Terms and Conditions

Last updated: September 19, 2026 · Version 1.0

These Terms and Conditions (the "Terms") are a legal agreement between you and Talking Ventures LLC, a Delaware limited liability company with its mailing address at 614 N. Dupont Hwy, Suite 210, Dover, DE 19901, United States ("Shoresh", "we", "us" or "our"). They govern your use of the Shoresh iOS application, the website at shoresh.app, and any related service we provide (together, the "Service"). By creating an account, ticking the agreement box during sign-up, or using the Service, you accept these Terms and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR USERS IN THE UNITED STATES: SECTION 25 CONTAINS A BINDING ARBITRATION AGREEMENT AND A CLASS ACTION WAIVER. UNLESS YOU OPT OUT WITHIN 30 DAYS, IT REQUIRES YOU AND SHORESH TO RESOLVE DISPUTES THROUGH INDIVIDUAL ARBITRATION RATHER THAN IN COURT, AND IT LIMITS YOUR ABILITY TO BRING OR JOIN CLASS OR REPRESENTATIVE ACTIONS.

Contents

1. Who we are and what these Terms cover
2. Who may use Shoresh
3. Your account
4. What Shoresh is, and what is free
5. Shoresh Plus subscriptions
6. Your content
7. Torah texts and other third-party content
8. Communities, chaburot and community leaders
9. Verified rabbis and teachers
10. Not a ruling, and not professional advice
11. AI study tools
12. Community rules
13. Reporting, blocking, moderation and enforcement
14. Copyright complaints
15. Our intellectual property and your license to the app
16. Feedback
17. Beta, early access and experimental features
18. Third-party services
19. Privacy and sensitive information
20. Changes to Shoresh
21. Ending your account
22. Disclaimers
23. Limitation of liability
24. Indemnification
25. Dispute resolution, arbitration and governing law
26. If you live outside the United States
27. Additional terms for the Apple App Store
28. General terms
29. Changes to these Terms
30. Contact
31. Change log

1. Who we are and what these Terms cover

In short: the contract is with Talking Ventures LLC, not Apple. These Terms, the Privacy Policy and any rules shown inside a feature form one agreement.

Shoresh is operated by Talking Ventures LLC. These Terms apply to everyone who uses the Service, whether as a member, a community leader, a verified rabbi or teacher, or a visitor to our website. The Privacy Policy, the community rules in section 12, and any additional terms we show you inside a specific feature (for example, when you redeem an invite code or start a subscription) are part of these Terms. If a feature-specific term conflicts with these Terms, the feature-specific term applies to that feature.

Shoresh is distributed through Apple's App Store and, before public release, through Apple's TestFlight. Your use of those platforms is also subject to Apple's terms, and section 27 contains provisions Apple requires. Apple is not a party to these Terms and is not responsible for the Service.

2. Who may use Shoresh

In short: you must be at least 16, able to enter a contract, and not barred from using Shoresh.

You may use the Service only if all of the following are true:

• You are at least 16 years old. We ask for your date of birth when you sign up so we can check, and we keep it private. If we learn that an account belongs to someone under 16, we will delete it.
• You are old enough to form a binding contract where you live, or your parent or legal guardian has reviewed and agreed to these Terms on your behalf and takes responsibility for your use.
• You have not previously been removed from the Service for breaking these Terms, unless we have expressly allowed you back.
• You are not barred from using the Service under the laws of the United States or the country where you live, including sanctions and export laws (see section 28).

If you use the Service on behalf of a synagogue, school, yeshiva or other organization, you confirm that you have the authority to bind that organization to these Terms, and "you" includes both you and the organization.

3. Your account

In short: one real person per account, keep your sign-in secure, and tell us if something goes wrong.

You sign in to Shoresh with your Apple Account or Google Account. You then choose a username and a display name, which are public. You agree that:

• Each account belongs to one real person. You may not create an account for someone else, share your account, or run more than one account to get around limits, blocks or removals.
• The information you give us is accurate, and you will keep it up to date.
• You are responsible for keeping your Apple or Google sign-in secure, and for everything that happens through your account. If you believe your account has been accessed without permission, tell us at hello@shoresh.app right away.
• Usernames are first come, first served, but they are not property. We may reclaim or change a username that impersonates someone, infringes a trademark, is offensive, or has been inactive for a long time, and we will try to tell you first.
• You may not sell, rent, transfer or give away your account.

4. What Shoresh is, and what is free

In short: participating on Shoresh will never require payment. A paid tier, when offered, adds tools on top; it never gates the conversation.

Shoresh is a community for Torah learning and discussion. Rabbis, teachers and members post discussions inside communities, and others respond, comment, react, save and share. Posts can cite passages from the Torah, the Talmud and other Jewish texts, which we display using text provided by Sefaria (see section 7), and a built-in reader lets you open and study those texts directly.

Free forever. Reading, joining communities, posting discussions, responding, commenting, reacting, saving, sharing, creating communities and small learning groups (chaburot), attaching images, audio, files and video within our limits, and a monthly allowance of AI study actions are free. We commit that participating on Shoresh will never require payment.

Where Shoresh is available. We currently offer the Service on iPhone (iOS 17 or later) and make it available in the App Store in the countries we choose. We may add or remove countries, and features may differ by country because of licensing or legal requirements.

5. Shoresh Plus subscriptions

In short: Plus is optional, billed by Apple, renews automatically until you cancel in your Apple Account settings, and refunds come from Apple, not us.

We may offer an optional paid tier called "Shoresh Plus" (or "Plus"). Plus unlocks additional tools such as expanded use of the AI study tools and personal learning features. The exact features, prices and billing periods are shown in the app before you buy, and the free tier described in section 4 stays free whether or not you subscribe. Until Plus is offered in your country, no payment is possible and this section has no effect on you.

