Terms of use
In effect from
These terms apply whenever you use Guruling. By signing in you agree to them, so please read them; they are short.
A free test service
Guruling is free to use, with two paid plans (see Paid plans), and offered as it is, while we find out whether it is useful. It may change, pause or stop at any time, with or without notice, and its features and limits may change with it.
Paid plans
Transcripts are free. Two things are paid for: a founder spot, paid once, and the monthly plan, paid in advance each month. Payments are taken by Stripe; we never see your card.
The monthly plan renews until you stop it. Stop it any time on Your plan: it ends at the end of the period you’ve paid for, and nothing more is charged. Deleting your account ends a monthly plan at once, and nothing is refunded for the rest of the period. A founder spot can be refunded in full until 31 March 2027, as its page says.
What a plan includes may change while we test it; we’ll tell you before anything changes, and if a change takes something away from a plan you’ve paid for, you can ask for the rest of that period back.
Your account
You sign in with a Google account, or with an email address and a password you keep to yourself. One account is for one person: don’t share it or open one for someone else. You are responsible for what happens under your account, and you must be at least 16 to use Guruling.
Fair use
- Guruling has hourly limits on transcriptions and source checks, so it stays usable for everyone. Don’t try to get around them, for example with several accounts.
- Don’t scrape, crawl or script Guruling itself, and don’t overload it or probe it for weaknesses.
- Don’t use Guruling for anything unlawful or to harm others.
Sources and transcripts
You are responsible for the sources you add. Videos and their transcripts belong to their creators. Guruling only fetches captions that YouTube makes publicly available, for your personal use and research. Respect YouTube’s Terms of Service and the creators’ rights; what you do with a transcript beyond that is your responsibility. Pocketing a public guruling copies its list of sources and videos into your account, not the creator’s content; the transcripts it links to are the same shared ones described in the Privacy policy.
Creators
If a YouTube channel is yours and you want it removed from Guruling, write to hello@guruling.com and tell us which channel. Once we have confirmed that it is yours, we remove it and its transcripts. Removal covers every pocket that holds the channel, public pages included.
Suspension
We may suspend or delete accounts that abuse the service or break these terms. You can delete your own account at any time with Delete account on your Profile page.
No warranty
Guruling comes with no warranty of any kind. Transcripts can be incomplete or wrong, videos can fail to transcribe, and data can be lost, so keep your own copy of anything that matters. To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for any loss or damage from using Guruling or from not being able to use it. Nothing here limits rights the law gives you that can’t be limited.
Privacy
What Guruling stores about you and why is in the Privacy policy.
Changes and contact
We may update these terms. The new version appears on this page with its date, and using Guruling after that means you accept it. For questions, complaints and notices about these terms, write to hello@guruling.com.