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Terms of Use for Talefall — Audiobook Player

Effective Date: October 22, 2026

These Terms of Use (“Terms”) form a legal agreement between you (“you”) and OWN PLACE LLC (“we,” “us,” or “our”), a Washington limited liability company, 7707 NE 141st St, Kirkland, WA 98034-5321, USA (contact@ownplace.net; telephone +1 (213) 524-8012). They govern your use of the Talefall — Audiobook Player application (the “App”; bundle identifier com.anisimov.audiobooks) and of the server features that come with the Talefall Subscription or with the first book on us (together, the “Service”), described in Section 1.

How you accept these Terms. By downloading, installing, or using the App you agree to these Terms as they apply to the player. Before you first use the Service, the App shows a screen titled “Before You Create” with the switch “I’m 18 or older and agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy”; the App does not send a book order or a narration request to the Service until you have turned that switch on and tapped “Continue.” If you do not agree, do not use the App or the Service.

Related documents, which form part of these Terms: our Privacy Policy, our Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy, our AI Safety and Content Policy, and the list of Supported Territories.

1. The App and the Service

The App is an iOS audiobook player and reader. You can import your own audio files and text books, listen and read with saved positions, speed control, a sleep timer, bookmarks, highlights and notes, turn an audiobook into text with on-device speech recognition, read a text aloud with an on-device Apple voice, and browse built-in catalogs of works identified by their providers as public-domain or otherwise lawfully available. The App has no user accounts and does not upload your library. A short sample audiobook is bundled with the App and plays without a network connection; its text was written with the help of an AI model.

The Service requires an active Talefall Subscription for new orders and new requests that use hours, except the first book on us (Section 4.0), which needs no subscription and uses no hours. Expiry does not prevent delivery or management of an existing paid order, as described in Section 8. The territorial restrictions in Section 4.9 continue to apply. It has two server features, reached from the App’s Create tab:

  • Book from an Idea — you describe an idea and choose a book type (Story, Explainer, or How-to), a language, and a length. Our service writes the text with a third-party large language model and narrates it with our own narrator model.
  • Narrate My Text in the Talefall voice — our narrator model reads aloud a text book you already have, either as a whole book or passage by passage while you listen.

The finished book is delivered to the App. Narrating with the on-device Apple voice and on-device transcription do not use the Service. The first book on us is a Book from an Idea, narrated in the Talefall voice; narrating your own text in the Talefall voice requires a subscription.

2. License; Age Requirement

Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use the App on Apple-branded devices you own or control, as permitted by the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions. Your use of the App is also governed by Apple’s standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement (“Apple Standard EULA”), https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/. If these Terms conflict with Apple’s required minimum terms, the Apple Standard EULA controls.

Age. The App is rated 18+ on the App Store because the Service can produce text and narration that no person reviews before it reaches you. You must be at least 18 years old, or the age of majority where you live if that is higher, to use the App and the Service. The “Before You Create” screen asks you to state that you are 18 or older; this is a self-declaration, not age verification, and we do not collect proof of age. If you are under that age, do not use the App.

3. The Player

  • The App is free to download. Since App version 1.3.2, the player and reader — listening, reading, and the other features that run on your device — need no purchase, trial, or subscription. The App no longer offers a trial or a player purchase.
  • Earlier purchases are honoured. If you bought the one-time player purchase (non-consumable, product com.anisimov.audiobooks.pro) in an earlier version, it stays yours: it is not a subscription, has no recurring charge, and is not taken away; the App shows it as an earlier purchase. Earlier versions of the App work as they did until you update: they may still show the trial and the player purchase until we withdraw that purchase from sale, and a purchase made there stays yours under this Section. To use the player without any purchase, update the App to version 1.3.2 or later.
  • Earlier versions of the App kept the trial start date in the iOS Keychain and the iCloud Key-Value Store; version 1.3.2 no longer uses it.
  • Prices are the localized prices Apple shows immediately before purchase; any price on our website is an example and may be out of date.

