The Scarlet Coder

Terms of Service

Last updated 2026-06-19 · Effective 2026-06-19

Terms of Service

The Scarlet Coder

Last Updated: June 19, 2026 Effective Date: June 19, 2026

1. Agreement to terms

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) form a binding agreement between you and The Scarlet Coder (“we,” “us,” “our”), a personal software and games brand based in Washington State, United States. They govern your use of our software products, including the Just Sudoku Android app, the JobHunt desktop application, and any other products we make available under The Scarlet Coder brand (collectively, the “Services”).

By downloading, installing, or using any of the Services, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not download, install, or use the Services.

These Terms apply to all users — whether you use a free version, a paid version (if and when offered), or a beta release.

2. Eligibility

To use the Services, you must:

  • Be at least 13 years old for most Services (including Just Sudoku), or have parental consent if required by applicable law.
  • Be at least 18 years old (or the age of majority in your jurisdiction, whichever is greater) to use JobHunt or any Service involving employment activity, financial integrations, or third-party account connections.
  • Have the legal capacity to enter into a binding contract.
  • Not be barred from using software services under the laws of the United States or your jurisdiction of residence.
  • For JobHunt specifically: be legally authorized to seek employment in the markets you are searching, and submit only applications on your own behalf.

You may not use the Services on behalf of another person without their explicit, documented permission to do so.

3. The Services

3.1 What the Services do

Just Sudoku is a local, offline Android puzzle game. It generates and tracks sudoku puzzles on your device with no network access and no data collection.

JobHunt is a personal, local-first desktop application that helps individual job seekers track applications, tailor résumé content within constraints they author themselves, generate cover-letter assemblies from their own story bank, classify recruiter emails, and (optionally) discover and apply to listings on public Applicant Tracking Systems (“ATS”) on a schedule the user configures.

We may release additional products from time to time. Where a product has unique terms, those terms supplement (and, where they conflict, supersede) these Terms for that product.

3.2 Local-first architecture

The Services are designed to run on your device. We do not operate servers that store, process, or transmit your content. Your application data, résumés, OAuth tokens, API keys, classified emails, audit logs, and configuration live on your device. See the Privacy Policy for the full data-handling description.

3.3 Updates and changes

The Services may include auto-updaters that periodically check for new releases. By continuing to use the Services after an update is installed, you accept that release of the Services under these Terms. We may add, change, or remove features at any time, and we may discontinue any Service with reasonable notice.

4. License to use the Services

Subject to your compliance with these Terms, we grant you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to install and use the Services on devices you own or control, for your personal use as each product allows.

You may not:

  • Reverse-engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Services, except to the extent applicable law expressly permits despite this restriction.
  • Sell, rent, lease, sublicense, or otherwise commercially exploit the Services or access to them.
  • Remove, alter, or obscure any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary notices.
  • Use the Services to build a competing product.
  • Use the Services in any manner not authorized by these Terms.

The Services are licensed, not sold. We and our licensors retain all rights not expressly granted.

5. Acceptable Use

You agree not to use the Services to:

  • Misrepresent yourself or anyone else. Submit applications, résumés, or cover letters in someone else’s name without their permission. Falsify employment history, education, certifications, work authorization, or demographic information.
  • Apply at scale beyond reasonable personal use. The Services are designed for an individual job seeker’s workflow. Using the Services as part of a mass-application, resume-mill, or recruitment-arbitrage business is not permitted.
  • Violate third-party terms of service. Many ATS platforms (including but not limited to Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workable, SmartRecruiters, Jobvite, LinkedIn, Indeed, and Glassdoor) have their own terms governing automated access, application submission, and account use. You are solely responsible for ensuring your use of the Services complies with the terms of any third-party platform you interact with.
  • Violate AI provider terms. When you use AI features with your own API keys, you remain bound by the terms of service of your AI provider (Anthropic, OpenAI, or others). Violations are between you and the provider.
  • Evade anti-abuse, anti-bot, or rate-limiting measures of any third-party service.
  • Engage in unlawful conduct, including but not limited to fraud, identity theft, harassment, stalking, or discrimination.
  • Interfere with the Services, including by introducing malware, attempting unauthorized access, or distributing modified versions.
  • Use the Services to train AI or ML models other than as needed to generate the specific outputs you request from your configured AI provider during normal use.

