Abbs

Terms of service

Version 1.9 · Last updated October 26, 2026

Welcome to Abbs. These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of the Abbs mobile application (the "App") operated by Deep Connect Solutions GmbH ("we", "us", "our"). By creating an account or using the App, you agree to be bound by these Terms.

Please read these Terms carefully before using Abbs.

1. Eligibility

1.1 You must be at least 18 years of age to create an account and use Abbs. By using the App, you represent and warrant that you are at least 18 years old.

1.2 You must have the legal capacity to enter into a binding agreement. If you are using the App on behalf of an organisation, you represent that you have the authority to bind that organisation to these Terms.

1.3 You may not use the App if you have been previously banned or had your account terminated by us. This includes creating a new account after a ban. We use the face check described in Section 2.6 to detect banned members who try to return.

2. Account Creation and Security

2.1 You may create an account using Sign in with Apple. You are responsible for maintaining the security of your Apple Account and any credentials associated with your Abbs account.

2.2 You may optionally verify your phone number for additional account security.

2.3 You agree to provide accurate, current, and complete information in your profile. Misrepresenting your age, identity, or using someone else's photos is prohibited.

2.4 You are responsible for all activity that occurs under your account. Notify us immediately if you suspect unauthorised access.

2.5 Each person may have only one active Abbs account at a time. We use the face check described in Section 2.6 to detect a second account of the same person.

2.6 To join Abbs, we may require you to verify that you are a real person who is present, either with a short face check (a live video selfie from which we create a face template and compare it with the face templates of other members) or, if you prefer not to have a face template, with a short video that a person from our team reviews. Existing members may also be asked to verify and can't keep using the App until they do. If our face check finds that you already have an account or that you were banned, we can't finish your sign-up or, for an existing account, you can't keep using it; you can ask for a review by a person from our team at privacy@abbsapp.com. Section 10 of our Privacy Policy explains how these checks work and how we handle your data.

2.7 If you turn on the Verified badge, other users see a Verified mark next to your name while your main photo matches the face from your own live face check. The badge means only that. It is not an identity or age check, and it does not confirm a user's name, age, identity, background or intentions. You may only seek or show the badge with a main photo that shows only you.

3. Acceptable Use

3.1 You agree to use Abbs in accordance with all applicable laws and these Terms. You will not:

a) Post, upload, or share content that is illegal, defamatory, threatening, harassing, abusive, hateful, or that promotes violence or discrimination.
b) Upload content depicting minors or any form of child exploitation. Such content will be reported to the relevant authorities.
c) Impersonate another person or misrepresent your affiliation with any person or entity.
d) Use the App for commercial purposes, advertising, or solicitation without our prior written consent.
e) Harass, stalk, intimidate, or threaten other users.
f) Send spam, unsolicited messages, or chain messages.
g) Attempt to extract data from the App through scraping, crawling, or automated means.
h) Reverse-engineer, decompile, or disassemble the App or its backend systems.
i) Interfere with or disrupt the App's infrastructure, servers, or networks.
j) Create accounts using automated means or bots.
k) Use the App to facilitate any illegal activity, including but not limited to prostitution, drug trafficking, or fraud.
l) Share another user's private content (photos, messages, or personal information) outside the App without their explicit consent.
m) Use photos of another person to present them as yourself, or try to deceive or get around our face checks or the Verified badge, for example with photos, videos or masks, or by having someone else verify for you.
n) Fake your location, use software or devices to get around our location checks, or join a venue list for a place you are not at.

3.2 We reserve the right to remove content and suspend or terminate accounts that violate these Terms, at our sole discretion and without prior notice.

4. Content and Intellectual Property

4.1 Your Content

You retain ownership of the content you upload to Abbs (photos, videos, text). By uploading content, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to use, display, reproduce, and distribute your content solely for the purpose of operating and providing the App. This licence ends when you delete the content or when your account is permanently deleted, except to the limited extent retention is required by law or necessary to establish or defend legal claims.

4.2 Content Moderation

We use automated systems to moderate uploaded content and may review content or reports when investigating a potential violation. Content that violates our guidelines may be removed, and your account may be suspended or terminated. You acknowledge that moderation decisions are at our sole discretion.

