Terms of Service

1.1 Minimum Age

You must be at least 18 years old to create an individual account. We do not knowingly allow accounts for people under 18. By signing up, you confirm you are at least 18 and that the information you provide is accurate.

1.2 Age Verification

Certain features — including sound uploads, monetization, explicit content, payouts, and some ad tools — require age-verified identity. We may request a government-issued ID and liveness check. If you cannot or will not verify, those features remain locked.

1.3 Parental Notice

OraKila is not directed to children under 18. If you believe a minor has created an account, contact support@orakila.com and we will act promptly.

1.4 Business Accounts

Organizations, companies, publishers, NGOs, governments, schools, and media entities may create entity accounts. Entity accounts require a valid work email, business registration details, and may require admin review. Representatives must be at least 18 years old.

2.1 Account Types

2.2 Your Responsibilities

You are solely responsible for keeping your password secure, keeping your recovery email or phone current, protecting your 2FA codes, signing out of devices you no longer control, and — for anonymous accounts — storing your one-time recovery kit safely offline. OraKila staff will never ask for your password or your recovery kit contents.

2.3 One Person, One Account

You may not operate multiple accounts to evade bans, circumvent limits, manipulate rankings, or abuse the platform. Duplicate accounts created after a suspension will be removed.

2.4 Account Recovery

Standard accounts recover via verified email or phone. Anonymous accounts recover exclusively through the 10-question hardened recovery kit created at signup. The kit is downloaded once at creation — OraKila never stores the plaintext answers and cannot assist in recovery if the kit is lost. Recovery sessions enforce mandatory time delays (including a 30-minute hold after question 5) and lock the account for 24 hours after 3 failed attempts. These limits exist to protect your account and cannot be waived.

3.1 You Own Your Content

You retain ownership of content you create and post on OraKila. By posting, you grant OraKila a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to store, display, distribute, and process your content as needed to operate the service.

3.2 Your Responsibility

You are responsible for all content you create, upload, send, stream, record, or share through OraKila — including posts, comments, DMs, group messages, paid messages, audio, video, calls, livestreams, and Ask the Entity interactions. You must have all rights, permissions, and consents needed for anything you share.

3.3 What You Must Not Post

3.4 Content Moderation

OraKila uses automated systems and human review to identify policy violations. You may appeal certain content removal decisions through the in-app appeal flow.

3.5 Reporting Content

You can report content or accounts that violate these Terms. Reports are reviewed by our moderation team. We may not respond individually to every report but all reports are reviewed.

3.6 Transparency

OraKila may label, reduce reach of, age-gate, hide, or remove content depending on severity and applicable law. Where feasible, we provide a reason and an appeal path. We may publish transparency reports with sensitive details redacted.

3.7 Offline Posting — Text-First, Media Later

OraKila works under any connectivity condition, including no internet. When you are offline or have insufficient bandwidth to upload a large file, posting splits into two phases:

Phase 1 — Text goes live immediately. Your headline and written content are submitted through any available path (direct connection, mesh relay, or queued outbox) and appear in feeds right away with a media placeholder.

Phase 2 — Media uploads when a path becomes available. Your device continuously attempts the upload in the background — directly when connectivity returns, or through a nearby peer on the mesh network (§3.8). You receive a notification the moment your media goes live.

During Phase 1 your post is visible with a "Media pending" indicator. Readers can join a media waitlist to receive a push notification when the media becomes available. Joining is voluntary, free, and you may leave at any time.

3.8 Mesh Network Relay

OraKila uses Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and Wi-Fi Direct to form a local mesh network among nearby devices. When your device cannot reach the internet directly, it may route your media upload through a nearby peer who does have internet access.

By using OraKila, you agree your device may act as a relay peer for other users' uploads when you have an active internet connection and the app is running. You may opt out in Settings → Connectivity → Mesh relay.

4.1 Uploading a Sound

To upload a sound, your account must have completed full identity verification (government ID, liveness check, and KYC approval). When you upload, you confirm you created the sound or hold all rights to share it, it contains no unlicensed copyrighted material, and the metadata you provide is accurate. Uploads enter admin review before appearing in the library.

4.2 Required Metadata

4.3 Acoustic Fingerprinting

We generate a Chromaprint acoustic fingerprint for every approved sound, stored permanently as the sound's Content ID seal, used to identify when your sound appears in posts. We also submit uploads to ACRCloud to check for commercial copyright matches.

4.4 You Keep Your Rights

Uploading to OraKila does not restrict your rights. The license you give us is non-exclusive — you can still release your music on Spotify, Apple Music, TikTok, Instagram, or any other platform independently.

4.5 Other Creators' Sounds

Sounds by other creators are available for use inside OraKila only. You may not download them for external platforms, re-upload them elsewhere, or extract audio from OraKila streams. Audio is served through time-limited authenticated URLs (maximum 2-hour validity).

