Terms of Use

These terms are the agreement between you and the person who makes Blouly. They cover what you can expect from the app, what we expect from you, and who is responsible when something goes wrong. Please read section 4 in particular — the cards are written by an AI and can be wrong.

1. The agreement

Blouly is provided by Andrei Safronov, an individual established in the United States ("we", "us"). By downloading, signing in to or using Blouly, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree to them, please do not use the app.

How we handle your data is described separately in our Privacy Policy, which forms part of this agreement.

We may update these terms — see section 9.

2. Who can use Blouly

You must be at least 13 years old, or older if the law where you live sets a higher minimum age for agreeing to terms like these (16 in some EU member states). If you are under 18, you should have your parent or guardian's permission.

You must not use Blouly if you are barred from doing so under applicable law.

3. Your account

Blouly ships with a set of cards you can read straight away — no account, no connection, no payment. You need an account to have new cards generated for you and to sync your topics, history and saved cards across devices. You can create one with Sign in with Apple, Sign in with Google, or an emailed one-time code.

• Keep your account details accurate, and keep access to the email address or sign-in provider you used — it is how you get back in.
• An account is for one person. Do not share it or let someone else use it.
• You are responsible for what happens under your account.
• You can delete your account from inside the app at any time — Menu → Account → Delete account. It is immediate, it removes your topics and cards along with the account, and it cannot be undone.
• We may suspend or close an account that breaches these terms, particularly section 5. Where it is reasonable to do so, we will tell you why and give you a chance to put it right first.

4. AI-generated cards, and their limits

Every card in Blouly comes from an AI model, in one of two ways. The cards bundled with the app were written ahead of release and read through by us before they shipped. Every other card is written on demand, by a model responding to the topic you typed, and nobody reviews it before you see it. The warnings below apply to both.

We do not warrant that any card is accurate, complete or fit for a particular purpose, and to the extent permitted by law we are not liable for any decision you make on the basis of one. Because the model generates each card fresh, two people asking about the same topic will get different cards, and we cannot reproduce a specific card on request.

Cards may also, on occasion, cover a topic in a way you find dull, odd or wide of the mark. That is the nature of the thing rather than a fault, though we would like to hear about it.

5. Your content and acceptable use

The topic names you write are yours. You keep whatever rights you have in them. You grant us a limited licence to store, process and transmit them for one purpose only: running the service for you — which includes sending a topic name to our AI provider so it can write your cards, as described in the Privacy Policy. That licence ends when you delete the topic or your account.

Cards generated for you are yours to read, save and quote. Bear in mind that AI-generated text may not attract copyright protection in every country.

You agree not to use Blouly to:

• generate content that is unlawful, that sexualises minors, that harasses or defames a real person, or that is intended to cause harm;
• seek instructions for building weapons, synthesising dangerous substances, or carrying out attacks;
• obtain advice you intend to act on as if it were professional medical, legal or financial advice;
• extract, reverse-engineer, distil or benchmark the underlying AI model, or use the output to train a competing model;
• access the service by any means other than the app — no scripts, scrapers or automated clients — or work around usage limits, rate limits or the paywall;
• probe, attack or disrupt the service or the infrastructure it runs on, or attempt to reach another user's data;
• resell, sublicense or commercially redistribute the service or the cards it produces.

Our AI provider applies its own usage policies to every request. A request that breaches them may be refused regardless of these terms.

6. Usage limits

Writing a new card costs us money every time, so generation is a paid feature and it carries a limit. Generating new cards needs an active subscription — see section 7. As things stand a subscriber can generate up to 50 cards a day, counted against midnight in your own time zone rather than UTC.

Reading is never limited. The cards bundled with the app, and every card that has already been written for you, stay readable as often as you like — subscription or not.

Without a subscription you can still name topics of your own. We keep them on your device so they are waiting for you, but no cards are generated for them until you subscribe.

We may change these limits, and we may apply reasonable additional limits to protect the service from abuse or runaway cost. If a change would meaningfully reduce what a paying subscriber gets, we will tell you first.

Some features need a working internet connection. In particular, saving a card while offline is kept on your device but is not sent to our servers until you reconnect, so it may not appear on another device until then.

7. Subscriptions and payment

Subscriptions are sold and processed by Apple through your Apple Account, not by us. We never see or handle your payment details.

