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Terms and Conditions

1. Introduction


Welcome to buddiez Terms and Conditions of Use (“Terms of Use”) and Privacy Terms (“PrivacyTerms”). This is a contract between buddiez (“Application”) and you (“User”). By accepting ourTerms, you will be legally bound to them. Thus, please read them carefully; if you disagree, you must not use the Application.


1.1 The Application was developed and it is maintained by Buddiez, LDA (“us”, “we”, “our”.),which you can contact by email using contact@buddiez.app.


1.2 The Application enables users to create events (“Moments”), related to an activity or an interest that they have. These Moments are promoted to other users, which can be seen in theApplication. The individuals that create Moments in the Application are called Moment Creators.The individuals that just attend the Moment, are called “Moment Participants”.


2. Creating an account


2.1 To access the services that Buddiez provides you need to create an account (“Account”). The minimum requirements are:

  1. You must be over 18 years old, or the age that you enter legally can enter into a contract in your home country.
  2. You must be legally permitted to use the Application in your country.
  3. You must not register more than one account.

2.2 You can create an account via Facebook login, Google login, and Apple login. We rely on these providers to enable your access to the Application. We retrieve some information from these servers (e.g. name, email, and so on), which is better described in our Privacy Terms section.


Account deletion

2.3 The users can finish their account by requesting our team to delete/wipe the data related to them from our services using the email: contact@buddiez.app. This email will be also used by our data protection officer.


Account banned

2.4 The misuse of the Application to function to an end not foreseen by us or prohibited by the law will terminate any User activities, by the use of "ban", especially if:

  1. the Account is registered by bots.
  2. Two or more users are accessing a single Account.
  3. The user replicates Application content without our permission, reclaiming their authority to him/her.

2.5 We reserve the right to suspend the Account for 30 days for further investigation. If, after the investigation process, the evidence is proven to be true, the Account will be banned and the user will be warned about it.


3. Behavior and users’ liability


3.1 Once an account is created, you must be aware of your and other users' behavior. We count on you to have a great atmosphere on Application and in the Moment.


3.2 It is important to say that, even though Buddiez can hold and share events on the platform, we are not responsible for the Moments themselves. Thus, it is your responsibility to assure that everyone is above legal age (according to your country) and that the events that you create or attend are not breaking any domestic law.


3.3 You are the only one responsible for any harm, personal injury, or economical loss at any Moment occurring inside the app. We are not liable for any type of loss, nor responsible for your or other users’ violation of the terms.


4. Content


Inside the Application, you will find two categories of content: (1) the content produced and created by us; and (2) the content produced and uploaded by users.


Application Content

4.1 We took care to not use any unlicensed resources and content. However, if you find some content that is unlicensed or that it infringes the use of any third-party rights, we kindly ask you to warn us by email (contact@buddiez.app).


4.2 Unless we explicitly allow it, the content created and used in the Application can not be reproduced outside of the scope of the Application.


4.3 If any user replicates any Application content outside the scope of the Application, and did not reserve the right to us, the account might be suspended, and afterward deleted.


User produced Content

4.4 Users are allowed to upload photo files and text in any kind of format. When uploading it, the user is responsible for the content they share, in case of any infringement of any statutory and/or third-party rights.


We reserve the right to remove, block and rectify the content without any prior notice, if any photo/image is uploaded by any user:

  1. Has an explicit sexual content
  2. Has an explicit violent content
  3. Violates someone's rights
  4. Violates any law
  5. Violates these Terms

4.6 Even if the users are adults and are responsible in terms of law, we do not allow any kind of explicit content that causes an embarrassment to other Application users.


4.7 The Application is not responsible for any leakage of personal data uploaded exclusively by users and any kind of sensitive information.


4.8 However, we compromise to exclude unwanted exposure of personal data, comply with the applicable legislation about personal data and have full transparency about how your data is being used, processed and stored at any process concerning the User’s rights.


5. Moment Creation


5.1 An user can create a Moment for any activity type, such as sports (e.g. a basketball match), music (e.g. find people to your garage band), well-being (e.g. start a Yoga class) and many others.


