Dance Kudos — Terms of Use

Last updated: 2026-10-05

1. Acceptance

By downloading or using Dance Kudos (the "App") you agree to these Terms of Use ("Terms"). If you do not agree, do not use the App. These Terms are between you and Andrey Karakotov, the service provider operating Dance Kudos ("we", "us", "Dance Kudos"). Apple is not a party to these Terms.

2. Eligibility

You must be at least 18 years old to use the App; you confirm this before your first upload, and we record that confirmation against your account once you sign in. A dance partner filmed with the App's camera confirms that they are 18 or older before the clip is sent. By uploading a video you confirm that you have the right to upload it and that you have the necessary consent of any identifiable people shown in it (including dance partners and bystanders). The content rules (§6c) require that you appear in any video you publish to other people, and the App asks which dancer you are before its AI writes about you. Do not upload videos of minors without the rights and consent to do so, and do not publish them to the public feed. We may close an account we find to be under 18.

3. What the App does

The App analyzes a video you choose and returns AI-generated compliments highlighting things you appear to do well, tied to timecodes and clips. The feedback is automated, may be incomplete or inaccurate, and is for encouragement and entertainment. It is not professional dance coaching, medical, physiotherapy, or fitness advice, and must not be relied on as such. Dance within your own physical limits.

The App also lets you publish a video to other people and collect compliments from them — to a named partner, to a group you invited, or to the public feed (the Room tab), which is every signed-in user of the App. Sharing with people needs Sign in with Apple; from version 1.3, filming, uploading and Mira's compliments for yourself do not. Sections 6a to 6d govern that part of the App.

4. License

We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use the App on Apple devices you own or control, as permitted by the Apple Media Services Terms and the standard Apple licensed application end-user license agreement (EULA), which applies in addition to these Terms. You may not copy, reverse engineer, resell, or abuse the App or its API, or use it to build a competing service.

5. Your content

You keep ownership of the videos you upload and the compliments you receive. You grant us a limited, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, process and display your video and the text you write, in order to provide the analysis and to deliver them to the audience you chose — which, if you publish to the public feed, is every signed-in user of the App. The license exists to operate the service as described in the Privacy Policy and for no other purpose; it ends when you delete the content, except for compliments you wrote for other people (§6c) and the moderation records described in §6d. Uploaded videos are stored so you can review them, collect compliments on them, and share them; they remain until you delete them (per-video, or everything via the You tab → Delete my data without an account, or the You tab → Account → Delete account with one). You are responsible for the content you upload and for having the rights and consents to upload it.

6. Acceptable use

Do not use the App to upload unlawful content, content you have no right to, content depicting minors inappropriately, or to harass, infringe, or violate others' privacy or rights. There is no tolerance for objectionable content or abusive users. We remove content that breaks these Terms and suspend or close the accounts responsible; we act on reports within 24 hours. We may suspend or terminate access for violations.

6a. Publishing, audiences and the public feed

A video you upload is private until you publish it. Publishing is a per-video act and you choose the audience each time: a named partner, one or more of your groups, or Everyone — the public feed. These rules apply:

• You publish only videos you are in. Posting someone else's dancing is a breach of these Terms.
• The public feed is public in practice. Any signed-in user can watch what is there and write a compliment on it. We do not control who those users are, and no person reviews a video before it is published. An automatic check of frames sampled from the video (Google Cloud Vision) can hold it out of the public feed until we have looked at it. Publish only what you are content for strangers to see.
• You decide for the people in your video. The App does not ask them. Whoever uploads, publishes — and carries the responsibility for that decision, including under §2 and §6b.
• Group audiences change. Access is checked against current membership: leaving a group ends access to the videos shared with it, and any member of a group can invite further people, so the audience of a group video can grow after you post.
• Invite links: group and person invite links expire within 24 hours, and a group's links can be revoked in the App; a partner link works for 30 days, and an ask-to-notice link until the video is deleted. Share them only with people you actually want to see the video or join your group.
• You can unpublish or delete a video at any time. Unpublishing stops further access; it cannot recall what people have already seen.

6b. If you are in a video someone else posted

• If the video was addressed to you as the partner, you can remove it from the public feed yourself, in one tap. It stops being public; it stays with the partner and the groups it was shared with. The uploader cannot reverse this and is not asked to agree.
• Anyone who appears in a video can ask for it to come down entirely: open it in the App, tap … at the top right and choose "Are you in this video?", then "Take it down" (in version 1.2 of the App: … > "Report this video" > "I am in this video and I did not agree"), or, if you do not use the App or can no longer find the video in it (a report hides it for you), write to info@dancekudos.app with enough detail to identify the video. We act on these requests within 24 hours of receiving them.
• A request from a person in the video outranks the uploader's wish to keep it up. We do not negotiate between the two, and we do not disclose who asked.

