Terms of Service

1. Who we are; acceptance of these Terms

These Terms of Service (the "Terms") constitute a binding agreement between you (the "User", "you") and:

By tapping “Sign in with Apple” inside the Publy iOS application, by accessing https://getpubly.com/, or by using any feature of the Service, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms and by our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

2. Definitions

• "App" — the iOS mobile application “Publy” (App Store ID com.ivseg.lyrano).
• "Service" — the App, the website at https://getpubly.com/, and the supporting backend.
• "Account" — your authenticated user record on the Service.
• "Subscription" — a recurring auto-renewable in-app purchase that unlocks paid features.
• "User Content" — any text, audio, prompt, writing-style sample or other input you submit to the Service.
• "AI Output" — content generated by the Service in response to your User Content using third-party large language models.
• "LLM Provider" — Anthropic, OpenAI, Google or any successor LLM vendor we route to.
• "Apple" — Apple Inc. and its subsidiaries.

3. Eligibility

You may use the Service only if:

1. you are at least 17 years old (the Apple App Store age rating for the App). If the law of your country requires a higher age for entering into a binding contract or for processing of your personal data, that higher age applies;
2. you have the legal capacity to enter into a binding contract under the law of your country of residence;
3. you are not located in, or a resident of, a country subject to a comprehensive embargo by the European Union, the Republic of Poland, or the United States, and you are not on any restricted-party list applicable to either of us.

If you use the Service on behalf of a company or other organisation, you represent that you have authority to bind that organisation, and “you” includes that organisation.

4. Account registration; Sign in with Apple

The Service requires authentication with Sign in with Apple. We request the email and fullName scopes. You may use Apple’s hide-my-email relay; you do not need to share your real email with us. When you delete your Account (Section 13), we revoke the Apple refresh token we hold so that we no longer have any access to your Apple identity.

You are responsible for maintaining the security of the Apple ID you use to sign in. You must notify us promptly if you suspect unauthorised use of your Account.

5. The Service: what Publy does

Publy is an AI-powered content-generation tool aimed at creators who post on Instagram, LinkedIn and similar platforms. The principal features as at the Effective date are:

• generation of multi-slide carousels with title, body and styling;
• generation of single-slide text posts and hooks;
• voice-to-text input via OpenAI Whisper;
• adjustment of generated content to a "My Context" profile (your niche, audience, content goal, avoidances) and a "Writing Style" sample (your voice);
• export of slides to your iOS Photo Library.

The Service depends on third-party LLM Providers. We may change the underlying model at any time without notice.

6. Subscriptions, free tier, billing and cancellation

6.1 Free tier

New Accounts receive 10 free generations. A “generation” is one successful round-trip to an LLM Provider that produces a complete carousel, post or hook (whichever you initiated). Re-rolls of the same prompt count as separate generations.

6.2 Subscription tiers

After the free tier is consumed, continued generation requires an active Publy subscription. The following auto-renewable subscriptions are offered through the Apple App Store:

Local prices are converted by Apple from the corresponding USD price tier and may include local VAT. The price you see in the App at the moment of purchase is the binding price.

6.3 Auto-renewal disclosure (Apple Review Guideline 3.1.2)

By tapping “Subscribe” you agree that:

1. Subscription auto-renews at the end of each billing period at the same price unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the period ends.
2. Apple charges your iTunes account the day the period renews. We do not have access to your card or your bank.
3. You can manage and cancel your subscription at any time in Settings → [your name] → Subscriptions on your iOS device.
4. Payment is final, except as required by Apple’s standard refund policy or by mandatory law (see Section 6.5).
5. Any unused free-tier generations are forfeit when you start a paid subscription.

6.4 Free trial (if offered)

If we offer a free trial, the trial converts automatically to a paid subscription at the listed price unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the trial ends. Trials are limited to one per Apple ID family-sharing group.

