Terms of Service

1.1. These Terms (the «Terms») govern the relationship between Vladislav Smirnov, trading as a sole trader registered in the United Kingdom (the «Administration»), and any user of the Internet (the «User») in connection with the Welder AI service available at https://www.welderai.ru/ (the «Service»).

1.2. These Terms constitute a binding offer by the Administration to the User on the conditions set out below. Registration on the Site, authorisation in the Service or any other factual use of its functionality constitutes the User's full and unconditional acceptance of these Terms and creates a contract between the User and the Administration.

1.3. If the User does not agree with these Terms, the User must cease using the Service immediately.

2.1. The Service enables the User to create short videos and accompanying materials (scripts, images, voiceovers, edited cuts) using generative artificial-intelligence technologies and, at the User's discretion, to publish such materials to the connected accounts on third-party publishing platforms (see Section 8 of these Terms).

2.2. The exact functionality is determined by the chosen Plan and any purchased token Packs. Plan descriptions and operation prices are published on the Site.

2.3. The Service is under active development. The set, design and behaviour of features may change without prior notice.

3.1. Use of paid Service features requires registration of an Account. Registration is completed by creating an account using a valid email address or another supported identification method.

3.2. Age restriction. Registration and use of the Service are permitted for individuals with full legal capacity who are at least 18 years of age, and for sole proprietors and legal entities through their authorised representatives.

3.3. The User undertakes:

1. to provide accurate information at registration and to keep it current;
2. to maintain the confidentiality of the password and other credentials;
3. to notify the Administration through the Support Chat immediately upon any unauthorised access to the Account.

3.4. The User bears full responsibility for any action taken under the User's Account, including payments and credit spend, until the Administration receives notice of credential compromise.

3.5. One User is entitled to one Account. Creating multiple Accounts — including for the purpose of repeatedly obtaining welcome grants — is prohibited and is grounds for suspension and deletion of all linked Accounts.

4.1. The User may use the Service to:

1. create video content for the User's own social-network, video- hosting or messenger channels;
2. create video content for the User's clients in the course of professional activity, subject to compliance with these Terms;
3. test Service features within the welcome-grant allowance;
4. any other lawful purpose not prohibited by these Terms.

4.2. Access to the Service is granted to one individual — the Account owner. Shared use of an Account by several persons is permitted only under corporate Plans that expressly allow such use.

5.1. The User must not:

1. use the Service to create content that violates the law applicable to the User (in particular the law of the User's habitual residence) or the law of England and Wales, including extremist or terrorist content, content inciting hatred or discrimination, pornographic content, content involving minors in a sexual context, content related to the promotion of controlled drugs, gambling or other prohibited activities;
2. create or publish deepfake, AI-cloned, synthetic or otherwise impersonating content depicting real persons (public figures, politicians, performers, athletes, private individuals), including face swaps, voice clones and synthetic likenesses, without their explicit written consent;
3. use the Service in violation of third parties' copyright, neighbouring rights, trademark and other intellectual- property rights — including by uploading third-party images, music or video without an appropriate licence and publishing derivative materials based on them;
4. use the Service to create misleading content, including fake news, fabricated evidence, defamation, falsely attributed quotations, fabricated historical events and forged documents;
5. reverse-engineer, decompile, disassemble or otherwise analyse and attempt to obtain the source code of the Service;
6. circumvent technical restrictions, scrape data, conduct load tests, attempt to hack or exploit vulnerabilities of the Service;
7. resell access to the Service, build derivative services on top of it or wrap its API in their own commercial products without the Administration's written consent;
8. use the Service to send unsolicited messages, spam or phishing content;
9. submit personal data of third parties to the Service without an appropriate legal basis and consent;
10. use the Service in a way capable of damaging the reputation of the Administration or other users;
11. use auto-publishing features to publish content that violates the rules, community guidelines or terms of use of the third-party publishing platforms (see Section 8).

5.2. A breach of this Section is grounds for the measures described in Section 11 of these Terms.

6.1. Content owned by the Administration

All elements of the Service — source code, design, interfaces, graphic and audiovisual materials, trademarks, the Welder AI brand and other intellectual-property objects — belong to the Administration and/or its licensors. Any use beyond the permitted Service functionality requires the Administration's explicit written consent.

6.2. Content uploaded by the User

By uploading or entering any content (text, images, audio, video — the «Materials») into the Service, the User:

1. represents and warrants that they hold all rights necessary to use the Materials, including the right of reproduction, adaptation and making available to the public;
2. grants the Administration a non-exclusive, royalty-free, world-wide licence to use the Materials to the extent necessary to provide the Service (storage, processing, copying, transfer to infrastructure and compute providers);
3. bears full responsibility for the legality of the Materials and their compliance with applicable law.

6.3. Generated content

Results obtained while using the Service (the «Results») are made available to the User for free use by any lawful means, subject to Section 7 of these Terms.

