Terms of Service

Please read these Terms of Service ("Terms") carefully. They form a binding legal agreement between you ("you", "your", or "User") and Sojourner ("Sojourner", "we", "us", or "our") and govern your access to and use of the Sojourner website, mobile applications, software, APIs, and any related services (collectively, the "Service").

By accessing or using the Service, by clicking a button or checkbox indicating acceptance, by creating an account, or by continuing to use the Service after these Terms are made available to you, you agree to be bound by these Terms, our Privacy Policy, and our Copyright & Attribution Notices, each of which is incorporated by reference. If you do not agree, you must not access or use the Service.

PLEASE NOTE: These Terms contain (a) a disclaimer of warranties, (b) limitations on our liability, (c) your release and indemnification of Sojourner, (d) provisions regarding the use of artificial-intelligence features (including bedtime-story and image generation) and third-party AI providers, (e) provisions regarding location and trip data, public sharing of stories, and the use of children's, family members', and other people's information and likenesses, and (f) a binding individual arbitration agreement and class-action waiver that affect your legal rights. Please read Sections 7 and 13–21 carefully.

1. Eligibility and accounts

1.1 Age. The Service is intended for users who are at least 13 years old. If you are under the age of majority in your jurisdiction (commonly 18), you may use the Service only with the involvement and consent of a parent or legal guardian who agrees to be bound by these Terms on your behalf. Children under 13 are not permitted to create accounts and may not use the Service directly. The Service does, however, allow an adult account holder, acting as a parent or legal guardian, to add a profile for their own child (including a display name, age or age range, pronouns, role, notes, and optional reference photos used in AI-generated stories and illustrations) — that information is provided to us by the parent or guardian, who is responsible for the lawful basis for providing it. Section 21 governs information about children and other family members. Other than information you choose to provide about your child as described above, we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13; if we learn we have, we will delete it.

1.2 Accuracy. To create an account you must provide accurate and complete information and keep it current. You are responsible for all activity that occurs under your account, including activity by anyone you allow to use it.

1.3 Security. You must keep your credentials confidential and notify us immediately of any unauthorized access or suspected breach. We are not liable for any loss arising from your failure to maintain the security of your account.

1.4 One person, one account. Accounts are for individual use. You may not transfer, sell, share, or assign your account to anyone else without our prior written consent.

1.5 Approval. Some features and the Service as a whole may require manual review and approval. We may decline, suspend, or revoke access at our discretion.

2. The Service

Sojourner provides a private journaling environment integrated with Scripture-reading tools, optional rich-text formatting, photo and voice attachments, organizational features (such as tags, journals, a calendar, and trips), location and map-based features, push notifications and reminders, optional artificial-intelligence features described in Section 7 (including voice transcription, reflection prompts, summaries, Scripture suggestions, and the generation of illustrated bedtime stories that may render likenesses of children or family members you have added), profiles for children and family members, the ability to share specific content with people you choose via public or email-restricted links, and related capabilities. The Service is provided on an "as available" basis and may include both free and paid tiers.

We may add, modify, suspend, discontinue, throttle, deprecate, or remove any feature, tier, model provider, integration, or functionality at any time, with or without notice, in our sole discretion. We may also impose usage limits (for example, on storage, audio length, request volume, or AI usage) and modify such limits over time.

3. Free, paid plans, trials, and billing

3.1 Plans. We offer free and paid subscription plans, the features and prices of which are described on our pricing page and may change at any time. Paid plans are generally billed in advance on a recurring basis (for example, annually) and renew automatically until canceled.

3.2 Free trials. If we offer you a free trial, the trial begins when you start it and ends when (a) the trial period expires, (b) you cancel, (c) you upgrade or downgrade, or (d) we end or modify the trial. At the end of the trial, if you have provided payment information, your subscription will automatically begin and you will be billed at the then-current rate unless you cancel before the trial ends.

3.3 Authorization. By providing a payment method, you authorize us and our payment processors to charge that method for all amounts due, including taxes, until you cancel. You are responsible for maintaining valid payment information.

3.4 No refunds. Except where required by applicable law, all fees are non-refundable, including for partially used periods, downgrades, account suspensions, or terminations for violation of these Terms. We do not provide refunds or credits for unused time on your subscription.

