Terms of use

The short version: the photographs are yours, the service is free, you must be 18, and there is a hard line on content that harms people. The rest is detail.

1. Who this agreement is with

Circles is run by Ayush Goyal, sole proprietor, 47 Vimal Vatika, Kamla Nagar, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India. Using Circles means you accept these terms.

2. You must be 18

You must be 18 or over to make an account. Children appear in event photographs, which is ordinary photography, but children do not get accounts and are never enrolled in face matching.

3. Your photographs stay yours

You keep the copyright in everything you upload. You are not giving it to us.

By uploading, you give us permission to do only these things:

• store your photographs and show them to the guests of that event;
• make the smaller and reformatted versions needed to display them — thumbnails, previews, montages inside the event.

We do not claim ownership, we do not license your work to anyone else, and we do not use it in our own marketing without asking you separately, in writing, and getting a yes.

Professional photographers

A photographer who uploads to an event keeps full copyright in their photographs. Uploading grants the couple a licence to view, download and share those photographs personally, and grants Circles the same limited hosting and delivery licence described above. Every frame carries the photographer's credit. We do not license their work onward and we do not use it in marketing without separate written permission.

4. Content that is not allowed

We have zero tolerance for objectionable content and for abusive behaviour. Do not upload or post:

• anything sexual involving a child, or any content that exploits or endangers a child — see our child safety standards;
• sexual content, nudity, or intimate images of a person shared without their agreement;
• harassment, threats, bullying, or content attacking people for their religion, caste, region, gender, disability or any similar ground;
• violent or graphic material;
• anything illegal under Indian law, or that infringes someone else's copyright;
• photographs of people who have asked you not to share them.

How to report it: email ohana.software.inc@gmail.com with the event name and, if you can, a screenshot. Reports go straight to a person, not a queue.

What we do about it: we review every report and, where the content breaks these rules, we remove it and remove the account that posted it within 24 hours. Hosts can also remove any guest from their own event at any time, for any reason. Content involving a child is acted on immediately and reported to the authorities where the law requires it.

5. What we promise, and what we do not

Circles is free during this pilot season and comes with no service-level guarantee. We take real care not to lose your photographs — but do not use Circles as the only copy of a photograph that matters to you. Keep your originals.

Photographs are kept for 12 months from the event date and then deleted. The host is warned at 11 months and can extend or download everything. An event closes 30 days after the last function unless the host extends it.

6. Your data

How we handle your phone number, your photographs and your face signature is set out in the privacy notice, which is part of these terms. The short version: three separate consents, face matching is optional and refusable without losing anything, and you can delete your data at any time.

7. Ending it

You can delete your account whenever you like — see Delete your account. We can suspend or remove an account that breaks section 4. If we do, we will tell you why.

8. Law

These terms are governed by the laws of India.

9. Contact

Ayush Goyal, sole proprietor
47 Vimal Vatika, Kamla Nagar, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India
ohana.software.inc@gmail.com