Terms of
service.

• When you accept. We now name the moments you accept these terms: tapping Open camera at the guest door, tapping Join event in the App Clip, signing in, and creating your first event.
• Age. You must be 13 or older, or 16 where local law requires it for uses of your information that rely on consent. Under-13s may not use Blink. We removed the line saying a parent or guardian agrees for you, because Blink has no way to do that.
• Refunds. We explain partial refunds and the 14-day right to withdraw in the EEA and UK.
• How moderation works. We describe the automatic safety check, reporting a photo, the reasons we send when we remove something, and how to challenge a decision.
• Intimate images. These are removed within 48 hours, and usually sooner, with reasonable efforts to find and remove identical copies, and we keep the person who reported them updated.
• Copyright. We explain copyright notices, repeat infringers and the counter-notice process.
• Business hosts. We set out our role as processor under data-protection law.
• Consumer rights. We added protections for consumers in the EEA, UK and Switzerland, new mass-arbitration rules, a rule on changes to the arbitration section, and a short "The rest of the agreement" section.

Blink is a shared camera roll for one event. A host sets up a night, guests scan a QR code and shoot, nobody sees the photos until the reveal, and then everyone who joined gets the whole roll.

You keep the rights to your own photos. Don't upload anything you didn't take or don't have the right to share.

If something is on Blink that shouldn't be, tell us at joinblink.me/report or with Report in the app, and we'll act on it.

Hosts are responsible for their events. If you host, you're responsible for telling people they're being photographed and for getting any agreement that the law where your event happens requires. If you host for a business or organisation, it takes on the legal responsibility for its event's photos and covers Blink for claims that come from them. See If you host a Blink and If you host for a business or organisation.

Refunds: for purchases on the website, a full refund until your event starts and none once it has started. For purchases in the apps, Apple or Google decide refunds under their own rules. In the EEA and the UK you also have a 14-day right to withdraw, which ends when your roll starts if you agreed to that at checkout. The details are in Refunds below.

This summary is here to be read. The sections below are what actually governs, together with the privacy notice.

Our refund policy: before your event starts, a full refund. Once it has started, no refund. Apple and Google apply their own rules to purchases in the apps. "Starts" means the start time set for the event, shown on the event and in your confirmation.

Bought on the website (Stripe, US buyers only): write to support@joinblink.me before the start time, from the address you bought with, and we refund the whole amount to the way you paid. Anything bought after the start, such as more guests during the night, isn't refundable.

Bought in the apps (App Store or Google Play): Apple or Google take refund requests and decide them under their own rules and the law. For Apple, use reportaproblem.apple.com or, on iPhone before the event starts, Request a refund in the event's menu. For Google, use Google Play. We don't decide those requests, and nothing here limits what Apple or Google may refund. Our own position is the same as on the website: a purchase is used once the event has started. When Apple or Google decide a refund, we don't send them any information about how a purchase was used.

Your right to withdraw in the EEA and the UK. If you're a consumer in the EEA or the UK, the law normally gives you 14 days to withdraw from a purchase of digital content or a digital service. At checkout we ask you to agree expressly that your roll can begin at your event's start time, even if that's within those 14 days. We also ask you to acknowledge that you lose the right to withdraw once your roll begins, and we repeat that agreement in your confirmation email. Until your event starts you can withdraw and get a full refund. Once it has started, the right to withdraw no longer applies. If the law where you live treats the roll as a service rather than content, you get back the part of the price for what we have not yet provided; otherwise there is no refund. If your event's start time is more than 14 days away, you can withdraw for any reason during the 14 days after you buy. For in-app purchases, you exercise this right through Apple or Google.

Restore purchases puts purchases you already made back on your account. It never issues a refund.

If a purchase is refunded in full, the roll stays viewable, but new photos stop and what came with the purchase goes away, such as having no watermark. If only part of a purchase is refunded, your event keeps what the money you didn't get back still pays for, and only the rest goes away. Unused codes and free events aren't refunded, because nothing was paid.

This doesn't take away any right you have under the consumer law where you live, for example a remedy if Blink fails to provide what you paid for. Where that law gives you more than this policy, that law applies.

