Terms of Service

Version 2026-10-18 · Effective October 18, 2026

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are a binding agreement between you ("you" or "your") and Sahlware LLC, a Washington limited liability company with its principal place of business at 33819 NE 52nd Way, Carnation, WA 98014, USA ("Sahlware," "we," "us," or "our"). They govern your access to and use of the DailyQuotes website and web app at https://dailyquotes.sahlware.com, including its generation tools, viewer, video features, community features, and related services (together, the "Service").

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS CAREFULLY. THEY CONTAIN AN AI-OUTPUT DISCLAIMER (SECTION 8), AUTOMATIC-RENEWAL TERMS (SECTION 6), A DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES (SECTION 16), A LIMITATION OF LIABILITY (SECTION 17), AND A DISPUTE-RESOLUTION SECTION (SECTION 19) THAT AFFECT YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS. If you live in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, Section 20 explains how mandatory consumer law in your country applies.

1. Acceptance of These Terms

Before your first generation, whether you are a guest or signed in, the Service shows you a checkbox that reads "I am 18 or older and I agree to the Terms of Service and have read the Privacy Policy." By checking that box and continuing, you accept these Terms. We record the version of the Terms you accepted, your user or guest ID, and the time of acceptance. When we publish a new version of the Terms, we will ask you to accept it again before you continue generating content.

Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle personal data, and our Acceptable Use and Content Policy (the "Content Policy") is part of these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

2. The Service

DailyQuotes lets you describe a theme or topic (a "Prompt"). The Service uses third-party artificial-intelligence models to generate a collection of short quotations, titles, and attributions, each paired with an AI-generated background image (a "Collection"). Depending on your plan, you may view Collections as cards or a slideshow, edit or regenerate items, add quotes, share a Collection by link, render a Collection into a video with AI-generated narration and AI-generated background music, and publish a Collection to a public community feed.

We may add, change, limit, or remove features, models, providers, and usage limits at any time. Some features are labeled beta or experimental and may not work reliably.

3. Eligibility and Age Requirement

You must be at least 18 years old to use the Service. The Service is not directed to, and is not intended for, anyone under 18. You confirm that you are 18 or older when you accept these Terms.

If we learn that someone under 18 has provided personal data, we will delete the account and data as described in the Privacy Policy.

4. Accounts and Guest Use

(a) Accounts. You can create an account through our authentication provider, Kinde, including by signing in with Google. You must give accurate information, keep your credentials secure, and tell us promptly at dailyquotes@sahlware.com about unauthorized use. You are responsible for activity under your account.

(b) Guest use. You may use limited features without an account. We assign your browser a random guest identifier so we can keep your Collections and usage limits. Guest Collections are tied to that identifier; if you clear your browser storage or switch devices, you may lose access to them, and we cannot recover them. Guest Collections may be deleted after 12 months of inactivity (see the Privacy Policy).

(c) One person per account. Accounts are personal and may not be sold, transferred, or shared.

5. Plans, Credits, and Usage Limits

The Service offers a free tier and paid subscription plans. Current plans, prices, included features, and usage limits are shown in the plan selector in the app and at checkout, and form part of these Terms.

Credits. Paid plans include a monthly credit allowance. Each generation or regeneration consumes credits from that allowance. Some paid plans may offer additional credits at the per-credit price shown at checkout, billed through our billing provider. Unused credits do not roll over to the next month.

Usage limits. Usage limits exist to control cost and abuse. We may enforce technical safety caps and may block accounts or guest sessions that evade limits.

6. Subscriptions, Automatic Renewal, and Cancellation

(a) Automatic renewal. PAID PLANS ARE MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTIONS THAT RENEW AUTOMATICALLY EACH MONTH AT THE THEN-CURRENT PRICE, PLUS APPLICABLE TAXES, UNTIL YOU CANCEL. By subscribing, you authorize us (through our billing provider) to charge your payment method at the start of each monthly billing period.