4.6 AI-Generated Sounds

If your sound was created primarily by an AI tool (Suno, Udio, ElevenLabs, Stable Audio, or similar), you must declare it at upload. AI-generated sounds are not eligible for commercial royalties, cannot be used in ads without explicit platform approval, and must not imitate a specific real artist's voice.

4.7 Sound Creator Royalties

6.1 Live Features

OraKila may offer live streaming, audio rooms, video rooms, calls, and Ask the Entity spaces for eligible accounts. During a live stream you may receive gifts from viewers in real time.

6.2 Live Content Rules

Live streams are subject to the same content rules as all posts (§3.3). You may not display nudity or sexually explicit content, broadcast illegal activities, or engage in coordinated harassment. Streams may be automatically monitored and terminated if violations are detected.

6.3 Live Earnings

Coins gifted during a live stream are credited to your earnings subject to the escrow hold periods and payout rules in §8.

6.4 Ask the Entity

Participants are responsible for what they ask, say, show, submit, record, or invite others to discuss. OraKila may remove sessions, questions, invitations, or recordings that violate these Terms, safety rules, intellectual property rights, privacy rights, or applicable law.

7.1 Direct Messages

OraKila may offer DMs, group messaging, private groups, media messages, paid messages, calls, and related communication tools. All messaging is subject to the same content rules as other content.

7.2 End-to-End Encrypted Messages

When a message or private group chat is end-to-end encrypted, OraKila cannot read, inspect, recover, edit, or decrypt the message body or media. We may still process limited metadata (sender/recipient identifiers, timestamps, delivery state, fraud signals). You remain responsible for what you send, receive, forward, or save — encryption is not permission to violate these Terms or the law.

7.3 Message Retention

OraKila does not promise to keep message contents forever. Messages may expire or become inaccessible due to user deletion, disappearing-message settings, encryption, account loss, or technical failure. Encrypted message content cannot be restored if the required device keys are lost.

7.4 Paid Messages

Where available, creators may receive paid messages — viewers pay Coins to send a prioritized message. Coin amounts are subject to platform fees and escrow hold rules.

8.1 What Coins Are

Coins are OraKila's in-app currency. They are not legal tender, not a cryptocurrency, not a financial instrument, and are non-refundable once purchased (except where consumer law requires otherwise). They are subject to AML purchase limits.

8.2 Purchase Limits

8.3 Earning and Escrow

Creator earnings are held in escrow before withdrawal. Hold periods depend on your account trust level (typically 3–30 days).

8.4 Withdrawals

To withdraw, you need completed identity verification, a connected payout account (Stripe Connect or other supported rail), available earnings above the minimum threshold, and no active compliance, AML, or fraud hold.

8.5 AML Monitoring

We monitor for suspicious financial patterns. Accounts that trigger AML alerts may have withdrawals paused during review. We may report suspicious activity to regulators as required by law.

8.6 Paid Tiers, Trials, and Subscriptions

Before you subscribe, OraKila shows the price, billing period, benefits, trial period, when billing begins, and available cancellation method. Unless stated otherwise at checkout, subscriptions renew automatically until canceled. Cancel before a trial ends to avoid the first charge and before a renewal date to avoid the next charge. Purchases are also subject to the applicable provider's billing, cancellation, and refund rules. Removing the app does not automatically cancel a subscription.

8.7 Individual and Entity Plan Pricing

OraKila offers separate plan tiers for individual users and entity accounts (companies, NGOs, media organisations, and government bodies). Prices reflect your account type.

Individual plans

Entity plans

Entity accounts selecting a paid plan confirm that the representative has authority to bind their organisation to these Terms. Paid entity plans (except Enterprise) include a 7-day free trial. Enterprise pricing is agreed separately; contact enterprise@orakila.com.

8.8 Live Streaming Fair Use

Paid individual and entity plans include live streaming up to the session limits stated in the plan. To protect service quality for all users, the following fair-use limits apply: Premium individual accounts support continuous 24-hour sessions with up to 500 concurrent viewers before bandwidth throttling may apply. Entity Pro accounts support continuous 24-hour sessions with up to 2,000 concurrent viewers. Accounts that consistently exceed these thresholds may be contacted about upgrading to a higher tier. OraKila will always notify you before applying any throttle, and we will never throttle without prior notice.

8.9 What Is Always Free

The following features are included at no charge on every plan — Free, Starter, Premium, and all Entity tiers — and will never be moved to a paid tier:

OraKila's core privacy and safety features are not a product — they are a commitment to every user regardless of plan.

9.1 Ad Products

OraKila offers Sovereign Ads (community-powered, purchased with Coins, subject to admin review) and Campaign Ads (self-serve impression-budget campaigns with demographic and geographic targeting). OraKila does not share individual user contact information with advertisers.

