Terms of Service — DataBlur

1. Agreement

These Terms govern your use of DataBlur, a browser extension for Chrome and Firefox that hides sensitive content on screen during demos, recordings, and screen sharing, together with the website at datablur.app and the paid tier DataBlur Pro. By installing or using DataBlur you agree to them. If you do not agree, do not install it, or uninstall it.

In these Terms, "DataBlur", "we" and "us" mean the operator of the DataBlur extension and website. You can reach us at support@datablur.app.

You must be at least 16, or the age of digital consent where you live if that is higher, and able to enter into a binding contract. If you use DataBlur for an employer or client, you confirm you are authorised to accept these Terms on their behalf, and "you" means both you and them.

2. What DataBlur does

DataBlur draws a visual cover (blur, redaction, or transparency) over parts of a web page you choose, so you can show real work without exposing real data. The free extension includes:

Manual blur tools: blur an element, drag an area, or select exact text
Auto-detect: scans the page for sensitive data and blurs it. Categories include email, phone, credit card, SSN, passwords, API keys and tokens, private keys, connection strings, money amounts, crypto wallets, and high-entropy strings. Email and phone are on by default; the rest are opt in.
Keyword blurlist: a list of words, numbers, or regular expressions that DataBlur blurs automatically wherever it finds them
Blur intensity and blur style (blur, redact, or transparent)
Blur similar elements, tab title blur, peek (hold Alt to reveal temporarily), and remove all blurs
Per site controls: disable DataBlur on chosen sites, or turn it off entirely
Context menu items and keyboard shortcuts (Alt+Shift+T toolbar, Alt+Shift+B blur text, Alt+Shift+A auto detect, Alt+Shift+R remove all)

All blurring runs locally in your browser. Page content, URLs, and your blur data are never sent to us.

This describes DataBlur today. It is a description, not a promise. See section 12.

3. What blurring cannot promise

Read this section carefully. It is the part people most often get wrong, and it defines what you are and are not getting.

DataBlur is a visual aid, not a security control. It covers content as it is drawn on screen. The underlying data still exists in the page, in the DOM, in your clipboard, in your downloads, and in your developer tools. Anyone with access to the page or the machine can still reach it.
Auto-detect is best effort and will be wrong. Pattern matching misses things and flags the wrong things. It is not, and is not sold as, a guarantee that every piece of sensitive data on a page has been found.
Content inside iframes is not covered. DataBlur runs in the top level page only.
Websites change. A page that blurred correctly yesterday may not blur correctly tomorrow, through no act of ours.
DataBlur does not make you compliant with anything. It is not a compliance tool, not a redaction certification, and not legal advice. Using it does not satisfy GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOC 2, or any other regime, and it does not replace your own controls.
You are responsible for what appears on your screen. Always check before you record, share, or present. You accept the risk of any disclosure that happens while you are using DataBlur.

4. Your responsibilities

You are responsible for how you use DataBlur. You agree that you will:

verify, with your own eyes, that everything sensitive is actually covered before you record, share, stream, or present
only use DataBlur on content you have the right to view, record, and share
not rely on DataBlur alone to protect regulated, confidential, or third party data
comply with the law and with any duty you owe to your employer, client, or users

You will not:

reverse engineer, decompile, or tamper with the extension or its licence checks
remove, hide, or defeat the free tier watermark other than by holding a valid Pro licence
resell, sublicense, rent, or redistribute DataBlur or Pro licence keys
use DataBlur to conceal fraud, to break the law, or to hide data you have no right to handle
use DataBlur to interfere with or attack any website or service

If we detect tampering with the licence or the watermark, Pro features may be disabled automatically, without notice and without refund.

5. Ownership and your licence

DataBlur, its code, design, name, and logo are ours and stay ours. We grant you a personal, non exclusive, non transferable, revocable licence to install and use DataBlur under these Terms. Nothing here transfers ownership of anything to you.

Whatever you blur, record, or present stays yours. We claim no rights in it, and we never receive it.

