TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Last updated October 30, 2026

AGREEMENT TO OUR LEGAL TERMS

We are Promise Abel-Adegbite, doing business as Cirlo ("Company," "we," "us," "our"), an individual (a sole proprietorship) based in Nova Scotia, Canada. Our mailing address is PO Box #1, Lower Sackville RPO Superstore Mall, Nova Scotia, B4C 2S8, Canada.

We operate the website https://www.cirlo.app (the "Site"), the mobile application Cirlo (the "App"), as well as any other related products and services that refer or link to these legal terms (the "Legal Terms") (collectively, the "Services").

Cirlo is a mobile app for keeping in touch with the friends you want to keep. You play short question games with them: one-to-one games with a single friend (each one is called a Duo), and group games in a Group, a private group you create or join with an invite link. You can also keep the people you care about as connections, sort them into groups called Circles, get a reminder when it has been a while, and look back on a monthly Recap and a year-end Yearbook, which your friends can sign. Cirlo is private by design: there is no public feed, and nothing you write is published. Cirlo is free, and nothing is sold in the app.

You can contact us by email at support@cirlo.app. For anything about privacy or your personal information, write to privacy@cirlo.app instead, so it reaches the right queue.

These Legal Terms constitute a legally binding agreement made between you, whether personally or on behalf of an entity ("you"), and Promise Abel-Adegbite, concerning your access to and use of the Services. You agree that by accessing the Services, you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by all of these Legal Terms. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH ALL OF THESE LEGAL TERMS, THEN YOU ARE EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED FROM USING THE SERVICES AND YOU MUST DISCONTINUE USE IMMEDIATELY.

We will provide you with prior notice of any scheduled changes to the Services you are using. Changes to these Legal Terms will become effective thirty (30) days after the notice is given, except if the changes apply to new functionality, security updates, bug fixes, and a court order, in which case the changes will be effective immediately. By continuing to use the Services after the effective date of any changes, you agree to be bound by the modified terms. If you disagree with such changes, you may terminate Services as per the section "TERM AND TERMINATION."

The Services are intended for users who are at least 14 years of age. All users who are minors in the jurisdiction in which they reside (generally under the age of 18) must have the permission of, and be directly supervised by, their parent or guardian to use the Services. If you are a minor, you must have your parent or guardian read and agree to these Legal Terms prior to you using the Services.

We recommend that you print a copy of these Legal Terms for your records.

1. OUR SERVICES

The information provided when using the Services is not intended for distribution to or use by any person or entity in any jurisdiction or country where such distribution or use would be contrary to law or regulation or which would subject us to any registration requirement within such jurisdiction or country. Accordingly, those persons who choose to access the Services from other locations do so on their own initiative and are solely responsible for compliance with local laws, if and to the extent local laws are applicable.

The Services are not tailored to comply with industry-specific regulations (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), etc.), so if your interactions would be subjected to such laws, you may not use the Services. You may not use the Services in a way that would violate the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA).

2. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

Our intellectual property

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our Services, including all source code, databases, functionality, software, website designs, audio, video, text, photographs, and graphics in the Services (collectively, the "Content"), as well as the trademarks, service marks, and logos contained therein (the "Marks").

Our Content and Marks are protected by copyright and trademark laws (and various other intellectual property rights and unfair competition laws) and treaties in the United States and around the world.

The Content and Marks are provided in or through the Services "AS IS" for your personal, non-commercial use only.

Your use of our Services

Subject to your compliance with these Legal Terms, including the "PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES" section below, we grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to:

access the Services; and
download or print a copy of any portion of the Content to which you have properly gained access,

solely for your personal, non-commercial use.

Except as set out in this section or elsewhere in our Legal Terms, no part of the Services and no Content or Marks may be copied, reproduced, aggregated, republished, uploaded, posted, publicly displayed, encoded, translated, transmitted, distributed, sold, licensed, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose whatsoever, without our express prior written permission.

If you wish to make any use of the Services, Content, or Marks other than as set out in this section or elsewhere in our Legal Terms, please address your request to: support@cirlo.app. If we ever grant you the permission to post, reproduce, or publicly display any part of our Services or Content, you must identify us as the owners or licensors of the Services, Content, or Marks and ensure that any copyright or proprietary notice appears or is visible on posting, reproducing, or displaying our Content.

We reserve all rights not expressly granted to you in and to the Services, Content, and Marks.

Any breach of these Intellectual Property Rights will constitute a material breach of our Legal Terms and your right to use our Services will terminate immediately.

Your submissions and contributions

Please review this section and the "PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES" section carefully prior to using our Services to understand the (a) rights you give us and (b) obligations you have when you post or upload any content through the Services.

Submissions: By directly sending us any question, comment, suggestion, idea, feedback, or other information about the Services ("Submissions"), you grant us a free, worldwide, non-exclusive licence to use it to run and improve the Services, without acknowledgment or compensation to you. You keep ownership of it. We do not ask you to assign your intellectual property rights to us, and nothing in these Legal Terms does so.

Contributions: The Services may invite you to answer and reply in games, post photos and suggest questions in a Group, post in a Duo, sign another person's Yearbook or birthday card, write notes about your own connections, and set a profile photo, and other functionality through which you may create, submit, post, display, or transmit content and materials to us or through the Services, including text, photographs, comments, suggestions, personal information, or other material ("Contributions"). Any Submission that is publicly posted shall also be treated as a Contribution.

Contributions are visible only to the specific people you send them to, or, in a Group, to the members of that Group. Cirlo has no public feed, and we do not publish Contributions anywhere, including to third-party websites.

