Badger

Badger — Terms of Service

Last updated: 14 July 2026
Effective date: 14 July 2026

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are a legally binding agreement between you ("you", "your", or "User") and Foreverie Ltd, a company incorporated in England and Wales (company number 17338477), whose registered office is at 128 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, United Kingdom ("Foreverie", "we", "us", or "our").

They govern your access to and use of the Badger mobile application and any related websites, features, content, and services we provide (together, the "Service").

Please read these Terms carefully. By creating an account, or by accessing or using the Service, you confirm that you accept these Terms and agree to comply with them. If you do not agree, you must not access or use the Service.

Your privacy matters to us. How we collect and use personal data is described in our separate Privacy Policy, which forms part of these Terms by reference.

1. Definitions

2. Who can use the Service (eligibility)

2.1 You must be at least 13 years old to use the Service.

2.2 If you are under the age of digital consent in your country (which is 13 to 16 depending on where you live — for example, 13 in the UK, and up to 16 in some EU member states), you may only use the Service with the consent and supervision of a parent or legal guardian, who must agree to these Terms on your behalf. We may ask you to verify your age or that consent.

2.3 If you are a parent or guardian consenting on behalf of a child, you are responsible for their use of the Service and agree to be bound by these Terms in respect of that use.

2.4 You must not use the Service if you are barred from doing so under any applicable law, or if we have previously terminated your account for breach of these Terms.

2.5 By using the Service you represent and warrant that you meet the eligibility requirements in this section.

3. Your account

3.1 To use most features you must register for an account, providing accurate and complete information (which may include a username, phone number, email address, and date of birth) and keeping it up to date. Your date of birth determines your eligibility under section 2 and the advertising protections described in clause 6.3, so it must be accurate.

3.2 You are responsible for safeguarding your account credentials and any device on which you are signed in, and for all activity that occurs under your account. Notify us immediately at support@badgerapp.co.uk if you suspect any unauthorised access or use.

3.3 You may not share your account, transfer it to anyone else, or create an account using another person's identity or details without authorisation.

3.4 We may refuse registration, or suspend or reclaim any username, at our reasonable discretion, including where it is offensive, infringes third-party rights, or impersonates another person or entity.

4. The Service and how it works

4.1 Badger is a pro-social messaging and meet-up application. Features may include private and group messaging, "hang" chats, scheduled messages ("badgers"), sharing of photos, videos, voice notes, documents, live location, contact cards and polls, editing photos before you send them, sharing content into Badger from other apps using your device's share sheet, sharing Hangs into your chats, contact requests, real-world Hang events with location-based discovery, QR Tickets and check-in for ticketed public Hangs, appearance and chat wallpaper settings, in-app reporting, and push and in-app notifications.

4.2 End-to-end encryption. Certain Content is end-to-end encrypted, meaning it is encrypted on your device and can only be decrypted by the intended recipients. Where Content is end-to-end encrypted, we cannot read it and cannot recover it if keys are lost (for example, if you lose access to your device). Not all Content, metadata, or features are encrypted; encryption does not protect Content once it has been decrypted on a recipient's device (where it may be screenshotted, copied, forwarded, or stored).

4.3 Third-party infrastructure. The Service relies on third-party providers, including Google Firebase (hosting, database, storage, and authentication) and Expo (push notifications). Your use of the Service is also subject to those providers' handling of data as described in our Privacy Policy. We are not responsible for the acts or omissions of third-party providers beyond our reasonable control.

4.4 Sharing content into Badger from other apps. When you use your device's share sheet to send content into Badger, you choose the chat, group, or Hang it goes to, and the content is then User Content governed by these Terms — including your warranty in clause 6.5 that you have the rights to share it. Sharing something into Badger does not send it anywhere until you confirm the destination.

4.5 Tickets for Hangs. Where an organiser enables ticketing for a public Hang, we issue you a Ticket when you accept the invitation. A Ticket is personal to you, has no monetary value, and must not be sold, transferred, duplicated, forged, or shared with anyone else. Your Ticket is automatically revoked if you change your attendance status, and the organiser can scan it to record your check-in. Foreverie is not the organiser of any Hang, does not run the event, and does not guarantee entry, admission, or that any Hang will take place — see section 8.

4.6 Changes to the Service. We are continually improving the Service and may add, change, suspend, or remove features at any time. We will try to give reasonable notice of material changes where practicable, but we are not obliged to maintain any particular feature.

