Terms of Use

Summary

This summary is provided for convenience only. It is not part of these Terms, and it neither qualifies nor expands the numbered sections below, which govern.

• Dappi generates an animated sticker from a photograph you supply, using AI services operated by other companies.
• You keep ownership of your photographs, your prompts and your stickers. We take a license to process them in order to operate the Service.
• Dappi does not use your content to train AI models and trains no models of its own. Section 4.4 sets out our position regarding the AI Providers we use.
• You must be at least 13. Purchases require an adult, or a parent's or guardian's permission.
• AI output is unpredictable and is not guaranteed to meet your expectations. A failed generation is refunded automatically. A completed generation is not, whatever its result.
• Credits granted by a subscription are available while that subscription is active. Each billing period sets your balance to that plan's allowance, and unused credits do not carry over.
• Dappi is not a backup service. You are responsible for retaining your own copies.
• Breach of these Terms may result in a warning, suspension, or permanent closure of your account. Appeals go to support@dappistickers.com.
• Israeli law governs, and disputes go to the courts of Tel Aviv-Yaffo. Contact us first at support@dappistickers.com.

1. The agreement

1.1 Operator. Dappi is operated by Eilon Aharoni, an independent developer ("we", "us", "our"). You can reach us at support@dappistickers.com.

1.2 Scope. These Terms of Use ("Terms") form a binding agreement between you and us governing your use of the Dappi mobile application and the dappistickers.com website (together, the "Service"). Our Privacy Policy is incorporated into these Terms by reference and forms part of this agreement.

1.3 Acceptance. You accept these Terms when you create an account, the sign-up screen stating that continuing constitutes acceptance, and when you accept these Terms or any updated version at the in-app notice. These Terms also govern your use of the Service without an account.

1.4 Ownership of the Service, and your license. The Service, including the application, the website, the underlying software, and the Dappi name, logo and other brand features, is owned by us or licensed to us, and is protected by intellectual property law. We reserve all rights in the wording, selection, arrangement and naming of the templates and the built-in stickers, and in their presentation in the Service. We reserve all rights not expressly granted in these Terms. Subject to your compliance with these Terms, we grant you a personal, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable and non-sublicensable license to install and use the application on a device you own or control, and to use the website, for your own personal and non-commercial purposes. The Service is licensed to you, not sold. Section 17 sets out additional terms required by Apple.

1.5 Territory. The Service is not offered to persons in the European Union or the United Kingdom, and must not be used from those territories.

1.6 Definitions. In these Terms:

• "AI Provider" means a third party operating a model or service used to generate, screen or otherwise process Your Content, as identified in the Privacy Policy.
• "Credits" has the meaning given in section 8.1.
• "Output" means a clip, sticker, video or other material generated by the Service from Your Content.
• "Sticker" means an Output that the Service generates from a photograph you supply: a short looping video, together with the preview images the application derives from it, held on your device and, under a paid Subscription, in your account. The word describes what the Service produces. It does not mean the sticker format of Apple, WhatsApp or any other application, and section 11.2 governs any export to such an application.
• "Subscription" means a paid, automatically renewing plan purchased through Apple.
• "Your Content" means the photographs, prompts, editor text and emoji, pack names, presets and other material you supply to the Service, together with the Output derived from them.

2. Age and eligibility

2.1 Minimum age. You must be at least 13 years old to use the Service. If we become aware that an account belongs to a person under 13, we will close the account and delete its data.

2.2 Users aged 13 to 17. If you are aged 13 to 17, you may use the Service only if your parent or legal guardian has reviewed these Terms and accepted them on your behalf.

2.3 Purchases. Purchases may be made only by a person aged 18 or over, or by a user aged 13 to 17 with the permission of their parent or legal guardian, who is responsible for authorizing the payment.

3. Your account

3.1 Accuracy and security. You must keep your account information accurate and your sign-in credentials confidential. You are responsible for activity carried out under your account.

3.2 One account per person. An account is personal to you, and each person may hold one account. You must not share, transfer or sell an account. Creating an additional account in order to obtain free Credits again, or opening a new account after we have closed one for breach of these Terms, is itself a breach of these Terms.

3.3 Sign-in methods. You may sign in with an email address and password, with Apple, or with Google.

3.4 Our discretion. We may refuse, restrict, suspend or close accounts as set out in sections 9 and 12, or where the law requires it. We may also limit the number of free accounts available.

