Terms of use: early access

Last updated: [DATE]

These terms are an agreement between you and [CONTROLLER NAME] ("Peabudy", "we"), [REGISTERED ADDRESS]. Contact: [CONTACT EMAIL]. By creating an account you agree to them. Please also read the privacy notice.

1. What Peabudy is, and isn't

• Peabudy helps people looking to share a home in London and Lagos find compatible people to live with, talk to them, and write down what they agree about rent, bills and notice.
• Peabudy isn't a landlord, letting agent, estate agent or property manager. We don't list homes, arrange viewings, collect rent or deposits, or create tenancies.
• Your household agreement is a record of what you and the other person said. It isn't a tenancy or a legally binding contract, and it doesn't replace a tenancy agreement with a landlord.
• This is early access. Features may change, pause or stop, and we open areas one at a time.

2. Who can use it

You must:

• be 18 or over
• be looking for a shared home for yourself in a city we serve
• use your real name and your own email address
• have one account only.

Peabudy is for individuals, not agents, landlords or businesses advertising property during early access.

3. Identity check

Before you can see other members or be seen, someone from our team checks your photo ID on a short video call. We record only whether it passed and when. We don't keep a copy (see the privacy notice).

A completed check means we saw an ID that matched the person on the call. It doesn't mean that person is safe, honest or a good housemate. Checks completed — not a guarantee of safety.

We may decline or reverse a check, for example if we think the details were false.

4. Using Peabudy safely and respectfully

You agree not to:

• ask anyone for money, a deposit, a holding fee or bank details through Peabudy, or send them links to pay
• harass, threaten, abuse or discriminate against anyone
• use Peabudy for dating or sexual contact
• pretend to be someone else, or create an account for someone else
• share another person's private information (address, phone, ID) without their permission
• advertise, spam or recruit for other services
• scrape, copy or collect other members' data, or try to get around our security or limits
• use Peabudy if you're under 18.

Use your own judgement. Have a video call before meeting, meet in public first, and never pay anything before you've seen a home in person and checked who the landlord or agent is.

5. Matching and preferences

• Matching applies rules you choose (dates, areas, budget, living habits, stay length, and an optional housemate preference). It doesn't predict whether you'll get on.
• You may only use the housemate-preference setting for who you'd be comfortable sharing a home with. You must not use Peabudy to exclude people on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, disability or health.

6. Your content

• You own what you write (your profile, introductions, messages and agreements).
• You let us store and display it to the people it's meant for, and use it to run and keep Peabudy safe.
• If you send us feedback, we may use it to improve Peabudy without paying you, and we won't publish anything that identifies you without asking.

7. Reports, blocks and suspensions

• You can block or report anyone. Blocking is immediate, and the other person isn't told.
• We review reports, usually within 24 hours.
• Peabudy isn't an emergency service. If you're in danger, call 999 in the UK or 112 in Nigeria. [FOUNDER: confirm the numbers.]
• We may restrict, suspend or close an account if we reasonably believe someone has broken these terms or puts others at risk. Where it's safe and lawful to do so, we'll tell you, and you can ask us to look again at [CONTACT EMAIL].

8. Price

Early access is free. We'll tell you clearly before anything ever costs money.

9. Ending your account

You can delete your account at any time in Settings. We may close accounts as described in section 7, or if we end early access, in which case we'll give reasonable notice where we can.

10. Our responsibility to you

• We provide Peabudy with reasonable care and skill.
• We aren't responsible for what other members say or do, for any home, landlord or agent, or for any arrangement you make with another member.
• Nothing in these terms limits liability that can't be limited by law, including for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud, or your statutory rights as a consumer.
• [LIABILITY CAP, IF ANY, counsel to draft.]

11. Changes to these terms

If we change these terms in a way that matters, we'll tell you in the app or by email before the change applies.

12. Law and disputes

• [GOVERNING LAW: e.g. "If you live in the UK, the laws of England and Wales apply, and you can bring claims in the courts of the part of the UK where you live. If you live in Nigeria, the laws of [the Federal Republic of Nigeria / Lagos State] apply."]
• Please contact us first at [CONTACT EMAIL] so we can try to sort things out.