When you post Contributions, you grant us a license (including use of your name, trademarks, and logos): By posting any Contributions, you grant us a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable, royalty-free, worldwide licence to host, store, back up, reproduce, display, and transmit your Contributions, solely as needed to operate, secure, and provide the Services to you and to deliver your Contributions to the specific people you choose to share them with. This licence ends when the Contribution is deleted, except where a copy legitimately remains in another person's history as described in our Privacy Notice. We do not sell your Contributions, use them to train machine learning models, make them public, or use your name, image, or voice in advertising without your agreement. See the section "Your content stays yours" below, which controls if anything here is broader. Our use and distribution may occur in any media formats and through any media channels.

To be explicit, because generator templates usually say the opposite: this licence does not include any right to use your name, your likeness, your voice, or your images in advertising or marketing.

You are responsible for what you post or upload: By sending us Submissions and/or posting Contributions through any part of the Services or making Contributions accessible through the Services by linking your account through the Services to any of your social networking accounts, you:

confirm that you have read and agree with our "PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES" and will not post, send, publish, upload, or transmit through the Services any Submission nor post any Contribution that is illegal, harassing, hateful, harmful, defamatory, obscene, bullying, abusive, discriminatory, threatening to any person or group, sexually explicit, false, inaccurate, deceitful, or misleading;
to the extent permissible by applicable law, waive any and all moral rights to any such Submission and/or Contribution;
warrant that any such Submission and/or Contributions are original to you or that you have the necessary rights and licenses to submit such Submissions and/or Contributions and that you have full authority to grant us the above-mentioned rights in relation to your Submissions and/or Contributions; and
warrant and represent that your Submissions and/or Contributions do not constitute confidential information.

You are solely responsible for your Submissions and/or Contributions and you expressly agree to reimburse us for any and all losses that we may suffer because of your breach of (a) this section, (b) any third party’s intellectual property rights, or (c) applicable law.

We may remove or edit your Content: Although we have no obligation to monitor any Contributions, we shall have the right to remove or edit any Contributions at any time without notice if in our reasonable opinion we consider such Contributions harmful or in breach of these Legal Terms. If we remove or edit any such Contributions, we may also suspend or disable your account and report you to the authorities.

Copyright infringement

3. USER REPRESENTATIONS

By using the Services, you represent and warrant that: (1) all registration information you submit will be true, accurate, current, and complete; (2) you will maintain the accuracy of such information and promptly update such registration information as necessary; (3) you have the legal capacity and you agree to comply with these Legal Terms; (4) you are not under the age of 14; (5) you are not a minor in the jurisdiction in which you reside, or if a minor, you have received parental permission to use the Services; (6) you will not access the Services through automated or non-human means, whether through a bot, script or otherwise; (7) you will not use the Services for any illegal or unauthorized purpose; and (8) your use of the Services will not violate any applicable law or regulation.

If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current, or incomplete, we have the right to suspend or terminate your account and refuse any and all current or future use of the Services (or any portion thereof).

4. USER REGISTRATION

You may be required to register to use the Services. You agree to keep your password confidential and will be responsible for all use of your account and password. We reserve the right to remove, reclaim, or change a username you select if we determine, in our sole discretion, that such username is inappropriate, obscene, or otherwise objectionable.

5. PURCHASES AND PAYMENT

Cirlo is free. There are no purchases, subscriptions, or payments in the app, and we never see or store your card number or any other payment details.

If we ever offer something paid in the future, we will update these Legal Terms first, show the price before you confirm, and you will not be charged for anything you have not agreed to.

6. SUBSCRIPTIONS

We no longer sell subscriptions. Earlier versions of Cirlo offered Cirlo+, sold as an Apple In-App Purchase with Apple acting as our agent. If you bought Cirlo+ then, this section is for you.

Cancellation

Apple manages your subscription and your billing. A Cirlo+ subscription renews automatically until you cancel it, and Apple charges your Apple Account within 24 hours before the end of each period. To cancel, open the Settings app on your iPhone, tap your name, tap Subscriptions, select Cirlo, and then choose Cancel Subscription, at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Cancelling stops the next renewal, and you are not charged again after that. Because Apple collects the payment as our agent, we cannot cancel or refund a subscription on your behalf. Refund requests go to Apple and Apple decides them under its own policies. You can request one at reportaproblem.apple.com.

Your statutory rights

If you are a consumer in the EU, the EEA or the UK, nothing in these Legal Terms takes away a statutory right you have, including any right to withdraw from a purchase. Email support@cirlo.app with your Apple Account email and the date you subscribed and we will direct you to Apple's refund process and support your request.

7. PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES

You may not access or use the Services for any purpose other than that for which we make the Services available. The Services may not be used in connection with any commercial endeavors except those that are specifically endorsed or approved by us.

