Terms of Service

Last updated: August 4, 2026

These Terms of Service (the "Terms") form a binding agreement between you and FourSeven Creative LLC ("Kinship", "we", "us", "our") governing the Kinship mobile application, the website at trykinship.app, and everything we make available through them (together, the "Service").

By creating an account, or by otherwise using the Service, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy, which forms part of them. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

1. Who we are

The Service is operated by FourSeven Creative LLC, a limited liability company.

2. Not medical care, and not an emergency service

Nothing in the Service, and nothing said by another member or by Kin, is medical, psychological, clinical, or legal advice, and none of it should be relied on in place of professional care. Other members are not professionals and we do not verify that anyone is who they say they are. Always seek the advice of a physician or other qualified provider with any question about a medical or mental health condition, and never disregard or delay professional advice because of something you read or heard here.

Crisis resources shown in the app are provided for convenience only. They are operated by independent third parties, and we do not control, endorse, or guarantee their availability, accuracy, or the care they provide.

3. What Kinship is

Kinship is a communications platform. It provides tools that let members write, publish, and exchange their own material with each other, and personal tracking tools that run for the member's own use.

Except for the limited material we publish ourselves, all content on the Service is created, selected, and published by members. We do not create it, we do not pre-screen it, we do not verify it, and we do not adopt or endorse it. We are an interactive computer service provider as that term is used in 47 U.S.C. section 230, and we do not become the publisher or speaker of member content by hosting it, by moderating it, by declining to moderate it, or by providing the tools used to create it. We have no obligation to monitor the Service, and any monitoring or moderation we do choose to carry out is voluntary, undertaken in good faith, and does not create a duty to do so again or to do so consistently.

4. Eligibility

You must be 18 or older and legally able to enter into a binding contract. We do not verify age and we rely on your representation. You may not use the Service if we have previously removed you, or if applicable law or sanctions bar you from doing so.

5. Your account

You sign in with your phone number and choose a handle, which is your public identity. You are responsible for keeping your account secure, for everything done under it, and for telling us promptly at hello@trykinship.app if you believe someone else has access. Do not share your account or let anyone else use it.

6. Community rules

People arrive here on their worst days. That sets the bar. You agree not to post, send, or do any of the following:

• Harassment, hate, threats, bullying, or targeting anyone.
• Identifying another member, reposting or screenshotting what they shared here, or otherwise breaking anonymity. What is shared in a group stays in that group.
• Content that glorifies, encourages, or instructs on substance use, self-harm, disordered eating, or suicide.
• Selling, promoting, soliciting, or spamming, including recruiting for treatment programmes, affiliate schemes, or referrals of any kind.
• Impersonating anyone, or presenting yourself as a medical or clinical professional.
• Anything illegal, including sourcing, offering, or supplying controlled substances.
• Sexual content, content involving minors, or content that exploits anyone.
• Uploading anything you do not have the right to post, or that infringes anyone's intellectual property or privacy.
• Scraping, crawling, automated access, bulk collection, reverse engineering, probing or testing security, interfering with the Service, or circumventing any block, ban, privacy setting, or technical limit.
• Using the Service or anything obtained from it to train a machine learning model.

We may add to or refine these rules. Group owners may also set additional rules within their own groups.

7. Your content

You keep ownership of everything you post. To operate the Service, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable (only to our service providers, and only so that they can host and deliver it for us) licence to host, store, reproduce, adapt for technical display, publish, and distribute your content, solely for the purpose of operating, securing, and improving the Service and complying with law. Adapting for technical display means things like generating a thumbnail or resizing an image, not editing what you said.

That licence ends when you delete the content, except for copies retained in backups for a limited period, copies we must keep to comply with law or to resolve a dispute, and copies other members already received, which are no longer only yours to erase.

You represent that you own or have the necessary rights to everything you post, and that it does not violate these Terms or anyone's rights. You are solely responsible for your content.

If you send us ideas, feedback, or suggestions, you grant us an unrestricted, perpetual, royalty-free right to use them without obligation or compensation to you.

