Terms of Service

Last updated 8 November 2026

AGREEMENT TO OUR LEGAL TERMS

We are HippoTrain, LLC ("Company," "we," "us," "our"), a company registered in Wyoming, United States at 30 N Gould St. STE 21197, Sheridan, Wyoming, 82801.

We operate Anansi Studio, an application for mobile and desktop devices (the "App"), as well as any other related products and services that refer or link to these legal terms (the "Legal Terms") (collectively, the "Services").

You can contact us by email at [email protected].

These Legal Terms constitute a legally binding agreement made between you, whether personally or on behalf of an entity ("you"), and HippoTrain, LLC, concerning your access to and use of the Services. You agree that by accessing the Services, you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by all of these Legal Terms. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH ALL OF THESE LEGAL TERMS, THEN YOU ARE EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED FROM USING THE SERVICES AND YOU MUST DISCONTINUE USE IMMEDIATELY.

PLEASE READ SECTION 18 (DISPUTE RESOLUTION) CAREFULLY. IT CONTAINS A BINDING ARBITRATION AGREEMENT AND A CLASS ACTION WAIVER. UNLESS YOU OPT OUT WITHIN 30 DAYS AS DESCRIBED IN SECTION 18.6, DISPUTES BETWEEN YOU AND US WILL BE RESOLVED BY INDIVIDUAL ARBITRATION, AND YOU WAIVE YOUR RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL AND TO TAKE PART IN ANY CLASS, COLLECTIVE OR REPRESENTATIVE ACTION. IF YOU LIVE IN THE EUROPEAN UNION, THE UNITED KINGDOM OR ANOTHER COUNTRY WHOSE MANDATORY CONSUMER LAW DOES NOT ALLOW THIS, SECTION 18.10 APPLIES TO YOU INSTEAD.

Supplemental terms and conditions or documents that may be posted on the Services from time to time are hereby expressly incorporated herein by reference. We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to make changes or modifications to these Legal Terms from time to time. We will alert you about any changes by updating the "Last updated" date of these Legal Terms, and you waive any right to receive specific notice of each such change. It is your responsibility to periodically review these Legal Terms to stay informed of updates. You will be subject to, and will be deemed to have been made aware of and to have accepted, the changes in any revised Legal Terms by your continued use of the Services after the date such revised Legal Terms are posted.

The Services are intended for users who are at least 16 years of age. All users who are minors in the jurisdiction in which they reside (generally under the age of 18) must have the permission of, and be directly supervised by, their parent or guardian to use the Services. If you are a minor, you must have your parent or guardian read and agree to these Legal Terms prior to you using the Services.

We recommend that you print a copy of these Legal Terms for your records.

1. OUR SERVICES

The information provided when using the Services is not intended for distribution to or use by any person or entity in any jurisdiction or country where such distribution or use would be contrary to law or regulation or which would subject us to any registration requirement within such jurisdiction or country. Accordingly, those persons who choose to access the Services from other locations do so on their own initiative and are solely responsible for compliance with local laws, if and to the extent local laws are applicable.

The Services are not tailored to comply with industry-specific regulations (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), etc.), so if your interactions would be subjected to such laws, you may not use the Services. You may not use the Services in a way that would violate the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA).

2. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

Our intellectual property

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our Services, including all source code, databases, functionality, software, website designs, audio, video, text, photographs, and graphics in the Services (collectively, the "Content"), as well as the trademarks, service marks, and logos contained therein (the "Marks"). The Content does not include Your Source Material, Your Audiobooks or the Voice Models, which are dealt with below.

Our Content and Marks are protected by copyright and trademark laws (and various other intellectual property rights and unfair competition laws) and treaties in the United States and around the world.

The Content and Marks are provided in or through the Services "AS IS" for Non-commercial Use only, or for Commercial Use where you hold a Commercial Licence (see "Non-commercial and commercial use" below).

Your use of our Services

Subject to your compliance with these Legal Terms, including the PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES section below, we grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to:

• access the Services; and
• download or print a copy of any portion of the Content to which you have properly gained access,

solely for Non-commercial Use, or for Commercial Use where you hold a Commercial Licence.

Except as set out in this section or elsewhere in our Legal Terms, no part of the Services and no Content or Marks may be copied, reproduced, aggregated, republished, uploaded, posted, publicly displayed, encoded, translated, transmitted, distributed, sold, licensed, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose whatsoever, without our express prior written permission.

If you wish to make any use of the Services, Content, or Marks other than as set out in this section or elsewhere in our Legal Terms, please address your request to: [email protected]. If we ever grant you the permission to post, reproduce, or publicly display any part of our Services or Content, you must identify us as the owners or licensors of the Services, Content, or Marks and ensure that any copyright or proprietary notice appears or is visible on posting, reproducing, or displaying our Content.

We reserve all rights not expressly granted to you in and to the Services, Content, and Marks.

Any breach of these Intellectual Property Rights will constitute a material breach of our Legal Terms and your right to use our Services will terminate immediately.

Your source material

Documents, ebooks, text, audio files, images and any other material that you import into, open with or convert using the App ("Your Source Material") remain the property of their respective copyright holders. We claim no rights in Your Source Material, and nothing in these Legal Terms gives you any right in it.

