Clear terms for using JustYap

1. Agreement and eligibility

These Terms of Use (“Terms”) are an agreement between you and Victor Lougon Sampaio Lopes, operating as JustYap (“JustYap,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). They apply to the JustYap mobile application, website, support channels, and related services (together, the “Service”).

By downloading, purchasing, accessing, or using the Service, you agree to these Terms and acknowledge the Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

You must be legally capable of entering this agreement and meet the minimum age required in your country. JustYap is not directed to children under 13, under 16 in the European Economic Area where that threshold applies, or a higher minimum age where local law requires it. If you use the Service for another person, you represent that you are authorized to accept these Terms for them.

2. About JustYap

JustYap is a personal voice-and-text journaling tool. Depending on your plan and platform, features may include voice recording, typed entries, editable transcription, automatic summaries, image attachments, optional place labels, moods, categories, Weekly Recaps, Monthly Chapters, exports, app locking, notifications, and optional Google Drive backup. The app identifier is com.justyap.app.

3. License, account, and device access

Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, personal, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to install and use JustYap for lawful, non-commercial personal journaling on devices you own or control.

You may not copy, sell, rent, sublicense, distribute, reverse engineer, bypass security or subscription controls, access private APIs without authorization, or use our branding or intellectual property except as law expressly permits.

Anonymous access and account deletion

By default, you can begin using JustYap without providing an email address or password. The app creates a random anonymous identifier through Supabase Auth to recognize the account, maintain subscription access, and enforce usage safeguards. If you delete your account through Advanced Options, the app requests deletion of that server account and its profile data, clears local journal data and settings on that device, and attempts to delete any connected JustYap Google Drive backup. A failed network or provider step may require you to retry or contact support.

App PIN and biometric security

JustYap offers an optional local PIN and operating-system biometric unlock. The PIN and lock preference are stored locally by the app; JustYap cannot retrieve the PIN. Biometric verification is performed by your operating system, and we do not receive your fingerprint or face template. If you forget the PIN and cannot use biometrics, regaining access may require deleting app data or reinstalling the app, which can permanently remove local journal content that was not backed up.

You are responsible for securing your device, app lock, store account, Google account, and credentials. To the extent permitted by law, we are not responsible for unauthorized local access caused by a compromised or unlocked device, shared credentials or biometrics, or failure to enable available device security.

4. Your content

You retain ownership of the entries, recordings, attached images, optional place labels, transcripts, summaries, moods, categories, and other content you create or provide (“Your Content”). We do not claim ownership of Your Content.

You give us a limited, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license, sublicensable only to the service providers involved, to host, transmit, format, and process Your Content only as reasonably necessary to provide features you request, secure the Service, comply with law, or resolve technical issues. This license ends when the relevant purpose ends, subject to the storage and limited retention described in the Privacy Policy and provider obligations. It may be transferred only as part of a lawful transfer of the Service or business, with the protections in the Privacy Policy continuing to apply.

You are responsible for ensuring you have the right to record, photograph, save a place associated with, or submit content involving another person. Do not use JustYap to record people unlawfully or to process content that violates privacy, intellectual-property, or other rights.

5. Local-first storage, backup, and data loss

Saved journal content is primarily stored in the app’s private storage on your device. JustYap does not operate a central, permanent cloud library of your journal entries. Some requested features require network processing and may involve the storage or provider retention described below and in the Privacy Policy.

If you delete content, clear app data, uninstall the app, lose or replace your device, forget an app PIN without an available biometric unlock, or experience storage corruption, we may be unable to recover local journal data.

Separate from JustYap's optional Google Drive ZIP, your operating system may include some app-private data in an iCloud or Android device backup or device-to-device transfer when enabled. Those system-managed copies depend on your device, Apple or Google account, and platform settings and are not fully controlled by JustYap from inside the app.

Optional Google Drive backup

If you connect Google Drive, the app can create and restore a ZIP backup in Google's private appDataFolder. Backups may include attached images and optional place labels, but never the underlying location coordinates. The ZIP is not currently encrypted by JustYap before upload, so its access protection depends on your Google account and Google Drive. You are responsible for maintaining access to your Google account and checking that important backups complete. Backups can fail because of connectivity, storage, account, API, software, or third-party issues. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we do not guarantee that a backup will always be complete, current, or recoverable.

