Laybell Terms of Service

1. Acceptance of These Terms

These Terms of Service (the "Terms") are a binding legal contract between you and Laybell LLC, a Maryland limited liability company registered with the Maryland Department of Assessments and Taxation ("Laybell", "we", "us", or "our"). They govern your access to and use of the Laybell mobile application for iOS and Android (bundle identifier com.laybell.app), the website at laybell.app, and all related features, content, and services we provide (together, the "Service").

By creating an account, tapping "Sign Up" or any equivalent button presented with a reference to these Terms, or otherwise accessing or using the Service, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy, which is a separate document that we present to you at sign-up and which is incorporated into these Terms by reference. Our Privacy Policy describes the personal information we collect, the purposes and legal bases for processing it, our retention periods, the recipients of that information, international data transfers, and the privacy rights available to you. If you do not agree, do not create an account and do not use the Service.

IMPORTANT: SECTION 18 (DISPUTE RESOLUTION; ARBITRATION; CLASS-ACTION AND JURY-TRIAL WAIVER) REQUIRES YOU AND LAYBELL TO RESOLVE MOST DISPUTES THROUGH BINDING INDIVIDUAL ARBITRATION AND WAIVES YOUR RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL AND TO PARTICIPATE IN CLASS ACTIONS. YOU MAY OPT OUT OF ARBITRATION WITHIN 30 DAYS AS DESCRIBED IN SECTION 18. THESE PROVISIONS DO NOT APPLY TO YOU IF YOU ARE A CONSUMER RESIDENT IN THE EUROPEAN UNION, THE UNITED KINGDOM, OR ANY OTHER JURISDICTION WHOSE LAW PROHIBITS THEM, AND THEY DO NOT WAIVE ANY RIGHT TO PUBLIC INJUNCTIVE RELIEF THAT CANNOT BE WAIVED.

Several additional policies are part of these Terms and are incorporated into them by reference: our Community Guidelines (which explain and illustrate the rules for content and conduct on the Service), our Advertiser Terms and Advertising Policy (which govern ads and paid promotions), and any other supplemental terms we present for a specific feature (for example, the paid Spotlight and Ad Manager terms in Section 13). By using the Service you agree to these policies, and by running ads or paid promotions you also agree to the Advertiser Terms and Advertising Policy. Where a supplemental policy applies to a feature or activity and conflicts with the general provisions of these Terms, the supplemental policy controls for that feature or activity; in all other respects these Terms control.

Consumers in the EU, the UK, and Other Protected Jurisdictions

If you are a consumer resident in the European Union, the United Kingdom, or another jurisdiction that gives you mandatory, non-waivable rights, the following apply to you regardless of anything else in these Terms: (a) the arbitration agreement, the class-action and class-arbitration waiver, and the jury-trial waiver in Section 18 do not apply to you; (b) the Maryland governing-law and Maryland exclusive-venue provisions in Section 19 do not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory law of your country or state of residence, and you may bring proceedings in the courts of your place of residence; (c) the liability limitations in Section 21 and the warranty disclaimers in Section 20 apply to you only to the extent permitted by the mandatory law of your place of residence; and (d) we will not treat your continued use of the Service as acceptance of material changes to these Terms without the advance notice and right to reject described in Section 25. These consumer protections are stated here, at the front of these Terms, so that you can rely on them without searching the document.

2. Who May Use the Service (Eligibility, Minors, and Parental Consent)

Minimum Age

You must be at least 13 years old to use the Service. The Service is not directed to, and is not intended for, children under 13. Children under 13 are strictly prohibited from creating an account or using the Service in any way.

We use a neutral age-screening mechanism: we collect your date of birth at onboarding to compute your age and to enforce the 13+ requirement, and we do not encourage anyone to falsify their age. Your date of birth and derived age are private, are used solely for age verification, personalization, and the limited purposes described in our Privacy Policy, and are never displayed publicly. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 13; if we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under 13, or that an account belongs to a child under 13, we will terminate the account and delete the associated personal information consistent with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). If we delete an account for being under 13, we may take reasonable steps to prevent the same individual from immediately re-registering. We do not condition a child's participation in any activity on disclosing more personal information than is reasonably necessary.

Users Aged 13 to 17 and Verifiable Parental Consent

If you are between 13 and 17 years old (or, in the European Union, the United Kingdom, and certain other jurisdictions, below the applicable digital-consent age, which may be as high as 16), you may use the Service only with the verifiable consent and supervision of a parent or legal guardian. We obtain or require this consent through an onboarding step that captures and verifies the agreement of the holder of parental responsibility (for example, by parent or guardian email confirmation); where we cannot obtain verifiable parental consent for a user below the applicable age, the account will be restricted or blocked and the child's personal data will not be processed beyond what is necessary to apply that restriction. A parent or guardian who permits the minor's use of the Service agrees to these Terms on the minor's behalf, including the licenses, representations, and dispute-resolution provisions, to the extent permitted by law. Your parent or guardian is responsible for your use of the Service and supervises that use.

High-Privacy Defaults and Protections for Minors

For users we know to be under 18, we apply high-privacy defaults consistent with the UK Age Appropriate Design Code (Children's Code) and applicable law: location sharing is off by default; we do not use deceptive design or nudge techniques to encourage minors to weaken their privacy; and we do not use the personal information of a user we know to be under 18 for targeted, behavioral, interest-based, gender-based, or profiling-based advertising. We do not sell or share (as those terms are defined under applicable U.S. state privacy law) the personal information of users we know to be under 18. Paid Services and advertiser features (Section 13 and Section 14) are available only to users who are at least 18 years old.

Parental and Guardian Controls

A parent or guardian who believes a child under 13 has created an account, or who wishes to review, delete, or refuse the further collection of a child's personal information, may contact us at privacy@laybell.app, and we will promptly investigate and delete any under-13 account and its associated personal information consistent with COPPA. For a user aged 13 to 17, a parent or guardian may contact privacy@laybell.app to review the personal information we have collected about the minor, request its deletion or correction, or revoke permission for the minor's continued use of the Service. The Service's collection of a 13-to-17 user's data is conditioned on this parental or guardian consent, and targeted advertising and the sale or sharing of a known minor's personal information are disabled by default.

Capacity and Authority

You represent that you have the legal capacity to enter into these Terms (or, if you are a minor, that your parent or guardian has the capacity and has consented on your behalf through the mechanism described above). If you upload Audio Content or grant any license under these Terms while you are a minor, you represent that your parent or guardian has consented to those grants and warranties; a minor is bound by the arbitration, license, and indemnity provisions only to the extent permitted by law and to the extent a parent or guardian has agreed on the minor's behalf. If you accept these Terms on behalf of a company or other entity, you represent that you have authority to bind that entity.

Providing a False Age

Providing a false date of birth or otherwise misrepresenting your age is a breach of these Terms and may result in suspension or termination of your account.

Geographic Availability and Sanctions

The Service is offered first in the United States but is available globally. We make the Service available to consumers in the European Union and the United Kingdom only once we have appointed and named an EU representative and a UK representative under Article 27 of the GDPR and UK GDPR, completed the data-protection measures described in our Privacy Policy (including lawful international-transfer mechanisms and Article 28 data-processing agreements with our processors), and implemented the parental-consent and content-moderation measures described in these Terms. You represent that you are not located in a country subject to a comprehensive U.S. embargo and that you are not on any U.S. government list of prohibited or restricted parties, and you agree not to use the Service in violation of U.S. export-control or sanctions laws (see Section 24).

3. Description of the Service

Laybell is a mobile social-media and music application. The Service combines social and music features that may include, among others: a social feed; short-form video ("reels"); 24-hour "stories" that automatically expire; multi-image and multi-video "slideshow" posts; direct messages; comments, likes, saves, and shares or reposts; following other users; public and private playlists; gamified badges and points; and user-uploaded music ("Audio Content").

A defining feature of the Service is the "use this song" / attribution feature, which lets you attach another user's uploaded Audio Content to your own posts, stories, reels, or slideshows, with attribution linking back to the original uploader. Posts, stories, reels, and slideshows that another user creates by attaching your Audio Content through this feature are referred to in these Terms as "Attributed Uses." Sections 5 and 6 explain the licenses that make this feature possible.

All music available on the Service is uploaded by users. Laybell does not operate a licensed music catalog, does not supply, originate, or provide any Audio Content or feed content of its own, and does not integrate with any third-party streaming service such as Spotify or Apple Music. We do not pre-clear, license, or verify the rights in any Audio Content; uploaders are solely responsible for the music they upload, as described in Section 7.

Streams and Stream Credits

A "stream" or "stream credit" is recorded when the Service registers roughly 30 seconds of genuine, forward listening to a piece of Audio Content. Stream credits are capped at approximately three per 24-hour period per post per device to prevent fraud, and listening progress is stored locally on your device and validated by our servers. Listens to a song that plays in the background of, or is attached to, another user's post ("ambient" or "attached-song" listens) are counted separately. We disclose these mechanics, and the per-install device identifier we use to apply these caps, so that the anti-circumvention rules in Section 9 are clear. Stream credits, view counts, and similar metrics are engagement indicators only and carry no monetary value (see Section 7).

