These terms are the agreement between you and Edoardo Sorrenti, Viale dell'Arte 46, 00144 Roma, Italy (“we”, “us”) for using the Decove service — the app, our servers, and everything they do together (the “Service”). By creating an account or using the Service you accept them. The software itself is licensed separately under the EULA, and how we handle data is described in the Privacy Policy, which is part of this agreement.
Decove is a small, private social network: you share posts, photos, voice recordings, and messages with people you have explicitly added as friends. Content is end-to-end encrypted — our servers store and deliver it without being able to read it. There is no public feed, no discovery of strangers, no advertising, and no algorithmic ranking.
You must be at least 14 years old — or older where your country sets a higher age for consenting to data processing (16 in Germany and the Netherlands, 15 in France) — and legally capable of entering into this agreement. You may not use the Service if the laws applicable to you prohibit it.
Everything you share remains yours. So that the Service can function, you grant us a limited, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to store, transmit, and deliver your content to the recipients you select — nothing more. For the small set of profile data that is not end-to-end encrypted (your display name and photo), the same limited licence lets us show them to your friends and in notifications. This licence exists solely to operate the Service, ends when you delete the content or your account, and grants us no right to read, analyse, or exploit anything: for encrypted content we could not exercise such a right even if we claimed it.
You agree not to use Decove to:
Zero tolerance. There is no tolerance for objectionable content or abusive users on Decove. By using the Service you agree to these rules and to the removal of anything that breaks them. We review every report within 24 hours of receiving it, remove content that breaks these rules, and suspend or terminate the accounts responsible. Reports concerning child safety or a credible threat are acted on the day we see them. You can also block any user from the app, which stops all contact between you immediately and without waiting for us.
Honesty about enforcement: because content is encrypted, we cannot proactively scan it — and we will not pretend otherwise. We act on what we can see (the metadata described in the Privacy Policy) and on reports from the people you share with, who can read what you sent them. Report abuse to abuse@decove.app. We may suspend or terminate accounts, remove stored ciphertext, and involve authorities where the law requires.
Decove is a small, independently operated service. We work to keep it available and your data intact, but we do not promise uninterrupted operation, and maintenance, outages, or events beyond our control may interrupt it. We may improve or change the Service over time; if we ever discontinue it, we will give you reasonable advance notice in the app so you can act — your content remains on your devices regardless.
The Service is provided “as is” and “as available”. To the extent permitted by the law that applies to you, we make no warranties — express or implied — about availability, fitness for a particular purpose, or that the Service will be error-free or secure. Nothing in this section limits rights that consumer law grants you and that cannot be waived by contract.
Nothing in these terms excludes or limits our liability for intent or gross negligence, for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or for anything else that cannot be excluded under applicable law. Subject to that, and given that Decove is currently provided free of charge, our total liability arising out of or relating to the Service is limited to the greater of the amounts you paid us in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim, or €50.
To the extent permitted by the law of your habitual residence, you will compensate us for damages and reasonable costs that result directly from your unlawful use of the Service or your deliberate breach of these terms, where the damage is attributable to you.
We may update these terms. For material changes we will notify you in the app at least 30 days before they take effect; continuing to use the Service after that date means you accept them. If you do not, delete your account before the changes take effect. The date at the top always reflects the current version.
These terms are governed by Italian law. If you are a consumer, you additionally keep the protection of any mandatory provisions of the law of the country where you live, and you may bring proceedings in your local courts. Before going to court, we would genuinely rather you just write to us — legal@decove.app — and consumers may also use national alternative-dispute-resolution bodies where available.
If a provision of these terms turns out to be invalid, the rest stands. Our not enforcing a provision is not a waiver of it. You may not assign this agreement; we may assign it to a successor who takes over the Service under terms no less protective of you. These terms, the EULA, and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between us about the Service.