Agreement and eligibility
These Terms form an agreement between you and Syed Irfan, the operator of Ottr (“Ottr,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). By creating an account, accessing an authorized test build, or using Ottr, you agree to these Terms and the Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use Ottr.
You must be at least 18, legally able to enter this agreement, and permitted to use Ottr under the laws that apply to you. Ottr is intended for consensual use by adults. If you use Ottr for an organization, you confirm that you have authority to bind it.
The service and license
Ottr is a private shared-world service for exactly two people, with chat at its center and shared games, notes, plans, reminders, moods, and other experiences. Subject to these Terms, Ottr grants you a limited, personal, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the app and service for lawful, non-commercial purposes.
Ottr may add, change, repair, limit, suspend, or discontinue features to protect users, comply with law, address security or reliability, or improve the service. A feature described on the pre-launch website is not a promise that it is publicly available, permanently available, or available in every region.
Accounts, usernames, and devices
You must control the Google account used to sign in, provide accurate information, and protect your Google account and trusted devices. You are responsible for activity performed through your authenticated account unless applicable law says otherwise. Notify us promptly at ottr.chat@gmail.com if you suspect compromise.
Your public Ottr username is permanent once confirmed. Device approval, fingerprint verification, revocation, recovery, identity reset, disconnecting, and deletion are security-sensitive actions. Do not approve a device or fingerprint you do not recognize. Ottr may reject, delay, or fail closed on an action when identity, authorization, client version, or cryptographic state is unsafe.
Your partner, consent, and safety
Ottr connects one account with one active partner. Ottr does not verify a relationship, prove fidelity, monitor activity in other apps, guarantee another person’s identity or conduct, or provide emergency services. You decide whom to pair with, which devices to trust, and what to share.
Use Ottr only consensually. Do not pressure anyone to disclose private content, share credentials or recovery material, keep a bond active, or surrender a device. If you feel unsafe, use device revocation, disconnect, account deletion, and local safety resources as appropriate.
Your content and responsibility
You retain ownership of content you create. You grant Ottr a limited, worldwide, royalty-free license only to encrypt, route, store, synchronize, back up, display to authorized recipients, and otherwise process that content as necessary to operate, secure, and comply with law for the service. This license ends when the content is deleted except where retention is permitted by the Privacy Policy or law.
You are responsible for having the rights and consent needed to share content. Do not submit unlawful, abusive, threatening, exploitative, infringing, deceptive, malicious, or non-consensual content. Content delivered to your partner may remain on their trusted devices after you disconnect or delete your account; Ottr cannot remotely erase a legitimate copy already received.
Encryption, metadata, recovery, and availability
Before Ottr admits real users, the approved production design requires supported private content to be end-to-end encrypted and independently verified. Routing, authorization, ordering, delivery, device, purchase, and other operational metadata will remain visible to the service. Some server-authoritative mechanics, such as game moves, schedules, revisions, delivery state, entitlements, and integrity controls, must remain readable so Ottr can validate them.
Revocation protects future access but cannot erase copies or keys already delivered. A replacement installation can recover encrypted history only through a remaining trusted device. If every trusted device or key is lost, old content may be permanently unrecoverable. Ottr will not weaken encryption or invent recovery that does not exist.
Internet, device, Firebase, Google Play, hosting, and cryptographic systems can fail. Messages or commands may be delayed, retried, rejected, or unavailable. Do not rely on Ottr as the sole record for emergency, medical, legal, financial, safety-critical, or time-critical information.
Ottr Coins, purchases, and modules
Ottr Coins are limited in-app utility values. They are not money, deposits, securities, investments, transferable legal tender, or redeemable for cash. Displayed rewards may be provisional until server settlement; confirmed server records control balances, transfers, spending, and entitlements.
If real-money purchases are enabled, Google Play processes payment and refund activity under its rules. Prices, taxes, availability, refunds, and regional rights may vary. A legitimate purchase remains associated with its purchaser, while eligible shared use may depend on the current world. Purchased module code ships inside the signed app; Ottr does not download arbitrary executable module code from its server.
Acceptable use
You may not: access another person’s account, device, or world without permission; scrape or systematically extract data; probe, attack, overload, or bypass security or rate limits; distribute malware; impersonate another person; harass, threaten, exploit, or stalk anyone; upload illegal or infringing content; abuse Coins, purchases, refunds, pairing, or recovery; reverse or defeat security controls except where applicable law expressly permits security research; or use Ottr for unlawful activity.
We may investigate suspected misuse using the minimum information reasonably necessary. Report vulnerabilities privately to ottr.chat@gmail.com and do not access other users’ data, disrupt service, or publicly disclose an unresolved issue.
Third-party services
Ottr relies on services such as Google Sign-In, Firebase, Google Play, Hostinger, and Google Drive backups. Those services have their own terms and privacy practices. Ottr is not responsible for a third party’s independent service, outage, account action, or policy, but remains responsible for its own obligations under applicable law.
Disconnecting, suspension, and account deletion
Disconnecting immediately removes normal access to the former shared world and begins the documented mutual-recovery period. Signing out, forgetting a local device, revoking a device, disconnecting, and permanently deleting an account are distinct actions with different security and recovery effects.
We may limit, suspend, or terminate access when reasonably necessary for security, abuse prevention, legal compliance, service integrity, or a material breach of these Terms. Permanent deletion is separately available in the app and through the external deletion page. Deletion is irreversible after acceptance and may make encrypted history unrecoverable.
Disclaimers
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Ottr is provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of uninterrupted operation, error-free delivery, fitness for a particular purpose, merchantability, non-infringement, relationship outcome, permanent data recovery, or absolute security. We do not warrant that every feature will remain available or that every defect will be corrected immediately.
Nothing in these Terms excludes a warranty, remedy, right, or liability that applicable consumer or other law does not allow to be excluded.
Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Ottr and its operator will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages; lost profits, revenue, goodwill, or opportunities; relationship disputes; or loss of data arising from lost keys, compromised devices, third-party services, or use of Ottr.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Ottr’s aggregate liability for claims arising from the service will not exceed the amount you paid directly to Ottr for the service during the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim. This limitation does not apply to fraud, willful misconduct, gross negligence, or other liability that law does not permit us to limit.
Indemnity
To the extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Ottr and its operator from third-party claims, losses, and reasonable costs arising from your unlawful content, your material breach of these Terms, or your violation of another person’s rights. This does not require you to indemnify Ottr for Ottr’s own fraud, willful misconduct, gross negligence, or unlawful conduct.
Governing law and disputes
These Terms are governed by the laws of India, without regard to conflict-of-law rules, except where mandatory law in your place of residence provides otherwise. Before filing a non-urgent claim, contact ottr.chat@gmail.com with a clear description and requested resolution so both sides can try in good faith to resolve it for 30 days.
Subject to mandatory consumer rights and the jurisdiction required by applicable law, disputes will be brought before courts of competent jurisdiction in India. Either party may seek urgent injunctive or protective relief where delay could cause serious harm.
Changes, severability, and contact
We may update these Terms when the service, risks, or law changes. Material changes will be dated and, where required, presented before they take effect. Continued use after an effective change means acceptance where law permits; otherwise we will request consent.
If a provision is unenforceable, it will be limited to the minimum extent necessary and the remaining provisions continue. Failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not transfer these Terms without our consent; Ottr may transfer them with the service subject to applicable law and notice.
Questions, notices, complaints, and security reports can be sent to ottr.chat@gmail.com.