Recommendations and Ranking (Recommender-System Transparency)

The feed, the "people near you" suggestions, music recommendations, and similar surfaces are ordered algorithmically. The main parameters of these recommender systems are: your activity and engagement on the Service (the posts, audio, accounts, and content you view, listen to, like, save, share, comment on, and follow); the recency and type of content; the popularity and engagement signals of content among users generally; your stated or inferred genre affinity; and, where you have enabled it, coarse location for "people near you" suggestions. Where a moderator has determined that a post falls below the originality standards in our Community Guidelines, for example content still carrying another platform’s watermark, near-identical content posted repeatedly, or someone else’s content re-uploaded with nothing meaningful added, that post is recommended less often. It remains visible on the Service, reachable from the author’s profile, from search, and by direct link, and the decision is recorded and may be appealed as described in the Community Guidelines. Paid Spotlight promotions increase the probability that an existing post ranks higher for a limited time but do not guarantee any particular placement. We do not make decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects on you based solely on automated processing without human involvement. Where required by applicable law (including the EU Digital Services Act), you may access in-app controls to influence or reset certain personalization signals, and additional recommender-system information is provided in our Privacy Policy and in-app settings.

We may add, change, suspend, or discontinue features of the Service at any time. Some features (including the Spotlight and Ad Manager paid services described in Section 13) may change or be withdrawn, are provided without any service-level commitment, and should not be relied upon for any particular result.

4. Your Account: Registration, Security, and Accuracy

Registration and Authentication

You register for the Service using an email address and password. Authentication and account credentials are handled through our service provider Supabase; your password is hashed by Supabase. We do not currently offer third-party single sign-on (for example, Google, Apple, or Facebook login).

Your public profile may include a username (5 to 30 characters), a display name, an avatar, a bio, and an optional external link, all of which are visible to others. During onboarding we also collect certain private information, including your date of birth (required; used to compute your age and enforce the 13+ rule), your gender (selected from a preset list that includes "Prefer not to say"), and an optional phone number. Your date of birth, derived age, gender, and phone number are private and are never displayed publicly. Your gender is used for personalization and, only with your opt-in consent where required, for ad personalization; it is never used to infer sensitive or special-category data without your explicit consent.

Summary of Data We Collect

For transparency, and in addition to the full disclosures in our Privacy Policy, you acknowledge that, depending on the features you use and the permissions you grant, we may process: your email, username, display name, and hashed password; your date of birth and derived age (private); your gender (private); your optional public profile link; coarse location, only if you enable it (latitude and longitude rounded to roughly one decimal place, about 11 km, plus a reverse-geocoded city name), used only for "people near you" and recommendations and never collected as precise geolocation; salted hashes of phone numbers and emails from your device address book, only if you enable contact-matching, used solely to find friend matches, with raw contacts never uploaded; your own phone number, if you provide it, stored locally on your device for profile pre-fill, with only a salted hash stored on our servers; a per-install device identifier (a non-cryptographic UUID stored locally that resets on reinstall), used to cap stream credits and prevent abuse; an Expo push-notification token with platform, used to deliver notifications you can control by category; access to your camera and photo library, and a document picker for audio files, used only to create posts, stories, reels, ads, and to pick audio (there is no always-on microphone recording); your user content and activity; first-party engagement analytics; stream-accounting data; and, for advertisers, campaign budgets, bids, targeting selections, and payment records. We use only first-party analytics and embed no third-party analytics, advertising, or crash-reporting SDKs. The legal bases, retention periods, recipients, and your rights for each category are described in our Privacy Policy.

Accuracy of Information

You agree to provide accurate, current, and complete information when you register and to keep it up to date. We may suspend or terminate your account if any information you provide is inaccurate, false, or misleading.

Account Security

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and for all activity that occurs under your account. You agree to notify us immediately at support@laybell.app if you suspect any unauthorized use of your account. We are not liable for any loss arising from unauthorized use of your account that results from your failure to keep your credentials secure, except to the extent caused by our own fault or as otherwise required by applicable law.

One Account; No Transfer

Your account is personal to you. You may not impersonate any person or entity, register a username in bad faith or that infringes another's rights, share your credentials, or sell, transfer, or assign your account or username to anyone else. We may reclaim or rename usernames in our reasonable discretion, including to resolve impersonation or trademark concerns.

5. Your Content and the License You Grant to Laybell

Definitions

"User Content" means any content you create, upload, post, store, send, or otherwise make available through the Service, including posts, stories, reels, slideshows, comments, direct messages, playlists, avatars, profile information, ad and Spotlight creatives (each an "Ad Creative"), song attributions, and Audio Content. "Audio Content" means audio recordings you upload, including any musical composition, sound recording (master), lyrics, vocals, samples, performances, artwork, and metadata embodied in them. "Content" means User Content together with any interface, software, or informational content Laybell itself provides; Laybell does not provide, supply, or originate any Audio Content or music catalog.

You Own Your User Content

As between you and Laybell, you retain ownership of the intellectual property rights in your User Content, subject to the licenses you grant below. We do not claim ownership of your User Content.

Operational License to Laybell

By making User Content available through the Service, you grant Laybell a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully paid-up, sublicensable (solely to our service providers and to other users as needed to operate the Service), and transferable license to host, store, cache, back up, reproduce, reformat, transcode, re-encode, and adapt or modify your User Content for technical and formatting purposes, and to publicly perform, publicly display, communicate to the public, and distribute your User Content within the Service, in order to operate, provide, secure, and improve the Service. This operational license exists so that we can technically run the Service; for example, it lets us store and back up your content, transcode your audio and video so they play on different devices, deliver your content over content-delivery networks, and display your content to other users.

Limited Promotional and Derivative Use

Your grant also allows us to create derivative works of, and to use, your User Content for marketing and promoting the Service, but only as follows: (i) technical reformatting, transcoding, and excerpting necessary to operate or present the Service; and (ii) promotion on in-Service surfaces (such as in-app feeds, featured sections, and our own social or store listings showing the Service in use). We will not use your Audio Content in external advertising, or as a standalone work outside the Service, without your separate permission. To the extent any User Content is later determined to infringe a third party's rights or to violate these Terms, the promotional and derivative license terminates as to that content.

Storage of Media and Public Buckets

Some media you upload for public-facing features (such as public posts, avatars, and stories) is stored by our provider Supabase in storage buckets that are accessible to anyone who has the file's direct URL, including without logging in. We use non-guessable object paths for such media. Media associated with content of users we know to be under 18 (including their avatars and stories), and media associated with content you mark private, is not stored in publicly listable buckets and is handled with access controls. Whether direct messages and private content are stored with access controls rather than public-by-URL access is described in our Privacy Policy; we design the Service so that content you reasonably expect to be private is not made world-readable by URL. Even so, copies of any uploaded media may persist for a limited period in caches, content-delivery networks, or backups.

Deletion, Erasure, and the Limits of This License

When you delete content or close your account, we delete or render inaccessible the underlying media files, including from any public buckets and our content-delivery network, within a defined period, and we purge them from our backups on our regular backup-rotation cycle, subject only to the minimum retention required by law or for the limited fraud-prevention, safety, security, and dispute-resolution purposes described in our Privacy Policy. The specific retention and purge timeframes are stated in our Privacy Policy. Nothing in the licenses in this Section or in Section 6 overrides any mandatory data-protection right you have, including the right to erasure and the right to object to processing for direct marketing under the GDPR, UK GDPR, and applicable U.S. state privacy laws. Where such a right applies and is exercised, we will cease the corresponding processing and delete or de-identify your personal data, subject only to the limited survival for Attributed Uses already created by other users (Section 6) and to legal-retention exceptions. The operational and hosting license rests on our legitimate interest in, and our contract to provide, the Service; any marketing use is subject to your right to object.

Offline Downloads and On-Device Caching

The Service offers an offline feature that lets you download Audio Content to your device so the Laybell app can play it back when you are offline or have a poor connection. This on-device copy is a part of, and is provided solely for use within, the Service: it is stored in the app's private, sandboxed storage, is accessible only for playback through the Laybell app, is not made browsable, exportable, or shareable by the feature, and playing it through the app is use within the Service and is not an off-Service use. The feature may keep a small automatic cache of recently played tracks for connection resilience and, for eligible users, a set of tracks you choose to save for offline listening, subject to per-device limits.

A cached copy is temporary and tied to your continued, authorized use of the Service. You agree that we may remove it, and that the app will remove it, when you remove the download, when the uploader turns off downloads for that track, when the content is removed, made private, or deleted, when you lose access to the content, when you sign out of or delete your account, or as needed to enforce these Terms or comply with law. Cached copies are also subject to the deletion and erasure provisions below and to our Privacy Policy.

By uploading Audio Content, you grant other users and Laybell the limited right, under the licenses in this Section and in Section 6, to make and play such on-device copies for offline listening within the Service through this feature, unless you turn off downloads for that track. You can disable downloads for any track you upload; when you do, the Service stops offering new downloads of it and removes reachable cached copies on a best-effort basis the next time a device holding one connects. Because Audio Content is delivered to devices over the internet, turning off downloads is a courtesy control within the Service, not a technical guarantee, and Laybell does not warrant that a determined user cannot copy a file delivered to their device. This offline feature grants no ownership of, and no right to use, Audio Content off the Service.

