Terms and Conditions

01Use of the Platform

• Shapppes is reserved for people aged 18 and over. By creating an account, you confirm that you are at least 18 years old.
• You agree not to misuse the platform, including but not limited to hacking, spamming, or violating applicable laws.

02Account Responsibility

• You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials.
• Notify us immediately of any unauthorized use of your account.

03Intellectual Property

Content on Shapppes belongs to its respective rights holders. Shapppes does not claim ownership of user-generated content. Editing, redacting or removing content for moderation does not transfer ownership to Shapppes.

When you publish content on Shapppes, or keep it there as a draft, you grant Shapppes a non-exclusive licence to use it for the purposes listed below, and only for them. The licence does not transfer ownership of your content to Shapppes. It does not allow Shapppes to use your content for advertising or promotion, or to train AI models.

The licence covers these uses and no others:

• Hosting and storing your content on Shapppes’ servers, with its images, captions, credits, cover and language versions.
• Technical copies needed for that, such as backups, resized or converted images, and the previews and indexes the platform builds to show your content.
• Displaying your content as you publish it: a draft stays private to the account or authorised team managing it, and a published article appears where you chose to publish it, such as your profile, the Shapppes feed, your Portal, a company page or a case study.
• Public extracts: the title, a link and the short excerpt of each published article in the feed and in its RSS feed. RSS feeds do not carry the full text or the images.
• Summaries and translations, only when you ask for them or they are made under the AI features described in section 4 and your settings. A translation becomes public only when you publish it.

Territory and duration: the licence is worldwide, because Shapppes can be reached from anywhere on the internet. Its public uses end when you withdraw an item from publication. Its storage uses end when you delete the item or your account, subject only to the limited retention of technical backup copies and legally required records described in the Privacy Policy. Those copies do not authorise continued public use. Withdrawing a translation withdraws only that translation.

Service providers: to run these uses, Shapppes relies on service providers, such as hosting, storage, email and, while your AI features are enabled, the AI provider named in the Privacy Policy. This licence permits providers to carry out only the acts necessary to deliver those uses on Shapppes’ behalf. The Privacy Policy describes data processing and retention separately.

After you withdraw or delete content: once you return an article to drafts or delete it, Shapppes stops showing it publicly and stops including it in feeds and RSS. An article cannot return to drafts while it has published translations, so withdraw those first. Deleting an article also deletes its translations. Some copies are beyond Shapppes’ reach: copies that readers have downloaded, saved or quoted; copies that RSS readers, aggregators, search engines or archives have fetched or cached; and copies held independently by third parties. Shapppes cannot guarantee the removal of those independent copies. Backup copies and legally required records remain subject to the retention and erasure rules in the Privacy Policy.

04User-Generated Content

• You retain ownership of content you upload. The licence you grant Shapppes is set out in section 3, and it does not transfer ownership.
• You are responsible for ensuring your content does not violate any laws or third-party rights.
• Before you import or publish content, you need the rights to all of it: the text, and every image, caption and credit in it. Possessing an export from Medium or another service does not establish ownership of the account or a right to republish its contents. Shapppes does not check the rights to each text or image you import or publish; that responsibility is yours.
• Import and publish only writing and images you created, are licensed to republish, or may lawfully use under an applicable exception. Keep the captions and credits that name an image’s author or source, and do not present someone else’s photo, quote or artwork as your own.
• AI features are optional and on by default. While they are on, Shapppes uses AI to choose topics and write a summary for the articles and case studies you publish, and you can ask it to draft translated versions of them. AI output is machine-generated and may contain errors. You can change the topics at any time, and a translation draft becomes public only when you review and publish it. Published AI translations are labelled as AI-translated and link to your original. You can turn AI features off at any time in Settings › AI features, and then pick topics and write translations yourself.
• You are responsible for the language versions you publish, whether AI drafted them or you wrote them, as for the rest of your content.
• Job applications are private documents you prepare for yourself. When you ask, AI can read an offer, and propose a tailored CV and cover letter, a translation of both, or an update from your profile. Proposals are machine-generated and may contain errors: they change nothing until you apply them, and you are responsible for checking every document before you send it to an employer. Shapppes never sends applications on your behalf. Free accounts include three AI preparations per calendar month (UTC); a preparation is counted once, when the documents you asked for are delivered.
• You can collect newsletter subscribers on your Portal and import the ones you already have. You decide who is on your list and why, and you are responsible for your list and for everything you send to it, including having a lawful basis and honoring requests to leave. Shapppes stores the list and sends these people nothing.
• When you import subscribers, you confirm that those people agreed to receive your newsletter and have not withdrawn that agreement. You may not import addresses you bought, rented or collected without that agreement.
• For personal data law, you are the controller of your subscriber list and Shapppes is your processor. We handle the list only to store, show, export and remove it as you ask, or as the law requires. Anyone working on Shapppes keeps it confidential, and we protect it as described in the Privacy Policy. You allow us to use the service providers that run Shapppes, under the same duties, and we will tell you before adding or replacing one that handles lists. We will tell you without undue delay about a breach affecting your list, help you answer requests from people on it, and give you the information needed to show that we respect these duties. When you delete your account, we delete your list.

05Limitation of Liability

Shapppes is provided “as is” and “as available.” We do not guarantee uninterrupted service or error-free functionality.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Shapppes is not liable for any indirect, incidental, or consequential damages arising from your use of the platform.

06Termination

We may restrict specific content or features, suspend an account or close it when it is used for unlawful content, infringement of other people’s rights, harassment, impersonation, spam, fraud, unauthorised access, or a material or repeated breach of these Terms. The measure must be proportionate to the seriousness, repetition and risks of the conduct.

We normally explain the measure, its grounds, its scope and how to contest it when it is taken. Where it is safe and lawful to do so, we give you an opportunity to respond before closing your account. We may act immediately to address urgent harm, a security incident or a legal requirement, and may withhold information where the law requires it.

You can contest a measure by emailing developer@shapppes.com, even if you cannot sign in. Give the account or content concerned, the decision reference if provided, and why you disagree. We review the explanation and correct or lift an unjustified restriction. We do not disclose the notifier’s identity merely because you contest a decision.

A restriction does not remove your applicable data-access or consumer rights. You can ask through the same contact for access to your own content where lawful and technically available. Your request to delete your account and the closure of the service itself are handled separately from moderation sanctions; rights under the Plus terms and applicable law remain.

07Changes to These Terms

We may revise these Terms and Conditions. Each revision is archived unchanged, with its effective date and a summary of what changed. The previous wording stays available at its own link.

Before a revision takes effect, we show it to you in Shapppes with its summary and its effective date. For each revision, we state whether it needs your agreement. Where it does, you must explicitly accept that version, and we record which version you accepted and when.

Continuing to use Shapppes is not acceptance of a revision, and neither is opening or reading a notice about it.

If you do not accept a revision that needs your agreement, you may refuse it. Refusing does not close your account. From the revision’s effective date, however, your account is limited until you accept it: you can still read these Terms, request your data, cancel a Shapppes Plus subscription, delete your account and sign out.

A revision that only corrects wording, formatting or links, and does not change your rights or obligations, is shown to you without asking for your acceptance.