Terms of Service

1. Who we are and these terms

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern your use of the IDarU app and website (the “service”). The service is provided by ⚠️ controller identification not yet published — missing, required by Article 13 GDPR (“IDarU”, “we”). Contact: legal@idaru.app.

By creating an account and ticking the acceptance box, you agree to these Terms. The Privacy Policy explains how we handle your data, the EULA covers the licence for the app software and the Copyright policy explains how to report infringements. Please read them too.

If you use the service as a consumer, nothing in these Terms takes away the rights you have under the mandatory consumer protection law of the country where you live.

2. The service

IDarU lets you create private challenges between friends, log check-ins, take proof photos that friends verify or call out, talk in each challenge’s chat (text, GIFs, photos, voice notes and reactions), nudge friends, follow streaks, a leaderboard and a crew map, earn trophies and — if you choose — share challenges on a public Feed, turn on a public profile and share images of your results and trophies.

The service is free and funded by ads. Some extras, such as more chat messages than the daily allowance, can be unlocked by watching a rewarded ad.

We may change, add or remove features to improve the service, or for security or legal reasons. If a change significantly and negatively affects your use, we tell you in advance whenever reasonably possible.

3. Eligibility and age

You must be at least 13 years old to use IDarU. When you create an account, you confirm that you meet this age.

If you are under 16 and the law of your country requires a parent’s consent for online services at your age, you may only use IDarU with the permission of a parent or legal guardian, who accepts these Terms on your behalf and is responsible for your use. In Portugal, the age from which you can consent on your own is 13.

You may not use IDarU if we have previously banned you or if the law forbids you from using it.

4. Your account

One person, one account. Keep your login details safe and tell us at legal@idaru.app if you think someone has accessed your account. You are responsible for activity on your account, unless it happened without any fault on your part.

Usernames and display names must not impersonate anyone, mislead about who you are or contain offensive language. An automatic filter checks names and messages; it does not replace your own responsibility. Keep your account information accurate.

5. Community rules

IDarU works because it is a place where friends push each other, not hurt each other. These rules apply everywhere in the service: challenges and goals, check-ins, proof photos, votes and “Nice try” reasons, chat messages, GIFs, photos, voice notes, reactions, nudges, profiles (including bio and motto) and Feed posts.

Call out fakes, not people. “Nice try” exists for proofs that don’t hold up — not to mock, shame or gang up on someone. Abusive reasons, coordinated voting against one person and repeated nudges to pressure or annoy someone count as harassment.

You must not post or send: nudity, sexual or sexually suggestive content; harassment, bullying, threats, intimidation or stalking; hate speech or discrimination against people or groups; graphic violence or incitement to violence; content that encourages self-harm, eating disorders or dangerous challenges; illegal content or content that promotes illegal activities (drugs, weapons, fraud); anything that sexualises or exploits minors; impersonation of another person or organisation; spam, scams, advertising or chain messages; photos or recordings of other people without their consent — or, for children, without their parents’ consent — or other people’s personal information; or content that infringes copyright or other people’s rights.

You must also not: try to access other people’s accounts or challenges; get around message limits, ads, rate limits or other technical protections; use bots, scrapers or other automated means; or interfere with the service or its security.

Child sexual abuse material and credible threats to someone’s life or safety are reported to the authorities, as the law requires.

Breaking these rules can lead to removal of the content, restriction of features, or suspension or deletion of the account — immediately and without warning for serious violations (see section 8).

6. Proofs, votes and the honour system

You log your own progress. Proof photos are judged by the other members of the challenge, not by us: a proof counts unless enough members call it out with “Nice try” (at least half of the other members, with more call-outs than verifications, within 48 hours). A rejected proof stops counting for that day and can end a streak.

Votes are a social tool between friends, not an official verification. We do not review or overturn them, except when a vote or a reason breaks the community rules. Proof photos must be real, recent and your own; editing or reusing photos to cheat breaks these Terms.

Because results depend on self-reporting and friends’ votes, streaks, leaderboards and trophies are not certified records and do not prove anything outside IDarU.

7. Your content and the licence you give us

“Your content” is everything you create in the service: challenges and goals, check-ins, proof photos, votes and reasons, chat messages, GIFs you send, photos, voice notes, reactions, nudges, profile photo, name, bio, motto and Feed posts.

