User Agreement

1. Agreement and eligibility

This User Agreement ("Agreement") is a binding agreement between you and the operator of Lyra ("Lyra," "we," "us," or "our") governing the Lyra iOS application and related services (collectively, the "Service"). Our Privacy Policy is incorporated into this Agreement.

You may use the Service only if you can form a legally binding contract where you live. You must be at least 13 years old and meet any higher minimum age required by local law. If you are under the age of legal majority, a parent or legal guardian must review and agree to this Agreement on your behalf.

If you do not agree to this Agreement, do not access or use the Service.

2. The Service

Lyra provides tools for planning podcast episodes, including capturing ideas, selecting episode formats, building outlines, organizing preparation notes, using templates, maintaining recording checklists, and tracking project status. Lyra may also offer voice-to-text input, daily free creation allowances, virtual coins, and one-time in-app purchases.

The current version primarily stores your content and related app data locally on your device. You are responsible for maintaining appropriate device backups and independent copies of content that is important to you.

We may add, change, suspend, or discontinue features to maintain, improve, or evolve the Service. We will provide notice when required by law. We do not guarantee that any particular feature will always be available.

3. Sign in and account security

Lyra uses Sign in with Apple. You are responsible for safeguarding your device, Apple account, authentication credentials, and any activity performed through them. You must provide accurate information and promptly notify Apple and us if you believe your access has been compromised.

Signing out of Lyra removes the locally stored signed-in profile but does not delete locally stored projects or templates. Lyra does not currently maintain a separate server-side user account. You can remove Lyra's locally stored data using Delete Local Data and can manage the Apple authorization through your Apple account settings.

4. Your content

You retain ownership of episode ideas, outlines, notes, templates, and other content you create or enter in Lyra ("Your Content"). You are solely responsible for Your Content and for ensuring that you have all rights and permissions needed to create, store, and use it.

The current version does not upload Your Content to Lyra-operated servers. You grant Lyra only the limited permission needed for the app to store, display, edit, and otherwise process Your Content on your device at your direction.

Do not enter content that is unlawful, infringes intellectual-property or privacy rights, breaches confidentiality, promotes abuse, or exposes another person to harm. If you enter personal or sensitive information about guests, participants, or other people, you are responsible for providing any required notice and obtaining any required consent.

5. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• use the Service in violation of law or another person's rights;
• attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Service, another user's device or data, or related systems;
• interfere with, disrupt, damage, or overload the Service;
• reverse engineer, decompile, or bypass technical restrictions except to the extent such restrictions are prohibited by law;
• use automated means to scrape or extract the Service, except where expressly authorized;
• misrepresent your identity or affiliation, commit fraud, or manipulate purchases or virtual-coin records; or
• use Lyra to create, organize, or distribute unlawful, infringing, deceptive, or harmful material.

6. Virtual coins and in-app purchases

Lyra may provide a limited number of free creations per day and may require virtual coins for additional creations. The applicable coin cost is displayed in the app before use. We may change free allowances and coin costs prospectively, subject to applicable law.

Virtual coins are a limited, personal, revocable license to access eligible features. They are not money, stored value, property, or a financial instrument; have no cash value outside Lyra; and cannot be transferred, sold, exchanged, or redeemed for cash. Except where required by law or App Store policy, virtual-coin purchases are final and unused coins are non-refundable.

Purchases are processed by Apple and are also subject to the App Store terms you accepted with Apple. Prices, taxes, currencies, payment methods, refunds, and purchase-history records are controlled by Apple. For billing problems or refund requests, use Apple's purchase-support process. If Lyra fails to credit a completed, verified purchase, contact us with non-sensitive purchase details so we can investigate.

We may correct balances affected by error, duplicate crediting, fraud, chargeback, or an invalid or reversed transaction. We will not remove properly purchased coins arbitrarily.

7. Third-party services

Some features depend on Apple services, including Sign in with Apple, the App Store and StoreKit, speech recognition, microphone permissions, and App Tracking Transparency. Your use of those services is governed by Apple's terms and privacy practices. We do not control and are not responsible for third-party services, their availability, or their independent handling of information.

