1. Purpose
These terms of use and sale (the "Terms") govern the use of the Qui A Raison? mobile application (the "App") and the purchase of its paid offer. The App is a game: an artificial intelligence, "Judge Perruque", settles with humour the small arguments players submit to it (between partners, friends, flatmates, family members or colleagues), based on each side's story, and hands down a mock verdict. The App also offers a quick debate, features to play with friends and a public court where players vote on summarised cases.
2. Publisher
The App is published by BAUGEY MATHEO, trading as DEVOLIM, 248 rue de Bègles, 33800 Bordeaux, France, SIREN 948 000 757. Contact: [email protected]. The legal notice supplements these Terms.
3. Acceptance
Using the App implies full acceptance of these Terms, of the disclaimer and of the court rules shown when the App is first opened. If you do not accept these Terms, do not use the App. The terms of the App Store (Apple) or Google Play (Google) also apply to downloads and purchases.
4. A game, not a court
The App is entertainment. Judge Perruque is not a judge, a lawyer, a mediator, or a psychology or relationship professional. His questions, verdicts, "grounds", "sentences" and shares of the blame are written automatically by an artificial intelligence model, in a humorous tone, based solely on what the players say, which he does not check.
A verdict has no legal value, is neither a court decision, evidence, nor legal, psychological, medical or relationship advice, and binds no one. The "sentence" is a forfeit for laughs that nobody is obliged to carry out. It is up to you not to make any important decision based on a verdict, and to consult a professional for any serious situation.
When a story or a debate mentions violence, threats, coercive control, suicidal thoughts or a minor in danger, the App gives no verdict and shows helplines. The App is not an emergency or listening service: nobody reads the cases in order to intervene. In immediate danger, call 112 (or 17 in France). In France, 3919 (domestic violence), 3114 (suicide prevention) and 119 (children in danger) are free and available at any time.
5. Access to the service
The App can be downloaded free of charge on iPhone and Android; its basic version is free and contains no advertising. It requires a compatible device and an internet connection, at the user's expense: stories, the judge's questions, verdicts, debates and the public court are processed by the publisher's servers. The App's interface is currently in French.
The publisher strives to keep the service available at all times, without being able to guarantee it: the judge may be temporarily unavailable (maintenance, a provider's outage, a safety or cost limit reached). Usage limits, shown in the App, apply to ensure fair operation and prevent abuse; they may change.
6. Account and profile
When first opened, the App automatically creates an anonymous account, with no email address or password, which is enough to open cases on a single phone, start express debates and vote in the public court. The social features (friends, summons on another phone, sharing a case with friends, votes and comments, jurors, posting to the public court, points, record) require a profile, created by signing in with an Apple or Google account and then choosing a username. The anonymous account is then linked to that profile.
The App is intended for people aged at least 15. The username is visible to other players: it must not use another person's identity, nor be offensive, discriminatory or misleading, nor contain contact details. You are responsible for the use of your profile and for the security of your Apple or Google account. You can delete your account and data at any time from the App (Profil, Réglages, "Effacer toutes mes données", that is Profile, Settings, Erase all my data), as described on the Help and contact page.
7. How cases work
A case involves two parties. In "on this phone" mode, both parties plead in turn on the same device. In "one each" mode, the player summons a friend on their own phone; the friend has the deadline shown in the App to give their story, failing which the judge gives a default judgment based on the only story received.
Each party gives their story, typed or dictated, and may attach photos as exhibits; they then answer the judge's questions, after which the verdict is given. A party's story and answers stay sealed: they are shown neither to the other party nor to other players. The verdict is visible to both parties and to invited jurors. An appeal, when offered, has the case retried by the "Court of Appeal"; in a case played on two phones, it must be requested by both parties.
The publisher may refuse to process a text or photo, in particular when an automated check detects unlawful, hateful or dangerous words or images, or an attempt to subvert how the judge works.
8. Players' content and the public court
You are solely responsible for the texts, photos, answers, usernames and comments you submit ("Content"). You undertake to submit only lawful Content that you have the right to use, and not to include information that could identify a third party outside the case, or sensitive or very personal data (health, intimate life, contact details, bank details). You grant the publisher, for the retention period set out in the privacy policy, a non-exclusive, royalty-free right to use your Content only to the extent necessary for the game to work (analysis by the judge, writing verdicts, summaries and translations, display to the people concerned).
By posting a judged case to the public court, you accept that a neutral summary with no first names, written by the judge, is translated into other languages and shown to all players, who vote during the period you chose, and then remains viewable. This summary cannot be edited, either by you or by the other party; it never reproduces the stories themselves. Such a summary may nevertheless be recognised by people who know the story: do not post a case that the other party would not want posted. Players can report a public case; a case reported several times is removed from the court, and the publisher may remove at any time any content that breaches these Terms.
To keep the public court lively, it also contains cases written by the game's editorial team with the help of artificial intelligence: these are invented disputes that do not involve any player. The vote counts and percentages shown may include, in addition to players' votes, a starter audience generated by the game. These figures are part of the entertainment: they do not have the value of a poll.
When one of the parties shares a judged case with their friends, a summary written by the judge (the context, the question and a summary of each story, never the stories themselves) and the verdict are shown to both parties and to the friends of each party who shared it. The other party is notified and can remove the case at any time, as can the party who shared it. Do not share a case the other party would not want to see circulate.
