Update Date: November 19, 2022

Welcome to Scribl!

Scribl is a social network offering its Users to take a photo of themselves and their environment upon receiving a notification and then share it with friends or publicly (hereinafter the “Application”).

The Scribl Application is published by DBC Media Online, LLC, a limited liabilty company whose registered office is located at 305 W Fayette St, Baltimore, MD.

These General Terms of Use (hereinafter the “Terms” or “ToU”) determine the conditions under which the User is authorised to use the Application and to benefit from its Services.

Access to the Application and use of the Services are conditional upon acceptance of and compliance with these Terms. Therefore, by creating a User Account and using the Application you agree to comply with the obligations described in this document.

Our Privacy Policy is an integral part of these Terms. Please read all of these documents carefully and do not register with BeReal if you do not agree with any of the provisions contained herein.

Because your privacy is of great importance for Scribl, please note that we will never sell your data nor use it in a way you are not informed of.

• 1 Definitions and Interpretation

In these TOU, the following terms have the following meaning:

• “User Account” or “User Profile” refers to the space specific to a User on which he or she can fill in information about himself or herself, view and comment on the Content of other Users, and publish his or her own Content. The User Account is necessarily public and can be consulted by anyone.

• “Content” means text published on the Application and/or created through the Application Services;

• “Parties” means Scribl and the User;

• “Platform” means the online solution accessible from the Scribl application available on Apple Store;

• “Services” means all the features offered to the User to allow him to create, modify, publish, share their content.

• “User” means any natural person using the Application and its Services.

• 2 User Account Creation 

• 2.1 Requested Information 

In order to use Scribl you must create a User Account that will be specific to you. When creating your User Account we will ask you to provide the following information:

• your phone number;

• your name or first name;

• a User name.

These elements are essential to use the Application Scribl.

When creating your User Account, the information provided must correspond to your own identity and must not be false or erroneous.

You also agree to keep your User Account password confidential. If you believe that someone is using your User Account in an illegitimate manner, you agree to notify us by contacting us at scribl@dbcmediaonline.com.

• 2.2 Age Limit and Parental Permission 

Scribl is open to users over the age of 16 only.

If you are under 16, you are not allowed to create a User Account and use the Application. 

If you are the legal representative of a minor over the age of 16 and you wish to contact us, please send us a message to the following email address: scribl@dbcmediaonline.com.

• 3 Services Description

You may use the Services on your phone through the Scribl Mobile Application. The Services allow you to (i) create, publish, share Content, (ii) view other Users' Content (iii) interact with them and (iv) edit your Content once a day.

• (i) Create and Share Your Own Content

Under this feature you can:

• Post text containing your daily update, question or thought within a time limit to share it;

• Choose to share the text with your friends;

• Fill in various information on your User Account, such as your biography.

• (ii) Display Other Users’ Content 

You may view the Content of other Users when:

• You are friends with the User;

• (iii) Interact With Other Users 

You can interact with other Users or with other Users' Content through:

• The “Find Friends” feature that allows you to search your phone book for people using Scribl;

• A messaging feature to exchange between Users;

(iv) Content Deletion 

You may choose to edit one piece of Content per day.

However, if you wish to remove Content, please send us a request to scribl@dbcmediaonline.com.  

• 4 Reporting Illegal or Inappropriate Content 

As a hosting company, we are not under a general obligation to monitor the information we store. Nevertheless, if you believe that a Content is illicit or inappropriate, you can report it to us in the settings of the User Profile.

In particular, we invite you to report any Content of a sexual and/or child pornographic nature, calling for hatred, terrorism, violence in general or against a group of people in particular, inciting others to endanger themselves or provoking suicide. 

• 5 User Obligations

When using the Application, you agree to comply with the provisions described in these Terms of Use and with the laws in force. As such, you agree not to:

• Use Scribl if you are under 16 years old;

• Use Scribl outside of the United States of America;

• Use Scribl for advertising or commercial purposes to publish or facilitate the transmission of advertising, commercial solicitations, spam, "chain letters", "pyramid schemes" or to collect information, data or Content about other Users without their permission;

• Tamper or attempt to tamper with the proper working of the Application, interfere with access to the Application or circumvent any measures we may use to block or restrict access to the Services;

• Use the Scribl Application in a deceptive, malicious, discriminatory, or otherwise unlawful manner, such as impersonating someone else for personal or commercial purposes;

• Harm or attempt to harm another person or group, including, but not limited to, bullying, harassment, promotion of sexual content, violence, hate speech, dissemination of false information;

• Use the Services to intentionally, recklessly or negligently upload, transmit, distribute, store or otherwise make available any Content that may infringe upon the intellectual property rights of others, or the privacy, image, dignity or honor of others, including a deceased person. In this regard, please note that you are solely responsible for the Content you choose to share on the Application, especially when this Content represents other people. We recommend that you always ensure that you have the consent of others to use their image or creations on Scribl.

