Terms of Service

YapRoom is owned and operated by The Agentic Data Company, a Delaware corporation (“the company,” “YapRoom,” “we,” “us”), registered office 131 Continental Dr, Suite 305, Newark, DE 19713, United States. We operate from Copenhagen, Denmark.

The company is the successor to YapRoom’s previous operator, Christian Nielsen, who ran YapRoom as a sole trader. As of the effective date above, the YapRoom business and all of its assets — the service, the brand, the recordings, the transcripts, the demographic profiles, the datasets built from them, and every license granted under Section 6 before that date — are owned by the company, which assumes the previous operator’s rights and obligations under these terms. This is the assignment contemplated by Section 18. Nothing about your rights, your compensation, or the scope of the Section 6 license changes.

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.

Licenses granted to YapRoom before the transfer described in Section 1 are held by The Agentic Data Company on exactly the terms they were granted on.

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. We do not withhold tax from your compensation, and you are solely responsible for determining, reporting, and paying any tax due in your jurisdiction. We recommend you consult your own tax advisor.

Because we are a US company, tax law may require us to collect a tax form from you before we pay you — typically a Form W-9 if you are a US person, or a Form W-8BEN if you are not — and to file information returns reporting what we paid you, such as Form 1099-NEC for US persons above the annual reporting threshold. Where that applies to you we will tell you exactly what we need, and we may hold a payout until you provide it.

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 may suspend, restrict, or terminate your account or your access to the service, and remove individual sessions under Section 7, at any time and for any reason — including breach of these terms, suspected fraud or abuse, a legal or regulatory requirement, or discontinuation of the service. Where the reason is not urgent we will give you notice; where it is, we may act immediately. We are not liable to you or to anyone else for any suspension or termination, except to the extent mandatory consumer protection law where you live provides otherwise.

On termination your right to use the service ends immediately. Termination does not retroactively withdraw the Section 6 license for recordings already delivered to a licensee (see Section 10), and does not affect compensation you had already earned before termination unless the termination was for a breach of Section 4.

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 9 (effect of termination), Section 11 (Disclaimers), Section 12 (Limitation of liability), Section 13 (Indemnity), Section 14 (Disputes, arbitration, and governing law), Section 15 (Intellectual property, including the feedback license), Section 17 (Apple App Store provisions, where applicable), Section 20 (Export controls and sanctions), 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, title, non-infringement, and any warranty arising from a course of dealing or usage of trade.

We do not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted, error-free, timely, or secure; that recordings will always upload, transcribe, or pass quality review; that a partner will be available when you want to record; that any session will be accepted; or that you will earn any particular amount, or anything at all. We will use commercially reasonable effort. Any material you obtain through the service is obtained at your own risk.

Nothing in this section limits your statutory rights as a consumer under EU or other mandatory law. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, neither YapRoom nor its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, agents, or licensors is liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or business opportunity, or for business interruption or the cost of substitute services, arising out of or relating to these terms or the service — regardless of the theory of liability (contract, tort, negligence, strict liability, statute, or otherwise) and even if we have been advised that such damages are possible.

Our total aggregate liability for all claims arising out of or relating to these terms or the service is capped at the greater of (a) the compensation you have received from YapRoom in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) US $100. These limits apply even if a limited remedy is found to have failed of its essential purpose.

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, for your right to compensation under GDPR Art. 82, or for any other liability that cannot be limited or excluded under the law that applies to you, including mandatory consumer protection law in your country of residence. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain damages, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless YapRoom and its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, agents, licensors, successors, and assigns from and against any 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, of the representations and warranties you gave in Section 5, or of our Community Guidelines;
• your violation of any law that applies to you;
• your violation of the rights of any third party, including intellectual property, privacy, and publicity rights.

We may assume the exclusive defence and control of any matter subject to indemnification by you, at your expense, and you will cooperate with us in that defence. You will not settle any such matter in a way that imposes any obligation or admission on us without our prior written consent.

This section does not apply to the extent mandatory consumer protection law where you live prohibits it.

Read this section carefully. Unless you opt out within 30 days, or unless mandatory law where you live says otherwise, it requires disputes to be resolved by individual arbitration, and it waives your right to a jury trial and to take part in a class action.

Governing law

These terms, and any dispute arising out of or relating to them, to the service, or to your recordings, are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, United States, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.

Talk to us first

Before starting an arbitration or any other proceeding, you agree to email privacy@yap-room.com with a short description of the dispute and the relief you want, and to give us 60 days to resolve it informally. We agree to do the same before bringing a claim against you. Any limitation period is paused while this runs.

Binding individual arbitration

If we cannot resolve a dispute informally, you and we agree to resolve it by final and binding arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, rather than in court. The Federal Arbitration Act governs the interpretation and enforcement of this section. The arbitration will be held in Wilmington, Delaware, or by telephone or video at your election, and claims under US $25,000 may be decided on written submissions alone. The award may be entered as a judgment in any court with jurisdiction. We will pay the arbitration fees the AAA rules require us to pay, and we will not seek our legal fees from you unless the arbitrator finds your claim frivolous.

