Terms of Service

YapRoom is operated by Christian Nielsen (trading as “YapRoom”), an individual developer based in Denmark (“YapRoom,” “we,” “us”).

A YapRoom session is a recorded conversation between two speakers who connect in a shared room. Each speaker’s microphone is recorded locally and uploaded to YapRoom. The recordings, together with their transcripts and the demographic profile you provided during onboarding, are used to train AI voice models — both by us and by the third-party partners we license the data to under Section 6.

You must be at least 16 years old to use YapRoom. By creating an account you confirm that you are 16 or older, that you have the legal capacity to enter a binding contract, and (if you are accepting these terms on behalf of someone else) that you are authorised to bind them.

You agree to provide accurate, complete, and current registration information, and to keep it accurate. You may not impersonate another person, register with a name you don’t have the right to use, or transfer your account to anyone else.

You are responsible for keeping your login credentials secure and for all activity that takes place under your account. Tell us at privacy@yap-room.com immediately if you suspect unauthorized access.

You agree not to use YapRoom to:

• Harass, threaten, intimidate, or harm another speaker.
• Share content that is illegal, hateful, defamatory, that incites violence or self-harm, or that is sexually explicit and involves minors.
• Record a third party (including someone on speakerphone or audible in your environment) who has not consented to being recorded by YapRoom.
• Impersonate another person or misrepresent your identity, age, or demographic profile.
• Use bots, deepfakes, synthetic voices, pre-recorded audio, text-to-speech, or any other source that is not your own live voice.
• Reverse-engineer, decompile, scrape, crawl, or interfere with the service, circumvent security controls, or place an unreasonable load on our infrastructure.
• Attempt to access another user’s account or data, or attempt to deanonymise users from datasets.
• Record or share session audio outside of YapRoom (your partner has consented to YapRoom recording, not to general redistribution).
• Use the service in any way that breaks a law that applies to you, including export controls and sanctions.

We have zero tolerance for objectionable content and abusive behavior. Content that violates these rules, and the users who post it, are removed. You can report objectionable content or block an abusive speaker from inside the app — after any session, or from your list of known yappers. Reports are reviewed and acted on within 24 hours, and blocking a speaker immediately stops them from being paired with you again and removes them from your in-app lists.

See our Community Guidelines for the full list. Violations may result in session removal, account suspension, account termination, and forfeiture of any unpaid compensation.

Every time you record a session, you represent and warrant that:

• The voice in the recording is your own, live, natural voice — not a deepfake, clone, synthetic voice, or impersonation of another person.
• You have not been compelled, induced, or paid by a third party to record content you don’t endorse, and you are not recording on behalf of someone whose identity you are concealing.
• Any other voice audible in the recording (housemate, child, colleague, background speaker) has been informed and has consented to being recorded by YapRoom; otherwise you will avoid recording while they are present.
• The demographic information you provided during onboarding is accurate — downstream researchers rely on it.
• You have the legal right and capacity to grant the license in Section 6, free of any third-party claim.

When you complete a session on YapRoom you grant YapRoom a worldwide, royalty-free, fully paid, perpetual, irrevocable, sub-licensable, and transferable license to:

• record, store, process, transcribe, edit, modify, anonymise, and prepare derivative works of your audio recordings;
• combine your audio, the transcripts, and the demographic profile you provided during onboarding (age, gender, country, childhood country, education level, native language) into datasets;
• use those datasets, and authorise third-party partners (including our successors and assigns) to use them, to train, fine-tune, evaluate, and benchmark AI voice and speech models — including speech recognition, text-to-speech, voice conversion, voice cloning research, and related work;
• distribute, display, reproduce, and otherwise fully exploit the foregoing in connection with our (and our successors’ and assigns’) businesses, in any media formats and through any media channels.

The license is irrevocable as to copies already delivered to a licensee. Withdrawing your consent under our Privacy Policy stops new sessions from being recorded, removes you from future dataset deliveries, and triggers deletion of your retained recordings within 30 days; it does not require licensees to delete copies they already received in good faith.

The license does not cover your account credentials, payment or payout information, IP address, device identifiers, push notification tokens, session timing telemetry, support communications, or any other operational data we hold about you. That operational data is governed by the Privacy Policy and is never licensed, sold, or shared with any third-party partner, advertiser, or marketing partner.

Not every recorded session is suitable for training AI voice models. YapRoom may review any session and, at its discretion, decline to include all or part of itin our datasets — for example because of poor audio quality, technical defects, very short or one-sided conversations, suspected synthetic or impersonated voices, suspected non-consensual recording of a third party, content that breaches Section 4, inaccurate demographic information, or any other reason consistent with our research and quality standards.

Rejected sessions are retained for up to 30 days for limited internal purposes only: improving our processing pipeline and rejection criteria, reviewing appeals from speakers, investigating suspected abuse or fraud, and preserving evidence for legal claims or regulatory requests. After 30 days, rejected recordings are deleted automatically.

Where compensation is offered, rejected sessions may be ineligible for payout; the in-app payout terms shown at the end of a session describe the relevant criteria. The 30-day post-rejection retention does not extend the Section 6 license to allow dataset licensing of rejected recordings — rejected audio is never included in dataset deliveries.