Exports

You control where exported files are saved or shared and choose the elements included in an export. Those elements may include attached images and a place label. Once an export leaves JustYap, the receiving app, service, or person controls that copy.

6. AI features and output

Voice transcription is processed using Groq through JustYap’s Supabase backend. Summaries, Weekly Recaps, and Monthly Chapters are processed using OpenAI through Supabase Edge Functions. The content required for a requested feature must leave your device for processing. Attached images and place labels are not sent to those AI providers in the current version of the Service.

AI output can contain errors, omissions, misheard words, inappropriate phrasing, or inaccurate conclusions. Review important output and edit it where needed. Do not rely on AI output for diagnosis, treatment, emergencies, legal decisions, financial decisions, or other high-stakes purposes.

Features may occasionally be unavailable because of network conditions, provider outages, limits, moderation, or maintenance. We may replace or change AI providers when reasonably necessary to operate the Service, with corresponding updates to the Privacy Policy.

7. Free and Premium access

Free access

Free access currently includes text journaling and a starter allowance of voice Yaps with transcript and summary features. The current allowance and any recording-duration limit are shown in the app. Image attachments, manual Google Drive backup and restore, and image sharing are also available; automatic backups and PDF exports require Premium as shown in the app. Free features may be adjusted prospectively as the Service evolves.

Premium access

Premium is intended to unlock ongoing personal voice journaling and the complete reflection experience, which may include:

• voice Yaps up to the recording duration shown in the app;
• automatic transcripts and summaries;
• Weekly Recaps and Monthly Chapters;
• mood and category insights; and
• automatic Google Drive backups and PDF exports.

Marketing terms such as “unlimited” describe normal individual use and remain subject to technical safeguards and this fair-use policy. Current Premium safeguards include up to 50 voice-processing requests per day, 60 transcription minutes per day and 10 transcription hours per calendar month, 20 AI summaries per day and 200 per calendar month, up to 3 Weekly Recap actions per week, and 1 Monthly Chapter credit per paid month. A verified failed AI request is eligible for quota restoration. We may adjust safeguards prospectively when reasonably necessary to protect the Service, providers, or users, with notice for material changes. JustYap is not a bulk transcription, commercial media-processing, meeting-recording, or automated API service.

Monthly Chapter credits have no cash value and cannot be sold or transferred. A credit already earned remains available until it is used or the account is deleted, including after Premium ends; ending Premium stops future credit grants but does not erase earned unused credits.

8. Subscriptions, trials, billing, and cancellation

Subscription prices, currency, billing period, introductory offers, and renewal terms are displayed in the purchase screen and confirmed by the Apple App Store or Google Play before you pay. Store information at checkout controls if it differs from marketing copy elsewhere.

Free trials and introductory offers

A trial is available only when the app store confirms that your store account and selected product are eligible. Eligibility is determined by the store and may depend on previous subscriptions or offers. Unless you cancel before the trial ends, the subscription automatically converts to the paid plan shown at checkout.

Automatic renewal

Subscriptions renew automatically at the then-current price and billing period unless canceled through your app-store account before the renewal deadline shown by the store. Deleting JustYap does not cancel a subscription.

Cancellation and access

You can manage or cancel through your Apple App Store or Google Play account. Cancellation normally stops future renewal while Premium remains available until the end of the paid period, subject to the store’s rules. We cannot cancel a store subscription on your behalf.

Refunds, taxes, and price changes

Refund requests are normally handled by the store that processed the purchase. Store policies supplement, and do not replace or limit, any mandatory refund, withdrawal, warranty, or consumer rights that apply to you. Prices may vary by country and may include or exclude taxes. The store provides notices or obtains consent required for price changes.

Restore purchases

You can use Restore Purchases with the same store account used to subscribe. Restoration depends on a valid store receipt and RevenueCat entitlement data.

