Terms of Service

Last updated: August 20, 2026

Please read these Terms carefully. They include important provisions that affect your legal rights — including the limitations of our liability (Section 14), your agreement to indemnify us (Section 15), and how disputes are resolved (Section 17).

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are a binding legal agreement between you ("you" or "your") and AROUNDBEE PRIVATE LIMITED, a company incorporated in India ("AroundBee," "we," "us," or "our"). They govern your access to and use of the AroundBee mobile application and any related features and services we provide (together, the "App"). The App lets you create and share location-based photo and video "Trails" and "Spots," set up a profile, send direct messages to other users, see what has been posted in your local area (a "Hive"), and share a link to a public post outside the App.

By creating an account, tapping "I agree," or otherwise accessing or using the App, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms and by our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into these Terms by reference. If you do not agree, do not access or use the App.

1. Eligibility

The App is intended for adults only. You must be at least 18 years old to use the App. You are asked to confirm your age when you sign up. By creating an account or using the App, you represent and warrant that you are 18 years of age or older, that you have the legal capacity to enter into these Terms, and that all information you provide is accurate and current. We do not knowingly permit anyone under 18 to use the App, and we may suspend or terminate any account we believe belongs to a person under 18.

2. Your Account

We sign you in using your phone number with one-time password (OTP) verification. You are responsible for all activity that occurs under your account and for maintaining control of your phone number and device. You agree to provide accurate information, to keep it updated, and to notify us promptly at support@aroundbee.com if you suspect any unauthorised use of your account. You may not share, sell, or transfer your account, or use anyone else's account, without our permission. You may delete your account at any time from within the App; deletion is handled as described in our Privacy Policy.

3. Licence to Use the App

Subject to your compliance with these Terms, we grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, and revocable licence to download and use the App on a device you own or control, for your own personal, non-commercial use. We reserve all rights not expressly granted to you.

4. Your Content

The App lets you create, upload, and share content — including Trails, Spots, photos, videos, captions, descriptions, profile details, and direct messages ("Your Content"). As between you and us, you retain all ownership rights in Your Content.

By making Your Content available through the App, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable licence to host, store, cache, reproduce, adapt (for technical purposes such as formatting and resizing), publish, publicly display, and distribute Your Content, solely as needed to operate, provide, secure, and improve the App and its features — for example, to display your public Trails and Spots to other users, to include them in the Hive for the area they were created in, to generate a preview card and web page for a link you choose to share, or to deliver your messages to their recipients. This licence ends within a reasonable period after you delete Your Content or your account, except that it survives (a) for content you have shared with other users who have not deleted it, and (b) to the extent we are required to retain copies by law or for the establishment, exercise, or defence of legal claims.

Public posts, Hives, and shared links. When you publish a Trail or Spot publicly, it is visible to other users and is counted towards, and shown in, the Hive for the area it was created in, alongside your name or username. If you share a link to a public post, we create a web page for it that anyone holding that link can open without installing the App or signing in. We ask search engines not to index those pages, but we cannot control where a link travels once you have sent it, and you are responsible for deciding who receives it. Posts you mark private are not shown in a public Hive and have no such page. Deleting a post removes its page.

Amounts you record. Any cost or amount-spent figure you enter is information you type in yourself. We do not verify it, we are not connected to your bank, card, or any payment account, and we do not process payments. These figures are a personal record only and are not financial advice, accounting, or a transaction record.

You represent and warrant that you own or have all necessary rights, licences, consents, and permissions to Your Content and to grant the licence above, and that Your Content — and our use of it as permitted here — does not and will not infringe or violate the rights of any third party or any applicable law. You are solely responsible for Your Content and for the consequences of sharing it.

5. Acceptable Use and Zero Tolerance for Objectionable Content

AroundBee has zero tolerance for objectionable content or abusive behaviour. You agree that you will not, and will not attempt to, post, share, transmit, or otherwise make available any content, or engage in any conduct, that:

• is unlawful, fraudulent, deceptive, threatening, harassing, defamatory, libellous, or invasive of another person's privacy;
• is hateful or discriminatory, or that harasses, bullies, intimidates, or promotes or incites violence against any individual or group;
• is obscene, pornographic, or sexually explicit, or that sexualises, exploits, or endangers a minor in any way;
• depicts, encourages, or facilitates self-harm, suicide, dangerous activities, or any illegal act, including the sale of illegal or regulated goods;
• impersonates any person or entity, or misrepresents your affiliation with any person or entity;
• is spam, or that solicits, advertises, or promotes goods or services without our authorisation;
• infringes or misappropriates any patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, publicity, privacy, or other right of any third party;
• discloses another person's private or personal information without their consent;
• threatens the unity, integrity, defence, security, or sovereignty of India, friendly relations with foreign States, or public order; causes incitement to the commission of any cognisable offence; prevents investigation of any offence; or is insulting to any other nation;
• is patently false, untrue, or misleading in nature but may reasonably be perceived as a fact; deceives or misleads the recipient about the origin of the message; or is communicated with the intent to mislead, deceive, or harass any person;
• promotes gambling or betting, or any online game that causes user harm or is not permitted under applicable law;
• contains software viruses or any code designed to disrupt, damage, or limit the functioning of any software, hardware, or telecommunications equipment; or
• interferes with, disrupts, scrapes, harvests data from, reverse-engineers, circumvents, or attempts to gain unauthorised access to the App, its systems, or other users' accounts.

