Terms of Service

01Acceptance and age requirement

By creating a Fabella account, downloading the app, or otherwise using the Service, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

You must be old enough to use Fabella. The minimum age depends on where you live:

• United States and most other countries: 13 years old.
• European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland: 16 years old.
• Any other country with a higher legal age of digital consent: the local minimum.

If you are below the applicable age, do not create an account. If we learn that an account belongs to a person below the applicable age, we will close the account and delete the data, as described in the Privacy Policy.

If you are using Fabella on behalf of an organization (for example, an advertiser using the "Advertise on Fabella" flow), you confirm that you are authorized to bind that organization, and "you" in these Terms refers to both you and the organization.

02Eligibility and account responsibility

To use Fabella, you must:

• Provide accurate sign-up information (email, display name, username) and keep it up to date.
• Verify your email address when prompted.
• Not be barred from using the Service under U.S. or other applicable export-control or sanctions laws.
• Not have been previously removed from Fabella for a violation of these Terms (unless we have explicitly invited you back).

You are responsible for everything that happens through your account, including:

• Keeping your password and any third-party sign-in credentials (Google, Apple) confidential.
• Not sharing your account with anyone else.
• Notifying us immediately at contact@fabella.app if you suspect unauthorized access.

We are not liable for losses caused by stolen credentials when the theft results from your failure to keep them safe.

03License to use the app

We grant you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to download, install, and use the Fabella app on iOS devices that you own or control, solely for your personal, non-commercial use, and only while you comply with these Terms.

We reserve all rights not expressly granted in these Terms. In particular, you may not:

• Copy, modify, translate, or create derivative works of the Service or any of its components.
• Reverse-engineer, decompile, or disassemble the app, except to the extent that applicable law prohibits us from restricting that activity.
• Remove or obscure any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary notices.
• Resell, sublicense, rent, or lease the Service.

The app is licensed, not sold. Your purchase or download of the app from the Apple App Store is governed by Apple's terms in addition to these Terms.

04Your content and the license you grant Fabella

4.1 What "Your Content" means

"Your Content" means everything you create, upload, or share through Fabella: posts, captions, hashtags, video and audio anecdotes recorded in-app, images, comments, enrichment media, profile information, your avatar, and your bio.

4.2 You keep ownership

You own Your Content. Fabella does not claim ownership of anything you create.

4.3 The license you grant us

So that Fabella can actually deliver the Service — store your content, show it to the recipients you choose, render your feed, run trending and search, and operate the platform — you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, transferable license to host, store, reproduce, modify (for technical purposes such as transcoding, resizing, and creating thumbnails), publish, publicly display, publicly perform, distribute, and create derivative works of Your Content, for the sole purpose of operating, providing, promoting, and improving the Service.

This license:

• Lasts as long as Your Content is on the Service. When you delete a post or your account, the license ends, except that we may retain copies in encrypted backups for the period described in the Privacy Policy (typically up to 30 days).
• Does not let us sell Your Content to third parties, license it to data brokers, or use it to train external AI models. We do not do that.
• Includes the right to use Your Content in promotional material for Fabella itself (for example, in App Store screenshots or marketing pages) only if you have explicitly opted in. Otherwise, your content stays inside the Service.

4.4 Your representations about Your Content

By posting Your Content to Fabella, you confirm that:

• You created it yourself, or you have all the rights, licenses, and permissions needed to share it on a public-facing social platform.
• It does not infringe anyone else's intellectual property, privacy, or other rights.
• People who appear identifiably in your content (especially in audio or video anecdotes) have given the consent required by the law of their country.
• It complies with our Acceptable Use Policy in Section 5.

If we receive a credible complaint, takedown notice, or legal order that Your Content violates these representations, we may remove it without prior notice.

05Acceptable Use Policy

Fabella is a place for personal expression and conversation. To keep it usable for everyone, we prohibit certain content and behavior. You agree not to use the Service to:

5.1 Illegal, harmful, or exploitative content

• Post, store, or share content that is illegal where you are or where the recipient is.
• Post, share, or solicit any content that sexualizes minors, including content that may constitute child sexual abuse material (CSAM). There is zero tolerance. We report suspected CSAM to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) and the relevant authorities, and we cooperate with law enforcement.
• Threaten, incite, glorify, or facilitate violence, terrorism, or self-harm.
• Promote or facilitate the sale of regulated goods (firearms, controlled substances, prescription medication, etc.) where doing so violates the law.
• Engage in human trafficking, sexual exploitation, or any other serious crime.