Blink is operated by Chariot Archive, Inc., a Delaware corporation, 195 East Main Street, Columbus, Ohio 43215, USA ("Blink," "we," "us," "our"). Chariot Archive, Inc. is the entity behind Blink and the party to this agreement. Blink is a product it operates, not a separate company.

Questions about these terms, complaints, and every other request in these documents: support@joinblink.me.

Blink is not a backup service and not a storage service. Photos and clips are kept for about a year after an event ends and are then permanently deleted (see the privacy notice). Download the roll when it is revealed. The copy on your own phone is the copy that lasts.

Beyond that year, we have no obligation to store, keep, preserve, back up, or return any photo, video, or other content, and nothing in these terms creates a duty of custody, bailment, or archiving. We may remove content earlier under "Removing content" below. The only content we keep longer is what the law requires us to preserve, as the privacy notice explains. We keep it locked away, and never for you to retrieve.

If we ever decide to stop offering Blink, we will say so on joinblink.me at least 30 days before. We will also email every host, and every guest who gave us an address, and keep downloads open until then.

Blink is new and still changing. Features will change and some will disappear. There is no uptime commitment and no support response time, except for the commitments we make about reports in "Removing content". Those we do mean.

You must be 13 or older to use Blink. Where the law where you live sets a higher age, up to 16, for agreeing to uses of your information that rely on your consent, you must be that age to turn on the Registry or arrival check-in. This applies to some countries in the EEA. Children under 13 may not use Blink. If we learn that someone under 13 is using Blink, we delete their account or guest pass and the information they gave us. These rules apply to hosts and guests alike. A guest agrees to these terms, including the minimum age, when they join an event, even though they never make an account.

You accept these terms when you continue past the notice that links to them. That happens in four places:

• at the guest door, when you tap Open camera;
• in the App Clip, when you tap Join event on the code screen;
• when you sign in;
• when you create your first event as a host.

Hosts sign in with an email link, with Google, or in the apps with Apple. In the apps you can start hosting before you sign in, on an anonymous account that joins your signed-in account when you sign in. You're responsible for what happens under your account and for the nights you create.

Guests never create an account. You join a single event by scanning a QR code, following a link, typing a six-character code, or through the App Clip. On the website, a signed cookie ties you to that one event. In the apps, the same kind of pass is kept in your phone's secure storage. It isn't a login, and it doesn't follow you to other events. The website asks for a name. In the apps you may be able to join as a numbered guest instead. Giving an email address is optional, and it's used to send you the night when it's revealed.

The host decides that a night is photographed, who is invited and where it happens, so the host is responsible for doing that lawfully. By creating an event you represent and agree to the following:

• You have the authority to invite the people you're inviting, and to run a shared photo roll where the event happens. That includes any permission the venue, your employer or anyone else has to give.
• You'll tell everyone at the event, before they're photographed, what the roll is: photos are pooled, revealed to everyone who joined, and can be downloaded by them. A QR code on a table is an invitation, not notice. Use the table card or say it out loud.
• You'll follow the law of the place where the event happens about photographing people and sharing their pictures. In many countries that means getting a person's agreement before they are photographed or before their picture is shared. In some it is a crime not to, especially somewhere private, for example in France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Morocco, Türkiye, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Where the law requires agreement, you're responsible for getting it from everyone who will appear in the roll, not only from the people who join.
• You won't use Blink to photograph people who have said no, children without a parent's or guardian's agreement where the law requires it, or anyone in a place where people reasonably expect not to be photographed, such as a bathroom, bedroom, changing area or medical room.
• You won't use photos from the roll for advertising, promotion, publicity or anything outside the event without separate permission from the people in them.
• You'll deal with requests from people at your event to take a photo down, and act on the ones we pass to you.
• You're responsible for the content your guests upload to your event, to the extent you control who is in the room. You'll use the review tools honestly: a photo held back for your review stays hidden unless you choose to include it.

Deleting your account deletes your guests' photos from your events, permanently, along with everything else in them. Tell your guests to save the roll first.

Hosts can also remove a photo from their event and delete the event. Deleting an event has a 30-day undo window, after which the photos are permanently removed. See the privacy notice for what that means in practice.

