Terms of service

These terms form the contract between you and Jonas Schmidt, Küssnachterstrasse 8, 6343 Risch ZG, Switzerland — referred to below as “we” — for the use of Pinly. You accept them when you create an account. If you are agreeing on behalf of a company, you confirm you may bind it, and “you” means that company.

Pinly is operated by a private individual and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Pinterest, Inc.

You must be at least 16 years old and old enough under the law of your country to enter into a contract. You need a Pinterest account you are entitled to publish to. One person may hold one account; an account may not be shared, but you can invite colleagues into a workspace, and you are responsible for what they do in it.

Pinly plans, designs, schedules and measures Pinterest content for the account you connect. It reads a website you point it at, proposes ideas, renders Pin images from templates, publishes through the official Pinterest API, and reads the resulting analytics back in so that later suggestions can draw on what actually worked.

The product is under active development. Features may be added, changed or withdrawn. Where a change removes something you depend on, we will give you reasonable notice and, on a paid plan, a refund for the unused remainder if you would rather leave.

Keep your credentials to yourself and tell us promptly if you think someone else has them. Everything done through your account is treated as done by you. We will never ask you for your password, and we cannot read it — it is stored only as a hash.

Everything you bring — your brand kit, your website, your images, your text — stays yours. You grant us only the permission needed to run the service for you: to store that content, render it into Pins, publish it where you asked, and process it to compute your analytics. That permission is limited to operating Pinly, is not transferable beyond the processors named in our privacy policy, and ends when you delete the content or your account.

You confirm you hold the rights to what you upload or point us at, including any image you did not create yourself, and that publishing it breaks no one else’s rights.

As between you and us, the Pins, headlines and descriptions Pinly produces for you are yours to use. But three honest limits come with them.

They are generated from patterns, so we cannot promise any of it is unique — another user working in the same field may receive something similar, and we make no warranty that generated material is free of third-party rights.

They are suggestions, not verified statements. Pinly does not check whether a claim in a headline is true, permitted advertising in your country, or accurate about your product. Review before you publish; you are the publisher.

Nothing generated is legal, medical, financial or professional advice, and it must not be presented as coming from anyone other than you.

Nothing is published without your approval. Assisted mode is the default: the product proposes, you decide. Autopilot exists, is off until you switch it on, is bounded by limits you set, and stops the moment you switch it back. While it is on, you remain the publisher of everything it posts, so set the limits with that in mind.

The library keeps the structure of Pins you saved to your own boards — headline shape, angle, image type — so you can build your own. It will refuse to create a Pin that reuses another creator’s wording, image or destination link.

That check is a safeguard, not a licence: it looks at wording, not at whether an idea is protected. You remain responsible for what you publish, and you must not use Pinly to reproduce someone else’s work.

Pinly must be used within Pinterest’s own terms and developer policies. Do not:

• publish spam, bulk near-identical Pins, or content you have no rights to;
• use it for automated following, messaging, or engagement of any kind;
• publish content that is unlawful, deceptive, hateful, or sexually explicit;
• impersonate anyone, or present generated imagery as a photograph of a real product;
• connect an account you are not entitled to publish to;
• attempt to reach data belonging to another workspace, or to probe, load-test or reverse-engineer the service;
• resell the service, or run it on behalf of clients without their knowledge.

We may suspend an account that breaks these rules, or that puts our Pinterest API access at risk. Where the problem can be fixed we will say what it is first; where it cannot, or where the risk is immediate, we may suspend at once and explain afterwards.

Pinly depends on the Pinterest API. Your use of Pinterest is governed by your own agreement with Pinterest, not by these terms, and Pinterest may change its API, its policies, its rate limits or your access at any time. If it does, parts of Pinly may stop working through no fault of ours, and we are not liable for what Pinterest does to your account.

The same applies to the other services named in our privacy policy. We choose them carefully and bind them where the law requires, but we do not control them.

There is a free plan and paid plans. Paid plans are billed through Stripe on the interval shown at checkout, in advance, and renew automatically until cancelled. Prices are shown before you commit; taxes are added where they apply.

