These terms are the agreement between you and Selfbased. By creating an account or using the app, you agree to them. We've kept them as readable as we legally can — but they are a real contract, including a binding arbitration clause in Section 14, so please actually read them.
1. Accepting these terms
By downloading, accessing, or using Selfbased, you agree to these Terms of Service and to our Privacy Policy. If you don't agree, please don't use the app.
2. Who can use Selfbased
You must be at least 13 years old to use Selfbased. If you are under the age of majority where you live, you should have a parent or guardian's permission. By using the app, you confirm you meet these requirements.
3. Your account
You're responsible for your account and for keeping your login secure. Tell us right away if you think someone else is using it. Please give accurate information when you sign up and keep it current.
4. The service
Selfbased is a self-improvement game across seven life areas, with quests, XP, ranks, coins, built-in tools, and social features like proofs and friend profiles. We grant you a personal, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the app for its intended purpose. We're always improving the app, so features may change, be added, or be removed over time.
5. Acceptable use
Keep Selfbased a good place to be. You agree not to:
- Break the law or use the app to harm, harass, or impersonate anyone.
- Upload content that is illegal, hateful, or sexually explicit, or that you don't have the right to share.
- Attempt to cheat, exploit, reverse-engineer, or disrupt the game or its economy.
- Access the service through automated means except where we explicitly allow it.
We may suspend or remove accounts that break these rules.
6. Your content and what you upload
You own the content you create in Selfbased, including your proofs, photos, and notes. By sharing content through the social features, you grant us a limited, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, process, and display it — only as needed to operate the features you're using and only to the people you share it with. When you post a proof or Instant, you choose its lifespan: by default it expires and becomes inaccessible 24 hours after posting (and is then permanently deleted), or you can choose to keep it on your profile until you remove it. You can delete any proof you posted at any time. This licence ends when your content is deleted.
Because you can upload photos, you also promise us this: you will only upload content you own or have the right to use. Don't upload other people's photos, artwork, or brand material without permission. You're responsible for what you post, and we may remove content that we reasonably believe infringes someone's rights or breaks these terms.
7. Copyright and infringement complaints
If you believe content on Selfbased infringes your copyright or other rights, tell us and we'll act. This procedure applies worldwide; for United States claims it operates as our DMCA notice-and-takedown process under 17 U.S.C. §512.
To send a notice, email support@selfbased.app with the subject "Copyright notice", including:
- Identification of the copyrighted work (or other right) you say is infringed.
- Identification of the material you want removed, with enough detail for us to find it (screenshots, usernames, timestamps).
- Your name, address, email, and telephone number.
- A statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized by the rights owner, its agent, or the law.
- A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the rights owner or authorized to act for them.
- Your physical or electronic signature.
What we do: we review promptly, remove or disable access to material a valid notice identifies, and notify the user who posted it. That user may send a counter-notice (same address) containing their contact details, identification of the removed material, a statement under penalty of perjury of good-faith belief the removal was a mistake or misidentification, and consent to jurisdiction as the DMCA requires; if the claimant doesn't pursue the matter within the statutory window, we may restore the material. We terminate the accounts of repeat infringers.
Copyright contact: support@selfbased.app. [PLACEHOLDER — registered DMCA Designated Agent name and details, pending registration at copyright.gov]
8. Purchases, subscriptions, and donations
- Subscriptions unlock additional features (currently the Essential and Pro tiers). On Android, subscriptions are purchased and billed through Google Play; on the web, through our payment processor, Stripe. Subscriptions renew automatically at the interval you chose until you cancel.
- Cancelling: cancel any time — Android subscriptions through the Google Play subscription settings, web subscriptions through your account settings. Cancelling stops future renewals; you keep access until the end of the period you paid for.
- Refunds for Android purchases follow Google Play's refund policies; for web purchases, contact support@selfbased.app and we'll deal with it fairly. Nothing here limits refund rights your local law gives you.
- Donations are one-time, voluntary contributions that support development. They are not purchases of goods or services and are generally non-refundable.
