Terms of use

Cadence (trycadence.me) is operated by Leo, an individual based in Ontario, Canada (“Cadence”, “we”, “us”). These Terms of Use are an agreement between you and Cadence for using the Cadence website and app. You accept them when you create an account, sign in, or use Cadence. If you do not agree, do not use Cadence.

Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle personal information and forms part of these terms. Nothing in these terms limits rights you have under consumer protection or other laws that cannot be waived by agreement.

You must be at least 13 years old. If you are under the age of majority where you live, you may use Cadence only with the permission of a parent or guardian who has read these terms and the Privacy Policy. In Quebec, users under 14 need the consent of a parent or tutor. When a minor uses Cadence with permission, the parent or guardian agrees to these terms on the minor’s behalf.

You may not use Cadence if we have suspended your account, or if the law prohibits you from using it.

Sign in with your own email and password or your own Google account, and keep your details accurate. An account is for one person; do not share it. Keep your password and project invitation links safe. Tell us promptly at cadence.supports@gmail.com if you think someone has used your account without permission. You are responsible for what happens through your account unless it was used without your permission and you were not at fault.

Cadence helps groups turn an assignment brief into a plan of tasks, choose or draw task ownership, discuss work, submit it for basic checks and leader review, and keep a record of contributions. Features are provided as they currently exist and may change, be added, or be removed. Some features are labelled as previews, samples or betas. They may change quickly or stop working, and should not be relied on for important deadlines.

We work to keep Cadence available, but it may sometimes be interrupted, and stored information could be lost. Keep your own copy of important assignment material and work.

Cadence uses AI to suggest plans from your brief, apply plan changes a leader asks for, and check submissions for basic relevance and completeness. AI output can be inaccurate, incomplete or inconsistent. Check every plan, requirement, source, deadline and suggestion against your original assignment and your instructor’s directions.

AI checks are not grades. A passing check does not mean your work meets your institution’s standards. When a leader turns on submission checks, a passing check can mark a task complete. Any other result goes to the leader, and you can ask the leader to review your work directly. Do not try to manipulate an AI check, for example by adding instructions aimed at the checker. Work that does so is sent to the leader instead.

Cadence organizes group work. Its AI tools help plan and check submissions; you remain responsible for doing the work. You are responsible for following your institution’s rules, including any rules about group work, collaboration and AI tools. Submit only work you are allowed to submit, and credit sources as your instructor requires.

Contribution reports reflect what was recorded in Cadence, such as task ownership, workload labels and submission dates. They do not measure the quality of anyone’s work or effort made outside Cadence. If a report matters to a grade or dispute, your instructor decides how to use it.

The person who creates a project is its leader. A leader can change project settings, invite or remove members, approve or reject submitted work, edit the plan, pause comments, messages, joining or claiming, and delete the project. Deleting a project permanently removes it, including other members’ comments and submissions in it, after a confirmation step.

Members can see shared project material and may copy it, so invite only people you trust. Leaders can see the full text and files of submissions in their project. Use private messages and comments respectfully, and remember that group members can share contribution reports from completed projects.

You keep all rights you have in the briefs, files, comments, messages, submissions and other material you add (“your content”). You give Cadence a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, copy, process, display and transmit your content only as needed to provide, secure and support Cadence. This includes showing it to members of your projects and sending it to the service providers described in our Privacy Policy. The licence ends when your content is deleted, except for copies in backups until they expire and content that other members still hold in a project.

Add only content you have the right to use and share. Do not upload confidential records, other people’s personal information without permission, or sensitive information that your team does not need. We may remove content, or restrict access to it, when it breaks these terms or the law.

Do not use Cadence to:

• break the law, or encourage others to;
• infringe someone’s copyright, privacy or other rights;
• harass, threaten, bully, impersonate or discriminate against anyone, or share hateful, sexual or violent content;
• upload malware or files designed to harm devices or systems;
• access projects, accounts or data you are not authorized to access, or test, probe or bypass Cadence’s security, permissions, rate limits, plan limits or AI checks;
• overload, disrupt, scrape or reverse-engineer Cadence, or access it with bots, except as the law allows;
• send spam, or share invitation links in ways meant to disrupt a group;
• support academic misconduct.

