Welcome to Brighter Day. These Terms of Service ("Terms") are a legal agreement between you and Brighter Day Media, LLC ("Brighter Day," "we," "us," or "our") that govern your use of the Brighter Day mobile app and related services (the "Service"). Please read them carefully. They work together with our Privacy Policy, which is part of these Terms.
Please read this: these Terms include an arbitration agreement and a class-action waiver. Section 20 requires that most disputes between you and Brighter Day be resolved by binding, individual arbitration rather than in court, and that you bring claims only on your own behalf and not as part of a class action. You will have a limited window to opt out of arbitration. This affects your legal rights, so please review Section 20 carefully.
Throughout these Terms, the short italic lines in callouts like this one are plain-language summaries to help parents understand each section. They are not part of the official legal terms — the full text in each section is what governs.
1. Accepting these Terms
To create a family account, the parent checks an "I agree" box. By doing so, the parent agrees to these Terms on their own behalf and on behalf of their children.
Brighter Day accounts are created and controlled by a parent or legal guardian ("parent"). When you create a family account, you are asked to check a box confirming that you have read and agree to these Terms (including the arbitration agreement and class-action waiver in Section 20) and our Privacy Policy. By checking that box, by creating an account, or by using the Service, you agree to be bound by these Terms. Because every account holder is a parent, you also agree to these Terms on behalf of each child for whom you create an account, and you confirm that you are that child's parent or legal guardian and have the authority to do so. If you do not agree to these Terms, do not use the Service.
2. Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms from time to time. If we make a material change, we will let you know in the app or by email and update the "Effective date" above. For significant changes that affect your rights or obligations, we may ask you to review and re-accept the Terms, and those changes take effect only after you accept them. For other changes, your continued use of the Service after a change takes effect means you accept the updated Terms.
3. Who can use Brighter Day
A parent (18+) signs in with Google or Apple and creates accounts for their children (ages 7–17, up to five). Children can't sign themselves up.
- Parents must be at least 18 years old and sign in using an existing Google or Apple account. We do not offer email-and-password registration for parents.
- Children (ages 7–17) can use Brighter Day only through an account created by their parent. Children cannot register themselves, change settings, or create other accounts.
- A family may have up to five child accounts.
By creating an account, you represent that: you are the parent or legal guardian of each child you add; the information you provide is accurate and kept up to date; neither you nor your child has previously been suspended or removed from Brighter Day; and you are not using the Service to build or assist a competing product.
4. Accounts and your responsibilities
You're responsible for what happens on your family's accounts, and for keeping your children's sign-in details safe.
You are responsible for all activity that occurs under your family's accounts. Each child receives an auto-generated sign-in username and a password; these are created on your device and stored only in your device's secure Keychain (iOS) or Keystore (Android), and you can view, share, or reset them from the parent dashboard. You agree to keep your children's sign-in details secure, to share them only with people you trust, and to notify us promptly at info@brighterdaymedia.com if you believe an account has been accessed without your permission.
5. Privacy
Your family's privacy matters to us. Our Privacy Policy explains what we collect, how we use it, and the choices you have, and it is incorporated into these Terms. By using the Service, you acknowledge that you have read the Privacy Policy.
6. A free service
Brighter Day is currently offered free of charge. There are no in-app purchases, no subscriptions, and no fees. If we ever introduce paid features, we will update these Terms and obtain any consent the law requires before charging anyone.
7. Content children may share
Videos must be kid-appropriate: up to 60 seconds, about pets, food, or hobbies, with no personal information and nothing unsafe.
Brighter Day lets a child record and submit short videos. When using the Service, you agree that content will be appropriate for children, and you agree not to submit content that:
- is longer than 60 seconds or falls outside the available categories (pets, food, hobbies);
- reveals personal or identifying information about a child or anyone else — such as a full name, home address, school, phone number, or email;
- shows or describes violence, sexual or adult themes, harassment or bullying, dangerous or unsafe activities, or anything frightening or otherwise unsuitable for children;
- includes an identifiable third party (another person) without that person's, or their parent's, consent;
- infringes anyone's copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity, or other rights;
- is unlawful, deceptive, or contains software viruses or harmful code; or
- is commercial, advertising, spam, or otherwise unrelated to a child sharing their own creative video.
You are solely responsible for the content submitted through your family's accounts. We may remove any content, at any time, if we believe it violates these Terms or to protect the safety of a child or another person.
