Terms of Service
These Terms of Service ("Terms") form a binding agreement between you and Picley ("Picley", "we", "our") and govern your use of the Picley mobile app and the website at getpicley.com (together, the "Service"). By creating an account, joining an album, uploading photos, or otherwise using the Service, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.
Contents
1. The Service 2. Eligibility and accounts 3. Your content 4. License you grant to Picley 5. Acceptable use 6. Copyright (DMCA) 7. Service availability 8. Fees 9. Third‑party integrations 10. Termination 11. Disclaimers 12. Limitation of liability 13. Indemnification 14. Governing law and disputes 15. Apple App Store terms 16. Changes to these Terms 17. Contact1. The Service
Picley lets an event organiser create a shared photo album, invite guests via a link or codeword, collect photos uploaded by those guests, and produce an automatically curated "Story" view of the event. Picley is currently provided free of charge.
2. Eligibility and accounts
- You must be at least 13 years old to use Picley. In jurisdictions where the digital age of consent is higher (such as 16 in parts of the EU), you must meet the higher minimum age.
- If you are under 18, you confirm that a parent or legal guardian has reviewed and accepted these Terms on your behalf.
- You must provide accurate information when creating an account and keep your login credentials secure. You are responsible for activity on your account.
- You must not impersonate another person, create accounts using bots, or maintain more than one account for the same person.
- One person, one account.
3. Your content
"Your Content" means everything you upload or submit to the Service: photos, videos, captions, comments, codewords, album names, and any other material you provide.
- You retain all ownership rights in Your Content. We do not claim ownership of your photos.
- You represent and warrant that you have the rights necessary to upload Your Content and to grant Picley the licence in section 4 — for example, that you are the photographer, that you have the right to share the photo, and that the people in the photo have consented as required by local law.
- You will not upload content of people who you have reason to believe object to being photographed or to having their photo shared in this way.
4. License you grant to Picley
To operate the Service, we need permission to handle Your Content. You grant Picley a worldwide, non‑exclusive, royalty‑free licence to host, store, copy, transmit, transcode, resize, analyse, display, and otherwise use Your Content solely to provide and improve the Service for you and the people you share an album with. This licence ends when you or the album organiser delete the content or the album, or when your account is deleted, except for backups and audit copies that we reasonably need to retain for a limited time.
We will not use Your Content to train artificial intelligence or machine‑learning models, license it to third parties for any purpose other than providing the Service, sell it, or use it in advertising.
5. Acceptable use
You agree not to:
- Upload content that is illegal, infringes intellectual property, depicts child sexual abuse, contains non‑consensual intimate imagery, incites violence, or is otherwise harmful.
- Use the Service to harass, dox, stalk, or threaten anyone.
- Attempt to reverse engineer, decompile, scrape, or otherwise extract the source code, training data, or model weights of any part of the Service.
- Probe the Service for vulnerabilities or interfere with its operation, including by sending excessive traffic, attempting to break authentication, or exploiting bugs you discover.
- Use any automated system to access the Service in a way that exceeds normal human use.
- Remove, obscure, or alter copyright, trademark, or other proprietary notices.
- Bypass rate limits, share an album with someone the organiser has blocked, or use the Service for spam.
If you discover a security issue, please report it responsibly to [email protected] instead of exploiting it.
6. Copyright (DMCA)
If you believe content on Picley infringes your copyright, send a notice to [email protected] with: (a) your contact information, (b) a description of the copyrighted work, (c) the URL or location of the infringing material, (d) a statement under penalty of perjury that you own or are authorised to act on behalf of the owner, and (e) your physical or electronic signature. We may remove the content and may terminate accounts of repeat infringers.
7. Service availability
We work to keep Picley running reliably, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted availability. We may modify, suspend, or discontinue any part of the Service at any time, with or without notice. We will give reasonable advance notice if we plan to shut down the Service entirely so that you can export your photos.
8. Fees
Picley is currently free. If we introduce paid features in the future, we will give you advance notice and the option to decline. Free use of features you signed up for under these Terms will not be retroactively converted to paid.
9. Third‑party integrations
The Service can connect to third‑party services such as Google Photos and Dropbox if you choose. When you connect such a service, the third party's terms and privacy policy also apply, and Picley is not responsible for what they do with your data once it is delivered to them at your request. You can disconnect any integration from the relevant settings at any time.
10. Termination
- You may stop using Picley at any time and delete your account from Settings → Delete my account.
- We may suspend or terminate your access immediately if you breach these Terms, if we are required to do so by law, or if your continued use poses a security or reputational risk to Picley or its users. Where reasonable, we will give notice and a chance to remedy first.
- Sections 3, 4 (final paragraph), 5, 11, 12, 13, and 14 survive termination.
11. Disclaimers
The Service is provided "as is" and "as available" without warranty of any kind. To the fullest extent permitted by law, Picley disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non‑infringement, accuracy, and quiet enjoyment. Picley does not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, secure, or error‑free, or that data will not be lost.
12. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, Picley and its operators will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or other intangible losses, arising out of or relating to your use of the Service. Picley's total aggregate liability for any claim arising out of or relating to the Service is limited to the greater of (a) the amount you paid Picley in the twelve months preceding the claim or (b) US$50.
Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain damages, so some of the above may not apply to you. In that case, our liability is limited to the maximum extent permitted by law.
13. Indemnification
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold Picley harmless from claims, damages, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising from (a) Your Content, (b) your breach of these Terms, or (c) your violation of any law or third‑party right.
14. Governing law and disputes
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, USA, without regard to its conflict‑of‑law rules. The exclusive venue for any dispute that is not resolved informally is the state or federal courts located in San Francisco County, California, and you and Picley each consent to personal jurisdiction there. If you are a consumer in the EU, UK, or another jurisdiction with mandatory consumer‑protection rules, this section does not deprive you of those rights.
You and Picley agree to first attempt to resolve any dispute informally by contacting [email protected] at least 60 days before initiating any formal proceeding.
15. Apple App Store terms
If you obtained the iOS version of Picley through the Apple App Store, the following additional terms apply:
- These Terms are between you and Picley only, not Apple. Picley alone is responsible for the iOS application and its content.
- Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for the iOS application.
- Picley, not Apple, is responsible for any product warranty claims; Apple's only obligation is to refund the purchase price (if any) of the application upon your request.
- Picley, not Apple, is responsible for any third‑party claim that the iOS application or your possession and use of it infringes that third party's intellectual property rights.
- You represent that you are not located in a country that is subject to a US Government embargo or that has been designated by the US Government as a "terrorist supporting" country, and that you are not on any US Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
- Apple and Apple's subsidiaries are third‑party beneficiaries of these Terms with respect to the iOS application, and Apple has the right (and is deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce these Terms against you.
16. Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms from time to time. The "Last updated" date at the top reflects the most recent change. If we make a material change, we will notify you in the app or by email at least 30 days before it takes effect. Your continued use of the Service after the change takes effect means you accept the new Terms.
17. Contact
General support and legal notices:
[email protected]
Privacy:
[email protected]