Terms of Service
1. The service
ShareCards is a community app for discovering and sharing recommendations ("cards") about local places, organized into locality communities. These terms are an agreement between you and ShareCards covering the mobile apps and the sharecardsapp.com services. By creating an account or using the service you accept them.
2. Your account
You need a verified email address, or a Google or Apple account with a verified email, to sign in. One verified email maps to one ShareCards account regardless of which sign-in method you use. You are responsible for activity on your account and for keeping access to your sign-in methods secure. You must be at least 13 years old (or the higher minimum age required where you live) to use ShareCards.
3. Your content
You keep ownership of the cards, photos, comments, and messages you post. You grant ShareCards a non-exclusive, worldwide license to host, display, and distribute that content within the service so the app can work. Post only content you have the right to share. Community cards remain editorially independent: businesses can never edit or remove community members' cards about their store.
4. Acceptable use and safety
There is no tolerance for objectionable content or abusive users. This includes harassment, hate speech, threats, sexual exploitation, explicit sexual content, and illegal material. These rules apply to text, images, profiles, comments, direct/group messages, and business/channel updates.
- No harassment, hate, spam, impersonation, or illegal content.
- No misrepresentation of a business relationship, including store claims you are not authorized to make.
- No attempts to break, probe, or overload the service.
Use the Report action on content or profiles to alert moderators. Use Block to stop contact and hide that user's cards from your feed immediately. A block also alerts moderators; it is not by itself proof that someone broke a rule. We use automated text filtering and user reports reviewed by moderators. Moderators must act on objectionable-content reports within 24 hours, remove violating content, and suspend or eject abusive accounts. Appeals and additional evidence can be sent to sharecardsdev@gmail.com.
5. Store pages and claims
Store pages describe real-world places. Claiming a store requires verification; an approved claim grants management of that store page and its broadcast channel. Ownership can be revoked when a claim was mistaken, disputed, or abused.
6. Termination
Open Profile > Settings > Delete account to initiate permanent deletion. You confirm the irreversible request in the app. Access and sessions are removed immediately; account data and associated content are then permanently removed by background processing. This is not temporary deactivation. Apple-linked accounts may require Apple verification to revoke authorization. You do not need to contact support to initiate deletion. See the Privacy Policy for limited backup and security-record retention.
7. Disclaimers
ShareCards is provided "as is" during its pilot. Recommendations are user opinions, not professional advice, and place data (including map data) may be inaccurate. To the fullest extent permitted by law, ShareCards disclaims warranties and limits its liability to the amount you paid to use the service (currently zero).
8. Changes
We may update these terms; the version and effective date above change when we do, and the app asks you to acknowledge material updates. Continued use after an update means you accept the revised terms.