Terms of Service

Taper Labs, Inc. (Taper Labs, we, us, or our) provides the Cakie macOS application, also known as Cakie AI, and its related services (collectively, the Service). The product domain is cakie.ai.

These Terms of Service (Terms) are an agreement between you and Taper Labs, Inc. governing your use of the Service. Our Privacy Policy explains how personal information is handled.

Effective: September 14, 2026

Last updated: September 14, 2026

About Cakie

Cakie helps you express ideas and instructions using your voice and on-screen context. You can record spoken input, capture screen content, add visual annotations, and prepare text and visual material for use in other applications. Saved sessions let you review and work with the material you have captured.

Some features use AI to help you work with your content. Available features may change over time under these Terms.

Acceptance and Accounts

You must be at least 18 to use Cakie and accept these Terms and the Privacy Policy using the Agree and continue button. The application stores the accepted document versions and date locally. The current application does not require an account. If you accept on behalf of an organization, you represent that you have authority to bind it, and “you” refers to that organization. Do not accept on its behalf without that authority.

If account features are offered, you must provide accurate account information, keep it up to date, and protect your sign-in credentials. You are responsible for activity you authorize through your account and should promptly notify us of suspected unauthorized access. Accounts may not be transferred without our permission.

Your License

We grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use Cakie for your own personal or professional purposes, subject to these Terms and any applicable plan or purchase terms. You retain your rights in your content. Taper Labs and its licensors retain their rights in the application, its design, and the underlying software.

Capturing Content and Respecting Others' Rights

It is your responsibility to ensure that your use of the Service complies with applicable laws, confidentiality obligations, and the rights of others. Transcripts, screenshots, spoken input, and annotations may contain personal or confidential information about you, your customers, or other people.

You represent and warrant that you have all necessary rights and authorizations, have provided required notices, and have obtained any consent required to capture, process, and disclose that material to us and our service providers. You must exclude or redact information you are not authorized to share before capture or online processing. A device permission does not establish those rights, and you must not rely on Cakie to automatically detect or remove sensitive information. If you cannot meet these requirements, do not capture or submit the material.

You control when to start and stop capture and which available features and permissions to enable. Do not use Cakie for processing that requires a separate regulated-service agreement with us unless we have expressly entered into that agreement. Claims arising from your breach of these obligations are subject to Indemnification below.

Acceptable Use

You may use Cakie only for lawful purposes. You must not:

• Capture, process, or disclose content in violation of privacy, confidentiality, intellectual property, or other rights.
• Use Cakie to gain unauthorized access to another person's device, account, files, or data.
• Bypass security controls, access restrictions, or applicable usage and payment limits.
• Introduce malicious software or interfere with the operation or security of the Service.
• Copy, distribute, sell, sublicense, or provide the application as a hosted service without our permission, except as permitted by applicable law or license terms.
• Reverse engineer the application except to the extent permitted by applicable law.
• Use bots, scripts, scraping, or other automated means to extract data from or place an unreasonable load on our online services without our written permission.
• Extract or reproduce non-public software, service data, or other proprietary materials to develop a competing service, except as permitted by applicable law.
• Misrepresent your content or activities as originating from, or being endorsed by, Taper Labs.

These restrictions do not prohibit your own professional use of the licensed application or your use of output you have the right to share, including with competing products. They do not restrict lawful accessibility tools, interoperability, or automation of your own local workflow that does not abuse our online services. No license to our names, logos, or trademarks is granted except as expressly authorized. Third-party and open-source components remain subject to their applicable licenses.

User Content

Recordings, screen images, annotations, transcripts, files, and other material you capture or provide through Cakie (User Content) remain yours or the property of their respective rights holders.

You grant Taper Labs a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to process User Content only as reasonably necessary to provide the features you choose, secure their operation, and respond to support requests you initiate, as described in our Privacy Policy. We may authorize service providers to perform that processing on our behalf under the Privacy Policy. This license does not grant a general right to reuse your content for unrelated purposes or model training; any additional use requires a separately disclosed lawful basis and any consent required by law.

Local and Online Processing

Core capture and transcription run on your device. When you choose an available online feature, we and our service providers may process the content and context reasonably necessary to provide it, as described in our Privacy Policy and any applicable feature notice.

Transcripts, selected images, annotations, and AI-generated output may contain errors or omit context. You are responsible for reviewing the resulting material for accuracy, completeness, and suitability before relying on it or sending it elsewhere. AI output may not be unique, and we do not guarantee its accuracy, completeness, suitability, or eligibility for intellectual-property protection. AI output is not professional advice; obtain qualified advice where your intended use requires it. Our responsibility for the Service remains subject to the Limitation of Liability section and applicable law.

