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Terms of service

The agreement between you and us for the hosted service at imagestoria.com, written to be read.

This is a draft. It was written for this product in plain language and has not yet been reviewed by a lawyer. It must be reviewed before launch. Anything in [square brackets] is still to be filled in.

Last updated: [date]

1. Who we are

ImageStoria is run by Chaz.Art & Co ("we", "us"). [Full legal name of the entity, its registered address and its registration number.]

These terms cover the hosted service at imagestoria.com and at the address of each library, such as name.imagestoria.com. By making an account you agree to them. If you do not agree, do not use the service.

You must be at least [age] years old to make an account.

2. The service

ImageStoria is a private home for photos and videos. Each subscriber gets one library at its own address. We run the application and keep the library's database. The pictures are kept in storage that belongs to you: a DigitalOcean Space in your own account.

So the service has two parts, and only one of them is ours:

  • Ours: the application, your account, and the library's database, which holds titles, tags, comments, stories, people and settings.
  • Yours: the Space and every file in it. Your agreement for that storage is with DigitalOcean, not with us.

Storage is not included in our price.

3. Your account

  • Give a real email address. We use it to sign you in and to tell you about your account.
  • Keep your password to yourself. You are responsible for what is done under your account.
  • Tell us at once if you think someone else has got into it.
  • One account has one library. The name you choose for its address must not pretend to be someone else or break someone's rights. We may refuse or take back a name that does.

4. Your content stays yours

You keep every right you have in your photos, videos and words. We claim none.

You give us permission to do only what running the service for you needs: to receive the files you upload, to make the copies used for viewing, to store those in your Space, to show them to you and to the people you choose, and to keep the records in the library's database. This permission ends when you delete the content or the account.

We do not look at your pictures. The people who run the platform see counts and sizes, never content. We do not use your content to train any model, and we do not sell it. [Lawyer: confirm the exceptions that law requires, such as a valid legal order.]

5. What you are responsible for

  • Your content. You must have the right to store and share what you upload. You are responsible for it, and for what the people you invite add.
  • The people in your pictures. If you turn on people recognition, you are responsible for having the right to process the faces of the people in your pictures under the law where you live. See the privacy page.
  • Your Space and its bill. You pay DigitalOcean for the storage and transfer your library uses. You keep the Space private, keep its key safe and keep it working. If the Space is deleted, unpaid or its key is revoked, your library cannot show your pictures, and we cannot bring them back.
  • Your backups. The files in your Space are the only copy the service has. Keep another copy yourself.
  • The people you invite and the links you make. You decide who gets in and what they may do. Anyone with a public story link can open that story.
  • Workers and cloud AI. If you connect a worker, you run it on your own machine at your own risk. If you connect a cloud AI provider, the pictures you have it read are sent to that provider under your own account and their terms, and you pay them.

6. Acceptable use

Do not use the service to:

  • store or share anything that is illegal where you live or where we operate, [including, to be worded by the lawyer: sexual images of children, and intimate images of anyone shared without their consent];
  • break someone else's copyright, privacy or other rights;
  • harass, threaten or stalk anyone, or to identify or track people without a lawful reason;
  • send unwanted bulk invitations or links;
  • break into the service, test its defences without our written consent, get at another subscriber's library, or put a load on it that harms other subscribers;
  • resell the service or offer it to others as your own.

To report content that breaks these rules, write to [contact email].

7. The free trial

A new account may start with a free trial. Its length is shown on the pricing page at the time you sign up. No card is needed to start it. When the trial ends, the library stays open only if you choose a plan and pay.

We may change the length of the trial, or end the offer, for accounts made later. One trial for each person.

8. Paying and renewals

The price is the one shown on the pricing page when you pay. [Taxes: say whether prices include tax and who collects it.]

  • By card. Card payments are handled by Stripe. A card plan renews by itself at the end of each period, at the price then in force for your plan, until you cancel. You can cancel at any time on your account page. The library then stays open to the end of the period you have paid for and the card is not charged again.
  • In USDC. A USDC payment is a transfer you sign in your own wallet, on Ethereum, Base or Solana. It pays for the yearly plan, twelve months at a time, and is not offered for the monthly plan. It never renews by itself. We email reminders before the period ends. You must send the exact amount shown, from the wallet you named, on the chain you chose. A transfer on a public chain cannot be reversed by us or by anyone, and network fees are yours.

If we change the price of a plan, we will tell you by email at least [number] days before it applies to your next period.

Refunds. [Refund policy, to be written by the lawyer: whether payments are refundable, any cooling-off right the law gives consumers, and how a USDC payment is returned.] To ask about a payment, write to [contact email].

9. When a paid period ends

  1. The library stays open for some days of grace after the last paid day. The number of days is shown on your account page.
  2. If no payment arrives, the library is paused. Nobody can open it: not you, not the people you invited, and not anyone with a story link.
  3. Nothing in your Space is deleted, and you can still reach your files there with your own DigitalOcean account.
  4. Paying opens the library again as it was.

We keep the database of a paused library for [period]. After that we may delete it, and we will email you at least [number] days before we do.

10. Ending the agreement

By you. You can stop at any time: cancel the plan, or delete the account on your account page. Deleting the account ends the subscription and deletes the library's database. This cannot be undone. Your Space is not touched.

By us. We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms, that puts the service or other people at risk, or where the law requires it. Where we can, we will tell you first and give you the chance to put it right. If the breach is serious, we may act at once. [Lawyer: notice periods, and refunds of unused time when we close an account without a breach.]

We never delete anything in your Space, on suspension, on closing or at any other time.

11. The self-hosted software

The ImageStoria application is also published as source code, for people to run themselves. That software has its own licence, the PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0. These terms do not cover it and do not change it. If you run the software yourself, that licence is your agreement, and we have no access to what you run and no responsibility for it.

12. Availability

We work to keep the service running and your library's records safe. We do not promise that it will always be available or free of faults. It is provided as it is. It will sometimes be down for maintenance, and it depends on services we do not control, among them DigitalOcean, Stripe, the public chains, and any AI provider you connect.

We may change the service, add to it or take things out. If we take out something important, or stop the service altogether, we will tell you by email at least [number] days ahead, so that you can take your records with you. Your files will already be in your Space.

[Lawyer: the wording of the disclaimer of warranties, and the consumer rights that cannot be excluded.]

13. Limits of liability

[To be written by the lawyer. It should cover: the cap on our total liability, for example the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim; the kinds of loss we are not liable for, such as indirect loss and loss of data kept in your own Space; that we are not liable for the acts of DigitalOcean, Stripe, a chain, a wallet or an AI provider; and the liability that cannot be limited by law.]

14. Changes to these terms

We may change these terms. When a change matters, we will email you and put a notice on the site at least [number] days before it applies. If you keep using the service after that date, you accept the new terms. If you do not accept them, you can close your account before then.

15. Law and disputes

[Governing law, and the courts or other way disputes are settled. Rights that consumer law gives you where you live are not taken away.]

16. Contact

Chaz.Art & Co, [address]. Write to [contact email].

How we handle personal data is in the privacy page.