Geneva Technologies, Inc. (“Geneva”) provides a range of features designed to help users communicate with one another. By installing or using our apps, services or website, collectively known as our "Services," you are agreeing to our Terms of Service (“Terms”). Please note that these Terms include a class action waiver, and resolution of disputes by arbitration instead of in court.
Minimum Age. You must be at least 18 years old to use our Services.
Account Registration. To create an account you must register for our Services using your phone number, your full name and a username (handle). You agree to receive SMS text messages and/or phone calls containing verification codes to register for our Services or access your account.
Privacy of user data. Geneva does not sell, rent or monetize your personal data.
Please read our Privacy Policy to understand how we safeguard the information you provide when using our Services. For the purpose of operating our Services, you agree to our data practices as described in our Privacy Policy.
Software. In order to enable new features and enhanced functionality, you consent to downloading and installing updates to our Services.
Fees and Taxes. You are responsible for data and mobile carrier fees and taxes associated with the devices on which you use our Services.
Our Terms and Policies. You must use our Services according to our Terms and posted policies. If we disable your account for a violation of our Terms, you will not create another account without our permission.
Legal and Acceptable Use. You agree to use our Services only for legal, authorized, and acceptable purposes. You will not use (or assist others in using) our Services in ways that: (a) violate or infringe the rights of Geneva, our users, or others, including privacy, publicity, intellectual property, or other proprietary rights; (b) involve sending illegal or impermissible communications such as bulk messaging, auto-messaging, and auto-dialing.
Harm to Geneva. You must not (or assist others to) access, use, modify, distribute, transfer, or exploit our Services in unauthorized manners, or in ways that harm Geneva, our Services, or systems. For example, you must not (a) gain or try to gain unauthorized access to our Services or systems; (b) disrupt the integrity or performance of our Services; (c) create accounts for our Services through unauthorized or automated means; (d) collect information about our users in any unauthorized manner; or (e) sell, rent, or charge for our Services, except as otherwise permitted in our Terms.
Keeping Your Account Secure. If you lose your phone or change your phone number, please email [email protected] to change the phone number linked to your account and re-register for our Services. When you register with a new device, your old device will stop receiving all SMS messages and calls.
No Access to Emergency Services. Our Services do not provide access to emergency service providers like the police, fire department, hospitals, or other public safety organizations. Make sure you can contact emergency service providers through a mobile telephone, fixed-line telephone, or other service.
Third-party Services. Our Services may allow you to access, use, or interact with third-party websites, apps, content, and other products and services. When you access, use, or interact with third-party services, their terms and privacy policies govern your use of those services.
Fees. In order to join certain groups, you may need an active subscription on a third-party service (e.g., if you are subscribed to a paid newsletter and the writer of that newsletter has set up email-gated Geneva groups or rooms, you can gain access by connecting your email to your Geneva account and verifying it). Please note that any payment terms presented to you on third-party services are not deemed part of these Terms, and Geneva is not responsible for any billing or payment issues or disputes on such third-party services.
Your Rights. You own the information you submit through our Services. You must have the rights to the phone number you use to sign up for your Geneva account. In order to display your information from the Services, and to allow other users to enjoy them (where applicable), you hereby grant Geneva a royalty-free, perpetual, sub-licensable, irrevocable, and worldwide license to modify (for technical purposes; for example, making sure your profile, messages and chats are viewable on an iPhone, Android, and a computer), publish, distribute, display and otherwise use your information, in each case to enable us to operate the Services. You also grant us the right to distribute your chats to your friends and friends of your friends on Geneva, and your messages and conversations to those within your group(s) or direct messages, if you use these features of the Services.