4. The First Book on Us and the Talefall Subscription

4.0 First book on us. If you have no active subscription, you may order one AI-generated Book from an Idea of about 15 minutes at no charge (the “first book on us”), once per Apple Account, subject to these Terms (including Sections 5 and 7), the “Before You Create” screen, and the AI-provider permission. Its length is fixed. To give it once per Apple Account, the App sends an Apple-signed record of your download of the App (Privacy Policy, Section 6.1A). The number of first books we give each day is limited for everyone; when the day’s limit is reached, nothing is charged and you can try again later. If the book is not delivered to you under the delivery rule in Section 4.2 (it fails, expires, is stopped by our checks, or you cancel or delete it before every chapter is delivered), you may order it again, up to three orders in total; once a first book has been delivered, the offer is used. It has no cash value, is not transferable, uses no hours, and we may change or end the offer for orders not yet placed. Ordering the first book on us does not start a subscription or authorize any future charge; a subscription requires a separate purchase through Apple. Sections 5, 6, 7 and 8 apply to it as to a paid order, except the rules on hours.

4.1 Subscription. Except for the first book on us (Section 4.0), placing new orders and making new requests that use hours requires an auto-renewable monthly subscription bought through Apple (product com.anisimov.audiobooks.generation.monthly, shown in the App as “Talefall Subscription”). In App version 1.3.2 and later, the subscription is the only purchase offered. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. The subscription renews automatically each month at the same price unless you turn off auto-renewal at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; renewal is charged within 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel it in iOS Settings → Apple Account → Subscriptions. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current paid period. Except where required by law, cancellation does not give a prorated refund for a period in which the Service was available as promised; this does not limit remedies for a non-conforming or undelivered service.

4.2 Monthly hours and how they are used. Each subscription month includes 5 hours of new audio (“hours”). Listening never uses hours; only creating new audio does. Before an order starts, the Service checks that the length you selected fits your remaining hours; if it does not, the order is refused before any work is done. Hours are deducted after narration for the actual length of the finished audio, which may be somewhat shorter or longer than the length you selected, but never by more than the balance you had when the order was accepted. Unused monthly hours expire at renewal and do not carry over. The month follows your subscription’s renewal date.

Delivery and restoration of hours. A chapter is delivered when the App confirms to our server that it has saved the chapter, or when our server has sent the chapter’s complete audio file (every byte of the size our server declared for that file) in response to a request made with the subscription that placed the order (for the first book on us, with the Apple-signed record of your download that placed it). If any chapter of an order has not been delivered when the order ends — whether it failed, was stopped (for example, by our output moderation, Section 5.4), was cancelled or deleted by you, or expired (Section 8) — all hours reserved or charged for the order are restored automatically, including the hours for chapters that were delivered. If every chapter was delivered, cancelling or deleting the order, its expiry, or the end of your subscription does not by itself restore any hours. Automatic restoration depends only on whether every chapter was delivered under this rule; a complete transfer or a saved confirmation does not by itself show that the file is playable or materially what you ordered. If a delivered file cannot be played or is materially not what you ordered, write to contact@ownplace.net with the book number shown in the App, and we will restore the hours (for the first book on us, the offer) after checking. Hours restored after the month from which they were taken has ended are credited to your extra-hours balance (Section 4.3). For the first book on us, the same rule decides whether the offer is given back instead of hours (Section 4.0). Restoring hours is a credit to your hours balance, not a refund of money by Apple, and it does not limit any refund or remedy you may have under Section 4.5 or applicable law.

4.3 Extra hours bought earlier. App version 1.3.2 and later no longer offers extra-hours packs. Earlier versions may continue to offer them until we withdraw the product from sale; all valid purchases made in those versions remain eligible for credit under this Section, including purchases made after this edition is published. If you bought an extra-hours pack (consumable product com.anisimov.audiobooks.hours5, 5 hours), or receive restored hours credited to that balance (Section 4.2), these rules continue to apply. Extra hours are used after the monthly hours and do not expire at renewal. We credit purchased hours after our server verifies the signed Apple transaction, never twice for the same transaction. A purchase not yet credited remains eligible for credit. The App retries verification at launch and when StoreKit provides the unfinished transaction. Crediting requires an active subscription; if yours has expired, the purchase remains pending until it is active again. If the hours are not credited within 24 hours after the App reaches our server with an active subscription, contact contact@ownplace.net and we will restore the credit or help you request a refund from Apple. If your subscription lapses, unused extra hours become unavailable but stay recorded and return if the same subscription is reactivated. Extra hours cannot be transferred to another subscription or Apple Account. If we permanently discontinue the Service, Section 8 applies. Deleting your content or data does not forfeit unused purchased extra hours without your confirmation. We retain records needed to preserve that balance and other records described in Sections 6.2, 6.4, and 10 of the Privacy Policy, subject to the retention periods and deletion rights stated there. If you ask us to delete records needed to preserve that balance, we will first offer a refund path or ask you to confirm the forfeiture.