We may suspend or terminate your access to the Services if we reasonably believe you have violated this section.

6. Your content and authorship

6.1 You own your content

You retain all rights to the content you create or import into the Services, including your résumés, story-bank entries, cover letters, application notes, and any other material you author or upload. We claim no ownership in your content.

6.2 AI is your tool, not your author

The Services are designed so that AI features assist you without replacing your authorship. Specifically, in JobHunt:

  • Résumé-tailoring suggestions are drawn only from synonym groups you have defined.
  • Cover letters are assembled by selecting and quoting from anecdotes you have written, not by paraphrasing or inventing experience.

You are the author of all content you produce using the Services, and you are solely responsible for its accuracy and lawfulness. This includes any résumé content, cover letter, or application that you submit or that is submitted on your behalf by features such as Auto-fill or Autonomous Apply.

You represent that all content you process through the Services is accurate and not misleading, and that you have the legal right to use it for the purposes for which you use it.

6.3 You authorize submissions you configure

When you configure a saved search, enable Fire mode, or click an Auto-fill or Submit action, you authorize the Services to perform the corresponding action on your behalf using the content and credentials you have provided. You are responsible for the consequences of those submissions, including their accuracy, their compliance with third-party terms, and any impact they may have on your relationships with employers or platforms.

7. Third-party services and accounts

The Services integrate with third-party services, including but not limited to Google (Gmail), Microsoft (Outlook / Microsoft 365), public ATS platforms, AI providers (Anthropic, OpenAI), and source-code hosts (GitHub).

When you connect a third-party account:

  • You authorize the Services to access that account on your device in the manner described in our Privacy Policy and the relevant in-app disclosures.
  • Your relationship with the third-party service remains governed by that service’s terms and its privacy policy.
  • We are not responsible for third-party services or for changes they make to their APIs, terms, pricing, availability, or data-handling practices.
  • We have no obligation to maintain compatibility with any third-party service if that service changes in ways that make integration impractical.

API keys you provide for AI providers (or other services) are your own. Charges incurred by your use of those APIs are your responsibility.

8. Fees and payment (where applicable)

The Services are currently offered free of charge. We may, in the future, offer paid Services or paid tiers. For any paid Services:

  • Pricing, billing periods, and payment terms will be disclosed at the point of purchase.
  • Fees are charged through a third-party payment processor, each subject to its own terms.
  • Unless otherwise stated, subscriptions auto-renew until cancelled.
  • Except where required by law, fees are non-refundable. We may, at our discretion, offer refunds in specific cases.
  • Taxes (including U.S. sales tax, VAT, and GST where applicable) may be added to your fees and remitted as required by law.

9. Intellectual property

The Services, including all software, source code, documentation, designs, logos, the “Raven” motif, the “Scarlet Coder” brand, and all related materials, are owned by The Scarlet Coder or its licensors and are protected by copyright, trademark, and other intellectual-property laws.

These Terms do not grant you any right to use The Scarlet Coder’s trademarks or brand assets except as strictly necessary to refer to our Services accurately and not in a way that implies endorsement or sponsorship.

If you provide feedback, suggestions, or ideas about the Services, we may use them freely and without compensation. You retain ownership of your underlying ideas but grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free license to use them in our products and business.

10. Disclaimers

10.1 No employment, career, or outcome guarantees

The Services are tools. They do not guarantee any employment, interview, offer, or career outcome. AI-generated fit scores, recommendations, and classifications are estimates produced by probabilistic systems and may be inaccurate. Do not rely on the Services as your sole basis for employment decisions.

10.2 “AS IS”

THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE,” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY, OR UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE OPERATION. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICES WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, OPERATE WITHOUT INTERRUPTION, BE COMPATIBLE WITH ANY SPECIFIC THIRD-PARTY PLATFORM, OR BE FREE OF BUGS OR DEFECTS.

10.3 Third-party platforms

We make no representation that the Services are authorized, endorsed by, or compatible with any specific third-party platform. Third-party platforms may change their terms, APIs, or anti-automation measures at any time, with or without notice, and the Services may stop functioning correctly as a result.

