Version of 30 September 2026
This is an earlier version of our Terms of Service, published on 30 September 2026. It governs accounts made before 1 October 2026 until 31 October 2026, when the current version replaces it. The current version is here, and every version is listed here.
TeXType is a place to write LaTeX with the people you work with. You write, we keep your work safe and compile it, and your work stays yours: we claim nothing in it, we never use it to train AI models, and you can take all of it with you at any time.
These Terms of Service (“Terms”) describe our commitments to you, and your rights and responsibilities when you use TeXType. Please read them, and write to us if anything is unclear. If you don’t agree to these Terms, don’t use TeXType.
We’ve made these Terms available under the same Creative Commons ShareAlike license as the ones we adapted them from, so you’re welcome to reuse them too (see the end of this page).
These Terms govern your access to and use of the website at textype.io and the editor, compiler, version history, sharing, sync and other features we provide there (our “Services”). By accessing or using any part of our Services, you agree to these Terms and to the policies they refer to, including our Privacy Policy (together, the “Agreement”).
“We”, “us” and “our” mean TEXTYPE LLC, a Massachusetts limited liability company. “You” means any person or organization using our Services. If you use them on behalf of an organization, you confirm that you’re authorized to accept the Agreement for it, and the Agreement binds that organization as well as you.
To use most of our Services you need an account. You sign in with an existing account at a provider we support (today, Google, GitHub or Microsoft); TeXType never holds a password for you.
You agree to keep the email address on your account current, so that we can reach you about it. We send email only about your account, your projects and your plan (for example, a change to these Terms, a subscription starting or ending, or a payment that failed); we don’t send marketing.
You’re responsible for activity under your account and for keeping the account you sign in with secure. Tell us straight away at [email protected] if you think someone else has used your account. If we believe an account has been compromised, we may suspend it while we sort it out with you.
The Privacy Policy says what we collect and how we handle it.
Our Services are not directed to children. You’re not allowed to access or use our Services if you’re under the age of 13 (or 16 in Europe). If you register as a user or otherwise use our Services, you represent that you’re at least 13 (or 16 in Europe). You may use our Services only if you can legally form a binding contract with us. In other words, if you’re under 18 years of age (or the legal age of majority where you live), you can only use our Services under the supervision of a parent or legal guardian who agrees to the Agreement.
Everything you put into a project (text, figures, bibliographies, comments, suggestions, and the files synced from a git remote) is your “Content”, and it stays yours. We claim no ownership of it.
You give us permission to do with your Content only what running the Services requires: to store it, compile it, keep its versions, back it up, show it to the people you share it with, and push it to a git remote you connect. That permission ends when you delete the Content, except for copies in backups, which expire on the schedule in the Privacy Policy.
We look at the contents of a project only in the cases our Privacy Policy lists: when you ask for help with it, to investigate abuse or an attack, when it’s needed to keep the service working, or when the law requires it. We never use your Content to train AI models, and we don’t hand it to anyone except as the Privacy Policy describes.
When you share a project, the people you share it with can read it, and those you make editors can change it. Every saved version records the name and email address of the person who made it, and that record stays in the project’s history even after someone leaves it. That is how the history stays honest.
A shared project contains Content from everyone in it. We haven’t reviewed, and can’t review, all of it, and we’re not responsible for it. In particular:
Plans. TeXType has a free plan and a paid one, Pro, described on the pricing page. Its plans, their limits and their prices may change, in the ways this section describes.
Who you’re buying from. Pro is sold to you through Link, Stripe’s payment service, as the merchant of record: Link takes the payment, adds whatever sales tax or VAT applies where you are, sends your receipts and invoices, and handles payment questions and disputes. The charge appears on your card statement as LINK.COM* TEXTYPE. Card details go to Stripe and never reach us.
Automatic renewal. Pro is paid in advance, by the month or by the year, and renews automatically at the end of each term, charging the payment method on file the then-current price for your plan, until you cancel. Before each yearly renewal, and before each yearly anniversary of a monthly plan, you’ll get an email reminder at least a week ahead with the date, the amount and how to cancel.
Cancelling. You can cancel at any time, online, from your account page (“Manage billing”) or from your Link account, up to the moment of renewal. Cancelling stops the next renewal; Pro continues until the end of the term you’ve paid for, and your account then moves to the free plan without losing anything in it.
Failed payments. If a renewal payment fails, Pro continues for a short grace period while Stripe retries and we email you. If it still hasn’t been paid, the account moves to the free plan, again without losing anything.
Price and plan changes. What you pay for is fixed for that term: the features and the price of your plan won’t change during a month or year you’ve already paid for. A change to either applies from a later renewal, and we’ll email you at least a week before it does, so you can cancel first if you prefer.
Fall discount. A first subscription to Pro started by the end of 1 November 2026, Eastern time, is discounted from the regular price, as the pricing page shows: for its first year if it is yearly, or for its first 12 months if it is monthly. After that, it renews at the regular price then current, with the reminders and notice described above. The discount is once per person, and does not apply to a later subscription or carry over to a different plan. A price kept under an earlier version of these Terms stays as it was promised.
Refunds. If Pro isn’t for you, write to [email protected] within 14 days of your first payment for Pro and it will be refunded in full. The refund of a first payment is available once per person; subscribing again after a refund does not start a new 14 day cycle. Renewals, monthly or yearly, are not refunded; before each yearly renewal we email you a reminder, with the date and how to cancel. If we end Pro or close TeXType, the unused part of any paid term is refunded.
