Terms and Conditions

Last updated: 19.09.2026

1. Scope and provider

These Terms apply to the use of the Zquady app and the associated websites (zquady.com, app.zquady.com).

The provider and your contracting party is:

Zquady e.U. Linzer Straße 17 4100 Ottensheim Austria

Legal form: registered sole proprietorship (eingetragenes Einzelunternehmen), FN 687516 d, Regional Court Linz
Phone: +43 664 99216386
Email: support@zquady.com

The full provider details are set out in the Legal Notice. By registering you agree to these Terms. Users' own or deviating terms do not apply.

The app is available in German, English, French, Spanish and Italian. Only the German version of these Terms is binding; translations are provided solely to make the content easier to understand.

2. Who may use Zquady

• You must be at least 18 years old. Zquady brings together people who meet in real life — there is no exception to this.
• You state your date of birth when registering. That is your own declaration. We do not check identity documents and do not use any external age verification service. A false statement is a breach of these Terms.
• One account per person is intended. We do not verify this technically. We may close surplus accounts.
• Your details must be truthful. Do not pretend to be someone else and do not create accounts for other people.
• You use Zquady personally and on your own behalf, not on behalf of or in the name of third parties.

3. What Zquady is — and what it is not

Zquady is a platform. Users post meet-ups here (“Zquads”) and others join them. That is all we do.

So, plainly and without small print:

• We do not organise these meet-ups. The organiser is always the person who created the Zquad (the host).
• We are not involved in any meet-up, we are not there in person and we are not a party to the arrangement. Joining is an arrangement between users.
• We do not vet anyone: no identity check, no background check, no proof of age beyond self-declaration. A Zquady account says nothing about who a person really is.
• We do not review content by hand in advance. Zquads, profiles and messages appear without any human check. Public texts only pass through an automatic word filter (Section 8) that rejects coarse insults and the like; this is not a review of the content and by no means catches everything. We only act once something is reported to us or we otherwise become aware of it.
• The thumbs-up/thumbs-down ratings of a host are the opinions of other users. They are not a vetting process and not a safety guarantee.
• Whether a Zquad takes place, how it goes and who shows up is not within our control.

You meet people you do not know at your own responsibility. Please look after yourself: meet in a public place the first time, tell someone where you are and who you are with, and leave at any time if something feels off. If you are in danger, contact the police — we are not an emergency service and cannot intervene.

4. Your account

• Usernames are suggested by the app and you pick one of them. Free text entry is not provided. You can change your username at most once every 30 days.
• Keep your login credentials secret and do not pass them on. You can additionally enable two-factor authentication (2FA) — that is an option, not an obligation.
• You are responsible for everything that happens through your account. If you suspect that someone else has access, contact us immediately at support@zquady.com and change your password.
• You can also sign in with Apple, Google or Discord. All three sign-in options are enabled; in that case the terms of the respective provider apply in addition.
• For security reasons some changes are rate-limited: email address and password at most once every 24 hours, username once every 30 days. After several failed attempts at security-relevant actions, the action is temporarily blocked.

5. Zquads: creating, joining, cancelling

• Whoever creates a Zquad is the host. The host decides on join requests, can invite specific people, can remove individual members from the Zquad, and can cancel, reschedule or delete the Zquad.
• A Zquad can have a limited number of places. If it is full, you can put yourself on the waiting list and will be notified as soon as a place becomes free.
• A host can decide which genders can take part in their Zquad – their own is always included (for example “women only” or “women and diverse”). A restricted Zquad is invisible to everyone else; requests and invitations are only possible for the matching gender. The objective reason for the restriction is safety and well-being at meet-ups between strangers. Gender is a self-declaration from the profile — we do not (yet) verify it.
• If you request to join a Zquad in which nobody of your gender has joined so far, you can “ask together”: your request is only sent to the host once a second person of your gender asks. This, too, creates no entitlement to admission.
• Joining is an arrangement between users. There is no entitlement to a Zquad taking place, to a request being accepted or to anyone showing up.
• If a host states costs (e.g. admission or material costs), the participants settle that among themselves. Zquady does not process any payments and is not involved in them.
• After a meet-up, members can rate the host with a thumbs up or thumbs down. Ratings must reflect your own honest experience. Revenge ratings, coordinated ratings, bought or extorted ratings are prohibited.
• If a host deletes their account, the Zquads they created disappear, together with the group chat and the memberships of the other participants.
• Zquady is intended for private, non-commercial meet-ups. Zquads that mainly serve sales, paid offers or advertising are not permitted.

