COVEY TERMS OF SERVICE
Provider: Covey, Inc., a Delaware corporation (entity name, form, and registered address to be confirmed — see Annex D) Document: Terms of Service (the “Agreement”) Version: 2026-09-01 Effective Date: 1 September 2026 Supersedes: Version 2026-08-23 Publication URL: https://coveyapp.co/terms
NOTICE TO THE USER
THIS IS A BINDING LEGAL AGREEMENT. READ IT BEFORE YOU ACCEPT.
SECTION 10 (NO SCREENING; NO ENDORSEMENT) STATES THAT COVEY DOES NOT CONDUCT CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS OR SEX-OFFENDER REGISTRY SEARCHES ON ITS USERS.
SECTION 11 (ASSUMPTION OF RISK; RELEASE) REQUIRES YOU TO ASSUME THE RISK OF MEETING OTHER USERS IN PERSON AND TO RELEASE COVEY FROM CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF THOSE MEETINGS, INCLUDING CLAIMS FOR PERSONAL INJURY.
SECTION 18 (LIMITATION OF LIABILITY) LIMITS COVEY’S AGGREGATE LIABILITY TO YOU TO ONE HUNDRED UNITED STATES DOLLARS (US$100).
SECTION 20 (DISPUTE RESOLUTION; ARBITRATION; CLASS ACTION WAIVER) REQUIRES MOST DISPUTES TO BE RESOLVED BY INDIVIDUAL BINDING ARBITRATION AND WAIVES YOUR RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL AND TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS ACTION. YOU MAY OPT OUT OF SECTION 20 WITHIN THIRTY (30) DAYS UNDER SECTION 20.6 WITHOUT ANY OTHER CONSEQUENCE TO YOUR ACCOUNT.
RECITALS
A. Covey, Inc. (“Covey”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) operates a mobile application and related website through which individuals discover, plan, and coordinate in-person social activities, and, at the User’s election, seek romantic connections.
B. The person accepting this Agreement (“you” or “User”) wishes to access and use that service.
C. Covey is willing to grant that access only on the terms set out in this Agreement, and would not do so on any other terms.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual promises in this Agreement and of Covey making the Service available to you at no charge, the parties agree as follows.
1. DEFINITIONS
In this Agreement, the following capitalised terms have the following meanings.
1.1 “Account” means the User account created for you to access the Service.
1.2 “Acceptable Use Policy” means the rules of conduct set out in Annex A, which form part of this Agreement.
1.3 “Agreement” means this Terms of Service document, together with its Annexes and the Privacy Policy, each as amended from time to time in accordance with Section 23.
1.4 “Applicable Law” means all statutes, regulations, rules, ordinances, and binding judicial or administrative orders applicable to a party.
1.5 “Content” means any text, image, photograph, video, audio, link, location reference, or other material transmitted to, through, or by means of the Service.
1.6 “Covey Materials” means the Service and all software, source code, object code, designs, user interfaces, text, graphics, illustrations, trade marks, service marks, trade names, logos, and other materials comprised in or made available through it, excluding User Content.
1.7 “Dating Features” means the optional features of the Service, disabled by default, through which a User may express romantic interest and be shown to other Users on that basis.
1.8 “Identity Verification” means the process described in Section 5.
1.9 “Model Output” means text or other material generated by an automated language model and presented to a User by the Service, as described in Section 8.
1.10 “Plan” means an activity, event, or gathering created through the Service, including its title, description, times, stops, locations, and participant list.
1.11 “Privacy Policy” means the Covey Privacy Policy published at https://coveyapp.co/privacy, as amended from time to time.
1.12 “Service” means the Covey mobile application, the website at coveyapp.co, and all features, functionality, content, and support that Covey makes available through them.
1.13 “User Content” means Content that you submit, upload, transmit, post, or otherwise make available through the Service, including your profile information, Plans, posts, photographs, messages, comments, group descriptions, and reports.
1.14 “Version” means the version identifier appearing in the header of this Agreement, which is recorded against your Account when you accept.
1.15 In this Agreement: (a) the singular includes the plural and vice versa; (b) “including”, “includes”, and “in particular” are without limitation; (c) headings are for convenience only and do not affect interpretation; (d) a reference to a Section or Annex is to a Section or Annex of this Agreement; and (e) a reference to a statute includes any amendment or re-enactment of it.
2. ACCEPTANCE AND FORMATION OF THE AGREEMENT
2.1 Manifestation of assent. This Agreement becomes binding on you when you first do any of the following: (a) select the control presented to you alongside a clear statement that doing so constitutes acceptance of this Agreement and the Privacy Policy; (b) create an Account; or (c) access or use the Service. The control referred to in Section 2.1(a) is presented adjacent to conspicuous hyperlinks to this Agreement and to the Privacy Policy, and is not pre-selected.
