Terms & Conditions

1. Acceptance of these Terms

By creating an account, accessing, or using the Service, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms and by any policies referenced in them, including our Privacy Policy.

If you do not agree to these Terms, your only remedy is to stop using the Service and, if you have an account, to request its deletion.

2. Eligibility & minimum age

You must be at least 16 years old to create an account or use the Service. The Service is not directed to children under 16, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from them.

Squova does not currently verify age at sign-up. By registering, you represent and warrant that you meet the minimum age requirement. If we learn that we have collected personal data from someone under the minimum age, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.

Squova is offered to a global audience. Some jurisdictions set a higher age of digital consent, and where your local law requires it, you must also meet that age to use the Service.

3. What Squova is

Squova is a pseudonymous peer-accountability service. You create an account under a pseudonym (not your real name) with an automatically generated avatar.

You are placed by automated matchmaking into a small squad (ordinarily up to five members). Where available, you may also take part in squads formed with people you invite.

Each day you may commit to a single short objective (your "One Big Thing", up to 140 characters) and mark it complete. When all active members of a squad complete their objective for a given day, the squad’s shared "Win Streak" increases. Missing a day does not advance the streak.

Squads include a lightweight group chat (messages up to 500 characters) and a fixed set of encouragement-only reactions. There are no public profiles, no follower counts, and no negative or downvote-style reactions.

Members who reach their stated goal may be invited to act as a mentor for a limited number of squads. Mentors are fellow users, not professional advisors.

The Service is provided for personal motivation and accountability only. It is not a recruiting, employment, financial, medical, or legal-advice service. Win Streaks, badges, and similar features are for motivation only: they have no monetary value and cannot be exchanged, redeemed, transferred, or wagered.

We may add, change, suspend, or remove features of the Service at any time.

4. Your account

You may register with an email address and password, or through a supported third-party sign-in such as Google. You are responsible for keeping your credentials confidential and for all activity that occurs under your account.

You agree to provide accurate registration information and to keep it current. Although you appear to others under a pseudonym, the details you provide to us must be truthful.

One account per person. You may not maintain multiple accounts to obtain additional squad placements or to circumvent restrictions, except where we expressly permit it (for example, the limited multi-squad allowance for mentors).

Notify us promptly of any unauthorized use of your account. We are not liable for losses arising from your failure to safeguard your credentials.

5. Acceptable use & conduct

Squova is built for encouragement, not criticism. Treat your squad-mates with respect. You agree that you will not:

• harass, bully, threaten, demean, or discriminate against any user;
• impersonate any person or misrepresent your affiliation with anyone;
• attempt to identify, de-anonymize, or expose the real-world identity of another user, or solicit other users’ personal information;
• post content that is unlawful, hateful, sexually explicit, violent, deceptive, or that infringes the rights of others;
• use the Service to advertise, spam, recruit, or solicit;
• manipulate, falsify, automate, or otherwise cheat objectives, completions, streaks, reactions, or mentor status;
• probe, scan, overload, reverse-engineer, scrape, or interfere with the Service or its security, or exploit any bug instead of reporting it to us;
• access the Service through unauthorized automated means.

We may investigate suspected violations and take action — including removing content, resetting a streak, removing you from a squad, or suspending or terminating your account — with or without notice.

6. Your content & the license you grant

"User Content" means anything you submit through the Service, including your pseudonym, objective descriptions, chat messages, reactions, and any goal or profile details you choose to enter.

You keep ownership of your User Content. You grant Squova a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable license to host, store, reproduce, display, transmit, and adapt your User Content solely to operate, maintain, secure, and improve the Service — for example, to deliver your messages to your squad.

This license ends when your User Content is deleted from the Service, except: (a) where it has already been shared with others, such as messages your squad-mates have received; (b) where we must retain it to comply with law; and (c) for reasonable backup copies that are routinely overwritten.

You are solely responsible for your User Content, and you represent that you have the rights to submit it and that it does not violate these Terms or any law. We do not pre-screen User Content and have no obligation to monitor it, but we may remove or restrict any content at our discretion.

7. Squads & interactions between users

Squova matches you with other users but does not vet, verify, or run background checks on them. We do not control, and are not responsible for, the conduct, content, advice, or reliability of any user.

Interactions with squad-mates and mentors are at your own risk. Anything another user shares is peer opinion, not professional advice, and you should not rely on it as such.

The Service does not currently provide in-app reporting, blocking, or muting tools. If you experience abuse or have a safety concern, please contact us at the address below; you can also leave or change squads at any time. We may add moderation tools in the future but are not obligated to.