8. Intellectual property

Except for Your Content and third-party materials, the Service, including its software, interface, design, branding, text, and other materials, is owned by or licensed to Lyra and is protected by intellectual-property laws.

Subject to this Agreement, we grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to install and use the Service on Apple-branded products that you own or control, as permitted by the App Store usage rules, solely for your personal or internal business use.

No right is granted except as expressly stated in this Agreement. "Lyra" and related branding may not be used without prior written permission.

9. Feedback

If you voluntarily send suggestions or feedback, you grant us a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free right to use and incorporate that feedback without restriction or compensation. This does not transfer ownership of Your Content.

10. Suspension and termination

You may stop using Lyra at any time. You may sign out, delete local data, and uninstall the app. We may suspend or terminate access when reasonably necessary to address a material breach of this Agreement, fraud, abuse, security risk, legal requirement, or discontinuation of the Service.

Upon termination, the license granted to you ends. Provisions that by their nature should survive will survive, including provisions concerning ownership, purchases already completed, disclaimers, limitations of liability, indemnity, and dispute terms.

11. Disclaimers

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Service is provided "as is" and "as available." We disclaim all warranties, whether express, implied, or statutory, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, accuracy, quiet enjoyment, and uninterrupted or error-free operation.

Lyra is a planning tool. It does not provide legal, financial, medical, editorial, or professional advice, and it does not guarantee the quality, accuracy, legality, audience performance, publication success, or commercial outcome of any podcast or other content.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain warranty exclusions, so some of these exclusions may not apply to you.

12. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Lyra and its owners, affiliates, licensors, and service providers will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue, goodwill, use, or data, arising out of or related to the Service, even if advised that such damages are possible.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, our total liability for all claims arising out of or relating to the Service will not exceed the greater of (a) the amount you paid for Lyra in-app purchases during the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim or (b) US$50.

These limitations do not exclude liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited. Consumer-protection rights available to you under applicable law remain unaffected.

13. Indemnity

To the extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Lyra and its owners, affiliates, licensors, and service providers from claims, damages, losses, liabilities, and reasonable costs arising from Your Content, your misuse of the Service, or your material violation of this Agreement or another person's rights. This section does not apply where prohibited by applicable consumer law.

14. Governing law and disputes

This Agreement is governed by the laws applicable in the place where the operator of Lyra is established, without regard to conflict-of-law principles, except that mandatory consumer protections and venue rights in your place of residence continue to apply.

Before filing a claim, you and Lyra agree to make a good-faith effort to resolve the dispute informally by email. Send a written description of the dispute and the relief requested to the contact address below. If the dispute is not resolved within 30 days, either party may pursue remedies in a court or tribunal with lawful jurisdiction. Nothing in this section limits either party's right to seek urgent injunctive relief or to use a small-claims process where eligible.

15. Apple-required terms

This Agreement is between you and Lyra, not Apple. Lyra, not Apple, is solely responsible for the Service and its content, subject to this Agreement. Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support services for Lyra.

If the Service fails to conform to an applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple may refund the purchase price, if any, for the app as required by its policies. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation for the Service.

Lyra, not Apple, is responsible for addressing claims relating to the Service, including product-liability claims, legal or regulatory conformity claims, consumer-protection claims, and intellectual-property infringement claims. You represent that you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. government embargo and are not listed on a U.S. government prohibited or restricted-party list.

Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of this Agreement. When you accept this Agreement, Apple has the right to enforce it against you as a third-party beneficiary.

16. Changes to this Agreement

We may update this Agreement to reflect changes to the Service, our business, or applicable law. We will post the updated Agreement and revise the date above. If changes are material, we will provide additional notice when required. Your continued use after an updated Agreement becomes effective means you accept it, to the extent permitted by law.

17. General terms

If any provision is found unenforceable, it will be enforced to the greatest extent permitted and the remaining provisions will remain in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign this Agreement without our consent; we may assign it in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization, or transfer of the Service. This Agreement and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and Lyra concerning the Service.

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