4.4 Service limits. To protect the Service from abuse and runaway costs we apply technical limits in addition to your hours: book length from 15 minutes to 5 hours, size limits on submitted text, and daily ceilings on the number of orders and the total audio the Service produces across all users. A request refused because of a limit uses no hours.

4.5 Refunds and billing. All purchases are processed by Apple. We do not receive your payment details or Apple Account credentials. For charges, receipts, and refunds, contact Apple (https://support.apple.com/billing, https://reportaproblem.apple.com); Apple decides refunds under its policies. Nothing in these Terms limits a refund or remedy you are entitled to under applicable law. If Apple refunds or revokes a subscription, Apple notifies our server and the Service stops accepting new requests under it. Books already on your device are not removed.

4.6 Restore Purchases. “Restore Purchases” uses the Apple Account of the original purchase. If a completed purchase is still not recognized, contact contact@ownplace.net.

4.7 Price changes. Apple notifies you of a subscription price increase in advance and, where required, asks for your consent.

4.8 Test purchases. Purchases in Apple’s sandbox or in TestFlight builds are for testing only and give no rights to the production Service.

4.9 Where the Service is available. The App is not distributed on App Store storefronts in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland. The Service, its subscription, and the first book on us are offered only to persons physically located in a country or region listed at https://ownplace.net/talefall/ai-studio-territories (a “Supported Territory”). This also applies to the first book on us. Our server checks the country of each Service request from the request’s IP address and refuses requests from outside the Supported Territories, from countries and regions subject to comprehensive U.S. sanctions, and when the country cannot be determined. Purchases also depend on the App Store storefront offering the product. A refused request uses no hours. Do not use a VPN, another person’s Apple Account, or any other means to get around this check. An existing subscription may continue to renew while you are outside a Supported Territory unless you cancel it; unused monthly hours still expire, while extra hours stay recorded. The player and the books already on your device keep working everywhere. If we remove the territory in which you bought and normally use the subscription, we will explain how to cancel and help you request an Apple refund for a materially unusable paid period. The list may change when required by law, a provider restriction, or an App Store requirement; we will give advance notice where reasonably practicable. Requests to exercise privacy rights, withdrawals of permission, and content reports are accepted from anywhere.

4.10 No reduction of what you already paid for. We will not reduce the hours or other material benefits already purchased for the current period. Material adverse changes apply only to later periods after reasonable advance notice.

5. AI-Generated Content

5.1 How book creation works. When you order a book, your idea, the book type, language, and length are sent to our service on Modal. Our server first checks the idea with automated filters (Section 5.4). It then writes the book with third-party large language models.

Book writing uses third-party AI models from the AI providers named in your AI-provider permission. The current recipients, routes, countries, retention, caching and human access are listed in the registry in Privacy Policy Section 6.3.3.

Under the current permission (version 2026-10-14.1), OpenAI (OpenAI OpCo, LLC) is the only external AI model provider we use directly for orders, through the OpenAI API under our contract and data processing addendum with OpenAI. We do not route these orders through OpenRouter or another AI gateway. OpenAI may process content through its published affiliates and subprocessors under its DPA. Our hosting provider Modal also processes order content (Privacy Policy, Section 6.3.3). The OpenAI model used may change within the safeguards that permission states (Privacy Policy, Section 6.3.2) without asking you again. Sending content of orders under it to another AI provider as our own route, or through OpenRouter or another AI gateway, or broadening its purposes, human access or retention, requires renewed explicit permission (Privacy Policy, Section 6.6). Changes to a provider’s terms do not automatically expand your permission. Availability of a model in a provider’s catalogue does not by itself make it authorized. Accepting these Terms does not replace that permission and does not authorize processing of consumer health data or other sensitive personal data.

