Terms of Use

Version: 3.3 Effective date: 1 November 2026 Last updated: 20 October 2026

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Where Athina AD is offered. Athina AD accounts and plans are offered only to individuals resident in, and organisations established in, the United States, Canada or Mexico. The service is not offered to customers elsewhere. OMAC (FZE), based in the UAE, makes and operates Athina AD. Paid plans are sold by OMAC's authorised reseller, AI For The Blind Corporation, as the Terms of Sale explain. These documents are provided in English, French and Spanish. This market restriction does not waive any rights or obligations that applicable law requires.

The short version

  • Athina AD is made and run by OMAC (FZE), a company in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. These Terms are a contract between you and OMAC.
  • You must be 18 or older to use Athina AD.
  • You own your videos and your results. We use them only to provide the service to you. We never use them to train AI.
  • AI can make mistakes. Check descriptions before you rely on them or publish them.
  • Only upload videos you have the right to use. Do not upload illegal or harmful content.
  • Buying a plan is covered by our Terms of Sale. In the United States, Canada and Mexico, plans are sold by our authorised reseller, AI For The Blind Corporation. Plans are bought only on athinaad.com.
  • If you live in the United States, disputes go to individual arbitration unless you opt out within 30 days (Section 21).
  • If you are a consumer, you keep the rights that the law of your country gives you. Nothing in these Terms takes them away.

1. Who we are and what these Terms cover

1.1 Athina AD is operated by OMAC (FZE) ("OMAC", "we", "us", "our"), Trade Licence No. 11651, issued by the SRTI Free Zone Authority, Block B, Office B58-111, Sharjah Research Technology and Innovation Park, University City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, P.O. Box 66636.

1.2 These Terms of Use ("Terms") apply when you use the Athina AD website (athinaad.com), the Athina AD web app, the Athina AD apps for iPhone and Android, and any related service that links to these Terms (together, the "Service").

1.3 By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

1.4 If you use the Service for an organisation (for example a school, charity or company), you confirm that you may accept these Terms for it. "You" then means both you and the organisation.

2. Definitions

  • Account: your Athina AD account.
  • Your Content: videos you upload, YouTube links you submit, names and instructions you type, and anything else you give us.
  • Results: what the Service creates from Your Content, such as written descriptions, scripts, narration audio and described videos.
  • Consumer: an individual who uses the Service mainly for purposes outside their trade, business or profession.
  • Business User: anyone who is not a Consumer, including organisations.
  • Plan: the free plan or any paid plan, top-up or enterprise arrangement described on our pricing page.
  • Seller: whoever sells you a paid Plan, as set out in the Terms of Sale. In the United States, Canada and Mexico, the Seller is AI For The Blind Corporation.

3. Who can use Athina AD

3.1 You must be at least 18 years old. You must also be resident in the United States, Canada or Mexico, or act for an organisation established in one of those countries. Schools and other organisations may use Athina AD for students through accounts held by adults. Accounts and plans are not offered to customers elsewhere.

3.2 You may not use the Service if you are barred from receiving it under the laws that apply to you, or if you are located in, or ordinarily resident in, a country or region subject to comprehensive United States, United Nations, European Union, United Kingdom or United Arab Emirates sanctions, or are named on a sanctions list. You confirm that none of this applies to you.

3.3 One person, one account, unless we agree otherwise in writing. Keep your sign-in details secure and tell us at once at support@athinaad.com if you think someone else has used your Account. You are responsible for what happens in your Account unless it was caused by our failure to keep the Service secure.

3.4 Give us accurate information when you sign up, and keep your email address up to date.

4. Plans, payment and resellers

4.1 The Service is provided by OMAC under these Terms, whoever sells you a Plan. The purchase itself — price, payment, tax, renewal, cancellation and refunds — is covered by the Terms of Sale and the Refund and Cancellation Policy.

