Terms of Use

1. Provider and Acceptance

These Terms of Use (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of Podhoc.

Podhoc is a product operated by Nexo Apex SL (“Podhoc”, “we”, “our”, or “us”).

By using Podhoc, you agree to these Terms. If you use Podhoc on behalf of a company or organization, you confirm that you have authority to bind that entity to these Terms.

By registering, creating an account, or signing up in Podhoc, you expressly accept these Terms and the applicable Podhoc policies, including the Privacy Policy.

2. Company Information

• Company: Nexo Apex SL
• Address: Edificio Cami Reial c/ Cami Reial, 13-17, 3a planta, 43700 El Vendrell, Tarragona, Spain
• Email: hi@podhoc.com
• Website: nexoapex.com

3. Service Description

Podhoc is an AI podcast generation platform that can transform supported source content (for example URLs, text, and uploaded files) into generated scripts and audio.

The service may include:

• account and authentication features,
• source ingestion and processing,
• script and audio generation workflows,
• storage and playback of generated outputs,
• subscription and credit-based usage controls.

We may update, improve, or modify features over time.

4. Eligibility and Accounts

To use Podhoc, you must be legally allowed to enter into a binding agreement under applicable law.

If you create an account, you must:

• provide accurate information,
• keep credentials secure,
• be responsible for activity under your account,
• notify us promptly in case of unauthorized use.

5. Acceptable Use

You agree not to:

• use Podhoc for unlawful purposes,
• upload or process content you do not have rights to use,
• infringe intellectual property or privacy rights,
• submit malicious code or attempt unauthorized system access,
• abuse, disrupt, scrape, or interfere with service operations,
• use Podhoc to generate illegal or harmful content.

You remain responsible for the legality of your inputs and your use of outputs.

6. Content and License

You retain ownership of content you submit (“Your Content”).

You grant us a limited, non-exclusive license to process, store, and transform Your Content strictly to provide the Podhoc service (including generation, delivery, support, and security operations).

Generated outputs are provided for your lawful use under these Terms.

You acknowledge and agree that:

• you are solely responsible for all content you submit to Podhoc,
• you must have all rights, permissions, and legal basis required to submit and process that content,
• you must not submit illegal, sensitive, confidential, or third-party personal data without authorization.

Nexo Apex SL is not responsible for user-submitted dynamic data, including unlawful, sensitive, defamatory, infringing, or otherwise unauthorized content.

Nexo Apex SL is also not responsible for copyright violations arising from content submitted or processed by users without proper authorization.

6a. Discover Publication (Auto-publish Default)

Podhoc operates a public Discover surface where generated podcasts can be discovered, played, and shared by other users.

Default behaviour. When you generate a podcast (via the web app, mobile app, or API), the generated podcast is published to the public Podhoc Discover surface by default when generation completes. Publication covers the generated audio, the podcast title, the cover, the script summary, and any non-sensitive metadata you supplied (style, language, duration). Your uploaded source files (PDFs, DOCX, TXT, notes) are never published to Discover — only the generated podcast output is.

Tier-based control.

• Free tier: Publication to Discover is part of the Free experience. Free-tier podcasts are always published to Discover and cannot be made private. If you require private generation, upgrade to a paid tier or delete the podcast (account-level deletion withdraws the listing).
• Creator and Pro tiers: Publication is on by default but you can opt out per-podcast via the “Auto-publish to Discover” toggle in advanced settings, or default-off in your account preferences. You may also retract a previously published podcast at any time from your library.
• API integrators: The auto_publish request parameter defaults to true. Production tokens on Creator or Pro tiers may set auto_publish: false. Test tokens follow the same default as the underlying account tier.

Withdrawal of consent. Publishing a podcast to Discover is a separate, additional processing activity from generating the podcast for your private use. By initiating generation on a tier that publishes by default, you consent to that publication. You may withdraw this consent at any time on paid tiers by toggling auto-publish off, retracting individual podcasts, or downgrading your account. Free-tier users withdraw consent by deleting the podcast or the account; while a Free-tier account remains active, the podcast remains listed.

License you grant for Discover listings. For podcasts that are published to Discover (by default or explicit choice), you grant Podhoc a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to display, stream, cache, and distribute the generated audio, title, cover, and summary on the Discover surfaces (web, mobile, embeds, RSS) for as long as the listing is active. This license terminates when you retract the listing or delete your account, subject to reasonable cache/CDN propagation delays.

