1. General Provisions

This service is operated by Ilia Grezin, IČO: 54382394, Obchodná 559/37, 811 06 Bratislava-Staré Mesto, Slovak Republic.

By using kotia.app, you agree to these terms. The service is provided "as is" for legitimate use in creating quality content.

2. Registration and Account

  • Google OAuth or email/password authentication is required to use the service
  • You are responsible for your account security
  • Creating multiple accounts to bypass limits is prohibited
  • We reserve the right to block accounts for rule violations
  • You must be at least 18 years old to use this service. By registering, you confirm that you meet this age requirement

3. Token System and Limits

Free plan:

  • welcome tokens on registration (100) — granted once, with no expiry date
  • Generation history is kept for 30 days

Paid token packages:

  • Mini: 1,000 tokens ($10.00)
  • Standard: 4,400 tokens ($40.00)
  • Optimal: 11,500 tokens ($100.00)
  • Maximum: 25,000 tokens ($200.00)

Important: Paid tokens have no expiration date and do not expire.

Nature of a token: A token is an internal accounting unit of the Service reflecting the amount of computation performed. A token is not money, an electronic means of payment or a prepaid card, cannot be exchanged for money and has no value outside the Service. Validity: free tokens — until the end of the day, subscription plan tokens — until the end of the paid period, tokens from paid packages — unlimited.

4. Service Usage

Allowed:

  • Generating articles for personal and commercial projects
  • Editing and adapting generated content
  • Using API (if access is available)
  • Publishing content with or without attribution

Prohibited:

  • Generating content for spam or manipulation
  • Creating malicious, illegal, or offensive content
  • Automated generation to bypass limits
  • Reselling or distributing the service without permission
  • Reverse engineering or hacking attempts
  • Creating deepfakes, synthetic media impersonating real people, or content designed to spread disinformation
  • Generating content that infringes third-party copyrights or intellectual property rights
  • Violate the Terms of Use of third-party AI providers accessible through the Service
  • Publishing through the Service or its public links any material that impersonates another person or organisation, as well as pages and forms that collect other people’s credentials, payment details or other personal data

5. Intellectual Property

  • You own all content generated using our service. We do not claim any intellectual property rights over content you create
  • We do not train AI models on your data and do not pass it to anyone for training. We use third-party AI services (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, DeepSeek) to produce the answer to your request. DeepSeek is the exception: what is sent stays with the provider and may be used by them to train their models, and this cannot be switched off; DeepSeek models are chosen by you manually
  • Generated content may contain quotes from open sources with proper attribution where possible
  • Copyright protection for AI-generated content is uncertain under current law. You are responsible for determining the legal status of content you publish

6. AI Content and Disclaimers

  • Our service uses artificial intelligence (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, DeepSeek) to generate content
  • AI-generated content may contain inaccuracies, outdated information, or errors. We do not guarantee factual accuracy
  • You are responsible for reviewing and fact-checking all generated content before publication
  • Generated content does not constitute professional advice (legal, medical, financial, or otherwise)
  • Generation time: approximately 30 minutes depending on topic complexity
  • AI may generate completely fabricated information (hallucinations), including fictitious sources, quotes, dates, and statistics that appear convincing but are entirely false. Always verify critical facts through independent sources
  • The Service is provided "as is". The Operator does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, reliability, or timeliness of results generated by artificial intelligence
  • The Operator is not the rights holder of AI models and provides access to them, not exclusive rights to their use
  • The Operator is not liable for AI generation results, including lack of response, inaccuracy, incompleteness, or inapplicability of the result
  • The User is solely responsible for verifying, using, and distributing content created with AI, including compliance with third-party rights

7. Payments and Refunds

  • Payment is accepted in USDT cryptocurrency (TRC-20 network)
  • Refunds are possible within 14 days for technical issues
  • Used tokens are non-refundable
  • No refunds for accounts blocked due to violations

8. Limitation of Liability

kotia.app is not liable for:

  • Direct or indirect damages from service usage
  • Inaccuracies or errors in generated content
  • Temporary service unavailability due to maintenance
  • Actions of third parties (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google Gemini API, DeepSeek API, Google OAuth, Stripe)
  • Our total liability is limited to the amount you have paid for the service in the 12 months preceding the claim

9. Governing Law

These terms are governed by the laws of the Slovak Republic. For consumers in the European Union, mandatory consumer protection provisions of your country of residence apply. For users in the United States, applicable state consumer protection laws may apply. Any disputes shall be resolved by the competent courts of the Slovak Republic, without prejudice to your right to bring proceedings in your country of residence.

10. Rule Changes

We reserve the right to change these rules. We will notify users of significant changes via email. Continued use of the service means acceptance of the new rules.

11. Termination of Use

  • You can delete your account at any time through profile settings
  • We may block accounts for rule violations
  • Unused paid tokens expire when account is deleted
  • Generated articles are deleted 30 days after deactivation

12. Contact

For questions about rules and their application:

If you believe that materials posted through our service or available via its public links infringe your copyright or other rights, contact us at hello@kotia.app with the subject «Content complaint». Provide your contact information, a description of the protected work, the specific materials and a good-faith statement. We will respond within 10 business days and may remove such materials. Requests from competent authorities are handled in the same manner.

13. Content Usage

By using the Service, the User agrees to the following terms regarding content:

  • By submitting a query through the Service, the User grants the Operator a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use the query text for providing services and improving the Service
  • User queries and generation results may be used by the Operator to improve algorithms and Service quality
  • The User may use AI generation results for personal and commercial purposes in compliance with this Agreement and applicable law
  • The User confirms they hold the necessary rights to content submitted through the Service and that such content does not infringe on third-party rights
  • A public link to a material is created by the User — in the Service interface or automatically, if the User has enabled auto-publishing — and distributed by the User. The Operator may revoke such a link without prior notice if the material violates these Terms
  • The volume of files stored in the User's account (chat attachments, AI-generated images and images uploaded by the User) is limited to 50 MB without an active subscription and 1 GB with an active subscription. Once the limit is reached, uploading new files and storing generated images stops; previously uploaded files are not deleted automatically — the User frees up space themselves. The Operator reserves the right to delete files stored in excess of the limit, having given the User prior notice at the email address provided.
  • After a subscription ends, files are kept in full for at least one month, while new files can be uploaded only within the volume available without a subscription.
  • Responsibility for materials the User posts through the Service and its public links — texts, images and files — rests with the User who posted them. The Operator is not the author of such materials and is not liable for their content, including materials prohibited from distribution and infringement of exclusive or other rights of third parties
  • The Operator may delete posted materials and revoke the public link to them without prior notice if the materials violate these Terms or applicable law. The Operator undertakes to promptly review requests from rightsholders and competent authorities and to remove materials pursuant to them

14. Force Majeure

The parties are released from liability for non-performance or improper performance of obligations in the event of force majeure, including: natural disasters, military actions, government actions, communication and power network failures, DDoS attacks and other cyberattacks, and other circumstances beyond the parties' control.

The party affected by force majeure must notify the other party within 5 (five) calendar days of such circumstances arising.

If force majeure circumstances persist for more than 2 (two) months, either party may terminate the Agreement.

15. Dispute Resolution

All disputes between the Operator and the User shall be resolved through a pre-trial claims procedure.

Claims shall be submitted in writing to hello@kotia.app. The Operator reviews the claim and responds within 10 (ten) business days of receipt.

If the dispute cannot be resolved pre-trial, it shall be referred to the competent court in accordance with applicable law.