Terms of Service

By creating an account, accessing the Service, scanning your face, submitting to the leaderboard, joining a Mog Battle, or otherwise using any portion of the Service, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms and our Privacy Policy. If you are using the Service on behalf of an organization, you represent that you are authorized to bind that organization to these Terms.

The Service is intended for users who are at least 13 years old (or the minimum legal age in your jurisdiction, whichever is higher). If you are under 18, you represent that you have your parent or legal guardian’s permission to use the Service. By using the Service you represent and warrant that you meet these eligibility requirements and that all registration information you submit is truthful and accurate.

The Service is not directed at, and we do not knowingly collect information from, children under 13. If we learn we have collected personal information from a child under 13, we will delete it.

The Service captures images of your face and submits them to third-party machine-learning models for the purpose of generating an aesthetic score. To the extent the resulting data constitutes “biometric identifiers” or “biometric information” under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (740 ILCS 14, “BIPA”), the Texas Capture or Use of Biometric Identifier Act, the Washington biometric privacy law (RCW 19.375), or “sensitive personal information” under the California Consumer Privacy Act / California Privacy Rights Act (“CCPA/CPRA”), or “special category data” under the EU/UK General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR” Art. 9):

• Express consent. By initiating a face scan, joining a Mog Battle, or submitting a photo to the leaderboard, you provide your informed, written, and revocable consent to our collection and processing of biometric data for the limited purpose described below.
• Limited purpose. Biometric data is collected solely to generate, display, and persist your aesthetic scores within the Service. We do not sell, lease, trade, or otherwise profit from biometric data, and we do not use it for marketing, advertising, or identification.
• Retention & destruction schedule. If you are signed in, each face-scan image is archived to a private storage bucket (holymog-scans) and retained until: (a) you delete your account, (b) you request individual deletion, or (c) three (3) years after your last interaction with the Service — whichever comes first. The bucket is never publicly readable; images are served only via short-lived authenticated URLs after we verify ownership. The archive serves three purposes: (i) so you can review your record- scoring photo from your account; (ii) integrity review of high-score submissions (see below); (iii) source-of- truth if you later choose to publish a scan to the public leaderboard. Public leaderboard photos (opt-in, optional at every tier) are stored in a separate public bucket and deleted within thirty (30) days of removal, account deletion, or deletion request. Battle-frame images are forwarded to the AI model, scored, and discarded immediately; we do not persist them. Anonymous (non-signed-in) scan images are not retained at all. All biometric identifiers will be permanently destroyed when the initial purpose for collection has been satisfied, or per the retention schedule above.
• Top-score (≥ S-tier) review. Scans whose overall score reaches 87 or above (S-tier and above) are flagged for human review. A holymog operator inspects the saved image to verify it plausibly belongs to the submitting account-holder rather than being a celebrity photo, AI composite, or other ineligible submission. Review is verification only — it neither approves nor denies leaderboard placement. Reviewers are bound by the same confidentiality and use-limitation rules as the rest of the Service and are forbidden from sharing or redistributing reviewed images. By submitting a scan that scores ≥ 87, you consent to this human review.
• Disclosure to processors. We disclose biometric data only to the third-party AI-processing provider (currently Google, via the Gemini API) and to our hosting / storage providers (Vercel, Supabase, LiveKit) as strictly necessary to operate the Service. These providers are contractually required to handle the data only for that purpose.
• Withdrawal of consent. You may withdraw your biometric consent at any time by emailing hello@holymog.com from the address linked to your account. Withdrawal will result in deletion of stored biometric data and termination of features that depend on it.

Our written biometric data retention and destruction policy is incorporated into these Terms by reference and is published in our Privacy Policy.

To access certain features (Mog Battles, the leaderboard, account stats, history) you must create an account using Google OAuth or email magic-link authentication. You are responsible for: (a) maintaining the confidentiality of your sign-in credentials, (b) all activity that occurs under your account, and (c) immediately notifying us of any unauthorized access at hello@holymog.com.

You may not share your account, sell or transfer it, create an account using false information, or impersonate any person or entity. We reserve the right to suspend or terminate accounts that violate these Terms.

Subject to your compliance with these Terms, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to access and use the Service for your personal, non-commercial use. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.

You may not: (a) reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble any part of the Service; (b) scrape, crawl, or use automated means to access the Service; (c) use the Service to develop a competing product; (d) remove any proprietary notices; or (e) circumvent any technical protection measures.

