Terms of Use: Capshy

Effective date: 2026-11-13 · Last updated: 2026-11-13

Draft. Prepared with reference to Israeli law (Standard Contracts Law, Consumer Protection Law, Copyright Law), EU, UK and U.S. consumer rules, and Google Play policies. The document should be reviewed by a lawyer before publication. Fill in every [TO COMPLETE] before publishing.

1. Who we are, and agreement

1.1. The Capshy app (formerly Yiddish Captions AI), its server and its website (the "Service") are operated by Shalom Vider, a sole proprietor (osek patur) in the State of Israel, business no. 207649609, address 122 Rabbi Akiva St., Apt. 13, Bnei Brak 5146205, Israel, email support@capshy.com ("we", "us").

1.2. By installing or using the App you agree to these Terms and to the Privacy Policy, which forms part of them. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

1.3. Nothing in these Terms limits any consumer rights that cannot be waived under the law of Israel or of the country where you live. Where a clause conflicts with such a right, the right prevails.

2. Age and capacity

2.1. The Service is intended for users aged 13 and over. If the law of your country sets a higher age, that age applies.

2.2. Users under 18 need the consent of a parent or guardian, and purchases may be made only with their approval. The parent or guardian is responsible for the minor's use and purchases.

2.3. Sanctions. You may not use the Service from a country or region subject to sanctions of Israel, the U.S., the EU or the UN, or if you are listed on any of their sanctions lists. AI features are available only in countries where Anthropic permits use of its service.

3. What the Service does

3.1. The Service creates captions for videos in Hebrew, Yiddish and English, and can also translate between them. Each word is highlighted as it is spoken, and the captions are burned into the video.

3.2. Transcription runs on our server, using an AI model. Only the audio of the part you chose is sent, without the picture. Your video itself stays on your phone.

3.2A. Improving transcription. To improve transcription, we keep the audio of the clips you transcribe and the captions before and after your corrections, and train our transcription models on them, as described in section 3A of the Privacy Policy. This is on by default. You can turn it off at any time in Settings ("Help improve transcription"), and then nothing new is kept. You can ask us to delete what was already kept. Text you paste yourself, and the audio of such a clip, are not kept. You confirm that you have the right to let us use the audio you send this way, and that the people heard in it know of this where the law requires.

3.3. Cloud features (such as transcript improvement and translation, depending on your plan) send the transcript text for processing by an AI provider (Anthropic), as described in the Privacy Policy. They require an account and an internet connection.

3.4. We may add, change or discontinue features. If we discontinue a feature you prepaid for a period that has not ended, you will receive, at your choice, a pro-rata refund or an alternative feature of similar value, unless the law provides otherwise.

4. AI accuracy and review

4.1. Transcription, timing, corrections and translation are automatic and may contain errors. These include wrong words, numbers, names, vowel points, spelling, inaccurate timing and unfaithful translation.

4.2. You are responsible for reviewing captions before publishing or sharing them. The App lets you edit every line. Output from the Service is not a certified translation or a religious ruling, and must not be relied on for legal, medical, religious or financial purposes.

4.3. If the output of an AI feature is offensive or inappropriate, you can report it to us from within the App or by email. We review every report.

4.4. Anthropic's Claude. Cloud AI features are powered by Anthropic's Claude model. Their use is also subject to Anthropic's Usage Policy, and you may not use them for anything it prohibits. Any fact, name, number or quotation the AI added or changed must be checked independently before you rely on it or publish it.

5. Account

5.1. Some features require signing in with a Google account. You are responsible for keeping access to your account secure. If you suspect unauthorized use, notify us.

5.2. You may hold only one account, and you may not open additional accounts to obtain repeated trials, discounts or quota.

5.3. You may delete your account at any time, in the App or on the web page listed in the Privacy Policy. Deleting your account does not cancel a Google Play subscription (see section 7).

5.4. Backups. Your videos, projects, drafts and templates are stored only on your phone, not with us. Deleting the App or its data, changing phones or a fault in the phone may erase them, and we have no way to restore them. Backing them up is your responsibility, for example by keeping finished videos in your gallery or a backup service.

6. Your content

6.1. Your videos, texts and captions belong to you. We do not acquire ownership of them. To provide the Service you grant us a limited permission to process the text you submit to cloud features, solely to fulfil that request, as described in the Privacy Policy.

6.2. You confirm that you hold all rights and consents needed for the content you process and publish. These include:

Copyright, including in music and in other people's material.
The consent of people who appear or are heard in the video, where the law requires it.

6.3. You may not use the Service to create, edit or distribute content that:

Is unlawful or misleading, defames anyone, or invades privacy.
Incites violence, terrorism, racism or hatred, or harasses or threatens anyone.
Infringes copyright, trademarks or other rights of others.
Falsely presents a person as having said something they did not say, or impersonates a person or entity.
Sexualises minors or harms minors in any other way. We report such content to the authorities.
Is sexually explicit or pornographic.
Promotes the sale of drugs, weapons or other prohibited goods or services.
Is spam, unsolicited advertising, a scam or a pyramid scheme.

6.4. The Service is an editing tool. We do not review, host or publish your videos, and you are responsible for your content and its publication.

