Selu
Terms of use
Short, and meant to be read. Using Selu means agreeing to this.
Who you are agreeing with
Selu is operated by Raul Julian de Paula, Troyerstraße 90, Stiege 3, Tür 30, 9020 Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Austria — one person, a sole trader registered in the Austrian trade register (GISA number 40122809). Contact: admin@selu.world. The full imprint has the details.
Plans
Using Selu and joining albums is free. Larger limits come with paid plans, whose prices are shown in the app. Paid plans are not on sale yet; when they are, they will be bought as in-app purchases through Apple or Google, under those stores' terms for payment, renewal and cancellation. Nothing is charged before then.
What Selu is
Selu is an app for keeping photographs and videos in albums that cover a period of your life, and for sharing those albums with people you know. It keeps everything on your phone and a copy in your account, so a new phone gets your albums back.
It is not a backup service, and you should not treat it as your only copy of anything you cannot bear to lose.
Your account
You need an account, and you are responsible for what happens under it, including keeping your password to yourself. One account is meant for one person. You must be 16 or over to use Selu.
You can delete your account at any time from inside the app. What that does, in detail, is described in the privacy policy, including the part about photographs you put into albums other people are still in.
What you put in it
What you make stays yours. Your photographs and videos belong to you and nobody else acquires any rights in them. You give only the permission needed to run the service: to store what you make, and to show it to the people you chose to share it with.
You are responsible for what you put in. By adding something you confirm you have the right to, and that showing it to the people you share it with breaks no law and nobody else's rights.
What you may not do
You must not use Selu to store or share anything unlawful, anything that sexualises a child, anything made to harass or threaten a person, or anything you have no right to. You must not photograph people who have made clear they do not want it, and you must not share a photograph of someone in a way that would harm them.
You must not try to reach data that is not yours, interfere with the service or its security, use it to send unsolicited messages, or run automated systems against it.
Accounts that do these things can be suspended or removed, and serious cases will be reported where the law requires it.
Reporting, blocking and moderation
Reporting. Anything another person made — a message, a photo, a video, an album, a profile — can be reported from where you see it in the app. Anyone, with or without an account, can also report content at selu.world/report or by writing to admin@selu.world.
Blocking. You can block anyone. You are disconnected, your one-to-one conversation is deleted, neither of you can find the other or ask to connect again, and in groups and albums you are both in you stop seeing what they post. They are not told.
Filtering. A list of words — slurs, and terms for sexual material involving children — cannot be used in messages, names or descriptions. Photographs and videos are not scanned.
What happens to a report. A person reads every report, as quickly as possible, and within 24 hours for anything involving a child or a threat to someone's safety. If content is illegal or breaks these terms it is removed, and the account that posted it may be suspended or closed — straight away for serious or repeated breaches. Decisions are made by a person, not by an automated system.
Being told why, and disagreeing. If we remove something of yours or suspend your account, we tell you by email what we did and why. If you reported something, we tell you what we decided. Either of you can ask us to look at the decision again by writing to admin@selu.world within six months, and a person will. You can also take it to a court, or to a certified out-of-court dispute settlement body.
What is not promised
Selu is provided as is, with no warranty of any kind. It is a small and new app. It may be unavailable, it may lose data, and it may change. Nothing here promises that it will keep working, that it will keep your files safe, or that it is fit for any particular purpose.
Keep your own copies of anything that matters to you.
Liability
Selu is run by one person, with no guarantee that it will keep working. What follows says how far responsibility goes, and Austrian law decides the rest.
What is never excluded. Nothing in these terms limits liability for death or personal injury, for anything done intentionally or with gross negligence, or under the Austrian Product Liability Act (Produkthaftungsgesetz). Any consumer rights that cannot be signed away are not signed away here, whatever else this page says.
What is limited. Beyond that, liability for slight negligence is excluded — including for lost or corrupted photographs, videos or albums, for time you cannot get back, and for the service being unavailable. Selu keeps a copy of files you already have on your phone; it is not a backup you should rely on as your only one. Keep your own copies of anything that matters.
Where liability cannot be excluded but can be limited, it is limited to losses that were foreseeable and typical for a service of this kind.
Ending it
You can stop using Selu whenever you like, and delete your account from inside the app. We may end or suspend an account that breaks these terms, or close the service entirely — in which case you will be told in the app, with enough notice to get your photographs out.
Changes to these terms
If these terms change in a way that matters, the date at the top changes and you will be told in the app before it takes effect. Carrying on using Selu after that means accepting the new version.
Which law applies, and where disputes go
These terms are governed by Austrian law, leaving aside its conflict-of-law rules.
If you are a consumer, that choice cannot cost you anything. You keep the protection of whatever mandatory consumer law applies where you live, and if your own country gives you more than Austrian law does, your own country wins. Nothing on this page changes that.
Which court. As a consumer you can bring a claim either in the courts where you live or in the Austrian courts, and you can only be sued in the courts of the country where you live. If you are using Selu for business rather than personally, the competent court in Austria has jurisdiction.
There is no obligation to use an out-of-court dispute body, and none is agreed to in advance. In Austria the Internet Ombudsstelle handles online disputes free of charge, and writing to the address at the top of this page is usually faster than either.