Terms of Service

Last updated: 31 August 2026

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern your use of the Kommunitea mobile app and website (together, the “Service”). By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to them. If you do not agree, please do not use the Service.

We have tried to keep these Terms readable. Where something is a legal requirement rather than our choice, we have said so.

1. Who you are agreeing with

The Service is operated by Harris Mubeen, a sole trader based in Freising, Germany (“Kommunitea”, “we”, “us”). Full operator details are in our Impressum. How we handle personal data is described separately in our Privacy Policy, and the rules for content and conduct are set out in our Community Guidelines, which form part of these Terms.

2. Who can use the Service

The Service is open to anyone organising or attending events and running communities: interest groups, neighbourhood groups, company teams, and university clubs and societies among them. It is not directed at children.

You must be at least 18 years old to create an account. We do not ask for your date of birth, so this is a condition of using the Service rather than a check the app performs. If we learn that an account belongs to someone under 18, we will close it and delete the associated personal data.

You must give accurate information when you sign up, and you must not impersonate anyone or sign up using someone else’s identity or contact details.

3. Your account

• Accounts are personal to you. Please do not share your account or your login details with anyone else, and do not use someone else’s account.
• You are responsible for what happens through your account. Keep your password confidential, and tell us promptly at hello@kommunitea.app if you think someone else has accessed it.
• You can sign out of every device from within the app if you believe a session has been compromised.
• You can delete your account at any time under Settings → Delete account. Deletion cannot be undone. We cannot restore a deleted account or its content afterwards, including from backups. Section 5 explains what happens to content you posted.

4. Acceptable use

You agree not to use the Service to:

• break the law, or infringe anyone else’s rights;
• harass, threaten, bully, impersonate, exploit, or abuse other people;
• post content that is unlawful, hateful, deceptive, fraudulent, sexually explicit, or dangerous;
• send spam or phishing messages, or distribute malware or malicious links;
• scrape, harvest, or bulk-collect other people’s information from the Service, whether manually or automatically;
• interfere with the operation, availability, or security of the Service, or attempt to bypass its access controls;
• misrepresent your affiliation with an organisation, community, or event;
• create event listings that are fraudulent, misleading, unsafe, or that you are not authorised to run;
• publish someone else’s private or sensitive information without their permission, or upload another person’s photograph, CV, or personal details without the right to do so; or
• evade enforcement, for example by creating a new account after we have suspended or removed one.

Section 9 explains what we may do if these rules are broken. We will not remove content simply because it is unpopular, critical of us, or expresses a view we disagree with.

5. Your content, and the licence you give us

You keep ownership of everything you post — photos, event details, messages, memories, poll responses, documents, and anything else you upload.

So that we can actually run the Service, you give us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, copy, technically adapt (for example resizing an image for a thumbnail), display, and make your content available. That licence is limited to the purposes of operating, maintaining, securing, and moderating the Service, and providing the features you have asked for.

One of the features you can ask for composes an event into a picture. Anyone who can see an event can produce a poster of it, containing its title, date, place, the community running it and its cover photo, in order to share it on social media or print it out. If you post an event, expect that it may be shared this way. Private events are excluded from it. A poster that has left the Service is out of our reach and out of yours: deleting the event afterwards does not recall copies other people already hold.

It does not go further than that. We do not sell your content, we do not use it for advertising, and we do not use your private messages, CVs, or uploaded documents for any purpose beyond delivering the feature you used them for.

The licence ends when you delete the content or your account. Three practical exceptions:

• content you already shared with other people may remain with them — a message you sent stays in the recipient’s conversation, and a file someone downloaded is outside our reach;
• we may keep limited content where the law requires it, or where we need it to investigate abuse or a security incident; and
• deleted content may persist in encrypted backups for a short period before those backups are destroyed, and some contributions remain in anonymised form, detached from your identity, so that conversations and community history stay coherent for other people.

By posting content you confirm that you have the rights and permissions needed to share it. Please do not upload other people’s personal information without their permission, including photographs of people who have not agreed to appear.

6. Events and communities

Kommunitea helps people find, organise, and attend real-world events. Events and communities are created and run by their organisers, not by us.

• We do not organise, sponsor, insure, supervise, or vet user-created events, and we do not guarantee that any event will take place as described.
• Event information is supplied by organisers and may be incomplete, inaccurate, out of date, or changed after you sign up.
• Deciding whether an event is suitable and safe for you to attend is your decision, and you should apply the same judgement you would to any invitation from someone you do not know well.
• We may remove or restrict events that appear unlawful, deceptive, unsafe, or in breach of these Terms.
• Organisers and attendees may have their own arrangements with each other, which we are not party to.

The organiser is the Veranstalter. Whoever creates an event is its organiser in the legal sense — the Veranstalter — and carries the duties that go with that role, including the duty to keep the event and its premises reasonably safe (Verkehrssicherungspflicht). We provide the software they use to publish it and to manage who is coming. We are not the Veranstalter of any event created by a user, and we do not take on that role by hosting the listing.