You are solely responsible for making sure that you are entitled to import, convert, narrate, edit, copy and share Your Source Material, whether because you own it, its rights holder has permitted it, it is in the public domain, or a legal exception applies where you live. Being able to make an audiobook of a work with the App does not mean you are allowed to share or distribute that audiobook. You must not use the App to remove or get around digital rights management (DRM) or any other technical protection measure.

Audiobooks you make

"Your Audiobooks" means the audio, chapters, cover art, lyrics, read-along text and any other output you make or edit with the App.

As between you and us, Your Audiobooks belong to you and we claim no ownership of them. Your right to use them is subject to (a) the rights of the copyright holders in Your Source Material, (b) the licences of the Voice Models used to narrate them, and (c) these Legal Terms. Provided you comply with all three, you may use Your Audiobooks for Non-commercial Use and, while you hold a Commercial Licence, for Commercial Use.

Audio generated automatically by software may not be protected by copyright in some countries, and Your Audiobooks will usually contain material owned by others. We therefore make no promise that Your Audiobooks are protected by copyright, or that they are free of the rights of third parties.

Voice models and third-party licences

The voices that narrate audiobooks in the App are text-to-speech models made by third parties ("Voice Models"), downloaded to your device on request from servers operated by those third parties or by others, together with your device's own system voices. We do not own the Voice Models. Each one is made available under its own licence, which the App shows with the name of its maker (Settings → Voices → Voice licensing information) and which is summarised in Schedule A. Where Schedule A and the App differ, the App is the current list.

When you download or use a Voice Model:

• you must comply with its licence, which applies to you in addition to these Legal Terms. Where its licence is stricter than these Legal Terms, its licence prevails for that Voice Model;
• when you share, publish or distribute an audiobook narrated with a Voice Model whose licence requires attribution (for example, CC BY 4.0), you must credit it as its licence requires, for example: "Narrated with [model name] by [maker], licensed under [licence]". You must not remove or alter such credits where they are included in Your Audiobooks;
• where a Voice Model's licence contains use restrictions (for example, an OpenRAIL-M licence), those restrictions are incorporated into these Legal Terms, and you must not use that Voice Model, or any audio it produces, in any way they prohibit. The use restrictions that apply to the SupertonicTTS Voice Model are reproduced in Schedule B;
• a Voice Model that the App marks "non-commercial" may not be used for Commercial Use, even if you hold a Commercial Licence;
• your device's system voices are provided by the maker of your operating system (such as Apple, Google or Microsoft) under its own terms, which may limit them to personal, non-commercial use. A Commercial Licence does not cover them, and you are responsible for complying with those terms;
• we may add, update or withdraw Voice Models at any time, and a third party may stop making a Voice Model available; and
• Voice Models are provided "AS IS". We make no promise about their pronunciation, accuracy or quality, or that any store, publisher or platform will accept audiobooks narrated with them.

Non-commercial and commercial use

"Non-commercial Use" means use of the App and Your Audiobooks:

• for your personal enjoyment;
• for sharing Your Audiobooks free of charge, provided that neither you nor anyone else is paid for them, sells access to them, or earns advertising, sponsorship, subscription or other revenue from them;
• for teaching, study and research in a non-commercial context, including in classes at public schools, private schools run on a non-profit basis, colleges, universities and libraries, provided no separate charge is made for the audiobooks; and
• to make material accessible to yourself or to a person with a disability, without charge.

"Commercial Use" means any other use of the App or Your Audiobooks for commercial advantage or monetary compensation, including:

• selling, renting or licensing Your Audiobooks, or publishing them anywhere they earn you or anyone else money (for example, paid audiobook stores, or channels, podcasts or feeds with advertising, sponsorship or paid subscriptions);
• making audiobooks for clients, employers or customers;
• using Your Audiobooks in, or to promote, a paid course, product or service or any business; and
• use by or on behalf of a business or other for-profit organisation, including a for-profit school, training provider or tutoring service.

Commercial Use requires a commercial licence purchased from us (a "Commercial Licence"; see Section 5). Pro, ad removal and other in-app purchases do not include a Commercial Licence unless their description says so. If you are unsure whether a use is commercial, contact us at [email protected] before you begin.

Your submissions

Please review this section and the PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES section carefully prior to using our Services to understand the (a) rights you give us and (b) obligations you have when you post or upload any content through the Services.

Submissions: By directly sending us any question, comment, suggestion, idea, feedback, or other information about the Services ("Submissions"), you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free licence to use, share and act on it for any purpose, without acknowledgment or compensation to you. Screenshots, logs, images and files that you attach to a bug report are used only to investigate and fix the problem you report, as described in our Privacy Policy, and you keep whatever rights you have in them.

You are responsible for what you post or upload: By sending us Submissions through any part of the Services you:

• confirm that you have read and agree with our PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES and will not post, send, publish, upload, or transmit through the Services any Submission that is illegal, harassing, hateful, harmful, defamatory, obscene, bullying, abusive, discriminatory, threatening to any person or group, sexually explicit, false, inaccurate, deceitful, or misleading;
• to the extent permissible by applicable law, waive any and all moral rights to any such Submission;
• warrant that any such Submission are original to you or that you have the necessary rights and licenses to submit such Submissions and that you have full authority to grant us the above-mentioned rights in relation to your Submissions; and
• warrant and represent that your Submissions do not constitute confidential information.

You are solely responsible for your Submissions and you expressly agree to reimburse us for any and all losses that we may suffer because of your breach of (a) this section, (b) any third party’s intellectual property rights, or (c) applicable law.