Where YapRoom offers compensation for sessions, the amount and the payout method are described inside the app at the time of session completion. We may change rates with notice. Compensation is taxable income in most jurisdictions and you are responsible for your own taxes.

You are an independent participant, not an employee of YapRoom. YapRoom does not withhold taxes and does not issue tax forms of any kind, including IRS Form 1099. You are solely responsible for determining, reporting, and paying any taxes due in your jurisdiction. We recommend you consult your own tax advisor.

Compensation does not grant you additional rights and does not transfer additional rights to us — it is the consideration for the license you already granted in Section 6. Sessions rejected under Section 7 may be ineligible for payout.

From time to time we also run promotions and incentives, such as referral bonuses. These are governed by our Promotions & Referrals terms.

You can delete your account at any time from Settings → Delete account. We can suspend or terminate accounts that breach these terms, with or without notice depending on severity, and we can remove individual sessions under Section 7. Termination does not retroactively withdraw the Section 6 license for recordings already delivered to a licensee (see Section 10).

The following sections survive termination of your account or these terms: Section 6 (License you grant us, as to copies already delivered to a licensee), Section 11 (Disclaimers), Section 12 (Limitation of liability), Section 13 (Indemnity), Section 14 (Governing law and disputes), Section 17 (Apple App Store provisions, where applicable), and any payment obligations.

YapRoom is provided “as is” and “as available.” To the maximum extent permitted by law we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that recordings will always upload, transcribe, or pass quality review. We will use commercially reasonable effort. Nothing in this section limits your statutory rights as a consumer under EU or other mandatory law.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, YapRoom is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages arising from your use of the service. Our total aggregate liability for any claim is capped at the greater of (a) the compensation you have received from YapRoom in the 12 months before the claim, or (b) US $100.

Nothing in these terms limits or excludes our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for gross negligence or intentional misconduct, for fraud, or for any other liability that cannot be limited or excluded under Danish or EU law.

You agree to indemnify and hold YapRoom harmless from claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and costs (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of:

• content you recorded without the necessary consent of a third party;
• inaccurate demographic information you provided that misled licensees;
• your breach of these terms or our Community Guidelines;
• your violation of any law that applies to you.

These terms are governed by the laws of Denmark, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. Disputes will be brought before the competent courts of Denmark — unless mandatory consumer protection rules in your country of residence give you the right to bring proceedings, or require proceedings to be brought against you, in your local courts. Nothing in these terms limits your rights as a consumer under EU law.

We do notimpose mandatory arbitration or a class-action waiver. EU consumers retain access to their local courts and to alternative dispute resolution bodies, including the European Commission’s ODR platform at ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr.

YapRoom (and its licensors) own the YapRoom name, brand, logos, software, website, app, design system, and dataset products. No right or license to those is granted to you except the limited right to use the service in accordance with these terms.

You retain ownership of your voice and of the rights in your recordings to the extent they are not granted to us under Section 6.

If you believe content on YapRoom infringes your copyright or other intellectual property rights, send a notice to privacy@yap-room.com including:

• identification of the work or right you claim has been infringed;
• identification of the YapRoom content you allege infringes, with enough detail for us to find it (e.g., a session ID, a shareable link, or a description);
• your full name, address, and contact email;
• a good-faith statement that the disputed use is not authorised by the rights holder, its agent, or the law;
• a statement that the information you provide is accurate and that you are the rights holder or authorised to act on the rights holder’s behalf.

We review notices promptly and may remove or disable access to allegedly infringing content. Repeat infringers may have their accounts terminated.

These additional terms apply if you use the YapRoom iOS app obtained from the Apple App Store. In the event of a conflict with the rest of these terms, this section controls for the iOS app only.

• These terms are concluded between you and YapRoom, not Apple Inc. (“Apple”). Apple is not responsible for the app or its content.
• The app is licensed (not sold) to you for use only on Apple devices that you own or control, and only as permitted by the App Store Terms of Service.
• Apple has no obligation to provide any maintenance or support services for the app.
• If the app fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple; Apple’s sole warranty obligation will be to refund the purchase price of the app (if any). All other warranty claims are governed by these terms and made against YapRoom.
• YapRoom, not Apple, is responsible for addressing any claims you or any third party have relating to the app, including product liability claims, claims that the app does not conform to applicable legal or regulatory requirements, and claims arising under consumer protection or similar laws.
• YapRoom, not Apple, is responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement, and discharge of any third-party claim that the app or your use of it infringes that third party’s intellectual property rights.
• You represent and warrant that you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. Government embargo or designated by the U.S. Government as a “terrorist-supporting” country, and that you are not listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
• You will comply with any applicable third-party agreements (for example, your wireless data plan) when using the app.
• Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms, and upon your acceptance Apple has the right (deemed accepted) to enforce these terms against you as a third-party beneficiary.

We may update these terms. If a change is material — including any change to the Section 6 license — we will notify active users in-app and by email at least 14 days before it takes effect. The current version is always at yap-room.com/terms.

If any provision of these terms is found to be unenforceable, it will be limited to the minimum extent necessary and the rest of the terms will remain in full force. Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver. These terms, together with the Privacy Policy and Community Guidelines, are the entire agreement between you and YapRoom on the subject matter. You may not assign your rights or obligations under these terms without our written consent; we may assign ours to a successor in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.

Email privacy@yap-room.com with questions.