3.5 Price changes. We may change our prices at any time. Price changes for recurring subscriptions will take effect at the start of the next billing cycle following the change. Your continued use of the Service after the change takes effect constitutes acceptance of the new price.

3.6 Cancellation. You may cancel a paid subscription at any time from your account settings. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current paid period; you retain access until then and will not be charged again.

3.7 Taxes. Listed fees do not include taxes. You are responsible for all applicable taxes, duties, and similar charges, other than taxes on our net income.

4. Your content

4.1 Ownership. You retain all rights you have in the journal entries, photos, voice recordings, tags, bookmarks, trips and places, profiles you create for children or family members, reference photos you upload to render those people in illustrations, story prompts and settings you submit, AI-generated stories and illustrations created on your behalf, and other content you create, upload, generate, or store through the Service ("Your Content"). These Terms do not grant us any ownership of Your Content. (Section 7.6 addresses ownership of AI outputs in more detail.)

4.2 License to operate the Service. Solely so that we can provide, secure, back up, sync across devices, transcribe, summarize, generate insights for, and otherwise operate the Service for you, you grant Sojourner a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable license to host, store, copy, transmit, display, encode, reformat, process, and create derived data from Your Content. This license is limited to operating, supporting, securing, and improving the Service for you and exists only for as long as Your Content is stored by the Service (plus a brief commercially reasonable period thereafter, for backups and audit logs).

4.3 We do not sell Your Content or train AI on it. We do not sell Your Content. We do not use Your Content (including journal text, voice recordings, photos, reference photos, story prompts, child or family-member profiles, or the AI inputs and AI outputs derived from them) to train, fine-tune, or otherwise improve any third-party large-language, image-generation, transcription, or other general-purpose AI model. As described in Section 7, when you use AI Features, Your Content is sent to third-party AI providers for inference only, under contractual terms that prohibit training on it.

4.4 Your responsibility. You are solely responsible for Your Content and the consequences of submitting, generating, storing, displaying, or sharing it. You represent and warrant that (a) you own or have all necessary rights, licenses, consents, and permissions in Your Content, including in any photos of, or information about, other people (and especially children) and any reference photos you provide for use in AI-generated illustrations; (b) Your Content and any AI inputs or AI outputs derived from it do not violate these Terms or any law, contract, or right of any person (including intellectual-property rights, privacy rights, publicity rights, or rights of minors); (c) Your Content does not contain content prohibited by Section 6; and (d) you have obtained any consent required from a parent or legal guardian, and from any other depicted person, before adding or generating content that depicts or identifies them.

4.5 Backups. While we take reasonable measures to back up Your Content, we do not guarantee that Your Content will be retained or remain available, and we are not responsible for any loss or corruption of Your Content. You are encouraged to maintain your own copies and to use any export tools we provide.

5. License to use the Service

Subject to your compliance with these Terms, Sojourner grants you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to access and use the Service for your personal, non-commercial use. All rights not expressly granted to you in these Terms are reserved by Sojourner and its licensors.

You may not (a) copy, modify, distribute, sell, lease, sublicense, or create derivative works of the Service or any part of it; (b) reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or attempt to derive source code from the Service except where applicable law expressly permits; (c) use the Service to build a competing product or service; (d) remove, alter, or obscure any proprietary notices; or (e) use any robot, scraper, crawler, data-mining tool, or other automated means to access the Service except for permitted public APIs as expressly authorized by us in writing.

6. Acceptable use

You agree not to use the Service to, and not to permit anyone else to use the Service to:

• violate any law, regulation, or third-party right (including privacy, publicity, defamation, or intellectual-property rights);
• upload, store, transmit, or generate content that is unlawful, harassing, defamatory, hateful, threatening, sexually exploitative of minors, or that depicts real or simulated non-consensual sexual conduct;
• upload or transmit malware, ransomware, viruses, worms, or any other malicious or harmful code;
• attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Service, other users' accounts, or any related systems or networks, or interfere with or disrupt the integrity, security, or performance of the Service;
• probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the Service, or bypass any security or authentication measures, except under a written security-research agreement with us;
• use the Service to send spam or other unsolicited messages, or to engage in fraud or deceptive practices;
• use the Service for any high-risk or safety-critical activity (including operation of medical devices, life-support systems, or critical infrastructure);
• misrepresent your identity or impersonate another person or entity;
• attempt to elicit personally identifying information, credentials, or sensitive data about another person from any AI feature;
• use AI outputs in a manner that violates the policies of the underlying AI provider, generates content that infringes third-party rights, or constitutes professional advice you are not qualified to give;
• upload, store, generate, or share photos, profile information, reference photos, or AI-generated likenesses depicting any child or other identifiable person without the rights and consents required by Section 4.4;
• use AI Features to generate or store sexual, violent, graphic, harassing, defamatory, or otherwise harmful content involving any real or fictional minor, or any other content that the underlying AI provider's policies prohibit;
• use AI Features to generate likenesses, voices, or impersonations of any real person other than yourself or someone you have lawful authority to depict;
• share, publish, or distribute AI-generated content (including stories or illustrations) in any manner that infringes intellectual-property, publicity, or privacy rights, that is defamatory, that misrepresents AI-generated content as authentic or human-created where that misrepresentation could mislead, or that violates the policies of the underlying AI provider;
• use the Service's sharing features to distribute spam, phishing, malware, sexually explicit content, or content that targets, identifies, or endangers another person;
• upload, transmit, or rely on location data in any safety-critical, navigation, emergency-response, surveillance, stalking, or unlawful tracking context; or
• exceed published or reasonable usage limits, or take any action that imposes an unreasonable load on the Service.

7. Artificial-intelligence features

7.1 What AI features do. The Service includes optional AI-powered features ("AI Features"), which currently include, without limitation: voice-to-text transcription of voice notes; reflection prompts, cross-entry insights, and summaries based on the entries you choose to include; Scripture suggestions; the generation of multi-page, illustrated bedtime stories based on the prompts, settings, and child or family-member profiles you provide; and the generation of accompanying AI illustrations, including illustrations rendered to resemble the people you have added by reference photo. To provide these features, Your Content (which may include the text of journal entries, audio recordings, attached Scripture references, tags, metadata, story prompts and settings, child and family-member profiles, and reference photos) is transmitted to and processed by third-party AI providers.

7.2 Third-party AI providers; changes without notice. Sojourner uses third-party AI providers — which may include, for example and without limitation, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, fal.ai, and other large-language-model, image-generation, transcription, or machine-learning service providers — to power the AI Features. The specific providers, models, model versions, geographic processing locations, and configurations we use may change at any time, with or without notice. We do not commit to using any particular provider, model, or version, and we may add new providers or remove existing ones at our discretion. By using the AI Features, you acknowledge and agree that your use is subject to the policies of the relevant third-party providers in effect at the time of use, and that those policies may change. We are not responsible for the acts, omissions, content, terms, privacy practices, or availability of any third-party provider.

7.3 No training on Your Content. Where we transmit Your Content to AI providers for inference, we make commercially reasonable efforts to do so under terms that prohibit those providers from using Your Content to train their models. We do not, however, guarantee the conduct of any third party, and providers may retain inputs and outputs for short periods for abuse monitoring, safety, or legal compliance in accordance with their own policies.

7.4 AI outputs are not advice and may be wrong. AI Features are provided for personal, reflective, informational, devotional, and entertainment purposes only. AI outputs (including text, transcriptions, summaries, suggestions, prompts, generated stories, and generated images) (a) may be inaccurate, incomplete, biased, offensive, fabricated ("hallucinated"), inconsistent, or outdated; (b) in the case of generated images, may not faithfully resemble the intended subject, may include unintended elements (including extra figures, distorted features, or culturally or contextually inappropriate elements), and may differ between generations; (c) are not, and must not be relied on as, theological, spiritual, pastoral, parenting, educational, medical, mental-health, psychological, psychiatric, legal, financial, accounting, tax, or other professional advice or counseling; (d) do not establish any fiduciary, counselor-counselee, doctor-patient, attorney-client, clergy-penitent, or other privileged or confidential relationship; (e) are not a substitute for prayer, pastoral care, professional treatment, or human judgment; and (f) may not reflect the views of Sojourner. You assume all risk of relying on, displaying, distributing, or showing AI outputs (including showing AI-generated stories or illustrations to a child) and are solely responsible for independently verifying any output and reviewing it for appropriateness before acting on it or sharing it. If you are in crisis or believe you may harm yourself or others, contact emergency services or a qualified professional immediately.