5.1 Apple bills you, not us

Plus is sold only through Apple's In-App Purchase system. Apple is the seller and charges your Apple Account under Apple's own terms. Apple handles payment methods, receipts, taxes where Apple collects them, and refunds. We never see your card or bank details. Prices may vary by country and may include taxes where required.

5.2 Automatic renewal

A Plus subscription renews automatically for the same period (for example, monthly or yearly) at the price shown when you subscribed, unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Apple charges the renewal to your Apple Account within 24 hours before the current period ends. Some plans may be sold as a one-time purchase with no renewal; the app will say so clearly.

5.3 How to cancel

Cancel any time in your device Settings under your Apple Account, then Subscriptions, or in the App Store app. Deleting the Shoresh app or deleting your Shoresh account does not cancel a subscription, so cancel first if you no longer want to be charged. When you cancel, you keep Plus until the end of the period you already paid for.

5.4 Free trials and introductory offers

If a plan starts with a free trial or a discounted introductory period, we show you the length of the offer, the regular price, and the date you will first be charged before you confirm. The subscription converts to the regular price when the offer ends unless you cancel at least 24 hours before that. Offers are limited to one per Apple Account unless we say otherwise, and we may withdraw an offer at any time for people who have not yet accepted it.

5.5 Refunds

Because Apple bills you, we cannot issue refunds. Request one from Apple at reportaproblem.apple.com. Apple decides refund requests under its own policies. Nothing in this section limits refund or cancellation rights you have under the law of the country where you live.

5.6 Price changes

If we change the price of a plan, the change applies from your next renewal. We will give you at least 30 days' notice in the app or by email before it takes effect, and Apple may also require your agreement before renewing at the new price. If you do not agree, cancel before the renewal date. A plan we have described as "locked in" for as long as you stay subscribed keeps its price for you while your subscription continues without interruption.

5.7 Complimentary access, invite codes and other promotions

We may give Plus features for free or at a reduced price, for example through invite codes, codes shared by a rabbi or community, hardship or student arrangements, early-access programs, or thank-you credits for beta testers. Complimentary access is a gift, not a purchase. It may be limited in time or scope, has no cash value, cannot be transferred, sold or exchanged, may come with extra conditions shown when you redeem it, and may be changed or withdrawn at any time. Using a code that was not intended for you, or obtaining codes by fraud or automation, is a breach of these Terms.

5.8 Personal to you; restoring purchases

A subscription belongs to the Shoresh account and Apple Account that bought it. You may not share, sell or transfer it. Family Sharing applies only if a plan says it supports Family Sharing. If you reinstall the app or move to a new device, use the "Restore purchases" option in the app while signed in to the same Apple Account. We use a subscription management provider (RevenueCat) together with Apple to confirm what you are entitled to.

5.9 Changes to Plus

We may add, change or retire Plus features. If we retire something that was a substantial part of what you pay for, we will tell you in advance so that you can cancel before your next renewal. Fair-use limits apply to features described as "unlimited" (see section 11), and we may adjust the free tier's monthly AI allowance.

6. Your content

In short: what you post is yours. You give us permission to store it, show it to the people it is meant for, and do the technical things needed to run Shoresh. We do not sell it and do not use it to train AI models.

6.1 You own it

"Your Content" means everything you post or upload to the Service: discussions, responses, comments, profile details, images, voice notes and other audio, video, documents and other files, links, reactions and anything else you contribute. You keep every right you have in Your Content. We do not claim ownership of it.

6.2 The permission you give us

So that we can run the Service, you grant Shoresh a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable and sublicensable license to host, store, back up, reproduce, adapt for technical purposes (such as resizing images, transcoding audio and video, generating thumbnails and previews, and formatting), index, display, perform and distribute Your Content, and to use your username, display name and profile photo as they appear alongside it, for the purposes of operating, providing, securing, maintaining and improving the Service. This includes showing Your Content to the people your community and privacy settings allow, including in notifications, search results and "recently viewed" lists, and in previews of links that you or others share. It also includes passing Your Content to the service providers that host and process it for us (see section 18), who may use it only to provide their services to us.

6.3 What the permission does not cover

• We will not sell Your Content.
• We will not use Your Content to train artificial intelligence models, and we do not allow our AI provider to do so.
• We will not use Your Content in paid advertising or marketing outside the Service without asking you first.
• Where an AI study tool processes Your Content because you asked it to (for example, a tool that summarizes a thread), that use is described in section 11 and in the Privacy Policy.

6.4 Attribution and moral rights

We show your name with your posts. To the extent the law allows, you agree not to assert moral rights or rights of attribution or integrity against Shoresh or other users in a way that would prevent the uses described in this section (for example, showing a post under a "deleted user" label after you delete your account, or showing a reformatted or truncated preview).

6.5 What happens when you delete content or your account

The permission in section 6.2 ends when you delete Your Content, except for the following, which you agree may continue:

• Replies stay readable. If you delete a discussion or response that already has replies, its text is removed from view and replaced with a "deleted" marker so the replies still make sense. We keep a copy of the removed text in a restricted store that only our team can access, for abuse investigations and to restore content on request; it is not shown to anyone.
• Posts survive account deletion unless you delete them first. When you delete your account, your profile and personal data are deleted, but discussions and responses you posted remain in their communities under a "deleted user" label, without your name, photo or profile. If you want them gone, delete them before you delete your account.
• Copies others made. Content that other people have quoted, reposted, saved, screenshotted or shared outside Shoresh is beyond our control.
• Backups. Copies may persist in routine backups for up to 30 days before being overwritten.
• Legal and safety needs. We may keep content where the law requires it, or where we reasonably need it to investigate abuse, defend claims or protect people's safety.

6.6 Media files are served from unlisted addresses

Images, audio, documents and video posters you attach are stored at long, random web addresses that are not listed anywhere. Anyone who obtains one of those addresses can open the file, even if the post it belongs to is in a private or restricted community. Video streams are protected by short-lived access tokens that we issue only to people allowed to see the post. Please do not attach anything you would not want to travel beyond the people you share it with.