3.5 Trade controls. You represent that you are not located in, or ordinarily resident in, a territory subject to comprehensive trade sanctions, and that you are not named on any applicable restricted-party list.

4. Your Content

4.1 Your warranties. To generate a sticker you supply a photograph and a text prompt, and you may add editor text or emoji. In doing so you represent and warrant that:

• you took the photograph, or otherwise hold the rights necessary to use it;
• every identifiable person in the photograph has agreed to appear in your sticker. In the case of a child, their parent or legal guardian has agreed. In the case of a person who has died, you hold the rights necessary to use their photograph and are not using it to mislead anyone;
• you are not using any person's face or likeness to deceive, harass or impersonate.

4.2 Ownership. You retain all rights in Your Content. We claim no ownership of your photographs, your prompts or your finished stickers.

4.3 License to us. You grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, cache, transmit, reproduce, adapt, encode and process Your Content, solely to the extent required to operate the Service for you, including safety review, format conversion, and delivery to your device and to any destination you select. That license extends to our service providers to the extent they perform those functions on our behalf. It terminates when you delete the relevant Content or your account, save for the retained records identified in the Privacy Policy.

4.4 Model training. Dappi does not use Your Content to train or fine-tune machine-learning models, and we develop and train no models of our own. AI Providers receive Your Content to perform their function. We have no control over AI Providers and make no representation or warranty as to their data practices, which are governed by their own terms and may change without notice to us.

4.5 Editor content. Text and emoji you add in the editor form part of Your Content and are your responsibility on the same basis as everything else you supply.

4.6 Free tier mark. Stickers generated on the free tier carry a Dappi mark. Removing, obscuring or cropping out that mark is a breach of these Terms. Stickers generated under a Subscription do not carry the mark. Saving the underlying video to your device photo library is available under a Subscription only, because that video carries no mark.

5. AI generation and Output; no warranty

5.1 How generation works. The Service uses AI services operated by other companies. The application offers a menu of video models, and you choose the model for each sticker. Our video provider is fal, a United States company, and it receives your photograph and your prompt. The developer of the model you select may also receive them. Section 5.7 applies when we change providers or models. The Privacy Policy identifies each developer and sets out what is transmitted and to whom.

5.2 No control over the models. We do not build or control the AI models and have no control over their Output.

5.3 Variability. Results vary. The same photograph and prompt may produce a different sticker on each generation, and results are not repeatable. Output generated for other users may resemble yours.

5.4 Errors and unintended changes. AI models are imperfect and may produce errors. A model may alter faces, skin, backgrounds or other details in ways you did not request. You are responsible for reviewing Output before you use or distribute it.

5.5 Templates and previews. Templates and previews are illustrative only. Your result may not resemble the template you started from.

5.6 Refunds on failure. Where a generation fails, the Credit it cost is returned to your balance automatically. Where a generation completes, the Credit is consumed whether or not the Output meets your expectations. We accept no liability in respect of the content or appearance of Output.

5.7 Model changes. We may add, remove or replace AI models and AI Providers at any time. The Privacy Policy names the providers in use.

5.8 Safety screening. Every prompt and photograph is screened by automated safety systems before generation. The AI Provider that generates your sticker applies its own screening, and may refuse a photograph, a prompt or a completed clip for reasons outside our control. Our screening is conservative and may decline a prompt or photograph that section 6 does not prohibit. We may decline any generation on safety grounds. Where a generation is refused after your Credit has been charged, the Credit is returned to your balance automatically.

5.9 No warranty as to rights in Output. Output is produced by a model, and identical or similar Output may be produced for other users. We make no representation or warranty that Output is original, or that your use of it will not infringe the rights of any third party. You are responsible for satisfying yourself that your use of Output is lawful.

6. Acceptable use

You must not use the Service to create, store, transmit or export:

• sexual content involving minors, or sexualized images of any person under 18, in any style. We enforce this prohibition without exception, and such content is reported to the authorities where the law requires;
• intimate or sexual images of a real person without that person's consent;
• sexual or pornographic content;
• content using a real person's face or likeness without their permission, or content impersonating a real person;
• content depicting a real person doing or saying something they did not do or say, presented as if it were genuine;
• content intended to deceive, including the presentation of AI output as human-made where that misleads, and disinformation;
• harassment, threats, hatred, or the glorification of violence;
• content supporting or celebrating terrorism or violent extremism;
• content encouraging or glorifying suicide, self-harm, or an eating disorder;
• a person's private information published in order to expose them;
• content depicting or encouraging the use of illegal drugs;
• anything illegal or fraudulent, or containing malware.