4.3 Our Intellectual Property

The App, including its design, code, features, logos, and trademarks, is owned by Deep Connect Solutions GmbH and protected by intellectual property laws. You may not copy, modify, distribute, or create derivative works based on the App without our prior written consent.

5. Premium Subscriptions

5.1 Subscription Tiers

Abbs offers optional premium subscription tiers:

5.2 Pricing and Billing

5.3 Auto-Renewal

5.4 Refunds

Refund requests are handled by Apple in accordance with its App Store refund policies. We do not process refunds directly. You can request an eligible refund at https://reportaproblem.apple.com.

5.5 Free Trial

If a free trial is offered, it will automatically convert to a paid subscription at the end of the trial period unless cancelled beforehand.

5.6 Media Allowances and Fair Use

Abbs media sharing is intended for personal profiles and conversations. Using the App as a cloud backup, bulk archive or automated bulk-upload service is outside its intended use.

Each account has the following combined photo and video allowances:

GB means 1,000,000,000 bytes and MB means 1,000,000 bytes. Allowances use the file size after the App prepares it for upload. Your profile, album, library and chat uploads all count against your account. Receiving someone else's media does not consume your storage allowance, and sending an existing stored item again does not consume additional storage or new-upload volume. Internal playback copies and thumbnails do not count as additional user storage.

For older media whose original file size can no longer be verified, storage usage may include an identified conservative estimate based on the historical upload limit. These items remain available to manage and delete.

Capacity is reserved when a new upload starts. The rolling upload allowance includes admitted uploads that are subsequently cancelled, fail or are deleted; retrying the same admitted upload does not charge it again. Each charge leaves the rolling window 30 days after admission. Deleting an item frees its storage allowance but does not refund upload volume. Pending uploads reserve storage until they complete or their reservation expires.

Every account also has a maximum of 1,000 stored photos and 100 stored videos. Short-term service protections include a 200-file / 2 GiB upload window lasting 24 hours from the first upload in that window, and up to 100 new media-sharing operations per UTC day. One GiB is 1,073,741,824 bytes. A sharing operation can have multiple recipients; the Free and Gold daily delivery allowance counts each recipient separately. Additional request throttling may temporarily slow activity to protect service availability.

Manage Storage in the App shows usage, available capacity and when rolling upload capacity next becomes available. When a limit is reached, additional uploads pause until capacity becomes available or you move to a plan with sufficient capacity. A subscription downgrade does not by itself delete existing media or remove otherwise valid viewing access. New uploads must fit the current plan. Normal deletion, one-time viewing, expiration, moderation and access-revocation rules still apply.

6. Location Services

6.1 Abbs uses your device's GPS to determine your location. This is essential for showing you nearby users and displaying distances between users.

6.2 Other users never see your exact coordinates. Users browsing from their current GPS location see how far away you are, in 10-metre steps below 1 km and rounded beyond that. Users browsing from a location they picked on the map see only your city. You can hide your distance by turning off "Show Distance" in your privacy settings. The one exception is a venue list: if you choose to join the list of a club, the members on that list see that you are at that club, and, if you also choose to show it on your profile, so do people within 15 km of the club (Section 6.5). Turning off "Show Distance" doesn't hide a list you join or a club tag you choose to show. Section 4.1 of our Privacy Policy explains this in detail.

6.3 You can turn off location access at any time in your device settings. The App keeps working without it: you can pick a city to browse, but you won't see distances to other users, and new chats may count toward the free plan's daily long-distance limit. Other users see the distance to the place you picked, or, if you haven't picked one, to your most recent location; turn off "Show Distance" to hide it.

6.4 In addition to your current location, the App stores a history of your location updates for up to 90 days for service operation, security, troubleshooting, and improvement. After 90 days, location history entries are automatically and permanently deleted. For further details, see our Privacy Policy.

6.5 Venue lists are optional. If you join the list of a club, the other members on that list can see your profile there, and you can see theirs. You join by your own explicit tap each time and can leave at any time. You can also switch on "Show on my profile" for a visit; it is off at every visit. Then people who are not on the list, but whose phone location is within 15 km of the club, see which club you are at and can open directions to the club. Do not use a tag or directions to locate or follow anyone (Section 3.1(e)). Join a list only when you are at that club. We can't confirm that anyone on a list is inside the building, and a list is not a statement by, or a connection with, the club. We may limit how often you can join. Misuse of venue lists can lead to suspension or termination of your account (Section 3.2). Section 12 of our Privacy Policy explains how we handle your data.