6c. Content rules

Everything posted or written in the App must follow these rules:

• You are in the video. Post your own dancing, not someone else's.
• It is dancing. The public feed is for dance videos.
• Only what's working. Compliments only — no critique, no advice, no corrections. Every compliment's text (for a spoken compliment, its transcript) passes an automated check by Google's Gemini models before delivery; corrective content is held with an invitation to reword, and unsafe content is rejected and not delivered. What you say in a voice compliment must match its transcript.
• Nothing sexual, nothing violent, nobody humiliated.
• No ads, no spam, no links elsewhere.
• If someone in a video asks for it to come down, it comes down.

When you send a compliment, written or spoken, you grant us the license needed to deliver and store it, and the recording of a spoken one, for its recipient (it lives in their journal) and to show it to everyone entitled to see that video. A compliment cannot be edited by the person who receives it and cannot be withdrawn by its author once sent; the author of the video can hide it for everyone. Deleting a video also deletes the compliments attached to it.

6d. Reporting, moderation and enforcement

• Report and block. You can report any video, compliment or account, and block a person. The blocked person is not told; each new block is noted in our moderation queue so that we can look at the account. Reporting a video, or a compliment in the Room, hides it from you immediately and permanently, whatever we decide afterwards; a compliment you received and reported from its card stays there until you delete it.
• Automatic checks. Three things happen without a person: every compliment is checked before delivery (§6c); a video posted to Everyone is screened from sampled frames and can be held out of the public feed until we have looked at it (§6a); and a takedown filed from "Are you in this video?" (in version 1.2, the report reason "I am in this video and I did not agree") takes a public video out of the public feed at once, pending our review.
• A person decides everything else. Reports and blocks are reviewed by us, and nothing else filed changes anything for anyone else until we have. We act on reports of objectionable content within 24 hours of receiving them.
• Outcomes. We may remove a video from the public feed, delete it, close the public feed for an account (leaving its partner and group circles intact), or dismiss the report. Closing the public feed is a decision we take on the facts of the reports; there is no fixed number of strikes. Serious or repeated breaches can end access to the App.
• Decisions are final in this version of the App. If you believe we got the facts wrong, write to info@dancekudos.app and we will look again; that is a courtesy, not a formal appeal process.
• Records. We keep the report, the decision and the rule applied after the content is removed, to enforce these Terms and to establish a record if the same account is reported again.
• Contact for complaints: info@dancekudos.app.

7. Free use and Dance Kudos Premium

The App is free to use with a monthly allowance of fresh-video analyses (revisiting an already-analyzed video with another lens is free). Exact numbers are shown in the App and may change.

Dance Kudos Premium is an auto-renewable subscription offered on a monthly or annual basis. There is no free trial.

• The price and billing period are shown in the App before you confirm a purchase and may vary by region.
• Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase.
• The subscription renews automatically for the same period and price unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period.
• Your Apple Account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period.
• You can manage or cancel your subscription in your App Store account settings after purchase. Deleting the App does not cancel a subscription.
• "Restore Purchases" is available on the paywall.
• Refunds are handled by Apple under the Apple Media Services Terms; except where required by law, payments are non-refundable and there is no refund for partial periods.

Premium currently unlocks unlimited analyses and premium share templates. Benefits may evolve. Purchases and entitlements are processed via RevenueCat and the Apple App Store.

8. Third-party services

The App relies on Google (Gemini models, Google Cloud, Firebase), RevenueCat, and Apple. Your use of the App is also subject to their applicable terms. We are not responsible for third-party services.

9. Intellectual property

The App, its design, and its content (excluding your videos and the compliments generated for you) are owned by us and protected by law.

10. Disclaimers & limitation of liability

The App is provided "as is" and "as available" without warranties of any kind, to the maximum extent permitted by law. We do not warrant that the analysis is accurate, complete, or uninterrupted. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, or consequential damages, or for any loss arising from your use of the App; our total liability is limited to the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim. As required by Apple, Apple's maximum liability for the App is the amount (if any) you paid for it.

11. Termination & data deletion

You can stop using the App at any time and delete your account and data in-app (the You tab → Delete my data without an account, or the You tab → Account → Delete account with one), which cascades as described in the Privacy Policy. Compliments you wrote on other people's videos stay with those videos, with your name removed. We may suspend or end access for violations of these Terms.

12. Changes

We may update these Terms; material changes will be reflected by the "Last updated" date and, where appropriate, in-app notice. Continued use after changes means you accept them.

13. Governing law & contact

Nothing here removes mandatory consumer rights you have under local law. Questions: info@dancekudos.app.

Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce them.