Terms & Conditions

These Terms and Conditions ("Terms") and the documents referred to in them apply to your use of the mobile application called BuddyUp Social, available for iOS devices and and/or the website located at the address https://www.buddyup.social (each known as the "Platform"). If you do not agree to these terms you should not access or view the Platform. This Platform is operated by Inværse Social ApS (company number 43499122) whose registered office is at Nordre Fasanvej 195, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark.

1. Other applicable Terms

These Terms of use also incorporate our Privacy Policy, which sets out the terms on which we process any personal data we collect about you or that you provide to us. By using this Platform, you agree to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.

2. Services

We provide an online facility through which individuals can engage in conversations and communicate with one another in private based on their topics of interest (the "Services"). From time-to-time BuddyUp Social may also make available to the users certain additional-services subject to additional charges. You undertake to comply with all applicable laws and regulations in connection with your use of the Services.

3. Our function

Our Platform is an online venue for individuals to socialise, plan events and interact in the real world over shared interests. We are not a party to any conversation or event, except for the Services and events we specifically provide to facilitate interactions. We do our best to vet users and confirming users’ identities, but we do not pre-vet any events listed on the Platform. You are responsible for vetting the events that you deal with. We shall not be obliged to engage in any dispute between the users of the Platform.

4. Highlighted Events

The events listed in this app are provided for informational purposes only. BuddyUp Social is not affiliated with, nor does it endorse or organise, any of the events featured. We do not guarantee the accuracy of the event details, including dates, locations, or availability, as these are subject to change by the event organisers. Users are encouraged to verify all event information directly with the event hosts before attending. BuddyUp Social is not responsible for any issues that may arise from attending or participating in the events listed.

5. Requirements to use the Services

To use the Services, you must register with us by completing the online registration form. To use the Service you must be, and represent and warrant that you are at least the age of majority in your state or province of residence, or that you are the age of majority in your state or province of residence. If BuddyUp Social has previously prohibited you from accessing or using the Service, you are not permitted to access or use the Service. To use the Service, you must register a BuddyUp Social account by completing the registration process. By registering an account on the Service, you agree:

  • to provide and keep the information about you and/or your organisation as requested by BuddyUp Social accurate, current and complete;

  • to maintain the confidentiality of your password and other information related to the security of your account;

  • to be fully responsible for all use of your account and for any actions that take place through your account, including responsibility for compliance with all laws and regulations that apply to you or the content you use or create in connection with the Service;

  • notify us in writing immediately if you become aware of any unauthorised use of your account;

  • to act in accordance with these Terms at all times.

6. Your account and password

If you choose, or you are provided with, a password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential. You must not disclose it to any third party and you must ensure that you log out from your account at the end of each session.

You must immediately notify us if you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your password, or that there has been any unauthorised use of your password or account or any other security breach.

We have the right to disable any password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if we have reason to suspect there has been a security breach or if in our reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these Terms.

BuddyUp Social does not allow multiple accounts on its Platform. Should BuddyUp Social have a reasonably grounded suspicion that a user has created (is using) more than one account on the Platform – it may block or delete any of the involved accounts.

BuddyUp Social may request to make certain confirmations with respect to your account for security and quality purposes.

All data collected as a result of such confirmation will be processed following our Privacy Policy, which is a part of BuddyUp Social - user contractual arrangement.

7. Content you provide, feedback and private messaging

Any content you provide to us or any contact you make with other users, whether privately or publicly, must comply with our Terms.

You warrant that any such content or contact complies with the Terms, and you will be liable to us and indemnify us for any breach of this warranty. This means you will be responsible for any loss or damage we suffer as a result of your breach of that warranty.

We will not be responsible, or liable to any third party, for the content or accuracy of any content posted by you or any other user of our Platform.

You grant us a non-exclusive, irrevocable, perpetual, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, unconditional, worldwide licence to use, copy, distribute and disclose to third parties any content you provide to us.