7. Privacy

Your privacy is important to us. Our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into these Terms by reference, explains how we collect, use, and protect your personal data. By using Abbs, you agree to our Privacy Policy.

8. Blocking and Reporting

8.1 You can block other users to prevent them from seeing your profile, contacting you, or appearing in your discovery feed. Blocking is mutual and immediate.

8.2 You can report users who violate these Terms or engage in harmful behaviour. Reports are recorded and may be used to enforce these Terms.

8.3 We may take action including warnings, temporary suspensions, or permanent bans based on the available information and the severity of the violation. If we ban an account that has a face template, we keep that template for 3 years after the ban so that the person can't return with a new account, also if the person withdraws consent or deletes the account, as described in our Privacy Policy.

9. Disclaimers

9.1 The App is provided "as is" and "as available" without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.

9.2 We do not guarantee that the App will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, or free of viruses or other harmful components.

9.3 We do not conduct criminal background checks on users and cannot guarantee the identity, intentions, or behaviour of other users. Our face checks and the Verified badge do not verify anyone's identity or age (Section 2.7). You are solely responsible for your interactions with other users.

9.4 We are not responsible for any content posted by users. User-generated content does not reflect our views or opinions.

10. Limitation of Liability

10.1 To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Deep Connect Solutions GmbH and its officers, directors, employees, and agents shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, including but not limited to loss of profits, data, use, or goodwill, arising out of or related to your use of the App.

10.2 Our total aggregate liability for any claims arising from your use of the App shall not exceed the amount you paid to us in the twelve (12) months preceding the event giving rise to the claim, or fifty euros (EUR 50), whichever is greater.

10.3 Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, fraud, or any other liability that cannot be excluded by law.

11. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Deep Connect Solutions GmbH and its officers, directors, employees, and agents from and against any claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or related to: (a) your use of the App; (b) your violation of these Terms; (c) your violation of any third-party rights; or (d) any content you upload or share through the App.

12. Termination

12.1 You may delete your account at any time through the App (Settings > Account > Delete Account). Account deletion immediately deactivates the account and initiates a 30-day grace period. If you do not restore it during that period, the account and its associated content, conversations, messages, media, and other user-linked records are permanently deleted from our active systems, subject only to the limited legal, audit, and backup retention described in our Privacy Policy.

12.2 Deleting the App or your Abbs account does not cancel an active Apple subscription. You must manage or cancel the subscription separately through your Apple Account subscription settings.

12.3 We may suspend or terminate your account at any time, with or without cause, and with or without notice, if we believe you have violated these Terms or engaged in conduct that is harmful to other users or to us.

12.4 Upon termination, your right to use the App ceases immediately. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (including but not limited to Sections 4, 9, 10, 11, and 14) will survive.

13. Changes to These Terms

We may modify these Terms at any time. When we make material changes, we will notify you through the App (for example, by requiring re-acceptance) and update the "Last Updated" date. Your continued use of the App after changes constitutes acceptance of the modified Terms. If you do not agree to the modified Terms, you must stop using the App and delete your account.

14. Governing Law and Dispute Resolution

14.1 These Terms are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, without regard to its conflict of law provisions.

14.2 For EU consumers, mandatory consumer protection laws of your country of residence apply to the extent they provide greater protection.

14.3 Any disputes arising from these Terms or your use of the App shall first be attempted to be resolved through good-faith negotiation. If negotiation fails, disputes shall be submitted to the competent courts of Bremen, Germany, subject to mandatory consumer jurisdiction rules.

14.4 We are not obligated and are not willing to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board.

15. Miscellaneous

15.1 Entire Agreement: These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and us regarding your use of the App.

15.2 Severability: If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions shall continue in full force and effect.

15.3 Waiver: Our failure to enforce any right or provision of these Terms does not constitute a waiver of that right or provision.

15.4 Assignment: You may not assign or transfer your rights under these Terms without our prior written consent. We may assign our rights and obligations without restriction.

16. Contact Us

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

Deep Connect Solutions GmbH
Represented by: Cenk Türkeli
Address: Konsul-Smidt-Str. 8q, 28217 Bremen, Germany
Email: legal@abbsapp.com