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Ayy Terms of Service

Effective date: 7 November 2026

Applies to the invited closed beta when these Terms are presented and accepted in the app.

1. Who operates Ayy

Ayy is operated by Ayush Srivastava, an individual based in India, under the Kalaphos name. Contact: support@kalaphos.com. Website: https://ayy.kalaphos.com.

These Terms, the Privacy Policy and Community Guidelines explain use of the closed beta. They do not promise that an experimental feature is available.

2. Adults only

You must be at least 18 years old and able to agree to these Terms. The app asks you to confirm that requirement; it does not verify your real-world age or identity. Do not use Ayy if you are under 18.

3. Your account and profile

Ordinary registration uses a cryptographic identity created for this app on your device. It does not require a password, email address, phone number or social login. Keep your device secure. A lost device or lost local key can mean loss of account access and local chat history; the beta does not provide a cloud backup of your conversations.

Use only profile material you have the right to share. Do not impersonate others or present device-account authentication as proof of a person’s legal name, age, trustworthiness or safety. The same applies to the social handles you add to Your socials and choose to share in a chat.

4. Nearby participation

Nearby starts when you choose to start it. It uses permitted local radios to find other participating devices and exchange short-lived broadcasts and private approaches. The beta supports Bluetooth; Wi-Fi Aware, general media attachments and Compass experiments are not promised features.

You can choose whether to list your profile nearby. A public broadcast you send still includes your saved profile and a persistent public publishing identity for this account/installation. Broadcasts only is not anonymous publishing. Separate broadcasts can be recognized as coming from the same publisher across Nearby sessions.

Broadcasts normally expire after five minutes, with a thirty-minute maximum. They are not a permanent server-hosted feed. Recipients can copy or screenshot material they receive; the app cannot erase outside copies. Radio observers may detect Nearby activity. Nearby does not reveal a guaranteed precise distance, prove physical identity or imply permission to approach, follow, photograph or contact someone outside the app.

5. Private conversations and Internet continuity

An established relationship can continue through an operational local route or Internet Relay. Internet continuity is automatic when eligible, not a separate user-facing opt-in. The provisional allowance is 1,000 Internet text messages per account per UTC day, and shared socials count toward it; local text is outside that allowance. The allowance is not a guarantee of uninterrupted service or delivery.

Direct-local text is authenticated but optional local-chat end-to-end encryption is OFF by default. The chat shield offers a change that requires both participants’ agreement. Changes apply prospectively. Private Internet messages remain endpoint-protected even when the local-chat setting is OFF; Relay is not a plaintext fallback. Account authentication does not verify a person’s real-world identity.

Pending messages are stored on the sender’s device. Relay may hold protected ciphertext for up to thirty days. A recipient’s opaque Relay address is persistent independently of the lifetime of a message; access authorizations remain renewable and revocable. This address is not a publicly searchable profile or phone number.

A server upload, local radio write or push acknowledgement is not proof of recipient delivery. Offline devices, denied permissions, OS scheduling, force-stop/force-quit, service outages and quota can delay or prevent receipt.

6. Content and acceptable use

You retain rights in your content. You permit the processing, transmission, storage and display needed to provide the features you choose, respond to your explicit reports/support requests, protect the service and comply with applicable law. This permission does not give us access to private content that the service does not possess or cannot decrypt.

Do not use Ayy for harassment, threats, stalking, coercion, scams, impersonation, hate, doxxing, block evasion, unlawful activity or interference with devices, infrastructure or safety controls. Child sexual abuse material, grooming and sexual exploitation of minors are prohibited. Do not submit content you have no right to share, forge evidence or abuse reporting. See the Community Guidelines and Child Safety Standards for details.

7. Blocks, reports and support

Blocking does not require a report. You can report supported profiles, broadcasts or conversations and explicitly choose the evidence to submit. Selected evidence becomes restricted server-held safety information; an ordinary private conversation does not become generally accessible merely because a report is filed. Reports are allegations, not automatic proof or an automatic public penalty.

We may warn, restrict, temporarily suspend or permanently suspend accounts when reasonably necessary for safety, security, these Terms or legal obligations. Eligible decisions can be challenged through the supported appeal/support process. Enforcement is not a guaranteed automatic sequence.

Messages sent to the in-app Support & Safety Inbox are server-readable support content, separate from ordinary private chat. You can also contact support@kalaphos.com. Do not send passwords, private keys or unnecessary private histories. We do not promise a fixed support response time.

8. Account deletion

Request account deletion inside Account & Safety. If you cannot access the app, start a request through the account-deletion page or support@kalaphos.com; we need enough information to validate ownership and cannot promise recovery without the original device identity. We will not ask you to email a private key.

A request deactivates the account for a thirty-day grace period. Opening the app does not cancel deletion. Reactivation requires an explicit action and the valid original account identity. After the grace period ordinary account data is permanently deleted and cannot be recovered. Local deletion occurs when the device can next run; we cannot remotely erase a device that never runs again. Limited safety, legal and audit records, independently expiring Relay ciphertext and other people’s copies are treated separately as described in the Privacy Policy. A reserved opaque mailbox identifier may remain to prevent reassignment; it does not reactivate the account.

9. Beta limitations and your rights

This is a closed beta. Features, supported devices and availability may change. Delivery speed, background operation, uninterrupted access and recovery of lost local history are not guaranteed. Ayy is not an emergency service, safety monitoring service or real-world identity verification service.

To the extent permitted by applicable law, the beta is provided as available without a promise that it is free of defects or suitable for a particular purpose. Nothing in these Terms excludes mandatory consumer rights, limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited or prevents you from using a remedy available under applicable law. No mandatory arbitration agreement, class-action waiver, fixed monetary liability cap or indemnity is imposed by these beta Terms.

10. Changes and disputes

We will provide appropriate notice of material changes and update the applicable policy/version before materially different data uses. Required new consent is not inferred from an old acceptance. You can stop using the service and request deletion if you do not wish to continue under revised Terms.

These Terms are governed by the laws of India, subject to any mandatory rights and protections that apply where you live. Contact support@kalaphos.com to try to resolve a concern. This does not restrict your ability to contact a regulator or bring a claim in a court available to you under applicable law.

11. Contact and other policies

Operator: Ayush Srivastava, India. Contact: support@kalaphos.com. Where a postal or representative disclosure is legally required, it must be provided for the applicable distribution territory; no private residential address is implied by this email contact.