Bardo – Privacy Policy & Terms of Service

At TypexAI, transparency is a core part of how Bardo is designed. We believe users should clearly understand how the app works, what data is processed, what remains under the user's control, and where responsibility begins and ends.

This document serves as both the Privacy Policy and the Terms of Service for Bardo. By using the application, you agree to these terms.

1. Local-First Design and Encryption

Bardo is built around a privacy-first, local-first philosophy. Notes, lists, and related content are primarily created, stored, and managed on your device.

Your private note content is not stored by TypexAI on your behalf. TypexAI does not operate a general cloud storage system for your notes, and your private note content is not used for advertising, profiling, telemetry, or general analytics.

Where encryption is used within Bardo, it is designed to protect user content before it becomes accessible to anyone else. In practice, this means that your private data is intended to remain under your control, not under the control of TypexAI.

Bardo is designed so that private content is not routinely readable by TypexAI. If certain protected data becomes inaccessible because of forgotten passwords, lost recovery codes, or lost decryption material, that access may be permanently unrecoverable.

2. Limited Server-Side Processing

Bardo may use limited server-side processing for specific operational purposes, including verification of Bardo Plus subscription or entitlement status.

This processing is limited in scope and is not used to store, read, analyze, or synchronize your private note content.

Bardo Plus verification may be handled through TypexAI server infrastructure located in Ireland and supported by infrastructure providers such as Supabase and Amazon Web Services.

The purpose of this server-side processing is to reliably determine whether a user has access to Bardo Plus features and to help prevent abuse, fraud, or incorrect entitlement states.

Subscription-related communication with TypexAI infrastructure is protected using encrypted connections and reasonable technical security measures.

3. Data Minimization

TypexAI follows a principle of strict data minimization.

We do not collect more information than is reasonably necessary for the operation of the app, subscription handling, security protection, abuse prevention, and basic service reliability.

Depending on the features you use, this may include limited information such as:

• subscription or entitlement status;
• app or device-related technical information necessary for compatibility and security;
• basic operational metadata, such as timestamps, version information, or security-related logs;
• limited account, transaction, or entitlement identifiers required to verify Bardo Plus access.

We do not treat your private note content as general-purpose business data, and we do not use your private content for advertising profiling.

4. User Responsibility for Passwords, Keys, and Access

By using Bardo, you acknowledge and agree that you are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality and security of your passwords, recovery codes, encryption keys, and any other access mechanisms associated with the app.

In the vast majority of software products, including privacy-oriented applications, end-user terms generally place responsibility for password and key retention on the user. Bardo follows the same principle.

If you lose access to your passwords, recovery codes, or decryption material, TypexAI may be unable to restore access to your protected data. This is not a support limitation alone; it may be a technical limitation inherent to how the product is designed.

Accordingly:

• TypexAI does not guarantee recovery of inaccessible user data;
• TypexAI is not responsible for data loss resulting from forgotten passwords, lost keys, lost recovery codes, or other user-side access failures;
• you are responsible for securely storing any passwords, keys, or recovery information provided or generated by the app.

5. Data Loss and Recovery Limitations

Because Bardo is designed to prioritize user control and privacy, there may be situations where protected content cannot be restored once access is lost.

This means that if you forget or lose the passwords, recovery codes, or keys required to unlock protected areas or encrypted content, TypexAI may have no technical means to recover that content for you.

By using Bardo, you understand and accept this architectural limitation.

6. Data Retention

Your notes and related content in Bardo are stored on your device. TypexAI does not keep a copy of your private note content on your behalf.

You are responsible for backups, exports, and any copies you make outside the app. Uninstalling Bardo or clearing app data may permanently delete local content that is not otherwise saved by you.

Limited subscription, entitlement, security, or operational records may be processed and retained only for as long as reasonably necessary for subscription verification, fraud prevention, legal compliance, service reliability, or dispute handling.

If you purchase optional features through an app store or payment platform, that provider may process purchase-related information under its own terms and policies. That is separate from your private note content, which remains on your device unless you choose to export it or use a feature that sends data elsewhere.