No Obligation to Use Content

We are not obligated to host, display, distribute, or retain any User Content, and we may decline, remove, or limit the reach of User Content as described in these Terms.

6. The "Use This Song" Feature: License to Other Users and Survival After Deletion

The "use this song" / attribution feature is central to the Service. To make it possible, you grant the following additional license when you upload Audio Content.

Inter-User License

By uploading Audio Content, you grant every other user of the Service a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that Audio Content within the Service through the "use this song" / attribution feature, including by creating Attributed Uses, with attribution linking back to you as the original uploader. You also grant Laybell the right to enable, sublicense (solely as needed to operate the Service), facilitate, and host that use. This license is limited to use within the Service, grants no ownership and no rights to use your Audio Content off the Service, and extends only to the rights you actually hold; it grants nothing as against any third party whose rights are embodied in your Audio Content.

Offline Playback Is Use Within the Service

For clarity, the offline-download feature described in Section 5 is a feature of, and is use within, the Service. A copy of Audio Content cached on a device solely so the Laybell app can play it back offline is use within the Service and is permitted by the licenses in this Section and in Section 5; it is not a right to use Audio Content off the Service, and the limitation above that this license grants no rights to use Audio Content off the Service does not prohibit this in-app offline-playback feature.

Survival After Deletion

You acknowledge that, to the extent your Audio Content has already been used in Attributed Uses by other users before you delete it (or before your account is deleted), the license to those other users and to Laybell survives the deletion or removal of your original Audio Content or account. Deleting your Audio Content stops new uses of it, but it does not, by itself, retroactively revoke or invalidate Attributed Uses that other users already created, and those Attributed Uses and attributions may continue to exist and be displayed within the Service.

Limits on Survival; Removal on Notice or Knowledge

This survival does not apply to, and we will remove, Attributed Uses where we receive a valid copyright takedown notice, where we learn that the original upload was unauthorized or infringing, or where we remove the original for a rights, safety, or legal reason. We will remove such downstream content upon a valid takedown notice or upon learning the content is infringing, and may remove it in other circumstances at our reasonable discretion. This survival provision does not bind, release, or limit the rights of any third party who owns rights in the Audio Content and who never granted a license. Nothing in this Section overrides your mandatory data-protection rights; when you exercise a valid deletion right, we will remove or de-identify your personal identifiers from surviving Attributed Uses where required by applicable law.

If you do not want your Audio Content to be available to other users in this way, do not upload it to the Service.

7. Music and Copyright: Your Representations, Warranties, and the No-Royalty Rule

All Music Is User-Uploaded; No Pre-Clearance by Laybell

Laybell does not operate a licensed catalog, does not clear or license any music on your behalf, and does not pre-screen or verify the rights in any Audio Content. You are solely responsible for clearing all rights in the Audio Content you upload. A user who relies on another user's Audio Content via "use this song" does so at their own risk and in reliance on the uploader's representations and warranties below, and is not guaranteed any recovery from the uploader.

Rights Clearance Representations and Warranties

You represent and warrant that you own, or have secured, all rights, licenses, consents, and permissions necessary to upload your Audio Content and other User Content and to grant the licenses in Sections 5 and 6, specifically including:

• the musical composition (the songwriting and publishing rights);
• the sound recording (the master);
• all samples, interpolations, replays, beats, and stems;
• all featured and background vocals, performances, and performers; and
• any other third-party material embodied in the Audio Content or other User Content.

You further represent and warrant that your User Content does not infringe or violate any copyright, trademark, right of publicity, right of privacy, moral right, or other right of any person, and that your User Content is not otherwise unlawful. To the extent permitted by applicable law, you waive, or agree not to assert, any moral rights in your User Content as necessary for us and other users to exercise the licenses granted in these Terms; where moral rights cannot be waived under applicable law, you agree not to assert them in a manner that prevents the operation of the Service, and you consent to the acts contemplated by these licenses.

Royalties Owed by the Service Are Laybell's Responsibility, Not Yours to Warrant

You acknowledge that any public-performance, mechanical, or other royalties that may be owed to performing-rights organizations, the Mechanical Licensing Collective, or other collective-licensing bodies as a result of the operation of the Service are the responsibility of Laybell, not of individual users, and are addressed by Laybell as described in the Service-Level Music Licensing subsection below. Your representations concern your clearance of the rights you upload; you are not asked to warrant anything about Laybell's own statutory licensing obligations.

Name, Image, Likeness, Voice, and Publicity

You represent and warrant that you have obtained all necessary consents and releases for any person's name, image, likeness, voice, or persona embodied in your Audio Content or other User Content, including any featured vocalist or identifiable individual, and that use of that content within the Service (including in Attributed Uses) does not violate any right of publicity or privacy. You may not upload content that imitates or simulates a real person's voice or identity without that person's authorization.

AI-Generated and Synthetic Audio

If your Audio Content is generated or modified using artificial intelligence or voice-synthesis tools, you represent and warrant that you hold all rights in the resulting output, that it does not replicate the voice, likeness, or identity of any real person without authorization, and that its creation and use do not infringe any rights in any training or source material. You agree to identify AI-generated audio where required by applicable law.

Sampling and Clearance Risk

Sampling, interpolating, or otherwise incorporating third-party music without authorization can constitute copyright infringement even for short clips. We make no representation that any Audio Content is cleared or lawful. You bear sole responsibility for clearing all samples and third-party material, and you agree to indemnify Laybell and other users who relied on your Audio Content for any claim arising from a failure to do so (see Section 17). These representations and indemnities are between users and do not bind, release, or limit the rights of any third party who owns rights in the Audio Content.

Service-Level Music Licensing

Laybell operates the Service as a host of audio uploaded by its users and does not operate a licensed music catalog. To the extent any public-performance, mechanical, or similar licenses are required by applicable law for the operation of the Service, that responsibility, if any, rests with Laybell as the operator of the Service and not with individual users, and Laybell — not you — is the party that would obtain and maintain any such licenses if and where it determines they are required. This allocation is solely between you and Laybell: it does not transfer any licensing responsibility to you, it does not create any obligation by Laybell to pay you, and it is not an admission that any particular license is required for any particular Audio Content, much of which may be original, independently owned, non-commercial, or otherwise outside collective-licensing systems. Nothing in this subsection limits Laybell's status and protections as a host under Section 10 or its rights and obligations under the DMCA in Section 8.

No Royalties or Creator Compensation

Stream counts, view counts, listens, badges, and points are engagement metrics only. They have no monetary value, are not redeemable, transferable, or convertible to cash, and do not entitle you to royalties, payments, or any other compensation. You understand that by uploading Audio Content you allow it to be performed and used across the Service, by Laybell and by other users, without any payment to you, and that this use may continue for Attributed Uses even after you delete the original, as described in Section 6. Laybell currently pays no royalties, fees, revenue share, or other compensation to any user for streams, listens, uploaded Audio Content, use of Audio Content via "use this song," or any other engagement. No creator monetization, royalty, or payout program exists unless and until Laybell separately offers one to you in a written agreement, in which case that program will be governed by its own terms. Any advertising or Spotlight revenue belongs to Laybell and is earned for the general operation of the Service. If you are not willing to permit this uncompensated use, do not upload Audio Content. We may change or discontinue any metric or gamification feature at any time.

8. Copyright Policy and DMCA Notice-and-Takedown

Laybell respects intellectual property rights and complies with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), 17 U.S.C. Section 512. We respond to valid notices of alleged copyright infringement and, in appropriate circumstances, terminate the accounts of repeat infringers.

Safe Harbor

Laybell is a service provider under 17 U.S.C. Section 512(k) and intends to comply with all conditions of the Section 512(c) safe harbor. Laybell does not have actual knowledge that material on the Service is infringing, is not aware of facts or circumstances from which infringing activity is apparent, and upon obtaining such knowledge or awareness will act expeditiously to remove or disable access to the material. Laybell does not receive a financial benefit directly attributable to infringing activity that it has the right and ability to control; any revenue Laybell earns is for the general operation of the Service and is not attributable to specific infringing activity. Laybell accommodates and does not interfere with standard technical measures used by copyright owners to identify or protect copyrighted works under 17 U.S.C. Section 512(i)(2).

Designated Copyright Agent

Notices of alleged copyright infringement should be sent to our designated DMCA agent: by email to dmca@laybell.app, or by mail to Laybell LLC, 28 Rivers Edge Ter, Indian Head, MD 20640, Attn: DMCA Agent. Our designated agent is registered with the U.S. Copyright Office through the DMCA Designated Agent Directory, and we maintain that registration and renew it as required (every three years).

How to Submit a Takedown Notice

To be effective, a takedown notice under 17 U.S.C. Section 512(c)(3) must be a written communication that includes substantially the following:

• identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed;
• identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing and that is to be removed or disabled, with information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate it (for example, the URL or the post, story, or audio in question);
• your contact information, including your name, address, telephone number, and email address;
• a statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use of the material is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
• a statement that the information in the notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the exclusive right that is allegedly infringed; and
• your physical or electronic signature.

