Agreement and scope
These Terms of Service (“Terms”) are between you and Glows Ads LLC, which operates Clapps (“Clapps,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), an app studio based in Los Angeles, California. They cover clapps.me, related support, and Clapps products that refer to these Terms, including SideReader, subject to the app-license rules below. By accepting these Terms or using a service where they are made available as the governing terms, you agree to them to the extent permitted by law. If you do not agree, stop using that service.
If you are not old enough to agree to these Terms where you live, a parent or legal guardian must agree for you. If you use a Clapps product for an organization, you confirm that you have authority to bind it.
App Store and platform terms
Apps distributed through Apple's App Store are licensed under Apple's Standard End User License Agreement, unless the App Store product page says a custom license applies. These Terms govern our website and support and supplement an app license only where consistent with that license. If these Terms conflict with an applicable app-store license or usage rule, that platform term controls to the extent of the conflict.
Apple, Google, and other platform providers are not parties to these Terms and are not responsible for Clapps products, support, or claims, except to the extent their own terms expressly say otherwise.
License and restrictions
Subject to these Terms and applicable app-store rules, the applicable app license governs your use of the app on permitted devices, including any permitted Family Sharing or organizational use. You may use our creative tools to make work for personal or commercial projects, subject to that license and the rights in the material you use. The apps are licensed, not sold, and Clapps and its licensors reserve all rights not expressly granted.
You may not:
- redistribute, rent, lease, sublicense, or resell the app itself except as the applicable license or law permits; this does not prohibit selling content you lawfully create with it;
- reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or try to derive source code, except where the law does not allow that restriction;
- circumvent security, access controls, purchase systems, or technical limits; or
- use a Clapps product to violate law, platform rules, or another person's rights.
Your content and responsibilities
You retain whatever ownership and other rights you have in content you create, record, import, save, or view with a Clapps app. Using an app does not transfer ownership of that content to Clapps or grant you rights in someone else's content. Clapps does not claim a license to creative content that remains only on your devices.
You are responsible for your content, for having the rights and permissions needed to use it, and for complying with privacy, publicity, intellectual-property, recording-consent, and other applicable laws. You are also responsible for your device, permissions, storage, and backups. Keep independent backups of important work. Clapps cannot recover local content for which it has no server-side copy. These responsibilities do not limit remedies that applicable law requires us to provide.
Privacy
SideReader is local-first and does not require a Clapps account. Our Privacy Policy explains in detail how app content, website request logs, browser preferences, platform information, and support messages are handled. Using the service or accepting these Terms does not by itself consent to optional analytics, advertising measurement, or marketing emails.
Purchases, subscriptions, and refunds
Where an app offers paid downloads, in-app purchases, or subscriptions, the app store or named payment provider processes the transaction. Auto-renewing subscriptions renew unless canceled under the terms shown before purchase, including any trial conditions. Prices, billing periods, renewal terms, taxes, cancellation, and refund eligibility are shown in the purchase flow and governed by the provider's terms. Manage or cancel a subscription in your platform account settings. Deleting an app does not automatically cancel a subscription. For Apple purchases, see how to cancel a subscription.
Except where the law requires otherwise, refunds are handled by the platform that processed the transaction. For Apple purchases, request a refund through Apple. Nothing here excludes any mandatory refund, cancellation, repair, or other consumer remedy.
Third-party services and links
A Clapps product may interact with operating-system features, app stores, files or media you select, or third-party websites. Third-party services are governed by their own terms and privacy policies. You must comply with applicable third-party terms when using them.
We are not responsible for third-party content, availability, security, or practices. A link does not mean Clapps endorses the linked service.
Clapps rights and feedback
The apps, website, software, design, text, graphics, trademarks, and other Clapps materials are owned by Glows Ads LLC or its licensors and protected by intellectual-property laws. Clapps, SideReader, and the names of other apps we develop and identify as Clapps products are brands of Glows Ads LLC. Third-party names and marks, including Apple and App Store, belong to their respective owners. No claim of trademark registration is made by this notice. These Terms do not grant you rights to use Clapps names, logos, or branding.
If you voluntarily send ideas or feedback, you allow Clapps to use them to improve or develop products without compensation, on a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free basis. This does not give us rights to your private app content or personal information.
Updates and availability
We may update, add, change, suspend, or discontinue features or products, subject to applicable notice requirements and your rights relating to paid products and subscriptions. Some behavior depends on device hardware, operating systems, permissions, and app-store rules outside our control. We do not promise that every feature or compatibility level will always remain available.
Updates may be required for security, compatibility, or continued use. Your platform settings may install them automatically.
Disclaimers
To the fullest extent permitted by law, Clapps products are provided “as is” and “as available,” with all faults and without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, accuracy, quiet enjoyment, and non-infringement.
We do not warrant that a product will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, or compatible with every device or workflow. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain warranty exclusions, so some of these exclusions may not apply to you. Nothing in these Terms affects non-waivable consumer rights.
Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, Clapps and its suppliers will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost data, recordings, revenue, profits, business opportunities, or goodwill arising from or related to a Clapps product or these Terms.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, Clapps' total liability for all claims arising from or related to a product or these Terms will not exceed the greater of the amount you paid Clapps for that product during the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim or US $50. These limits do not apply to fraud, willful misconduct, gross negligence, death or personal injury caused by negligence, or any other liability to the extent applicable law prohibits its exclusion or limitation. Mandatory consumer remedies remain available.
Termination
You may stop using a Clapps product at any time. We may suspend or terminate your license if you materially violate these Terms subject to the applicable app license and law. Where reasonably possible, we will give notice and an opportunity to remedy a breach before termination, except when urgent action is needed for security, legal compliance, or abuse. Termination does not remove mandatory refund or other consumer rights. Rights and provisions that by their nature should survive termination—including ownership, disclaimers, liability limits, and dispute terms—will survive.
Governing law and disputes
These Terms are governed by California law, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Subject to any non-waivable rights you have where you live, disputes will be brought in the state or federal courts located in Los Angeles County, California, and each party consents to their jurisdiction.
Before filing a formal claim, please email us with a description of the issue and the relief you seek so we can try to resolve it informally. This is a request to try informal resolution, not a condition that delays your legal rights or filing deadlines. Nothing prevents either party from seeking urgent relief or using an eligible small-claims process. Consumers retain any mandatory protections of their home country and any right to bring proceedings in their local courts. These Terms do not impose arbitration or a class-action waiver.
Changes and general terms
We may update these Terms as our products or legal obligations change. We will post revised Terms here, update the date above, and provide any additional notice required by law. Material changes apply prospectively after the notice and acceptance, if any, required by law. A posted revision does not remove accrued rights or automatically change a separately accepted app license.
These Terms and applicable app licenses and platform terms are the entire agreement about the products they cover. If a provision is unenforceable, it will be limited to the minimum extent necessary and the rest will remain effective. A failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; Glows Ads LLC may assign them as part of a reorganization, financing, merger, or sale, without reducing any non-waivable consumer protections.
Contact Glows Ads LLC
For questions about these Terms, support, or a legal concern relating to Clapps, contact Glows Ads LLC at hello@clapps.me. Include the app name and a description of the issue. Privacy requests are explained in our Privacy Policy.