Attending a real-world event carries real-world risk. Events on Kommunitea happen in physical places and involve activities we neither choose nor supervise — a hike, a ski trip, a sports match, a night out. Risks that are inherent in an activity remain inherent in it: they sit between you and the organiser running it, who is responsible for how the event is planned and run. Please read what an event involves before you sign up, and do not take part in something you are not equipped for.

This section describes who is responsible for an event. It does not limit anyone’s liability, and it does not affect section 16 or any right you have that cannot be excluded by law — in particular, nothing here excludes or limits liability for injury to life, body or health.

If you bring a guest. Some events ask you to name the guests you are bringing. A guest has no account with us and has not agreed to these Terms, so you take that responsibility on their behalf. By naming someone you confirm that:

• you have their permission to give us their name, and you have told them it will be shared with the event’s organisers and stored by us — our Privacy Policy explains what happens to it and how they can have it removed;
• if your guest is under 18, you are their parent or guardian, and you are responsible for them at the event; and
• you accept that your guest is not covered by any agreement between us and you — their relationship at the event is with the organiser, not with us.

7. If you organise an event or run a community

You are responsible for your own event or community, including its legal compliance, venue permissions, capacity, safety, accessibility, any age restrictions or entry requirements, and the accuracy of what you publish about it. As set out in section 6, you are the Veranstalter.

That includes any permission your event needs before it happens. What is required depends entirely on what you are doing and where, and the following are examples rather than a complete list: the venue owner’s permission; the capacity and escape-route rules for the space you are using; fire safety; serving food or alcohol; playing recorded or live music; using public space or affecting traffic; noise, particularly in the evening; and, where under-18s may attend, the requirements of the Jugendschutzgesetz. If you are unsure whether something applies to your event, find out before you publish it. We do not check any of this, and listing your event on Kommunitea is not an indication that it is permitted.

These Terms are general, and some activities need more. They are written for events of many kinds and do not address any particular one. If your event involves meaningful physical risk — climbing, watersports, winter sports, motorsport, contact sport, travel — or is aimed at people who need particular care, our Terms are not a substitute for your own arrangements. Consider your own liability insurance, and your own participation agreement or waiver with the people attending. Many clubs are covered through a parent association or university; check rather than assume.

Organising also gives you access to other people’s personal data: who has registered, their answers to any questions you ask, guest names, check-in status, and, if you list an opportunity, the documents applicants attach. If you take on that role, you agree that:

• you will use that information only to run the event, community, or opportunity it was given for, and not for unrelated marketing or any other purpose;
• you will not publish it, sell it, or pass it to anyone who does not need it for that same purpose;
• you will keep it no longer than you need it, and delete copies you have downloaded when you are done;
• you will only ask registration questions that you actually need answered, and will not ask for special category data (such as health, religion, or ethnicity) unless you have a lawful basis for it;
• you will not use your registration questions to collect information directly from a child. Accounts are for adults, but a guest under 18 may attend with their parent or guardian (section 6). Your questions must be answered by the adult registering, and you must not ask a child for their contact details or any other personal information through them; and
• you are responsible under data protection law for what you do with information once you have downloaded or exported it, at which point you act independently of us.

You decide what you ask, so you answer for it. We decide what the Service does with registration data as part of running the platform. You decide which questions to ask, why, and what to do with the answers — and for those decisions you are a controller in your own right, not acting on our behalf. If an attendee wants to know why you asked something, wants their answer corrected, or wants it deleted from your own records, that is a question for you rather than for us. We will still help them reach you, and we remain responsible for the copy held on the Service.

Community admins and organisation managers also take on moderation responsibilities, set out in our Community Guidelines. We may remove organising rights, or an event or community, where these obligations are not met.

7a. If your organisation uses Kommunitea

A university, company, or other organisation can have a presence on Kommunitea. People confirm that they belong to it by verifying an email address at that organisation, and the organisation appoints managers who act for it. This section applies to the organisation and to anyone acting as one of its managers. It is in addition to the rest of these Terms, which every manager also accepts personally.

An organisation’s managers can:

• see a list of everyone affiliated with the organisation, with their name, profile photo, and verified status;
• end a person’s affiliation with the organisation;
• grant or withdraw the right to create communities under the organisation’s name;
• appoint and remove other managers;
• review reports raised in those communities, as the second tier of moderation described in section 9; and
• see combined statistics about activity across those communities, which do not name individuals.

The organisation decides these things, not us. We decide how the Service works and what it does with the data it holds. The organisation decides who counts as affiliated with it, whose affiliation continues, who may create a community in its name, and who acts as its manager. Those are its own decisions about its own members, taken for its own purposes, and for them the organisation is a controller in its own right, not acting on our behalf. We are not a party to the relationship between an organisation and its members, and we do not adjudicate it: if your affiliation is ended, or you are refused the right to create a community, that is a matter between you and the organisation.

