Terms of Service

1. Acceptance of Terms

These Terms of Service ("Terms") form a legally binding agreement between you and the operator of SumUploader ("SumUploader," "we," "us," or "our") regarding your use of the SumUploader mobile application for iOS and Android and the related backend services (collectively, the "Service").

By creating an account, signing in, or using the Service in any way, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into these Terms by reference. If you do not agree to these Terms, do not use the Service.

TODO for the app owner: Replace the generic "operator of SumUploader" wording with your legal entity name (e.g., your full legal name as a sole proprietor, or your registered company name and registration number). The same applies in Section 8.

2. Description of the Service

SumUploader is a social media management app that lets you:

• Connect your own YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Threads, and Facebook accounts to the app;
• Upload video and photo posts to those platforms, immediately or on a schedule;
• Compose and manage captions, hashtags, saved hashtag sets, and caption templates;
• Apply watermarks to your media;
• Organize posts into named campaigns and track sponsor-oriented campaign metrics;
• View analytics and insights for your published posts.

The Service acts only on your instructions and through the official APIs (or otherwise authorized interfaces) of each supported platform. SumUploader does not create content for you and does not select, edit, or approve what you publish; you decide what is posted, when, and where.

3. Accounts

• Accurate information. When you create an account, you must provide accurate and complete information, and keep it up to date.
• Credential security. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your sign-in credentials (including any Apple or Google sign-in you use with the Service) and for all activity that occurs under your account. Notify us promptly at [email protected] if you suspect unauthorized use of your account.
• Minimum age. You must be at least 13 years old to use the Service. If you are under the age of majority in your jurisdiction, you may use the Service only with the consent of a parent or legal guardian, who must agree to these Terms on your behalf.
• One account per person. You may maintain only one SumUploader account per person, unless we have given you express written permission otherwise.

4. License to Use the Service

Subject to your compliance with these Terms, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to install and use the SumUploader app on devices you own or control, solely for your own lawful, personal or business use. This license does not give you any ownership interest in the Service, and all rights not expressly granted are reserved by us.

5. Acceptable Use

You agree not to, and not to allow others to:

• Upload, post, or schedule content that is unlawful, defamatory, harassing, hateful, sexually exploitative, infringing, or otherwise objectionable;
• Use the Service for spam, unsolicited commercial messaging, or deceptive, manipulative, or inauthentic behavior on any connected platform;
• Interfere with, disrupt, or attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Service, its servers, or other users' accounts;
• Reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the app, except to the limited extent such restriction is prohibited by applicable law;
• Abuse the Service through automated means, including excessive API calls, scraping, or attempting to circumvent rate limits, quotas, or access controls;
• Use the Service in violation of any applicable law or regulation, or in violation of any platform's terms identified in Section 6.

We may investigate suspected violations and take any action we deem appropriate, including removing content, throttling or suspending access, and terminating accounts, as described in Section 11.

6. Your Content and Platform Compliance

Your rights. You warrant that you own, or have obtained all necessary rights, licenses, and permissions for, everything you upload, schedule, or publish through the Service — including videos, photos, captions, hashtags, music, and watermarks — and that your content does not infringe the intellectual property, privacy, or other rights of any third party.

Your responsibility. You are solely responsible for your content and for your activity on each connected platform. You must comply with each platform's own terms, community guidelines, and policies when publishing through SumUploader, including the terms of YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Threads, and Facebook. If a platform removes, restricts, or penalizes your content or account, that is a matter between you and the platform.

No affiliation. SumUploader is an independent service. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Threads, or Facebook (Meta), or by Apple or Google. All platform names and trademarks belong to their respective owners.

Third-party dependencies. The Service depends on the APIs and publishing interfaces of third-party platforms. Those platforms may change, limit, suspend, or revoke API access at any time, for any reason, without notice to us or to you. We are not liable for publishing failures, delays, scheduling errors, lost drafts, or any other harm caused by changes to, outages of, or enforcement actions by third-party platforms, including account restrictions imposed by a platform on your accounts.

7. Subscriptions and Billing (Planned)

The following describes our planned pricing model. Paid plans are not yet available; at this time the Service is offered free of charge.