You undertake not to publish, upload or transmit any Content which violates the law and/or any third party's legal rights, or which is of an insulting or discriminatory nature. This applies in particular to:

  • racist content;

  • defamatory or insulting statements;

  • propaganda for unconstitutional, extremist organizations or political groups;

  • content inciting or inducing others to commit a criminal offense;

  • dissemination of content glorifying or condoning violence;

  • dissemination of content glorifying or condoning war;

  • dissemination of pornographic content, including, in particular, child pornography, or content containing unlawful sexual acts;

  • insults, calumny, and slander;

  • content that infringes any copyright, moral rights, database rights, trademark rights, design right, right in passing off, or other intellectual property rights;

  • content that infringes any right of confidentiality, right of privacy, or right under data protection regulation;

  • links to any web pages consisting of the material referred above.

Your events and communications and/or interactions with other buddies must be appropriate, civil, tasteful, and in accordance with generally accepted standards of etiquette and behavior on the internet.

You must not use our Service to link to any Service or web page consisting of or containing material that would were it posted on our Service, breach the provisions of the Terms.

You must not submit any Content to the Service that is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaints.

BuddyUp Social provides a direct user messaging functionality for the sole purpose of facilitating conversations between the users on the Platform. We will not access content of such messages unless one of the involved users grants an access right to BuddyUp Social by raising a dispute with our Customer Support or for the purposes indicated in our Privacy Policy. Please note that BuddyUp Social may use automatic scanning tools/filters in order to detect and prevent spam and/or fraud and/or any other activity contrary to applicable legal acts on the Platform. In such cases BuddyUp Social representatives will cross-check automatic-scanning/filtering results (without accessing messages) in order to determine what preventative action should be taken to ensure the security of the platform.

8. Rules for adding and hosting an event

In respect of all events you add and host on the Platform:

  1. You must ensure that such events comply with our Terms as well as our Community Rules;

  2. The event must not breach any applicable local, national or international law or regulation;

  3. You may remove an event you are host of from the Platform at any time following the correct procedure and reasoning as requested within the Platform.

In order to add an event on our Platform, you may have to undergo certain checks. This is to make sure that you are who you say you are, to maintain a high level of quality to users of our Platform and for security purposes. These checks entail, but are not limited to, checking your ID, photo, event description, etc.

9. Prohibited events or conversations

We reserve the right to determine what events and in-app conversations are and aren’t allowed on BuddyUp Social. If we discover that certain events and/or conversations violate our Terms, pose any risk to our members, infringe the rights of any third party or breach any applicable local, national or international law or regulation, we may act in any way to prevent that.

You cannot create, attend or in other ways engage in these events or conversation topics on BuddyUp Social (the list is not exhaustive and is to be considered only as a guide):

  1. Selling any kind of physical products;

  2. Escort, massage parlor or any sexual services;

  3. Lending money or anything else;

  4. Financial services;

  5. Any activity that encourages the use of drugs;

  6. Political propaganda or elicitation to violence, riots or demonstrations;

  7. Selling business and/or investment opportunities operating as “get rich quick schemes” or selling “a chance to invest”.

10. Removal, warnings, blocking, suspension and termination

We may at our option, issue warnings, suspend, block or terminate your access to this Platform and/or the Services (or any part of them) or remove any content uploaded, including without limitation, any conversation topic if:

  1. you are in breach of these Terms;

  2. you act in any manner which we consider may damage our reputation; or

  3. you use the Platform or Services in a manner which we consider to be fraudulent or contrary to law.

11. Access to this Platform and its Services and content

We do not guarantee that this Platform, or any Services or content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We reserve the right at any time and without notice to enhance, modify, alter, suspend or permanently discontinue all or any part of this Platform, or any Services or content on it, and to restrict or prohibit access to it.

12. Viruses or bugs

We do not guarantee that this Platform will be secure or free from bugs or viruses. You are responsible for configuring your information technology, programs and platform in order to access this Platform. You must not misuse this Platform by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to this Platform, the server on which this Platform is stored or any server, computer or database connected to this Platform. You must not attack this Platform via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will cooperate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use this Platform will cease immediately.

13. Liability

Nothing in these Terms limits or excludes our liability to you for:

  1. death or personal injury caused by our negligence;

  2. fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; or

  3. any other type of liability which cannot by law be excluded or limited.

We make no warranties or representations, whether express or implied that this Platform, any content and the Services on it:

  1. are accurate, complete, up-to-date or suitable for any purpose; or

  2. are free of error or omission.

