Terms of use

1. What Whisper-Line is, and what it is for

Whisper-Line is a Windows desktop application that transcribes speech locally, assembles a prompt from what it has heard and what you have given it, and shows the model's reply on a second page. It is a study and rehearsal tool. It does not run your code, and it does not hide itself from anyone.

It is intended for interview preparation, practice, mock interviews, learning and other lawful uses — the same description you confirm in the app before you can use it. It is a tool, not a service that does anything on your behalf: you choose when to run it, what to feed it, and what to do with what it says, within the limits in sections 4 and 5.

2. Accepting these terms is a condition of use

These terms are the condition on which Whisper-Line is offered at all. Installing it, signing in or using it means you accept them in full — including section 5 (your responsibility), section 12 (no warranties) and section 13 (limitation of liability), which are the parts that make offering the product possible.

If you cannot accept them, do not install or use the app. That applies in two situations, and both are yours to judge:

• the law where you live does not permit terms like these to apply to you in full — for example, if your local law will not allow the responsibility, warranty or liability provisions to stand as written;
• you are unwilling or unable to take full responsibility for how you use the product and for what follows from it.

We do not check which country you are in, and we do not offer a reduced version of the agreement for a particular place. If these terms do not work where you are, the answer is not to use the product. Where a provision turns out to be unenforceable anyway, section 18 says what happens.

3. Your account and the trial

An account is created in the app on first launch and is personal to you. The free trial is granted once per account and per machine; deliberately claiming it repeatedly — new accounts, reset machine identifiers — is a misuse of the service. Your remaining allowance is always visible in the app.

You must be at least 18 and legally able to enter into this agreement, or be using an expressly authorised guardian or enterprise arrangement. This is the same confirmation the app asks you for at sign-up. Keep your sign-in details to yourself: what happens under your account is treated as your doing.

4. Acceptable use

Whisper-Line is built for practice and rehearsal: mock interviews where the people in the room know it is running, solo practice, code-review drills, and learning. It is also usable in any setting where assistance is explicitly permitted.

You agree not to use Whisper-Line:

• in a real interview, examination, certification or assessment where you have agreed not to use assistance, or where using it undisclosed would breach the rules you accepted;
• to misrepresent your own ability to an employer, client or institution;
• to capture other people's screens, calls or speech where you have no right to do so, or where recording requires consent you have not obtained;
• to break any law that applies to you, or any agreement you are already under.

The app asks you to confirm the nature of each session before capture starts. That confirmation is asked every time and is never remembered on your behalf. Answering it untruthfully is a breach of these terms, and the responsibility for the consequences is yours.

5. Your responsibility and compliance

You are solely responsible for making sure that your use of Whisper-Line complies with every rule, agreement and policy that applies to you. That includes, at least:

• the rules of any interview, assessment, exam, certification or evaluation you take part in, including a proctor's or interviewer's instructions;
• your employer's or client's policies, and any contract, NDA or confidentiality obligation you are under;
• academic-integrity and examination rules at any school or institution;
• the terms of any meeting platform, coding platform or proctoring system you are using at the time;
• the law that applies to you — in particular the law on recording, monitoring, transcribing and consent, which differs from place to place and can require the consent of everyone present.

Nothing here grants you permission to break any of them. These terms, the product, the website and anything we publish give you permission from us only. They are not permission from an employer, an interviewer, an examiner, a platform or a court, and they are not evidence that your use was allowed. Being able to download the app, pay for it, or run it in a particular setting is a fact about the software, not an approval of what you did with it.

We cannot see the setting you are in and cannot determine whether your use is permitted — only you can, and the app says so before every session. If a rule that applies to you conflicts with what the app is technically able to do, the rule wins. Our checks and confirmation screens are not a compliance service, do not verify anything about your situation, and are not a defence you can point to afterwards.

If permission is denied or withdrawn at any point, you must stop using the restricted features immediately.

6. Whisper-Line is a neutral tool

Whisper-Line is a general-purpose tool. It transcribes what it hears, assembles the prompt you can see, and shows you an answer. It does the same thing in a practice session at your kitchen table as it would anywhere else, because it has no way of knowing the difference — in the same way a calculator, a search engine or a text editor performs the same function whatever room it is carried into.

It does not know who else is present, what you agreed to before the session started, what your employer's policy says, or whether the rules of the thing you are doing allow assistance. Those facts live with you and nowhere else in the system.

So the decision to use it in any particular situation is entirely yours, and so is everything that follows from that decision. A general-purpose tool that can be used well or badly is not an endorsement of the bad use, and the fact that the software did not stop you is not the same as the software, or us, permitting it.

