Pikwon terms of service

Effective 26 September 2026

Welcome to Pikwon (“the App”). Please read these Terms of Service (“Terms”) carefully before using the App. By accessing or using the App, you agree to be bound by these Terms and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with any part of these Terms, please do not use the App.

Acceptance of terms

By downloading, installing, or using the App, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms. These Terms constitute a legally binding agreement between you and Pikwon, Inc. If you do not agree to these Terms, you may not use the App.

Beta

The App is currently in beta testing. It may change, including through the removal or resetting of data, at any point if necessary. By using the App you acknowledge and accept that data you submit or create within it may be subject to removal or reset.

Who can use Pikwon

You must be at least 13 years old to use the App. We ask for your date of birth when you create your account and refuse accounts below that age. If we learn that an account belongs to someone under 13, we will remove it.

Your account

To use most of the App you need an account. You can create one with an email address — we send a single-use code to that address — or with Apple or Google. You are responsible for keeping access to whichever address or provider account you sign in with, and for activity that happens under your account. Tell us at hello@pikwon.app if you believe someone else has gained access to it.

You choose a username, which is public and appears on everything you post.

Your content

“User Content” means what you intentionally publish in the App: the posts you write, your comments, and other content you submit to a public or group audience. You are responsible for the User Content you create and you keep all ownership rights in it. By posting User Content, you grant Pikwon a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable licence to use, modify, reproduce, distribute, display, and perform it in connection with operating and promoting the App.

Posts you make outside a private group are public, including to people who are not signed in: a shared link opens a page anyone can read.

Your picks

“Picks” are separate from User Content and are not covered by the licence above. A Pick is you selecting one of the options presented in a post. It is a choice you register, not something you publish.

Individual Picks are not publicly displayed with your account unless you choose to share them through a feature in Pikwon. Pikwon may use Picks to operate and personalise the service, calculate results, improve recommendations, and generate aggregated analytics, as described in our Privacy Policy. Neither other users nor brands are granted any right of access to your individual Picks by these Terms.

Sexual content

Pikwon is a general-audience app and its minimum age is 13. Sexually explicit content is not allowed:

  • No pornography or sexually explicit content.
  • No graphic descriptions of sexual acts.
  • No sexual solicitation or advertising sexual services.
  • No sexualisation of minors. Zero tolerance — accounts are removed and reports are treated as urgent.

This is a rule about explicitness, not about subject matter. Non-explicit discussion of dating, relationships, attraction and sexuality is permitted, and questions like “would you date someone who…” are exactly what the App is for.

Piks and comments are checked automatically when they are written, and anything that appears to break this rule is refused or held for review. Automated checks are imperfect in both directions; if something of yours was refused and should not have been, get in touch.

Acceptable use

When using the App, you agree not to:

  • Post or transmit User Content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, invasive of another’s privacy, or otherwise objectionable;
  • Impersonate any person or entity, or misrepresent your affiliation with one;
  • Post or transmit User Content that infringes a third party’s intellectual property rights;
  • Use the App in a way that interferes with, disrupts, or degrades it for other people, or that damages, disables, or overburdens it;
  • Gain or attempt to gain unauthorised access to the App or to any account, server, or network connected to it;
  • Collect or store personal data about other users without their express consent, or attempt to work out how an individual user picked;
  • Circumvent, disable, or interfere with any security-related feature;
  • Use the App for any illegal or unauthorised purpose.

The App has a reporting tool. We review what is reported and may remove content or suspend accounts under this section.

Intellectual property

The App and its original content — everything other than User Content — are and remain the exclusive property of Pikwon and its licensors, and are protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws. You agree not to reproduce, modify, distribute, sell, or exploit any part of the App without express written permission.

Service providers

We use third-party providers to run the App — hosting, databases, email delivery, product analytics, and error monitoring. They process data on our behalf and only to provide those services. Which providers, and what each receives, is set out in our Privacy Policy. We do not sell your personal information.

Ending your account

You can delete your account at any time from Settings → Account → Delete account. Deletion removes your profile and your private data and detaches your identity from your User Content and your Picks; because posts, picks and comments are woven into other people’s threads and counts, they themselves remain, with your identity severed from them. Our Privacy Policy describes exactly what is removed and what is kept.

We may suspend or terminate your access to the App, with or without notice, if we believe you have violated these Terms. On termination your right to use the App ends immediately.

Disclaimer of warranty

The App is provided on an “as-is” and “as available” basis, without warranty of any kind, express or implied. Pikwon does not warrant that the App will be uninterrupted, error-free, or free from harmful components. You use it at your own risk.

Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Pikwon and its officers, directors, employees, agents, partners, and licensors are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, including damages for loss of profits, goodwill, use, data, or other intangible losses arising out of or in connection with your use of the App.

Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to its conflict of law principles, and are subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the federal and state courts located in Orange County, California.

Changes to these terms

We may update these Terms. Material changes will be announced in the App or by email, and the effective date at the top of this page will move. Continuing to use the App after that date means you accept the revised Terms.

Entire agreement

These Terms are the entire agreement between you and Pikwon regarding your use of the App and supersede any prior understandings. Questions go to hello@pikwon.app.

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