5. Permissions on your device

5.1 Some features require access to your device's camera (including for scanning Tickets), microphone, photo library, location, contacts, and notifications. We only request access for the purpose of providing the relevant feature, and only when you choose to use it.

5.2 You can grant or revoke these permissions at any time through your device settings. Revoking a permission may prevent certain features from working. We access your contacts, location, camera, and microphone only when you actively choose to use a feature that needs them.

6. Your Content and the licence you give us

6.1 You own your Content. These Terms do not transfer any ownership of your User Content to us.

6.2 Licence you grant to us. You grant Foreverie a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, and sub-licensable licence to host, store, use, reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, create derivative works from, publish, transmit, display, and distribute your User Content, in any media and through any technology now known or later developed, for the purposes of operating, providing, securing, maintaining, developing, personalising, promoting, and improving the Service and our business, and for the advertising, analytics, and personalisation purposes described in clause 6.3 and our Privacy Policy. This licence is limited by the privacy choices and controls we make available to you, and by clause 6.4 (encrypted Content). It continues for as long as we retain the relevant User Content; where you delete Content or your account, we will stop the licensed uses within a reasonable period, except (a) where the Content has already been shared with other users who retain their copy, (b) for aggregated or de-identified data that no longer identifies you, and (c) for backups or copies we must retain for a limited period for legal, security, or technical reasons.

6.3 Advertising and personalisation. We may use your User Content, together with your activity, usage, and device information, to operate and improve the Service and to personalise your experience. We may also use it to select, deliver, and measure advertising, including through profiling and targeting — but only if you are an adult and you have turned personalised ads on in Settings → Privacy & ads. Personalised advertising is off by default; if you have not turned it on, you may still see ads, but they will not be based on profiling you. We do not use profiling-based or targeted advertising towards any user we know or reasonably believe to be under 18, whatever their settings say, as explained in our Privacy Policy, which also sets out the data we use, the legal basis, and how to withdraw consent or opt out at any time.

6.4 Encrypted Content. Where Content is end-to-end encrypted, the licence in clause 6.2 is necessarily limited to storing and transmitting ciphertext we cannot read, and such Content is not used for advertising, profiling, or personalisation.

6.5 Your responsibility. You are solely responsible for your User Content and the consequences of sharing it — including Content you share into Badger from another app. You represent and warrant that you have all necessary rights to your User Content and that it does not, and its use through the Service will not, infringe the rights of any third party or breach any applicable law.

7. Acceptable use

7.1 You agree that you will not, and will not permit anyone else to:

(a) use the Service for any unlawful, fraudulent, or harmful purpose, or in breach of any applicable law or regulation;
(b) post, share, or transmit Content that is unlawful, defamatory, obscene, abusive, harassing, threatening, hateful, discriminatory, or that promotes violence or self-harm;
(c) share child sexual abuse material, or any Content that sexualises or exploits minors — this is strictly prohibited and will be reported to the relevant authorities;
(d) harass, bully, stalk, threaten, impersonate, or intimidate any person, or infringe anyone's privacy;
(e) share Content that infringes any intellectual property, privacy, publicity, or other rights of any third party;
(f) send spam, bulk or unsolicited messages, or engage in phishing or social-engineering;
(g) upload or transmit viruses, malware, or any code designed to disrupt, damage, or gain unauthorised access to any system or data;
(h) attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Service, other users' accounts, or our systems or networks; probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the Service; or circumvent any security, rate-limiting, or authentication measure;
(i) use bots, scrapers, or automated means to access, harvest data from, or interact with the Service, or place unreasonable load on our infrastructure;
(j) forge, duplicate, tamper with, sell, or transfer a Ticket, or use a Ticket issued to someone else;
(k) submit false, malicious, or repeated bad-faith reports through our reporting tools;
(l) reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble any part of the Service except to the extent this restriction is prohibited by applicable law;
(m) resell, rent, or commercially exploit the Service without our written permission; or
(n) use the Service to organise, promote, or facilitate any illegal activity or anything that endangers the health or safety of others.

7.2 We may investigate and take any action we reasonably consider appropriate for a suspected breach of this section, including removing Content, restricting or suspending features, terminating accounts, and cooperating with law enforcement.

8. Real-world meet-ups ("Hangs") — important safety notice

8.1 Badger lets users create and join Hangs and share locations. Any interaction, meeting, or arrangement you make with other users takes place in the real world and at your own risk.

