Terms of Service

Agreement

Presynce ("Presynce", "we", "us") is developed and maintained by an individual developer in the Philippines as an academic capstone project. "You" means the person using the Service, and, if you use it for a school or organization, that school or organization as well.

What Presynce does

Presynce is made of two parts, together called the "Service":

• a Chrome extension that, when you start tracking in a Google Meet session, reads the participant list and records who was present, when they joined, and for how long; and
• a web dashboard where you standardize names ("Last Name, First Name M."), review and rename records, organize them into groups, view longitudinal attendance matrices, find absentees, apply optional attendance rules, export to CSV or PDF, and optionally sign in with Google to back up and restore your data.

Presynce is an aid for recording attendance. It does not verify who a participant really is, and it is not a substitute for your own judgment or your institution's official procedures.

Beta and academic project

Presynce is a student research project and may be offered in a beta or evaluation form. Features may change, be incomplete, or be removed. Bugs may occur, and data may be lost. Do not rely on Presynce as your only copy of records that you are required to keep. Export or back up important data regularly.

Who can use it

You must be old enough to form a binding contract where you live, or use the Service under the supervision of a parent, guardian, or school that agrees to these terms for you. You must not be under 13 years old. You must also be allowed to use Google Meet and Google accounts under Google's own terms and your school's or employer's rules. The Service is designed for use on the Google Chrome desktop browser.

Your account

You can use most of the Service without an account. Cloud backup requires signing in with a Google account. You are responsible for your Google account and for activity on it, and for keeping your device secure. Tell us promptly if you think someone has accessed your account or backup without permission.

Your responsibilities

Presynce records information about other people, namely the participants in your meetings. If you use it, you agree that you will:

• have the right and a lawful reason to record attendance for the meetings you track, and only track meetings you host, co-host, or are otherwise authorized to track;
• let participants know that attendance (names and time present) is being recorded, in line with your school's or organization's policies;
• follow applicable privacy laws, such as the Philippine Data Privacy Act of 2012 and, where relevant, GDPR and COPPA, and get any needed consent, including for minors;
• keep exported files and shared devices secure, and share records only with people who are entitled to see them; and
• review records for accuracy before you use them for grading, payroll, compliance, or disciplinary decisions.

Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• use the Service to track meetings without authorization, or to monitor, profile, or harass people;
• use the Service for any unlawful, deceptive, or harmful purpose, or to collect information you are not entitled to;
• copy, modify, reverse engineer, or resell the Service, except as the law allows or as an open-source license applying to a specific component permits;
• interfere with or attempt to bypass security features, rate limits, or the origin checks between the extension and the dashboard;
• upload or store malicious code, or attempt to access another person's backup or data;
• use automated means to overload, scrape, or disrupt the dashboard or its cloud services; or
• use the Service in a way that violates Google's terms or policies for Google Meet, Chrome, or Firebase.

Your data and content

You keep ownership of the records, group names, and other information you create or capture with the Service ("Your Data"). You give us a limited permission to store, process, and display Your Data only as needed to run the Service for you, for example to save your backup and to show it back to you. We do not claim ownership of Your Data and we do not use it for advertising or sell it. How we handle it is described in the Privacy Policy.

Records are stored in your browser by default and are your responsibility to keep safe. You are also responsible for deleting records when they are no longer needed. If you enable cloud backup, remember that backups are also affected by the actions you take, for example, Auto Backup will copy deletions and edits to the cloud.

Accuracy of records

Presynce reads names and times from the Google Meet page as they appear. Results can be affected by things outside our control, including:

• names participants choose to enter, including nicknames, mistakes, or alternate accounts;
• participants who leave and rejoin, use several devices, or join without appearing in the list;
• unstable internet connections or a Meet tab that is closed or frozen while tracking;
• changes to the Google Meet layout that can temporarily stop the extension from reading the participants list; and
• automatic name formatting, which follows general rules and may format some names differently from how the person writes them. Please check unusual names.

You are responsible for checking that a record is complete and correct before you rely on it. Attendance rules (Present, Late, Absent) apply only the settings you choose.

Third-party services

Presynce works with Google Meet, Google Chrome, Google Sign-In, and Firebase, and is hosted with Vercel. These are run by other companies under their own terms and privacy policies, and we do not control them. Presynce is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Google LLC or any other third party. Google, Google Meet, Chrome, and Firebase are trademarks of Google LLC. If a third-party service changes or becomes unavailable, parts of Presynce may stop working.

Intellectual property

The Presynce name, logo, design, source code, and content (other than Your Data and third-party materials) belong to us and are protected by intellectual property laws. You may use the Service for its intended purpose under these terms. No other rights are granted. If you send us feedback or suggestions, you allow us to use them to improve the Service without owing you anything.

Availability and changes

We aim to keep the Service working, but we do not promise it will always be available, error-free, or uninterrupted. We may change, pause, or discontinue any part of the Service, including free features and cloud backup, for example, for maintenance, security, cost, or because the thesis project ends. Where practical, we will give notice and time to export your data.

Suspension and termination

You may stop using Presynce at any time by uninstalling the extension and deleting your data. You can ask us to delete your cloud backup as explained in the Privacy Policy. We may suspend or end your access if you break these terms, misuse the Service, put others or the Service at risk, or if the law requires. Sections that by their nature should continue (such as ownership, disclaimers, liability, and governing law) will survive termination.

No warranty

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, and non-infringement, to the fullest extent allowed by law. We do not warrant that the Service will meet your requirements, that records will be complete or error-free, or that data will never be lost.

Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent allowed by law, Presynce and its developer will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for loss of data, records, grades, income, or goodwill, arising from or related to your use of, or inability to use, the Service, even if we were told such damage was possible. Because the Service is provided free of charge, our total liability for any claim relating to it will not exceed PHP 1,000.

Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot legally be limited, or your rights under any consumer protection or data privacy law that cannot be waived.

Indemnity

You agree to be responsible for claims, losses, and costs that arise from your use of the Service in breach of these terms or the law, including tracking attendance without authority or without any notice or consent that the law or your institution requires. We will not be responsible for how you use the records you create.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of the Philippines, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. If a dispute comes up, please email keytlingeyl@gmail.com first and give us 30 days to try to resolve it informally. If it cannot be settled that way, it will be brought before the proper courts of the Philippines, and both sides consent to their jurisdiction. This does not take away any mandatory rights you have under the laws of the place where you live.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms as the Service evolves. We will change the "Last updated" date and, for significant changes, post a notice in the dashboard or on the extension's store page. If you keep using the Service after a change takes effect, you accept the updated terms. If you do not agree, stop using the Service.

General terms

• Entire agreement. These terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between you and us about the Service.
• Severability. If a part of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest stays in effect.
• No waiver. If we do not enforce a right right away, we have not given it up.
• Assignment. We may transfer these terms, for example if the project is handed over to another maintainer. You may not transfer your rights without our consent.
• Events beyond our control. We are not responsible for failures caused by things outside our reasonable control, such as outages of Google, Firebase, or your internet provider.
• Electronic notices. You agree that we may give you notices through the dashboard, the extension's store page, or by email.

Contact us

Questions about these terms? Email keytlingeyl@gmail.com.

See also our Privacy Policy.