LiteShortThese Terms of Service (the “Terms”) apply to the LiteShort mobile application (the “Application”) and related services (together, the “Services”), provided by OctoPaul Limited (“we,” “us” or “our”). The Application is available free of charge and is supported by advertising.
A. Acceptance and eligibility:
Please read these Terms before using the Services. After we present them and give you an opportunity to read them, selecting “Agree” or giving another legally valid form of acceptance means you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree, please stop using the Services.
You must meet the legal requirements for using the Services and entering into these Terms where you live. If the law requires parental or guardian consent or supervision, those requirements must be met before you use the relevant Services.
Cash rewards and withdrawals are also subject to local law and the payment provider’s age, identity, location and account requirements. Guardian consent does not remove the need to meet the provider’s requirements for the account holder. Do not give false age, identity or location information, or use someone else’s identity to bypass restrictions. Some content or features may be unavailable because of location, licensing or legal requirements.
B. About us and contact details:
Contact details. For questions, suggestions, complaints or appeals about these Terms or the Services, contact OctoPaul Limited at dev@octopaul.net. Contacting us or discussing a resolution does not limit your right to bring a claim before a competent court, consumer-protection body or other authority under applicable law.
Written notices. References to “writing” or “written notices” in these Terms include email. We may send necessary notices about the Services through the Application or through valid contact details you provided for the relevant matter.
C. Third-party agreements and personal information:
The Application may use third-party content, advertising, technology and payment services, each of which may have its own terms. When you use a third-party service directly, review and comply with its legally applicable terms. For example, receiving funds through PayPal also requires you to meet its account and service requirements for the applicable region.
These Terms govern your relationship with OctoPaul Limited. When you use a third-party service directly, its applicable terms govern your relationship with that provider. These Terms do not replace the provider’s account or service requirements. Our Privacy Policy and relevant notices explain the third-party services we actually use and how they process personal information. Using a third party does not release us from responsibilities we must bear under applicable law.
Our separate Privacy Policy and in-app notices explain how personal information is handled. They cover the third-party services actually used, processing purposes, data types, retention and deletion, and your rights. The policy will be available in the app.
Accepting these Terms does not mean consenting to every use of personal information, device permission or personalized ad. We will provide separate notices or obtain authorization or consent when the law requires it. The Privacy Policy and the actual options in the app and on your device explain the available controls.
D. User accounts:
LiteShort may use a guest account to record your viewing progress, favorites, rewards and related transactions. Please keep your device and account access secure. Payment details, information needed for support and any necessary verification information you submit must be true, accurate, complete and up to date. Please update that information promptly if it changes.
You must not sell, trade or transfer your account and should not share account access credentials with others. If you discover unauthorized account use or another account-security issue, please contact us promptly at dev@octopaul.net.
If a competent authority lawfully requires it, or it is necessary to meet a legal obligation, we may request additional verification information. We will explain its purpose and the information needed and handle it under our Privacy Policy and applicable law.
Uninstalling the app, clearing its data, or replacing or resetting your device may affect how we identify and recover your guest account. If you cannot access your account or find a problem with its records, contact us using the email in these Terms. After lawful and necessary identity checks, we will use verifiable records to help resolve the issue. We cannot forfeit rewards you lawfully earned solely because account access cannot be restored immediately.
E. Use of the Services, content rights and charges:
The Services let you watch short dramas, browse recommendations and categories, search for titles, save favorites and use viewing history and playback features. Available content, subtitles, video quality and playback options may vary by episode, device and region.
License: Subject to these Terms and applicable law, and within the rights we are entitled to grant, we give you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable and non-sublicensable license to use the Services for personal, non-commercial purposes. We or the relevant rights holders own the rights in the dramas, images, audio, interfaces, software and trademarks. Using the Services does not give you ownership of that material.
Restrictions: Unless authorized or expressly permitted by law, you must not copy, publicly distribute, resell or commercially exploit content; bypass content protection or access restrictions; reverse engineer the software; or create unauthorized modified versions. You must not use bots, data-gathering tools or similar methods to extract content in bulk, or download content from the Services, without authorization. This does not prohibit caching needed for the Application to work normally or activities expressly permitted by law.
Charges: The Application does not currently offer paid subscriptions, individual episode purchases or top-ups. Free access does not mean an ad-free experience. If we change the Services or introduce paid features, we will explain the price, billing method and applicable terms before you purchase and obtain any consent required by law. Accepting these Terms alone does not authorize us to charge you automatically.
