Terms of Service

Effective Date: 19 August 2026

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of Bob, a mobile messaging application and related services (collectively, the “Service”).

The Service is provided by Chris Slaughter, an individual operating as a sole proprietor (“Bob,” “we,” “us,” or “our”).

By creating an account, accessing, or using the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

1. The Service

Bob is a messaging service that allows users to communicate with other people and to include artificial intelligence agents (“AI Agents”) in conversations.

The Service may allow you to send and receive messages, images, files, links, and other content; participate in individual or group conversations; interact with AI Agents; and use other features that we may introduce or modify from time to time.

We may add, remove, modify, suspend, or discontinue features of the Service at any time.

2. Eligibility

You must be at least 13 years old, or the minimum age required to use the Service in your jurisdiction if higher.

If you are under the age of legal majority where you live, you may use the Service only with the permission of a parent or legal guardian.

You may not use the Service if you are prohibited from doing so under applicable law.

3. Your Account

You are responsible for your account and for activity occurring through it.

You agree to provide accurate information when creating or maintaining your account and to take reasonable steps to protect access to your account and devices.

You may be required to provide and verify a mobile phone number to create, access, secure, or recover your account.

You must promptly notify us if you believe your account has been compromised or used without authorization.

You may not impersonate another person, misrepresent your identity, or create an account for someone else without authorization.

4. SMS for Two-Factor Authentication

By creating an account or providing a mobile phone number to Bob, you agree that we may send you SMS or other text messages solely for two-factor authentication (“2FA”).

These messages are limited to verification and authentication codes used to create, access, or secure your account. We do not use your mobile phone number to send account notifications or other transactional communications.

Message frequency may vary. Message and data rates may apply.

Consent to receive 2FA messages is not consent to receive marketing or promotional text messages.

You are responsible for ensuring that the mobile number associated with your account is accurate and that you are authorized to receive messages at that number. If your mobile number changes, is disconnected, or is reassigned, you agree to update your account information promptly.

2FA messages are necessary to create, access, or secure your account using a mobile phone number.

We are not responsible for delayed or undelivered text messages caused by your mobile carrier, network availability, inaccurate contact information, or circumstances outside our reasonable control.

5. Messages and User Content

The Service allows users to create, transmit, upload, share, and receive messages and other materials (“User Content”).

You retain whatever ownership rights you have in your User Content.

By submitting User Content through the Service, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, transmit, process, display, and otherwise use that User Content only as reasonably necessary to operate, maintain, secure, improve, and provide the Service, subject to our Privacy Policy.

You are responsible for your User Content and for ensuring that you have the rights and permissions necessary to send or share it.

We do not control, endorse, verify, or assume responsibility for User Content created or shared by users. Opinions, statements, advice, offers, or other information contained in User Content belong to the users who provide them and do not necessarily reflect our views.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not responsible for loss, injury, disputes, or other consequences resulting from User Content or your interactions with other users.

6. AI Agents

AI Agents use artificial intelligence and automated systems to generate responses and take other supported actions.

AI-generated content may be inaccurate, incomplete, misleading, offensive, outdated, or entirely incorrect. AI Agents may misunderstand you, make mistakes, or generate information that appears confident or factual when it is not.

You are responsible for evaluating AI-generated content before relying on it or taking action based on it.

You should independently verify important information.

Unless we expressly state otherwise, AI Agents are not licensed professionals, and their responses are not a substitute for professional medical, legal, financial, mental health, emergency, or other professional advice.

Do not rely on an AI Agent to make decisions where an error could result in death, personal injury, significant financial loss, violation of law, or other serious harm.

Bob is not an emergency service. If you believe you or another person is experiencing an emergency, contact the appropriate emergency services.

Your interactions with AI Agents may involve third-party artificial intelligence models, infrastructure, or service providers. Availability, capabilities, and behavior of AI Agents may change over time.

We do not guarantee that an AI Agent will behave consistently, remember information correctly, perform requested actions successfully, or produce any particular result.