(b) Billing provider; card data. Checkout and subscription management are handled by our authentication and billing provider, Kinde, using its hosted checkout and subscription-management pages, with Stripe as the payment processor. Your full card details are entered on the provider's hosted pages and are never received or stored by Sahlware. Your payment method's issuer terms also apply.

(c) How to cancel. You may cancel at any time, effective at the end of your current billing period, from the account menu (Account → billing portal), which opens the billing provider's self-service portal, or by emailing dailyquotes@sahlware.com from the email address on your account. You can cancel online through the same channel you used to subscribe; there is no need to call or chat. We will confirm your cancellation by email.

(d) Effect of cancellation. After cancellation you keep paid features until the end of the period you paid for, and then your account moves to the free tier. Content you created stays available subject to free-tier limits; features such as video rendering will no longer be available.

(e) Refunds. Except where required by law (including Section 20 for EEA, UK, and Swiss consumers), fees are non-refundable and we do not provide refunds or credits for partial billing periods or unused credits.

(f) Price changes. We will notify you by email at least 30 days before any price increase takes effect. The new price applies from your next renewal after the notice period. If you do not want to pay the new price, cancel before it takes effect.

(g) Failed payments. If a charge fails, we or our billing provider may retry it, and we may downgrade or suspend paid features until payment succeeds.

(h) Plan changes. Upgrades take effect immediately and may be prorated as shown at checkout. Downgrades take effect at the next renewal.

7. Advertising

DailyQuotes does not currently display third-party advertising or use advertising cookies. If we introduce advertising in the future, we will update these Terms and the Privacy Policy first and ask for consent where the law requires it.

8. AI-Generated Content — Important Disclaimer

(a) What the Service produces. Quotes, titles, attributions, images, narration, and music produced by the Service ("Generated Content") are created automatically by artificial-intelligence models operated by third parties. Quotes, titles, and attributions are generated by OpenAI language models; background images by OpenAI image models; narration by OpenAI text-to-speech; and background music by ElevenLabs. Generated Content is not written, reviewed, or verified by Sahlware.

(b) Quotes may be fabricated or misattributed. AI-GENERATED QUOTES MAY BE INVENTED, PARAPHRASED, INACCURATE, OR ATTRIBUTED TO THE WRONG PERSON. A NAME SHOWN NEXT TO A QUOTE IS PRODUCED BY THE AI AND DOES NOT MEAN THAT PERSON EVER SAID OR WROTE IT. GENERATED CONTENT IS NOT A REAL STATEMENT BY, OR ENDORSEMENT FROM, ANY PERSON, LIVING OR DEAD, OR ANY ORGANIZATION. Do not rely on Generated Content as a source of historical, factual, legal, medical, financial, or religious information, and do not cite it as a genuine quotation without independently checking the original source.

(c) How attributions work. The model is instructed to attribute a quote only to a widely known historical figure who is no longer living and is widely associated with the quote, and otherwise to use "Unknown." It is instructed never to attribute quotes to living people or private individuals. These instructions reduce, but do not eliminate, misattribution. If you edit an attribution, you are responsible for it, and your edit is screened before it is saved or published. Any real person who finds a quote misattributed to them can email dailyquotes@sahlware.com and we will remove the attribution or the Collection promptly, without requiring proof.

(d) Voices and images are synthetic. Narration in videos is produced by a synthetic text-to-speech voice, not a human. It uses stock synthetic voices and is never a clone of a real person's voice. Background images and music are AI-generated and do not depict real events or real people.

(e) The AI label. Every quote card, slideshow view, share page, and rendered video carries the label "AI-generated · attributions unverified." You must not remove, crop, cover, or obscure that label.

(f) Similar output. AI models may produce the same or similar output for other users. Generated Content is not unique to you, and other users may receive or publish similar Collections.

(g) Your responsibility. You are responsible for how you use, share, and publish Generated Content, including checking it before sharing and complying with the Content Policy.

9. Ownership of Content

(a) Your Prompts. You keep whatever rights you have in the Prompts, edits, and other material you submit ("Your Input").