4.2 Authorised resellers. OMAC may appoint resellers in writing. AI For The Blind Corporation, a Texas nonprofit corporation, is OMAC's authorised reseller in the United States, Canada and Mexico and sells paid Plans there in its own name. If you bought from a reseller, you still accept these Terms directly with OMAC. A reseller cannot change these Terms or make promises about the Service on OMAC's behalf, and it does not own or run the Service. A link from another website, including a reseller's website, does not change your Seller: Plans are bought only on athinaad.com (Section 4.5).

4.3 What each Plan includes (minutes, output types, storage, advertisements and marks) is shown on our pricing page and in your Account. These Terms do not set prices.

4.4 Enterprise customers. If your organisation has signed a separate written agreement with OMAC, that agreement takes priority over these Terms where they conflict. Organisations that upload videos showing other people can ask for our Data Processing Addendum at support@athinaad.com.

4.5 Where Plans are sold. Paid Plans are sold only on the Athina AD website, athinaad.com. They cannot be bought inside the Athina AD apps or through Apple's App Store or Google Play.

5. Your Content

5.1 You keep ownership of Your Content. You give OMAC a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, copy, process, transmit and change the format of Your Content only as needed to provide the Service to you, keep it secure, and meet our legal obligations. This licence ends when Your Content is deleted under our Privacy Policy, except for copies we must keep by law. When you use Export to YouTube (Section 8.4), you also authorise us to transmit the selected Result and the details you confirm to YouTube for that upload.

5.2 You promise that:

  • you own Your Content or have all permissions needed to upload it and to have it described, narrated and adapted using the Service;
  • where Your Content shows or names other people, you have any permission the law requires from them;
  • using Your Content with the Service does not break any law or anyone's rights.

5.3 No AI training. We do not use Your Content or Results to train artificial-intelligence models or authorise providers to do so. We select business/API services with the content protections described in the Privacy Policy and do not authorise optional content sharing for model training. A future policy change does not by itself permit using previously collected content for training; any legally required notice and separate permission must be obtained first.

5.4 When our staff see your videos. Our staff open Your Content only in the situations listed in our Privacy Policy, such as when you ask us for help.

6. Results

6.1 You own your Results, to the extent the law allows anyone to own them. Between you and OMAC, we assign to you any rights we have in your Results. We do not claim ownership of them.

6.2 We may show your Results as examples in our marketing only with your permission, given separately each time.

6.3 Results on some Plans may include an Athina AD mark, a short spoken Athina AD message, or a short sponsor clip, as described on the pricing page. You may not remove or hide these unless your Plan allows it.

6.4 AI-generated Results may be similar to results created for other users. Your ownership does not extend to similar content others create independently.

7. AI and its limits

7.1 Athina AD uses artificial intelligence. Google AI services analyse submitted content and generate descriptions and narration. OpenAI business/API services may receive written descriptions or narration text for refinement or speech generation, and audio where an OpenAI transcription feature is used. The information sent depends on the feature and is explained in the Privacy Policy.

7.2 AI can be wrong. Results may be inaccurate, incomplete, out of order or inappropriate, and may misdescribe people, text, colours, actions or events. You are responsible for checking Results before you rely on them, share them or publish them, especially for safety, medical, legal, financial or educational use.

7.3 Results do not guarantee legal compliance. Using Athina AD does not by itself make your content compliant with accessibility laws or standards such as the Americans with Disabilities Act, the European Accessibility Act, WCAG or Section 508. Have important content reviewed by a person.

7.4 AI-made label. We mark audio and text that the Service generates as AI-generated in a machine-readable form. If you publish Results, you are responsible for any visible disclosure the law or the platform where you publish requires, for example a label saying that content was generated or changed by AI.

7.5 AI assistants. Where the Service lets you ask questions or chat about a job, you are talking to an AI system, not a person.

7.6 How people are named. The AI names a person only when the name is spoken in the video, shown on screen, or typed in by you. It is instructed never to identify anyone from their face or appearance.

8.1 Athina AD uses YouTube API Services. By submitting a YouTube link, or by using Export to YouTube (Section 8.4), you agree to the YouTube Terms of Service, and Google handles information under the Google Privacy Policy. Our handling of information obtained through YouTube API Services is described in the Privacy Policy.

