Legal
Terms of Service & EULA.
These Terms of Service (“Terms”) are a binding agreement between you and Briek Keters (“FirstTakes”, “we”, “us”) governing your use of the FirstTakes mobile app and related services (the “Service”). By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.
1. Eligibility
You must be at least 13 years old to use FirstTakes. If you are under the age of digital consent in your country, you may need your parent or guardian’s permission. By using the Service you confirm you meet these requirements.
2. The Service
FirstTakes prompts you with a daily challenge to record a short (about 5-second) video. You share your take with friends you have connected with. To see your friends’ takes for a given day, you must post your own that day. Takes are ephemeral and are automatically deleted after 14 days. We may change, suspend, or discontinue features at any time.
3. Your account
You are responsible for your account and for keeping your credentials secure. Provide accurate information and keep it up to date. You are responsible for activity under your account. Tell us promptly at support@firsttakes.app if you suspect unauthorised use.
4. Your content and the license you grant us
You retain ownership of the videos, images, captions, and other content you create (“Your Content”). To operate the Service, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, and display Your Content solely to provide and operate the Service (for example, delivering your take to your friends and generating thumbnails). This license ends when Your Content is deleted (including by our 14-day retention clean-up or when you delete your account), except for copies retained briefly in backups or where required by law.
You represent that you have the rights to Your Content and that it does not infringe anyone else’s rights or violate any law.
5. Acceptable use and prohibited content
We have zero tolerance for objectionable content and abusive behavior. You must not create, upload, or share content, or behave in ways, that:
- are sexually explicit, or sexualise, exploit, or endanger minors (we report child sexual abuse material to the competent authorities);
- are harassing, bullying, threatening, hateful, or promote violence or self-harm;
- depict or encourage dangerous, illegal, or harmful acts;
- are defamatory, fraudulent, or deceptive;
- infringe intellectual property, privacy, or other rights;
- contain another person’s private or identifying information without consent;
- include spam, malware, or attempts to disrupt or abuse the Service;
- impersonate others or misrepresent your identity or affiliation.
Filming and sharing other people may require their consent — only post content you have the right to share.
6. Reporting, blocking, and moderation
We provide tools and a process to keep FirstTakes safe:
- Report. You can report any take from its menu. Reported content is hidden from you immediately, and content that accrues enough reports is automatically removed pending review.
- Block. You can block another user, which removes the connection and prevents you from seeing each other’s content.
- Our action. We act on reports of objectionable content and abusive users and aim to remove violating content and, where appropriate, suspend or remove the responsible user within 24 hours of becoming aware. We may remove content or terminate accounts that violate these Terms, with or without notice.
These measures implement our obligations to moderate user-generated content, including under applicable app-store rules and the EU Digital Services Act.
7. Notifications
If you enable notifications, we may send you the daily-challenge push and essential service messages. You can turn notifications off in your device settings.
8. Intellectual property
The Service, including its software, design, and trademarks (but excluding Your Content), is owned by us or our licensors and protected by law. We grant you a limited, personal, non-transferable, revocable license to use the app for its intended purpose. You may not copy, modify, reverse-engineer, or create derivative works except as permitted by law.
9. Third-party services
The Service relies on third parties (including Google Firebase, and Apple/Google sign-in). Your use of those features may also be subject to their terms. We are not responsible for third-party services.
10. Disclaimers
The Service is provided “as is” and “as available” without warranties of any kind to the maximum extent permitted by law. We do not guarantee that the Service will be uninterrupted, secure, or error-free, or that content will always be available (takes expire by design).
11. Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, FirstTakes will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for loss of data, profits, or goodwill. Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law (for example, for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or your statutory consumer rights).
12. Indemnity
To the extent permitted by law, you agree to indemnify us against claims arising from Your Content or your breach of these Terms.
13. Termination and account deletion
You may delete your account at any time via Settings → Delete account, which permanently erases your account and content. We may suspend or terminate your access if you violate these Terms or to protect the Service or other users. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (e.g. ownership, disclaimers, limitation of liability) will survive.
14. Governing law and disputes
These Terms are governed by the laws of Belgium, without prejudice to mandatory consumer protections in your country of residence.
15. Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms. If changes are material, we will notify you in the app or by other reasonable means and update the “Last updated” date. Continued use after changes take effect means you accept the updated Terms.
16. Contact
Briek Keters, Blekersstraat 2, 8500 Kortrijk
Support: support@firsttakes.app · Privacy: privacy@firsttakes.app