Terms of service

These terms are an agreement between you and Bart Sebastiaan Zanen and Ricard Tuneu Font, at Barcelona, ES, who build and run Journii. In these terms, “we” and “us” mean the operators of Journii, and “you” means the person using it.

They apply to the Journii mobile app for iOS and Android and to the website journiiapp.com, including its waitlist. By creating an account or using Journii, you accept them. How we handle your personal data is explained separately in our privacy policy.

Journii is a journey platform for students on exchange. You build a journey — a timeline of the photos, posts, reviews, and events you create or join. You find the other students on exchange in your city, chat with them, plan trips with them and split what those trips cost, follow the journeys they are on, and find places worth going to instead of the ones on the postcards.

Journii is new software built by a small team. Be realistic about what that means:

• Features will change, and some will be removed. Anything we describe on the website or in a store listing is a plan, not a promise.
• There is no uptime guarantee. We may take Journii down for maintenance or to fix it, with or without notice.
• If you take part in a beta or test version, its data may be reset. We will warn you before we wipe anything deliberately.
• Do not treat Journii as the only home for a photo you care about. Keep your own copy.
• Journii is free. If we introduce paid features later, we will tell you what changes at least 30 days before it happens, and nothing you already paid for will be taken away.

Joining the waitlist means we will email you when Journii opens in your city. It does not guarantee access, a place in a beta, or any particular date. We may decline or remove a signup — for example if an address is fake, or if someone submits hundreds of them. You can leave the waitlist whenever you want; see the privacy policy for how.

You can sign up with an email address and password, or with Sign in with Apple or Google. To have an account:

• You must be at least 16 years old. We ask for your date of birth when you sign up, and we close accounts we find belong to someone younger.
• Give accurate information about yourself, and keep it accurate.
• One account per person. Do not sell, rent, or share your account, and do not create a new one to get around a suspension or a ban.
• Keep your login details to yourself. You are responsible for what happens under your account. Tell us at once if you think someone else has got into it.

You can delete your account at any time from inside the app: go to your profile, open Settings, and under Account tap Delete account. What that removes and what stays is set out in the privacy policy.

Journii puts real people in touch with each other in real cities, so the rules are stricter than they would be for a photo feed. There is no tolerance for objectionable content or abusive users. Do not:

• Post anything illegal, or anything that harasses, threatens, bullies, or incites hatred against a person or a group.
• Post sexual content involving minors, or any sexual content without the clear consent of everyone in it. Content that sexualises minors is reported to the authorities.
• Post graphic violence, or content that encourages self-harm.
• Publish someone else’s private information — their address, their timetable, their live location — or track a person through Journii against their wishes.
• Upload photos of other people who have not agreed to appear on your journey.
• Impersonate anyone, or claim a connection to a university, organisation, or venue that you do not have.
• Post fake reviews, paid reviews, or reviews of places you have not been. Reviews must come from your own experience.
• Spam, advertise, sell, or run commercial promotions without our written permission.
• Keep contacting someone who has made clear they do not want to hear from you, including through a new account after they blocked you.
• Scrape, crawl, or bulk-collect Journii data, or resell any part of the service.
• Attack the service: break or probe our security, reverse-engineer it, get around rate limits, or use it to distribute malware.

You can report any person, post, comment, or message from inside the app, and you can block anyone. Once you block someone, you no longer see each other’s profiles, posts, or comments, and they can no longer message you. You can also report something by emailing legal@journiiapp.com.

To keep Journii safe, we filter content in three ways: a list of blocked words, an automated scan of public content (described in the privacy policy), and review by our team. Content the scan judges clearly harmful is hidden automatically until we have looked at it.

We review reports as quickly as we can, the most serious first. When content breaks these terms, we remove it, and we may suspend or permanently ban the account that posted it. When we act against your content or your account, we tell you what we did and why, unless the law or someone’s safety stops us. If you think we got it wrong, email legal@journiiapp.com and a person will look at it again.

You own your photos, posts, reviews, messages, and events. We do not claim any ownership of them, and putting them on Journii does not change that.