6.5 Refunds; EU 14-day right of withdrawal

• Apple’s refund policy applies to all App Store purchases. To request a refund, use Apple’s Report a Problem page (reportaproblem.apple.com).
• EU consumers: under the EU Consumer Rights Directive (Directive 2011/83/EU as amended by Directive (EU) 2019/2161), you have a 14-day right of withdrawal from the subscription contract, starting from the day of purchase. Because Publy is a “digital service” supplied immediately, by tapping “Subscribe” you expressly consent to the immediate supply of the service and acknowledge that you lose the right of withdrawal once the service has been fully performed. If you exercise the right within the 14-day window before the service has been fully performed, write to support@getpubly.com with the model withdrawal form; we will help you obtain the corresponding refund through Apple.

6.6 Consent to share consumption data with Apple for refund processing

When Apple receives a refund request relating to a Publy subscription, Apple may ask us to share information about how you have used the App since the purchase (number of generations consumed, account activity, last-active timestamps, and similar usage metrics). By using the App and making any in-app purchase, you consent to our sharing of such consumption data with Apple to enable Apple to make an informed decision on the refund request. We share only what is reasonably necessary for that purpose. No prompts, generated content, or full message bodies are shared.

6.7 No refund for unused time on cancellation

When you cancel a paid subscription, you keep access to paid features until the end of the current billing period; we do not issue prorated refunds for the unused portion, except where a refund is required by Apple’s policies or by mandatory consumer-protection law.

6.8 Price changes

We may change subscription pricing at any time. New prices apply only from the next renewal cycle and only after Apple has notified you and obtained the consent Apple requires for the change.

7. Your content, your prompts, our licence

You retain all rights you have in your User Content. You are solely responsible for it.

By submitting User Content to the Service, you grant the Provider a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sub-licensable licence to:

1. transmit your User Content to the LLM Provider you have implicitly selected via our routing;
2. process, format, augment with system prompts, and adapt your User Content for the limited purpose of producing AI Output and delivering the Service;
3. cache or temporarily store your User Content to the extent technically necessary to deliver the request;
4. use anonymised, aggregated, or de-identified statistics derived from your usage to operate, secure and improve the Service.

This licence terminates when you delete the User Content or your Account, except (a) for already-completed processing and (b) for backups that are overwritten on a normal rotation.

You represent and warrant that you have all rights necessary to grant the licence above and that your User Content does not infringe any third-party rights and is not unlawful.

8. AI-generated output; disclaimer; copyright caveat

8.1 Ownership of AI Output

As between you and us, we do not claim ownership of AI Output produced for you. To the extent we have any rights in AI Output, we assign those rights to you. However, this does not mean AI Output is automatically protected by copyright or that you can claim sole authorship.

8.2 Copyright caveat

The legal status of AI-generated material is unsettled and varies by jurisdiction. As an example, the U.S. Copyright Office and several courts have held that purely AI-generated content with no human creative contribution is not eligible for copyright protection. Different rules may apply in the EU, the UK, and elsewhere. You are responsible for assessing whether you can claim copyright in any AI Output, and you should not represent purely AI-generated material as your own original copyrighted work where the law disagrees.

8.3 Quality, accuracy and bias disclaimer

AI Output is produced by statistical language models. It may be:

• factually inaccurate, fabricated (“hallucinated”), or out of date;
• biased, offensive, or culturally inappropriate;
• similar to text written by other users or to publicly available sources;
• non-compliant with the policies of the platform on which you publish it.

You must review AI Output before publishing it. We provide no warranty as to accuracy, fitness for purpose, originality, or non-infringement.

8.4 No professional advice

AI Output is not legal, medical, financial, tax, psychological or other professional advice. Do not rely on it for decisions that require professional judgment.

9. Acceptable use; prohibited uses

You agree not to use the Service to:

1. generate content that infringes intellectual-property rights of any third party;
2. generate sexual content involving minors, content that sexualises real persons without consent, or content that targets a private individual in a way that is harassing or threatening;
3. generate content that promotes violent extremism, terrorism, or illegal weapons;
4. generate disinformation that you intend to pass off as factual reporting; political advertising that does not carry required disclosures; impersonation of identifiable real persons in a way likely to deceive;
5. generate content that violates the LLM Provider’s usage policies (Anthropic Acceptable Use, OpenAI Usage Policies, Google Generative-AI Prohibited Use Policy);
6. circumvent or attempt to circumvent any rate limit, free-tier counter, App Attest enforcement, or other technical protection measure;
7. scrape, crawl, or harvest data from the Service via means other than the App;
8. resell access to the Service or use the Service to operate a competing AI-content product;
9. reverse-engineer, decompile, or disassemble any client or server component, except to the limited extent that mandatory law allows.

