1. Who we are, and what these terms cover
Kiju is made by APITHINGS, a SARL (société à responsabilité limitée) with a share capital of €3,000, registered in Lyon under number 890 251 184 (RCS Lyon), EU VAT number FR87890251184, whose registered office is at 4 rue de la République, 69001 Lyon, France. Contact: contact@apithings.net.
“Kiju” in these terms means the Kiju app for Mac, its updates, and the sample channel it ships with. These terms are the agreement between you and APITHINGS for using Kiju, with a subscription or a licence APITHINGS gives you (section 4). The website kiju.app is covered by its legal notice and its privacy policy.
You accept these terms on kiju.app, on the page Kiju opens before your payment, where you also make the request that section 4 describes; the service that runs your subscription records which version you accepted, in which language, and when. You can read, save and print these terms at any time at https://kiju.app/terms.
You must be 18 or older to use Kiju. If you use Kiju for a company or another organisation, you accept these terms on its behalf, and you confirm that you may.
2. What Kiju is, and what it is not
Kiju is a tool on your Mac. It keeps your channel in a folder you choose, as readable files, and sends your requests to the AI services you connect — the providers — on your own keys and accounts, or to a model that runs on your Mac.
APITHINGS runs none of these models. There is no Kiju account, and no Kiju server for your work: the only Kiju services your Mac talks to are the update server and the one that runs your subscription (section 10). Kiju is not built to send your folders, prompts, references, takes or cuts to APITHINGS, which has no access to them and stores and hosts none of them. If you choose to send APITHINGS something yourself — a file, to get help — its privacy policy covers it.
Your providers — BytePlus, OpenRouter, ElevenLabs, Anthropic, OpenAI, Apple and the others Kiju lists in Connections — are separate companies. Your use of each is governed by the contract you have with it: its terms, its prices, its content rules, where it processes what you send (sometimes outside the European Union), and what it does with it. APITHINGS is not a party to those contracts, nor its providers’ agent or reseller. It does not answer for their services, their outputs, their availability, their decisions or their bills — but it does answer for Kiju’s own faults, including one that made Kiju send a request you did not ask for.
3. Your licence to use Kiju
APITHINGS grants you a non-exclusive and non-transferable licence to install and use Kiju on Macs you own or control, for any lawful purpose, personal or professional, for as long as these terms apply. To make things with Kiju, you need a subscription in force or a licence APITHINGS gave you (section 4); a subscription is for one person, on up to two Macs. Without either, Kiju reads: every folder opens, and every export works.
Kiju remains the property of APITHINGS and its licensors. You may not sell, rent, lend, sublicense or share a subscription or a licence; remove, disable or get around Kiju’s licence checks; or copy, modify, decompile or reverse-engineer Kiju, except as far as the law expressly allows you to (in France, Article L122-6-1 of the Intellectual Property Code).
Kiju includes open-source components. Each is under its own licence, which governs it; nothing in these terms limits the rights those licences give you.
“Kiju” and its logo are APITHINGS’s trade marks. You are welcome to say that your work was made with Kiju; do not suggest that APITHINGS endorses or made it.
The sample channel, “Every Nine Seconds”, is APITHINGS’s own work. You may open it, copy it and practise with it in Kiju; you may not publish its media, its characters or its scripts, or use them commercially, without APITHINGS’s written permission.
If you send APITHINGS ideas about Kiju, it may use them without owing you anything. That gives it no right in your channel or your work.
4. The subscription: buying, cancelling, refunds
Kiju is sold as one subscription: €29 a month, VAT included — outside the euro, its equivalent in your currency, shown at checkout. It starts with a 14-day trial, once per Mac: your card is asked at the start, nothing is charged during the trial, and the first payment is taken on the fifteenth day, unless you cancel before. A reminder is emailed to you before the trial ends. A Mac that has already had its trial pays from the first day. The subscription then renews every month.
The subscription is sold through Link, Stripe’s payment service: the seller named at checkout takes the payment, issues the invoices, runs the renewals and handles the legal right of withdrawal, under its terms of sale, which apply to the purchase; these terms apply to your use of Kiju. Your bank statement reads LINK.COM* KIJU.APP.
The trial is Kiju in full, from its first day. So before your card is asked, the page Kiju opens on kiju.app asks you to request expressly that your subscription start at once, and to acknowledge what that does to the 14-day right of withdrawal the law gives a consumer; the service that runs your subscription keeps your request, with the version of its wording, its language and its time. The seller’s terms of sale and the law say who handles that right, and from when its period runs.