2.2 Record of acceptance. Covey records, against your Account, the Version you accepted, the date and time of acceptance, and the method by which you registered. That record is admissible evidence of your assent, and you agree not to dispute its authenticity absent evidence of error.
2.3 Opportunity to review. You acknowledge that you were given the opportunity to review this Agreement in full before accepting it, that the hyperlink to it was presented to you before acceptance, and that you were not required to accept in order to view the Agreement itself.
2.4 Refusal. If you do not agree to this Agreement, you must not accept it and must not access or use the Service.
2.5 Capacity to bind an entity. If you accept this Agreement on behalf of a legal entity, you represent that you have authority to bind that entity, and “you” refers to you and that entity jointly and severally.
3. ELIGIBILITY AND CONTINUING REPRESENTATIONS
3.1 You represent and warrant, on each occasion you access or use the Service, that:
3.1.1 you are a natural person of at least eighteen (18) years of age;
3.1.2 you have the legal capacity to enter into a binding contract;
3.1.3 the date of birth and identity document you provide are genuine and are your own;
3.1.4 you are not required to register as a sex offender with any government entity in any jurisdiction;
3.1.5 you have not been convicted of a felony, or of any indictable offence, or of any crime involving violence, sexual misconduct, or offences against a minor;
3.1.6 you are not barred from receiving the Service under United States law, are not located in a country subject to a United States Government embargo or designated by the United States Government as a “terrorist supporting” country, and are not listed on any United States Government list of prohibited or restricted parties; and
3.1.7 no Account of yours has previously been suspended or terminated by Covey, unless Covey has given you written permission to register again.
3.2 Continuing obligation. The representations in Section 3.1 are continuing. You must notify Covey immediately at safety@coveyapp.co if any of them ceases to be true.
3.3 No minors. The Service is offered exclusively to adults. Covey does not knowingly permit any person under eighteen (18) to create an Account, and will terminate any Account it learns belongs to such a person and delete the associated data.
3.4 Territory. The Service is presently offered only in the United States, on an invitation basis. Covey may limit, prioritise, suspend, or withdraw invitations in its sole discretion and may restrict availability by territory.
3.5 Breach of eligibility. A breach of any representation in Section 3.1 is a material breach of this Agreement entitling Covey to terminate your Account immediately and without notice under Section 16.
4. ACCOUNTS AND SECURITY
4.1 Registration. You may register using an email address and password, or through Sign in with Apple or Sign in with Google. You must provide accurate registration information and keep it current.
4.2 Credentials. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your credentials and for all activity occurring under your Account, whether or not authorised by you. You must notify Covey at support@coveyapp.co promptly upon becoming aware of any unauthorised access.
4.3 One Account per person. You may hold one Account. You must not sell, rent, lend, share, or transfer your Account, your credentials, or any invitation issued to you.
4.4 No liability for unauthorised access. Covey is not liable for any loss arising from unauthorised use of your Account, except to the extent caused by Covey’s own failure to comply with Applicable Law.
5. IDENTITY VERIFICATION AND ITS LIMITS
5.1 The process. Before completing onboarding, you must photograph a government-issued identity document and capture a facial photograph (“Selfie”). A member of Covey’s personnel visually compares the two in order to form a view as to whether the document appears genuine, whether it appears to relate to you, and whether it indicates that you are at least eighteen (18) years of age.
5.2 Data handling. The handling, storage, retention, and deletion of the identity document and Selfie are governed by the Privacy Policy. Covey does not perform automated facial recognition and does not generate or store a biometric template or faceprint from the Selfie.
5.3 CONSPICUOUS NOTICE — WHAT IDENTITY VERIFICATION IS NOT
IDENTITY VERIFICATION IS A VISUAL INSPECTION OF A DOCUMENT AND NOTHING MORE. IT IS NOT A CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECK, A SEX-OFFENDER REGISTRY SEARCH, A REFERENCE CHECK, A CREDIT CHECK, OR ANY ASSESSMENT WHATSOEVER OF ANY PERSON’S CHARACTER, PROPENSITIES, CRIMINAL HISTORY, OR INTENTIONS.
ANY INDICATOR, BADGE, OR LABEL DISPLAYED BY THE SERVICE INDICATING THAT A USER HAS COMPLETED IDENTITY VERIFICATION MEANS ONLY THAT A DOCUMENT WAS PRESENTED AND VISUALLY REVIEWED. IT IS NOT A REPRESENTATION, WARRANTY, CERTIFICATION, OR ENDORSEMENT BY COVEY THAT THE USER IS WHO THEY CLAIM TO BE, IS TRUTHFUL, IS OF GOOD CHARACTER, OR IS SAFE TO MEET. YOU MUST NOT RELY ON IT AS SUCH.