8. Privacy & your data

Your use of the Service is also governed by our Privacy Policy, which is a separate document and is incorporated into these Terms by reference.

In summary, we process your account data (such as your email address and authentication identifiers), your pseudonymous profile (pseudonym, generated avatar, time zone, focus area, and chosen goal), and the content and activity you create in the Service. We rely on third-party providers — including our hosting, database, and authentication provider and our avatar-generation provider — to run the Service. We do not sell your personal data. For full details, including retention periods and your rights, see the Privacy Policy.

9. Third-party services

The Service relies on third parties (for example, cloud hosting, database and authentication, avatar generation, and, where applicable, a donation platform) and may link to third-party websites. We are not responsible for third-party services or their content, and your use of them is governed by their own terms.

10. Intellectual property

The Service — including the Squova name, logo, branding, design, text, graphics, and software — is owned by the Operator or its licensors and is protected by intellectual-property laws. Except for your User Content, all rights are reserved.

We grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use the Service for its intended purpose. You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, or create derivative works from any part of the Service without our prior written permission.

11. Donations & future paid features

The Service is free to use. We do not currently collect any payments for access to the Service.

We may invite voluntary donations to help support the Service through a third-party platform (for example, Buy Me a Coffee, Ko-fi, or GitHub Sponsors). Any such donation is made to, and processed entirely by, that third-party platform under its own terms. We do not collect or store your payment-card details, and the platform — not Squova — is responsible for payment processing, taxes, and related compliance.

• donations are voluntary and are not a purchase of the Service or of any feature;
• donations are non-refundable, except where the processing platform’s terms or applicable law require otherwise;
• making a donation does not entitle you to any specific feature, content, priority support, or any guaranteed level, availability, or continuity of the Service; and
• if we ever offer a donation-related perk, we do not guarantee that it will continue to be available.

We may introduce paid plans or subscriptions in the future. If we do, we will present the applicable pricing and terms (including any auto-renewal, cancellation, and refund terms) before you purchase, and those arrangements will be governed by the terms provided at that time.

12. Disclaimer of warranties

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE", WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, secure, error-free, or that it will produce any particular result. Squova makes no guarantee regarding any career, employment, financial, or personal outcome; you are responsible for your own decisions and actions. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain warranty exclusions, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

13. Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE OPERATOR AND ANYONE INVOLVED IN PROVIDING THE SERVICE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, DATA, GOODWILL, OR OPPORTUNITY, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO YOUR USE OF (OR INABILITY TO USE) THE SERVICE, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS RELATING TO THE SERVICE WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE TOTAL AMOUNTS YOU PAID US IN THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR (B) USD 50 (OR ITS EQUIVALENT). Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so parts of this section may not fully apply to you.

14. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the Operator and anyone involved in providing the Service from and against any claims, damages, losses, liabilities, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or related to your User Content, your use of the Service, your violation of these Terms, or your violation of any law or third-party right.

15. Termination

You may stop using the Service at any time. You can leave a squad from within the app, and you may request deletion of your account and associated personal data by contacting us. When an account is deleted, its profile, squad memberships, objectives, messages, reactions, and notifications are removed; aggregate, squad-level streak history that is not personal to you may be retained.

We may suspend or terminate your access at any time, with or without notice, if you violate these Terms, if required by law, or to protect the Service or other users.

On termination, your right to use the Service ends. Provisions that by their nature should survive — including the content license for already-shared content, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnification, and governing law — will survive.

16. Governing law & disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of [operator’s home jurisdiction], without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Because Squova is operated by an individual rather than a registered entity and is offered to a global audience, this is the default governing law and is not tied to any particular country’s market. [PLACEHOLDER — replace [operator’s home jurisdiction] with the chosen governing law, and confirm the venue for disputes, before launch; revisit if a business entity is later registered in another jurisdiction.]

If you access the Service from the EU, the UK, the US, or elsewhere, additional or different mandatory rules may apply. Nothing in these Terms removes consumer rights that you cannot waive under the mandatory law of your country of residence.

17. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. When we do, we will revise the "Last updated" date shown above and, for material changes, give reasonable notice (for example, in the app or by email). Your continued use of the Service after the changes take effect means you accept the updated Terms.

18. Contact us

Questions about these Terms? Contact us at support@squova.com. Squova is currently operated by an individual rather than a registered company; the operating entity, registered address, and contact details will be updated here if that changes.