Terms of Service
By creating an account or using NapkinNote ("the service", "we", "us"), you agree to these Terms. If you don't agree, please don't use the service.
1. Who can use NapkinNote
- You must be a current student, teacher, or administrator at a school that has been added to NapkinNote, and you must sign in with your school-issued account or an email on your school's approved domain.
- You must be at least 13 years old. If you are under 13, do not create an account. If you are between 13 and 18, you agree that a parent or guardian has given you permission to use the service.
- You agree not to create an account to impersonate someone else.
2. Your account
- You are responsible for what happens under your account. Don't share your login.
- If you think your account has been accessed by someone else, email support@napkinnotes.net right away.
- We may suspend or delete accounts that break these Terms, without notice when we think that's necessary to protect other students or the service.
3. What you can and can't post
NapkinNote exists to help students share study notes within their own school community. When you upload anything — notes, documents, comments, listings, profile info — you agree it:
- is study material you created or have permission to share;
- is NOT a past test, exam, quiz, or any other assessment you aren't allowed to distribute (see our Academic Integrity Policy);
- doesn't contain profanity, slurs, harassment, threats, sexually explicit material, or anything that would get you in trouble at school;
- doesn't reveal personal information about other students (phone numbers, addresses, private photos, etc.);
- doesn't infringe anyone else's copyright, trademark, or other rights;
- isn't illegal under the laws that apply to you or your school.
We use automatic filters and human review to check content. We can remove anything we decide doesn't belong, and we can log what was removed for moderation purposes. School administrators for your school can also see and remove content posted by their students.
4. Your content stays yours
You keep the ownership and copyright of everything you upload. By uploading, you give NapkinNote a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to store, display, and transmit that content so we can run the service — for example, showing your notes to classmates at your school, generating a summary through our AI partners, or creating a thumbnail.
When you delete a note or your account, we delete that content from the active service. Backups and audit logs may retain copies for up to 90 days before they roll off.
5. AI features
NapkinNote uses third-party AI services (currently Anthropic's Claude and Google Cloud Vision) to do things like group pages from batch uploads, extract text from scanned pages, and summarize notes. When you use those features, the relevant text or images are sent to those providers. We send only what is needed for the feature to work. The providers are contractually obligated to keep the data confidential and not use it to train their models.
AI output can be wrong. Always double-check any AI-generated summary, tag, or grouping before you rely on it for studying.
Summary usage limits. To keep the service affordable while we scale, AI summarization is capped each month: students get 15 summaries per month, teachers and school admins get 75. Cached summaries of notes someone else already summarized do not count against your limit. Counters reset on the 1st of every month. Your remaining count is shown on each note's Summarize button.
6. No warranty, limited liability
We work hard to keep NapkinNote online and safe, but we provide the service "as is." We do not guarantee uninterrupted uptime, that data will never be lost, or that AI features will always be accurate. To the maximum extent allowed by law, we're not liable for grades you lose, opportunities you miss, or other indirect harm that follows from using the service.
Nothing in these Terms limits responsibility for something the law says we can't disclaim, such as intentional misconduct.
8. Reporting something to us
If you see content that breaks these Terms, infringes your copyright, or puts a student at risk, please use the Report Issue form or email support@napkinnotes.net. For copyright takedown requests, include the URL of the content, a description of the work you own, and your contact info.
9. Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms as NapkinNote grows. When we make a material change, we'll update the "Last updated" date at the top of this page and, for big changes, show a banner on the site. Continuing to use NapkinNote after a change means you accept the new Terms.
10. Contact
Questions about these Terms? Email support@napkinnotes.net. We read everything.