Terms and Conditions

1. Scope and Acceptance

This user agreement and terms and conditions (the "Terms") form a legally binding agreement between you and NOTA SOCIAL NETWORK PTY LTD, trading as NO'TA ("NO'TA," "we," "us," or "our") for your access to and use of all NO'TA services, including our apps, websites, landing pages, public pages, communities, topics, public-context conversations, directories, reviews, offers, recipes, food-catalogue features, notifications, moderation tools, opt-in AI feedback features, app extensions, home-screen widgets, and any related software, content, features, or services (collectively, the "Services").

By creating an account, browsing as a guest, accessing a NO'TA page, or otherwise using the Services, you agree to these Terms and any policies, community rules, commercial-feature rules, feature notices, or other supplemental terms we present for particular features ("Additional Terms"). If Additional Terms conflict with these Terms, the Additional Terms control for the specific feature to which they apply.

Some NO'TA surfaces are public-facing and some are invite-gated, feature-limited, or release-phase dependent. Availability may vary by country, app-store rollout, beta status, device, language support, or moderation/access decisions.

2. Eligibility and Account Requirements

You may use the Services only if:

• you are at least 16 years old, or older if the law where you live requires a higher age to use the Services;
• you can lawfully enter into a binding agreement with NO'TA;
• you are not prohibited from using the Services under applicable law, sanctions, or platform restrictions;
• you have not been permanently banned or removed from the Services, unless we expressly permit your return; and
• all registration information you provide is accurate, current, and not misleading.

If you use the Services on behalf of a company, organization, community, or other legal entity, you represent that you have authority to bind that entity to these Terms.

We may require email verification, invite codes, waitlists, identity or business verification, profile completion, age information, or other eligibility checks for some features, regions, or account states. Some features may still have their own age or eligibility limits based on local law or safety policy.

2.1 Age assurance and Didit

Where an age check is required, the standard flow is provided by Didit and may involve a government-issued identity document, extracted date-of-birth information, a selfie or liveness capture, biometric-derived information, automated checks, and authorized human review. Didit's verification privacy notice and end-user terms also apply to that flow. NO'TA's handling of the result remains governed by our Privacy Policy.

You must use your own accurate information and must not submit another person's document, falsify an age signal, interfere with liveness or fraud controls, or otherwise circumvent an age requirement. Verification may be approved, declined, placed in review, require resubmission, expire, or remain incomplete. Access may remain limited until the applicable minimum-age requirement is satisfied.

Government-issued identification is not the only route where applicable law requires a reasonable alternative. You may request a non-ID review in the app. NO'TA may ask for another proportionate age signal, and an authorized operator will record the method and reason for any approval. You may also use that path to challenge an inaccurate result. Refusing all available age-assurance methods may mean that NO'TA cannot provide or continue the account.

3. Privacy, Public Areas, and Identity Controls

Your use of the Services is also subject to our published Privacy Policy. You acknowledge that NO'TA includes both public and privacy-aware experiences. Some information and content may be visible to other users, moderators, authorized operators, search tooling, or the public depending on the surface, the feature, and your settings.

NO'TA currently includes profile privacy controls, username and real-name presentation controls, public communities/topics, public-context conversations, public reviews, public reflections, and content discovery/search. You are responsible for understanding where you are posting and what visibility model applies before you submit content.

App extensions, home-screen widgets, launcher shortcuts, and operating-system share surfaces may show or use limited account or topic context on your device. You are responsible for the device environment where you install or enable those surfaces.

If you opt in to Monthly Insight or a similar AI feedback feature, you authorize NO'TA to use eligible activity from your account, including excerpts from your own No'tas, replies, public-context messages, source counts, and limited non-body context such as a parent title or topic, to generate a private summary for you. Another user's reply or message body is not sent to the AI provider for this feature. Provider-side Responses application-state storage is disabled, although limited provider abuse-monitoring logs may be retained for up to 30 days unless a different approved data control applies. The summary is not public, is not a reputation score, and does not by itself determine moderation, access, or enforcement outcomes.

In particular:

• content posted to public areas can be viewed, copied, quoted, translated, shared, moderated, and archived by others;
• NO'TA public-context conversation features are not confidential messaging channels unless explicitly labeled otherwise;
• private-profile mode or other privacy settings may limit interaction, following, or messaging, but no system is guaranteed to be perfect or breach-free; and
• you should never share passwords, government IDs, financial account details, medical secrets, or other sensitive information through public or semi-public NO'TA surfaces.

4. Accounts, Guest Access, and Security

Some parts of the Services are available to guests, but full participation may require an account. Guest access can be limited or removed at any time. When you create or use an account, you are responsible for all activity occurring through that account and for maintaining the confidentiality of your credentials.