You must also not:

• attempt to defeat, bypass or probe the safety screening;
• interfere with or overload the Service, or access it by automated means we have not authorized;
• reverse engineer the application, except to the extent the law gives you that right;
• resell the Service, scrape it, or use it to build a dataset, a competing service, or any face recognition capability;
• export stickers to WhatsApp or elsewhere in a manner that breaches that platform's own terms.

We may remove Content that breaches this section and take action under section 9.

7. Reports, copyright and takedown

7.1 Reporting. Reports concerning content, conduct or an account may be submitted through the in-app feedback form or to support@dappistickers.com. We review reports promptly, may prioritize them by severity, and may decline to act on reports that are incomplete, duplicative or manifestly unfounded.

7.2 Copyright notices. If you own rights in a work and believe content in the Service infringes them, email support@dappistickers.com stating what the work is, where the content is located, for example a pack or sticker name and the account if known, your contact details, and a statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorized. We may remove content while we investigate.

7.3 Counter-notice and false reports. If your content was removed following a report and you believe the report was wrong, reply to us with an explanation and we will review it. A knowingly false report is a breach of these Terms, and the law may make a knowingly false copyright claim independently actionable.

7.4 Repeat infringers. Accounts that repeatedly infringe the rights of others will be closed.

8. Credits and Subscriptions

8.1 What Credits are. Credits are the in-app unit that pays for AI generation ("Credits"). The application displays the Credit cost of a sticker before you generate it.

8.2 Legal character of Credits. Credits are a limited, revocable feature of the Service. They are not money, property, a deposit or a payment instrument. They carry no cash value and cannot be transferred, sold or exchanged outside the Service.

8.3 Free and promotional Credits. New accounts may receive free Credits, and we may grant promotional Credits. We may vary, limit or withdraw free and promotional Credits at any time, and once a Subscription is active they are subject to the balance rule in section 8.4.

8.4 Subscriptions. Paid plans are Subscriptions that renew automatically and are billed by Apple through your App Store account. The price and the billing period are shown in the application before you purchase. In each billing period, an active Subscription sets your Credit balance to that plan's Credit allowance. Credits you did not use in the previous period do not carry over. We may change the Credit allowance a plan grants, and where a change reduces the allowance of a plan you hold, we will give you notice under section 19.7 at least 5 days before it takes effect, stating the new allowance and the date it takes effect. You may cancel at any time in your Apple ID subscription settings. Cancellation stops the next renewal and preserves your access until the end of the period already paid for.

8.5 Credits and the life of a Subscription. Credits granted by a Subscription are a feature of that Subscription and are available while it is active. If you cancel, you may use your Credits until the end of the paid period. When a Subscription ends, unused Credits cease to be available. If Apple refunds a Subscription payment and the Subscription is no longer active, your Credit balance is set to zero immediately.

8.6 Price and cost changes. Subscription prices may change. For an active Subscription, price changes follow Apple's notice and consent process. We may change the Credit cost of a sticker, including the Credit rate charged for each second of a particular model. Where a change increases what you pay in Credits for the same sticker, we will give you notice under section 19.7 at least 5 days before it takes effect, stating the new cost and the date it takes effect. Section 8.4 explains how to cancel, and cancellation preserves your access until the end of the period you have already paid for. A generation already begun is charged at the cost displayed when it began, and a change does not alter what you were charged for stickers already generated.

8.7 Payments. Apple processes all payments and payment refunds under its own policies. We do not process payments and do not receive your payment details. Nothing in these Terms limits any refund or cancellation right conferred on you by the law where you live that cannot be waived.

8.8 Discontinuation of the Service. If we permanently discontinue the Service while you have paid Subscription time remaining, we will support your request to Apple for a refund of the unused part of that period.

8.9 Restoring purchases. You may restore prior purchases in the application if your Subscription does not appear on a device.

