1. Who this agreement is with
These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) are an agreement between you and Nikita Terekhin, an individual based in Tokyo, Japan, who develops and operates Omut (“we”, “us” or “Omut”). Omut is not yet incorporated.
The Terms apply to the Omut apps for iPhone, iPad and Mac, our servers, and the website omut.chat (together, the “Service”). By creating an account or using the Service you accept these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.
How we handle personal data is described in our Privacy Policy, which forms part of these Terms.
2. Minimum age: 18
The Service is not intended for anyone under 18 years of age. By using the Service you confirm that you are at least 18 years old and able to enter into a binding agreement.
If we learn that an account belongs to someone under 18, we will close it and delete its data as described in the Privacy Policy. If you believe a person under 18 is using Omut, write to [email protected].
3. What Omut is
Omut is a messaging app that includes:
- its own messenger between Omut users: chats, groups, channels, calls and attachments;
- the ability to connect your own Telegram and WhatsApp accounts and use them from inside Omut. To make this work, our servers act as a client of those services on your behalf.
We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to use the Service for as long as these Terms are in effect. The apps, their code, design and the Omut name remain ours.
The Service is currently in open beta. Beta builds are distributed through Apple TestFlight and may contain errors, change often, or lose features.
4. Telegram, WhatsApp and Apple are third parties
- Omut is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Telegram Messenger Inc., WhatsApp LLC, Meta Platforms, Inc. or Apple Inc., and is not their official client. Their names are used only to describe what the app works with. Their trademarks belong to their owners.
- Connecting your Telegram or WhatsApp account is your own decision. You remain bound by the terms and policies of those services and are responsible for complying with them.
- WhatsApp is connected as a linked device, the same way WhatsApp Web works. There is no official API for personal WhatsApp accounts.
- Those services may change their rules or protocols, limit access, or suspend or ban your account or phone number at any time. We have no control over this, cannot restore a banned account, and are not liable for such actions.
- Your Telegram two-step verification password is used only at the moment of sign-in and is not stored.
5. Your account
You can sign in with a username and password, with Apple, with a passkey (Face ID / Touch ID), or with Telegram. You can add and remove sign-in methods in the settings, but not the last remaining one.
- Your account is personal. Do not share it or transfer it to anyone.
- You are responsible for activity under your account and for keeping your credentials secure.
- Use a real email address. Without it, a forgotten password may mean a lost account.
- Usernames that impersonate us or our support (such as
admin, support, omut) are reserved.
- If you think someone else has accessed your account, change your password and contact us right away.
6. Price during the beta and after it
- During the beta, Omut does not charge users and processes no payments. All features available in the beta are free.
- We plan to introduce a paid subscription after the beta. The planned price is shown on omut.chat.
- Before we charge anyone, we will add the price, billing period, cancellation and refund rules, and the payment provider to these Terms and the Privacy Policy, and tell you in the app or by email. You will be charged only if you choose to buy a subscription.
- Nothing in these Terms limits any rights you have under mandatory consumer protection law.
7. Prohibited use
You must not use the Service to:
- break any applicable law or help others do so;
- send spam, unsolicited bulk or automated messages, or create accounts in bulk or by automated means, or abuse free trials;
- send or store illegal content, including child sexual abuse material, threats, harassment, incitement to violence or terrorism;
- infringe others' intellectual property, privacy or other rights, including publishing someone's personal data without permission;
- distribute malware, phishing or fraud;
- attack or overload the Service, guess passwords, or exploit vulnerabilities without our permission;
- use another person's account, resell access, or impersonate us or other people;
- reverse engineer, decompile or copy the apps, except where the law expressly allows it.
Users can report messages and profiles and block other users in the app. We review reports and may remove content or restrict accounts.
Found a security vulnerability? Please report it to [email protected]. See also Security & Privacy.
8. Your content
What you send remains yours. You give us only the limited right to store, process and transmit your content as needed to provide the Service: deliver messages, keep your history, and show notification text.
Omut chats are not end-to-end encrypted: messages pass through our servers and are stored in our database, so we are technically able to read them. We do not read them. Messages of connected Telegram and WhatsApp accounts are processed on our servers. Details are in the Privacy Policy.
Attachments in Omut chats are stored on our servers for 180 days and then deleted. Keep copies of anything important.
You are responsible for the content you send.
9. AI features
Some features use automated processing: voice-to-text transcription (performed on your device) and AI summaries of voice messages (performed by Anthropic's Claude when you ask for one). AI features are not available in all countries, and some are still in development.
AI output can be inaccurate or incomplete. Do not rely on it for important decisions without checking the original message. How data is processed for AI features is described in the Privacy Policy.
10. Availability and changes to the service
We try to keep the Service running, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted operation. Updates, maintenance and outages happen. The Service also depends on the internet, Apple, our infrastructure providers, and on Telegram and WhatsApp. Current status is shown at status.omut.chat.
We may add, change or remove features. We will try to give notice of significant changes in advance.
11. Disclaimer of warranties
To the extent permitted by law, the Service is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Service will be error-free, secure or uninterrupted, or that connected third-party services will keep working.
12. Limitation of liability
To the extent permitted by law, we are not liable for:
- the suspension or ban of your account or number by Telegram, WhatsApp or another service, or any acts, changes or outages of those services;
- the content of messages sent by you or other people;
- loss of data because you lost access to or deleted your account, or because attachments expired after 180 days;
- network failures, or problems with your device or operating system;
- indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages, or lost profits.
Where we are liable, our total liability is limited to the amount you paid us for the Service in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim. While the Service is free, that amount is zero, subject to the next paragraph.
These limitations do not apply to damage caused by our intentional misconduct or gross negligence, or to any liability that cannot be limited or excluded under applicable law, including the Consumer Contract Act of Japan and mandatory consumer protection laws of your country of residence.
13. Termination
You may stop using the Service at any time and delete your account in the app. The account is deleted after 30 days; signing in again within that period restores it.
We may restrict or terminate your access if you breach these Terms or the law, or if your actions harm other people or the Service. Where possible, we will warn you first and explain why, unless urgent action is needed.
14. Changes to these Terms
The version of these Terms is the date at the top of this page. We may update them; the new version is published here with a new date.
We will notify you of material changes in the app or by email before they take effect. If you continue to use the Service after the effective date, you accept the updated Terms. If you do not agree, stop using the Service and delete your account.
15. Governing law and disputes
These Terms are governed by the laws of Japan.
Please contact us first at [email protected]; we will try to resolve the issue informally within 30 days.
Any dispute that cannot be resolved informally is subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Tokyo District Court as the court of first instance. If you are a consumer, this does not deprive you of the protection of mandatory laws of your country of residence or of your right to bring a claim where that law allows.
16. General
If any provision of these Terms is found invalid, the remaining provisions stay in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. You may not transfer your rights under these Terms without our consent; we may transfer them to a successor, for example a company formed to operate Omut, and will notify you if we do.
These Terms are written in English. Translations into other languages are provided for convenience; if a translation conflicts with the English version, the English version prevails.