Terms and Conditions

Effective date: October 9, 2026
Last updated: October 9, 2026

These Terms and Conditions (“Terms”) are a binding agreement between you and IDEELY LLC, a Florida limited liability company doing business as ideely (“ideely,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). They govern the ideely Story Time mobile application, websites that link to these Terms, support services, and related features (collectively, the “Service”).

By creating an account, selecting “I agree,” making a purchase (including Lifetime Access), or using the Service, you agree to these Terms and acknowledge our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

Important copyright warning

Owning, buying, borrowing, renting, or possessing a physical or digital book does not ordinarily give you the copyright rights needed to scan it, translate it, adapt it, reproduce it as an audiobook, or send that copy to another service. Personal or noncommercial use is not automatically lawful. A library loan does not grant those rights.

Use ideely with a work only when at least one of the following is true:

1. you created and own the relevant rights;

2. the work is in the public domain in every place relevant to your use, and you have verified that status;

3. you have express authorization or a license covering every action you request, including cloud processing, reproduction, adaptation or translation, text-to-speech conversion, storage, and transfer to Yoto; or

4. qualified legal advice confirms that a specific statutory exception applies to your particular use.

If you are uncertain, do not upload the work. Contact the publisher or rightsholder for permission. ideely cannot give you permission to use someone else’s content.

1. Eligibility and adult control

You must be at least 18 years old, have legal capacity to contract, and use the Service for yourself or an organization you are authorized to bind. Accounts are for adults. Children may not create accounts or independently submit content.

An adult account holder may allow a child to listen or interact only under active adult supervision. The account holder remains responsible for the child’s use, the content made available, and all information submitted about the child. If you use the Service for a school, library, childcare provider, healthcare setting, or other organization, you represent that you have written authority from the organization and every permission required by law and institutional policy. Consumer subscriptions do not by themselves authorize institutional, classroom, public-performance, or library use.

2. What the Service does

The Service may allow you to:

• photograph or select images of pages and covers;

• recognize, clean, edit, translate, and synthesize text into speech;

• create stories, titles, names, and cover art with artificial intelligence;

• add licensed ideely-provided sounds or music, organize books, and play generated audio;

• create playlists and transfer selected audio and related metadata to your Yoto account; and

• access free, demonstration, trial, or subscription features.

Features, limits, languages, models, voices, and availability may vary by country, device, plan, provider, and time.

3. Limited license to use the Service

Subject to these Terms and any store rules, ideely grants you a limited, personal, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to install and use the Service on devices you own or control for private household purposes. This license does not permit commercial exploitation, service-bureau use, public performance, classroom distribution, library digitization, or use on behalf of third parties unless we expressly agree in writing. The personal sharing of Generated Content expressly permitted by Section 7 is not prohibited by this paragraph.

You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, lease, reverse engineer, bypass, scrape, or attempt to extract the source code, models, prompts, security controls, usage limits, or proprietary assets of the Service, except where applicable law does not allow that restriction.

4. Accounts and security

You must provide accurate information, keep it current, protect your credentials and devices, and promptly notify us of suspected unauthorized access. You are responsible for activity under your account unless applicable law provides otherwise.

Do not share an account outside your household, create accounts through automation, evade plan limits, impersonate another person, or use another person’s Apple, Google, RevenueCat, or Yoto account without authorization.

Temporary or anonymous demonstration accounts are not designed for permanent storage. Demonstration content and access may expire or be removed without notice. Do not rely on a demo account to preserve content.

5. Content categories and your responsibilities

These Terms distinguish among the following categories:

• “Captured Content” means an existing book, page, image, text, illustration, cover, or other material that you photograph, select, or upload, together with OCR text, translations, narration, adaptations, and other output derived from that material. Applying AI, translation, text-to-speech, editing, or another automated process does not convert Captured Content into Generated Content or eliminate rights in the underlying work.

• “User Inputs” means prompts, choices, instructions, names, character details, photographs, and other material you provide for an AI-creation feature, excluding Captured Content.