You agree to:

• use a secure password or passkey and keep login details, authenticator codes, and recovery access confidential;
• promptly notify us at support@no-ta.app if you suspect unauthorized access;
• not share, sell, rent, transfer, or loan your account or access credentials without our written permission;
• not create accounts by automated means or by bypassing onboarding, invite, age-gate, CAPTCHA, or moderation controls; and
• keep your email and any required account details up to date.

Certain NO'TA account attributes, such as usernames, may be treated as permanent or tightly restricted once set. We are not required to change, reissue, or free up usernames, handles, verification states, or community ownership roles.

NO'TA may use email verification, passkeys, two-factor authentication, social sign-in, CAPTCHA, invite checks, age-gate checks, device signals, login telemetry, and rate limits to protect accounts, verify eligibility, and reduce abuse. You must not bypass, disable, or misrepresent information used by those controls.

5. Limited License and Acceptable Use

Subject to your ongoing compliance with these Terms, NO'TA grants you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use the Services for their intended purposes. We reserve all rights not expressly granted to you.

You must not, and must not attempt to, do any of the following:

• use the Services for unlawful, deceptive, fraudulent, defamatory, infringing, or abusive purposes;
• post or transmit hate speech, credible threats, targeted harassment, incitement to violence, child sexual abuse material, sexual exploitation, terrorist content, or non-consensual intimate imagery;
• doxx, expose, solicit, or publish another person's personal data, contact details, location, or identifying information without a valid legal basis and the person's authorization;
• spam, astroturf, manipulate votes or reports, game reputation signals, farm engagement, or create fake activity;
• circumvent bans, blocks, rate limits, community rules, moderation restrictions, commercial restrictions, age gates, CAPTCHA, device restrictions, or invite gates;
• impersonate another person or entity, misrepresent affiliation, or fake verification, business status, or community authority;
• upload malware, conduct security testing without authorization, scrape the Services at scale, or interfere with platform integrity or availability;
• copy, modify, reverse engineer, decompile, derive source code from, or create competing services from the Services except to the extent non-waivable law permits;
• use NO'TA content, data, or metadata to train, fine-tune, benchmark, or evaluate machine-learning or AI models at scale without our prior written permission;
• commercially exploit the Services or NO'TA content without our written permission, except through features or programs we expressly allow; or
• use the Services in a way that violates app-store rules, third-party terms, export controls, sanctions, or any applicable law.

6. Your Content and Rights You Grant to NO'TA

You retain ownership of the content you submit, upload, publish, send, or otherwise make available through the Services ("Your Content"), subject to the rights you grant in these Terms and any rights others may have under applicable law.

By making Your Content available through the Services, you grant NO'TA a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, transferable license to host, store, cache, reproduce, adapt, format, translate, localize, excerpt, communicate, publish, display, distribute, moderate, analyze, and otherwise use Your Content as needed to operate, secure, improve, promote, and provide the Services. This includes showing content in feeds, communities, search, recommendations, public pages, notifications, safety tools, moderation workflows, and authorized support operations.

The license above continues for so long as necessary to operate the Services and handle backups, legal compliance, abuse prevention, disputes, or content already shared in public or community areas, even after you delete Your Content or your account where retention is permitted or required by law.

Deleting your account does not automatically delete contributions that form part of a shared discussion, public directory, or recipient-visible conversation. When deletion is requested, otherwise-visible posts, comments, answers, directory contributions, Path Notes, and conversation history may remain. NO'TA hides the account profile and immediately replaces its username, name, avatar, and profile link on retained items with "User not available." Recovering within the recovery period restores the current public snapshots; permanent purge removes the original account identity. Content that you wrote or uploaded may still identify you from its substance, so remove identifying content before deleting your account or contact us to request content-specific removal where applicable.

You represent and warrant that:

• you have all rights, permissions, and lawful bases needed to submit Your Content;
• Your Content does not infringe, misappropriate, or violate any third-party rights;
• Your Content complies with these Terms, community rules, and applicable law; and
• if Your Content includes another person's likeness, voice, name, business details, place data, or personal information, you had the right to use it in that way.

To the extent permitted by law, you also agree not to assert moral rights or similar rights against NO'TA or our users for ordinary platform operations such as formatting, translation, excerpting, moderation, ranking, or feed presentation.

7. Communities, Topics, Messaging, and Public Interaction

NO'TA is a community-driven platform. Communities, topics, comment threads, public-context conversations, reviews, reflections, and similar participation surfaces may carry their own rules, norms, or moderator expectations in addition to these Terms.