You may cancel at any time, on Link (https://link.com); in Kiju, Connections › Kiju takes you there. Cancelling stops the next renewal: you keep making things with Kiju until the end of the period you paid for — or of the trial — and for seven days after your Mac learns that the subscription has ended; then Kiju reads (below).
Within 14 days after your first payment, you can have a full refund, without giving a reason and even if you have used Kiju: ask the seller, or write to contact@apithings.net. The subscription then ends at once. If you are a consumer, this promise comes on top of the right of withdrawal the law gives you (Articles L221-18 and following of the French Consumer Code), which you exercise with the seller; where the law gives you a longer period, it prevails.
A change of price is emailed to you at least 30 days before it applies, and applies from your next renewal; you may cancel before.
A subscription covers up to two Macs. For your second Mac, Connections › Kiju gives a one-time code (“Add a Mac”), and “Release” frees a Mac’s place. If you lose your only Mac, APITHINGS releases it on request, once it has checked that the subscription is yours.
APITHINGS may also give you a licence — Kiju without payment, until the date it states — or an invitation to subscribe at a reduced price. A licence APITHINGS gives you cannot be sold.
When a subscription or a licence ends — at the end of a period, after a refund, or when it is revoked —, your work stays yours and readable: Kiju reads, every folder still opens, every export still works, and nothing you made is locked or deleted. Subscribing again lets you make things again. Kiju never locks you out of your folder.
APITHINGS may revoke a subscription or a licence that was refunded, charged back or obtained by fraud, or under section 12. A revocation reaches a Mac at its next check with the licensing service (section 10).
5. Your work, and your responsibility
Your work is yours. APITHINGS claims no right in your folders, prompts, references, takes, cuts or anything else you make or bring into Kiju.
The rights in what a model makes are governed by your provider’s terms and by the law. In many countries, France included, content made by a machine without human creative choices may not be protected by copyright. APITHINGS gives no assurance about who owns an output, or whether you may use it the way you intend.
You are responsible for what you bring into Kiju, what you send to your providers, what you make, and what you publish or share. In particular, you are responsible for:
- holding the rights to the material you use — pictures, footage, voices, music, texts, characters and brands — or being covered by an exception the law provides;
- having the permission of the real people you show or whose voice you use where the law requires it, and respecting their image, their voice, their privacy and their reputation;
- following your providers’ terms and content rules;
- complying with the laws that apply to what you publish and with the rules of the platforms you publish on — including saying that content was generated or manipulated by AI when the law requires it (in the European Union, Article 50 of the AI Act asks it of whoever uses AI, other than for purely personal use, to publish a deepfake or a text informing the public on matters of public interest — in a lighter form for a work that is evidently artistic, creative, satirical or fictional); Kiju does not publish your work and does not make that disclosure for you, and a person’s consent does not replace it;
- checking what Kiju’s writing agents propose — facts, names, quotes and sources — before you use it: a language model can be wrong.
Kiju gives you tools that help: the likeness record and its question “Is this a real person?”, consent records, the price and provenance of each take, the publication package. They record what you declare; Kiju does not check faces, rights or consents, and a verified portrait at a provider does not by itself show that the person agreed to every use. These tools do not make content lawful and do not replace your own duties — and your responsibility does not limit what APITHINGS owes you under section 11 when Kiju itself fails. Nothing in Kiju is legal advice.
6. Acceptable use
Use Kiju lawfully. Fiction, parody, satire, news and documentary are welcome. You may not use Kiju to make, or to try to make:
- any content that sexualises a minor;
- sexual or intimate content of a real person without their consent;
- content that passes off a real person — their face, their body or their voice — as saying or doing something they did not, without their consent, unless it is plain, or said in the work itself, that it is not real;
- content designed to defraud, to impersonate someone in order to deceive, or to mislead people about an election;
- content that threatens or harasses someone, or incites violence, terrorism or hatred against people for who they are;
- content that infringes someone else’s rights, such as their copyright, trade marks or privacy.
Showing unlawful or hateful acts in fiction, parody, satire, news or documentary is allowed, as long as the work does not itself do what this list forbids. Nothing allows sexual content of a minor, or sexual or intimate content of a real person without their consent.
Nor may you use Kiju to get around the safety measures of your providers or of Apple, or remove the marks that show content was made by AI (a watermark, Content Credentials) where the law or your provider’s terms require them to stay.