5.2 However, we do not support any activity that is out of law limits of the user country.


5.3 The Moment creator has the full liability of the Moment occurrence.


5.4 The Application will not support any kind of activity that violates any law or jurisdiction of the current country law. Any illicit will be punished (see “2.4” of these Terms).


5.5 The moment creator must be aware that we do not conduct any criminal background or similar checks. It must be only the creator that must check the places and the people involved with the Moment as part of the process.


6. Going to a Moment


6.1 The participants should confirm their presence at a Moment in the Application.


6.2. The participants can cancel their participation at a Moment as well (no fees will be charged).


6.3 The Application does not have any liability for any interaction (online or offline) between the participants.


6.4 The participants are responsible for how they communicate and how they interact with each other.


6.5 The app is not responsible for any health issues, physical and mental harm, and/or injury.


6.6 During the Moment, be polite and kind to other users. If you notice that one of the users is annoying, thus you can report them to us, and we’re going to investigate what happened. While we investigate it, the user’s account will be suspended.


6.7 If any user has been suspended the users that went to the same Moment that causes the suspension will be notified.


6.8 We kindly ask the users participating in moments to report to contact@buddiez.app if any user has been inconvenienced or doing some harassment.


7. General provision


7.1 No waiver


7.1.1 Our failure to assert any right or provision listed on this Terms of Use does not imply that the users are free to not obey them, Thus, it also does not prevent us to take any reparatory or compensatory measures.


7.2 Service Update and Maintenance


7.2.1 Our focus is to provide a service with a little downtime. However, in some cases, we are going to need to shut down these services to run maintenance on our servers. We reserve the right to shut down the services to improve their performance and interoperability with the Application. We also might notify all users about the service maintenance through email, Application, or through our social media channels.


7.2.2 Under our country's law restrictions, we reserve the right to suspend or shut down the Service. If the service is out of service forever (shutdown), we will do our best efforts with each user to withdraw their content inside our application, if they ask to do so.


7.2.3 The requirement under “7.2.2” must be done in, at most, a year after the service ends.


7.2.4 However, the service can be unavailable from matters outside of our control (e.g. Infrastructure breakdown, Cloud Services out-of-service, blackout, etc.). We reserve the right to work on it, but not be liable for it. Still, we will keep as transparent as possible.


7.3 Service Update and Maintenance


7.3.1 If you or any other user reproduce, duplicate, resell or even exploit our Application, you will be banned from our Application and you will be liable for it in the jurisdiction of your country.


7.3.2 All the algorithms, trademarks, source code, infrastructure, and so on are Buddiez intellectual property, registered according to European and Portuguese law, and their use is exclusive to us.


7.3.3. If anyone wants to use our products and/or related properties for commercial purposes (e.g. Software engineering context, our trademarks), they should contact us by email - contact@buddiez.app - in order to protect our interests and our potential partner’s as well as our customer’s interests.


7.4 Contract assignment


7.4.1 We reserve the right to transfer, dispose, or subcontract any or all User's rights listed on these Terms of use to another individual/legal entity or any other entity. If that happens, we will notify you by updating these Terms. We respect your consent to these Terms.


7.4.1 Users do have the right to transfer their obligations under these Terms. However, this is possible with written permission from us.


7.5 Contacts


7.5.1 Any issue, doubt, or question related to this Application must be done using the email address already listed in the Introduction section: contact@buddiez.app.


8. Laws


8.1 These terms and conditions are governed by the laws of the country where Buddiez has its Headquarters, namely, Portugal.


8.2 If a European citizen is a user of our Application and the country of his residence has laws with a higher level of consumer protection, then such laws must prevail.


8.3 The Venue of Jurisdiction responsible to decide any controversy resulting from or connected with any of these Terms is the one place where Buddiez has its Headquarters, namely, Portugal.


9. Updates on the Terms of Use


9.1 We reserve the right to change or update the terms of use/privacy policy when we need. If you do not agree with any change to this Term or have any questions, contact us at contact@buddiez.app.


9.2 Your consent to these Terms can be withdrawn at any given time. Just let us know by sending an email. No need for justification, we respect your choice.


