Terms of Service

Mentionry is link building software. It reads public sources on a schedule to find places where your site could be linked or mentioned, judges each opening one at a time against the domain you gave it, and writes the message, the form contents or the reply that opening needs. Access is licensed rather than sold, and is tied to your account.

Which sources are read, and what each one yields, changes as sources change. Some publish openings in a machine-readable form and are read automatically; others accept submissions only through a form or an address a person has to fill in, and for those Mentionry prepares the submission and you complete it. The site says which is which, channel by channel, and that description is part of what you are buying.

Mentionry sends outreach from your own connected mailbox, under your own address, and never from a domain of ours. It drafts the message first and the draft is yours to read, edit or delete. It cannot place or publish a link anywhere: it sends a pitch, and whether anything comes of it is the recipient's decision.

The consequence is that you are the sender of everything that leaves your mailbox, and this is the most important sentence in this section. Anti-spam and data-protection law treats the account holder as responsible for the message, and so do we. You are responsible for having a lawful basis to contact the people you contact, for honouring anyone who asks not to be contacted again, and for the content of anything that goes out under your name.

You can disconnect the mailbox at any time from the product. Disconnecting revokes our access and stops anything further being drafted or sent; messages already sent and drafts already in your mailbox are yours and stay there. You can also revoke the grant directly from your Google Account's third-party access settings.

Nothing in the service is a promise of a link, a mention, a reply, a placement, a ranking, or an amount of traffic. Every opening Mentionry finds is somebody else's decision to make. An editor, a moderator, a journalist or a site owner reads what you send and chooses; a good draft to a well-matched target is the whole of what this product can do about that.

Search rankings in particular depend on things outside the service and outside your site. Any figure shown in the product about a domain, a competitor, or a keyword comes from a third-party data provider and describes what that provider measured, not a guarantee about what will happen.

You are responsible for what happens under your account and for keeping access to it secure. Tell us promptly if you think somebody else has it. One account is for one organization; if you use Mentionry for a company, you confirm you may bind that company and "you" includes it.

You must be able to form a contract where you live, and the domain you point the product at must be one you own or are authorized to work on.

You must not, directly or through anyone else:

Mentionry is one plan at $300 per month. There is no ladder of tiers, no setup fee and no minimum term. Qualifying a domain is free and requires no card: it answers whether there is anything worth mining before you pay for anything.

The subscription renews automatically each month until you cancel, and the payment method on file is charged. Prices are stated and charged in US dollars. Payment is processed by Stripe under its own terms; we do not receive or store your full card number.

We may change what the plan costs in future. A change to a recurring price applies no earlier than a renewal after we have told you, and you can cancel before it takes effect.

You can cancel at any time. Cancellation stops the next renewal; it does not end the period you have already paid for, and we do not ordinarily refund the unused part of a month because you stopped using the service partway through it.

If you were charged in error, charged twice, or charged after cancelling, write to us and we will put it right. This does not limit any consumer right you have that cannot be waived.

Mentionry depends on third parties: Google for the mailbox, Stripe for payment, and data, search and language-model providers for what the product reads and writes. Their availability, their terms and their pricing are not ours to control, and a change at one of them can change what a channel yields or take it away. The Privacy Policy says which categories of provider receive what.

Sources read by the product remain the property of whoever publishes them, under their own terms. Where the product shows a fact about another company, including a competitor's pricing, it is quoted from that company's own published page with the date it was read.

You keep your site, your content, the drafts once they are in your mailbox, and anything you send. You give us only the permission needed to run the service for you: to read the sources on your behalf, to generate drafts, and to write them into the mailbox you connected.

We keep the service, the software, the interface and the selection and arrangement of what it shows. If you send us feedback we may use it without owing you anything for it.

We may restrict or suspend access where it is reasonably necessary: non-payment, a compromised account, a legal requirement, a security risk, or use of the kind the acceptable-use section rules out. Where it is practical we will tell you first and give you a chance to fix it, and we may act immediately where waiting would make things worse.

You may stop using the service whenever you like; cancelling the subscription is covered above.

To the maximum extent the law allows, the service is provided as is and as available. We disclaim the implied warranties, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy and uninterrupted operation. We do not warrant that a source will keep publishing, that a draft will be answered, or that any particular outcome will follow from using the product.

To the maximum extent the law allows, neither Spotbo Inc. nor its suppliers will be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue, rankings, traffic, goodwill or business interruption, even if we were told they were possible. Our total liability arising out of the service or these terms will not exceed what you paid us in the three months before the event that gave rise to the claim.

Some of these limits do not apply where the law does not allow them, and nothing here excludes liability for fraud.

If you use Mentionry for a business, you will defend and indemnify Spotbo Inc. and the people who work on it against third-party claims and reasonable costs arising from messages you sent, content you supplied, your breach of the acceptable-use section, or your infringement of somebody else's rights. This does not cover our own fraud or wilful misconduct.

We may update these terms as the product, the law or the services it depends on change. The date at the top of this page is the one that counts. Where a change is material we will give reasonable notice; continuing to use the service after it takes effect is acceptance, and if you do not agree you can cancel before the next renewal.

These terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement for the service. You may not assign it without our consent; we may assign it as part of a reorganization or sale. If one provision cannot be enforced, the rest stays in force. Not enforcing something once is not a waiver of it. The sections that should outlast the agreement do: acceptable use, ownership, the disclaimers, the liability limits and anything you still owe.

Questions, legal notices and billing disputes go to mentionry@vcorp.co, or through the contact page. Mentionry is operated by Spotbo Inc., a Delaware corporation.