Clipboard, Exports, and Saved Sessions

Cakie can place prepared output on your clipboard and save material for you to review, copy, or export. It does not automatically paste that output into another application. You decide where to paste, upload, or otherwise send it.

Check the text, images, and files before transferring them. A local file reference does not itself give another application or recipient access to that file. Compatibility and handling of transferred material depend on the destination application or service.

Saved sessions follow the retention settings described in our Privacy Policy. You can delete them earlier. If you need material beyond its retention period, keep an appropriate copy yourself. Cakie's tracked output folders remain subject to session deletion and retention. Keep any copy you need outside those folders. Independent copies, backups, and copies sent to other services are outside Cakie's deletion control.

General Payment Terms

The Service may offer free features, paid plans, subscriptions, or other purchase options. No particular pricing or licensing model is promised by these Terms. We may introduce or change plans, feature bundles, usage allowances, trials, and promotional offers for future offerings or renewals, subject to applicable notice requirements, purchase commitments, and law. Descriptions of possible offerings are illustrative and do not oblige us to offer or maintain them. The current application does not enroll you in a subscription or charge a payment.

Before you purchase, we will disclose the applicable price, taxes, included features, payment-provider terms, and cancellation and refund terms. For subscriptions, we will also disclose the billing interval, whether renewal is automatic, how to cancel, and any trial-to-paid transition before you agree to the charge. Changes to prices or renewal terms will be notified as required by applicable law and the relevant purchase terms. Nothing in these Terms limits mandatory consumer rights or refunds required by applicable law.

If you purchase a paid offering, you are responsible for the charges and applicable taxes disclosed and agreed at purchase, maintaining an authorized payment method, and fees independently charged by your bank or payment provider. Except as required by law or expressly stated in the purchase terms, payments are non-refundable and we do not provide credits for unused features, partial use, or inactivity. Cancellation prevents future renewal charges under the disclosed cancellation terms; it does not by itself reverse charges already properly incurred. If an undisputed payment remains overdue after notice and a reasonable opportunity to resolve it, we may suspend the affected paid online access until payment is resolved. This does not authorize deleting local sessions or withdrawing previously purchased offline rights. These Terms alone do not authorize a charge or automatic renewal.

Other Applications and Service Providers

We use third-party service providers to provide, maintain, secure, and improve the Service. Providers used or planned for use include Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, PostHog, Sentry, and Amazon Web Services. These lists are not exhaustive and may change as we add or remove partners to enhance our services. We may, at our discretion, add, replace, combine, or discontinue providers, including providers not named here, subject to applicable law, the Privacy Policy, and any agreement with you.

We do not guarantee any particular provider, model, integration, or continued third-party availability. Independent applications and services you choose to use have their own terms and privacy practices. You are responsible for reviewing those terms and the material you send; we do not control those independently chosen services. Related disclaimers are subject to the Limitation of Liability section.

A link or compatibility with an independently chosen third-party service does not imply endorsement, sponsorship, or a warranty by us. Transactions, communications, and disputes with those independent third parties are between you and them; direct related requests to the relevant provider. To the extent permitted by law, we are not responsible for their independent acts, omissions, content, or dealings with you. This does not exclude our own contractual obligations or responsibility for processing we arrange through our service providers, and remains subject to the Limitation of Liability section.

Changes, Availability, and Termination

We may add, modify, limit, suspend, or discontinue features or integrations for product development, security, technical, operational, or legal reasons, including changes in third-party services. No roadmap, preview, or planned feature guarantees a future release, continued support, or service level unless expressly included in your purchase terms. Changes remain subject to existing purchase commitments and any notice, cancellation, refund, or other rights required by law.

Neither party is responsible for delays or interruptions caused by events beyond its reasonable control, subject to the Limitation of Liability section. The Service may be unavailable because of maintenance, network failures, or third-party outages.

You may stop using Cakie at any time. Uninstalling may leave local data behind and does not cancel a subscription. Use the applicable deletion or cancellation controls.

We may suspend or terminate access for material violations of these Terms or applicable law, or where necessary for security or preventing harm. We provide notice and an opportunity to resolve the issue where required by law. Termination does not affect accrued obligations, mandatory refund rights, or provisions intended to survive it.

We may apply proportionate rate limits or temporarily restrict affected online requests where reasonably necessary to address excessive usage, suspected fraud, unauthorized automation, security threats, or material interference with the Service. Urgent protective action may be taken without prior notice where permitted by law; we will provide notice and an opportunity to resolve the issue where required. Compliance checks use information lawfully available to us under the Privacy Policy and do not authorize accessing local session content. Such measures remain subject to existing purchase commitments and mandatory remedies.

Ownership provisions, accrued payment obligations, Indemnification, Limitation of Liability, General Contract Terms, and Governing Law and Jurisdiction survive termination to the extent relevant to their purpose. Termination does not expand our rights to process User Content or retain personal information.

