Terms of Service

Effective date: July 26, 2026

1. Acceptance of Terms

By creating an account or using NotTyped, you agree to be bound by these Terms and by our Privacy Policy and Community Guidelines. If you do not agree, do not use the app.

2. Eligibility

• You must be at least 13 years old to use NotTyped.
• You must provide accurate information when you register.
• You may maintain one account per person.

3. Your Content and License

You own your handwriting. The notes, comments, and signatures you create remain yours.

By posting content on NotTyped, you grant NotTyped a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, display, distribute, and render your content within the app, and to use it for promotional purposes such as share cards. This license exists so we can operate and promote the service. It ends when you delete your content or your account, except for copies already shared by others or retained as required by law.

Your handle

Your @handle is licensed to you for use on NotTyped; it is not owned by you. We may reclaim, reassign, or disable any handle at our discretion, including for impersonation of any person or entity, handle squatting (registering handles to hoard, resell, or block others from them), trademark violations, deceptive use, or extended account inactivity. Buying or selling handles is prohibited. If your handle is reclaimed, you will be able to choose a new one. If a handle you believe should be yours is unavailable, contact us at support@nottyped.com.

4. Prohibited Content and Conduct

You agree not to post or engage in:

• Hate speech
• Harassment or bullying
• Spam
• Content that promotes self-harm
• Sexually explicit or NSFW content
• Impersonation of any person or entity
• Handle squatting, or buying or selling handles
• Doxxing or sharing others' private information
• Copyright infringement or other violations of intellectual property rights

Personal information in your handwriting

NotTyped stores what you write as handwriting rather than as typed text. Automated systems detect sensitive information in typed text far more reliably than in handwriting. We run on-device handwriting recognition to support moderation (see our Privacy Policy), but it is imperfect and you should not rely on it to catch anything.

Do not write anything you would not want to be public. That includes your home address, phone number, email address, payment or financial details, government identification numbers, passwords, health information, and the private information of other people.

You are responsible for what you choose to write and post. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not responsible for the exposure or misuse of personal information that you include in your own content.

5. Content Moderation

We may, at our discretion, remove content and suspend or terminate accounts that violate these Terms or our Community Guidelines. See our Community Guidelines for details on how moderation works.

6. Copyright and DMCA

We respect intellectual property rights. If you believe content on NotTyped infringes your copyright, send a notice to our designated agent at support@nottyped.com including: a description of the copyrighted work, the location of the allegedly infringing content, your contact information, a statement of good-faith belief that the use is unauthorized, and a statement, under penalty of perjury, that your notice is accurate and that you are the rights holder or authorized to act on their behalf.

7. Termination

We may suspend or terminate your access to NotTyped at any time for violations of these Terms or our Community Guidelines. You may stop using NotTyped and delete your account at any time from Settings.

8. Disclaimers

NotTyped is provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted, secure, or error-free.

Your content, backups, and availability

We do not guarantee that your notes, comments, or any other content will be stored, preserved, or available at any particular time. Content can be lost, deleted, or corrupted through software faults, hardware or provider failures, service interruptions, moderation actions, or account termination.

Keep your own copies of anything you want to keep. NotTyped is not a backup service. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any loss, deletion, corruption, or unavailability of your content, and we may change, suspend, or discontinue any part of the service, or the service as a whole, at any time and without notice.

9. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, NotTyped and its operators will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or any loss of data, arising out of or related to your use of the service. In any case, our total liability for any claim related to the service shall not exceed one hundred US dollars ($100 USD) or the total amount you have paid to NotTyped in the twelve months preceding the claim, whichever is greater.

10. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless NotTyped and its operators from any claims, damages, losses, or expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising from your content, your use of the service, or your violation of these Terms.

11. Dispute Resolution, Arbitration, and Class Action Waiver

Read this section carefully. It affects your legal rights, including your right to sue in court and to take part in a class action. You can opt out of it within 30 days under Section 11.8.

11.1 Talk to us first

Before starting an arbitration or any other formal proceeding, you agree to send a written Notice of Dispute to support@nottyped.com describing the dispute and the relief you want, and to give us 60 days to resolve it informally. If we have a dispute with you, we will do the same at the email address on your account. This step is required, and any filing deadline is paused while it runs.

