thingstry Terms of Service

1. Eligibility

• You must be at least 13 years old to use the Service.

• If you are under 18, you represent that your parent or legal guardian has reviewed these Terms and that your use of the Service is permitted by applicable law.
• You may use the Service only if you can form a binding contract and are not barred from using the Service under applicable law.
• As part of account registration, thingstry may require you to provide your date of birth to confirm that you meet the minimum age requirement. Users whose submitted date of birth indicates they are under 13 may not create an account.

2. Accounts and Access

You may be able to use some features with a guest session, but many features require a registered account.

You are responsible for:

• providing accurate registration information;
• providing a truthful date of birth and other eligibility information during signup;
• maintaining the confidentiality of your credentials and devices;
• all activity that occurs under your account or session;
• promptly notifying us at help@thingstry.com if you believe your account has been compromised.

We may require invite codes, waitlists, limited-access previews, or feature flags for some or all parts of the Service.

3. What the Service Does

thingstry is a media-sharing and discovery product that, based on the current repository, may include:

• account creation and guest preview access;
• photo and video upload flows;
• feeds, search, viewer, profiles, and public share pages;
• saved items, follows, comments, reposts, and patch/tapestry collections;
• direct messages;
• location-based features;
• notifications, waitlist, and invite workflows;
• AI-assisted tagging, moderation, search, and recommendation features;
• advertising-supported surfaces.

Some features may be experimental, invite-only, region-limited, or removed at any time.

4. User Content

You retain ownership of content you submit to the Service ("User Content"), subject to the rights you grant below.

You grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, process, adapt, publish, display, distribute, create derivatives from, and otherwise use User Content as necessary to:

• operate and improve the Service;
• generate thumbnails, previews, embeddings, tags, and other derived metadata;
• support search, feeds, recommendations, and public sharing;
• moderate content and enforce policies;
• protect safety, security, and legal compliance;
• back up and archive Service data.

This license continues for as long as reasonably necessary to operate the Service and retain backups, logs, audit records, and compliance records.

5. Your Responsibilities

• you own or control the rights necessary to submit your User Content;
• your User Content and use of the Service do not violate any law, contract, or third-party right;
• you are responsible for ensuring your User Content and use of the Service do not infringe any third-party intellectual property rights, including but not limited to copyright, trademark, publicity, or similar rights;
• you have all permissions needed from anyone depicted, recorded, or otherwise included in your content;
• the information you provide to us is accurate.

6. Prohibited Conduct

You may not:

• violate any law or regulation;
• infringe, misappropriate, or violate another person's rights;
• impersonate any person or misrepresent your affiliation;
• interfere with, disrupt, or degrade the Service;
• scrape, crawl, reverse engineer, or access the Service by automated means except as we expressly allow;
• attempt to bypass security controls, rate limits, or access restrictions;
• upload malware, harmful code, or content intended to damage systems or data;
• use the Service for spam, harassment, fraud, doxxing, or abuse;
• use the Service to collect or harvest user data without authorization;
• upload or share content that violates our moderation rules or safety restrictions.

Based on the current product, prohibited or restricted content may include content involving:

• visible faces or prominent people where our moderation systems or policies disallow it;
• children or age-sensitive imagery;
• explicit or suggestive sexual content;
• guns, knives, explosives, drugs, syringes, or other policy-restricted objects;
• violent threats or abusive conduct;
• other content we determine is unsafe, unlawful, or incompatible with the Service.

7. Moderation, Enforcement, and Safety

You understand that the Service may use automated systems and human review to analyze content and enforce our rules.

We may, at our discretion:

• block, flag, review, demote, or remove content;
• suspend, restrict, or terminate accounts or sessions;
• preserve evidence and records related to abuse, investigations, and appeals;
• report conduct to law enforcement or regulators where appropriate.

Automated moderation, AI analysis, search, and recommendation systems may be imperfect and may sometimes be inaccurate.

8. Direct Messages

If direct messaging is available, you remain responsible for the messages you send.

The current product is designed to support end-to-end encrypted direct messages between devices, but you acknowledge that:

• metadata such as sender, recipient, thread, device, and timestamps may still be processed by us;
• reported content, abuse complaints, and legal obligations may require additional handling;
• no messaging system is guaranteed to be completely secure or always available.

9. AI Content Policy

You agree that you will not upload AI-generated media to thingstry in any form.

thingstry’s community values authenticity, therefore all AI-generated media is prohibited.

