Terms of Service

Effective Date: July 2, 2026

Version: 2026-07-02

Welcome to Amara. These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your access to and use of the Amara mobile application and related services (the "Service") provided by Amara, Inc. ("Amara," "we," "us").

By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to these Terms, our [Privacy Policy](privacy-policy), and our [Community Guidelines](community-guidelines). If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

IMPORTANT: These Terms contain a binding arbitration agreement and class action waiver (Section 14). Please read them carefully.

1. Eligibility

You must be at least 13 years old to use the Service. By creating an account, you represent that you meet the minimum age requirement and that the information you provide is accurate. If you are under the age of majority in your jurisdiction, you may only use the Service with the involvement of a parent or legal guardian.

2. Your Account

You are responsible for your account and for all activity that occurs under it. Keep your credentials secure and notify us promptly of any unauthorized access. We may refuse, suspend, or terminate accounts at our discretion, including for violations of these Terms or our Community Guidelines.

3. Your Content

You retain ownership of content you submit to the Service ("Your Content"). By submitting Your Content, you grant Amara a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, and sublicensable license to host, store, reproduce, modify (including for formatting and display), distribute, publicly perform, publicly display, and create derivative works of Your Content for the purposes of operating, providing, improving, promoting, and securing the Service. This license continues with respect to copies and derivative works reasonably required to operate and provide the Service, and ends when you or we delete Your Content, except as necessary to comply with legal obligations or enforce these Terms.

You represent and warrant that you have all rights necessary to submit Your Content and grant the licenses above, and that Your Content does not violate these Terms or any law or third-party right.

4. Acceptable Use

You agree not to:

Violate any law, these Terms, or our Community Guidelines;
Harass, threaten, impersonate, or harm others;
Post content that is illegal, fraudulent, infringing, deceptive, obscene, sexually exploitative of minors, or intended to facilitate harm;
Interfere with, reverse engineer, probe, or disrupt the Service or attempt to gain unauthorized access to it or any other user's account;
Use the Service to distribute malware or engage in spam, phishing, or unauthorized data collection;
Use automated means to access or interact with the Service except as expressly permitted.

We may remove content and take action against accounts that violate these Terms, with or without notice.

5. Content Moderation

We use automated systems and human review to enforce these Terms and our Community Guidelines. We may remove, restrict, label, de-prioritize, or take other actions with respect to content or accounts at our discretion. Decisions are made based on the information available at the time and may be wrong; we provide an appeals process where required or appropriate.

6. Intellectual Property

The Service, including software, design, graphics, and the Amara name and logo, is owned by Amara or its licensors and is protected by intellectual property laws. We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use the Service for personal, non-commercial purposes in accordance with these Terms.

7. Copyright (DMCA)

If you believe content on the Service infringes your copyright, follow the process in our [DMCA & Copyright Policy](dmca). We respond to valid notices and may terminate the accounts of repeat infringers.

8. Third-Party Services and Links

The Service may contain links to or integrate with third-party services. We are not responsible for third-party content or practices. Your use of third-party services is governed by their terms.

9. Purchases and Paid Content

Some creators sell access to "academies" — courses, communities, or other paid offerings — on the Service. When you buy an academy membership:

Your purchase is a transaction between you and the creator, not with Amara. Creators are independent and are solely responsible for what they sell, the promises they make, and delivering it. Amara provides the platform and, through our payment processor Stripe, collects and routes payment. We are not the seller and are not a party to your purchase, except as a payment intermediary.
Payments are processed by Stripe under Stripe's own terms. You authorize the charge you confirm at checkout, including recurring charges for subscriptions until you cancel.
Refunds are governed by our [Refund Policy](refund-policy). Membership payments are non-refundable by default; each creator decides whether to grant refunds. Amara handles payment-level errors (such as duplicate or unauthorized charges) but does not issue refunds on a creator's behalf except in limited circumstances at our discretion.
Creators who sell on the Service are additionally bound by our [Creator Monetization Agreement](creator-agreement).

The Refund Policy and, for creators, the Creator Monetization Agreement are incorporated into these Terms by reference. Where a term in one of those documents conflicts with these Terms for a specific transaction, the more specific document controls for that transaction. Except as required by law or expressly stated otherwise, all fees are non-refundable.

10. Disclaimers

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTIES ARISING OUT OF COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, OR SECURE. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties, so some of the above may not apply to you.

10.1 No Guarantee of Results or Earnings. Academies and other content on the Service are sold by independent creators and are provided for general educational and informational purposes. Amara does not create, endorse, verify, or guarantee any creator's content, methods, or claims. We make no promise about any outcome you may achieve — including income, earnings, career, business, financial, health, or any other result — from purchasing or using any academy or content. Any results described by a creator are that creator's own statements, are not typical, and are not promises by Amara. Your results depend on many factors outside our control, including your own effort and circumstances. You use creator content at your own risk.

