Terms and Community Rules

1. Your agreement with Pubble

By creating an account or using Pubble, you agree to these Terms and Community Rules and acknowledge the Privacy Notice. If you do not agree, do not use the service.

Pubble is currently a UK beta. Features may be incomplete, unavailable or changed while the product is tested.

2. Who may use Pubble

• You must be at least 18 years old.
• You must be legally capable of entering into this agreement.
• You must provide accurate registration information and keep your account secure.
• You may hold only accounts that genuinely belong to you and must not share access credentials.
• You must use Pubble only for lawful personal purposes and in accordance with these terms.

If Pubble reasonably believes an account belongs to someone under 18, access may be suspended while the matter is reviewed.

3. What Pubble provides

Pubble helps adults arrange and coordinate small group meetings at pubs. Users can search for Pubbles, host plans, join eligible groups, exchange group messages, connect through private friend codes and submit feedback.

Pubble is not the pub, host, event organiser, employer, travel provider or supervisor of an in-person meeting. Pubs and users remain independent from Pubble. A listing does not mean Pubble endorses or has inspected a venue or person.

4. Hosting a Pubble

Hosts must choose a genuine public pub, provide an accurate future date and time, select an appropriate group limit and describe the plan honestly. Hosts should monitor the group chat, communicate material changes and cancel promptly if the plan will not take place.

Hosting does not give authority over other users. Hosts must not charge attendance fees, promote a business, collect money on Pubble or use a Pubble for recruitment, campaigning, dating solicitation or commercial events without Pubble’s written permission.

5. Joining and group preferences

Join only when you genuinely intend to attend and leave promptly if your plans change. Mixed, women-only and men-only options help users choose a setting in which they are comfortable. Eligibility is based on the gender choice on your Pubble profile: women-only is available to profiles set to woman, men-only to profiles set to man, and mixed groups are available to all eligible profiles.

Do not misrepresent yourself, create another account or evade a block to enter a group for which you are not eligible.

6. Community rules

You must treat other people respectfully. The following are prohibited:

• Harassment, stalking, threats, intimidation, bullying or unwanted sexual behaviour.
• Hate, discrimination or abuse based on a protected or personal characteristic.
• Violence, encouragement of harm, exploitation or instructions for illegal activity.
• Impersonation, deception, scams, fraud or deliberately false safety reports.
• Spam, unauthorised advertising, mass invitations or commercial solicitation.
• Sharing another person’s private information, image or messages without permission.
• Sexual content, intimate images, content involving children or any unlawful content.
• Weapons, illegal drugs or conduct that breaches a venue’s rules or licensing conditions.
• Interfering with Pubble’s security, scraping the service or attempting unauthorised access.

7. Messages and content

You keep ownership of content you submit. You give Pubble a limited, non-exclusive, worldwide licence to host, store, reproduce and display that content only as needed to operate, secure and improve the service and comply with law. This licence ends when the content is deleted, except where copies must remain in backups, safety records or legal evidence.

You are responsible for having the rights and permissions needed for anything you submit. Group messages should relate to the relevant Pubble. Do not assume another member will keep information shared in a group confidential.

8. Meeting safely

In-person meetings involve independent adults and carry ordinary social and travel risks. Use your judgement, meet in the named public venue, arrange your own safe travel, tell someone where you are going and protect your belongings. You never have to stay if you feel uncomfortable.

Pubble does not conduct criminal-record, identity or background checks during the beta. Profile-complete or host labels only describe activity within Pubble; they are not safety guarantees. In an emergency, contact the police or local emergency services first, then report the matter to Pubble when safe.

9. Alcohol and venue rules

Buying or drinking alcohol is never required. You are responsible for your own choices, conduct and compliance with applicable law. Pubs may refuse entry or service and may change opening hours, accessibility, menus or events. Check important requirements directly with the venue.

10. Cancellations and attendance

Hosts may cancel and attendees may leave. Pubble does not guarantee that a Pubble will happen, that a particular person will attend or that a pub will have space. Cancelled group chats may remain readable to members for coordination, safety and record purposes.

11. Reports, blocking and enforcement

You can report a Pubble or user, block another account and send safety concerns through the app. Pubble may review relevant account information, group membership and messages when reasonably necessary to assess a report, protect users or comply with law.

Depending on the circumstances, Pubble may warn a user, remove content, limit a feature, cancel a Pubble, suspend an account or permanently remove access. Serious or repeated breaches may be referred to a venue, platform provider or law-enforcement body where lawful and appropriate. Decisions will be made using available information and proportionate judgement.

During beta, request a review of an enforcement decision through Send feedback to Pubble and include enough information to identify the decision.

12. Friend codes and connections

Friend codes and QR codes are intended to be shared directly. Do not publish another person’s code without permission or use codes to build unsolicited contact lists. A Pubble friendship does not create private direct messaging in the current product.

13. Pub and product feedback

Pub ratings and written pub feedback are private within the MVP. Pubble may analyse them to improve the product and understand venue experiences. Product and safety feedback may be reviewed by people working on Pubble. Do not include unnecessary sensitive information about another person.

14. Third-party services

Pubble relies on third-party hosting, authentication, mapping, location, email and notification services. Links to maps or pub information take you to services governed by their own terms and privacy notices. Pubble is not responsible for independent third-party content or availability, although this does not affect rights that cannot lawfully be excluded.

15. Pubble’s intellectual property

Pubble’s name, branding, interface, software and original content belong to Pubble or its licensors. These terms give you a personal, limited, revocable, non-transferable right to use the beta. They do not transfer intellectual-property ownership to you.

16. Availability and changes

We aim to keep the beta available but do not promise uninterrupted or error-free operation. Pubble may maintain, change or discontinue beta features. Where a change materially affects your rights, we will give reasonable notice where practicable and may ask you to accept updated terms.

17. Responsibility and liability

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability where doing so would be unlawful, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or your statutory consumer rights.

Subject to that, Pubble is responsible only for losses that are a foreseeable result of Pubble breaching these terms or failing to use reasonable care and skill. Pubble is not responsible for losses caused by another user, a pub, an independent map or service provider, inaccurate user-supplied information, your failure to follow reasonable safety guidance, or events outside Pubble’s reasonable control.

Pubble is provided for personal use. We are not responsible for business losses, loss of profit, business interruption or lost business opportunity arising from personal use of the beta.

18. Suspending, leaving and deleting an account

You can stop using Pubble at any time and request account deletion in Settings. Pubble may restrict or suspend access while investigating a safety, security or legal concern. We may end access for a serious or repeated breach, unlawful use, risk to others or necessary closure of the service.

Terms that logically need to continue—including intellectual property, content responsibility, safety records, disputes and liability provisions—survive account closure.

19. Law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales. If you are a consumer resident elsewhere in the UK, you retain any mandatory protections and may be entitled to bring proceedings in your home courts. Please contact Pubble first so we can try to resolve a concern informally.

20. Contact

During private beta, contact Pubble through Send feedback to Pubble. Formal legal entity, postal and email contact details must be added before wider public launch.