Terms of Service

1. Agreement

BlinkPop is operated by Tan Jin Xue, an individual based in Malaysia (“BlinkPop”, “we”, “us”). These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern your use of the BlinkPop mobile app and the blinkpop.app website (together, the “Service”).

By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

2. You must be 18

You must be at least 18 years old to use BlinkPop. By using it you confirm that you are. If we learn that an account belongs to someone under 18, we will terminate it and delete its data.

3. Your account

You sign in through Google or Apple. Keep that account secure — you are responsible for what happens under your BlinkPop account. Give us accurate information, do not impersonate anyone, and do not create an account while we have suspended you.

You can delete your account at any time from Settings → Delete account. What that removes, and what it does not, is set out in the Privacy Policy.

4. Content you post

4.1 You keep ownership

Everything you post — Pops, photos, posts, messages, your profile — stays yours. We claim no ownership of it.

4.2 The permission you give us

You grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, reproduce, adapt for display, and distribute your content solely in order to operate and provide the Service — for example, showing your Pop to people nearby, rendering a share link preview, or delivering your message to its recipient. Operating the Service includes sending the text and photos you choose to submit to Ask to an external AI service, as the Privacy Policy describes. This licence exists only so BlinkPop can function. It does not let us sell your content, put it in advertising, or license it to anyone else, and it ends when you delete the content or your account, except for what the Privacy Policy says may remain.

4.3 You are responsible for it

You confirm you have the right to post what you post, and that it does not infringe anyone else’s rights.

5. Rules of conduct

There is zero tolerance for objectionable content and abusive behaviour on BlinkPop. You may not post, send, or organise:

• Harassment, bullying, stalking, threats, or intimidation of anyone
• Hate speech or attacks on people based on race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity, or sexual orientation
• Sexually explicit material
• Child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSAE) of any kind — see Child safety below
• Violence, incitement to violence, or content glorifying self-harm
• Illegal activity, including the sale of drugs, weapons, or stolen goods
• Someone else’s private information — home address, phone number, workplace, or images of them — without their consent
• Impersonation of another person, or a Pop or place that does not exist
• Spam, scams, phishing, pyramid schemes, or unsolicited commercial promotion
• Content that infringes copyright, trademark, or other rights

You also may not:

• Scrape, crawl, or bulk-collect other users’ data, including their locations
• Use the Service to track, surveil, or locate a specific person
• Reverse-engineer the Service, attack it, probe it for vulnerabilities, or circumvent its rate limits or security
• Use bots or automation to create accounts, Pops, or messages
• Evade a suspension by creating a new account

BlinkPop refuses to save a Pop, a post, a profile or a message that contains certain words: hate slurs, explicit sexual terms, and terms for sexual content involving children. You are told at once and nothing is posted. It is a word list, and it does not replace reporting.

Child safety

BlinkPop is for adults only, and it prohibits child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSAE) in every form. That covers child sexual abuse material, any sexual content involving a minor, any sexualisation of a minor, grooming or soliciting a minor, sexual extortion, and the trafficking of a child. It applies to Pops, posts, profiles, photos, and every message, public or private.

If you see any of it, report it from the ··· menu in the app, or press and hold a message and choose Report message, or email jinxuetan@gmail.com. We remove the content, permanently suspend the account, and report it to the authorities.

6. Reporting, blocking, and what we do about it

Profiles, Pops and posts can be reported from the ··· menu in the app. To report a message, press and hold it, then choose Report message. Our Support page has the exact steps.

You can block any user from their profile, from a direct message, or by pressing and holding one of their messages. Blocking is immediate: neither of you sees the other’s profile, Pops or posts, and you cannot message each other directly. In a Pop chat you are both in, you see “Message from someone you blocked” in place of that person’s messages. Nothing changes for anyone else in that chat: other people still see those messages, and the person you blocked still sees yours. They are not told. You can undo it in Settings → Blocked people.

Hide, in the ··· menu of a Pop or a post, removes it from your own lists and map at once. Hiding tells us nothing and does not affect anyone else. Reporting a Pop or a post also hides it for you.

We review every report within 24 hours and remove content that breaks these Terms or our Community guidelines. A person at BlinkPop decides; nothing is hidden from other people automatically. To act on a report of a message, BlinkPop staff see that reported message. When a Pop, a post or a message breaks the rules, we remove it. For objectionable content (hate or harassment, sexual or violent content, threats, or anything unsafe or illegal) we also suspend the account that posted it, for 7 days, or permanently for serious cases; anything sexual involving a child is always a permanent suspension. For a lesser first break, such as spam or misleading details, the removal is the warning; a repeat brings a suspension. A report that we find breaks no rule is dismissed, and nothing changes. A removed Pop or post is hidden from everyone, and its owner is told which one. A removed message reads “Message removed” for everyone in the chat. A suspended person cannot sign in, and their profile, Pops, posts and messages are hidden while the suspension lasts. Serious cases are reported to the relevant authorities. You can also report a user or content by emailing jinxuetan@gmail.com — see our Support page.

