Terms of Service

What Pensova is

A scheduling assistant that places tasks you enter into free time on your Google Calendar. It is operated by Pensova Corp., a New York corporation, and it is young: features change, and things break.

Your account

You sign in with Google, so you need a Google account and you must follow Google’s own terms. You are responsible for what happens under your account. You must be old enough to form a binding contract where you live.

What Pensova will do to your calendar

Pensova creates, moves and deletes calendar events in order to schedule your work. It only touches events it created. It will move your scheduled work automatically — including in the background, when the app is not open — because that is the entire point of it.

If you move or delete one of its events yourself in Google, it keeps your change rather than overruling you.

Fair use

Do not:

• use Pensova to break the law, or Google’s terms;
• try to reach data belonging to other people, or probe the service for weaknesses without asking first;
• automate against it at a volume that degrades it for anyone else;
• resell access to it.

If you find a security problem, please write to security@pensova.com before telling anyone else. Good-faith reports are welcome.

Price

Pensova is a paid subscription with two plans, Lite and Pro, billed monthly or yearly at the prices shown on the pricing page; the yearly price is 10% less than twelve months. Every new account starts with a 7-day free trial of the plan and interval chosen at checkout. A card is taken at checkout; nothing is charged if the plan is canceled before the trial ends. When the trial ends, a monthly plan is charged for the month ahead and a yearly plan is charged for the year ahead, in one payment.

Billing is handled by Stripe. You can cancel, change plan or update your card at any time from Manage plan in the app, which opens Stripe’s billing portal. Canceling keeps the plan running until the end of the period already paid for; partial months and partial years are not refunded except where the law requires it. If a trial ends without a plan, or a payment fails and is not resolved, Pensova stops placing and moving work until billing is settled; your tasks and the events already on your calendar stay in place and remain readable. Prices may change; any change to an existing subscription, monthly or yearly, will be emailed at least 30 days before it takes effect.

Beta access

Some accounts are given Pensova free for a set period as part of a beta, by invitation. Beta access is a courtesy, not a purchase: it carries everything in these terms, including the section below on what is not promised, it can be shortened or ended at any time, and when it ends the account is treated like any other trial that ended without a plan. Feedback you send us about the beta may be used to improve the service without any obligation to you.

What is not promised

Pensova is provided as it is, without warranty of any kind. It is not guaranteed to be available, correct, or uninterrupted — and it depends on Google Calendar, which can change or fail independently of us.

It is a scheduling aid, not a system of record. Your calendar is the record. Check anything that matters. To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, including a missed meeting, a missed deadline, or lost work; and total liability is limited to what you have paid us in the twelve months before the claim.

Your responsibility for your use

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Pensova Corp. and its officers, directors, employees and agents from any claim, loss, liability, damage and expense, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, that arises from your use of Pensova in breach of these terms, your breach of any law or of a third party’s rights, or the content you put into the service. We will tell you promptly of any such claim and let you control its defence, provided you do not settle it in a way that admits fault on our part without our written consent.

Disputes

Talk to us first. If you have a dispute with us, write to hello@pensova.com with a description of the problem and what you would like done, and we will try to resolve it informally within 30 days.

Then arbitration, individually. If we cannot, any dispute arising out of or relating to these terms or the service will be resolved by binding arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, before a single arbitrator, rather than in court. The arbitration may be conducted by video or on the papers, and if a hearing is held it will be in New York, New York, unless we agree otherwise. The arbitrator can award the same individual relief a court could. Either of us may instead bring an individual claim in small-claims court where that court has jurisdiction.

No class actions. Claims may be brought only in an individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any class, consolidated or representative proceeding, and the arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person’s claims. If this paragraph is found unenforceable for a particular claim, that claim will be heard in court under the section below and the rest of this section still applies.

You can opt out. You may reject this arbitration agreement by emailing hello@pensova.com with the subject “Arbitration opt-out” and the email address on your account within 30 days of first accepting these terms. Opting out does not affect any other part of these terms.

Any claim must be brought within one year of the events giving rise to it, where the law allows that limit.

Ending it

You can stop at any time by revoking access in your Google account and asking us to delete your data — see the Privacy Policy. We may suspend an account that breaks these terms, or is being used in a way that threatens the service, and will say why where we can.

The service itself may be discontinued. If that happens you will get at least 30 days’ notice, your calendar events are yours and stay where they are, and your data will be deleted afterwards.

Changes and law

These terms may change; the date at the top is when they last did, and material changes are emailed to account holders in advance. They are governed by the laws of the State of New York, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Any claim that is not subject to arbitration will be brought in the state or federal courts located in New York County, New York, and both of us consent to their jurisdiction. If any part of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest stays in effect. These terms, with the Privacy Policy and any founding-member terms that apply, are the whole agreement between us about the service.

You agree to these terms when you create an account, which the sign-in screen says, and again when you pay, which the checkout asks you to confirm.

Questions: hello@pensova.com.