Earlier permissions keep their promises. For orders placed under the earlier permission versions, the earlier promises continue to apply unchanged: under 2026-10-08, only the GLM model through OpenRouter; under 2026-10-10.2, only OpenRouter routes to zero-data-retention endpoints of hosting providers that OpenRouter lists as headquartered in the United States (including Microsoft Azure only while that route is switched on and classified as zero data retention), or Amazon Bedrock in AWS Regions in the United States with flagged content kept for no more than 30 days, if that route is enabled; under 2026-10-13.1, only routes that met that permission’s conditions, today GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Luna on Microsoft Azure (Privacy Policy, Section 6.3.5). The conditions of permission 2026-10-14.1 apply only if you accept that permission in the App.

Providers’ own abuse-monitoring and acceptable-use rules apply to the requests (AI Safety and Content Policy, B4). Each chapter is then checked by our output moderation (Section 5.4), narrated by our own narrator model running on Modal, and delivered to the App. OWN PLACE LLC does not routinely conduct human pre-review of orders or books. Under the current permission, authorized OpenAI staff may access content only for support, abuse investigation and legal compliance, and OpenAI’s contractors only to review for abuse and misuse, as described in Privacy Policy Sections 6.3.2–6.3.3. For orders under earlier permissions, OpenRouter also permits access by personnel performing its routing service in accordance with its agreement (Privacy Policy, Section 6.3.3). Limited human access and provider safeguards are described in Privacy Policy Section 6.3.

5.2 What you confirm before using the Service.

  1. Terms and age — once, before your first book order or server narration: the “Before You Create” screen described above. The App records on your device the version of the Terms you accepted (currently 2026-10-14.1, first published in the edition of October 14, 2026 and kept by this edition; Section 15), the time, and your 18+ statement. Before your next use of the Service, an updated App asks you to accept Terms version 2026-10-14.1 if you have not already accepted that version. If you have, this edition does not require you to accept again (Section 15). Older versions that hold the acceptance of an earlier edition and an earlier permission send book orders only on the routes that permission named (Privacy Policy, Section 6.3.5); this edition does not change them.
  2. Permission to send book orders to the AI providers — before your first book order, and again when renewed permission is required (Privacy Policy, Section 6.6). The screen asks “Allow AI processing of your book orders?” and states: “Send your ideas, settings and text to OpenAI to write your books? We use OpenAI’s API directly, under our contract and data processing agreement with OpenAI. OpenAI may use its published affiliates and subprocessors. No model training, no sale, no advertising. Only for the service, support, security, abuse prevention and law. OpenAI may keep requests up to 30 days to provide the service and detect abuse, longer only where the law requires or to protect against harm; no single maximum. Processing and authorized staff or contractor access may occur in several countries; we don’t choose China or other countries of concern under US law; OpenAI’s published information names none there but is incomplete. Fiction only: no real personal or health data. Withdraw in Settings.” Under the heading “AI provider” it lists: “OpenAI (OpenAI OpCo, LLC), directly”. The link “AI provider, countries & retention” opens the recipients registry in Privacy Policy Section 6.3 before you decide. The buttons are “Allow AI Processing” and “Not Now”. Below the buttons the screen states: ““Not Now” sends no order content to OpenAI. The player and server-based narration remain available.” In Settings, the permission switch is explained: “Your ideas, book settings and working text are sent to OpenAI to write your books. No model training. You can turn this permission off.” This is permission version 2026-10-14.1. Permissions of the earlier versions 2026-10-08, 2026-10-10.2 and 2026-10-13.1 are used only for the routes those versions named (Privacy Policy, Section 6.3.5). Updated versions of the App ask again with the current text before your next book order; until then, older versions use only those earlier routes. You can withdraw it at any time in Settings; further transfers to the AI provider then stop, including further AI calls for orders in progress, and new book orders stop until you allow it again.
  3. No personal data — before every book order. The order form shows the switch “My idea contains no personal data about real people”; the order cannot be sent until it is on, and it covers the exact text of your idea, so editing the idea requires confirming again.
  4. Narration in the Talefall voice. For a book created from your idea, the App reuses the confirmation given when you placed that order for narration of the resulting book; it does not ask you to confirm again. For another book without that confirmation, before its first narration in the Talefall voice you confirm “This text has no real person’s information.” With the on-device Apple voice, the text never leaves your device.

None of these screens is, or is treated by us as, consent to process health or other sensitive data (see the Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy).