(b) Generated Content. As between you and Sahlware, and to the extent we hold any rights in Generated Content produced from Your Input, we assign those rights to you, subject to your compliance with these Terms, the third-party provider terms that apply to that content, and the license you grant us in Section 10.

(c) No guarantee of rights. Generated Content may not be protected by copyright. In the United States, the Copyright Office and federal courts have taken the position that material generated by AI without sufficient human creative control is not copyrightable, and a text Prompt alone generally is not enough; other countries take different approaches. We make no promise that you can register, enforce, or exclusively own Generated Content, or that it does not resemble or infringe third-party material. Generated Content that reproduces an existing quotation belongs to its original rightsholder, if any.

(d) Videos, narration, and music. Rendered videos combine Generated Content with narration and music created through third-party AI services. You may download and share videos you render for personal, non-commercial purposes, subject to the restrictions in Section 12(f) and any restrictions imposed by those providers. Commercial use of rendered videos is not permitted under the current licence.

(e) The Service. The Service itself — software, design, templates, the "DailyQuotes" and "Sahlware" names and logos, and our other materials — belongs to Sahlware and its licensors. We grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the Service for its intended purpose under these Terms. All other rights are reserved.

10. License You Grant to Us

(a) To run the Service. You grant Sahlware a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, copy, process, transmit, modify (for formatting, rendering, and technical purposes), and display Your Input and your Collections as needed to operate, secure, and provide the Service to you, including sending Your Input to our AI providers to generate content and to our safety-screening systems.

(b) Share links. When you create a shareable link, anyone with the link can view that Collection, and they may copy or re-share it outside our control. Only share links you are comfortable being public.

(c) Community feed. When you publish a Collection to the community feed, you grant Sahlware and its service providers a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable (to service providers only) license to host, reproduce, display, distribute, adapt the format of, and publicly perform that Collection (including any rendered video) on and in connection with the Service, including in search, recommendations, and featured lists within the Service. Other users may view and share published Collections through the Service's features.

(d) Duration. The license in (c) ends when you unpublish or delete the Collection, except for (i) copies other people already shared or saved, (ii) backups retained for a limited period, and (iii) copies we must keep for legal reasons or to handle a complaint.

(e) Your promises. You represent that you have the rights needed to grant these licenses in Your Input, and that Your Input and anything you publish comply with these Terms and the Content Policy.

(f) Model training. We do not use Your Input or your Collections to train AI models, and our API agreements with our AI providers do not permit them to train on it.

(g) Feedback. If you send us suggestions, we may use them without obligation to you.

11. Community Feed and Moderation

Publishing to the community feed is optional and requires a signed-in account. Every Prompt, generated quote and title, user edit, and publish request is screened automatically by a content-safety model together with our own rules before it is accepted; if the safety check cannot run, the request is refused. Publishing may be unavailable at times while we complete related compliance steps.

Published Collections are visible to anyone through the feed and through share links. Viewers see the Collection but not your name or email; we display no publisher identity. You can unpublish at any time.

Published Collections must follow the Content Policy. We may review, label, restrict, demote, unpublish, or remove any content, and restrict or terminate accounts, when we believe content or conduct violates these Terms, the Content Policy, or law, or creates risk for users, third parties, or Sahlware. We are not obligated to monitor content, and we do not endorse user-published content. The Content Policy describes how to report content, how we notify affected users, and how to appeal.

12. Prohibited Uses

You must not, and must not help anyone else to:

(a) use the Service in violation of law or to infringe or misappropriate anyone's intellectual property, privacy, or publicity rights;

(b) present Generated Content as a genuine quotation from a real person, or create Collections intended to make people believe a real person said something they did not, including to deceive, defame, harass, or manipulate (for example, in political, commercial, or news contexts);

(c) generate or publish content that the Content Policy prohibits, including sexual content involving minors (which we report to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children where required), non-consensual intimate imagery, hate, harassment, threats, violent extremism, or content promoting self-harm;

(d) impersonate any person or organization, or misrepresent your affiliation;

