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SoulfulStories

Terms of Service

Last updated: March 29, 2025

1. Introduction

Welcome to SoulfulStories ("we," "our," or "us"). By accessing or using our website, mobile applications, and services (collectively, the "Services"), you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service ("Terms"). Please read these Terms carefully before using our Services.

2. Acceptance of Terms

By accessing or using our Services, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree to these Terms, you may not access or use our Services.

3. Changes to Terms

We reserve the right to modify these Terms at any time. We will provide notice of any material changes by posting the updated Terms on our website or through other communications. Your continued use of the Services after such notice constitutes your acceptance of the modified Terms.

4. Account Registration

To access certain features of our Services, you may need to register for an account. You agree to provide accurate, current, and complete information during the registration process and to update such information to keep it accurate, current, and complete.

You are responsible for safeguarding your account credentials and for all activities that occur under your account. You agree to notify us immediately of any unauthorized use of your account.

5. User Content

Our Services allow you to add and store content, including stories you paste in and audio recordings of your retellings ("User Content"). You retain all rights in your User Content, but you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to store, process, transcribe, and analyze your User Content solely to provide and improve our Services.

You represent and warrant that you own or have the necessary rights to your User Content and that your User Content does not violate the rights of any third party or any applicable law or regulation.

6. Prohibited Conduct

You agree not to:

  • Use the Services in any manner that could interfere with, disrupt, negatively affect, or inhibit other users from fully enjoying the Services
  • Use the Services in any way that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the functioning of the Services
  • Violate any applicable law or regulation
  • Upload, transmit, or distribute any content that is illegal, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, or otherwise objectionable
  • Attempt to circumvent any content-filtering techniques we employ
  • Attempt to access or search the Services through the use of any engine, software, tool, agent, device, or mechanism other than the software and/or search agents provided by us
  • Collect or store personal data about other users without their express consent
  • Impersonate or misrepresent your affiliation with any person or entity

7. Intellectual Property

The Services and their contents, features, and functionality are owned by SoulfulStories and are protected by copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, and other intellectual property or proprietary rights laws.

These Terms do not grant you any right, title, or interest in the Services, others' content on the Services, or our trademarks, logos, or other brand features.

8. Privacy

Please refer to our Privacy Policy for information about how we collect, use, and disclose information about you.

9. Termination

We may terminate or suspend your access to all or part of the Services, with or without notice, for any conduct that we, in our sole discretion, believe violates these Terms or is harmful to other users of the Services, us, or third parties, or for any other reason.

10. Disclaimer of Warranties

THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

11. Limitation of Liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL SOULFULSTORIES, ITS AFFILIATES, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, OR LICENSORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, DATA, OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES, THAT RESULT FROM THE USE OF, OR INABILITY TO USE, THE SERVICES.

12. Governing Law

These Terms and any action related thereto will be governed by the laws of the state of California without regard to its conflict of laws provisions.

13. Dispute Resolution

Any dispute arising from or relating to the subject matter of these Terms shall be finally settled by arbitration in San Francisco, California, using the English language in accordance with the Arbitration Rules and Procedures of JAMS then in effect, by one commercial arbitrator with substantial experience in resolving intellectual property and commercial contract disputes.

14. Entire Agreement

These Terms constitute the entire agreement between you and SoulfulStories regarding the use of the Services, superseding any prior agreements between you and SoulfulStories relating to your use of the Services.

15. Contact Information

If you have any questions about these Terms, please contact us at [email protected].