Paid Service Terms

These conditions supplement the Terms of Service only when you expressly purchase an available paid SciGround offer identifying this version. The initial offering remains free. This document does not open paid sales, convert free access into a paid plan, authorize a charge or replace existing agreements without the required acceptance.

1. Your order and payment

The offer and final purchase confirmation must identify the subscription, service period, included usage, credit units/packages, consumption rules, actual price or calculation, tax, total, payment timing and any sales restrictions before you confirm. Applicable tax-inclusive display requirements must be met. Amounts are in USD. Licklider adds no separate handling or processing fee. An AI provider, connection provider or card issuer may charge separately under its own terms.

Credit cards through Stripe are the only selected payment method. Subscription fees are paid in advance at purchase and then on the disclosed monthly or annual renewal dates. Credits are purchased before use and charged on purchase. Successful payment and completion of required authentication automatically make an available paid service usable immediately. No numerical uptime percentage or support response-time guarantee is added by a paid purchase.

Your payment details are handled through the payment flow. Do not send card numbers, credentials or research content in a support message. The Privacy Notice addresses payment-related information and minimum balance records.

2. Renewals and ordinary cancellation

Monthly and annual plans renew automatically on the cycle and at the price accepted for your order until cancelled. Any price or material contract change requires the applicable advance disclosure, notice and agreement; publishing an edited page is not fresh charging authority.

Use the online contract-management page supplied with your paid access to stop ordinary future renewals. The actual route and instructions must be supplied before purchase, remain accessible for cancellation, and confirm the cancellation result and end of paid access. Complete cancellation before the next renewal charge. Future renewals stop when the cancellation is completed; access ordinarily continues through the already-paid period. This is not a waiting period before we accept cancellation.

Email and telephone are not standard methods for ordinary subscription cancellation. This does not invalidate a notice that is legally effective under applicable law or limit mandatory withdrawal, cancellation, termination or other remedies. We must not use an unavailable management page to obstruct a required cancellation. Privacy requests, complaints and the separate account-closure route remain available.

Account closure, erasure of research data and subscription cancellation are different actions. The closure flow must address the subscription and any remaining charging authority, rather than leave recurring charges running silently after closure. Ending or deleting research access does not erase a preserved purchased-credit balance.

3. Purchased credits

Purchased credits have no expiry merely through passage of time. They may be spent while an applicable paid plan is active, including its remaining paid term after a renewal-cancellation request. They cannot be spent while the plan is inactive. The unused purchased balance is preserved and becomes usable again on resubscription to an applicable plan; cancellation alone does not forfeit the balance.

Account closure follows the same preservation rule. We retain only the minimum ownership and balance records needed to honor the balance, subject to applicable legal duties and privacy rights. Re-registration and identity/authority verification provide the restoration route. Research files, deleted research history and expired research-sharing permissions are not restored by credit restoration. Research-data retention is not extended merely to preserve a balance.

Purchased credits cannot be voluntarily refunded, exchanged for cash or transferred to another person, except where required by law. Any promotional credits or included periodic allowances, and their order of consumption, must be identified separately before purchase; they must not be silently substituted for the purchased-credit preservation rule.

4. Optional automatic top-ups

Automatic top-ups require separate, explicit enablement and authorization. The top-up choice must disclose the triggering balance, purchase amount, frequency or spending limits, payment timing and how to disable further purchases. A subscription, one-time credit purchase or agreement to these conditions alone does not enable top-ups.

The management flow must let you disable future top-ups and explain the treatment of a queued or already-authorized purchase. Cancelling subscription renewal must make any remaining current-period top-up authority clear and provide a way to stop it. No automatic top-up may occur after the applicable paid plan ends. Re-registration or resubscription must not silently create new automatic-top-up authority.

Top-up thresholds, package amounts, limits and the actual authorization/disable flow must be complete before the feature is offered. This document itself creates none of those amounts or authorizations.

5. Refunds, service failures and required remedies

There is no separate contractual refund for unused subscription time or a service interruption. Purchased-credit voluntary refunds, cash conversion and person-to-person transfers are not offered. These policies do not limit legally required refunds, repayment, withdrawal, termination, damages, restrictions on billing, or other remedies for nonperformance or service discontinuation. No fee may be charged for a purchase not made or a renewal validly stopped.

The one USD 1,000 aggregate ordinary-negligence limit and its exceptions in the main Terms apply across the same customer agreement, including free and paid use. These conditions do not create a new limit for each renewal or reduce mandatory data-protection liability or legally required repayments.

6. Contact and effect

Support hours are weekdays, 11:00–16:00 Japan Standard Time (UTC+9). For general inquiries, complaints, account-closure and privacy requests, contact contact@licklider.ai. Ordinary subscription cancellation is through the online contract-management page; the legal-notice and mandatory-rights protections above remain applicable. The business telephone is listed in the Commercial Disclosure.

Service, purchase, payment and legal documents use English. Before paid orders open, actual prices/taxes/usage conditions, final confirmation, immediate access, cancellation and credit/closure behavior must be complete and checked. This page is not evidence that payment or those features are already live.