Terms of Service

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of Tabayyun, operated under the business name Tabayyun Technologies ("Tabayyun", "we", "us" and "our"). Tabayyun Technologies is currently an unincorporated business, not an incorporated company. Questions about these Terms or formal notices may be sent to contact@tabayyun.net.

These Terms apply to the website at tabayyun.net, the application at app.tabayyun.net, and related services (the "Service"). The Privacy Policy is available at https://tabayyun.net/privacy.

Acceptance. When you create an account, you must tick a box to agree to these Terms and acknowledge the Privacy Policy, and confirm that you are 13 or older. The box is not ticked in advance. We record the versions you accepted and when you accepted them. If you created your account before these Terms took effect, we may ask you to accept them before you continue to use your account. For website visitors who do not register, applicable terms apply to their access to publicly available materials only insofar as legally enforceable. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

Tabayyun is a software tool for Islamic research, learning and content preparation. It includes Q&A (Standard Mode and Scholar Mode), Source Explorer, Research and Khutbah Builder. Features change over time.

Tabayyun is not a mufti, an imam, a scholar or a fatwa service.

• Answers are produced by AI software using our source library and, for some features, approved websites. They are not fatwas or binding religious rulings, and they are not personal religious advice.
• Tabayyun is not a substitute for a qualified scholar. If your situation needs a ruling or personal guidance, ask a qualified scholar you trust.
• Tabayyun does not give legal, medical, financial or other professional advice.
• Using Tabayyun does not create a scholar-student, mufti-mustafti, pastoral, professional or confidential relationship.
• You remain responsible for your religious decisions and practice, and for anything you say, publish or deliver based on the Service.

We design Tabayyun to ground answers in sources, cite them, and check that cited text supports what the answer says. This checking aims to catch errors but can be wrong. The Service may:

• misunderstand your question;
• miss relevant evidence or scholarly views;
• cite a source that does not fully support a statement, or quote or translate it imperfectly;
• present one view where scholars disagree, or present a minority view as stronger than it is;
• contain technical errors.

A citation is not a guarantee that a statement is correct or complete. Islamic scholarship contains legitimate disagreement; an answer does not represent consensus unless the evidence shows it. Please check important points against the cited sources and with a qualified scholar, especially before relying on them or sharing them publicly.

Scholar Mode uses broader reasoning and may use outside websites that we have not independently verified. It may include AI-derived analysis that goes beyond the wording of a source; the App labels this analysis. You must read and accept the Scholar Mode notice before using it.

The intended minimum age is 13. Users must truthfully confirm at sign-up that they are at least 13. For anyone under the relevant age of digital consent or adulthood in their jurisdiction, additional parent/guardian involvement, age assurance, restrictions, or consent may be required by applicable law. The Service is not directed at children under 13. If Tabayyun learns of an under-13 account, it will take appropriate action, including suspension and deletion of personal data subject to legally required retention. You may not use the Service if prohibited by applicable law.

• Give accurate information when you sign up, and keep it up to date.
• Keep your password secure and do not use it elsewhere. Tell us promptly at contact@tabayyun.net if you think someone has accessed your account.
• One account is for one person. Do not share your sign-in details, let others use your account, or sell or transfer it.
• You are responsible for activity on your account.

6.1 Plans

We offer a Free plan and paid Plus and Pro plans. The features in each plan, including each plan's monthly allowances, are described on our pricing page at https://tabayyun.net/pricing and in the App. Prices are shown on the pricing page and on the checkout page before you pay. Prices do not include tax. Applicable taxes may be added at checkout.

6.2 Payment

Payments are processed by Stripe. By buying a plan you also agree to the terms Stripe shows you at checkout. We do not receive or store your full card number. An account can have only one paid subscription at a time. We may accept promotion codes at checkout.

6.3 Automatic renewal

Paid plans are monthly subscriptions that renew automatically at the end of each billing period, and you are charged the then-current price, until you cancel.

6.4 Cancelling

You may cancel through Settings → Manage Billing, which takes you to Stripe's billing portal. Cancellation stops renewal, and your paid access continues until the end of the billing period you have already paid for, after which your account returns to Free, subject to any independent entitlements. Cancellation rights required by law remain unaffected.

6.5 Upgrading from Plus to Pro, and other plan changes

You can upgrade from Plus to Pro in the App. Before you confirm, the App shows you the amount you will be charged now and your renewal date. The amount is the difference between the plans for the rest of your current billing period, as calculated by Stripe, plus any tax. That quote is valid for 10 minutes. When you confirm:

• you are charged that amount straight away, and your renewal date does not change;
• if the payment does not go through, the upgrade does not happen and you stay on Plus.