6. DataBlur Pro

Blurring is free forever. Pro is optional and, today, unlocks:

No watermark. On the free tier, auto-detected blurs carry a small "Blurred with DataBlur" badge. Pro removes it.
Saving blur profiles. Saving a new profile requires Pro. Restoring, renaming, and deleting profiles you already have is not restricted.
Priority email support. Priority means we answer you first. It is not a response time guarantee.

Anything described as planned, upcoming, or "coming soon" is not part of what you are paying for. That includes cloud sync for profiles, which does not exist today. Roadmap items may change, slip, or be dropped entirely. Buy Pro for what it does now, not for what it might do later.

Free trial

Existing users who update to DataBlur 3.0 receive a 7 day Pro trial automatically. Fresh installs do not receive a trial. No payment details are required and nothing is charged when it ends: the extension simply returns to the free tier. We may change or withdraw the trial at any time.

7. What "lifetime" means

This matters, so it gets its own section. "Lifetime" means the lifetime of the DataBlur product, not your lifetime. A lifetime licence is a one time payment that covers the current DataBlur product for as long as we keep operating it. It is not a promise that DataBlur will exist forever, and it does not entitle you to future separate products we may build.

If we discontinue DataBlur, lifetime licences end with it. We will give reasonable notice where we can. Beyond what mandatory law requires, discontinuation does not create a right to a refund.

8. Plans, payment, and billing

Pro is sold in two plans: $4.99 per month (a subscription) or $39 once (lifetime). Prices are in US dollars.

Payments are handled by Creem, which acts as the Merchant of Record. This means Creem, not us, is the seller of record for your purchase. Creem processes the payment, handles tax and VAT, and issues your invoice. Creem's own terms and privacy policy apply to the transaction. We never see or store your card details.

Monthly: renews automatically each month until you cancel. Cancel at any time through the customer portal. Pro stays active until the end of the period you have already paid for.
Lifetime: a one time payment, subject to section 7.
Price changes: we may change prices at any time. New prices apply to new purchases. For an existing subscription we will give notice before a price change takes effect, and you may cancel instead of accepting it. An existing lifetime licence is not re-charged.
Failed payments: if a subscription payment fails, Pro may be suspended until payment succeeds.

Refunds

Refunds are handled by Creem under its refund policy, together with any mandatory rights you have under the consumer law of your country of residence. We do not offer a separate voluntary refund window beyond that. Cancelling a subscription stops future charges; it is not itself a refund of amounts already paid. If something is wrong, email support@datablur.app and we will help you sort it out with Creem.

9. Licence keys and devices

After purchase you receive a licence key that you activate in the extension. Activation and validation go to our own licence service.

Device identity: a device is identified by a short fingerprint, a truncated hash of a random install ID, your browser major version, and your platform. We do not send your full user agent or any page data.
Activation limit: each licence allows a set number of active devices. The extension shows how many are in use. We may adjust the limit for new purchases.
Inactive device reclaim: if you hit the limit, the device that has not checked in for the longest time may be released automatically to make room.
Deactivation: you can deactivate the current device from the extension at any time.
Lost your key: request it by email from the extension. We send a verification code to the address used at purchase.
Your key is yours alone. Sharing it, publishing it, or using it beyond the activation limit is a breach of these Terms and may lead to the licence being revoked without refund.

Validation, offline use, and availability

DataBlur revalidates your licence periodically. If our servers are unreachable, Pro keeps working for a 7 day grace period, after which the extension falls back to the free tier until it can check in again. If a licence is invalid, cancelled, charged back, or refunded, Pro is disabled immediately.

We do not promise any level of uptime. The licence service, the website, and the extension may be unavailable for maintenance, outages, or reasons outside our control. Free blurring keeps working offline regardless.

10. Your data lives on your device

Your blurs, profiles, settings, and licence state are stored in your browser's local extension storage. We have no copy and cannot recover them.

Clearing browser data, uninstalling the extension, resetting a browser profile, switching machines, or a browser bug can delete all of it permanently. Back up anything you cannot afford to lose. We are not liable for lost or corrupted blurs, profiles, or settings.