7.1. The User acknowledges and agrees that:

1. the same or a similar prompt may yield different Results;
2. Results may contain inaccuracies, factual errors, artefacts and discrepancies with the User's expectations;
3. similarities or coincidences between Results produced for different users are possible — this follows from the statistical nature of the models;
4. similarities to works of third parties are possible — the underlying models are trained on vast datasets and the Administration cannot guarantee the absence of such similarities;
5. the legal status of the Results — including the existence of exclusive rights, copyright-object status and commercial-use feasibility — is determined by the law applicable to the User. The Administration gives no legal warranty as to the status of the Results in any jurisdiction.

7.2. The User independently verifies Results before any public use and bears responsibility for all consequences of such publication.

7.3. The Administration may use depersonalised Results and Materials to improve the Service, train its own models and for demonstration and marketing purposes. The User may opt out of such use through the Support Chat.

8.1. Technical capabilities. The Service provides the User with the ability to: (a) connect external accounts via the standard OAuth flow of the respective platform; (b) upload Service-generated video materials to those accounts; (c) schedule publication times; (d) display publication status and basic public information about the connected account / channel / Page. The specific list of platforms and supported operations is shown in the Service interface and may change.

8.2. User-initiated action principle. The Service does not initiate account connections and does not publish anything without an explicit User action. Each publication is initiated by the User's command (or by a sequence the User has pre-scheduled). The User confirms that they knowingly instruct the Service to publish on the User's behalf and bears responsibility for the outcome of such publication.

8.3. Pass-through obligations of the User. By connecting an account and using auto-publishing, the User undertakes independently to comply with:

1. TikTok — TikTok Terms of Service and the TikTok Community Guidelines;
2. Instagram — Instagram Terms of Use, the Meta Community Standards and the applicable Meta Platform policies;
3. YouTube — the YouTube Terms of Service and the YouTube Community Guidelines.

The User confirms that they have read these policies, independently monitors their changes and ensures that the published content complies with them. The Administration does not act as an arbiter in the interpretation or application of third-party platform policies.

8.4. Platform restrictions and sanctions. Publishing platforms are free to take their own measures with respect to content, including: blocking publication, limiting reach, marking as rule-breaking, removing already-published materials, suspending or deleting the User's account. All such actions are taken on the platform side and are outside the Administration's control. The User resolves any dispute with a platform independently.

8.5. Platform limits passed through to the User. Platforms may impose limits on publication rate, file size, format, video duration and the types of attachments allowed. The Administration surfaces such limits in the Service interface and is not liable for platform rejections caused by exceeding the platforms' own limits.

8.6. Administration's right to stop or reject a publication. The Administration may reject an individual publication request or temporarily suspend the auto-publishing features for a particular User or for a particular platform where:

1. a platform has notified the Administration of a violation of its policies by the User;
2. automatic indicators of such a violation are observed (for example, systematic platform rejections citing policy violations);
3. the Administration's pre-publish automated screening flags the content as carrying a material policy risk — for example, deepfake patterns, third-party protected materials, unlabelled AI content, copyright-infringement signals or other policy red flags; in such a case the publication may be rejected or paused until the User confirms or resolves the issue;
4. the platform's API has been discontinued, suspended or materially changed, making the feature non-functional;
5. there is a reasonable suspicion that the feature is being used for spam, phishing, disinformation or any other form of abuse.

A suspension or rejection on the grounds listed in §8.6 is not a basis for refund of any subscription fee or any other compensation.

8.7. Disconnecting an integration. The User may disconnect any integration at any time, either through the «Integrations» area of the Account settings or through the relevant platform's own settings. Upon disconnection the Administration ceases all operations on the User's behalf and deletes the stored access tokens in accordance with Section 10 of the Privacy Policy.

8.8. AI-content labelling. A number of third-party platforms now require creators to explicitly label content that was created or materially altered using generative AI — for example, the «AI-generated» toggle on TikTok, the «AI info» disclosure on Instagram / Facebook, and the «altered or synthetic content» disclosure on YouTube. The User undertakes to apply such labels in accordance with each platform's current rules whenever publishing through the Service's auto-publishing features. The Service may set the corresponding flags in the API request where the platform supports them; final responsibility for correct labelling rests with the User.

8.8.1. Instagram / Facebook — hashtag fallback. All videos generated through Welder AI are marked as AI-generated content. On Instagram / Facebook, where the platform's API does not yet provide a native synthetic-media flag, the Service applies the #AIgenerated hashtag to all posts as an interim disclosure mechanism in compliance with Meta's Generative AI labeling requirements.

8.8.2. YouTube — containsSyntheticMedia flag. For YouTube uploads, the Service explicitly sets containsSyntheticMedia=true in the videos.insert request to disclose that videos are generated using artificial intelligence, in compliance with YouTube's Synthetic Media Policy.

9.1. The paid functions of the Service are paid for in credits — an internal accounting unit. A credit is not money, is not exchangeable for cash, is not transferable between Accounts and has no use outside the Service.