5.4 Assumption of no duty. By conducting Identity Verification, Covey does not assume, and expressly disclaims, any duty to detect fraudulent, altered, or misappropriated documents, or any duty of care to any User in respect of the identity, character, or conduct of any other User.
5.5 Fraudulent submission. Submitting a forged, altered, or borrowed identity document, or one belonging to another person, is a material breach of this Agreement resulting in immediate permanent termination, and may constitute a criminal offence.
6. LICENCE TO USE THE SERVICE
6.1 Grant. Subject to your continuing compliance with this Agreement, Covey grants you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable licence to access and use the Service for your own personal, non-commercial purposes.
6.2 Reservation. All rights not expressly granted are reserved to Covey and its licensors. Nothing in this Agreement transfers to you any right, title, or interest in the Covey Materials.
6.3 No charge. Covey provides the Service free of charge. Covey does not levy subscription fees, does not sell in-application products, and does not process payments. Nothing in the Service constitutes an offer to sell you anything. If Covey introduces paid features, it will publish amended terms and obtain your acceptance before any charge arises.
6.4 Transactions between Users. Covey is not a party to, and assumes no responsibility for, any financial arrangement between Users or between a User and any venue, host, or third party, including the sharing of costs, the purchase of tickets, cover charges, or deposits. Covey neither holds nor transmits any such funds.
6.5 Nature of the Service. The Service is provided on an early-access basis. Covey may add, modify, suspend, or discontinue any part of it at any time. Covey does not warrant any level of availability or uptime, and does not warrant that User Content will be preserved. Where a modification materially diminishes the Service, Covey will use reasonable efforts to give prior notice through the Service or by email.
7. USER CONTENT
7.1 Ownership. As between you and Covey, you retain all right, title, and interest in and to your User Content.
7.2 Licence granted to Covey. You grant Covey a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully paid, transferable, and sublicensable licence to host, store, cache, reproduce, adapt (for formatting and technical purposes only), transmit, publish, and display your User Content, solely for the purposes of operating, securing, supporting, and improving the Service and delivering your User Content to the Users with whom you have shared it.
7.3 Restrictions on Covey’s use. Covey will not use your private messages or non-public Plan content for advertising purposes, and will not use your User Content in promotional or marketing materials without first obtaining your separate consent.
7.4 Duration and survival of the licence. The licence in Section 7.2 terminates when you delete the relevant User Content or your Account, save that: (a) User Content already transmitted to other Users may persist in their Accounts and in shared Plans; (b) copies may remain in routine backup media for a limited period; and (c) Covey may retain User Content that it is required or permitted to retain under the Privacy Policy, Applicable Law, or for the enforcement, safety, and dispute-resolution purposes described in Section 12.
7.5 User representations and warranties. You represent and warrant that: (a) you own or hold all rights necessary to grant the licence in Section 7.2; (b) you have obtained the consent of every identifiable person appearing in any photograph or recording you upload; (c) your User Content does not infringe or misappropriate any third-party right; and (d) your User Content does not violate this Agreement or Applicable Law.
7.6 Sole responsibility. You are solely responsible for your User Content and for all consequences of submitting it.
7.7 Feedback. If you submit suggestions, ideas, or feature requests (“Feedback”), you grant Covey a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, unrestricted right to use and exploit that Feedback for any purpose without attribution, compensation, or obligation to you.
8. AI-GENERATED OUTPUT
8.1 Nature of Model Output. Certain optional features of the Service produce Model Output, including suggested profile biographies, draft Plans, group descriptions, conversation prompts, and interpretations of search queries. The Privacy Policy identifies the third-party model provider and specifies precisely what data is transmitted and what is not.
8.2 No review; no warranty. Model Output is generated automatically and is not reviewed by any person before it is presented to you. MODEL OUTPUT MAY BE INACCURATE, INCOMPLETE, MISLEADING, OR INAPPROPRIATE, AND SUBSTANTIALLY SIMILAR OUTPUT MAY BE GENERATED FOR OTHER USERS. Covey makes no representation or warranty of any kind concerning Model Output.
8.3 Your responsibility. You must review Model Output before adopting it. Upon your adoption or publication of Model Output, it constitutes your User Content for all purposes of this Agreement, including Sections 7.5 and 7.6, as though you had authored it.
8.4 No ownership claim. Covey does not assert ownership of Model Output presented to you.
9. ACCEPTABLE USE
9.1 You must comply with the Acceptable Use Policy set out in Annex A, which is incorporated into and forms part of this Agreement.
9.2 Breach of the Acceptable Use Policy is a material breach of this Agreement.
10. NO SCREENING; NO ENDORSEMENT
10.1 COVEY DOES NOT CONDUCT CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS, SEX-OFFENDER REGISTRY SEARCHES, REFERENCE CHECKS, OR ANY OTHER SCREENING OF ITS USERS. THE IDENTITY VERIFICATION DESCRIBED IN SECTION 5 CONFIRMS ONLY THAT A DOCUMENT WAS PRESENTED AND VISUALLY REVIEWED. IT CONFIRMS NOTHING ABOUT ANY PERSON’S HISTORY, CHARACTER, PROPENSITIES, OR INTENTIONS.