8. Rules of conduct
Use Brighter Day the normal way, and be kind. Don't try to scrape it, break it, or hack around its safety controls.
In addition to the content rules above, you and your child agree to treat other users with respect — not to harass, bully, threaten, demean, or impersonate anyone — and you agree not to:
- copy, scrape, harvest, or collect data or content from the Service by automated or manual means;
- reverse-engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract the source code of the app, except where the law expressly permits;
- use bots, scripts, or other automated methods to access the Service or perform actions on it;
- interfere with, disrupt, or place an unreasonable load on the Service or its infrastructure;
- circumvent, disable, or attempt to defeat any security feature, safety control, or access restriction;
- impersonate any person or misrepresent your relationship to a child or to Brighter Day; or
- use the Service for any unlawful purpose, or for commercial solicitation or resale.
9. How content is reviewed
Every video passes an automated safety check and a parent's approval before anyone outside the family can see it. A video the safety check flags can never be published — not even by a parent.
Keeping children safe is the core of how Brighter Day works. Before any video can be seen by anyone outside the child's own family, it passes through independent layers:
- Automated safety review. An automated system (using Google's Gemini service as our provider) reviews each video for unsafe content — including violence, adult themes, bullying, frightening imagery, visible personal information, and dangerous activities. This review is a hard gate: a video flagged for a safety concern cannot be published, even by the parent.
- Parental approval. A parent must then explicitly approve each safety-cleared video before it becomes visible to others.
- Ongoing reporting and review. Even after a video is visible, anyone can report it, and we review and act on reports (see below).
Children can't message, chat with, or identify each other anywhere in Brighter Day. Once a video is approved, other users see the video, the child's nickname, and the country pin — nothing more.
No messaging or contact between users. Brighter Day has no chat, no comments, and no free-text messaging of any kind. The only way one child can respond to another's video is an anonymous reaction sticker (a heart, smile, or star) that shows the reactor's nickname and country — never a real name, and never any way to contact them. When a parent approves a video, what becomes visible to other users is the video itself, the child's nickname, the title/description/category, and the family's approximate country/city pin — and nothing else about the child.
10. Reporting and blocking
Anyone can report a video, and any viewer can block a creator to stop seeing their videos. We aim to review reports within 24 hours and take appropriate action.
If you or your child sees content that seems wrong, you can report it from within the app by choosing a reason and adding optional details. Separately, any viewer can block or hide a creator, which removes that creator's videos from the viewer's experience; parents can review and manage their child's block list. We aim to review reports within 24 hours and take appropriate action, which may include removing content and disabling accounts. Because we are a small team, "appropriate action" is our commitment — not a guarantee of a particular outcome in every case.
11. Your content and the license you give us
Your family keeps ownership of your videos. You give us only the permission we need to host and show them inside Brighter Day — and that permission ends when you remove the content. We never use your videos outside the app.
As between you and Brighter Day, you and your child retain all ownership rights in the videos and other content you submit. To operate the Service, you grant Brighter Day a limited, non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to host, store, reproduce, display, and distribute that content within the Service, and to make the technical copies reasonably necessary to do so (for example, generating a thumbnail or a compressed/transcoded version for playback). This license exists only so we can run Brighter Day; we do not sell your content, license it to others for their own use, use it for advertising, or post it outside the app (including on our own marketing or social-media channels). The license ends when you delete the content or your account, except for copies that are transient, kept as routine backups for a limited time, or retained as required by law or for child-safety obligations.
You also grant us permission to use any feedback or suggestions you send us about the Service, without obligation to you.
12. Our intellectual property
The Brighter Day app itself — including its design, graphics, interfaces, software and code, and the "Brighter Day" name and logos — belongs to Brighter Day Media, LLC and is protected by intellectual-property laws. We grant you a limited, personal, non-transferable permission to use the app as intended by these Terms. Except as these Terms allow, you may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, or create derivative works from any part of the Service, and we reserve all rights we do not expressly grant.
13. Parental controls
A parent can, at any time from the app: approve, deny, or take down a child's videos; control whether a child's content is visible to others; choose how precise the family's globe location is; view, share, or reset a child's sign-in details; export a child's data; and delete an individual child account or the entire family account. These controls are described further in our Privacy Policy.
14. International use
Families in many countries are welcome. Our servers are in the United States, so your information is processed there, and you're responsible for following your own local laws.
Brighter Day welcomes invited families from many countries. Our servers and providers are located in the United States, so your information is processed there, as described in our Privacy Policy. If you use Brighter Day from outside the United States, you do so on your own initiative and are responsible for complying with any laws that apply where you live. Some features may not be available in every location.
