These Terms of Use (the “Terms”) govern your access to and use of the Sauthy website, applications, and services (together, “Sauthy” or the “Service”). Please read them carefully. By creating an account, accessing, or using Sauthy, you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use Sauthy.
Sauthy (“Sauthy,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) is a service operated by DoctorDale Agency LLC, a Texas limited liability company. Throughout these Terms, the website, applications, tools, and services are referred to simply as “Sauthy.”
You must be at least 18 years old and able to form a binding contract to use Sauthy. By using Sauthy you represent that you meet these requirements. You are responsible for the accuracy of the information you provide, for all activity that occurs under your account, and for keeping your sign-in credentials and access secure. You agree to notify us promptly of any unauthorized use of your account. We may refuse, suspend, or terminate accounts at our discretion as described in these Terms.
Sauthy is a software tool that helps you organize your expertise, draft and design a manuscript, generate optional images and other materials, and build an author or speaker profile. Sauthy is a self-service technology product only.
Sauthy is not a publisher, literary agent, marketing agency, ghostwriter, accountant, financial advisor, medical or healthcare provider, or law firm, and using Sauthy does not create any agency, partnership, employment, fiduciary, or professional-client relationship between you and Sauthy. Sauthy does not review, edit, fact-check, vet, endorse, or approve the books, profiles, claims, or other content you create, and does not publish your work for you. You alone decide what to write, what to publish, and where.
Sauthy Ads Manager, Sauthy’s tools for Amazon advertising, is subject to additional terms in Section 23 (SAM Terms).
Sauthy uses third-party artificial intelligence systems to help generate text, images, suggestions, and other outputs based on the information you provide. AI output is produced automatically and you understand and agree that:
“Your Content” means the materials you upload, enter, or generate using Sauthy, including interview answers, uploaded documents, drafts, images, profiles, and finished books. As between you and Sauthy, you retain whatever ownership rights you have in Your Content.
You grant Sauthy a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, copy, process, transmit, display, and adapt Your Content solely to operate, provide, secure, and improve the Service (including sending it to the third-party providers that power features such as AI generation, payments, email, and hosting). Where you make a profile or other material public through Sauthy, you grant the additional rights needed to display it publicly.
You represent and warrant that you own or have all rights necessary to provide Your Content and to grant the licenses above, and that Your Content and your use of Sauthy do not and will not infringe, misappropriate, or violate any third party’s intellectual property, privacy, publicity, contractual, or other rights, or any law. You are solely responsible for Your Content, including its accuracy, legality, and any consequences of publishing or distributing it.
Sauthy may let you export your work or connect with third-party platforms (for example, print-on-demand, e-book, or distribution services such as Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing). Those platforms are independent and are governed by their own terms and policies. Sauthy does not control them and is not responsible for them, their availability, their requirements, their review or rejection of your work, their fees, or your relationship with them.
You are solely responsible for complying with the terms, content guidelines, formatting standards, and legal requirements of any platform you use, and for everything contained in any book or material you publish, including its content, claims, sources, permissions, and rights clearances.
Sauthy provides tools, not outcomes. We make no promise or guarantee that using Sauthy will result in a completed or publishable book, any particular quality of work, any book sales, revenue, income, audience, speaking engagements, clients, credibility, ranking, or any other result. Any examples, figures, or testimonials are illustrative only and are not a guarantee of your experience.
You agree not to use Sauthy to create, upload, generate, or distribute content or to take any action that:
We may investigate and take any action we consider appropriate, including removing content and suspending or terminating accounts.
Certain features require a paid plan or the use of credits. Prices, plan features, and credit allowances are described at the point of purchase and may change. Payments are processed by a third-party payment processor; by purchasing, you also agree to that processor’s terms, and you authorize the applicable charges. Unless otherwise required by law or expressly stated by us in writing, all fees and credit purchases are non-refundable, and credits have no cash value and may expire. Taxes are your responsibility where applicable. If we change recurring pricing, we will provide notice as required by law.