To show your content to the people you meant to show it to, we need your permission to handle it. So you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, back up, copy, resize, crop, scan for safety, and display your content — but only inside Journii, and only for the purpose of operating the service. We may pass that permission on to the companies that host and deliver the service for us, for the same purpose and nothing else.

This licence ends when you delete the content or your account, with three honest exceptions: copies may sit in encrypted backups for a limited period afterwards; messages you sent in a direct or trip chat stay in the other people’s conversation, shown as from “Deleted user”; and what you added to a trip planned with others stays with that trip, without your name on it.

We will not put your photos in an advertisement, on the website, or in an app store screenshot unless you say yes first. We will always ask.

You promise that you have the right to post what you post, and that it does not infringe anyone else’s rights. If you believe something on Journii infringes your copyright, email legal@journiiapp.com with a link to it and an explanation, and we will deal with it.

The expense tools in a trip are a shared notebook for keeping track of who paid what. Journii does not move, hold, or collect money, and it is not a payment service. Amounts and balances are only as accurate as what the trip’s members enter, and settling up is between you and them.

The Journii name, logo, design, and software belong to us. These terms give you a personal, non-transferable permission to use the app and the website, not to copy its brand or its code. You may not use our name or logo in a way that suggests we endorse you.

You may stop using Journii and delete your account at any moment, for any reason.

We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms, that puts other people at risk, or that we are legally required to act on. Where it is reasonable, safe, and lawful, we will warn you first and give you a chance to put it right. For serious breaches — threats, sexual content involving minors, or similar — we act at once and without warning. If we close your account, you can ask for a copy of your content within 30 days, unless we closed it for content that is itself illegal.

We may also discontinue Journii entirely. If we do, we will give at least 30 days’ notice and a way to export what you made.

Journii shows maps, places, and events, and links to websites we do not control. We do not vet the places, the events, or the people you find through it, and information about a place may be out of date.

Journii exists to help you meet people in person. Meeting strangers carries risk anywhere, online or off. Meet in public, tell a friend where you are going, use your judgement, and report anything that goes wrong. In an emergency, contact the local emergency services — 112 anywhere in the EU — not us.

If you downloaded Journii from the Apple App Store or Google Play, that store’s own terms also apply to the download. Where they conflict with these terms on that subject, the store’s terms win.

If you use Journii on an Apple device: these terms are between you and us, not Apple, and we — not Apple — are responsible for Journii, its content, its maintenance and support, and any claims about it, including product liability, legal or regulatory compliance, and intellectual property claims. If Journii fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, which may refund the purchase price (Journii is free, so that is zero); Apple has no other warranty obligation. You confirm that you are not in a country subject to a US government embargo or on a US list of prohibited or restricted parties. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and may enforce them against you.

To the extent the law allows, Journii is provided “as is”. We do not warrant that it will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that it will suit any particular purpose of yours. We are not responsible for what other users post, say, or do, on Journii or off it, although we act on it when it breaks these terms. Nothing here removes rights you have as a consumer under the law of the country you live in.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, lost profits, lost opportunities, or lost data arising from your use of Journii. Our total liability to you for all claims in any twelve-month period is limited to €100.

None of that applies to liability that cannot be limited by law. That includes death or personal injury caused by our negligence, fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, and any mandatory consumer rights you have where you live.

These terms are governed by the law of Spain, and the courts of Spain have jurisdiction over disputes about them.

If you are a consumer in the EU, this does not take away the protection of the mandatory law of the country you live in, and you may bring proceedings in the courts there.

Please email legal@journiiapp.com before starting a formal dispute. Most things can be sorted out without lawyers.

We will change these terms as Journii grows. When we do, we update this page and the “last updated” date at the top. For a significant change, we give at least 30 days’ notice in the app or by email before it takes effect. If you keep using Journii after that, the new terms apply. If you would rather not accept them, stop using Journii and delete your account — that costs you nothing.

Email legal@journiiapp.com, or write to Bart Sebastiaan Zanen and Ricard Tuneu Font, Barcelona, ES. For anything about personal data, see the privacy policy.