10.2 COVEY DOES NOT VERIFY STATEMENTS THAT USERS MAKE ABOUT THEMSELVES AND DOES NOT VET PLANS, HOSTS, VENUES, ACTIVITIES, OR LOCATIONS.
10.3 THE APPEARANCE OF ANY USER, PROFILE, PLAN, VENUE, OR LOCATION ON THE SERVICE IS NOT AN ENDORSEMENT, RECOMMENDATION, CERTIFICATION, OR APPROVAL BY COVEY, AND IS NOT A REPRESENTATION THAT ANY PERSON IS SAFE TO MEET OR THAT ANY ACTIVITY IS SAFE TO UNDERTAKE.
11. ASSUMPTION OF RISK; RELEASE
11.1 Acknowledgement of risk. You acknowledge that the purpose of the Service is to facilitate meetings between persons in the physical world, including for romantic purposes where you enable Dating Features; that persons may misrepresent their identity, age, intentions, or history; and that such meetings carry inherent risks that no technology can eliminate, including the risk of physical harm.
11.2 Precautions. You are responsible for exercising reasonable caution. Covey recommends that you meet in a public place on a first occasion, inform a third party of your whereabouts, arrange your own transport, decline to transfer money or account details to any person you meet through the Service, and remove yourself from any situation that causes you concern.
11.3 ASSUMPTION OF RISK AND RELEASE OF CLAIMS
YOU ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR INTERACTIONS WITH OTHER USERS, WHETHER ONLINE OR IN PERSON. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, YOU ASSUME ALL RISK ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THOSE INTERACTIONS AND WITH YOUR ATTENDANCE AT ANY PLAN, EVENT, VENUE, OR LOCATION, AND YOU HEREBY RELEASE, ACQUIT, AND FOREVER DISCHARGE COVEY AND ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, AND AFFILIATES FROM ANY AND ALL CLAIMS, DEMANDS, ACTIONS, CAUSES OF ACTION, DAMAGES, LOSSES, COSTS, AND LIABILITIES OF EVERY KIND AND NATURE, WHETHER KNOWN OR UNKNOWN, SUSPECTED OR UNSUSPECTED, DISCLOSED OR UNDISCLOSED, ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH SUCH INTERACTIONS OR ATTENDANCE, INCLUDING CLAIMS FOR PERSONAL INJURY, DEATH, ASSAULT, BATTERY, SEXUAL MISCONDUCT, HARASSMENT, STALKING, FALSE IMPRISONMENT, PROPERTY DAMAGE, EMOTIONAL DISTRESS, DEFAMATION, AND ECONOMIC LOSS CAUSED BY ANOTHER USER.
11.4 Waiver of California Civil Code section 1542. You expressly waive the provisions of section 1542 of the California Civil Code, and any comparable provision of the law of any other jurisdiction, which provides:
“A general release does not extend to claims that the creditor or releasing party does not know or suspect to exist in his or her favor at the time of executing the release, and that, if known by him or her, would have materially affected his or her settlement with the debtor or released party.”
11.5 Limits of the release. Nothing in this Section 11 purports to release Covey from liability for its own fraud, wilful injury, or violation of law, or from any liability that may not lawfully be released under Applicable Law, including under section 1668 of the California Civil Code.
11.6 No emergency service. Covey does not provide emergency services and cannot intervene in events as they occur. In an emergency you must contact local emergency services. Non-emergency safety concerns should be reported under Section 12 or to safety@coveyapp.co.
12. REPORTING, BLOCKING, MODERATION, AND ENFORCEMENT
12.1 User tools. The Service enables you to block any other User, which prevents that User from contacting you or viewing your Content, and to report a User, message, Plan, post, photograph, place, group, or comment, together with supporting context.
12.2 No obligation to monitor. Covey has no obligation to monitor, review, or moderate Content, and does not undertake to do so. Any moderation Covey performs is undertaken voluntarily and does not create a duty to perform it in any particular case, to any standard, or at all.
12.3 Enforcement measures. Where Covey determines, in its reasonable discretion, that a User has breached this Agreement or Applicable Law, or that action is necessary to protect any person or the Service, Covey may take one or more of the following measures: issue a warning; remove or restrict the visibility of Content; restrict access to features; suspend the Account temporarily; ban the Account permanently; preserve records; and report the matter to law enforcement or other competent authority.
12.4 Interim action. Covey may act before completing an investigation where the apparent risk warrants it.
12.5 Notice and reconsideration. Where practicable and lawful, Covey will inform the affected User of the measure taken. A User may request reconsideration by writing to support@coveyapp.co, and a person not responsible for the original decision will review it.
