FANVELA Supplemental Terms of Use

Effective date: 20 July 2026

Document version: 2026-08-17-v15

These Supplemental Terms govern use of FANVELA. The Licensed Application End User License Agreement made available by Apple (Apple Standard EULA) also applies and is incorporated by reference. If these Terms conflict with the Apple Standard EULA, the Apple Standard EULA controls to the extent required by Apple; mandatory consumer law always prevails.

Operator and contracting party: Zhang Yubo, an independent developer and sole operator based in Italy. Contact: yubo.zhang.bb@gmail.com. FANVELA is not currently a separately incorporated company. Pei Yuxin (裴雨欣) is an authorised staff member at employee access level, but is not a co-owner, partner, contracting party, or joint controller.

Optional YouTube playback supplement (2026-09-09)

Update dated 2026-09-16: selecting Add link after the data notice also connects to YouTube, loads the official player and attempts to retrieve available public captions for local storage and translation. Only add content you are authorized to study. Caption retrieval is not the official YouTube caption-download API, is not guaranteed for all videos, does not bypass verification or access restrictions, and does not download audio/video. The prohibition on unauthorized extraction below still applies.

YouTube videos use the official embedded player. By selecting Load or using YouTube playback, you agree to be bound by the [YouTube Terms of Service](https://www.youtube.com/t/terms) and acknowledge the processing in privacy policy section 3.9. YouTube may display ads and use temporary cookies or similar technology inside its player; we do not hide its controls, ads or restrictions. Saving a link does not download media. The App does not offer unauthorized YouTube downloading, audio extraction or caption extraction for arbitrary videos. Import only subtitles you are authorized to use. Availability depends on the platform, creator permissions and network, and is not guaranteed. Deleting a local study item does not delete the YouTube video.

1. Acceptance and eligibility

By using FANVELA, creating an account, starting a recording, or buying a service, the user agrees to these Terms and acknowledges the Privacy Policy. Cloud accounts are intended for users aged 16 or older, or users acting with a parent or guardian where local law permits. A person using FANVELA for an institution confirms that they have authority to bind or act for that institution.

2. The service

FANVELA provides device-only text translation, local recording and transcription, optional realtime or async cloud speech processing, optional AI translation and study tools, vocabulary tools, history, playback, and export. Features, supported languages, models, latency, accuracy, and availability may change. The App may require a minimum supported version for security or cost protection.

Availability: cloud features (online text translation, live conversations, meetings, cloud refinement, AI study, precise translation, and photo extraction) are not offered to network environments inside mainland China. Text-AI features such as AI study, precise translation, AI vocabulary extraction, and photo extraction are currently unavailable from Russian network access. These restrictions use the current public Internet egress, not nationality, interface language, Apple ID, or App Store storefront. On-device offline translation, recording, and local study tools remain available.

On-device text translation, local glossaries, and local history do not require an account or consent to cloud processing. Both entry choices on the initial screen expressly accept these Terms and the Apple Standard EULA and acknowledge the Privacy Policy. Only Agree to Terms and Enable Cloud Services also records the choices for the three cloud-processing categories and necessary international transfers. Choosing on-device text translation does not authorize cloud services. Cloud functions may also require Apple sign-in, an available trial or paid balance, and network access; each authorisation can later be withdrawn in Privacy and Data settings. Neither choice enables automatic diagnostics.

3. Recording responsibility

Before every recording, the user must determine and comply with the laws and rules applying to the people, place, institution, subject matter, and intended use. By starting a recording, the user confirms that all participants have been informed and that every permission required by law has been obtained.

The user is solely responsible for lawful notice, consent, confidentiality, storage, export, disclosure, publication, and deletion. FANVELA does not provide legal authorization to record. A participant's presence, silence, or use of FANVELA does not necessarily constitute consent.

The user must not secretly record or monitor people where prohibited; defeat a recording indicator; record protected medical, professional, educational, workplace, examination, court, or confidential material without authority; or share a recording beyond the purpose communicated to participants.

4. AI and translation limitations

Speech recognition, language detection, translation, summaries, terminology extraction, and suggestions are automated and may be inaccurate, incomplete, delayed, biased, or fabricated. Noise, distance, mixed languages, accents, network conditions, technical vocabulary, and overlapping speakers can materially reduce accuracy.

Outputs are not certified translations and are not legal, medical, financial, immigration, safety, academic-integrity, or professional advice. Users must compare important output with the original audio or text and seek a qualified human translator or professional where accuracy matters. The user must not rely on FANVELA as the sole basis for emergency, diagnosis, treatment, legal filing, examination, grading, employment, admission, discipline, or other high-impact decisions.

5. Accounts and security

The user must protect the Apple account and device used to access FANVELA and must promptly report unauthorized access. Accounts and balances may not be sold, rented, transferred, shared as a commercial service, or accessed through automation unless we approve it in writing. We may suspend a session, require reauthentication, or block an outdated build to protect users and provider costs. Authorised staff may assist with support, security, or rights requests under the operator's instructions and least-privilege controls. Their acts within that role are acts in support of the operator's service and do not make them a separate party to these Terms.