We may suspend or terminate Accounts that breach these rules, with or without notice.

10. Our intellectual property; your feedback

10.1 Our intellectual property

The Service — including the App’s source code, server-side code, the brand name "Publy", the visual design, the website content, the prompt-engineering know-how and the curated style libraries — is owned by the Provider or licensed to us. The Terms grant you a limited, personal, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the Service in line with these Terms. Nothing transfers to you any other right, title or interest.

Open-source components included in the App are licensed to you under their respective open-source licences (see Open Source Acknowledgements).

10.2 Feedback you give us

If you send us feedback, suggestions, feature ideas, bug reports, or other input about the Service, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, sub-licensable licence to use, reproduce and exploit that feedback for any purpose, including incorporating it into the Service, without any obligation of confidentiality, attribution or compensation to you.

11. Disclaimers and limitation of liability

11.1 “AS IS”

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Service is provided “AS IS” and “AS AVAILABLE”, with all faults, without warranty of any kind — express, implied, statutory or otherwise — including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy, availability or uptime.

11.2 Limitation of liability — consumers

If you are a consumer (as defined under Polish and EU law), the Provider is liable for damage caused by intent or by gross negligence in accordance with the provisions of the Polish Civil Code and applicable EU consumer law. Mandatory consumer rights cannot be excluded or limited; nothing in this Section restricts those rights.

11.3 Limitation of liability — non-consumers

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, where you are not a consumer:

• the Provider’s aggregate liability under or in connection with these Terms — whether in contract, tort (including negligence), strict liability or otherwise — shall not exceed the greater of (i) EUR 100 and (ii) the total amounts you have actually paid for the Service in the 12 months immediately preceding the event giving rise to the claim;
• the Provider shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, punitive or exemplary damages, lost profits, lost revenue, lost data, loss of goodwill, or business interruption, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.

11.4 Specifically excluded heads of damage

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Provider is not liable for:

1. the content of AI Output, including its accuracy, originality, or compliance with third-party rights;
2. decisions you take in reliance on AI Output;
3. third-party platform action taken against you (e.g. Instagram or LinkedIn deleting a post or banning an account);
4. failures, downtime, or behaviour of any LLM Provider or other sub-processor;
5. failures of the Apple App Store or App Store Connect;
6. acts of force majeure (Section 15).

12. Indemnity (business users only)

If you are using the Service in a non-consumer capacity, you will indemnify and hold the Provider harmless against any third-party claim, demand, fine, penalty, loss, cost (including reasonable legal fees) arising from (a) your User Content, (b) the AI Output you publish or otherwise distribute, (c) your breach of these Terms, or (d) your violation of any applicable law in connection with your use of the Service. Consumers are not subject to this indemnity.

13. Termination

13.1 By you

You may stop using the Service at any time. To delete your Account and all server-side personal data tied to it, open the App and go to Settings → Account → Delete account. Deletion is immediate and irreversible (subject to the residual fraud-prevention hash explained in the Privacy Policy).

13.2 By us

We may suspend or terminate your Account, with or without prior notice, if:

1. you breach these Terms — including any prohibited use under Section 9;
2. we are required to do so by law or by an order of a competent authority;
3. continued provision is no longer commercially viable or technically feasible (in which case we will give reasonable notice and, where applicable, a pro-rata refund of unused subscription time through Apple).

13.3 Effect of termination

Upon termination, your right to use the Service ends immediately. Sections that by their nature should survive termination — including 7 (licence to retained processing), 8 (disclaimers), 10 (IP), 11 (liability), 12 (indemnity) and 16 (governing law) — will survive.