Your content remains yours. You give us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide licence to host, store, copy, process, technically adapt (for example, resize or compress) and display your content only to the people it is meant for — the approved members of the challenge and, for posts you choose to share, Feed users and, if you turn on your public profile, anyone who visits it — and only to operate, secure and improve the service. We do not use your photos or voice notes in advertising. The licence ends when you or we delete the content or your account, except for copies we must keep by law or to handle a pending report.

You are responsible for your content and must have the right to post it, including the consent of anyone who appears in your photos or can be heard in your voice notes.

Other users’ content is their responsibility. We do not check it before it is posted and we do not endorse it.

8. Reporting, blocking and moderation

You can report any content or account: long-press a chat message, GIF, photo or voice note; use “Report photo” under a proof; or report from a member’s profile or a Feed post. You can block any user: you stop seeing their messages and they can no longer vote on your proofs; you can undo it in Settings → Legal → Blocked users.

Anyone, including people without an account, can report illegal content by email to abuse@idaru.app (notice and action, Article 16 of the Digital Services Act). Please explain why you think it is illegal and where it is, and give your name and email (not required for reports of child sexual abuse material).

We confirm receipt of reports, review them within 24 hours and act on content that is illegal or breaks these Terms: we remove it, restrict features, or suspend or delete the account. Decisions are taken by people; our only automated tool is the language filter.

When we remove your content or restrict your account, we tell you what we did, which rule or law applies, whether automated means were used and how to contest the decision (statement of reasons, Article 17 DSA) — unless the content was spam or the law prevents us from telling you.

Internal complaints: you can contest a decision — or our decision not to act on your report — within 6 months, by replying to our email or writing to abuse@idaru.app. A person who was not involved in the original decision reviews it and replies, normally within 7 days. You can also turn to an out-of-court dispute settlement body certified under the DSA, or to the courts.

We may suspend, for a reasonable period and after a warning, anyone who frequently posts manifestly illegal content or frequently submits manifestly unfounded reports.

9. Health and safety

Challenges in IDarU are defined by users, not by us. IDarU does not give medical, fitness, nutritional, psychological or addiction advice, and nothing in the app — including templates, suggestions, streaks or messages from friends — is professional advice.

Before a challenge that involves physical effort, diets or fasting, cold exposure, quitting smoking, alcohol or other substances, or anything similar, talk to a doctor or a qualified professional — especially if you have a health condition, are pregnant, take medication or are under 18. Stopping some substances suddenly (for example alcohol after heavy use) can be dangerous without medical support.

Listen to your body. Stop immediately and get help if you feel pain, dizziness, shortness of breath or are otherwise unwell. No streak is worth your health. Never pressure anyone to carry on when they are unwell, and never create or encourage challenges that are dangerous or illegal or that could hurt you or others.

You take part in challenges voluntarily and at your own risk. To the extent permitted by law, we are not responsible for injuries or damage resulting from activities you choose to do; this does not limit our liability in the cases set out in section 15.

In an emergency, call 112 (in the EU) or your local emergency number.

10. No gambling or betting

IDarU is not a gambling or betting service. We do not take, hold or pay out money, bets, stakes or prizes, and there is no way to place a wager in the app.

Any bet or side deal between friends about a challenge happens outside IDarU, under your own responsibility, and is not endorsed by us. Do not use the chat or the Feed to organise gambling or collect money.

11. Streaks, trophies, credits and ads

Streaks, trophies, leaderboard places, Feed likes and message credits are features of the game. They have no monetary value, cannot be bought, sold, transferred or exchanged for money or anything else, and may be reset or adjusted when we fix errors, detect abuse or change the feature. A streak freeze can forgive one missed day per period, as shown in the app; like the rest, it is a game feature, not an entitlement.

The app shows ads (Google AdMob), limited to content suitable for ages 13 and over. In the EU, personalised ads only with your consent; on iOS, in every country, only if you also allow tracking in Apple’s prompt. You can change your choice in Settings → Legal → Privacy & ads (and, on iOS, in the system’s tracking settings). Rewarded ads only give extra message credits: credits have no cash value, are non-refundable, apply to the challenge and day for which they were given, and expire with it.

