Platform after the effective date of any modification constitutes your unconditional acceptance of the revised Terms. If you do not agree with any modification, your sole remedy is to cease use of the Platform and deactivate your license.

For any legal inquiries, support requests, or formal correspondence regarding these Terms, the Privacy Policy, or the EULA, you may contact the Company at support@whisprbar.com. Response to formal correspondence will be provided within thirty (30) calendar days of receipt.

By installing, activating, or using WhisprBar, the User expressly acknowledges that WhisprBar is a general-purpose real-time AI assistance platform and that the User bears sole and absolute responsibility for ensuring their use complies with all applicable laws, employer policies, academic integrity codes, professional certification rules, and third-party terms of service. The User acknowledges that WhisprBar does not monitor, control, or make determinations about the appropriateness of the User's use in any specific context, and the User assumes all risk associated with their use of the Platform. The User waives any claim against WhisprBar arising from the User's violation of any third-party rules, policies, or laws through use of the Platform.

Subject to your strict, continuous compliance with the terms, pricing models, and restrictions set forth in this EULA and the companion Terms of Service, WhisprBar hereby grants you a personal, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, highly limited license to download, install, execute, and display the compiled machine-code binary of the WhisprBar desktop application on a single physical computer workstation owned or legally controlled exclusively by you.

a. The license granted under this agreement is bound with absolute exclusivity to one (1) singular physical computer configuration.

b. The User is explicitly prohibited from renting, leasing, sublicensing, selling, redistributing, hosting via network streams, or commercially exploiting the software.

c. The User shall not attempt to circumvent, bypass, or neutralize the technical hardware-binding system. Prohibited activities include, but are not limited to, deploying the software inside virtualized hypervisors (e.g., VMware, VirtualBox, QEMU, Hyper-V), running within application containers or sandboxes designed to abstract hardware configurations, utilizing MAC spoofers, or rotating GUID identifiers to enable multiple computers to share a single subscription license. Any such activity constitutes immediate software piracy and triggers automated license revocation.

The User explicitly acknowledges that they are acquiring a temporary, restricted usage license only. No ownership title, proprietary rights, trade secrets, copyright interests, patents, or intellectual property rights in or to the WhisprBar software, source code, user interface designs, logo assets, overlay frameworks, or architectural logic are transferred to the User. WhisprBar retains absolute and exclusive ownership of the Platform and all global derivative works thereof.

You agree that you will not, under any circumstances, directly or indirectly: (i) copy, modify, adapt, translate, or create derivative works of the software; (ii) reverse engineer, decompile, decrypt, disassemble, or attempt to extract the underlying source code, algorithmic steps, or structural schemas of the application; (iii) intercept, inspect, or modify the local communication hooks, screen grab routines, or memory addresses utilized by the application overlay; (iv) remove, alter, or obscure any copyright notices, trademark indicators, proprietary watermarks, or digital rights management (DRM) labels embedded within the software binary.

The Company reserves the right to employ automated integrity checks, local cryptographic verification routines, and hardware verification tools to monitor software license compliance. If the software detects any indicators of tampering, reverse-engineering vectors, unauthorized dual-machine installation, virtual machine environments, or account sharing, the software will automatically terminate its own execution thread, freeze the account, and communicate a security flag to our license registry.

Any User whose account or license is suspended or terminated for policy violations, fraud, cheating misrepresentations, or technical circumvention is strictly prohibited from executing "ban evasion"—which includes creating new alternative accounts, purchasing secondary subscriptions under different emails, or modifying hardware profiles to hide identity. The Company reserves the right to use hardware fingerprint blacklisting to permanently block non-compliant workstations from running the software.

The Company reserves the absolute right, at its sole discretion, to develop and deploy patches, updates, security fixes, feature enhancements, or architectural modifications to the software at any time without notice. You agree that this EULA will apply to all such updates unless the update is accompanied by a separate, superseded license agreement. The Company is under no obligation to support legacy versions or maintain backward compatibility with specific operating system patch levels or third-party API configurations.

This license is effective until terminated by either party. Your rights under this EULA will terminate automatically and instantaneously without notice from the Company if you fail to comply with any term, limitation, or restrictive covenant outlined herein. The User may voluntarily terminate this license at any time by using the "Deactivate License" feature within the application interface, which will revoke local activation, clear locally stored credentials, and notify the license registry. Upon termination of the license for any reason, you must immediately cease all utilization of the WhisprBar software, completely uninstall the application from your workstation, and delete all local copies, caches, and configuration binaries in your possession.

If any clause, section, or restriction within this End User License Agreement is ruled illegal, un-enforceable, or invalid by an authorized legal authority or arbitrator, such a ruling shall have no impact on the validity, enforcement, or operational capacity of all remaining provisions, which shall continue to bind the User to the maximum legal extent.

The WhisprBar desktop application incorporates open-source software components, including but not limited to Tauri (Apache 2.0 licensed), React (MIT licensed), and various supporting libraries distributed under their respective permissive open-source licenses. All such components are used in compliance with their applicable license terms. A complete list of third-party dependencies and their licenses is accessible within the application's about or settings interface. Nothing in this EULA restricts any rights you may have under those separate open-source licenses.