8.2 Submit only links you have the right to have described, and only videos that are publicly available or that you are allowed to access. Do not use the Service to get around any access control, payment wall or download restriction.

8.3 Our accepting a link is not a decision that you have the rights to it.

8.4 Export to YouTube. Where offered, you may connect a YouTube channel through Google's authorization screen and ask Athina AD to upload a video Result to that channel. Export is available only for video Results generated from a file you uploaded to Athina AD, not for Results created from a YouTube link. The YouTube-link feature itself does not ask for your YouTube credentials, access your YouTube account or channel, or upload, edit, delete, like, comment on or otherwise act on anything on YouTube.

8.5 You confirm each upload. Before each upload, you review and confirm the video and its title, description, thumbnail, privacy setting, audience (made-for-kids) setting and other details. Athina AD uploads only after you confirm and does not publish, edit or delete anything on your channel on its own. If you ask Athina AD to suggest these details or to generate a thumbnail, the suggestions are AI-generated drafts that may be inaccurate or incomplete, and you are responsible for reviewing, editing or replacing them before you confirm.

8.6 Your responsibility for what you publish. You must have all rights, licences, consents and permissions needed to publish the source material and the Result on YouTube, and you are responsible for making sure the upload complies with the YouTube Terms of Service, YouTube's policies and applicable law.

8.7 YouTube controls the upload. After the upload, the video is hosted by YouTube under YouTube's terms, and you manage or delete it in YouTube. Disconnecting your channel or deleting your Account does not remove videos from YouTube. YouTube may reject, restrict, keep private or remove an upload, or limit uploads (for example, by video length or account verification), and we do not promise that an upload will succeed or be publicly available.

8.8 Disconnecting. You can disconnect your channel at any time in Athina AD, or through the Google security settings page at https://security.google.com/settings/security/permissions. Our handling of the connection and related information, including how long we keep it, is described in Section 5.1 and Section 14 of the Privacy Policy.

9. Acceptable use

You must not use the Service, or help anyone else use it, to:

  • upload or create content that is illegal, or that sexually exploits or endangers children;
  • upload intimate or sexual images of a person without their consent, or create deceptive content that impersonates a real person;
  • infringe copyright, trademarks, privacy or other rights;
  • harass, threaten or promote violence or hatred against anyone;
  • identify people from their faces, or build profiles of people;
  • break the law, including export control and sanctions laws;
  • probe, overload, scrape, reverse-engineer or interfere with the Service, or get around usage limits, security or payment;
  • resell, sublicense or provide the Service to others as a service, unless OMAC has authorised you in writing;
  • create accounts by automated means, or share or sell accounts.

10. Safety screening, suspension and appeals

10.1 Our system and our AI providers check videos automatically against safety rules. A job that fails the check is not processed.

10.2 If you think an automatic decision was wrong, write to support@athinaad.com and a person will review it.

10.3 We may suspend or close an Account if we reasonably believe you have seriously or repeatedly broken these Terms, if the law requires it, or to protect people or the Service. Account bans are always decided by a person. Unless the law or a safety reason prevents it, we will tell you why and give you a chance to respond. If we close a paid Account without good reason under these Terms, you will receive a proportionate refund of any prepaid period you could not use.

We respond to notices of alleged copyright infringement under our Copyright Policy, and we close the Accounts of repeat infringers in appropriate circumstances.

12. Our intellectual property

The Service, its software, design, the Athina AD name and logo, and our own content belong to OMAC or its licensors. These Terms give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the Service while your Account is open. You may not use our name or logo without our written permission, except to refer to the Service accurately.

13. Feedback

If you send us ideas or suggestions, we may use them without paying you or owing you anything. This does not give us any rights in Your Content.

14. Availability, changes and beta features

14.1 We work to keep the Service available and working as described, but it may sometimes be unavailable for maintenance, updates or reasons outside our control.

14.2 We may change or improve the Service. If a change significantly reduces what a paid Plan includes during a period you have already paid for, we will tell you in advance, and you may cancel and receive a proportionate refund for the rest of that period.

14.3 Features marked "beta", "preview" or "test" are offered to try out. They may change or stop at any time and may work less reliably.

