Terms of Service

Last updated: May 19, 2026

1. Acceptance of Terms

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of Bubbling — including the Bubbling Chrome extension, the dashboard at bubbling.co, and the backend services that support them (collectively, the "Service").

By installing the extension, signing in to your account, or otherwise using the Service, you agree to these Terms. By doing so, you also confirm that you are at least 16 years old and have the legal capacity to enter into this agreement. If you do not agree, please do not use the Service.

These Terms form a binding agreement between you and Mincheol Kim, who operates Bubbling. Our handling of your personal data is described separately in our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into these Terms by reference.

We have written these Terms in plain language. If anything is unclear, please contact us using the information in Section 13.

2. Service Description

Bubbling is designed to help you pause and reflect on your own question before reading a response from an AI platform.

The extension. The Bubbling Chrome extension overlays a timer on AI platforms such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok. While the timer runs, the extension may display a persona text. You can capture content from the conversation — your prompt, the AI's response, and your own notes — for later review.

The dashboard. The dashboard at bubbling.co lets you browse and organize your captured conversations, manage tags, and access account settings.

Features may change. Bubbling is under active development. We may add, modify, or remove features over time, and may pause or discontinue parts of the Service for maintenance, technical, or business reasons. Where reasonable, we will notify you of significant changes in advance.

Third-party dependence. The Service relies on third-party AI platforms (such as those listed above) that we do not control. Their availability and behavior may affect the Service.

3. Account & Authentication

To use Bubbling, you sign in through Google OAuth. We do not offer password-based sign-up.

The information shown on your account — your email, name, and profile picture — is provided by Google. To update it, change it in your Google account; the new information will appear in Bubbling the next time you sign in.

4. Your Content & License

Your content remains yours. When you use Bubbling, you create content — your prompts, the AI responses, the notes you enter into the extension modal, and the tags you create. You retain ownership of all of this content.

Limited license to operate the Service. To provide Bubbling, you grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to store, transmit, process, and display your content back to you, solely for the purpose of operating the Service. This includes sending portions of your content to OpenAI for AI-powered features, as described in Section 4.1 of our Privacy Policy. This license ends when you delete content or your account, subject to limited retention in backups described in our Privacy Policy.

No training on your content. Bubbling does not use your content to train any AI model. Our third-party AI provider (OpenAI) also does not train its models on data sent through their API by default.

5. Acceptable Use

You agree not to:

• Use the Service in violation of any law or regulation
• Use the Service in a way that violates the terms of the AI platforms you interact with (such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Grok)
• Submit to Bubbling any content that infringes another person's intellectual property, privacy, or other rights
• Attempt to access, tamper with, or use another user's account
• Interfere with, disrupt, or compromise the Service or the infrastructure that supports it
• Reverse engineer or extract the source code of the extension or backend, except where applicable law expressly permits this
• Use automated means (such as bots or scrapers) to access the Service in ways we have not authorized

By using the Service, you confirm that you have the right to submit any content you provide to Bubbling.

If we believe you have violated this section, we may suspend or terminate your account as described in Section 9.

6. AI Output Disclaimer

Bubbling helps you pause and reflect, but it does not vouch for the accuracy of AI-generated content.

Third-party AI responses. The responses you receive from AI platforms (such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Grok) are generated by those platforms, not by Bubbling. They may be inaccurate, incomplete, biased, or out of date. We do not review or verify them, and we are not responsible for them.

Bubbling's own AI features. Some Bubbling features — such as the persona text shown during the timer and the tag suggestions for a conversation — are also generated by AI (using OpenAI's models, as described in Section 4.1 of our Privacy Policy). These outputs are intended to support your own reflection. They may be inaccurate, generic, or off-target, and should not be treated as authoritative.

Not professional advice. AI outputs in Bubbling — whether from third-party platforms or Bubbling's own features — are not a substitute for professional advice. Do not rely on them for medical, legal, financial, safety, or other decisions that require expertise. When in doubt, consult a qualified professional.

Your judgment. How you use and act on AI outputs is your judgment and your responsibility.

7. Third-Party AI Platforms

Bubbling works alongside AI platforms operated by third parties — such as ChatGPT (operated by OpenAI), Claude (operated by Anthropic), Gemini (operated by Google), and Grok (operated by xAI).