Your continuing responsibility. Whether a podcast is private or published, you remain responsible for the legality of the source content you submit. Do not generate (and therefore do not publish) podcasts from copyrighted, defamatory, or otherwise unlawful sources. Free-tier users in particular should not submit material they would not want listed publicly.

6b. User-Generated Content (Comments and Embeds)

Discover listings include user-generated content (UGC), specifically comments and feedback posted by signed-in users on public podcasts. This section governs that UGC, the embed widget, and Podhoc’s moderation and takedown rights.

Comments are public by submission. When you post a comment on a public podcast, the comment is immediately public, attributable to your public username, and visible to anonymous visitors and crawlable by search engines. Do not post anything in a comment that you would not be comfortable seeing publicly listed alongside your username.

Copyright in comments. You retain copyright in the text of your comments. By submitting a comment, you grant Podhoc a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, display, cache, distribute, and reproduce the comment on the Discover surfaces (web, mobile, embeds) as part of the listing it was posted on. This license survives deletion of your account only to the extent necessary to maintain prior public versions of the listing; you may at any time request removal of a specific comment under the takedown process below.

Comments are not used for AI training. Comments are stored as UGC governed by these Terms only — they are not part of the Podhoc training corpus and are not used to train, fine-tune, or evaluate our generation models. This is a stricter rule than applies to other content you submit.

Moderation rules.

• Comments are subject to the same Acceptable Use rules as the rest of the service (§5). No unlawful, harassing, defamatory, infringing, hateful, or spam content.
• Community flagging: comments that receive three (3) flags from distinct accounts may be automatically hidden pending admin review.
• Administrator moderation: Podhoc administrators may hide, edit, or remove any comment at our sole discretion, including comments that have not been flagged. Moderation decisions are final.
• Removed comments are irrecoverable. When a comment is removed (by you, by community flag escalation, or by admin action), the underlying text is deleted; we do not maintain user-accessible backups.

DMCA and content takedown. Podhoc complies with the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) and equivalent obligations under EU and Spanish law for hosting providers.

• Takedown notices for copyrighted material (including infringing podcasts, comments, embeds, or covers) should be sent to legal@podhoc.com with the subject line “DMCA Takedown — Podhoc”. A notice should identify the copyrighted work, the infringing material (URL or listing slug), the rights-holder’s contact information, and a good-faith statement of authority.
• Counter-notices may be sent to the same address with the subject “DMCA Counter-Notice — Podhoc”.
• A more detailed process and the canonical DMCA agent contact are published at /dmca/ when available; until that page is live, legal@podhoc.com is the authoritative intake address.
• We will respond to valid notices in a reasonable timeframe and may remove or disable access to the identified material while the matter is reviewed.

Embed widget — third-party site embedding. Podhoc offers an embed widget that allows third-party websites to play public podcasts inline.

• Embed grant ownership. Only the podcast author can generate an embed snippet for that podcast. Embed grants are issued against the author’s account, are non-transferable, and are tied to the lifecycle of the podcast — when the podcast is retracted, the grants are invalidated. Third parties cannot generate embed snippets for podcasts they did not author; the Discover surface does not surface an “Embed” CTA on podcasts that the visitor does not own. Plays on third-party sites are attributed to the grant under which the snippet was issued, and Podhoc retains an audit trail of grant issuance, modification, and revocation per grant identifier for security investigation purposes.
• No transfer of ownership. Embedding a Podhoc podcast on a third-party site does not transfer ownership of the podcast, its audio, its cover, or its summary to the embedding site. The embedded podcast remains the property of the original creator (subject to the Discover license in §6a) and Podhoc continues to host and serve the underlying media.
• Brand integrity and revocation. Podhoc reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to revoke embed access for specific third-party sites or domains — for example in cases of brand impersonation, unlawful framing, association with infringing content, harassment, or any other use we judge to be incompatible with these Terms. While the technical access-control mechanism for per-site embed revocation may be rolled out progressively, the legal right to revoke and to pursue available legal recourse against bad-faith embedders is reserved from the date these Terms take effect.
• Embedders accept these Terms. By embedding a Podhoc widget, the embedding site implicitly accepts these Terms and the Discover publication rules in §6a, and agrees to remove the embed promptly on receipt of a revocation notice from Podhoc.
• Embed widget plays are counted by Podhoc per §“Public Discover Visibility, Comments, and Embeds” in the Privacy Policy. No visitor-level identifiers are recorded.