8. Content from other members

You may be exposed to content you find inaccurate, offensive, harmful, or triggering. You use the Service at your own risk. We do not endorse any member content and we make no representation about its accuracy, safety, or suitability. Any reliance you place on it is your own.

We do not conduct background checks, identity verification, or any other screening of members.

9. Meeting other members, and events

You are solely responsible for deciding whether to interact with, communicate with, or meet any other member, online or in person, and for your own safety when you do. You assume all risk arising from those interactions, including risk of personal injury, property damage, harassment, and financial loss. Use ordinary caution: meet in public, tell someone where you are going, and leave if something feels wrong.

10. Kin, and content generated by software

Kin is a software companion. Free Kin runs on your device. Kinship Plus uses a third-party artificial intelligence model to generate replies.

You are responsible for how you use anything Kin produces. To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim all liability arising from Kin's output.

11. Moderation and enforcement

We may remove content, limit features, suspend, or terminate an account, at our discretion, with or without notice, including where we believe someone is at immediate risk. Group owners and moderators may do the same within their groups. Reporting is available from every screen and is never gated or paywalled.

We do not read direct messages and the app provides no mechanism for us to do so. Reports are how we learn something is wrong. Deciding not to act on a report is not an endorsement of the content, and acting on one does not oblige us to act on any other.

12. Copyright and the DMCA

We respond to notices of alleged copyright infringement under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and terminate repeat infringers in appropriate circumstances.

To report infringement, send our Designated Copyright Agent a written notice at hello@trykinship.app, subject line "DMCA Notice", including: your physical or electronic signature; identification of the work claimed to be infringed; identification of the material claimed to be infringing and enough detail to let us locate it; your contact details; a statement that you have a good faith belief the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information is accurate and that you are the owner or authorised to act on the owner's behalf.

If your material was removed and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, you may send a counter-notification to the same address containing the elements required by 17 U.S.C. section 512(g)(3). Knowingly making a material misrepresentation in either a notice or a counter-notification can make you liable for damages under 17 U.S.C. section 512(f).

13. Kinship Plus, trials, and payment

• The core of Kinship, including your clock, your tools, the community, and every safety feature, is free. Safety and participation are never paywalled.
• Every member receives a free trial of Kinship Plus, currently 90 days, beginning when you complete onboarding. The trial is granted by us, not by Apple. It is not a subscription, it does not convert into one, and no payment method is required. Nothing is charged when it ends.
• After the trial, Kinship Plus is available as an auto-renewing monthly subscription, an auto-renewing yearly subscription, or a one-time Lifetime purchase.
• All purchases are processed by Apple and charged to your Apple Account. A subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period.
• Manage or cancel at any time in your Apple Account settings. Deleting the app does not cancel a subscription.
• Prices are shown in the App Store before you buy and may change. A change never applies to a period you have already paid for.
• Refunds are handled by Apple under Apple's policy. We cannot issue them. Request one at reportaproblem.apple.com.
• "Lifetime" means for as long as we offer the Service and your account remains in good standing. It does not oblige us to operate the Service indefinitely.
• We may change what Kinship Plus includes. If we materially reduce it, we will tell you, and you may cancel.

14. Third-party services and links

The Service may contain links to, or let members share links to, third-party websites, apps, and content. We do not control them, do not endorse them, and are not responsible for them, their content, their terms, or their privacy practices. Following a link takes you outside Kinship and your dealings there are between you and that third party.

15. Changes to the Service

We may add, change, suspend, or discontinue any part of the Service at any time, and may impose limits on features or storage. We will try to give notice of material changes, but we may act without notice where necessary for security, legal compliance, or someone's safety.

16. Termination

You may delete your account at any time in Settings. We may suspend or terminate your access at any time, with or without notice, if you breach these Terms, if we believe your use creates risk or legal exposure, or if we cease offering the Service.

On termination, your right to use the Service ends immediately. Sections 7 through 12 and 17 through 24 survive termination, along with any other provision that by its nature should survive.

