people you know is a private photo-sharing app. These are the terms for using it during the closed beta. They are short on purpose, and they are a contract: using the app means agreeing to them.

Last updated: 25 September 2026.

Who we are

This app is operated by people you know llc, a Texas limited liability company, at 2222 N Alamo St #118, San Antonio, TX 78215, United States. It is the party to these terms: we and us below mean that company.

Where this is offered

The app is offered in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Singapore and Japan. We do not offer it elsewhere, and the store listings are limited to those five countries. If you use it from another country you do so on your own initiative, and the laws of that country may give you rights these terms do not describe.

The language of these terms

These terms are published in English and in French, and the two are meant to say the same thing. If you are a consumer in Québec, the French version is the one that binds you, and it is the version this app links to when the app is in French. We do not ask you to agree to the English one instead. Everywhere else the English version binds. If the two ever differ, that is a mistake of ours rather than a choice, and we will correct it.

Who may use it

You must be 18 or older. You need an invitation; during the beta they are issued by hand. One person, one account.

What it costs

The beta is free. There is nothing to buy in the app and no payment method on file.

If we start charging, we will say so in the app before anything is charged, and we will not turn an account you already have into one you have to pay for without telling you first and giving you the choice of leaving with your data. Terms for a paid plan will be written when there is one; there is no point agreeing now to something nobody has priced.

What you agree to

  • You will only post photos you have the right to share, and only to people who would want to see them.
  • You will not use the app to harass, threaten, or intimidate anybody, or to share intimate images of a person without their consent, or anything that sexualises a minor.
  • You will not report something you know to be untrue.
  • You will not try to break the encryption, enumerate handles, or interfere with other people’s accounts.

What you keep

Everything you post is yours. We claim no licence over it beyond what is needed to store the encrypted file and deliver it to the people you chose, and that licence ends when the content does. We cannot read any of it, so we could not use it for anything else even if we wanted to.

What we can and cannot do

We cannot see your content, so we cannot review it, filter it, or promise that it is anything in particular. What we can do is act on what a report tells us: we may remove the post or comment it is about, or suspend or delete the account behind it. The moderation policy says how we decide.

We can stop the service, change it, or end the beta. If we end the service we will give you at least 30 days’ notice and time to export your data, unless we are stopped from giving notice by something outside our control.

Changing these terms

We may change these terms. If a change matters to you—anything about what you agree to, what it costs, or what we may do with your account—we will say so in the app and put the date at the top of this page before it takes effect. Carrying on using the app after that is how you accept it. If you would rather not, delete your account; that is always available and always free.

If the company is sold

If somebody else comes to own people you know llc, or the service is sold or merged into another company, bankruptcy included, these terms and the privacy policy stay as they are. Whoever runs the service afterwards takes on every promise in them, in our place. To change them it must follow the same rules we do: tell you in the app before a change takes effect, and never apply a looser privacy rule to information it already holds unless you agree. We will not hand the service to anybody who will not take them on.

We will tell you in the app before it happens, and you can export your data and delete your account before then if you would rather not stay. If nobody will take the service over on those terms, we end it instead, with the 30 days’ notice and the time to export described above.

Your responsibilities

Keep your recovery phrase somewhere safe. It is the only way to get your account back onto a new phone, and there is no reset: if it is lost with your phones, your photos are gone and we cannot recover them.

What you share with somebody, they can keep, the same as with any other way of sending a photo.

What we do not promise

The beta is provided as is and as available. We do not promise that it will be uninterrupted, that it will not lose data, or that it is fit for any particular purpose, and we disclaim the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement, so far as the law allows. This is a beta of an encrypted product where we hold no key we can use: it is the wrong place for the only copy of a photograph that matters to you.

Liability

So far as the law allows, we are not liable for lost photos, lost access, or anything anybody does with what you shared with them, and we are not liable for indirect, incidental or consequential loss.

Where we are liable, and except for harm we caused intentionally or through gross negligence, our total liability to you is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, which during the beta is nothing, or one hundred United States dollars.

Two things this does not do, because the law does not allow it and because pretending otherwise would make the rest unenforceable. Nothing here limits our liability for fraud, for our own gross negligence or wilful misconduct, or for death or personal injury caused by us, and nothing here takes away a right the consumer law where you live gives you that cannot be waived. Some US states do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or damages, and Québec and several Canadian provinces give consumers a legal warranty that cannot be excluded at all. In New Zealand, nothing in these terms limits your rights under the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993. In Singapore, a limit on our liability holds only as far as it is reasonable under the Unfair Contract Terms Act. In Japan, the Consumer Contract Act does not let the first paragraph of this section exclude our liability to a consumer, so for a consumer in Japan that paragraph does not apply and the one after it limits our liability instead. So parts of the two sections above do not apply to everybody who reads them.

Ending it

You can delete your account at any time from settings, or from this page if you no longer have the app. The privacy policy says exactly what that destroys and when.

We may suspend or delete an account that breaks the rules above, as the moderation policy describes. If we delete your account for a reason other than your own breach, and you cannot reach your data, write to us and we will help so far as we are able, which for anything encrypted is limited by the fact that we hold no key we can use.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, and a dispute goes to the state or federal courts located in Bexar County, Texas.

That clause cannot take away the protections of the consumer law where you live, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. If you are a consumer in Québec you may bring proceedings in Québec, and Québec law makes a clause in a contract like this one requiring you to go elsewhere void rather than merely unattractive. The same is true anywhere else whose consumer law says so. Where your own law and this clause disagree, your own law wins.

The rest

If any part of these terms is unenforceable, the rest stands. Our not enforcing something is not our giving it up. These terms, with the privacy and moderation policies, are the whole agreement between us about the app. You may not transfer your account or these terms to somebody else; we may transfer them only to whoever takes over the service, as If the company is sold describes.

Contact

pykapp+hello@proton.me