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Terms of Use

Last updated: 8 June 2026

This is a first operational draft for Qiela’s beta. It should be reviewed before public launch and adapted to the final product, company entity, jurisdiction, monetization, age gate, and moderation model.

1. Acceptance

These Terms of Use govern access to and use of Qiela, including the Qiela mobile application, website, and related services. By using Qiela, you agree to these terms.

2. The service

Qiela is a location-based chat application centered around salons, including user accounts, phone verification, profiles, discovery maps, location-bound chats, and presence validation. Features may change during beta development.

3. Accounts

You must be at least 15 years old to use Qiela. You are responsible for keeping your account secure and for the activity that occurs through your account. You must provide accurate information and may not impersonate another person or misuse another person’s phone number.

4. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• use Qiela for unlawful, deceptive, abusive, or harmful purposes;
• attempt to bypass access controls, invite restrictions, or verification systems;
• upload content that infringes rights or violates privacy;
• interfere with, overload, reverse engineer, or attack the service;
• use automated scraping, spam, or credential-stuffing tools.

5. Salon access and invitations

Access to a salon may be controlled by hosts, administrators, invite links, QR tokens, or other rules. Qiela may help enforce access decisions, but hosts are responsible for how they manage their community and invitations.

6. User content

You remain responsible for content you upload or provide, including profile images and profile details. You grant Qiela the limited right to host, store, process, display, and transmit that content as needed to provide the service.

7. Beta availability

Qiela may be offered as an early beta. The service may contain bugs, change without notice, or become temporarily unavailable. We may add, remove, or modify features as the product develops.

8. Suspension and termination

We may suspend or terminate access if we believe you violated these terms, created security risk, abused the service, or used Qiela in a way that could harm other users or the service.

9. Third-party services

Qiela may rely on third-party services for hosting, SMS verification, storage, logging, analytics, or support. These services may have their own terms and privacy practices.

10. Disclaimers

Qiela is provided “as is” and “as available.” To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, and uninterrupted or error-free operation.

11. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Qiela will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for loss of data, profits, goodwill, or business opportunities.

12. Changes

We may update these terms as Qiela develops. The updated version will be posted on this page with a new “Last updated” date.

13. Contact

Questions about these terms can be sent to hello@qiela.app.