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Coub.AI — Terms of Service

Effective date: June 16, 2026

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your access to and use of the Coub.AI website, applications, APIs, and related services (together, the "Service") operated by [Coub.AI Ltd, Seychelles — confirm legal entity & registered address] ("Coub.AI", "we", "us", or "our").

By creating an account, accessing, or using the Service, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy and Acceptable Use Policy ("AUP"), each incorporated by reference. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

1. Acceptance & Eligibility

1.1 Binding agreement. By accessing or using the Service, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms. If you use the Service on behalf of an organization, you represent that you are authorized to bind that organization, and "you" includes that organization.

1.2 Minimum age. The Service generates and processes synthetic media and is not directed at children. You must be at least 18 years old to create an account and use the Service. We may, at our discretion, permit users aged 16 or 17 to use the Service only where a parent or legal guardian has reviewed and consented to these Terms and where local law permits. By using the Service you represent that you meet these requirements.

1.3 Capacity. You must have the legal capacity to enter into a binding contract in your jurisdiction. The Service is not available to any user previously suspended or removed from the Service.

1.4 Closed beta. The Service is currently offered as a closed beta by invitation only. Access is limited, may be revoked at any time, and is subject to the additional beta caveats in Section 4.

2. Account Registration & Security

2.1 Account creation. You must register an account with accurate, current, and complete information, and keep it updated. We may use third-party authentication and email providers to create and verify your account.

2.2 Credentials. You are responsible for safeguarding your login credentials and for all activity that occurs under your account, whether or not authorized by you. Do not share your account or credentials.

2.3 Unauthorized use. Notify us promptly at legal@coub.ai if you suspect any unauthorized access to or use of your account. We are not liable for any loss arising from unauthorized use of your account that results from your failure to secure your credentials.

2.4 One account. Unless we agree otherwise in writing, you may maintain only one account. We may refuse, suspend, or close accounts, or reclaim usernames, at our discretion.

3. The Service

3.1 What the Service does. Coub.AI is a multi-modal generative AI platform that lets you create images, video, audio, and 3D assets ("Outputs") from text prompts and/or uploaded inputs ("Inputs"), using third-party AI models orchestrated through our infrastructure (including fal.ai). Available models, features, and limits may change at any time.

3.2 Credits. Generation consumes credits. Credits are a prepaid, limited license to access and use computational resources on the Service. Credits are not money, are not a deposit, are not stored value, and have no cash value. See Section 5.

3.3 Plans. The Service offers tiered access — Free, Lite, and Pro. Tiers differ in credit allotments, available models, output limits, and features. Free-tier Outputs carry a mandatory watermark (see Section 8.5). Plan details and inclusions may change.

3.4 No professional advice. Outputs are generated by probabilistic models and may be inaccurate, incomplete, offensive, or otherwise unsuitable. Outputs do not constitute professional, legal, medical, financial, or other advice, and must not be relied upon as such.

3.5 Changes to the Service. We may add, modify, suspend, or discontinue any part of the Service, including models, features, tiers, and credit costs, at any time, with or without notice.

4. Beta Status & "As-Is" Caveat

4.1 Pre-release software. The Service is a beta, pre-release offering provided for evaluation. It may contain bugs, errors, and instabilities; it may be modified, interrupted, or discontinued; and data, Outputs, credits, and account state may be lost, reset, or removed.

4.2 No reliance. You should not rely on the Service for any production, business-critical, or irreplaceable use during the beta. Maintain your own copies of any Inputs or Outputs you wish to keep.

4.3 As-is. Notwithstanding anything else, during the beta the Service is provided strictly "as is" and "as available," without any service-level commitment, uptime guarantee, or support obligation. The disclaimers in Section 11 apply with full force.

5. Credits & Billing

5.1 Nature of credits. As stated in Section 3.2, credits are a license to consume compute, not currency. Credits exist only within the Service, are non-transferable, and may not be sold, assigned, or exchanged for cash except where required by applicable law.

5.2 Beta top-ups. There is currently no live payment processor. During the beta, credits are granted manually by us (for example, as part of a plan, a promotion, or operator discretion). Granted credits are provided to you free of charge.