What we do and do not collect is set out in the Privacy Policy, which forms part of these Terms.

11. No warranty

To the fullest extent the law allows, DataBlur is provided "as is" and "as available", with all faults, and without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory. We specifically disclaim any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy, and quiet enjoyment.

We do not warrant that DataBlur will detect all sensitive data, that it will work on any particular website, that it will be uninterrupted, secure, or error free, or that defects will be fixed. No advice or information you get from us creates any warranty not stated here.

12. We may change or discontinue DataBlur

DataBlur evolves. We may add, change, limit, or remove any feature at any time, including features currently in the free tier or in Pro, and including features described on this website. We may also discontinue DataBlur entirely, subject to section 7.

Where a change materially reduces what a paid plan does, your remedy is to cancel a subscription (stopping future charges) or to contact us. Beyond mandatory law, a change to the product does not create a right to a refund.

Browsers change too. Chrome, Firefox, and their extension stores may change their rules or remove extensions, and that may force us to change or withdraw features. That is outside our control and is not a breach of these Terms.

13. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for:

any disclosure of data that occurs while you are using DataBlur, including data that auto-detect failed to find, that a blur failed to cover, or that you did not check
indirect, incidental, special, punitive, or consequential damages
lost profits, lost revenue, lost business, lost goodwill, or reputational harm
loss or corruption of your local blurs, profiles, or settings
the acts, outages, or failures of third parties, including Creem and the browser stores

Our total aggregate liability for all claims relating to DataBlur is limited to the amount you actually paid us for Pro in the twelve months before the claim, and is zero if you use the free tier. You get DataBlur's core function for nothing, and this cap is part of the bargain.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else mandatory law says cannot be limited. Nothing here limits the mandatory consumer rights you have under the law of your country of residence.

14. Indemnity

You will indemnify us and hold us harmless from any claim, demand, loss, liability, or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or connected with: your use or misuse of DataBlur; the content you view, record, share, or present; data you failed to hide; your breach of these Terms; or your breach of any law or of any right of a third party.

This does not apply to the extent the claim is caused by our own fraud, gross negligence, or wilful misconduct, or where mandatory law says otherwise.

15. Suspension and termination

You can stop using DataBlur at any time by uninstalling it, which removes its local data. Cancelling a subscription is done through the customer portal.

We may suspend or terminate your access, including Pro features, immediately and without refund, if you breach these Terms, tamper with the licence or the watermark, share or publish a licence key, abuse the service, or if a payment is reversed or charged back.

Sections that by their nature should survive do survive termination, including sections 3, 5, 7, 10, 11, 13, 14, and 17.

16. Third parties

Creem, Merchant of Record for purchases, subscriptions, and refunds
Cloudflare, which hosts the licence service
Self hosted analytics on our own servers in the EU
Chrome Web Store and Firefox Add-ons, which distribute the extension under their own terms

These parties operate under their own terms and we do not control them. We are not responsible for their acts, omissions, outages, or policy changes.

17. General

Force majeure: we are not liable for any failure caused by something outside our reasonable control, including outages, network failures, attacks, browser or store policy changes, and acts of government.
Severability: if any part of these Terms is held invalid or unenforceable, it is limited or removed to the minimum extent necessary, and the rest stays in force.
No waiver: if we do not enforce a right, that is not a waiver of it.
Assignment: we may transfer these Terms and the service, for example if DataBlur is acquired. You may not transfer your licence or your rights under these Terms.
Feedback: if you send us ideas, suggestions, or feedback, we may use them freely, without obligation, attribution, or payment to you.
Entire agreement: these Terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between us about DataBlur, and replace anything said or written before.

18. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms as DataBlur changes. The effective date at the top always reflects the current version. For material changes we will give notice in the extension release notes or on this page. Continuing to use DataBlur after an update means you accept the new Terms. If you do not accept them, uninstall the extension and, if you have a subscription, cancel it.

19. Contact

Questions about these Terms, billing, or anything else: support@datablur.app