Terms of Use

1. Who can use Taplot

You must be at least 13 years old, or older if your country requires a higher minimum age, to use Taplot. If you are under 18 (or the age of majority where you live), you may use Taplot only with the permission of a parent or guardian who agrees to these Terms. Some stories include mature themes such as romance, violence, and suggestive scenes; the app's age rating in the App Store describes them.

2. Your account

You can watch stories as a guest. You need an account to save your history, like and subscribe to stories, comment, and buy or use Tapes. You can sign in with email and password, a code sent to your phone, Sign in with Apple, or Google.

Keep your account information accurate and your sign-in details private. You are responsible for activity on your account. Tell us at support@vispie.com if you think someone else has used it.

3. Stories and your license to use them

Taplot shows interactive stories made by Vispie, creators, and our licensors. Some stories, images, voices, and video are made with the help of AI tools, and Live stories write and film responses in real time with AI, so they can be unexpected or inaccurate. Stories are fiction.

We give you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to view and play stories in Taplot for your own non-commercial use. You may not copy, record, download, redistribute, sell, or publicly show stories, except through features Taplot provides, such as sharing a link. Stories, characters, and the Taplot app belong to Vispie or its licensors. We may add, change, or remove stories at any time.

4. Tapes and purchases

• What Tapes are. Tapes are a virtual currency used only to unlock paid choices and items in Taplot stories. You buy Tapes in packs through in-app purchase in the App Store. The price is shown before you buy, and Apple processes your payment under its own terms. Taplot never receives your card or payment details.
• No cash value. Tapes and unlocked items have no cash value. They cannot be exchanged for money or for anything outside Taplot, and cannot be sold, transferred, or gifted. Tapes do not expire.
• Saved to your account. Your Tapes balance and everything you unlock are saved to your Taplot account, not your iPhone or iPad, and are available wherever you sign in. If a purchase did not finish, use Me → Tapes & purchases → Restore purchases.
• Unlocks are final. Spending Tapes on a choice or item unlocks it for your account once; Tapes spent are not returned, except where the law requires it.
• Refunds. Apple handles refunds for App Store purchases under its own policies; you can ask for one at reportaproblem.apple.com. If a purchase is refunded or reversed, we remove the Tapes it added from your balance.
• Deleting your account deletes your Tapes balance and unlocked items; they cannot be restored.
• Prices and what Tapes can unlock may change; changes do not affect Tapes you have already bought.

5. Your content

Your content is what you add to Taplot: comments and replies, your display name and avatar, and anything you type in a Live story. You keep ownership of it. You give Vispie a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, display, reproduce, adapt (for example, to fit a screen), and distribute your content in Taplot to operate and improve the service, until you delete it or your account, except for copies we must keep by law. You are responsible for your content and must have the rights to post it.

6. Community rules: no tolerance for objectionable content or abusive users

Taplot has no tolerance for objectionable content or abusive users. You must not post or send anything that:

• harasses, bullies, threatens, or shares private information about anyone;
• attacks people based on race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or another protected characteristic;
• is sexually explicit, or sexualizes minors in any way;
• promotes violence, self-harm, terrorism, or illegal activity;
• is spam, a scam, or advertising;
• infringes someone else's rights, or impersonates another person.

Report and block. You can report any comment with ⋯ → Report, and block its author with ⋯ → Block so you no longer see their comments. We review reports and act on objectionable content within 24 hours, removing the content and suspending or banning accounts that break these rules. You can also write to support@vispie.com.

7. Using Taplot fairly

Do not misuse Taplot. For example, do not reverse engineer, scrape, or copy the app or its stories; use bots or automation; interfere with or overload the service; get around locks, payments, or limits; use bugs to obtain Tapes or unlocks; make new accounts to evade a suspension; or use Taplot for anything illegal.

8. Ending your use of Taplot

You can stop using Taplot at any time and delete your account in the app: Me → Delete account. We may suspend or end your access if you break these Terms, to protect other people or Taplot, or where the law requires it. If your account is ended for breaking these Terms, its Tapes and unlocked items are lost, except where the law requires otherwise. Parts of these Terms that by their nature should continue, such as sections 5, 10, 11, and 13, continue after your account ends.

9. Other services

Taplot works with services run by others, such as the App Store, Apple and Google sign-in, and TikTok. Their own terms apply when you use them, and we are not responsible for them.

10. Disclaimers

Taplot is provided "as is" and "as available". To the fullest extent permitted by law, Vispie makes no warranties, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement, and does not promise that Taplot will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that any story will stay available. Nothing in these Terms limits rights you have under consumer protection laws that cannot be waived.

11. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Vispie is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, data, or goodwill, arising from your use of Taplot. Our total liability for any claim relating to Taplot is limited to the greater of the amount you paid for Tapes in the 12 months before the claim or US$50. Some places do not allow these limits, so they may not apply to you.

12. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms as Taplot changes. The date above shows the latest version. If a change is material, we will tell you in the app or by email before it takes effect. If you keep using Taplot after a change takes effect, you accept the updated Terms.

13. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Disputes will be resolved in the state or federal courts located in Santa Clara County, California, unless the consumer laws of the place where you live give you the right to bring a claim in your local courts.

14. Additional terms for the App Store

If you downloaded Taplot from Apple's App Store, these terms also apply:

• These Terms are between you and Vispie Inc, not Apple Inc. ("Apple"). Vispie, not Apple, is solely responsible for Taplot and its content.
• Apple has no obligation to provide any maintenance or support services for Taplot.
• If Taplot fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price of the app, if any. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation with respect to Taplot.
• Vispie, not Apple, is responsible for addressing any claims by you or a third party relating to Taplot or your possession and use of it, including product liability claims, claims that Taplot fails to conform to any legal or regulatory requirement, and claims arising under consumer protection, privacy, or similar laws.
• If a third party claims that Taplot or your possession and use of it infringes that third party's intellectual property rights, Vispie, not Apple, is responsible for the investigation, defense, settlement, and discharge of that claim.
• You represent that you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. Government embargo or designated as a "terrorist supporting" country, and that you are not listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
• You must comply with applicable third-party terms when using Taplot, including your wireless data service agreement.
• 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 these Terms against you as a third-party beneficiary.

15. Contact

Vispie Inc
Email: support@vispie.com
Phone: +1 (408) 667-9794
In the app: Me → About Taplot → Help & Support