Terms of Service

1. Words we use

Owner

Someone with a QIMSY account who makes links and codes.

Visitor

Someone who opens a QIMSY link or scans a QIMSY code.

Sender

A visitor who sends a message, a reaction, an answer or a rating.

Content

Anything people send or put on QIMSY, such as messages, reactions, answers, ratings, link titles, questions, logos and where a link leads.

2. Who can use QIMSY

• You must be at least 18 years old to use QIMSY. This applies to owners and to senders.
• If you're under 18, don't use QIMSY, and don't send anything through a QIMSY link.
• If we learn that an account belongs to someone under 18, we delete it.
• You can't use QIMSY if the law doesn't allow you to, or if we closed your account before.

3. Your account

• You can sign up with an email address and a password, or with Apple or Google.
• Give us a real email address, and keep your password safe. You're responsible for what happens in your account.
• An account is for one person. Don't share, sell or transfer it.
• If you think someone else got into your account, tell us at [Contact email].

4. What QIMSY does

• Owners make QR codes and short links. Each link has a public page on qimsy.link.
• Visitors open the link or scan the code. Depending on the link, they can send an anonymous message, a reaction, an answer to the owner's question or a star rating, or go on to where the link leads.
• Owners see what was sent in the app, and get a notification if they turned notifications on.
• Free accounts get secret message links, QR designs, counts, notifications, and blocking and reporting.
• PRO adds the other link types, a redirect with a countdown, sender hints, sender history, detailed stats, and notifications when someone opens a link.
• We may add, change or remove features, on either plan.

5. Anonymous to owners, not to us

• Senders don't need an account. Owners don't see a sender's name, email address, IP address or account.
• But senders aren't anonymous to us. With every message, reaction, answer and rating, we store technical data: the IP address, an approximate location worked out from it, the network, and the device, browser, language and time zone. Our Privacy Policy lists all of it.
• We use this data to run QIMSY and to keep it safe. For example, it lets owners block a sender, and it helps us act on reports.
• We may share it with the police or other authorities when the law requires it, or when we believe in good faith that it's needed to prevent serious harm.
• So don't send anything you wouldn't want traced back to you.

6. Sender hints are only hints

• With PRO, owners see hints about a sender: their country, city and a map pin, time zone, network, device, system, browser and language. They also see a made-up name and avatar, and what that sender did on their links.
• Hints come from the sender's internet connection and device. They're estimates, and they're often wrong. A city can be far off. Many people can share one network. A VPN, mobile data or public Wi-Fi changes what we see.
• The made-up name and avatar come from the same data. One person can show up under several names, and two people can share one.
• Hints never tell you who sent something. We don't claim they can, and you must not claim it either.
• Don't use hints to find, contact, confront or expose a sender.

7. What you may not send or do

Everything you send, and everything you put on a link or a code, must follow these rules. Don't send, post or link to:

• harassment or bullying;
• threats of violence or harm;
• hate: attacks on people for who they are, such as their race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or sexual orientation;
• sexual content;
• anything that sexualizes, exploits, endangers or targets a minor;
• anything that encourages self-harm, suicide or eating disorders;
• doxxing: someone's private information, such as their home address, phone number or private photos, without their permission;
• spam, scams, phishing or malware;
• impersonation: pretending to be someone else, or to be QIMSY;
• anything illegal, or anything that breaks someone else's rights, such as their privacy or copyright.

Also don't:

• stalk, track or watch someone with QIMSY;
• try to find out who a sender is, or say that you know;
• share your links or codes with people under 18, or put them where under-18s are the main audience, such as a school;
• get around a block, a limit or a plan;
• send things in bulk, or use bots or scripts;
• break, overload, scrape or probe QIMSY, or copy or reverse-engineer the app, except where the law allows it.

8. Your links and codes

• You're responsible for your links and codes: their titles, questions and logos, and where they lead.
• You're responsible for where you print, post or place your codes. Only put them where you're allowed to. Don't put them where they could mislead or endanger people, and don't cover someone else's code.
• Anything you put in a link is shown to anyone who opens it. That includes a Wi-Fi password, a phone number, a location or a note.
• We don't check where links lead. Make sure you have the right to link there.
• Your codes point to QIMSY. They only work while your link and your account exist and QIMSY runs. If a link is deleted or disabled, its printed codes stop working.
• Link pages show QIMSY's name and invite visitors to get the app. They may also show a card for another of our apps.