The arbitrator decides all questions about the interpretation, scope, and enforceability of this arbitration agreement — except that a court, not the arbitrator, decides whether the class action waiver below is enforceable.

No class actions, no jury

You and we may bring claims only in an individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class, consolidated, collective, or representative proceeding. The arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person’s claims, may not preside over any form of class proceeding, and may award relief only in favour of the individual party seeking it and only to the extent necessary to provide that relief. You and we waive any right to a jury trial. If this paragraph is found unenforceable as to a particular claim or request for relief, that claim or request is severed and proceeds in court while all other claims proceed in arbitration.

Coordinated filings

If 25 or more similar arbitration demands are filed against us by, or with the coordination of, the same counsel or organisation, the AAA will administer them in batches of up to 50, one batch at a time, with a single arbitrator and a single set of filing fees per batch. Any limitation period is paused for demands awaiting their batch.

Exceptions

Either of us may bring an individual claim in small claims court if it qualifies. Either of us may also go to court for injunctive or other equitable relief to stop actual or threatened infringement or misuse of intellectual property, or unauthorised access to the service, without first going through informal resolution or arbitration.

Your right to opt out

You can reject this arbitration agreement by emailing privacy@yap-room.com within 30 days of first accepting these terms, with your name, the email address on your account, and a clear statement that you are opting out of arbitration. Opting out changes nothing else — not your account, not your compensation, not any other part of these terms — and we will not hold it against you. If you opt out, disputes go to the courts described below.

Time limit for claims

Any claim arising out of or relating to these terms or the service must be brought within one year after it arises, or it is permanently barred — unless the law that applies to you does not allow that period to be shortened.

If arbitration does not apply

Where this arbitration agreement does not apply — because you opted out, because a claim is excepted above, or because it is unenforceable as to you — you and we agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Delaware, and waive any objection to venue there.

Consumers, and everyone outside the United States

Nothing in this section takes away a protection that the law where you live gives you and does not let us contract out of. If you are a consumer in the EU/EEA, the United Kingdom, or another jurisdiction whose mandatory law limits pre-dispute arbitration agreements, class action waivers, choice of law, choice of forum, or shortened limitation periods, those provisions do not apply to you to the extent your law says they cannot. You keep the mandatory consumer protections of your country of residence, you keep the right to bring proceedings in your local courts, we will bring proceedings against you in your local courts where your law requires it, and you keep access to any alternative dispute resolution body available where you live.

This section does not affect your data protection rights or our data protection obligations. The GDPR applies to us because our team and operations are based in Denmark and because we offer this service to people in the EU/EEA, and nothing here limits that. Your rights of access, rectification, erasure, portability, restriction, and objection, your right to withdraw consent, your right to compensation under Art. 82, and your right to complain to Datatilsynet or to the supervisory authority where you live are set out in the Privacy Policy. They are not subject to arbitration and cannot be waived by these terms.

The Agentic Data Company (and its licensors) owns the YapRoom name, brand, logos, software, website, app, design system, datasets, 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 send us feedback, suggestions, bug reports, or ideas about the service, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, sub-licensable license to use and act on them for any purpose, with no obligation or compensation to you. You are not required to send us feedback.

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 you before it applies to you. The current version is always at yap-room.com/terms.

For any other change, the updated terms take effect when we post them, and your continued use of the service after that is your acceptance of them. If you do not accept a change, stop using the service and delete your account.

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 — except that the class action waiver in Section 14 is severed as described there. Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of it. These terms, together with the Privacy Policy and Community Guidelines, are the entire agreement between you and YapRoom on the subject matter, and supersede any earlier understanding. You may not assign your rights or obligations under these terms without our written consent, and any attempt to do so is void; we may assign ours freely, including to a successor in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets. Nothing in these terms creates a partnership, joint venture, employment, or agency relationship between us. There are no third-party beneficiaries of these terms except as stated in Section 17.

We are not liable for any delay or failure to perform caused by something outside our reasonable control — including internet or network failures, outages at our hosting, storage, transcription, or payment providers, power failures, natural disasters, epidemics, war, terrorism, civil unrest, labour disputes, changes in law, and acts of government. If such an event continues for more than 30 days, either of us may terminate your account without liability.

The service is subject to United States export control and sanctions law. You represent that you are not located in, ordinarily resident in, or organised under the laws of a country or region subject to comprehensive US sanctions; that you are not listed on any US government list of prohibited or restricted parties, including the Specially Designated Nationals list maintained by the Office of Foreign Assets Control; and that you will not use the service in breach of any export control or sanctions law. We may suspend or terminate your account and withhold any payout if we reasonably believe otherwise.

You agree that we may communicate with you electronically — by email to the address on your account, by push notification, or by notice inside the app — and that electronic communications satisfy any legal requirement that a communication be in writing. A notice we send you is treated as received on the day we send it. Keep the email address on your account current; it is how we reach you.

Legal notices to us must be sent to privacy@yap-room.com and, if the notice begins a formal proceeding, also by post to The Agentic Data Company, 131 Continental Dr, Suite 305, Newark, DE 19713, United States.

Email privacy@yap-room.com with questions.