To the extent permitted by law, we exclude all conditions, warranties, representations or other terms which may apply to this Platform, any content or the Services on it. We provide an online facility to introduce individuals to one another, to enable the conversation between them and to allow them to communicate with one another in private. Users of the Platform are solely responsible for conversations entered into using the Platform. We are not responsible for any action or inaction of users of the Platform or Services, or content provided by users of the Platform including, without limitation:

  1. the descriptions, videos or photos;

  2. the quality, legality or safety of the conversation topics;

  3. any user’s right to enter into a conversation.

You agree to indemnify us for any loss, liability, cost or expense for any third party claim arising from or connected to your misuse of the Platform or Services or any use that is in breach of these Terms. In respect of any dispute you may have with another user of the Platform, you agree to:

  1. waive any claim you may have against us in connection with such dispute; and

  2. indemnify us for any loss or liability we incur as a result of any claim made against us by such user or any other third party as a result of such dispute.

We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a virus, distributed denial-of-service attack, or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our Platform or Services, or to your downloading of any content on it, or on any website linked to it. We are not responsible for any third party service providers that you integrate into your account. We will not be liable for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them. BuddyUp Social, its subsidiaries and affiliated companies accept no liability to you, whether in contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise, for any damages of whatsoever kind resulting from whatever cause through your use of the Services and our Platform.

We limit our liability under this Agreement, whether such liability arises in contract, tort (including without limitation negligence) or otherwise, to a maximum of €100.

14. Third party links and resources in this Platform

Where this Platform contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources. We assume no responsibility for the content of websites linked on our Platform. Such links should not be interpreted as endorsement by us of those linked websites. We will not be liable for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

15. Events beyond our control

We shall not be in breach of these Terms nor liable for delay in performing, or failure to perform, any obligations under these Terms agreement if such delay or failure result from events, circumstances or causes beyond our reasonable control. In such circumstances we shall be entitled to a reasonable extension of the time for performing such obligations.

16. Severance

If any part of the terms contained in these Terms shall be determined by any competent authority to be invalid, unlawful or unenforceable to any extent, such term shall to that extent be severed from the remaining terms which shall continue to be valid and enforceable to the fullest extent permitted by law.

17. Entire agreement

These Terms and all documents referred to in these Terms constitute the entire agreement between us and you and supersede and extinguish all previous agreements, promises, assurances, warranties, representations and understandings between us and you, whether written or oral, relating to its subject matter. We and you agree that in entering into these Terms have relied on any statement, representation, assurance or warranty (whether made innocently or negligently) that is not set out in these Terms or any document referred to in them. Neither us nor you shall have any claim for innocent or negligent misrepresentation based on any statement in these Terms or any document referred to in them.

18. Applicable law

Please note that these Terms, their subject matter and formation, are governed by Inværse Social ApS residing country law.

19. Trademarks

BuddyUp Social the wordmark, as well as the BuddyUp Social logo are trademarks of Inværse Social ApS. Any other trademark displayed on the Platform is not owned by us or our group companies. Any use of such trademarks may be an infringement of the rights of the owner in those trademarks.

20. Changes and amendments

We may change these Terms from time to time by posting an amended version on this page in the following circumstances:

  1. to reflect changes or expected changes in relevant laws and regulatory requirements;

  2. to reflect any ruling by a court, regulator or any other similar body having authority;

  3. to make these terms clearer or fairer;

  4. to reflect changes and developments in how we operate our business;

  5. to rectify any error which we may discover at a later date; or

  6. to reflect changes in market conditions or standard industry practice.

We recommend that you check this page from time to time, as your continued use of this Platform after these Terms are amended shall mean that you agree to be bound by such changes.

21. Assignment

We may transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these Terms without notifying you or obtaining your consent. You may not transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with your rights and/or obligations under these Terms.

22. Acceptance of these Terms

You acknowledge that you have read this Agreement and agree to all its terms and conditions. By using the Platform or its Services you agree to be bound by this Agreement. If you do not agree to abide by the terms of this Agreement, you are not authorized to use or access the Platform and its Services.

23. Contact

For all support and/or legal based enquiries, you can contact our Customer Service through support@buddyup.social.

Should you (sadly) wish to delete your BuddyUp Social account, please follow the steps here.