6.5. Ideas and feedback. If you send us an idea, suggestion or feedback about the Service (for example through "Contact us" or by email), you grant us a free, non-exclusive, worldwide and perpetual permission to use it to improve and develop the Service, without any duty to pay or credit you. We are not obliged to implement any suggestion. This does not apply to your videos and captions, which remain yours (section 6.1).

6.6. Enforcement. We do not routinely review your content. We may, however, review reports, block use that breaches section 6.3, and disclose information to the authorities where the law requires it.

7. Prices, purchases and subscriptions

7.1. All purchases are made through Google Play and are also subject to Google Play's terms. The full price, including applicable taxes, is shown before purchase. We never receive your payment details.

7.2. Types of purchase (as actually offered in the App):

PRO subscription: access to the features, transcription quota and monthly credits listed on the plans screen, for one month or one year.
Credit packs: credits for AI features, on top of what your plan includes (section 7.7).

7.3. Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each period, at the same price, until you cancel. You can cancel at any time in Google Play → Payments & subscriptions → Subscriptions. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the paid period, and access continues until then. We will give advance notice of any price increase or the end of an introductory price, directly or through Google Play, as the law and Google Play require. If you do not agree, you may cancel.

7.4. The monthly quota (transcription minutes and credits included in your plan) renews at the start of each period. Whatever is unused does not carry over unless expressly stated otherwise.

7.5. Free plan: you may use the Service free of charge, within the limits shown in the App, such as video length, transcription minutes per month and a watermark. We may change the free plan's limits by notice in the App.

7.6. Coupons are issued at our discretion, on the terms stated for each coupon. They have no cash value and may not be transferred or traded.

7.7. Credits:

A credit is a unit for using AI features within the Service. It is not money and has no cash value. It cannot be redeemed, transferred, sold or traded.
The cost of each action in credits is shown before it runs.
Credits you buy do not expire while your account exists and the Service operates. Credits included in a subscription renew each period and do not carry over (section 7.4).
Credits belong to the account. They are erased when the account is deleted and cannot be restored.
If a purchase is cancelled or refunded, its credits are revoked.
We may change the credit cost of actions in future, with advance notice. Such a change does not remove credits you already bought.
If we discontinue the Service, we will give advance notice, and you may request a pro-rata refund of purchased credits you have not used.

7.8. Free credits and minutes (watching an ad, inviting a friend, a coupon or a partner code):

They are granted only after our server verifies them, up to the cap shown in the App.
They are a benefit. We may change or end these programmes at any time, without affecting a benefit you already received in good faith.
A benefit obtained by fraud, duplicate accounts, automated tools or by bypassing the App is revoked, and we may also suspend the account.
Partner codes: if you redeem one, your account is linked to that partner permanently, and the partner may receive a share of our profit on your purchases. This does not change your price, and the partner does not receive your name or email.

8. Cancellation and refunds

8.1. In Israel, under the Consumer Protection Law, 5741-1981:

Cancelling a subscription or ongoing service within 14 days: you may cancel within 14 days of the transaction or of receiving the disclosure document, whichever is later. You will be refunded the amount paid, less the pro-rata value of the service already provided and a cancellation fee of up to 5% of the price or ILS 100, whichever is lower, as the law permits.
Cancelling a subscription at any time: you may cancel at any time in Google Play, or by notifying us (by email or post). If you notify us, we will cancel the subscription and stop charges within 3 business days, as section 13D of the Law requires.
Credit packs: you may cancel within 14 days of purchase. You will be refunded the amount paid for unused credits, less a cancellation fee as the law permits.
Additional statutory rights, for example for senior citizens, persons with disabilities and new immigrants, are preserved.

8.2. In the EU and UK, consumers generally have a 14-day right of withdrawal. For digital content or digital services, this right may be lost once supply begins immediately with your express consent and your acknowledgement that the right will be lost. Google Play asks for that consent and acknowledgement on its checkout screen, before the purchase. If you did not give them, the right of withdrawal remains. This does not affect your rights in case of a defect or non-conformity.

8.3. How to request a refund: refunds are processed through Google Play under its refund policy (usually from your order page in Google Play or at play.google.com), or by contacting us at the address in section 1. We handle every request in accordance with the law.

8.4. Access after a refund: if a refund is granted, access to the purchased features is revoked.

9. Prohibited use

In addition to section 6.3, you may not:

Copy, decompile, reverse engineer or modify the App, except to the extent the law expressly permits.
Circumvent plan limits, quotas or watermarks.
Distribute the installation file or any part of it.
Access the server other than through the App, or by automated means (scripts, bots), or forge requests to the server.
Overload the Service in a way that harms it or other users.
Sell, rent or transfer access to your account.
Extract, copy or reproduce the templates, animations, designs, illustrations, AI instructions or any other part of the Service for use outside it.
Use the Service or its output to build, train or improve a competing service or AI model.
Offer the Service to others under another name, or as part of another service.
Collect information about other users.
Probe, scan or attempt to breach the Service or its security measures.
Distribute viruses or malicious code through the Service.