Upon receipt of a valid notice, we will act expeditiously to remove or disable access to the allegedly infringing material, which may include removing the Audio Content and any Attributed Uses that incorporate it. A notice that fails to substantially comply with all of the above elements may not be considered in determining whether Laybell has actual knowledge or is aware of facts or circumstances of infringing activity, as provided in 17 U.S.C. Section 512(c)(3)(B). We may, but are not required to, contact the sender to request a corrected notice.

Counter-Notification

If you believe your material was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification, you may submit a counter-notification to our designated agent that includes substantially the following: your physical or electronic signature; identification of the material that was removed and the location at which it appeared before removal; a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification; your name, address, and telephone number; and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court for the judicial district in which your address is located, or, if your address is outside the United States, for any judicial district in which Laybell may be found, and that you will accept service of process from the party who filed the notice or that party's agent. Upon receipt of a valid counter-notification, we will promptly provide a copy to the original complaining party and inform them that we will restore the removed material in not less than 10 and not more than 14 business days following our receipt of the counter-notification, unless within that period the complaining party notifies us that it has filed a court action seeking to restrain the allegedly infringing activity, in which case we will not restore the material.

Misrepresentations

Under 17 U.S.C. Section 512(f), any person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material is infringing, or that material was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification, may be liable for damages, including costs and attorneys' fees incurred by the injured party. A party injured by such a misrepresentation, including Laybell, may recover those damages, costs, and fees, and you agree that Laybell may recover its costs and fees caused by a materially false notice or counter-notification you submit. Before submitting a notice, please consider whether the use may be authorized or a fair use.

Repeat-Infringer Policy

We have adopted, reasonably implement, and hereby inform all users of a repeat-infringer policy. We will terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of users who are the subject of repeated valid copyright-infringement notices. We maintain internal records of takedown notices and account-level infringement counts. A user who accumulates multiple separate instances of infringing activity (for example, three or more) may have their account terminated, and this policy applies regardless of whether the user submits a counter-notification.

Other Intellectual-Property and EU Notice-and-Action Complaints

For trademark, right-of-publicity, or other non-copyright intellectual-property complaints, you may contact support@laybell.app with information sufficient to identify the content and the right at issue, and we will review and act as appropriate. If you are located in the European Union, you may submit notices of allegedly illegal content (including copyright complaints) electronically to dmca@laybell.app or support@laybell.app consistent with Article 16 of the EU Digital Services Act, and we will provide a statement of reasons for any resulting action as described in Section 10; you are not required to submit to U.S. court jurisdiction to exercise your rights under EU law, and an EU-appropriate counter-notice route is available through the same contact points.

9. Acceptable Use Policy

You agree not to use the Service to engage in, facilitate, or promote any of the following, and not to post, upload, or share content that does any of the following:

• infringes or misappropriates any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, right of publicity, or other intellectual-property or proprietary right, including uploading Audio Content or other material you do not have the rights to;
• is illegal or facilitates illegal activity;
• constitutes child sexual abuse material (CSAM) or sexually exploits or endangers minors in any way. Laybell has zero tolerance for CSAM, will remove it, will terminate the responsible accounts, and will report apparent CSAM to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) as required by 18 U.S.C. Section 2258A and cooperate with law enforcement;
• harasses, bullies, threatens, stalks, or intimidates any person;
• constitutes hate speech or promotes violence or hatred against people based on protected characteristics;
• contains true threats of violence or incites violence;
• is non-consensual or unlawful sexual content, including non-consensual intimate imagery;
• is spam, or involves bulk, repetitive, or unsolicited posting or messaging;
• impersonates any person or entity or misrepresents your affiliation;
• is fraudulent, deceptive, or a scam, or facilitates phishing or financial fraud;
• contains malware, viruses, or any harmful code, or attempts to interfere with, disrupt, or compromise the Service or its security;
• scrapes, crawls, harvests, or uses bots or other automated means to access, collect data from, or interact with the Service, except as we expressly permit, or circumvents any technical or security measure;
• circumvents, manipulates, or interferes with the stream-credit, view-counting, or anti-fraud systems described in Section 3, including by farming or inflating streams or views, spoofing or resetting the device identifier to defeat the disclosed usage caps, generating fake plays, or otherwise gaming engagement metrics;
• generates or solicits fake engagement, including fake likes, comments, follows, saves, or shares;
• constitutes ad fraud or manipulates advertising metrics or campaigns;
• discloses or threatens to disclose another person's private or identifying information without consent (doxxing);
• promotes, encourages, or facilitates self-harm, suicide, or eating disorders;
• offers, sells, or facilitates the sale of regulated, dangerous, or illegal goods or services; or
• if you use contact-matching, shares contact information you do not have the right to share. If you choose to use contact-matching, you represent that you have the right to share the contact information in your device address book for this purpose; Laybell transmits only salted, hashed values to find potential matches, does not upload raw contact details, does not retain the hashes beyond what is needed for matching, and does not use this information to contact or build profiles of non-users.

We may investigate suspected violations and take any action we consider appropriate, including removing or limiting content, suspending or terminating accounts, adjusting or invalidating engagement metrics, and reporting conduct to law enforcement, in each case without liability to you to the fullest extent permitted by law. Our Community Guidelines explain and illustrate the rules in this Section and are incorporated into these Terms; if there is any conflict, these Terms control.

10. Content Moderation; Laybell Is a Host, Not the Publisher

User Content is created and provided by users, not by Laybell. Laybell is a provider of an interactive computer service that hosts third-party content; under 47 U.S.C. Section 230, Laybell is not the publisher or speaker of User Content. We do not endorse, guarantee, or assume responsibility for any User Content, including the accuracy, lawfulness, or rights status of any Audio Content, and you rely on User Content at your own risk. Section 230 does not apply to intellectual-property claims (47 U.S.C. Section 230(e)(2)); copyright matters are governed exclusively by the DMCA (17 U.S.C. Section 512) and Section 8 of these Terms.

We have the right, but not the obligation, to review, monitor, moderate, screen, remove, restrict, refuse, disable access to, or limit the distribution of any Content, and to suspend or terminate accounts, to enforce these Terms, to comply with law, or to protect the Service, other users, or third parties. Our exercise (or non-exercise) of moderation discretion does not make us the publisher of User Content and does not waive any protection available to us under applicable law. We may remove Audio Content and any associated Attributed Uses and downstream content, including in response to a copyright takedown notice, a violation of these Terms, or a legal or safety concern.

Statement of Reasons and Internal Complaint Handling (EU Users and Where Required by Law)

Where required by applicable law, including the EU Digital Services Act, if we remove or restrict your content or suspend or terminate your account, we will provide you with a statement of reasons explaining the decision and the legal or contractual basis for it. You may challenge such decisions through our internal complaint-handling system by contacting support@laybell.app, and we will review your complaint and, where appropriate, reverse the action. Eligible users also have the right to select a certified out-of-court dispute-settlement body to resolve disputes about our content-moderation decisions, and may refer the matter to the competent authority. We maintain a point of contact for users and for authorities, reachable at support@laybell.app, as required by Articles 11 and 12 of the Digital Services Act.

11. Reporting, Blocking, Suspension, Termination, and Account Hiding

Safety Tools

The Service provides tools to help keep you safe, which may include blocking other users; reporting posts, users, and ads; removing your own content; archiving content; and hiding your account (soft-deletion). You can also delete your account in the app, as described in Section 22. Laybell is not responsible for disputes between users, including disputes over the use of "use this song" attribution or a user's right to upload particular Audio Content; such disputes are between the users involved.

Account Hiding and Soft-Deletion

If you hide your account, your profile and content may be removed from public view while certain data is retained. An account that is hidden and remains inactive for approximately three months will be deleted by Laybell, and the associated personal data is deleted or de-identified within the defined timeframe and backup-purge cycle described in our Privacy Policy, subject only to lawful retention exceptions. Specific retention periods and criteria are set out in our Privacy Policy.

Independence of Statutory Deletion Rights

Your right to request deletion or erasure of your personal information under applicable law is independent of the content-survival provisions in Sections 5 and 6. When you make a valid deletion request, we will delete your personal information except where retention is permitted or required by law (for example, to complete a transaction, detect or prevent security incidents and fraud, comply with a legal obligation, or establish or exercise legal rights). Content that other users independently created through "use this song" (an Attributed Use) is their content; on a valid deletion request, we will de-identify or remove your personal identifiers from it where required by law, as described in Section 6.

Suspension and Termination by Laybell

We may suspend, limit, or terminate your account or access to the Service, and remove or disable any Content, at any time, with or without notice, if we believe you have violated these Terms (including the Acceptable Use Policy or the repeat-infringer policy), if required by law, or to protect the Service, our users, or third parties. Where reasonable, and where required by law, we will provide notice, a statement of reasons, and a means to contact us at support@laybell.app to discuss or appeal the action, as described in Section 10.

Preservation of Reported Content and Safety Records

When you report content or an account, or when we act on a report or otherwise detect a violation, we may retain the report and a copy (snapshot) of the reported content and related records even after the content, post, or account is later deleted, so that we can review and act on it, enforce these Terms and our Community Guidelines, cooperate with law enforcement (including reporting apparent child sexual abuse material to NCMEC under 18 U.S.C. Section 2258A), and protect our users. Deleting your content or account does not erase these safety, moderation, and legal records. We may also place specific content or an account under a legal hold, in which case it is preserved and cannot be deleted through the in-app tools until the hold is lifted. The related retention practices are described in Section 9 of our Privacy Policy.