If a payment fails we may retry it and, if it keeps failing, downgrade or suspend the plan after telling you. We may change prices for future periods with at least 30 days’ notice; if you do not accept the new price, cancel before it takes effect and the old one applies until then.

You can cancel at any time from the billing portal. Access continues until the end of the period you already paid for, and we do not refund a part-used period unless the law requires it or we withdrew something you depended on.

If you are a consumer in the EU or UK, you have 14 days to withdraw from a paid subscription without giving a reason. Because a subscription starts immediately, you ask us to begin during that period and acknowledge that you lose the right to withdraw once the service has been fully provided; if you withdraw part-way, you pay only for what you used. Write to jonas.schmidt07@gmail.com — a plain email is enough.

We may end the contract with 30 days’ notice, or immediately for a serious breach of the acceptable-use rules. If we end it without cause, you get back the unused part of what you paid.

When you delete a workspace, everything belonging to it goes with it — Pins, metrics, references and uploaded images. Pins already published to Pinterest stay on Pinterest; they are yours, on your account, and deleting your Pinly workspace does not remove them.

There is no self-service export yet. Ask us before you delete anything and we will send you your data; afterwards it is gone and we cannot recover it.

We aim to keep Pinly running and to fix what breaks, but we offer no uptime guarantee, no service level agreement and no guaranteed response time. Support is by email to jonas.schmidt07@gmail.com, answered as quickly as one person reasonably can. Maintenance may make the service briefly unavailable.

Pinly is provided as it is. We do not warrant that it will be uninterrupted or error-free, that its suggestions will be accurate, or that publishing through it will produce impressions, clicks, traffic, followers or sales. Reach on Pinterest depends on Pinterest, on your market and on your content — none of which we control. Any figures shown on our marketing pages are illustrative and are labelled as such.

Statutory warranty rights that cannot be excluded — including a consumer’s — are unaffected by this section.

We are liable without limit for damage caused intentionally or through gross negligence, for injury to life, body or health, and wherever mandatory law does not permit a limitation. Art. 100 of the Swiss Code of Obligations applies.

Otherwise, and to the extent the law allows, our total liability arising out of or in connection with these terms is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim, and we are not liable for lost profit, lost reach, lost data you did not keep a copy of, or other indirect or consequential loss.

We are not liable for what Pinterest does, for content you chose to publish, or for a failure caused by something outside our reasonable control — an outage at a provider, a network failure, an act of a public authority, or a comparable event.

If a third party brings a claim against us because of content you published through Pinly, or because you broke the acceptable-use rules, you will cover the reasonable costs of defending it, provided we tell you promptly and let you take part in the defence. This does not apply where the claim arises from something we did wrong.

How we handle personal data is described in our privacy policy, which forms part of these terms. Where you put personal data belonging to other people into Pinly, you are the controller of it and we process it on your instructions; the privacy policy names every processor involved. Please do not put personal data about third parties into the product — it is not built for that.

We may change these terms. If a change materially affects your rights or obligations, we will give you at least 30 days’ notice by email or in the product before it takes effect. Continuing to use Pinly after that means you accept it; if you would rather not, cancel before it takes effect and we will refund the unused part of what you paid. Changes never apply retroactively.

Severability. If a clause turns out to be invalid, the rest stays in force and the invalid one is replaced by what comes closest to its purpose.

Assignment. You may not transfer this contract without our consent. We may transfer it to a successor of the business, and will tell you if we do.

Notices. We write to the email address on your account; you write to jonas.schmidt07@gmail.com. Both count as writing.

Whole agreement. These terms and the privacy policy are the whole agreement between us about Pinly and replace anything said beforehand.

These terms are governed by Swiss law, excluding its conflict-of-law rules and the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. The place of jurisdiction is Zug, Switzerland.

If you are a consumer, this does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory law of the country you live in, and you may also bring a claim before the courts there. Questions go to jonas.schmidt07@gmail.com.