11.2 Agreement to arbitrate

If we cannot resolve a dispute informally, you and NotTyped agree that any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms, the app, or your use of it, whether based in contract, tort, statute, fraud, or any other theory, will be resolved by binding individual arbitration rather than in court. This agreement is governed by the Federal Arbitration Act and survives termination of your account and of these Terms.

11.3 Exceptions

Either of us may bring an individual claim in small claims court if it qualifies, and either of us may ask a court for an injunction or other equitable relief regarding intellectual property. Nothing here prevents you from reporting a concern to a government agency.

11.4 How arbitration works

Arbitration will be administered by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, as modified by this section, and decided by one arbitrator. If your claim is for $25,000 or less, you may choose to have it decided on documents alone, by telephone or video, or in person. Any in-person hearing will take place in the county where you live or at another location you and NotTyped agree on. The arbitrator may award the same individual relief a court could and must follow these Terms.

11.5 Arbitration costs

For claims of $10,000 or less that you bring, NotTyped will pay all AAA filing, administration, and arbitrator fees beyond what you would have paid to file the same claim in court, unless the arbitrator finds the claim frivolous. Larger claims follow the AAA fee rules. Each side pays its own legal fees unless a law provides otherwise.

11.6 Class action waiver

YOU AND NOTTYPED AGREE THAT EACH MAY BRING CLAIMS AGAINST THE OTHER ONLY IN AN INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY CLASS, COLLECTIVE, CONSOLIDATED, OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. The arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person's claims or preside over any class or representative proceeding, except under Section 11.7. If this paragraph is found unenforceable as to a particular claim or request for relief, that claim or request must be severed and brought in court, and the rest of this Section 11 continues to apply to all other claims.

11.7 Coordinated filings

If 25 or more similar claims are asserted against NotTyped by or with the help of the same law firm or coordinated group within a 90 day period, those claims will be resolved in batches of up to 50, with one arbitrator and one set of fees per batch. The parties will use the outcomes of the early batches to try to resolve the remaining claims, and filing deadlines are paused for claims awaiting a batch. This paragraph exists to make large numbers of similar claims workable for both sides. It does not create a class or representative proceeding.

11.8 Your right to opt out

You can decline this arbitration agreement and class action waiver. Email support@nottyped.com with the subject line "Arbitration Opt-Out" within 30 days of first accepting these Terms, including your name and the @handle on your account. Opting out changes nothing else: your account and the rest of these Terms are unaffected, and we will not treat you differently for it. If you opt out, Section 11.10 applies to your disputes.

11.9 Who decides what

The arbitrator decides questions about the interpretation, scope, and application of this arbitration agreement, except that a court, not an arbitrator, decides whether Section 11.6 is enforceable.

11.10 If arbitration does not apply

If you opt out, or if a dispute is not subject to arbitration for any reason, it will be resolved exclusively in the state or federal courts located in King County, Washington, United States, and both of us consent to personal jurisdiction there.

11.11 Changes to this section

If we change this Section 11 after you accept these Terms, the change does not apply to any dispute we already had notice of, and you may reject it by emailing us within 30 days of it taking effect, in which case the version you accepted continues to apply between us.

12. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Washington, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. The arbitration agreement in Section 11 is governed by the Federal Arbitration Act.

13. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. We will notify you of material changes via email or in-app notification at least 14 days before changes take effect. Your continued use of NotTyped after changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.

14. Apple App Store

This section applies only to the NotTyped iOS or iPadOS app that you obtain from the Apple App Store. It does not change the rest of these Terms, which remain between you and NotTyped.

• These Terms are between you and NotTyped only, not with Apple. Apple is not a party to these Terms.
• NotTyped, not Apple, is solely responsible for the app and its content. Apple has no obligation to provide any maintenance or support for the app.
• Your licence to use the app is a limited, non-transferable licence to use it on any Apple-branded device that you own or control, as permitted by the App Store Terms of Service.
• Apple is not responsible for addressing any claim you have relating to the app, including product liability claims, claims that the app fails to meet a legal requirement, and claims under consumer protection or similar laws.
• In the event of any third-party claim that the app infringes intellectual property rights, NotTyped, not Apple, is responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement, and discharge of that claim.
• Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of this Section 14, and may enforce this section against you as a user of the app.