Legal

Terms of Service

Effective date: [effective date]

Draft. These terms are not yet in effect and will be reviewed by a lawyer before poqop launches.

1. Agreement

These terms are an agreement between you and [your full legal name], an individual doing business as forestbook.me ("forestbook.me", "we", "us"), which operates poqop. By using poqop, you agree to these terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you don't agree, don't use poqop.

2. Who can use poqop

• You must be 18 or older.
• You must be allowed to use poqop under the laws where you live, and poqop must be offered in your country.
• You must not have been suspended from poqop before.

3. Your account and passcodes

Your account is an anonymous ID created on your phone. You're responsible for your phone and for keeping your passcodes to yourself. We can't recover passcodes, messages or rooms, because we never have them. If you lose your phone or delete the app, your rooms can't be restored.

4. How disappearing messages work, and their limits

Messages are deleted five minutes after they're read, or three hours after they're sent if they're never read. We work hard to make this reliable, but you should know its limits:

• No app can stop someone from photographing a screen with another device.
• If the other phone is offline, deletion there happens when it reconnects or its own timer runs out.
• Screenshot alerts on iPhone and screenshot blocking on Android depend on the phone's operating system.

Only share what you're comfortable with the other person keeping.

5. Rules for using poqop

Don't use poqop to:

• Harass, threaten, stalk or intimidate anyone.
• Share sexual content involving anyone under 18. We report child sexual abuse material to the appropriate authorities as the law requires.
• Share intimate images of someone without their consent, or sexual content with someone who doesn't want it.
• Send spam, scams or unsolicited advertising.
• Impersonate someone or deceive people about who you are in order to harm them.
• Plan or promote violence, or break the law.
• Share malware, or try to access accounts, rooms or systems that aren't yours.
• Copy, reverse engineer, overload or interfere with poqop, or get around its limits or security, except where the law allows it.
• Use bots or automated tools with poqop.

6. Reports, blocks and enforcement

You can end a connection, block someone or report them at any time. A report sends us only the messages you choose, with your consent. Because the person reporting prepares the report on their own phone, we can't confirm by encryption that its contents are genuine, and we take that into account.

If we believe you broke these terms, we may suspend your anonymous ID without notice. A suspended account can't create or use invite codes, send messages or send reports. We may also report illegal activity to the authorities where the law requires or allows it.

7. Your content

You own what you send. You give us only the permission we need to deliver it in encrypted form, and, when you send a report, to review the content you chose to include. You're responsible for what you send and must have the right to send it.

8. Paid plans

• The person who invites someone (by code or QR code) is the room's creator. Joining when someone invites you is always free.
• On the free plan, you can invite one person during your first 14 days of using poqop. After that, inviting needs a paid plan.
• A room works only while its creator has a paid plan or is within their first 14 days. Otherwise the room is paused.
• You can have up to five rooms at once, counting rooms you created, rooms you joined and paused rooms. This limit helps prevent misuse.
• Paid plans are subscriptions sold through the App Store or Google Play. They renew automatically until you cancel in your App Store or Google Play account settings, at least 24 hours before the current period ends.
• Payments, refunds and billing are handled by Apple or Google under their rules. We can't issue refunds directly.
• When a paid plan ends, you go back to the free plan, and rooms you created are paused. Rooms you joined aren't affected. In a paused room, you can't send, receive or view messages, and the other person sees that messages can't be delivered right now. Messages keep their original deletion times. If the creator subscribes again, paused rooms that haven't been ended start working again.
• We may change prices. Changes apply from your next renewal, and Apple or Google will tell you as their rules require.

9. Changes to poqop

We may add, change or remove features, and we may stop offering poqop. If we stop offering it, we'll give reasonable notice in the app where we can.

10. Ending these terms

You can stop using poqop at any time by deleting your account and the app. We may end or suspend your access if you break these terms or if we have to by law. Sections 7 and 11 to 15 continue after these terms end.

11. Disclaimers

poqop is provided "as is" and "as available". To the extent the law allows, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We don't promise that poqop will be uninterrupted or error-free, that messages will always be delivered or deleted on time, or that no one will capture what you send.

12. Limitation of liability

To the extent the law allows, we aren't liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost data, profits or goodwill. Our total liability for any claim relating to poqop is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim and US$50. Some places don't allow these limits, so they may not apply to you.

13. Indemnity

If you break these terms or the law while using poqop, and someone makes a claim against us because of it, you agree to cover our reasonable losses and costs, to the extent the law allows.

14. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of [governing law]. Disputes will be handled by the courts of [jurisdiction], unless the law where you live gives you the right to bring a claim in your local courts.

15. App Store terms

If you downloaded poqop from Apple's App Store:

• These terms are between you and us, not Apple. We, not Apple, are responsible for poqop and its content.
• Your license to use poqop is limited to Apple-branded devices you own or control, as allowed by the App Store's Usage Rules.
• Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for poqop.
• If poqop fails to meet any applicable warranty, you can notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price, if any. To the extent the law allows, Apple has no other warranty obligation for poqop.
• We, not Apple, are responsible for handling any claims relating to poqop, including product liability claims, claims that poqop fails to meet legal or regulatory requirements, and consumer protection or privacy claims.
• If anyone claims that poqop infringes their intellectual property rights, we, not Apple, are responsible for investigating and resolving that claim.
• You confirm that you're not located in a country subject to a US government embargo or designated as a "terrorist supporting" country, and that you're not on any US government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
• Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and may enforce them against you.

16. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. We'll change the effective date above, and if a change is significant, we'll tell you in the app before it takes effect. If you keep using poqop after that, you accept the new terms.

17. General

If any part of these terms can't be enforced, the rest still applies. If we don't enforce a part right away, we haven't given up the right to enforce it later. You can't transfer these terms to anyone else. We may transfer them as part of a merger, acquisition or sale of assets.

18. Contact

[your full legal name] (forestbook.me)
[contact address]
support@forestbook.me

Transfer and deletion requirements

Account deletion and phone transfer remain available during suspension. A transfer preserves the suspension and is rate limited. Phone transfer requires a screen lock and device owner authentication. For deletion, if no screen lock is configured, you can proceed after confirming in the app. If a screen lock is configured, device owner authentication is required.