12.6 Retention of enforcement records. Covey retains records of reports, blocks, and enforcement measures after Account deletion to the extent necessary to give effect to a ban, to investigate abuse, and to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims, as set out in the Privacy Policy.
12.7 Abuse of reporting. Submitting reports in bad faith, or to harass another User, is itself a breach of the Acceptable Use Policy.
12.8 Section 230. Covey is a provider of an interactive computer service within the meaning of 47 U.S.C. § 230 and is not the publisher or speaker of User Content.
13. THIRD-PARTY SERVICES AND CONTENT
13.1 The Service displays content from, links to, and interoperates with services that Covey does not control, including mapping and place-information providers, music-streaming links posted by Users, venue websites, and application marketplaces.
13.2 Covey makes no representation or warranty as to, and accepts no responsibility for, the content, availability, accuracy, legality, or practices of any third-party service. Your use of a third-party service is governed by that provider’s own terms.
13.3 Place information, including addresses, coordinates, and descriptive details, is derived from third-party sources and may be inaccurate or out of date. You must verify it before relying on it.
13.4 The presence of a link is not an endorsement.
14. COPYRIGHT; DIGITAL MILLENNIUM COPYRIGHT ACT
14.1 Covey responds to notices of claimed copyright infringement in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 512.
14.2 Notices, and counter-notices, must be submitted in the form and with the content specified in Annex C and sent to the designated agent identified in that Annex.
14.3 Covey terminates, in appropriate circumstances, the Accounts of Users who are repeat infringers.
15. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OF COVEY
15.1 The Covey Materials are owned by Covey and its licensors and are protected by copyright, trade mark, trade secret, and other intellectual property laws.
15.2 You must not use the Covey name, marks, or logos without Covey’s prior written consent.
15.3 You must not remove, obscure, or alter any proprietary notice contained in the Covey Materials.
16. TERM, SUSPENSION, TERMINATION, AND DELETION
16.1 Term. This Agreement commences on your acceptance and continues until terminated in accordance with this Section 16.
16.2 Termination by you. You may terminate this Agreement at any time by deleting your Account through the account settings within the application. Account deletion removes your profile, the Plans you host, your posts, your messages, your bookmarks, and your preferences, and revokes your authentication credentials, subject to the retention provisions of the Privacy Policy.
16.3 Termination or suspension by Covey. Covey may suspend or terminate your Account and this Agreement, with or without notice, if: (a) you breach this Agreement; (b) Covey reasonably believes your use creates risk or legal exposure for Covey or any other person; (c) you cease to satisfy Section 3.1; or (d) Covey discontinues the Service. Where the ground is a safety or legal risk, Covey may act with immediate effect.
16.4 Effect of termination. On termination, the licence granted in Section 6.1 terminates immediately and you must cease all use of the Service.
16.5 Survival. Sections 1, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7, 8.3, 10, 11, 12.6, 12.8, 15, and 16.4 through 25, together with Annex B, survive termination of this Agreement.
17. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES
17.1 THE SERVICE, THE COVEY MATERIALS, AND ALL CONTENT ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE.
17.2 TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, COVEY EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, QUIET ENJOYMENT, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
17.3 COVEY DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE; THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED; OR THAT CONTENT, PLACE INFORMATION, MODEL OUTPUT, OR RECOMMENDATIONS ARE ACCURATE OR COMPLETE.
17.4 COVEY MAKES NO WARRANTY WHATSOEVER CONCERNING THE IDENTITY, AGE, CONDUCT, CHARACTER, CRIMINAL HISTORY, OR SUITABILITY OF ANY USER, HOST, OR VENUE, OR CONCERNING THE TRUTH OF ANY STATEMENT MADE BY A USER.
17.5 Some jurisdictions do not permit the exclusion of certain warranties. To the extent an exclusion in this Section 17 is unenforceable in your jurisdiction, it does not apply to you and the remainder continues in full force.
18. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
18.1 TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, NEITHER COVEY NOR ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, OR AFFILIATES SHALL BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, GOODWILL, OR BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT, THE SERVICE, OR YOUR INTERACTIONS WITH ANY OTHER USER, WHETHER BASED IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STRICT LIABILITY, STATUTE, OR ANY OTHER THEORY, AND WHETHER OR NOT COVEY WAS ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
18.2 COVEY’S TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE SERVICE SHALL NOT EXCEED ONE HUNDRED UNITED STATES DOLLARS (US$100). THE PARTIES ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED FREE OF CHARGE AND THAT THIS LIMITATION REFLECTS A REASONABLE ALLOCATION OF RISK AND FORMS AN ESSENTIAL BASIS OF THE BARGAIN BETWEEN THEM.
