Terms, plainly.

You sign in with a Google account. You must be at least 13 years old, or older if your country sets a higher minimum to use online services on your own (for example, 16 in parts of the European Union). By signing in you confirm you meet that age, and you’re responsible for what happens under your account.

Everything you add (your polishes, notes and photos) belongs to you. We store it and show it back to you so the app works, and we may look at it, aggregated wherever possible, to understand how NailPal is used and make it better. We don’t claim ownership of it, share it beyond the services that run NailPal, or use it for ads. You can export your collection data as a CSV file, or delete everything, at any time from Settings. How we handle your data is covered in the Privacy Policy.

You keep ownership of everything you add. You give us a limited, non exclusive, worldwide, royalty free licence to store, copy, process and display that content, only to run NailPal for you. This licence ends when you delete the content or your account, apart from copies already sitting in routine backups.

We never sell your personal data: your name, email, photos, notes, or individual collection. The only thing we may ever sell is aggregated, anonymous reports about trends in brands, colors and finishes, always from groups large enough that no individual can be identified, and we never try to re-identify anyone.

You’re responsible for the content you upload, and you confirm you have the right to upload it. Don’t add anything illegal, infringing, not yours to share, or abusive or deceptive. Content that sexually exploits or endangers a minor is strictly forbidden; we remove it and report it to the authorities, including the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), as the law requires. We can remove content that breaks these Terms and, where needed, suspend the account behind it.

The photos in NailPal are uploaded by users for their own private collection. We don’t take, download or display images from brands’ websites or anywhere else, and your photos stay private to your account. NailPal doesn’t use anyone’s images or brands to make money.

Brand and product names belong to their respective owners and appear only to identify the polishes in your collection. NailPal isn’t affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any of them.

If you own rights to something and believe content in NailPal infringes them, email us at support@nailpal.app and we’ll review it and remove anything that shouldn’t be there. We don’t routinely review what users upload; we only access it to operate, support, secure or legally protect the service, so we rely on you to tell us.

We respect copyright and respond to notices under the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). NailPal has a registered Designated Agent with the U.S. Copyright Office to receive infringement notices. The agent’s full contact details, including a mailing address and phone number, are publicly listed in the U.S. Copyright Office DMCA Designated Agent Directory.

If you believe content on NailPal infringes your copyright, send a written notice to our Designated Agent, “DMCA Agent”, NailPal, at support@nailpal.app. To be valid, your notice must include: your physical or electronic signature; identification of the copyrighted work you claim was infringed; identification of the material you say is infringing and enough detail for us to find it; your contact details; a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use isn’t authorized by the 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 authorized to act for them. We remove or disable access to material that is the subject of a valid notice, and we may terminate accounts of users who repeatedly infringe.

If your content was removed and you believe that was a mistake, you can send a counter-notice to the same address, including: your signature; identification of the material and where it appeared before removal; a statement, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good-faith belief it was removed by mistake or misidentification; and your name, address and phone number, together with your consent to the jurisdiction of the U.S. federal court for your district (or, if you’re outside the U.S., any district where we may be found) and to accept service of process from the person who filed the original notice.

When you add a polish, its public facts (brand, shade name, finishes and barcode) join a shared catalog that helps every user autofill faster. That catalog is public and append-only, and by adding a polish you agree those facts can be used this way. Nothing personal travels with them: no notes, photos, dates or anything that identifies you. We may correct or remove catalog entries to keep it accurate.

NailPal is built so every account is fully isolated from every other one. Don’t try to reach other people’s data, probe or break the app’s security, scrape it, overload it, resell access, or drive it with bots or automation beyond normal personal use.

The NailPal name, logo, design, code and the app itself belong to us. Don’t copy, clone, resell or exploit them without our permission. This doesn’t touch what you add: your collection stays yours, as covered above.

NailPal is free to use today. We’ve announced future plans (a free tier and a paid Premium tier), but nothing is being charged yet. If and when paid plans launch, we’ll show the price and the payment, renewal and refund terms before you pay, and we’ll never charge you without your consent. Prices and features may change over time.