If a piece of content is reported as AI-generated or otherwise appears to violate this policy, we may:

• add a community safety signal for that content,
• review or re-review the content,
• apply visibility controls, account restrictions, or other safety actions, and
• remove content that is confirmed to violate our policy at our sole discretion.

You understand that this enforcement may rely on user reports, moderation workflows, and manual review and is subject to our appeal process and community standards.

10. AI Features

The Service may use AI-assisted systems to generate recommendations and search results, moderate content, and provide other services.

You acknowledge that:

• AI outputs may be incomplete, inaccurate, or misleading;
• automated outputs do not constitute human review or professional advice;
• we may use derived AI metadata to organize, rank, moderate, and display content.

11. Advertising

If the Service displays ads, you agree that:

• ad-supported experiences may include third-party ad-serving or ad-measurement technologies;
• we may measure impressions, clicks, performance, and frequency;
• ad partners may receive device, session, or contextual information as described in our Privacy Policy.

Advertising partners reflected in the current repository may include Google AdMob, Meta Audience Network, and other networks we enable from time to time.

12. Third-Party Services

The Service may rely on or link to third-party services, software development kits, infrastructure, payment-free transactional tools, location services, AI providers, storage providers, and notification services. We are not responsible for third-party services, and your use of them may be governed by their own terms and privacy policies.

13. Intellectual Property

Except for your User Content and other third-party content, the Service and its software, design, branding, text, graphics, interfaces, and other materials are owned by thingstry, a division of Try To Do It All Inc or its licensors and are protected by intellectual property laws.

We grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the Service for its intended purpose, subject to these Terms.

14. Feedback

If you provide feedback, suggestions, or ideas, you grant us a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free right to use them without restriction or compensation.

15. Copyright Complaints

If you believe content on the Service infringes your copyright, send a notice to:

DMCA Contact
privacy@thingstry.com
201 Meetinghouse Rd, Upper Chichest, PA 19014

We may remove or disable access to allegedly infringing material and may terminate repeat infringers where appropriate.

16. Suspension and Termination

We may suspend or terminate your access to the Service at any time, with or without notice, if:

• you violate these Terms;
• you provide false age or eligibility information;
• we believe your conduct creates risk, liability, or harm;
• we are required to do so by law;
• we discontinue the Service or a feature.

You may stop using the Service at any time. Content or account deletion workflows, if offered, may not immediately remove backups, logs, derived metadata, or retained compliance records.

17. Service Availability and Changes

The Service is offered on an "as available" and "as is" basis.

We may change, suspend, remove, or discontinue any part of the Service, including invite-only access, feeds, messaging, moderation logic, search, public sharing, or ads, at any time and without liability.

18. Disclaimers

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Service is provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, statutory, or otherwise, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, accuracy, quiet enjoyment, and uninterrupted availability.

We do not warrant that:

• the Service will be secure, error-free, or uninterrupted;
• content will be available, preserved, or recoverable;
• moderation, AI outputs, search, rankings, recommendations, or location results will be accurate;
• the Service will meet your expectations.

19. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, thingstry, a division of Try To Do It All Inc and its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, contractors, licensors, and service providers will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenues, goodwill, data, content, or business opportunities, arising out of or related to the Service or these Terms.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, our total liability for all claims arising out of or related to the Service or these Terms will not exceed the greater of:

• $100; or
• the amount you paid us, if any, in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so some of the above may not apply to you.

20. Indemnity

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless thingstry, a division of Try To Do It All Inc and its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, contractors, licensors, and service providers from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising out of or related to:

• your User Content;
• your use of the Service;
• your violation of these Terms;
• your violation of any law or third-party right.

21. Governing Law and Venue

These Terms are governed by the laws of the United States and the State of Pennsylvania, without regard to conflict-of-law principles.

Except where prohibited by applicable law, all disputes arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service will be resolved exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, and you and thingstry, a division of Try To Do It All Inc consent to those courts' personal jurisdiction and venue.

22. Optional EEA/UK Consumer Paragraph

This paragraph is optional and should only remain if you offer the Service to consumers in the EEA or UK.

If the Service is offered to consumers in the EEA or UK, nothing in these Terms is intended to limit any non-waivable consumer rights that apply under the laws of the consumer's country of residence.

23. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. If we make material changes, we may provide notice through the Service, by email, or by updating the "Last Updated" date above. Your continued use of the Service after the updated Terms become effective means you accept the revised Terms.

24. Contact

thingstry, a division of Try To Do It All Inc
201 Meetinghouse Rd, Upper Chichest, PA 19014
help@thingstry.com
privacy@thingstry.com