9. Acceptable use and fair use

You must not:

• use the Service for unlawful, fraudulent, abusive, harassing, or rights-infringing activity;
• record another person in violation of consent or wiretapping laws;
• upload malware or attempt to disrupt, probe, overload, or compromise the Service;
• circumvent subscriptions, quotas, safety controls, authentication, or rate limits;
• use bots, scripts, scraping, unofficial clients, or automated systems to access AI endpoints;
• resell the Service or use it as a bulk transcription or commercial content-processing pipeline; or
• misrepresent AI output as verified professional advice.

We may apply reasonable rate limits, investigate suspected abuse, and restrict access when necessary to protect users, providers, or the Service. Where practical, we will consider context and provide notice before taking action.

10. Third-party services and app stores

JustYap depends on services including Supabase, Groq, OpenAI, RevenueCat, PostHog, Google, Apple, and Google Play. Their own terms and policies apply to their services. We are not responsible for third-party outages or changes outside our control, but we remain responsible for our obligations under applicable law.

If you downloaded JustYap through an app store, these Terms are between you and JustYap—not Apple or Google. JustYap, not the store, is responsible for the app, its content, maintenance and support, and addressing claims relating to the app, including product-liability, legal-compliance, consumer-protection, or intellectual-property claims, except to the extent the store’s terms or applicable law provide otherwise. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries where required by Apple’s developer terms and may enforce the applicable portions of these Terms.

11. JustYap intellectual property

Except for Your Content, JustYap and its licensors own the Service, software, design, text, graphics, logo, YapDot mascot, and related intellectual property. Feedback you voluntarily send may be used to improve JustYap without payment or obligation to you, but it does not transfer ownership of Your Content.

12. Changes, availability, suspension, and termination

We may add, change, or discontinue features, integrations, plans, or platform support. We aim to avoid materially reducing a paid subscription during its current billing period, but urgent security, legal, provider, or technical issues may require immediate changes.

You may stop using the Service at any time and can request account deletion in Settings. We may suspend or terminate access for material violations of these Terms, fraud, abuse, security risk, nonpayment, legal requirements, or discontinuation of the Service. Mandatory consumer and refund rights are not affected.

13. Disclaimers and limitation of liability

The Service may experience interruptions, security incidents, provider failures, software errors, or inaccurate AI output, and local data or a Google Drive backup may be lost or unrecoverable. These risk disclosures do not remove any duty or responsibility that applicable law places on JustYap.

Nothing in these Terms excludes, caps, or limits a right, warranty, remedy, or liability that cannot legally be excluded, capped, or limited. Mandatory consumer and data-protection law controls, including any right to repair, replacement, re-performance, price reduction, refund, compensation, or other remedy. JustYap remains responsible for fraud, intentional misconduct, gross negligence, personal injury, defective services, and privacy or security failures to the extent required by applicable law.

Indemnification

To the extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless JustYap, Victor Lougon Sampaio Lopes, and their successors, contractors, and agents from third-party claims, damages, liabilities, losses, and reasonable legal costs arising from your material breach of these Terms; Your Content violating another person’s privacy, intellectual-property, or civil rights; or your unlawful, unauthorized, or abusive use of the Service or its integrations. We will provide reasonable notice of a covered claim and will not settle it in a way that imposes a non-monetary obligation on you without your consent.

14. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Federative Republic of Brazil, without excluding mandatory protections that apply where you live. A consumer may bring a claim at the consumer's domicile or in any other forum competent under applicable law. For a dispute that is not legally a consumer dispute, courts in Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil have jurisdiction where legally permitted.

Before filing a formal claim, we encourage you to contact us so we can try to resolve the issue informally. This does not delay or waive any legal deadline unless applicable law says otherwise.

Nothing in these Terms restricts access to a court, consumer-protection body, data-protection authority, collective proceeding, representative action, or public-interest remedy available under applicable law.

15. Changes, severability, and contact

We may update these Terms as the Service or law changes. We will post the revised version, update the date above, and may notify you inside the app; we will provide additional notice when required. Material changes apply prospectively. If you do not agree to revised Terms, stop using the Service and cancel any future subscription renewal.

If a provision is unenforceable, it will be limited or removed only to the extent necessary, and the remaining Terms will continue. These Terms and the Privacy Policy form the agreement concerning the Service, alongside mandatory app-store terms.

Questions can be sent to:

JustYap
Attn: Victor Lougon Sampaio Lopes
justyap.app@gmail.com