3. USER REPRESENTATIONS

By using the Services, you represent and warrant that: (1) you have the legal capacity and you agree to comply with these Legal Terms; (2) you are not under the age of 16; (3) you are not a minor in the jurisdiction in which you reside, or if a minor, you have received parental permission to use the Services; (4) you will not access the Services through automated or non-human means, whether through a bot, script or otherwise; (5) you will not use the Services for any illegal or unauthorized purpose; and (6) your use of the Services will not violate any applicable law or regulation.

If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current, or incomplete, we have the right to suspend or terminate your account and refuse any and all current or future use of the Services (or any portion thereof).

4. PRODUCTS

All products are subject to availability. We reserve the right to discontinue any products at any time for any reason. Prices for all products are subject to change.

5. PURCHASES AND PAYMENT

We accept the following forms of payment:

• Visa
• Mastercard
• American Express
• Apple App Store
• Google Play Store

You agree to provide current, complete, and accurate purchase and account information for all purchases made via the Services. You further agree to promptly update account and payment information, including email address, payment method, and payment card expiration date, so that we can complete your transactions and contact you as needed. Sales tax will be added to the price of purchases as deemed required by us. We may change prices at any time. All payments shall be in US dollars.

You agree to pay all charges at the prices then in effect for your purchases and any applicable shipping fees, and you authorize us to charge your chosen payment provider for any such amounts upon placing your order. We reserve the right to correct any errors or mistakes in pricing, even if we have already requested or received payment.

We reserve the right to refuse any order placed through the Services. We may, in our sole discretion, limit or cancel quantities purchased per person, per household, or per order. These restrictions may include orders placed by or under the same customer account, the same payment method, and/or orders that use the same billing or shipping address. We reserve the right to limit or prohibit orders that, in our sole judgment, appear to be placed by dealers, resellers, or distributors.

Commercial Licence. A Commercial Licence is sold separately from Pro and other in-app purchases. Its price, term and any limits (such as the number of people or titles it covers) are shown before you buy it [or: are set out in a separate order form]. It permits Commercial Use only while it is in force. Audiobooks first published commercially while your Commercial Licence was in force may continue to be sold or distributed after it ends. Any edits or changes to such Audiobooks must be done under a commercial license. A Commercial Licence is personal to the person or organisation named when it is bought and may not be transferred or shared.

6. REFUNDS POLICY

Refunds done through platforms such as the App Store and the Google Play Store will be governed by the respective terms of those platforms. All other sales will be governed by the respective law of the country in which the transaction is made.

7. SOFTWARE

We may include software for use in connection with our Services. If such software is accompanied by an end user license agreement ("EULA"), the terms of the EULA will govern your use of the software. If such software is not accompanied by a EULA, then we grant to you a non-exclusive, revocable, personal, and non-transferable license to use such software solely in connection with our services and in accordance with these Legal Terms. Any software and any related documentation is provided "AS IS" without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including, without limitation, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. You accept any and all risk arising out of use or performance of any software. You may not reproduce or redistribute any software except in accordance with the EULA or these Legal Terms.

8. PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES

You may not access or use the Services for any purpose other than that for which we make the Services available. The Services may not be used in connection with any commercial endeavors except under a Commercial Licence or as otherwise specifically approved by us in writing.

As a user of the Services, you agree not to:

• Systematically retrieve data or other content from the Services to create or compile, directly or indirectly, a collection, compilation, database, or directory without written permission from us.
• Trick, defraud, or mislead us and other users, especially in any attempt to learn sensitive account information such as user passwords.
• Circumvent, disable, or otherwise interfere with security-related features of the Services, including features that prevent or restrict the use or copying of any Content or enforce limitations on the use of the Services and/or the Content contained therein.
• Use any information obtained from the Services in order to harass, abuse, or harm another person.
• Make improper use of our support services or submit false reports of abuse or misconduct.
• Use the Services in a manner inconsistent with any applicable laws or regulations.
• Engage in unauthorized framing of or linking to the Services.
• Upload or transmit (or attempt to upload or to transmit) viruses, Trojan horses, or other material, including excessive use of capital letters and spamming (continuous posting of repetitive text), that interferes with any party’s uninterrupted use and enjoyment of the Services or modifies, impairs, disrupts, alters, or interferes with the use, features, functions, operation, or maintenance of the Services.
• Engage in any automated use of the system, such as using scripts to send comments or messages, or using any data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools.
• Delete the copyright or other proprietary rights notice from any Content.
• Attempt to impersonate another user or person or use the username of another user.
• Upload or transmit (or attempt to upload or to transmit) any material that acts as a passive or active information collection or transmission mechanism, including without limitation, clear graphics interchange formats ("gifs"), 1×1 pixels, web bugs, cookies, or other similar devices (sometimes referred to as "spyware" or "passive collection mechanisms" or "pcms").
• Interfere with, disrupt, or create an undue burden on the Services or the networks or services connected to the Services.
• Harass, annoy, intimidate, or threaten any of our employees or agents engaged in providing any portion of the Services to you.
• Attempt to bypass any measures of the Services designed to prevent or restrict access to the Services, or any portion of the Services.
• Copy or adapt the Services' software, including any of its code.
• Except as permitted by applicable law, decipher, decompile, disassemble, or reverse engineer any of the software comprising or in any way making up a part of the Services.
• Except as may be the result of standard search engine or Internet browser usage, use, launch, develop, or distribute any automated system, including without limitation, any spider, robot, cheat utility, scraper, or offline reader that accesses the Services, or use or launch any unauthorized script or other software.
• Use a buying agent or purchasing agent to make purchases on the Services.
• Make any unauthorized use of the Services, including collecting usernames and/or email addresses of users by electronic or other means for the purpose of sending unsolicited email, or creating user accounts by automated means or under false pretenses.
• Use the Services as part of any effort to compete with us or, except under a Commercial Licence, use the Services and/or the Content for any revenue-generating endeavor or commercial enterprise.
• Sell or otherwise transfer your profile.
• Reverse engineer the application.
• Use the application for the sole purpose of creating a competing product.
• Attempt to gain unauthorised access to servers.
• Scrape the application or associated websites using traditional means or AI.
• Use the App or Your Audiobooks for Commercial Use without a Commercial Licence.
• Make, share or distribute an audiobook of material you are not entitled to use in that way, or remove or get around DRM or any other technical protection measure.
• Use a Voice Model in breach of its licence or its use restrictions, or remove or alter any credit its licence requires.
• Use the App to impersonate a real individual, or for purposes of fraud, subterfuge, malfeasance or criminal activity.
• Present an audiobook narrated by the App as narrated by a human, where a law or the rules of the platform you publish it on require you to disclose that it was narrated by a computer-generated voice.