The Service allows you to submit content including, without limitation, face scans, photographs, display names, leaderboard entries, battle gameplay video, and other materials (collectively, “User Content”). You retain all ownership rights in your User Content.

By submitting User Content to the Service, you grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sublicensable, transferable license to host, store, reproduce, modify (e.g., resize, compress, crop), create derivative works of (e.g., composite share images, leaderboard thumbnails), publicly display, publicly perform, and distribute your User Content solely for the purpose of operating, providing, and improving the Service. For leaderboard submissions specifically, this license includes the right to display your photo and display name to all users of the Service indefinitely while your entry is active.

You represent and warrant that: (a) you own or have all necessary rights to your User Content; (b) your User Content does not violate any third-party rights or applicable law; and (c) for any image submitted to the leaderboard or used in Mog Battles, you are the person depicted, or you have the express written consent of every depicted person to upload and publicly display the image.

You may delete your leaderboard entry, account, and stored data at any time by emailing hello@holymog.com or via the in-app account controls when available. Deletion is processed within 30 days, subject to legal retention obligations.

You agree not to use the Service to:

• Upload or display the face, likeness, or personal information of any other person without their explicit consent.
• Upload images depicting minors (anyone under 18), nudity, sexually explicit content, violence, or hate symbols.
• Harass, threaten, defame, dox, or stalk any other user, in Mog Battles or otherwise.
• Use AI-generated, deepfake, or otherwise non-authentic faces to manipulate the leaderboard or battle outcomes.
• Attempt to influence the AI scoring model through adversarial input, prompt injection, or other manipulation.
• Spam, post junk submissions, or attempt to artificially inflate ratings.
• Record, screenshot, screen-capture, or otherwise capture any portion of another participant’s live audio or video during Mog Battles without that participant’s affirmative consent. Many U.S. jurisdictions, including California (Cal. Penal Code § 632), require all-party consent to record private communications. Violations are a criminal offense in those jurisdictions and grounds for immediate, permanent termination of your account.
• Introduce malware, viruses, or any code intended to damage the Service or other users’ devices.
• Violate any applicable law, regulation, or third-party right.
• Use the Service for any commercial purpose without our prior written permission.

We may, in our sole discretion and without prior notice, remove User Content, suspend or terminate accounts, and refer matters to law enforcement for any violation of this section. To report a violation, email safety@holymog.com.

The Service uses third-party artificial intelligence (currently Google Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite) to generate aesthetic scores from submitted face images. These scores are provided for entertainment purposes only and:

• Are subjective opinions generated by a machine-learning model, not statements of fact.
• Are not medical, psychological, or professional advice of any kind.
• May reflect biases inherent in the underlying model’s training data.
• May vary between scans of the same person due to lighting, pose, and the probabilistic nature of the model.
• Should not be relied upon for self-image, dating, hiring, or any consequential decisions.

We make no representations about the accuracy, fairness, or consistency of the scores. By using the Service you acknowledge and accept these limitations.

The Mog Battles feature enables real-time peer video sessions between two or more authenticated users via the LiveKit Cloud platform. By participating you agree:

• That other participants will see and hear your live video feed for the duration of the session.
• Not to expose minors, third parties without consent, nudity, or any unlawful content on camera.
• Not to record, screenshot, screen-capture, broadcast, or republish another participant’s live audio or video feed without their affirmative consent. Violations are grounds for permanent account termination and may additionally violate state two-party-consent laws (see Section 7).
• That we do not record battle video on our servers, but other participants may capture content via their own devices and we cannot control that.
• That for every battle (public and private), we save one image per participant per battle— the highest-scoring frame our scorer pulled during the match — to a private storage bucket. This image is never publicly readable and is used only for moderation review (e.g. when an opponent reports you, or when we’re investigating abuse).
• That public 1v1 opponents can file a report against you after the match for cheating (deepfake, AI face, celebrity), minors on camera, nudity / sexual content, harassment, spam / impersonation, or other policy violations. The reporting flow does not apply to private parties; concerns about private-party participants must be emailed to hello@holymog.com.
• That ELO and rating changes from public 1v1 battles are final and non-reversible.

Bans. We review every report and may permanently ban accounts that violate these Terms. Banning is at our sole discretion. When we ban you:

• Sign-in is disabled and every active session is purged immediately.
• You receive a notice email at the address on file explaining the action.
• Your leaderboard entry, scans, and battle history remain on file in case the decision is reversed. You may still request data export or deletion via hello@holymog.com.
• If you believe the ban was a mistake, you may appeal by emailing safety@holymog.com with the date of the battle and the basis for your appeal. We read every appeal and respond, but approval is at our sole discretion.

