MyBlock Terms of Use
Provisional version. This text is under legal review and may change before the app launches.
1. Who we are
MyBlock is an app for meeting new people by playing together in "lobbies" (question matches and discussion tables). The service is provided by Giovanni Laterza ("we"). Questions: [email protected].
2. Who can use MyBlock
- You must be at least 18 years old. By confirming it when you sign up you declare it is true. If we find out it is not, we may close the account.
- Your nickname must not contain offensive words or imitate other people.
- You are responsible for what you do with your account. An anonymous account (“quick start”) only lives on your device: if you lose it without saving it with an email, we cannot recover it. With the quick start you can look around and play Live Lobbies; to write in private and group chats, Communities, your profile board and Events you must first save your account with a confirmed email.
3. Rules of conduct
On the app you must not: - insult, harass, threaten or discriminate against other people; - send spam, advertising, chain messages or repeated messages; - post sexually explicit, violent or illegal content, or content that harms minors; - pretend to be someone else or give false information about your profile or age; - share other people's personal data without their consent; - send links, except in private chats with your friends; - get around the app's controls (filters, blocks, suspensions) or create new accounts to do so. In private chats with your friends we apply no filter (you remain responsible for what you write); in other spaces (lobbies, matches, tables, group chats, chats with contacts you met in lobbies) the most serious offensive words are automatically replaced with asterisks.
Illegal activity. You may not use MyBlock for illegal activity, in particular selling, buying or arranging drugs, weapons or other illegal goods or content (including through Community names and descriptions, messages, photos or voice messages). Such content is removed and accounts may be banned. We cooperate with the competent authorities when they ask, within the limits of the law. You can report such content with the reason "Illegal activity".
4. What you write
Your messages, answers, comments and voice messages remain yours. You give us the limited permission to store them and show them to the people they are meant for (other players in the lobby, chats) to run the service. We cannot guarantee that others will not copy them: only write what you are comfortable sharing.
Photos, board and profile. You can send photos in private and group chats (up to 4 per message), post announcements with text and up to 4 photos on your board, and upload an image as your profile banner. Nudity or sexually explicit content, content involving minors, violence, hate, spam or images you have no rights to are not allowed. Nickname, bio, posts and banner are visible to other users (except people you blocked or who blocked you). Before sending, photos are resized and stripped of metadata (such as GPS location) on your device; photos in public spaces (Live Lobbies, Communities, Events, board and banner) go through an automatic safety check (run by an external service, see the Privacy Policy) before other people can see them, and a photo that does not pass it is not sent; photos in private chats, group chats and ephemeral photos are not analysed automatically, but can be reported. The check is not foolproof and can be wrong: you remain responsible for what you send, and you can report any photo, post or banner.
General chat. The General chat is a public chat, the same for all users, with no location: anyone can read it and, with a saved account, write (text and voice messages up to 30 seconds), reply and react. What you write there is public to all users of the app and disappears automatically after 48 hours; the other people can also see who reacted to a message. Do not share personal data. Photos and links are not allowed. If you send many messages in a few seconds, a short waiting time between messages applies. Messages can be reported; a message reported by several different people is hidden for everyone until a moderator decides, and moderators can delete messages and mute a person in this chat for a limited time or permanently. The same rules of conduct as the rest of the app apply.
Communities and ephemeral photos. You can create and join public Communities: anyone can join with one tap. Community content (questions, polls, notices, answers, comments, reactions, covers) is visible to members; the owner and moderators can delete content, remove and ban people. The same rules of conduct as the rest of the app apply. In private chats you can send ephemeral photos ("View once" or "Timed"): they are deleted after being opened, or after 7 days if never opened; the app blocks screenshots and screen recording where technically possible, but cannot prevent someone photographing the screen with another device: do not send anything you would not want kept.
Community chats. Every Community has a free chat, visible to anyone who can see the Community (even without joining); members can write and, unless the owner turned on "Members only", so can people who haven't joined. You can send text, photos and voice messages (up to 2 minutes); links are not allowed. Photos in Communities are possible 24 hours after you sign up and are not blurred: you are responsible for what you send. Messages stay in the history until you, the owner or a moderator delete them, or until you delete your account. You can report any message, photo or voice message.
5. Reports, moderation and suspensions
- You can report a person and block them at any time.
- When you report someone, we attach to the report a copy of the latest messages that person wrote in places you have in common (chats, matches, tables), so the report can be checked even if the messages are deleted.
- If an account breaks these rules we may take, in order of seriousness: a warning; a mute (for 24 hours, 7 days or until further notice: the account cannot enter lobbies or play groups, but chats keep working); a suspension (24 hours or 7 days: the app cannot be used for that time); a ban (permanent).
- If an account is reported by 3 different people within 24 hours it is flagged "in review": this is only an internal label for moderators and restricts nothing until a moderator decides. Every measure is decided by a person.
- A suspended or banned account cannot use the app; deleting the account is always possible.
6. Sampietrini
"Sampietrini" are MyBlock's virtual currency. You can earn them by playing or buy them in packs inside the app.
- Payment. Purchases go through Apple's App Store or Google Play, under their payment terms. We never receive or store your card details. The price of each pack, including VAT, is shown before you confirm.
- Right of withdrawal. Sampietrini are digital content supplied immediately. By confirming a purchase you ask for them to be credited straight away and acknowledge that you lose the 14 day right of withdrawal. Refunds under Apple's and Google's rules, and your rights if the service does not work as described, still apply.
- Not money. Sampietrini cannot be exchanged for money, are not refundable except where the law or the stores provide, and cannot be transferred to other accounts.
- What they are for. In the shop you can spend them on customisation items (banners, emblems, covers, name colours and styles, titles). Items only give you the right to use them in the app.
- Changes. The catalogue, prices in Sampietrini and ways to earn them may change. Sampietrini already on your account stay yours.
- End of the account. If you delete your account, any remaining Sampietrini and items are lost. If we close your account for serious breaches of these Terms, you lose them to the extent allowed by law. If we ever shut down the service, we will give you at least 30 days' notice.
7. Availability and liability
The service is provided "as is" and may be interrupted or changed. We are not responsible for the behaviour of other users, whom you do not know in person: use common sense, do not share sensitive data and only meet strangers in public places and with care. Liability that cannot be excluded by law remains unaffected.
8. Deleting your account
You can delete your account at any time from Settings → "Delete account". This deletes your profile and related data, as explained in the Privacy Policy.
9. Changes
We may update these Terms. If they change in a significant way we will ask you to accept them again the next time you open the app.
10. Governing law
These Terms are governed by Italian law. Consumers keep the mandatory protections granted by law and the court of their place of residence.
Events, History and content. An event stays visible for 24 hours after it ends or is cancelled; for another 24 hours it is read-only (number of participants and chat) and is then deleted with its files. Matches stay in your History while they are among your last 15, and for one week at most. You can delete your own photos and voice messages at any time; people who joined an event or wrote in its chat can propose a group to the others, who choose whether to join.