Terms of service

These terms cover your use of FaceOn at joinfaceon.app, which FaceOn's operator runs. By creating an account, or by joining or hosting a meeting, you agree to them. If you don't agree, please don't use FaceOn.

The privacy policy explains what FaceOn keeps about you and why.

The service

• FaceOn lets you hold video meetings in your browser. It's free, with no ads.
• FaceOn is open-source software under the MIT license. That license covers the code. These terms cover this running copy of it, at joinfaceon.app. Other copies are run by other people, under their own terms.
• FaceOn is offered without any promise that it will always be available. It may have interruptions, and its features and limits may change. FaceOn's operator may stop running it at any time, and will try to give notice first.

Limits

Hosting full meetings is invite-only for now. Accounts on the host list host full meetings, and every other account can host demo meetings, which are shorter and allow fewer people. Home shows a host their limits. Meetings can also be capped in length and size, and all of these limits may change.

Who can use it

• You must be at least 13 years old to use FaceOn.
• If you're under the age of majority where you live, a parent or guardian must agree to these terms for you.
• You may not use FaceOn where the law doesn't allow you to.

Your account

• Give your real email address, and keep your password and sign-in methods safe.
• You're responsible for what happens in your account and in the meetings you host.
• If you think someone else is using your account, change your password, remove sign-in methods you don't recognize in Settings, and tell FaceOn's operator.

Meetings

• Hosts decide who joins. Use the passcode, the waiting room and the other host controls to keep your meetings safe, and use the controls fairly.
• Guests can join without an account when the host lets them. These terms apply to them too.
• Recording: FaceOn doesn't record meetings. Don't record or capture other people in a meeting without the consent the law requires.

AI notes

• When a host turns AI notes on, FaceOn shows everyone in the meeting, and each person can choose Don't transcribe me.
• If you turn AI notes on, you're responsible for getting any consent the law requires to transcribe and summarize what people say. Some places require everyone's consent.
• You're also responsible for how you use and share the notes you make or save.
• AI notes can be wrong or leave things out. Check them before you rely on them.
• If you make notes with your own key from an AI provider, what you send goes to that provider under its own terms and privacy policy, and any cost is yours. Some free plans use what you send to improve their products.

Acceptable use

Don't use FaceOn to:

• break the law, or help someone else break it;
• harass, threaten, bully or abuse people, or stir up hatred or violence against them;
• share content that sexualizes children, or sexual content without the consent of everyone in it;
• share content you don't have the right to share, or that infringes someone else's rights or privacy;
• pretend to be someone else, or mislead people about who you are;
• send spam or scams, spread malware, or try to get into accounts or meetings that aren't yours;
• overload, probe, scrape or disrupt FaceOn, or get around its limits or security.

Your content

• What you say and share in meetings, and the meetings, invitations and notes you create, are yours.
• You let FaceOn's operator carry, store and show them only as needed to run FaceOn for you and the people you meet with, as the privacy policy describes.
• You're responsible for what you share, and you must have the right to share it.
• If you send ideas or feedback, for example in an issue on GitHub, FaceOn's operator may use them without owing you anything.

Other services

FaceOn relies on services run by others, which the privacy policy lists. Signing in with Google or GitHub, and connecting Google Calendar, are also covered by those companies' terms. FaceOn's operator isn't responsible for other websites that FaceOn links to.

Suspension and ending

• FaceOn's operator may suspend or close an account, remove someone from FaceOn, or end a meeting that breaks these terms, puts others at risk or exposes FaceOn's operator to legal harm. Where it's reasonable, FaceOn's operator will say why.
• You can stop using FaceOn whenever you like, and delete your account at any time in Settings, under Account.
• If your account is closed, the parts of these terms meant to last, such as "No warranty", "Limits of liability" and "The law that applies", still apply.

No warranty

FaceOn is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including that it's fit for a particular purpose, of satisfactory quality or free of errors. It may have interruptions or errors, or lose data. Don't rely on it for emergencies, or for anything where a dropped call or lost notes would cause harm.

Limits of liability

To the extent the law allows:

• FaceOn's operator isn't liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential losses, or for lost data, profits or opportunities, arising from your use of FaceOn.
• The total liability of FaceOn's operator for any claim about FaceOn is limited to US$50, since FaceOn is free.

Nothing in these terms limits liability that the law doesn't allow to be limited, or takes away rights you have as a consumer that can't be waived.

If your use of FaceOn breaks these terms or the law and someone makes a claim against FaceOn's operator because of it, you'll cover the reasonable costs of that claim, as far as the law where you live allows.

The law that applies

These terms are governed by the laws of the place where FaceOn's operator is based. If you're a consumer, you keep the protection that the laws where you live give you, including any right to bring a claim in your local courts.

If part of these terms can't be enforced, the rest still applies. If FaceOn's operator doesn't enforce a part right away, FaceOn's operator can still enforce it later.

Changes to these terms

When these terms change, the new version appears here with a new date, and earlier versions are kept in FaceOn's code history. If you keep using FaceOn after a change, you accept the new terms.

Contact

Questions about these terms: open an issue on GitHub (opens in a new tab).