Budmet Terms of Service
These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your access to and use of Budmet, including notices, interest requests, accepted connections, private messaging, photo sharing, optional video calls, city-based discovery, notice boosts, Coins, reporting, blocking, data requests, account deletion, and related services (collectively, the "Service"). By using Budmet, you agree to these Terms.
1. Purpose of Budmet
Budmet is a plans-first social app designed to help adults meet people in their city around specific activities. A connection may begin with a notice for a gallery visit, workout, coffee run, study session, market visit, badminton game, photo walk, language practice, or another activity.
Budmet does not guarantee that another user will respond, accept a request, attend a plan, behave as expected, or be compatible with you.
2. Accounts and Eligibility
You must be at least 18 years old and legally permitted to use the Service. You agree to provide accurate information and protect your login credentials. You may not impersonate another person, misrepresent your age or identity, use another person's account without permission, or evade account restrictions.
3. Notices
You may create a notice with a title, category, time, location, photos, and description. You are responsible for the accuracy and appropriateness of what you publish.
For safety, avoid publishing a precise private residential address or other sensitive location information unless it is necessary and appropriate. Consider a public meeting point where suitable.
4. Interest Requests
Users may tap Interested and optionally add a short note. An interest request does not open a private conversation and does not guarantee acceptance. The notice owner decides whether to accept or decline each request.
5. Accepted Connections and Chat
Private chat becomes available only after the notice owner accepts an interest request. After acceptance, users may continue through messages, photos, and optional video calls where available.
Acceptance does not create any obligation to meet, continue communicating, share personal contact details, or participate in a call. Either user may stop communicating, block, or report the other account.
6. Meeting Other Users Safely
Budmet cannot guarantee every user's identity, background, intentions, or conduct. You are responsible for deciding whether, when, and where to meet another person.
When meeting in person, consider choosing a public place, informing someone you trust, arranging your own transportation, and leaving if you feel uncomfortable or unsafe.
7. User Content
"User Content" includes notices, descriptions, photos, messages, profiles, interest notes, and other materials you submit. You retain ownership of rights you have in your User Content.
By submitting User Content, you grant Budmet a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license to host, store, reproduce, process, transmit, display, and otherwise handle that content only as reasonably necessary to operate, secure, moderate, and improve the Service.
8. Prohibited Content and Conduct
You may not use Budmet to:
- harass, threaten, stalk, intimidate, or repeatedly contact someone who does not want contact;
- engage in fraud, scams, impersonation, spam, or deceptive solicitation;
- sexually exploit another person or distribute unlawful sexual content;
- exploit or endanger minors;
- promote violence, illegal activity, trafficking, illegal drugs, or dangerous conduct;
- share another person's sensitive or private information without authorization;
- infringe copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity, or other legal rights;
- upload malware, phishing material, or harmful code;
- circumvent moderation, blocks, security controls, or account restrictions.
9. Photos and Video Calls
You are responsible for photos and visual content you share. Do not distribute another person's image or private information without appropriate permission.
Video calls are optional. You must not record or distribute another person's call content without consent where consent is required by law.
10. Reporting, Blocking, and Moderation
Budmet may provide reporting and blocking tools throughout the Service. We may review reports and take action when content or conduct violates these Terms, safety rules, or applicable law.
Actions may include removing content, restricting chat or calls, limiting visibility, suspending or terminating accounts, preserving evidence, or reporting matters to authorities where required or permitted by law.
11. Notice Boosts
Budmet may offer optional notice boosts. A boost changes the placement or visibility of your own notice in the city feed for the period or placement described in the app.
A boost does not purchase replies, acceptance, matches, messages, access to another person, or any guaranteed outcome.
12. Coins
Budmet may offer digital Coins for eligible in-app features such as notice boosts. Coins have no cash value, are not currency or stored value, cannot be redeemed for cash or physical goods, and cannot be transferred unless Budmet expressly provides otherwise.
13. Apple In-App Purchases
Coin purchases are one-time purchases processed through Apple's In-App Purchase system and are not subscriptions unless Budmet clearly identifies a separate subscription product in the future.
Apple may determine the App Store price shown in your region and handle billing, authorization, taxes, receipts, and refunds under Apple's terms and policies. Budmet does not receive your full payment card details.
14. Refunds and Purchase Issues
Refund requests and certain billing disputes may be handled by Apple under Apple's applicable policies and local law. If a completed Coin purchase is not credited correctly or a boost does not activate as expected, contact budmet.support@gmail.com.
15. Intellectual Property
Except for User Content, Budmet and its software, interface, branding, graphics, text, features, and other proprietary materials are owned by or licensed to Budmet and protected by applicable intellectual property laws.
16. Prohibited Technical Conduct
You may not interfere with the Service, bypass security or payment controls, manipulate Coin balances, scrape data through unauthorized automated means, create fake engagement, introduce malicious code, or reverse engineer the Service except where applicable law expressly permits it.
17. Third-Party Services
Budmet may rely on third-party providers for hosting, storage, authentication, messaging, video calls, maps or location-related functions, analytics, security, moderation, or support. Apple provides the In-App Purchase system used for Coin purchases.
18. Account Suspension and Termination
You may stop using Budmet at any time. You may request account deletion through the app where available.
We may restrict, suspend, or terminate access when we reasonably believe you materially or repeatedly violated these Terms, created a safety or security risk, manipulated purchases or Coins, or when restriction is reasonably necessary to comply with law.
19. Data Copy and Account Deletion
Where available, Budmet provides tools for requesting a copy of your data and deleting your account. Requests may be subject to identity verification and lawful retention requirements.
20. Disclaimers
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Budmet is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis. Budmet does not guarantee user identity, attendance at a plan, compatibility, safety of an in-person meeting, uninterrupted availability, or any particular social outcome.
21. Limitation of Liability
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Budmet and its operators, affiliates, officers, employees, contractors, and service providers will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages arising from or related to your use of the Service. Nothing in these Terms excludes liability that cannot legally be excluded.
22. Changes to These Terms
We may update these Terms to reflect changes in the Service, safety practices, legal requirements, Coins, boosts, or business operations. If changes are material, we will provide notice where required by law.
23. Governing Rules and Consumer Rights
These Terms are subject to applicable law and mandatory consumer protections. Nothing in these Terms removes rights that cannot legally be waived in your jurisdiction.
24. Contact Us
Budmet Support
Email: budmet.support@gmail.com