Terms of Service

Conduck

Last Updated: 2026-07-24

GigaDuck OÜ Tornimäe tn 5, 10145 Tallinn, Estonia Registry code: 17501858 (Estonian Business Register)

1. Agreement

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) are an agreement between you and GigaDuck OÜ (“we,” “us,” “our”), a private limited company (osaühing) incorporated under Estonian law, registry code 17501858, with registered office at Tornimäe tn 5, 10145 Tallinn, Estonia.

These Terms govern three things:

• the official Conduck application that we publish — through the App Store and any other channel we designate as official (the “App”);
• the conduck.com website and the other web properties we operate (the “Website”); and
• your use of the Conduck brand, as described in Section 9.

They do not govern the Conduck source code. The source code is licensed separately under the Apache License, Version 2.0 — see Section 3, which prevails over the rest of these Terms wherever they might appear to conflict about the code.

By downloading, installing, or using the App, or by using the Website, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the App or the Website. Obtaining or using the source code under its own license does not, by itself, make you a party to these Terms.

For downloads from the App Store, Apple’s Standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement (EULA) governs the distribution transaction, and these Terms address what that EULA leaves to the application provider. More generally: if you obtain the App through a distribution platform, that platform’s mandatory terms also apply to the distribution transaction and platform services — but neither those terms nor these Terms limit the rights an applicable open-source license grants in the material it covers.

2. What the App Is

Conduck is a voice and text client for an AI assistant that you provide. It does not include an AI service, a transcription service, or any server operated by us. To use it, you supply:

• a speech-to-text method — Apple’s on-device recognition (default, no account needed), or a cloud or hosted provider (such as OpenRouter) for which you hold the API key;
• an AI destination — a self-hosted gateway you operate, a custom OpenAI-compatible endpoint you configure, or a hosted AI gateway you subscribe to (such as OpenRouter) — together with its access token and, where applicable, the model you select; and
• optionally, a read-aloud voice — Apple’s on-device voice (default, no account needed), or a cloud text-to-speech provider (such as OpenRouter) you select, which reuses that vendor’s transcription key (or, for a custom endpoint, your own key).

The App captures your speech or text, transcribes it (on-device or via your chosen provider), sends it with your conversation context to your gateway, shows you the reply — and, if you enable it, reads the reply aloud (on-device by default, or via the cloud voice you choose; on Apple CarPlay replies are always spoken). It runs on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple CarPlay.

What the App does not do:

• Operate any backend, server, or account system (you are identified only by a random on-device ID)
• Store your audio, messages, or replies on our servers (we have none)
• Provide, host, or pay for transcription or AI services — those are yours

This section describes the official App as we publish it. A build that someone else makes or modifies from the source code may behave differently — see Section 3.

3. Open Source and the Code License

Conduck’s application source code is published as open source in our public source repository (linked from conduck.com) under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the “code license”).

The licenses control the code. Conduck-authored source code and contributions accepted for inclusion in the project are licensed under Apache-2.0; contributors certify through the Developer Certificate of Origin that they have the right to submit their contributions under that license. The neutral placeholder artwork is also licensed under Apache-2.0. Third-party components bundled with or fetched into builds remain under their own licenses, as identified in THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md in the source repository. Nothing in these Terms limits, conditions, or withdraws any right an applicable license grants in the material it covers — including the rights to use, reproduce, modify, and redistribute that material, commercially or otherwise. If these Terms and an applicable license ever appear to conflict about the material it covers, the license prevails.

What the code license does not include. The Conduck name and the real Conduck brand artwork are not part of the open-source grant. The public repository ships neutral placeholder art, and a build made from it displays “Conduck Community.” What you may do with the brand is set out in the trademark policy published in the source repository (TRADEMARKS.md) and summarized in Section 9 — in short: building for your own use is fine, a build you distribute to others must carry a product name of its own, and honestly referring to Conduck by name is always fine.

Community builds are not the App. A build that you or anyone else makes from the source code (a “community build”) is not the official App: we do not sign, distribute, or support it, and these Terms — including our descriptions of what the App does and the privacy commitments referenced here — do not apply to it. Community builds are subject to the warranty disclaimers and liability terms of the licenses covering their components, including Sections 7 and 8 of the code license and the applicable third-party licenses; we provide no separate warranty or support for community builds, except where applicable law requires otherwise. The official App Store build additionally carries Apple’s CarPlay entitlement, a restricted per-developer grant that does not come with the source code.