• “Generated Content” means new story text, titles, cover art, narration, or other material that the Service generates from User Inputs through an AI-creation feature. Generated Content does not include Captured Content or output derived from Captured Content.

• “Shared Content” means Generated Content that you affirmatively choose to publish or send through a sharing feature made available by ideely. Content is not Shared Content merely because it is stored in your account or transferred privately to a connected service at your direction.

“Your Content” means Captured Content, User Inputs, Generated Content, Shared Content, playlists, edits, and other material you submit to or create through the Service.

You retain any rights you have in Your Content. We do not acquire ownership of a book or other underlying work merely because you use the Service. No classification, label, or technical process in the Service determines copyright ownership or grants rights in third-party material.

Your promises about Your Content

For every item of Captured Content and User Inputs, and for each use you make of Generated Content or Shared Content, you represent and warrant that:

• you have all copyrights, privacy rights, publicity rights, permissions, consents, and other authority needed for the requested use;

• your requested use is lawful in every relevant country;

• where you rely on a license, it permits digitization, reproduction, cloud processing, adaptation or translation, synthetic narration, storage, and any transfer to Yoto;

• where a child or another person is identified, you have authority to provide their information and have obtained required consent;

• Your Content does not infringe, misappropriate, defame, exploit, deceive, or violate the rights of any person;

• Your Content is not subject to confidentiality, employment, school, library, subscription, digital-rights-management, or other restrictions that prohibit the requested use; and

• you will retain reasonable evidence of permission and provide it to us if a credible dispute arises.

Each time you photograph, select, capture, upload, submit, re-upload, edit, translate, narrate, generate from, store, share, publish, or transfer Your Content—or ask the Service to process it—you reaffirm these promises for that specific content and every action you request at that time. Your acceptance of these Terms does not give you rights in anyone else’s work. If your permission expires, is revoked, or no longer covers a requested use, you must stop using the affected content, remove it from the Service and connected services under your control, and not submit, process, or share it again.

Possession of a copy, a sales receipt, a library card, a school assignment, subscription access, or an online download is not by itself evidence of the necessary copyright permission.

License you give ideely

To the extent you own or control the necessary rights, you grant ideely a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, cache, reproduce, transmit, reformat, recognize, analyze, translate, adapt, synthesize, combine, display to you, and otherwise process Your Content only as reasonably necessary to:

• provide and maintain features you request;

• transfer content to Yoto or another service at your direction;

• secure, troubleshoot, and improve the operation of the Service;

• enforce these Terms and protect users, ideely, and third parties; and

• comply with law and valid legal process.

This license allows us to use processors and subprocessors for those purposes. Except for Shared Content as described in Section 7, it does not allow us to sell your book content, publicly release it, or use it to market another product without separate permission. The license ends when Your Content is deleted from our active systems, except to the extent copies remain in backups, logs, a connected third-party service, or records we must retain for legal, security, or dispute purposes.

6. Copyright, licenses, and exceptions

Copyright rules vary by country and by work. You—not ideely—must determine whether your use is authorized.

In the United States, fair use is a case-specific balancing test. A private purpose does not automatically make copying fair. Copying an entire highly creative children’s book, creating a translation or narrated version, and using a product that could substitute for a licensed ebook or audiobook can weigh against fair use. The “first sale” rule generally permits sale or disposal of a lawfully owned copy; it does not generally grant reproduction, adaptation, translation, public-performance, or distribution rights.

Other countries may have narrower exceptions. For example, the United Kingdom has no general private-copying exception, and European private-copy rules are not uniform. An exception in one country may not apply when cloud processing or transfer occurs elsewhere.

You may not use the Service to circumvent access controls or digital-rights management, remove or falsify copyright-management information, obscure author or publisher attribution in a deceptive way, or facilitate infringement. You may not rely on an accessibility exception unless you and the requested use actually satisfy every statutory requirement; many exceptions are limited to eligible persons or authorized entities.

ideely may block, limit, or remove content, disable features, preserve relevant records, or suspend an account when we reasonably believe a rights violation has occurred. We are not required to decide a complex ownership dispute in your favor.