9. USER GENERATED CONTRIBUTIONS

The Services do not offer users to submit or post content apart from support requests and bug reports. We may provide you with the opportunity to create, submit, post, display, transmit, perform, publish, distribute, or broadcast content and materials to us or on the Services, including but not limited to text, writings, video, audio, photographs, graphics, comments, suggestions, or personal information or other material (collectively, "Contributions"). Contributions may be viewable by other users of the Services and through third-party websites. As such, any Contributions you transmit may be treated in accordance with the Services' Privacy Policy. When you create or make available any Contributions, you thereby represent and warrant that:

• The creation, distribution, transmission, public display, or performance, and the accessing, downloading, or copying of your Contributions do not and will not infringe the proprietary rights, including but not limited to the copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret, or moral rights of any third party.
• You are the creator and owner of or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, releases, and permissions to use and to authorize us, the Services, and other users of the Services to use your Contributions in any manner contemplated by the Services and these Legal Terms.
• You have the written consent, release, and/or permission of each and every identifiable individual person in your Contributions to use the name or likeness of each and every such identifiable individual person to enable inclusion and use of your Contributions in any manner contemplated by the Services and these Legal Terms.
• Your Contributions are not false, inaccurate, or misleading.
• Your Contributions are not unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, pyramid schemes, chain letters, spam, mass mailings, or other forms of solicitation.
• Your Contributions are not obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, violent, harassing, libelous, slanderous, or otherwise objectionable (as determined by us).
• Your Contributions do not ridicule, mock, disparage, intimidate, or abuse anyone.
• Your Contributions are not used to harass or threaten (in the legal sense of those terms) any other person and to promote violence against a specific person or class of people.
• Your Contributions do not violate any applicable law, regulation, or rule.
• Your Contributions do not violate the privacy or publicity rights of any third party.
• Your Contributions do not violate any applicable law concerning child pornography, or otherwise intended to protect the health or well-being of minors.
• Your Contributions do not include any offensive comments that are connected to race, national origin, gender, sexual preference, or physical handicap.
• Your Contributions do not otherwise violate, or link to material that violates, any provision of these Legal Terms, or any applicable law or regulation.

Any use of the Services in violation of the foregoing violates these Legal Terms and may result in, among other things, termination or suspension of your rights to use the Services.

10. CONTRIBUTION LICENSE

You agree that we may access, store, process, and use any information and personal data that you provide following the terms of the Privacy Policy and your choices (including settings).

By submitting suggestions or other feedback regarding the Services, you agree that we can use and share such feedback for any purpose without compensation to you.

We do not assert any ownership over your Contributions. You retain full ownership of all of your Contributions and any intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights associated with your Contributions. We are not liable for any statements or representations in your Contributions provided by you in any area on the Services. You are solely responsible for your Contributions to the Services and you expressly agree to exonerate us from any and all responsibility and to refrain from any legal action against us regarding your Contributions.

11. MOBILE APPLICATION LICENSE

Use License

If you access the Services via the App, then we grant you a revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited right to install and use the App on wireless electronic devices owned or controlled by you, and to access and use the App on such devices strictly in accordance with the terms and conditions of this mobile application license contained in these Legal Terms. You shall not: (1) except as permitted by applicable law, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, attempt to derive the source code of, or decrypt the App; (2) make any modification, adaptation, improvement, enhancement, translation, or derivative work from the App; (3) violate any applicable laws, rules, or regulations in connection with your access or use of the App; (4) remove, alter, or obscure any proprietary notice (including any notice of copyright or trademark) posted by us or the licensors of the App; (5) except under a Commercial Licence, use the App for any revenue-generating endeavor, commercial enterprise, or other purpose for which it is not designed or intended; (6) make the App available over a network or other environment permitting access or use by multiple devices or users at the same time; (7) use the App for creating a product, service, or software that is, directly or indirectly, competitive with or in any way a substitute for the App; (8) use the App to send automated queries to any website or to send any unsolicited commercial email; or (9) use any proprietary information or any of our interfaces or our other intellectual property in the design, development, manufacture, licensing, or distribution of any applications, accessories, or devices for use with the App.

