Last updated June 14, 2026
These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your access to and use of Instableep. Please read them carefully. By creating an account or using the service, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the service.
Instableep is operated by R. D. Bitenieks, a natural person based in Riga, Latvia, operating under the brand "Instableep" ("Instableep", "we", "us", or "our"). In these Terms, "you" means the person who uses the service.
You can reach us by email at instableep@gmail.com.
Instableep is an online tool for censoring spoken words in audio and video. You upload a media file, we transcribe its speech using automated transcription, you choose which words to bleep, and the service produces a censored version of the file that you can export and download. The service is provided through our website at instableep.com and the application at app.instableep.com.
How the service works in practice and what providers we rely on is described in our Privacy Policy. We may improve, change, or add features over time. If a change materially reduces the core functionality you rely on, we will give you reasonable notice.
You must be at least 16 years old to use the service. By using it, you confirm that you meet this requirement and that the information you give us when registering is accurate.
You can register with an email address and password, or by signing in with your Google account. You agree to:
You may close your account at any time from within the application. Account deletion and the related retention periods are described in our Privacy Policy.
"Your content" means the media files you upload, the transcripts generated from them, the word lists and presets you create, and the censored files the service produces for you. As between you and us, you keep all rights in your content. We do not claim ownership of it.
To operate the service, you grant us a limited, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, copy, transmit, transcribe, and otherwise process your content solely to provide the service to you and to perform the operations you request. This licence exists only for as long as we hold your content and ends when the content is deleted. We do not use your content to train artificial-intelligence models, and our transcription provider is contractually prevented from doing so as well.
You confirm that, for every file you upload, you have the rights and any permissions needed to do so. In particular, you confirm that:
You are responsible for your content and for the consequences of uploading and exporting it. We do not review or monitor your files and are not responsible for their content.
You agree not to use the service to:
If you breach this section, we may suspend or limit your access as described in the "Suspension and termination" section below.
The service itself — including its software, source code, design, user interface, text, graphics, and the "Instableep" name and logo — belongs to us or our licensors and is protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws. Nothing in these Terms transfers any of those rights to you.
We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to use the service for its intended purpose, subject to these Terms. You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, or create derivative works from any part of the service, except for the censored files and transcripts the service produces for you from your own content.
Instableep offers a free tier and paid subscription plans. Plan prices and the features of each tier are shown on our pricing page. Prices are stated in US dollars (USD). Where value-added tax or another applicable tax is due, the total amount, including any such tax, is shown at checkout before you confirm your purchase.
Payments are processed by Stripe. When you subscribe, you provide your payment details directly to Stripe; we do not receive or store your full card number. We store your subscription status and the card brand and last four digits so we can show you your billing state. Stripe's handling of your payment data is covered by Stripe's own terms and privacy policy.
A paid plan is a recurring subscription. It renews automatically at the end of each billing period at the then-current price for your plan, and the payment method on file is charged for the new period, until you cancel.
You can cancel at any time from within the application. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period: you keep access to your paid plan until then, and you are not charged again. We do not pro-rate or refund the unused part of a billing period you have already paid for, except where the right of withdrawal below or mandatory law requires otherwise. You can also manage your subscription and payment method through the Stripe billing portal, which is reachable from your account.
If a renewal payment fails, we may retry it and may suspend or downgrade your paid features until payment succeeds. If we change subscription prices, we will give you reasonable advance notice before the change applies to you, and the new price will only take effect from your next billing period; if you do not accept it, you can cancel before it takes effect.
If you are a consumer in the European Union or the European Economic Area, you normally have the right to withdraw from a contract concluded at a distance within 14 days, without giving any reason. This right applies to your initial subscription purchase; it does not restart with each automatic renewal.
Our service is digital content and an online service that is made available to you immediately. By subscribing and starting to use the service, you expressly request that we begin performance during the 14-day withdrawal period, and you acknowledge the following:
To exercise the right of withdrawal, send us a clear statement of your decision by email to instableep@gmail.com before the 14-day period ends. You can use the model withdrawal form below, but you do not have to:
To R. D. Bitenieks (Instableep), Riga, Latvia, instableep@gmail.com:
I hereby give notice that I withdraw from my contract for the provision of the following service: Instableep subscription.
Ordered on:
Name of consumer:
Address of consumer:
Date:
We will reimburse any amount due to you without undue delay and using the same means of payment you used, unless you agree otherwise. This right, and these conditions, replace any earlier statement that purchases are non-refundable. Your statutory consumer rights are not affected by this section.
We work to keep the service available and reliable, but we provide it on an "as is" and "as available" basis. We do not guarantee that the service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or free of downtime, or that automated transcription will be perfectly accurate. You are responsible for reviewing the censored output before you rely on or publish it.
We may occasionally suspend the service for maintenance, updates, or for reasons outside our reasonable control. Nothing in this section limits any rights you have that cannot be limited under the law that applies to you as a consumer.
We are liable without limitation for damage caused by intent or gross negligence on our part, for damage arising from injury to life, body, or health, and to the extent we have given a guarantee or liability cannot be excluded or limited under mandatory law (including applicable product-liability and consumer law).
For other damage caused by slight negligence, we are liable only where we breach a material obligation — one whose fulfilment is essential to performing the contract and on which you may reasonably rely — and in that case our liability is limited to the foreseeable damage typical for this kind of contract. Any further liability for slight negligence is excluded.
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits our liability where doing so would be unlawful, and your mandatory statutory rights as a consumer remain unaffected.
You may stop using the service and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate your access if you materially breach these Terms — for example, by breaching the acceptable-use section — if we are required to do so by law, or if continuing to provide the service to you would expose us or others to legal or security risk. Where it is reasonable and lawful to do so, we will give you notice and a chance to fix the problem first.
On termination, your right to use the service ends. What happens to your data, and the grace and retention periods that apply, are described in our Privacy Policy.
We may update these Terms from time to time, for example to reflect new features or changes in the law. If a change is material, we will give you reasonable advance notice — by email or within the application — before it takes effect. If you keep using the service after the change takes effect, you accept the updated Terms. If you do not accept them, you can stop using the service and close your account. The date at the top shows when these Terms were last updated.
These Terms are governed by the laws of Latvia, without prejudice to the mandatory consumer-protection rules of the country where you have your habitual residence. As a consumer, you always keep the protection of those mandatory rules, and nothing in these Terms deprives you of them.
Disputes will be subject to the courts of Latvia, except that, as a consumer, you may bring proceedings against us in the courts of Latvia or of your country of residence, and we may bring proceedings against you only in the courts of your country of residence.
If you are a consumer in Latvia, you can also contact the Consumer Rights Protection Centre (Patērētāju tiesību aizsardzības centrs, PTAC) at ptac.gov.lv. We try to resolve any complaint directly first, so please contact us before taking other steps.
If any provision of these Terms is found to be invalid or unenforceable, the rest remains in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. You may not transfer your rights or obligations under these Terms without our consent; we may transfer ours to a successor as part of a reorganisation or transfer of the service, provided your rights are not reduced. These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy, are the entire agreement between you and us regarding the service.
For any questions about these Terms, contact us at:
R. D. Bitenieks, operating under the brand "Instableep"
Riga, Latvia
instableep@gmail.com