6. Rules of conduct

What is prohibited offline is prohibited on Zquady too. In addition, the following in particular are not allowed:

• harassment, threats, intimidation, stalking and anything intended to wear someone down;
• hate and denigration based on origin, skin colour, religion, disability, gender, sexual orientation, age or similar characteristics;
• incitement to violence, glorification of violence, extremist content and anything that is a criminal offence;
• sexual harassment, sexual content without consent, soliciting sexual services for payment;
• fake profiles, pretending to be someone else and acting in the name of others;
• advertising, spam, chain messages, pyramid schemes, poaching users, and commercial use of the platform (see section 5);
• passing on other people's personal data without their consent: chat histories, screenshots, photos, addresses, phone numbers;
• content you have no rights to (other people's photos, music, texts, trade marks);
• trading in goods or services whose trade is prohibited or restricted;
• technical abuse: malware, automated extraction (scraping), bots, attempts to overload the service, circumventing security or blocking measures, accessing other people's accounts;
• stating a false gender, in particular to gain access to a Zquad that is restricted to another gender.

We have zero tolerance for objectionable content and abusive behaviour: we remove such content and take action against the accounts behind it in accordance with section 9.

7. Your content

What you create belongs to you. We claim no ownership of your Zquads, texts, messages or photos.

For the app to work at all, we need one narrowly limited permission: you grant us the non-exclusive, royalty-free right to store your content, process it technically (e.g. resize images), transmit it and display it to exactly those people it is intended for. Nothing beyond that. We do not sell your content and do not use it for advertising.

You are responsible for your content and you warrant that you hold the necessary rights to it and that it infringes nobody's rights.

What you show in a group chat or on your profile is seen by other people — and they can copy it or photograph it. We cannot prevent that. So think carefully about what you share.

If you delete a piece of content or your account, our permission ends. The following are excepted:

• abuse reports, which are retained for safety reasons (the identifier of the reporting person is removed, the label of the reported content remains),
• technical error reports (in anonymised form),
• content in backups, until they are rotated.

Exactly what remains, and whether it is still linked to you, is set out in section 5.2 of the Privacy Policy.

8. Word filter, reporting and blocking

An automatic word filter checks public texts: the title, description, cost details and custom tags of a Zquad, your bio, and questions on a Zquad together with their answers. If such a text contains a coarse insult, a vulgar expression or hate speech from our word list, it is not saved; the app shows you the word in question so you can rephrase the text. The filter runs fully automatically on our own servers. No person reads along, nothing is passed on to third parties, and your account is neither warned nor suspended because of it. It does not check chat messages. If it flags a harmless word, write to us at support@zquady.com; we will look into it and adjust the list (appeal under Section 9).

In the app you can report profiles, individual Zquads, individual messages and memory photos. The available reasons are spam, inappropriate content, harassment and — for profiles — fake profile. Your report goes directly to us; the reported person does not learn who reported them.

You can also block people. Anyone who is blocked can no longer message you and disappears from your message list. You can view your block list at any time and unblock people again.

Your privacy settings additionally determine who may message you and who can see your profile picture and your bio.

We deal with reports without undue delay, as a rule within 72 hours. Our single point of contact under the Digital Services Act, for users and authorities alike, is support@zquady.com; it is also stated in the Legal Notice. You can appeal against a measure in accordance with section 9.

You can also report illegal content to support@zquady.com without an account. Please state what it is about and why the content is illegal, where it can be found (username, Zquad or link), your name and email address, and that your information is correct to the best of your knowledge. We will confirm receipt.

We will inform you of the outcome of your report in the app or by email.

In case of imminent danger, a criminal offence or an emergency, please contact the police or the emergency services first (dial 112 anywhere in the EU). We cannot intervene and are not an emergency service.

