Terms of Service

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of booth ("the App"), operated by Hsien-Yin Wang ("I", "me", or "my"), an individual developer based in Taiwan, publishing under the name Project AfterHours.

booth is an iOS app for keeping a personal daily record: each day gives you four slots, and the clips you put in them become a log and a photostrip you can keep privately or share with a small number of friends.

booth is a personal project, not a company, so there is no support organization behind it. Anyone in the world who meets the requirements below is welcome to use it. You can reach me at afterhours.prj@gmail.com, which is the only support channel.

By using booth you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the app.

You must be 16 or older to use booth. If you are under 16, you may not create an account, and you may not use someone else's.

You also confirm that you are not barred from using the app under the laws that apply to you.

You sign in with Apple. booth receives an identifier so it can recognize you on return, and the email address Apple chooses to share — your own or a Hide My Email relay address. It never receives your Apple ID password. The Privacy Policy explains what is stored.

When you set up, you choose a Name and a unique @username (4–10 characters, letters, numbers, or underscore). booth also keeps a To Friends name — what friends see on posts, lists, and notifications. It starts the same as your Name; you can change either in Settings → Profile. Usernames are first come, first served. You may change yours up to twice in any 30-day period. If you release a username, it stays reserved for 30 days before anyone else can claim it. Your @username is also what appears on your add link (see §7).

You are responsible for the security of the Apple ID you sign in with, and for activity that happens through your account.

Some usernames are unavailable — names that impersonate booth, well-known brands, or public figures, or that are otherwise misleading. I may reclaim or reset a username that breaks this rule.

Everything you capture and write in booth is yours. Signing in does not transfer ownership of it.

Your daily captures and your Me posts stay on your device. They are not uploaded to booth's servers, and I cannot see them.

Publishing to Friends is the exception. When you publish a post to Friends, the clips are uploaded so your friends can watch them. Captions and city labels go up only if those overlays are on; capture times are always uploaded so the post plays in order. You grant me permission to store, transmit, and display that post to the friends you shared it with, for as long as the post is live. That permission exists only to run the feature. Your content is not used for advertising and is not sold.

Friends posts last 24 hours. After that they leave your friends' feeds and are deleted from storage. You can also delete a Friends post yourself at any time before then.

One limit worth knowing: once a friend's phone has played your post, a copy may sit in that phone's app cache, and any viewer can record their own screen. booth cannot prevent either. Treat publishing to Friends as showing something to those people, not as something you can fully recall.

booth's servers are not a backup of your record. Your captures and Me posts live on your device only. If you delete the app, reset your device, or lose it, that material is gone and cannot be restored — not by you and not by me.

If something matters to you, save or export it yourself.

There is no tolerance for objectionable content or abusive behaviour on booth.

Do not use booth to publish, send, or store content that:

• is unlawful, or promotes or facilitates unlawful activity;
• sexually exploits or endangers anyone, especially minors;
• harasses, threatens, bullies, or targets a person or group with hate;
• is violent, graphic, or intended to shock or disgust;
• impersonates another person, or misrepresents who you are;
• infringes someone else's copyright, trademark, privacy, or other rights;
• shows an identifiable person who has not agreed to be recorded, where they would reasonably expect not to be.

Do not:

• attempt to access another person's account, posts, or data;
• probe, overload, scrape, or interfere with booth's servers or security controls;
• automate account creation, invites, or friend requests;
• resell or redistribute access to booth, or reverse engineer the app except where the law says you may.

Friends on booth is invite-only and mutual. You add someone by scanning their QR code in person or by sharing your add link. Either side can remove the other at any time without notifying them. Removing, muting, or blocking stays available to you.

Limits today: 15 friends, QR codes for 10 minutes, add links for 24 hours. These may change.

Your add link is a URL on welcometobooth.com. Treat it as public — it can be forwarded, and anyone holding it can see your @username (and your To Friends name if they open it in booth). A link only raises a request; nobody joins your friends list without your accept or decline.

What you see in a friend's feed is for you to watch. Do not record, re-share, or republish another person's post outside booth without their permission.

You can report or block any Friends post, any friend, and any incoming add request from inside the app.

For you, it takes effect straight away — and the other person is not notified:

• Report a post → it leaves your feed
• Report a friend → that friendship ends
• Report an add request → it is declined
• Block → the connection ends and they cannot add you again

What I do next: reports come to me. I aim to act within 24 hours. That can include removing content, canceling invites, restricting features, or suspending or deleting an account when someone breaks these Terms or puts people at risk. Where it is practical, I may tell the person concerned what action was taken. Serious cases — especially anything involving the safety of a minor — may be handled immediately and reported to the authorities.

If you believe content infringes your rights, write to afterhours.prj@gmail.com with enough detail to identify it.

You can sign out at any time; your local record stays on your device and you can sign back in with the same Apple ID.

You can delete your account from Settings. That removes your booth account, your profile and username, and your friend connections. Any Friends posts you still had live stop being visible immediately, and the copies on booth's servers (including your profile photo) are erased shortly after. Your username stays reserved for 30 days afterwards. Deleting your account does not delete the record kept on your device — remove the app for that.

I may stop offering the service, or close an account that has been inactive for a long period, with reasonable notice where practical.

booth is offered as is, without warranties of any kind. It is a personal project maintained by one person: features may change, break, or be withdrawn, and there is no guaranteed uptime, response time, or data recovery.

booth does not promise that captures will export perfectly, that posts will always reach every friend, or that the service will be uninterrupted or error-free.

To the fullest extent the law allows, I am not liable for indirect, incidental, or consequential damages, or for lost content, lost records, or lost opportunities arising from your use of booth.

Where liability cannot be excluded, it is limited to the amount you paid to use booth — which, for this version, is nothing.

Nothing here removes rights you have under consumer law where you live that cannot be waived by agreement.

These Terms are between you and me, not Apple. Apple has no responsibility for booth or its content, and no obligation to provide support or maintenance for it. Your use of booth must also comply with the Apple Media Services Terms and the usage rules that apply to App Store apps. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce them against you.

If booth fails to conform to any warranty that cannot be disclaimed, you may notify Apple, and Apple may refund the purchase price. booth is free, so that amount is zero.

This version of booth is free. There are no purchases, subscriptions, or advertising inside the app. If that ever changes, the terms and pricing will be presented to you before you are charged.

These Terms are governed by the laws of Taiwan, without regard to conflict of law rules. If a dispute cannot be resolved by writing to afterhours.prj@gmail.com first, it may be brought before the courts of Taiwan. This does not remove your right to bring a claim where your local consumer law requires it.

These Terms may be updated — for example when a feature changes what leaves your device. The version published at https://welcometobooth.com/terms with its Last updated date is the one in force. Material changes will be signaled in the app or on the site. Continuing to use booth after a change means you accept it.

Questions about these Terms, or anything else about booth — email afterhours.prj@gmail.com.