Terms of Service

You must be at least 13 years old (or older where local law requires) to use the Service. If you are under 18, you may use the Service only with the consent of a parent or legal guardian who agrees to these Terms on your behalf. By using the Service, you represent that you meet these requirements and that you are not barred from using the Service under applicable law or a previous suspension by us.

You can browse and participate in much of the Service without an account. Whether or not you have one, these Terms apply to your use.

If you create an account, you agree to provide accurate information, keep your credentials confidential, and notify us promptly of any unauthorized use. You are responsible for activity that occurs under your account or from your device.

By default, content you post is displayed to other users without your identity; if you set a username or display name, that public identity is shown alongside your content. Anonymity toward other users does not exempt you from these Terms: we maintain internal records connecting content to devices and accounts, and we enforce our policies against anonymous and signed-in users alike.

Gabberhood is a location-based service. To post, you must grant location permission, and content you create will be associated with a neighborhood-level location. Misrepresenting, falsifying, or spoofing your location is a violation of these Terms and may result in restrictions on your content, device, or account.

Subject to these Terms, we grant you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use the Service for your own personal, non-commercial use. You may not:

• copy, modify, distribute, sell, lease, or create derivative works of any part of the Service, or reverse engineer or attempt to extract source code, except where the law permits despite this restriction;
• access the Service by automated means (scrapers, crawlers, bots) or harvest content or data from it, except as we expressly permit;
• use the Service to develop or train competing products, or use content from the Service to train machine-learning models without our written consent;
• circumvent, disable, or interfere with security or integrity features, rate limits, moderation systems, or access controls;
• misrepresent your identity to us, operate multiple accounts or devices to evade enforcement, or manipulate votes, rankings, or engagement.

You own what you post. Gabberhood does not claim ownership of the posts, comments, images, or other content you submit (“Your Content”).

You give us a license to operate the Service. By submitting Your Content, you grant Gabberhood a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license to host, store, reproduce, modify (for example, to reformat or create previews and thumbnails), adapt, publish, display, distribute, and otherwise use Your Content in connection with operating, providing, improving, promoting, and protecting the Service. This license is needed simply to run a platform that displays your posts to other people; it continues for content that remains on the Service and, to the limited extent described in our Privacy Policy, survives deletion for safety, backup, and legal-compliance purposes.

You are responsible for Your Content. You represent that you have all rights needed to post it and that it does not violate the law or the rights of others. We are under no obligation to store, maintain, or provide copies of Your Content.

Deletion. You can delete Your Content at any time, which removes it from public view. Threads may persist: deleting a post or comment removes its content but replies from others can remain.

Feedback. If you send us ideas or suggestions, you agree we may use them without restriction or compensation to you.

All content and conduct on the Service must comply with our Content Policy. We use a combination of automated systems — including AI models — and human review to evaluate content and enforce our policies.

We may, at any time and without prior notice:

• remove, restrict, or refuse to display any content;
• limit the visibility, distribution, or ranking of content or accounts, with or without notification;
• decline to count, or adjust the weight of, votes and other interactions we believe to be inauthentic, automated, or manipulated;
• issue warnings or strikes, or suspend or terminate accounts, devices, or access to the Service;
• refer content to law enforcement where we believe there is a risk of serious harm or a legal obligation to do so.

Automated systems make mistakes. If you believe a moderation decision was wrong, you can appeal it through the Service and we will review it. While we work hard to apply our policies consistently, we do not guarantee that all content complies with our policies or that we will detect every violation, and we are not liable for content posted by users.

You can report content that you believe violates our policies. Reports are reviewed and are not visible to the person reported. Misusing the reporting system — including coordinated false reporting — violates these Terms. If you encounter an emergency or an imminent threat of harm, contact your local emergency services first.

The Service itself — including our name, logo, design, software, and all content we create or license (excluding Your Content and other users’ content) — is owned by Gabberhood Inc. or its licensors and is protected by intellectual property laws. No rights are granted to you other than the limited license in Section 4.

The Service may also include content that we generate or commission, including automatically or AI-generated content such as local news summaries and discussion prompts. Such content is provided for general informational and community purposes and may contain inaccuracies; it is not professional advice.