9.2 Prohibited Ad Content

Ads may not contain false claims, promote illegal goods, target minors, contain hate speech or incitement, impersonate persons or brands, include malware or phishing, or violate third-party intellectual property. Violating ads are removed without refund.

11.1 Copyright Policy

OraKila respects intellectual property rights and responds to valid DMCA takedown notices submitted through our DMCA endpoint.

11.2 Copyright Strikes and Repeat Infringers

Accounts with multiple valid copyright strikes may have content removed, monetization restricted, or accounts suspended. We terminate accounts that repeatedly infringe copyright, in line with DMCA safe harbor requirements.

11.3 Counter-Notice

If you believe content was removed in error, you may submit a counter-notice. OraKila will restore content if the claimant does not file a court action within the required period.

12.1 What We Collect

We collect account information (email, phone, username), content you post, payment information via our processors, device and usage signals, and verification documents where required. We use GeoIP for country determination — not GPS tracking.

12.2 How We Use It

We use your data to operate the platform, enforce these Terms, process payments, detect fraud, run moderation and safety systems, improve the service, and comply with legal obligations. We do not sell individual user data.

12.3 Your Rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, or port your personal data. Contact privacy@orakila.com to exercise these rights.

12.4 Device Capabilities and Permissions

Some OraKila features use capabilities available on your device. Depending on the feature you choose and your settings, OraKila may request access to:

OraKila requests operating-system permissions where required. You may deny or later revoke permissions in your device settings, but dependent features may not work. Permission access does not give OraKila ownership of your device content. See our Privacy Policy for additional detail.

12.5 Recommendations, Ranking, AI, and Automated Systems

OraKila uses recommendation, ranking, personalization, integrity, safety, and fraud-prevention systems. These systems may use interactions, follows, selected preferences, reports, content metadata, device and usage signals, connection quality, and contextual information such as country or language.

Automated systems may make mistakes. Where available, you may appeal eligible moderation or account actions. We may use human review for escalated cases, appeals, safety matters, and other situations requiring additional assessment.

You can influence recommendations through follows, selected interests, feed modes, available feedback controls such as "not interested," and settings.

13.1 Community Safety

We operate automated safety systems and human review to detect and respond to CSAM (reported immediately to NCMEC with zero tolerance), credible threats of violence, non-consensual intimate images, human trafficking content, and content that facilitates self-harm.

13.2 Law Enforcement Requests

OraKila responds to valid legal process from law enforcement. We disclose data only to the extent required by applicable law. Emergency disclosures may occur without prior notice when there is a credible risk to life.

13.3 Enforcement and Account Standing

When content or behavior violates these Terms, OraKila may take action based on severity, confidence, context, prior violations, and applicable law. Actions may include:

OraKila may use an internal account-standing or risk system to identify repeated or serious violations. Eligible violations may have less effect after a successful appeal or the passage of time. We do not promise a fixed enforcement sequence or a warning before every action.

Severe violations may result in immediate action without prior warning. Where available, users may appeal eligible decisions. Attempts to evade enforcement, including creating replacement accounts, may result in additional restrictions.

19.1 By You

You may close your account at any time through settings or by contacting support@orakila.com. Deletion may take up to 30 days to complete. Some records may be retained as required by law.

19.2 By OraKila

We may suspend or terminate your account for violations of these Terms, fraud, abuse, illegal activity, security risks, or failure to complete required verification. We will try to give notice before termination unless immediate action is required.

19.3 Effect of Termination

Upon termination, your license to use OraKila ends. Earned coins or pending payouts may be held during any ongoing review and released or forfeited according to these Terms and applicable law.

20.1 Informal Resolution First

Before filing any legal claim, contact us at support@orakila.com. We'll try to resolve it informally within 30 days.

20.2 Arbitration

If informal resolution fails, disputes (other than those involving intellectual property or injunctive relief) will be resolved by binding individual arbitration. You waive the right to participate in class actions. This clause may not apply in jurisdictions where it is not enforceable under local law.

Ad Standards

All ads on OraKila must comply with applicable law and our community guidelines. Ads may not be misleading, deceptive, discriminatory, or promote illegal goods, services, or activity. OraKila reserves the right to reject or remove any ad at any time.

Sovereign Ads

Sovereign Ads are HMAC-signed, cryptographically verified placements. Every ad impression is logged with a delivery token to prevent fraud. Advertiser budgets are deducted in Coins per verified impression or click. Disputes are reviewed within 5 business days.

Prohibited Ad Categories

Ad Personalization

You can disable ad personalization in Settings → Privacy & Data. Ads will still appear but will not be tailored to your activity. OraKila does not sell your personal data to third-party advertisers.