7. No guarantee of outcomes

We do not promise results. Whisper-Line does not guarantee that you will pass an interview or assessment, receive an offer, obtain or keep employment, be admitted anywhere, earn a certification, or improve as an engineer. Nothing on this site or in the app is a representation that any of those will happen.

Descriptions, examples and screenshots show what the software does, not what will happen to you. Your results depend on your own preparation and ability, on the work you do away from this tool, and on decisions made by other people that we take no part in and have no influence over.

8. Model output

Answers and hints come from a large language model and can be wrong, incomplete or confidently mistaken. Nothing Whisper-Line shows you is advice, and none of it is checked before you see it. Treat every answer as a suggestion from a fast, fallible colleague — which is what it is.

Output is machine-generated and may be inaccurate, outdated, insecure, offensive or simply inappropriate for the setting you are in. You must review and verify anything the model produces before you rely on it — before you repeat it, submit it, ship it, or put it into code that matters. That includes checking it for correctness and safety, and for whether using it is appropriate where you are. This is the same acknowledgment you tick in the app: AI outputs may be inaccurate or inappropriate, and deciding whether and how to use them is your responsibility.

Output is not original work and is not vetted for anyone else's rights. Similar prompts may produce similar text for other users, and the model may reproduce material that is licensed, confidential or someone else's. You are responsible for having the right to use whatever you submit to it and whatever you take out of it.

9. Assumption of risk

You use Whisper-Line at your own risk, and you accept the risks that come with a tool like this. Those include a hint being wrong, speech being transcribed inaccurately or incompletely, capture or transcription happening in a setting where you did not have the permission you needed, and using assistance leading to consequences imposed by someone else.

Those consequences can be serious: losing an opportunity, failing or being disqualified from an assessment, an academic-integrity finding, disciplinary action, loss of employment or a client, or a legal claim by another person. You accept that these are your risks to carry. If you are not willing to carry them, do not use the product.

10. Availability

The hosted service may be unavailable, rate-limited or slow. An outage does not consume your trial allowance. If the hosted service is down, a local model still works, because the app does not depend on us to run.

11. Your content and ours

Your code, your notes and your prompt text remain yours; using the app grants no ownership of them. The application, its name and its logo remain ours. The reviewed version will state the licence you receive to use the software, and its limits.

12. No warranties

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Whisper-Line is provided "as is" and "as available", with all faults and without warranty of any kind. We disclaim all warranties, whether express, implied or statutory, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, accuracy and non-infringement, and any warranty arising from a course of dealing or from how the trade normally operates.

In particular, we do not warrant that the software or the hosted service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure or error-free, that transcription will be accurate, that model output will be correct, complete or suitable for any purpose, or that any defect will be corrected. No advice or information you get from us or from the app creates a warranty that is not written here.

Nothing in these terms limits rights that cannot be limited by law. If you deal with us as a consumer, you keep every statutory right and guarantee your local law gives you and does not allow to be waived — including under Israeli consumer protection law and, where they apply to you, EU and UK consumer law. Where such a right conflicts with anything in this section, that right wins and the rest of this section still stands.

[FOR ATTORNEY: confirm the disclaimer's scope and that this savings sentence is the right form for each consumer regime the product is sold into.]

13. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law:

• we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost opportunities, lost or refused employment, lost offers, lost data, lost goodwill or the cost of substitute services — even if we were told such damage was possible;
• we are not liable for any consequence of how you chose to use the product, including any academic, disciplinary, contractual, employment or legal consequence of using it where it was not permitted;
• our total liability for all claims relating to Whisper-Line is capped at the greater of the amounts you paid us in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim, or USD 50.

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited — including liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, for wilful misconduct, for death or personal injury caused by negligence, and any non-waivable statutory right you have as a consumer. Where the cap above cannot lawfully apply to you, it applies to the greatest extent the law allows.

[FOR ATTORNEY: confirm the USD 50 figure, the twelve-month lookback, and that a cap of this shape is enforceable in Israel and against consumers abroad.]

14. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Whisper-Line, its owner and anyone working with it against any claim, demand, loss, liability, damage, fine, penalty and reasonable legal cost arising out of or connected to:

• your use of the product, and any content you capture, submit or process with it;
• your breach of these terms, in particular sections 4, 5 and 6;
• your breach of any rule, contract, policy, NDA or law that applies to you, including the law on recording, monitoring and consent;
• any claim brought by an employer, client, school, examination body, platform or other person about how you used the product.

We may take over the defence of any such claim with counsel of our choice, and you will not settle anything that puts an obligation on us without our written agreement.