6.7 Your responsibility for Your Content

You are solely responsible for Your Content. You promise that:

• You own Your Content or have all the rights and permissions needed to post it and to grant the license above, including permission from any identifiable person who appears in a photo, recording or video, and from the copyright owner of any text, recording or document you upload.
• Your Content does not break the community rules in section 12, any law, or anyone else's rights.
• You will not upload files that contain malware or that are designed to interfere with the Service or other people's devices.

We do not review content before it is posted and do not endorse it. We may, but are not obliged to, remove or restrict any content at any time, as described in section 13.

7. Torah texts and other third-party content

In short: the texts in Shoresh come from Sefaria and its contributors under their own open licenses. They are not ours and not yours, and their licenses travel with them.

The passages, translations and commentaries that Shoresh displays are provided by Sefaria (sefaria.org), a non-profit digital library, and by the publishers, translators and contributors who license their work to Sefaria. Shoresh is "Powered by Sefaria" and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Sefaria. You agree that:

• Each edition has its own license. Shoresh only displays editions whose licenses permit our use: public domain, CC0, Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) and Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA). Where an edition's license does not allow us to show it, the app tells you and offers a link to read it on Sefaria. When you copy, quote or share a passage, its license continues to apply, including the requirement to credit the source and, for CC BY-SA editions, to share adaptations under the same license.
• We are not the publisher. Texts and translations are shown as Sefaria provides them. Editions differ, translations involve interpretive choices, and errors happen. Check the original before relying on a passage, and use the in-app tools to report mistakes.
• The paid tier does not sell the texts. Shoresh Plus sells AI study tools and personal features. It never charges for access to the source texts themselves.
• Sefaria's trademarks belong to Sefaria. The Sefaria name and logo are used only as the credit Sefaria permits.
• Embedded and linked content. Members may embed or link to content hosted elsewhere, such as YouTube, Vimeo, Spotify, SoundCloud and Apple Podcasts. That content is provided by those services under their own terms and privacy policies, and we are not responsible for it. Links you paste may be previewed using information fetched from the linked site.
• Other reference material. Topic descriptions, commentator information and similar reference material may come from Sefaria's data or from our own editorial work. It is provided for orientation and may contain errors.

8. Communities, chaburot and community leaders

In short: anyone can create a community and set its rules. Leaders moderate their own communities; we moderate the platform.

A community is a space with its own members, posts and settings. A chabura is a small learning group that lives inside a community. Communities can be public, unlisted (reachable only by link), restricted (findable, but content is members-only) or private (invisible to non-members), and can be open to join, join-by-request or invite-only. The person who creates a community is its owner; owners can appoint admins, moderators and teachers.

8.1 If you lead a community

• You may set posting and reply policies, approve or decline members and posts, pin, lock, hide or remove content, and remove or ban members from your community. Use these powers fairly and consistently, and only for the good of the community.
• You may set additional rules for your community. Your rules may be stricter than ours but cannot permit anything section 12 prohibits.
• You are responsible for the community's name, description and imagery, which must not impersonate an institution you do not represent or infringe anyone's rights.
• Invite links you create admit anyone who has them. You can reset or revoke them at any time.
• You do not acquire any ownership of the Service, of members' content, or of the community's members. If you step down or delete your account, the community continues under its remaining admins.
• Institutions (synagogues, schools, yeshivot) may run communities. The institution is responsible for its representatives' conduct.

8.2 If you are a member

When you join a community you agree to follow its rules as well as ours. Leaders' decisions about their own communities are theirs; we generally do not overturn a community-level decision unless it breaks these Terms or the law. You can always leave a community, delete your own content, block people, and report content to us, even if you have been banned from a community.

8.3 What we may do

We may pause, restrict, rename or remove any community, or change its leadership, if it is used to break these Terms or the law, is abandoned, impersonates an institution, or creates risk for the Service or its members. We will try to notify the community's admins first where that is practical.

9. Verified rabbis and teachers

In short: a verified badge means we checked the credentials a person told us about. It is not an endorsement of their views or rulings.

A "Verified" badge means that we have taken reasonable steps, through an application that includes the person's stated credentials, rabbinic ordination (smicha) source, affiliation, sample writings and references, to confirm that the person holds the rabbinic credentials or communal role they describe. A short credentials line written or approved by our team appears on a verified profile. Verification:

• is not an endorsement by Shoresh of the person, their views, their rulings, their community, or any stream or movement within Judaism;
• is not a guarantee that any post is accurate, complete or appropriate for you;
• does not make the person our employee, agent or representative, and does not change their obligations under these Terms; and
• may be granted, refused, suspended or removed at our discretion, including if the requirements are no longer met, if the information provided was inaccurate, or if these Terms are broken.

If you apply for verification, you confirm that the information you submit is true and that you are entitled to share it, including references' contact details. We may contact your references and institutions to confirm what you have told us.

10. Not a ruling, and not professional advice

In short: for a personal ruling in Jewish law, ask your own rabbi. Nothing on Shoresh is medical, legal, financial or mental-health advice, and nothing here is confidential.

• Posts are the authors' own. Everything posted by rabbis, teachers, community leaders and members is that person's own work and opinion. Shoresh does not write, pre-approve or endorse it. We are not a rabbinic authority, a beit din (rabbinic court), a synagogue or a yeshiva. Different communities on Shoresh follow different opinions and customs, and we do not decide between them.
• Not a psak. Nothing on the Service, including posts by verified rabbis, replies, AI outputs and source texts, is a binding ruling of Jewish law (psak halacha) for your situation. A real ruling depends on facts about you that a post cannot know. For a personal ruling, ask your own rabbi.
• Not professional advice. Nothing on the Service is medical, mental-health, legal, financial, tax, immigration or other professional advice, and you should not rely on it as such.
• Not an emergency service. If you or someone else is in danger, contact your local emergency services. Shoresh is not monitored for emergencies.
• Not confidential or privileged. Anything you post, including in private communities, can be seen by other members, community leaders and our team, and may be disclosed as described in the Privacy Policy. Communications on the Service are not covered by clergy-penitent, attorney-client or any similar privilege.