When a request goes to Apple’s model on your Mac (Apple Intelligence), Apple’s acceptable use requirements for the Foundation Models framework apply too, and they go further. Among other things, they allow no adult or erotic content; nothing that promotes violence, the reckless use of weapons, suicide or self-harm; no hateful, defamatory or harassing content; no fraud; no classifying people by their biometric data or their behaviour; no removing a watermark or content credentials; nothing that reproduces or identifies Apple’s training data; and nothing that shows Apple or its products in a false or derogatory light. Apple lists them all: https://developer.apple.com/apple-intelligence/acceptable-use-requirements-for-the-foundation-models-framework/
APITHINGS cannot see your work and does not monitor it. If it learns of facts — from a court, an authority, or a report whose facts it has checked and put to you — showing that you use Kiju in breach of this section, it may end your subscription or your licence under section 12, and it cooperates with the authorities as the law requires. To report a misuse of Kiju, write to contact@apithings.net.
7. Your keys, your providers, your spending
You connect your own provider accounts. Kiju keeps their keys on your Mac, encrypted with your Mac’s keychain, and sends each key only to its own provider. You are responsible for those accounts and for what you, or anyone holding your keys, have them charged. Keep your keys safe, replace a key you think has been exposed, and set spending limits with your providers.
The price Kiju shows before a take, a budget, the “up to” of an agent run and the bill of an episode are estimates, worked out from the prices your providers publish and from what they report. What you owe is what your provider bills: it can differ, when a provider changes its price, rounds in its own way, charges for a request whose answer was lost, or bills by a measure Kiju cannot see in advance. Kiju’s budgets help you stop; they do not prevent a provider from charging more.
Kiju does not send a paid request again by itself when its answer was lost: that take is marked “uncertain”, and your provider may have billed it.
APITHINGS does not pay, refund or dispute your providers’ charges, and your subscription to Kiju pays for none of them. It answers for faults of Kiju itself as section 11 says.
8. Your folders and backups
Kiju works in the folders you open, and writes readable files there. Keep backups of them — Time Machine or another copy — as you would of any work that matters: Kiju is new software, and like any software it can have faults. This advice takes nothing away from your rights if Kiju damages a file. A file you edit outside Kiju may become unreadable to it; Kiju then says so and does not take the file for empty.
9. Updates and changes to Kiju
Kiju updates itself by default: it checks for a new version, downloads it in the background and installs it when you quit, never while a take or an agent run is going. You can turn automatic checks off in Connections › Updates and stay on the version you have. Keep them on: updates carry security fixes. APITHINGS supplies the updates, security updates included, that the law requires to keep Kiju as described, for as long as the law requires; the end of a subscription never shortens them. If you choose not to install an update that APITHINGS told you about, and told you what not installing it would mean, APITHINGS does not answer for a fault that comes only from that choice.
Kiju is in beta until its version 1.0. APITHINGS may change Kiju — for security, to keep it working with macOS and with the providers, to comply with the law, or to improve it — at no extra cost to you. If a change reduces what your subscription gives you, or its use, more than slightly, APITHINGS tells you by email at least 30 days before; you may then end the subscription within 30 days of the notice or of the change, whichever comes later, and be refunded for the unused part.
Providers add, change and withdraw their models and their prices. Kiju cannot promise that a model or a provider stays available, or at a price.
APITHINGS may stop Kiju with at least 60 days’ notice, given on kiju.app, by email to subscribers and, where it can, in Kiju; a subscription it stops before the end of a paid period is refunded for the unused part. A copy of Kiju you already have keeps opening your folders.
10. What leaves your Mac
Your work leaves your Mac only when you send it, and only to the provider you send it to: Kiju says what goes, and to whom, before you send. Besides that, Kiju sends:
- to APITHINGS’s update server, when it checks for a version: what any download sends — your IP address, and technical details such as Kiju’s version and your Mac’s type of chip — and an identifier that is the same for every Mac;
- to Kiju’s licensing service (api.kiju.app, in France), which runs your subscription: an identifier of your Mac that Kiju derives from it under its own key — never its serial or hardware number itself —, a fingerprint of a secret Kiju keeps in your Mac’s keychain, a label made of your Mac’s model and a date (never your computer’s name), the language, a code you type, Kiju’s version and your IP address. These go when you start a trial, activate a code, check your subscription, add or release a Mac, and about once a day while Kiju runs; never a folder, a take, a prompt, a key, a figure of spending, a name or an email. Your card and your contact details go to Link, at checkout, not through Kiju;
- monthly usage counts, only if you turn them on: you see each send’s exact content, and you can turn them off at any time.