5.3 Your requests. You are responsible for what you submit. Do not include personal data about real people — including yourself — in an idea or in a text you send for narration: no real person’s name together with their circumstances, no contact details, addresses, or account numbers, and no health, sexual orientation, gender identity, beliefs, finances, criminal record, or other sensitive details about you or anyone else. Calling a request “fiction” or changing a name does not make such details anonymous. Stories must be fiction. Explainers and How-to guides may cover general topics, such as science, history, or a skill, but not a private individual. In addition, you must not submit requests or text that:

(a) sexualize minors, or are pornographic or graphically explicit sexual content (mature themes within adult fiction are allowed within the limits of the AI Safety and Content Policy); (b) make credible threats, incite or glorify violence against real people or groups, promote terrorism or violent extremism, or attack people for a protected characteristic; (c) seek instructions for weapons capable of mass harm, for self-harm or suicide, or for other serious wrongdoing; (d) harass, defame, or impersonate a real person or organization; (e) infringe copyright, trademark, privacy, or publicity rights, including requests to reproduce or continue a specific protected work; (f) seek medical, legal, financial, or other professional advice, or are meant to be presented as such advice; (g) contain malware or prompt-injection, or try to extract our instructions, keys, or other users’ data; or (h) try to get around hours, limits, territorial restrictions, or safety controls.

The full rules are in the AI Safety and Content Policy.

5.4 Safety controls. Our server applies automated controls; they reduce risk but are not perfect, and the prohibitions apply equally to anything they miss.

  • Personal-data check (book ideas). Before a book idea is sent to an AI provider, our server checks it for personal and sensitive data patterns, such as email addresses, phone numbers, government or payment-card numbers, passwords, or a statement about your own or a named close person’s health, sexuality, gender identity, or criminal record. A match is refused, uses no hours, and the App asks you to rewrite the idea. In versions of the App using permission 2026-10-14.1, text you send for narration in the Talefall voice is checked by the same filter before it is narrated; in every version your per-book confirmation (Section 5.2) and the rule in Section 5.3 apply to it.
  • Prohibited-content check (ideas and narration text). Before anything is sent to an AI provider or the narrator, our server refuses requests that clearly seek sexual content involving minors, instructions for weapons of mass destruction, or encouragement of suicide. A refused request uses no hours.
  • Output moderation. Before narration and delivery, each generated chapter is checked by an open-source safety classifier model that we run on our own infrastructure at Modal (it does not send the text to anyone else), for sexual content (especially involving minors), hate, dangerous instructions, and personal data about real people. A chapter that fails is not narrated or delivered; the order is stopped and the hours for it are restored (for the first book on us, the offer is given back; Section 4.0).
  • No human pre-review. Nobody at OWN PLACE LLC reads orders or books before they reach you. Specific content may be read only when you contact support, report content, or submit a legal complaint, or when reasonably necessary to investigate abuse or a security incident or to comply with law.

5.5 Reporting and enforcement. Use Report content in the book’s menu to report a generated book. The report is sent from the App to our service; if sending fails, the App offers to email the report to contact@ownplace.net instead. Anyone, including non-users, may report by email. We review reports promptly and give priority to child safety, credible threats, and imminent harm. When we obtain actual knowledge of apparent child sexual exploitation that triggers 18 U.S.C. § 2258A, we report it to NCMEC as required. For serious or repeated violations we may refuse orders, including the first book on us, or restrict your access to the Service, for example by blocking the subscription. An affected user may ask for review by emailing contact@ownplace.net within 30 days; a person will review the decision and answer within 30 days. A block affects only the Service, not the player or books already on your device. A block for a violation does not entitle you to a refund from us for hours already used, without prejudice to a refund Apple grants or the law requires. This does not affect restoration of hours under Section 4.2. Details are in the AI Safety and Content Policy.

5.6 No guarantees about the output. AI-generated text may be inaccurate, incomplete, repetitive, biased, offensive, or otherwise unsuitable, may differ from what you asked for, and may resemble existing works; narration may mispronounce words. Explainers and How-to guides are AI-generated overviews without source checking. Do not rely on generated content for facts, and never as medical, legal, financial, or other professional advice. Review content before relying on it or sharing it.

5.7 Ownership. As between you and us, we assign to you whatever rights we may lawfully hold in the generated text and the delivered narration of your book, excluding our software, models, prompts, narrator voice, trademarks, and other underlying technology, and you may use the book for any lawful purpose. We claim no ownership of your requests. We do not promise that the output is copyrightable, unique, or non-infringing; similar text may be generated for others. You may not use delivered narration to train or clone a voice model.

