Terms of Use

These Terms of Use apply to the alligkeit app.

1. Provider and scope

The provider of alligkeit is the person named in the Legal Notice. These Terms govern the use of the app and its features.

If you obtain the app through the Apple App Store, the license to the app itself is governed by Apple's standard end-user license agreement ("Licensed Application End User License Agreement"). These Terms supplement it with the rules for using the alligkeit features. Apple is not the provider of alligkeit and is not a party to these Terms.

2. What alligkeit is

alligkeit transforms your free speech into confirmed, personal sentences and creates replayable audio sessions from them. Your sessions are stored locally on your device. There is no user account.

To understand, rephrase, and voice your words, the app uses cloud services from external providers — but only if you have explicitly consented to cloud processing. Details, providers, and your rights are described in the Privacy Policy.

The cloud features depend on external services. There is no entitlement to uninterrupted availability; locally stored sessions remain playable even during outages.

3. Minimum age

alligkeit is intended for persons aged 16 and over. Cloud processing requires that you confirm being at least 16 years old before giving consent (details: Privacy Policy, section 3a).

4. Your content and AI-generated audio

Your content stays yours. We claim no rights to your voice recordings, transcripts, or confirmed sentences beyond what is technically necessary to provide the features.

AI-generated voice tracks: The voice tracks created in the app are synthetic audio content (AI voice). They are generated through a paid plan of the speech-synthesis provider ElevenLabs, whose terms expressly permit us to use the generated audio and leave the rights in the generated output with us. On this basis, we grant you a simple, perpetual, royalty-free right to use the voice tracks created in your app for private, non-commercial purposes — including export and sharing within your private sphere.

Honest limits: Under current law, AI-generated audio content may not enjoy copyright protection. The AI voices used are not exclusive to you — similar-sounding or identical audio may also be generated for other users. The app marks AI-generated audio visibly ("AI voice") and machine-readably in the audio metadata; you must not remove or obscure this marking when sharing.

5. Not a medical product

alligkeit is a tool for self-reflection and well-being. The app is not a medical device, does not provide medical, psychological, or therapeutic treatment, and does not replace such treatment or professional advice. If you are acutely unwell or in a crisis, please contact medical or therapeutic help or an emergency service.

6. Acceptable use

When using alligkeit, you must not:

• speak in or generate content that is unlawful or infringes the rights of third parties,
• misuse the AI features — for example, to deceive others about the synthetic nature of the audio,
• circumvent or disrupt technical safeguards of the app or the alligkeit infrastructure (e.g., volume and abuse limits).

In the event of violations, we may technically limit or block the cloud features for the affected installation.

7. Changes

We continue to develop alligkeit; the feature set and these Terms may change. The current version is published at https://legal.alligkeit.com (with date and version at the end of this document). Since alligkeit has no user account, there is no individual notification. Material changes do not apply retroactively.

8. Liability

We are liable without limitation for intent and gross negligence, for damages arising from injury to life, body, or health, and under the German Product Liability Act.

In cases of slight negligence, we are liable only for the breach of essential contractual obligations (obligations whose fulfillment makes the proper performance of the contract possible in the first place and on whose observance you may regularly rely), limited to the foreseeable damage typical for the contract. Otherwise, liability for slight negligence is excluded.

9. Final provisions

German law applies. If you are a consumer, mandatory protective provisions of the state of your habitual residence remain unaffected.

These Terms are available in a German and an English version. The German version is authoritative; the English version is provided for convenience.

Should individual provisions be invalid, the validity of the remaining provisions remains unaffected.

We are neither willing nor obliged to participate in dispute-resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board (Section 36 of the German VSBG).

10. Status

Last updated: 2026-06-07 Version: v1.0-prelaunch