We reserve the right, at any time and without notice, to remove or temporarily or permanently suspend access to any Content that is clearly illegal or does not comply with these Terms.

• 6 User Account Deletion 

We reserve the right to suspend or terminate your User Account upon notice from us and without prior notice, for any reason whatsoever, including but not limited to:

• Violation or attempted violation of the Terms and/or applicable law;

• Unexpected technical or security problems; or

• Long periods of inactivity of your account

In such a case, you are not allowed to create a new User Account. 

• 7 Intellectual Property 

• 7.1 Intellectual Property and Application Integrity

Excluding the Content generated by Users, the Application is the exclusive property of Scribl, including its structure, design, interfaces, databases, text, digital content, trademarks, and HTML tags (meta-tags). The Application is protected by the provisions of the American Intellectual Property Code.

You may use the Application under a non-exclusive, limited, non-transferable, revocable license, valid worldwide and until the deletion of your User Account, to share your Content and interact with other Users only.

Accordingly, you may not reproduce, distribute, reverse engineer, disassemble, decompile or otherwise use the Application or any portion thereof in any form whatsoever, except as authorized in writing by us. Any violation of this obligation constitutes an infringement.

It is also forbidden to :

• Extracting data by temporary or permanent transfer, or using the Application or its visible databases for commercial or other purposes by making them available to the public in whole or in part and substantially in quantitative or qualitative terms;

• To extract or use in a repeated and systematic way all or part of the visible information of the Application, when such an operation clearly exceeds a normal and private use of the Application;

• Exploit, market or distribute any component of the Application, including but not limited to the visible information of the Application, the databases, the Services, the programs, the source codes, the algorithms, the methods incorporated in the Application;

• Use any device or software to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Application; or take any action that imposes a disproportionately large load on our infrastructure.

• 7.2 Intellectual Property and License 

By using Scribl you will create Content of which you may be the author and, if applicable, the owner of the intellectual property rights.

When you share Content on the Application you grant Scribl and all its Users a free, non-exclusive, 30 (thirty) year, worldwide license in any medium to:

• To other Users to reproduce and share the Content on WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, SnapChat and Instagram, and more generally any social network or messaging application that may be interfaced with Scribl;

• To Scribl to host, store, reproduce, modify, adapt, display, publish, edit, distribute and sublicense all or part of the Content for the purpose of providing the Application Services to its Users, and to conduct marketing, communication or commercial promotion activities of Scribl. 

• 8 Indemnification, Warranty Exclusion and Liability

The Application and its Services are provided “as is”. Consequently, we do not offer you any guarantee concerning them, and in particular concerning:

• The conformity of our Services to your expectations;

• The absence of interruption, errors, security breaches, infringement of the rights of third parties in the operation of the Application Scribl;

• The accuracy and reliability of information obtained through the use of our Services.

More generally, you acknowledge that the Internet, and any telematic network used for data transmission may involve risks related to the lack of protection of certain data against possible misuse and risks of contamination by viruses. Also, Scribl cannot be held responsible for the loss or alteration of data, or for the loss of opportunity or time.

In any event, our liability is limited to direct material damages to the exclusion of any indirect damages of any kind.

We further reserve the right, to the extent permitted by law, to modify, suspend, discontinue or limit the availability of all or any part of our Platform for business and operational reasons at any time without notice.

• 9 Data Protection and Privacy

Users are informed that the personal data collected may be subject to data processing activities in accordance with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).

For more details regarding the use of your personal data and your rights, we recommend that you read our Privacy Policy.

• 10 Modification of the present Terms of Use

Scribl reserves the right to modify its ToU at any time. In this case, Scribl will publish the new versions of the ToU on the pages of the Application and will alert Users by means of a pop-up window that will appear when opening the Application. 

• 11 Miscellaneous

In the event that all or part of the provisions of the GTC are deemed illegal, unenforceable or inapplicable by a court decision, the other provisions or agreements shall remain applicable, provided that the general scheme of the contract is not disrupted. The invalid provision shall be replaced by a valid provision that comes as close as possible to the economic purpose pursued by the Parties. This Agreement, together with the Privacy Policy, constitutes the entire agreement between the Parties.

• 12 Applicable laws and jurisdiction

For any claim or dispute, the user is invited in priority to contact Scribl at scribl@dbcmediaonline.com to reach an amicable solution.