We may, at our sole discretion and without prior notice or liability, remove or restrict any content, and suspend or permanently terminate any account, that we believe violates these Terms or is otherwise objectionable or harmful. We may remind you of these requirements periodically (including at least once a year). If you do not comply with these Terms or applicable law, we may immediately remove the non-compliant content, terminate your access or usage rights, and, where required or appropriate, report the matter to the relevant authorities.

6. Reporting, Blocking, and Moderation

The App provides tools to report content or users you find objectionable and to block users so that you no longer see their content and they can no longer contact you. We review reports of objectionable content and abusive users and take the action we consider appropriate — which may include removing content and ejecting the responsible user — and we aim to do so promptly, ordinarily within 24 hours of a report. Filing a report does not guarantee any particular outcome, but every report is reviewed.

Automated screening. In addition to acting on reports, we automatically screen photos and videos uploaded to the App for unsafe content, and our team reviews what that screening flags. Screening is a safety measure and not a guarantee: it will not catch everything, and a flag is reviewed by a person before we act on it. Screening does not reduce your responsibility for Your Content. Our right to moderate is a right, not an obligation, and we are not liable for any content posted by users.

Grievance Officer. In accordance with the Information Technology Act, 2000 and the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, our Grievance Officer is:

Grievance Officer
Akshith Raja P
AROUNDBEE PRIVATE LIMITED
Email: support@aroundbee.com

The Grievance Officer will acknowledge your complaint within 24 hours of receipt and dispose of it within 15 days. If your complaint relates to content that exposes you (or a person on whose behalf you are authorised to complain) in full or partial nudity or in a sexual act or conduct, or shows you in an impersonated, morphed, or artificially altered form, we will take all reasonable and practicable measures to remove or disable access to that content within 24 hours of receiving your complaint.

7. Our Role; No General Monitoring

AroundBee is an intermediary that makes a platform available for users to create and share their own content. We do not author, endorse, verify, or guarantee user content, and we are not the source of it. We are not obligated to monitor user content in advance. The automated screening described in Section 6 is a limited safety measure applied to uploaded media; it does not make us the author or reviewer of user content, does not amount to general monitoring, and does not make us responsible or liable for any user content or for any loss or damage arising from it. We may, but are not required to, remove or disable access to any content that is the subject of a valid complaint or that we believe violates these Terms or applicable law. If you believe content on the App infringes your rights or is unlawful, contact our Grievance Officer (see Section 6) at support@aroundbee.com with sufficient detail to locate it, and we will respond as required by applicable law.

8. Interactions with Other Users

You are solely responsible for your interactions with other users, whether online or offline. We do not conduct background checks on, or verify the identity, statements, or conduct of, any user. If you choose to communicate or meet with another person you encountered through the App, you do so entirely at your own risk. We are not responsible for the conduct of any user, and you release us from any claims, demands, and damages of every kind arising out of or connected with any dispute or interaction between you and any other user.

9. Our Intellectual Property; Feedback

The App and all materials in it other than Your Content — including the AroundBee name, logo, "Trails," "Spots," software, design, text, graphics, and other features (the "AroundBee Materials") — are owned by AroundBee or its licensors and are protected by intellectual-property laws. Except for the licence to use the App granted above, nothing in these Terms transfers any right, title, or interest in the AroundBee Materials to you. You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, lease, reverse-engineer, or create derivative works of any part of the App except to the extent this restriction is prohibited by applicable law. If you send us suggestions or feedback, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free licence to use them for any purpose without obligation to you.

10. Third-Party Services

The App relies on third-party services (such as mobile operating systems, app stores, hosting, mapping, and analytics providers) and may contain links to third-party websites or resources. We do not control and are not responsible for third-party services or content, and your use of them may be governed by their own terms and policies. Your dealings with any third party are solely between you and that third party.

Open data attribution. Hive boundaries in the App are derived from administrative boundary data published by geoBoundaries, made available under the Open Database Licence (ODbL). Boundaries are approximate, are used only to group posts by area, and are not authoritative statements about any territory, border, or jurisdiction.

11. Privacy

Our Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your information. By using the App, you acknowledge that you have read the Privacy Policy and consent to the practices described in it.