15. Our promises to you, and their limits

15.1 What we promise. We will provide the Service with reasonable care and skill, and it will work materially as described on our website and in your Account.

15.2 What we do not promise. Apart from Section 15.1 and any right the law does not allow us to exclude, the Service and Results are provided "as is" and "as available". We do not promise that the Service will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that Results will be accurate or fit a particular purpose (see Section 7).

15.3 Mandatory consumer rights. You keep all non-waivable consumer guarantees and remedies under applicable law, including any right to a repair, price reduction or refund. Consumers in Canada (including Québec) and Mexico keep every guarantee and right that the law of their country gives them and that cannot be excluded. In Québec, the warranties provided by the Consumer Protection Act apply despite anything to the contrary in these Terms.

15.4 Market scope. These Terms do not offer the Service outside the United States, Canada and Mexico. This restriction does not extinguish existing rights or override protections that applicable law requires.

16. Our liability

16.1 Nothing in these Terms limits or excludes liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, for gross negligence or wilful misconduct, or for anything else that cannot be limited or excluded by law.

16.2 Subject to Section 16.1, OMAC is not liable for:

  • losses that were not reasonably foreseeable when you accepted these Terms;
  • for Business Users, loss of profit, revenue, business, goodwill or data, or any indirect or consequential loss;
  • losses caused by your failure to check Results as Section 7.2 asks, or by your breach of these Terms;
  • events outside our reasonable control (Section 23.4).

16.3 Subject to Section 16.1, OMAC's total liability to you for all claims arising out of or relating to the Service in any 12-month period is limited to the greater of (a) the total amount paid for your Plans in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim, and (b) USD 100.

16.4 If you are a Consumer, Sections 16.2 and 16.3 apply only as far as applicable law allows. In Québec, they do not apply to Consumers to the extent the Consumer Protection Act prohibits them. In Mexico, they do not apply to the extent the Ley Federal de Protección al Consumidor prohibits them. No limit in these Terms overrides a liability or remedy that cannot lawfully be limited.

17. Your responsibility to us (Business Users only)

If you are a Business User, you will compensate OMAC for reasonable losses, costs and legal fees resulting from a claim by someone else that Your Content, or your use of the Service in breach of these Terms, infringes their rights or breaks the law. OMAC will tell you promptly about the claim and let you take part in its defence. This section does not apply to Consumers.

18. Closing your Account

18.1 You may stop using the Service and delete your Account at any time. On the website, open Account, choose Delete my account, enter your password and confirm with Delete account. In the app, open Profile and choose Delete my account. If you cannot sign in, write to support@athinaad.com from the email address on your Account. Your Account is locked at once, and you are signed out on every device. You have 30 days to sign in and choose Restore my account; after that, the Account is permanently deleted from our live account systems. Recovery copies and retained records follow the separate periods in Section 15 of the Privacy Policy. See the step-by-step instructions. When you ask to delete your Account, any paid subscription stops renewing at once, and restoring the Account does not restart it unless you choose to (see Section 5.4 of the Terms of Sale). If you connected a YouTube channel, we also revoke that connection (Section 8.8); videos you already exported stay on YouTube until you delete them there.

18.2 We may close an Account under Section 10.3, or if it has been inactive for 2 years as described in our Privacy Policy, after warning you by email, but not while it holds paid top-up minutes.

18.3 Sections 5.1 (until deletion), 6, 12, 13, 16, 17, 20, 21 and 23 continue after your Account is closed.

19. Changes to these Terms

19.1 We may update these Terms, for example to reflect changes in the law or in the Service. If a change is important, we will email you and show a notice in the Service at least 30 days before it takes effect. The notice will set out the new or changed clause, how it read before, and the date it takes effect. If you do not agree, you may stop using the Service and close your Account before then, without cost or penalty; if you have a paid Plan, you may cancel it and receive a proportionate refund for the unused part of a period you already paid for. If you are a consumer in Québec, you may also refuse the change by cancelling, without cost or penalty, up to 30 days after it takes effect.