F. Rewards and withdrawals:
The reward, withdrawal and specific promotion rules that we clearly disclose before you participate supplement these Terms. Those rules cannot override your statutory rights or retroactively reduce rewards you have lawfully earned.
Viewing and task rewards: You may see ads while using the Services. Taking part in optional reward tasks is your choice. Some tasks may require a certain amount of eligible viewing time, a specified number of episodes or a complete video ad.
Task requirements, reward amounts, claim methods, expiry periods and participation limits must be clearly shown before you take part. The rules must also state the applicable time zone and daily reset time. Paused playback, loading, time in the background or activity that fails validity checks does not automatically count as eligible viewing. The task rules disclosed in advance determine what counts.
Rewards must not depend on positive ratings, false reviews or invalid ad clicks. Ads may feature products, websites or services from third parties. You decide whether to use or buy them.
We use coins to measure task rewards and a cash balance to record US-dollar rewards that have been converted or directly credited. The balance shown in the app is not your PayPal account balance. Funds appear in the receiving account once payment is completed.
You may earn coins through eligible viewing, check-ins and other available tasks. Coins cannot be topped up, sold, transferred or traded between users. Routine tasks do not promise fixed earnings per minute, day or month. We will honor specifically promised benefits, including fixed new-user rewards, as promised.
Unclaimed task rewards may expire at a deadline clearly disclosed in advance. That deadline does not automatically apply to cash already credited to your balance. You may review the reward and transaction records available in the app. If records differ, we will check and correct them using verifiable information. You may also provide supporting evidence.
New-user reward: In regions where the offer is lawfully available, eligible new users receive a US$2 welcome reward upon downloading LiteShort. The reward is credited directly to the in-app cash balance without first completing drama-viewing or advertising tasks.
The new-user reward is a one-time benefit. Re-registering, reinstalling the app or misrepresenting yourself as a new user does not create eligibility for another reward. Receiving US$2 in the app does not mean receiving an immediate US$2 PayPal payment. Withdrawals remain subject to these Terms and the withdrawal requirements disclosed in advance.
Coin conversion: Coins are automatically converted into your cash balance in 60-minute cycles under the applicable conversion rules disclosed to you. Closing the app or moving it to the background does not stop the server-side conversion countdown.
Conversion rates may vary under disclosed tier rules. Before you participate in reward activities, we must explain the main conditions affecting conversion and provide access to the applicable rules. Coins you lawfully earned will be handled under the applicable rules disclosed when they were earned. Cash already credited will not be recalculated because a conversion rate later changes.
We may correct records affected by technical errors, duplicate entries or verified fraud. We must retain supporting information and, where legally permitted, explain the reason and how you can challenge the correction.
PayPal withdrawals: The current minimum withdrawal is US$10. Available amounts are US$10, US$20, US$50 or US$100, with no more than one withdrawal request per day. The requested amount must not exceed your eligible balance. You must provide details of a PayPal account that you lawfully hold, that meets local requirements and that can receive the payment.
Requests are subject to balance, account, frequency and necessary security checks. Successful submission means the request has been accepted for processing, not that payment has arrived. Payment is normally expected within 1–3 business days. Reviews, holidays, payment-provider processing or other reasonable circumstances may cause delays. You may contact us about a significant delay.
If a payment fails and funds have not been successfully paid, we will verify its status, process any balance that should be returned and update the records. We will reasonably assist with issues caused by incorrect payment details, but cannot guarantee recovery of funds already paid to an incorrect account. Responsibility will be determined under applicable law and the actual cause of the issue.
PayPal or another relevant provider may charge fees or convert currencies under its terms. Any withdrawal fee charged or deducted by us, or that we can determine, must be disclosed before you submit a request. You and we are each responsible for the tax and reporting obligations that legally apply to us.
Spins and other promotions: If we offer spins or other promotions with random outcomes, we will disclose the eligible regions, entry conditions, prizes, participation limits and any probabilities or selection methods that the law requires before you take part. Animations do not represent a guaranteed outcome or prize.
The current Services do not offer coin purchases or real-money wagering to obtain random rewards. Promotions are available only where the law and applicable service rules permit them. Promotion rules must not reduce rewards already lawfully earned or conceal important conditions in a way that misleads users.
