Terms of Service

1. About these terms

These terms are an agreement between you and broext ("broext", "we", "us") for your use of broext.com and the broext service (the "Service"). By creating an account, subscribing, or otherwise using the Service, you agree to these terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you use broext for a company, you confirm you may accept these terms for it, and "you" includes that company.

2. What broext does

broext collects public information about browser extensions listed in the Chrome Web Store, Microsoft Edge Add-ons and Firefox Add-ons. That includes names, descriptions, publishers, icons, ratings and, for watched extensions, published extension packages. We compare it against the extensions and brands you ask us to watch. We then show listings that may copy or impersonate them, the evidence for each, and drafts you can use to report a listing to the store.

We also publish a public catalogue of the listings we have recorded. The catalogue only shows information the stores already make public.

3. Findings are signals, not verdicts

Detection is automated and imperfect. A finding means a listing shares signals with yours, such as a similar name, copied description, matching icon or shared code. It does not mean that the listing infringes your rights, or that its publisher has done anything wrong. Equally, broext may miss listings that do copy you.

You decide what to do with a finding. Takedown drafts are templates for you to check, edit and send yourself. Nothing on broext is legal advice. If a dispute matters to you, talk to a lawyer.

4. Your account

• You must give an email address you control and keep your password secret. You're responsible for what happens under your account.
• You must be at least 16 years old, and old enough to enter a contract where you live.
• Ownership verification is only for extensions you or your organisation publish. Don't try to verify ownership of someone else's extension.
• Tell us at [email protected] straight away if you think someone else has accessed your account.

5. Plans, billing and renewals

Free plan. Every account can watch 1 extension free of charge, with no card required. We may change the free allowance in the future. If we reduce it, we'll email you at least 30 days before the change.

Developer plan. The Developer plan costs $19/month, billed in advance through Stripe. It renews automatically each month until you cancel. Prices are in US dollars; Stripe may show an estimated amount in your local currency. Any taxes or bank fees that apply are added at checkout or by your bank.

Brand plans and audits. Brand, Brand Pro and one-off audits are agreed with us by email and invoiced separately. If we agree written terms for one of these, those terms apply alongside these ones, and they win where the two differ.

Price changes. We'll email you at least 30 days before a price change affects your subscription. The new price applies from your next renewal after that notice. You can cancel before then if you don't want to continue.

Failed payments. If a renewal payment fails, Stripe will retry it. If it still can't be collected, your plan may end and paid features such as watches and alerts may stop.

6. Cancellation and refunds

• Cancel any time from the Billing page. Your plan stays active until the end of the period you've paid for. After that, your account moves to the free plan and you won't be charged again. Your oldest extension within the free allowance keep being scanned. Any others are paused, not deleted.
• First-payment refund. If you're not happy with broext, email [email protected] within 14 days of your first Developer plan payment. We'll refund it in full.
• Other refunds. After that, payments aren't refundable and we don't refund partial months, unless the law requires it or the Service was unavailable for a long time because of a problem on our side.
• Deleting your account ends any subscription immediately. This is not a cancellation at period end, so cancel first if you want to use the time you've paid for.

7. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• send takedown requests or complaints about listings unless you honestly believe, after checking, that they infringe rights you own or are authorised to enforce;
• use broext to harass extension publishers or to make false or misleading claims about them;
• scrape, bulk-download or resell the catalogue or findings, or overload the Service with automated requests, unless we have agreed this with you in writing;
• try to get around plan limits, access other people's accounts or data, or probe or break the Service's security;
• use the Service in breach of the law or of the extension stores' own policies.

We may suspend or close accounts that break these rules. Where it's reasonable, we'll tell you first and give you a chance to fix the problem.

8. Public catalogue and publishers

If you publish an extension and want to correct something we show, or to raise a concern about a listing we label as a possible copy, email [email protected] with the listing link. We review these requests promptly. We correct or remove information that is wrong, and we may hide a finding while we look into it. Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle publisher contact details.

9. Your content and our service

You keep all rights to what you give us, such as the listings you ask us to watch, brand names and notes. You let us use it only to run and improve the Service for you.

We own the Service, including its software, detection methods, design and the catalogue as a compiled database. Store listings and extension packages remain the property of their publishers and the stores. We use them only to provide the Service.

10. Availability and changes

We work to keep broext running and scanning daily, but we don't promise it will always be available, complete or error-free. The stores may change their sites, limit access or remove listings, and that can affect what we can detect. We may change or improve features. If we remove a paid feature you rely on, we'll tell you, and you may cancel and ask for a pro-rata refund of the unused part of your current period.

11. Disclaimers

Except as these terms say otherwise, the Service is provided "as is" and "as available". As far as the law allows, we disclaim implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We don't guarantee that any store will act on a report, or that copies will be found or removed.

12. Limitation of liability

As far as the law allows, neither you nor we are liable for indirect or consequential losses, or for lost profits, revenue, data or goodwill. Our total liability for any claim connected with the Service is limited to the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim arose, or US$100 if that's more.

Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, such as liability for fraud, or for death or personal injury caused by negligence.

13. Ending the agreement

You can stop using broext and delete your account at any time from your Account page. We may end these terms or close your account if you seriously or repeatedly break them, or if we stop offering the Service. If we stop the Service for reasons other than your breach, we'll give you at least 30 days' notice and refund the unused part of any prepaid period. Sections 3, 9, 11, 12 and 15 continue to apply after the agreement ends.

14. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms as broext changes. For a material change, we'll email account holders at least 14 days before it takes effect and update the date at the top of this page. If you keep using the Service after a change takes effect, you accept the new terms. If you don't agree, you can cancel before then.

15. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of Singapore. Any dispute goes to the courts of Singapore, unless the consumer law where you live gives you the right to bring a claim in your local courts. Before going to court, please email us. Most problems can be fixed quickly.

16. Contact

Email [email protected] about these terms, billing or refunds.