terms of service.

1. acceptance of terms.

These Terms of Service form a contract between you and BoredApp Inc., a corporation incorporated under the laws of Ontario, Canada (“BoredApp Inc.,” “we,” “us,” “our”). By downloading, accessing, or using BoredApp, you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree to these terms, do not use the app.

1.1 distribution intermediaries.

For the avoidance of doubt, where BoredApp is distributed via the Apple App Store, Google Play, or any other third-party platform — including under a developer account, payment account, or developer-program identity associated with a principal, employee, or affiliate of BoredApp Inc. — that distribution is conducted solely on behalf of, and for the benefit of, BoredApp Inc. BoredApp Inc. remains the operator of BoredApp and the counterparty to these Terms regardless of which intermediary or account hosts a particular distribution channel.

2. eligibility.

You must be at least 18 years old to use BoredApp, and you must be located in Canada. BoredApp is currently available only to users in Canada. By creating an account or using the app, you represent that you meet the age requirement and that you are located in Canada. We may suspend or terminate accounts created in violation of these eligibility requirements.

3. your account.

You are responsible for maintaining the security of your account and for all activities that occur under it. You agree to provide accurate information and to keep it up to date. We reserve the right to suspend or terminate accounts that violate these terms.

4. how boredapp works.

BoredApp allows you to create private events and invite people you know. Every event has a link that opens as an invite card — a page showing the event's title, date and time, location, the host's display name, any photos the host added to the card, and a Join button — in any browser, without an account. Events are visible to the creator and invited participants, and to anyone holding the event's link; while the host's “Anyone with the link can join” setting is on (it is by default), a link holder can view and join the event unless the host removes them (section 6.4). A host can switch that setting off to make the event invite-only. You can share event details, chat with your group, send photos in chat, add photos to an event's shared album, put that album on a screen as a Photo Wall, add events to your calendar, and navigate to event locations. Deleting an event you host moves it to your Trash, where you can restore it for up to 90 days before it is permanently deleted (section 6.5).

BoredApp also provides an official interface for AI assistants (the BoredApp connector). If you authorize an AI assistant you use — such as Claude or ChatGPT — to access your account, you do so through a BoredApp consent screen while signed in, and the connection is limited to the permissions you approve. Anything your assistant does through the connector is treated as done by you and is subject to these Terms. The connector is the only automated means we authorize for accessing BoredApp.

5. your responsibilities.

As a user of BoredApp, you agree to:

• Only invite people you know to your events
• Provide accurate event details and locations
• Treat other participants with respect in event chats
• Respect the privacy of other participants
• Only post photos you have the right to post, and remove a photo if someone in it asks you to
• Keep your own copies of any photos that matter to you — BoredApp is not a backup service (section 6.3)
• Provide accurate registration information and keep it up to date

You will not:

• Use BoredApp for spam, harassment, hate speech, threats, or any illegal activity
• Share event links publicly without the consent of the event creator
• Impersonate any person, or misrepresent your affiliation with any person or organization
• Create or maintain multiple accounts, or create a new account to evade a suspension, ban, or removal
• Reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise attempt to derive the source code of BoredApp, except to the extent that applicable law expressly permits despite this prohibition
• Scrape, crawl, or use automated means to access, collect, or interact with BoredApp other than through official interfaces we provide
• Upload, transmit, or distribute viruses, malware, or any code designed to interfere with the proper functioning of BoredApp or any user's device
• Post photos of a person who has not consented to being photographed or to the photo being shared, photos taken anywhere a person has a reasonable expectation of privacy, or sexual images of any person
• Save, redistribute, or publish another participant's photos outside the event they were shared with, without that person's permission
• Use BoredApp to develop, train, or benchmark a competing product or service
• Probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of BoredApp's systems, or breach or circumvent any security or authentication measures
• Use BoredApp in any way that violates these Terms or applicable law

6. intellectual property and content.

6.1 boredapp's intellectual property.

BoredApp, the BoredApp and bored. names and logos, and all related text, graphics, software, designs, and other elements are owned by BoredApp Inc. or our licensors and are protected by Canadian and international copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property laws. These Terms grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use BoredApp for personal, non-commercial purposes in accordance with these Terms. You receive no other rights, express or implied, to our intellectual property.

6.2 your content.

You own what you post. You retain ownership of content you post in events, including your photos, chat messages, and event details. By posting content, you grant BoredApp Inc. a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, transmit, display, and modify (e.g., resizing and re-encoding photos, format compatibility, transmission across our infrastructure, and routine backups) your content as needed to operate BoredApp and display it to the people invited to that event or conversation — including, where the host of that event puts its album on a screen, displaying it on that Photo Wall to anyone holding the wall link. We do not use your content for any other purpose — we do not sell it, use it to train models, or use it for advertising. This license terminates when the content is deleted, except for residual copies retained in encrypted backups for a reasonable period and copies retained as required by law. Where an event has been moved to Trash, the license continues while the event remains restorable and terminates when the event is permanently deleted.

