Terms of Service

1. Who we are

Blabba (blabba.app) is run by Granite Digital, a business based in Jersey, Channel Islands. In these terms “Blabba”, “we” and “us” mean Granite Digital, and “you” means the person using Blabba. You can reach us at hello@blabba.app.

2. Who can use Blabba

• You must be 13 or older.
• If you are under 18, you need a parent or guardian’s permission to buy anything, and they agree to these terms for any purchase on your behalf.
• If you use Blabba for a business or organisation, you agree to these terms on its behalf too, and you confirm you are allowed to.
• You can’t use Blabba if we have blocked you, or closed an account of yours, before.

3. Blabba is a tool

Blabba draws the characters and backgrounds, generates the voices and renders the film on your own device, in your browser. We don’t render films on our servers, we don’t keep copies of them, and we don’t publish them anywhere. Unless you sign in and save to an account, what you write never reaches us at all.

That means we don’t watch, review or approve what you make, and we can’t. You decide what your characters say, and what you do with the film afterwards.

4. What you make is yours, and so is the responsibility

• You own the scripts you write and the films you make with them (apart from our parts of them: see section 8).
• You are the author of your films and solely responsible for them: what they say, who they are about, where you share them and what happens when you do. The voices only say the words you type.
• The Blabba.app mark and closing card on a free export say the film was made with Blabba. They don’t mean we made it, checked it, agree with it or endorse it, and you must not suggest otherwise.
• If you save blabbas to an account, you give us permission to store, copy and show them to you as needed to run that service (saving, version history, previews). We don’t claim any ownership of them and don’t use them for anything else, except as section 6 says.

5. What you must not make

You must not use Blabba to make, or help anyone make, anything that:

• attacks, demeans or incites hatred or violence against people for their race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, disability, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age or similar characteristics;
• harasses, bullies, threatens or intimidates anyone;
• sexualises children in any way, or is sexually explicit;
• encourages or glorifies terrorism, violent extremism, self-harm or suicide, or gives instructions for serious harm;
• is defamatory, or puts words in a real person’s mouth in a way meant or likely to make people believe they really said them;
• impersonates a real person, business or organisation, or is used for scams, fraud, phishing or election disinformation;
• infringes anyone’s copyright, trade marks, privacy or other rights, or shares someone’s personal information without their permission;
• breaks any law that applies to you or to where you share it.

Satire, parody and fiction are welcome. A cartoon of an obviously fictional manager being pompous is fine. A film designed to make people believe a real person said something hateful is not.

6. Reporting misuse, and what we do about it

If you see a film made with Blabba that breaks these rules, tell us at hello@blabba.app with a link to it and what’s wrong. We read every report.

If we believe someone has broken these terms, we may, without notice:

• remove blabbas saved to their account;
• suspend or close their account;
• block their access to Blabba, including from the devices, browsers, networks and IP addresses we associate with them;
• withdraw any commercial licence issued for the film (see section 8);
• pass information to the police, regulators or others where the law requires it or allows it, including to protect someone from harm.

We decide these things reasonably but at our discretion, and we don’t have to explain or debate each decision. Because films are made and kept on people’s own devices, we can’t delete copies posted elsewhere. To have one taken down, report it to the site or platform it’s on as well.

7. Using Blabba fairly

You must not:

• attack, overload or disrupt Blabba, or try to get into anything you aren’t meant to, including other people’s accounts;
• use bots or scripts to create accounts, request licences or use the service at scale;
• copy, resell or rebuild Blabba itself, or extract its characters, backgrounds or code to use outside it, except as the law allows;
• remove the Blabba.app mark from a free export, or pass a free export off as a licensed one;
• use the Blabba name or logo in a way that suggests we made, sponsor or endorse anything we didn’t.

8. Exports and licences

The characters, backgrounds, artwork, Blabba name and logo, and the software belong to us (the voice models belong to their makers and are used under open licences). What you can do with them inside your films depends on how you export:

• Rough cut (free): you may share the film for personal, non-commercial purposes only, with the Blabba.app mark and the closing card left on. Non-commercial means not for money and not to promote a business, product or service: no ads, sponsorships, client work or monetised channels.
• Paid exports (Clean cut, Director’s cut, or anything exported on Blabba Unlimited) come without the mark and with a commercial licence to use our parts of that film for any lawful purpose, worldwide, for as long as you like, including monetised and client work. Each one comes with a licence reference that anyone can look up on blabba.app to check it’s genuine.