7. Bardo Plus Subscription and Refund Policy

Bardo Plus provides access to advanced features within the Bardo ecosystem.

Bardo may verify Bardo Plus access through limited server-side entitlement checks. These checks are used only to confirm whether Bardo Plus features should be available to the user.

Unless otherwise required by applicable law, purchases of Bardo Plus are final and non-refundable.

Please use the free version of Bardo to evaluate whether the app fits your needs before purchasing Bardo Plus. Subscription cancellation, where applicable, may be managed through the platform from which you subscribed, such as Google Play.

8. AI Features

If you choose to use AI-related features within Bardo, your use of those features may involve interaction with third-party AI services selected by you or made available through the app.

Certain AI-related features may operate locally, while others may depend on external providers depending on the product configuration at the time of use.

You are responsible for reviewing and understanding any external provider terms that apply to the AI services you choose to use.

9. DarkCode Experimental Technology

DarkCode is an experimental data encoding and transfer technology associated with the Bardo ecosystem. It is intended for research, testing, offline transfer, and lawful productivity-related use only.

DarkCode may be incomplete, limited, unstable, inaccurate in some scenarios, unavailable in certain app versions, or modified or removed at any time without notice.

Any public references to DarkCode, including research pages, prototype materials, repositories, or demonstrations, should not be interpreted as a guarantee of commercial readiness, general availability, reliability, fitness for a particular purpose, or long-term support.

Where DarkCode is referenced together with encryption or protected transfer workflows, users remain solely responsible for how they use that functionality and for preserving any passwords, keys, or related access material.

TypexAI reserves the right to restrict, delay, modify, limit, or withhold broader release of DarkCode or related decoding functionality where necessary for safety, abuse prevention, technical reasons, legal reasons, or product integrity.

10. Acceptable Use

Bardo is provided as a neutral software tool for note-taking, organization, and related productivity purposes.

You agree not to use Bardo, DarkCode, or any related functionality for unlawful, harmful, fraudulent, abusive, deceptive, evasive, or unauthorized purposes.

This includes, without limitation, using the app or related technologies to store, encode, conceal, transfer, or manage content connected to illegal activity, attempts to evade lawful restrictions, malicious conduct, harassment, fraud, or the distribution of unlawful material.

TypexAI reserves the right to suspend, restrict, or terminate access to features where misuse, abuse, security risk, or violation of these terms is reasonably suspected.

You remain solely responsible for the content you create, store, import, export, or manage through the application.

11. Third-Party Infrastructure and Services

Bardo may rely on third-party infrastructure or service providers for limited operational purposes, including server hosting, subscription verification, database infrastructure, security, and service reliability.

These providers may include Supabase, Amazon Web Services, app store platforms, payment providers, or other infrastructure services used by TypexAI.

Such providers process data only in connection with the limited purposes described in this policy. This does not mean that TypexAI stores your private note content on those services.

12. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, TypexAI, its creators, affiliates, and contributors shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or exemplary damages arising from or relating to:

• your use of the app;
• your inability to access the app or certain content;
• loss of passwords, recovery codes, or encryption keys;
• corruption, deletion, or permanent inaccessibility of data;
• user error, device failure, third-party platform issues, or misuse of the app;
• subscription, entitlement, platform, or payment verification issues.

This limitation applies even if TypexAI has been advised of the possibility of such damages.

13. No Guarantee of Universal Recovery or Intervention

You understand that TypexAI is not obligated, and may not be technically capable, to recover, unlock, reconstruct, or otherwise restore protected user content.

Nothing in this policy or in the app experience should be interpreted as a promise that lost access can always be reversed.

14. Changes to These Terms

TypexAI may update this Privacy Policy and Terms of Service from time to time in order to reflect product changes, legal requirements, security improvements, or operational updates.

When changes are made, the updated version will be published with a revised “Last Updated” date.

Contact Us

If you have questions regarding this policy, please contact:

Support: support@typexai.dev
Legal: legal@typexai.dev
Partnerships: partners@typexai.dev
Copyright / DMCA: dmca@typexai.dev