6. Subscriptions, minutes, characters, and metering

Prices and exact benefits shown in the App Store purchase sheet control over estimates elsewhere in the App.

Auto-renewable subscriptions renew through Apple unless cancelled in Apple account settings before the applicable renewal deadline. Apple controls billing, taxes, payment methods, renewal, cancellation, and refund processing.
Subscription allowances are credited for the applicable subscription period and may expire when that period ends. Unused subscription allowances do not roll over unless the product page expressly says so.
One-time top-up minutes or AI allowances do not expire while the service remains available, unless the purchase is refunded or revoked, the account is terminated for serious breach, law requires a different result, or the product page states an expiry.
Precise-translation characters are charged according to the amount displayed before use, subject to any stated minimum charge.
Realtime and recording usage is measured by active processing time and reconciled against provider records. AI study, precise translation, and photo extraction share one AI-points balance: 1 AI point equals 1 AI second; AI study is charged in points by source duration and selected mode; precise translation and photo extraction convert 3 characters into 1 AI point with a displayed minimum charge. Displayed balance can be provisional while a session is being reconciled.
Pausing is preferable to repeatedly ending and reconnecting. A new connection may resend language, glossary, and context text and may consume additional provider resources, although we do not add a separate reconnection fee unless disclosed.

Refunds must be requested from Apple through its official process. Nothing in these Terms limits statutory cancellation, conformity, refund, or consumer rights that cannot lawfully be excluded. A refund or revocation permits us to reverse unused credits and correct a negative or duplicated balance.

7. User content and licence

The user retains rights in lawful content they provide. The user grants us and our listed processors a limited, non-exclusive licence to host, transmit, reproduce, transform, and delete that content only as necessary to provide the selected feature, secure the service, comply with law, and handle support or disputes. We do not obtain a licence to sell user content or train our own public model on it.

The user confirms that uploading, translating, storing, and exporting the content does not violate another person's privacy, confidentiality, copyright, database, contractual, or other rights.

8. Prohibited use

FANVELA must not be used to:

violate law, court orders, sanctions, export controls, institutional rules, or another person's rights;
conduct unlawful surveillance, stalking, harassment, discrimination, impersonation, fraud, blackmail, or covert profiling;
obtain or disclose passwords, financial credentials, health records, intimate content, children's data, biometric templates, trade secrets, examination content, or privileged communications without authority;
create or facilitate malware, cyber abuse, weapons, violence, sexual exploitation, human trafficking, or other serious harm;
make automated high-impact decisions about education, employment, credit, insurance, housing, law enforcement, migration, health, or access to essential services;
evade quotas, reverse engineer credentials, probe the service, overload infrastructure, resell API access, or use FANVELA as an unauthorized competing backend;
misrepresent AI output as a verified human translation or authentic statement.

9. Availability, changes, and suspension

Cloud providers and networks can fail. We may temporarily pause a feature for maintenance, security, suspected abuse, legal compliance, capacity, provider outage, abnormal cost, or a required update. We will use reasonable efforts to preserve already stored local content and to provide an understandable message. Emergency suspension may occur without advance notice when delay would create material risk.

We may change or discontinue a feature. If a paid service is materially discontinued, mandatory consumer remedies and Apple's applicable rules remain available.

10. Account deletion and termination

Users may delete their cloud account in the App. Deletion removes or de-identifies associated backend content subject to the Privacy Policy and legally required retention. It does not delete local files from every device, cancel an Apple subscription, or decide a pending Apple refund. Those actions must be completed separately.

We may restrict or terminate access for serious or repeated breach, fraud, unlawful recording, security abuse, payment revocation, sanctions, or risk to others. Where appropriate and lawful, we will provide notice and an opportunity to appeal by email.

11. Intellectual property

Except for user content and identified third-party materials, the original source and object code, interface arrangement, graphics and icons, copy, documentation, original selection or arrangement of databases, product design, and other original expression in FANVELA are owned by Zhang Yubo or the relevant licensors. They are protected, as applicable, by copyright, design, database, trade-secret, unfair-competition, and other laws. Third-party components, system symbols, fonts, SDKs, service names, and marks remain the property of their respective owners.

“FANVELA” and “好帆译”, the App icon, related identifiers, and product names are source identifiers currently used by Zhang Yubo and intended for registration or other protection. These Terms do not state that they are already registered and do not use the registered-trade-mark symbol. Pending registration does not waive existing or later-acquired rights. Without written permission, a user must not copy, imitate, apply to register, pre-emptively register, or use those names, icons, or identifiers in a manner likely to cause confusion about source, sponsorship, affiliation, or endorsement.

Except as expressly allowed by the Apple Standard EULA or mandatory law, the user receives only a personal, limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, and non-sublicensable right to use the App. The user must not copy, modify, distribute, sell, rent, make publicly available, create derivative versions of, remove rights notices from, extract source code from, circumvent technical protection of, or use the App or backend as a competing product or service. Mandatory exceptions for interoperability, research, security testing, quotation, backup, or other lawful purposes remain available, but only to the extent necessary.

