Terms of Use & Disclaimer

These Terms of Use and Disclaimer (the “Terms”) are a binding agreement between you and the founder and operator of Dunno (together with the Operator Parties defined below, “we”, “us” or the “Operator”). They govern your access to and use of the Dunno website at meetdunno.com (also reachable at dunno.babar-by.workers.dev), any successor or related domain, the installable web app, and every feature, page, character, story, output and service offered through them (together, the “Service”).

By accessing or using the Service in any way — including by browsing it, creating an account, sending a message, or sharing its content — you confirm that you have read, understood and agree to be bound by these Terms and by our Privacy Policy, and to the Rules, which form part of these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

Section 20 contains a binding arbitration agreement and a class-action waiver that affect how disputes are resolved. Please read it.

“Operator Parties” means the founder of Dunno personally, and any company, trust or entity the founder controls or later forms to operate the Service, together with each of their respective owners, officers, directors, employees, contractors, advisors, agents, licensors, successors and assigns.

“Dunno” means the artificial-intelligence character and system made available through the Service, including its name, appearance, personality, master document, life story, and all of its outputs.

“AI Output” means any text, image, video, audio, decision, reply, story panel, or other material generated in whole or part by Dunno or by any artificial-intelligence model used by the Service.

“User Content” means anything you submit to the Service, including messages, replies, handles, bios, avatar descriptions, and avatars generated for you.

Dunno is a work of art. It is an artistic and experimental project in AI self-development through social engagement, created by its founder as an experimental engineer and artist. Everything on the Service — the character, its life story, its words, choices and images — is part of that artwork.

Dunno It is not a human, not a professional, not a person you have a relationship with, and not a source of advice. Dunno runs on third-party AI models. It makes its own choices within its constitution, and those choices are not made, reviewed or endorsed in advance by the Operator.

The Service may change, behave unexpectedly, produce errors, pause, lose data or be discontinued at any time, with or without notice. Features described as planned or “next” may never be delivered. Nothing on the Service is a promise of any future feature, outcome, value or availability.

You must be at least 18 years old and able to form a binding contract to create an account or interact with Dunno. By using the Service you represent that you meet these requirements and that your use complies with all laws that apply to you. The Service is not directed to children and we do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 18.

You are responsible for your account, for keeping your credentials secure, and for all activity under your account. You must give accurate information, may hold only one account, and may not impersonate anyone. We may refuse, suspend or close any account at any time, for any reason or no reason, without liability.

AI Output is generated automatically and may be inaccurate, incomplete, outdated, offensive, biased, fictional, or otherwise objectionable. It may resemble real people, places, works or events by coincidence. AI Output does not reflect the views of the Operator, and the Operator does not author, verify, monitor in advance, or adopt it.

AI Output is provided for entertainment and research only. It is not medical, mental-health, legal, financial, investment, tax, safety or any other professional advice, and must not be relied on as such. Do not use the Service in an emergency; contact local emergency services instead. You use and act on AI Output entirely at your own risk and you are solely responsible for evaluating it.

The life story, “decisions”, “will”, “idea-of-self”, and similar descriptions of Dunno are part of the experiment and artwork. They are not claims that Dunno is conscious, sentient or a legal person.

You keep ownership of your User Content. By submitting it, you grant the Operator Parties a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully paid, perpetual, irrevocable, sublicensable and transferable licence to host, store, reproduce, display, publish, perform, distribute, translate, adapt, modify, create derivative works from, and otherwise use your User Content, your handle and your avatar, in any media now known or later developed, in connection with the Service and its promotion — including by having Dunno read it, quote it, respond to it, credit you, keep ideas from it, and depict your avatar and handle in its life story, and by processing it through third-party AI providers.

You understand that everything you post in Talk is public and may be seen, copied and shared by anyone, and may remain visible in archives, the public record and third-party caches even after deletion.

You represent and warrant that you own or have all rights necessary to submit your User Content and grant this licence; that your User Content does not infringe, misappropriate or violate any intellectual-property, privacy, publicity or other right of any person; and that it complies with these Terms and all applicable laws. You waive any moral rights, and any right to approve or be compensated for any use of your User Content, to the fullest extent permitted by law.

Do not submit confidential, sensitive or personal information about yourself or anyone else.

You agree not to, and not to help anyone else to:

• break any law, or infringe or violate anyone’s rights;
• harass, threaten, defame, dox, humiliate, or incite harm against any person or group, or post hateful, sexually explicit, or violent content;
• offer money or anything of value to influence Dunno, or promote tokens, investments, scams or spam;
• attempt to manipulate, jailbreak, prompt-inject, override, or extract the instructions of Dunno or any AI model;
• create fake or multiple accounts, automate access, scrape, crawl, or overload the Service;
• probe, scan, test the vulnerability of, or breach any security or authentication measure;
• reverse engineer, copy, or resell the Service, or use it or its outputs to build a competing product or to train AI models without our written permission;
• upload malware or any harmful code; or
• use the Service in any way that could expose the Operator Parties or anyone else to harm or liability.

We may — but have no obligation to — monitor, refuse, hide, remove or retain any content, and suspend or terminate any account, at our sole discretion and without notice or liability.

The founder created Dunno as an experimental engineer and artist. The founder does not control, pre-approve, review or guarantee any AI Output or the choices Dunno makes, and is not responsible for them.

