Kinverie

DRAFT — not approved. This is a working draft for Kinverie's invited test. The operator has not approved it and it has not had legal review. Items marked [[OWNER: ...]] are still to be decided.

Kinverie Terms of Use

Version 0.1.0 · Draft, not approved

1. About these terms

Kinverie is an app for adults to talk with fictional characters operated by AI. These terms cover the Kinverie app for Android and the website kinverie.com during the invited test.

Kinverie is operated by [[OWNER: operator's legal name]], [[OWNER: operator's registered address]] ("we", "us"). You can reach us at [email protected].

Before a character can reply, the app asks you to accept these terms and the Privacy Notice, and separately to permit AI processing as described in the AI Processing Notice. You can read all of them in the app before you accept.

2. An invited test

  • Kinverie is being tested with a small group of invited people. It is free. There are no payments, no subscriptions and no ads.
  • Places are limited. When the test is full, the app tells you so and no Kinverie account is created for you.
  • The service may change, pause or end. AI replies can pause, for example when the test's AI budget for the day or for the whole test is used up, when a provider has an outage, or when we switch them off. While replies are paused you can still read your conversations, report a message, export your data and delete your account.
  • Because this is a test, a failure could lose conversations. The Privacy Notice says what is and is not backed up.

3. Who can use Kinverie

  • You must be 18 or older.
  • You must be in the United States, Canada, Australia or New Zealand.

When you set up your account, we ask for your country and your date of birth to check this. We do not keep your date of birth, only the result of the check. This is your own declaration: we do not verify your age independently, so you must give your real date of birth and country.

If the check shows that you are under 18 or outside these countries, you cannot use Kinverie and the app will not offer the setup again.

4. Your account

  • You sign in with a one-time code sent to your email address. There are no passwords. Entering your email address and continuing can create an account if you do not have one yet.
  • A code has six digits and works for ten minutes. Anyone who can read your email can sign in as you, so keep your email account secure and do not share a code.
  • You choose a display name of up to 40 characters. It is checked against the rules in section 6 and is passed to the AI so that a character can address you.
  • Signing out removes your sign-in details and any unsent draft from the device. A sign-in that was already issued can keep working on our servers for a short time afterwards, up to about ten minutes; signing out does not end it instantly everywhere.

5. Characters and AI replies

  • Every character is fictional, and every reply is produced by an AI model. No person writes the replies, and a character is not a real person.
  • Characters are adults, and conversations are non-explicit.
  • Replies can be wrong, inconsistent or out of character. They are not medical, mental-health, legal or other professional advice, and Kinverie is not a source of emergency help. The Safety page says what to do in an emergency.
  • A character works from a recent part of your conversation and from the saved details you have switched on. It can lose track of earlier parts, and we make no promise about what it will recall.
  • You have one ongoing conversation with each character. A conversation can hold up to 2,000 messages; after that it has to be reset before it can continue, and the app offers an export first.

6. Rules for using Kinverie

Do not ask for, or try to produce:

  • sexually explicit content;
  • any sexual content involving minors;
  • impersonation of real people;
  • instructions that would help someone cause serious harm.

Being an adults-only service does not relax these rules. Do not try to get around the safety checks, the limits or the sign-in, and do not use an email address that is not yours.

What you write (messages, an opening you edit, saved details and your display name) is checked automatically against these rules, and so is each AI reply before you see it. Text that fails a check is not used. When a check refuses something or cannot run, the app shows a notice instead of a reply; it does not show an unchecked reply.

7. Reports and action on accounts

You can report any AI reply from inside the app. The Safety page explains what a report contains and what happens to it.

We may switch off a character, pause replies, or restrict an account that breaks these rules. A restricted account can still export its data and be deleted. To ask us to look again at an action on your account, write to [email protected].

8. Limits

  • Each account has a daily limit on AI replies, currently 30 per day, counted on UTC days. Only replies you actually receive count.
  • There are shorter limits too: currently five messages a minute and one reply in progress at a time.
  • These limits, and the limits on message and saved-detail length described in Help, may change during the test.

9. Your data

The Privacy Notice describes what we collect, which providers process it, and how long it is kept. You can export your data and delete your account in the app, under Settings, Data and account. You can also delete your account without the app at kinverie.com/delete-account.

10. Changes to these terms

When we change these terms, the Privacy Notice or the AI Processing Notice, the app shows you the new text and asks you to accept it. If you decline, characters stop replying, and you can still read your conversations, report a message, export your data and delete your account.

11. Ending

You can stop using Kinverie and delete your account at any time. We can end the test. [[OWNER: how and how far ahead testers are told that the test is ending, so that they can export first]]

12. Legal terms still to be written

These parts need the operator's decision and legal review, and are not written yet:

  • [[OWNER/LEGAL: who owns what you write and what the AI replies, and what we may do with it]]
  • [[OWNER/LEGAL: disclaimers and limits on liability, including the consumer rights that cannot be excluded in each country]]
  • [[OWNER/LEGAL: governing law and how disputes are handled]]

13. Contact

For support and for legal questions, write to [email protected].