Last updated: May 25, 2026 · Effective immediately · Version 1.0
Plain-language summary. By creating an account or using Picsaris you agree to these terms. In short: be at least 13 years old, only upload photos you have the right to share, don't try to break the app or harass other users, in-app purchases are non-refundable except where Apple's standard refund policy applies, and either side can end the agreement at any time. See also our Privacy Policy.
These Terms of Service ("Terms") form a binding agreement between ThinkAway Studio, an individual sole-proprietor developer based in Türkiye ("Picsaris", "we", "us"), and you ("you", "User"). They govern your access to and use of the Picsaris mobile application, the websites at picsaris.app and api.picsaris.app, and all related services (together, the "Service").
You accept these Terms when you create an account, when you tap "Accept" on the in-app consent screen, or when you continue to use the Service after a material update to these Terms is announced. If you do not accept the Terms, do not use the Service.
2. Definitions
Account — your individual user record with Picsaris.
Event — a digital container (wedding, graduation, party, conference, etc.) created by an Organizer where photos are uploaded and shared.
Organizer — the user who creates an Event and is responsible for its content, settings, and participant list.
Photographer — a user invited by the Organizer to upload event photos with elevated permissions.
Guest — a user who joins an Event via QR code or join code to view photos and (optionally) upload their own.
Content — anything you upload: photos, event details, cover images, selfies, names, and descriptions.
IAP — In-App Purchase processed by Apple's App Store.
Plan — a paid package (Mini, Standard, Premium) that grants quotas for a specific Event.
3. Eligibility and account
You must be at least 13 years old (16 in the EEA, 14 in Türkiye) to create an account. Picsaris is rated 12+ in the App Store; the minimum-age requirement applies regardless of App Store rating.
You must provide accurate information when you sign up. If you sign in with Apple or Google, you authorize us to receive the name and email those services share with us (including private-relay aliases).
You are responsible for keeping your account credentials confidential and for everything that happens under your account. If you suspect unauthorized access, change your password or contact us immediately.
One account per person. We may suspend or remove duplicate or shared accounts.
You may delete your account at any time from Profile → Delete account. Deletion is immediate and irreversible.
4. The service and event roles
Picsaris lets you create or join Events, upload photos, and use optional face matching to find photos that contain you. The same person can be an Organizer for one Event, a Photographer for another, and a Guest for a third.
Organizer responsibilities. If you create an Event, you are the data controller for the photos uploaded to that Event under GDPR / KVKK. You agree to: (a) only invite people who have consented to participate; (b) tell guests how their photos will be used; (c) remove any photo on legitimate request; and (d) delete the Event when it is no longer needed.
Photographer responsibilities. Photographers may only upload photos taken at the Event with the consent of the subjects shown.
Guest responsibilities. Guests may upload only their own photos or photos they have permission to share. By joining an Event, you accept that your face may appear in photos uploaded by other attendees and that those photos may be shown to other guests in their personal feeds.
5. Your content and licence to us
You retain ownership of every photo and other Content you upload. By uploading you grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, time-limited licence to host, store, copy, resize, encode, transmit, and display your Content solely for the purpose of operating the Service (e.g. delivering it via CDN, generating thumbnails and previews, running face matching, displaying it to other Event members).
This licence ends when you delete the Content, when you leave the Event (for your selfie and your matches), or when you delete your account. We do not use your Content for training AI models, for advertising, for marketing materials, or for any purpose unrelated to running the Service.
You represent and warrant that you have all rights necessary to grant this licence and that your Content does not violate any law or third-party rights (copyright, privacy, publicity, etc.).
6. Acceptable use
You must not, and must not allow any third party to:
Upload Content that is illegal, defamatory, harassing, hateful, sexually explicit involving minors, violent, or that infringes anyone's intellectual-property or privacy rights;
Upload photos of people without their reasonable consent (in particular at events that aren't open to the public);
Use the Service to impersonate any person or to misrepresent your relationship with any person or entity;
Probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the Service except for good-faith security research disclosed via security@picsaris.app;
Reverse-engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract source code from the Service, except to the extent applicable law allows;
Build, train, fine-tune or evaluate any machine-learning model using Content obtained from the Service;
Use the Service to send unsolicited communications, distribute malware, scrape user data, or build a competing facial-recognition database;
Interfere with or disrupt the integrity or performance of the Service or its underlying infrastructure;
Use the Service in violation of any applicable export, sanctions, or local law.
We may remove Content, suspend access, or terminate accounts that violate these rules, at our reasonable discretion and without prior notice in serious cases.
7. Face matching and biometrics
Face matching is optional. You enable it by taking or uploading a selfie inside the app. By doing so you give us your explicit consent (GDPR Art. 9(2)(a) / KVKK Art. 6) to process your face as special-category personal data solely for the purpose of matching you against photos uploaded to the Events you join. The full technical flow is described in our Privacy Policy.
You can withdraw consent at any time by deleting your selfie or your account; withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of processing performed before the withdrawal.
8. In-app purchases, plans and refunds
All paid Plans are purchased as consumable In-App Purchases through the Apple App Store. Apple processes the payment; we receive a receipt only.
Current Plans (subject to change): Mini, Standard, Premium. Each Plan grants a one-time quota (photo limit and participant limit) for a single Event, valid for one year from purchase. The free trial Plan grants a 14-day Event.
Prices are displayed in your local currency by Apple's StoreKit at the moment of purchase. The price you see at confirmation is the price you pay.
Refunds. We do not directly issue refunds. To request a refund, use Apple's Report a Problem page within the timeframes Apple allows. EU residents have additional rights under the Consumer Rights Directive; those rights remain in force regardless of these Terms.