7.5 Your inputs. You must not submit to AI Features any content that you are not authorized to disclose to a third-party processor, including content protected by attorney-client privilege, doctor-patient confidentiality, clergy-penitent privilege, regulated health information, payment-card data, government-classified information, or other materials whose disclosure is restricted by law or contract.

7.6 Ownership of outputs; no warranty of originality. As between you and Sojourner, and to the extent permitted by law and the terms of the underlying AI provider, you own the outputs generated for you by AI Features, subject to your compliance with these Terms. Because of the nature of AI, outputs generated for one user may be similar or identical to outputs generated for another, and we do not warrant that any output is unique, original, non-infringing, or eligible for any form of intellectual-property protection. You are solely responsible for any use you make of AI outputs, including any decision to publish, share, or distribute them.

7.7 Image generation, reference photos, and likeness. Some AI Features generate images, including images that attempt to render the likeness of a person you have added by reference photo (for example, your child or another family member). By uploading a reference photo or otherwise asking the Service to depict a person, you agree that:

• you have all rights and consents required to upload that photo and to authorize the generation, storage, display, and (if you choose) sharing of AI-generated likenesses of that person, including any consent required from a parent or legal guardian if the person is a minor;
• AI-generated likenesses are artistic interpretations, may not faithfully resemble the subject, may include unintended elements, and may vary between generations or between providers;
• Sojourner does not use reference photos for biometric identification, facial-recognition matching, or any purpose other than rendering illustrations on your behalf, but the underlying AI provider's processing is governed by its own policies, which may change;
• as between you and Sojourner, you are solely responsible for any decision to publish, share, or distribute AI-generated likenesses, and for any resulting claims (including claims of misappropriation of likeness, defamation, or infringement); and
• we may decline to generate, may filter, or may remove images that we or any provider determine in good faith to violate these Terms, the provider's policies, or applicable law.

7.8 Stories for and about children. AI-generated bedtime stories and illustrations are creative works produced algorithmically. They may include themes, words, characters, or imagery that you, a parent, or a guardian consider inappropriate, frightening, doctrinally objectionable, or otherwise unsuitable for a particular child. You are solely responsible for reviewing any generated story and illustrations before reading or showing them to a child and for deciding whether they are appropriate for that child. Sojourner does not warrant that generated stories or illustrations will be suitable for any particular age, family, faith tradition, educational philosophy, or sensitivity, and does not endorse or take responsibility for the content of any generated story or illustration.

7.9 Optional features. AI Features are optional. You may decline to use them, and where the Service provides controls to enable or disable AI Features or individual processing types, you may use those controls. Some features may be unavailable if AI Features are disabled.

8. Scripture and other third-party content

The Service may display Scripture text and other content licensed from third parties, including under the licenses described on our Copyright & Attribution page. Such content is the property of its respective rights holders and is provided subject to those licenses. You agree to comply with all applicable third-party license terms, including any restrictions on quoting, reproducing, distributing, or modifying such content.

The Service may also link to or interoperate with third-party websites, applications, APIs, or services. We do not control and are not responsible for any third-party content, products, or services, and your use of them is at your own risk and subject to their terms.

9. Feedback

If you submit ideas, suggestions, feedback, or other materials about the Service ("Feedback"), you grant Sojourner a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable, transferable license to use, reproduce, modify, create derivative works of, and otherwise exploit the Feedback for any purpose, without compensation or attribution. You represent that you have the right to grant this license.

10. Intellectual property; copyright complaints

The Service, including its software, design, branding, logos, text, graphics, and all related intellectual-property rights, is owned by Sojourner and its licensors and is protected by copyright, trademark, trade-secret, and other laws. Nothing in these Terms transfers ownership of any of those rights to you.

We respect intellectual-property rights and expect users to do the same. If you believe that content available through the Service infringes your copyright, please send a written notice to us containing the information required by 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3), including: (a) a physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or authorized agent; (b) identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed; (c) identification of the allegedly infringing material and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate it; (d) your contact information; (e) a statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorized; and (f) a statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the owner or authorized to act on the owner's behalf. Notices may be sent through the support contact described in Section 23.10. We may terminate the accounts of repeat infringers in appropriate circumstances.

