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Terms of Service

Last updated: 6 November 2026

These Terms govern Ripledd, including the public website, waitlist, web app, and native iOS/Android apps. The web app supports public browsing and, after sign-in, account features such as posting and interacting with other users.

Ripledd is being released as a beta. The public web beta is scheduled for November 1, 2026; native apps are in testing and their release news is separate. Beta features may be incomplete or change. This does not limit mandatory consumer rights, security duties or data-protection rights.

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1. Who we are and acceptance

Ripledd ("we", "us", "our") is operated by Elias Kofler, operating as "Ripledd", established in Austria. Contact: support@ripledd.com.

Before using signed-in features, you explicitly accept the current Terms once for your account. We record the version and acceptance time so ordinary sign-ins do not ask again. If an existing account has no recorded acceptance, we ask once; we do not infer an earlier acceptance from account creation. The Privacy Policy explains data processing and is provided for information. Accepting these Terms does not consent to marketing emails or other unnecessary processing.

Public browsing, the waitlist and support remain subject to the applicable service rules below. A waitlist request authorizes the described launch email, not unrelated marketing. Optional email categories have separate, voluntary controls and can be declined without losing account features.

2. Who may use Ripledd

You must be at least 16 years old, or the minimum digital-consent age where you live if it is higher. By using Ripledd you confirm that you meet this requirement. If you cannot legally enter this agreement on your own, you must have the authorization of a parent or guardian required by your local law. If you use Ripledd on behalf of an organisation, you confirm you are authorised to bind it.

3. What Ripledd offers

  • Website and web app: waitlist, information and support pages, a staff-only admin area, public content browsing, and signed-in account features.
  • Native apps: account-based iOS/Android clients for profiles, images, thoughts, replies, follows, search and notifications.

We may improve features and deliver updates, including native over-the-air updates. Material service changes require a valid reason, such as security, legal compliance, technical compatibility or changes needed to operate the service. We provide notice where required, and preserve applicable consumer rights to updates, remedies and termination. We do not reserve an unrestricted right to remove a contracted service without the protections required by law.

4. Your account

  • You need an account to use the app. You may sign up with email and a password, or with Google or Apple.
  • Keep your credentials secure and your contact email current. You are responsible for activity under your account unless it results from our breach.
  • You may keep more than one account and switch between them in the app, but you may not use multiple accounts to evade a suspension or ban, inflate metrics, or otherwise abuse the service.
  • Tell us promptly at support@ripledd.com if you believe your account has been compromised.

5. Acceptable use

When using Ripledd you agree not to:

  • break the law or infringe anyone's rights;
  • post, submit, or transmit content that is unlawful, hateful, harassing, bullying, threatening, defamatory, deceptive, or that promotes violence or self-harm, or that discloses another person's private information without consent;
  • post, submit, or transmit content that sexually exploits or endangers minors in any way — this is reported to the competent authorities;
  • post sensitive or "not safe for work" content (see section 7);
  • upload or transmit malware, or attempt to gain unauthorised access to, probe, scan, overload, disrupt, or reverse-engineer Ripledd, the app, or our API (ripledd-gateway) and supporting services;
  • circumvent access controls (such as the admin gate), rate limits, content moderation, or other security measures;
  • access the service through anything other than our official app and website — no bots, scrapers, or automated clients — except well-behaved indexing bots that respect robots.txt on the public website;
  • scrape, harvest, or bulk-collect content, data, or embeddings;
  • impersonate any person or misrepresent your affiliation with anyone;
  • use Ripledd to send unsolicited advertising or spam, or to artificially inflate follows, likes, views, or other metrics.

6. Your content and licence

  • You keep ownership of the content you create and submit — images, text, captions, comments, your profile details, and anything you send through the support form.
  • You grant Ripledd a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable licence to host, store, cache, back up, reproduce, re-encode, resize and crop, generate thumbnails and other size variants of, analyse by automated means to produce search embeddings, publish, publicly display, and distribute that content, solely to operate, secure, improve, and promote the service. This includes showing your public content in the app and in the web app, and making it reachable at a public URL.
  • This licence ends when you delete the content or your account, except for (a) reasonable backup copies kept for a limited period, (b) content other users have re-shared or replied to, and (c) content we must retain by law or to handle abuse.
  • You are responsible for your content and confirm you hold all rights needed to grant the licence above and that your content does not infringe anyone else's rights.
  • Anything you post publicly can be seen, shared, and replied to by others, including through public URLs. Ripledd is not responsible for how third parties use content you have made public.

7. Sensitive and NSFW content

Ripledd does not tolerate sensitive or "not safe for work" content. This includes pornographic, sexually explicit, or fetish material; nudity posted for sexual gratification; gratuitously graphic violence, gore, or shock content; and any content that sexualises minors.

We remove sensitive and NSFW content whenever we find it, with or without notice, and we do not rely on labels, age-gates, or warnings as a substitute for removal. Posting this kind of content is a serious breach of these Terms and can lead to your account being suspended or permanently banned — including on a first offence and including deletion of your content and account without refund. Content that is illegal is removed immediately and may be reported to law enforcement.

8. Automated processing

To provide search and related features, Ripledd automatically processes the images and text in your posts to generate numerical representations ("embeddings"). By posting, you permit this processing. It is carried out on our own infrastructure, involves no third-party AI provider, and makes no decision that produces legal or similarly significant effects on you.