Apple and Android Devices

The following terms apply when you use the App obtained from either the Apple Store or Google Play (each an "App Distributor") to access the Services: (1) the license granted to you for our App is limited to a non-transferable license to use the application on a device that utilizes the Apple iOS or Android operating systems, as applicable, and in accordance with the usage rules set forth in the applicable App Distributor’s terms of service; (2) we are responsible for providing any maintenance and support services with respect to the App as specified in the terms and conditions of this mobile application license contained in these Legal Terms or as otherwise required under applicable law, and you acknowledge that each App Distributor has no obligation whatsoever to furnish any maintenance and support services with respect to the App; (3) in the event of any failure of the App to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify the applicable App Distributor, and the App Distributor, in accordance with its terms and policies, may refund the purchase price, if any, paid for the App, and to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the App Distributor will have no other warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to the App; (4) you represent and warrant that (i) you are not located in a country that is subject to a US government embargo, or that has been designated by the US government as a "terrorist supporting" country and (ii) you are not listed on any US government list of prohibited or restricted parties; (5) you must comply with applicable third-party terms of agreement when using the App, e.g., if you have a VoIP application, then you must not be in violation of their wireless data service agreement when using the App; and (6) you acknowledge and agree that the App Distributors are third-party beneficiaries of the terms and conditions in this mobile application license contained in these Legal Terms, and that each App Distributor will have the right (and will be deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce the terms and conditions in this mobile application license contained in these Legal Terms against you as a third-party beneficiary thereof.

12. ADVERTISERS

We allow advertisers to display their advertisements and other information in certain areas of the Services, such as sidebar advertisements or banner advertisements. We simply provide the space to place such advertisements, and we have no other relationship with advertisers.

13. SERVICES MANAGEMENT

We reserve the right, but not the obligation, to: (1) monitor the Services for violations of these Legal Terms; (2) take appropriate legal action against anyone who, in our sole discretion, violates the law or these Legal Terms, including without limitation, reporting such user to law enforcement authorities; (3) in our sole discretion and without limitation, refuse, restrict access to, limit the availability of, or disable (to the extent technologically feasible) any of your Contributions or any portion thereof; (4) in our sole discretion and without limitation, notice, or liability, to remove from the Services or otherwise disable all files and content that are excessive in size or are in any way burdensome to our systems; and (5) otherwise manage the Services in a manner designed to protect our rights and property and to facilitate the proper functioning of the Services.

14. PRIVACY POLICY

We care about data privacy and security. Please review our Privacy Policy: https://hippotrain.com/products/anansi-studio/privacy-policy/. By using the Services, you agree to be bound by our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into these Legal Terms. Please be advised the Services are hosted in the United States. If you access the Services from any other region of the world with laws or other requirements governing personal data collection, use, or disclosure that differ from applicable laws in the United States, then through your continued use of the Services, you are transferring your data to the United States, and you expressly consent to have your data transferred to and processed in the United States. Further, we do not knowingly accept, request, or solicit information from children or knowingly market to children. Therefore, in accordance with the U.S. Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, if we receive actual knowledge that anyone under the age of 13 has provided personal information to us without the requisite and verifiable parental consent, we will delete that information from the Services as quickly as is reasonably practical.

15. TERM AND TERMINATION

These Legal Terms shall remain in full force and effect while you use the Services. WITHOUT LIMITING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF THESE LEGAL TERMS, WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO, IN OUR SOLE DISCRETION AND WITHOUT NOTICE OR LIABILITY, DENY ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE SERVICES (INCLUDING BLOCKING CERTAIN IP ADDRESSES), TO ANY PERSON FOR ANY REASON OR FOR NO REASON, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION FOR BREACH OF ANY REPRESENTATION, WARRANTY, OR COVENANT CONTAINED IN THESE LEGAL TERMS OR OF ANY APPLICABLE LAW OR REGULATION. WE MAY TERMINATE YOUR USE OR PARTICIPATION IN THE SERVICES OR DELETE ANY CONTENT OR INFORMATION THAT YOU POSTED AT ANY TIME, WITHOUT WARNING, IN OUR SOLE DISCRETION.

If we terminate or suspend your account for any reason, you are prohibited from registering and creating a new account under your name, a fake or borrowed name, or the name of any third party, even if you may be acting on behalf of the third party. In addition to terminating or suspending your account, we reserve the right to take appropriate legal action, including without limitation pursuing civil, criminal, and injunctive redress.

16. MODIFICATIONS AND INTERRUPTIONS

We reserve the right to change, modify, or remove the contents of the Services at any time or for any reason at our sole discretion without notice. However, we have no obligation to update any information on our Services. We will not be liable to you or any third party for any modification, price change, suspension, or discontinuance of the Services.

We cannot guarantee the Services will be available at all times. We may experience hardware, software, or other problems or need to perform maintenance related to the Services, resulting in interruptions, delays, or errors. We reserve the right to change, revise, update, suspend, discontinue, or otherwise modify the Services at any time or for any reason without notice to you. You agree that we have no liability whatsoever for any loss, damage, or inconvenience caused by your inability to access or use the Services during any downtime or discontinuance of the Services. Nothing in these Legal Terms will be construed to obligate us to maintain and support the Services or to supply any corrections, updates, or releases in connection therewith.