Downgrades (for example from Pro to Plus) and other plan changes are made in Stripe's billing portal, which shows you the effect of the change before you confirm it.

6.6 Failed payments

If a renewal payment fails, Stripe will try again. You keep your paid features while Stripe retries. If the payment still fails, the subscription ends and your account moves to the Free plan.

6.7 Refunds

Except where law requires otherwise, subscription fees are generally nonrefundable and no routine exchanges are offered. Contact contact@tabayyun.net for a refund request; requests may be reviewed individually. Nothing in this policy removes statutory cancellation, withdrawal, refund, or consumer guarantees. Full refunds, when made, end the corresponding subscription immediately; partial refunds do not automatically terminate the subscription. Refund requests are handled manually.

6.8 Deleting your account while subscribed

If you delete your account, any paid subscription is cancelled immediately as part of the deletion, and any unfinished checkout is closed. Under section 6.7, unused time is not refunded as standard when you delete your account, and no refund is paid automatically. You can ask for a refund under section 6.7.

If a payment reaches us for an account that has already been deleted (for example from a checkout opened before deletion), we cancel that subscription and review the payment for a refund.

6.9 Price changes

We may change prices for future billing periods. We will tell you at least 30 days, or longer if required by law, before a price change applies to your subscription. If you do not agree, you can cancel before it takes effect.

6.10 Complimentary, pilot and institutional access

We may give some accounts free, pilot, promotional or institutional access. This access may be limited, may have an end date, and may be withdrawn, unless we agree otherwise in writing.

Plans include numerical limits on questions, research, khutbah generations, and other metered features, which reset at the start of the applicable billing or calendar period. Unused allowances do not roll over. The monthly allowances for each plan are shown on our pricing page and in Settings. We may reasonably limit abusive usage and may change quotas prospectively with appropriate notice and statutory remedies.

You must not:

• break the law or help anyone else do so;
• use the Service to harass, threaten or harm anyone, or to produce hateful or abusive material;
• present Tabayyun's output as a fatwa, or as the words of a named scholar or institution when it is not;
• share your account, or let more than one person use it;
• get around usage limits or plan restrictions, for example by creating multiple accounts, automating requests, or replaying or altering requests;
• scrape, crawl or bulk-download the Service or its source library, or use automated means to access it, except through features we provide for that purpose;
• copy our source library or outputs to build a competing product or dataset, or to train an AI model;
• probe, scan or test the security of the Service, or try to access accounts or data that are not yours, unless we have agreed in writing;
• reverse engineer the Service, except where the law allows this;
• upload malware, or content designed to manipulate the AI (for example instructions meant to override its rules) or to harm the Service or other users;
• overload or disrupt the Service;
• upload content you do not have the right to use.

You retain rights in the material you submit, including questions, prompts, notes, research inputs, and khutbah drafts ("Your Content"). You grant us a non-exclusive worldwide licence to host, reproduce, process, transmit, and display Your Content only to deliver, support, secure, and operate the Service, including processing by disclosed vendors, and as otherwise lawfully authorized.

Optional improvement review. We do not review Your Content to improve answer quality, evaluate the Service, or enhance features unless you have given separate, optional permission. We do not currently ask for this permission. If we introduce it, it will be optional, refusing it will not prevent ordinary use, and you will be able to withdraw it. This does not cover access needed for support you request, for security, or to meet legal obligations.

AI model training. We will not train our own AI models using identifiable customer content. Content from future submissions only may be used for model training only after it has been genuinely anonymized such that no individual can reasonably be identified. Removing a name or account ID alone is not sufficient. No such training takes place today. This paragraph is about our own models. Content we send to our AI provider, OpenAI, is handled under OpenAI's API data policy: it is not used to train OpenAI's models by default, and is kept for up to 30 days for abuse monitoring, as described in the Privacy Policy.

As between you and us, you may use the answers, research reports, and khutbah outputs ("Output"), subject to third-party copyrights and these Terms. Output may not be unique, and we cannot promise exclusive intellectual-property ownership or protection over AI-generated material.

When you submit earlier khutbahs to My Khutbah Style, you confirm that you own or are authorized to use them and allow the processing described in the Privacy Policy. Do not upload another person's protected work without permission.

Some features search a fixed list of approved Islamic websites and use what they find. Those websites are run by third parties. We do not control them and are not responsible for their content, accuracy or availability. Their own terms apply to them. Quotations from them are included for research and reference, with attribution.

