⚖️Fair Terms
No hidden clauses. No surprises.
✅Acceptance of Terms
These Terms are an agreement between Tangle, LLC, a Missouri limited liability company, and you. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.
By using Tangle, you agree to these Terms of Service and our Privacy Policy.
You must be at least 13 to use Tangle.
🚀Description of Service
- Call-to-Chat invitations with limited-time responses (up to 4 participants)
- Live presence tracking with 30-second inactivity timeout
- End-to-end encrypted sessions with per-call shared keys
- One-time and recurring scheduled chats with exact-time notifications
- Ephemeral sessions: content removed when chats end
- Burner tags: temporary tags for privacy with orange UI indicator
- Unanimous consent system for adding participants or pausing chats
Important: Tangle is not for emergency communications. Do not use it to contact emergency services.
When a session ends, we remove content from our servers. Participants can still copy, capture, or export content. We cannot control screenshots, device-level backups, or network logs.
👤User Accounts
- Authentication: Google Sign-In, Apple Sign-In, and Firebase Email Auth
- User Tags: Choose a unique identifier (limited to 2 changes per account)
- Profile: Display name and privacy settings
- Burner Profiles: Optional temporary identity with separate tag and name
- Privacy Controls: Set who can invite you (anyone/contacts-only/nobody)
- Security: You're responsible for account security
⚠️Acceptable Use
- No spam, harassment, or abusive content
- No impersonation or spoofing using burner profiles
- No illegal content or activities
- No attempts to circumvent security, encryption, or presence rules
- No attempts to access others' encrypted session data
- Do not use the service to harm minors
- Respect the 30-second presence timeout system
Report violations: Contact [email protected] to report users violating these rules.
🔐Privacy and Encryption
- Per-Session Encryption: Each call has its own key; only participants can access content
- Ephemeral Content: When a session ends, we delete chat content from our servers. Participants can still copy or capture content on their devices.
- User Control: You control contacts, privacy settings, burner tags, and blocking
- Reporting: Inappropriate behavior can be reported to [email protected]
📡Service Availability
- Firebase infrastructure dependency
- Scheduled maintenance may temporarily affect service
- No guarantee of 100% uptime
📝Content and Conduct
- User Content: You retain ownership of what you share during sessions
- Limited License: You grant Tangle, LLC a limited, worldwide, non-exclusive license to host, process, and transmit your content only as necessary to provide the Service. This license ends when the content is deleted from the Service.
- Ephemeral Storage: Message content stored encrypted during active sessions, removed at session end
- Session Control: Hanging up ends sessions and removes content access for all participants
- Moderation: We cannot moderate encrypted content but investigate reports
- Account Actions: We may suspend accounts for Terms violations
📱Contact Management
- User lookup by unique tags for adding contacts
- Blocking unwanted users (blocks apply to account ID, not changeable tags)
- Privacy controls: set who can invite you to chats (anyone/contacts-only/nobody)
- Contacts are private and never shared with other users
- Burner tag management: create, change, or delete temporary tags for privacy
📅Scheduled Calls
- Schedule one-time chats: set date/time, participants notified at exact moment
- Recurring scheduled chats: automate regular touchpoints (daily, weekly, etc.)
- Participant notifications: everyone gets alerted exactly when scheduled to join
- Schedule management: leaving a scheduled group removes you; creator leaving deletes schedule
- Unanimous approval: adding participants to scheduled chats requires everyone's consent
⚖️Limitation of Liability
The Service is provided "as is" and "as available." To the fullest extent permitted by law, Tangle, LLC and its affiliates will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, profits, revenue, or business, arising out of or related to your use of the Service, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.
Our total liability for any claim arising out of or relating to the Service is limited to the greater of USD $100 or the amounts you paid to us, if any, for the Service in the twelve months before the event giving rise to liability.
🛡️Indemnification
You will indemnify and hold Tangle, LLC and its affiliates, officers, agents, and employees harmless from any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses, including reasonable legal fees, arising from your use of the Service or violation of these Terms.
©Copyright Complaints
If you believe content infringes your rights, email [email protected] with your contact details, a description of the work, the infringing material, and a good-faith statement under penalty of perjury that you are authorized to act. We will respond consistent with applicable law.
🏛️Dispute Resolution
Any dispute must be brought exclusively in state or federal courts located in Jackson County, Missouri, and you consent to their jurisdiction.
🚪Account Termination
- You may delete your account through the profile page
- We may suspend accounts for Terms violations
- Account data removed upon termination
🔄Changes to Terms
We may update these Terms and will notify users of significant changes through the app. We will post the new effective date when changes are made.
📧Contact Information
Questions about Terms of Service: [email protected]
Report abuse or violations: [email protected]
🏛️Governing Law
These Terms are governed by Missouri law.