7. AI, OCR, translation, generated content, and sharing

The Service uses automated systems and third-party models. Output may be inaccurate, incomplete, offensive, unsafe, culturally inappropriate, mistranslated, mispronounced, or similar to existing material. OCR may misread page text. Safety tools may fail or over-block.

You must review all output before a child experiences it or before you rely on, publish, perform, share, or transfer it. Do not use output as legal, medical, mental-health, educational, accessibility, or other professional advice. The Service is not an emergency service.

As between you and ideely, you may use, download, and, where the Service makes sharing available, share Generated Content for personal, noncommercial purposes, including through a personal social-media account, subject to these Terms, applicable law, third-party rights, and provider and destination-platform terms. To the extent ideely has assignable rights in Generated Content created for you, ideely assigns those rights to you upon creation. We do not promise that Generated Content is copyrightable, owned exclusively by you, unique, non-infringing, accurate, or eligible for registration. The same or similar output may be generated for others. Human-authored portions, User Inputs, and underlying third-party material may be subject to separate rights.

This sharing permission does not apply to Captured Content, output derived from Captured Content, or third-party material incorporated into Generated Content unless you independently have every right and permission needed for that sharing. You are responsible for reviewing Generated Content before sharing it and for ensuring that your prompts, images, names, characters, voices, likenesses, and other User Inputs are authorized. Do not state or imply that ideely verified your ownership, cleared third-party rights, or guarantees exclusivity.

When you affirmatively make Generated Content Shared Content through an ideely sharing feature, you grant ideely a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, reproduce, technically adapt, transmit, display, distribute, and moderate that Shared Content only as reasonably necessary to provide, secure, and operate the sharing feature and honor your sharing choices. This sharing license does not authorize ideely to use Shared Content in paid advertising or unrelated marketing without separate permission. Removing or unsharing content will stop new sharing through our active systems within a reasonable period, but it may not retrieve copies already downloaded, reposted, transferred, cached, or retained by other users or services.

ideely does not use Captured Content to train or fine-tune a general-purpose model operated by ideely or a third party, and does not use Captured Content as input, retrieval material, grounding data, or other context to generate AI-created books for you or another user. Captured Content may still be processed by automated systems and providers solely to perform the feature you request for that same content, such as OCR, cleanup, language detection, translation, safety review, narration, storage, or transfer. Our Privacy Policy provides additional details, including provider processing and retention.

You may not use AI features to impersonate a real person, clone a voice without consent, manipulate a child, create deceptive media, generate illegal or abusive material, or claim that synthetic content is authentic. Where law requires AI or synthetic-media disclosure or machine-readable marking, you must preserve our markings and provide required notices. You must not remove an “AI-generated” label, provenance metadata, watermark, or similar notice where removal would violate law, deceive another person, or breach the rules of the Service or destination platform.

8. Yoto features

Yoto is an independent third party. ideely is not endorsed by, sponsored by, or affiliated with Yoto unless we state otherwise in writing. “Yoto” and related marks belong to their owner.

If you connect Yoto, you authorize ideely to request the permissions shown during authorization, which may include managing your content and maintaining offline access. At your direction, we may list Yoto content and create or update a playlist or track using ideely audio, titles, icons, and cover information.

You must comply with Yoto’s terms, age rules, content rules, and privacy notice. Yoto’s published guidance states that Make Your Own content should be material you created yourself or have permission to use. ideely does not expand those permissions.

A Yoto transfer creates a separate copy controlled through Yoto. Disconnecting Yoto or deleting an ideely book or account may not delete the Yoto copy. You are responsible for deleting it through Yoto and for removing access from Yoto devices or cards. We do not guarantee Yoto availability, compatibility, review, storage, deletion, or playback.

