not.bot

Terms of Service

Effective Date: June 12, 2026 Last Updated: June 19, 2026

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are a contract between you and Julia Social, Inc. ("Julia Social," "we," "us," or "our") governing your use of the not.bot mobile application ("App"). not.bot is available to anyone who can download it from the US App Store or Google Play. By tapping to accept these Terms, or by using the App, you agree to them. If you do not agree, do not use the App.

1. Acceptance and Eligibility

You accept these Terms when you indicate agreement in the App or use the App. We may update these Terms; we will post the updated version with a new date, and your continued use after an update means you accept it.

not.bot is for users of all ages, because passports are issued to people of all ages. If you are a minor in your state (in most states, under 18), a parent or guardian must review and agree to these Terms for you. not.bot is a general-audience product and is not directed to children, and we do not ask for or hold your age.

2. The Service

not.bot lets you prove you are a real, passport-verified human and create cryptographic signatures on content. It creates blockchain-based decentralized identifiers (DIDs) for you, and it lets you sign content with QR codes and JAB codes. The App is available for iPhone and Android.

Records that not.bot writes to a public blockchain are permanent. They cannot be reversed, changed, or deleted. This includes your root identity and every alias you create. Account recovery (Section 5) restores your control of your identities; it does not, and cannot, delete or alter the permanent on-chain records.

3. Enrollment and Identity Verification

You enroll by scanning the NFC chip in your government passport. The signed passport data is checked by our identity-verification partner, Signicat, which confirms the government's digital signatures and deletes the data within minutes. We do not read the facial image on the chip, we take no selfie, we run no facial comparison, and we receive no biometric data.

Julia Social receives no personal information about you from enrollment and cannot access it. We do not verify, and do not guarantee, that the data your government placed on your passport is accurate or current, and we are not responsible for the verification partner's determinations, including any failure to enroll. Because we hold no personal information about you, we cannot independently re-check or correct your verification. To change the demographic data in your credentials, re-enroll with a corrected passport.

4. Your Identities, Aliases, and Signatures

You have one root identity and as many per-site aliases as you want. Aliases are unlinkable: two services cannot determine that they interacted with the same person. The cryptographic keys that control your identities are held on your device, not by us.

When you sign content, the signature is an image (a QR code or JAB code) that anyone can copy, screenshot, or forward. Once you share a signature, you cannot control where it goes. You are responsible for what you choose to sign and share.

5. Account Recovery

not.bot offers account recovery so that you can regain control of your identities if you lose your device. Recovery restores your control of the on-chain identities you already have; it does not create new ones and does not change the permanent on-chain records.

Recovery depends on the recovery factors you set up and keep. If you lose access to all of your devices and also lose all of your recovery factors, no one, including Julia Social, can regenerate your keys, and the loss of access may be permanent. We are not responsible for any loss that results from your failure to set up or maintain your recovery factors.

6. Subscriptions and Billing

not.bot offers Free, Pro, and Verified Signer tiers. Paid subscriptions are sold and billed through the Apple App Store and Google Play using their in-app purchase systems. We never receive your payment information. Subscription fees are non-refundable. If you downgrade or cancel a paid tier, you keep your aliases and reserved names; only Verified Signer badges are removed. If you hold more aliases than your new tier allows, you keep them but cannot create new aliases until your count is back within the limit.

Before you subscribe, the App shows the price, what the tier includes, and that the subscription renews automatically until you cancel. Subscriptions renew at the then-current price for the same period unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the period ends. You manage and cancel subscriptions in your Apple or Google account settings; Apple and Google handle billing and cancellation. If the price increases, Apple or Google will notify you in advance and, where required, ask you to agree before the higher price takes effect; otherwise the subscription will not renew.

7. Reserved Names

Reserved Names are vanity identifiers only. They do not verify your real identity and grant no legal claim to a name.

  • We do not review Reserved Names for trademark or other rights. You are responsible for your choice, and you acknowledge it grants you no intellectual-property rights.
  • We do not resolve disputes over Reserved Names and will not voluntarily revoke, transfer, or change a Reserved Name based on a third party's claim. We comply only with orders from a court of competent jurisdiction.
  • Once assigned, a Reserved Name stays with your alias and cannot be transferred or sold.

8. Acceptable Use

You may not:

  • reverse engineer, decompile, or tamper with the App or our systems, except to the extent the law permits;
  • circumvent subscription limits or any access or metering controls;
  • use automated tools or scripts to interact with the service, or attempt to overwhelm our systems;
  • use the App to break the law or to infringe anyone's rights.

9. User Content and Intellectual Property

You own the content you sign. We do not access, store rights to, or control your message content. The App, and the technology behind it, are owned by Julia Social and its licensors; we grant you a limited, personal, non-transferable license to use the App under these Terms. Open-source components included in the App are licensed under their own licenses. A list of those components and their licenses is available in our documentation.

If you believe content hosted by us infringes your copyright, send a notice to our designated agent at [email protected] with the information the Digital Millennium Copyright Act requires. We will respond to valid notices, provide for counter-notices, and terminate repeat infringers where appropriate.