12. Badges, Points, and Other Non-Monetary Items

Badges and points are a gamification feature only. They have no monetary or cash value, are not currency, cannot be purchased, redeemed, transferred, sold, or exchanged for money or anything of value, and confer no ownership or property right. We may modify, reset, expire, or remove badges and points at any time. Earning badges or points through any activity, including engagement with ads or Spotlight, does not entitle you to any compensation.

13. Paid Services: Laybell Premium, Spotlight, and Ad Manager

Eligibility

The Spotlight and Ad Manager advertiser features are available only to users who are at least 18 years old. We do not knowingly enable users under 18 to run advertising campaigns or purchase Spotlight or Ad Manager promotions, and we do not collect commercial advertising data from users we know to be under 18. The Laybell Premium subscription described below is available to eligible account holders; if you are a minor, you may subscribe only with the consent and authorization of the parent or guardian who controls the app-store account used for the purchase, as described in the Laybell Premium subsection.

Overview

Laybell offers two paid promotional features: (a) "Spotlight," which ranks an existing post higher in the feed for a limited time, offered in packages of 12 hours ($5.99), 1 day ($10.99), 3 days ($24.99), and 7 days ($49.99); and (b) "Ad Manager," a self-serve advertising tool that lets you run an ad campaign with a total budget, placed in the feed, in reels, and in audio breaks, delivered at a rate of $10.00 per 1,000 impressions (increased by 20% for premium audio and TV placements, and reduced by a volume discount of up to 25% on larger budgets). Both features are purchased with Laybell Credits, which you buy through the Apple App Store or Google Play. These features are provided without any service-level commitment and may be modified or withdrawn at any time.

Laybell Premium (Auto-Renewing Subscription)

Laybell Premium is an optional, paid auto-renewing subscription that unlocks premium features such as unlimited offline downloads and an ad-free experience, together with any other benefits described on the in-app subscription screen at the time you subscribe. The specific benefits, the subscription length, and the price are shown to you in the app before you purchase and may change on a going-forward basis as described below. Premium benefits are provided on an "as is" basis; we may add, modify, or remove individual benefits, and if we make a material reduction to the core benefits of an active subscription we will provide notice and, where required by law or platform policy, a pro-rated refund or the ability to cancel.

Billing for Laybell Premium is processed exclusively through the app store from which you obtained the app — Apple In-App Purchase or Google Play Billing — and not directly by Laybell, and Laybell never receives or stores your payment-card details for these purchases. Your subscription is charged to your Apple or Google account at confirmation of purchase. It automatically renews for the same period and at the then-current price unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within the 24 hours before the period ends. You can view, manage, or cancel your subscription, and turn off auto-renewal, at any time in your Apple App Store or Google Play account settings; deleting the app does not by itself cancel your subscription.

Because these purchases are processed by Apple or Google, the applicable app store's payment, billing, tax, refund, and family-sharing terms also apply and may govern the transaction, and Apple or Google (not Laybell) controls receipts, billing support, and refunds. Refund requests for app-store subscriptions are made through Apple or Google under their processes; except where a refund is required by applicable law or the app store's policy, subscription fees are non-refundable, and cancelling stops future renewals but does not refund the current period. Any free trial or introductory offer, if we provide one, is disclosed at the point of purchase, and unless you cancel before it ends it automatically converts to a paid subscription at the standard price.

You must have the legal capacity and authority to purchase a subscription. If you are a minor, you may purchase or hold a subscription only with the consent and authorization of the parent or guardian who controls the app-store account used for the purchase, consistent with Apple's and Google's family and purchase-approval controls. Premium is a personal benefit tied to your app-store account and the Laybell account signed in at purchase; it confers no ownership, is not transferable, and has no cash value. We may change a subscription's price or included benefits on a going-forward basis; price changes affecting an existing subscription are handled in accordance with the app store's price-change rules, which generally require your consent or give you the ability to cancel before the new price takes effect. Where required by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's Negative Option Rule, the California Automatic Renewal Law, or other applicable law, we and the app stores provide clear pre-purchase disclosure of the auto-renewing terms, obtain your consent before charging, and offer a cancellation method at least as easy as signing up.

How Spotlight and Ad Manager Are Paid For

Spotlight and Ad Manager are paid for with Laybell Credits. You buy Credits through the Apple App Store or Google Play, and Apple or Google is the merchant of record for that purchase; Laybell never receives or stores your payment-card details. Credits are then spent inside the Service. The price of a Spotlight package, and the rate at which an Ad Manager budget is delivered, are determined by Laybell on the server at the time of purchase, and the amount is shown to you before you confirm. A "paid" or "succeeded" status on a campaign reflects an actual deduction from your Credit balance. Credits are not redeemable for money and cannot be transferred to another user; see the Credits subsection above.

Future Real Billing

If and when we enable real billing, we will provide notice and obtain any consent required before charging you, through new or updated terms that you affirmatively accept. To the extent the Apple App Store Guidelines or the Google Play Payments Policy require platform billing for in-app digital purchases (including Spotlight and Ad Manager when consumed in-app), those purchases will be processed through Apple In-App Purchase or Google Play Billing, and any conflicting payment method described here will not apply; we may use a third-party card processor only for web or off-platform purchases where the platform rules permit. In those cases, the applicable platform's payment, billing, tax, and refund terms also apply and may govern the transaction, and Apple or Google (not Laybell) may control receipts, billing support, and refunds. Any card processor we use for web or off-platform billing will be disclosed as a subprocessor in our Privacy Policy before real billing begins; Laybell will not itself store full payment-card numbers, and financial information will be handled per our Privacy Policy and applicable law. Prices will be stated and charged in U.S. Dollars (USD). Applicable sales, use, VAT, GST, or similar taxes may be added and are your responsibility unless we state a price is tax-inclusive. We may change prices, packages, CPM mechanics, and fees prospectively with notice; changes will not affect campaigns already purchased.

How Spend Accrues (Ad Manager)

When real billing is live, an Ad Manager campaign will charge your CPM bid for each qualifying, de-duplicated impression until your total budget is exhausted or the campaign ends, at which point the campaign automatically ends. Our server-side measurement of impressions, clicks, and spend is the authoritative record, subject to de-duplication and invalid-traffic filtering. Your own views of your campaign are not billable. We may withhold or decline to bill for impressions we determine are invalid, fraudulent, or non-human.

One-Time Purchases; No Auto-Renewal; Future Recurring Billing

The Spotlight and Ad Manager paid features are one-time purchases that do not automatically renew: a Spotlight runs only for its purchased 1-, 3-, or 7-day duration and then ends, and an Ad Manager campaign spends only up to its set budget and then ends. Laybell Premium, by contrast, is an auto-renewing subscription, as described in the Laybell Premium subsection above. Apart from Laybell Premium, there are no other subscriptions or recurring charges. If we ever introduce recurring or auto-renewing billing, it will be introduced through new terms requiring your affirmative opt-in, and we will, before charging and consistent with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's Negative Option Rule, the California Automatic Renewal Law, and other applicable laws: clearly and conspicuously disclose, before you purchase, the recurring amount, the billing frequency, the deadline to cancel to avoid the next charge, and how to cancel; obtain your express informed consent (including any separate authorization required for recurring electronic debits); provide any required renewal reminders; and provide a simple, online "click-to-cancel" mechanism that is at least as easy as signing up.

Cancellation and Refunds

When real billing is live, the following rules apply, subject to mandatory consumer-protection law and platform policy:

• all sales are generally final and non-refundable except where a refund is required by applicable law or platform policy;
• a paid Spotlight campaign that has not yet been attached to a post (not yet live) may be cancelled and the charge reversed;
• once a Spotlight is live, or once any portion of an Ad Manager budget has been delivered, the delivered exposure or spend is non-refundable, even if you end the campaign early;
• badges and points have no cash value and are never refundable; and
• for purchases made through Apple or Google, refund requests are handled under the applicable platform's process.

If you are a consumer in the EU, the UK, or another jurisdiction with a statutory withdrawal or cooling-off right, you retain that right where it applies. For digital services, by expressly requesting that we begin performance immediately and acknowledging that you will lose your 14-day right of withdrawal once performance is complete, you consent to immediate performance, and we will confirm this on a durable medium. If we do not obtain this express prior consent and acknowledgement and provide that confirmation, you retain the full 14-day withdrawal right and, where you withdraw during performance, a pro-rata refund for services not yet performed. This becomes operative only once real billing launches.

No Guarantee of Results

Any impression, reach, or delivery figures shown to you, including budget-based impression estimates, are non-binding estimates, not guarantees. We do not warrant any minimum or specific number of impressions, views, clicks, reach, engagement, ranking position, audience, or business result. Placement is algorithmic and may be probabilistic, and delivery may be affected by your budget, bid, content policy, available inventory, and technical factors. Spotlight increases the probability of higher ranking for a limited time but does not guarantee any particular placement or exposure. Paid services are provided on an "as is" basis for promotional purposes, and you should not rely on simulated preview metrics.

