Terms of use

Khutoot is a platform where people record their memories as dated photos and moments tied to places, share them with whom they choose, and explore public historical archives. The Service is currently free and in beta, and we may change, suspend or end any part of it at any time.

• You must be at least 16 years old to create an account.
• If you are under the age of legal majority where you live, you confirm that a parent or guardian has read these terms, agrees to your use of the Service and is responsible for it.
• You may not use the Service if the law that applies to you forbids it, or if we have previously banned your account.

• Give accurate information and keep it up to date. Don't impersonate anyone or suggest a link to a person or organisation that doesn't exist.
• You are responsible for keeping your password secret and for everything done through your account. Tell us at once if you suspect unauthorised use; you can end every session from Settings.
• Your account is personal and may not be sold, transferred or rented.
• We may refuse or reclaim a username that breaks these terms or infringes someone else's rights.

"Your content" is everything you post or upload to the Service: photos, text, dates, places, comments, reactions and the rest. Your content stays yours.

By posting content on the Service, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence, sublicensable to the service providers we use, to host, store, copy, technically process (such as resizing and compressing photos and removing their metadata), display and transmit your content, as far as needed to run and improve the Service and according to the privacy settings you choose. This includes public content appearing in share previews and search engine results.

This licence ends when you delete the content or your account, except as far as needed for: backups until they are replaced; what the law or a judicial or official order requires us to keep; and settling a dispute or investigating a violation.

By posting any content, you confirm and guarantee that:

• you own it, or hold every right and licence needed to post it and to grant us the licence above;
• you have the consent of every identifiable person in your photos or text where the law requires it, and a guardian's consent where that person is a minor;
• it doesn't break these terms, the Community guidelines or any law, and doesn't infringe anyone's intellectual property, privacy, reputation or other rights.

You alone are responsible for your content and the consequences of posting it. We don't endorse users' content or guarantee its accuracy, and it doesn't express our views.

For each moment you choose who sees it: everyone, your followers, or only you; and you can make your account private. Public content can be seen by anyone, even without an account, may be indexed by search engines, and may be copied or screenshotted by others. We can't prevent that and aren't responsible for it, so don't post publicly what you don't want to stay available.

"Private" means it isn't shown to anyone else within the Service, not that it is encrypted so that we can't reach it. Our moderation team may view it when investigating a report or violation or under a legal obligation, and that access is logged.

In addition to the Community guidelines, you may not:

• use the Service for any purpose that breaks the law, or public order or morals, in the Arab Republic of Egypt or where you live;
• collect data from the Service or about its users by automated means (crawling, scraping or otherwise) without our written permission;
• try to access other people's accounts or our systems without permission, get around any security measure or usage limit, or probe the Service for vulnerabilities without permission;
• disrupt or overload the Service, spread malware, or create automated or fake accounts;
• send spam or unsolicited advertising, or manipulate reactions or reports;
• resell, copy or imitate the Service, or use the Khutoot name and logo without permission.

We have no duty to monitor content before or after it is posted, but we may, at our discretion and without prior notice where needed, review any content or account, hide or delete content, issue a warning, or restrict, suspend or ban an account, if we believe it breaks these terms, the guidelines or the law, or puts anyone, or us, at risk or liability.

Anyone can report content through the Service. If a decision is made about your content or account, you can ask for it to be reviewed from the Appeals page; our decision after review is final to the extent the law allows.

We may keep deleted content or records of violations as long as needed to investigate, meet a legal obligation, or answer a request from a competent authority.

We respect others' rights. If you see content on the Service that infringes a right of yours, such as copyright or your right to your image or privacy, send a takedown request through the infringement form with proof of your right. We will review it and act as we see fit, and may tell the content's owner about it. Knowingly filing a false or misleading request may expose you to legal liability. We ban the accounts of repeat infringers.

• The Service shows historical archives we prepared for documentation and education, in our own words and from public and official sources that we cite. They are summaries, not a complete record; they may contain errors or approximate dates, and they don't express any political or religious position. If you find a mistake, tell us so we can correct it.
• Borders and features drawn on maps are illustrative and approximate, especially ancient borders. Showing or naming them doesn't represent any position on the legal status of any territory or border.
• Pictures that go with the archive may be from the period of an event rather than of the event itself, and we say so where that applies.

The Service relies on services provided by others, such as maps, place search, hosting, photo storage, email and Google sign-in. Those services are governed by their owners' terms, and we aren't responsible for their availability, accuracy or what they do. The Service may also link to other sites we don't control.

The Service, its design and software, the Khutoot name and logo, and the archive texts we write belong to us or to those who licensed them to us. These terms give you no right in them other than to use the Service according to these terms.

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available", without any warranty, express or implied, including of fitness for a particular purpose, uninterrupted or error-free operation, or accuracy of content, to the fullest extent the law allows.

The Service is not a backup service. Keep your own copies of your important photos and memories; you can download a copy of your data at any time from Settings.

To the fullest extent the law allows, neither we nor the people behind the Service are liable for:

• any indirect, consequential, incidental or special damages, lost profits or earnings, or loss of data or reputation, whatever the cause;
• users' content or conduct, on or off the Service;
• interruption or ending of the Service, loss of content, or unauthorised access to data despite our reasonable measures.

In any case, our total liability to you for any claim relating to the Service won't exceed what you paid us for it in the twelve months before the claim. This section doesn't limit any liability that cannot lawfully be limited, such as liability for fraud or gross negligence.

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless us and the people behind the Service against any claim, action, loss or expense, including reasonable legal fees, arising from your content, your use of the Service, or your breach of these terms, the law or others' rights.

You can delete your account at any time from Settings. Your content disappears at once and is permanently erased after 30 days; signing in during that time cancels the deletion. We may end or suspend your account under the moderation section above, or if we shut the Service down.

Provisions that by their nature should survive the end of your account do so, including: your content and its licence within the limits above, the disclaimer, limitation of liability, indemnity, and governing law.

We may change these terms from time to time and update the "Last updated" date at the top of this page. We will announce material changes on the Service a reasonable time before they take effect. If you keep using the Service after a change takes effect, you accept it; if you don't accept it, stop using the Service and delete your account.

These terms are governed by and interpreted under the laws of the Arab Republic of Egypt. We aim to settle any disagreement amicably first, so contact us before going to court. If it isn't settled within 30 days, the competent Egyptian courts have jurisdiction over it.

• These terms, with the Privacy policy and the Community guidelines, are the entire agreement between you and us about the Service.
• If any provision is found invalid or unenforceable, the rest remain in force, and the invalid one is replaced by the valid provision closest to its purpose.
• Our not enforcing a right at some point is not a waiver of it.
• We may transfer our rights and obligations under these terms to someone else if the Service is transferred or reorganised; you may not transfer yours without our consent.
• The Arabic text of these terms is authoritative and prevails over any translation, including this one, where they differ.

For any question about these terms: the request form.