The agreement
Terms of use
The rules of the service. They are short because the important part is short: be who you say you are, be where you say you were, and treat the people around you as people.
Awaiting legal review before the service opens to the public.
The short version
18 and over
One account per person, tied to a phone number you control, from 18 years old.
Your photographs stay yours
We get the right to host them and show them to the audience you chose, and that right ends when you delete them.
Being there is the rule
Defeating the verification check is the one breach the product treats as serious by its nature.
Every penalty can be appealed
You are told the reason, and somebody other than the decider examines the appeal.
The agreement
In short Using pvlsr means accepting this page and the privacy policy beside it.
These terms are the agreement between you and pvlsr, the publisher of the app and this site. Creating an account, or using the service without one, means accepting them and the privacy policy they sit beside. If a clause here is found unenforceable, the rest of the page stands.
Your account
In short One person, one account, one phone number you actually control.
One account per person, from 18 years old, tied to a phone number you control. You are responsible for what is published from your account, including anything published by somebody you handed your phone to. If you lose the number, write to us before it is reassigned to a stranger — a phone number is an identifier, and an identifier that changes hands is an account that changes hands.
What you publish
In short You keep ownership. We get the narrow right needed to show it to the people you chose.
You keep ownership of your photographs and your words. You grant us the right to host them, resize them and show them to the people you chose to show them to — nothing more, and that right ends when you delete them. We do not sell your photographs, license them onward, or use them in advertising for the product without asking you first, separately, for that specific picture.
Deleted content stops being served immediately and is removed from storage shortly after. Copies somebody else already saved to their own phone are beyond anyone's reach, which is true of every photograph ever shown to anybody.
Verification
In short A pvlse means somebody was there. Faking that is the breach everything else rests on.
A capture is verified when the server observes that the device was inside the venue's footprint. Trying to defeat that check — a spoofed position, a replayed photograph, a lent account — is the one breach the product treats as serious by its nature, because it is the promise everything else rests on. A capture we cannot verify is not published as verified, and a pattern of attempts ends the account.
What is not allowed
In short Harm to a person, illegal content, and anything that attacks the service itself.
The list is short and it is enforced:
- Harassing, threatening, or targeting somebody.
- Impersonating a person, a business, or a member of staff.
- Publishing illegal content, or content that puts somebody in danger.
- Photographing somebody who refused, or publishing a photograph of somebody who asked you not to.
- Extracting the service automatically, or building a copy of it out of what you extracted.
- Working around technical limits, rate limits, or a penalty already applied to you.
If you are the person in a photograph you did not agree to, report it in the app or write to the safety address. That report is handled first, before anything else in the queue.
Moderation and the right of reply
In short A penalty always comes with its reason, and is always appealable to somebody else.
Reports are handled by moderators whose authority is limited to one region. Any penalty is notified to you with its reason, and can be appealed from inside the app. An appeal is examined by somebody other than whoever decided. Urgent categories — danger to a person, illegal content, impersonation — jump the queue rather than waiting their turn.
Places, and the Circles around them
In short A place is on the map because people go there, and its Circle belongs to those people.
The map lists real places. A place appears because people go there and capture there, not because it bought a position. A venue's Circle is made of the people who actually go — it is not an audience a business owns, and it cannot be bought, transferred, or cleared. A business that wants its details corrected, or believes its place should not be listed, can write to us and a person will look at it.
A place removed from the map takes its Circle with it, because a Circle with no place is a room with no address.
The app, and the name on it
In short The software and the mark are ours; the content on top of them is yours.
The app, the website, the design, and the pvlsr name and mark belong to us. You may not copy them, decompile the app, or present a modified version of the service as ours. None of that touches your own content, which remains yours under the section above.
Availability
In short Provided as it is. Features can change, and an account that breaks these rules can be closed.
The service is provided as it is. We may change it, suspend a feature, or close an account that breaks these rules. We do not promise the service will be uninterrupted, and we do not promise a place will still be on the map tomorrow — a place closes, and so does its page.
Planned interruptions are announced in the app where there is time to announce them.
What we answer for
In short We answer for the service. We do not answer for what happens after you walk into a room.
pvlsr shows you where people are and helps you go there. What happens once you arrive is between you and the people in the room. We are not a party to it, we do not vet the people using the service beyond the checks described here, and meeting somebody through pvlsr asks the same judgement of you that any other meeting does. Nothing on this page limits liability that the law does not allow to be limited.
Ending it
In short You can leave from inside the app. We can close an account that breaks these rules.
You can delete your account at any time from inside the app, without asking us and without giving a reason. We can suspend or close an account that breaks these rules, and we tell you why when we do. Closing an account ends this agreement, except for the clauses that by their nature outlive it — the moderation record, and anything the law requires us to keep.
When these rules change
In short The date at the top moves, and a material change is announced before it applies.
These terms will change as the product does. The date at the top moves with every change. A change that materially affects what you may do, or what happens to what you publish, is announced in the app before it takes effect — and continuing to use the service after that is how the new version is accepted.
Governing law
In short Named here before launch. Whatever it says, your own consumer rights survive it.
The governing law and the competent courts are settled along with the rest of this page, before the service opens to the public, and named here once they are. Wherever you use the service from, rights your own consumer law does not allow to be signed away stay yours regardless of what this section ends up saying — which is why it can be honest about not being settled yet rather than naming a jurisdiction we might not launch in.
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