11. Privacy

Your use of the Service is also governed by our Privacy Policy, which describes how we collect, use, share, and protect information about you. By using the Service, you consent to the practices described in the Privacy Policy.

12. Suspension and termination

12.1 By you. You may stop using the Service at any time and may delete your account through your account settings (or by contacting us if self-service deletion is not available). Cancellation of a paid subscription is described in Section 3.6.

12.2 By us. We may suspend, restrict, or terminate your access to all or part of the Service, with or without notice, at any time, including if (a) we believe you have violated these Terms or applicable law; (b) doing so is necessary to protect the security or integrity of the Service, other users, or third parties; (c) we are required to do so by law or legal process; (d) we discontinue the Service or any feature; or (e) for any other reason in our sole discretion.

12.3 Effect of termination. Upon termination, your right to use the Service ends immediately. We may delete Your Content after a reasonable period following termination. Sections that by their nature should survive termination will survive, including Sections 4 (license to operate the Service for retained content), 7 (AI-related disclaimers), 9 (Feedback), 10, 13–18, 19–21 (location, public sharing, and children/likeness terms), and 23.

13. Disclaimers

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available", with all faults and without warranty of any kind.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Sojourner and its officers, directors, employees, agents, affiliates, suppliers, and licensors (collectively, the "Sojourner Parties") expressly disclaim all warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, statutory, or otherwise, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, accuracy, quiet enjoyment, and any warranties arising from course of dealing, course of performance, or trade usage.

Without limiting the foregoing, the Sojourner Parties make no warranty that (a) the Service will meet your requirements; (b) the Service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free; (c) the results obtained from the Service (including AI outputs and any insights, summaries, prompts, or transcriptions) will be accurate, complete, reliable, lawful, non-infringing, or useful for any purpose; (d) the quality of any product, service, information, or other material obtained through the Service will meet your expectations; or (e) any errors in the Service will be corrected. You assume the entire risk of using the Service.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties, so some of the above exclusions may not apply to you. In that case, such warranties are limited to the minimum extent required by applicable law.

14. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Sojourner Parties will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages.

This includes, without limitation, damages for loss of profits, revenue, goodwill, use, data, content, or other intangible losses, even if a Sojourner Party has been advised of the possibility of such damages, arising out of or relating to (a) your access to, use of, or inability to access or use, the Service; (b) any conduct or content of any third party on the Service, including any AI provider; (c) any content obtained from the Service, including AI outputs; (d) the loss, corruption, or unauthorized access to or alteration of your transmissions or content; or (e) any other matter relating to the Service.

In no event will the aggregate liability of the Sojourner Parties to you for all claims arising out of or relating to the Service or these Terms exceed the greater of (i) the amount, if any, that you paid to Sojourner for the Service in the twelve (12) months immediately preceding the event giving rise to the claim, or (ii) one hundred U.S. dollars (US$100). The existence of more than one claim will not enlarge this limit.

The exclusions and limitations in Sections 13 and 14 apply regardless of the form of action, whether based on warranty, contract, statute, tort (including negligence), or any other legal or equitable theory, and even if any limited remedy in these Terms is found to have failed of its essential purpose. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain damages, so some of the above limitations may not apply to you. In that case, the Sojourner Parties' liability is limited to the minimum extent permitted by applicable law.

15. Release and indemnification

15.1 Release. To the fullest extent permitted by law, you release the Sojourner Parties from all claims, demands, damages, losses, and liabilities of every kind, known or unknown, arising out of or relating to (a) your use of the Service, (b) Your Content, (c) AI outputs, or (d) any interaction with another user or third party through the Service. If you are a California resident, you waive California Civil Code § 1542, which states: "A general release does not extend to claims that the creditor or releasing party does not know or suspect to exist in his or her favor at the time of executing the release and that, if known by him or her, would have materially affected his or her settlement with the debtor or released party." You waive any analogous law in any other jurisdiction.

15.2 Indemnification. You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the Sojourner Parties from and against any and all claims, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or relating to (a) your use or misuse of the Service; (b) Your Content; (c) your use or distribution of any AI output; (d) your violation of these Terms; or (e) your violation of any law or any right of a third party. We reserve the right, at our own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, in which case you will cooperate with our defense.