18.3 The limitations in this Section 18 apply notwithstanding the failure of the essential purpose of any limited remedy.
18.4 Statutory carve-outs. Nothing in this Section 18 limits liability that cannot be limited under Applicable Law, including liability for fraud, wilful injury, gross negligence where the law so provides, or personal injury caused by Covey’s own negligence where such limitation is prohibited.
18.5 Some jurisdictions do not permit certain limitations of liability. To the extent a limitation in this Section 18 is unenforceable in your jurisdiction, it does not apply to you and the remainder continues in full force.
19. INDEMNIFICATION
19.1 You shall defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Covey and its officers, directors, employees, agents, and affiliates from and against any and all claims, demands, damages, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, arising out of or relating to: (a) your User Content; (b) your access to or use of the Service; (c) your breach of this Agreement or of Applicable Law; or (d) your interactions with any other User, host, or venue.
19.2 Covey may assume the exclusive defence and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, in which case you shall cooperate with Covey’s defence of that claim. You shall not settle any such matter without Covey’s prior written consent.
20. DISPUTE RESOLUTION; ARBITRATION; CLASS ACTION WAIVER
PLEASE READ THIS SECTION CAREFULLY. IT AFFECTS YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS, INCLUDING YOUR RIGHT TO BRING AN ACTION IN COURT, TO A TRIAL BY JURY, AND TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS ACTION. YOU MAY OPT OUT UNDER SECTION 20.6.
20.1 Scope. This Section 20 applies to any dispute, claim, or controversy between you and Covey arising out of or relating to this Agreement, the Service, or your relationship with Covey, whether based in contract, tort, statute, fraud, misrepresentation, or any other legal theory, and whether arising before or after termination.
20.2 Informal resolution as a condition precedent. Before commencing arbitration or any court proceeding, the initiating party shall send the other a written notice describing the dispute and the relief sought, to support@coveyapp.co in the case of a notice to Covey, or to the email address on your Account in the case of a notice to you. The parties shall attempt in good faith to resolve the dispute for a period of sixty (60) days from receipt of that notice. Compliance with this Section 20.2 is a condition precedent to commencing proceedings.
20.3 Binding individual arbitration. If the dispute is not resolved under Section 20.2, it shall be determined by final and binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association (“AAA”) under its Consumer Arbitration Rules then in effect, and not in court. The Federal Arbitration Act, 9 U.S.C. §§ 1 et seq., governs the interpretation and enforcement of this Section 20. The arbitrator has exclusive authority to resolve all issues, including the scope, applicability, and enforceability of this Section 20, save that a court of competent jurisdiction shall determine the enforceability of the waiver in Section 20.4. The seat of arbitration shall be San Francisco County, California; the arbitration may proceed by telephone or videoconference, or, at your election for claims not exceeding US$25,000, on the basis of documents alone. Judgment on the award may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction.
20.4 CLASS ACTION AND JURY TRIAL WAIVER. YOU AND COVEY EACH WAIVE THE RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY AND THE RIGHT TO BRING, JOIN, OR PARTICIPATE IN ANY CLASS, COLLECTIVE, CONSOLIDATED, PRIVATE ATTORNEY GENERAL, OR OTHER REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. THE ARBITRATOR MAY AWARD RELIEF ONLY IN FAVOUR OF THE INDIVIDUAL PARTY SEEKING RELIEF AND ONLY TO THE EXTENT NECESSARY TO PROVIDE RELIEF ON THAT PARTY’S INDIVIDUAL CLAIM. If this Section 20.4 is held unenforceable as to any claim, that claim, and only that claim, shall be severed and proceed in a court of competent jurisdiction, and the remainder of this Section 20 shall continue to apply.
20.5 Exceptions. Notwithstanding Section 20.3: (a) either party may bring an individual action in small claims court if it qualifies; (b) either party may seek injunctive or other equitable relief in a court of competent jurisdiction to protect intellectual property rights or to prevent unauthorised access to the Service; and (c) nothing in this Section 20 prevents you from reporting any matter to a government agency or law enforcement, from participating in an investigation by such an agency, or from seeking a protective, restraining, or similar order against any person.
20.6 Right to opt out. You may opt out of Sections 20.3 and 20.4 by sending an email to support@coveyapp.co bearing the subject line “Arbitration Opt-Out” and stating your name and the email address associated with your Account, within thirty (30) days of your first acceptance of this Agreement. Opting out affects no other provision of this Agreement, and Covey shall not terminate, suspend, or otherwise disadvantage your Account by reason of your having opted out.
20.7 Limitation period. Any claim arising out of or relating to the Service must be commenced within one (1) year after the cause of action accrues, failing which it is permanently barred, unless Applicable Law provides a longer period that may not be shortened by agreement. This Section 20.7 does not apply to a claim for personal injury where Applicable Law prohibits contractual shortening of the limitation period.