(e) use the Service to create spam, bulk or automated content farms, deceptive marketing, or fake reviews or endorsements;

(f) extract, isolate, or redistribute narration or background music separately from the videos the Service renders; register Generated Content or music with content-identification systems (such as YouTube Content ID) or claim exclusive rights in it against others; or use narration to imitate a real person's voice;

(g) attempt to bypass usage limits, entitlements, billing, or safety filters, including by creating multiple accounts or guest sessions to evade limits, or by prompt-injection or jailbreak techniques;

(h) scrape, crawl, or bulk-download the Service or other users' content, or use the Service or its output to develop or train competing AI models, except as allowed by law;

(i) reverse engineer, decompile, or probe the Service's security, except where applicable law expressly permits it despite this restriction;

(j) interfere with the Service, upload malware, or overload our systems;

(k) resell, sublicense, or provide the Service to others as a service; or

(l) violate the usage policies of our AI providers (OpenAI and ElevenLabs) that apply to content generated through the Service.

13. Copyright and Other Complaints

We respond to notices of alleged copyright infringement under the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act and terminate repeat infringers in appropriate circumstances. The notice and counter-notice process is in Section 7 of the Content Policy. Complaints about defamation, impersonation, privacy, or right of publicity — including a quote falsely attributed to you — can be sent through the process in Section 6 of the Content Policy.

Designated Copyright Agent: Copyright Agent, Sahlware LLC, 33819 NE 52nd Way, Carnation, WA 98014, USA · +1 425-269-5310 · legal@sahlware.com (subject line "DMCA notice").

14. Third-Party Services

The Service relies on third parties, including Kinde (authentication and billing), Stripe (payments), Google (sign-in), OpenAI (text, image, moderation, and speech generation), ElevenLabs (music generation), Microsoft Azure (hosting and storage), and Cloudflare (website hosting and delivery), and may link to third-party sites. Their availability is outside our control, and their own terms may apply when you use them directly (for example, Google's terms when you sign in with Google). We are not responsible for third-party services or sites.

15. Suspension and Termination

(a) By you. You may stop using the Service at any time. You can delete individual Collections in the app and request account deletion as described in the Privacy Policy. Cancel any subscription first (Section 6).

(b) By us. We may suspend or terminate your access, remove content, or refuse service, with notice where practical, if we reasonably believe you violated these Terms or the Content Policy, created legal or security risk, failed to pay, or if we discontinue the Service. If we discontinue the Service or a paid plan for reasons other than your breach, we will give reasonable advance notice and refund any prepaid fees for the unused period.

(c) Effect. When access ends, your licenses under these Terms end, published Collections may be removed, and we may delete your content after the retention periods in the Privacy Policy. Download anything you want to keep before then. Sections 8, 9(c), 10(d)–(g), 12, and 16 through 22 survive termination.

16. Disclaimer of Warranties

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE SERVICE AND ALL GENERATED CONTENT 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, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY, AND QUIET ENJOYMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT GENERATED CONTENT IS ACCURATE, ORIGINAL, CORRECTLY ATTRIBUTED, NON-INFRINGING, OR SUITABLE FOR ANY PURPOSE, OR THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE, OR THAT CONTENT WILL BE PRESERVED. Some jurisdictions do not allow these exclusions, so some may not apply to you.

17. Limitation of Liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW:

(a) SAHLWARE AND ITS MEMBERS, MANAGERS, EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS, AGENTS, LICENSORS, AND SUPPLIERS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, CONTENT, OR GOODWILL, ARISING FROM OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE, GENERATED CONTENT, OR THESE TERMS, UNDER ANY THEORY, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY.

(b) OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING FROM OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (i) THE AMOUNTS YOU PAID US FOR THE SERVICE IN THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR (ii) US $50.

(c) These limits do not apply to liability that cannot be limited by law, including, where applicable, liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, fraud, gross negligence, or willful misconduct, or to rights you have under mandatory consumer law (Section 20).