We respect intellectual property rights and expect users to do the same. If you believe content on the Service infringes your copyright, send a notice compliant with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to legal@gabberhood.com including: (a) identification of the copyrighted work; (b) identification and location of the allegedly infringing material; (c) your contact information; (d) a statement of good-faith belief that the use is unauthorized; (e) a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the notice is accurate and you are authorized to act for the copyright owner; and (f) your physical or electronic signature. We may remove content alleged to be infringing and may terminate repeat infringers.

The Service may contain links to third-party websites or rely on third-party services (such as app stores, push notification providers, and mapping or geolocation data). We are not responsible for third-party services, and your use of them is governed by their own terms and policies.

If you downloaded our app from the Apple App Store or Google Play, the following also applies: these Terms are between you and Gabberhood only — not with Apple or Google. Apple and Google are not responsible for the Service or its content, have no obligation to provide support or maintenance, and have no warranty obligations beyond, where applicable, refunding the purchase price. Apple, Google, and their subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms with the right to enforce them against you. You represent that you are not located in an embargoed country and are not on any restricted-party list, and you agree to comply with all applicable third-party terms (such as your wireless carrier’s and app store’s terms).

Gabberhood is evolving. We may add, change, or remove features, or suspend or discontinue all or part of the Service, at any time. Where a change materially and adversely affects you, we will try to give reasonable notice when practical.

You may stop using the Service, or close your account in settings, at any time. We may suspend or terminate your access to the Service — including by device- or account-level restrictions — at any time, with or without notice, if we believe you have violated these Terms or our policies, created risk or legal exposure for us or others, or for any other reason permitted by law. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (including Sections 5, 8, and 14 through 18) survive.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Service is provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement. Without limiting the foregoing, Gabberhood makes no warranty that the Service will be uninterrupted, secure, or error-free; that content (including user content and AI-generated content) is accurate, reliable, or complete; or that any content will be preserved or remain available. You use the Service at your own risk. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain disclaimers, so some of the above may not apply to you.

To the maximum extent permitted by law: (a) Gabberhood and its officers, directors, employees, and agents will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or any loss of profits, data, goodwill, or reputation, arising out of or relating to the Service or these Terms, even if advised of the possibility of such damages; (b) our total aggregate liability for all claims arising out of or relating to the Service or these Terms will not exceed the greater of one hundred U.S. dollars ($100) and the amounts you paid us, if any, in the twelve months before the claim arose; and (c) Gabberhood is not liable for the conduct or content of any user, whether online or offline. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so some of the above may not apply to you.

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Gabberhood Inc. and its officers, directors, employees, and agents from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of or related to Your Content, your use of the Service, or your violation of these Terms, our policies, or the rights of any third party.

Let’s talk first. Before filing a claim, you agree to contact us at legal@gabberhood.com and give us 60 days to try to resolve the dispute informally.

Binding arbitration. Except as provided below, any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service will be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, rather than in court. The Federal Arbitration Act governs this section. Judgment on the award may be entered in any court with jurisdiction.

Class action waiver. You and Gabberhood each agree that disputes will be brought only on an individual basis, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class, consolidated, or representative proceeding. The arbitrator may not consolidate claims or preside over any form of representative proceeding.

Exceptions. Either party may bring an individual claim in small claims court, or seek injunctive or other equitable relief in court for infringement or misuse of intellectual property rights or unauthorized access to the Service.

Opt-out. You may opt out of this arbitration agreement by emailing legal@gabberhood.com within 30 days of first accepting these Terms, stating your name and that you opt out of arbitration. Opting out does not affect any other part of these Terms.

If the class action waiver is found unenforceable as to a particular claim, that claim (and only that claim) shall proceed in court, and the remainder of this section remains in effect.

These Terms and any dispute between you and Gabberhood are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware and applicable U.S. federal law, without regard to conflict of laws principles. For any claim not subject to arbitration, you and Gabberhood consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Delaware. Nothing in this section deprives you of mandatory consumer protections of the jurisdiction where you live.

• Changes to these Terms. We may update these Terms from time to time. For material changes, we will provide notice through the Service or by other reasonable means before they take effect. Continued use after the effective date constitutes acceptance. If you do not agree, stop using the Service.
• Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and Content Policy, are the entire agreement between you and Gabberhood regarding the Service.
• Severability. If any provision is found unenforceable, it will be modified to the minimum extent necessary and the rest remains in effect.
• No waiver. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of our right to do so later.
• Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; we may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.
• Force majeure. We are not liable for delays or failures caused by events beyond our reasonable control.