9. Children, family privacy, and safety

The Service is built for adult-led family use, not unsupervised child use. You must use privacy-protective defaults and avoid including a child’s surname, precise location, address, school, contact information, health information, identifying photograph, or other sensitive data unless strictly necessary, lawful, and appropriately consented to.

You must not create content that sexualizes, exploits, grooms, abuses, threatens, humiliates, or endangers a child. Suspected child sexual abuse material or imminent threats may be reported to appropriate authorities and preserved as required by law.

Because generated output can be unpredictable, an adult must listen to or review it before making it available to a child. Age-range settings are aids, not guarantees.

10. Prohibited conduct

You may not use the Service to:

• infringe copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity, moral, contractual, or other rights;

• scan, translate, narrate, adapt, or transfer a book merely because you own or borrowed a copy;

• build or share an unauthorized audiobook library;

• distribute, sell, sublicense, publicly perform, broadcast, or make Captured Content or output derived from Captured Content available outside your private household unless properly licensed;

• share Generated Content in violation of Section 7, including Generated Content that incorporates unauthorized third-party material or personal information you are not authorized to disclose;

• upload confidential records, payment data, government identifiers, medical records, malware, or content you are not authorized to process;

• harass, threaten, discriminate, defame, exploit, or facilitate harm;

• create child sexual abuse material, sexual content involving minors, non-consensual intimate content, instructions for violent wrongdoing, or other unlawful material;

• bypass safety, access, subscription, territorial, or technical controls;

• interfere with, overload, probe, attack, or misuse the Service or another account;

• scrape output or use the Service to train or benchmark a competing model or service without written permission;

• misrepresent AI-generated content as authentic where that would deceive or violate law;

• violate sanctions, export controls, or applicable platform rules; or

• encourage or assist another person to do any of the above.

11. Intellectual-property enforcement

We respect intellectual-property rights and expect users to do the same. We may remove or disable access to material, restrict sharing or processing, suspend features, or terminate accounts when we reasonably believe intellectual-property rights have been violated.

12. Review, moderation, and enforcement

We are not obligated to pre-screen every item. We may use automated and human review when reasonably necessary to operate the Service, investigate a report, comply with law, or protect a person. We may reject a request, limit processing, remove or preserve content, warn a user, suspend features, or terminate an account.

We may cooperate with a valid court order, subpoena, regulator, law-enforcement request, child-safety report, or rights notice. We will challenge or narrow requests where appropriate, but we cannot promise advance notice when law forbids it or an emergency makes notice impracticable.

13. Privacy

Our Privacy Policy describes how we handle personal information. You represent that you have given required notices and obtained required consents before submitting information about another person, especially a child.

14. Subscriptions, Lifetime Access, billing, trials, and cancellation

Some features require an auto-renewing subscription or a one-time, non-consumable purchase through Apple’s App Store, Google Play, or another checkout identified at purchase. Before purchase, the purchase screen will show the plan, price, currency, billing structure, trial or introductory terms when applicable, and other material purchase conditions. Taxes may apply.

Unless the store says otherwise, a subscription automatically renews for the same period until canceled through your Apple or Google account at least 24 hours before the current period ends. The applicable store charges your account and manages payment methods, refunds, and billing disputes under its rules and mandatory law.

• Cancel through the subscription settings for the store where you purchased.

• Deleting the app, an ideely account, or ideely content does not cancel a subscription.

• Disconnecting Yoto does not cancel a subscription.

• Free trials convert to paid subscriptions as disclosed at purchase unless canceled in time.

• Unused plan allowances, credits, or book limits expire as displayed and have no cash value unless law requires otherwise.

• Changing devices, accounts, or stores may affect access. Use “Restore Purchases” where available.

Lifetime Access. If a purchase screen describes a plan as “Lifetime,” “Lifetime Access” means a non-expiring entitlement, without recurring charges, to use the premium features ideely makes available during the supported lifetime of the Service. The supported lifetime begins when you purchase and ends when ideely permanently discontinues the Service generally. It does not mean your natural lifetime and is not a promise that the Service, cloud processing, third-party integrations, particular features, models, voices, storage, device compatibility, or app-store availability will continue forever or for a minimum period.