19.2 Changes that do not reduce your rights, such as corrections, may take effect when published.

19.3 The version and date at the top of these Terms show the current version. Earlier versions are available on request.

20. Governing law and courts

20.1 These Terms are governed by the laws of the United Arab Emirates as applied in the Emirate of Sharjah, except Section 21 (which is governed by the US Federal Arbitration Act).

20.2 Disputes go to the courts of Sharjah. For Business Users, those courts have non-exclusive jurisdiction, so OMAC may also bring a claim where the Business User is located.

20.3 Mandatory consumer protections. If you are a Consumer, the choice of law in Section 20.1 does not take away the protection given to you by the mandatory laws of the country where you live, and you may bring a claim in the courts of that country. In particular:

  • Consumers in the United States resolve disputes under Section 21, including its exceptions and opt-out.
  • Consumers in Canada (including Québec and Ontario) may bring proceedings in the courts of their province and keep the protections of its consumer protection law.
  • Consumers in Mexico may go to the Procuraduría Federal del Consumidor (PROFECO) and the competent Mexican courts. Nothing in these Terms makes you give up the protection of the Ley Federal de Protección al Consumidor or submits you to the courts of another country.

Nothing here removes a non-waivable right to bring a claim in a competent court.

20.4 Existing rights. The market restriction in these Terms does not retrospectively change rights arising under earlier agreements or extinguish remedies required by applicable law.

21. Arbitration for United States residents

Please read this section carefully. It affects your legal rights. You can opt out (Section 21.9). It applies only to people who live in the United States. It does not apply to residents of Canada (including Québec) or Mexico.

21.1 Who it applies to. This Section 21 applies only if you live in the United States when a Dispute arises. If you do not, Section 20 applies and this section does not. "Dispute" means any claim or disagreement between you and OMAC arising out of or relating to these Terms, the Service, OMAC's handling of a purchase, cancellation or refund for your Seller, or any advertising for the Service, whatever the legal basis, including a claim that arose before you accepted these Terms. Disputes with your Seller about a purchase are covered by Section 9 of the Terms of Sale.

21.2 Talk to us first. Before starting arbitration, send a written Notice of Dispute to support@athinaad.com describing the Dispute, the relief you want and the email address on your Account. We will send any notice to the email address on your Account. The receiving party has 60 days to respond. Any limitation period is paused during those 60 days. Neither party may start arbitration before the period ends.

21.3 Agreement to arbitrate. If the Dispute is not resolved, you and OMAC agree to resolve it by binding individual arbitration instead of in court, except as Section 21.4 provides. This agreement is governed by the Federal Arbitration Act (9 U.S.C. §§ 1–16). You and OMAC each give up the right to a trial before a judge or a jury. The arbitrator decides any question about the interpretation, scope or enforceability of this Section 21, except that a court decides whether Section 21.6 is enforceable.

21.4 Exceptions. Either party may bring an individual claim in small claims court while it stays there. Either party may ask a court to stop infringement or misuse of intellectual property. This Section 21 does not cover any claim that cannot lawfully be sent to arbitration.

21.5 How it works. The American Arbitration Association ("AAA") administers the arbitration under its Consumer Arbitration Rules in effect at the time, as changed by this section. If the AAA cannot or will not, the parties will agree on another administrator, or a court will appoint one. There is one arbitrator. For Disputes of USD 25,000 or less, the arbitration takes place by documents, telephone or video unless the arbitrator decides a hearing in person is necessary. Any hearing in person takes place in the county where you live, or another place we both agree. The arbitrator may award any individual relief a court could, including statutory damages and attorneys' fees where a law allows them. Judgment on the award may be entered in any court with jurisdiction.

21.6 No class actions. You and OMAC may bring claims against each other only individually, not as a plaintiff or class member in any class, collective, consolidated or representative proceeding. The arbitrator may not combine more than one person's claims. If this Section 21.6 is found unenforceable for a particular claim or remedy, that claim or remedy (and only that one) is decided by a court under Section 20, after the arbitrable claims are resolved.