11. AI study tools

In short: our AI explains sources. It never decides Jewish law. It can be wrong, so check it against the text, and ask a rabbi for anything practical.

11.1 What they are

The Service includes tools that use artificial intelligence ("AI Tools"). Today that means "Explain", which produces a plain-English explanation of a passage you are reading through several lenses. We may add others, such as thread summaries or a study assistant you can ask questions. Whatever you provide to an AI Tool (a passage you select, a question you type) is an "Input"; what the tool produces is an "Output". Every AI surface carries the notice: This explains passages. It never decides Jewish law. For practical questions, ask your rabbi.

11.2 Outputs can be wrong

AI Tools generate text with probabilistic language models. Outputs may be inaccurate, incomplete, out of date, or confidently wrong, and may misquote, mistranslate or misattribute a source even when they look precise. You should not rely on any factual assertion in an Output without independently checking it against the underlying text. Outputs are not a ruling of Jewish law, not the view of any rabbi on Shoresh, not Shoresh's official position, and not professional advice of any kind. Do not use Outputs to decide questions of religious practice or permissibility, or for any decision with legal, medical, financial or other material consequences. Similar Outputs may be shown to other users who ask about the same passage.

11.3 Who owns Inputs and Outputs

You keep whatever rights you have in your Inputs. As between you and Shoresh, we assign to you any rights we have in Outputs generated for you, subject to these Terms and to the licenses of the source texts the Output is based on. Because Outputs are generated from shared texts, they may not be unique.

11.4 How Inputs and Outputs are handled

• To generate an Output, we send the relevant licensed source text (and, for tools that work on your own words, your Input) to our AI model provider, currently Anthropic. Our provider is contractually barred from using that data to train its models and deletes it on a short schedule described in the Privacy Policy. We do not use Inputs or Outputs to train AI models either.
• "Explain" sends only the source passage and its context. It does not send your identity, your posts or anything you typed. If we introduce an AI Tool that processes your own words or your posts, the tool will say so on its screen before you use it.
• Explanations are cached and shared: once a passage has been explained, other people who ask about the same passage may receive the same explanation. Cached explanations contain no information about who requested them.
• Our team, and a review board of rabbis, may review Outputs that are flagged or sampled for quality, and may withdraw any Output at any time.

11.5 Limits

AI Tools have usage limits. Free accounts receive a monthly allowance of AI actions, shown in the app, that resets on the first of each month. Plus accounts receive a much larger allowance that is subject to a fair-use ceiling, also shown in the app. We may change the allowances, throttle or pause access that looks automated or abusive, and turn any AI Tool off at any time, including on the advice of our rabbinic review board. Some passages cannot be explained because their edition's license does not permit it.

11.6 You may not use the AI Tools to

• present an Output as a ruling from a rabbi, as Shoresh's position, or as human-written when it is not;
• generate content that breaks the community rules in section 12;
• extract source texts in bulk or circumvent the licenses on Torah texts;
• build, train or improve a competing AI model or dataset;
• access the tools with scripts, bots or automation, or try to reverse engineer the models or prompts behind them; or
• violate the acceptable-use policies of our AI provider, which we will apply to your use.

12. Community rules

In short: argue about ideas, not people. No harassment, hate, doxxing, sexual content, impersonation, scams, spam or automation.

Shoresh exists for serious, respectful learning. Disagreement is welcome; disrespect is not. You agree not to do, attempt, or help anyone else do, any of the following:

• Harm people. Threaten, harass, bully, stalk or intimidate anyone. Incite or glorify violence. Attack people, rather than ideas, because of their religion, denomination, level of observance, conversion status, race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, gender, sexual orientation, disability, age or any other characteristic. Post content that promotes self-harm, suicide or eating disorders.
• Expose people. Share anyone's private information without their consent, including home addresses, phone numbers, private emails, identity numbers, financial details or private images ("doxxing"). Post photos, recordings or video of people, including at private religious events or in someone's home, where they would reasonably expect privacy and have not agreed. Identify or target minors.
• Sexual content and minors. Post sexually explicit content. Post or request intimate images of anyone without their consent, including AI-generated or edited ones. Post any sexual content involving minors, or attempt to contact a minor for a sexual purpose. We report child sexual exploitation to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and to law enforcement.
• Deceive people. Impersonate any person, rabbi, community, synagogue, school, organization or Shoresh staff. Falsely claim rabbinic ordination, a communal position or verification. Run scams or fraud. Spread false information likely to cause real-world harm, including false claims about kashrut certification, health or safety. Manipulate reactions, membership counts or reports.
• Misrepresent Torah. Post inflammatory religious commentary, or deliberately misquote or misrepresent religious texts and authorities to mislead or provoke.
• Solicit. Use the Service for fundraising, selling, advertising, matchmaking services, political campaigning or recruiting for other platforms, unless a feature or the community's own rules expressly allow it.
• Spam or automate. Post unsolicited, repetitive or off-topic content. Use bots, scripts, scrapers, crawlers or any automated means to access, collect or post on the Service. Create multiple or throwaway accounts. Buy or sell accounts, invite codes or complimentary access.
• Break the app. Probe, scan or test the vulnerability of our systems without our written permission. Bypass or interfere with access controls, rate limits, paywalls, community privacy settings, content restrictions or usage limits. Reverse engineer, decompile or extract the source code of the app except where the law expressly allows it. Interfere with other people's use of the Service. Upload malware.
• Infringe or break the law. Post content you do not have the right to share. Violate copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity or other rights. Use the Service for anything illegal, including violations of sanctions or export laws.
• Evade enforcement. Create a new account, or use someone else's, to get around a suspension, ban or community removal. File false, misleading or abusive reports.