As a user of the Services, you agree not to:

Systematically retrieve data or other content from the Services to create or compile, directly or indirectly, a collection, compilation, database, or directory without written permission from us.
Trick, defraud, or mislead us and other users, especially in any attempt to learn sensitive account information such as user passwords.
Circumvent, disable, or otherwise interfere with security-related features of the Services, including features that prevent or restrict the use or copying of any Content or enforce limitations on the use of the Services and/or the Content contained therein.
Disparage, tarnish, or otherwise harm, in our opinion, us and/or the Services.
Use any information obtained from the Services in order to harass, abuse, or harm another person.
Make improper use of our support services or submit false reports of abuse or misconduct.
Use the Services in a manner inconsistent with any applicable laws or regulations.
Engage in unauthorized framing of or linking to the Services.
Upload or transmit (or attempt to upload or to transmit) viruses, Trojan horses, or other material, including excessive use of capital letters and spamming (continuous posting of repetitive text), that interferes with any party’s uninterrupted use and enjoyment of the Services or modifies, impairs, disrupts, alters, or interferes with the use, features, functions, operation, or maintenance of the Services.
Engage in any automated use of the system, such as using scripts to send comments or messages, or using any data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools.
Delete the copyright or other proprietary rights notice from any Content.
Attempt to impersonate another user or person or use the username of another user.
Upload or transmit (or attempt to upload or to transmit) any material that acts as a passive or active information collection or transmission mechanism, including without limitation, clear graphics interchange formats ("gifs"), 1×1 pixels, web bugs, cookies, or other similar devices (sometimes referred to as "spyware" or "passive collection mechanisms" or "pcms").
Interfere with, disrupt, or create an undue burden on the Services or the networks or services connected to the Services.
Harass, annoy, intimidate, or threaten any of our employees or agents engaged in providing any portion of the Services to you.
Attempt to bypass any measures of the Services designed to prevent or restrict access to the Services, or any portion of the Services.
Copy or adapt the Services' software, including but not limited to Flash, PHP, HTML, JavaScript, or other code.
Except as permitted by applicable law, decipher, decompile, disassemble, or reverse engineer any of the software comprising or in any way making up a part of the Services.
Except as may be the result of standard search engine or Internet browser usage, use, launch, develop, or distribute any automated system, including without limitation, any spider, robot, cheat utility, scraper, or offline reader that accesses the Services, or use or launch any unauthorized script or other software.
Make any unauthorized use of the Services, including collecting usernames and/or email addresses of users by electronic or other means for the purpose of sending unsolicited email, or creating user accounts by automated means or under false pretenses.
Use the Services as part of any effort to compete with us or otherwise use the Services and/or the Content for any revenue-generating endeavor or commercial enterprise.
Use the Services to advertise or offer to sell goods and services.
Sell or otherwise transfer your profile.
Use the Services to contact, monitor, track, harass, stalk, or intimidate anyone, including anyone who has asked you not to contact them.
Record sensitive information about another person in your notes or other content, such as information about their health, sexual orientation, religion, political views, or racial or ethnic origin.
Send abusive, threatening, hateful, or sexually explicit content to another person through a game, a Group, a Duo, a Yearbook signature, or any other feature.
Use a game or a Group to humiliate, bully, or single out a person, whether or not they are a member, or post a photo of someone who has not agreed to it.
Scrape, bulk collect, export, or resell information about other Cirlo users, or use automated means to look up profiles or usernames.

8. USER GENERATED CONTRIBUTIONS

The Services may invite you to answer and reply in games, post photos and suggest questions in a Group, post in a Duo, sign another person's Yearbook or birthday card, write notes about your own connections, and set a profile photo, and other functionality through which you may create, submit, post, display, or transmit content and materials to us or through the Services, including text, photographs, comments, suggestions, personal information, or other material (collectively, "Contributions"). Contributions are visible only to the people you send them to, or to the members of the Group you post them in; Cirlo has no public feed and does not publish Contributions to third-party websites. As such, any Contributions you transmit may be treated as non-confidential and non-proprietary. When you create or make available any Contributions, you thereby represent and warrant that:

The creation, distribution, transmission, public display, or performance, and the accessing, downloading, or copying of your Contributions do not and will not infringe the proprietary rights, including but not limited to the copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret, or moral rights of any third party.
You are the creator and owner of or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, releases, and permissions to use and to authorize us, the Services, and other users of the Services to use your Contributions in any manner contemplated by the Services and these Legal Terms.
You are entitled to hold and use the information you record about other people, including their name, photo, and contact details. Cirlo is a private address book, so we do not expect you to have written permission from a friend before saving their phone number, and nothing here asks you to. What we do ask is that you only save people whose details you are genuinely entitled to keep, that you do not record anything about them that they would not expect you to hold, and that you delete what they ask you to delete.
Your Contributions are not false, inaccurate, or misleading.
Your Contributions are not unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, pyramid schemes, chain letters, spam, mass mailings, or other forms of solicitation.
Your Contributions are not obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, violent, harassing, libelous, slanderous, or otherwise objectionable (as determined by us).
Your Contributions do not ridicule, mock, disparage, intimidate, or abuse anyone.
Your Contributions are not used to harass or threaten (in the legal sense of those terms) any other person and to promote violence against a specific person or class of people.
Your Contributions do not violate any applicable law, regulation, or rule.
Your Contributions do not violate the privacy or publicity rights of any third party.
Your Contributions do not violate any applicable law concerning child pornography, or otherwise intended to protect the health or well-being of minors.
Your Contributions do not include any offensive comments that are connected to race, national origin, gender, sexual preference, or physical handicap.
Your Contributions do not otherwise violate, or link to material that violates, any provision of these Legal Terms, or any applicable law or regulation.

Any use of the Services in violation of the foregoing violates these Legal Terms and may result in, among other things, termination or suspension of your rights to use the Services.

