Terms of use

1. About Join Our World

Join Our World is a service for finding people nearby to do something with: plans and events, check-ins at a place, chats, and audio or live rooms. It runs on the web and in Android and iOS apps.

The service is in a pilot and is run by the Join Our World team (“we”, “us”). The operator’s registered name and address will be added here before the public launch. Until then you can reach us at safety@joinourworld.com.

By creating an account or using the service you agree to these terms, to the community guidelines and to the privacy policy. If you do not agree, please do not use the service.

2. Who can use it

• You must be 18 or older. We ask you to confirm this before you join a plan, post, check in or chat.
• You must be legally allowed to use the service where you live.
• You may have one account, and it must be your own. You sign in with Google or Apple; keep that account secure, because what is done from your account is treated as done by you.
• You may not use the service if we have banned you, or to get around a pause.

Anyone can browse public plans without an account.

3. What we do, and what we do not

We provide the tools: listings, check-ins, chats, rooms, and ways to block and report. Plans are organised by members, not by us.

• We do not verify anyone’s identity, age or intentions beyond the sign-in with Google or Apple and each person’s own confirmation that they are 18 or over.
• We do not run background checks.
• We do not attend, supervise, insure or endorse any plan, venue, host or guest.
• We do not promise that a plan will happen, that a host or guest will turn up, or that what members post is accurate.

You are responsible for your own decisions and safety when you chat with, meet or host other people. Please read Meeting safely and follow it every time.

Plans and rooms marked “Sample” in a preview build are examples, not real events.

4. How you agree to use it

You agree to follow the community guidelines. In particular, you will not:

• harass, threaten, deceive or harm anyone;
• post anything unlawful, hateful, sexual or misleading;
• pretend to be someone you are not;
• sell, advertise, or ask other members for money;
• record or pass on other people’s chats, rooms, images or details without their agreement;
• collect information about other members, scrape the service or use automated accounts;
• interfere with the service or its security, or try to get into someone else’s account;
• use the service if you are under 18, or help someone under 18 to use it.

5. Plans, places and hosting

• If you host a plan, you are its organiser. You are responsible for describing it accurately, choosing a safe public meeting point, following the law and the venue’s rules, and cancelling in the app if it will not happen.
• Hosts decide who joins a plan that asks for requests or invitations, and may remove someone from a plan. Hosts must not discriminate unlawfully.
• A place on a plan is a way of organising who is coming. It is not a ticket and not a contract with us. We do not take payments; any cost at a venue is between you and the venue.
• Plans can change or be cancelled. We tell people with a place when that happens, but we are not responsible for what it cost you to get there.

6. Check-ins, chats and rooms

• Checking in makes you visible to other people checked in at the same event or venue, for the time you choose. Check in as “here” only when you are there.
• A private chat starts only when the other person accepts your request. Either of you can leave, block or report at any time.
• In audio and live rooms, everyone in the room can hear what you say and see what you show, and we cannot stop someone recording with another device. Do not share there what you would not say in public.
• Hosting live audio or video needs approval from a moderator, who can withdraw it.

7. What you post

What you write and share (your profile, plans, messages, what you say in rooms) remains yours.

You give us permission to store it, to show it to the people it is meant for, and to make the copies needed to run the service, for as long as it is on the service. Public plans can be seen by anyone, including people without an account and search engines, and a preview appears wherever their link is shared.

You must have the right to post what you post, and it must follow the guidelines. We may remove content or limit who sees it if it appears to break these terms, and we may keep a copy where that is needed to handle a report or to meet a legal duty.

8. Reports, pauses and bans

Any member can block or report another. Moderators review reports and may dismiss them, send a warning, pause an account for 7 days, ban it, or take away permission to host live.

A pause or a ban signs you out, cancels the plans you host and gives up your places. We may act without warning where someone’s safety is at risk.

If you think we got it wrong, write to safety@joinourworld.com and we will look at it again.

9. Leaving

You can delete your account at any time in the app (You, then Privacy and safety) or at Delete your account. The privacy policy says what is removed and what stays.

We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms. We may also close the service; if we do, we will give notice in the app where we reasonably can.

10. A pilot, provided as it is

The service is a pilot. Features may change, be limited to some areas or be withdrawn. It may be unavailable at times and, although we take care, data can be lost. Keep your own copy of anything that matters to you.

To the extent the law allows, the service is provided “as is”, without a promise that it will be uninterrupted, free of errors or fit for a particular purpose.

11. Our responsibility to you

We are responsible for running the service with reasonable care. We are not responsible for what other members say or do, on the service or when you meet them, or for plans, venues and services that are not ours.

To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential losses, for lost profits, or for losses we could not reasonably have foreseen, and our total liability to you for any claim about the service is limited to the greater of ₦50,000 and the amount you paid us to use the service in the 12 months before the claim.

Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, such as liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or for fraud. If you use the service as a consumer, you keep the rights your local consumer law gives you.

12. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms as the service grows. When a change matters, we will tell you in the app before it takes effect. If you keep using the service after that, the new terms apply. If you do not agree, you can delete your account.

13. Law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, where the pilot runs. If you live in another country, you also keep the protections of that country’s law that cannot be signed away.

If something has gone wrong, please write to us first; most problems can be settled that way. If we cannot settle it, the courts of Lagos State, Nigeria may decide it, unless the law where you live gives you the right to use your local courts.

14. Contact

For anything about safety, these terms or your account: safety@joinourworld.com.