Terms of Service

By using BuzzUp, you agree to these Terms & Conditions and the rules described below, along with our Community Guidelines and Privacy Policy. In these terms, “BuzzUp” and “we” refer to the BuzzUp project described below.

BuzzUp is an independent project operated under the CollegeBuzz name. CollegeBuzz is not currently a registered company or incorporated legal entity. No company registration number or registered office is provided because none currently exists. Everything below is written on that basis.

1. Who can use BuzzUp

You must be at least 18 years old. Accounts found to belong to minors are removed. You must also be legally allowed to use a service like this where you live.

2. Your account

• One account per person. Registration requires a working email address, which you confirm before you can sign in.
• The information you give us — your name, age, college, photos — must be accurate and about you.
• You are responsible for what happens on your account. Keep your password to yourself, keep your email address current, and turn on two-factor authentication if you want a second layer.
• Tell us straight away if you think someone else has got into your account.

3. Acceptable use

The short version is in our Community Guidelines, and they are part of these terms. In particular, you may not:

• Harass, threaten, stalk or intimidate anyone.
• Post hateful or discriminatory content, or abuse someone for who they are.
• Create a fake profile, impersonate another person, use someone else's photos, or misrepresent your age.
• Ask people for money, run a scam, advertise, or use BuzzUp to promote a business.
• Post sexually explicit, violent or otherwise illegal content.
• Spam, mass-message, or automate your activity.
• Share someone else's private information, or republish their photos or messages without their consent.
• Scrape the service, bypass rate limits, or interfere with how it runs.

4. Your content, and ours

You keep ownership of the photos, bio, comments and messages you post. You give us the permission we need to host, store and display that content inside the product so the service can work. You are responsible for what you post, and for having the right to post it.

We may remove content that breaks these terms or our guidelines, and we may remove content in response to a report.

Everything that is not your content remains ours or our licensors': the BuzzUp and CollegeBuzz names and logos, the software, the design, and the text and artwork of the product itself. You may use the service as intended, and that is the whole of the permission granted — it does not include copying, rebranding or redistributing the product, scraping profiles or other members' content, or using our names and logos without written permission.

5. Messaging and interactions

Chat opens only after a mutual like. You can unmatch or block at any point; blocking removes that person from your Discover, matches and messages in both directions. Comments left on a profile are visible only to the person who received them.

6. Verification and what it does not mean

Verification is optional. If you choose to request it, you must capture a live photo of yourself, taken at that moment on your own device — never a photo of someone else, and never a photo used to verify an account that is not yours. A human moderator compares that live photo against the profile photos on the same account and decides whether to approve it. It helps us reduce obviously fake or misleading profiles and improve trust on BuzzUp.

It is not an identity check, a background check, a check of any government document, or a statement about anyone's intentions, character or conduct. A verified badge means a moderator judged a live photo to be consistent with the photos already on that profile — nothing more. It is not a reason to skip the precautions on our safety page.

We may reject a verification request, or remove a verification badge already granted, where we believe the requirements were not genuinely met. Submitting someone else's photo, attempting to verify an account that is not yours, or otherwise trying to manipulate or bypass the verification process is a breach of these terms and may lead to the account action described in Suspension and termination below.

7. User responsibility and platform use

BuzzUp is an independent project operated under the CollegeBuzz name. CollegeBuzz is not currently a registered company or incorporated legal entity. No company registration number or registered office is provided because none currently exists. That is worth repeating here: your use of BuzzUp is voluntary, and this section is about the part of any interaction that is genuinely yours to manage.

• You choose to use BuzzUp, and you are responsible for the decisions you make on it — who you talk to, what you share, and whether and how you meet someone in person.
• Use your own judgement. A profile, a message or a verification badge is information, not a guarantee, and it is worth treating someone you have not met before with the same care you would anywhere else.
• BuzzUp does not guarantee another member’s identity, intentions, behaviour, honesty, or the accuracy of anything they have told you. A verification badge means a moderator judged a live photo to be consistent with that account’s profile photos — see Verification above — and nothing more; it does not vouch for someone being safe, trustworthy or genuine in every respect.
• Never share passwords, one-time codes, bank details or other sensitive information with another member, however well the conversation is going.
• If you decide to meet someone from BuzzUp, take the precautions on our Safety Guidelines page — meeting in public, telling someone where you will be, and trusting your own instincts.
• You are still responsible for following the law that applies to you and the rules in these terms and our Community Guidelines, whatever happens in a conversation or a meeting.

8. Reporting and moderation

You can report any profile, comment or conversation. Reports go into a moderation queue and are reviewed by a person, who can warn, restrict, suspend or ban an account, and remove content. Moderation actions are recorded in an audit log. We do not share the details of a report with the person reported beyond the reason given for any action taken.

9. Suspension and termination

We may restrict, suspend or terminate an account that breaks these terms or our guidelines, or where we reasonably believe it is necessary to protect other members. If your account is restricted you will see the reason recorded by the moderator, and you can appeal by writing to support.

10. Deleting your account

You can delete your account yourself, at any time, from Settings. What happens to your data afterwards is set out on the account deletion page and in our Privacy Policy.

11. Third-party services

BuzzUp relies on third parties for hosting, database and authentication, file storage, email delivery, browser push and bot protection. Their handling of data is described in our Privacy Policy. Links or content from other services are not under our control and we are not responsible for them.

12. Disclaimers

BuzzUp is provided as-is and as-available. We do not run background checks on members, we do not vet colleges or events, and we cannot guarantee anyone's conduct — online or in person. We do not promise that you will find a match, a friend, or a partner for any event, and we do not promise the service will be uninterrupted or error-free.

13. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, or for anything arising out of your interactions with other members, including anything that happens when you meet in person. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot legally be limited. The specific limits and caps that apply have not been confirmed and should be reviewed by a qualified legal professional before public launch.

14. Governing law

These terms do not currently specify a governing law or jurisdiction. This is genuinely open rather than merely unwritten. Because BuzzUp is not incorporated, which law applies — and how terms like these are enforced when there is no company behind them — is a question for a qualified professional, and it should be confirmed before public launch rather than answered with a guess.

15. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms as the product changes. The date at the top shows when they last changed, and significant changes will be announced in the app. Continuing to use BuzzUp after a change means you accept the updated terms.

16. Contact

Questions about these terms, or an appeal? Write to khamoshconfess@gmail.com or use the contact page.