Terms of Use

The terms governing the Prinn desktop app, the Prinn Companion browser extension, and prinn.ai.

These terms govern your use of the Prinn desktop application, the Prinn Companion browser extension, and the prinn.ai website and account services (together, "Prinn"). By installing or using Prinn you agree to these terms.

1. What Prinn is

Prinn is an on-device security tool: it inspects network traffic you route through it on your own computer, detects secrets such as API keys before they leave your machine, guards clipboard pastes, filters ads and trackers, and provides an encrypted vault and encrypted sharing features. The browser extension extends this protection into your browser and works only together with the desktop app.

2. Beta status

Prinn is currently in closed beta. Features may change, break, or be removed; signing in may require an access code. Beta builds may include additional diagnostics as described in the Privacy Policy.

3. Your device, your authorization

To inspect encrypted traffic, Prinn installs a local certificate authority and intercepts HTTPS connections on your own device. You authorize this local interception by setting it up. You may only use Prinn on devices you own or are authorized to protect, and you must not use it to intercept, monitor, or interfere with traffic of other people or systems without their permission.

4. License

We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to install and use Prinn for your own or your organization's internal protection. You may not reverse-engineer (except where the law permits), resell, sublicense, or offer Prinn as a service to third parties.

5. Accounts and teams

You are responsible for your account credentials and for activity under your account. Team owners control team policy (for example restricting sharing to team members) and seat allocation; joining a team means its owner's policy applies to your Prinn use within that team.

6. Plans and billing

Local protection is free. Paid plans add team and convenience features. Prices are shown before purchase; payments are processed by Stripe. Subscriptions renew until cancelled; cancelling stops future renewals and paid features remain active until the end of the paid period. Where required by law, statutory withdrawal and refund rights apply.

7. Acceptable use

No use of Prinn to violate laws, third-party rights, or others' privacy. No attempts to disrupt, overload, or gain unauthorized access to Prinn services or other users' data. No distribution of malware or unlawful content through the sharing features.

8. Security tool: no guarantee

Prinn uses pattern-based detection and curated filter lists. No security tool catches everything. We do not guarantee that every secret leak, advertisement, tracker, or malicious site will be detected or blocked, nor that detection will never produce false positives. Prinn supplements, but does not replace, your own security practices, judgment, and backups.

9. Intellectual property

Prinn, its code, design, and branding remain our property. Filter lists and open-source components remain subject to their own licenses. Your data remains yours.

10. Termination

You may stop using Prinn and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate access for material breach of these terms, abuse of the services, or where required by law. Sections 8, 9, 11, and 12 survive termination.

11. Disclaimer of warranties

Prinn is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement, to the maximum extent permitted by law.

12. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages, loss of data, profits, or business, arising from your use of or inability to use Prinn. Our total liability for claims relating to Prinn is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, or EUR 50 if you paid nothing. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law.

13. Changes

We may update these terms; the effective date will change and material updates will be announced in the app or by e-mail. Continued use after a change means acceptance.

14. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the country in which the Prinn operating entity is established, without regard to conflict-of-law rules, and disputes belong to the courts of that jurisdiction, except where mandatory consumer law gives you the courts and law of your residence.

15. Contact

Questions about these terms: support (at) prinn.ai