Purchasing, subscribing to, downloading, or using the App does not transfer ownership of the App or any intellectual-property right. All rights not expressly granted are reserved. To the extent such restrictions are permitted by mandatory law, the user must not use crawlers, bots, automated scripts, mirroring, bulk requests, or similar means to: (a) systematically extract the App's original copy, interface assets, glossary structures, documentation, or original database arrangement; (b) use those materials to create a substitute dataset or to train or evaluate a model; or (c) reproduce the App's distinctive overall combination of interface, copy, icons, or interaction expression in a product likely to confuse users or misrepresent its source. This paragraph does not prohibit lawful independent development, use of unprotected ideas or functionality, or legally permitted criticism, comparison, news reporting, or interoperability research.

The user retains rights in their input. Subject to compliance with these Terms and third-party rights, we do not claim any right that the user may lawfully have in an individual translation, transcript, or AI output. Automated output may not qualify for copyright protection, may be the same as or similar to output provided to others, and is not warranted to be free of third-party rights. This does not grant the user any right in the App software, interface, brand, built-in assets, system prompts, templates, or another person's content.

Submitting feedback does not transfer user content or confidential information. The user grants us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide licence only to evaluate the feedback and improve the product; we will not thereby disclose the user's identity or confidential content. Suspected imitation or infringement may be reported to yubo.zhang.bb@gmail.com.

An infringement notice should, where possible, include the notifier's name and contact details; identification of the work or identifier concerned; the location or link to the allegedly infringing material; evidence of ownership and relevant dates; a good-faith statement; a statement that the information is accurate; and a signature. We may request further information and, where permitted by applicable law, preserve evidence, restrict or terminate relevant accounts, notify an app marketplace, host, or platform, and seek cessation, corrective measures, evidence preservation, injunctive relief, damages, and reasonable enforcement costs. A person affected by a notice may send a counter-notice and evidence of authorization to the same address. A person who knowingly submits a false or bad-faith notice may be liable under applicable law.

Unreleased beta features, invite-only documentation, security materials, unpublished pricing, or product plans that are marked confidential or should reasonably be understood as confidential may be used only for the authorised testing purpose and must not be disclosed without permission or used for competitive development. This does not cover information that is public through no breach by the user, that the user can show was already lawfully known or independently developed, or that must be disclosed by law.

The user must not apply for, register, or use a trade mark, business name, domain name, social-media handle, developer name, app name, package name, advertising asset, or store metadata containing “FANVELA”, “好帆译”, or a similar identifier in a way likely to cause confusion, impersonation, or a false suggestion of affiliation. Honest, necessary, and non-confusing nominative reference to the product remains permitted.

12. Warranty and liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, FANVELA is provided "as is" and "as available" without a promise of uninterrupted service or error-free output. We are not liable for decisions made solely from unverified AI output, unlawful recordings, loss caused by a user's failure to back up local files, or third-party network and provider outages outside our reasonable control.

Nothing excludes liability that cannot be excluded, including liability for wilful misconduct or gross negligence, death or personal injury where applicable, or mandatory consumer guarantees. Any contractual liability cap in the Apple Standard EULA applies only to the extent lawful in the user's country.

13. Governing law and disputes

Italian law applies where lawful, without depriving consumers of mandatory protections of their country of residence. EU consumers may bring claims in the competent courts available under EU consumer law. Users elsewhere retain non-waivable local rights. Contact us first at yubo.zhang.bb@gmail.com so we can try to resolve the issue.

14. Language and changes

Chinese, Italian, and English versions are provided. Mandatory local-language consumer rules prevail; otherwise, the Italian version is the reference version. Material changes will be presented in the App and may require renewed acceptance.

15. General contractual and rights protection

These Terms, the Apple Standard EULA, the product conditions shown at purchase, and the data-processing provisions of the Privacy Policy form the entire arrangement governing the service. No communication, tolerance, technical access, beta access, or acceptance of payment constitutes an intellectual-property assignment, exclusive licence, brand authorization, or waiver unless expressly set out in a writing signed by Zhang Yubo.

A failure or delay in exercising a right is not a waiver, and a single waiver is not a continuing waiver. If a competent authority finds a provision invalid or unenforceable, its lawful purpose should be preserved to the greatest extent possible and the remaining provisions continue in effect. Provisions concerning user content, intellectual property, confidentiality, liability, evidence, governing law, and disputes survive account deletion or termination to the extent required by their nature.

The user may not transfer an account or the licence granted under these Terms. To move the service into a future sole proprietorship, company, or other lawful operating entity, the operator may assign or update the contracting party without reducing mandatory user rights and in compliance with data-protection law, and will notify users of a change that materially affects them.

Account, version, consent, transaction, request, security, and diagnostic records, together with signed submissions, timestamps, hashes, App Store records, and cloud-provider records, may be used as evidence of conduct, ownership, publication date, and loss where applicable procedural law permits. A party retains all legal rights to challenge, rebut, and request correction of such evidence.

16. Contact and official Apple terms

Support, legal, account, and privacy contact: yubo.zhang.bb@gmail.com.

Apple Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/