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Terms of Service

Last updated: 12 July 2026

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of the Droppin mobile app. By creating an account or using Droppin, you agree to these Terms, to our Community Guidelines (which form part of these Terms), and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please do not use the app.

1. Who we are

Droppin is operated by Dominik Machold, Kloschinskystraße 90, 54292 Trier, Germany (support@droppin.eu). See our Imprint.

2. Eligibility & age

Droppin is strictly for adults. You must be at least 18 years old to create an account or use the app. During onboarding we ask for your date of birth and block sign-up for anyone under 18. By using Droppin you confirm that you are 18 or older and legally able to enter into these Terms. If we learn that an account belongs to someone under 18, we will suspend or delete it. Droppin is a service for arranging real-world meetings between adults; keeping it 18+ is a core condition of use.

3. Your account

You are responsible for the information you provide and for keeping your login credentials secure. You are responsible for activity that happens under your account. Provide accurate information and keep it up to date, and notify us promptly of any unauthorized use. You may hold only one account and must not use another person's account without permission.

4. What Droppin is

Droppin lets you discover, create, and join real-world events ("Drops") on a map, chat with other participants, follow people, and share posts. Droppin is a venue that connects people; you are solely responsible for your interactions with other users and for your decision to attend or host any event. Droppin does not vet, screen, or perform background checks on users or events, does not verify that events are safe, lawful, or as described, and is not a party to, nor responsible for, any real-world meeting or activity.

5. Your content and the licence you grant us

You keep ownership of the content you post (events, photos, messages, comments, profile info). To operate, provide, and promote Droppin, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, use, reproduce, adapt, reformat, resize, crop, translate, publish, publicly display, and distribute the content you post, for the following limited purposes:

We will not use your content in paid third-party advertising, or feature you in a way that implies endorsement, without your separate, specific consent. Advertising on Droppin takes the form of Sponsored Drops created by advertisers (see section 13) and does not use your content. This licence is not sub-licensable or transferable, except to service providers acting on our behalf, or in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of Droppin's business.

This licence ends when you delete the content or your account, except (a) for content others have shared or re-shared, and (b) for a reasonable period during which we remove content from active systems and back-ups, and to the extent we must retain it by law. You are responsible for having the rights to the content you share and for ensuring it does not violate anyone else's rights or the law. Where your content includes other identifiable people, you confirm you have their permission as required by law.

We may aggregate or de-identify information so that it no longer identifies you, and use such non-personal, aggregated data without restriction (for example, statistics about how the service is used).

6. Acceptable use & Community Guidelines

Your use of Droppin must comply with our Community Guidelines. In particular, you agree not to:

7. Safety, real-world events & assumption of risk

Events happen in the real world with people you may not know. Use good judgment, meet in public where sensible, tell someone where you are going, and look out for your own safety and that of others.

You understand and agree that attending or hosting events, and interacting with other users, carries inherent risks — including the conduct of other people, accidents, injury, and property loss. To the fullest extent permitted by law, you take part in Drops and any resulting meetings at your own risk, and Droppin is not responsible for the conduct of any user or for anything that happens before, during, or after an event. Nothing in this section excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law (see section 15). If you feel unsafe or witness a crime, contact your local emergency services first, then report it to us.

8. Reporting, content moderation & your rights (Digital Services Act)

We have zero tolerance for objectionable content and abusive users. You can block and report users, Drops, posts, comments, and messages directly in the app, and you can also notify us at support@droppin.eu. This is our notice-and-action mechanism under the EU Digital Services Act (Regulation (EU) 2022/2065). When you submit a report, please describe the content and why you consider it illegal or in breach of these Terms so we can assess it. We review reports and act on objectionable content promptly — including removing it and ejecting the user responsible — addressing the most serious content immediately, and otherwise take action in a timely, diligent, and non-arbitrary way.

Where we restrict content or an account (for example, removing content, limiting its visibility, or suspending or terminating an account) because it is illegal or breaches these Terms or the Community Guidelines, we will, where required by law, inform the affected user and provide a statement of reasons for the decision.

If you disagree with a moderation decision we have made about your content or account, you may appeal by contacting support@droppin.eu within six months of being notified. We will review appeals and reverse decisions where they were unjustified. You also retain the right to use an out-of-court dispute settlement body and to bring a claim before the courts.