4. AI Transparency (EU AI Act)

The App is an interface to AI systems that you configure. In the spirit of the EU AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689):

• Speech-to-text is performed by Apple’s on-device models or by a third-party provider you select.
• Read-aloud of replies, when you enable it, is synthesized by Apple’s on-device voice or by a third-party text-to-speech provider you select; the default is Apple on-device synthesis.
• Responses are generated by the AI service you connect to — a gateway you run or a hosted service such as OpenRouter, which may route your request to a downstream model provider — all of which are outside our control.
• AI output can be inaccurate, incomplete, or misleading. Transcription accuracy varies with audio quality, accent, and language; generated replies may be wrong.

You are responsible for reviewing AI-generated output before relying on it, especially for professional, legal, medical, or financial use. We do not guarantee the accuracy or fitness for purpose of any output, which is produced by services you chose, not by us. If you publish AI-generated or AI-manipulated content to inform the public on matters of public interest, you may have a disclosure obligation under EU AI Act Article 50(4); this generally does not apply to purely personal, non-professional activity.

5. Eligibility

You must be at least 16 years old to use the App. If you are under 18, you represent that you have a parent’s or guardian’s permission to use the App.

6. Pricing and Commercial Use

Conduck is free for personal and individual use. We place no paywall, no usage limits, and no charge on personal or individual use of the App.

You are separately responsible for any costs charged by the transcription provider or AI gateway you configure. Those are billed by those providers, not by us.

Commercial use. Using the App in the course of a business, profession, or other organizational activity — for example, use by or for a company, or by employees or contractors as part of their work — requires a commercial license under a separate written agreement with us. To arrange one, contact legal@gigaduck.ai. If you accept these Terms on behalf of an organization, you represent that you have authority to bind it. Two honest clarifications:

• We never enforce this in the software. The App is never gated, metered, or degraded for anyone; commercial licensing is a contractual obligation (where these Terms validly bind you), not a technical switch.
• This obligation covers the official App and the Conduck brand only. It does not restrict anything the code license permits — including commercial use, modification, and redistribution of the source code and of properly renamed community builds (Section 3).

Evaluating the App — time-limited internal testing to decide whether your organization wants a commercial license — is fine without one.

7. Acceptable Use

You agree not to:

• Use the App or the Website for any unlawful purpose, or to process content illegal in your jurisdiction;
• Interfere with or disrupt the Website, our distribution channels, or other people’s use of them, or probe or attack them other than as permitted by our vulnerability disclosure policy (conduck.com/security);
• Misrepresent a community build, fork, or third-party service as the official App or as operated or endorsed by us;
• Operate the App on Apple CarPlay in any way that distracts you from safe driving. The in-car interface is for hands-free voice use; you remain responsible for compliance with your local laws on driver attention.

You are solely responsible for the configuration you supply (provider keys, gateway address) and for the content you send and receive through your own services.

Your gateway acts on your instructions. A self-hosted gateway is software running on your own server. Depending on how you configure it, the AI agent behind it may be able to run commands, read and write files, or take other actions on that server and on systems connected to it. Those actions — whether initiated by you, by the AI, or by anyone who obtains your gateway address and access token — occur on your infrastructure, outside the App. You are responsible for securing your gateway (authentication, network exposure, and the permissions you grant the AI) and for the consequences of actions performed through it. Keep your access credentials secret: the App cannot prevent someone who holds them from using your gateway.

You will find no ban here on inspecting, modifying, or redistributing Conduck’s code — the source is open, and the code license expressly permits all of that.

8. Intellectual Property

The code. Conduck-authored source code and accepted contributions are licensed to everyone under the code license, and third-party components remain under their own licenses (Section 3). Copyright in the code belongs to its authors: to us for the code we wrote, and to each contributor for their contributions. Contributors keep their copyright — there is no copyright assignment and no contributor license agreement; contributions are certified under the Developer Certificate of Origin and licensed under the code license.

The brand. The Conduck name, the Conduck duck-character artwork, the official app icons, and our other brand assets are the property of GigaDuck OÜ and are not licensed under the code license — see Section 9.