17. GOVERNING LAW

These Legal Terms and your use of the Services are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Wyoming applicable to agreements made and to be entirely performed within the State of Wyoming, without regard to its conflict of law principles.

18. DISPUTE RESOLUTION

In this Section, "Dispute" means any dispute, claim or controversy between you and us (each a "Party" and together the "Parties") arising out of or relating in any way to these Legal Terms, the EULA, the Services or the App, whether in contract, tort, under statute or otherwise, including any dispute about the scope, validity or enforceability of this Section.

18.1 Informal resolution first. Before starting an arbitration or court action, the Party with a Dispute must send the other a written notice describing it, with their name, contact details, the facts and the relief sought. Notices to us go to [email protected] and to the address in Section 27; notices to you go to the most recent email address you have given us, if any. The Parties will try in good faith to resolve the Dispute for sixty (60) days after the notice is received. Any limitation period is paused during that time.

18.2 Binding arbitration. If the Dispute is not resolved within those sixty (60) days, it will be resolved by final and binding individual arbitration, except as set out in Section 18.3. The arbitration will be administered by the American Arbitration Association ("AAA") under its Consumer Arbitration Rules (or, where you are acting for a business, its Commercial Arbitration Rules), as in force when the arbitration begins and available at www.adr.org, before a single arbitrator. The Federal Arbitration Act governs the interpretation and enforcement of this Section. Unless the Parties agree otherwise, the arbitration will be held by video, telephone or written submissions, or in person in the county where you live or in Sheridan County, Wyoming, at your choice. The arbitrator may award the same individual relief as a court could, but only in favour of the individual Party seeking it and only to the extent needed to resolve that Party's individual claim. Judgment on the award may be entered in any court with jurisdiction.

18.3 Exceptions. Either Party may instead (a) bring an individual claim in a small claims court, if it qualifies and stays there; and (b) bring an action in court to stop the infringement or misuse of its intellectual property rights, including claims about Commercial Use without a Commercial Licence.

18.4 Fees. Filing, administration and arbitrator fees will be paid as the AAA's rules provide. If you show that the costs of arbitration would be prohibitive compared with the costs of a court action, we will pay as much of them as the arbitrator finds necessary to prevent that. Each Party bears its own lawyers' fees unless the arbitrator awards them under applicable law.

18.5 Class action and jury trial waiver. YOU AND WE AGREE THAT EACH MAY BRING CLAIMS AGAINST THE OTHER ONLY IN AN INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS, COLLECTIVE, CONSOLIDATED OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. The arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person's claims or preside over any form of class, collective or representative proceeding. YOU AND WE EACH WAIVE THE RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY. Where twenty-five (25) or more similar demands are filed against us by or with the help of the same or coordinated counsel, the AAA's Mass Arbitration Supplementary Rules will apply.

18.6 Your right to opt out. You may opt out of this agreement to arbitrate (Sections 18.2 to 18.5) by emailing [email protected], with the subject line "Arbitration opt-out", your name and a clear statement that you opt out, within thirty (30) days of first accepting these Legal Terms (or, if you accepted an earlier version that did not contain this Section, within thirty (30) days of accepting this version). Opting out does not affect any other part of these Legal Terms, and Disputes will then be resolved in the courts named in Section 18.9.

18.7 Severability. If the class action waiver in Section 18.5 is found unenforceable for any claim, that claim (and only that claim) will be decided by a court under Section 18.9 and not by arbitration, and the rest of this Section will continue to apply. Any claim for public injunctive relief that may not lawfully be waived will be severed and decided by a court after the individual claims have been arbitrated.

18.8 Changes to this Section. If we make a material change to this Section, you may reject it by emailing us within thirty (30) days of the change taking effect, in which case the version of this Section you last accepted continues to apply to you.

18.9 Courts. Any Dispute that is not arbitrated, and any action to enforce an arbitration award, will be brought only in the state or federal courts located in Wyoming, and the Parties consent to, and waive all defences of lack of personal jurisdiction and forum non conveniens with respect to, venue and jurisdiction in those courts.

18.10 Consumers outside the United States. If you are a consumer living in the European Union, the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, or another country whose mandatory law does not allow you to agree in advance to arbitration or to waive class or collective proceedings, Sections 18.2 to 18.8 do not apply to you. You may bring a Dispute in the courts of the country where you live, and nothing in these Legal Terms removes any protection given to you by the mandatory law of that country.

18.11 General. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods and the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA) do not apply to these Legal Terms. To the extent permitted by applicable law, no claim, action or proceeding by either Party related in any way to the Services may be commenced more than one (1) year after the cause of action arose.

19. CORRECTIONS

There may be information on the Services that contains typographical errors, inaccuracies, or omissions, including descriptions, pricing, availability, and various other information. We reserve the right to correct any errors, inaccuracies, or omissions and to change or update the information on the Services at any time, without prior notice.