Sauthy relies on and integrates third-party services, including AI providers, payment processing, email delivery, hosting, and storage. Your use of features powered by these providers may be subject to their terms and privacy practices. We are not responsible for third-party services, their acts or omissions, or any loss arising from them.
The Service, including its software, design, text, graphics, logos, and the “Sauthy” name and branding, is owned by us or our licensors and is protected by intellectual property laws. Except for the rights expressly granted to you to use the Service, no rights are transferred to you. You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, or create derivative works of the Service except as permitted by these Terms.
If you send us suggestions or feedback, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free right to use it for any purpose without obligation to you.
THE SERVICE AND ALL CONTENT AND OUTPUT ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE,” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, SAUTHY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTIES ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE. SAUTHY DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE, ERROR-FREE, OR FREE OF HARMFUL COMPONENTS, OR THAT ANY OUTPUT WILL BE ACCURATE, RELIABLE, ORIGINAL, OR SUITABLE FOR YOUR PURPOSES. YOU USE THE SERVICE AND ANY OUTPUT AT YOUR OWN RISK.
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, SAUTHY AND ITS OWNERS, MEMBERS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS, AND SUPPLIERS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, GOODWILL, BUSINESS, OR PUBLISHING OR REPUTATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS, WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, OR ANY OTHER THEORY, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
IN NO EVENT WILL SAUTHY’S TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE TOTAL AMOUNTS YOU PAID TO SAUTHY IN THE THREE (3) MONTHS IMMEDIATELY BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR (B) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS ($100).
Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so some of the above may not apply to you. In that case, our liability is limited to the greatest extent permitted by law.
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Sauthy and its owners, members, officers, employees, contractors, and suppliers from and against any claims, demands, liabilities, damages, losses, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of or related to: (a) Your Content; (b) any book, profile, or material you create, publish, or distribute; (c) your use of the Service; (d) your violation of these Terms or any law; or (e) your violation of any third-party right or third-party service’s terms.
You may stop using Sauthy at any time. We may suspend or terminate your access at any time, with or without notice, including if we believe you have violated these Terms or to protect the Service or others. Upon termination, your right to use the Service ends. Sections that by their nature should survive termination will survive, including ownership, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnification, governing law, and the provisions of Section 23 described in Section 23(T).
We may modify, suspend, or discontinue any part of the Service at any time. We may also update these Terms from time to time. When we do, we will revise the “Last updated” date above, and material changes may be communicated through the Service. Your continued use of Sauthy after changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms. Material changes to the SAM Terms in Section 23 may also require your affirmative acceptance before you can continue to use Sauthy Ads Manager, as described in Section 23(U).
These Terms and any dispute arising out of or relating to them or the Service are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules.
Informal resolution. Before filing a claim, you agree to first contact us and attempt to resolve the dispute informally for at least 30 days.
Arbitration. Except for claims that qualify for small-claims court and except for requests for injunctive relief to protect intellectual property, any dispute that is not resolved informally will be resolved by binding arbitration administered by a recognized arbitration provider under its applicable rules, with the arbitration seated in the State of Texas. Judgment on the award may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction. If arbitration is found not to apply, the dispute will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in the State of Texas, and you consent to their jurisdiction and venue.
CLASS-ACTION AND JURY WAIVER. YOU AND SAUTHY AGREE THAT EACH MAY BRING CLAIMS AGAINST THE OTHER ONLY IN AN INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY CLASS, CONSOLIDATED, OR REPRESENTATIVE ACTION. YOU AND SAUTHY WAIVE ANY RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL.
These Terms (including the SAM Terms in Section 23), together with the Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between you and Sauthy regarding the Service and supersede prior agreements on that subject. If any provision is found unenforceable, it will be limited or removed to the minimum extent necessary and the remaining provisions will stay in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; we may assign them freely. We are not liable for delays or failures caused by events beyond our reasonable control. Notices to you may be provided through the Service or by email.