Restore Purchases. Use Profile → Restore purchases to re-credit any IAP that was lost due to a re-install or a new device on the same Apple ID.
If a purchase succeeds at the App Store but our backend does not credit the package within a reasonable time, contact hello@picsaris.app with the transaction ID and we will reconcile manually.
Unused quotas expire at the end of the Plan's validity period and are not transferable.
9. Intellectual property
Picsaris, the Picsaris name, the wordmark, the logo, the app icon, and the look and feel of the Service are owned by ThinkAway Studio and are protected by copyright, trademark, and other intellectual-property laws. Nothing in these Terms transfers any of these rights to you.
Open-source components used by Picsaris remain governed by their respective licences; a list is available on request.
10. Termination and suspension
By you. You may stop using the Service at any time and delete your account from Profile → Delete account.
By us. We may suspend or terminate your access to the Service, with or without notice, if you breach these Terms, if continued provision would expose us to legal risk, or if we discontinue the Service entirely.
Sections that by their nature should survive termination (e.g. Content licence for already-delivered copies, intellectual property, disclaimers, liability limits, governing law) survive any termination of these Terms.
11. Disclaimers
THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE", WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, OR COURSE OF PERFORMANCE. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, OR FREE OF HARMFUL COMPONENTS, OR THAT FACE-MATCHING RESULTS WILL BE 100% ACCURATE.
To the extent any warranty cannot be disclaimed under applicable law (for example, certain consumer warranties in the EU or Türkiye), the disclaimer applies only to the extent permitted.
12. Limitation of liability
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL THINKAWAY STUDIO, ITS AFFILIATES, OR ITS LICENSORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS OR REVENUE, WHETHER INCURRED DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, OR ANY LOSS OF DATA, USE, GOODWILL, OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES, RESULTING FROM (A) YOUR ACCESS TO OR USE OF OR INABILITY TO ACCESS OR USE THE SERVICE; (B) ANY CONDUCT OR CONTENT OF ANY THIRD PARTY ON THE SERVICE; OR (C) UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS, USE, OR ALTERATION OF YOUR TRANSMISSIONS OR CONTENT.
OUR TOTAL CUMULATIVE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICE WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNTS YOU PAID US IN THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE LIABILITY, OR (B) USD 50.
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law (for example, liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud, or for any consumer right that cannot be waived).
13. Indemnity
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Picsaris and its operator from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses, including reasonable legal fees, arising out of or in any way connected with your access to or use of the Service or your breach of these Terms, including without limitation your Content or your violation of any law or third-party rights.
14. Force majeure
We are not liable for any failure or delay in performance to the extent caused by circumstances beyond our reasonable control, including but not limited to acts of God, war, terrorism, civil unrest, pandemics, government action, cyber-attacks, internet outages, sub-processor outages (Apple, AWS, Cloudflare, DigitalOcean, etc.), power failures, and similar events.
15. Changes to these terms
We may update these Terms from time to time. If a change materially affects your rights or obligations, we will notify you in-app and require you to re-accept before continuing to use the Service. The current version is identified in the header. By continuing to use the Service after the change becomes effective, you accept the updated Terms.
16. Governing law and jurisdiction
These Terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of Türkiye, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Subject to your mandatory consumer rights in your country of residence:
If you are a consumer resident in Türkiye, any dispute will be submitted to the consumer arbitration boards (Tüketici Hakem Heyetleri) and consumer courts (Tüketici Mahkemeleri) of your place of residence or the place where the contract was concluded, as required by Law No. 6502.
If you are a consumer resident in the EEA, UK, or another jurisdiction whose mandatory consumer law applies, you may also bring proceedings in the courts of that jurisdiction.
For all other matters, the courts and enforcement offices of İstanbul (Çağlayan) have exclusive jurisdiction.
The following terms apply when you use the Picsaris iOS application obtained from the Apple App Store. They are required by Apple's App Store guidelines:
These Terms are between you and ThinkAway Studio only, and not with Apple. Apple is not responsible for the iOS application or its content.
Your licence to use the iOS application is limited to a non-transferable licence to use it on any Apple-branded products that you own or control as permitted by the Apple Media Services Terms.
Apple has no obligation to provide any maintenance or support services for the iOS application.
In the event of any failure of the iOS application to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price for the iOS application (if any). To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Apple has no other warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to the iOS application.
We, not Apple, are responsible for addressing any claims you or any third party may have relating to the iOS application or your possession and/or use of it, including but not limited to: (a) product liability claims; (b) any claim that the iOS application fails to conform to any applicable legal or regulatory requirement; and (c) claims arising under consumer protection, privacy, or similar legislation.
In the event of any third-party claim that the iOS application or your possession and use of it infringes that third party's intellectual property rights, we, not Apple, will be solely responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement, and discharge of any such claim.
You represent and warrant that you are not located in a country subject to a US Government embargo, or designated by the US Government as a "terrorist supporting" country, and that you are not listed on any US Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
Apple and Apple's subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms, and upon your acceptance, Apple will have the right (and will be deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce these Terms against you as a third-party beneficiary.
18. Miscellaneous
Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Service and supersede any prior agreements.
Severability. If any provision is held to be unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in full force and effect.
No waiver. Our failure to enforce a right is not a waiver of that right.
Assignment. You may not assign or transfer these Terms. We may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of substantially all of our assets, with notice to you.
Notices. We send notices to the email on your account; you send notices to hello@picsaris.app.
No agency. No agency, partnership, joint-venture, or employment relationship is created by these Terms.
Electronic acceptance. You agree that electronic acceptance of these Terms has the same legal effect as a handwritten signature, in accordance with Türkiye's Law No. 5070 on Electronic Signatures and equivalent laws elsewhere.