Your content. As between you and us, we claim no ownership of your recordings, your messages, or the AI replies you receive — and we store none of it; the App’s stored copy of your conversation history lives only on your devices and in your iCloud, though providers you configure may process or retain transmitted content under their own terms. What rights exist in AI-generated output, and whether third parties or your AI provider hold any, depends on applicable law and your provider’s terms.

9. Trademarks and Brand

Conduck™ and the Conduck duck character are trademarks and brand assets of GigaDuck OÜ. (An EU trade mark application for “Conduck” is pending as of the Last Updated date above.) The code license grants no trademark rights beyond describing the origin of the work and reproducing the NOTICE file.

The trademark policy in the source repository (TRADEMARKS.md) governs use of the brand. The short version:

• Personal builds are fine. Building Conduck from source for your own use does not require our permission.
• Distributed builds carry their own name. If you distribute a build to others — modified or not — give it a product name of your own, so nobody mistakes it for the official App. The neutral placeholder artwork in the repository is Apache-licensed and may be redistributed; the official icons and duck-character artwork may not.
• Honest references are always fine. You may use the name “Conduck” truthfully to refer to the project or to describe compatibility or origin (for example, “a fork of Conduck”) — nominative fair use is expressly welcome.

Nothing in these Terms or the trademark policy prohibits uses of the mark that applicable law permits.

10. Privacy

Our Privacy Policy (conduck.com/privacy) explains how the official App handles data — in short, the App has no GigaDuck-operated backend, and we do not receive your audio, messages, replies, keys, or gateway details through the App. That statement describes the App: data you choose to send us another way — through the Website, the public source repository, support, security reports, or legal correspondence — is covered by the privacy information published for those channels. By using the App you acknowledge that you have read it. The Privacy Policy describes the official App; a community build modified by someone else is outside its scope.

11. Third-Party Services

The App depends on services you configure, plus Apple’s platform:

• Apple — app distribution, iCloud/CloudKit (your conversation history and settings), Watch Connectivity, and CarPlay frameworks.
• A transcription provider you select (optional; the default is Apple on-device).
• A read-aloud (text-to-speech) provider you select (optional; the default is Apple on-device). If you choose a cloud read-aloud voice, the reply text is sent to that provider under your key.
• The AI gateway you operate or subscribe to — a self-hosted server, a custom endpoint, or a hosted AI service such as OpenRouter. A hosted gateway may route your requests to downstream model providers; you are responsible for reviewing and complying with the terms and privacy policies of both the hosted gateway and the selected model provider.

These services have their own terms and privacy policies. We are not responsible for them and do not guarantee their availability. Because the App relies on services and connectivity you provide, we do not guarantee uninterrupted operation.

12. Availability and Changes

The App is provided “as available.” We may update, modify, or discontinue features of the App, official distribution, or the Website where reasonably necessary — for reasons such as changes in law, security, platform requirements, technical feasibility, or the evolution of the product. Material changes will be communicated through App Store release notes, the Website, or in-app notices. If we discontinue the App, your locally stored conversation history remains in your iCloud until you delete it — and copies of the source code already distributed remain licensed under the code license even if we later stop hosting or officially distributing the project, so the software can outlive our distribution of it.

13. Limitation of Liability

Your statutory rights come first. If you use the App as a consumer, nothing in these Terms takes away rights or remedies that mandatory consumer-protection law gives you. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits our liability for intentional wrongdoing or gross negligence, for death or personal injury caused by our fault, or for any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

Subject to the paragraph above, and to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law:

• We are not responsible for loss caused solely by a third-party provider or an independently operated gateway you configure — including the output, availability, cost, and data practices of your transcription provider, text-to-speech provider, and AI gateway, and actions performed on or through your gateway or the systems it can reach, whether by you, by the AI agent you connect, or by anyone using your credentials (Section 7) — except to the extent the loss was caused by a defect in the App, by our breach of these Terms, or by anything applicable law does not permit us to exclude.
• If you use the App other than as a consumer, the App is provided free of charge, “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind, express or implied — including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement — and we are not liable to you for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising from your use of the App.
• For consumers in Australia: nothing in these Terms excludes, restricts, or modifies any guarantee, right, or remedy under the Australian Consumer Law that cannot lawfully be excluded.