We are not responsible for the content of third-party ads or for anything you buy from advertisers.

12. Third-party services

GIF search is provided by GIPHY and limited to GIPHY’s G rating, the most restrictive one. GIFs are third-party content: we don’t create or approve them, and your device connects to GIPHY’s servers to show them (see the Privacy Policy). If you see a GIF that shouldn’t be there, report it from the message.

Sign in with Apple or Google, the app stores and the ads are also subject to those companies’ own terms.

13. Public Feed, public profile and sharing (optional)

Sharing on the Feed is your choice, post by post. Posts are visible to signed-in users of the app, follow the same community rules and never contain photos. Other users can like and repost them or use the challenge as a template. You can delete a post at any time.

Your public profile is off by default. If you turn it on, your display name, username, photo, bio, motto, profile colour, pinned trophies and totals can be seen by anyone on the web at your profile address, so they must follow the community rules too. You can turn it off at any time.

Share images are made on your device. When you share one outside IDarU, you are the one publishing it, under the rules of the app or network you choose; we never post anything on your behalf. If an image shows other people (for example a leaderboard), only share it if they are happy with that.

14. Availability of the service

We work to keep IDarU available and safe, but the service is provided “as is” and “as available”: it may be interrupted for maintenance or updates, because of failures of our providers or for reasons beyond our control, and it may contain errors. Keep your own copy of anything that matters to you, such as photos you want to keep.

This does not exclude the legal guarantee of conformity of digital content and services that consumers have under the law (in Portugal, Decree-Law 84/2021), where it applies.

If we decide to end the service, we will tell you in the app at least 30 days in advance whenever possible, so that you can download a copy of your data (Profile → Download my data).

15. Limitation of liability

Nothing in these Terms limits or excludes our liability for death or personal injury caused by our fault, for wilful misconduct or gross negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot be limited or excluded under applicable law — including your mandatory rights as a consumer.

Subject to that, and to the maximum extent permitted by law: (a) we are not liable for loss that was not reasonably foreseeable, for indirect loss, or for loss of data you could have kept a copy of; (b) we are not liable for the content or conduct of other users or third parties, including votes, messages, ads, GIFs or side deals between friends; (c) we are not liable for injuries or damage resulting from challenges you choose to take part in (see section 9); and (d) because the service is free, our total liability for any other claim is limited to 100 euros.

16. Indemnity

If you use IDarU in breach of these Terms or the law — for example by posting content that infringes someone else’s rights — and a third party brings a claim against us because of it, you agree to compensate us for the reasonable losses and costs that result (including reasonable legal fees), to the extent they were caused by your fault. This does not apply to the extent that the claim was caused by us. If you are a consumer, this clause applies only as far as the law of your country allows.

17. Suspension and termination

You can stop using IDarU and delete your account at any time (Profile → Account → Delete account). Deletion is irreversible.

We may suspend or delete accounts that seriously or repeatedly breach these Terms or the law, that put others at risk, or when an authority requires it — immediately in serious cases, otherwise after a warning. We explain our reasons (section 8) and you can contest them.

The sections on liability, indemnity and governing law continue to apply after termination.

18. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by Portuguese law. If you are a consumer living in another EU country, you also keep the protection of the mandatory provisions of the law of your country, and you can bring proceedings in the courts where you live.

Please contact us first at legal@idaru.app: most problems are solved quickly that way.

As a consumer, you can also turn to an alternative dispute resolution entity. In Portugal, the list of consumer arbitration centres is available at www.consumidor.gov.pt, including the CNIACC — Centro Nacional de Informação e Arbitragem de Conflitos de Consumo (www.cniacc.pt). The European Commission’s online dispute resolution (ODR) platform was discontinued in July 2025; consumers in other EU countries can find their national bodies through the European Consumer Centres Network.

19. Changes to these terms

We may update these Terms to reflect changes to the service or the law. For significant changes, we notify you in the app at least 30 days before they apply, unless a shorter period is required by law or for security reasons. If you do not agree, you can delete your account before the changes take effect; continuing to use the service after that date means you accept the new Terms.

20. Contact

General and legal matters: legal@idaru.app. Reports and moderation: abuse@idaru.app. Personal data: privacy@idaru.app. Copyright: copyright@idaru.app.