9. Blocking and reporting

• Owners can block a sender and report a message. Both are free.
• Blocking works by the sender's network address (IP address), on all your links. A blocked sender can still send. What they send from that address is kept, but you get no notification, their messages are greyed out, and their ratings don't count in your average. They aren't told, and you can unblock them at any time.
• A block can also catch other people on the same network, and miss the sender if they change networks.
• You can report a message for one of these reasons: spam or scam, harassment or bullying, hate speech, threats or violence, sexual content, self-harm or suicide, or something else. The sender isn't told. We keep every report.
• To report a link, a code or anything else, write to [Contact email].
• We may look into reports. We don't promise to review every report, to do it within a set time, to act on it, or to tell you what we did.
• If someone is in danger, contact your local emergency services.

10. What we may do

• We don't check messages before they're delivered, and we don't have to monitor QIMSY.
• We may remove or hide any content, disable links or codes, limit features, or suspend or close accounts. We may do this without notice if we believe someone broke these terms or the law, or to protect people or QIMSY.
• Closing an account doesn't cancel a PRO subscription. Cancel it in the App Store or Google Play.
• You can stop using QIMSY at any time. To delete your account, see Your rights in our Privacy Policy.

11. PRO subscription

• PRO is a weekly subscription. You buy it in the App Store or on Google Play, and Apple or Google takes the payment under their own terms.
• The store shows the price before you buy. It may include tax.
• PRO renews automatically every week, and you're charged every week, until you cancel.
• To cancel, go to your subscriptions in the App Store or Google Play. Cancel at least 24 hours before the current week ends to avoid the next charge. Deleting the app or your account doesn't cancel PRO.
• After you cancel, PRO stays on until the end of the week you paid for.
• Refunds are up to Apple or Google, under their rules. Ask them.
• PRO belongs to your QIMSY account. On a new phone, sign in to the same account. If PRO doesn't show up, tap Restore purchases.
• If the price changes, the store tells you first, under its rules.
• If we offer a free trial, the store shows how long it lasts. Unless you cancel at least 24 hours before it ends, it becomes a paid weekly subscription.

12. Your content

• You keep the rights you have in your content.
• You give us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, copy, show, send and adapt your content (for example, to resize a logo). We use it only to run, protect and improve QIMSY. The licence ends when the content is deleted from QIMSY, except where we have to keep it.
• When you send something to an owner, you let them read it, keep it and share it, for example in a story.
• You promise that you have the right to everything you put on QIMSY.
• If you send us ideas or feedback, we may use them freely, without paying you.

13. Our rights in QIMSY

• QIMSY, its apps, link pages, website, name, logo, designs and code belong to us or our licensors. These terms only give you the right to use QIMSY.
• We give you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use the app on devices you own or control, under these terms and your app store's rules.
• You may use the QR codes and designs you make with QIMSY for any lawful purpose.
• The App Store and Google Play have terms of their own. Apple and Google aren't responsible for QIMSY or for supporting it. Apple and its subsidiaries can enforce these terms as third-party beneficiaries.

14. Disclaimers

• We provide QIMSY “as is” and “as available”.
• We don't promise that QIMSY will always be available, free of errors or secure, or that every message, notification and count will arrive or be right.
• Counts, stats and hints are estimates.
• We aren't responsible for what users send, or for the websites and apps that links lead to.
• Some places don't allow these disclaimers. There, they apply only as far as the law allows. They don't take away rights you have as a consumer that can't be waived.

15. Limits on our liability

• As far as the law allows, we aren't liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, data or goodwill.
• As far as the law allows, our total liability for all claims about QIMSY is limited to the greater of what you paid for PRO in the 12 months before the claim, or [Liability cap amount].
• Nothing in these terms limits liability that the law doesn't let us limit, such as liability for fraud, or for death or personal injury caused by negligence.

16. Changes

• We may change QIMSY, or stop offering all or part of it.
• We may update these terms. We'll post the new version on this page with a new effective date. If a change is important, we'll tell you before it takes effect, for example in the app.
• If you keep using QIMSY after a change takes effect, you accept the new terms. If you don't accept them, stop using QIMSY.

17. Governing law and disputes

• These terms are governed by the laws of [Governing law].
• Disputes go to the courts of [Courts for disputes], unless the law says otherwise.
• If you're a consumer in the EU or the UK, you also keep the protection of the laws where you live, and you can bring a claim there.
• Before you start a claim, please write to us at [Contact email]. Most problems can be solved that way.

18. General

• These terms and our Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between you and us about QIMSY.
• If part of these terms can't be enforced, the rest still applies.
• If we don't enforce a rule right away, we can still enforce it later.
• We may transfer these terms to a company that takes over QIMSY. You can't transfer them without our written permission.
• The parts that should last after this agreement ends do, including the licences you give us, the disclaimers, the limits on liability, and governing law.

19. Contact