If you create or manage a community, topic, offer surface, or moderation role, you must use that role responsibly and lawfully. Moderator and community-owner privileges are granted by NO'TA on a revocable basis. We may limit, suspend, or remove those privileges at any time.

Messaging and contextual "message about this" features in NO'TA may attach to public posts, replies, reflections, reviews, or other content. Unless a feature is clearly labeled private, you should assume related conversations and metadata can be visible to recipients, participants, moderators, authorized operators, and operational tools. Do not rely on NO'TA public-context conversations for secrecy, legal notice, medical communications, emergency response, or professional advice.

Profile privacy, follow controls, name-display options, blocking, and related settings are product features, not absolute guarantees. Other users may still retain copies, screenshots, quotes, or cached versions of content that was previously visible to them.

8. Reputation, Ranking, Safety Systems, and Enforcement

NO'TA uses reputation, ranking, moderation, and anti-abuse systems to help govern participation. Reputation may be based on factors such as activity quality, constructive participation, valid reports, blocks, moderation outcomes, inactivity, and other platform signals. Reputation can affect visibility, access, or eligibility for certain features.

Reputation scores, trust levels, verification states, community roles, rankings, search positions, recommendations, counts, followers, badges, or access privileges are not property, are not bankable assets, are not social-credit or credit-scoring services, and may be recalculated, corrected, reduced, or removed at any time.

We may use automated and manual systems, including keyword rules, AI-assisted moderation, rate limits, CAPTCHA, device and login signals, and report/case workflows, to detect spam, contact-information exposure, harmful behavior, suspicious activity, rule circumvention, or other policy violations. Enforcement may include content removal, downranking, feature limitation, warning, report outcome changes, commercial restriction, community removal, visibility reduction, shadow restriction, temporary suspension, permanent suspension, or referral to law enforcement where legally appropriate.

If you believe an enforcement action, moderation decision, or age-assurance outcome was made in error, you may contact support@no-ta.app or use any available in-product appeal or reporting path. We are not required to restore content or accounts, but we may review good-faith appeals.

Monthly Insight and similar AI feedback features are private coaching tools. They may use automated model output to summarize patterns in your activity, but they are not professional advice, mental-health advice, legal advice, or a final judgment about you. They may be incomplete, inaccurate, delayed, unavailable, or later changed. You should not rely on AI feedback as the sole basis for important decisions.

9. Directory, Reviews, Offers, and Location Data

NO'TA may include local directory features, place pages, maps, reviews, ratings, offers, sponsored content, or deal-related surfaces where enabled. These features may rely on user submissions, third-party location data, operator-supplied data, or platform operations. Place, business, and offer information may be incomplete, outdated, biased, or inaccurate.

Reviews, offers, and similar commercial or semi-commercial content are generally provided by users, businesses, sponsors, or authorized operators. Unless we expressly say otherwise, NO'TA is not the merchant, broker, employer, booking agent, or contracting party for any off-platform transaction, delivery, service, reservation, or marketplace arrangement.

If we label an account or user as a verified business, moderator, or official platform role, that label means only that we completed whatever limited checks we chose for the relevant program at the relevant time. It is not a guarantee of identity, legitimacy, solvency, licensing, product quality, safety, or future conduct.

If you post location data, place details, offers, prices, promotions, or business information, you are responsible for ensuring it is accurate, lawful, and not misleading. Map, routing, and geolocation outputs may be approximate and should not be used where precision or safety-critical navigation is required.

10. Journeys, Diary, Recipes, Reflections, and Informational Content

NO'TA may include journaling, reflections, public or private diary entries, journeys, milestones, recipes, ingredient lists, preparation steps, food-catalogue references, comparisons, and similar self-tracking, narrative, or informational features. These features are provided for personal, social, and informational use only.

NO'TA is not a healthcare provider, therapist, crisis service, financial adviser, or legal adviser. Content created by users in journeys, reflections, recipes, communities, messages, or reviews is not professional advice and should not be treated as diagnosis, treatment, counseling, dietary guidance, allergen guidance, emergency guidance, or a substitute for professional services.

Recipes, ingredient catalogues, food icons, quantities, timings, and preparation steps may be incomplete, user-submitted, approximate, or based on reviewed source datasets. You are responsible for food safety, allergen checks, suitability for dietary or medical needs, and compliance with any rules that apply to food handling, selling, or promotion.

If you choose to make reflections or related content public, those items may become visible to other users, moderators, authorized operations staff, or search features. You are responsible for deciding whether a reflection, journey entry, or milestone should remain private or be shared publicly.

