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Reelly — Terms of Use

Version 1.0 · Last updated: 2026‑09‑21

These Terms of Use (the “Terms”) are a binding agreement between you and Benjamin Ollomo (“I”, “me”), an individual who builds and operates Reelly, governing your use of the Reelly iOS application and the backend services it connects to (together, the “Service”). Please also read the Privacy Policy and the Security Overview, which are incorporated into these Terms by reference.

By creating an account or using the Service, you accept these Terms and the Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

1. Eligibility and acceptance

  • You must be 13 years of age or older, and old enough to form a binding contract where you live, to use the Service. If you are under 18, you may use Reelly only with the involvement of a parent or guardian.
  • Reelly is currently an invitation-only beta. Access is limited to email addresses on an approval list, and I may grant, withhold, or withdraw access at my discretion.
  • You accept these Terms on your own behalf. If a later version is published, your continued use after it takes effect constitutes acceptance of the changes.

2. What Reelly is — and what it is not

Reelly is a personal library for links. When you save a public post from a supported platform, Reelly stores the canonical public URL and retrieves the text and media context that the platform makes publicly available at that URL, so the save becomes searchable in your own library. Reelly also generates transcripts, extracted on-screen text, and short summaries to make saves easier to find later.

Reelly is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Instagram, Meta, TikTok, X, Reddit, or any other platform. It is not a downloader or a re-publishing service: it does not sign in to platforms on your behalf, does not use platform login cookies, does not accept file uploads, and does not read comments or replies. Public platform access varies and changes without notice, so a save can remain partial or fail entirely, and nothing in these Terms promises that any particular link will extract successfully.

3. Beta status and availability

The Service is pre-release software provided free of charge during this milestone. There is no subscription, billing, or paid tier today. Beta software has bugs, changes without notice, and may be interrupted, reset, or discontinued. I may change or remove features, wipe beta data, or end the beta at any time. Do not use Reelly as the only copy of anything you cannot afford to lose — keep your own record of links that matter to you.

4. Your account

  • You sign in with an email address and password, and you must verify your email address before the account becomes usable. You are responsible for keeping your password and your device secure, and for all activity under your account.
  • Provide accurate information and keep it current. One account per person.
  • Your library is scoped to your account. Every request to the backend must carry your own authentication, and the Service is built so that one account cannot read another account’s items.
  • Tell me promptly at benji.ollomo@gmail.com if you believe your account has been compromised.

5. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

  • use the Service for any unlawful purpose, or in violation of these Terms or any applicable law;
  • save or process content you do not have the right to save, including private, restricted, or paywalled material, or anything obtained by circumventing a platform’s access controls;
  • use the Service to build a competing dataset, to bulk-archive another person’s or organization’s content, or to redistribute extracted text, transcripts, or media;
  • attempt to circumvent, disable, or interfere with security features, including authentication, rate limits, or usage quotas;
  • access the Service by automated means, scrape it, or generate excessive load;
  • probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the Service except as expressly invited (see the Security Overview for how to report an issue);
  • reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble any part of the Service except to the extent that restriction is prohibited by law;
  • use the Service or its outputs to harass, harm, impersonate, or mislead anyone;
  • resell, sublicense, or commercially exploit the Service without my written permission.

Rate limits and quotas may be applied, changed, or enforced at any time, and access that I reasonably believe violates this section may be suspended or terminated.

6. Saved content, platforms, and copyright

  • The content is not yours, and it is not mine. The posts you save are created by other people and hosted by other platforms. Saving a link to your Reelly library does not transfer any rights in that post to you or to me. Your saves, transcripts, and summaries are for your own personal reference.
  • Platform terms still apply to you. Your use of Instagram, TikTok, X, Reddit, or any other platform remains governed by that platform’s own terms. It is your responsibility to know and follow them.
  • Copyright complaints. If you believe something stored in the Service infringes your copyright, email benji.ollomo@gmail.com with the URL, a description of the work, and your contact details. Infringing material will be removed and repeat-infringing accounts terminated.

7. Your content and data

  • You keep ownership of what you put into the Service — your saved URLs, notes, tags, collections, and feedback. You grant me a non-exclusive licence to host and process that content solely to operate, secure, and provide the Service to you.
  • You represent that you have the right to submit anything you provide and that doing so does not violate anyone’s rights.
  • Your saves are not used to train any AI model, and they are not sold, rented, or shared for advertising. See the Privacy Policy for what is stored and for how long.
  • Feedback. If you send suggestions about the Service, you grant me a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free licence to use them without restriction or obligation.

8. AI-generated output

Transcripts, extracted on-screen text, summaries, and search rankings are produced by automated systems, including third-party AI models, and are provided “as is”. They can be incomplete, garbled, or simply wrong — a transcript may mishear words, a summary may omit or misstate the point of a post, and search may miss a result you expected. Treat every output as a pointer back to the original post, not as a substitute for it, and check the source before relying on anything. You are solely responsible for any decision you make based on an output.