5.2 Hate, harassment, and abuse

• Harass, bully, intimidate, dox, or stalk any person.
• Post hate speech or content that attacks people based on race, ethnicity, national origin, caste, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religion, disability, or serious disease.
• Post non-consensual intimate imagery, or threaten to do so.
• Impersonate another person, brand, or organization in a way that is misleading.

5.3 Spam, fraud, and manipulation

• Send unsolicited bulk messages, run spam campaigns, or use automated tools to follow, like, or post.
• Use the Service to scam, defraud, phish, or run a pyramid scheme.
• Manipulate the trending feed, follower counts, or any other metric using fake accounts, paid engagement, or coordinated inauthentic behavior.
• Sell, transfer, or trade Fabella accounts or usernames.

5.4 Security and integrity of the Service

• Probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of any Fabella system, except under a written security-research authorization from us.
• Bypass, disable, or interfere with security or rate-limiting features (including App Check / App Attest).
• Access the Service through any means other than the official iOS app or our published interfaces — no scrapers, no unofficial clients, no headless automation.
• Upload or transmit malware, viruses, or any code intended to damage or disrupt the Service.

5.5 Intellectual property and data harvesting

• Use the Service to infringe copyright, trademark, trade secret, or any other intellectual-property right.
• Scrape, harvest, or otherwise collect personal data of other users, including their content or social-graph information.
• Use Your Content from another user outside the Service without their explicit permission.

5.6 AI training (clarification)

You may not use Your Content from other users to train machine-learning models, including large language models, image models, or voice-cloning models, unless you have written permission from each affected user.

We may update this Acceptable Use Policy from time to time. Material changes will be communicated as described in Section 15.

06Reporting and moderation

6.1 In-app tools

Every user has access to in-app tools to keep their experience safe:

• Block another user — they will no longer see your content, contact you, or appear in your feed.
• Report a post, a comment, an account, or a message. Reports go to our moderation queue.
• Mute / unfollow to control what appears in your feed without blocking.

6.2 How we review reports

Moderation on Fabella combines automated content classifiers and manual human review. The classifiers run server-side: Google Cloud Vision SafeSearch scans images you upload for CSAM and explicit content, and a text-classifier filters captions and comments for profanity and policy violations. When a classifier flags content with high confidence, we may remove it before any human review; lower-confidence flags are queued for human moderators alongside user-submitted reports.

For user-submitted reports, we aim to acknowledge or act on reports within 24 hours. Acknowledgment is not always a decision — some reports require investigation. For high-severity reports (CSAM, imminent violence, doxxing) we act as fast as we technically can.

We may take any of the following actions, depending on the violation:

• Remove the content.
• Issue a warning to the account owner.
• Restrict specific features (e.g., disable comments, remove from trending, limit reach) temporarily or permanently.
• Suspend or permanently terminate the account.
• Refer the matter to law enforcement when legally required or when human safety is at stake.

6.3 Appeals

If we take action against your account or your content and you believe we made a mistake, you can appeal by writing to contact@fabella.app with the affected username and a short explanation. We aim to respond within 14 days.

6.4 Notice-and-takedown for IP rights (DMCA-style)

If you believe content on Fabella infringes your intellectual-property rights, send a notice to contact@fabella.app including:

• Your full name and contact information.
• A description of the work you say is infringed.
• The URL or username/post ID of the allegedly infringing content.
• A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorized.
• A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information is accurate and that you are the rights-holder or are authorized to act on the rights-holder's behalf.
• Your physical or electronic signature.

We may forward complete notices to the user who posted the content. Counter-notices follow the same process and the standard 17 U.S.C. § 512 procedure.

6.5 Retention of reports

Reports you submit are retained for as long as required to comply with Apple App Store Review Guideline 1.2 (User-Generated Content moderation audit trail) and to maintain the integrity of our moderation system. Your former Firebase UID remains attached to those records even after you delete your account, so we cannot remove your moderation submissions through a generalized right-to-erasure request. The same retention rule applies to records of automated moderation decisions taken on content you authored. See the Privacy Policy §7.2 for the full survival list.

07Termination

7.1 Your right to leave

You can stop using Fabella at any time. To delete your account and the personal data tied to it, go to Settings → Account → Delete account in the app, or write to contact@fabella.app. The Privacy Policy explains the timing and what happens to your content.

Account deletion is permanent. We cannot recover deleted accounts or content. Two consequences of deletion you should be aware of before you proceed:

• Multi-recipient anecdotes: because Fabella anecdotes are sent to specific recipients, deleting your account also removes those anecdotes from every recipient's inbox, including any media that other recipients had uploaded on those posts. This affects other users' content and is irreversible.
• Outbound invitations and witness tokens survive deletion for limited periods. Email invitations you sent to non-members remain valid for up to 30 days (and include the original anecdote text and your former username); validation-by-link tokens shared with non-member witnesses remain valid for up to 7 days (and include the anecdote text). See the Privacy Policy §7.2 for the full survival list.