Disputes, Chargebacks, and Records

We keep records of campaign transactions (budget, bid, amount, status). When real billing is live, you authorize Laybell and its payment processors to charge the applicable amounts and to store and transmit payment data as needed. If a charge is reversed, disputed, charged back, or fails, we may suspend or terminate the related campaign, reclaim delivered value, and suspend access pending resolution.

14. Advertiser Obligations and Ad Content Standards

If you run an ad or Spotlight campaign, you are an advertiser, you must be at least 18 years old, and the following additional terms apply to you. For data-protection purposes, an advertiser who selects targeting criteria acts as an independent controller (or, with Laybell, a joint controller) for those selections to the extent applicable law so provides; where we are joint controllers, the allocation of responsibilities is described in our Privacy Policy.

Sole Responsibility for Ad Content

You are solely responsible for your Ad Creative, headline, body, call-to-action, landing or destination URL, claims, offers, and for all legal compliance, including truth-in-advertising laws, substantiation of any claims, required disclosures, and intellectual-property clearances. You represent and warrant that you hold all rights necessary for your Ad Creative (including any music or other material in it), that your ad is lawful and non-infringing, and that you have accurately identified yourself (including your advertiser or business name) and have not impersonated anyone. Accepting our advertising policy is a condition of running any campaign.

Review and Removal Rights

We may, in our reasonable discretion and without obligation, review, approve, reject, label, pause, or remove any ad or campaign at any time, and we are not liable for doing so or for failing to do so. Ads are subject to the Acceptable Use Policy and may not contain or promote anything prohibited there.

Prohibited and Restricted Ads and Targeting

Laybell allows clean ads only. Ads may not be unlawful, deceptive, or misleading, and may not promote, feature, or facilitate: adult or sexual content, nudity, or pornography; alcohol; tobacco, vaping, or e-cigarettes; recreational or illegal drugs or drug paraphernalia; gambling or betting; weapons, firearms, ammunition, or explosives; political, electoral, or issue advocacy; counterfeit goods or intellectual-property infringement; or any other regulated, dangerous, or illegal goods or services. The full, controlling list of prohibited ad content and targeting limits is set out in our Advertiser Terms and Advertising Policy, which is incorporated into these Terms; if you run ads you must comply with it. Ad targeting may use age range, gender, music-genre affinity, and approximate location radius only. You may not use targeting to discriminate unlawfully. In particular, you may not use age, gender, location, or any other attribute to target advertisements for housing, employment, credit, or other opportunities in a manner prohibited by anti-discrimination law, and you may not target based on sensitive characteristics where prohibited.

Protection of Minors and Consent-Based Personalization

Laybell does not knowingly process the personal information of users it knows to be under 18 for targeted, personalized, behavioral, or profiling-based advertising, and does not sell or share their personal information; users under 18 may receive only contextual ads. This is a binding platform-level commitment and is not satisfied merely by instructing advertisers not to target minors. For users in the European Union, the United Kingdom, and other jurisdictions where applicable law requires it, ad personalization is consent-based and off by default, gender-based targeting requires opt-in consent and is never applied to minors, and no profiling-based advertising is shown to users under 18 (consistent with Article 28 of the EU Digital Services Act). In the United States, where you have not opted out, targeted-advertising features are available only for users 18 and older. Users may also limit ad personalization through the in-app "Limit ad targeting" control, and we may restrict the targeting options available.

Labeling and Disclosure

We label ads and paid promotions (for example, as "Sponsored" or "Promoted"). If you receive payment, free products, or other consideration to post content, or you otherwise have a material connection to a brand, you must clearly and conspicuously disclose that relationship in the content itself, consistent with the Federal Trade Commission's Endorsement Guides and applicable law. You may not disguise advertising as independent or editorial content.

Advertiser Indemnity

You agree to indemnify Laybell for your ads and campaigns as described in Section 17.

15. Laybell's Intellectual Property; Feedback

Our IP and Your License to the App

The Service, including the Laybell application, software, design, look and feel, algorithms, databases, and the "Laybell" name, logos, and other marks (including com.laybell.app and laybell.app), is owned by Laybell and protected by intellectual-property laws. Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, and non-sublicensable license to install and use the Laybell app on devices you own or control for your personal use and, where you use the paid Spotlight or Ad Manager features, for your business or promotional use as governed by Sections 13 and 14. We reserve all rights not expressly granted.

You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, lease, reverse-engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract the source code of the Service; remove proprietary notices; or use our marks without our prior written permission, except where such restrictions are prohibited by applicable law.

Feedback

If you send us feedback, ideas, or suggestions about the Service, you grant Laybell a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free license to use them for any purpose without any obligation or compensation to you. Nothing in this Feedback license overrides your mandatory data-protection rights; we will handle any personal data contained in your feedback in accordance with our Privacy Policy and applicable law, to the extent permitted by law.

16. Third-Party Services, Subprocessors, Links, and Platform Dependence

The Service depends on a limited set of third-party providers, who are the only material subprocessors of personal data, each governed by a data-processing agreement meeting the requirements of Article 28 of the GDPR where applicable, with Laybell acting as the data controller:

• Supabase, Inc. - authentication, the Postgres database, file storage (including the public storage buckets described in Section 5), and serverless RPC and edge functions; our primary processor;
• Expo, together with Apple Push Notification service (APNs) and Google Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) - used solely to deliver push notifications;
• the Apple App Store and Google Play - app distribution and any future in-app billing;
• a machine-translation provider (currently Google Cloud Translation, operated by Google LLC) - used only when you invoke the in-app translation feature, to translate the specific comment, message, caption, or profile text you choose into your language, and not otherwise; and
• Giphy, Inc. - powers GIF search and trending GIFs in the GIF picker. When you search, your search terms and the request metadata Giphy needs to respond are sent to Giphy, which returns and hosts the GIFs under its own terms of service and privacy policy; your use of Giphy content through the Service is also subject to those terms.

Laybell does not sell personal data and uses no advertising networks or data brokers; ads on the Service are first-party and self-serve only. Personal data processed by these providers may be transferred to and processed in the United States; the international-transfer safeguards we rely on (such as EU Standard Contractual Clauses, the UK International Data Transfer Agreement or Addendum, or reliance on the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework where a provider is certified), together with our transfer-impact assessment, are described in our Privacy Policy and made available on request via privacy@laybell.app. We are not responsible for the availability, acts, omissions, changes, or terms of these or other third-party services, and your use of them may be subject to their own terms and policies.

User Content may include links to third-party websites or resources, including the optional external link on a user's profile. We do not control and are not responsible for third-party sites or content, and we do not endorse them. You access third-party sites and content at your own risk.

17. Indemnification

To the fullest extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Laybell LLC and its members, managers, officers, employees, and agents from and against any claims, damages, liabilities, losses, and reasonable attorneys' fees and costs arising out of or related to: (a) your User Content, including your Audio Content and your use of the "use this song" / attribution feature; (b) your breach of the rights-clearance representations and warranties in Section 7; (c) your violation of these Terms, the Acceptable Use Policy, or any applicable law; (d) your infringement or violation of any third party's intellectual-property, publicity, or privacy rights; (e) your ad or Spotlight campaigns and Ad Creative; and (f) your misuse of the Service. For claims of music infringement, sampling or clearance failures, or right-of-publicity violations arising from your Audio Content, your indemnity also runs to other users who used that Audio Content through the "use this song" feature; however, this user-to-user indemnity does not bind, release, or limit the rights of any third party who owns rights in the Audio Content, and a user relying on another's Audio Content is not guaranteed any recovery. A minor's indemnity obligation is limited to what is enforceable under applicable law and to what a parent or guardian has agreed on the minor's behalf. We may assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter subject to indemnification, in which case you agree to cooperate; you may not settle any such matter without our prior written consent. If you are a consumer, this indemnity applies only to the extent your acts or omissions gave rise to the claim and only as permitted by the mandatory law of your place of residence.

18. Dispute Resolution; Arbitration; Class-Action and Jury-Trial Waiver

PLEASE READ THIS SECTION CAREFULLY. IT AFFECTS YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS, INCLUDING YOUR RIGHT TO BRING A LAWSUIT IN COURT AND TO HAVE A JURY TRIAL, AND REQUIRES INDIVIDUAL ARBITRATION OF MOST DISPUTES.

Consumers in the EU, the UK, and Other Protected Jurisdictions - This Section Does Not Apply to You

IF YOU ARE A CONSUMER RESIDENT IN THE EUROPEAN UNION, THE UNITED KINGDOM, OR ANY OTHER JURISDICTION WHOSE LAW PROHIBITS THESE TERMS, THEN THE ARBITRATION AGREEMENT, THE CLASS-ACTION AND CLASS-ARBITRATION WAIVER, THE JURY-TRIAL WAIVER, AND THE MARYLAND EXCLUSIVE-VENUE PROVISIONS DO NOT APPLY TO YOU AND ARE NOT ENFORCED AGAINST YOU. YOU MAY BRING PROCEEDINGS IN THE COURTS OF YOUR COUNTRY OR STATE OF RESIDENCE, AND THE MANDATORY CONSUMER-PROTECTION LAW OF THAT PLACE APPLIES TO YOU. This carve-out is stated first, and unconditionally, so that you do not need to rely on a later savings clause.

