Terms of Service

1. Who can use Styka

You must be at least 18 years old. If you're using Styka on behalf of a business, you confirm you're authorized to bind that business to these Terms. The Service is intended for legitimate business use — not for generating sites about businesses you don't own or operate.

2. What Styka does

You provide a Google Maps link or business name. Styka uses Google's Places API to fetch publicly available business information (name, address, photos, reviews, hours) and uses AI to generate a website from that data. You can edit the generated content, change colors and fonts, swap photos, and connect a custom domain.

How we handle your Google reviews. We read Google Maps reviews in memory to identify common themes and synthesize an original "what customers value" section in your brand voice. We don't reproduce individual reviews, reviewer names, or reviewer photos on your generated site. Aggregate fields (your star rating) are fetched only when you generate or regenerate, displayed with a "Refreshed [date]" timestamp, and link out to your live Google Maps profile for the originals. Photo handling and full technical details are documented at styka.ai/compliance.

Generated content is created automatically by AI and may contain inaccuracies, awkward phrasing, or details we couldn't verify. You're responsible for reviewing and editing the generated site before using it commercially. The Service may generate similar or identical content for other Styka users with overlapping business categories; you don't get an exclusive license to any specific phrase or composition the AI happens to produce.

Styka is a software product, not a professional services engagement. Don't rely on it for legal, medical, financial, or other regulated advice. We make no guarantees about specific business outcomes from using the generated site.

3. Your account

You can sign in with Google or with email magic-link. You're responsible for keeping access to your inbox/Google account secure. We'll never ask for your password — Styka doesn't store passwords. Notify us at [email protected] immediately if you suspect unauthorized access.

4. Your content

Your business data: The business name, address, photos, hours, reviews, and other information surfaced from Google's Places API are public-record data. Styka processes this data to generate your site. You confirm you have the right to display this information about your business.

Generated sites: The AI-generated copy and design choices on your site are yours to use, modify, and publish. You grant Styka a non-exclusive license to host, render, and serve the site while your account is active.

Edits: Anything you type into the editor (custom text, uploaded photos, etc.) is yours. Styka generates your initial site only from your verified Google Business data, but edits you make are published as-is — we don't re-verify edited content, so you're responsible for the accuracy and truthfulness of anything you add or change. Don't upload content that infringes someone else's rights, contains malware, or violates the law.

AI training. We don't use your content or your uploaded photos to train foundation AI models. AI generation requests are processed by our LLM provider under their commercial API terms, which exclude customer API content from being used to train shared models. We use aggregated, de-identified telemetry (e.g., generation success rates, latency, error categories) to improve the product — never the content of your edits or photos.

5. Acceptable use

Don't:

• Generate sites for businesses you don't operate or aren't authorized to represent
• Scrape, abuse, or rate-limit-bypass our APIs
• Upload illegal, infringing, abusive, or malicious content
• Use Styka to spam, phish, or impersonate others
• Reverse-engineer or attempt to extract our prompts, models, or non-public infrastructure
• Resell access to Styka without a written agreement with us

We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these rules.

6. Third-party services and Google Maps Platform

Styka relies on a small set of third-party infrastructure providers. When you use Styka, your data may pass through these providers under their respective data-processing terms. Current sub-processors include:

• Google — OAuth sign-in, Maps Platform / Places API (source business listing data)
• Anthropic — large language model for AI generation (commercial API tier, customer data excluded from training)
• Amazon Web Services — S3 for photo storage (us-east-2)
• Railway — application and database hosting
• Stripe — payment processing for paid plans
• Resend — transactional email delivery
• SerpAPI — extended Google review data for Pro and Business tiers

Google Maps Platform. Generation pulls data from Google Maps Platform (reviews, ratings, photos, business details) under Google's Maps Platform Terms of Service. Our implementation does not reproduce verbatim review text, reviewer names, or reviewer photos (see /compliance for details). Your published Site renders the required Google attribution for displayed Maps data automatically; you agree not to remove or obscure that attribution.

Outages or changes at any provider may affect Styka's availability — we're not liable for issues caused by their systems. The sub-processor list above is current as of the "Last updated" date at the top of this page; we may add or replace providers, and we'll keep this list current. Material additions affecting personal data will be reflected here.

7. Pricing & cancellation

The Free tier lets you generate one site with the basics. Paid tiers unlock additional features (custom domains, more sites, priority support). Pricing is shown on our pricing page; we may change it with at least 30 days' notice for active subscriptions.

Cancellation & the 30-day grace period. You can cancel anytime from your billing settings. After cancellation, your sites stay live at their URLs in read-only mode for 30 days — meaning visitors can still see them, but you can't edit content, swap photos, or change settings until you reactivate.

During the grace period we'll email you twice as reminders:

• Around day 25 — a friendly heads-up that 5 days remain
• Around day 28 — a final notice that 2 days remain

What happens at day 30. If you don't reactivate, we permanently delete your sites, the photos we copied to our storage, your custom domain bindings, and your account record. After day 30, none of this is recoverable — you'd need to start a new account from scratch.

Reactivation. You can reactivate any time before day 30 from your billing settings to restore full edit access. For paid subscriptions, cancellation is processed through Stripe with cancel at period end — you keep paid access through the current billing cycle, and the grace period begins after.

Export before you cancel. Before deletion, you can download each site as standalone HTML from the site editor (Pro and Business tiers). Exports include all photos and remain fully functional offline or hosted anywhere.

Refunds. We don't offer pro-rated refunds for partial months, but we'll work with you on edge cases — email us at [email protected].

8. Termination

You can stop using Styka at any time. We can terminate or suspend your access if you violate these Terms, attempt to defraud us, or pose a security risk. Sections that should reasonably survive termination (your indemnification, our liability limits, governing law) do.

9. No warranties

Styka is provided "as is" and "as available." We don't guarantee the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that AI-generated content will be accurate or fit for any specific purpose. We make no warranty that using a Styka-generated site will increase your business, traffic, or revenue.

10. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Styka's total liability for any claim related to the Service is limited to the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim arose, or USD $100, whichever is greater. We're not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages — including lost profits or lost data — even if we've been told they're possible.

11. Indemnification

You agree to defend and indemnify Styka against claims, damages, and costs (including reasonable legal fees) arising from your use of the Service in violation of these Terms or applicable law — including claims that your business data, edited content, or generated site infringes someone else's rights.

12. Governing law & disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, USA, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Disputes will be resolved in state or federal courts located in Delaware, and you consent to that venue. Nothing here prevents either party from seeking injunctive relief in any competent jurisdiction.

13. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms occasionally. For material changes, we'll notify active users by email at least 14 days before the changes take effect. Continued use after changes take effect means you accept them.

14. Contact

Questions or notices? [email protected]