Terms of Use
These Terms of Use (“Terms”) are a legal agreement between you and Liam Darrington, an individual based in the United Kingdom (“Quadrate”, “we”, “us”, “our”), governing your use of the Quadrate mobile app and its services (the “Service”). They include the End User Licence Agreement (EULA) for the app. By creating an account or using Quadrate, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy.
1. Who can use Quadrate
You must be at least 18 years old to use Quadrate. By using Quadrate you confirm that you are 18 or over, that you can form a binding contract with us, and that you are not barred from doing so under any applicable law.
2. The Service
Quadrate lets you track, rate and review films, TV, books and music, build lists and watchlists, follow other people, and share your activity. Quadrate is a public, social service by default — see the Privacy Policy for exactly what is public and how to make your account or lists private. We may add, change or remove features, and we may update or discontinue the Service, trying to give reasonable notice of significant changes.
3. Your account
- Provide accurate information and keep your login credentials secure. You’re responsible for activity under your account.
- One person per account; don’t impersonate others or use a username you have no right to.
- Tell us promptly at mailliamapp@gmail.com if you suspect unauthorised use of your account.
- You can delete your account at any time from within the app.
4. Your content and licence
- You own your content. You keep all rights you have in the reviews, notes, quotes, lists, ratings, usernames and other material you create or submit (“Your Content”).
- Licence to us. So we can operate the Service, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, reproduce, display and distribute Your Content for the purpose of running and providing Quadrate — including showing it to other users according to your public/private settings. This licence ends when you delete the content or your account, except for copies in routine backups or where we must keep records to comply with the law or evidence moderation actions.
- Your responsibility. You represent that you have the rights to submit Your Content and that it does not break these Terms or any law.
5. Acceptable use — content standards (zero tolerance)
You agree not to post, upload or share content, or behave in a way, that:
- is unlawful, defamatory, fraudulent, or infringes anyone’s intellectual property or privacy;
- is objectionable — including content that is harassing, bullying, threatening, hateful, or that promotes discrimination or violence against people based on race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, disability or any other protected characteristic;
- is sexually explicit, pornographic, or sexualises minors in any way;
- depicts or encourages self-harm, or graphic or gratuitous violence;
- is spam, a scam, or deliberately deceptive;
- contains malware, or attempts to hack, overload, scrape, or otherwise abuse the Service or other users.
There is zero tolerance for objectionable content and abusive users. We may remove content and suspend or terminate accounts that breach these standards, at our discretion.
6. Reporting, blocking and moderation
To keep Quadrate safe, the app provides tools to report objectionable content or users and to block abusive users (a block hides each user from the other).
- When content or a user is reported, we aim to review it and act within 24 hours — which may include removing the content and suspending or removing the user responsible.
- Automatic word filter. Slurs are starred out automatically in reviews, comments, list names and other text you post, and usernames or display names containing slurs or swearing are refused.
- We may remove content or restrict accounts where we reasonably believe these Terms have been broken.
- Abuse of the reporting tools themselves is also a breach of these Terms.
If you see something that breaks these Terms, please report it in the app or email mailliamapp@gmail.com.
Complaints and appeals. If you think we got a decision wrong — we removed something of yours or restricted your account — or you want to complain about how we handled a report or about safety on Quadrate, email mailliamapp@gmail.com with “Appeal” or “Complaint” in the subject. We’ll look at it again and reply within 14 days.
7. Third-party content and data sources
Quadrate shows catalogue information (titles, descriptions, artwork, previews, availability) from third-party sources, including The Movie Database (TMDB), Apple Music, ISBNdb, Open Library, GIPHY, YouTube and (if you connect it) Plex. That content belongs to those providers or their licensors and is subject to their terms. Quadrate uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB. We are not responsible for the accuracy of third-party catalogue data, and your use of any third-party service through Quadrate is also governed by that service’s own terms.
8. Our intellectual property
The Quadrate app itself — its name, design, software and original content (excluding Your Content and third-party catalogue content) — belongs to us and is protected by law. We grant you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the app for your own personal, non-commercial use, subject to these Terms. You may not copy, modify, reverse-engineer, resell or create derivative works from the app except as the law allows.
9. Termination
You can stop using Quadrate and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate your access if you breach these Terms, if required by law, or if we discontinue the Service. On termination, your right to use the Service ends; sections that by their nature should survive (e.g. ownership, disclaimers, limitation of liability, governing law) continue to apply.
10. Disclaimers
The Service is provided “as is” and “as available”. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we make no warranties that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, or that catalogue data will be accurate or complete. Nothing in these Terms affects your statutory rights as a consumer under UK law, which cannot be excluded.
11. Limitation of liability
If we break these Terms or fail to use reasonable care and skill, we are responsible for loss or damage you suffer that is a foreseeable result. Loss is foreseeable if it is obvious it will happen, or if we both knew it might happen when you started using Quadrate. We are not responsible for loss that was not foreseeable, for business losses (such as lost profit or goodwill), or for content posted by other users. Quadrate is free, so please keep your own copy of anything important to you (Settings → Export my data). Nothing in these Terms limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot be limited under applicable law. We are not responsible for the conduct of other users or for content they post.
12. Indemnity
You agree to indemnify us against reasonable claims, losses and costs arising from your breach of these Terms or your misuse of the Service, to the extent permitted by law.
13. Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms as Quadrate evolves. When we make a material change we’ll update the date above and, where appropriate, notify you in the app. Continuing to use Quadrate after a change means you accept the updated Terms.
14. Governing law
These Terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales will have jurisdiction — except that if you are a consumer resident elsewhere in the UK, you may bring proceedings in your home jurisdiction, and you keep the benefit of any mandatory consumer-protection rules of the place you live.
15. Apple App Store — additional terms (EULA)
These Terms are between you and us, not Apple. Apple is not responsible for the app or its content. The following apply to your use of the app obtained through Apple’s App Store:
No purchases. Quadrate is free to use. There are no in-app purchases and no subscriptions, so nothing is ever charged to your Apple Account through the app.
- Scope of licence. The licence in section 8 is limited to a non-transferable licence to use the app on any Apple-branded device that you own or control, as permitted by the App Store Terms of Service.
- Maintenance and support. We — not Apple — are solely responsible for providing any maintenance and support for the app. Apple has no obligation to furnish any support services.
- Warranty. We are solely responsible for any product warranties, whether express or implied by law, to the extent not effectively disclaimed. If the app fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple and Apple may refund the purchase price (if any); to the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation regarding the app.
- Product claims. We, not Apple, are responsible for addressing any claims relating to the app or your use of it, including (i) product liability claims, (ii) any claim that the app fails to conform to a legal or regulatory requirement, and (iii) claims under consumer-protection or privacy law.
- Intellectual property. In the event of any third-party claim that the app or your use of it infringes that third party’s intellectual property rights, we — not Apple — will be responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement and discharge of any such claim.
- Legal compliance. You represent that you are not located in a country subject to a US Government embargo or designated as “terrorist-supporting”, and that you are not on any US Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
- Third-party beneficiary. Apple and Apple’s subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms, and upon your acceptance Apple will have the right (and will be deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce these Terms against you as a third-party beneficiary.
16. Contact
Questions about these Terms? Email mailliamapp@gmail.com.
Operated by Liam Darrington, United Kingdom.