Severability. If any portion of this §6b is held unenforceable, the remainder of the section and of these Terms remains in effect.

7. AI Output Notice

Podhoc uses automated AI systems. Outputs may contain errors, omissions, or inaccuracies. You are responsible for reviewing outputs before publication, distribution, or professional reliance.

8. Pricing, Credits, and Payments

Certain features require a paid plan or credits.

• Pricing and plan limits are shown in Podhoc product pages.
• Payments are processed via third-party payment providers (for example, Stripe).
• Unless required by law, fees are non-refundable.
• We may update pricing or plan limits with reasonable notice.

8a. Legacy Pricing — Grandfathered Subscribers

When Podhoc updates the credit-consumption rates for Discover playback or downloads, subscribers whose subscription was active before the effective date of the rate change are preserved on the previous rates for the remainder of their continuous subscription. This preservation:

• Is automatic. No customer action is required to opt in or opt out.
• Is per-account, not per-podcast. Every Discover play and download made by a grandfathered account uses the previous rates regardless of which podcast is played.
• Is continuous-subscription-only. If a grandfathered subscriber cancels and later resubscribes, the new pricing applies to the new subscription period — the legacy rate does not survive a lapse in subscription.
• Is not publicly visible per-user. We do not display a “grandfathered” badge or status indicator in the user interface; the legacy rate is applied transparently on the server when a Discover action is invoked.
• Is subject to administrator audit-only override. In exceptional cases (account fraud, customer-service correction) an administrator may toggle the grandfathered flag with an audit-logged action.

A current snapshot of the rate matrices (current vs. legacy) is maintained on the Pricing page and the pricing history for transparency. The applicable rate at the moment of a Discover play or download is the one used to charge credits; mid-listen rate changes do not occur because rates are resolved once per request.

8b. Playback Completion Tracking

For every podcast played on Podhoc Discover, the Podhoc embed widget, or the Podhoc mobile and web apps, Podhoc records a playback completion event the earlier of:

• the listener pressing through to the end of the audio, or
• the listener reaching 90% of the audio duration.

The completion event contains:

• the podcast identifier,
• the playback surface (discover, embed, share, mobile, webapp),
• the mode (preview for the 30-second free clip or full for the full audio),
• the completion percentage (0–100) and position in seconds,
• the user identifier when the listener is signed in (NULL when the listener is anonymous),
• the embed-grant identifier when the surface is embed.

Completion events are used to compute aggregate analytics (per-podcast completion rates, top-tracks listings), to inform creator analytics, and to detect anomalous patterns (replay-bombing, hostile embedding). Completion events are stored for the lifetime of the listing they refer to and are deleted with the listing on account closure or podcast retraction.

Completion events for anonymous listeners carry NULL in the user-identifier field and are not later joined to any identifier — they are stored as fully anonymous aggregate signal. Completion events for signed-in listeners carry the listener’s user identifier and are governed by the Privacy Policy as personal data; the data subject may request export or deletion at any time.

9. Privacy and Cookies

Your use of Podhoc is also governed by our Privacy Policy.

In short:

• we apply data minimization and anonymization/pseudonymization where feasible,
• essential cookies are used for operation and security,
• analytics cookies are optional and only enabled with your consent.

10. Availability and Changes

We aim for reliable service but do not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free availability. We may suspend or change parts of Podhoc for maintenance, security, legal, or product reasons.

11. Termination

We may suspend or terminate access if you violate these Terms, create security risks, or if required by law.

Podhoc reserves the right to suspend, restrict, or terminate accounts when anomalies are detected, including unusual usage patterns, abuse signals, or content that appears unlawful, infringing, or otherwise non-compliant with these Terms.

You may stop using Podhoc at any time and may request account closure.

12. Disclaimer

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Podhoc is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied.

13. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Nexo Apex SL is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for loss of profits, revenues, data, or goodwill arising from your use of Podhoc.

Nothing in these Terms limits liability where such limitation is prohibited by applicable law.

14. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by applicable laws of Spain and the European Union, without prejudice to mandatory consumer protection rights that may apply in your country of residence.

15. Updates to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. The latest version is published on this page with the updated date.

16. Contact

For legal questions related to Podhoc, contact:

• Email: legal@podhoc.com
• Address: Edificio Cami Reial c/ Cami Reial, 13-17, 3a planta, 43700 El Vendrell, Tarragona, Spain

Last Updated: May 13, 2026