7.2 Our right to terminate or restrict

We may suspend or terminate your account, remove content, or restrict features at any time if we reasonably believe you have:

• Violated these Terms or the Acceptable Use Policy.
• Created risk or legal exposure for Fabella, other users, or third parties.
• Engaged in fraud, abuse, or attacks against the Service.
• Become subject to a legal order requiring such action.

For non-urgent violations, we will, when practical, give you notice and a chance to fix the problem before terminating. For serious or repeated violations, we may terminate immediately and without prior notice.

7.3 What survives termination

Sections that by their nature should survive termination — License you grant Fabella (4.3 — only for content already shared with other users), Acceptable Use Policy (5), Disclaimers (10), Limitation of Liability (11), Indemnification (12), Governing Law and Dispute Resolution (13), Consumer-Rights Overlay (14), and the general miscellaneous terms — survive any termination of these Terms.

08Advertising

Fabella shows ads inside the app and may show sponsored content. You agree that:

• Ads may appear in your feed, in the inbox, between scrolls, and as banner, interstitial, rewarded, or native formats.
• Ads are served primarily by Google AdMob. AdMob's collection and use of your data are described in our Privacy Policy and in Google's Privacy & Terms.
• Whether ads are personalized depends on your App Tracking Transparency decision in iOS. You can change it in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking → Fabella.
• Sponsored posts and house ads are clearly labeled.

If you use the "Boost post" feature, the boost is currently delivered through a rewarded-ad mechanic — you watch a sponsored ad, and we increase the reach of your post. There is no monetary purchase involved for users at this time.

If you advertise on Fabella through the "Advertise on Fabella" flow, separate advertising terms apply. Payment is processed by Stripe; Fabella never sees your card data.

09In-app purchases and monetization

At launch, Fabella does not sell in-app purchases or subscriptions to users. The "Boost post" feature uses rewarded ads, not money. If we introduce paid features in the future, we will update these Terms and, where required by law, obtain your separate consent.

Advertiser payments (Section 8) are made through Stripe under separate terms presented at the time of purchase.

10Disclaimers

Some jurisdictions do not allow the disclaimer of certain warranties; in those jurisdictions, the disclaimers above apply only to the maximum extent permitted by law.

11Limitation of liability

The limitations and exclusions in this section apply even if a remedy fails of its essential purpose. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain damages; in those jurisdictions, the limitations apply only to the maximum extent permitted by law. Nothing in these Terms limits liability for fraud, willful misconduct, gross negligence, death, or personal injury caused by negligence, where such liability cannot be limited under applicable law.

12Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Fabella, its affiliates, and their respective officers, directors, employees, and agents from and against any claims, damages, liabilities, losses, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or related to:

• Your use or misuse of the Service.
• Your violation of these Terms or the Acceptable Use Policy.
• Your violation of any law or any third-party right (including intellectual-property and privacy rights).
• Any content you upload, post, or share through the Service.

We may, at our option, assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter for which you are required to indemnify us, in which case you agree to cooperate with our defense.

This Section 12 does not apply to consumers in the European Union or the United Kingdom to the extent it is incompatible with mandatory consumer-protection law there.

13Governing law and dispute resolution

13.1 Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Wyoming, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.

13.2 Informal resolution first

Before filing any formal claim, you and Fabella agree to try to resolve the dispute informally. Send a notice to contact@fabella.app (subject line: "Dispute Notice") describing the issue, what you want as a resolution, and your contact information. We will do the same if we have a dispute with you. You agree to wait at least 30 days from the notice before starting any formal proceeding.

13.3 Binding arbitration (U.S. users)

If informal resolution fails and you live in the United States, you and Fabella agree that any claim or dispute arising out of or related to these Terms or the Service will be resolved by final and binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) under its Consumer Arbitration Rules then in effect, except as modified here.

• The arbitration will take place in Sheridan, Wyoming, unless you and Fabella agree otherwise. For claims under US$10,000, you may elect telephonic or document-only arbitration to keep costs and inconvenience low.
• The arbitrator may award the same individual remedies that a court could.
• The Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) governs the interpretation and enforcement of this clause.

Class action waiver. You and Fabella agree that any arbitration or court proceeding will be conducted only on an individual basis and not as a class, collective, consolidated, or representative action. You waive any right to participate in a class action against Fabella. If a court decides this class waiver is unenforceable, the entire arbitration clause in this Section 13.3 is null and void, but the rest of these Terms remain in effect.