20. DISCLAIMER

THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED ON AN AS-IS AND AS-AVAILABLE BASIS. YOU AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES WILL BE AT YOUR SOLE RISK. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, IN CONNECTION WITH THE SERVICES AND YOUR USE THEREOF, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE MAKE NO WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THE SERVICES' CONTENT OR THE CONTENT OF ANY WEBSITES OR MOBILE APPLICATIONS LINKED TO THE SERVICES AND WE WILL ASSUME NO LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY (1) ERRORS, MISTAKES, OR INACCURACIES OF CONTENT AND MATERIALS, (2) PERSONAL INJURY OR PROPERTY DAMAGE, OF ANY NATURE WHATSOEVER, RESULTING FROM YOUR ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE SERVICES, (3) ANY UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR USE OF OUR SECURE SERVERS AND/OR ANY AND ALL PERSONAL INFORMATION AND/OR FINANCIAL INFORMATION STORED THEREIN, (4) ANY INTERRUPTION OR CESSATION OF TRANSMISSION TO OR FROM THE SERVICES, (5) ANY BUGS, VIRUSES, TROJAN HORSES, OR THE LIKE WHICH MAY BE TRANSMITTED TO OR THROUGH THE SERVICES BY ANY THIRD PARTY, AND/OR (6) ANY ERRORS OR OMISSIONS IN ANY CONTENT AND MATERIALS OR FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE OF ANY KIND INCURRED AS A RESULT OF THE USE OF ANY CONTENT POSTED, TRANSMITTED, OR OTHERWISE MADE AVAILABLE VIA THE SERVICES. WE DO NOT WARRANT, ENDORSE, GUARANTEE, OR ASSUME RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY PRODUCT OR SERVICE ADVERTISED OR OFFERED BY A THIRD PARTY THROUGH THE SERVICES, ANY HYPERLINKED WEBSITE, OR ANY WEBSITE OR MOBILE APPLICATION FEATURED IN ANY BANNER OR OTHER ADVERTISING, AND WE WILL NOT BE A PARTY TO OR IN ANY WAY BE RESPONSIBLE FOR MONITORING ANY TRANSACTION BETWEEN YOU AND ANY THIRD-PARTY PROVIDERS OF PRODUCTS OR SERVICES. AS WITH THE PURCHASE OF A PRODUCT OR SERVICE THROUGH ANY MEDIUM OR IN ANY ENVIRONMENT, YOU SHOULD USE YOUR BEST JUDGMENT AND EXERCISE CAUTION WHERE APPROPRIATE.

21. LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY

IN NO EVENT WILL WE OR OUR DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, OR AGENTS BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOST PROFIT, LOST REVENUE, LOSS OF DATA, OR OTHER DAMAGES ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED HEREIN, OUR LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY CAUSE WHATSOEVER AND REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF THE ACTION, WILL AT ALL TIMES BE LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT PAID IN THE PRIOR 12 MONTH PERIOD, IF ANY, BY YOU TO US. CERTAIN US STATE LAWS AND INTERNATIONAL LAWS DO NOT ALLOW LIMITATIONS ON IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF CERTAIN DAMAGES. IF THESE LAWS APPLY TO YOU, SOME OR ALL OF THE ABOVE DISCLAIMERS OR LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU, AND YOU MAY HAVE ADDITIONAL RIGHTS.

22. INDEMNIFICATION

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold us harmless, including our subsidiaries, affiliates, and all of our respective officers, agents, partners, and employees, from and against any loss, damage, liability, claim, or demand, including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses, made by any third party due to or arising out of: (1) use of the Services; (2) breach of these Legal Terms; (3) any breach of your representations and warranties set forth in these Legal Terms; (4) your violation of the rights of a third party, including but not limited to intellectual property rights; (5) any overt harmful act toward any other user of the Services with whom you connected via the Services; or (6) Your Source Material, Your Audiobooks, or your sharing, distribution or Commercial Use of Your Audiobooks, including any claim that they infringe the rights of a third party or breach the licence of a Voice Model. Notwithstanding the foregoing, we reserve the right, at your expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter for which you are required to indemnify us, and you agree to cooperate, at your expense, with our defense of such claims. We will use reasonable efforts to notify you of any such claim, action, or proceeding which is subject to this indemnification upon becoming aware of it.

23. USER DATA

We will maintain certain data that you transmit to the Services for the purpose of managing the performance of the Services, as well as data relating to your use of the Services. You are solely responsible for all data that you transmit or that relates to any activity you have undertaken using the Services. You agree that we shall have no liability to you for any loss or corruption of any such data, and you hereby waive any right of action against us arising from any such loss or corruption of such data.

24. ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS, TRANSACTIONS, AND SIGNATURES

Visiting the Services, sending us emails, and completing online forms constitute electronic communications. You consent to receive electronic communications, and you agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communications we provide to you electronically, via email and on the Services, satisfy any legal requirement that such communication be in writing. YOU HEREBY AGREE TO THE USE OF ELECTRONIC SIGNATURES, CONTRACTS, ORDERS, AND OTHER RECORDS, AND TO ELECTRONIC DELIVERY OF NOTICES, POLICIES, AND RECORDS OF TRANSACTIONS INITIATED OR COMPLETED BY US OR VIA THE SERVICES. You hereby waive any rights or requirements under any statutes, regulations, rules, ordinances, or other laws in any jurisdiction which require an original signature or delivery or retention of non-electronic records, or to payments or the granting of credits by any means other than electronic means.

25. CALIFORNIA USERS AND RESIDENTS

If any complaint with us is not satisfactorily resolved, you can contact the Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Services of the California Department of Consumer Affairs in writing at 1625 North Market Blvd., Suite N 112, Sacramento, California 95834 or by telephone at (800) 952-5210 or (916) 445-1254.