This section applies, on top of the rest of these terms, when you create an event for a company, venue, brand, employer, school, club, charity or any other organisation. It also applies when you create one as part of a service you sell, for example as a wedding planner or an event agency. In these terms that makes you a "business host". If you accept these terms for an organisation, you confirm you are authorised to bind it, and "you" means that organisation. These terms are then a business agreement, and the protections the law gives to individual consumers do not apply to it.

Who is responsible for the photos. A business host decides why its event is photographed and who sees the pictures. Under the privacy laws that use these terms, that makes it the controller (or "business") of the personal information in its event's roll. Those laws include the GDPR and UK GDPR, Morocco's Law 09-08, Brazil's LGPD and the California Consumer Privacy Act. Blink stores, processes and shows the roll for you as your processor (or "service provider"), following your instructions as set by your event's settings. This section is the processing contract that Article 28 of the GDPR and UK GDPR requires.

What we process, and for how long. The photos, clips, names, optional email addresses and related records of the people at your event, including people who appear in photos without joining. We process them only to store, check, hold back, reveal and share your event's roll, for as long as the roll is kept, as the privacy notice describes.

Our commitments as your processor. We will:

• process the roll only on your documented instructions (these terms and your event's settings), or where the law requires us to. If the law requires that, we tell you first unless the law forbids it. We also tell you if we think an instruction breaks data-protection law;
• make sure our staff and anyone else who can reach the roll are bound to keep it confidential;
• keep the roll secure with appropriate technical and organisational measures, as the privacy notice describes;
• use only the providers that the privacy notice says handle event photos, clips, names or email addresses (today: Supabase, Cloudflare, Vercel, Amazon Rekognition, Resend and Expo). You give general authorisation for them. We bind each one to data-protection terms that protect the roll at least as well as this section, and we remain responsible for them to you. We update the list before adding one that touches event photos, so you can object, or delete your event if we can't resolve your objection;
• transfer the roll outside your country only with the safeguards described in the privacy notice;
• help you, as far as our role allows, to answer people's requests to exercise their rights, keep the roll secure, deal with breaches, carry out data protection impact assessments and consult regulators;
• tell you without undue delay, within 72 hours where we can, if a breach affects your event;
• delete the roll when its retention period ends or when you delete the event, except for anything the law requires us to keep, as the privacy notice describes. You can download it before then;
• answer reasonable written questions about how we meet these commitments.

Blink stays responsible on its own account for what it decides itself: running and securing the service, accounts, payments, safety checks and reports, and the other uses the privacy notice describes. If a court or regulator decides that you and Blink are joint controllers for any part of the processing, this section is our Article 26 arrangement, and its essence is set out in the privacy notice. You handle the notice to people at your event, the lawful basis for photographing them and the first response to them. We handle the service, its security and requests about the information we hold.

What a business host must also do. Everything in "If you host a Blink", and you must:

• have a lawful basis for photographing people at your event and for sharing the roll with everyone who joins, and get every consent, release or permission the law requires: from guests, staff, performers, children's parents or guardians, and the venue;
• give people at the event the privacy information the law requires from you before they are photographed, including that you use Blink and that it stores the photos in the United States, and carry out any assessment the law requires of you, such as a data protection impact assessment;
• make any registration, declaration or filing your own processing needs where the event happens, for example with Morocco's CNDP or Ghana's Data Protection Commission, and follow the employment, consumer, advertising and image-rights law that applies to you;
• not instruct us to process anything the law doesn't allow, and not use people's pictures for marketing, profiling, identifying people or employment decisions without the separate basis the law requires;
• keep records showing you did these things, and give them to us if a regulator or a court asks us.

Indemnity. A business host will defend Chariot Archive, Inc. and its officers, employees and agents against any claim, complaint, investigation or proceeding brought by a third party or a regulator. It will also pay the resulting damages, settlements and reasonable legal costs, and fines and penalties to the extent the law allows them to be shifted. This applies to the extent they arise from:

• (a) your breach of these terms;
• (b) your failure to give a required notice or to get a required consent, release or permission for your event;
• (c) your instructions to us; or
• (d) photos, clips or conduct at or relating to your event that infringe someone's rights or break the law.

This doesn't apply to the extent a claim is caused by Blink's own breach of these terms, negligence, wilful misconduct, or failure to meet a legal duty that is ours alone.