9. Reporting, blocking, moderation, suspension, and termination

Ripledd has zero tolerance for objectionable content and abusive users. Before using signed-in features, you accept these Terms of Use (our end-user licence agreement or EULA) once per required version. We provide the Privacy Policy as information, separately from optional consent. The prohibited conduct in sections 5–7 applies to posts, thoughts, comments, profiles, and other user-generated content.

You can block an account from its profile or the options menu on a post, thought, or comment. Blocking immediately hides that account’s content in your app. While signed in, blocked accounts cannot view each other’s profiles or content, follow each other, or interact with each other’s posts. Existing follows between the accounts are removed. Blocking also files a report in Ripledd’s private support/moderation inbox identifying the accounts and, when you block from content, the selected post or comment for review. We do not send a block notification to the blocked account.

Manage your blocks and unblock individual accounts in Settings → Danger Zone → Blocked users. Unblocking permits content and interactions again unless the other account still blocks you; it does not restore previous follows or withdraw a moderation report. Blocking is an account-level safety control: public content can still be viewed on the signed-out website or by a different account.

  • You can report content in the app ("report" on a post) or by emailing abuse@ripledd.com.
  • We may remove or restrict content, and suspend, limit, or terminate an account, if it breaches these Terms, creates legal risk for us or others, or harms the service or other users. Where practical we give notice and a chance to respond; for serious breaches (such as section 7) we may act immediately and permanently, including on a first offence.
  • We terminate the accounts of repeat copyright infringers.
  • You may stop using Ripledd at any time. To delete your account and content, use Settings → Danger Zone → Delete Account, or email privacy@ripledd.com (see the Privacy Policy). Uninstalling the app or using "Reset App" does not delete your account.

10. Intellectual property

The Ripledd name, logo, site and app design, source code, and our own content belong to us. Ripledd is not open source and is not licensed for reuse. You may not copy, distribute, modify, reverse-engineer, or create derivative works from any part of Ripledd except as expressly permitted by these Terms or applicable law. You may use the Ripledd logo to link to or refer to Ripledd, but not in a way that implies endorsement or partnership, and not as your own brand or product identity.

If you believe content available through Ripledd infringes your copyright, email abuse@ripledd.com with: (a) identification of the work you say is infringed; (b) the URL or location of the material in question; (c) your name and contact details; and (d) a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorised by the rightsholder or the law, and that the information in your notice is accurate. We remove or disable access to infringing material and may terminate the accounts of repeat infringers.

12. Third-party services and app stores

  • Ripledd relies on third-party providers (hosting, storage, database, authentication, app updates, and push delivery — including Supabase, Cloudflare, Expo, Apple, and Google) and may link to third-party sites. We are not responsible for third-party sites or services, and your use of them is governed by their own terms.
  • You obtain the app through the Apple App Store or Google Play, and their terms also apply to your download and use.
  • Ripledd currently shows no advertising and has no in-app purchases. Optional email categories are account-email choices in Settings → Privacy & emails, initially off unless you separately subscribed (for example to the waitlist). An email unsubscribe link stops all optional categories. Essential verification, recovery and necessary account/legal notices are unaffected. See the Privacy Policy for details.

13. Apple App Store terms

This section applies when you obtain the app from the Apple App Store. These Terms are between you and Ripledd only, not Apple, and Apple is not responsible for the app or its content. Apple has no obligation to provide any maintenance or support for the app. Apple is not responsible for any product warranties, whether express or implied. To the extent permitted by law, Apple has no warranty obligation with respect to the app, and any claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs, or expenses attributable to a failure to conform to a warranty are our responsibility. Apple is not responsible for addressing any claims by you or a third party relating to the app or your possession or use of it, including product-liability claims, claims that the app fails to conform to a legal or regulatory requirement, claims under consumer-protection or similar legislation, and intellectual-property infringement claims. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and, on your acceptance, have the right to enforce them against you. You represent that you are not located in a country subject to a US Government embargo or designated as "terrorist supporting", and that you are not on any US Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.

14. Disclaimers

Ripledd is provided as a beta with the limitations described above. We cannot promise uninterrupted availability or freedom from every defect. These statements do not exclude statutory guarantees, required security updates, remedies for lack of conformity, or other mandatory consumer rights.

15. Liability

Liability is determined by applicable law. We do not exclude liability for intentional misconduct, gross negligence, personal injury, fraud or any other liability that cannot lawfully be excluded. In particular, these Terms do not impose a blanket monetary cap on consumers' mandatory remedies or damages. You remain responsible, to the extent provided by law, for unlawful conduct and content that you submit.

16. Third-party claims

If your content gives rise to a complaint, we may ask for information needed to investigate and resolve it. Any responsibility for third-party losses is assessed under applicable law; these Terms do not impose an unrestricted indemnity or legal-cost obligation on consumers.

17. Changes to these Terms

We publish the updated date and explain material changes in the app or on the website. Where a change requires renewed agreement, we request explicit acceptance of the new version before continued use of signed-in features. Ordinary sign-ins and informational privacy-policy edits do not reset terms acceptance or grant optional consent. Where applicable, we give advance notice and explain how to stop using or terminate the service. Mandatory rights remain unaffected; silence alone is not consent to optional processing.

18. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of Austria, excluding its conflict-of-laws rules and the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, and without prejudice to the mandatory consumer-protection rules of your country of residence in the EEA. The courts of Austria have jurisdiction, again subject to any mandatory consumer rules that let you bring proceedings in your home country. The EU Online Dispute Resolution platform closed on July 20, 2025. Information about available consumer dispute-resolution bodies is provided by the European Commission. This link does not represent a commitment to a particular voluntary ADR scheme.

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