20.8 Survival. This Section 20 survives termination of this Agreement.
21. GOVERNING LAW AND VENUE
21.1 This Agreement, and any dispute arising out of or relating to it or to the Service, is governed by the laws of the State of California, excluding its conflict-of-laws rules, and, in respect of Section 20, by the Federal Arbitration Act.
21.2 For any dispute not subject to arbitration, the parties submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts sitting in San Francisco County, California, and waive any objection to venue or forum non conveniens.
21.3 If you are a consumer resident in a jurisdiction whose mandatory consumer protection laws afford you rights that may not be derogated from by agreement, nothing in this Section 21 deprives you of those rights.
21.4 The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply to this Agreement.
22. APPLE APP STORE PROVISIONS
Where you obtain the Covey application from the Apple App Store, Annex B applies and prevails over any inconsistent provision of this Agreement as regards Apple Inc.
23. AMENDMENT OF THIS AGREEMENT
23.1 Covey may amend this Agreement from time to time.
23.2 Material amendments. Where an amendment is material, Covey will publish a new Version, update the Effective Date, and present the amended Agreement for your acceptance within the Service before you may continue to use it. Your acceptance will be recorded in accordance with Section 2.2.
23.3 Non-material amendments. Where an amendment is not material, Covey will publish a new Version and update the Effective Date, and the amendment takes effect on publication.
23.4 Effect of refusal. If you do not accept an amended Agreement, you must cease using the Service and delete your Account. The Version you last accepted governs your use of the Service up to the date of that cessation.
23.5 No amendment made by Covey applies retroactively to a dispute of which Covey had notice before the Effective Date of that amendment.
24. GENERAL PROVISIONS
24.1 Entire agreement. This Agreement, including its Annexes and the Privacy Policy, constitutes the entire agreement between the parties concerning the Service and supersedes all prior or contemporaneous understandings, whether written or oral.
24.2 Severability. If any provision of this Agreement is held invalid or unenforceable, it shall be modified to the minimum extent necessary to render it enforceable or, if modification is not possible, severed, and the remaining provisions shall continue in full force.
24.3 No waiver. No failure or delay by Covey in exercising any right constitutes a waiver of it, and no single or partial exercise precludes any further exercise.
24.4 Assignment. You may not assign or transfer this Agreement, or any right or obligation under it, without Covey’s prior written consent; any purported assignment in breach of this Section is void. Covey may assign this Agreement in connection with a merger, acquisition, corporate reorganisation, or sale of all or substantially all of its assets, or by operation of law.
24.5 Force majeure. Neither party is liable for any delay or failure to perform resulting from causes beyond its reasonable control.
24.6 Electronic communications and notices. You consent to receive communications from Covey electronically, including by email to the address associated with your Account and by in-application message, and agree that such communications satisfy any legal requirement that a communication be in writing. Notices to Covey must be sent to support@coveyapp.co and, where the notice concerns a legal claim, additionally to the registered address identified in Annex D.
24.7 No third-party beneficiaries. Save for Apple Inc. and its subsidiaries as provided in Annex B, this Agreement confers no right or benefit on any third party.
24.8 Relationship of the parties. Nothing in this Agreement creates any partnership, joint venture, agency, fiduciary, or employment relationship between the parties.
24.9 Export control and sanctions. You shall comply with all applicable export control and economic sanctions laws of the United States and any other relevant jurisdiction.
24.10 Interpretation. This Agreement shall not be construed against the drafting party by reason of its authorship.
24.11 Language. This Agreement is made in the English language, which governs in the event of any conflict with a translation.
25. CONTACT
Covey, Inc. San Francisco, California, United States General and legal enquiries: support@coveyapp.co Trust and safety: safety@coveyapp.co Copyright agent: see Annex C
ANNEX A — ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY
This Annex forms part of the Agreement. You shall not, and shall not attempt to, do any of the following.
A.1 Conduct toward other persons
A.1.1 Harass, bully, threaten, stalk, defame, or intimidate any person.
A.1.2 Impersonate any person, or misrepresent your identity, age, or affiliation.
A.1.3 Submit an identity document that is forged, altered, or not your own.
A.1.4 Publish or transmit another person’s private information, including home address, telephone number, place of work, images, or communications, without that person’s consent.
A.1.5 Contact, or attempt to contact, any User who has blocked you, or circumvent a block by any means.
A.1.6 Create or use another Account following suspension or termination of an Account.
A.1.7 Capture, publish, or disseminate outside the Service any screenshot or recording of another User’s private messages, photographs, or dating profile without that User’s consent.
A.2 Content
A.2.1 Submit Content that is unlawful, sexually explicit, hateful, or that promotes violence, self-harm, terrorism, or discrimination on the basis of a protected characteristic.