16. Governing law; venue

These Terms and any dispute arising out of or relating to them or the Service are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, and, where applicable, by the United States Federal Arbitration Act and federal arbitration law. Subject to the arbitration provisions in Section 17, any judicial action permitted under these Terms must be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Delaware, and you consent to the personal jurisdiction of those courts. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.

If you are a consumer residing in the European Union, the United Kingdom, or another jurisdiction whose mandatory consumer-protection laws would otherwise apply, nothing in this Section deprives you of the protection of those laws.

17. Binding arbitration; class-action waiver

Please read this section carefully. It limits the ways in which you can seek relief from Sojourner.

17.1 Agreement to arbitrate. You and Sojourner agree that any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service (a "Dispute") that cannot be resolved through informal negotiation will be resolved exclusively through final and binding individual arbitration, rather than in court, except that you or Sojourner may (a) bring an individual action in small-claims court within the jurisdictional limits of that court, and (b) seek injunctive or other equitable relief in a court of competent jurisdiction to prevent the actual or threatened infringement, misappropriation, or violation of intellectual property or other proprietary rights.

17.2 Informal resolution. Before filing arbitration, the party initiating a Dispute will send the other a written notice describing the Dispute and requested relief. The parties will attempt in good faith to resolve the Dispute for at least sixty (60) days after such notice before commencing arbitration.

17.3 Arbitration rules and forum. The arbitration will be administered by the American Arbitration Association ("AAA") under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, as modified by these Terms. The arbitration will be conducted by a single arbitrator. The seat of the arbitration will be in the county where you reside, unless you and Sojourner agree otherwise. The arbitrator's award will be binding and may be entered as a judgment in any court of competent jurisdiction.

17.4 No class actions. You and Sojourner agree that each may bring claims against the other only in your or its individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class, collective, or representative proceeding. The arbitrator may not consolidate more than one party's claims and may not preside over any form of representative or class proceeding. If a court decides that applicable law precludes enforcement of any of this paragraph's limitations as to a particular claim for relief, then that claim (and only that claim) must be severed from the arbitration and brought in court.

17.5 30-day right to opt out. You may opt out of this Section 17 by sending us written notice of your decision to opt out within 30 days after first accepting these Terms, including your name, the email address associated with your account, and a clear statement that you wish to opt out of arbitration. Opting out will not affect any other portion of these Terms.

17.6 Survival. This Section 17 will survive termination of these Terms.

18. Time limitation on claims

To the fullest extent permitted by law, any claim or cause of action arising out of or relating to the Service or these Terms must be commenced within one (1) year after the cause of action accrues, or it will be permanently barred.

19. Location, trips, and place data

19.1 Optional location features. Some Service features (including journal-entry tagging, trips, and map views) collect or use precise location information if you choose to enable them and your device permits the Service to access location services. You can disable location access at any time through your device's operating-system settings; doing so may disable location features.

19.2 Reverse geocoding. When you save a location, we transmit the coordinates you provide to a third-party reverse-geocoding service (currently OpenStreetMap's Nominatim service) to derive a human-readable place name. Map tiles and similar map data may also be provided by third-party services. Your use of those features is subject to the third party's terms and policies, and we are not responsible for them.

19.3 No safety-critical reliance. Location, place names, distance estimates, and map data provided by the Service are estimates only and may be inaccurate, delayed, or unavailable. You must not rely on Service location data for navigation, emergency response, medical decisions, surveillance of another person, or any other safety-critical or unlawful purpose. The Sojourner Parties (as defined in Section 13) are not liable for any injury, loss, or claim arising from any such reliance or use.

19.4 Photo metadata. Photos you attach may contain embedded location and device metadata (commonly called "EXIF" data). You are responsible for understanding and, if you choose, removing that metadata before upload.

20. Public sharing of stories and other content

20.1 Sharing is your choice. The Service allows you to share specific stories or other content by generating a share link. Depending on the settings you choose, a share link may allow access to anyone who has the link (a "public" link) or only to email addresses you specify (an "email-restricted" link). You decide whether and how to share, and to whom.

20.2 You are responsible for what you share. You are solely responsible for the content you share, for who you share it with, and for the consequences of sharing — including the consequences of sharing AI-generated stories or illustrations and including any sharing that depicts a child or other identifiable person. You represent that you have all rights and consents required to share the content (including any consent required from a parent or legal guardian and from any depicted person).

