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Terms of Service

Effective 11 October 2026.

These terms are an agreement between you and Black Rooster Creative LLC ("HeyaBud", "we", "us"), La Habra, California, United States, for the HeyaBud app, website and related services ("HeyaBud"). By creating an account or using HeyaBud, you agree to them. Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle your data.

1. Who can use HeyaBud

You must be at least 18, and old enough to agree to these terms where you live. Adult mode is only for adults who confirm their age, where the law allows it. Keep your sign-in details to yourself. You're responsible for what happens on your account.

2. Your bud is an AI

Your bud is an AI character, not a person. It can be wrong, it can misunderstand you, and it doesn't know everything. Don't rely on it for medical, legal, financial, safety or emergency decisions. Check directions, translations and facts that matter. If you're in danger or crisis, contact your local emergency services.

3. Plans, payment and minutes

  • Plans. Standard and Heyabud+ are monthly or yearly subscriptions. Prices are shown before you pay and include or exclude tax as shown at checkout.
  • Trial. If you start a free trial, your plan begins and you're charged when the trial ends, unless you cancel before then.
  • Renewal. Subscriptions renew automatically until you cancel. Cancel any time in Account; you keep your plan until the end of the period you paid for.
  • Face time. Live video ("face time") is metered in minutes. Each plan includes minutes each month, and you can buy top-ups. Included minutes don't carry over to the next month. Top-up minutes never expire.
  • Shop items (characters, outfits and extras) are licences to use them in HeyaBud, not physical goods, and they have no cash value.
  • Embers in Trials of Aetheris are earned by playing. They can't be bought, sold or exchanged for money.
  • Refunds. Except where the law gives you a right to a refund, payments are non-refundable. If something went wrong, contact us and we'll look at it.
  • We may change prices. We'll tell you before a change affects your subscription, and you can cancel before it applies.

4. Using HeyaBud fairly

Don't:

  • break the law, or use HeyaBud to harm, harass, threaten or deceive anyone;
  • try to make your bud produce sexual content involving minors, or content that is illegal or promotes violence, self-harm or hate;
  • point the camera at people who haven't agreed to it, or upload content you don't have the right to share;
  • copy, reverse engineer, scrape or resell HeyaBud, or try to get around limits, payment, age checks or security;
  • cheat in Trials of Aetheris or the Arena, or use bots or exploits there.

We may limit, suspend or close an account that breaks these rules, and remove content that does.

5. Your content

What you write, say, upload and make with your bud stays yours. You give us permission to process it only to run HeyaBud for you, as our Privacy Policy describes. Pictures you make with your bud are yours to keep and share for personal use. Don't present AI-made pictures of real people as real photos.

6. Our content

HeyaBud, its characters, Aetheris and its stories, voices, art, the game and our brand belong to us or our licensors. These terms give you a personal, non-transferable right to use them inside HeyaBud. They don't give you rights to use them anywhere else.

7. Changes and availability

HeyaBud is a live service. Features, characters and the game may change, and the service may sometimes be unavailable. If we make a change that significantly reduces a paid feature, we'll tell you, and you can cancel.

8. Ending things

You can stop using HeyaBud and delete your account at any time in Account. We may end or suspend your access if you seriously or repeatedly break these terms, or if we have to by law. If we close HeyaBud entirely, we'll give you reasonable notice and refund any unused, prepaid subscription period.

9. Disclaimers and liability

HeyaBud is provided "as is". To the fullest extent the law allows, we don't give warranties that it will be uninterrupted, error-free or that its answers will be accurate. To the fullest extent the law allows, we aren't liable for indirect or consequential losses, and our total liability to you is limited to the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim. Nothing in these terms limits rights you have as a consumer that can't be limited by law, or our liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or fraud.

10. Disputes and law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, United States. Disputes go to the courts of Orange County, California, unless the law where you live gives you the right to bring them locally. Before going to court, please contact us. Most problems can be fixed quickly.

11. Changes to these terms

If we change these terms in a way that matters, we'll tell you in the app or by email before the change takes effect. If you keep using HeyaBud after that, the new terms apply.

12. Contact

Black Rooster Creative LLC, La Habra, California, United States. Email: support@heyabud.ai.