This does not require you to indemnify us for anything the law does not allow to be shifted to you, and it does not cut down any non-waivable statutory right you have as a consumer.

[FOR ATTORNEY: confirm the scope, the defence-control mechanics, and that a consumer indemnity of this breadth holds up in Israel and in the consumer regimes above.]

15. Suspension and termination

You can stop using Whisper-Line at any time, and you can ask us to delete your account.

We may suspend or terminate your account or your access to the hosted service — with notice where that is reasonable, and immediately where it is not — if:

• you breach these terms or the acknowledgments you accepted in the app;
• you abuse the trial, for example by claiming it repeatedly through new accounts or reset machine identifiers;
• you use the service to break the law, to defraud, or to harm someone;
• we are required to by law, or continuing would expose us to legal risk;
• we discontinue the hosted service.

The desktop application keeps working with a local model after any suspension of the hosted service, because the app does not depend on us to run. Sections that by their nature should outlive the agreement do — including sections 5, 6, 7, 9, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17 and 18.

If we terminate your account because you breached these terms, prepaid fees are not refunded. If we terminate for our own convenience, or we discontinue the hosted service, we refund the unused part of anything you have already paid, worked out pro rata from the date access stops.

[FOR ATTORNEY: confirm this refund split and whether a paying subscriber is owed a notice period before the hosted service is withdrawn.]

16. Governing law

These terms, and any dispute arising out of them or out of your use of Whisper-Line, are governed by the laws of the State of Israel, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. The competent courts of Tel Aviv-Yafo have exclusive jurisdiction, and both sides submit to them.

Except where your own consumer law says otherwise. If you use Whisper-Line as a consumer and the law of the country you live in gives you rights, or a court in your own country, that you cannot be required to give up, nothing here takes those away. In that case the mandatory protections of your home law apply to you, and the rest of this section applies to everything they do not cover.

[FOR ATTORNEY: confirm the choice of law, the Tel Aviv-Yafo forum, and the consumer carve-out — this is a protective default chosen for the draft, not a settled decision.]

17. Disputes and arbitration

If something goes wrong, tell us first: write to legal@whisper-line.com and we will try to settle it informally within 30 days. Most things end here.

If that fails, a dispute is resolved by binding individual arbitration rather than in court, before a single arbitrator, seated in Tel Aviv-Yafo and conducted in English or Hebrew. The arbitrator's decision is final. Two things sit outside this:

• Small claims. Either of us may bring an individual claim in a small-claims court instead, if it qualifies there.
• Urgent relief. Either of us may ask a court for an injunction to stop misuse of intellectual property, security breaches or unauthorised access.

Arbitration is individual. Claims are not combined with anyone else's and are not brought as a class or representative action.

You can opt out of arbitration, and you keep your rights if you do. Write to legal@whisper-line.com within 30 days of first accepting these terms, saying you opt out and giving the email on your account. That is all it takes — the app records your choice with your acceptance. Opting out costs you nothing, changes nothing else in this agreement, and leaves section 16's courts as the place a dispute is heard. If you opt out, we cannot compel you to arbitrate.

This section does not override section 16's consumer carve-out: if the law where you live will not let a consumer be held to arbitration, it does not apply to you.

[FOR ATTORNEY: confirm the arbitration regime, the institution and rules (none is named yet), the seat, the 30-day opt-out window, the class waiver and the small-claims carve-out. The app already records an arbitration_opt_out flag with every acceptance, and a separate acceptance step for the class/jury waiver is contemplated in the master draft — confirm whether that separate flow is required.]

18. Severability and the rest of the agreement

If any provision of these terms is held to be unenforceable or invalid somewhere, that provision applies to the maximum extent the law there permits, and everything else stays in force. A clause that cannot stand in one place is not a reason to treat the rest of the agreement as gone, in that place or anywhere else.

Not enforcing something straight away is not giving it up. You may not transfer your rights under these terms to someone else without our agreement; we may transfer ours if the product changes hands, and will say so if that happens.

[FOR ATTORNEY: confirm that this reformation-style wording ("applies to the maximum extent permitted") is respected under Israeli law, rather than the offending provision simply being struck. The banner at the top of this page states that the in-app text governs on a conflict — confirm that precedence and formalize it in both documents, together with an entire-agreement clause covering the two together.]

19. Changes

When these terms change materially, the app asks you to accept the new version rather than quietly updating a page you will never revisit. Your acceptance is recorded with the version you accepted.

20. Contact

Questions about this draft: legal@whisper-line.com.

Last updated: this draft has not been published to a release yet.