8.2 We do not verify the identity, background, or conduct of users, and we do not vet, endorse, supervise, or guarantee any Hang, user, or the safety of any location or activity. Hangs are organised by users, not by us. A Ticket is a convenience for the organiser to manage attendance; it is not a contract with us, and it does not mean we have checked the Hang, the organiser, or the venue.

8.3 You are solely responsible for deciding whom you interact with and for your own safety. Always exercise caution and good judgement. Meet in public places, tell someone you trust where you are going, and do not share your precise location or personal information with people you do not know and trust.

8.4 To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for the acts or omissions of any user, or for any loss, injury, or harm arising out of any Hang, meeting, or interaction between users — including any Hang that is cancelled, changed, or does not take place as described. Nothing in this clause limits our liability where it cannot lawfully be limited (see section 13).

9. Content from other users; moderation and reporting

9.1 The Service displays Content created by other users. We do not endorse and are not responsible for User Content, and any reliance you place on it is at your own risk.

9.2 We provide tools to block users and to report Content, users, or Hangs from within the app. You can also report a concern by emailing support@badgerapp.co.uk. In line with the EU Digital Services Act and equivalent laws, we operate a notice-and-action process: we will review valid reports and may remove Content or restrict accounts. Where required, we will inform the affected user of the action taken and the reasons, and provide a means to appeal. To prevent abuse of the reporting tools, reporting is rate-limited.

9.3 Because certain Content is end-to-end encrypted, we may be technically unable to view reported Content unless it is provided to us by a participant.

9.4 Our designated point of contact for authorities and users on content matters is: support@badgerapp.co.uk.

10. Intellectual property

10.1 The Service, and all software, design, text, graphics, logos, and other materials we provide (excluding User Content), are owned by or licensed to Foreverie and are protected by intellectual property laws. "Badger", "Foreverie", and associated logos are our trade marks and may not be used without our prior written permission.

10.2 Subject to your compliance with these Terms, we grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to download and use the app on a device you own or control, for your personal, non-commercial use.

11. Copyright and DMCA (notice and takedown)

11.1 We respect intellectual property rights. If you believe Content on the Service infringes your copyright, send a notice to support@badgerapp.co.uk including: (a) your contact details; (b) identification of the copyrighted work; (c) identification of the allegedly infringing Content and where it is located; (d) a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorised; (e) a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information is accurate and you are authorised to act; and (f) your physical or electronic signature.

11.2 We will respond to valid notices, including under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the UK/EU equivalents, and may remove Content and, in appropriate cases, terminate repeat infringers' accounts. A counter-notice process is available to affected users.

12. Privacy and data protection

12.1 Our collection and use of personal data is governed by our Privacy Policy. By using the Service you acknowledge that Content and metadata are processed as described there.

12.2 We apply end-to-end encryption to Content where feasible and maintain appropriate security measures to protect your data. We use personal data — including, subject to clause 6.3, for advertising, profiling, personalisation, and analytics — as described in our Privacy Policy, which also explains your rights and choices, including how to opt out of targeted advertising, product analytics, and, where applicable, the "sale" or "sharing" of your personal information. We do not knowingly use minors' data for profiling-based or targeted advertising.

12.3 You have rights over your personal data under Applicable Data Protection Law, including rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, and objection, and (where relevant) rights under the CCPA/CPRA. The Privacy Policy explains how to exercise them.

12.4 If you and other users exchange personal data through the Service (for example, sharing another person's contact card), you are responsible for having a lawful basis to do so.

13. Disclaimers and limitation of liability

Please read this section carefully — it limits our liability to you.

13.1 Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits our liability where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes liability for: (a) death or personal injury caused by our negligence; (b) fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; (c) any breach of the terms implied by the UK Consumer Rights Act 2015 that cannot be excluded; and (d) any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law. If you are a consumer, you have legal rights (including mandatory statutory rights in the UK, EU, and your home jurisdiction) that these Terms do not affect.

13.2 Subject to clause 13.1, the Service is provided "as is" and "as available", and to the fullest extent permitted by law we exclude all warranties, conditions, and representations, express or implied, including as to merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy, and availability. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, or free of harmful components, or that Content will be preserved or delivered without delay or loss.

13.3 Subject to clause 13.1, and to the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any: (a) indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive loss; (b) loss of profits, revenue, business, goodwill, data, or anticipated savings; (c) loss or harm arising from your reliance on the Service or on User Content; (d) acts or omissions of other users, including in connection with Hangs or real-world meetings; or (e) loss caused by events beyond our reasonable control.