- Price changes: prices and plans may change. We'll give notice of changes that affect an active subscription before they take effect.
9. Virtual items have no cash value
Coins, XP, ranks, chests, tickets, day-off and period-off rewards, and other in-game items are part of the game. They have no monetary value, cannot be exchanged for real money, and can't be transferred or sold outside the app. We may adjust the in-game economy to keep it balanced.
10. AI features
Parts of Selfbased use artificial intelligence — analyzing meal photos, generating wardrobe previews, estimating stat percentiles, and planning goals. AI output is an estimate, not a fact: nutrition numbers can be off, generated images can be imperfect, and plans can be wrong. Use your judgment, and don't treat AI output as professional advice of any kind. Our Privacy Policy explains exactly what data these features send and to whom.
11. Not medical or professional advice — and you assume the risk
Selfbased is a motivational tool, not a healthcare provider. Its stats, tools, estimates, and suggestions are for self-improvement and are not medical, psychological, nutritional, financial, or professional advice. Before starting any exercise, diet, or habit-change program, consider talking to a qualified professional — and if you choose to act on anything in the app, you do so at your own risk. Physical activity carries inherent risk of injury; know your limits. If you're in crisis, contact your local emergency services.
12. Disclaimers
Selfbased is provided "as is" and "as available." We don't promise it will always be uninterrupted, error-free, or that any feature will produce a particular result. To the fullest extent allowed by law, we disclaim all implied warranties, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.
13. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent allowed by law: we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, data, or goodwill, arising from your use of the app. Our total liability for all claims, combined, is limited to the greater of one hundred US dollars ($100) or the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim. Some places don't allow certain limitations; where the law says a limitation can't apply to you, it doesn't.
14. Dispute resolution and binding arbitration
Please read this section carefully — it affects your legal rights, including your right to file a lawsuit in court and to have a jury hear your claims.
Talk to us first. Before starting any formal proceeding, email support@selfbased.app with a description of the dispute. Most issues get resolved this way within days, for free. If we haven't resolved it within 30 days, either side may proceed as below.
Binding arbitration. All disputes arising out of or in connection with these Terms or the Service shall be finally settled under the Rules of Arbitration of the American Arbitration Association by one or more arbitrators appointed in accordance with those Rules. The arbitration will be conducted in English, and may proceed remotely (by videoconference or on written submissions) so no travel is required.
No class actions. You agree that any dispute resolution proceedings will be conducted only on an individual basis and not in a class, consolidated, or representative action. You and Selfbased each waive the right to a trial by jury and the right to participate in a class action.
Small claims carve-out. Either of us may bring an individual claim in small-claims court instead of arbitration, if it qualifies there.
Your right to opt out. You can reject this arbitration agreement without any penalty: email support@selfbased.app with the subject "Arbitration opt-out" within 30 days of first accepting these Terms, stating your account email and that you opt out of arbitration. Opting out doesn't affect any other part of these Terms.
Nothing in this section prevents either of us from seeking emergency injunctive relief in court to protect intellectual property or the security of the service, and nothing waives rights that your local consumer law says cannot be waived.
15. Governing law
These Terms are governed by the laws of [PLACEHOLDER — governing jurisdiction], excluding its conflict-of-law rules — without taking away consumer protections that the law of your home country gives you and that can't be waived by contract.
16. Ending your use
You can stop using Selfbased and delete your account at any time, in-app or at selfbased.app/account-deletion. We may suspend or end your access if you break these terms or if we need to for legal or security reasons; where reasonable, we'll tell you why. Sections meant to survive termination — including virtual items, disclaimers, limitation of liability, and dispute resolution — continue to apply.
17. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms as the app evolves. If we make a material change, we'll update the date above and notify you in the app or by email before the change takes effect. Continuing to use Selfbased after that means you accept the updated terms. If you don't agree with a change, stop using the app and delete your account — that's always your right.
18. Contact
Questions about these terms? Email support@selfbased.app.
Selfbased is operated by [PLACEHOLDER — legal entity name and registered address].