While the Service remains generally available, we will not revoke a valid Lifetime Access entitlement merely because the plan is renamed, withdrawn from sale, or replaced with another payment offering, or merely to require you to purchase substantially the same entitlement again. We may modify or permanently discontinue the Service for bona fide legal, security, technical, third-party dependency, or commercial-viability reasons. When reasonably practicable, we will provide advance notice and an opportunity to export available user content. Nothing in this paragraph limits any refund, price reduction, termination right, or other remedy required by applicable law or app-store rules.

We may change future prices or plans with notice and store approval as required. A price change applies according to store rules and local law. Nothing in these Terms limits a non-waivable refund, cancellation, cooling-off, or consumer right.

15. Service availability and changes

We may maintain, modify, add, remove, limit, suspend, or discontinue features. Cloud providers, AI models, voices, Yoto, stores, and network conditions can cause delay or outage. Generated content may fail and content can be lost.

Keep any source material and any output you are lawfully entitled to retain. The Service is not an archival, backup, emergency, accessibility-assurance, or records-management service. We will provide notice and remedies when mandatory law requires them.

16. Third-party services

The Service depends on or connects to third parties including Apple, Google, Firebase, Google Cloud, model providers, RevenueCat, and Yoto. Their services are governed by their own terms and privacy notices. We do not control and are not responsible for their independent conduct, availability, security, content, or policy decisions, except to the extent applicable law makes us responsible.

Open-source components are governed by their applicable licenses. If a third-party term conflicts with these Terms for that third-party service, the third-party term controls only for that service.

17. ideely intellectual property

The Service, software, designs, brand, documentation, prompts, workflows, compilations, and ideely-provided assets are owned by ideely or its licensors and protected by law. Except for the limited license in Section 3, no right is granted to you.

You may give feedback. If you do, you grant us a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free right to use it without restriction or payment, without identifying you as the source unless we have permission.

18. Suspension, termination, and deletion

You may stop using the Service at any time. You may delete individual books through available controls and may request account deletion as described in the Privacy Policy. You must separately cancel any subscription and manage Yoto copies.

We may suspend or terminate access when you materially or repeatedly violate these Terms, create risk or legal exposure, fail to pay, misuse the Service, or when law or a provider requires it. Where appropriate and lawful, we will provide notice and an opportunity to cure or appeal.

On termination, your Service license ends. Sections that by nature should survive do survive, including ownership, content warranties, payment obligations, disclaimers, liability limits, indemnity, disputes, and miscellaneous terms. Deletion follows the Privacy Policy and does not require us to delete records we must retain or copies controlled by third parties.

19. Disclaimers

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Service is provided “as is” and “as available.” ideely and its licensors disclaim all express, implied, and statutory warranties, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, quiet enjoyment, accuracy, availability, and security.

We do not warrant that:

• you have the right to process a particular work;

• any use is fair use, fair dealing, private copying, accessible-format use, or otherwise lawful;

• AI, OCR, translation, narration, age filtering, or moderation is accurate, safe, unique, or non-infringing;

• content will be preserved, accepted by Yoto, or available without interruption; or

• the Service satisfies a school, library, healthcare, accessibility, or regulated-use requirement.

You are solely responsible for obtaining rights, reviewing output, supervising children, keeping lawful backups, and deciding whether use is appropriate. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain warranty exclusions, so those exclusions apply only to the extent allowed.

20. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, ideely, its affiliates, officers, employees, licensors, and providers will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages; loss of profits, goodwill, data, content, opportunity, or business; replacement-service costs; or claims arising from user content, AI output, infringement, Yoto, or another third party, even if advised that such loss was possible.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, their aggregate liability arising from the Service or these Terms will not exceed the greater of (a) the amount you paid ideely through the applicable app store for the Service during the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim or (b) USD $100.