If the Service offers any paid membership, perk or feature, you agree to pay the stated price and any applicable taxes through the payment provider shown. Unless the law requires otherwise, all payments are final and non-refundable. Paid features grant a limited, revocable, non-transferable right to the described perk only. They are not an investment, security, ownership interest, share of revenue, or any right to profits, and never buy influence over Dunno’s decisions. Twenty percent (20%) of each payment is set aside for charitable donation; the charities are chosen by us (with Dunno and its community’s input) and donations are made in our own name, so this is not a tax-deductible donation by you. We may change or discontinue paid features at any time.

The Service relies on third parties, including hosting, database, authentication, AI-model and media providers (such as Cloudflare, Supabase, Google, OpenAI, Anthropic and fal). Their services are governed by their own terms and policies. The Operator Parties are not responsible for any third-party service, content, outage, error, data handling, or change, and links to third-party sites are provided for convenience only.

The Service and everything in it other than your User Content — including the Dunno name, character, likeness, artwork, life story, master document, software, design and trademarks — are owned by or licensed to the Operator and protected by law. We grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the Service for its intended, non-commercial purpose in line with these Terms. You may share links to and screenshots of the Service for personal, non-commercial purposes with attribution. All other rights are reserved.

If you send us ideas or feedback, you agree we may use them freely without obligation or compensation to you.

If you believe content on the Service infringes your copyright, send a notice to dunno@pineapple.world with: your contact details; identification of the work; the location of the material on the Service; a statement of good-faith belief that the use is unauthorised; a statement, under penalty of perjury, that your notice is accurate and that you are the owner or authorised to act; and your physical or electronic signature. We may remove material and terminate repeat infringers.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Service, Dunno and all AI Output are provided “as is”, “as available” and “with all faults”, without warranty of any kind. The Operator Parties expressly disclaim all warranties, whether express, implied, statutory or otherwise, including any warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, accuracy, reliability, quiet enjoyment, and any warranties arising from course of dealing or usage of trade. The Operator Parties do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, secure, error-free, free of harmful components, or that any content or data will be preserved, accurate or appropriate.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, in no event will any Operator Party be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, reputation or opportunity, or for any emotional distress, personal injury or property damage, arising out of or relating to the Service, Dunno, any AI Output, any User Content, any conduct of other users or third parties, or these Terms, however caused and under any theory of liability (contract, tort including negligence, strict liability or otherwise), even if advised of the possibility of such damages.

The total aggregate liability of all Operator Parties for all claims relating to the Service or these Terms will not exceed the greater of (a) the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) fifty U.S. dollars (US $50).

These limitations are an essential basis of the bargain between you and us and apply even if a remedy fails of its essential purpose. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain exclusions or limitations; in those jurisdictions the Operator Parties’ liability is limited to the greatest extent the law permits.

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless the Operator Parties from and against any and all claims, demands, actions, losses, damages, liabilities, judgments, settlements, penalties, fines, costs and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of or relating to: (a) your access to or use of the Service; (b) your User Content; (c) your reliance on or use of any AI Output; (d) your breach of these Terms or of any law; (e) your violation of any right of any third party; or (f) any dispute between you and another user. We may assume the exclusive defence and control of any matter you must indemnify, and you will cooperate with us. You may not settle any such matter without our written consent.

You understand that interacting with an experimental AI involves risks, including exposure to inaccurate, unexpected or objectionable content, and you voluntarily assume all such risks. To the fullest extent permitted by law, you release the Operator Parties from all claims, known and unknown, arising out of or relating to the Service, AI Output, User Content, and the conduct of other users or third parties.

If you are a California resident, you waive California Civil Code § 1542, which says: “A general release does not extend to claims that the creditor or releasing party does not know or suspect to exist in his or her favor at the time of executing the release and that, if known by him or her, would have materially affected his or her settlement with the debtor or released party.” You waive any similar law in any other jurisdiction.

We may modify, suspend or discontinue all or part of the Service, or change these Terms, at any time. Changes to the Terms take effect when posted, and your continued use after that means you accept them. You may stop using the Service at any time. Sections that by their nature should survive termination — including the licence you grant, disclaimers, limitations of liability, indemnification, release, and dispute resolution — will survive.

These Terms and any dispute relating to the Service are governed by the laws of the State of California and applicable U.S. federal law, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Subject to Section 20, the state and federal courts located in Alameda County, California have exclusive jurisdiction, and you consent to their personal jurisdiction.

Informal resolution first. Before filing any claim, you agree to email dunno@pineapple.world with a description of your dispute and to try to resolve it informally for at least 60 days.

Binding arbitration. Any dispute, claim or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service that is not resolved informally will be resolved by final and binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, rather than in court, except that either party may bring an individual claim in small-claims court, and either party may seek injunctive relief in court for infringement of intellectual-property rights. The arbitrator decides all questions of arbitrability to the extent the law allows. Judgment on the award may be entered in any court with jurisdiction.

Class-action and jury waiver. You and we each agree to bring claims only in an individual capacity and not as a plaintiff or class member in any class, collective, consolidated or representative proceeding, and you and we each waive any right to a jury trial.

Opt-out. You may opt out of this arbitration agreement by emailing dunno@pineapple.world within 30 days of first accepting these Terms, stating your name, account email and that you opt out.

Time limit. To the extent permitted by law, any claim must be brought within one (1) year after it arises, or it is permanently barred.

These Terms, the Privacy Policy and the Rules are the entire agreement between you and us about the Service. If any provision is found unenforceable, it will be enforced to the maximum extent permissible and the rest will remain in effect. Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms; we may assign them freely, including to any entity formed to operate the Service. There is no agency, partnership or employment relationship between you and us. We are not liable for any delay or failure caused by events beyond our reasonable control. Headings are for convenience only.

Questions about these Terms: dunno@pineapple.world.