9.2. Credits are recorded in three buckets: subscription (bundled with a Plan, do not roll over at the end of the billing period), grant (welcome bonuses, promotional grants, refunds from failed generations — non-refundable for cash) and deposit (credits purchased with money). Buckets are spent in the order subscription → grant → deposit so that purchased credits and grants are protected before subscription credits expire.

9.3. Monetary refund. A monetary refund is available only for the unspent balance of the deposit bucket, upon a written request through the Support Chat. Subscription-bucket credits, welcome grants and any other promotional grants are non-refundable. Where the User is a consumer resident in the United Kingdom, the User's statutory cancellation rights under the Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013 apply in addition to this Section, to the extent those rights are not waived under regulation 37 (digital content) when the User expressly requests immediate provision of the Service.

10.1. The Administration uses reasonable efforts to keep the Service available, but does not guarantee 24/7 availability.

10.2. The Administration may:

1. carry out planned and unplanned maintenance;
2. temporarily restrict access to the Service or to individual features;
3. impose rate limits on usage intensity (requests per unit of time, upload size, etc.) to protect the Service from overload and abuse.

10.3. No Service-Level Agreement (SLA) is offered at this stage. Service interruptions are not a basis for refund of subscription fees or other compensation, except where expressly provided by the Offer.

11.1. The Administration may, in its sole discretion, suspend or terminate the User's access to the Service without prior notice and without compensation in the following cases:

1. breach by the User of these Terms, the Offer or the Privacy Policy;
2. reasonable suspicion of fraudulent activity, including in payments;
3. reasonable suspicion of multi-accounting or other abuse;
4. a request from a competent state authority, or a notification from a publishing platform regarding systematic violations of its rules by the User;
5. cessation of payment by the User under the chosen Plan;
6. prolonged (more than 12 months) inactivity of the Account.

11.2. Where the Account is terminated for breach by the User, the unused subscription and bonus credits are cancelled, and the unspent balance of the deposit bucket may be retained to the extent reasonably necessary to cover the documented losses and costs of the Administration arising from the breach. Any remainder is refunded in accordance with Section 9.3.

11.3. The User may delete their Account at any time via the Account settings or the Support Chat. Account deletion by the User does not trigger an automatic refund of any credits, except for the unspent deposit-bucket balance which is refunded in accordance with Section 9.3 on the User's written request.

12.1. The Service is provided «as is». The Administration makes no warranty as to its fitness for the User's particular purposes, uninterrupted operation or absence of errors and failures.

12.2. The Administration's aggregate liability to the User on any basis is capped at the amount actually paid by the User during the last 3 (three) calendar months preceding the date the claim is brought.

12.3. The Administration is not liable for:

1. any indirect, incidental, special or punitive damages, lost profits, reputational harm;
2. actions of third parties beyond the Administration's control, including the operators of publishing platforms;
3. content created by the User using the Service and the consequences of its public distribution, including via the connected integrations;
4. the User's breach of the rules, community guidelines or terms of use of third-party platforms;
5. inability to access the Service for reasons of technical restrictions imposed by ISPs, government bodies or other circumstances beyond the Administration's control;
6. discontinuation or material change to the API of a third-party publishing platform that renders related Service features inoperable.

12.4. The User shall indemnify the Administration for any losses, fines and reasonable expenses (including legal fees) arising out of third-party claims relating to the User's breach of these Terms, the rights of third parties or applicable law.

13.1. Processing of the User's personal data is governed by the Privacy Policy.

13.2. By accepting these Terms, the User confirms that they have read the Privacy Policy and consents to the processing of personal data on the terms set out therein, including the processing of data obtained through integrations with TikTok, Instagram and YouTube — to the extent and on the conditions described in the Policy.

14.1. The Administration may unilaterally amend these Terms at any time. The current version is always published at https://welderai.ru/legal/terms.

14.2. Use of the Service after publication of a new version constitutes acceptance of that version. A User who disagrees with the new version must cease using the Service.

15.1. These Terms and any non-contractual obligation arising out of or in connection with them are governed by the law of England and Wales.

15.2. The User and the Administration first attempt to resolve any dispute in good faith through the Support Chat. If the dispute cannot be resolved within 30 calendar days of the first complaint being lodged, the courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction over it, except that, where the User is a consumer resident in another country of the United Kingdom or the European Economic Area, the User may bring proceedings in the courts of their country of habitual residence to the extent required by mandatory consumer-protection rules.

16.1. Communication with the Administration on any matter related to these Terms is conducted through the built-in Support Chat on the Site or by email at hello@welderai.ru. The Administration's other personal contact details are not published.

16.2. If any provision of these Terms is held invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in force.

16.3. These Terms are issued in the English language by Vladislav Smirnov in his capacity as a sole trader registered in the United Kingdom. A Russian-language version of the Terms is maintained separately for Russian-language users under separate Russian-law arrangements; the two are independent documents and do not translate or override one another.