Informal Resolution First (60-Day Notice)

Before starting an arbitration or any proceeding, you and Laybell agree to try to resolve the dispute informally. The party raising the dispute must send a written, individualized, and signed notice of dispute: you must send yours to support@laybell.app, and we will send ours to the email address associated with your account. Each notice must state the sending party's name, the email associated with the account, a description of the dispute, and the specific relief or amount sought, and must be signed by the individual claimant (not solely by counsel). Both parties agree to negotiate in good faith for at least 60 days after the notice is received before commencing arbitration or any other proceeding. This 60-day period, and compliance with this informal-resolution requirement, tolls any applicable statute of limitations and filing deadlines. Compliance is a condition precedent that a court or arbitrator may enforce by staying (not dismissing) a premature filing.

Binding Individual Arbitration

Except for the matters carved out below, you and Laybell agree that any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service will be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) under its Consumer Arbitration Rules (and, for coordinated filings, its Mass Arbitration Supplementary Rules), rather than in court. The arbitration will be governed by the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA). The arbitrator has authority to resolve disputes about the interpretation, applicability, or enforceability of this arbitration agreement, except that a court (not the arbitrator) decides the enforceability of the class-action waiver and the public-injunctive-relief carve-out below, and except as limited by the mandatory-law carve-out. The arbitration may be conducted by telephone or video, or in person in the county of your residence at your election, as provided by the AAA Consumer Rules.

Arbitration Costs and Fees

Payment of all filing, administrative, and arbitrator fees is governed by the AAA Consumer Arbitration Rules and the AAA Consumer Due Process Protocol; where those Rules require Laybell to bear those fees, Laybell will do so. Each party bears its own attorneys' fees except as a statute or the arbitrator's award provides. The arbitration will not impose costs on you that are greater than the costs you would incur in court.

Mass and Coordinated Filings

If 25 or more similar demands for arbitration are filed against Laybell by or with the coordination of the same or coordinated counsel, the parties will resolve them under the AAA Mass Arbitration Supplementary Rules using a staged, bellwether process: a limited number of representative cases will be arbitrated first, and the remaining cases will be stayed and tolled pending the outcome, after which the parties will use the results to inform a global resolution or to sequence the remaining cases. This process is designed to make arbitration efficient and fair for both sides.

Class-Action and Jury-Trial Waiver

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, YOU AND LAYBELL AGREE THAT EACH MAY BRING CLAIMS AGAINST THE OTHER ONLY IN AN INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS, COLLECTIVE, OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. THE ARBITRATOR MAY NOT CONSOLIDATE OR ARBITRATE CLAIMS ON A CLASS OR REPRESENTATIVE BASIS, EXCEPT AS THE MASS-FILING PROCESS ABOVE PROVIDES. YOU AND LAYBELL ALSO WAIVE ANY RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL.

Public Injunctive Relief Carve-Out

Notwithstanding the foregoing, this arbitration agreement does not waive any right to seek public injunctive relief that cannot be waived under applicable law, including under California law and the rule of McGill v. Citibank. Any claim for public injunctive relief will be litigated in a court of competent jurisdiction and stayed pending arbitration of the remaining claims. If this public-injunctive-relief carve-out is found unenforceable as to a claim for public injunctive relief, that claim (and only that claim) will proceed in court, while the remaining claims proceed in arbitration; the rest of this arbitration agreement remains in effect.

Small-Claims and Injunctive-Relief Carve-Outs

Either party may bring an individual action in small-claims court for disputes within that court's jurisdiction instead of arbitration. In addition, either party may seek injunctive or other equitable relief in a court of competent jurisdiction to prevent the actual or threatened infringement, misappropriation, or violation of intellectual-property rights or the misuse of the Service. This carve-out applies equally to both parties.

30-Day Opt-Out

You may opt out of this arbitration agreement (including the class-action and jury-trial waiver) by sending an email to support@laybell.app within 30 days after the date you first create your account or, if you are an existing user, within 30 days after the effective date of the version of these Terms that first introduced or materially changed this arbitration agreement. Your opt-out must state your name, the email associated with your account, and a clear statement that you wish to opt out of arbitration. We will honor and confirm valid opt-out submissions. Any material change to this arbitration agreement requires your affirmative re-acceptance (not mere continued use) and reopens a fresh 30-day opt-out window. Opting out will not affect any other part of these Terms.

Mandatory-Law Carve-Out for Consumers

THE ARBITRATION AGREEMENT, CLASS-ACTION WAIVER, AND JURY-TRIAL WAIVER IN THIS SECTION DO NOT APPLY WHERE PROHIBITED BY APPLICABLE LAW. NOTHING IN THESE TERMS DEPRIVES YOU OF ANY MANDATORY CONSUMER PROTECTION, INCLUDING THE NON-WAIVABLE PRIVATE RIGHT OF ACTION FOR CERTAIN DATA BREACHES UNDER CALIFORNIA CIVIL CODE SECTION 1798.150, OR THE RIGHT OF CERTAIN CONSUMERS IN THE EUROPEAN UNION, THE UNITED KINGDOM, AND OTHER JURISDICTIONS TO BRING CLAIMS IN THEIR LOCAL COURTS AND UNDER THE LAW OF THEIR COUNTRY OR STATE OF RESIDENCE.

Severability of This Section

If the class-action waiver is found unenforceable as to a particular claim or request for relief, then that claim or request will be severed and may proceed in court, while the remaining claims will proceed in arbitration. The public-injunctive-relief carve-out above is intended to prevent any unenforceable waiver of public injunctive relief from invalidating the rest of this Section. If any other portion of this Section is found unenforceable, the remainder will be enforced to the maximum extent permitted by law.

19. Governing Law and Venue

Subject to Section 18 and to any mandatory consumer-protection or home-forum law, these Terms and any dispute arising out of or relating to them or the Service are governed by the laws of the State of Maryland and applicable U.S. federal law, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules; the Federal Arbitration Act governs the arbitration agreement in Section 18. For any dispute not subject to arbitration, you and Laybell agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of, and venue in, the state and federal courts located in Maryland, except as provided by the small-claims and public-injunctive-relief carve-outs and except as provided below for protected consumers.

Nothing in this Section deprives you of the protection of mandatory provisions of the law of your country or state of residence. If you are a consumer resident in the EU, the UK, California, or another jurisdiction with such protections, the Maryland governing-law and Maryland exclusive-venue provisions do not apply to you to the extent they would deprive you of mandatory rights; you retain any mandatory rights and the ability to bring proceedings in your local courts under your local law.

20. Disclaimer of Warranties

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE SERVICE AND ALL CONTENT ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY. LAYBELL DISCLAIMS ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTIES ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE.

WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE; THAT ANY USER CONTENT, INCLUDING ANY AUDIO CONTENT, IS ACCURATE, LAWFUL, OR CLEARED OF THIRD-PARTY RIGHTS; OR THAT STREAM COUNTS, RECOMMENDATIONS, OR OTHER METRICS ARE ACCURATE. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT CERTAIN MEDIA STORED IN PUBLIC STORAGE BUCKETS IS INTENTIONALLY ACCESSIBLE BY URL, AND THAT THE SERVICE DEPENDS ON THIRD PARTIES (INCLUDING SUPABASE, EXPO, APNs, FCM, APPLE, AND GOOGLE) WHOSE AVAILABILITY WE DO NOT WARRANT.

WE DO NOT CREATE, DERIVE, OR USE BIOMETRIC IDENTIFIERS OR BIOMETRIC INFORMATION (SUCH AS VOICEPRINTS OR FACIAL-RECOGNITION TEMPLATES) FROM YOUR AUDIO CONTENT, PHOTOS, OR VIDEOS; OUR PROCESSING OF YOUR CONTENT IS LIMITED TO HOSTING, TRANSCODING, AND DISPLAY AS DESCRIBED IN THESE TERMS.

SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES, SO SOME OF THE ABOVE EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. NOTHING IN THESE TERMS LIMITS ANY NON-EXCLUDABLE WARRANTIES OR CONSUMER RIGHTS YOU HAVE UNDER THE LAW OF YOUR COUNTRY OR STATE OF RESIDENCE.

21. Limitation of Liability

IF YOU ARE A CONSUMER RESIDENT IN THE EU, THE UK, OR ANOTHER JURISDICTION WITH NON-WAIVABLE PROTECTIONS, NOTHING IN THIS SECTION LIMITS OUR LIABILITY BEYOND WHAT IS PERMITTED BY THE MANDATORY LAW OF YOUR PLACE OF RESIDENCE, INCLUDING LIABILITY FOR BREACH OF YOUR STATUTORY CONSUMER RIGHTS, AND THE MONETARY CAPS BELOW DO NOT APPLY TO YOU TO THE EXTENT THEY WOULD DEPRIVE YOU OF SUCH RIGHTS.