9. Enforcement

9.1 Measures available to us. If you breach these Terms, we may issue a warning, restrict features, suspend your account, or close it permanently. We determine the appropriate measure case by case.

9.2 Effect of closure for breach. An account closed for breach loses access to the Service, including any remaining Credits and any remaining Subscription time. We do not compensate for Credits or Subscription time lost in this way. Whether a payment is refunded remains Apple's decision under Apple's policies.

9.3 Records. Blocked generation attempts are recorded, and records of closures for breach are retained so that they remain effective. The Privacy Policy states what is retained and for how long.

9.4 Appeals. If you consider that we have acted in error, you may appeal by email to support@dappistickers.com. An appeal is reviewed by a person. We do not undertake to review repeated appeals against the same decision.

9.5 Suspension pending investigation. We may suspend an account or restrict access to Content, without prior notice, while we investigate a report or a suspected breach of these Terms.

10. Storage and backup

10.1 The Service is not a backup service. The Service is not a storage or backup service. Your finished stickers reside on your device. Cloud copies are a feature of a Subscription, allowing the application to synchronize and restore your library for as long as we offer that feature, and no backup is warranted. On the free tier, new stickers are not stored in the cloud. You are responsible for keeping your own copies of anything you need to retain.

10.2 Removal of cloud copies. If your account has been without an active Subscription for 30 days, we may remove the cloud copies of your photographs, clips, stickers and videos. For an account that has never held a Subscription, that period runs from sign-up. For a lapsed Subscription, it runs from the day the Subscription ended. Stickers already on your device are unaffected, but a cloud copy once removed cannot be downloaded again.

10.3 Changes to the Service. We may change, add to, limit or discontinue features of the Service, including changing or ending cloud storage for free accounts.

11. The Service, updates and third-party platforms

11.1 Updates. We may require you to update to the current version of the application in order to continue using the Service. Earlier versions may cease to function.

11.2 WhatsApp and other platforms. Where the Service offers export to another application, it uses that application's own published interface. That company may change or withdraw its interface at any time and without notice, and we do not warrant that your stickers will remain importable. This applies to WhatsApp, and to iMessage, Photos and the clipboard, which belong to Apple. Stickers you export must comply with the receiving application's own terms.

11.3 Pack top-up. Some applications require a minimum number of items in a pack. Where the Service exports a pack holding fewer than the receiving application requires, it may add a small number of its own items so that the pack is accepted.

11.4 Photosensitivity. Animated stickers loop and may contain flashing or rapidly changing images. If you are sensitive to flashing images, exercise care when creating and viewing them.

11.5 Pre-release versions. If you use a pre-release version of the Service, for example through TestFlight, you acknowledge that it may contain defects. Pre-release features may change or be withdrawn, and any feedback you send us is given voluntarily.

11.6 Feedback. If you send us suggestions, ideas or other feedback about the Service, we may use them to improve the Service without any obligation to you, and you agree that they are not confidential.

12. Termination

12.1 Termination by you. You may delete your account at any time in the application, from the Profile screen. Deletion is permanent. The Privacy Policy identifies the limited set of records that survive deletion, and for how long.

12.2 Deletion does not cancel a Subscription. Deleting your account does not cancel a Subscription. Cancel it in your Apple ID subscription settings, or Apple will continue to bill you.

12.3 Termination by us. We may close your account under section 9, on discontinuation of the Service, or where the law requires it. We may also suspend or close any account at our discretion, including where these Terms have not been breached. If we do so, we will give you notice in the application or by email, and where you have paid Subscription time remaining we will support your refund request to Apple for the unused part.

13. Disclaimers

The Service is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis. To the maximum extent permitted by the law where you live, we exclude all warranties, conditions and representations, whether express or implied, including as to merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy, and uninterrupted, error-free or secure operation, and we do not warrant that any generation will meet your expectations. Sections 5 and 10 set out specific matters on which we give no assurance. Nothing in this section removes any right conferred on you by law that cannot be waived.

14. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by the law where you live: our aggregate liability for all claims arising out of or in connection with the Service in any 12-month period is limited to the amounts you paid for the Service through Apple in the 12 months preceding the event giving rise to the claim; and we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, punitive or consequential loss, loss of profits, loss of goodwill, or loss or corruption of data beyond the commitments given in these Terms. These limits apply regardless of the legal theory on which a claim is brought. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited under the law applicable to you, including mandatory consumer protections.