9. CONTRIBUTION LICENSE

By posting your Contributions to any part of the Services or making Contributions accessible to the Services by linking your account from the Services to any of your social networking accounts, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to us a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable, royalty-free, worldwide licence to host, store, back up, reproduce, display, and transmit your Contributions, solely as needed to operate, secure, and provide the Services to you and to deliver your Contributions to the specific people you choose to share them with. This licence ends when the Contribution is deleted, except where a copy legitimately remains in another person's history as described in our Privacy Notice. We do not sell your Contributions, use them to train machine learning models, make them public, or use your name, image, or voice in advertising without your agreement. See the section "Your content stays yours" below, which controls if anything here is broader. The use and distribution may occur in any media formats and through any media channels.

This licence does not include any right to use your name, your likeness, your voice, or your images in advertising or marketing. To the extent permitted by the law that applies to you, you waive your moral rights in your Contributions; where that law does not permit a waiver, this sentence has no effect and your moral rights are unaffected.

We do not assert any ownership over your Contributions. You retain full ownership of all of your Contributions and any intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights associated with your Contributions. We are not liable for any statements or representations in your Contributions provided by you in any area on the Services. You are solely responsible for your Contributions to the Services and you expressly agree to exonerate us from any and all responsibility and to refrain from any legal action against us regarding your Contributions.

We do not read, edit, or moderate the private notes you keep about your own connections. Where content is sent to another person or posted in a Group, such as a Duo post, an answer in a game, or a Yearbook signature, we may remove it if it breaks these Legal Terms or the law, and we may suspend or close an account for a serious or repeated breach. Where we do that we will tell the person affected what we removed and why, unless the law stops us, and they can ask us to look again. We have no general obligation to monitor Contributions and we do not do so.

10. MOBILE APPLICATION LICENSE

Use License

If you access the Services via the App, then we grant you a revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited right to install and use the App on wireless electronic devices owned or controlled by you, and to access and use the App on such devices strictly in accordance with the terms and conditions of this mobile application license contained in these Legal Terms. You shall not: (1) except as permitted by applicable law, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, attempt to derive the source code of, or decrypt the App; (2) make any modification, adaptation, improvement, enhancement, translation, or derivative work from the App; (3) violate any applicable laws, rules, or regulations in connection with your access or use of the App; (4) remove, alter, or obscure any proprietary notice (including any notice of copyright or trademark) posted by us or the licensors of the App; (5) use the App for any revenue-generating endeavor, commercial enterprise, or other purpose for which it is not designed or intended; (6) make the App available over a network or other environment permitting access or use by multiple devices or users at the same time; (7) use the App for creating a product, service, or software that is, directly or indirectly, competitive with or in any way a substitute for the App; (8) use the App to send automated queries to any website or to send any unsolicited commercial email; or (9) use any proprietary information or any of our interfaces or our other intellectual property in the design, development, manufacture, licensing, or distribution of any applications, accessories, or devices for use with the App.

Apple and Android Devices

Cirlo is available on iPhone from Apple's App Store, and on Android as an early test version through Google Play's testing program. The following terms apply when you use the App obtained from an app store (each an "App Distributor") to access the Services: (1) the license granted to you for our App is limited to a non-transferable license to use the application on a device that utilizes the Apple iOS operating system, or any other operating system on which we later make the App available, and in accordance with the usage rules set forth in the applicable App Distributor’s terms of service; (2) we are responsible for providing any maintenance and support services with respect to the App as specified in the terms and conditions of this mobile application license contained in these Legal Terms or as otherwise required under applicable law, and you acknowledge that each App Distributor has no obligation whatsoever to furnish any maintenance and support services with respect to the App; (3) in the event of any failure of the App to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify the applicable App Distributor, and the App Distributor, in accordance with its terms and policies, may refund the purchase price, if any, paid for the App, and to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the App Distributor will have no other warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to the App; (4) you represent and warrant that (i) you are not located in a country that is subject to a US government embargo, or that has been designated by the US government as a "terrorist supporting" country and (ii) you are not listed on any US government list of prohibited or restricted parties; (5) you must comply with applicable third-party terms of agreement when using the App, e.g., if you have a VoIP application, then you must not be in violation of their wireless data service agreement when using the App; and (6) you acknowledge and agree that the App Distributors are third-party beneficiaries of the terms and conditions in this mobile application license contained in these Legal Terms, and that each App Distributor will have the right (and will be deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce the terms and conditions in this mobile application license contained in these Legal Terms against you as a third-party beneficiary thereof.

11. SOCIAL MEDIA

Cirlo does not connect to any social network. There is no Facebook, X, or Instagram connection, we do not import anything from a social account, and we never receive a friends list.

The two third-party accounts you can use are Sign in with Apple and Sign in with Google, and they are ways of signing in, not ways of linking accounts. Google sends us an identifier for your Google Account, your email address, and the name and profile photo on that account. Apple sends us an identifier for your Apple Account, an email address, and, the first time only, the name you agree to share. Apple can substitute a private relay address for your real email if you choose Hide My Email. You can stop using it at any time from your Apple Account settings, and if you delete your Cirlo account we ask Apple to revoke the connection.

Separately, and only if you ask for it, Cirlo can read the contacts on your own device so that you can pick people to add to your private address book. That matching happens on your device, we never upload your whole address book, and only the people you explicitly choose are saved. This is described in full in our Privacy Notice.

12. THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES AND CONTENT

The Services may contain (or you may be sent via the Site or App) links to other websites ("Third-Party Websites") as well as articles, photographs, text, graphics, pictures, designs, music, sound, video, information, applications, software, and other content or items belonging to or originating from third parties ("Third-Party Content"). Such Third-Party Websites and Third-Party Content are not investigated, monitored, or checked for accuracy, appropriateness, or completeness by us, and we are not responsible for any Third-Party Websites accessed through the Services or any Third-Party Content posted on, available through, or installed from the Services, including the content, accuracy, offensiveness, opinions, reliability, privacy practices, or other policies of or contained in the Third-Party Websites or the Third-Party Content. Inclusion of, linking to, or permitting the use or installation of any Third-Party Websites or any Third-Party Content does not imply approval or endorsement thereof by us. If you decide to leave the Services and access the Third-Party Websites or to use or install any Third-Party Content, you do so at your own risk, and you should be aware these Legal Terms no longer govern. You should review the applicable terms and policies, including privacy and data gathering practices, of any website to which you navigate from the Services or relating to any applications you use or install from the Services. Any purchases you make through Third-Party Websites will be through other websites and from other companies, and we take no responsibility whatsoever in relation to such purchases which are exclusively between you and the applicable third party. You agree and acknowledge that we do not endorse the products or services offered on Third-Party Websites and you shall hold us blameless from any harm caused by your purchase of such products or services. Additionally, you shall hold us blameless from any losses sustained by you or harm caused to you relating to or resulting in any way from any Third-Party Content or any contact with Third-Party Websites.

13. ADVERTISERS

Cirlo shows no advertisements and contains no advertising code. We do not use the Apple advertising identifier and we do not ask permission to track you across other companies' apps and websites. If that ever changes, we will update these Legal Terms and our Privacy Notice first.

14. SERVICES MANAGEMENT

We reserve the right, but not the obligation, to: (1) monitor the Services for violations of these Legal Terms; (2) take appropriate legal action against anyone who, in our sole discretion, violates the law or these Legal Terms, including without limitation, reporting such user to law enforcement authorities; (3) in our sole discretion and without limitation, refuse, restrict access to, limit the availability of, or disable (to the extent technologically feasible) any of your Contributions or any portion thereof; (4) in our sole discretion and without limitation, notice, or liability, to remove from the Services or otherwise disable all files and content that are excessive in size or are in any way burdensome to our systems; and (5) otherwise manage the Services in a manner designed to protect our rights and property and to facilitate the proper functioning of the Services.

15. PRIVACY POLICY

We care about data privacy and security. Please review our Privacy Policy: https://www.cirlo.app/privacy. By using the Services, you agree to be bound by our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into these Legal Terms. Please be advised that the Services are hosted in the United States and that we are based in Canada, so using Cirlo involves your information being transferred to and processed in those countries. We do not rely on your consent for that transfer. The safeguards we rely on are set out in our Privacy Notice. Further, we do not knowingly accept, request, or solicit information from children or knowingly market to children. Therefore, in accordance with the U.S. Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, if we receive actual knowledge that anyone under the age of 13 has provided personal information to us without the requisite and verifiable parental consent, we will delete that information from the Services as quickly as is reasonably practical.

16. COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENTS

We respect the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe that any material available on or through the Services infringes upon any copyright you own or control, please immediately notify us using the contact information provided below (a "Notification"). A copy of your Notification will be sent to the person who posted or stored the material addressed in the Notification. Please be advised that pursuant to applicable law you may be held liable for damages if you make material misrepresentations in a Notification. Thus, if you are not sure that material located on or linked to by the Services infringes your copyright, you should consider first contacting an attorney.

Telling us about illegal content

Anyone, whether or not they use Cirlo, can tell us about content on the Services they believe is illegal. Email support@cirlo.app and include enough for us to find and assess it: what the content is and where it is, why you believe it is illegal, how we can contact you, and a statement that you believe your report is accurate and complete in good faith. You do not have to give your name if the report concerns certain offences against a person.

We will confirm we have received your report, review it without undue delay, act in a way that is not arbitrary, and tell you what we decided and how you can challenge that decision. Where we remove or restrict content, we will also tell the person who posted it, with our reasons, unless the law stops us.

17. TERM AND TERMINATION

These Legal Terms shall remain in full force and effect while you use the Services. WITHOUT LIMITING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF THESE LEGAL TERMS, WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO, IN OUR SOLE DISCRETION AND WITHOUT NOTICE OR LIABILITY, DENY ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE SERVICES (INCLUDING BLOCKING CERTAIN IP ADDRESSES), TO ANY PERSON FOR ANY REASON OR FOR NO REASON, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION FOR BREACH OF ANY REPRESENTATION, WARRANTY, OR COVENANT CONTAINED IN THESE LEGAL TERMS OR OF ANY APPLICABLE LAW OR REGULATION. WE MAY TERMINATE YOUR USE OR PARTICIPATION IN THE SERVICES OR DELETE YOUR ACCOUNT AND ANY CONTENT OR INFORMATION THAT YOU POSTED AT ANY TIME, WITHOUT WARNING, IN OUR SOLE DISCRETION.

If we terminate or suspend your account for any reason, you are prohibited from registering and creating a new account under your name, a fake or borrowed name, or the name of any third party, even if you may be acting on behalf of the third party. In addition to terminating or suspending your account, we reserve the right to take appropriate legal action, including without limitation pursuing civil, criminal, and injunctive redress.

If you are a consumer, we will only close or suspend your account where there is a good reason, such as a serious or repeated breach of these Legal Terms, and we will tell you why unless the law stops us. You can ask us to look at the decision again by emailing support@cirlo.app.

Ending it yourself

You can delete your account at any time in the app: tap your orb > Account > Account & Security. You do not need to ask us and you do not need a reason.