15. Termination
You may stop using Brighter Day at any time and may delete a child account or your entire family account from within the app. We may suspend or terminate access to the Service, in whole or in part, if we believe these Terms have been violated or to protect the safety of a child or another person. Sections of these Terms that by their nature should survive termination — including content ownership, the license you granted, our intellectual-property rights, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnification, and the dispute-resolution terms — will survive.
16. Copyright and DMCA
If you believe someone posted your copyrighted work, send us a notice and we'll act on it. We remove infringing content and end service to repeat infringers.
Brighter Day respects intellectual-property rights and expects users to do the same. We respond to clear notices of alleged copyright infringement under the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA"), and it is our policy to remove infringing material and to terminate the accounts of repeat infringers.
If you believe content on Brighter Day infringes your copyright, please send us a written notice (using the contact details below) that includes: (a) your physical or electronic signature; (b) identification of the copyrighted work you claim was infringed; (c) identification of the material you claim is infringing and enough detail for us to locate it; (d) your contact information; (e) a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and (f) a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on its behalf.
Please send copyright notices to Brighter Day Media, LLC, by email at info@brighterdaymedia.com, marked for the attention of our copyright contact.
A person whose content is removed may submit a counter-notice as permitted by the DMCA.
17. Disclaimers
We work hard to make Brighter Day safe and reliable, but the Service is provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, secure, or error-free, or that any content is accurate or appropriate. Brighter Day is not an emergency service and must not be relied on for any urgent or safety-critical communication. Your use of the Service is at your own risk. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain warranty exclusions, so some of the above may not apply to you.
18. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, Brighter Day and its owners, employees, and providers will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, arising out of or relating to your use of the Service. Our total liability for all claims relating to the Service will not exceed the greater of (a) the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim (which, because Brighter Day is free, is currently zero) and (b) one hundred U.S. dollars ($100). Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so some of the above may not apply to you.
19. Indemnification
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Brighter Day and its owners, employees, and providers from any claims, liabilities, damages, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or related to your use or misuse of the Service, your content, or your violation of these Terms or of any law or the rights of another person.
20. Governing law and dispute resolution
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules.
Informal resolution first. If a dispute arises, we encourage you to contact us first at info@brighterdaymedia.com so we can try to resolve it directly.
Binding individual arbitration; class-action waiver. Except where prohibited by law, you and Brighter Day agree that any dispute that cannot be resolved informally will be settled by binding, individual arbitration rather than in court, administered under the rules of a recognized arbitration body, seated in California, and governed by the Federal Arbitration Act. You and Brighter Day each waive the right to a jury trial and agree that claims may be brought only on an individual basis and not as a plaintiff or member of any class or representative action.
Your right to opt out. You may opt out of this arbitration agreement by emailing info@brighterdaymedia.com within 30 days of first accepting these Terms; if you opt out, neither you nor Brighter Day will be bound by the arbitration agreement. Small-claims matters and requests for emergency or injunctive relief may be brought in court.
Time limit. Any claim arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service must be brought within one (1) year after it arises, or it is permanently barred, to the extent allowed by law.
21. General terms
- Entire agreement. These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and Brighter Day regarding the Service and supersede any prior agreements.
- Severability. If any provision is found unenforceable, the rest of these Terms remain in effect.
- No waiver. Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of our right to do so later.
- Assignment. You may not assign these Terms; we may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.
- Third-party links. The Service is self-contained, but if it ever links to a third-party site or service, we are not responsible for that third party's content or practices.
- Force majeure. We are not liable for delays or failures caused by events beyond our reasonable control.
- Export compliance. You agree not to use or export the Service in violation of U.S. export-control laws.
- Electronic communications. You agree that we may communicate with you electronically (in the app or by email) and that those communications satisfy any legal requirement to be in writing.
- Notices. We may give notices through the app or by email to the address associated with your account.
California consumers. Under California law, you may report a complaint to the Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Services of the California Department of Consumer Affairs by mail at 1625 North Market Blvd., Sacramento, CA 95834, or by phone at (916) 445-1254 or (800) 952-5210. If you are a California resident, you also waive California Civil Code §1542, which says a general release does not extend to claims the releasing party does not know or suspect to exist at the time of the release.
22. How to contact us
Questions about these Terms? Contact us at info@brighterdaymedia.com, or reach in-app support at alexandra@brighterdaymedia.com.