Buying in good faith. Buy Pro only if you mean to use it with the account you sign up with. Every payment, even one refunded in full, costs us fees that aren’t returned, so subscribing in order to ask for a refund, or repeating a subscribe-and-refund cycle, even with a separate account, is a breach of these Terms. Disputing a charge with your bank without first asking us to fix it is treated the same way, and Pro is paused while a dispute is open. We reserve the right to cancel any such subscriptions immediately, to close the accounts as section 14 describes, and to refuse refunds for such breaches of these Terms. None of this limits a refund the law gives you.
Taxes. Prices on the pricing page don’t include sales tax or VAT, which Stripe adds at checkout where it applies.
Consumers in the EU, UK and Switzerland. The 14-day full refund above applies to you too, and is at least as generous as your statutory right to withdraw from the purchase within 14 days.
We love hearing from you. If you send us ideas or suggestions about TeXType, we may use them freely, without owing you anything for them.
You agree that your use of our Services:
We respect the intellectual property of others, and ask the same of everyone who uses TeXType. If you believe Content on TeXType infringes your copyright, send a notice to our designated agent (TEXTYPE LLC, Attn: DMCA Agent, 82 Wendell Ave, Suite 100, Pittsfield, MA 01201, U.S.A. or [email protected]) including the information the Digital Millennium Copyright Act requires (17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3)). We’ll respond to valid notices, including by removing or disabling access to the material, and we’ll close the accounts of repeat infringers.
If we remove your Content because of a notice and you believe that was a mistake, you can send our designated agent a counter-notice with the information 17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(3) requires, including a statement, under penalty of perjury, that you believe the material was removed by mistake. We’ll pass it to the person who complained, and restore the material 10 to 14 business days later unless they tell us they’ve gone to court.
The Agreement doesn’t transfer any of our intellectual property to you. The TeXType name and logo are ours. TeXType relies on open-source software, including TeX Live, whose components remain under their own licenses; nothing here limits your rights under those licenses.
Some features connect TeXType to services run by others: signing in with Google, GitHub or Microsoft, syncing with GitHub or GitLab, paying through Stripe. When you use one, that provider’s own terms and privacy policy also apply to what you do there, and we’re not responsible for it. If a provider changes or stops its service, the feature that depends on it may change or stop too.
We work to keep TeXType running and your work safe: it’s monitored, every change is tested before it goes out, and projects are backed up every night to a second provider. Even so, we can’t promise any particular uptime. If you have a deadline, keep a copy; the zip download and git sync exist for exactly this.
If TeXType is going to shut down, you’ll get at least 30 days’ notice by email and every opportunity to download your projects first.
We may change these Terms from time to time, for example to reflect a change to the Services or for legal reasons. When we do, we’ll update the date at the top of this page. If a change matters, we’ll also tell you at least 30 days before it takes effect, by email and on the sign-in page. Changes apply going forward. If you don’t agree to a change, you can stop using TeXType and cancel any subscription before it takes effect; continuing to use TeXType after that means you accept it.
You can stop using TeXType at any time, and delete your account from the projects page. Doing so deletes the projects you own and removes you from the ones you don’t; the Privacy Policy says exactly what remains afterwards, and for how long.
We may suspend or close an account that breaks the Agreement. Unless the breach is serious enough that it would be irresponsible to wait, we’ll tell you first and give you a chance to download your work. If we close a paid account without cause, we’ll refund the unused part of its term.
Our Services are provided “as is”. To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim all warranties of any kind, express or implied, including the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We don’t promise that the Services will be free of errors or that access to them will be continuous or uninterrupted.
To the fullest extent the law allows, we won’t be liable for (i) any indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages; (ii) the cost of substitute products or services; (iii) interruption of use, or loss or corruption of data; or (iv) any amount greater than $50 or the fees you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, whichever is greater. We’re not liable for failures or delays caused by things beyond our reasonable control. Nothing in the Agreement limits liability that cannot be limited by law.
You agree to indemnify us against claims, losses and costs (including reasonable legal fees) arising from Content you add to TeXType or from your breach of the Agreement or the law.
You may not use TeXType if you’re located in a country or region subject to comprehensive U.S. sanctions, or if you’re on a U.S. list of prohibited or restricted parties. We may block access where we believe it’s needed to comply with U.S. export controls and sanctions.
The Agreement is governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, U.S.A., without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. Disputes will be heard in the state and federal courts located in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Nothing in the Agreement takes away rights you have as a consumer under the mandatory laws of the place where you live.
The Agreement is the whole agreement between you and us about the Services. If any part of it is found unenforceable, the rest still applies. If we don’t enforce a term right away, we haven’t given up the right to enforce it later. We may transfer the Agreement to a successor that takes over the Services, and we’ll tell you if we do; you may transfer it only with our written consent. These Terms were written in English (US); if we translate them, the English version controls.
TEXTYPE LLC, 82 Wendell Ave, Suite 100, Pittsfield, MA 01201, U.S.A. Email: [email protected], or use the support page.
These Terms are adapted from the WordPress.com Terms of Service by Automattic, used under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license, and have been changed substantially. This page is available under the same license.