21.7 Fees. For a Dispute where you seek USD 75,000 or less and your claim is not frivolous, OMAC will pay all AAA filing, administration and arbitrator fees above what you would have paid to file the same claim in a court where you live. Otherwise each party pays its own costs, unless a law or the award says otherwise.

21.8 Where you live matters. Nothing in this section requires you to travel outside the United States.

21.9 You can opt out. You may opt out of this Section 21, and it will not apply to you. Email support@athinaad.com with the subject "Arbitration Opt-Out" within 30 days after you first accept these Terms, or within 30 days after you first accept a version of these Terms containing this section, whichever is later. Include your name, the email address on your Account, and a statement that you are opting out of arbitration. You may also send it within 30 days after your first purchase from your Seller, if that is later. The same email opts you out of the arbitration agreement with your Seller in Section 9 of the Terms of Sale as well; you do not need to send two. Opting out does not affect your Account, your price or any other part of your use of the Service.

21.10 Changes. If we materially change this Section 21, you may reject the change by emailing support@athinaad.com within 30 days after it takes effect, and the last version you accepted continues to apply to you.

21.11 This Section 21 continues after your Account is closed.

22. Which document applies

Mandatory law and non-waivable rights take priority. An accepted Data Processing Addendum takes priority for processing on an organisation's behalf, subject to any mandatory transfer terms. Otherwise, a separate written agreement signed by you and OMAC controls its agreed subject matter; the Terms of Sale and Refund and Cancellation Policy control purchases, prices, payments, renewal, cancellation and refunds; and these Terms control general use. The Privacy Policy explains personal-information handling and the Copyright Policy explains copyright notices. No general commercial term silently removes a privacy right or statutory protection.

23. General

23.1 Notices. We send notices to the email address on your Account. Legal notices to OMAC go to support@athinaad.com, with a copy by post to the address in Section 1.1.

23.2 Transfer. You may not transfer your Account or these Terms without our written consent. We may transfer them to a company that takes over the Service, if your rights are not reduced; we will tell you first.

23.3 No third-party rights. Only you and OMAC have rights under these Terms, except as stated in Section 24.

23.4 Events beyond our control. We are not responsible for delays or failures caused by events beyond our reasonable control, such as failures of cloud, AI or internet providers, power cuts, natural disasters, war, or government action. We will tell you and do what we reasonably can to limit the effect.

23.5 Severability. If a court finds part of these Terms invalid, the rest stays in force.

23.6 No waiver. If we do not enforce a right immediately, we can still enforce it later.

23.7 Whole agreement. These Terms and the documents in Section 22 are the whole agreement between you and OMAC about the Service.

23.8 Language. These Terms are available in English, French and Spanish. For consumers in Québec, the French version applies unless you expressly choose another version after receiving the French one. For consumers in Mexico, the Spanish version applies. In all other cases, the English version applies if the versions differ.

24. Apple and Google app stores

If you downloaded the Athina AD app from Apple's App Store or Google Play:

  • these Terms are between you and OMAC only, not Apple or Google, and OMAC alone is responsible for the app and its content;
  • your licence to use the app is limited to devices you own or control, as the store's rules allow;
  • Apple and Google have no obligation to provide maintenance or support for the app;
  • if the app fails to meet any applicable warranty, you may tell Apple, and Apple may refund the purchase price of the app (if any); to the extent the law allows, Apple has no other warranty obligation;
  • OMAC, not Apple, is responsible for any claim about the app, including product liability, failure to meet legal or regulatory requirements, consumer protection and privacy claims, and any claim that the app infringes someone else's intellectual property;
  • you confirm you are not in a country subject to a US Government embargo or designated a "terrorist supporting" country, and are not on any US Government list of prohibited or restricted parties;
  • you must comply with any third-party terms that apply when you use the app, such as your mobile carrier's or internet provider's terms;
  • Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce them against you.

25. Contact

  • Help with the Service: support@athinaad.com
  • Privacy: support@athinaad.com
  • Copyright notices: dmca@onemoreaicompany.com
  • Legal notices to OMAC: support@athinaad.com
  • Post: OMAC (FZE), Block B, Office B58-111, Sharjah Research Technology and Innovation Park, University City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, P.O. Box 66636