Filing a report. Report submissions are made in good faith. Filing a false report intended to harass or retaliate is itself a violation of these Terms and may result in a ban of the filing account. The user being reported is not notified that a report was filed, only if and when the report results in a ban.

For abuse outside the in-app report flow (between battles, on profiles, in leaderboard submissions, etc), email safety@holymog.com with the relevant IDs (visible in the result screen or on the public profile) and a brief description.

When you submit a scan to the public leaderboard, your display name, score, sub-scores, and (only if you opt in) your scan photo become publicly visible to all users of the Service. Whether to publish your face on the public leaderboard is always optional, at every tier; the toggle lives in your account settings under privacy and you can flip it off at any time, after which the public copy is deleted within minutes.

Separately, and at every tier, every authenticated scan is archived to a private storage bucket as described in Section 3 and in our Privacy Policy. For scans whose overall score reaches the S-tier threshold (≥ 87), a holymog operator may inspect that archived image to verify the scan plausibly belongs to the account-holder — purely for integrity review of top-of-board entries. This review uses the private archive, not your public leaderboard photo, which remains your independent opt-in choice.

We reserve the right to remove leaderboard entries that we reasonably believe violate these Terms, are submitted in bad faith, or were obtained by manipulating the scoring system.

The Service, including all software, designs, text, graphics, logos, the holymog name and mark, and all other content (excluding User Content) is owned by or licensed to us and protected by copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property laws. Nothing in these Terms transfers any ownership of that intellectual property to you.

You may not use our name, logo, or branding without our prior written consent.

We respect the intellectual property rights of others and expect users of the Service to do the same. If you believe that User Content infringes your copyright, please send a written notice (a “DMCA Notice”) to our designated agent at dmca@holymog.com that includes:

• A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or person authorized to act on their behalf;
• Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed;
• Identification of the allegedly infringing material with enough detail (e.g., leaderboard entry ID, URL, screenshot) for us to locate it;
• Your contact information (address, phone number, email);
• A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
• A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the owner’s behalf.

Upon receipt of a valid DMCA Notice, we will remove or disable access to the allegedly infringing material and may, in appropriate circumstances, terminate accounts of repeat infringers. If you believe content was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification, you may submit a counter-notice to the same address.

The Service relies on third-party providers including, without limitation: Google (OAuth and Vertex AI), Supabase (database and storage), LiveKit (real-time video), Vercel (hosting), Google Workspace (transactional email), and Upstash (rate limiting). Your use of those providers’ functionality may be subject to their own terms and privacy policies, and we are not responsible for their acts or omissions. We may add, remove, or replace third-party providers at any time.

We may suspend or terminate your access to the Service, with or without notice, at our sole discretion, including if we believe you have violated these Terms. You may stop using the Service and delete your account at any time. Upon termination: (a) your right to use the Service ends immediately; (b) we will, on request, delete your personal data subject to our legal retention obligations; and (c) Sections 3 (Biometric Information, to the extent of ongoing destruction obligations), 6 (User Content license, to the extent of content already publicly distributed), 11 (Intellectual Property), 15–20 (Disclaimers, Liability, Indemnification, Governing Law, Dispute Resolution), and 21 (Severability) survive termination.

The Service is provided “as is” and “as available” without warranty of any kind, whether express, implied, statutory, or otherwise. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we disclaim all warranties, including without limitation warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy, reliability, and uninterrupted operation.

We do not warrant that the Service will meet your requirements, that the operation of the Service will be uninterrupted or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or that the Service or the servers that make it available are free of viruses or other harmful components. You use the Service at your own risk.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, in no event shall we, our affiliates, officers, directors, employees, or agents be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, including without limitation damages for loss of profits, goodwill, use, data, or other intangible losses, arising out of or in connection with your use of, or inability to use, the Service, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.

Our total cumulative liability to you for any and all claims arising out of or relating to the Service or these Terms shall not exceed the greater of (a) one hundred US dollars ($100), or (b) the total amount you have paid us, if any, in the twelve (12) months preceding the event giving rise to the liability.

Carve-out. Nothing in this Section limits or excludes liability that cannot be limited or excluded under applicable law, including (where applicable) liability for: (i) gross negligence or willful misconduct; (ii) fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; (iii) death or personal injury caused by negligence; or (iv) any other liability that cannot be waived under consumer-protection statutes in your jurisdiction. To that extent, the foregoing limitations do not apply.