5.3 No refunds of granted credits. Because granted credits are provided at no cost, they are non-refundable and non-redeemable for cash. We may adjust, expire, reduce, or revoke granted credits at any time, including on account suspension or termination, or upon changes to the Service.

5.4 Consumption. Credits are deducted when you submit a generation request. Because generation invokes third-party compute, credits may be consumed even where an Output is unsatisfactory, partially completed, moderated, or fails for reasons outside our control. We will use reasonable efforts to handle clear system-side failures fairly but make no guarantee of credit reversal.

5.5 Future paid plans. We intend to introduce paid plans and a payment processor in the future. When we do, we will publish additional billing terms (covering pricing, payment, taxes, renewals, cancellation, and refunds, if any) that will apply to purchased credits. Those terms will be presented to you before any purchase and will govern paid transactions. These present Terms do not authorize any charge to you.

5.6 Taxes. You are responsible for any taxes applicable to your use of the Service, other than taxes on our net income.

6. User Content & Intellectual Property

6.1 Your Inputs. "Inputs" are the prompts, text, images, audio, files, and other materials you submit. You retain all rights you hold in your Inputs. You represent and warrant that you own or have all necessary rights, licenses, and consents to submit your Inputs and to allow their processing as described in these Terms, and that doing so does not violate any law or third-party right (including intellectual-property, privacy, and publicity rights).

6.2 Ownership of Outputs. As between you and Coub.AI, and subject to the terms of the underlying AI model provider (Section 9), you own the Outputs you generate from your account. We do not claim ownership of your Outputs.

6.3 No uniqueness or non-infringement guarantee. Generative models may produce similar or identical Outputs for different users, and may produce Outputs that resemble existing works, persons, or marks. We do not guarantee that any Output is original, unique, or free of third-party rights, and we make no representation that your use of an Output is lawful in your jurisdiction or for your intended purpose. You are solely responsible for evaluating and clearing rights before using an Output, especially for commercial purposes.

6.4 License you grant to us. To operate the Service, you grant Coub.AI a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, transmit, display, process, and serve your Inputs and Outputs solely to provide, secure, moderate, and improve the Service and to comply with law. This license is limited to those purposes, exists only as long as needed to provide the Service (or as required by law), and does not include selling your content or using your Outputs to advertise without your permission. We do not use your Inputs or Outputs to train our own foundation models; third-party providers' use of submitted content is governed by their terms (Section 9).

6.5 Feedback. If you give us suggestions or feedback, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free license to use it without restriction or obligation to you.

6.6 Our IP. The Service, including its software, design, branding, and the "Coub" and "Coub.AI" marks, is owned by us or our licensors and is protected by law. These Terms grant you no rights in our IP except the limited right to use the Service as permitted.

6.7 Personal data in prompts. You acknowledge that Inputs may be transmitted to third-party AI providers as submitted to generate Outputs. Do not include personal data, confidential information, or any material you are not authorized to disclose in your Inputs. We redact detected personal data from our internal logs and analytics, but we cannot redact, withhold, or protect the content of a prompt from the AI provider that processes it. See our Privacy Policy for details on sub-processors and data handling.

7. Acceptable Use

7.1 AUP. Your use of the Service is governed by our Acceptable Use Policy, incorporated into these Terms. You must comply with it at all times.

7.2 Prohibited content and conduct. Without limiting the AUP, you must not create, upload, request, or distribute, or use the Service to create, upload, request, or distribute:

  • Child sexual abuse material (CSAM) or any sexual content involving minors, real or synthetic;
  • Non-consensual intimate imagery, including sexualized "deepfakes" of real, identifiable people;
  • Impersonation of real people, including generating a real person's likeness or voice to deceive, defame, or defraud;
  • Malware, exploit, or malicious-code imagery or instructions intended to facilitate cyberattacks;
  • Weapon-assembly instructions or content that facilitates the creation of weapons or other serious physical harm;
  • Hate speech or content that incites violence or hatred against people based on protected characteristics; or
  • content that infringes intellectual-property rights, violates privacy or publicity rights, or otherwise breaks the law.

7.3 General restrictions. You must not (a) reverse-engineer, scrape, or circumvent rate limits, watermarks, moderation, or access controls; (b) resell or sublicense the Service without authorization; (c) interfere with the Service's operation or security; or (d) use the Service to develop a competing generative-AI service.