• Free tier (current). The free tier allows you to keep up to 10 scheduled uploads queued at once.
• Paid plan (planned). We plan to introduce a paid plan at $9.99 USD per month with an unlimited scheduled-upload queue. This plan is not yet available, and the price and features described here are preliminary and may change before launch.

Billing. When paid plans launch, subscriptions will be sold and billed exclusively through the Apple App Store (for iOS) or Google Play (for Android). Payment processing, renewals, cancellations, and refunds will be governed by the applicable store's payment terms and policies. We do not process or store your payment card details.

Refunds. Except where required by applicable law or by the policies of the Apple App Store or Google Play, subscription fees are non-refundable. Any refund request must be directed to the store through which you purchased the subscription.

Changes. If we introduce paid plans, we will present the then-current price, billing period, and renewal terms in the app and in the applicable store listing before you purchase. Price changes for existing subscribers will follow the notice and consent rules of the relevant store.

8. Intellectual Property

The SumUploader app, its software, design, logo, name, and branding are the exclusive property of the operator of SumUploader and are protected by applicable intellectual property laws. Nothing in these Terms transfers any ownership of our intellectual property to you.

TODO for the app owner: State your legal entity name here as the owner of the SumUploader app, logo, and brand.

Your content remains yours. By using the Service, you grant us a limited, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, process, transform (e.g., resize, transcode, or overlay your watermark), and transmit your content solely as necessary to provide the Service as you instruct — for example, to publish a scheduled post to a platform you connected. This license ends when you delete the content or your account, subject to Section 11 and to copies retained as required by law or by platform APIs.

9. Disclaimers

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, SECURE, OR FREE OF HARMFUL COMPONENTS, OR THAT ANY PUBLISHING, SCHEDULING, OR ANALYTICS RESULTS WILL BE ACCURATE OR TIMELY.

10. Limitation of Liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW:

• WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, OR GOODWILL, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OF (OR INABILITY TO USE) THE SERVICE, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
• OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ANY CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICE WILL NOT EXCEED THE TOTAL AMOUNTS YOU PAID TO US (IF ANY) IN THE 12 MONTHS PRECEDING THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM.
• WE ARE NOT LIABLE FOR THE ACTS, OMISSIONS, POLICIES, OR API CHANGES OF THIRD-PARTY PLATFORMS (INCLUDING YOUTUBE, TIKTOK, INSTAGRAM, THREADS, AND FACEBOOK), OR FOR ANY CONSEQUENCES TO YOUR PLATFORM ACCOUNTS RESULTING FROM YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain warranties or damages, so some of the above limitations may not apply to you. In such cases, our liability will be limited to the greatest extent permitted by law.

11. Termination

• By us. We may suspend or terminate your access to the Service, with or without notice, if you violate these Terms, misuse the Service, or if we are required to do so by law or by a platform's enforcement action. We may also discontinue the Service (in whole or in part) at any time.
• By you. You may stop using the Service at any time. You may request deletion of your account by contacting [email protected]; we will process account-deletion requests as described in our Privacy Policy.
• Effect of termination. Upon termination or account deletion: (a) your license to use the Service ends immediately; (b) stored platform access tokens are revoked and deleted from our systems; (c) any posts still in your publishing queue are cancelled and will not be published; and (d) content already published to third-party platforms remains on those platforms unless you remove it there directly.

12. Governing Law and Disputes

TODO for the app owner: Choose the governing-law jurisdiction and dispute-resolution venue for these Terms (e.g., a specific state/province and country, and whether disputes go to courts or binding arbitration). Do not publish this page publicly until this section is completed — app store reviewers and users expect a real answer here.

13. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. When we do, we will post the revised Terms on this page and update the "Effective date" above. If the changes are material, we will provide additional notice, such as an in-app message. Your continued use of the Service after the revised Terms take effect constitutes your acceptance of them. If you do not agree to the revised Terms, you must stop using the Service.

14. Contact

If you have questions about these Terms, contact us at [email protected].

TODO for the app owner: Create and monitor the [email protected] inbox before launch — this address is referenced in Sections 3, 11, and 14 and must actually work.