Notifications. If you allow notifications on your device, we may send you notifications about activity involving you or your content, about new public posts in your Hive, and reminders and occasional messages from us about using the App. Some reminders are chosen using activity signals such as how long it has been since you last opened the App or whether you left a draft unpublished; these are described in the "Notifications" section of our Privacy Policy. You can turn each category off at any time in the App under Settings → Notifications, or turn off all notifications in your device settings. We may still send you occasional messages necessary to operate your account or to meet a legal obligation.

12. Suspension and Termination

You may stop using the App and delete your account at any time. We may suspend, restrict, or terminate your access to the App or your account at any time, with or without notice, if (a) you breach these Terms, (b) we are required to do so by law, or (c) we reasonably believe your conduct may harm AroundBee, other users, or third parties. Upon termination, the licence granted to you ends and you must stop using the App. Any provision that by its nature should survive termination — including Sections 4 (licences granted), 8, 9, 13, 14, 15, 17, and 19 — will survive.

13. Disclaimers

The App and all content and services in it are provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis, without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, statutory, or otherwise. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement, and any warranties arising out of course of dealing or usage of trade. We do not warrant that the App will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free; that defects will be corrected; or that any content (including content from other users) is accurate, complete, reliable, or safe.

14. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, in no event will AroundBee or its directors, officers, employees, agents, or licensors be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or other intangible losses, arising out of or relating to your access to or use of (or inability to access or use) the App, any conduct or content of any user or third party, or any unauthorised access to or use of your account or content, whether based on warranty, contract, tort (including negligence), statute, or any other legal theory, and whether or not we have been advised of the possibility of such damage.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, our total aggregate liability for all claims arising out of or relating to the App or these Terms will not exceed the greater of (a) the total amount you paid us, if any, in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) INR 5,000 (five thousand Indian Rupees).

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits any liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law, including your non-waivable statutory rights as a consumer.

15. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless AroundBee and its directors, officers, employees, and agents from and against any and all claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or in any way connected with: (a) Your Content; (b) your use or misuse of the App; (c) your interactions with other users; (d) your violation of these Terms; or (e) your violation of any law or the rights of any third party.

16. Changes to the App and to These Terms

We are continually improving the App and may add, change, suspend, or discontinue any feature at any time. We may also update these Terms from time to time. When we do, we will post the updated Terms on this page and revise the "Last updated" date above, and where the changes are material we will provide additional notice (for example, in the App or by requiring you to accept the updated Terms). Your continued use of the App after the updated Terms take effect constitutes your acceptance of them. If you do not agree to the updated Terms, you must stop using the App.

17. Governing Law and Dispute Resolution

These Terms and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or the App (including non-contractual disputes) are governed by the laws of India, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Before filing any claim, you agree to first contact us at support@aroundbee.com and attempt in good faith to resolve the dispute informally. Subject to applicable law, the courts at Bengaluru, Karnataka, India will have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute that is not resolved informally, and you consent to the personal jurisdiction of those courts. Nothing in this section prevents either party from seeking urgent injunctive or equitable relief, or limits any non-waivable rights you have under applicable consumer-protection law.

18. Apple App Store

The following additional terms apply if you obtained the App from the Apple App Store, and you acknowledge and agree:

• These Terms are between you and AroundBee only, and not with Apple Inc. ("Apple"). Apple is not responsible for the App or its content.
• Apple has no obligation to furnish any maintenance or support services for the App.
• In the event the App fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price (if any) for the App; to the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation with respect to the App.
• Apple is not responsible for addressing any claims by you or any third party relating to the App or your possession or use of it, including product-liability claims, any claim that the App fails to conform to legal or regulatory requirements, and claims arising under consumer-protection or similar legislation.
• In the event of any third-party claim that the App or your possession and use of it infringes that third party's intellectual-property rights, AroundBee, not Apple, is solely responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement, and discharge of such claim.
• You represent that you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. Government embargo or designated as "terrorist-supporting," and that you are not on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
• You must comply with applicable third-party terms of agreement when using the App.
• Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and, upon your acceptance, will have the right (and will be deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce these Terms against you as a third-party beneficiary.

19. General

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between you and AroundBee regarding the App and supersede any prior agreements. If any provision is held unenforceable, it will be modified to the minimum extent necessary, and the remaining provisions will remain in full force. Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of it. You may not assign or transfer these Terms without our prior written consent; we may assign them, for example in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets. We will not be liable for any delay or failure to perform caused by events beyond our reasonable control. Except for Apple as set out in Section 18, there are no third-party beneficiaries to these Terms. We may provide notices to you through the App or the contact details associated with your account.

20. Contact Us

If you have any questions about these Terms, contact us at:

AROUNDBEE PRIVATE LIMITED
Email: support@aroundbee.com