Terms of Service

1. Agreement

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of the Rhyma mobile application and related services (collectively, the "Service") operated by Vitalii Samarskyi, individual entrepreneur, Ukraine ("we", "us").

By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to these Terms and our Privacy Policy at https://rhyma.app/privacy.

2. Eligibility

You must meet the minimum age required in your country to consent to data processing and use the Service. If you are under the required age, you may not use Rhyma.

You are responsible for ensuring your use of the Service complies with applicable laws.

3. Accounts

You may sign in using supported authentication providers (such as Google). You are responsible for activity on your account and for keeping your device secure.

You may delete your account in the App under Settings → Delete Account, or follow the instructions at https://rhyma.app/account-deletion.

4. User Content

Rhyma is a collaborative poetry game. You retain rights to content you submit, but you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, display, reproduce, and share that content within the Service (including with other users and on public poem pages when a poem is completed and shared).

Because poems are created collaboratively by multiple users, this license survives the deletion of your account with respect to collaborative content: as described in our Privacy Policy, when you delete your account we remove or anonymize your personal identifiers, but the poem lines you contributed may remain part of the collaborative poems in anonymized form.

You must not submit unlawful, harassing, hateful, sexually explicit, or infringing content. We may remove content or suspend accounts that violate these Terms or harm other users.

If you believe content in the Service infringes your copyright or other intellectual property rights, contact us at support@rhyma.app with a description of the work, the location of the allegedly infringing content, and your contact details. We will review and, where appropriate, remove or disable access to the content.

5. Subscriptions and Purchases

Optional in-app purchases or subscriptions (for example, energy boosts) are processed by Google Play or the Apple App Store. Billing, refunds, and cancellation are handled under the store's policies. We use RevenueCat to manage entitlements associated with your purchases.

Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled through your store account settings before the end of the current period.

Virtual items (such as energy) and subscriptions have no cash value outside the Service and are not refundable by us except where required by law or by the applicable store's policies.

6. Ads

The Service may offer optional rewarded advertisements through Google AdMob. Ad serving is subject to Google's policies and your consent choices where required.

7. Acceptable Use

You agree not to abuse the Service, attempt unauthorized access, scrape or automate access beyond normal app use, interfere with poem locks or fairness mechanics, or reverse engineer the App except where permitted by law.

8. Termination

You may stop using the Service and delete your account at any time as described in Section 3.

We may suspend or terminate your access to the Service if you materially or repeatedly violate these Terms, if we are required to do so by law, or if we discontinue the Service. Where reasonably possible, we will give you advance notice and an opportunity to export or review your content.

Upon termination, your right to use the Service ends. Unused virtual items and remaining subscription periods are handled under the applicable store's policies; collaborative content is handled as described in Section 4 and our Privacy Policy. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (including Sections 4, 9, 10, and 12) survive.

9. Disclaimers

The Service is provided "as is" without warranties of uninterrupted or error-free operation, to the extent permitted by applicable law. Poems and comments are user-generated; we do not endorse user content.

Nothing in these Terms limits any mandatory warranty or guarantee rights you have as a consumer under applicable law.

10. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, or consequential damages arising from your use of the Service. Our total liability is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, or zero if you paid nothing.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits our liability for intent or gross negligence, for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or for any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law, including your statutory rights as a consumer.

11. Apple App Store Provisions

If you download the App from the Apple App Store, the following additional terms apply. These Terms are concluded between you and us only, not with Apple Inc. ("Apple"), and Apple is not responsible for the App or its content.

Apple has no obligation to furnish any maintenance or support services for the App. In the event of any failure of the App to conform to an applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price of the App (if any); to the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation with respect to the App.

Apple is not responsible for addressing any claims by you or a third party relating to the App, including product liability claims, claims that the App fails to conform to legal or regulatory requirements, claims under consumer protection or similar legislation, and intellectual property infringement claims.

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 may enforce them against you.

12. Governing Law and Disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of Ukraine, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. If you are a consumer residing in the European Union, the United Kingdom, or another jurisdiction whose laws grant you mandatory consumer protections, you also benefit from those protections and may bring proceedings in the courts of your country of residence.

Before bringing a formal claim, please contact us at support@rhyma.app — most issues can be resolved informally.

13. Changes

We may update these Terms. Material changes will be reflected in the "Last updated" date and, where appropriate, announced within the App or by other reasonable means. Continued use after changes constitutes acceptance where permitted by law; if you do not agree to updated Terms, stop using the Service and delete your account.

14. Contact

Questions about these Terms: Vitalii Samarskyi, individual entrepreneur, Ukraine.

Contact email: support@rhyma.app