Point of contact: for these matters, and for authorities and users under Articles 11–12 DSA, our single point of contact is support@droppin.eu (communications accepted in English or German).

We may remove content or suspend or terminate accounts that violate these Terms or that we reasonably believe are harmful, and we may suspend accounts that repeatedly infringe after prior warning where appropriate. You can delete your content or your account at any time in the app.

9. Suspension & termination

You may stop using Droppin and delete your account at any time in the app. We may suspend or end your access if you breach these Terms or the Community Guidelines, if required by law, or to protect users or the service. Where reasonable and lawful, we will give notice. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (e.g. the content licence for already-shared content, disclaimers, limitation of liability, and governing law) will survive.

10. Our intellectual property

Droppin — including the app, its software, design, "Droppin" name and logo, and all related content we provide (excluding user content and third-party materials) — is owned by us or our licensors and protected by intellectual-property laws. We grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the app for its intended purpose under these Terms. You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, or lease any part of the app, or reverse-engineer it, except where such restriction is prohibited by law. You may not use our name, logo, or branding without our prior written permission.

11. Your responsibility for breaches

You are responsible for your own use of Droppin. To the extent permitted by law, if a third party brings a claim against us because your content or your use of the app broke these Terms or the law, you are responsible for the resulting reasonable, foreseeable costs and damages we incur that are attributable to your conduct. This does not apply where you are not at fault, and it does not extend our claims beyond what applicable law allows.

12. Third-party services

Droppin relies on third-party services (e.g. maps, sign-in, push notifications, email delivery). Your use of features that depend on them may also be subject to those providers' terms. Maps are © Mapbox and © OpenStreetMap contributors. We are not responsible for third-party services we do not control.

13. Advertising & Sponsored Drops

Droppin is currently free and does not yet show advertising. When we introduce advertising, it will take the form of Sponsored Drops — events that a business or organiser pays to have shown more prominently on the map. Sponsored Drops are created by the advertiser, who is responsible for their content and warrants that they hold the rights to it; advertisers are also bound by separate advertiser terms. We label Sponsored Drops clearly as advertising, as required by the Digital Services Act.

Initially, Sponsored Drops are selected using general context only — such as the map area you are viewing and the event category — and not by profiling you or using special categories of personal data. We do not use your posts, Drops, or other content for advertising. If we later introduce advertising that uses your personal data to personalise what you see, we will first update our Privacy Policy, ask for your consent (which you can decline or withdraw), and, on iOS, show Apple's App Tracking Transparency prompt before any cross-app tracking. We will never use special categories of personal data to target advertising.

14. Disclaimers

We provide the app with reasonable care and skill. Beyond that, and to the extent permitted by law, the app is provided "as is" and "as available", and we do not warrant that it will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that content is accurate or reliable. Your statutory rights as a consumer are not affected and are not limited or excluded by these Terms.

15. Limitation of liability

We are liable without limitation for damages arising from injury to life, body, or health, for intent and gross negligence, under the German Product Liability Act (Produkthaftungsgesetz), and to the extent we have given a guarantee.

For slight negligence, we are liable only for breach of a material contractual obligation (an obligation whose fulfilment makes proper performance of the contract possible in the first place and on whose observance you may regularly rely), and in that case our liability is limited to the foreseeable damage typical for this kind of contract.

Any further liability is excluded. This limitation applies accordingly to the personal liability of our staff, agents, and vicarious agents. It does not affect your statutory consumer rights or any mandatory statutory liability.

16. Changes to the app or these Terms

We may update the app, the Community Guidelines, and these Terms — for example to reflect new features, or legal or technical requirements. If we make changes to these Terms that affect your rights or obligations, we will notify you in advance by in-app notice and/or email at least 30 days before they take effect, together with the date they take effect and a note that you may object. If you do not object before the changes take effect, they are deemed accepted; we will point this out to you in the notice. If you object, or do not agree, you may terminate by deleting your account, and the changes will not apply to you. Minor changes that do not disadvantage you, and changes we are legally required to make immediately, may take effect without this notice period.

17. Governing law & disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, without prejudice to any mandatory consumer-protection rights you have in your country of residence. We are neither obliged nor willing to participate in dispute-resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board. You may always bring a claim before the courts competent for you.

18. Contact

Questions about these Terms? Email support@droppin.eu.