13.4 Small claims and injunctive carve-outs

Despite Section 13.3:

• Either party may bring an individual action in small claims court of the party's home jurisdiction for any qualifying claim.
• Either party may seek injunctive or equitable relief in any court of competent jurisdiction to protect intellectual-property rights or to prevent unauthorized access to or use of the Service.

13.5 30-day right to opt out of arbitration

You can opt out of the arbitration agreement and class waiver in Section 13.3 by sending an email to contact@fabella.app within 30 days of first accepting these Terms. The email must include your name, your username, and a clear statement that you are opting out. Opting out does not affect any other part of these Terms.

13.6 Non-U.S. users (default forum)

If you are not in the United States and you are not covered by Section 14 below, any dispute that cannot be resolved informally will be brought in the state or federal courts of the State of Wyoming, and you and Fabella consent to the jurisdiction of those courts. This default does not override any mandatory protections in your country's consumer or data-protection law.

14Consumer-rights overlay (EU, EEA, UK, and Switzerland)

If you live in the European Union, the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, the following overrides anything in these Terms that conflicts with it:

• Mandatory consumer rights. Nothing in these Terms removes or reduces the rights you have as a consumer under the mandatory law of your country (for example, the Code de la consommation in France, the Consumer Rights Act 2015 in the UK, or the EU Directive 2011/83/EU on consumer rights). Where these Terms conflict with such mandatory law, the mandatory law prevails.
• Forum. You may bring a claim against Fabella in the courts of the country where you live, in addition to the forums listed in Section 13. We may bring a claim against you only in the courts of the country where you live.
• Governing law. Even though Section 13.1 designates Wyoming law, you keep the protection of mandatory provisions of the law of your habitual residence (Article 6(2) of EU Regulation 593/2008 — "Rome I"). Where Wyoming law would give you less protection than the mandatory law of your country, your country's mandatory law applies.
• No mandatory arbitration / no class waiver. The binding-arbitration clause and the class-action waiver in Section 13.3 do not apply to you to the extent they are incompatible with the law of your country.
• Limitation of liability. Section 11 applies only to the extent permitted by the mandatory consumer-protection law of your country. Nothing in these Terms limits liability for death, personal injury, gross negligence, fraud, or any other matter for which liability cannot be limited under applicable law.
• Online dispute resolution. EU consumers can use the EU Online Dispute Resolution platform at https://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr to try to resolve disputes out of court. Our contact email for ODR purposes is contact@fabella.app.
• Right of withdrawal. Because Fabella is a free digital service that you start using immediately on download, the EU Consumer Rights Directive's 14-day right of withdrawal generally does not apply. If you change your mind, you can simply stop using the Service or delete your account at any time (Section 7.1).

15Changes 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 (changes to your rights, fees, dispute-resolution mechanics, or content licenses), give you at least 30 days' advance notice by in-app message, email, or both before the change takes effect.

If you keep using Fabella after a change takes effect, you accept the updated Terms. If you do not accept them, delete your account before they take effect (Section 7.1).

16Miscellaneous

Entire agreement. These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and Fabella about the Service, and they replace any prior agreement on the same subject.

Severability. If a court finds any provision of these Terms unenforceable, the rest remain in effect. (Exception: see Section 13.3 — if the class-action waiver is held unenforceable, the entire arbitration clause is null and void.)

No waiver. If we do not enforce a provision right away, that does not waive our right to enforce it later.

Assignment. You may not assign or transfer these Terms without our prior written consent. We may assign these Terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, or sale of assets, on notice to you.

Force majeure. Neither party is liable for delays or failures caused by events outside its reasonable control (natural disasters, war, terrorism, civil unrest, government action, internet outages, third-party service failures).

Apple-required terms. When you download Fabella from the Apple App Store, the following also applies:

• These Terms are between you and Fabella, not Apple. Apple is not responsible for the app or its content.
• Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for the app.
• In the event of any third-party claim that the app or your possession and use of it infringes intellectual-property rights, Fabella (not Apple) is responsible for handling the claim.
• Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce them against you.

Headings. Section headings are for convenience only and do not affect interpretation.

17Contact

For questions about these Terms or the Service:

• Email (preferred and fastest): contact@fabella.app
• General support: support@fabella.app
• Press inquiries: press@fabella.app

For formal legal notices and service of process only:

• Fabella LLC, c/o Registered Agent, 30 N Gould St Ste N, Sheridan, WY 82801, USA

For data-protection matters, see the Privacy Policy, which lists our lead supervisory authority (CNIL, France).