When you do, your account is deactivated straight away and you are signed out, but it stays recoverable for 30 days in case you change your mind. Sign back in within those 30 days and everything is restored. After 30 days it is permanently and irreversibly deleted. You can take a copy of your data with you before you go, from Settings > Privacy.

Until it is permanently deleted, you stay a member of your Groups and what you posted there stays visible. After that, what you posted in Groups is deleted from every Group you were in, except that photos you posted in games are removed by an automatic cleanup about 60 days after posting, and a Group picture you uploaded is deleted on request. One thing does not go with you, and it is deliberate: something you deliberately sent to another person, such as a Duo post or a signature in their Yearbook, stays in that person's own history, because it is their record of an interaction they took part in. Our Privacy Notice explains exactly what is removed, what stays, why we are allowed to keep it, and how to object if you disagree.

18. MODIFICATIONS AND INTERRUPTIONS

We reserve the right to change, modify, or remove the contents of the Services at any time or for any reason at our sole discretion without notice. However, we have no obligation to update any information on our Services. We will not be liable to you or any third party for any modification, price change, suspension, or discontinuance of the Services.

We cannot guarantee the Services will be available at all times. We may experience hardware, software, or other problems or need to perform maintenance related to the Services, resulting in interruptions, delays, or errors. We reserve the right to change, revise, update, suspend, discontinue, or otherwise modify the Services at any time or for any reason without notice to you. You agree that we have no liability whatsoever for any loss, damage, or inconvenience caused by your inability to access or use the Services during any downtime or discontinuance of the Services. Nothing in these Legal Terms will be construed to obligate us to maintain and support the Services or to supply any corrections, updates, or releases in connection therewith.

19. GOVERNING LAW

These Legal Terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Nova Scotia and the federal laws of Canada that apply there, and the courts of Nova Scotia have jurisdiction over any dispute arising out of them.

This does not take away your rights as a consumer. If you are a consumer, you keep the benefit of any mandatory consumer-protection law of the country where you live, and nothing in this section prevents you from bringing a claim in the courts of your own country where the law gives you that right. If you live in the European Union, the EEA, or the United Kingdom, you may bring proceedings in the courts of the country where you live, and we will bring any proceedings against you there.

20. DISPUTE RESOLUTION

Informal Negotiations

To expedite resolution and control the cost of any dispute, controversy, or claim related to these Legal Terms (each a "Dispute" and collectively, the "Disputes") brought by either you or us (individually, a "Party" and collectively, the "Parties"), the Parties agree to first attempt to negotiate any Dispute (except those Disputes expressly provided below) informally for at least thirty (30) days before initiating arbitration. Such informal negotiations commence upon written notice from one Party to the other Party.

Binding Arbitration

If the parties are unable to resolve the dispute through informal negotiation, the dispute shall be finally resolved by arbitration in accordance with the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law Arbitration Rules in force at the time of commencement of the arbitration. The number of arbitrators shall be one (1). The seat, or legal place, or arbitration shall be Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The language of the proceedings shall be English. The governing law of these Legal Terms shall be the substantive law of the Province of Nova Scotia and the federal laws of Canada that apply there, as set out in "GOVERNING LAW".

This section does not apply to consumers in the EU, the EEA or the UK

If you are a consumer resident in the European Union, the European Economic Area, or the United Kingdom, the arbitration requirement in this section does not apply to you and you are not giving up any right to go to court or to take part in a group claim. You can raise a dispute with us informally at support@cirlo.app, and you keep every right you have under the law of the country where you live, including the right to use any alternative dispute resolution scheme available to you and, in the EU, the European Commission's online dispute resolution platform.

This section does not apply to consumers in Quebec or Ontario

If you are a consumer and you live in Quebec or Ontario, the arbitration requirement and the class action waiver in this section do not apply to you. You may take a dispute with us to the courts of your province, and you keep every right you have under the consumer protection law there.

Restrictions

The Parties agree that any arbitration shall be limited to the Dispute between the Parties individually. To the full extent permitted by law, (a) no arbitration shall be joined with any other proceeding; (b) there is no right or authority for any Dispute to be arbitrated on a class-action basis or to utilize class action procedures; and (c) there is no right or authority for any Dispute to be brought in a purported representative capacity on behalf of the general public or any other persons.

Exceptions to Informal Negotiations and Arbitration

The Parties agree that the following Disputes are not subject to the above provisions concerning informal negotiations binding arbitration: (a) any Disputes seeking to enforce or protect, or concerning the validity of, any of the intellectual property rights of a Party; (b) any Dispute related to, or arising from, allegations of theft, piracy, invasion of privacy, or unauthorized use; and (c) any claim for injunctive relief. If this provision is found to be illegal or unenforceable, then neither Party will elect to arbitrate any Dispute falling within that portion of this provision found to be illegal or unenforceable and such Dispute shall be decided by a court of competent jurisdiction within the courts listed for jurisdiction above, and the Parties agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction of that court.

21. CORRECTIONS

There may be information on the Services that contains typographical errors, inaccuracies, or omissions, including descriptions, pricing, availability, and various other information. We reserve the right to correct any errors, inaccuracies, or omissions and to change or update the information on the Services at any time, without prior notice.

