1. Acceptance and eligibility
These terms set out the contract between you and Kora for the Kora iOS application and everything made available through it (together, the "Service"). Opening or using the Service means you accept these terms and the documents referenced in them. If you do not accept them, uninstall the app and do not use it.
Kora is built for adults. When you enter, the app asks you to confirm that you are at least 18 years old, and anyone who answers younger cannot proceed. The confirmation is a self-declaration rather than an identity check, so you must answer truthfully. You also need the legal capacity to enter into this contract where you live.
2. Accounts and security
Some features require an account. You are responsible for keeping your sign-in details and device access under control, and for everything that happens through your account. Information you give us for an account must be accurate enough for the feature that asks for it, and you may not pretend to be another person or organization.
Keep your device and operating system reasonably secure, and tell us promptly if you suspect your account has been compromised. Nobody acting for Kora will ever ask you to send a password, PIN, private key, or other secret in a support message.
3. Community features
Kora includes account-backed profiles, social and community spaces, user-generated posts, conversations, and camera rooms. Material shared in community spaces may be visible to other users according to the choices shown in the app, so think before you post or send.
Profiles, conversations, and other in-app elements can include automated or generated behavior. Their presence does not mean a particular person is available or that every interaction is a live exchange with another user.
4. Your content and rules of use
You keep ownership of the notes, posts, messages, photos, recordings, and other material you create or choose through Kora. You give Kora only the limited rights needed to host, process, display, sync, transmit, export, or remove that material in order to deliver the features you actually use.
You must have the rights necessary to submit any material you share, and you may not use the Service to violate someone else's privacy, intellectual property, or other rights. You may not break the law, threaten or harass anyone, distribute illegal material, impersonate another person to cause harm, introduce malicious software, or interfere with security controls. Reverse engineering is allowed only to the extent the law gives you that right.
5. Camera, microphone, and photos
The Service may request access to your camera, microphone, and photo library so you can use camera rooms, conversations, and profile features. These permissions are requested only for the functions explained in the app and in the Privacy Policy, and you can deny or withdraw them at any time in your device settings.
Withdrawing a permission may stop the related feature from working, but it will not affect the rest of the Service.
6. Privacy
The Privacy Policy describes what information Kora collects, why it is collected, how it is shared, how long it is kept, and how you can exercise your rights. It is part of these terms by reference.
7. Fees and purchases
Kora is free in this release. It contains no paid features, subscriptions, in-app purchases, or virtual currency. Apple's own terms still govern the App Store download and any platform services Apple provides.
8. Third-party services
The Service relies on outside providers for functions such as hosting and storage, product analytics, content moderation, support, and security. These providers act on Kora's behalf under written agreements and do not receive rights to use information for their own purposes. Their own terms also apply to the platform services they operate.
9. Changes and availability
We may add, modify, suspend, or remove features when reasonably needed for maintenance, security, legal compliance, or product development, and we will give notice where the law requires. Some features depend on your device, operating system, permissions, or network connection, and uninterrupted operation cannot be guaranteed.
10. Termination and deletion
You may stop using Kora at any time, and the app provides an account deletion option. We may suspend or end your access where reasonably necessary to address unlawful conduct, a serious breach of these terms, a security threat, or risk of harm to someone else.
Clauses that are meant to outlast the relationship, including intellectual property, disclaimers, liability limits, and dispute terms, remain in effect afterward.
11. Disclaimers
To the fullest extent the law allows, the Service is supplied on an "as is" and "as available" basis. Kora disclaims implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, and error-free or uninterrupted operation. Any rights the law does not allow us to exclude are preserved.
12. Limits on liability
To the fullest extent the law allows, Kora is not responsible for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, data, goodwill, or opportunity connected with the Service.
Where a monetary cap is enforceable, the most Kora can be required to pay for all claims together is one hundred U.S. dollars (USD 100), or the amounts you actually paid Kora during the year before the events giving rise to the claim, whichever is larger. Since this release is free, the cap is USD 100.
13. Your indemnity
Where the law permits, you agree to defend and hold Kora harmless from claims and reasonable costs arising from material you submit, your use of the Service in violation of these terms, or your interference with someone else's rights.
14. Governing law
The laws of the State of Delaware govern this agreement, without applying its rules on conflicts of law, except where a mandatory consumer-protection rule cannot be waived.
15. Dispute resolution and arbitration
First, the side raising a problem sends a written complaint, and both sides spend thirty days trying to work it out through direct, good-faith discussions. If that does not settle it, the dispute goes to a single arbitrator for confidential, binding arbitration in Wilmington, Delaware, under the Consumer Arbitration Rules of the American Arbitration Association.
Each side gives up the right to a jury trial and to bring or join a class, group, or representative action. Claims proceed on an individual basis only. Either side may still bring an eligible dispute in small-claims court.
You may reject this arbitration agreement by sending a clear written opt-out notice within thirty days after you first accept these terms, using the contact details below. If you opt out, ordinary court procedures apply instead.
16. General provisions
These terms, together with the Privacy Policy, are the whole agreement about the Service, apart from separate terms shown for a specific feature. If a clause cannot be enforced, it will be narrowed as little as possible and the rest will continue. Failing to enforce a clause is not a waiver of it. You may not transfer this agreement without written consent; Kora may transfer it as part of a lawful reorganization or sale.
17. Contact
Questions or legal notices about the Service can be sent to korafeedback@koraoix.com.