26. MISCELLANEOUS

These Legal Terms along with our End User Licence Agreement (the "EULA"), the terms of any Commercial Licence, and any policies or operating rules posted by us on the Services or in respect to the Services constitute the entire agreement and understanding between you and us. If these Legal Terms and the EULA conflict, the EULA governs your licence to install and use the App, and these Legal Terms govern everything else, including Your Source Material, Your Audiobooks, Voice Models, Commercial Use, purchases and dispute resolution. Sections 18 (Dispute Resolution), 20 (Disclaimer) and 21 (Limitations of Liability) also apply to the EULA. Our failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Legal Terms shall not operate as a waiver of such right or provision. These Legal Terms operate to the fullest extent permissible by law. We may assign any or all of our rights and obligations to others at any time. We shall not be responsible or liable for any loss, damage, delay, or failure to act caused by any cause beyond our reasonable control. If any provision or part of a provision of these Legal Terms is determined to be unlawful, void, or unenforceable, that provision or part of the provision is deemed severable from these Legal Terms and does not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions. There is no joint venture, partnership, employment or agency relationship created between you and us as a result of these Legal Terms or use of the Services. You agree that these Legal Terms will not be construed against us by virtue of having drafted them. You hereby waive any and all defenses you may have based on the electronic form of these Legal Terms and the lack of signing by the parties hereto to execute these Legal Terms.

27. CONTACT US

In order to resolve a complaint regarding the Services or to receive further information regarding use of the Services, please contact us at:

HippoTrain, LLC 30 N Gould St. STE 21197 Sheridan Wyoming 82801 United States

[email protected]

SCHEDULE A: VOICE MODEL LICENCES

These are the Voice Models offered in the App on the date at the top of these Legal Terms. The list in the App (Settings → Voices → Voice licensing information) is the current one, and each model's own licence is what binds you.

Voice ModelMaker / attributionLicenceKokoro (English; Chinese + English)hexgrad/Kokoro-82MApache License 2.0KittenTTS Nano (English)KittenML/KittenTTSApache License 2.0Matcha-TTS LJSpeech (English)k2-fsa/icefall; Keith Ito (LJSpeech)Apache License 2.0; LJSpeech dataset in the public domainVITS LJSpeech (English)k2-fsa/icefall; Keith Ito (LJSpeech)Apache License 2.0; LJSpeech dataset in the public domainPiper English (US) High, 904 speakersrhasspy/piper; LibriTTSMIT (Piper); trained on LibriTTS, CC BY 4.0Piper English (US) Medium, 904 speakersrhasspy/piper; LibriTTS-RCC BY 4.0VITS VCTK (English, 109 speakers)CSTR, University of Edinburgh (VCTK)CC BY 4.0MeloTTS (Chinese + English)myshell-ai/MeloTTSMITVITS AISHELL-3 (Chinese, 174 speakers)k2-fsa/icefall; AISHELL-3Apache License 2.0SupertonicTTS 3 (31 languages)Supertone Inc. (Supertone/supertonic)OpenRAIL-M: commercial use allowed, subject to the use restrictions in Schedule BSystem voicesThe maker of your operating systemThe operating system's own terms (see Section 2)

Where a licence above is CC BY 4.0, credit the model when you share, publish or distribute an audiobook narrated with it, as Section 2 describes.

SCHEDULE B: SUPERTONIC USE RESTRICTIONS

The SupertonicTTS Voice Model is licensed by Supertone Inc. under the OpenRAIL-M licence published at https://huggingface.co/supertone-oss-archive/supertonic-3/blob/main/LICENSE. Its use restrictions are part of these Legal Terms, and you must not use the model, or any audio it produces, for any purpose they prohibit.

SupertonicTTS Voice Model Use Restrictions

You agree not to use the Model or Derivatives of the Model: (a) In any way that violates any applicable national, federal, state, local or international law or regulation; (b) For the purpose of exploiting, harming or attempting to exploit or harm minors in any way; (c) To generate or disseminate verifiably false information and/or content with the purpose of harming others; (d) To generate or disseminate personal identifiable information that can be used to harm an individual; (e) To generate or disseminate information and/or content (e.g. images, code, posts, articles), and place the information and/or content in any context (e.g. bot generating tweets) without expressly and intelligibly disclaiming that the information and/or content is machine generated; (f) To defame, disparage or otherwise harass others; (g) To impersonate or attempt to impersonate (e.g. deepfakes) others without their consent; (h) For fully automated decision making that adversely impacts an individual’s legal rights or otherwise creates or modifies a binding, enforceable obligation; (i) For any use intended to or which has the effect of discriminating against or harming individuals or groups based on online or offline social behavior or known or predicted personal or personality characteristics; (j) To exploit any of the vulnerabilities of a specific group of persons based on their age, social, physical or mental characteristics, in order to materially distort the behavior of a person pertaining to that group in a manner that causes or is likely to cause that person or another person physical or psychological harm; (k) For any use intended to or which has the effect of discriminating against individuals or groups based on legally protected characteristics or categories; (l) To provide medical advice and medical results interpretation; (m) To generate or disseminate information for the purpose to be used for administration of justice, law enforcement, immigration or asylum processes, such as predicting an individual will commit fraud/crime commitment (e.g. by text profiling, drawing causal relationships between assertions made in documents, indiscriminate and arbitrarily-targeted use).