Terms & Conditions

1. Eligibility and Accounts

• You must be at least 13 years old to use the Service.
• You are responsible for the accuracy of your account information and for keeping your sign-in credentials secure.
• You may not use another person's account or impersonate another person or organization.
• We may require email verification, payment activation, or other checks before enabling certain features.
• We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these Terms, create risk, or abuse the Service.

2. User Content

The Service lets users post text, tags, links, comments, and other content ("Content"). You are responsible for your Content and for making sure you have the rights needed to post it.

You keep ownership of your Content. By posting Content, you grant brog a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, display, adapt, translate, moderate, distribute, and otherwise use that Content as needed to operate, promote, secure, and improve the Service.

Public Content may be visible to visitors and other users. Do not post private or sensitive information that you do not want others to see.

3. Prohibited Content and Conduct

You may not use the Service to post, promote, or facilitate:

• Illegal activity, fraud, scams, spam, or deceptive conduct.
• Hateful, harassing, threatening, violent, or abusive content.
• Pornographic, sexually explicit, exploitative, or non-consensual intimate content.
• Defamatory content, doxxing, stalking, or invasions of privacy.
• Content that infringes copyrights, trademarks, publicity rights, or other rights.
• Malware, phishing, scraping, automated abuse, or attempts to disrupt the Service.
• Attempts to evade payment, manipulate Brog Points, abuse tips, or misuse payouts.

We may remove, restrict, demonetize, block, or report Content or accounts that we believe violate these Terms or create legal, security, reputational, or operational risk.

4. Paid Posts, Brog Points, and Moderation

Certain boards and actions require Brog Points or payment. Brog Points are a limited license to use paid features inside brog.app. Brog Points are not money, stored value, or a bank account balance, and they cannot be transferred, sold, or redeemed for cash except where required by law or through features we expressly provide.

Paid posts may be reviewed automatically before publishing. Content that violates these Terms, including illegal, hateful, violent, pornographic, infringing, or abusive material, may be blocked and not published. If a paid post is blocked because it violates these Terms, no refund or Brog Points credit will be issued unless required by law.

brog may award Brog Points when a signed-in account hearts your post. Unless a different reward is shown, the first heart from a unique account on a post may earn the post author 10 Brog Points. Repeated hearts from the same account, abusive engagement, or fraudulent activity may be ignored, reversed, or restricted.

Automated moderation may make mistakes. You may contact [email protected] if you believe a moderation decision was made in error, but we are not required to restore or publish Content that we believe creates risk or violates these Terms.

5. Payments and Stripe

Payments are processed by Stripe or other payment providers. brog does not store your full card number, card security code, or bank account login credentials on our servers. We may store payment confirmation records, transaction identifiers, payment status, Brog Points balances, subscription status, payout status, and related metadata needed to operate the Service.

Prices are shown before checkout and are currently charged in U.S. dollars unless otherwise stated. You authorize brog and our payment providers to charge the payment method you provide for purchases, Brog Points, subscriptions, tips, fees, and applicable taxes.

All purchases are final and non-refundable unless these Terms say otherwise, we choose to issue a refund, or a refund is required by law. Chargebacks, payment disputes, suspected fraud, or failed payments may result in reversal of Brog Points, suspension of paid features, account restrictions, or recovery of amounts owed.

6. Subscriptions

brog may offer automatically renewing monthly subscriptions, including ORANGE ($5/month), RED ($10/month), and BLUE ($25/month), unless a different price is shown at checkout.

• Your subscription renews monthly until you cancel it.
• You authorize recurring charges at the plan price and billing frequency shown at checkout.
• You can cancel a subscription through any account or billing controls we make available, through Stripe where available, or by contacting [email protected].
• Cancellation stops future recurring charges but does not automatically refund prior charges.
• Unless stated otherwise at checkout or required by law, subscription fees are not prorated or refunded for partial billing periods.
• If your payment fails or your subscription is canceled, subscription features may end immediately or at the end of the current billing period.

We will provide material renewal, cancellation, and price-change disclosures as required by applicable law. If you signed up online, we will provide an online cancellation method where required.

7. Tips, Creator Earnings, and Payouts

Users may be able to tip creators or receive creator payouts. Tips, creator earnings, and payouts depend on payment completion, Stripe availability, account eligibility, fraud checks, refund and dispute outcomes, taxes, fees, and compliance requirements.

• Creators must complete any required Stripe onboarding before receiving payouts.
• Tips may be reduced by platform fees, Stripe fees, refunds, disputes, chargebacks, taxes, or adjustments.
• We may delay, reverse, or refuse payouts where we suspect fraud, abuse, legal risk, or payment-provider restrictions.
• You are responsible for any taxes arising from money you receive through the Service.

8. Charity Commitment

brog intends to donate 50% of net profits generated by the platform to recognized charitable organizations. For this purpose, "net profits" means platform revenue remaining after payment processing fees, refunds, chargebacks, creator payouts, direct transaction costs, taxes, and other operating costs we reasonably allocate to the Service.

Donations are company donations by brog, not donations made by individual users. Purchases, tips, Brog Points, and subscriptions are not tax-deductible charitable contributions by users. Users do not choose the recipient charity for an individual purchase unless we expressly offer that feature.

Donation timing, batching, eligible charities, and final donation amounts may depend on refunds, disputes, accounting close, compliance checks, and charity availability. We may publish donation summaries or receipts when available. Charity-related statements are subject to applicable fundraising, commercial co-venture, cause-marketing, and consumer-protection laws.

9. Copyright and IP Complaints

You may not post Content that infringes another person's intellectual property rights. We may remove allegedly infringing Content and may terminate accounts of repeat infringers.

Copyright complaints may be sent to [email protected]. Please include enough information for us to identify the allegedly infringing material, the copyrighted work, your contact information, and a statement that you believe in good faith that the use is unauthorized.

If brog seeks DMCA safe-harbor protection, we may designate and publish a registered DMCA agent separately. Until then, this section provides an operational reporting channel but may not by itself satisfy every DMCA safe-harbor requirement.

10. Third-Party Services and Links

The Service may rely on or link to third-party services, including Stripe, Firebase, hosting providers, translation providers, moderation providers, and external websites linked by users. We are not responsible for third-party services, websites, content, policies, or outages.

11. Availability and Changes

We may modify, suspend, or discontinue any part of the Service at any time. We may also change prices, plans, board rules, Brog Points rules, moderation rules, and payout rules prospectively. We will provide notice where required by law.

12. Disclaimer

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available." To the fullest extent permitted by law, brog disclaims all warranties, whether express, implied, or statutory, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, availability, accuracy, and security.

13. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, brog will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, lost data, loss of goodwill, or service interruption, even if we have been advised of the possibility of those damages.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, brog's total liability for any claim relating to the Service will not exceed the greater of $100 or the amount you paid to brog for the Service feature giving rise to the claim during the three months before the claim arose.

14. Indemnity

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless brog from claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs, and expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising from your Content, your use of the Service, your violation of these Terms, or your violation of another person's rights.

15. Governing Law and Disputes

These Terms are governed by applicable law and, unless consumer protection law requires otherwise, the laws of the jurisdiction where brog is legally organized. You and brog will try to resolve disputes informally first by contacting [email protected].

16. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. When we do, we will update the "Last updated" date above. If a change is material, we will take reasonable steps to notify users through the Service or by email. Your continued use of the Service after changes become effective means you accept the updated Terms.

17. General Terms

If any part of these Terms is found unenforceable, the remaining parts will remain in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without our consent. We may assign these Terms as part of a merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of assets.