17. Disclaimer of warranties

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

18. Limitation of liability

These limits apply even if a remedy fails of its essential purpose, and they are a fundamental basis of the bargain between us. Without them, we could not offer the Service free of charge.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so parts of this section may not apply to you. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited, including for fraud, or for death or personal injury caused by our negligence where that exclusion is prohibited.

19. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless FourSeven Creative LLC and its owners, officers, employees, and contractors from any claim, demand, loss, liability, damage, cost, or expense, including reasonable legal fees, arising out of or relating to: your content; your use of the Service; your breach of these Terms or of any law; your interactions with any other member, online or in person; or any event you organise or attend. We may assume the exclusive defence of any matter subject to indemnification by you, at your expense, and you agree to cooperate.

20. Disputes between members

Kinship is not a party to disputes between members. You release us, and our owners, officers, employees, and contractors, from all claims, demands, damages, and liabilities of every kind arising out of or connected to any dispute with another member or with any third party.

21. Dispute resolution, arbitration, and class action waiver

First, talk to us. Before starting any formal proceeding, you agree to email hello@trykinship.app with a short written description of the dispute and the relief you want, and to give us 60 days to try to resolve it. We will do the same for you. This step is a condition of starting arbitration.

Agreement to arbitrate. If we cannot resolve it, you and we agree that any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service will be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, rather than in court. The Federal Arbitration Act governs this section. The arbitrator, and not any court, decides all issues relating to the scope, enforceability, and interpretation of this arbitration agreement, except as stated below.

Exceptions. Either of us may bring an individual claim in small claims court if it qualifies. Either of us may seek injunctive relief in court to protect intellectual property or to stop unauthorised access to the Service. Nothing here prevents you from reporting a concern to a government agency.

If this class action waiver is found unenforceable as to a particular claim, then that claim, and only that claim, must be brought in court, and the rest of this section still applies to every other claim.

Time limit. To the extent permitted by law, any claim relating to the Service must be brought within one year after it arises, or it is permanently barred.

22. Governing law and venue

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules, except that the Federal Arbitration Act governs Section 21. For any dispute not subject to arbitration, you and we consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the state and federal courts located in Orange County, California. If you are a consumer resident in the European Union or the United Kingdom, this does not deprive you of the protection of mandatory provisions of your local law, or of your right to bring proceedings where you live.

23. Apple

These Terms are between you and FourSeven Creative LLC only, not with Apple, and Apple is not responsible for the Service or its content. Your licence to use the Kinship app is a non-transferable licence to use it on Apple-branded devices you own or control, as permitted by the App Store Terms of Service. Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support. If the app fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple and Apple will refund the purchase price, if any; to the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation. We, not Apple, are responsible for addressing any claim relating to the app, including product liability, any failure to conform to legal requirements, and any claim under consumer protection or similar law, and for investigating and defending any third-party claim that the app infringes intellectual property rights. You represent that you are not located in a country subject to a US Government embargo or designated as terrorist supporting, and that you are not on any US Government list of prohibited or restricted parties. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce them against you.

24. General

• Entire agreement. These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and us about the Service and supersede any prior understanding.
• Severability. If any provision is held unenforceable, it is limited or removed to the minimum extent necessary and the rest stays in force.
• No waiver. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it.
• Assignment. You may not assign these Terms. We may assign them to an affiliate or in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.
• Force majeure. We are not liable for any failure or delay caused by events beyond our reasonable control.
• Notices. We may give notice through the app, by email, or by posting on trykinship.app. Send notices to us at hello@trykinship.app.
• Export and sanctions. You agree to comply with all applicable export control and sanctions laws.
• No third-party beneficiaries, except Apple as stated in Section 23.
• Language. These Terms are drafted in English, which controls.

25. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. If a change is material, we will update the date above and give notice in the app or by email before it takes effect, and where required we will ask you to accept it. Continuing to use the Service after a change takes effect means you accept the updated Terms. If you do not accept, stop using the Service and delete your account.

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