22. DISCLAIMER

THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED ON AN AS-IS AND AS-AVAILABLE BASIS. YOU AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES WILL BE AT YOUR SOLE RISK. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, IN CONNECTION WITH THE SERVICES AND YOUR USE THEREOF, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE MAKE NO WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THE SERVICES' CONTENT OR THE CONTENT OF ANY WEBSITES OR MOBILE APPLICATIONS LINKED TO THE SERVICES AND WE WILL ASSUME NO LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY (1) ERRORS, MISTAKES, OR INACCURACIES OF CONTENT AND MATERIALS, (2) PERSONAL INJURY OR PROPERTY DAMAGE, OF ANY NATURE WHATSOEVER, RESULTING FROM YOUR ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE SERVICES, (3) ANY UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR USE OF OUR SECURE SERVERS AND/OR ANY AND ALL PERSONAL INFORMATION AND/OR FINANCIAL INFORMATION STORED THEREIN, (4) ANY INTERRUPTION OR CESSATION OF TRANSMISSION TO OR FROM THE SERVICES, (5) ANY BUGS, VIRUSES, TROJAN HORSES, OR THE LIKE WHICH MAY BE TRANSMITTED TO OR THROUGH THE SERVICES BY ANY THIRD PARTY, AND/OR (6) ANY ERRORS OR OMISSIONS IN ANY CONTENT AND MATERIALS OR FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE OF ANY KIND INCURRED AS A RESULT OF THE USE OF ANY CONTENT POSTED, TRANSMITTED, OR OTHERWISE MADE AVAILABLE VIA THE SERVICES. WE DO NOT WARRANT, ENDORSE, GUARANTEE, OR ASSUME RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY PRODUCT OR SERVICE ADVERTISED OR OFFERED BY A THIRD PARTY THROUGH THE SERVICES, ANY HYPERLINKED WEBSITE, OR ANY WEBSITE OR MOBILE APPLICATION FEATURED IN ANY BANNER OR OTHER ADVERTISING, AND WE WILL NOT BE A PARTY TO OR IN ANY WAY BE RESPONSIBLE FOR MONITORING ANY TRANSACTION BETWEEN YOU AND ANY THIRD-PARTY PROVIDERS OF PRODUCTS OR SERVICES. AS WITH THE PURCHASE OF A PRODUCT OR SERVICE THROUGH ANY MEDIUM OR IN ANY ENVIRONMENT, YOU SHOULD USE YOUR BEST JUDGMENT AND EXERCISE CAUTION WHERE APPROPRIATE.

23. LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY

IN NO EVENT WILL WE OR OUR DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, OR AGENTS BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOST PROFIT, LOST REVENUE, LOSS OF DATA, OR OTHER DAMAGES ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED HEREIN, OUR LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY CAUSE WHATSOEVER AND REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF THE ACTION, WILL AT ALL TIMES BE LIMITED TO $100.00 USD.

CERTAIN US STATE LAWS AND INTERNATIONAL LAWS DO NOT ALLOW LIMITATIONS ON IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF CERTAIN DAMAGES. IF THESE LAWS APPLY TO YOU, SOME OR ALL OF THE ABOVE DISCLAIMERS OR LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU, AND YOU MAY HAVE ADDITIONAL RIGHTS.

Nothing above limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited. We do not exclude or limit our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else the law does not allow us to exclude. If you are a consumer, we are responsible for loss or damage you suffer that is a foreseeable result of our breaking these Legal Terms or failing to use reasonable care and skill, the monetary cap above does not apply to you, and you keep all of your statutory rights, including your rights in respect of digital content that is not as described, not of satisfactory quality, or not fit for purpose.

24. INDEMNIFICATION

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold us harmless, including our subsidiaries, affiliates, and all of our respective officers, agents, partners, and employees, from and against any loss, damage, liability, claim, or demand, including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses, made by any third party due to or arising out of: (1) your Contributions; (2) use of the Services; (3) breach of these Legal Terms; (4) any breach of your representations and warranties set forth in these Legal Terms; (5) your violation of the rights of a third party, including but not limited to intellectual property rights; or (6) any overt harmful act toward any other user of the Services with whom you connected via the Services. Notwithstanding the foregoing, we reserve the right, at your expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter for which you are required to indemnify us, and you agree to cooperate, at your expense, with our defense of such claims. We will use reasonable efforts to notify you of any such claim, action, or proceeding which is subject to this indemnification upon becoming aware of it.

25. USER DATA

We maintain the data you put into the Services so that we can run them, and we take regular backups. Backups are for our own disaster recovery and are not a substitute for your own copy, so we recommend you export your data from time to time using Settings > Privacy in the app.

We are not liable for loss or corruption of data that is not our fault, for example where it is caused by your device, your network, or a third party. We remain liable where the loss results from our failure to use reasonable care and skill, and if you are a consumer nothing here asks you to waive a right of action or takes away your statutory rights.

26. ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS, TRANSACTIONS, AND SIGNATURES

Visiting the Services, sending us emails, and completing online forms constitute electronic communications. You consent to receive electronic communications, and you agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communications we provide to you electronically, via email and on the Services, satisfy any legal requirement that such communication be in writing. YOU HEREBY AGREE TO THE USE OF ELECTRONIC SIGNATURES, CONTRACTS, ORDERS, AND OTHER RECORDS, AND TO ELECTRONIC DELIVERY OF NOTICES, POLICIES, AND RECORDS OF TRANSACTIONS INITIATED OR COMPLETED BY US OR VIA THE SERVICES. You hereby waive any rights or requirements under any statutes, regulations, rules, ordinances, or other laws in any jurisdiction which require an original signature or delivery or retention of non-electronic records, or to payments or the granting of credits by any means other than electronic means.

27. CALIFORNIA USERS AND RESIDENTS

If any complaint with us is not satisfactorily resolved, you can contact the Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Services of the California Department of Consumer Affairs in writing at 1625 North Market Blvd., Suite N 112, Sacramento, California 95834 or by telephone at (800) 952-5210 or (916) 445-1254.