5.8 Our license to your content. You grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to store, copy, process, transmit, and narrate your requests, the text you submit for narration, and the generated book, solely to provide the Service to you, to run the safety controls, to handle reports, to enforce these Terms, and as required by law. For book-writing requests routed through OpenRouter under an earlier permission, and only where that permission expressly covers it (permission 2026-10-13.1 does), this license includes allowing OpenRouter to use your requests in anonymized form solely to classify them by topic for its usage reporting and model rankings, as OpenRouter’s terms (Section 6.5) describe; you confirm that you have the rights needed for that use (compare OpenRouter’s terms, Section 6.6). Beyond what OpenRouter needs to provide the Service, we do not permit it to use your content for any other purpose (Privacy Policy, Section 6.3). Permission 2026-10-14.1 does not cover this classification, and requests under it are not sent through OpenRouter. We do not use your content to train models or for advertising.

5.9 Text you submit for narration. You represent that you own the text or have the right to have it narrated for your personal use and that it contains no personal data about real people (Section 5.3). The text is processed by our own narrator model on Modal and is not sent to OpenAI, OpenRouter, its hosting providers (including Microsoft), Amazon Web Services, or any other model provider.

6. User Content, Copyright, and Complaints

You are responsible for the files and text you import, upload, submit, and play, and for having the right to do so. Do not use the App or the Service for pirated or otherwise unlawful material. Catalog works are identified as public-domain or lawfully available by their providers (LibriVox, the Internet Archive, Project Gutenberg); we do not guarantee their status in every country, and you are responsible for confirming that your use is lawful where you are.

Copyright complaints. If you believe material processed by the Service or accessible through the App infringes your copyright, write to: Pavel Anisimov, Member, OWN PLACE LLC, 7707 NE 141st St, Kirkland, WA 98034-5321, USA; contact@ownplace.net; +1 (213) 524-8012. Identify the work, the material at issue and how to locate it, your contact details, and why you believe the use is unauthorized. We may stop an order, remove material we still hold, or restrict the subscription of repeat infringers. Because the Service deletes a book from our server once the App confirms that it has saved every chapter, the material may no longer be held by us. This is a voluntary channel; we have not designated an agent with the U.S. Copyright Office under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(2). Complaints about a catalog work should normally go to the service that hosts it.

7. Acceptable Use; Export and Sanctions

You agree not to: use the App or the Service unlawfully or against these Terms; reverse-engineer the App except as the law permits; extract the App’s service token, forge or replay Apple transactions, or access the Service other than through the unmodified App; interfere with the App or the Service; misuse the local Wi-Fi upload feature; resell or share your subscription or its hours, or place orders by automation; or get around the territorial restrictions in Section 4.9.

Export and sanctions. You may not use the Service in violation of U.S. export-control or sanctions laws. You may not buy or use the Service if you are a blocked or sanctioned person, are acting for one, or are located in a country or region subject to comprehensive U.S. sanctions (including Cuba, Iran, North Korea, and the Crimea, so-called Donetsk People’s Republic, and so-called Luhansk People’s Republic regions of Ukraine). Other countries and regions, such as Syria and Russia, are also outside the Supported Territories as a service restriction, and targeted sanctions and export controls apply everywhere. Our country check (Section 4.9) is a territorial control and does not by itself establish that you are eligible under sanctions law.

Wi-Fi upload. The Wi-Fi upload feature runs a temporary web server on your device that uses a session token over unencrypted HTTP on your local network. Use it only on a trusted private network and turn it off when done.

8. Availability, Server Storage, and Termination of the Service

The Service is provided on a best-effort basis and depends on third-party providers and cloud infrastructure we do not control. We do not guarantee that it is always available or that an order completes within a particular time.