10. Intellectual property and license

10.1. The Service belongs to us. The App, code, algorithms, screen structure and flow, design, templates, animations, styles, illustrations, icons, texts, AI instructions, the Capshy name and the logo belong to us or to our licensors. They are protected by copyright, trademark and trade secret law. All rights not expressly granted to you in these Terms are reserved.

10.2. We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to install and use the App in accordance with these Terms. You may use the videos you create for any lawful purpose, including commercial purposes. The templates and designs themselves may be used only within the Service, to create your videos.

10.3. Open-source components: the Service includes open-source components, including:

whisper.cpp, under the MIT License.
ivrit-ai transcription models, under the Apache License 2.0.
Fonts under the SIL Open Font License.
AndroidX libraries, under the Apache License 2.0.
Speaker detection on the server: pyannote speaker-diarization-community-1, under CC-BY-4.0.

These components are governed by their own licenses, which are included in the App, and nothing in these Terms restricts the rights those licenses grant.

10.4. Name and logo: you may not use the Capshy name, the logo, or a confusingly similar name or mark without our written permission.

11. Third-party services

The Service can open or work with third-party services, such as Google, Google Play, WhatsApp, Yiddish Labs and Anthropic. Your use of them is governed by their terms. We are not responsible for their availability, content or policies.

Google is not a party to this agreement. The agreement is between you and us only, and Google is not responsible for the Service, its support or any claims about it. Purchases through Google Play are also subject to Google Play's terms.

12. Availability and changes

12.1. Editing, design and creating the video happen on your phone. Transcription and AI features depend on our server and on external providers, and may sometimes be unavailable, for example during maintenance or a provider outage.

12.2. We do not guarantee that the Service will run on every device. Device requirements are listed on the App's store page.

13. Warranties and liability

13.1. The Service is provided "as is" and "as available". To the fullest extent permitted by law, we give no warranties beyond those stated in these Terms. This includes no warranty that transcription or translation will be accurate, or that the Service will be uninterrupted.

13.2. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for:

Indirect, consequential or special damages.
Loss of profits, goodwill or data.
Damage caused by content you published without reviewing it.

In any case, our total liability to you is limited to the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the event, or ILS 100, whichever is greater.

13.3. These limitations do not apply to anything that cannot be limited by law, including:

Damage caused intentionally or by gross negligence.
Personal injury.
Consumer rights that cannot be waived.

14. Indemnity

To the extent permitted by law, you will indemnify us for damages and reasonable costs, including reasonable legal fees, arising from a third-party claim relating to your content or your breach of these Terms. We will notify you of any such claim promptly and allow you to defend it.

15. Suspension and termination

15.1. We may suspend or close an account that materially breaches these Terms, is used for fraud, or where the law requires it. Unless there is a risk or a legal obstacle, we will notify you in advance and give you an opportunity to remedy the breach.

15.2. If we close an account for reasons other than your breach, you will receive a pro-rata refund for any paid period that has not been used.

15.3. If an account is closed for a material breach or fraud, its credits and benefits are revoked, subject to your statutory rights.

15.4. Sections that by their nature are intended to survive termination will survive it: 6, 10, 13, 14 and 17.

16. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. For material changes we will give at least 30 days' notice in the App or by email, unless the change is required immediately by law or for security reasons. A change will not apply to a subscription period already paid for if it makes your position worse. If you do not agree with a change, you may cancel your subscription and stop using the Service.

17. Governing law and jurisdiction

17.1. These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Israel, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. The competent courts in the Tel Aviv-Jaffa district have jurisdiction.

17.2. Consumers living outside Israel keep the mandatory protections of the law of their country of residence, and may also bring proceedings in the courts there where their law allows.

17.3. For EU consumers: we are not obliged to take part in proceedings before a consumer dispute resolution body, but we are happy to try to resolve any issue directly.

17.4. Try to resolve it directly first. Before starting legal proceedings, please write to us at the email in section 19, describe the problem and give us 30 days to try to resolve it. We will do the same before taking proceedings against you. This does not prevent urgent applications to a court, and does not limit any statutory consumer right.

18. General

18.1. Entire agreement: these Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Service.

18.2. Severability: if any clause is invalid, the remaining clauses stay in force.

18.3. No waiver: failure to enforce a right is not a waiver of it.

18.4. Assignment: we may assign these Terms to an entity that operates the Service, for example a company established with our business partner, with advance notice and without prejudice to your rights. You may not assign them without our consent.

18.5. Force majeure: we are not liable for delay or failure caused by circumstances beyond our reasonable control.

18.6. Language: these Terms are provided in Hebrew and English. In case of conflict, the Hebrew version prevails for users in Israel, and the English version prevails for all other users.

18.7. Notices: a notice we send to your account's email address, or show in the App, is deemed delivered to you. Notices to us go to the email in section 19.

18.8. Marketing email: we will not send you marketing or promotional email without your express, separate consent. If you consent, every such message will be marked as advertising and include an unsubscribe link, and you may withdraw consent at any time. Service messages, for example about your account, a purchase or a change to these Terms, are not marketing.

19. Contact

support@capshy.com · 122 Rabbi Akiva St., Apt. 13, Bnei Brak 5146205, Israel