These limits do not apply where prohibited, including liability that cannot lawfully be limited for fraud, fraudulent misrepresentation, willful misconduct, gross negligence, death or personal injury caused by negligence, breach of mandatory data-protection duties, or non-waivable consumer rights. The allocation of risk in these Terms is an essential basis of the agreement.

21. Indemnity

To the extent permitted by law, you will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless ideely, its affiliates, officers, employees, licensors, and providers from third-party claims, damages, judgments, losses, costs, and reasonable legal fees arising from:

• Your Content or our processing of it at your direction;

• your infringement or violation of another person’s copyright, privacy, publicity, contractual, or other rights;

• your violation of these Terms or law;

• your institutional, commercial, public, or unsupervised-child use; or

• your misuse of Yoto or another third-party service.

We will provide reasonable notice, permit you to control the defense where appropriate, and may participate with counsel at our expense. You may not settle a claim in a way that admits fault by or imposes an obligation on ideely without our written consent. This Section does not apply to consumers where local law prohibits it.

22. Governing law and consumer rights

To the extent permitted by applicable law, these Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Florida, United States, without regard to conflict-of-law principles.

If you are a consumer, this choice of law does not deprive you of any protection, remedy, or right to bring proceedings that cannot lawfully be waived under the laws applicable where you live. Nothing in these Terms limits rights or remedies that applicable law does not permit us to limit.

23. Export controls and sanctions

You may not use, export, re-export, or provide the Service in violation of United States or other applicable export-control or sanctions laws. You represent that you are not located in an embargoed territory, listed on a prohibited-party list, or acting for a prohibited party, except to the extent law prohibits requiring that representation.

24. Apple App Store terms

If you obtained the app through Apple, the following also applies:

• These Terms are between you and ideely, not Apple. ideely, not Apple, is responsible for the app and its content.

• Your license is limited to use on Apple-branded products you own or control as allowed by the App Store Usage Rules, including permitted Family Sharing or volume purchasing.

• Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support.

• If the app fails an applicable warranty, you may notify Apple for a refund of the purchase price, if any. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation; ideely is responsible for other claims attributable to a failure to conform to a warranty.

• ideely, not Apple, is responsible for product-liability, regulatory, consumer-protection, privacy, and other claims concerning the app, subject to these Terms and law.

• ideely, not Apple, is responsible for investigating, defending, settling, and discharging claims that the app or your possession and use of it infringes a third party’s intellectual-property rights.

• You represent that you are not in a U.S.-embargoed country or on a U.S. prohibited-party list.

• You must comply with applicable third-party terms, including Yoto’s terms and wireless-data terms.

• Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce this Section after your acceptance.

Developer contact: ideely.cc@outlook.com.

25. Google Play terms

If you obtained the app through Google Play, these Terms are between you and ideely, not Google. Google is not responsible for the app, support, claims, or compliance, except as its own terms provide. You must comply with Google Play’s applicable terms, payment rules, and subscription-management requirements. Google and its affiliates may be third-party beneficiaries where its developer terms require.

26. Language and local versions

We may provide translations for convenience. The English version controls to the extent permitted by law, but a legally required local-language version and non-waivable local interpretation rules prevail. Material legal terms must be professionally translated and version-controlled; output from the Service’s automatic translation feature is not an official legal translation.

27. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms for legal, security, product, or operational reasons. We will provide notice proportionate to the change and obtain renewed agreement where required. Changes do not retroactively eliminate an accrued claim. If you do not agree to a material change, stop using the Service and cancel any subscription before renewal.

28. Miscellaneous

These Terms, the Privacy Policy, applicable purchase disclosures, and any additional terms presented for a feature are the entire agreement about the Service. If a provision is unenforceable, it will be enforced to the maximum lawful extent and the rest remains in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; we may assign them as part of a reorganization or business transfer, subject to law. Headings are for convenience. “Including” means “including without limitation.” Electronic notices and acceptance satisfy writing requirements where permitted.

29. Contact

IDEELY LLC
UNITED STATES
ideely.cc@outlook.com
https://ideely.org/products/story-time/terms