9. Intellectual property

The Service — the app, the backend, the interface, and the Reelly name and mark — is owned by me or my licensors and is protected by intellectual-property law. Subject to these Terms, you are granted a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to install and use the Reelly app on Apple devices you own or control, for your personal, non-commercial use. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.

10. Third-party services

The Service depends on third parties, including Apple (App Store distribution and device platform), a cloud database and object-storage provider, an email delivery provider, and OpenAI, which performs transcription, visual-text extraction, summarization, and search embeddings. Your use of third-party components may also be subject to those parties’ terms and privacy policies. I am not responsible for third-party services, outages, or events beyond my reasonable control.

11. Termination

You may stop using the Service and ask me to close your account at any time. I may suspend or terminate your access if you violate these Terms, if required by law, or if I discontinue the Service. On termination your licence to use the app ends, and your data is handled as described in the Privacy Policy. Sections 2, 6, 8, 9, and 12 through 16 survive termination.

12. Disclaimers of warranties

EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY STATED AND TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE SERVICE AND ALL OUTPUTS ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE”, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. I DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, THAT ANY LINK WILL EXTRACT SUCCESSFULLY, OR THAT ANY OUTPUT IS ACCURATE. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES, SO SOME OF THE ABOVE MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

13. Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, I WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, DATA, OR GOODWILL, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STATUTE, OR ANY OTHER THEORY, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. MY TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS RELATING TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNTS YOU PAID ME FOR THE SERVICE IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR (B) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS (US$100). THE SERVICE IS CURRENTLY FREE, SO IN MOST CASES THIS CAP IS US$100. NOTHING IN THESE TERMS LIMITS LIABILITY THAT CANNOT BE LIMITED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW.

14. Indemnification

You will indemnify, defend, and hold me harmless from and against any claims, damages, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or relating to (a) your use of the Service, (b) your violation of these Terms, (c) your violation of any law or the rights of any third party, including any platform’s terms or any creator’s copyright, or (d) content you submit to the Service.

15. Changes to the Service or these Terms

I may modify, suspend, or discontinue all or part of the Service at any time. I may also update these Terms; if a change is material I will give reasonable notice (for example, in the app or by email), and the change takes effect on the stated date. Your continued use after that date constitutes acceptance. If you do not agree to a change, stop using the Service.

16. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of [JURISDICTION], without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, and you and I consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the courts located there. Before starting any formal proceeding, please email benji.ollomo@gmail.com describing the issue and the resolution you want; most problems are faster to fix that way. Nothing here prevents either of us from bringing an individual claim in a small-claims court, or from seeking injunctive relief to protect intellectual-property rights.

17. Apple App Store terms

These acknowledgements apply if you obtained Reelly (the “Licensed Application”) through the Apple App Store. For this section, these Terms are the “EULA”.

  • The EULA is concluded between you and me only, and not with Apple. I, not Apple, am solely responsible for the Licensed Application and its content. The EULA does not provide usage rules that conflict with the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions.
  • The licence granted to you is non-transferable and limited to Apple-branded products you own or control, as permitted by the Usage Rules in the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions, except that it may also be accessed by other accounts associated with you via Family Sharing or volume purchasing.
  • I am solely responsible for any maintenance and support. Apple has no obligation to furnish any maintenance or support for the Licensed Application.
  • I am solely responsible for any product warranties not effectively disclaimed here. If the Licensed Application fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple and Apple will refund the purchase price (if any); to the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation.
  • I, not Apple, am responsible for addressing any claims relating to the Licensed Application, including product-liability claims, claims that it fails to conform to a legal or regulatory requirement, and claims under consumer-protection or privacy law.
  • I, not Apple, am solely responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement, and discharge of any third-party intellectual-property infringement claim relating to the Licensed Application.
  • 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 are not listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
  • Questions, complaints, or claims about the Licensed Application should be directed to me at the address in Section 19.
  • You must comply with applicable third-party terms when using the Licensed Application — for example, your wireless-data service terms and the terms of the platforms whose links you save.
  • Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and, upon your acceptance, will have the right to enforce them against you.

18. Miscellaneous

  • Entire agreement. These Terms, the Privacy Policy, and any additional terms shown in the app are the entire agreement between you and me regarding the Service.
  • Severability. If a provision is held unenforceable, the rest remains in effect and that provision is modified to the minimum extent necessary.
  • No waiver. A failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it.
  • Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without my consent; I may assign them in connection with a transfer of the project.
  • Force majeure. Neither of us is liable for delays or failures caused by events beyond reasonable control.
  • Notices. Send notices to benji.ollomo@gmail.com. I may give you notice via the app or by email.

19. Contact

Reelly is built and operated by Benjamin Ollomo, an individual.
Email: benji.ollomo@gmail.com