You are responsible for ensuring your content does not violate any laws or the rights of others. For photos, that includes having the right to post the photo in the first place, and respecting the people in it — do not post photos of others where they would reasonably object, and remove a photo if someone in it asks you to.

6.3 photos, chat images, and event albums.

BoredApp gives you two places to post a photo:

• Photos in chat — sent in an event chat, group chat, or direct message. These are kept with the conversation, and erased right away when you delete the message or your account, or when the event or group chat they live in is deleted.
• Event photo albums— a shared album attached to a single event that anyone invited to that event can add to and view. The album copy you see has no scheduled deletion; it remains until deleted by you, a host, or with its event. A separate full-quality copy of each photo is deleted within 91 days of upload unless the album's lifetime is extended.

BoredApp is not a backup service. You can download your photos to your own device at any time, and you should do so for anything you want to keep. We are not liable for the loss of any photo or other content, whether through deletion by you or another participant, expiry of a full-quality copy, account deletion, or technical failure. Keep your own copies of anything that matters to you.

Who can remove a photo. You can delete any photo you posted, at any time. The host and co-hosts of an event can also remove any photo from that event's album, including photos posted by other people — they are responsible for the album attached to the event they organize. Removal takes effect for everyone immediately; the underlying files are erased on the automated schedules described above and in our privacy policy.

Limits. Each person can add up to 30 photos per event album. We may change these limits, apply reasonable limits on storage and usage, and remove content or restrict accounts that abuse them.

6.4 photo wall.

The host or a co-host of an event can generate a Photo Wall link — a page that shows the event's album on a screen at the venue. A wall is optional and specific to one event: the link does not exist until a host generates it, and the host can turn it off at any time. Because that screen is usually a TV or projector nobody can sign in on, the link opens without a BoredApp account: anyone holding it can view the wall.

The wall page only displays — it has no upload control. The QR code on it opens the event, and that is the way in: while the host's “Anyone with the link can join” setting is on (it is by default), anyone who has an event's link can view and join that event, unless the host removes them. That is true whether or not a wall is up — an event's link is how its invitations travel. Putting a wall on a screen is a decision to show that link to everyone in the room, which is the point of it at an event where the host cannot invite every guest individually. If the host switches link joining off, the event link, the invite card, and the wall's QR code stop admitting new participants; people who already joined keep their access.

If you put up a wall, it is yours to manage. You are responsible for where the screen is and who can see it, and for who you give the link to. Shut the wall down when the event is over. You can revoke a wall at any time from the event, which stops any browser still holding the link. A wall also ends on its own: it expires with the album it shows, and moving the event to Trash revokes it. Revoking closes the screen — it does not close the event: anyone who already joined stays a participant, and anyone who still has the event's link can join while link joining is on, until you remove them.

If you post to an album, it may go on a screen. A Photo Wall shows the event title, the album's recent photos, the display name of whoever posted each one, and a reaction summary. Putting an album on a screen does not change how long any photo is kept, and you can still delete a photo you posted at any time — it leaves the wall when it leaves the album.

6.5 deleting an event.

Deleting an event you host does not erase it right away. The event moves to your Trash and disappears from every participant's app, and only you can restore it, for up to 90 days. After that the event is permanently deleted from our servers — including its chat, polls, tasks, and any remaining photos — within 91 days of deletion. While an event sits in Trash its album stays put (only the separate full-quality copies keep their expiry clock), so a restored event comes back with its album intact.

6.6 feedback.

If you send us suggestions, ideas, or feedback about BoredApp, you grant BoredApp Inc. a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free license to use that feedback for any purpose without compensation or attribution to you.

7. safety and liability.

BoredApp facilitates event planning between people who know each other. We are not responsible for interactions that occur between users, whether online or at events. You attend events at your own risk and are responsible for your own safety and the safety of any minors in your care.

7.1 notifications are best-effort.

BoredApp sends reminders, RSVP updates, and other alerts through Apple Push Notification Service (APNs) and Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM). Delivery depends on factors outside our control, including your device's network connection, operating system settings (Do Not Disturb, Focus modes, notification permissions, battery saver modes), the availability of third-party push services, and the version of the app installed. We make no guarantee that any notification will be delivered, will be delivered on time, or will be visible to you. You are responsible for tracking the events you create or join, including their dates, times, and locations. Missing an event because a notification was not received, not delivered on time, or not seen is not our responsibility.