10.4 No professional advice

The Services do not provide legal, financial, immigration, tax, career, or employment advice. Output produced by AI features is not advice. Consult a qualified professional for advice relevant to your situation.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties. To the extent any warranty cannot be excluded under applicable law, it is limited to the maximum extent permitted by that law.

11. Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW:

  • IN NO EVENT WILL THE SCARLET CODER OR ITS OPERATOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, including without limitation lost profits, lost wages, lost employment opportunities, lost data, loss of goodwill, or damages for missed interviews, missed offers, or other career-related losses, arising out of or relating to your use of the Services, whether based on contract, tort, strict liability, or any other theory, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.

  • OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY for all claims arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Services will not exceed the greater of (a) one hundred U.S. dollars (US$100), or (b) the total amount you have paid to us for the affected Service in the twelve (12) months immediately preceding the event giving rise to the claim.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain damages. In those jurisdictions, our liability is limited to the maximum extent permitted by law.

12. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless The Scarlet Coder and its operator from and against any and all claims, liabilities, damages, losses, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of or relating to:

  • Your use of the Services;
  • Your content, including any résumé, cover letter, application, or message you produce or submit using the Services;
  • Your violation of these Terms, including the Acceptable Use section;
  • Your violation of any third-party rights, including any third-party platform’s terms of service; or
  • Your violation of any applicable law.

13. Termination

You may stop using the Services at any time by uninstalling them.

We may suspend or terminate your right to use the Services, in whole or in part, if:

  • You materially breach these Terms and (where the breach is curable) fail to cure within a reasonable period after notice;
  • We reasonably believe your use creates a legal or operational risk;
  • We are required to do so by law; or
  • We discontinue the Service.

Sections that by their nature should survive termination — including Sections 6 (authorship and submissions), 9 (intellectual property), 10 (disclaimers), 11 (limitation of liability), 12 (indemnification), 14 (governing law), and 15 (dispute resolution) — will survive.

14. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Washington, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles.

15. Dispute resolution

15.1 Informal resolution first

Before filing a claim against us, you agree to try to resolve the dispute informally by emailing info@thescarletcoder.com with a clear description of the issue and the resolution you are seeking. We will try to resolve the dispute informally within sixty (60) days.

15.2 Venue

If informal resolution fails, any claim arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Services will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Washington State, United States, and you and we consent to the personal jurisdiction of those courts.

15.3 Class-action waiver

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, you and we each agree to bring claims against the other only in your or our individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class, collective, or representative proceeding.

15.4 Time limit

Any claim arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Services must be filed within one (1) year after the cause of action accrues, or be permanently barred, except where applicable law prohibits such a limitation.

16. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. When we do, we will update the “Last Updated” date at the top. For material changes, we will provide notice through the Services or on our website at thescarletcoder.com.

Your continued use of the Services after a change takes effect constitutes your acceptance of the updated Terms. If you do not agree to a change, your remedy is to stop using the Services.

17. General

17.1 Entire agreement

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any product-specific terms we may publish, constitute the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Services and supersede any prior agreements.

17.2 Severability

If any provision of these Terms is held unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain in full force, and the unenforceable provision will be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable while preserving its intent.

17.3 No waiver

Our failure to enforce any provision of these Terms is not a waiver of our right to do so later.

17.4 Assignment

You may not assign or transfer these Terms or any rights under them without our prior written consent. We may assign these Terms in connection with a transfer of the brand or business, with notice to you.

17.5 Independent contractors

Nothing in these Terms creates a partnership, joint venture, agency, employment, or franchise relationship between you and us.

17.6 Force majeure

We are not liable for any failure or delay in performance caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including acts of God, natural disasters, war, terrorism, labor disputes, internet or telecommunications outages, third-party platform outages, or governmental action.

17.7 No third-party beneficiaries

These Terms are for the benefit of you and us only. No other person has any right to enforce them.

17.8 Notices

Notices to us must be sent to info@thescarletcoder.com. Notices to you may be sent through the Services or by another reasonable method.

18. Contact