11. Ads, Sponsored Content, and Commercial Use

Core use of NO'TA may be free, and the Services may include ads, sponsored posts, promoted offers, affiliate placements, or other commercial content. We may display, rank, or target commercial content using contextual, language, location, preference, or product signals as permitted by applicable law and our privacy disclosures.

NO'TA does not guarantee advertiser claims, sponsor offers, or third-party landing pages. Your dealings with advertisers, sponsors, or businesses are between you and that third party unless we expressly state otherwise.

If you advertise, sponsor content, sell, or use any future business, merchant, API, or monetization program through NO'TA, additional business terms may apply.

12. NO'TA Property, Trademarks, and Feedback

The Services, including our software, design, names, branding, trademarks, graphics, feed structures, moderation systems, reputation systems, and other platform elements, are owned by NO'TA or our licensors and are protected by applicable intellectual-property and unfair-competition laws.

Except for the limited access license in these Terms, you receive no ownership or other rights in the Services. You may not use NO'TA names, logos, product marks, or branding in a way that suggests endorsement, affiliation, or partnership without our prior written permission.

If you send us suggestions, ideas, bug reports, feature requests, or other feedback, you grant us a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free right to use that feedback without restriction or payment.

For copyright, trademark, impersonation, or other rights complaints, contact legal@no-ta.app with sufficient detail for us to review the issue.

13. Third-Party Services and App Stores

NO'TA may depend on or integrate with third-party services, including app stores, hosting providers, cloud/CDN/media storage providers, maps/location services, CAPTCHA providers, AI moderation and feedback providers, age-assurance providers such as Didit, push-notification providers, social sign-in providers, email providers, analytics and crash-reporting tools, advertising providers, translation providers, and links to external sites or businesses. Those third-party services may also be governed by their own terms and privacy policies. This does not remove NO'TA's responsibility for selecting, instructing, and monitoring processors acting on our behalf.

We are not responsible for third-party services, websites, apps, content, policies, availability, or security. If you access a third-party site or service from NO'TA, you do so at your own risk.

If you download the NO'TA app from Apple, Google, or another app marketplace, that marketplace is not a party to these Terms, does not provide the Services, and has no maintenance, support, or warranty obligations except as required by its own platform rules or applicable law.

14. Service Changes, Availability, and Beta Features

We may modify, add, remove, suspend, or discontinue any part of the Services at any time. This includes communities, topics, commercial features, messaging features, invite gates, moderation features, public pages, diaries, recipes, food-catalogue entries, AI feedback features, app extensions, widgets, translations, rankings, or experimental flows. Features may differ across languages, devices, regions, builds, or release phases.

We may also perform maintenance, require minimum app versions, restrict access during incidents, or temporarily disable specific features to protect users, investigate abuse, address legal issues, or keep the Services operational.

Any beta, preview, test, or experimental feature is provided on an "as available" basis and may be unreliable, incomplete, or later withdrawn without compensation.

15. Suspension, Deletion, and Termination

You may stop using the Services at any time. If account deletion is available, you may request deletion through the product flow or by contacting support where applicable.

NO'TA may warn, limit, suspend, or terminate your account or access, or remove or restrict content, at any time if we believe it is necessary to enforce these Terms, comply with law, protect users, investigate misuse, respond to legal process, handle security incidents, address platform risk, or manage operational integrity. Where required by applicable law, we will provide notice and reasons when reasonably possible.

NO'TA's current account-deletion architecture includes a recovery window of up to 30 days before permanent purge. During that period, the profile is unavailable to other users and otherwise-visible shared contributions display "User not available"; successful recovery restores the current public identity snapshots. At permanent purge, private and account-only state is removed subject to limited legal or safety retention, and retained shared contributions stay detached from the deleted profile.

Termination or deletion does not automatically erase all public traces of Your Content that were already reposted, quoted, cached, archived, or actioned by others, nor does it erase logs or records we may keep where lawful.

16. Disclaimers

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Services are provided "as is" and "as available." NO'TA disclaims all warranties, representations, and conditions, express, implied, statutory, or otherwise, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, availability, security, accuracy, quality, or quiet enjoyment.

In particular, and without limitation, we do not guarantee that:

• the Services will always be available, uninterrupted, timely, or error-free;
• translations, rankings, recommendations, Monthly Insight summaries, moderation outcomes, or reputation outputs will be accurate or fair in every case;
• user-generated content is truthful, lawful, safe, or reliable;
• communities, businesses, offers, reviews, messages, place data, or public profiles are authentic or trustworthy; or
• the Services will prevent all harmful content, impersonation, spam, scraping, or unauthorized access.