8. Moderation & Enforcement

8.1 Automated moderation. Inputs and Outputs are subject to automated safety screening, which may include Google Gemini, OpenAI omni-moderation, and Cloudflare scanning (including CSAM detection on stored assets). Screening may block a request, prevent delivery, or quarantine content before, during, or after generation.

8.2 Enforcement actions. We may, at our discretion and with or without notice, remove or disable content, refuse generation requests, limit features, suspend, or terminate your account for any actual or suspected violation of these Terms, the AUP, or applicable law, or to protect the Service, our users, or third parties.

8.3 Illegal content reporting. We scan stored media for CSAM and will report confirmed CSAM and other illegal content to the relevant authorities (including, where applicable, NCMEC or its equivalents) and preserve associated data as required by law. There is no appeal for content removed on this basis.

8.4 Appeals. For other enforcement actions, you may contact legal@coub.ai to request review. We will consider good-faith appeals but are not obligated to reinstate content or accounts.

8.5 Free-tier watermark. Outputs generated on the Free tier carry a visible and/or embedded watermark. You must not remove, obscure, or alter this watermark. Removing it is a violation of these Terms.

8.6 Your reports. To report content or conduct that violates these Terms, contact legal@coub.ai. For intellectual-property complaints, see Section 12.

9. Third-Party AI Providers & Services

9.1 Provider terms. Outputs are generated by third-party AI models accessed through providers including fal.ai and the underlying model owners. Your generation, ownership, and use of Outputs are subject to those providers' and model owners' applicable terms, licenses, and usage policies, in addition to these Terms. Where a provider's terms are more restrictive (for example, on commercial use of a specific model's Outputs), the more restrictive terms control for that Output.

9.2 Sub-processors. We rely on sub-processors to operate the Service, including Supabase (database/authentication), Cloudflare (CDN, storage, WAF, CSAM scanning), fal.ai (generation), Google and OpenAI (moderation; Google also for embeddings), Anthropic (prompt enhancement), Upstash (cache), Inngest (background jobs), Sentry, Better Stack, and PostHog (observability), and Loops (email). The current list and their roles are maintained in our Privacy Policy.

9.3 No control over third parties. We do not control third-party providers and are not responsible for their acts, omissions, availability, or terms. Provider changes may affect model availability, Output quality, ownership terms, or pricing.

10. Privacy & Data Protection

10.1 Privacy Policy. Our handling of personal data is described in our Privacy Policy, which forms part of these Terms.

10.2 GDPR. Although Coub.AI is established in the Seychelles, we honor GDPR rights for users in the EU/EEA, including the rights of access, rectification, erasure, and data portability. We provide data export and erasure, and aim to action verified requests within 30 days. Submit requests via /privacy/data-request or privacy@coub.ai.

10.3 Prompts and PII. As noted in Section 6.7, Inputs are sent to AI providers as submitted; do not include personal or confidential data in prompts. We redact detected PII from logs and analytics but cannot constrain provider processing of prompt content.

11. Disclaimers & Limitation of Liability

11.1 As-is. To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Service and all Outputs 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, non-infringement, accuracy, or uninterrupted or error-free operation.

11.2 AI output. We make no warranty that Outputs will be accurate, appropriate, original, non-infringing, lawful for your use, fit for any purpose, or free of objectionable content. You assume all risk arising from your use of Outputs.

11.3 No consequential damages. To the maximum extent permitted by law, in no event will Coub.AI or its officers, employees, or suppliers be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or content, however caused and under any theory of liability.

11.4 Liability cap. To the maximum extent permitted by law, our total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to the Service or these Terms will not exceed the greater of (a) the amount you actually paid us, if any, for the Service in the three (3) months preceding the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) USD 50. Because the beta is provided free of charge, you acknowledge this amount may be zero.

11.5 Beta. During the beta, the disclaimers and limitations in this Section and in Section 4 apply with full force and are a basis of the bargain.

11.6 Mandatory law. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, fraud, or any non-waivable statutory consumer right.

12. Intellectual-Property Complaints (DMCA / Notice-and-Takedown)

12.1 Notice. If you believe content on the Service infringes your intellectual-property rights, send a notice to dmca@coub.ai including: (a) identification of the work; (b) the location of the allegedly infringing content; (c) your contact details; (d) a good-faith statement that the use is unauthorized; (e) a statement, under penalty of perjury, that your notice is accurate and you are authorized to act; and (f) your signature (electronic is fine).