The data we hold for QR code signatures is encrypted and unreadable by us, and on-chain records are permanent and cannot be deleted, so a takedown can reach only what we are technically able to act on.

11. Privacy

Our Privacy Policy explains how the App handles data. In short, we receive no personal information about you and have no technical means to access your identity data or keys. This is enforced by the architecture of the product, not by a promise.

12. Disclaimers

THE APP IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE APP WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE.

We are not responsible for: the accuracy of government-issued passport data or the verification partner's determinations; how anyone copies, forwards, relies on, or misuses a signature you have shared; or any loss of access resulting from lost devices and lost recovery factors.

13. Limitation of Liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, JULIA SOCIAL WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS OR DATA. OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE APP OR THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100) OR THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US, IF ANY, IN THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE LIABILITY.

14. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold Julia Social harmless from third-party claims arising out of your use of the App, your violation of these Terms, your Reserved Name choices, the content you sign, or your violation of anyone's rights.

15. App Store and Google Play Terms

Apple App Store. These Terms apply to your use of the App obtained through the Apple App Store, with the following additions, which you and we acknowledge:

  • These Terms are between you and Julia Social only, not with Apple. Julia Social, not Apple, is solely responsible for the App and its content.
  • Your license to use the App is a non-transferable license to use it on any Apple-branded products you own or control, as permitted by the Usage Rules in Apple's terms.
  • Julia Social, not Apple, is solely responsible for providing maintenance and support for the App. Apple has no obligation to furnish any maintenance or support.
  • In the event the App fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price, if any. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation for the App, and any other claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs, or expenses attributable to a warranty failure are Julia Social's responsibility.
  • Julia Social, not Apple, is responsible for addressing any claims relating to the App, including product-liability, legal-or-regulatory-compliance, and consumer-protection claims, and any third-party claim that the App infringes intellectual-property rights.
  • You represent that you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. Government embargo or designated as "terrorist supporting," and that you are not on any U.S. Government prohibited or restricted-parties list.
  • When you use the App, you must comply with any applicable third-party terms of agreement.
  • Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and, upon your acceptance, have the right to enforce them against you.

Google Play. These Terms apply to your use of the App obtained through Google Play, with the following additions, which you and we acknowledge:

  • These Terms are between you and Julia Social only. Google is not a party to these Terms and is not responsible for the App or its content.
  • You obtained the App through Google Play, and your use is also subject to the Google Play Terms of Service. Where these Terms conflict with the Google Play Terms of Service, the Google Play Terms of Service govern your use of Google Play itself.
  • Julia Social, not Google, is solely responsible for providing maintenance and support for the App. Google has no obligation to furnish any maintenance or support.
  • Julia Social, not Google, is responsible for addressing any claims relating to the App, including product-liability, legal-or-regulatory-compliance, and consumer-protection claims, and any third-party claim that the App infringes intellectual-property rights.
  • You represent that you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. Government embargo or designated as "terrorist supporting," and that you are not on any U.S. Government prohibited or restricted-parties list.

16. Term and Termination

These Terms apply while you use the App. You may stop at any time by deleting the App; your on-chain records remain permanent. We may suspend access to features for a violation of these Terms. Because on-chain records are permanent, we cannot delete your identities.

17. Dispute Resolution and Arbitration

PLEASE READ THIS SECTION CAREFULLY. IT AFFECTS YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS.

Arbitration. You and Julia Social agree to resolve any dispute relating to these Terms or the App by binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, seated in Atlanta, Georgia. The Federal Arbitration Act governs this section.

Class-action waiver. YOU AND JULIA SOCIAL AGREE TO BRING CLAIMS ONLY ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS, AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY CLASS, CONSOLIDATED, OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. The arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person's claims.

Mass arbitration. If 25 or more similar arbitration demands are submitted by or with the help of the same or coordinated counsel, the demands will be administered in batches under the AAA's Mass Arbitration Supplementary Rules, with a single arbitrator and filing fees applied per batch.

Opt-out. You may opt out of this arbitration agreement by emailing [email protected] with your request within 30 days of first accepting these Terms. If you opt out, disputes go to the courts described in Section 19.

Small claims. Either party may bring an individual claim in small-claims court instead of arbitration.

Severability. If the class-action waiver or any part of this section is found unenforceable, that part is severed and the dispute proceeds in the courts described in Section 19; the rest of this section remains in effect.

18. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms. We will post the updated version with a new effective date and announce significant changes in the App or on our website. Your continued use after an update means you accept the updated Terms.

19. General

Governing law and venue. These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Georgia, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles. Any dispute not subject to arbitration will be brought in the state or federal courts located in Atlanta, Georgia.

Entire agreement. These Terms, with the Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between you and Julia Social about the App and supersede prior discussions. If any provision is unenforceable, the rest stays in effect, and our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver.

Assignment. You may not assign these Terms. We may assign them to a successor in a merger or sale of assets.

Contact

Julia Social, Inc. 300 Peachtree St NE, Ste CS2-3299 Atlanta, Georgia 30308

Email: [email protected] Website: https://julia.social