A licence covers our parts of the film. It doesn’t give you rights in anything you added (your script, names, references to other people’s work); those are your responsibility. It doesn’t let you use our characters, backgrounds or logo on their own, outside the film, for example as a mascot or on merchandise. We may withdraw a licence if the payment for it is refunded or reversed, or if the film breaks section 5.

9. Paying for exports

Our order process is conducted by our online reseller Paddle.com. Paddle.com is the Merchant of Record for all our orders. Paddle provides all customer service inquiries and handles returns. When you buy, you buy from Paddle under Paddle’s buyer terms, and Paddle takes the payment, charges any tax and sends your receipt. These terms still cover how you use Blabba and your exports. You can find your order and contact Paddle at paddle.net.

• Prices, and what each one includes, are on the pricing page and shown again before you pay. Taxes are included or added as shown at checkout.
• A one-off payment licenses the version of the blabba you paid for, and that version stays downloadable at its paid quality for as long as Blabba runs. For a short time afterwards a limited number of edited versions are covered too; the Export screen shows exactly what’s left. After that, a changed film is a new export to pay for.
• Blabba Unlimited is a monthly subscription. It renews each month until you cancel, and you can cancel any time; it then runs to the end of the month you’ve paid for. Films you exported while subscribed keep their licences, unless the payment for that month is refunded.
• We may change the price of Blabba Unlimited. We’ll email you at least 30 days before a new price applies to you, and it starts from your first renewal after that. If you don’t want to pay it, cancel before then and you won’t be charged the new price.
• Refunds: you can ask for your money back within 14 days of any payment, for any reason, as the Refund Policy sets out. A refunded payment withdraws the licences it paid for (section 8). If an export doesn’t work, tell us and we’ll put it right or refund you, whenever that is.
• Nothing here affects your rights as a consumer under the law where you live.

10. Accounts

You don’t need an account to make or export films. If you make one, give accurate details, keep your password to yourself, and tell us if you think someone else has used it. You’re responsible for what happens in your account. You can delete your blabbas whenever you like, and close your account by emailing hello@blabba.app.

11. Blabba as it is

We work hard on Blabba, but it is provided “as is” and “as available”. We can’t promise it will always be available, free of mistakes, or work on every device; voices sometimes mispronounce things. We may change, add or remove features, or stop offering Blabba, though we’ll give reasonable notice before closing anything you’ve paid for. Keep your own copies of anything that matters to you: drafts are stored in your browser, and browsers can lose them; cloud saves are a convenience, not a backup service.

12. Our liability

Nothing in these terms limits or excludes our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that the law doesn’t allow us to limit or exclude. Subject to that:

• We are not responsible for the films people make with Blabba, for what they say, or for what anyone does with them, including any claim, loss or harm that comes from a film.
• We are not liable for losses that weren’t foreseeable, for loss of data you didn’t keep a copy of, or, if you use Blabba for business, for any loss of profit, revenue, business, contracts, goodwill or opportunity.
• Our total liability to you for everything connected with Blabba in any 12 months is limited to the greater of what you paid us in those 12 months and £50.

13. If your film causes a claim against us

If someone makes a claim against us because of a film you made, or because you broke these terms, you agree to cover our reasonable costs and losses from it, including legal fees, to the extent the law allows. We’ll tell you about the claim and let you help respond to it.

14. Ending this agreement

You can stop using Blabba at any time. We may suspend or end your use of Blabba if you break these terms, as section 6 describes, or if we stop offering the service. Sections 4, 6, 8, 12, 13 and 16 keep applying after that, and licences you bought stay valid unless they’re withdrawn under section 8.

15. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms, for example when the law changes or we add features. The date at the top says when they last changed. If a change matters, the studio and the mobile editor will ask you to agree again before you carry on. If you don’t agree, stop using Blabba; your exports and licences stay as they were.

16. Law and disputes

These terms are governed by the law of Jersey, and the courts of Jersey have jurisdiction over any dispute about them. If you are a consumer living elsewhere, you keep the protection of the mandatory laws of the place you live, and you may also bring proceedings in the courts there. Please talk to us first at hello@blabba.app; most things can be sorted out by email.

17. The rest

• These terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between us about Blabba.
• If a court finds part of these terms unenforceable, the rest still applies.
• If we don’t enforce something straight away, we can still enforce it later.
• We may transfer this agreement to someone who takes over Blabba; your rights under it won’t be reduced. You can’t transfer it without our agreement.
• Nobody else has rights under these terms.

18. Contact

Questions, reports and complaints: hello@blabba.app. Granite Digital, Jersey, Channel Islands. For an order, a receipt or a refund you can also go to Paddle at paddle.net.