Questions about these Terms can be sent to support@sauthy.com.
You may request deletion of your Sauthy account and the personal information associated with it. This section explains how to make that request and what deletion generally involves.
Sauthy does not currently offer a self-service, in-product account-deletion button. To request deletion, contact us at support@sauthy.com using the support process described in these Terms. If an in-product account-deletion option is available to you within Sauthy, you may also use that option to start the request.
So we can locate and verify your account, please include enough information to identify it — for example, the email address associated with your account. Please do not send your password, one-time or authentication codes, or full payment card or other sensitive financial information. To protect your account, we may need to verify that you are the account owner before completing the deletion.
After we verify your request, we will delete or de-identify the account information and user-created content associated with your account that we are not required to retain for the purposes described below. Where applicable, this generally includes:
If you used Facebook to sign in, you can remove Sauthy from Facebook at any time through Facebook’s Settings & privacy → Settings → Apps and websites. Removing the connection stops future Facebook-based access to Sauthy, but it does not by itself delete your Sauthy account or the information Sauthy holds. To delete your Sauthy account and the information held by Sauthy, you must also submit a deletion request to us as described above.
Some limited information may be retained when reasonably necessary for legal or regulatory obligations; payment, tax, or accounting records; fraud prevention; security; dispute resolution; enforcing our agreements; or completing our normal backup-retention cycles. Retained information remains protected and is not used for unrelated purposes. Deletion may not be immediately reflected in encrypted backups; backup copies are removed in the ordinary course according to our normal backup-retention process.
Deleting your account does not by itself create a refund, and, as described in Section 9, fees and credit purchases are non-refundable except where required by law or expressly stated by us in writing. If you have an active subscription, you should cancel it through the applicable billing process. A deletion request does not remove billing or transaction records that we are required to keep.
For more detail on how we handle your information, see our Privacy Policy.
Program name: Sauthy Account Verification.
By entering your mobile number and clicking “Text me my code,” you request a one-time text message from Sauthy containing an account authentication or mobile-number verification code.
Messages are transactional and are used to verify your mobile number, protect your account, and provide secure access to Sauthy. They are not promotional or marketing messages.
Message frequency varies based on the verification requests you initiate. Message and data rates may apply.
You may reply STOP to opt out of further messages. You may reply HELP for help, or contact Sauthy at support@sauthy.com. Mobile carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages.
Consent to receive an authentication text is not a condition of purchasing a paid Sauthy product or service. However, mobile-number verification may be required to create or secure certain Sauthy accounts or use certain account features.
Sauthy may use third-party telecommunications and technology providers to deliver these messages.
This Section 23 (the “SAM Terms”) applies to your use of Sauthy Ads Manager (“SAM”), Sauthy’s tools for analyzing and helping manage advertising on Amazon. The SAM Terms are part of these Terms. They add to the rest of these Terms and do not replace them; Sections 13 (Disclaimers), 14 (Limitation of liability), 15 (Indemnification), 16 (Suspension and termination), and 18 (Governing law and dispute resolution) apply fully to SAM. If anything in this Section 23 conflicts with another Section of these Terms as applied to SAM, this Section 23 controls for SAM only. Before you can use SAM, you must affirmatively accept the current version of the SAM Terms in the Service.
SAM uses software, data, statistical models, automation, and artificial intelligence to analyze advertising and sales information and to prepare recommendations about Amazon advertising, such as changes to bids, budgets, keywords, targets, and campaigns. SAM is a decision-support and automation tool. It is not a guarantee of performance and not a substitute for your own business judgment.
Sauthy does not promise or guarantee any particular advertising or business result from SAM. Without limiting Section 7, Sauthy does not guarantee profit, sales, royalties, page reads, advertising cost of sales (ACOS), return on ad spend (ROAS), impressions, clicks, conversions, rankings, ad delivery, book performance, or any other outcome. Estimates, forecasts, likelihoods, and expected-profit figures shown in SAM are not promises.
