To ensure that PhotoDare is accessible to as many friends and members of our community as possible, we need you to promise to follow some important rules, and by using the Application, you promise to follow these important rules. These rules can change from time to time, see the “Last Updated” date at the top of these Terms, our Community Guidelines and our Privacy Policy. By keeping your account active, you are promising to follow the most current rules.

Here are a few requirements you have to follow in order for us to make PhotoDare safe and inclusive to as many members of the PhotoDare community as possible.

• You must read and use a common sense interpretation of the Community Guidelines, as well as show respect, tolerance, and good will for others while using the App and interacting with community members.

• You have to be legal age in your country of residence, or SIXTEEN (16) years old (whichever is higher) to use this social media application. To register for an account you must confirm that you are at least this age to continue.

• You cannot use this App if you have been convicted of being a sex offender in any country in the world.

• You cannot create a new account if you have been banned for inappropriate behaviour, or contravention of these Terms, our Community Guidelines, or our Privacy Policy.

• You must not be subject to restriction by law, legislation, or other restriction imposed by a public authority from accessing this type of social media application or any part of it.

• You cannot have an account which was disabled by in the past due to contravention of these terms, any guidelines, policies, or laws or legislation.

• While we do not take any ownership of the content you create or include in your use of PhotoDare, we do need to use the content in order to provide you and the PhotoDare community the Service, so by using the App, you agree to the following:

• When you make or share a Dare, the content in the Dare is protected by copyright or other intellectual property rights. We need to get a non-exclusive (so it doesn’t interfere with you or anyone else using it), transferable or sub-licensable (we can give permission to others we work with or have a relationship with), license to use your content forever, throughout the universe (physical and virtual), and without any cost or payment to you or anyone else.
  
  The use we can make includes but is not limited to copying, altering, adapting, manipulating, or otherwise changing or creating new content or works, adding to, deleting from, combining with other content (authored by you or anyone or anyone else – including so called artificial intelligence), distributing, publishing, exhibiting, displaying or performing (publicly or privately), and otherwise using, changing, or exploiting your content. If content is locked and/or set to Private, we will not publicly make it available, rather only to you and any other person you have included in a Dare.
  
  If you unlock and/or set a Dare to Public or Public on Discover, all of the above rights apply including the public use. If you delete a Dare, we will do our best to remove the content from PhotoDare following our Data Retention Plan laid out in our Privacy Policy (see “Data Retention”), but cannot be responsible for any use that was or is made of the content outside of the Application including but not limited to how others may take screenshots or otherwise copy, post, or distribute your content. If you delete your account, we will remove your account and content in line with the Data Retention section of our Privacy Policy.
  
  You also recognize that we cannot be, and you agree not to hold us responsible for any use by others of the content which is inconsistent with our Terms and Community Guidelines.

• Currently PhotoDare does not offer user social following features; activity visibility settings; ads; or sponsored content, however to improve the service and cover the costs of keeping the Application running, we intend to introduce these features. We have your permission to use your username, profile image, and any name, location, date of birth, relationship status, contacts, or other information you may include in your profile, as well as your activity (connections/friends/followers/likes/comments/etc.) in relation to your use of the App, your dares, and the content you provide. We may use this information for ads or sponsored content if, when the features become available, you provide that approval in your settings. For example, we may share that you liked sponsored content created by or with a Partner. Another example is if you interact, follow, comment on, or otherwise publicly associate with others’ accounts, including a Partner’s account, that association may be seen by users whom you have permitted to see your activity.

• We have your permission to download and install updates to the Application on any devices you use to access your account. Any Policy or Terms that are in effect are accessible in the Settings screen of the Application at any time, as well as the website PhotoDare.ca, and the last updated dates are always visible at the top of these documents. Your continued use of the App means that you agree to use the Application and updates in accordance with any guidelines and policies. In some cases you will be notified by requiring an update and in other cases your notification will come in the form of us changing the last updated dates in the policies or guidelines, or in the event of significant changes,  you may be notified by email.

• Any content you create, including photos, stories, comments, a profile using a username, profile image, or interactions you have with others, or other information which we consider inappropriate or inconsistent with our Community Guidelines, we have the right and permission to change or delete that information.

• If your content includes anything protected by intellectual property rights which we have made available in the App (such as logos, audio, visual, or audio-visual material), we keep all our rights in the content we make available, but no additional rights in your content.

• To keep you, your friends, and the community safe from privacy and intellectual property violations, screenshotting, screengrabbing, screen recording, or distributing others’ content in any form without their consent is strictly forbidden.

• You can only use our intellectual property and trademarks with our prior written permission. Contact hello@photodare.ca with questions. You can only use our intellectual property and trademarks with our prior written permission. Contact hello@photodare.ca with questions.

• You are not permitted to reverse engineer, decompile, or otherwise extract or access the source code for the App. Any detection of this type of activity will be reported immediately to the relevant authorities.

• If you have gained access to source code, you promise not to modify it, distribute it, our use it to create any other applications, services, or similar products without express prior written permission from us at hello@photodare.ca for questions relating to such permission.

Some limits on how you use PhotoDare to maintain a safe and inclusive environment for the PhotoDare community:

• No users are allowed to pretend to be someone else or give out false information to us or other users. While you do not need to give out your personal identity, when you register and interact with us, you do need to provide accurate and current information, some of which may be considered personal data.

• Users may not create accounts for other people (real or fake) unless you have express permission to make an account for someone who does not already have and account.

• Users are not allowed to use or encourage others to use PhotoDare for unlawful purposes, to mislead or defraud, or otherwise cause harm to others, nor for any restricted or unauthorized purpose, including in violation of these Terms, our Community Guidelines, or Privacy Policy.

• Users must not inhibit the proper operating of the Application and must not try and interfere with the App’s functionality, including improper use of the App’s reporting function, dispute resolution services, or the similar features.

• Users shall not use the Application to collect information from other users whether personally or through the use of bots or so called artificial intelligence tools.

• Accounts are the property of PhotoDare and users are prohibited from selling, licensing, trading, transferring or receiving accounts or data (including confidential information) in whole or in part collected through the App.

• Users are not permitted to share the private data or confidential information of others without the express permission of the owner. Similarly, users must not violate the intellectual property rights of others, including without limitation copyright, trademark, and the registrations, extensions, and renewals of the same. Nor shall users use the App for the marketing, promotion, advertising, or exploitation of any intellectual property infringing materials.

• If you use anyone else’s work or include anyone else’s work or likeness in your use of the Application, you have to ensure you have the right or are within the appropriate exemptions of the applicable laws, including copyright laws.

• You promise not to, not to attempt to, and not to encourage or facilitate others to reverse engineer modify, translate, alter, copy, or create derivative works of the App in whole or in part.

• Do not illegally promote regulated goods or controlled substances including but not limited to firearms, tobacco, alcohol, and narcotics.

• NSFW content is not permitted, including but not limited to nudity, sexual content, and gore.

• Do not post anything related to suicide or self-harm, and if you think you might need help, please seek the help of loved ones and health professionals in your region.