People who can see a shared case can vote and comment on it; votes and comments are visible, with their author's username, to all those people. A comment stays funny and respectful: it must not contain insults, hateful remarks, threats or personal information about anyone. It is checked automatically before it appears; links and numbers are removed. Its author and both parties can delete it, anyone can report it, and a comment reported several times is removed. The publisher may remove any comment that breaches these Terms.
Juror comments and comments under a shared case are subject to the same rules. To report manifestly unlawful content, write to [email protected], specifying the content and the reason.
9. Permitted use
You undertake to use the App for its purpose as a game and in accordance with the law. In particular, it is forbidden:
- to use the App to harass, humiliate, threaten, disparage or pressure anyone, or to spread hateful, discriminatory, violent or sexual content;
- to pass off a verdict as a real decision, or to use it to coerce someone;
- to try to manipulate the judge (instructions hidden in a text, content designed to get round its rules), to automate use of the App, or to rig votes or points (multiple accounts, vote swapping);
- to get round usage limits, security measures or the paid offer, to extract content on a large scale, or to decompile the App except where the law allows.
Any breach may lead to the refusal of content, the removal of a post or the suspension of access to the features concerned, without prejudice to any legal action.
10. Points and free cases
Votes in the public court may earn points for players who have a profile, under the conditions and limits shown in the App; these points can be exchanged for a free case. Points and free cases have no monetary value: they cannot be bought, refunded, converted or transferred between players. They are lost if the account is deleted. The publisher may change their rules, or end them, by announcing it in the App; points obtained abusively may be cancelled.
11. Paid offer
The App may offer a paid option (auto-renewing subscription and/or in-app purchase) giving access to additional features. The nature of the offer, its price, its duration, its renewal terms and, where applicable, whether a free trial is offered and for how long, are shown in the App and by the store (App Store or Google Play) before you confirm any purchase; this information may change and the version displayed at the time of purchase prevails. Payment is made through your Apple or Google account.
When a case involves two players and one of them has the paid offer, the case may benefit from it for both parties, under the conditions shown in the App. The subscription remains personal to the person who bought it: it cannot be shared or transferred.
11.1 Prices
Prices are those shown in the app at the time of purchase, including all taxes, in the currency of your store account. They may vary by country and change; any change is notified to you by the store before it takes effect.
11.2 Renewal and cancellation
The subscription renews automatically at the end of each period, unless cancelled at least 24 hours before it ends. Cancellation is done from your store account settings:
Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current period; access to paid features is maintained until then. Deleting the App or erasing your data does not cancel the subscription.
11.3 Right of withdrawal
Consumers in principle have fourteen days to withdraw. However, under Article L.221-28 13° of the French Consumer Code, this right cannot be exercised for the supply of digital content not supplied on a tangible medium where performance has begun with your prior express consent and your express waiver of this right: which is the case as soon as the subscription is activated.
11.4 Refunds
Payments are collected by Apple or Google. Any refund request is therefore handled by the store concerned: reportaproblem.apple.com for iOS, or Google Play support for Android. The publisher has no technical means of issuing a refund itself.
12. Legal guarantee of conformity
Consumers benefit from the legal guarantee of conformity applicable to digital content and services, provided for in Articles L.224-25-12 et seq. of the French Consumer Code. They have two years from the supply of the digital content to have it brought into conformity, free of charge and without major inconvenience.
13. Intellectual property
The App, its texts, interface, code, illustrations, the Judge Perruque character and the name Qui A Raison? are the exclusive property of the publisher and are protected by intellectual property law. The publisher grants you a personal, non-exclusive and non-transferable right to use the App, for private and non-commercial use. You may freely share your verdicts and your friends' verdicts, as generated by the App, for personal purposes.
14. Liability
Verdicts, questions, summaries, translations and debates are generated automatically and may be inaccurate, incomplete or unfair; they are provided for entertainment, as the disclaimer points out. The publisher cannot be held liable for decisions made or conclusions drawn from a verdict, for Content submitted or posted by players, or for how other players or third parties use it, in particular after it has been shared outside the App. Its liability cannot be engaged in the event of temporary unavailability of the service, force majeure or the act of a third party. Nothing in these Terms excludes the publisher's liability where the law prohibits it, or the rights consumers have under the law.
15. Personal data
The processing of personal data is described in the privacy policy, which forms an integral part of these Terms.
16. Account deletion and end of service
You may stop using the App at any time and erase your account and data from the App. The publisher may suspend a player's access to the social features in the event of a serious or repeated breach of these Terms. It may change the App, or stop operating it by informing players within a reasonable time; subscribers are then told the arrangements that apply to their subscription.
17. Changes to the Terms
The publisher may change these Terms to reflect changes in the App, the law or case law. The version in force is the one published on this page, with its update date. Substantial changes are announced in the App; continuing to use it after being informed implies acceptance of the new Terms.
18. Complaints
Subscriptions and in-app purchases are sold by Apple (App Store) or Google (Google Play), with whom the sales contract is concluded; DEVOLIM provides the service. Refund requests and complaints about a payment are made to them (reportaproblem.apple.com for Apple, play.google.com for Google). Any other complaint can be sent to [email protected].
19. Governing law
These Terms are governed by French law. In the event of a dispute, and failing an amicable settlement, the French courts have jurisdiction. Consumers retain the right to bring proceedings before the court of their place of residence.
20. Language
These Terms are written in French. In the event of any discrepancy between the French version and a translation, the French version prevails.