We'll tell you promptly about a claim. A delay only reduces your obligation to the extent it harmed you. We'll let you control the defence with counsel we reasonably accept, and help at your cost. We may take part with our own counsel at our cost. You may not settle a claim in a way that admits fault for us, binds us to do something or restricts us without our written consent, which we won't unreasonably withhold. The limits in "Limitation of liability" don't limit this obligation, and it survives the end of this agreement.

Liability between us. For a business host, our total liability for all claims relating to Blink is limited to what you paid us for Blink in the twelve months before the claim. Neither of us is liable to the other for indirect or consequential loss. Both limits have two exceptions: your obligations under "Indemnity", and anything the law doesn't allow to be limited.

Every time you add a photo or video clip to a roll, you represent that:

• you took it, or you have the right to share it;
• you didn't take it secretly, and you took and share it lawfully where you were. If the law there needs the agreement of the people in it, you have it;
• sharing it with everyone else at that event doesn't violate anyone's rights, including the rights of the people in the frame;
• it follows the rules in "What's not allowed".

You keep your copyright. We don't claim ownership of your photos or clips. You give Blink a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free permission to store them and process them (resizing, thumbnails, removing hidden metadata such as location, the film look and watermark applied on download, safety checks). You also give us permission to show them to the host, to the other people who joined that same event, and to anyone the host shares the album link with, and to nobody else. That permission exists so the product can work. It ends when the photo is deleted, except for copies someone already downloaded and anything the law requires us to preserve.

You may not use Blink to upload, share or do any of the following:

• an intimate or sexual image of anyone who hasn't agreed to it being shared, including a fake or altered one;
• any sexual content involving a minor. We remove it and report it to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children;
• harassment, threats, hate, or content uploaded to humiliate or hurt the person in it;
• anything unlawful, or anything that infringes someone else's copyright, privacy or other rights;
• spam, malware, scraping, or attempts to get around photo limits, the reveal, codes, payments or security;
• pretending to be someone else.

This section explains how content is moderated on Blink: the tools, who uses them, and what you can do if you disagree.

How to report a photo or a guest: in the apps, open the photo and choose Report. From anywhere else, use joinblink.me/report. You don't need an account, and you don't need to have been at the event. If you leave an address, we confirm we've received your report and tell you what we decided.

We look at every report, usually within 24 hours. Reports of intimate images shared without consent are handled first. We remove a valid one, and make reasonable efforts to find and remove identical copies, within 48 hours, and usually sooner after receiving the report, and we keep the person who reported it updated on its status.

If you're in a photo and want it removed, we ask the event's host to remove it first. If it's still up 72 hours after your report, we remove it.

The tools we use.

• The automatic safety check. Where it's turned on, each upload is checked automatically for explicit or otherwise unsafe content. The check uses content labels only. It never recognises, matches or measures faces. It can hold a photo back, but it never deletes anything or decides anything on its own. A person releases or removes a held photo.
• Reports from anyone, as above.
• Hosts. A host controls their own event. They can hide or remove any photo from it and remove a guest. A removed guest can't take or view photos at that event or rejoin it, and photos they took there stay hidden unless the host restores them. A removed guest can still ask us for a copy of their own photos. Who's in an event is the host's choice; they don't need to give Blink a reason, and a host removal is the host's decision, not a decision by Blink that the guest broke these terms. Where Blink itself removes a guest or photo, "Our own review" below applies and we'll tell you why.
• Our own review. A person at Blink looks at reports and held photos and decides what to do.

What we can do. We may remove any photo, hide it, end any event, block a guest from rejoining, or suspend or terminate any account, at our discretion. That includes when we think content breaks these terms, breaks the law, or puts someone at risk.

We tell you why. When we remove or restrict your content or your account, we tell you what we did, why, which rule or law it was under, and how to challenge it, unless the law or someone's safety stops us.

If you think we got it wrong, reply to that statement or write to support@joinblink.me within six months. A person who wasn't involved in the original decision will look again, and we'll tell you the outcome and put the content back if we were wrong. You can also go to court. Where the EU Digital Services Act gives you access to a certified out-of-court dispute settlement body against us, we will take part.