No affiliation. Bubbling is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any of these platforms or their operators. The names and logos of these platforms are trademarks of their respective owners; we use them only to describe what Bubbling works with.

Their terms apply to your use of them. When you use one of these platforms, your relationship with that platform is governed by its own terms of service and privacy policy. We are not a party to that relationship. You are responsible for complying with the terms of the AI platforms you use.

Their availability and behavior are outside our control. We do not control whether these platforms are online, what features they offer, how they behave, or how they handle your data on their side. Changes by these platforms (including to their UI, their APIs, or their policies) may affect how Bubbling works.

8. Intellectual Property

Bubbling's intellectual property. The Bubbling extension, the dashboard at bubbling.co, the Bubbling name and logo, and the design, code, and content of the Service (other than your content as defined in Section 4) are the intellectual property of Bubbling. They are protected by copyright, trademark, and other applicable laws.

License to you. We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to install and use the extension and the dashboard for your personal use of the Service, in accordance with these Terms. This license does not transfer any ownership to you.

Restrictions. You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, sublicense, or create derivative works based on Bubbling, or use the Bubbling name or logo without our written permission, except as expressly permitted by these Terms or applicable law.

Feedback. If you send us feedback or suggestions about Bubbling, you grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual license to use that feedback to improve the Service. We will not identify you as the source of the feedback without your permission.

9. Termination

You may terminate anytime. You can stop using Bubbling at any time. You can delete your account from the profile settings page. When you delete your account, the steps described in Section 7.6 of our Privacy Policy apply.

We may suspend or terminate. We may suspend or terminate your access to the Service if:

• We believe you have violated these Terms (in particular, Section 5)
• We are required to do so by law or to comply with a legal obligation
• We discontinue the Service or a part of it

Where reasonable and lawful, we will give you notice before suspending or terminating your account, along with the reason. In cases of serious or repeated violations, security concerns, or legal obligations, we may act without prior notice.

Effects of termination. When your access ends — whether by your action or ours — the license granted in Section 8 ends, and your data is handled as described in Section 7 of our Privacy Policy.

Surviving clauses. Sections 4, 6, 8, 10, 11, and any other provisions that by their nature should continue to apply, survive termination of these Terms.

10. Disclaimers

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available." We do our best to keep Bubbling working well, but we cannot promise that it will always work the way you want or expect.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law:

• We make no warranties about the Service — express, implied, or statutory — including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement.
• We do not guarantee that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure against every threat, or compatible with every browser, device, or AI platform.
• We do not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any content delivered through the Service. AI-generated content is subject to the disclaimers in Section 6, and third-party AI platforms are subject to the disclaimers in Section 7.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain warranty exclusions. In those jurisdictions, the exclusions above apply only to the maximum extent permitted by law, and you may have additional rights.

11. Limits on Our Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law:

Indirect harm is not covered. We cannot be held responsible for things like lost profits, lost opportunities, lost data, or other indirect or knock-on consequences arising from your use of — or inability to use — the Service.

Our total liability is capped. If we are found liable for any reason connected to these Terms or the Service, our total liability to you is capped at the greater of (a) the amount you have paid us in the 12 months before the issue, or (b) USD 100.

These limits do not apply to everything. We do not try to limit our liability for:

• Fraud or intentional deception
• Gross negligence or willful misconduct
• Anything that cannot be limited under applicable law

Your statutory rights. If you are a consumer, the laws where you live may give you protections — including consumer protections and the right to bring proceedings in your local courts — that cannot be waived or limited by these Terms. Nothing in these Terms affects those rights.

12. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time to reflect changes in the Service, applicable laws, or for other operational reasons.

When we make material changes, we will notify you through the Bubbling dashboard or by email to the address associated with your account, before the changes take effect.

The "Last updated" date at the top of these Terms will always reflect when the most recent change was made.

If you do not agree with an updated version of these Terms, you may stop using the Service and delete your account before the changes take effect. By continuing to use the Service after a material change takes effect, you accept the updated Terms.

13. Contact

Bubbling is operated by Mincheol Kim.

Email: privacy@bubbling.co

For questions about these Terms, to report a violation, or to communicate with us about anything in this document, please reach us at the email address above.