Terms of Service
These Terms are an agreement between you and Coffee Bud ("Coffee Bud", "we", "us"), covering the Coffee Bud iOS app, App Clip, Apple Watch app, widgets, and coffeebud.app. By creating an account or using Coffee Bud you agree to these Terms and our Privacy Policy. If you don't agree, please don't use Coffee Bud.
1. Eligibility
You must be at least 13 years old to use Coffee Bud. If you are under the age of majority where you live, you may use Coffee Bud only with the permission of a parent or guardian. Coffee Bud is designed for use in the United States.
2. Your account
Provide accurate information, keep your credentials secure, and don't share your account. You're responsible for activity under your account. One personal account per person.
3. Community guidelines — zero tolerance
Coffee Bud lets people share check-ins, photos, vibe tags, usernames, profile photos, and cafe suggestions ("User Content"). We have zero tolerance for objectionable content and abusive users. You agree not to post, upload, or send anything that:
- contains nudity, sexual content, or sexualizes minors in any way;
- depicts or promotes graphic violence, self-harm, terrorism, or illegal activity;
- is hateful, discriminatory, or demeaning based on race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or age;
- harasses, bullies, threatens, stalks, or intimidates anyone;
- reveals someone else's personal information or location without their permission;
- impersonates another person, cafe, or business;
- is spam, advertising you aren't authorized to post, or fake / misleading (for example fake check-ins or fake cafes);
- infringes someone else's copyright, trademark, privacy, or other rights.
How we enforce it. Uploaded photos are automatically scanned and removed if flagged. Anyone can report a check-in, user, or cafe from within the app, and can block any user — blocked users can no longer see or interact with you, and their content is removed from your feed immediately. We review reports and act on objectionable content within 24 hours, removing the content and suspending or permanently banning the user who posted it. You can also report content by emailing hello@coffeebud.app.
4. Your content
You keep ownership of your User Content. By posting it, you grant Coffee Bud a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, and display it in order to operate Coffee Bud, to the audience you choose (public, friends, or only you). This license ends when you delete the content or your account, except that check-ins are kept in anonymized, aggregate form (for example, a cafe's vibe-tag counts) as described in the Privacy Policy. You're responsible for your content and confirm you have the right to post it. We may remove any content at our discretion.
5. Check-in rules
- You must actually be at the cafe — check-ins are verified against a 150-meter radius.
- Check-ins are rate-limited (per cafe and per day) to prevent abuse.
- Don't try to bypass location checks, rate limits, app-integrity checks, or any other safety control.
6. Streaks, ranks, and points
Streaks, ranks, and points are for fun. They have no monetary value, can't be transferred, and may be adjusted if we detect abuse or fix a bug.
7. Cafe information
Cafe data comes from Google Places, AI summaries of public information, and other users. Hours, menus, and details may be out of date or wrong — check with the cafe before you go. We don't endorse any cafe, and any paid partnership will be clearly labeled.
8. Acceptable use of the service
Don't scrape, reverse-engineer, overload, or interfere with Coffee Bud; don't access it except through our apps and website; and don't use it for anything unlawful.
9. Termination
You can delete your account at any time in Profile → Settings → Delete account (see the Privacy Policy for what happens next). We may suspend or terminate your account, without notice where appropriate, if you violate these Terms or put other users at risk.
10. Apple terms
These Terms are between you and us, not Apple. Apple is not responsible for Coffee Bud or its content, and has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for it. Your use of the app must also comply with the Apple Media Services Terms. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce them against you.
11. Disclaimers
Coffee Bud is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, to the fullest extent permitted by law. We don't guarantee the service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that cafe information is accurate. We aren't responsible for your visit to any cafe or your interactions with other users, online or in person — use good judgment when meeting people.
12. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, Coffee Bud and its operator will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, and our total liability for any claim is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the past 12 months or US$50.
13. Governing law
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, United States, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Disputes will be resolved in the state or federal courts located in Travis County, Texas, unless the law where you live requires otherwise.
14. Changes
If we materially change these Terms, we'll update the effective date above and ask you to accept the new version in the app before it applies to you.
15. Contact
Questions, reports, or feedback: hello@coffeebud.app · Support