You use AI Agents and rely on their outputs at your own risk.

7. Interactions With Other Users

Bob allows you to communicate with other people. We are not responsible for the conduct of users, whether online or offline.

Use reasonable judgment when communicating with people you do not know.

You are solely responsible for your communications, relationships, agreements, transactions, meetings, and disputes with other users.

We do not perform background checks on users and do not guarantee that any user is who they claim to be.

8. Acceptable Use

You may not use the Service to:

• violate any applicable law or regulation;
• infringe another person’s intellectual property, privacy, publicity, or other rights;
• harass, threaten, stalk, bully, defame, or abuse another person;
• post, send, or share objectionable, offensive, pornographic, or abusive content;
• distribute unlawful, fraudulent, deceptive, or malicious content;
• exploit or endanger children;
• distribute malware, viruses, spyware, or other harmful software;
• conduct phishing, fraud, spam, or other abusive activity;
• gain unauthorized access to accounts, systems, devices, or networks;
• interfere with or disrupt the Service;
• circumvent security, access controls, rate limits, or other technical restrictions;
• scrape, crawl, reverse engineer, or systematically extract information from the Service except where permitted by law or with our written permission;
• use automated systems in a manner that places an unreasonable burden on the Service;
• use the Service to facilitate illegal activity or cause harm to another person; or
• encourage or assist another person in doing any of the above.

There is no tolerance for objectionable content or abusive users. We investigate suspected violations and will remove violating content and restrict, suspend, or terminate the responsible account.

9. Content Moderation

We do not pre-screen every message. We will, however, remove User Content that violates these Terms, applicable law, or our policies, and we will suspend or terminate the accounts of users who provide it.

If you report objectionable content or an abusive user, we will review the report and take action within 24 hours, including removing the content and ejecting the user who provided it when the report is substantiated.

The fact that content remains available through the Service does not mean that we approve, endorse, or have reviewed it.

10. Intellectual Property

Except for User Content and third-party materials, the Service—including its software, design, branding, logos, graphics, interfaces, and other content—is owned by Chris Slaughter or our licensors and is protected by applicable intellectual property laws.

Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use the Service for its intended purposes.

These Terms do not transfer ownership of the Service or any of our intellectual property to you.

11. Copyright Complaints

We respect intellectual property rights.

If you believe content available through the Service infringes your copyright, you may contact us at:

Copyright Contact: chris@bobchat.app

Your notice should identify the copyrighted work, the allegedly infringing material, information reasonably sufficient for us to locate the material, your contact information, and any other information required by applicable law.

We may remove or restrict access to allegedly infringing content and may terminate accounts of repeat infringers when appropriate.

12. Third-Party Services

The Service may depend on or interact with third-party services, including hosting providers, telecommunications providers, app stores, artificial intelligence providers, authentication providers, and other technology services.

We do not control third-party services and are not responsible for their availability, security, accuracy, content, policies, actions, or failures.

Your use of third-party services may also be governed by their own terms and policies.

13. Privacy

Our collection and use of personal information is described in our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into these Terms by reference.

By using the Service, you acknowledge that your information will be handled as described in the Privacy Policy.

14. Service Availability

We try to keep Bob available and functioning properly, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free operation.

Messages may be delayed, duplicated, misdirected, lost, or fail to send or arrive. Features may occasionally be unavailable. Data may be lost.

You are responsible for maintaining copies of information that is important to you.

We may perform maintenance, introduce changes, impose usage limits, or suspend portions of the Service at any time.

15. Beta and Experimental Features

Some features may be identified as beta, experimental, preview, or similar.

These features may be incomplete, unreliable, changed substantially, or discontinued without notice and may contain more errors than generally available features.

You use experimental features at your own risk.

16. No Warranty

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE.”

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, CHRIS SLAUGHTER DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, AVAILABILITY, SECURITY, AND QUIET ENJOYMENT.