We may remove content or suspend an account without notice where we judge it necessary to protect people. If you think we got it wrong, email us and we will look at it again.

7. Meeting people in real life

This is the section that matters most, so we will not bury it in capitals.

BlinkPop helps you find gatherings and people near you. It does not verify anyone’s identity, run background checks, or vet who turns up. You are solely responsible for your own safety when you meet people you found through BlinkPop. Meet in public places. Tell a friend where you are going. Trust your instincts and leave if something feels wrong. Do not share your home address with someone you have just met.

Interactions between users are between those users. We are not a party to them, we do not supervise them, and to the fullest extent the law allows we are not responsible for what happens at a Pop or between users — including any injury, loss, or harm. If someone behaves badly, report them; if someone is in danger, contact your local emergency services first.

8. Pops, places, and money

If you create a Pop, you are its host and you are responsible for it — that it is accurate, that you have any permission you need from the venue, and that it complies with the law.

Some Pops are added for an event that someone else runs, by a user or by BlinkPop from public information. Such a Pop is marked as added by the person who added it, and names the organizer when one is given. The person who added it is not its host, and BlinkPop does not run it. If you add one, you are still responsible for the accuracy of what you add. Check the details with the organizer or the venue before you go.

BlinkPop does not process payments. A price shown on a Pop is informational only, so you know roughly what it will cost you to turn up. Any actual payment happens directly between you and the host or the venue, and we are not involved in it, not responsible for it, and cannot refund it.

Places listed in BlinkPop come from public data and from users. Nothing in the Service is an endorsement of, or affiliation with, any venue.

9. Our content and our name

The Service itself — its software, design, and the BlinkPop name and logo — belongs to us. We grant you a personal, limited, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the app for its intended purpose. You may not copy the Service, build a competing product from it, or use our name or logo without our written permission.

If you send us feedback or suggestions, we may use them freely and without owing you anything. Please do not send us anything you consider confidential.

10. Changes and availability

BlinkPop is early software. We may change, suspend, or discontinue any part of it, and we are not obliged to provide support or to keep any feature working. We will try to give notice of significant changes but cannot always do so.

11. Ending this

You can stop using BlinkPop and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate your account if you break these Terms, if we are required to by law, or if we discontinue the Service. Sections 4.2, 7, 9, 12, 13 and 14 survive termination.

12. Disclaimers

The Service is provided “as is” and “as available”. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including any warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, secure, error-free, or accurate — including that a Pop will take place, that a place’s details are correct, that another user is who they claim to be, or that search results and Pop drafts produced by Ask are complete or correct. Check a draft before you publish it.

Nothing here excludes any liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, including for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud. If you are a consumer, you keep the statutory rights your local law gives you.

13. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, data, or goodwill, arising out of your use of the Service.

Our total liability to you for all claims arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service is limited to the greater of (a) the amount you have paid us in the twelve months before the claim, and (b) USD 50. BlinkPop is free, so in practice this is usually USD 50.

14. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify us against claims, losses, and reasonable legal costs arising from your content, your use of the Service, your breach of these Terms, or your conduct towards another user — except to the extent the claim arises from our own wrongdoing.

15. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of Malaysia, and the courts of Malaysia have jurisdiction over any dispute. If you are a consumer resident elsewhere, this does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory consumer laws of the country where you live, or of the right to bring proceedings there.

There is no arbitration clause in these Terms, and no waiver of your right to go to court or to participate in a class action.

16. Apple App Store

If you downloaded BlinkPop from the App Store: these Terms are between you and us, not Apple, and Apple is not responsible for the app or its content. Apple has no obligation to provide support for it. If the app fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple and Apple will refund any purchase price — which for BlinkPop is nothing — and Apple has no other warranty obligation. Apple is not responsible for addressing any claim relating to the app, including product liability, regulatory non-compliance, or consumer protection claims. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce them against you.

17. General

These Terms, with the Privacy Policy, are the whole agreement between us. If any part is found unenforceable, the rest stands. Our not enforcing something is not a waiver of it. You may not transfer your rights under these Terms; we may transfer ours if BlinkPop is incorporated or acquired. We may update these Terms — the date at the top will change, and for material changes we will give notice in the app or by email before they take effect. Continuing to use BlinkPop after that means you accept the updated Terms.

18. Contact

Tan Jin Xue · Malaysia · jinxuetan@gmail.com