18. Indemnity

To the extent permitted by law, you will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Sahlware and its members, managers, employees, and agents from third-party claims, losses, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising from (a) content you publish or share, including any claim that it infringes, defames, or misappropriates the name, likeness, or voice of another person; (b) your presentation of Generated Content as genuine statements of a real person; (c) your violation of these Terms, the Content Policy, or law; or (d) your commercial use of Generated Content. We will notify you of the claim and may control its defense. This Section does not apply to EEA, UK, or Swiss consumers except to the extent permitted by local law.

19. Dispute Resolution

(a) Informal resolution first. Before starting any court proceeding, you and we each agree to try to resolve the dispute informally for 30 days after written notice. Send your notice to legal@sahlware.comwith your name, account email, a description of the dispute, and the relief you want. We will send ours to the email address on your account.

(b) Courts. If the dispute is not resolved within those 30 days, it will be decided exclusively by the state or federal courts located in King County, Washington, and you and we consent to personal jurisdiction and venue there. You may instead bring an individual claim in a small-claims court that has jurisdiction where you live.

(c) Jury waiver. TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, YOU AND SAHLWARE EACH WAIVE THE RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL IN ANY PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICE.

(d) Governing law. These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Washington and applicable U.S. federal law, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. The UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.

20. Users in the EEA, United Kingdom, and Switzerland

If you are a consumer habitually resident in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland:

(a) Mandatory law prevails. Nothing in these Terms limits rights you have under mandatory consumer-protection law of your country of residence. The choice of Washington law does not deprive you of those protections, and you may bring proceedings in the courts of your country of residence. Section 19(b) and (c) do not restrict those rights.

(b) Right of withdrawal. You have the right to withdraw from a paid subscription within 14 days of purchase without giving a reason, by cancelling in the billing portal (Account → billing portal) or by emailing dailyquotes@sahlware.com. If you ask us to start providing paid digital features immediately, you acknowledge that your right of withdrawal is lost once the service has been fully performed within the withdrawal period, and that if you withdraw before then you will pay a proportionate amount for what was provided before withdrawal. Where law requires, we will refund the remainder within 14 days of your withdrawal.

(c) Liability. Section 17 does not limit our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, fraud, or gross negligence, or for breach of material contractual obligations to the extent local law prohibits it. Legal-guarantee rights for digital content and services (for example, Directive (EU) 2019/770 and the UK Consumer Rights Act 2015) apply.

(d) Platform-law information. Information about content moderation, notices, statements of reasons, and complaints under the EU Digital Services Act and the UK Online Safety Act is in the Content Policy. We have not appointed a legal representative in the EU or the UK. EEA and UK residents should contact us directly at dailyquotes@sahlware.com, and may lodge a complaint with their national authority.

21. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms. For material changes we will give at least 30 days' notice by email or in the Service before they take effect, except for changes required by law or to address abuse, which may take effect sooner. Changes do not apply retroactively to disputes that arose before the change. When the Terms version changes, we will ask you to accept the new version before you continue generating content. If you do not agree to the changes, stop using the Service and cancel your subscription before they take effect.

22. General

(a) Entire agreement. These Terms, the Privacy Policy, the Content Policy, and plan terms shown at checkout are the entire agreement about the Service. (b) Severability. If a provision is unenforceable, the rest remains in effect. (c) No waiver. Not enforcing a provision is not a waiver. (d) Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; we may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, with notice to you. (e) Force majeure. We are not liable for delays or failures caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including failures of AI providers, hosting, or payment networks. (f) Export and sanctions. You may not use the Service where prohibited by U.S. export or sanctions law. (g) Notices. We may give notice by email to your account address or in the Service; you give notice to dailyquotes@sahlware.com. (h) Language. If we provide a translation, the English version controls to the extent permitted by law. (i) No third-party beneficiaries. These Terms do not create rights for anyone other than you and Sahlware.

23. Contact

Sahlware LLC · 33819 NE 52nd Way, Carnation, WA 98014, USA · dailyquotes@sahlware.com · https://dailyquotes.sahlware.com (company site: https://sahlware.com)