We do not warrant that:

• the Service will meet your requirements;
• the Service will always be available, secure, uninterrupted, or error-free;
• messages or other data will always be delivered, stored, or preserved;
• AI-generated information will be accurate, complete, safe, or useful;
• defects or errors will be corrected; or
• the Service will be free of harmful components.

YOU ACCESS AND USE THE SERVICE AT YOUR OWN RISK.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain warranty disclaimers, so some of these disclaimers may not apply to you.

17. Limitation of Liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, CHRIS SLAUGHTER WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, BUSINESS, OPPORTUNITY, GOODWILL, DATA, OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS.

This includes losses resulting from:

• your use of or inability to use the Service;
• User Content;
• communications or interactions with other users;
• AI-generated content or actions taken in reliance on AI-generated content;
• unauthorized access to or alteration of your communications or data;
• interruption, failure, deletion, or loss of messages or data;
• conduct of any user or third party; or
• third-party products or services.

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US FOR THE SERVICE DURING THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM OR (B) $100.

These limitations apply regardless of the legal theory of liability and even if we have been advised that damages were possible.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.

18. Indemnification

To the extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Chris Slaughter from claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, arising out of or related to:

• your use or misuse of the Service;
• your User Content;
• your violation of these Terms;
• your violation of applicable law; or
• your infringement or violation of another person’s rights.

This provision does not require you to indemnify us for conduct for which indemnification cannot lawfully be required.

19. Suspension and Termination

You may stop using the Service at any time.

We may suspend, restrict, or terminate your access to all or part of the Service if we reasonably believe that:

• you violated these Terms;
• your use creates a legal, security, or safety risk;
• your account is being used fraudulently or unlawfully;
• suspension is necessary to protect other users or the Service; or
• continuing to provide the Service to you is no longer commercially or technically practical.

Where appropriate, we may provide notice before terminating an account, but we are not required to do so where immediate action is reasonably necessary.

Sections that by their nature should survive termination will remain effective, including provisions concerning intellectual property, disclaimers, limitations of liability, indemnification, and dispute resolution.

20. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time.

If we make material changes, we will provide reasonable notice through the Service or by another appropriate method.

The updated Terms will identify their effective date. Your continued use of the Service after updated Terms become effective constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms to the extent permitted by law.

If you do not agree to revised Terms, you must stop using the Service.

21. Governing Law and Disputes

These Terms and any dispute arising out of or relating to them or the Service will be governed by the laws of the State of Texas, without regard to its conflict-of-law principles.

To the extent permitted by law, you and Chris Slaughter agree that any lawsuit or court proceeding arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Collin County, Texas, and each party consents to personal jurisdiction and venue in those courts.

Nothing in this section limits any consumer right that cannot legally be waived under the laws applicable to you.

22. Apple and Google App Stores

If you download Bob through the Apple App Store, Google Play Store, or another application marketplace, your use of that marketplace is also subject to its applicable terms.

The marketplace provider is not responsible for providing the Service or for our obligations under these Terms except to the extent required by applicable marketplace rules or law.

23. Export and Sanctions Compliance

You may not use, export, or otherwise make the Service available in violation of applicable export-control, trade-control, or economic-sanctions laws.

24. General Terms

Entire Agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any additional policies expressly incorporated into them, constitute the agreement between you and us concerning the Service.

No Waiver. Our failure to enforce a provision of these Terms does not waive our right to enforce it later.

Severability. If a provision of these Terms is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain in effect to the fullest extent permitted by law.

Assignment. You may not assign or transfer your rights or obligations under these Terms without our consent. We may assign these Terms in connection with a sale, transfer, reorganization, or other transfer of the Service or our business, subject to applicable law.

No Partnership. These Terms do not create a partnership, joint venture, employment, franchise, or agency relationship between you and us.

Headings. Section headings are provided for convenience and do not affect interpretation of these Terms.

25. Contact Us

Questions about these Terms may be sent to:

Chris Slaughter
Sole Proprietor
Email: chris@bobchat.app