• Auto-renewal. Blouly is offered as two subscriptions — a monthly one and an annual one. Whichever you choose renews automatically at the end of each period and keeps renewing until you cancel, and Apple charges your Apple Account within 24 hours before the current period ends. The price is the one shown on the subscription screen in the app and confirmed by Apple before you buy: it is set per App Store region and in your own currency, so it is stated there rather than here.
• Free trial. Where a free trial is offered, any unused portion is forfeited if you buy a subscription before it ends. An introductory offer can be used once per subscription group.
• Cancelling. Cancel any time in your Apple Account settings, at least 24 hours before the period ends. The app links you straight there from Account → Manage subscription. Your access continues until the end of the period you have already paid for. Deleting the app does not cancel a subscription.
• Price changes. If we change the price, Apple will notify you and, where required, ask you to consent before the new price applies.
• Refunds. Refunds are handled by Apple under its own policy. We cannot issue them.
• Restoring. If you reinstall the app or move to a new device, use Restore Purchases to recover a subscription bought with the same Apple Account.
• What happens if it lapses. Everything you have already read stays readable. New cards stop being generated until you resubscribe.

8. Third-party services and the apps block

Blouly depends on services we do not control — Apple, Google, our hosting provider, our AI provider, and the service that verifies subscriptions. Their terms apply to their part of the experience, and an outage or change on their side can affect the app. The current list is on the subprocessors page.

The apps block works through an automation you create in Apple's Shortcuts app. We do not control Shortcuts, and we cannot guarantee that an automation will fire every time, that iOS will not change how automations behave, or that the feature will stop you opening anything. It is a prompt to pause, not a lock. Do not rely on it as a safety control.

9. Availability, changes and ending the service

We aim to keep Blouly running well, but it is provided without any uptime guarantee. We may change, suspend or discontinue features, and we may update these terms. Where a change materially affects you, we will give reasonable notice in the app or by email; for a paid subscription, you may cancel if you do not accept the change. Continuing to use the app after a change takes effect means you accept the updated terms.

You can stop using Blouly at any time by deleting your account and removing the app. If we ever discontinue the service entirely, we will give you reasonable notice and a chance to export or review your cards first.

10. Disclaimers and liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Blouly is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy and non-infringement.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data or goodwill, arising out of or in connection with your use of Blouly. Where liability cannot lawfully be excluded, our total liability to you is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim arose, or 50 US dollars.

11. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Florida, United States, and the courts of the State of Florida have jurisdiction over any dispute. If you are a consumer resident elsewhere, this does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory consumer laws of your own country, or of your right to bring proceedings in your local courts.

If any part of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest continues to apply.

12. Terms required by Apple

Apple requires the following to be included because Blouly is distributed through the App Store. In this section, "Application" means Blouly.

1. This agreement is with us, not Apple. These terms are concluded between you and us alone, not with Apple. We — not Apple — are solely responsible for the Application and its content.
2. Scope of licence. You are granted a non-transferable licence to use the Application on any Apple-branded product that you own or control, as permitted by the Usage Rules in the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions.
3. Maintenance and support. We are solely responsible for providing any maintenance and support for the Application. Apple has no obligation whatsoever to furnish any maintenance or support services.
4. Warranty. We are solely responsible for any product warranties, whether express or implied by law, to the extent not effectively disclaimed. If the Application fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price (if any) for the Application. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Apple has no other warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to the Application.
5. Product claims. We, not Apple, are responsible for addressing any claims by you or a third party relating to the Application or your use of it, including product liability claims, any claim that the Application fails to conform to a legal or regulatory requirement, and claims arising under consumer protection, privacy or similar legislation.
6. Intellectual property rights. If a third party claims that the Application or your use of it infringes that party's intellectual property rights, we, not Apple, are solely responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement and discharge of that claim.
7. Legal compliance. You represent and warrant that you are not located in a country subject to a US Government embargo or designated by the US Government as a "terrorist supporting" country, and that you are not listed on any US Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
8. Developer name and address. Questions, complaints and claims should be directed to Andrei Safronov, 800 Parkview Dr, Apt 306, Hallandale Beach, FL 33009, privacy@blouly.com, +1 757-632-0490.
9. Third-party terms. You must comply with any applicable third-party terms of agreement when using the Application.
10. Third-party beneficiary. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms, and upon your acceptance of them Apple will have the right (and will be deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce them against you as a third-party beneficiary.

13. Contact

Andrei Safronov
800 Parkview Dr, Apt 306, Hallandale Beach, FL 33009
privacy@blouly.com