Terms of service

Release Butler is provided by Bottelet Ventures ApS, a company registered in Denmark. In these terms, “we” means Bottelet Ventures ApS, and “you” means the organization that uses Release Butler and the people who sign up for it.

You can reach us at privacy@releasebutler.com.

Release Butler is for businesses, not for consumers. You must be at least 18 and allowed to accept these terms for your organization.

Keep your sign-in details safe and invite only people you trust. You are responsible for what happens in your organization, including what its members do.

Tell us right away if you think someone has used your account without permission.

Release Butler reads the merged pull requests of the repositories you connect, drafts release notes with AI, takes screenshots of your running app, and publishes the notes to a hosted changelog, a widget and emails to your list.

We keep improving Release Butler, so features may change.

Release Butler is in beta. Some features may be unfinished, and things may change or break more often than in a finished product.

Release Butler has a free plan with a small number of credits each month, and no card is needed for it. When those credits run out, you need a paid plan to keep using the features that cost credits before the month renews.

Our plans, their prices and the credits each one includes are listed on our pricing page.

Paid plans are sold by Paddle, our reseller and merchant of record. When you subscribe, you buy from Paddle: Paddle's buyer terms apply to the purchase, and Paddle handles payment, invoices, sales tax and refunds.

A paid plan is a subscription, billed monthly or yearly, that renews automatically until you cancel it. Prices are in USD or EUR, depending on your country. You can cancel at any time. Your plan then runs to the end of the month or year you paid for, and after that you are back on the free plan.

You can change plan at any time. When you move to a bigger plan, you pay the difference for the rest of the billing period straight away and get the matching share of the extra credits for the rest of the current month. When you switch from monthly to yearly billing, the year starts straight away, and what is left of the month you already paid for is credited against it. A yearly plan can only move to monthly billing when its year ends: cancel the yearly plan, and choose a monthly plan once it has run out. When you move to a smaller plan and keep your billing period, the change takes effect at the end of your current billing period: you keep your current plan and its credits until then, nothing is refunded for the period you already paid for, and the lower price starts at your next renewal. Until then, you can choose to keep your current plan instead.

AI drafts and screenshots use credits. Every plan includes a number of credits each month, also when it is billed yearly. They renew on the day of the month your billing period started, and unused credits do not carry over. Extra credits we give you for free also end with the month.

We may change our prices. A new price applies from your next renewal, and we tell you before it does.

Within 14 days of a payment, you can ask for a refund of the part you have not used. On a monthly plan, we refund the share of that payment that matches the credits from it you have not used. On a yearly plan, we refund the months that have not started yet, plus the share of the current month that matches its credits you have not used. Credits you have already used are not refunded.

Refunds are paid through Paddle, our merchant of record. If you are a consumer, your statutory rights under Paddle's buyer terms are not affected.

To ask for a refund, write to privacy@releasebutler.com from the owner's email address and tell us which payment it is about.

You keep all rights to your code, pull requests, release notes, screenshots, email lists and anything else you put into Release Butler (“your content”).

You let us use your content only to provide the service to you: to read it, store it, send it to the providers named in our privacy policy, and publish what you choose to publish.

You are responsible for your content and for having the right to use it, including permission to email the people on your lists and to show what your screenshots contain.

You connect repositories by installing our GitHub App, which has read-only access. You choose which repositories it can see, and you can uninstall it on GitHub at any time.

For screenshots you give us your app's address and, if it needs one, a test sign-in. Use a test account with test data, because a screenshot shows whatever that account can see, and only point Release Butler at apps you are allowed to access this way.

Drafts are written by AI models from the changes you pick. They can be wrong, incomplete, or describe a change in a way you did not intend.

Read and edit every draft before you publish it. You decide what is published, and you are responsible for it.

We do not use your content to train AI models.

Do not use Release Butler to:

• break the law or anyone's rights, including privacy and intellectual property rights;
• send spam, or email people who have not agreed to hear from you;
• take screenshots of apps or accounts you are not allowed to access;
• publish malware, or content that is illegal, hateful or deliberately misleading;
• probe, overload or get around the security or limits of the service, or resell it without our permission.

We may suspend an organization that breaks these rules. Where we can, we tell you first and give you a chance to fix it.

We work to keep Release Butler running, but we do not promise that it is always available or free of errors. We sometimes need maintenance, and services we depend on, such as GitHub and our AI providers, can be unavailable.

Release Butler is provided as it is. To the extent the law allows, we give no warranties beyond what these terms say.

Our total liability to you under these terms in any twelve months is limited to what you paid for Release Butler in those twelve months, or 100 euros if that is more.

We are not liable for indirect losses, such as lost profit, lost revenue, lost data or lost goodwill.

Nothing in these terms limits liability that the law does not allow to be limited, such as for gross negligence or intent.

You can stop using Release Butler at any time, and the owner can delete the organization in its settings.

We may end the agreement with 30 days' notice, or right away if you seriously break these terms.

Before you delete your organization, you can export your readers as a CSV file, and your published release notes stay on your changelog until then. When an organization is deleted, we delete its data as our privacy policy describes.

Our privacy policy explains how we handle personal data. Where we process personal data on your behalf, such as your email lists and widget readers, our data processing agreement applies and is part of these terms.

We may update these terms. When a change matters, we email organization owners at least 30 days before it applies. If you keep using Release Butler after that, the new terms apply.

These terms are governed by Danish law, and disputes go to the Danish courts.