14. Changes to the Service and to these Terms

We may update the Service and these Terms from time to time. For material changes, we will give you reasonable notice in-app and, if you do not agree, you can stop using the Service and (for paid subscribers) cancel your subscription via Apple. Continued use of the Service after the effective date of an update constitutes acceptance.

15. Force majeure

Neither party is liable for any failure or delay in performance caused by events beyond its reasonable control, including war, civil unrest, acts of terrorism, governmental action, embargo, fire, flood, earthquake, pandemic, generalised internet outage, large-scale cyber-attack, failure of a major LLM Provider or cloud provider, or any other event of force majeure.

16. Governing law and dispute resolution

16.1 Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of Poland, excluding rules of private international law that would lead to the application of a different law, and without prejudice to the mandatory consumer-protection rules of the country in which a consumer is habitually resident.

16.2 Forum

Subject to mandatory consumer-protection rules, any dispute arising out of or in connection with these Terms shall be submitted to the common courts of the Republic of Poland competent for the registered seat of the Provider.

16.3 EU online dispute resolution

If you are an EU consumer, you may use the European Commission’s Online Dispute Resolution platform: ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr/. You may also turn to the Polish out-of-court consumer dispute resolution bodies (information at uokik.gov.pl).

17. Apple-specific provisions (App Store users)

This Section 17 applies to your use of the App when you obtained it from the Apple App Store. In the event of a conflict between this Section 17 and any other provision of these Terms, this Section 17 prevails as regards your relationship with Apple.

1. Acknowledgement. These Terms are concluded between you and the Provider only, and not with Apple. The Provider — not Apple — is solely responsible for the App and the content thereof.
2. Scope of licence. The licence granted to you for the App is a non-transferable licence to use the App on any iOS-platform product that you own or control, and as permitted by the Usage Rules set out in the Apple Media Services Terms.
3. Maintenance and support. The Provider is solely responsible for any maintenance and support services with respect to the App, as required by mandatory law. Apple has no obligation whatsoever to furnish any maintenance or support services.
4. Warranties. The Provider is solely responsible for any product warranties. In the event of any failure of the App to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price for the App to you (if applicable). To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Apple has no other warranty obligation with respect to the App.
5. Product claims. The Provider, not Apple, is responsible for addressing any claims by you or any third party relating to the App or your use of the App, including product-liability claims, regulatory-compliance claims, and consumer-protection claims.
6. Intellectual-property claims. In the event of any third-party claim that the App or your use of the App infringes that third party’s intellectual-property rights, the Provider — not Apple — will be solely responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement and discharge of any such claim.
7. Legal compliance. You represent and warrant that (i) you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. Government embargo or designated as a “terrorist supporting” country, and (ii) you are not listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
8. Third-party beneficiary. You acknowledge and agree that Apple, and Apple’s subsidiaries, are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms, and that, upon your acceptance of these Terms, Apple will have the right to enforce these Terms against you as a third-party beneficiary.

18. Third-party platforms where you publish AI Output

When you publish AI Output to Instagram, LinkedIn, X, Threads, TikTok, or any other third-party platform, you remain bound by that platform’s terms of service, community guidelines, and content policies, including any rules on AI-generated or “synthetic” content disclosure. The Provider is not a party to your relationship with those platforms and has no liability for any action they may take against your account or your content.

You are responsible for adding any “made with AI” or similar disclosure that the destination platform requires.

19. Severability; assignment; entire agreement

• Severability. If any provision is held unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in force, and the unenforceable provision is replaced by an enforceable one that most closely reflects the parties’ original intention.
• No waiver. Failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of the right to enforce it later.
• Assignment. You may not assign these Terms. The Provider may assign these Terms to a successor entity in connection with a merger, sale of substantially all assets, or reorganisation.
• Entire agreement. These Terms together with the Privacy Policy and any additional terms presented in-app for a specific feature constitute the entire agreement between you and the Provider concerning the Service, superseding all prior agreements.
• Languages. The English version of these Terms is the binding version. Any translation is provided for convenience only.

20. How to contact us

21. Revision history