Server storage. While an order is being produced and delivered, its text and audio are held on Modal as temporary, encrypted working storage. We delete our server copy of the text and audio as soon as the App confirms that it has saved every chapter on your device. Cancellation, a deletion request, and expiry also cause that copy to be deleted without this confirmation. Once our server copy is deleted, we cannot restore or re-deliver the book. Restoration of hours follows Section 4.2: a chapter can count as delivered through a complete transfer from our server even without the App’s saved confirmation. An order for which the App has not confirmed saving every chapter within seven days after the Service accepted it expires: at the next scheduled cleanup, normally within 15 minutes, we stop processing and delete all order content from our working storage (a cleanup that fails is retried). Hours for an expired order are restored only as Section 4.2 provides, that is, if any chapter was not delivered; chapters already saved on your device remain. We keep a receipt for each order (times, length, hours charged, and the records described in the Privacy Policy) but not its content. Exceptions: content you submit in a report or support request, and content the law requires us to preserve. Copies kept by our service providers (for example, Modal’s infrastructure copies for up to seven days, or content flagged by a provider’s abuse monitoring) follow the periods described in the Privacy Policy.

Subscription expiry and existing orders. A book ordered and paid for with hours while your subscription was active remains available for delivery after the subscription expires, provided the subscription has not been refunded or revoked. You can still view the order list, download the book, confirm delivery, and delete or cancel the order using the same subscription. Expiry alone does not cancel the order or restore its hours. Except for the first book on us under Section 4.0, new orders and new requests that use hours require an active subscription. The existing seven-day delivery deadline and the rules for deletion and restoration of hours continue to apply; expiry does not restart that deadline. Since App version 1.3.2, listening and reading in the App require no purchase (Section 3).

Your copy. As chapters arrive, the App saves them on your device and, if iCloud is available and the save succeeds, also in your private iCloud storage, which we cannot access. If iCloud is unavailable or full, use Export to Files before deleting the App. Your saved copy and Export to Files do not depend on an active subscription; since App version 1.3.2, listening to or reading it in the App requires no purchase (Section 3).

Availability of book writing. Under permission 2026-10-14.1 we write books only through the OpenAI API, used directly, on that permission’s conditions (Privacy Policy, Section 6.3.2). When it cannot be used on those conditions, book writing may be temporarily unavailable: the App says so, the order is not accepted, no hours are used, and the order is not sent to another provider instead. If the route of an accepted order closes while the book is being written, or you withdraw the permission, the order is stopped and its hours are restored under Section 4.2. Narration and the player are not affected. Today, books under permission 2026-10-14.1 are written by the GPT-6.1 Sol model in the OpenAI API, used directly; our routes through OpenRouter (to Microsoft Azure, Amazon Bedrock or GLM hosting providers) are not used under it. OpenAI may process content through its published affiliates and subprocessors. Earlier permissions continue on the routes they named.

Changes and discontinuation. We may change the Service — including the models, providers, narrator voice, length limits, and the hours included in future periods — subject to Section 4.10. If we discontinue the Service, we will give notice in the App and on our website at least 30 days in advance where practicable, stop charging renewals, give a reasonable period to use remaining hours, and, where that is impossible, help affected users request an appropriate refund through Apple. Books already on your device stay there (Section 3 governs playback in the App).

Suspension and termination. We may suspend or end your access to the Service if we reasonably believe you violated Sections 4.9, 5, 6, or 7. This does not end your license to use the App (Section 2) or a player purchase you made earlier (Section 3). Sections 4.2–4.3 (as to recorded hours), 5.6–5.8, 6, and 10–15 survive termination.

9. Third-Party Services

The App connects to Apple and to catalog services (LibriVox, the Internet Archive, Project Gutenberg) as described in Privacy Policy Section 5. While the suggested classics shelf is shown on the My Books page in the U.S. storefront, the App automatically requests its cover images from the Internet Archive. Other catalog connections occur when you use the relevant features. The Service relies on Modal Labs, Inc. (hosting) and the AI providers named in your AI-provider permission: for the current permission, OpenAI OpCo, LLC, used directly through the OpenAI API (OpenAI may use its published affiliates and subprocessors); for earlier permissions, OpenRouter, Inc. and the model providers it routes to (today Microsoft Corporation through Microsoft Azure and GLM hosting providers), and, as named by those permissions, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (Amazon Bedrock), Google LLC (Google Cloud, Vertex AI), Anthropic, PBC, and OpenAI OpCo, LLC; of these, only those marked as used in the registry in Privacy Policy Section 6.3.3 receive orders. Those services operate under their own terms; we remain responsible for our choice and use of them but do not guarantee their availability.