The Apache-licensed source code carries the code license’s own warranty disclaimer and limitation of liability (Sections 7 and 8 of the code license), and third-party components carry their own (Section 3); these Terms do not modify them and impose no additional obligations or liability on the code’s contributors.

14. No Indemnification Under These Terms

These Terms do not require you to indemnify us. Any indemnity for business use must be set out in a separate signed commercial agreement; none is imposed by these Terms.

15. Governing Law and Disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of Estonia, without regard to conflict-of-law principles.

If you are a consumer, this choice of law does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory consumer-protection rules of the law of your habitual residence. You may bring proceedings against us in the courts of Estonia or in any other court available to you under mandatory law — for consumers in the EU, the EEA, and the United Kingdom, that includes the courts of the country where you are domiciled. We may bring proceedings against you only in a court permitted by mandatory law.

For non-consumer disputes, the courts of Tallinn, Estonia have jurisdiction.

Out-of-court options. If something goes wrong, contact us first at legal@gigaduck.ai — we read and answer. If we cannot resolve the matter: consumers resident in Estonia may turn to the Consumer Disputes Committee at the Estonian Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority (Tarbijavaidluste komisjon, Endla 10a, 10122 Tallinn, Estonia; avaldus@komisjon.ee; the procedure is free of charge; procedural rules and filing instructions at ttja.ee/en/consumer-disputes-committee); consumers elsewhere may turn to an alternative dispute resolution (ADR) body in their own country, or to the European Commission’s consumer-redress information at consumer-redress.ec.europa.eu.

16. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms where reasonably necessary to reflect changes in law, security requirements, App functionality, or how the App is distributed — and only to the extent reasonably related to that reason. We will update the “Last Updated” date and announce changes through App Store release notes, the Website, or an in-app notice; for material changes we will give notice at least 30 days before they take effect, unless the law requires a change sooner. Changes apply prospectively from their effective date. Where applicable law requires direct notice of, or affirmative consent to, a change, the change will not bind you until we provide that notice or obtain that consent — continued use alone is not treated as acceptance in those cases. If you do not agree with a change, stop using the App and delete it.

No update to these Terms can limit the rights the code license grants you (Section 3).

17. Termination

You may stop using the App at any time by deleting it. We may terminate this agreement if you materially breach these Terms or if the law requires it.

Termination is a legal event, not a technical one — the App has no accounts and we operate no servers, so there is nothing for us to switch off. On termination:

• termination ends this agreement prospectively — it does not affect rights or obligations already accrued, or provisions that by their nature apply after termination, and any continued business use remains subject to Section 6 to the extent that section binds you;
• it does not by itself require you to delete or stop using a copy of the App you lawfully obtained, does not terminate your rights under Apple’s EULA, the code license, or applicable third-party licenses, and does not limit uses of the Conduck name that applicable law permits;
• your rights under the code license are not affected — that license is perpetual and irrevocable on its own terms (its patent grant carries its own termination rule for patent litigation, stated in the license itself); and
• your conversation history remains yours, on your devices and in your iCloud, until you delete it.

18. Miscellaneous

Separate documents. These Terms and (for App Store downloads) Apple’s Standard EULA are the entire agreement regarding the official App and the Website. Our Privacy Policy and other privacy information are notices that describe how data is handled — they are not contractual terms: the Privacy Policy describes the official App, and privacy information for the Website and for participation in the open-source project is published separately. None of these documents replaces, modifies, or incorporates the code license (which governs the source code), the trademark policy, the contribution terms published in the source repository, or any signed commercial agreement — each of those governs its own subject matter and prevails on it. Severability. If any provision is unenforceable, the rest remain in effect. No Waiver. Failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. The code license is an affirmative license grant, not a waiver we can withdraw (Section 3). Assignment. We may assign these Terms to a legal successor (for example, in a merger, acquisition, or asset sale) provided the successor assumes our obligations and your rights under these Terms are not reduced. Nothing in this section restricts assignment of a claim or any other transfer that applicable law permits. Assignment of these Terms cannot transfer rights that are not ours to transfer — contributors keep their copyrights (Section 8). Language. These Terms are drafted in English; the English version prevails to the extent permitted by applicable consumer-protection law.

19. Contact

Email: legal@gigaduck.ai Company: GigaDuck OÜ, Tornimäe tn 5, 10145 Tallinn, Estonia · Registry code 17501858