20.3 You cannot fully take a share back. Recipients may view, screenshot, download, copy, forward, or republish shared content. If you revoke a share link, we will stop serving content at that link, but copies that have already been viewed, downloaded, or screenshotted are outside our control. The Sojourner Parties are not liable for any further use, retention, or distribution of previously shared content.

20.4 Recipients of shares. Recipients are not necessarily Sojourner account holders. By sharing, you direct us to make the content available to those recipients and acknowledge that recipients' viewing of the content is governed by our Privacy Policy and these Terms.

20.5 We may disable sharing. We may disable, restrict, or remove any share link or shared content at any time, with or without notice, including for suspected violation of these Terms, the policies of any AI provider, applicable law, or third-party rights, or for security or abuse-prevention reasons.

21. Children, family members, and reference photos

21.1 Adult account; parental responsibility. Sojourner accounts are for adults (or minors meeting the eligibility requirements in Section 1) — children under 13 are not permitted to create accounts. You are solely responsible for any use of the Service by, on behalf of, or in connection with a minor, including any AI-generated stories or illustrations that depict, describe, or are intended to be read or shown to a minor.

21.2 Adding a child or family member. If you choose to add a profile for a child or other family member (including a display name, age or age range, pronouns, role, notes, or reference photos for use in AI-generated illustrations), you represent and warrant that you are the parent or legal guardian of any child you add, or that you otherwise have all rights, authority, and consent required from the child's parent or legal guardian and from any other depicted person to provide that information and any reference photos and to authorize the generation, storage, display, and (if you choose) sharing of AI-generated stories and likenesses of that person.

21.3 Suitability of generated content. You are solely responsible for reviewing any AI-generated story, illustration, or other content before reading, showing, or sharing it with a child. AI-generated content may include themes, words, characters, or imagery that you consider inappropriate or unsuitable. Sojourner does not review, endorse, or take responsibility for the content of AI outputs.

21.4 Deletion. You can delete a child or family-member profile, its reference photos, and the stories that depict them at any time from within the Service. If you are a parent or legal guardian and believe that information about your child has been provided to us without your authorization, please contact us through the support channels in the Service and we will take steps to delete it.

22. Changes to these Terms

We may modify these Terms at any time. If we make material changes, we will take commercially reasonable steps to provide notice — for example, by posting an updated Terms with a new "Last updated" date, by displaying an in-product notice, or by email. You are responsible for periodically reviewing these Terms. Your continued use of the Service after the updated Terms become effective constitutes your acceptance of the changes. If you do not agree to the updated Terms, you must stop using the Service.

23. General

23.1 Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, the Copyright & Attribution Notices, and any additional terms applicable to specific features or paid plans, are the entire agreement between you and Sojourner regarding the Service and supersede any prior agreements between you and Sojourner relating to the Service.

23.2 No waiver. Our failure to enforce any right or provision of these Terms is not a waiver of that right or provision.

23.3 Severability. If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable, that provision will be enforced to the maximum extent permissible, and the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect.

23.4 Assignment. You may not assign or transfer these Terms or your rights under them, in whole or in part, by operation of law or otherwise, without our prior written consent. We may freely assign these Terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization, sale of assets, by operation of law, or otherwise. Any attempted assignment in violation of this Section is void.

23.5 Force majeure. We are not liable for any delay or failure to perform resulting from causes beyond our reasonable control, including acts of God, war, terrorism, riots, embargoes, civil or military authority actions, fires, floods, accidents, network or telecommunication failures, strikes, shortages, third-party service disruptions, pandemics, or governmental actions.

23.6 No third-party beneficiaries. Except as expressly stated in these Terms, there are no third-party beneficiaries to these Terms.

23.7 Notices. We may give you notices through the Service, by email to the address associated with your account, or by other reasonable means. You are responsible for keeping your contact information current.

23.8 Headings. Section headings are for convenience only and have no legal effect.

23.9 Export controls and sanctions. The Service may be subject to U.S. and other export-control and sanctions laws. You represent that you are not located in, and will not access the Service from, any country or region subject to comprehensive U.S. sanctions, and that you are not on any U.S. government list of restricted parties.

23.10 Contact. Questions about these Terms may be directed to Sojourner through the support channels made available within the Service.