13.4 Subject to clause 13.1, our total aggregate liability to you arising out of or in connection with the Service and these Terms, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, is limited to the greater of (a) the total amount you paid us (if any) for the Service in the twelve (12) months before the event giving rise to the liability, or (b) £100.

13.5 Business users. If you use the Service other than as a consumer, you agree that we have no liability for any business losses, and you indemnify us as set out in section 14. The limitations in this section apply to the fullest extent for business users.

14. Indemnity

To the fullest extent permitted by law, and except to the extent caused by our own breach or negligence, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless Foreverie and its officers, employees, and agents from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and reasonable costs (including legal fees) arising out of or connected with: (a) your breach of these Terms; (b) your User Content; (c) your use or misuse of the Service; (d) any Hang you organise; or (e) your violation of any law or the rights of any third party. This section does not apply to consumers except to the extent permitted by applicable law.

15. Suspension and termination

15.1 You may stop using the Service and delete your account at any time through the in-app settings.

15.2 We may suspend, restrict, or terminate your access to all or part of the Service, with or without notice, if: (a) you breach these Terms; (b) we are required to do so by law or a competent authority; (c) it is necessary to protect the Service, other users, or third parties; or (d) we discontinue the Service. Where reasonable and lawful, we will give you notice and an opportunity to remedy a breach.

15.3 On termination, your right to use the Service ends. Sections that by their nature should survive (including sections 6.5, 10, 11, 13, 14, 16, and 17) will survive termination.

15.4 We will handle deletion of your data on account termination in accordance with our Privacy Policy and Applicable Data Protection Law. Some Content shared with other users may remain accessible to them, and we may retain limited data where legally required.

16. Governing law and dispute resolution

16.1 Governing law. These Terms and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or the Service (including non-contractual disputes) are governed by the laws of England and Wales. If you are a consumer resident in the EU, the UK, or another jurisdiction with mandatory consumer-protection laws, you also benefit from any mandatory protections of the law of your country of residence, and nothing here deprives you of them.

16.2 Consumers — courts. If you are a consumer, legal proceedings may be brought in the courts of England and Wales; you may also bring proceedings in the courts of your country of residence, and (if you live in the UK or EU) you may use the relevant online dispute resolution mechanisms. We will always try to resolve disputes informally first — please contact us at support@badgerapp.co.uk.

16.3 Business users. If you are not a consumer, the courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction.

16.4 US users — arbitration and class-action waiver. [The following clause is intended for users resident in the United States and MUST be reviewed by US counsel before use. It does not apply where prohibited by law, and does not apply to consumers in the UK/EU.] If you are resident in the United States, you and Foreverie agree that any dispute will be resolved by binding individual arbitration rather than in court, except that either party may bring an individual claim in small-claims court. You and Foreverie waive any right to a jury trial and to participate in a class or representative action. You may opt out of this arbitration agreement by emailing support@badgerapp.co.uk within 30 days of first accepting these Terms.

17. Changes to these Terms

17.1 We may update these Terms from time to time. If we make material changes, we will provide reasonable notice (for example, in-app or by email) before they take effect, and, where required by law, seek your consent.

17.2 Changes take effect on the stated effective date. If you continue to use the Service after that date you accept the updated Terms. If you do not agree, you must stop using the Service and may delete your account.

18. General

18.1 Entire agreement. These Terms and the documents referred to in them are the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Service and supersede any prior agreement.

18.2 Severability. If any provision is found unlawful or unenforceable, the rest remains in effect, and the offending provision will be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable.

18.3 No waiver. Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of our right to do so later.

18.4 Assignment. You may not assign or transfer your rights under these Terms without our consent. We may assign our rights and obligations, including in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, provided this does not reduce your rights.

18.5 No third-party rights. Except as stated, a person who is not a party to these Terms has no rights under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to enforce them.

18.6 Force majeure. We are not liable for any failure or delay caused by events beyond our reasonable control.

18.7 Notices. We may give notices through the Service or to the contact details on your account. You can contact us at the details below.

19. Contact us

Foreverie Ltd
Company number: 17338477
Registered office: 128 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, United Kingdom
General/support: support@badgerapp.co.uk
Privacy: support@badgerapp.co.uk
Legal & copyright: support@badgerapp.co.uk

By using Badger, you acknowledge that you have read and understood these Terms and agree to be bound by them.