When you add a photo with the brand or name still empty, NailPal sends it once to Anthropic (Claude) to read the label and fill in those fields for you. It’s a convenience, not a source of truth: the reading can be wrong or incomplete, so check and correct what it fills in before you rely on it. You’re responsible for the information you keep in your collection.

NailPal runs on top of other companies’ services: Google for sign-in, Supabase for the database and storage, Vercel for hosting and traffic stats, Anthropic (Claude) to read a polish label from a photo and to help personalize the Discover feature, and a public barcode database for scans. We don’t control them and aren’t responsible for their availability or their own terms.

We work to keep NailPal running, but we provide it as is and as available, without warranties of any kind. It may have downtime, bugs or occasional data loss, and we don’t guarantee it will always be available, error-free or fit for a particular purpose. We may also change, suspend or discontinue NailPal or parts of it; if we ever shut it down, we will give you a reasonable chance to export your collection first. Keep your own copy of anything important; you can export your collection as a CSV file at any time.

To the fullest extent the law allows, NailPal won’t be liable for indirect, incidental or consequential damages, or for lost data or lost profits. If we’re ever found liable despite this, our total liability is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim or US$50.

If your use of NailPal, or the content you add, leads to a claim against us from someone else, you agree to cover the reasonable costs and damages that result, to the extent the law allows.

You can close your account whenever you want from Settings → Danger Zone; it deletes your account, collection and photos straight away. We can suspend or close accounts that break these Terms or put the service or other users at risk. The parts that should outlast an account (ownership, the liability limit, and the rest of that kind) stay in effect after it’s closed.

We may update these Terms as NailPal grows. When a change is significant we’ll make it noticeable rather than quiet. Using NailPal after a change means you accept the updated Terms; the date at the top always marks the current version.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, USA. How disputes are resolved is set out in “Disputes and arbitration” below; any dispute not covered by that section will be handled by the courts located in California.

If you’re a consumer in the European Union, the EEA or the United Kingdom, this doesn’t take away the mandatory protections your local law gives you. You keep those rights, and any exclusion above only applies as far as your law allows.

Before starting an arbitration, you and NailPal agree to try to sort the dispute out informally. Email support@nailpal.app with a short description of the problem and what you want, and give us 30 days to respond. If it isn’t resolved in that time, either of us can start arbitration.

Any dispute not resolved informally will be settled by final, binding individual arbitration, before a neutral arbitrator, rather than in court, and not as part of any class, collective, consolidated or representative action. You and NailPal each waive the right to a jury trial and to take part in a class action. You can still bring an individual claim in small claims court if it qualifies, and either of us can ask a court for an injunction to stop misuse of intellectual property.

The arbitration is administered by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, available at adr.org. If the AAA is unavailable or declines the case, you and NailPal will agree on another established administrator, and if we can’t agree, a court in California will appoint one. California law applies, except that the Federal Arbitration Act governs how this section is interpreted and enforced.

We pay the cost of arbitration. NailPal will pay all AAA filing, administrative and arbitrator fees above what it would cost you to file the same claim in a California court, unless the arbitrator decides your claim is frivolous. You choose how the arbitration is held: by telephone, by video, on written submissions only, or in person in the county where you live.

The arbitrator decides any question about the meaning, scope and enforceability of this arbitration agreement, except that a court, not the arbitrator, decides whether the class action waiver above is enforceable. If that waiver is found unenforceable, this whole arbitration section doesn’t apply and the dispute goes to court.

This is new, so it’s fair to let you out of it: you can opt out of this arbitration agreement within 30 days of first accepting these Terms by emailing support@nailpal.app from your account email with the words “arbitration opt out”. Opting out changes nothing else in the Terms and won’t affect your account.

This section only applies where such agreements are enforceable. If you’re a consumer in the European Union, the EEA or the United Kingdom, it doesn’t apply to you and you keep the right to bring claims in your local courts.

If any part of these Terms turns out to be unenforceable, the rest stays in full effect, and the unenforceable part is applied as closely as the law allows to what it was meant to do.

Questions about these Terms: support@nailpal.app