These Terms of Use ("Terms") govern your use of the Geotic mobile application, website, and related services (the "Service"). You must explicitly agree to these Terms before signing in to the app. If you already have a session, we may require you to accept the current Terms before continuing to use app features. If you do not agree, do not proceed. You can still read our legal documents, sign out, or request account deletion. Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle your information; agreeing to these Terms does not grant device permissions or replace separate consent where required.
Eligibility
You must be at least 13 years old, or the higher minimum age required in your country, to use Geotic. If you are under the age of legal majority where you live, you must have permission from a parent or legal guardian.
Your account
You sign in through Apple or Google and choose a public username. You are responsible for activity under your account, for keeping access to your authentication provider secure, and for providing accurate support information when requesting account assistance. You may not impersonate another person or create an account for abusive or unlawful purposes.
Location-based access
Geotic lets users read geochats from any location. Writing is available only when current location data satisfies the relevant geozone rules. Location results can be delayed, inaccurate, or unavailable. You must not falsify, manipulate, or bypass location checks.
Your content
You retain ownership of messages, profile text, avatars, and other content you submit. You grant Geotic a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, process, transmit, and display that content only as reasonably necessary to operate, secure, improve, and provide the Service. This license continues for content retained in conversation history after account deletion, with your public identity anonymized as described in the Privacy Policy. It also permits restricted retention and review of reported content as moderation evidence for the purposes and periods described in the Privacy Policy.
You represent that you have the rights needed to submit your content and that its use by Geotic under these Terms will not violate another person's rights or applicable law.
Prohibited conduct
Geotic has zero tolerance for objectionable content or abusive users. You must not post, upload, or share content that is threatening, harassing, hateful, discriminatory, sexually exploitative, pornographic, or otherwise abusive or illegal. These rules apply to messages, avatars, usernames, biographies, and other content you submit. We may remove violating content and restrict, suspend, or terminate accounts responsible for violations.
You may not use Geotic to:
- Threaten, harass, stalk, exploit, or unlawfully discriminate against others.
- Publish illegal content, sexual content involving minors, or content that violates privacy, publicity, copyright, trademark, or other rights.
- Spam, deceive, impersonate, distribute malware, or interfere with the Service.
- Scrape, reverse engineer, probe, overload, or attempt unauthorized access to accounts, systems, or data except where applicable law expressly permits it.
- Manipulate device location, message delivery, notifications, or other technical safeguards.
Child safety standards
Geotic strictly prohibits child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSAE) and child sexual abuse material (CSAM). For these standards, a child is anyone under 18. This prohibition applies to all users and all areas of the Service, including public and private messages, avatars, usernames, and biographies.
You must not create, upload, request, share, link to, or promote content that sexually abuses or exploits children. Grooming, sexual solicitation of children, sexual extortion, trafficking for sexual purposes, and any conduct that facilitates such abuse or exploitation are prohibited.
You can report child safety concerns without leaving Geotic: open a message's actions menu and choose Report, or open a user's profile and choose Report. Select the most relevant reason and describe the child safety concern in the optional comment. You can also contact support@geotic.app. Do not download, copy, or forward suspected CSAM to make a report; identify the message or account instead.
Moderators prioritize child safety reports. When we become aware of CSAM, we act promptly to remove it or disable access to it. We remove other confirmed CSAE content and suspend or terminate accounts responsible for violations. Relevant evidence is handled with restricted access and retained only as necessary under our Privacy Policy and applicable law.
We report confirmed CSAM to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) or the appropriate regional or national authority, as required by applicable law, and cooperate with lawful requests from competent authorities. If a child is in immediate danger, contact local emergency services or law enforcement.
Our child safety contact is support@geotic.app. Child safety inquiries are directed to the person responsible for our moderation and response procedures.
Reporting and moderation
You can report a message from its actions menu in a chat, or report a user from their profile. Choose a reason and, if helpful, provide a comment. Reports about a user may concern their avatar, username, bio, or behavior. You may also contact support@geotic.app about objectionable content or abuse.
Moderators review reports and relevant evidence, including reported private messages. We review reports and take appropriate action on confirmed violations within 24 hours of receiving a report, including removing objectionable content and suspending or terminating abusive accounts. A report alone does not automatically remove content for everyone or suspend an account.
Reports and supporting evidence may remain after the reported content or account is deleted. Access and retention are limited as described in our Privacy Policy.
Service changes and availability
Geotic is under active development. We may add, change, suspend, or discontinue features and may correct or remove content or accounts when reasonably necessary for security, legal compliance, or reliable operation. We do not guarantee uninterrupted availability, delivery of every notification, or continued availability of a particular geozone.
Account suspension and deletion
You may delete your account from Settings. We may restrict or terminate access when you materially violate these Terms, create risk for users or the Service, or when required by law. Sections that by their nature should survive termination, including content licenses, disclaimers, and limitations of liability, will survive.
Third-party services
Geotic uses third-party services for features such as sign-in, maps, images, and notifications. Those services may be governed by separate terms and can change or become unavailable independently of Geotic.
Disclaimers
To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Service is provided "as is" and "as available" without warranties of uninterrupted operation, accuracy, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. Map, geozone, location, message, and profile information should not be treated as emergency, safety, navigation, or professional advice.
Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Geotic will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, loss of data, loss of access, or harm arising from user content, location inaccuracy, third-party services, or inability to use the Service. Nothing in these Terms excludes liability that cannot legally be excluded.
Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms as the Service changes. Each published version has its own permanent address and effective date, and previous versions remain available. When we require acceptance of an updated version, the app will ask you to agree before you continue. We will not treat merely continuing to use the app as explicit acceptance of a newly required version. If you decline, you can sign out or request account deletion. We will provide additional notice where required.
Contact
Questions about these Terms may be sent to support@geotic.app.