Indemnification

For Indemnification and Limitation of Liability, Taper Labs Parties means Taper Labs, its affiliates, and their respective officers, directors, employees, contractors, agents, advisors, licensors, and service providers, in each case acting in connection with the Service.

To the extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the Taper Labs Parties against third-party claims and reasonable resulting losses, liabilities, damages, settlements, and legal and accounting costs to the extent caused by your intentional or negligent misuse of the Service, material breach of these Terms, or infringement of another party's rights, including unauthorized capture, submission, or disclosure of User Content. This obligation does not apply to the extent a claim is caused by our breach, negligence, or other wrongful conduct, and does not override mandatory consumer protections.

We reserve the right to assume the defense and control of any matter subject to indemnification. We will notify you of the claim, provide reasonable cooperation, and allow you a reasonable opportunity to participate in its defense. Neither party may settle a claim in a way that admits fault or imposes a non-monetary obligation on the other without that party's written consent, which must not be unreasonably withheld.

Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, in no event will any of the Taper Labs Parties be liable to you or any third party for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, including but not limited to loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, service interruption, device failure, or the cost of procuring substitute services, regardless of legal theory and even if Taper Labs has been advised of the possibility of such damages.

This includes, without limitation, claims arising from or related to:

• Your access to or use of the Service;
• Your inability to access or use the Service;
• Any interaction with AI-generated output, including inaccurate, misleading, or harmful content;
• Any third-party content, services, or tools linked or integrated with the Service;
• Interruptions, delays, or errors caused by factors beyond our reasonable control, including internet, infrastructure, or regulatory issues.

Cakie is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis. To the extent permitted by applicable law, we disclaim implied warranties, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, free of harmful components, compatible with every device or application, or that every defect will be corrected. Information or assistance we provide does not create an additional warranty unless expressly agreed as a contractual commitment. This does not exclude express commitments in your purchase terms or mandatory statutory guarantees.

Subject to the exceptions below, the total aggregate liability of all Taper Labs Parties collectively arising out of or relating to the Service or these Terms will not exceed the total amount you paid us for the Service during the 12 months immediately preceding the event giving rise to the claim. This is a single combined limit for those parties, not a separate limit for each. Claims arising from the same or related events are treated as one claim for this purpose. The exclusions and cap apply regardless of the form of action, including contract, tort, negligence, or statutory claim, to the extent permitted by law, and even if a limited remedy fails of its essential purpose. They remain subject to the exceptions below.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability for fraud, willful misconduct, gross negligence, death or personal injury caused by negligence, or any other liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited. Nothing restricts mandatory consumer rights, statutory guarantees, or remedies available under applicable law. These exceptions apply to every disclaimer, exclusion, and limitation in these Terms, including those concerning AI output and third-party services. Where a limitation is not permitted, our liability is limited only to the extent permitted by applicable law.

Changes to These Terms

These Terms are available in Cakie's legal documents. We may revise them to reflect changes in features, providers, business operations, security needs, or legal requirements. Examples in these Terms are illustrative, not exhaustive. For material changes, we will provide reasonable prior notice, including the effective date and a summary of the changes, through the Service or available contact details. We will request renewed acceptance where required by law or through the application's versioned acceptance process. Continued use alone does not replace any legally required consent.

If you do not agree with revised Terms, you may stop using the affected Service, subject to any cancellation, refund, or other rights under your purchase terms and applicable law. If a provision is unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue to apply to the extent permitted by law. A delay in enforcing a provision does not waive our right to enforce it.

General Contract Terms

These Terms, the Privacy Policy, and any applicable purchase terms or separate written agreement govern the Service. A separate agreement controls to the extent it expressly varies these Terms. No additional service commitment arises from a roadmap, preview, informal statement, or promotional example unless it forms part of your contract under applicable law. Nothing here excludes liability for misrepresentation or overrides binding pre-contract information or mandatory rights.

No third party has rights under these Terms except that the Taper Labs Parties are intended beneficiaries of, and may rely on, the Indemnification and Limitation of Liability provisions to the extent permitted by law. This does not create an employment, agency, partnership, or joint venture relationship between you and us.

Governing Law and Jurisdiction

These Terms, the Service, and any related actions are governed by the laws of the Republic of Korea, without regard to conflict of law principles. Subject to mandatory applicable law, disputes arising out of or in connection with these Terms are subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Seoul Central District Court. If you are a consumer, this choice does not deprive you of mandatory protections under the laws of your country of residence or any right to bring a claim in your local courts where applicable law provides that right.

Contact Us

For questions about Cakie or these Terms, contact Taper Labs, Inc.:

Support: support@cakie.ai

Jay Song: jay@cakie.ai

Product domain: cakie.ai