G. Devices, connectivity and updates:
Please take care of your device and the Application’s security. Rooting your device or otherwise removing its built-in security restrictions may increase the risk of malware, unauthorized access or other security problems. It may also affect how the Application works. We recommend caution before making such changes.
Some features require an active internet connection. The Application may not work properly if Wi-Fi or mobile data is unavailable, your data allowance runs out or the connection is unstable. Your agreement with your provider governs data, roaming and other communications charges. Be aware of roaming charges when using mobile data abroad. If someone else pays the device’s communications bills, obtain their permission first.
You should also keep your device sufficiently charged. If it is switched off or its battery runs out, you may be unable to access the Services. Responsibility for problems caused by connectivity, devices or battery power will depend on the actual cause and applicable law.
We may release updates to the Application, and supported operating-system versions or device requirements may change. You may need to install an update to continue using certain features. We cannot guarantee compatibility with every device or operating-system version at all times. Updates involving charges or important changes to your rights remain subject to the notice and consent requirements in these Terms.
H. Misuse and termination:
Misuse and appeals: You must not falsify viewing or task-completion records, use automation to obtain rewards improperly, claim benefits repeatedly through multiple accounts or false identities, alter coins, balances or transaction data, interfere with system security, or use the Services to infringe anyone else’s lawful rights.
If there is reasonable evidence of a breach, fraud or security risk, we may take proportionate action. This may include checking rewards, holding related withdrawals, limiting affected features or suspending an account. We will explain the reason and provide a contact or appeal route, unless the law prohibits disclosure or it would compromise a security investigation.
You may email appeals and supporting records to dev@octopaul.net. We will review the matter within a reasonable time and tell you the outcome. Any errors should be corrected promptly. Rewards verified as obtained through fraud or a breach may be reversed or recovered as the law permits. Restricting an account does not, by itself, justify forfeiting all lawfully earned balances.
Account deletion: You may stop using the Services or request account deletion through the options provided in the app or by emailing dev@octopaul.net. Uninstalling the app does not mean your account and personal information have been deleted.
When handling a deletion request, we will explain what it means for your viewing records, coins, cash balance and pending withdrawals. We will review and handle lawfully acquired entitlements under applicable law. We will not make you keep watching ads or completing reward tasks to have your account deleted. The Privacy Policy explains any limited records that must lawfully be kept and why.
Ending the Services: If we plan to stop providing the Services permanently, we will give advance notice where reasonably practicable and legally permitted. We will also explain how pending withdrawals and lawful balances will be handled. If urgent security or legal reasons require immediate action, we will provide more information when permitted.
When a license granted under these Terms ends, you must stop using the Application or features covered by that license and remove the Application from your device where applicable. Ending the license does not affect lawful rewards, pending withdrawals or other existing rights that must be handled under applicable law.
I. Responsibility and disputes:
We will provide the Services with reasonable care and skill. Network or device issues, maintenance, updates and events beyond our reasonable control may interrupt or delay the Services or lead to content changes. We will take reasonable steps required by law to reduce the impact and address problems, but do not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free operation.
These Terms do not exclude or limit liability where the law does not permit that. Your statutory consumer rights, valid reward claims and other legal remedies remain unaffected. We cannot use a general disclaimer to shift to you or a third party any responsibility the law places on us for our own fault.
Applicable law governs how these Terms are interpreted and enforced. Mandatory consumer protections that apply where you habitually live remain in place. If these Terms are available in other languages, the versions are intended to have the same meaning. Any inconsistency will be interpreted under applicable law, and you may contact us to clarify or correct it.
If a provision is invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue to apply to the extent the law permits. Our delay in exercising a right does not, by itself, waive that right.
J. Changes to these Terms:
We may update these Terms and related rules when the Services change, security needs arise or the law changes. If a change affects important rights or obligations, we will give reasonable advance notice in the app or by another appropriate method and explain when it takes effect. We will ask for consent again where the law requires it.
Publishing a new rule does not allow us, by itself, to retroactively remove rewards validly acquired or other statutory rights. If you do not accept a change, you may stop using the relevant Services and contact us about existing entitlements.
Updated Terms will be made available through the Application or the relevant terms page. Please review any change notices we provide. Where renewed consent is required, publishing an updated version does not, by itself, mean that you have consented.