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, LAYBELL AND ITS MEMBERS, MANAGERS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AND AGENTS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, GOODWILL, OR ANTICIPATED SAVINGS, OR FOR ANY UNREALIZED IMPRESSIONS OR EXPECTED CAMPAIGN RESULTS, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICE, WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT, STATUTE, OR ANY OTHER THEORY, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, LAYBELL’S TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICE WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (a) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS (US$100) OR (b) THE TOTAL AMOUNTS YOU ACTUALLY PAID TO LAYBELL IN THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM. THE US$100 FLOOR IS INTENDED TO PROVIDE A MEANINGFUL MINIMUM REMEDY WHERE THE AMOUNT YOU HAVE PAID IS SMALL.

THESE LIMITATIONS AND CAPS DO NOT APPLY TO, AND DO NOT REDUCE: LIABILITY THAT CANNOT BE LIMITED OR EXCLUDED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, INCLUDING UNDER CALIFORNIA CIVIL CODE SECTION 1668; LIABILITY FOR FRAUD, GROSS NEGLIGENCE, WILLFUL OR INTENTIONAL MISCONDUCT, OR WILLFUL INJURY TO PERSON OR PROPERTY; LIABILITY FOR DEATH OR PERSONAL INJURY CAUSED BY NEGLIGENCE; THE NON-WAIVABLE STATUTORY PRIVATE RIGHT OF ACTION FOR DATA BREACHES UNDER CALIFORNIA CIVIL CODE SECTION 1798.150; OR ANY REFUND OR OTHER AMOUNT REQUIRED BY PLATFORM RULES OR CONSUMER LAW. THESE LIMITATIONS ALSO DO NOT LIMIT ANY NON-WAIVABLE CONSUMER RIGHTS UNDER THE LAW OF YOUR COUNTRY OR STATE OF RESIDENCE.

22. Term, Termination, Account Deletion, and Survival

These Terms apply while you use the Service. You may stop using the Service at any time and may delete or hide your account in the app. Twenty-four-hour stories automatically expire. As noted in Section 11, an account that is hidden and inactive for approximately three months will be deleted by Laybell. We may suspend or terminate your access as described in Section 11.

When your account is terminated or deleted, your license to use the Service ends and you may lose access to your Content. Some Content may persist temporarily in caches and backups until purged on our regular cycle, and Content that others have used through "use this song" (Attributed Uses) may remain available within the Service, as described in Sections 5 and 6, subject to your mandatory data-protection rights. We may retain certain records as required by law or for fraud-prevention, safety, security, or dispute-resolution purposes, as described in our Privacy Policy, which states the applicable retention periods.

The following provisions survive termination or expiration of these Terms: the license grants in Sections 5 and 6 (including their survival provisions), and Sections 7, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, and 25, together with any other provision that by its nature should survive.

Effect of Deletion on Retained Records

Deleting your content or your account removes your access and your public presence and purges your ordinary personal data on the timeline described in our Privacy Policy, but it does not delete information we are required or permitted to retain - including safety and moderation reports and the content snapshots captured when something is reported, copyright and repeat-infringer records, fraud-prevention and security records, and anything subject to a legal hold or an active investigation or preservation request. Content placed under a legal hold cannot be deleted until the hold is lifted. These retention practices are described in Section 9 of our Privacy Policy.

23. Apple and Google App-Store Terms

You obtain the Laybell app through the Apple App Store or Google Play, and your use is also subject to those platforms' applicable terms (including the Apple Media Services Terms and Usage Rules and the Google Play Terms of Service).

Apple App Store

The following additional terms apply to the extent you obtained the app from the Apple App Store, and they apply notwithstanding anything else in these Terms:

• These Terms are between you and Laybell only, and not with Apple. Apple is not responsible for the app or its content.
• Apple has no obligation to furnish any maintenance or support services for the app.
• Laybell, not Apple, is solely responsible for any product warranties, whether express or implied by law, to the extent not effectively disclaimed. If the app fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple may refund the purchase price (if any) for the app; to the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation with respect to the app.
• Laybell, not Apple, is responsible for addressing any claims relating to the app, including product-liability claims, claims that the app fails to conform to legal or regulatory requirements, and claims arising under consumer-protection or similar legislation.
• Laybell, not Apple, is responsible for the investigation, defense, settlement, and discharge of any third-party claim that the app or your possession and use of it infringes that party's intellectual-property rights.
• You represent that you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. Government embargo or designated as a "terrorist supporting" country, and that you are not on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
• Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and, upon your acceptance, have the right (and are deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce these Terms against you as a third-party beneficiary.
• In the event of any conflict between these Terms and the Apple Licensed Application End User License Agreement (the standard Apple EULA), the latter governs solely with respect to your use of the app obtained from the App Store, but only to the extent its terms are more protective of you.

Google Play

The following additional terms apply to the extent you obtained the app from Google Play: these Terms are between you and Laybell only, and not with Google; Google is not a party to these Terms and is not responsible for the app or its content; and Laybell is solely responsible for the app and for compliance with the Google Play Developer Distribution Agreement and applicable Google Play policies (including the User Data, Families, and Ads policies). Your use of Google Play is subject to the Google Play Terms of Service.

24. Export Controls, Sanctions, and U.S. Government End Users

You agree to comply with all applicable U.S. export-control and sanctions laws and regulations, including those administered by the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and the Export Administration Regulations. You represent that you are not located in, under the control of, or a national or resident of any country subject to a comprehensive U.S. embargo, and that you are not on any U.S. government denied-party or sanctions list. You will not use or export the Service in violation of these laws.

The Laybell app is "commercial computer software" and "commercial computer software documentation." Any use, reproduction, or disclosure by or on behalf of the U.S. Government is subject to the restrictions set forth in these Terms, consistent with FAR 12.212 and DFARS 227.7202, as applicable.

25. General Provisions

Changes to These Terms

We may modify these Terms from time to time. If we make material changes, we will provide notice, for example by updating the "Last Updated" date and, where appropriate, through an in-app notice or email. For consumers in the EU, the UK, and other protected jurisdictions, and for any material change to the arbitration agreement in Section 18, we will provide advance notice (at least 30 days for material changes) and a right to reject the change by ceasing use, with the prior terms applying until the change takes effect; material changes to the arbitration agreement require affirmative acceptance (an in-app prompt) rather than mere continued use, and reopen a 30-day opt-out window. For other users and non-material changes, your continued use of the Service after the effective date constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms. We will not retroactively apply materially different uses of previously collected personal information without notice and, where required by law, your consent; material changes to our privacy practices will be communicated through the Privacy Policy and, where appropriate, an in-app or email notice, and changes to data processing that require consent will be sought affirmatively, not inferred from use. The current version is dated Last Updated June 13, 2026.

Changes to the Service

We may add, change, suspend, or discontinue any part of the Service, including preview features such as Spotlight and Ad Manager, at any time, without liability to the extent permitted by law.

Severability

If any provision of these Terms is held invalid or unenforceable, that provision will be severed or limited to the minimum extent necessary, and the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect. Severability of the arbitration provisions is governed by Section 18.

Assignment

You may not assign or transfer these Terms or your account without our prior written consent. We may assign or transfer these Terms, in whole or in part, including in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of assets; the licenses you grant in Sections 5 and 6 are transferable accordingly.

No Waiver

Our failure to enforce any provision of these Terms is not a waiver of that provision or of our right to enforce it later.

Third-Party Beneficiaries

Except for Apple as expressly provided in Section 23 and the indemnified parties in Section 17, these Terms create no third-party beneficiary rights.

Entire Agreement

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any supplemental terms we present for specific features, constitute the entire agreement between you and Laybell regarding the Service and supersede any prior agreements on that subject.

Force Majeure

We are not liable for any failure or delay in performance caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including acts of God, natural disasters, war, terrorism, civil unrest, labor disputes, governmental action, internet or telecommunications failures, and failures or outages of third-party services.

Notices

We may provide notices to you electronically, including through the app or by email to the address associated with your account. You agree to receive notices electronically. Legal notices to Laybell must be sent to support@laybell.app or by mail to Laybell LLC, 28 Rivers Edge Ter, Indian Head, MD 20640.

Language

These Terms are written in English. If we provide a translation, the English version controls to the extent permitted by law in the event of a conflict. Where required by local law, key consumer and data-protection information will be made available in the consumer's national language, and your mandatory local-language consumer rights are unaffected by this clause.

26. Contact Us

Laybell LLC is a Maryland limited liability company. You can reach us at the following channels:

• General questions, support, content-moderation appeals, and arbitration opt-out: support@laybell.app
• Privacy, data-subject and consumer-rights requests (including access, deletion, correction, portability, opt-out of sale or sharing and targeted advertising, and limiting the use of sensitive personal information), and parental requests regarding a minor's data: privacy@laybell.app. You may also submit privacy requests through the in-app privacy tools or web form where available; we verify requests and respond within the timeframes required by law (generally 45 days, extendable once where permitted), and you may appeal a denied request as provided by applicable law.
• Copyright and DMCA notices (designated agent): dmca@laybell.app
• Mailing address: Laybell LLC, 28 Rivers Edge Ter, Indian Head, MD 20640

For users in the European Union, our Article 27 GDPR representative is [EU/UK REPRESENTATIVE - TO BE APPOINTED], and for users in the United Kingdom, our separate Article 27 UK GDPR representative is [EU/UK REPRESENTATIVE - TO BE APPOINTED]; until both are appointed and named, the Service is not offered to EU or UK users, and you may contact privacy@laybell.app with any data-protection question.