Ours. The Service, its software, design, branding and our own written content belong to us or our licensors. These Terms do not give you any rights in them, other than the right to use the Service as these Terms allow.

Sacred and classical texts. We do not claim ownership of the Qur'an, the hadith, or classical Islamic works because they appear in the Service.

Translations and commentaries. Many translations, commentaries and editions in our source library are the work of named translators, authors and publishers. We do not claim ownership of them, and these Terms give you no rights in them beyond reading and quoting them through the Service as described below. They include:

• Qur'an translations: Saheeh International; Abdel Haleem; Mufti Taqi Usmani; Pickthall; Yusuf Ali; Muhammad Asad; Arberry;
• hadith, in English translation (translator not recorded): Sahih al-Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, Sunan Abi Dawud, Jami' at-Tirmidhi, Sunan an-Nasa'i and Sunan Ibn Majah;
• tafsir and introductions (translator not recorded): Tafsir Ibn Kathir (Ibn Kathir); Tafsir al-Jalalayn (Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli and Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti); Abridged Explanation of the Quran (Tafsir Center); Ma'ariful Quran (Mufti Muhammad Shafi); Tazkirul Quran (Wahiduddin Khan); and surah introductions from Tafhim-ul-Quran (Abul A'la Maududi).

Each work is credited by title and translator or author on our Sources and credits page at https://tabayyun.net/sources.

You may read and quote these texts through the Service for personal study, teaching and preaching, with attribution. You may not copy them in bulk or redistribute them.

If you send us feedback or suggestions, including missing-source reports, you allow us to use them to improve the Service without paying you or owing you anything. This does not give us ownership of your other content.

The Service relies on other providers, including Supabase (accounts, storage and account emails), OpenAI (AI models), Tavily (web search), Stripe (payments), Resend (email), Open-Meteo (place search for prayer times) and DigitalOcean (hosting). Their services may sometimes be unavailable. Where you deal with them directly, for example on Stripe's checkout page, their terms also apply.

We may add, change or remove features, and we may suspend parts of the Service for maintenance. If a change significantly reduces a paid feature you are paying for, we will tell you, and you can cancel as described in section 6.4.

By you. You can stop using the Service at any time, and delete your account in Settings. Deleting your account permanently deletes your content, except the records described in section 9 of the Privacy Policy. Download your data first if you want to keep it.

By us. We may suspend or close your account, or limit features, if:

• you seriously or repeatedly break these Terms;
• we need to, to prevent fraud, abuse or a security risk;
• you do not pay amounts due;
• the law requires it.

Where it is reasonable to do so, we will tell you why and give you a chance to fix the problem first.

Sections 2, 3, 9 (licence for content already processed), 11, 12, 16, 17, 18 and 19 continue after these Terms end.

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available". To the extent the law allows, we do not promise that the Service will be accurate, complete, uninterrupted or error-free, or that any answer, citation, translation or khutbah is correct or suitable for your purpose.

Nothing in these Terms excludes rights you have as a consumer that cannot lawfully be excluded.

Nothing in these Terms limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot be limited by law.

Subject to that, to the extent the law allows:

• we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, loss of profits, loss of data you could have backed up by downloading it, or loss of reputation;
• we are not liable for decisions you make, including religious decisions, or for anything you publish or deliver, based on the Service;
• our total liability to you for all claims relating to the Service is limited to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.

If you use the Service on behalf of a business or institution, you agree, to the extent permitted by applicable law, to compensate us for claims and costs arising from your breach of these Terms, content you submit without the necessary rights, or your use of Output in breach of the law or others' rights.

These Terms are governed by the laws of Ontario and the applicable federal laws of Canada, without displacing mandatory consumer rights or jurisdictional protections where a user resides. Please first contact contact@tabayyun.net so we can try to resolve disputes informally. Subject to applicable mandatory law, unresolved disputes may be brought before the competent courts of Ontario, Canada.

We may update these Terms and publish a new version with a new effective date. For material changes, we intend to give at least 30 days' advance notice, or longer where required by applicable law. We will ask existing account holders to accept materially revised Terms before they continue to use their account; silence alone is not treated as agreement.

• These Terms, the Privacy Policy and any terms shown at checkout are the whole agreement between you and us about the Service.
• If a court finds part of these Terms unenforceable, the rest still applies.
• If we do not enforce a right straight away, we can still enforce it later.
• You may not transfer your rights under these Terms. We may transfer ours to another organisation that takes over the Service, and we will tell you if we do.