Terms of use

Last updated 16 October 2026

These terms are an agreement between you and Happy Owl Labs ("we", "us"), who make Yaavi: the app, the web app, and yaavi.app. By using Yaavi you agree to them. Our privacy policy explains how we handle your data.

Who can use Yaavi

You must be 18 or older. You're responsible for keeping your sign-in (your email, Google, or Apple account, and your phone) secure.

Yaavi is being tested

Yaavi is in an early test. It's free while in testing, features will change, and things may break. We may add paid features later; we'll tell you before anything you use starts to cost money, and you'll never be charged without agreeing first. Export your journal from Settings whenever you want a copy of your own.

Your journal is yours

You own what you write and upload. You give us permission to store, process, and display it only to run Yaavi for you: for example to learn from your notes, write check-ins and replies, transcribe your voice notes, and search your journal. That permission ends when you delete the content or your account. We never use your content to train AI models, and we don't sell it.

What Yaavi is, and isn't

• Yaavi's companion and the friends in your circle are AI characters. They are not real people, even when you give one a real person's name or way of talking.
• AI makes mistakes. Yaavi may misremember, misunderstand, or say something unhelpful. Check anything important.
• Yaavi is not medical, psychological, legal, or financial advice, and not a therapist. It can't diagnose or treat anything.
• Yaavi is not an emergency service. It can't call for help, and it may not notice you need help. If you or someone else is in danger, call your local emergency number (112 in India and most of the world) or a helpline.

Using Yaavi fairly

Please don't:

• use Yaavi to break the law, or to harass, threaten, or harm anyone;
• upload content you don't have the right to share, or that sexually exploits anyone;
• try to get into other people's accounts, break Yaavi's security, overload it, or copy it with automated tools;
• use Yaavi to build a competing product or to resell it.

Writing about the people in your life is what a journal is for. Keep in mind that what you write about others is in your hands.

Ending

You can stop using Yaavi and delete your account at any time from Settings; what happens then is in the privacy policy. We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms, or if we have to stop offering Yaavi; where we can, we'll give you notice and time to export your journal.

Our responsibility

We work hard to keep Yaavi running and your journal safe, but we provide it "as is", without promises that it will always be available, error-free, or right. To the extent the law allows, Happy Owl Labs isn't liable for indirect or consequential losses, and our total liability to you for anything to do with Yaavi is limited to what you paid us in the twelve months before the claim (nothing, while Yaavi is free). Nothing in these terms limits rights you have under consumer law that can't be limited.

Changes

We may update these terms as Yaavi grows. We'll change the date at the top, and tell you in the app before an important change takes effect. If you keep using Yaavi after that, the new terms apply.

Law

These terms are governed by the laws of India, and disputes go to the courts of India.

Contact

Happy Owl Labs, India. hello@yaavi.app