Where a report suggests a threat to someone's life or safety, or the sexual abuse of a child, we tell the police or the authority the law requires us to tell.

Contact for authorities and users. support@joinblink.me is our single point of contact for authorities, including under Articles 11 and 12 of the EU Digital Services Act, and for anyone using Blink. We read it in English.

Repeated abuse. We may block guests who repeatedly upload content that breaks these terms from joining events. We may also close the accounts of hosts whose events repeatedly carry such content and who don't use the tools above to deal with it.

Where to send a notice. Use joinblink.me/dmca for the current copyright contact and notice process.

What a notice needs. Your notice must include:

• your physical or electronic signature;
• the work you say is infringed;
• the photo or clip and the event it's in, with enough detail for us to find it;
• your contact details;
• a statement that you believe in good faith the use isn't authorised by the owner, its agent or the law;
• a statement, under penalty of perjury, that your notice is accurate and that you are the owner or authorised to act for them.

When we receive a valid notice, we remove or disable the material and tell the person who uploaded it, if we can reach them.

Counter-notice and put-back. If your material was removed and you believe that was a mistake or misidentification, you can send our agent a counter-notice. It must include:

• your signature;
• what was removed and where it was;
• a statement, under penalty of perjury, that you believe in good faith it was removed by mistake or misidentification;
• your name, address and phone number;
• your consent to the jurisdiction of the federal court for your address (or, outside the US, any district where we may be found), and to accept service from the person who sent the notice.

We send a copy to the person who sent the notice. We put the material back 10 to 14 business days after we receive your counter-notice, unless they tell us within that time that they have gone to court to stop it.

Repeat infringers. We terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of users who repeatedly infringe copyright, and we block repeat-infringing guests from joining events. Someone is a repeat infringer ordinarily when we have received valid notices about their uploads on two or more occasions that were not successfully countered.

Photos taken during an event are hidden, from the other guests and from the host, until the reveal time the host set. You can see the ones you took yourself, and a host may review a photo held back for safety. At the reveal, everyone who joined can see the whole roll, and everyone who asked to be told, by email or notification, hears that it's ready.

Photos are kept for about a year after the event ends and are then permanently deleted. We try to warn everyone by email before a gallery comes down, but that warning is a courtesy, not a promise. Keep your own copy of anything that matters to you.

Guests never pay. Scanning a code, shooting, and getting the roll cost a guest nothing, ever.

Your first event is free up to the size shown when you create it, and it includes what a paid event includes: no watermark, guests adding photos from their library, and video clips. After that you can still make a small free roll, but you can have only one free roll that has not been revealed yet at a time. That standing free roll carries a Blink watermark.

Purchased rolls aren't watermarked. Every paid event includes no watermark and library uploads. They are not sold separately. A price is always shown in full before you pay.

Hosts can buy things for an event in the apps: a bigger roll, more guests or photos, or a pool of video clips. The price, in your currency and including any tax the store adds, is shown before you confirm.

These are one-time purchases for the event you buy them for. They are not subscriptions, they don't renew, they can't be moved to another event, and they have no cash value. Because the store doesn't keep them for you, we keep a record of them against your account, and Restore purchases reads it back.

Payment is taken by Apple or Google, under the App Store's or Google Play's own terms. We never see your card.

Refunds follow Refunds above. Request them from the store you paid, and Apple or Google decide them under their own rules. Our own before-the-start position and the EEA/UK right to withdraw are explained above.

Nothing in these terms takes away rights you have as a consumer under the law where you live.

The website sells only to buyers in the United States. Everyone else buys in the apps, under Buying in the apps. A host sizes their night — how many guests, how many shots each — and the amount for that roll is shown in full before any payment starts.

Your welcome event is free on the terms in Free and paid events.

Payment is handled by Stripe, and we never see your card number. A payment from a card outside the United States is refunded and not applied. Paystack payments for Ghana are not offered. Refunds follow Refunds above.

A code entered at "Have a code?" is checked on our server. A code may give you a free event or a discount, or credit the creator who gave it to you. A creator's code doesn't change the price and never unlocks anything by itself.

Codes have no cash value, can't be sold or exchanged, can have limits and expiry dates, and can be revoked at any time. We may refuse or reverse a code used by mistake, in breach of its limits, or through guessing or abuse. Every attempt is logged (see the privacy notice).

