Terms of service

Draft pending legal review. Last updated 4 October 2026 (draft).

These terms are a contract between you and Farasu Holdings LLC, a Delaware limited liability company [Delaware file number and registered address - to confirm with counsel] ("Scorchly", "we") for the Scorchly website, web app and mobile apps. By using Scorchly you agree to them. If you do not, please do not use Scorchly.

1. Who can use Scorchly

• You must be at least 13.
• Community features (public Hot Seat, leagues, public tipping), when launched, are for adults (18+).
• If you are under 18, you confirm a parent or guardian agrees to these terms.

2. What Scorchly is

Scorchly uses AI to write jokes about photos and messages you provide. The output is comedy, generated automatically. It can be wrong, odd or unfunny, and it is not a statement of fact about anyone. You decide what to share.

3. Your content

• Only upload photos of yourself, or of adults who have agreed to be roasted. Never upload photos of anyone under 18.
• You keep ownership of what you upload. You give us a limited licence to process it to provide the service, as the privacy policy describes.
• For roasts you turn into share cards, you give us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to display the card on its public page for as long as it stays published. Delete your account to end it.
• We may remove any card and suspend any account that breaks these terms.

3a. Explicit mode

Explicit mode is an optional, Pro-only setting for adults. With it on, roasts can be about how someone looks - face, body, hair, height and age - and can include strong language. To switch it on you must confirm that you are 18 or over and that any photo you use is of you, or of an adult who has agreed to be roasted this way.

• What never changes: no jokes about race, ethnicity, nationality or accent, religion, sexuality, gender or gender identity, disability, illness or mental health, scars or other visible differences; no sexist slurs; nothing sexual; nothing encouraging self-harm, suicide or eating disorders; and nothing about anyone who may be under 18. These limits are enforced by our instructions to the AI and by two automatic checks on every line.
• It can sting. Explicit roasts are harsher by design. Use it only if you are comfortable with that, tap Too mean on anything that goes too far, and switch it off at any time.
• Sharing: Explicit cards open with a content notice, and the line is left out of link previews.
• Using Explicit mode on someone who has not agreed breaks these terms, and we will remove the card and may close the account.

4. Rules

You must not use Scorchly to:

• bully, harass or threaten anyone;
• target anyone for their race, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, gender identity, disability or health, or for their body without their agreement (see Explicit mode);
• create or share sexual content, or anything involving minors;
• encourage self-harm;
• impersonate anyone or pass off AI output as a real statement by a real person;
• manipulate votes, referrals, allowances or tips, or run more than one account for that purpose;
• scrape, reverse-engineer, overload or interfere with the service.

5. Reporting and takedowns

Every public card has a report control, and you can email hello@scorchly.app. We aim to review reports within 24 hours. If you appear in a card you did not agree to, we will take it down. If your card is removed and you think that was wrong, email us and we will look again.

6. Scorchly Pro

• Pro costs US$6.99 per week (or the local equivalent shown at checkout) and renews automatically every week until you cancel.
• App Store or Google Play: manage and cancel in your store account. Their refund policies apply.
• Web: cancel from "Manage subscription" on the Pro screen in the app, or through the link in your receipt email. Cancelling stops the next renewal; you keep Pro until the end of the paid week.
• Refunds on web: [UK/EU consumers: 14-day right to cancel, pro-rated for service already used - wording to confirm with counsel. Elsewhere: contact us within 14 days.]
• Free usage limits, Pro features and prices may change; we will tell you in advance and the change applies from your next renewal.

7. Free weeks and invites

• A new user who joins through an invite link and verifies their email gets 7 days of Pro, once.
• The person who invited them gets 7 days of Pro when that user's first paid week is charged, up to 4 free weeks a calendar month.
• No self-invites, duplicate accounts or spam. Rewards are cancelled if the related payment is refunded or charged back within 14 days.
• Rewards have no cash value. We may change or end the programme for future invites.

8. Tips and Embers (when launched)

• Tips are bought in the app or included with Pro. Purchased tips never expire; tips included with Pro reset each week.
• When you tip a roast, its creator receives Embers - points with no cash value that cannot be bought directly, sold, transferred for value, withdrawn or exchanged for money or prizes.
• Refunded tip purchases are removed from your balance.

9. Our content and brand

The Scorchly name, personas, designs and software belong to us. Share cards may be shared for personal, non-commercial use with the watermark intact. The AI comedians are original characters; any resemblance to real people is unintended.

10. Ending things

• You can delete your account at any time from the Invite tab in the app. Deletion removes your account, email and cards; payment records are kept as long as accounting law requires.
• We may suspend or close accounts that break these terms, and will tell you why unless the law prevents it.

11. Disclaimers and liability

• Scorchly is provided "as is". We do not promise it will always be available or that every roast will be funny.
• To the extent the law allows, our total liability to you is limited to the amount you paid us in the 3 months before the claim.
• Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, or rights you have under consumer law.

12. Governing law

[Governing law and courts - to confirm with counsel.] If you are a consumer in the UK or EU, you also keep the protection of your local law and can bring claims in your home courts.

13. Changes and contact

We may update these terms. Material changes are announced by email or in the app at least 14 days before they apply. Contact: hello@scorchly.app.