Community leaders may add rules for their communities. If you see something that breaks these rules, report it in the app or write to us. If you have a security concern, please email hello@shoresh.app with "Security" in the subject rather than posting it publicly.

13. Reporting, blocking, moderation and enforcement

In short: you can report and block. We can hide content, restrict features, and suspend or terminate accounts. We tell you what we did where we can, and you can ask us to look again.

13.1 Your tools

You can report any post, person or community from inside the app, choosing a category and adding a note. Reports are confidential: the person you report is not told who reported them. You can block any member, which hides your content and theirs from each other, and you can hide individual posts from your own view. Blocking is never revealed to the person you blocked.

13.2 How moderation works

Moderation on Shoresh has three layers. The author of a discussion can hide replies to it, lock it, pin replies and remove specific people from that discussion. A community's moderators and admins can approve or reject posts, hide content, and remove or ban members from their community. Our own team acts across the whole Service in response to reports, legal requests and things we notice. Moderation is done by people; we do not currently use automated content filters, and we do not review content before it is posted. Actions by community moderators are recorded so that admins can review them.

13.3 What we may do

If we believe that content or conduct breaks these Terms, a community's rules or the law, or creates risk for the Service, its members or anyone else, we may, with or without notice: remove, hide or restrict content; limit features such as posting, replying, media uploads or AI Tools; remove verification; remove you from a community; suspend your account for a period; or terminate your account. We act proportionately and usually start with the least severe step, but we may move straight to termination for serious harm, for example child safety violations, credible threats, fraud, or repeated infringement. We may also preserve and disclose content and account information to law enforcement or others where the law requires it or where we believe in good faith that someone is at risk.

13.4 Notice, reasons and review

When a moderator or our team removes your content or removes you from a community, the app tells you and shows the reason given. If we restrict or terminate your account, you can write to hello@shoresh.app to ask for the reason and to ask us to review the decision. A person who was not involved in the original decision will look at it and reply. We may not provide reasons where doing so would interfere with an investigation, is prohibited by law, or where the action is for spam or malicious automation. Being banned or restricted never stops you from leaving a community, deleting your own content, blocking people, or reporting content.

13.5 Intimate images shared without consent

If an intimate image or video of you (including a realistic AI-generated one) has been posted on the Service without your consent, email hello@shoresh.app with "Take It Down" in the subject. You do not need a Shoresh account. Include a link to or description of the content, a statement that you did not consent to its being shared, your contact details, and your signature (typing your name is enough). We will remove qualifying content within 48 hours of receiving a complete request and make reasonable efforts to remove copies, and we will confirm the outcome to you.

14. Copyright complaints

In short: if something on Shoresh infringes your copyright, send us a notice with the details below. We remove infringing content and terminate repeat infringers.

We respect intellectual property and expect members to do the same. If you believe that content on the Service infringes your copyright, send a notice to our designated agent:

Copyright Agent, Talking Ventures LLC
614 N. Dupont Hwy, Suite 210, Dover, DE 19901, United States
copyright@shoresh.app
+1 305-209-3890

Under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. §512), your notice must include:

1. your physical or electronic signature;
2. identification of the copyrighted work you say has been infringed (or a representative list, if there are several);
3. identification of the material you say is infringing and enough information for us to find it, such as a link to the post or the post's share link;
4. your name, address, telephone number and email address;
5. a statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent or the law; and
6. a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the owner's behalf.

We may forward your notice, including your name and contact details, to the person who posted the material.

14.1 Counter-notice

If your content was removed in response to a copyright notice and you believe the removal was a mistake or misidentification, you may send our agent a counter-notice containing: your physical or electronic signature; identification of the removed material and where it appeared; a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief that it was removed by mistake or misidentification; your name, address and telephone number; and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for the district where your address is located (or, if you are outside the United States, the District of Delaware) and that you will accept service of process from the person who sent the original notice. If we receive a valid counter-notice, we may restore the material in 10 to 14 business days unless the original complainant tells us they have filed a court action seeking to restrain it.

14.2 Repeat infringers and misuse

We terminate the accounts of repeat infringers and may terminate an account after a single clear case of infringement. Knowingly sending a false notice or counter-notice can make you liable for damages, including under 17 U.S.C. §512(f). Most Torah texts on Shoresh are in the public domain or under Creative Commons licenses; check the edition's license before claiming infringement of them.

15. Our intellectual property and your license to the app

In short: you get a personal license to use the app. Shoresh's name, design and code are ours.

Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to install and use the Shoresh app on Apple devices that you own or control, and to use the Service, for your own personal, non-commercial learning and participation. Institutions may use the Service for their communities under section 8.

The Service, including its software, design, text, graphics, logos, the Shoresh name and mark, our editorial content, and the selection and arrangement of the Service (but not Your Content or third-party content), is owned by Talking Ventures LLC or its licensors and is protected by copyright, trademark and other laws. Except for the license above, we grant you no rights, and you may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, lease, sublicense, publicly display, create derivative works from, or reverse engineer any part of the Service, or use our name or marks without our written permission. The app and website include open-source components and fonts used under their own licenses.

16. Feedback

If you send us ideas, suggestions or feedback about the Service, you agree that we may use them for any purpose without restriction or compensation, and you will not claim any rights in the result. Please do not send us confidential ideas.

17. Beta, early access and experimental features

Shoresh may be offered through TestFlight or as an "early access" version, and individual features (including AI Tools) may be labeled beta, early access, preview or experimental. Those versions and features are provided as-is, may be unstable, may change or be removed without notice, may be free during early access and paid later, and may collect additional diagnostic information as described in the Privacy Policy. TestFlight builds are also subject to Apple's TestFlight terms.