A creator's link or code only records who brought you to Blink, so that creator can be paid a commission on what you buy. It never changes what you pay. How that matching works is in the privacy notice.

We give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to install and use the Blink apps on devices you own or control, for your own use, under these terms. You may not copy, modify, reverse engineer, resell or redistribute the apps, except where the law allows it anyway. The apps are updated from time to time, and some features need an up-to-date version.

These points apply to the iPhone app, the App Clip and the Apple Watch app, and they win over anything else in these terms that conflicts with them:

• Agreement. These terms are between you and Chariot Archive, Inc. only, not Apple. We, not Apple, are solely responsible for the apps and their content.
• Licence. Your licence to the apps is limited to use on Apple-branded products that you own or control, as permitted by the Usage Rules in the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions. The exception is that the apps may be used by other accounts associated with you through Family Sharing or volume purchasing.
• Support. We, not Apple, are responsible for any maintenance and support of the apps. Apple has no obligation to provide any. Write to support@joinblink.me.
• Warranty. To the extent any warranty is not effectively disclaimed, we, not Apple, are responsible for it. If an app fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price, if any, of the app to you. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation with respect to the apps. Any other claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs or expenses attributable to a failure to conform to a warranty are our responsibility, subject to these terms.
• Product claims. We, not Apple, are responsible for addressing any claims by you or a third party relating to the apps or your possession and use of them. That includes product liability claims, any claim that an app fails to conform to a legal or regulatory requirement, and claims arising under consumer protection, privacy or similar laws.
• Intellectual property. If a third party claims that the apps or your possession and use of them infringe their intellectual property rights, we, not Apple, are solely responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement and discharge of that claim.
• Legal compliance. You confirm that you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. Government embargo or designated as a "terrorist supporting" country, and that you are not on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
• Third-party terms. You must comply with any third-party terms that apply when you use the apps, such as your mobile carrier's.
• Third-party beneficiary. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms. Once you accept them, Apple has the right (and will be deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce them against you as a third-party beneficiary.

These terms are between you and Chariot Archive, Inc., not Google. We, not Google, are responsible for the Android app and its support. Your use of Google Play, and any purchase made through it, is also subject to the Google Play Terms of Service and Google Play's payment and refund policies. Those govern where they conflict with these terms about a Google Play purchase.

You can stop using Blink at any time. You can delete your account in the apps (You → Settings → Delete account) or from your dashboard profile on the website. See how to delete your account.

Deleting your account permanently deletes the events you own and every photo and clip in them, including your guests' photos, and the photos you took as a guest at other events. Any unused purchase on those events goes with them. If a deletion is interrupted, it is retried until it completes, so nothing is left behind.

We keep only:

• anonymised records: each purchase, for tax and to reconcile payments with the stores and payment providers, and counts with nothing that identifies you;
• anything the law requires us to preserve, as the privacy notice explains.

The sections on content permissions already used, disclaimers, liability, disputes and governing law survive the end of this agreement.

Blink is provided "as is" and "as available." We don't warrant that it will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, or fit to be relied on. We don't warrant that photos will not be lost, corrupted, delayed, revealed at the wrong time, or never delivered at all.

To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy, and any warranty arising from course of dealing or trade usage. No advice or information you get from us, in any form, creates a warranty. You are responsible for keeping your own copies of anything you would be upset to lose.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total liability to you for all claims arising out of or relating to Blink is limited to the greater of:

• (a) the amount you actually paid for Blink in the twelve months before the claim, or
• (b) one hundred US dollars (US$100).

We are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages. We are not liable for lost profits, lost revenue, lost goodwill, lost data, or lost, deleted, or unrecoverable photos and videos, even if we were told such damages were possible. This applies however the claim is framed: contract, negligence, strict liability, or anything else.

These limits are a basic part of the deal and are reflected in what Blink costs. If you need a guarantee that photos survive, Blink is not the right tool.

Some jurisdictions don't allow these limits. Where that's true, they apply to the maximum extent that jurisdiction allows.