9. Measures in the event of breaches

If you breach these Terms or applicable law, we may — graded according to severity — remove content, warn you, restrict individual functions, suspend your account or delete it. In doing so we choose the mildest means that is sufficient.

We will tell you that we have taken action, why, and which rule we are relying on — unless we have no way of reaching you or an authority has prohibited us from telling you.

Appeal: you can appeal against any measure. To do so, write to us at support@zquady.com. You can appeal for up to six months after the measure; we normally reply within 14 days.

10. Availability and changes to the service

We do our best to keep Zquady running reliably. However, we do not owe uninterrupted operation. Maintenance, faults and outages can occur, including at services we depend on.

We may keep developing the app: functions may be added, changed or removed. We will announce material changes or a discontinuation of the service in advance — in the app or by email, and at least 30 days ahead if the service is discontinued.

There is no entitlement to the continued existence of individual functions.

11. Costs

Zquady is currently free of charge. There are no paid functions in the app, no subscriptions and no payment processing.

12. Term, termination and account deletion

• The user agreement runs for an indefinite period and begins with registration.
• You can delete your account at any time and without giving reasons in the app (Profile → Settings → Delete Account).
• Deletion takes effect immediately and cannot be undone. There is no grace period, no recycle bin and no restore.
• Deleted along with it are: the Zquads you created — including the group chat and the memberships of all other participants — as well as your messages, including those in other people's group chats and in your chat partners' direct messages.
• Linked sign-ins via Apple, Google or Discord are deleted as well. Your email address is immediately available again for a new registration afterwards.
• Some things survive deletion — abuse reports and technical error reports. Section 5.2 of the Privacy Policy lists them in full.
• We may terminate the agreement by ordinary notice with a notice period of 30 days. In the case of serious or repeated breaches we may terminate without notice and delete the account.

13. Liability

We are liable without limitation for intent and gross negligence and for injury to life, body or health.

In cases of slight negligence we are liable only for the breach of essential contractual obligations — obligations whose fulfilment makes the use of Zquady possible in the first place and on whose observance you may rely — and only up to the foreseeable damage that is typical for this kind of contract.

Zquady arranges meet-ups but is not their organiser. We vet neither the identity nor the reliability of users and are not liable for their conduct or for what happens at meet-ups — including injuries, damage, criminal offences or arrangements that fall through.

We do not verify the gender stated by other users; it is based on their own declaration. We are not liable for a statement being false or for a Zquad restricted to one gender actually reaching only people of that gender. Nor are we responsible if third parties infer your gender from your username, your linked profiles, photos, chats or how you appear at meet-ups.

For content posted by users, the liability privileges for hosting services apply (Art. 6 DSA): we become liable only once we obtain knowledge of unlawful information and fail to act promptly.

We accept no responsibility for external links, map services or other third-party services; the terms of the respective provider apply.

The preceding paragraphs also apply to data loss, downtime and lost messages; there is no entitlement to uninterrupted availability (section 10).

Mandatory consumer rights and claims under the Product Liability Act remain unaffected.

14. Changes to these Terms

We may change these Terms, for example when the app, the legal situation or our service providers change.

We will inform you of changes in the app or by email at least 14 days before they take effect.

If you do not agree with a change, you can delete your account at any time.

15. Applicable law, jurisdiction, dispute resolution

Austrian law applies, excluding its conflict-of-laws rules and the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. If you are a consumer, this choice of law does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory provisions of the country in which you have your habitual residence.

For claims against consumers, the statutory places of jurisdiction apply. Consumers may also bring claims against us at their place of residence. For businesses, the exclusive place of jurisdiction is the operator's registered office.

Consumer arbitration: we are neither obliged nor willing to take part in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration body. The same statement appears in our Legal Notice, section “Online dispute resolution and consumer arbitration”.

Should any provision of these Terms be or become invalid, the validity of the remaining provisions shall remain unaffected.

16. Contact

Questions about these Terms: support@zquady.com — or directly in the app via Profile → Settings → Support.

How we handle your data is set out in our Privacy Policy. Who is behind Zquady is set out in our Legal Notice.