17. Limitation of Liability

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law, including non-waivable consumer guarantees, rights, remedies, or liability for fraud, willful misconduct, gross negligence, death, or personal injury to the extent such exclusions are prohibited.

Subject to that sentence, to the fullest extent permitted by law, NO'TA and our affiliates, licensors, service providers, moderators, contractors, and distribution partners will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost goodwill, lost data, business interruption, or loss of opportunity arising out of or related to the Services or these Terms, even if we were advised of the possibility of those damages.

Subject again to mandatory law, NO'TA's aggregate liability for all claims arising out of or relating to the Services or these Terms will not exceed the greater of: (a) the amount you paid NO'TA, if any, in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim; or (b) USD $100 (or the equivalent in local currency).

18. Indemnity

To the fullest extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless NO'TA and our affiliates, officers, employees, contractors, licensors, and service providers from and against claims, losses, liabilities, damages, judgments, costs, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising from or related to:

• Your Content;
• your use of the Services;
• your breach of these Terms, Additional Terms, or applicable law; or
• your infringement of any person or entity's rights.

If mandatory law in your jurisdiction limits indemnity obligations for consumers, this section applies only to the extent permitted by that law.

19. Regional Consumer and Legal Rights

19.1 EEA, United Kingdom, and Switzerland

If you are a consumer in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, you keep all mandatory consumer rights granted by the law of your place of residence. Any limitation, exclusion, forum-selection, or unilateral-termination right in these Terms applies only to the extent permitted by those laws. Where required, we will provide legally required information about material restrictions or account decisions and offer any appeal or complaint path required by law.

19.2 Australia and New Zealand

If you are in Australia or New Zealand, nothing in these Terms excludes, restricts, or modifies any non-excludable rights or remedies you may have under the Australian Consumer Law, the New Zealand Consumer Guarantees Act, Fair Trading laws, or similar mandatory legislation.

19.3 Brazil, Canada, and Other Mandatory Consumer-Law Jurisdictions

If you are in a jurisdiction with mandatory consumer-protection or civil-code rights, including Brazil, Canada, Quebec, or similar regimes, these Terms must be read subject to those rights. Any disclaimer, limitation, indemnity, governing-law, or jurisdiction clause applies only to the maximum extent allowed by the law that applies to you.

19.4 No Waiver of Mandatory Privacy, Accessibility, or Platform Rights

Nothing in these Terms waives any non-waivable rights you may have under privacy, accessibility, digital platform, online safety, content-regulation, anti-discrimination, employment, or competition laws that apply to your use of the Services.

20. Governing Law and Disputes

Before starting formal legal proceedings, you and NO'TA agree to try to resolve disputes informally in good faith by contacting support@no-ta.app and allowing a reasonable period to review the issue.

If you are a consumer and the law where you live gives you the right to bring claims in your local courts or under your local law, those rights remain unaffected.

Otherwise, and except where mandatory law says a different rule must apply, these Terms and any dispute arising out of or relating to them or the Services will be governed by the laws of the Australian state or territory where NOTA SOCIAL NETWORK PTY LTD has its registered office, without regard to conflict-of-law rules, and the courts located there will have exclusive jurisdiction.

21. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. If we make material changes, we may post the updated Terms, update the last-updated date, and provide notice through the Services, by email, or by another reasonable method where required by law.

Changes will not apply retroactively unless the law allows it and the change is clearly stated that way. By continuing to use the Services after updated Terms become effective, you agree to the updated Terms. If you do not agree, you must stop using the Services before the updated Terms take effect.

22. Miscellaneous

• Entire agreement. These Terms, together with any Additional Terms and incorporated policies, form the entire agreement between you and NO'TA regarding the Services.
• Severability. If any provision is held invalid or unenforceable, the remainder of the Terms stays in effect and the invalid provision will be enforced to the maximum extent allowed.
• No waiver. A failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of any right.
• Assignment. You may not assign or transfer these Terms without our consent. We may assign these Terms as part of a merger, acquisition, restructuring, sale of assets, or by operation of law.
• Electronic communications. You consent to receive notices, disclosures, and records from us electronically where permitted by law.
• Language. We may provide translations of these Terms for convenience. To the extent permitted by law, the English version controls if there is a conflict, unless local law requires a different result.

23. Contact

For questions or requests related to these Terms, contact the address that matches your issue:

• General support and moderation appeals: support@no-ta.app
• Privacy or data-rights requests: privacy@no-ta.app
• Legal notices, rights complaints, or law-enforcement requests: legal@no-ta.app

If NO'TA later designates a separate legal notice address, entity, or policy endpoint through the Services or website, that designation will supplement this contact section.