18. Third-party services

In short: Shoresh runs on a small number of well-known providers. Their terms apply to their part of the job; we are not responsible for services we do not control.

The Service is delivered with the help of third-party providers, including Apple (App Store, TestFlight, Sign in with Apple, In-App Purchase), Google (Sign in with Google), Supabase (database, authentication, file storage and server functions, hosted on Amazon Web Services in the United States), Mux (video hosting and streaming), OneSignal (push notification delivery), Anthropic (AI models), RevenueCat (subscription management, when Plus is offered), Cloudflare (our website) and Sefaria (texts). The Privacy Policy explains what each receives. Your use of those providers' services is subject to their own terms, and you agree to comply with the third-party terms that apply to your use of the Service, including your wireless carrier's agreement. We are not responsible for third-party services, or for third-party websites, apps or content that members link to.

19. Privacy and sensitive information

Our Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it and your choices. Because Shoresh is a Jewish learning community, the fact that you use it, the communities you join and what you post may reveal your religious beliefs, which the law in many places treats as sensitive information. By creating an account and confirming the consent shown during sign-up, you give us your explicit consent to process that information to provide the Service, as described in the Privacy Policy. You can withdraw that consent at any time by deleting your account.

20. Changes to Shoresh

We are constantly improving the Service, and we may add, change, suspend or remove features, limits or content at any time. Where a change materially reduces something you are paying for, section 5.9 applies. If we decide to discontinue the Service altogether, we will give you at least 30 days' notice by email or in the app where reasonably possible, and a way to retrieve your content.

21. Ending your account

In short: you can delete your account any time in Settings. We can end accounts that break the rules. Some sections keep applying afterwards.

21.1 By you

You may delete your account at any time from Settings in the app. Deletion is immediate and permanent: your profile, private data and media are deleted as described in the Privacy Policy, and the consequences in section 6.5 apply to your posts. Deleting your account does not cancel a Plus subscription; cancel it through Apple first (section 5.3).

21.2 By us

We may suspend or terminate your account, with or without notice, if you breach these Terms or the law, if required by law or a governmental request, if your account creates risk or legal exposure for us or others, or if we discontinue the Service. Where practical we will tell you why and how to ask for a review (section 13.4).

21.3 Effect

When your account ends, your license to use the Service ends, and you must stop using it. Sections that by their nature should survive continue to apply, including sections 6 (as to surviving content), 7, 10, 11.2 and 11.3, 14 through 16, and 22 through 28.

22. Disclaimers

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE". TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTY ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE OR ERROR-FREE; THAT ANY CONTENT, INCLUDING SOURCE TEXTS, TRANSLATIONS, POSTS BY VERIFIED RABBIS AND AI OUTPUTS, IS ACCURATE, COMPLETE, RELIABLE OR APPROPRIATE FOR YOU; THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED; OR THAT THE SERVICE IS FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. YOU USE THE SERVICE, AND RELY ON ANY CONTENT, AT YOUR OWN RISK. SHORESH IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONDUCT OF ANY USER, ONLINE OR OFFLINE.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties, so some of the above may not apply to you. Section 26 describes rights that consumers in certain countries keep regardless of this section.

23. Limitation of liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW: (A) TALKING VENTURES LLC, ITS MEMBERS, MANAGERS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS, AGENTS, LICENSORS AND SERVICE PROVIDERS (TOGETHER, THE "SHORESH PARTIES") WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, GOODWILL OR USE, OR FOR THE COST OF SUBSTITUTE SERVICES, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS, HOWEVER CAUSED AND UNDER ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES; AND (B) THE TOTAL LIABILITY OF THE SHORESH PARTIES FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF ONE HUNDRED US DOLLARS (US$100) OR THE AMOUNT YOU PAID FOR THE SERVICE (THROUGH APPLE) IN THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM.

These limits do not apply to liability that cannot be limited by law, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for gross negligence or willful misconduct. Some jurisdictions do not allow the limitation of certain damages, so some of the above may not apply to you; in that case our liability is limited to the greatest extent the law permits. The limitations in this section are an essential basis of the bargain between you and us, and apply even if a remedy fails of its essential purpose.

24. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless the Shoresh Parties from and against any third-party claim, and any resulting losses, liabilities, damages, costs and reasonable legal fees, arising out of or relating to (a) Your Content; (b) your breach of these Terms or a community's rules; (c) your violation of any law or of anyone else's rights, including intellectual property, privacy and publicity rights; or (d) your use of the AI Tools in breach of section 11. We will notify you of any such claim and may take over its defense at our own expense, in which case you will cooperate with us. This section does not apply to consumers in countries whose law prohibits it, to the extent of that prohibition.

25. Dispute resolution, arbitration and governing law

In short: talk to us first. If that fails, US disputes go to individual arbitration with the American Arbitration Association, unless you opt out within 30 days. Small claims court is always available. Delaware law applies.

Please read this section carefully. It affects your legal rights. It applies to you if you live in the United States; section 26 explains what applies if you live elsewhere.

25.1 Talk to us first

Before starting arbitration or a lawsuit, you and Shoresh agree to try to resolve the dispute informally. Send a written notice to hello@shoresh.app with "Notice of Dispute" in the subject, or by post to Talking Ventures LLC, 614 N. Dupont Hwy, Suite 210, Dover, DE 19901, United States. Your notice must include your name, the email address on your Shoresh account, a description of the dispute and what you would like us to do. If we have a dispute with you, we will send notice to the email address on your account. For 60 days after the notice, each side will make a good-faith effort to resolve the dispute, including at least one phone or video conversation in which you (and your lawyer, if you have one) and a Shoresh representative with authority to settle take part. Any statute of limitations is paused during those 60 days. Neither side may start arbitration or a lawsuit until the 60 days have passed.