Kiju also asks your providers for their models, their prices and your balance, with your key where they need it. A licence file is checked on your Mac: nothing is sent. Kiju sets no tracker and shows no advertising. Where APITHINGS processes personal data, it does so as its privacy policy says: https://kiju.app/privacy-policy
The personal data in your folders — the pictures of the people you film, their consents — is yours to look after: you decide what you collect and why, and APITHINGS has no access to it.
11. Guarantees and liability
If you are a consumer, you keep every right the law gives you, including the legal guarantee of conformity for digital content and services wherever it applies (Articles L224-25-12 and following of the French Consumer Code). Nothing in these terms limits them.
Beyond what the law requires, Kiju is provided as it is and as these terms and Kiju describe it. APITHINGS does not promise that Kiju will run without interruption or error, that it suits a particular purpose of yours, or that a provider will accept, process or bill a request in a given way.
APITHINGS answers for its own breaches and for Kiju’s faults as the law provides. You answer for what you make, send and publish, and for your provider accounts. What your providers do — their services, outputs, prices, charges, availability and decisions — is theirs to answer for, unless a fault of Kiju caused it. Neither APITHINGS nor you answers for force majeure, as Article 1218 of the French Civil Code defines it.
If you use Kiju in your trade or profession, then, as far as the law allows: APITHINGS is not liable for lost profit, revenue, business, opportunity or reputation, or for the loss of data you did not back up; and its total liability under these terms is limited to the greater of €100 and what you paid for Kiju — to APITHINGS or to the seller acting for it — in the 12 months before the event. These limits do not apply to fraud or gross negligence, to death or personal injury, or to any liability the law does not allow to be limited, such as liability for defective products.
If you use Kiju in your trade or profession and someone makes a claim against APITHINGS because of what you made, sent or published with Kiju, or because of your breach of section 5 or 6, you will compensate APITHINGS for the resulting losses and reasonable legal costs. You do not owe this for APITHINGS’s own fraud or gross negligence, for a defective product, or for a fault of Kiju — such as Kiju not behaving as sections 2, 7 and 10 describe. APITHINGS tells you of the claim promptly and lets you take part in the defence.
12. Ending these terms
You can stop using Kiju at any time: cancel your subscription on Link, and delete the app. Your folders stay where they are.
APITHINGS may end your subscription or your licence for a breach of these terms. For a serious breach — a breach of section 6, selling or sharing a subscription or a licence, getting around the licence check, or fraud — or when the law or an authority requires it, it may end it at once, once it can state the facts it relies on: a court’s decision, an authority’s notice, or a report whose facts it has put to you. For any other breach, it tells you what the breach is and leaves you 15 days to remedy it. It tells you why by email if it has your address, and ends the subscription or the licence by revoking it. The unused part of a paid period is refunded, except in a case of fraud, and without prejudice to the compensation the law allows APITHINGS for a loss it proves. Otherwise, APITHINGS ends a subscription or a licence only as sections 4 and 9 say.
Sections 5, 7, 11 and 14 still apply after these terms end.
13. Changes to these terms
APITHINGS may update these terms, for example when Kiju, its subscription or the law change. Each version is dated and published at https://kiju.app/terms, and the earlier ones stay published. A change that matters to you is emailed to you at least 30 days before it applies; if you do not accept it, you may cancel before it applies, and if you cancel because of it, you are refunded for the unused part of the period you paid for.
14. Applicable law and disputes
These terms are governed by French law. If you are a consumer, you also keep the protection of the mandatory rules of the country where you usually live.
If you have a complaint, write to contact@apithings.net first: APITHINGS answers within one month.
If you and APITHINGS both contract as traders, the courts of Lyon have exclusive jurisdiction, where the law allows such a clause. Otherwise, the courts the law designates have jurisdiction; a consumer may always bring proceedings before those of the place where they live.
APITHINGS may transfer these terms to whoever takes over Kiju, and you agree to it now (Article 1216 of the French Civil Code). APITHINGS tells you who takes over, and from when, before the transfer takes effect. Your rights under these terms stay the same, and you agree that from then on the one who took over answers for them in APITHINGS’s place.
These terms are written in English and in French, and both are valid. The version in the language you accepted is your contract; if you are a consumer and the other version is more favourable to you, you may rely on it.
If a clause of these terms is held invalid, the others still apply. Not exercising a right is not giving it up.
15. Contact
For any question about these terms, a refund, or to report a misuse of Kiju: contact@apithings.net, or APITHINGS, 4 rue de la République, 69001 Lyon, France.
These terms are published at https://kiju.app/terms, with their earlier versions.