If you are a consumer in the EEA, the UK or Switzerland, these limits do not apply to liability for intent or gross negligence, to breach of an essential obligation of this agreement (where our liability is limited to the loss that is typical and foreseeable for this kind of service), or to your statutory rights about digital content and services. Nothing here shortens the time you have to bring a claim.

Nothing in these terms limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot be limited by law.

You are responsible for what you upload and for how you run an event. If someone else makes a claim against Blink because of something you did, you will repay certain costs to the extent the law where you live allows it. Those are Blink's reasonable, documented costs, damages and settlement amounts that were finally awarded or agreed, to the extent they were caused by:

• your breach of these terms;
• a photo or clip you uploaded that infringes someone's copyright, privacy, image or publicity rights; or
• your knowingly unlawful use of Blink, including photographing someone, or sharing their picture, without the agreement the law required.

This doesn't apply to the extent the claim was caused by Blink's own breach of these terms, negligence, wilful misconduct, unlawful handling of personal information, security failure, or a legal duty that is ours alone. It doesn't ask you to take over the defence of a claim, or to pay a fine or penalty imposed on us. Business hosts have the fuller obligation in "If you host for a business or organisation". Nothing here limits rights the law gives you that can't be limited.

If you are a consumer in the EEA, the UK or Switzerland, this section does not apply to you.

Hosts and guests are responsible for what happens at their events. But some duties are Blink's and nobody else's, and we don't pass them on:

• keeping the service and the photos secure;
• deleting what we promise to delete;
• answering requests about the information we hold;
• running the report and removal process, including the removal of intimate images that the US TAKE IT DOWN Act, the EU Digital Services Act, the UK Online Safety Act and similar laws require of us;
• telling authorities what the law requires us to tell them;
• following the privacy law that applies to us wherever Blink is used.

Please read this section. It affects how disputes between you and Blink get resolved, and it limits how you can bring a claim.

Agreement to arbitrate. Except as stated below, you and Blink agree that any dispute arising out of or relating to these terms or to Blink will be resolved by final and binding individual arbitration, not in court and not before a jury.

Rules. Arbitration will be administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, before a single arbitrator. It can be held in Ohio, by phone or video, or decided on documents alone. The choice is yours.

Class-action waiver. You and Blink each agree to bring claims only in an individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any class, collective, consolidated, or representative proceeding. An arbitrator may not consolidate claims or preside over any form of class proceeding. If this waiver is found unenforceable as to a particular claim, that claim, and only that claim, proceeds in court.

What is not covered. Either of us may bring an individual claim in small-claims court instead. Either of us may also seek injunctive relief in court to protect intellectual property or to stop unauthorized access. Nothing here prevents you from reporting anything to a government agency.

If you live in the EEA, the UK or Switzerland, this arbitration section does not apply to you. You can bring a claim in the courts where you live, and you keep the protections of your local consumer law.

You can opt out, and it costs you nothing. Email support@joinblink.me within 30 days of first accepting these terms, with your name and the email you used, and say you opt out of arbitration. Opting out changes nothing else about your use of Blink.

If many claims are filed together. If 25 or more similar claims are brought by the same or coordinated counsel, the AAA's Mass Arbitration Supplementary Rules apply. Nothing decided in one claimant's arbitration binds another claimant who wasn't a party to it.

This section survives the end of your relationship with Blink.

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Ohio, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Subject to the arbitration section above, any dispute not resolved in arbitration goes to the state or federal courts located in Ohio, and you agree to their jurisdiction. If you are a consumer outside the United States, this does not take away the protection of the mandatory laws of the country where you live.

When we change these terms materially, we:

• change the version date at the top and bottom of this page;
• post a plain summary of what changed;
• email hosts, and guests who gave us an address, at least 14 days before the change applies to them.

Continuing to use Blink after a change applies to you means you accept it. If you don't, stop using Blink and ask us to delete your data, and we will.

A change to the arbitration section doesn't apply to a dispute that either of us raised in writing before the change took effect.

If any part of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest stays in force. These terms and the privacy notice are the whole agreement between you and Blink about Blink. We may transfer this agreement to a company that takes over Blink, and will tell you if we do. You may not transfer it. If we don't enforce a term right away, we haven't given it up.

Chariot Archive, Inc., 195 East Main Street, Columbus, Ohio 43215, USA. support@joinblink.me.