Terms & Conditions

These Terms & Conditions (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of the website at knowte.co.in (the “Site”), the waitlist, and, once released, the Knowte desktop application (the “App”) — together, the “Service” — provided by Knowte (“Knowte,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), currently operated by an individual founder based in India.

By using the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the Service.

Knowte is a floating notes-and-tools window for Windows, currently in development. The Site lets you join a waitlist for early access. Features described on the Site — including specific tools, timelines, or availability — are illustrative of what we’re building and may change before launch.

You must be at least 18 years old, or the age of legal majority in your jurisdiction, to join the waitlist or use the App. By using the Service, you confirm that you meet this requirement.

Joining the waitlist does not guarantee you access to the App, a specific launch date, or a specific position in line — positions and timelines are estimates and may change. Joining the waitlist is free and is not a purchase, order, or contract for future delivery of software. We may limit, delay, or discontinue the waitlist or the App at our discretion, including before general release.

You agree not to:

• Submit false or fraudulent information, including waitlist entries for people who haven't consented.
• Attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Site, our systems, or other users' data.
• Scrape, crawl, or use automated tools to extract data from the Site outside of normal, permitted use (e.g. search engine indexing).
• Interfere with or disrupt the Site's operation.
• Use the Service for any unlawful purpose.

The Site, the Knowte name and logo, and all associated content, design, and code (excluding open-source components we may use, which remain governed by their own licenses) are owned by Knowte or its licensors and are protected by applicable intellectual property laws. Except as expressly permitted, you may not copy, modify, distribute, or create derivative works from the Site or its content without our permission.

When the App becomes available, subject to your compliance with these Terms, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to download and use the App for your personal or internal business purposes on devices you own or control.

You may not:

• Reverse-engineer, decompile, or disassemble the App, except to the extent applicable law expressly permits.
• Resell, rent, lease, or sublicense the App.
• Remove or obscure any proprietary notices.
• Use the App to build a competing product or service.

Notes, lists, and other content you create within the App (“Your Content”) belong to you. As designed, the App stores Your Content locally on your device by default, and we do not access or transmit it to our servers. You are responsible for backing up Your Content — Knowte is not responsible for content lost due to device failure, uninstallation, or similar events.

If we introduce optional cloud sync or account features in the future, additional terms describing how Your Content is handled will apply, and we’ll ask for your agreement before enabling them for you.

The Service — including the Site, the waitlist, and the App once released — is provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, or meet your requirements, particularly given the Service is an early-stage, pre-launch product.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Knowte will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or any loss of data, profits, or goodwill, arising from your use of or inability to use the Service. Our total liability for any claim relating to the Service will not exceed ₹1,000 (Indian Rupees) or the total amount, if any, you paid us for the Service in the twelve months before the claim, whichever is greater.

You may stop using the Service, or ask to be removed from the waitlist, at any time. We may suspend or terminate your access to the Service if we believe you’ve violated these Terms, or discontinue the Service (or any part of it) at our discretion, including before a public launch.

We may update these Terms as the product evolves, especially before the App launches. We’ll post the updated Terms here with a new “Last updated” date; continued use of the Service after changes take effect means you accept the updated Terms. For material changes, we’ll make reasonable efforts to notify waitlist members by email.

These Terms are governed by the laws of India, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Any dispute arising from these Terms or the Service will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent courts in India.

If any provision of these Terms is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions will continue in full effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. These Terms, along with our Privacy Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and Knowte regarding the Service.

Questions about these Terms can be sent to hello@knowte.co.in.