7.2 etas and weather are estimates.

Live ETA values shown in BoredApp are computed by Google's Distance Matrix API and may be inaccurate due to traffic conditions, GPS error, API outages, or other factors. Weather information shown in event reminders is provided by Open-Meteo and may be inaccurate, outdated, or unavailable. Do not rely on these features for any decision that affects safety or material outcomes.

7.3 service provided “as is.”

BoredApp is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. We do not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted, error-free, accurate, secure, or available in any particular geography. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.

7.4 limitation of liability.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, BoredApp Inc., our affiliates, and our respective officers, employees, and agents are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, including but not limited to damages for missed events, lost opportunities, lost data, emotional distress, or any consequence of relying on the service. Our total cumulative liability for any claim arising out of or related to the service, regardless of theory, shall not exceed CAD $100 or the amount you have paid us in the 12 months preceding the claim, whichever is greater.

7.5 you remain responsible.

BoredApp is a coordination tool, not a personal assistant. Using BoredApp does not transfer responsibility for your events, plans, or commitments to us. Confirm important details (date, time, location, attendance) directly with the people involved if anything is critical.

8. indemnification.

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless BoredApp Inc., our affiliates, and our respective officers, directors, employees, and agents from and against any and all claims, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or related to: (a) your use of BoredApp; (b) the content you post or the events you create or contribute to; (c) your violation of these Terms; (d) your violation of any third party's rights, including intellectual property, privacy, or publicity rights; or (e) any harm caused to another invitee or participant in connection with an event you created, joined, or contributed to. We reserve the right, at our own expense, to assume the exclusive defence and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, in which case you agree to cooperate with our defence of such claim.

9. termination.

We may suspend or terminate your access to BoredApp at any time for violations of these terms or for any reason at our discretion. You may delete your account at any time through the app settings. Upon deletion, your personal profile information will be removed or anonymized from our active systems. To preserve the integrity of shared plans, group chat messages you sent and events you coordinated may remain visible to other participants with your name and profile photo replaced by an anonymous identifier. All data is subject to our retention and backup policies, including the residual-backup window described in our Privacy Policy.

10. changes to terms.

We may update these terms from time to time. We will notify you of significant changes through the app. Continued use of BoredApp after changes constitutes acceptance of the updated terms.

11. dispute resolution.

11.1 governing law.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada applicable in Ontario, without regard to conflict-of-law principles.

11.2 informal resolution first.

Before bringing a formal claim, you agree to contact us at info@boredapp.io and attempt to resolve the dispute informally for at least 60 days. Most disputes can be resolved this way.

11.3 binding individual arbitration.

If informal resolution fails, you and BoredApp Inc. agree to resolve any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or your use of BoredApp through final and binding individual arbitration, rather than in court. Arbitration will be administered by the ADR Institute of Canada (ADRIC) under its Arbitration Rules, by a single arbitrator, with the seat of arbitration in Toronto, Ontario. Arbitration may be conducted remotely.

11.4 class action waiver.

You and BoredApp Inc. each agree that disputes will be resolved only on an individual basis. Neither party may bring a claim as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class, collective, consolidated, or representative proceeding, and the arbitrator has no authority to consolidate claims or preside over any class or representative proceeding.

11.5 exceptions.

The following are not subject to arbitration: (a) claims that qualify for small claims court in a jurisdiction with personal jurisdiction over both parties; and (b) claims by either party for injunctive or other equitable relief to prevent infringement or misuse of intellectual property, confidential information, or unauthorized access to the service.

11.6 opt out.

You may opt out of this arbitration and class action waiver agreement by sending written notice to info@boredapp.io within 30 days of first accepting these Terms. The notice must include your full name, the email address associated with your account, and a clear statement that you wish to opt out of arbitration. Opting out does not affect any other provision of these Terms.

11.7 severability.

If the class action waiver in 11.4 is found unenforceable in your jurisdiction (such as Quebec, where certain consumer waivers are not enforceable), then the arbitration agreement in 11.3 is also unenforceable as to you, and disputes will instead be resolved exclusively in the courts of Ontario, and you consent to the personal jurisdiction and venue of those courts. The unenforceability of any other provision of this Section will not affect the remainder. If any provision of these Terms is held to be unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect.

11.8 assignment.

We may assign or transfer these Terms, in whole or in part, to any affiliate, successor in interest, or acquirer of substantially all of our assets or business, without notice or your consent. You may not assign or transfer these Terms or any of your rights or obligations under them without our prior written consent. Any attempted assignment in violation of this section is void.

12. contact us.

If you have questions about these terms, please reach out to us at info@boredapp.io.