25.2 Binding arbitration

If the dispute is not resolved informally, you and Shoresh agree that any dispute, claim or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service, including its formation, interpretation, breach or termination, and including whether a claim must be arbitrated (except as stated in 25.4), will be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association ("AAA") under its Consumer Arbitration Rules and, where applicable, its Mass Arbitration Supplementary Rules, as modified by this section. The rules are at adr.org. The Federal Arbitration Act governs this section. A single arbitrator will decide the dispute and may award, on an individual basis, the same relief a court could award to you. Hearings will be held by video or on documents unless the arbitrator decides that an in-person hearing is needed, in which case it will be held in the county where you live. The arbitrator's decision is final and may be entered in any court with jurisdiction.

25.3 Fees

Fees are allocated under the AAA Consumer Arbitration Rules. For a claim of US$10,000 or less, we will pay all AAA filing, administrative and arbitrator fees beyond the amount you would have paid to file a claim in court, and we will not seek to recover our attorneys' fees from you unless the arbitrator finds that your claim was frivolous or brought for an improper purpose.

25.4 Exceptions

Either side may bring an individual claim in small claims court in the county where you live instead of arbitration, as long as it stays in small claims court and is not a class or representative action. Either side may also seek an injunction or other equitable relief in court to stop unauthorized use or abuse of the Service or infringement of intellectual property rights. A court, not the arbitrator, decides any dispute about the enforceability of the class action waiver in 25.5 or the mass filing provisions in 25.6.

25.5 Class action and jury waiver

YOU AND SHORESH AGREE THAT EACH MAY BRING CLAIMS AGAINST THE OTHER ONLY IN AN INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS, CONSOLIDATED, COLLECTIVE, PRIVATE ATTORNEY GENERAL OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. THE ARBITRATOR MAY NOT CONSOLIDATE MORE THAN ONE PERSON'S CLAIMS OR PRESIDE OVER ANY FORM OF REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. BY AGREEING TO ARBITRATE, YOU AND SHORESH EACH WAIVE THE RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY. If this waiver is found unenforceable as to a particular claim or request for relief, that claim or request will be decided by a court, not an arbitrator, and will be stayed until the arbitrable claims are resolved.

25.6 Mass filings

If 25 or more similar arbitration demands are brought against Shoresh by the same or coordinated counsel, AAA's Mass Arbitration Supplementary Rules apply, and you and Shoresh agree that: (a) the demands will be grouped into batches of no more than 50 for the purposes of arbitrator selection and fee payment, and each batch will proceed as a separate arbitration; (b) after the first batch is decided, the parties will engage in a 90-day mediation of the remaining claims, during which fees are not due; and (c) any statute of limitations is paused for a claim from the time it is filed until its batch begins. This paragraph is intended to make arbitration efficient, not to bind anyone to the outcome of another person's case; the result in one batch does not bind claimants in another.

25.7 Your right to opt out

You may opt out of this arbitration agreement (sections 25.2 through 25.6) by emailing hello@shoresh.app with "Arbitration opt-out" in the subject, from the email address on your account, within 30 days after you first accept these Terms. Include your name and username and state that you are opting out. Opting out does not affect any other part of these Terms; disputes will then be resolved in the courts described in 25.9.

25.8 Changes to this section

If we change this section 25 after you accept these Terms, you may reject the change by emailing us within 30 days after the change takes effect, in which case the previous version of this section will continue to apply between you and us. A change to this section does not apply to a dispute for which a notice under 25.1 was already sent.

25.9 Governing law and courts

These Terms and any dispute between you and Shoresh are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware and the federal laws of the United States, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules, except that the Federal Arbitration Act governs section 25. Any dispute that is not subject to arbitration, or that arises after a valid opt-out, will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in the State of Delaware, and you and Shoresh consent to their jurisdiction, except that you may bring an eligible claim in small claims court where you live. Nothing in this paragraph deprives you of the protection of mandatory consumer laws of the state where you live.

25.10 Severability of this section

Except as provided in 25.5, if any part of this section is found unenforceable, the rest of the section continues to apply.

26. If you live outside the United States

In short: if you are a consumer in the UK, the EEA, Canada, Israel or Australia, you keep the protections your own law gives you, and the arbitration section does not apply to you.

• Your local consumer rights. Nothing in these Terms removes or limits rights that you have under mandatory consumer protection laws of the country where you live, and any exclusion or limitation in sections 22 through 24 applies only to the extent that law allows.
• United Kingdom and European Economic Area. Sections 25.2 through 25.8 (arbitration, class waiver, jury waiver, mass filings) and the choice of Delaware courts do not apply to you. These Terms are governed by the laws of the country where you live, and you may bring claims in the courts of that country. We are liable for foreseeable loss caused by our breach of these Terms or by our negligence, and our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud, and for anything the law does not allow us to limit is not limited. Digital content and services we supply must conform to their description and to your statutory rights, and the remedies your law provides (such as bringing the service into conformity or ending the contract) are available to you. We do not participate in alternative dispute resolution before a consumer arbitration body and are not obliged to. If you paid for Plus, your 14-day right to change your mind, and any waiver of it once content is delivered, is handled by Apple as the seller under Apple's terms.
• Canada. Sections 25.2 through 25.8 apply only to the extent permitted by the law of your province. Residents of Quebec may have rights under the Consumer Protection Act that these Terms do not limit, and the French-language rights described in that Act.
• Israel. Nothing in these Terms limits your rights under the Consumer Protection Law, 5741-1981, or other mandatory Israeli law.
• Australia. Our services come with guarantees that cannot be excluded under the Australian Consumer Law. To the extent permitted, our liability for breach of such a guarantee is limited to resupplying the service or paying the cost of resupply.
• Language. These Terms are written in English. If we provide a translation, the English version controls in case of conflict, except where the law of your country requires otherwise.

27. Additional terms for the Apple App Store

In short: Apple requires these paragraphs in every app agreement. They make clear that Shoresh, not Apple, is responsible for the app.

