ANO

ANO Terms of Use

Version: 1.0 · Effective date: 7 October 2026

These terms govern your use of the ANO mobile app ("ANO", "the app"). By creating an account, or by signing in with Google or Apple, you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, do not use the app.

How your personal data is processed is not part of these terms; it is explained in the Privacy Policy.

1. Service provider

ANO is provided by Freops, based in Türkiye. Contact: account@freops.com

In this text "we" means the service provider and "you" means the person using the app.

2. What is ANO?

ANO uses AI to build characters from a WhatsApp group chat you upload, and writes a six-chapter interactive fiction with those characters. The person who creates a story can invite up to five people; at the end of each chapter the members vote on how the story continues and the founder moves it forward.

ANO is an independent app. It is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by WhatsApp or Meta. "WhatsApp" is a trademark of its owner; the WhatsApp-style drawings in the app only show you how to export a chat.

3. Who can use it?

  • You must be 18 or older to use ANO.
  • You must give accurate information when creating an account, verify your email address and keep your account secure. You are responsible for what is done with your account.
  • Your account is personal; you may not transfer it to anyone else.

4. Chats you upload

4.1 Your responsibility

When you upload a chat you agree and declare that:

  • You are a participant in the chat; you do not upload other people's conversations that you are not part of.
  • You have informed the people whose names or messages appear in the chat that their messages will be uploaded to ANO and analysed with AI, that dossiers and a story may be written about them, and that their data will be transferred to AI providers abroad; and you have obtained their explicit consent beforehand.
  • The chat contains no messages from anyone under 18.
  • If a participant withdraws consent or objects, you delete the chat concerned.

Sharing other people's personal data and correspondence without their consent may infringe their personality and privacy rights and may be a criminal offence. You are responsible, to the extent of your fault, for damage arising from these declarations being untrue.

4.2 The permission you give us

The content you upload remains yours. You give us only a non-exclusive, royalty-free permission to use it as needed to provide the service to you: storing the chat excerpt, passing it to AI providers, producing the dossiers and the story, and showing the story to its members. We do not use your content for any other purpose, in particular not for advertising or for training AI models.

4.3 Removal requests

We review requests from people who tell us that a chat or story contains their data. Where we find it necessary we may remove the chat record, dossiers and stories concerned, with or without notifying the founder.

5. AI-generated content

  • Dossiers and stories are written by generative AI models. Stories are fiction; they must not be read as information, claims or judgements about real people.
  • AI output can be wrong, inconsistent or unexpected. The same chat can produce different results each time; we do not guarantee any particular quality or outcome.
  • Stories imitate the way people talk in your chat. If your chat contains slang, swearing or harsh humour, so will the story; the content may be uncomfortable.
  • The AI provider may refuse to produce some content; the analysis or a chapter may then fail to complete.
  • Do not share or publish stories outside the group in a way that humiliates or distresses the people in them or infringes their rights.
  • You can report content in a story that you find unlawful or objectionable to account@freops.com; we review reports and remove content where necessary.

6. Lobby, invitations and voting

  • Anyone who has the invite link or code can join the lobby until the story starts. Share the link only with people you want in the story. The founder can renew the link and remove members from the lobby.
  • Members of a story see the chapters, the chat's name, the characters' names, members' display names and who voted for which option.
  • Only the founder moves the story forward. If the founder deletes their account, the stories they created are deleted for all members.

7. Prohibited use

When using ANO you may not:

  • Upload chats you are not a participant in, or whose participants have not consented.
  • Upload chats containing children's data.
  • Use the app to harass, threaten, defame, expose or monitor anyone.
  • Present stories as a real person's words or as real events.
  • Try to generate unlawful content or to get around the AI providers' usage policies.
  • Circumvent the app's security measures, access systems without authorisation, collect data with automated tools or place a load on the service that disrupts it.
  • Decompile, copy or resell the app's software, except where the law allows it.

8. Intellectual property

  • The app, its software and design, and the "ANO" name and logo belong to us. We grant you a non-transferable, non-exclusive right to use the app for personal, non-commercial purposes in line with these terms.
  • The chats you upload belong to you (and the other participants in the chat).
  • You may use the stories generated for you for personal, non-commercial purposes. Legal protection of AI-generated text differs from country to country; similar text may be generated for others from similar input.

9. Price

ANO is currently free and contains no ads. If we offer paid features in future, we will state the price and conditions clearly before purchase; nothing is charged without your confirmation.

10. Availability and changes to the service

  • We work to keep the service available and free of errors but cannot guarantee it. The service may be temporarily unavailable because of maintenance, faults or problems at our AI and infrastructure providers.
  • We may improve, change or remove features. If we decide to end the service altogether, we will announce it a reasonable time in advance.
  • Old versions of the app may stop working for security or compatibility reasons; you will then be asked to update.

11. Closing your account

  • You: you can delete your account at any time with Settings → Delete my account and all my data. What is deleted is described on the Account and Data Deletion page.
  • We: if you seriously or repeatedly breach these terms, upload content that infringes other people's rights, or if the law requires it, we may suspend or close your account and remove the content concerned. Unless the matter is urgent we will tell you by email beforehand and explain why.

12. Liability

  • We provide the app with care. To the extent the law allows, however, we give no warranty that AI output is accurate, suitable or produced without interruption.
  • Our liability for damage caused by our intent or gross negligence, for death or personal injury, and in any other case where the law does not allow liability to be limited, is not affected. Otherwise our liability for slight negligence is limited to the typical damage foreseeable when the contract was concluded.
  • You are responsible, to the extent of your fault, for the content you upload and for the consequences of that content infringing third parties' rights.
  • Nothing in this section limits rights you have as a consumer that cannot be excluded by contract.

13. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms for good reason, such as changes in the law, new features, security needs or changes in our providers' terms. We will tell you about significant changes in the app or by email at least 15 days before they take effect. If you do not accept a change you can end the contract at any time by deleting your account.

14. Governing law and disputes

  • These terms are governed by Turkish law.
  • If you are a consumer in Türkiye, you may bring disputes before the Consumer Arbitration Committee or the Consumer Courts at your place of residence or where the transaction took place, according to the monetary limits set by law.
  • If you live outside Türkiye, the mandatory consumer-protection rules of your country of residence, and your right to bring proceedings before the courts of that country, are not affected.

15. App Store and Google Play

If you downloaded the app from the Apple App Store or Google Play:

  • These terms are between you and us; Apple and Google are not parties to them and are not responsible for the app or its content.
  • Maintenance and support of the app, and any claims relating to it (including product liability, legal or regulatory compliance, consumer-protection and intellectual-property claims), are our responsibility; Apple and Google have no obligation to provide maintenance or support.
  • On iOS the app may be used only on Apple devices you own or control and as permitted by the App Store usage rules.
  • Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms; once you accept them, Apple has the right to enforce them against you.
  • You declare that you are not located in a country subject to a US government embargo and are not on any US government list of prohibited or restricted parties.

16. Other provisions

  • If a provision of these terms is found invalid, the remaining provisions stay in force.
  • Our not exercising a right does not mean we waive it.

17. Contact

Questions, reports and complaints: account@freops.com