Advertising on Amazon involves financial risk. Advertising spend is charged by Amazon, not by Sauthy, and is generally not refundable. You may lose money using Amazon Ads. Recommendations can turn out to be wrong, and changes that SAM recommends or that you approve may increase spending, reduce sales, or both. You use SAM, and decide whether to advertise, voluntarily and at your own risk.
You remain responsible for your Amazon Ads account and your advertising at all times, including while SAM is connected. You agree to regularly monitor, directly in your Amazon accounts and in SAM: your advertising spend and charges; bids, budgets, and campaign settings; keywords and targets; book sales, royalties, and page reads; SAM’s recommendations; and the activity SAM reports. If anything looks unexpected or incorrect, you agree to investigate promptly and, where appropriate, pause campaigns in Amazon, disconnect SAM, and contact Amazon and Sauthy.
SAM lets you set a monthly ad budget and other limits that SAM uses when preparing recommendations. These settings are intended controls. They are not a guarantee that your actual Amazon spend will stay within them. Actual spend may differ from your intended limits because of, among other things, technical failures, software defects, latency, delayed or revised data, third-party or Amazon API errors or behavior, Amazon’s own pacing and billing practices, changes made outside SAM by you or others, unauthorized access, or other events. SAM settings do not change Amazon’s own campaign budgets unless you separately approve such a change. You remain responsible for monitoring your actual spend directly in Amazon and for setting any limits you need in Amazon itself.
Connecting an advertising account to any software carries security risk. Despite reasonable safeguards, events such as hacking, account takeover, a compromised Amazon or Sauthy account, stolen or compromised credentials or access tokens, malicious third parties, abuse of application programming interfaces (APIs), security incidents affecting Sauthy or its providers, or other unauthorized activity could lead to unauthorized access to your advertising data or to unauthorized actions in your advertising account. You are responsible for securing your own Amazon and Sauthy accounts, devices, and credentials, and for promptly telling Sauthy and Amazon about any suspected unauthorized access. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Sauthy is not responsible for losses caused by unauthorized access or actions that result from the compromise of your own credentials, devices, or accounts, or from the acts of third parties outside Sauthy’s reasonable control. Nothing in this Section limits any liability that cannot be limited under applicable law.
SAM depends on systems that Sauthy does not control, including Amazon Ads, Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), Amazon’s APIs and reports, hosting and database providers, artificial-intelligence and model providers, infrastructure, networking, and payment providers. These systems may fail, become unavailable, change their behavior, rules, or APIs, limit or end access, or provide delayed, incomplete, or inaccurate data. Section 10 applies to them. SAM may stop working, work differently, or give inaccurate results when they do.
By connecting an Amazon advertising account to SAM, you represent and warrant that you own or control that account or are authorized to manage it and to grant the access described here. You authorize Sauthy and SAM to access, retrieve, store, and analyze the advertising, campaign, and related account data that the connection makes available, to provide SAM to you. When you explicitly approve a specific change in SAM, you authorize SAM to submit that exact change to Amazon on your behalf.
When you confirm a specific SAM recommendation or change, you accept responsibility for authorizing it. You understand that the change may increase or decrease spending and performance, that it may not produce the expected effect, and that no outcome is guaranteed. SAM may decline, delay, or not complete a change you approved, for example when Amazon’s current state differs from what the recommendation assumed, and that is not a failure to perform these Terms.
SAM’s analysis depends on data that may be incomplete, delayed, revised, or inaccurate. For example, Amazon’s advertising attribution can be delayed or revised; royalty information may be incomplete or estimated; Kindle Edition Normalized Pages (KENP) and sales data may be delayed; Amazon may change how it reports data; and inputs you provide or that SAM derives may be wrong. SAM’s results are only as reliable as the data available to it.