These terms apply because you obtained Shoresh through Apple's App Store or TestFlight.

1. Acknowledgement. These Terms are between you and Talking Ventures LLC only, not with Apple. Talking Ventures LLC, not Apple, is solely responsible for the app and its content. If these Terms conflict with Apple's Licensed Application End User License Agreement or App Store Terms of Service, Apple's terms control as to the conflicting part.
2. Scope of license. The license granted to you is limited to a non-transferable license to use the app on Apple-branded products that you own or control, as permitted by the Usage Rules in Apple's App Store Terms of Service, except that the app may be accessed and used by other accounts associated with you through Family Sharing or volume purchasing where we support them.
3. Maintenance and support. Talking Ventures LLC is solely responsible for providing any maintenance and support for the app, as specified in these Terms or as required by law. Apple has no obligation to furnish any maintenance or support for the app.
4. Warranty. Talking Ventures LLC is solely responsible for any product warranties, whether express or implied by law, to the extent not effectively disclaimed. If the app fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price for the app (if any) to you. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to the app, and any other claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs or expenses attributable to a failure to conform to a warranty are the sole responsibility of Talking Ventures LLC.
5. Product claims. Talking Ventures LLC, not Apple, is responsible for addressing any claims by you or any third party relating to the app or your possession or use of it, including (i) product liability claims; (ii) any claim that the app fails to conform to any applicable legal or regulatory requirement; and (iii) claims arising under consumer protection, privacy or similar legislation.
6. Intellectual property claims. If a third party claims that the app, or your possession and use of it, infringes that third party's intellectual property rights, Talking Ventures LLC, not Apple, is solely responsible for the investigation, defense, settlement and discharge of the claim.
7. Legal compliance. You represent and warrant that (i) you are not located in a country that is subject to a US Government embargo or that has been designated by the US Government as a "terrorist supporting" country; and (ii) you are not listed on any US Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
8. Developer name and address. Talking Ventures LLC, 614 N. Dupont Hwy, Suite 210, Dover, DE 19901, United States, hello@shoresh.app. Direct any questions, complaints or claims about the app to us there.
9. Third-party terms. You must comply with applicable third-party terms of agreement when using the app, for example your wireless data service agreement.
10. Third-party beneficiary. You and Talking Ventures LLC acknowledge and agree that Apple and Apple's subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms, and that upon your acceptance of these Terms, Apple will have the right (and will be deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce these Terms against you as a third-party beneficiary.

28. General terms

• Export controls and sanctions. You may not use or export the Service in violation of US export laws or the laws of your country. You represent that you are not located in, or ordinarily resident in, a country or region subject to a comprehensive US embargo, and that you are not on any US or other applicable list of restricted or prohibited parties.
• US Government users. The app is "commercial computer software" and "commercial computer software documentation" within the meaning of the applicable US federal acquisition regulations. Government users acquire only the rights granted to all other users under these Terms.
• Events beyond our control. We are not liable for any delay or failure caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including failures at Apple, Supabase, Mux, OneSignal, Anthropic, Cloudflare or Sefaria, internet or power failures, war, terrorism, civil unrest, natural disasters, epidemics, labor disputes or government action.
• Assignment. You may not assign or transfer these Terms or your account. We may assign these Terms, in whole or part, to an affiliate or to a successor in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets, and will notify you if we do.
• Severability. If any provision of these Terms is held invalid or unenforceable, it will be enforced to the maximum extent permitted and the remaining provisions remain in full effect, except as stated in section 25.
• Entire agreement. These Terms, the Privacy Policy and any feature-specific terms are the entire agreement between you and Shoresh about the Service and replace any prior agreements or understandings.
• No waiver. If we do not enforce a provision, that is not a waiver of our right to enforce it later. A waiver must be in writing and signed by us.
• No third-party beneficiaries. Except for Apple under section 27 and the Shoresh Parties under sections 23 and 24, these Terms create no rights for anyone other than you and Shoresh.
• Electronic communications. You agree to receive notices, disclosures and agreements from us electronically, by email to the address on your account, by push notification or by notices in the app, and that electronic communications satisfy any legal requirement that a communication be in writing. Keep your email address current. You may withdraw this consent by deleting your account.
• Notices to us. Send legal notices to Talking Ventures LLC, 614 N. Dupont Hwy, Suite 210, Dover, DE 19901, United States, with a copy to hello@shoresh.app.
• Headings and summaries. Headings and the "In short" and "In plain language" summaries are for convenience and do not affect interpretation; the full text of each section governs.
• Survival. Section 21.3 lists the sections that survive termination.

29. Changes to these Terms

In short: if we make a material change, we tell you at least 30 days ahead in the app or by email. If you keep using Shoresh after that, the new Terms apply.

We may update these Terms as the Service, our business or the law changes. If a change is material, we will give you at least 30 days' notice before it takes effect by showing a notice in the app, by email, or both, and for changes to section 25 you may reject the change as described in 25.8. Changes that are not material (for example, clarifications, fixes, or changes required by law) may take effect when posted, and we will update the date at the top of this page. If you keep using the Service after a change takes effect, you accept it. If you do not accept a change, delete your account before it takes effect. The version of these Terms in effect when a dispute arises governs that dispute. We keep a change log below.

30. Contact

Talking Ventures LLC
614 N. Dupont Hwy, Suite 210, Dover, DE 19901, United States
hello@shoresh.app

For help with the app, see our Help page. For privacy questions and requests, see the Privacy Policy.

31. Change log

• September 19, 2026 (version 1.0). Section 14 lists the copyright agent's own email address and a phone number, matching the agent registered with the US Copyright Office. No other change.
• September 17, 2026 (version 1.0). First published version. Replaces the pre-launch draft, which described Shoresh as a paid-only service; participation is free, and Shoresh Plus is described as an optional subscription.