12.2 Action. We will review valid notices and may remove or disable access to the content. We may terminate accounts of repeat infringers.

13. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Coub.AI and its officers, directors, employees, and suppliers from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or related to: (a) your Inputs, Outputs, or use of the Service; (b) your violation of these Terms, the AUP, or applicable law; (c) your infringement or violation of any third-party right; or (d) your breach of any third-party AI provider's terms. We may assume exclusive control of any matter subject to indemnification, in which case you will cooperate with us.

14. Geographic Restrictions & Sanctions

14.1 Sanctions compliance. The Service is not available to any person or in any territory subject to comprehensive sanctions or export-control restrictions. We block access at signup and at content delivery for OFAC-sanctioned jurisdictions, currently including Iran, North Korea, Cuba, and Syria (and the relevant regions of Ukraine), and we may block additional regions as required.

14.2 Your representation. You represent that you are not located in, ordinarily resident in, or a national of a comprehensively sanctioned jurisdiction, that you are not on any sanctions or denied-party list, and that you will not use the Service in violation of any sanctions or export-control law. We may block, suspend, or terminate access to comply with these laws.

14.3 Local responsibility. You are responsible for complying with all laws applicable to your use of the Service in your location, including any local restrictions on AI-generated or synthetic media.

15. Governing Law & Dispute Resolution

15.1 Governing law. These Terms and any dispute arising out of or relating to them or the Service are governed by the laws of [the Republic of Seychelles — confirm governing-law venue], without regard to conflict-of-laws rules.

15.2 Informal resolution first. Before bringing any formal proceeding, you agree to contact us at legal@coub.ai and attempt to resolve the dispute informally in good faith for at least 30 days.

15.3 Arbitration option. Any dispute not resolved informally may, at either party's election, be finally resolved by binding arbitration seated in [Victoria, Seychelles — confirm seat], conducted in English under the rules of a recognized arbitral institution (for example, the SIAC or the ICC) by one arbitrator. Judgment on the award may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction. You and Coub.AI waive any right to a jury trial and to participate in a class or representative action, to the extent permitted by law.

15.4 Mandatory consumer rights. If you are a consumer resident in the EU/EEA or another jurisdiction with non-waivable consumer-protection rules, nothing in this Section deprives you of the protection of mandatory provisions of your local law, including your right to bring proceedings in your local courts where such a right cannot be waived.

15.5 Injunctive relief. Either party may seek injunctive or equitable relief in a court of competent jurisdiction to protect its intellectual-property or confidentiality rights.

16. Term & Termination

16.1 By you. You may stop using the Service and delete your account at any time, including via /privacy/data-request.

16.2 By us. We may suspend or terminate your access at any time, with or without notice, for breach of these Terms or the AUP, to comply with law, to protect the Service or others, or because we discontinue the beta or the Service.

16.3 Effect. On termination, your right to use the Service ends immediately, any remaining credits are forfeited (Section 5.3), and we may delete your account and content, subject to legal-retention requirements. Sections that by their nature should survive — including 5.3, 6.2–6.7, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 17 — survive termination.

17. Changes, General Terms & Contact

17.1 Changes to these Terms. We may update these Terms from time to time. If we make material changes, we will provide reasonable notice (for example, by email or in-product notice) and update the "Last updated" and "Effective date" above. Changes take effect on the stated effective date; your continued use after that date constitutes acceptance. If you do not agree, stop using the Service.

17.2 Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the AUP and Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between you and Coub.AI regarding the Service and supersede prior agreements on that subject.

17.3 Severability & waiver. If any provision is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions stay in effect, and the unenforceable provision will be modified to the minimum extent necessary. Our failure to enforce any right is not a waiver.

17.4 Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our consent. We may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of assets.

17.5 No third-party beneficiaries. Except for our suppliers and indemnified parties as expressly stated, these Terms create no third-party beneficiary rights.

17.6 Force majeure. We are not liable for any failure or delay caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including third-party provider outages.

17.7 Contact.

By using Coub.AI, you acknowledge that you have read and agree to these Terms, the Acceptable Use Policy, and the Privacy Policy.