Terms of Service

1. The service

BRAINY lets you capture notes on your device. Optional Community features (accounts, publishing, likes, comments, notifications, blocking) and optional private cloud backup require internet and Firebase.

2. Eligibility

You must be at least 13 years old to create a Community account. By signing up you confirm you meet this age requirement.

3. Accounts

You are responsible for your account credentials and for activity under your account. Provide accurate email information and keep verification current when required.

4. Your content

• Local vault content belongs to you.
• If you enable cloud backup, you instruct us to store that content privately under your account.
• If you publish to Community, you grant other Community users permission to view that published content in the app, and to like, comment, or save a personal copy to their own vault when the app allows it.
• You retain ownership of your content. You are responsible for what you publish.

5. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• Harass, threaten, or abuse others.
• Post illegal, hateful, pornographic involving minors, or infringing content.
• Spam, scam, impersonate others, or attempt to disrupt the service.
• Probe, scrape abusively, or bypass security or access controls.
• Use the service to build competing datasets by bulk harvesting other users’ posts.

We may remove content, limit features, or suspend accounts that violate these Terms or Community Guidelines.

6. Blocking and moderation

Blocking hides another user’s posts and comments from your view. It does not automatically remove their account. Report serious abuse with Report on a post or Settings → Contact. We may act on reports at our discretion.

7. No ads / no data sale

We do not sell your personal data and do not use BRAINY to show third-party ads based on your content.

8. Disclaimers

THE APP IS PROVIDED “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. We do not guarantee uninterrupted service, perfect sync, or that Community content will always remain available.

9. Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE ARE NOT LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR LOSS-OF-DATA DAMAGES ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF THE APP. OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ANY CLAIM RELATING TO THE APP IS LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF ZERO (IF THE APP IS FREE) OR THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US FOR THE APP IN THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations; in those places, limits apply to the fullest extent allowed.

10. Termination

You may stop using the app and delete your Community account at any time from Settings in the app, or from the form in our Privacy Policy on this website. We may suspend or terminate access for violations of these Terms or to protect the service and users.

11. Changes

We may update these Terms and will update the date above. Continued use after changes constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.

12. Contact

Questions about these Terms: use Settings → Contact in the app.