28. MISCELLANEOUS

These Legal Terms and any policies or operating rules posted by us on the Services or in respect to the Services constitute the entire agreement and understanding between you and us. Our failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Legal Terms shall not operate as a waiver of such right or provision. These Legal Terms operate to the fullest extent permissible by law. We may assign any or all of our rights and obligations to others at any time. We shall not be responsible or liable for any loss, damage, delay, or failure to act caused by any cause beyond our reasonable control. If any provision or part of a provision of these Legal Terms is determined to be unlawful, void, or unenforceable, that provision or part of the provision is deemed severable from these Legal Terms and does not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions. There is no joint venture, partnership, employment or agency relationship created between you and us as a result of these Legal Terms or use of the Services. You agree that these Legal Terms will not be construed against us by virtue of having drafted them. You hereby waive any and all defenses you may have based on the electronic form of these Legal Terms and the lack of signing by the parties hereto to execute these Legal Terms.

29. YOUR CONTENT STAYS YOURS

This section limits the licence you give us, and it controls if anything elsewhere in these Legal Terms is broader. You keep ownership of everything you create in Cirlo, including your notes, your circles, your photos, your answers in games, your Duo messages, your Yearbook signatures, and your birthday card notes. You grant us only the narrow, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence we need to actually run the Services for you: to store your content, to display it back to you, to deliver it to the specific people you choose to send it to, to back it up, and to keep it secure. That licence lasts only as long as we hold the content, and it ends when the content is deleted, except where a copy legitimately remains in another person's history as described in our Privacy Notice. We do not claim a perpetual, irrevocable, or transferable licence to your content. We will not use your content, your name, your likeness, or your voice in advertising or marketing without asking you first and getting your agreement. We do not sell your content, we do not use it to train machine learning models, and we do not make it public. Nothing in these Legal Terms requires you to assign your intellectual property rights to us.

30. FREE TO USE, AND LIMITS

Cirlo is free to use, with no ads and nothing to buy, and you do not need a full account to try it. To keep the Services safe and working, there are limits, for example on how many connections and circles one account can hold and how many people can be in a Group. Limits may change as the Services develop; if we reduce a limit in a way that affects content you have already created, we will not delete that content. If we ever introduce a paid option, it will be optional, and we will update these Legal Terms before anyone can buy it.

31. SAFETY, BLOCKING, AND REPORTING

You can block another Cirlo user at any time from their profile. Blocking is silent: the other person is not told. When you block someone they are removed from your orbit, the Duo you shared is closed, the Duo history you shared is hidden from you, and they cannot join a Group you are in. Because a block is silent, someone who already knows your username can still look up your public profile, which is your first name, username and photo, and can still send you a connection request, which you can simply ignore. In a Group you both belong to, what they post is hidden from you and what you post is hidden from them; they can still appear on the member list, so you can leave the Group or, if you made it, remove them. We are deliberately precise about one thing rather than promising more than we do: because blocking has to stay silent, the person you blocked keeps the plain contact entry they already had for you, with the live connection to your account cut and your profile details removed from it. They gain nothing and can do nothing with it.

You can report a person to us from their profile, report anything posted in a Group or a Duo (a chat message, an answer, a reply, a photo, a question, or the Group's name or photo), and report a Yearbook signature that someone has written in your Yearbook. Reports are confidential and we do not reveal who reported whom. We review every report and act on it within 24 hours: we remove the content and block or remove the account responsible where it breaks these Legal Terms or the law. We may also hide content, restrict discoverability, or suspend an account where we consider it necessary to protect people using the Services or to comply with the law. Because Cirlo is a private tool rather than a public network, we do not moderate the notes you keep about your own connections, which are visible only to you. We do act on content that is sent to another person or posted in a Group, such as a Duo post, an answer in a game, or a Yearbook signature. If we suspend or remove your account for a serious breach of these Legal Terms, you may lose access to your content. If you believe we have acted in error, you can contact us at support@cirlo.app and we will review the decision.

Child safety

Cirlo has zero tolerance for child sexual abuse and exploitation, including any sexual content involving a person under 18. You must never post, share, request or link to it anywhere in Cirlo. If you do, we will remove it and your account, and we report it to Cybertip.ca and the police, and to NCMEC where US law applies. To report a concern, see our Child safety standards.

Intimate images shared without consent

You must not share an intimate image of anyone without their consent, or threaten to. If a private or intimate image of you was shared on Cirlo without your consent, you can ask us to remove it. We remove it within 48 hours of receiving a valid request, and we make reasonable efforts to find and remove identical copies in Cirlo. How to ask, and what we need, is on our Report an intimate image page.

32. CONTACT US

In order to resolve a complaint regarding the Services or to receive further information regarding use of the Services, please contact us at:

Promise Abel-Adegbite, trading as Cirlo
PO Box #1, Lower Sackville RPO Superstore Mall
Nova Scotia, B4C 2S8, Canada

General questions and support: support@cirlo.app
Privacy and data protection: privacy@cirlo.app

If you are in the European Union, the EEA or the United Kingdom, this is also the address for formal notices. Trader information (EU). I am an individual. Cirlo is not currently offered in the App Store in the European Union or the United Kingdom. If that changes, I will declare myself a trader to Apple, and my name, address, email and phone number will be shown on Cirlo's App Store page there. Email support@cirlo.app is the single point of contact for users and for authorities, and I answer in English.