A.2.2 Submit Content depicting or facilitating the sexual exploitation of any person, or any person under the age of eighteen (18).
A.2.3 Submit Content that infringes or misappropriates any third-party intellectual property or privacy right.
A.3 Unlawful and harmful activity
A.3.1 Use the Service to organise, promote, or carry out unlawful or dangerous activity, including the sale or supply of controlled substances or weapons, commercial sexual services, human trafficking, doxxing, or stalking.
A.3.2 Solicit money, gifts, loans, investments, or cryptocurrency from any other User, or conduct any romance, advance-fee, confidence, or investment fraud.
A.4 Commercial and automated misuse
A.4.1 Transmit spam or unsolicited commercial communications, or use Plans or groups to advertise unrelated products or services.
A.4.2 Scrape, crawl, harvest, index, or bulk-collect Content, profiles, photographs, or contact details, whether manually or by automated means.
A.4.3 Access the Service through any unauthorised client, robot, or automated system, or circumvent any rate limit, invitation gate, verification requirement, or access control.
A.4.4 Use any other User’s Content to train a machine-learning model, or to develop a product competitive with the Service.
A.5 Technical integrity
A.5.1 Probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the Service, or breach any security or authentication measure, otherwise than in accordance with Covey’s published security policy.
A.5.2 Interfere with, disrupt, or impose an unreasonable load on the Service or its infrastructure.
A.5.3 Reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble any part of the Service, except to the extent that such restriction is prohibited by Applicable Law.
A.6 Reporting
A.6.1 Submit reports in bad faith, or use the reporting function to harass any person.
ANNEX B — APPLE APP STORE ADDITIONAL TERMS
This Annex applies where you obtain the Covey application from the Apple App Store, and prevails over any inconsistent provision of the Agreement as regards Apple Inc. (“Apple”).
B.1 This Agreement is concluded between you and Covey only, and not with Apple. Covey, not Apple, is solely responsible for the application and its content.
B.2 The licence granted to you is a non-transferable licence to use the application on any Apple-branded device that you own or control, as permitted by the Usage Rules set out in the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions.
B.3 Apple has no obligation whatsoever to furnish any maintenance or support services in respect of the application.
B.4 In the event of any failure of the application to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price, if any, paid for the application. To the maximum extent permitted by Applicable Law, Apple has no other warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to the application.
B.5 Covey, not Apple, is responsible for addressing any claim by you or any third party relating to the application or your possession or use of it, including product liability claims, any claim that the application fails to conform to any legal or regulatory requirement, and claims arising under consumer protection, privacy, or similar legislation.
B.6 Covey, not Apple, is responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement, and discharge of any third-party claim that the application or your possession and use of it infringes that third party’s intellectual property rights.
B.7 You represent and warrant that you are not located in a country subject to a United States Government embargo or designated by the United States Government as a “terrorist supporting” country, and that you are not listed on any United States Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
B.8 Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of the Agreement and, upon your acceptance, shall have the right to enforce the Agreement against you as a third-party beneficiary.
ANNEX C — DMCA NOTICE PROCEDURE
C.1 Designated agent.
[TO BE COMPLETED. Covey has not yet designated an agent with the United States Copyright Office. Registration is required to secure the safe harbour under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c). Insert the designated agent’s name, postal address, telephone number, and email address here, and register the same details at dmca.copyright.gov.]
Interim contact pending registration: support@coveyapp.co, subject line “DMCA Notice”.
C.2 Contents of a notification. A notification of claimed infringement must be a written communication that includes substantially the following:
C.2.1 a physical or electronic signature of a person authorised to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
C.2.2 identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed;
C.2.3 identification of the material claimed to be infringing and information reasonably sufficient to permit Covey to locate it;
C.2.4 information reasonably sufficient to permit Covey to contact the complaining party, including an address, telephone number, and email address;
C.2.5 a statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
C.2.6 a statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorised to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
C.3 Counter-notification. A User whose Content has been removed may submit a counter-notification containing the elements specified in 17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(3).
C.4 Misrepresentation. Any person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material is infringing, or was removed by mistake, may be liable for damages under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f).
ANNEX D — ENTITY PARTICULARS
[TO BE CONFIRMED BY COUNSEL BEFORE PUBLICATION.]
The following particulars are drafted on instruction that Covey is a Delaware corporation. Each must be verified against the certificate of incorporation and the App Store Connect account, which must match.
Particular Value Registered name Covey, Inc. (confirm exact registered name, including punctuation and suffix) Entity form Corporation State of incorporation Delaware Registered office / agent to be inserted Principal place of business San Francisco, California (insert full street address) Notice address for legal process to be inserted Where “Covey, Inc.” appears in this Agreement, it must be replaced throughout with the confirmed registered name before publication.
End of Terms of Service, Version 2026-09-01.