11. Limitation of Liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, AMARA AND ITS AFFILIATES, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AND AGENTS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, OR GOODWILL, ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO THE SERVICE, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT, OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY. OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO THE SERVICE WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE TOTAL PLATFORM FEES AND OTHER AMOUNTS YOU PAID TO AMARA, PLUS AMOUNTS AMARA PROCESSED ON YOUR BEHALF THROUGH THE SERVICE, IN THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM, OR (B) $100. THIS CAP DOES NOT APPLY TO CLAIMS ARISING FROM A DUPLICATE OR UNAUTHORIZED CHARGE OR A PAYMENT-PROCESSING ERROR AMARA IS RESPONSIBLE FOR. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so portions of this section may not apply to you.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, any claim arising out of or relating to the Service or these Terms must be filed within one year after the event giving rise to the claim, or it is permanently barred, except where a shorter or longer period is required by applicable law.

12. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Amara and its affiliates, officers, employees, and agents from any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or related to your use of the Service, Your Content, or your violation of these Terms or any law or third-party right.

If you sell academies or other paid offerings, you also agree to indemnify and hold harmless Amara and the parties listed above from any claim by a member or third party arising out of what you sell, how you describe it, your delivery or non-delivery of it, refunds or chargebacks, or any income, earnings, or results claims you make.

13. Termination

You may stop using the Service at any time and may delete your account through the app. We may suspend or terminate your access to the Service, with or without notice, for any reason, including if we believe you have violated these Terms. If you sell on the Service, we may also suspend or end your access to monetization features as described in the [Creator Monetization Agreement](creator-agreement), including for fraud, excessive chargebacks or disputes, or misrepresentation of what you sell. Sections that by their nature should survive termination will survive, including Sections 3 (license in Your Content), 9 (Purchases and Paid Content), 10, 11, 12, 14, and 15.

14. Arbitration, Class Action Waiver, and Governing Law

PLEASE READ CAREFULLY — THIS AFFECTS YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS.

14.1 Informal Resolution. Before filing a claim, you and Amara agree to attempt to resolve any dispute informally by contacting us at legal@amarasocial.com with a written description of the dispute. If we cannot resolve the dispute within 60 days, either party may proceed under this Section.

14.2 Binding Arbitration. Any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service (a "Dispute") that is not resolved informally will be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by JAMS under its Streamlined Arbitration Rules and Procedures for claims in which the amount in controversy is $250,000 or less, and under its Comprehensive Arbitration Rules and Procedures for larger claims — in each case including, where applicable, the JAMS Consumer Arbitration Minimum Standards — except that either party may bring an individual action in small-claims court. In addition, either party may bring an action in court solely to seek injunctive or equitable relief for actual or threatened infringement, misappropriation, or violation of intellectual property rights or unauthorized access to the Service; such claims are not subject to arbitration. The arbitration will be held in the county where you reside or, if mutually agreed, by videoconference. The arbitrator's decision is final and enforceable in any court of competent jurisdiction.

14.3 Class Action Waiver. YOU AND AMARA AGREE THAT DISPUTES WILL BE RESOLVED ONLY ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS AND NOT ON A CLASS, COLLECTIVE, OR REPRESENTATIVE BASIS. The arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person's claims and may not preside over any form of class or representative proceeding. To the extent any Dispute proceeds in court rather than arbitration, you and Amara each knowingly and irrevocably waive any right to a trial by jury. If this waiver is found unenforceable, then the entirety of Section 14 is null and void.

14.4 30-Day Opt-Out. You may opt out of this arbitration agreement by sending an email to legal@amarasocial.com within 30 days of first accepting these Terms, stating your name, username, and that you opt out of arbitration.

14.5 Governing Law. These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles. For any Dispute not subject to arbitration, you and Amara consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Delaware.

14.6 Mass Arbitration. If 25 or more similar demands for arbitration are filed against Amara by or with the assistance of the same or coordinated counsel within a 90-day period, the demands will be administered in accordance with the JAMS Mass Arbitration Procedures and Guidelines and grouped into batches of up to 50 claimants each. Each batch will be assigned a single arbitrator and be subject to a single set of filing and administrative fees, and the batches will be resolved sequentially. You and Amara agree that this batching process is a material part of this arbitration agreement and is intended to promote the efficient resolution of similar claims.

14.7 Arbitration Fees. For any claim in which the amount in controversy is $10,000 or less, Amara will pay all JAMS filing, case management, and arbitrator fees, except that if the arbitrator determines your claim is frivolous or brought for an improper purpose, the allocation of fees will be governed by the applicable JAMS rules. In no event will you be required to pay filing or administrative fees exceeding the amount you would pay to file the same claim in the small-claims court where you reside.

15. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. When we do, we will update the Effective Date above and, for material changes, provide notice through the Service. Your continued use of the Service after changes take effect constitutes acceptance. If you do not agree to a change, stop using the Service and delete your account.

16. Miscellaneous

These Terms, together with any additional terms presented in connection with specific features, constitute the entire agreement between you and Amara regarding the Service. If any provision is held unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain in full force. Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms; we may assign them without restriction. Nothing in these Terms creates any agency, partnership, or joint-venture relationship.

Force Majeure. Amara is not liable for any delay or failure to perform caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including acts of God, natural disasters, war, terrorism, labor disputes, internet or utility failures, or the failure or unavailability of third-party services such as payment processors or hosting providers.

Feedback. If you send us ideas, suggestions, or feedback about the Service, we may use them for any purpose without any obligation to you, including to compensate you or keep them confidential.

17. Contact

Amara, Inc.

Legal: legal@amarasocial.com

Privacy: privacy@amarasocial.com