10. Disclaimer of Warranties

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE APP, THE SERVICE, AND ALL GENERATED CONTENT ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE,” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, AND WE DISCLAIM ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ACCURACY. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE APP OR THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, OR THAT GENERATED CONTENT WILL BE ACCURATE, ORIGINAL, OR SUITABLE FOR ANY PURPOSE. THIS SECTION DOES NOT LIMIT THE STATUTORY REMEDIES REFERRED TO IN SECTIONS 4.1, 4.5, AND 11.

11. Limitation of Liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, OWN PLACE LLC AND ITS MEMBERS AND CONTRACTORS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOSS OF DATA, PROFITS, OR CONTENT (INCLUDING GENERATED BOOKS), ARISING OUT OF THE APP, THE SERVICE, OR GENERATED CONTENT. OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNTS YOU PAID THROUGH APPLE FOR THE APP AND THE SERVICE IN THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR (B) USD $50.

These limits do not apply to liability that cannot lawfully be limited, including for fraud, willful misconduct, gross negligence where non-waivable, death or personal injury caused by negligence, or violation of non-waivable privacy or consumer rights. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so some of the above may not apply to you. We cannot restore deleted local files; keep your own backups.

12. Indemnification

To the extent permitted by law, you will indemnify OWN PLACE LLC against a third-party claim directly caused by your knowing unlawful commercial use of submitted or generated content or your material breach of Sections 5–7. We will promptly notify you and allow reasonable participation in the defense. This does not require you to indemnify us for our own negligence, misconduct, or legal violations.

13. Governing Law and Venue

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Washington, USA, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. Disputes go to the state and federal courts located in Washington, except where consumer-protection law lets you bring a claim where you live. Before filing a claim, please email contact@ownplace.net; most issues can be resolved informally within 30 days.

14. Apple as Third-Party Beneficiary

These Terms are between you and OWN PLACE LLC only, not Apple. OWN PLACE LLC, not Apple, is solely responsible for the App, the Service, and their content, maintenance, support, and any claims relating to them (including product-liability, consumer-protection, and intellectual-property claims). Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce them against you. If the App fails to conform to an applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the App’s purchase price; to the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation for the App.

15. Changes to These Terms; General

Changes. We may update these Terms. We will change the Effective Date and post the new version at its public address; earlier versions are available on request. Where a change materially expands data processing or your obligations, or where the law requires it, the App asks you to accept the new version before your next use of the Service; the October 14, 2026 edition (version 2026-10-14.1) was such a change. The October 22, 2026 edition keeps version 2026-10-14.1 and the AI-provider permission unchanged, and the App does not ask you to accept it again: it adds the first book on us (Section 4.0), makes the player free of any purchase, and, in App version 1.3.2 and later, stops offering the trial, the player purchase and extra-hours packs, while earlier purchases are honoured (Sections 3 and 4.3). It does not add obligations for you; how we process the record of your download for the first book on us is described in the Privacy Policy (Section 6.1A). A new edition of these Terms does not by itself expand your AI-provider permission: a recipient not named in it, or a wider scope of processing, requires renewed explicit permission (Section 5.2; Privacy Policy, Section 6.6). The conditions of permission 2026-10-14.1 apply only if you accept that permission in the App and only to orders placed under it; orders placed under an earlier permission keep its promises, and nothing applies retroactively. Material changes do not reduce benefits already purchased for the current period.

Notices. We may give notices in the App or on our website; notices to us go to contact@ownplace.net or 7707 NE 141st St, Kirkland, WA 98034-5321, USA.

Assignment; waiver; force majeure. We may assign these Terms in a merger, reorganization, or sale of the Service, subject to applicable law. You may not assign them. Not enforcing a provision is not a waiver. Neither party is liable for delay caused by events beyond its reasonable control; this does not excuse refunds or other non-waivable consumer remedies.

Language. These Terms are written in English. If a translation conflicts with the English version, the English version controls, without limiting mandatory consumer rights where you live.

Entire agreement. These Terms, the Privacy Policy, the Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy, the AI Safety and Content Policy, and the Apple Standard EULA are the entire agreement between you and us about the App and the Service. If any provision is unenforceable, the rest remain in effect.

16. Contact

OWN PLACE LLC 7707 NE 141st St, Kirkland, WA 98034-5321, USA Email: contact@ownplace.net Telephone: +1 (213) 524-8012