Terms of Service

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) are a binding agreement between you and AnimeChato (“AnimeChato,” “we,” “us”) governing your use of the AnimeChato website, mobile apps, and related services (together, the “Service”). By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

You must be at least 18 years old (or the age of majority where you live, if higher) to use the Service. By using the Service you represent that you meet this requirement. We may suspend or terminate accounts we reasonably believe belong to users under this age.

AnimeChato lets you chat, call, and interact with fictional, AI-generated characters. You understand and agree that:

• Characters are not real people. Their messages, voices, images, and video are generated by artificial intelligence and are fiction, even when they sound personal, emotional, or factual.
• AI output can be inaccurate, incomplete, offensive, or otherwise objectionable. We do not guarantee the accuracy, quality, or appropriateness of any AI-generated content, and you should not rely on it as fact.
• Nothing in the Service is professional advice. Characters do not provide medical, mental-health, legal, financial, or any other professional advice, and the Service is not a substitute for care from qualified professionals. If you are in crisis or thinking about harming yourself, contact local emergency services or a crisis line (in the U.S., call or text 988) immediately.
• Conversations with characters do not create any real-world relationship, obligation, or promise, and no statement by a character binds AnimeChato to anything.

You are responsible for your account and everything that happens under it, including keeping your sign-in credentials secure. Provide accurate information and keep it up to date. We may refuse, suspend, or terminate accounts at our discretion, including for violations of these Terms.

• The Service uses a virtual currency (“Essence”) and virtual items such as characters, pulls, and rarity upgrades (together, “Virtual Items”). Virtual Items are a limited, revocable, non-transferable license to use features of the Service. They are not money or property, have no real-world value, cannot be sold, traded, or exchanged for cash, and may not be transferred outside the Service.
• Gacha pulls involve randomized outcomes. Odds, drop rates, pricing, and available items may change at any time. Pulls are entertainment features, not gambling, and Virtual Items obtained from them have no monetary value.
• All purchases are final and non-refundable except where required by applicable law or by the policies of the platform you purchased through (e.g., Apple, Google, or Stripe).
• We may modify, revoke, or discontinue Virtual Items (including Essence balances) when your account is terminated for violating these Terms, or if we discontinue the Service, without compensation, to the maximum extent permitted by law.

Payments are processed by third-party providers (such as Stripe, Apple, or Google). Your purchase is also subject to their terms. Prices may change prospectively at any time. Taxes may apply.

You can create content on the Service — including characters, character descriptions and personalities, prompts, chat messages, and images generated at your direction (“User Content”). You keep any rights you have in your User Content. You grant AnimeChato a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable license to host, store, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, publicly display, and distribute your User Content for the purposes of operating, improving, promoting, and providing the Service — including showing characters you share to other users and using your prompts to generate character art and conversation.

You represent and warrant that:

• You own or have the necessary rights to your User Content, and it does not infringe anyone else’s intellectual-property, publicity, or privacy rights — including rights in third-party anime, manga, game, or media characters.
• Your User Content does not depict or impersonate a real, identifiable person without that person’s consent.
• Your User Content complies with the rules in Section 8.

We may remove, restrict, or refuse to display any User Content at any time, with or without notice, including content we believe violates these Terms or exposes us or other users to risk.

You agree not to use the Service to create, request, share, or promote:

• Any sexual content involving minors, or characters presented as minors, in any form — zero tolerance; we terminate accounts and report to authorities where required by law.
• Content that sexualizes, harasses, threatens, defames, or impersonates real people.
• Content that infringes copyrights, trademarks, or other rights of any third party.
• Illegal content or activity of any kind, or instructions to commit serious harm.
• Hate speech or content that promotes violence against people or groups.
• Malware, spam, scraping, or automated bulk access to the Service.

You also agree not to:

• Reverse engineer, extract, or attempt to discover the models, prompts, or source code behind the Service, or use the Service or its output to train competing AI models.
• Circumvent safety systems, rate limits, or access controls, or misrepresent AI output as human.
• Resell or commercially exploit the Service without our written permission.

The Service — including its software, design, branding, the AnimeChato hippo mark, and all content we provide other than your User Content — is owned by AnimeChato or its licensors and is protected by intellectual-property laws. We grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the Service for personal, non-commercial purposes in accordance with these Terms.

We respect intellectual-property rights and respond to notices that comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. If you believe content on the Service infringes your copyright, send a notice to kareemdasilva@gmail.com including: (a) identification of the work; (b) the material you claim is infringing and where it appears; (c) your contact information; (d) a statement of good-faith belief; (e) a statement, under penalty of perjury, that your notice is accurate and you are authorized to act; and (f) your physical or electronic signature. We terminate the accounts of repeat infringers.

The Service depends on third-party providers (for example, cloud hosting, AI model providers, payment processors, and real-time media infrastructure). We are not responsible for third-party services, and your use of them may be subject to their own terms.

You may stop using the Service and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate your access at any time, with or without notice, for any reason, including violation of these Terms. Upon termination, your license to the Service and any Virtual Items ends. Sections that by their nature should survive (including Sections 3, 5, 7, and 13–16) survive termination.

THE SERVICE AND ALL CONTENT ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE,” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE, OR THAT AI-GENERATED CONTENT WILL BE ACCURATE OR APPROPRIATE. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW CERTAIN WARRANTY DISCLAIMERS, SO PARTS OF THIS SECTION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, ANIMECHATO AND ITS OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AND SUPPLIERS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, DATA, GOODWILL, OR VIRTUAL ITEMS, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE — INCLUDING ANY RELIANCE ON, OR EMOTIONAL DISTRESS ARISING FROM, AI-GENERATED CONTENT — EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS RELATING TO THE SERVICE IS LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF (A) US $100 AND (B) THE AMOUNTS YOU PAID US IN THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM AROSE. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW CERTAIN LIMITATIONS, SO PARTS OF THIS SECTION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless AnimeChato from any claims, damages, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising from your User Content, your use of the Service, or your violation of these Terms or of any third-party right.

Please read this section carefully — it affects your legal rights. You and AnimeChato agree to resolve any dispute arising out of these Terms or the Service through binding individual arbitration administered by a recognized arbitration provider under its consumer rules, rather than in court — except that either party may bring an individual claim in small-claims court, and either party may seek injunctive relief for intellectual-property misuse. You and AnimeChato each waive the right to a jury trial and to participate in a class action. You may opt out of this arbitration agreement by emailing kareemdasilva@gmail.com within 30 days of first accepting these Terms. These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, USA, without regard to conflict-of-law rules; if the arbitration agreement is found unenforceable, disputes will be resolved in the state or federal courts located in California.

We may update these Terms from time to time. If we make material changes, we will take reasonable steps to notify you (for example, in-app or by email) before they take effect. Continuing to use the Service after changes take effect means you accept the updated Terms.

Questions about these Terms: kareemdasilva@gmail.com