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless holymog, its affiliates, and their respective officers, directors, employees, and agents from and against any and all claims, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs, debt, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising from: (a) your use of and access to the Service; (b) your violation of any term of these Terms; (c) your violation of any third-party right, including any intellectual property or privacy right; (d) any User Content you submit; or (e) any other party’s access and use of the Service with your account.

We may revise these Terms at any time at our sole discretion. The most current version will always be posted at this URL with a “Last updated” date. Material changes will be communicated via the Service or by email to your account address at least seven (7) days before they take effect. Your continued use of the Service after changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms. If you do not agree to the revised Terms, you must stop using the Service.

These Terms and any dispute arising out of or in connection with them are governed by the laws of the State of California, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-law principles. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.

(a) Informal resolution. Before initiating arbitration, you and we agree to attempt in good faith to resolve any dispute informally for at least sixty (60) days, beginning when one party sends the other a written notice of dispute (for us, to hello@holymog.com).

(b) Binding individual arbitration. If informal resolution fails, any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service shall be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association (“AAA”) under its Consumer Arbitration Rules. Arbitration will take place in San Francisco, California, unless we agree to a different location; alternatively, you may elect to participate via telephone or video. Judgment on the award rendered by the arbitrator may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction.

(c) Class-action waiver. You and we agree that each party may bring claims against the other only in your or our individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class or representative proceeding. The arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person’s claims and may not preside over any form of representative or class proceeding.

(d) 30-day right to opt out. You may opt out of this arbitration provision by sending a written notice to hello@holymog.com within thirty (30) days of the date you first accept these Terms (or, for existing users, within thirty (30) days of the “Last updated” date above), stating your full name, the email address linked to your account, and a clear statement that you decline arbitration. If you opt out, the remaining sections of this Section 20, including the class-action waiver, will not apply to you.

(e) Mass-arbitration protocol. If twenty-five (25) or more demands for arbitration of substantively similar disputes are filed against us by or with the assistance of the same law firm or coordinated counsel within a thirty (30) day period, the AAA Mass Arbitration Supplementary Rules (or any successor rules) shall apply. The parties shall select ten (10) bellwether cases for initial arbitration; the remaining cases shall be stayed. After bellwether outcomes, the parties shall attempt resolution of remaining cases in good faith using the bellwether results as guidance, and may seek a court-supervised mediation before further arbitration is initiated. This provision is intended to streamline resolution while preserving the substantive rights of all claimants.

(f) Exceptions. Notwithstanding the foregoing, you may bring an individual action in small-claims court, and either party may seek injunctive or other equitable relief in any court of competent jurisdiction to protect its intellectual property rights.

If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable, that provision will be limited or eliminated to the minimum extent necessary, and the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Service and supersede all prior or contemporaneous communications and proposals.

Our failure to enforce any right or provision will not be considered a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without our prior written consent. We may freely assign these Terms.

The Service includes an in-app system of decorative cosmetic items that change how your display name and avatar appear to other users on profile pages, leaderboards, battle tiles, and follower lists. The system is permission-gated by gameplay: cosmetic items unlock by hitting specific milestones (for example, completing your first scan, scanning at a given tier, winning a number of battles, or reaching an ELO threshold).

At the current release of the Service (“Launch 1”), the cosmetic catalog is limited to name effects (subtle text-decoration treatments applied to your display name) and is entirely free: every cosmetic is earned through gameplay, none can be purchased, and no payments are processed through the Service. Cosmetics are purely decorative — equipping or unequipping a cosmetic does not affect your scores, your matchmaking, your ELO, or any other functional aspect of the Service.

We may, in our sole discretion, add, modify, retire, replace, rebalance, or remove cosmetic items, achievement thresholds, or the slots in which cosmetics render, with or without notice. Retiring or renaming a specific cosmetic does not entitle you to any refund (no payments are involved at Launch 1) or to an equivalent replacement item.

A future update may add a paid layer to this system, including one-time cosmetic purchases, a subscription tier (“holymog+”), or both. If and when that layer ships, additional terms governing purchases, subscriptions, refunds, taxes, and the legal relationship of paid items to your account will be added to these Terms and prominently disclosed before any payment is collected through the Service. Until that update ships, no payment-related terms in these Terms apply to you because no payments are being processed.

For questions about these Terms, email hello@holymog.com. To report abuse or violations, email safety@holymog.com. For DMCA copyright notices, email dmca@holymog.com.