15. Indemnity

To the extent permitted by the law where you live, you will indemnify us against the damages, losses and reasonable legal costs we incur as a result of a third-party claim arising out of Content you created, uploaded or exported using the Service, or out of your breach of these Terms. We will notify you of any such claim, and you may participate in its defense at your own cost. You must not settle a claim in a manner that imposes any obligation on us without our prior written consent.

16. Governing law and disputes

16.1 Governing law. These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Israel.

16.2 Informal resolution first. Before commencing any legal proceeding, you must email support@dappistickers.com setting out the dispute, and allow us 60 days to attempt to resolve it with you.

16.3 Forum. Any dispute not resolved under section 16.2 is subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent courts of Tel Aviv-Yaffo, Israel. We do not require arbitration.

16.4 Mandatory local rights. Where the mandatory consumer law of the place you live confers protections that these Terms cannot displace, including a right to bring a claim in your home courts, that law prevails to that extent.

17. Apple

Because the Service is distributed through Apple's App Store, Apple requires the following, which applies to your use of the application on Apple devices:

17.1 These Terms are concluded between you and us only, and not with Apple. Apple is not responsible for the Service or its content.

17.2 We grant you a personal, non-transferable license to use the application on Apple-branded products that you own or control, as permitted by the Usage Rules set out in Apple's Media Services Terms and Conditions, except that the application may also be accessed by other accounts associated with you through Family Sharing or volume purchasing.

17.3 Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for the Service.

17.4 If the Service fails to conform to an applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund to you the purchase price you paid for the application, if any. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation for the Service, and any other warranty claim lies between you and us.

17.5 Apple is not responsible for addressing any claim by you or a third party relating to the Service, including product liability claims, claims that the Service fails to conform to a legal or regulatory requirement, and consumer protection or similar claims.

17.6 If a third party claims that the Service infringes their intellectual property rights, we, and not Apple, are responsible for the investigation, defense, settlement and discharge of that claim.

17.7 You represent that you are not located in a country subject to a United States government embargo or designated a terrorist-supporting country, and that you are not on any United States government list of prohibited or restricted parties.

17.8 Questions, complaints or claims concerning the Service should be directed to: Eilon Aharoni, support@dappistickers.com.

17.9 You must comply with applicable third-party terms when using the Service, for example the terms of any application you export stickers to.

17.10 Apple and Apple's subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms, and on your acceptance Apple has the right to enforce them against you.

Trademarks. WhatsApp is a trademark of WhatsApp LLC. Apple, iPhone, iMessage, App Store and TestFlight are trademarks of Apple Inc. Dappi is an independent application. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by WhatsApp LLC, Meta, or Apple.

18. Changes to these Terms

When we publish a new version of these Terms or the Privacy Policy, the application tells you which document has changed, gives you the new version to read in full, and asks you to accept before you continue using the Service. If you decline, you may sign out, and you may email support@dappistickers.com to have your account deleted without accepting. If you decline a change while you have paid Subscription time remaining, email us and we will support a refund request to Apple for the unused part.

19. General

19.1 Severability. If any provision of these Terms is held unenforceable, the remainder continues in force.

19.2 Assignment. We may assign these Terms, for example to a company formed to operate the Service. You may not assign them.

19.3 No waiver. A failure or delay by us in enforcing any provision of these Terms is not a waiver of it.

19.4 Events outside our control. We are not responsible for delay or failure caused by events outside our reasonable control, including outages at the platform providers and AI Providers on which the Service depends.

19.5 Survival. Sections that by their nature should survive termination survive it, including sections 4.2, 4.3 as to the retained records carve-out, 4.4, 5.9, 8.2, 9, and 13 to 19.

19.6 Language. These Terms are written in English, and the English text governs.

19.7 Notices. We may give notice to you by message in the application, by email to the address on your account, or by publication within the Service. Notice by email is treated as received on the day it is sent, unless we receive notification that delivery failed. You give notice to us at support@dappistickers.com.

19.8 Third parties. Except for Apple under section 17.10, no person who is not a party to these Terms has any right to enforce them.

19.9 Entire agreement. These Terms and the Privacy Policy constitute the entire agreement between you and us concerning the Service, and supersede any prior understanding on that subject.

Contact: support@dappistickers.com