The Free plan currently includes two project generations per calendar month in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). A generation counts when it starts, including generations that are later canceled or whose project is deleted, as the app explains.

Pro is shown as a preview and cannot be purchased yet. Before any paid plan is offered, we will show its price, taxes, billing period, renewal and cancellation terms, and you will have the information and cancellation rights that consumer protection law requires. You will not be charged without first agreeing to those terms.

Earlier one-time plans remain honoured as extra monthly generations. Complimentary access granted by Cadence, such as gifted Pro or beta access, has no cash value, cannot be transferred, and can be revoked, in which case your previous plan is restored. We may change the Free plan’s allowance with notice, without affecting generations you have already used.

Cadence relies on services from other companies, such as Google sign-in and Google Doc import. Your use of those services is also governed by their own terms and policies. We are not responsible for services we do not control.

Cadence’s name, logo, design and software belong to its operator or its licensors and are protected by law. We give you a personal, non-transferable, revocable permission to use Cadence under these terms. These terms do not give you ownership of Cadence or any rights in its name or branding.

If you send us feedback or suggestions, we may use them without any obligation to you.

If you believe content in Cadence infringes your copyright, email cadence.supports@gmail.com with your contact details, a description of the work, where the content appears in Cadence, and a statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorized. Where Canada’s notice-and-notice rules apply, we will forward notices as the Copyright Act requires. We may remove infringing content and suspend accounts of repeat infringers.

You can stop using Cadence at any time, and you can ask us to delete your account by emailing cadence.supports@gmail.com. Projects you lead will be deleted unless you ask us otherwise. Content you added to other people’s projects is handled as described in our Privacy Policy.

We may suspend or close an account, or remove access to a project, when reasonably needed to address a breach of these terms, a risk to other users or to Cadence, or a legal requirement. Where appropriate and lawful, we will tell you why and give you a chance to respond. If we stop offering Cadence, we will give reasonable notice so you can save your material.

Sections that by their nature should continue after these terms end, including those on content, disclaimers, liability and disputes, will continue.

To the extent the law allows, Cadence is provided “as is” and “as available”, without promises that it will be uninterrupted, error-free or suitable for a particular purpose, and without promises about AI output or academic results. Some places do not allow these disclaimers, so they may not apply to you, and they do not affect warranties or conditions that consumer law gives you and that cannot be excluded.

To the extent the law allows, Cadence is not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential losses, such as lost marks, lost opportunities or lost data, or for decisions you make based on AI output. Our total liability for any claim relating to Cadence is limited to the greater of the amount you paid Cadence in the 12 months before the claim and CA$100.

These limits do not apply to liability that cannot be limited by law, including liability for fraud, gross negligence or wilful misconduct, and they do not reduce rights you have as a consumer.

We may update these terms as Cadence changes. We will change the date at the top. If a change materially affects your rights, we will tell you in Cadence or by email before it takes effect and ask you to accept the new terms when you next sign in. If you do not agree to a change, you can stop using Cadence and ask us to delete your account.

If you have a concern, please contact us first at cadence.supports@gmail.com. Most problems can be resolved quickly that way.

These terms are governed by the laws of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada that apply there. Courts in Ontario can hear disputes about these terms. If you are a consumer, you also keep the right to bring a claim in the courts where you live and any protections of your local law that cannot be waived. These terms do not require arbitration and do not prevent you from joining a class proceeding where the law gives you that right.

These terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between you and Cadence about Cadence. If any part is found unenforceable, the rest stays in effect. If we do not enforce a term right away, we have not given up the right to enforce it later. You may not transfer these terms to someone else; we may transfer them to a new operator of Cadence, and we will notify you if that happens.

Questions about these terms: cadence.supports@gmail.com.