Terms of Service

Kalaung is a platform for readers and writers to discover, create, and share stories. By using our app, you agree to these terms.

1. Age Requirements

By downloading and using the app, you confirm that you meet this minimum age requirement. Kalaung is rated Teen (13+) on app stores.

Adult Content (18+): Kalaung contains stories with a range of content ratings:

• Everyone: Suitable for all ages
• Teen (13+): May contain mild themes
• Mature (17+): May contain strong language, violence, or suggestive themes
• Adult (18+): May contain explicit sexual content, graphic violence, or other mature themes

By default, adult content (18+) is hidden for all users. To access adult content, you must:

• Explicitly enable "Show Adult Content" in Settings
• Confirm that you are 18 years of age or older
• Understand that such content may contain explicit material

You are responsible for choosing age-appropriate content and following your local laws regarding access to mature material.

2. Your Account

• Provide accurate information when signing up
• Keep your sign-in email account and sign-in providers secure, and do not share sign-in links
• You're responsible for all activity on your account
• One account per person
• Notify us immediately if your account is compromised

3. Your Content and Rights

License you give us: By submitting, posting, or displaying content on Kalaung, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, display, and perform your content in connection with operating, promoting, and improving the Service. This license includes the right to:

• Host, store, cache, and display your content to other users
• Create thumbnails, previews, and excerpts for promotional purposes
• Reformat or modify your content for technical purposes (e.g., resizing images, adjusting formatting for different devices)
• Use your content in marketing materials to promote the platform
• Sublicense your content to third-party services we use to operate the platform (e.g., hosting providers, CDNs)

License duration: This license continues for as long as your content remains on the platform. If you delete your content or account, we will cease displaying it within a commercially reasonable time, except that: (a) content that has been shared, cached, or downloaded by other users may persist beyond deletion; and (b) we may retain copies as reasonably necessary for backup, archival, legal compliance, or audit purposes.

Your responsibilities:

• You own or have the necessary rights and permissions to post the content
• Your content doesn't infringe on others' copyrights, trademarks, or other intellectual property rights
• You're legally responsible for what you post
• You have obtained any required consents from third parties depicted or referenced in your content

4. Content Rules

Mature Content Allowed: Stories may contain mature themes including romance, violence, and strong language. Authors must tag their content appropriately (e.g., "Mature," "18+") to warn readers.

Do NOT post content that:

• Infringes copyright or other intellectual property
• Contains hate speech, harassment, or bullying
• Sexually exploits or endangers minors (zero tolerance)
• Contains explicit sexual content involving minors
• Promotes illegal activities or extreme violence
• Contains spam or deceptive content
• Impersonates others or violates privacy rights

Content Rating Responsibility: Authors must accurately rate and tag their stories. Failure to properly label mature content may result in content removal or account suspension.

We may remove content that violates these rules without notice and may suspend or terminate your account.

5. What You Can't Do

• Access others' accounts without permission
• Use bots, scrapers, or automated tools
• Reverse engineer or copy our app
• Spam, harass, or abuse other users
• Collect user data without consent
• Interfere with the app's operation

6. Copyright Infringement & DMCA Policy

We respect intellectual property rights and expect our users to do the same. We respond to notices of alleged copyright infringement in accordance with applicable law.

Repeat Infringer Policy: We will terminate the accounts of users who are determined to be repeat infringers. We may also limit access to the Service and/or terminate the accounts of any users who infringe any intellectual property rights of others, whether or not there is any repeat infringement.

Filing a Copyright Complaint: If you believe that your copyrighted work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement on our platform, please send a written notice to our designated copyright agent with the following information:

• A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or a person authorized to act on their behalf
• Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed
• Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing, with enough detail so that we may locate it on the platform (e.g., a link to the infringing content)
• Your contact information, including your name, address, telephone number, and email address
• A statement that you have a good faith belief that the use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law
• A statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or are authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf

Designated Copyright Agent:

Counter-Notification: If you believe your content was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification, you may submit a written counter-notification to our copyright agent with the following:

• Your physical or electronic signature
• Identification of the content that has been removed or to which access has been disabled, and the location at which the content appeared before it was removed or disabled
• A statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good faith belief that the content was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification
• Your name, address, and telephone number, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the courts in Myanmar and that you will accept service of process from the person who filed the original complaint or an agent of such person

Upon receiving a valid counter-notification, we may restore the removed content within 10-14 business days, unless the complaining party files a court action seeking a restraining order against the content provider.

7. Termination

We may suspend or terminate your account if you violate these terms. You can delete your account anytime in Settings.

8. Disclaimers

The app is provided "AS IS" without warranties. We don't guarantee:

• Uninterrupted or error-free service
• Accuracy of user-generated content
• That the app will meet your needs

9. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we're not liable for any indirect, incidental, or consequential damages arising from your use of the app.

10. Changes to Terms

We may update these terms. We'll notify you of significant changes via email or in-app notification. Continued use means you accept the new terms.

11. Governing Law

These terms are governed by the laws of Myanmar.