Privacy Terms


1. Introduction


At Buddiez we value transparency and safety. These Privacy Terms describe everything related to your collected data. Which data we collect, how, where, and when we store your data, and most importantly, how long we store your data.


We know that personal data is critical, and that’s why we need to be so transparent with our users. We also assure you that we are under the applicable laws and regulations.


2. Privacy Manager


2.1 The Privacy manager is responsible for handling the user complaints and guaranteeing that the user's rights have not been violated by the Application and services. Here are the details of the privacy manager:

  • Name: Brandell Ferreira; e-mail: brandell.ferreira@buddiez.app

3. Personal Data Collected


3.1 Once you registered in our application, you are going to use one of the providers above:

  1. Google
  2. Facebook
  3. Apple

3.2 From these providers, we are going to collect:

  1. Name
  2. Email
  3. Phone number
  4. The unique identifier by one of those providers

3.3 Once you register and use our application we collect:

  1. Birth date
  2. Current location
  3. Interests
  4. Events(“Moments”) that each user went
  5. Moments that each user was created
  6. Group chat
  7. Personal chat
  8. Users contact list
  9. Pictures uploaded by users
  10. Pictures from moments
  11. Links to your social media
  12. Other specific and unrelated data that you can provide using our application, for example, any information that you wrote in your bio

3.4 From which is mandatory (i.e. strictly necessary):

  1. Name
  2. Phone number
  3. Profile picture uploaded by users
  4. Email
  5. Current location

3.5 If you do not want to share the data mentioned in “3.4”, you will not be able to use our Application.


4. Purpose of processed data


4.1 We are going to collect your data to:

  1. Improve our Algorithms
  2. Improve your experience using the application
  3. Inform you about any updates and changes in our product and platform
  4. Resolve any dispute between you and other users
  5. Cooperate with criminal investigations that might come up under domestic law

5. How long we keep the data


5.1 We will keep your data only for the period that we are going to use it. For example, we are going to store your location only for a short period, while your personal information (name, email, and so on), we are going to store for the whole period that you still use the application.


5.2 It is important to say that your data is not stored in services that we are responsible for. However, in case of any personal data breach, we compromise to act with transparency and to notify the supervisory authority in the terms of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).


5.3 In the case of inactive accounts, any related data will be deleted in one year.


5.4 We classify an account as inactive if we detect no activity for more than a year.


7. Consumer and user rights


7.1 According to GDPR (EU 2015/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of April 27, 2016), the user has the following rights:

  1. Right for access:

    • You have the right to visualize your data and verify the retention period and the purposes of the data retention.

  2. Right to have your data deleted:

    • If you are not anymore interested in using the Application, you can contact us by email so we can delete your data from our servers, right away.

  3. Right to the portability of your data:

    • You have the right to the portability of your data, which means that you can request your data to use in the future. Be aware that we are not responsible for the recipient's (person or company that you choose to receive your data) compliance with the data protection rules.

  4. Right to be forgotten

    • It means that you can request that all of your data can be deleted from our database, as you did not have contact with the Application. However, sometimes we can not delete your data due to legal and legitimate interests under the law, e.g. a Government Authority claims to access it due to a criminal investigation.

  5. Right to object

    • You also have the right to object to the process of your data. After you claim it, we will stop processing the piece of data you claim.

  6. Right of rectification:

    • You have the right to edit and request any rectification in your data, using the Application or by sending us an e-mail (brandell.ferreira@buddiez.app).

7.2 However, in the context of prevention or investigation of criminal offenses (e.g. fraud, human trafficking), we can, by complying with the law, revoke/limit your rights.


8. Legislation and Territorial Jurisdiction


8.1 The legislation on Data Protection rules is determined by where the data is stored, processed, and used.


8.2 On the matter of processing, European and Portuguese legislation are applicable since Buddiez LDA has its Headquarters in Lisbon, Portugal.


9. Modification of Privacy Terms


These terms are subject to further modification. We will always look up to enhance the protection of your data.


Any changes will be notified to users and new users.


10. Questions on Data Privacy


10.1 Any questions or requirements regarding Data Privacy must be directed to our Privacy Manager by email (brandell.ferreira@buddiez.app).