SAM’s predictions, expected values, likelihoods, and explanations are statistical estimates and probabilities, not facts or promises. Models can be wrong, can fail to anticipate changes, and can produce recommendations that lose money. Section 4 applies to any AI-generated output in SAM.
IN ADDITION TO SECTION 13, AND TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, SAM IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE.” SAUTHY DOES NOT WARRANT THAT SAM WILL OPERATE WITHOUT INTERRUPTION OR ERROR, BE SECURE, BE ACCURATE, BE FIT FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE, BE PROFITABLE, OR MEET YOUR OBJECTIVES.
SECTION 14 APPLIES TO SAM. WITHOUT LIMITING SECTION 14, AND TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, SAUTHY AND ITS OWNERS, MEMBERS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS, AND SUPPLIERS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOST PROFITS, LOST REVENUE, LOST ROYALTIES, LOST OR CORRUPTED DATA, ADVERTISING SPEND OR ADVERTISING LOSSES, OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO SAM, ANY RECOMMENDATION, OR ANY CHANGE SUBMITTED THROUGH SAM, WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, OR ANY OTHER THEORY, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
SAM IS SUBJECT TO THE SINGLE AGGREGATE LIABILITY CAP IN SECTION 14. SAM DOES NOT CREATE A SEPARATE OR ADDITIONAL CAP. FOR CLARITY, AMOUNTS YOU PAY TO AMAZON OR ANY OTHER THIRD PARTY FOR ADVERTISING ARE NOT AMOUNTS PAID TO SAUTHY FOR PURPOSES OF THAT CAP.
Some jurisdictions do not allow certain exclusions or limitations, so some of them may not apply to you. In that case, Sauthy’s liability is limited to the greatest extent permitted by applicable law.
In addition to Section 15, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Sauthy and its owners, members, officers, employees, contractors, and suppliers from and against any claims, demands, liabilities, damages, losses, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of or related to: (a) your advertising activity and the content of your advertisements and books; (b) your Amazon accounts and your relationship with Amazon; (c) your misuse of SAM; (d) your breach of these Terms, including the SAM Terms; (e) your violation of any law or third-party right or terms; or (f) any use of SAM through your account, including unauthorized use made possible by your failure to secure your account or credentials.
You acknowledge that you understand the risks of advertising and of using automated and model-driven software to help manage it, as described in this Section 23, and that you accept those risks. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, you release Sauthy from claims arising from advertising outcomes that result from those risks, except to the extent a claim cannot be released under applicable law. This release does not limit any right that cannot be waived under applicable law.
SAM is a software tool. Using it does not make Sauthy your fiduciary, investment adviser, financial adviser, accountant, attorney, agent, or guarantor, and nothing in SAM is financial, investment, tax, accounting, or legal advice. Section 3 applies to SAM.
Sauthy is not Amazon. SAM is not made, endorsed, sponsored, or guaranteed by Amazon unless Sauthy expressly states otherwise in writing. Amazon is a separate third party, and your use of Amazon’s services is governed by Amazon’s own terms and policies, which you are responsible for following.
Without limiting Section 16, Sauthy may at any time, with or without notice, suspend SAM, disable your access to SAM, disconnect Amazon integrations, disable or pause the submission of changes, or limit SAM features when Sauthy believes it is reasonably necessary for security, fraud prevention, technical, legal, regulatory, policy, financial, or abuse-prevention reasons. Sauthy is not required to complete a change that was pending when it takes such action.
The provisions of this Section 23 that by their nature should survive, including the disclaimers, assumption of risk, limitation of liability, liability cap, indemnification, release, and any accrued obligations, survive the end of your use of SAM or termination of your account, together with Sections 13 through 18.
Sauthy may update the SAM Terms. Each accepted version is recorded. If Sauthy makes a material change to the SAM Terms, Sauthy may require you to accept the updated version before you can continue to use SAM, and SAM will remain unavailable to you until you do. Section 17 otherwise applies.