What an organisation agrees to. By using an organisation’s presence on Kommunitea, the organisation and each of its managers agree that:

• the person appointing managers is authorised by the organisation to do so, and the organisation is bound by what its managers do on the Service;
• the member list and anything else visible through the organisation’s presence will be used only to administer the organisation’s own affiliation and communities — not for unrelated marketing, recruitment, monitoring of individuals, or any other purpose, and it will not be sold or passed to anyone else;
• affiliation will not be granted to people who do not genuinely belong to the organisation, and will not be ended as a way of retaliating against someone for making a report or a complaint;
• reports reaching the organisation will be handled promptly, in line with our Community Guidelines, and a report the organisation does not act on within 12 hours comes to us automatically — as does any report about safety or explicit content, which reaches us immediately;
• the organisation is responsible under data protection law for its own decisions and for anything it exports from the Service, at which point it acts independently of us; and
• the organisation will not present Kommunitea as its own product, or suggest that we endorse or are partnered with it beyond the fact that it uses the Service.

Statistics. The figures shown to managers describe activity in the organisation’s communities in aggregate. They are not a tool for monitoring individual members, and must not be used to identify or single out a person.

We may end an organisation’s presence. If this section is not observed, or if the organisation’s presence is being used to mislead people about who they are dealing with, we may withdraw manager rights, remove the organisation’s verification, or end its presence on the Service. Doing so does not delete the accounts of the people affiliated with it — they keep their accounts and their communities, without the affiliation.

If your organisation needs a separate written agreement or a data processing arrangement before using Kommunitea, write to hello@kommunitea.app and we will put one in place.

8. Payments

Kommunitea does not process payments. The Service is free to use, and no payment provider is integrated into it. We do not collect, hold, or transfer money, and we do not handle card details, bank details, or refunds.

Where an organiser indicates that their event has a cost, they collect it directly and outside the Service, for example in person at the event. In that case:

• we are not a party to that payment and do not guarantee it;
• the organiser is responsible for prices, collecting payment, cancellations, refunds, taxes, and any dispute; and
• you should deal directly with the organiser about anything to do with the money.

The Service gives organisers a way to note whether someone has paid them, so they can keep track of who has settled up. If an organiser marks your ticket as paid, that note is made by the organiser, not by us: it records what they told us, we do not verify it, and it is not confirmation from a bank or payment provider. An organiser can change or remove that note.

Any ticket the Service issues is for registration and entry only, and does not represent a purchase from us. It is not a receipt or an invoice, and a ticket marked as paid is not proof that we received any money — we never do.

Splitting costs between yourselves. The Service lets the people at an event write down what something cost, who put money in, and how it should be divided, and it works out from those entries who is owed what. Everything in it is entered by you and the people you are with. We do not verify any of it, no money moves through us, and we are not a payment service, an escrow, a lender, or a party to any debt between you.

• Anyone attending an event may record a cost on it. Whoever does so is named on it, and the people it is split between can see who charged them, and can correct or challenge it between themselves.
• Marking that you have paid someone back is a statement by you, not a payment and not proof of one. The other person can confirm it or say it never arrived, and that answer is kept.
• Any debt arising from a shared cost is between the people involved. We do not collect it, enforce it, guarantee it, or decide who is right about it.
• Do not use it to demand money you are not owed, or to pressure anybody. That is a breach of our Community Guidelines.

A budget kept by an event’s organisers is their own internal record of what the event cost them. It is not shown to attendees and it is not an account we keep.

If we introduce paid features in future, we will set out the pricing, payment terms, and cancellation and refund terms before you are charged, and update these Terms first.

9. Reporting content, moderation, and appeals

Anyone can report content or behaviour. In the app, use the report option on the item itself — a profile, message, event, photo, or announcement. You can also email us at hello@kommunitea.app. If you are reporting something you believe is illegal, please include enough detail for us to find and assess it.

Reports go first to the admins of the community concerned, then where appropriate to that organisation’s managers, and finally to us. A report about a community itself is the exception: it comes straight to us and is never shown to that community’s own admins, because they are the people it concerns. Our Community Guidelines explain who is responsible for what.

Where a report is justified, the action taken will be proportionate to how serious the problem is. Depending on the case that may mean removing content, reducing its visibility, restricting a feature, removing someone from a community, suspending a whole community while we review a report about it, taking a whole community down, or suspending or closing an account. We may act immediately, and before contacting you, where that is necessary to protect people, to comply with the law, or to deal with a security problem.

Suspending a community is temporary and reversible. While it lasts, the community is hidden from search and discovery, nobody new can join, and no new events can be published. Existing members keep their access and nothing is deleted. We tell the community’s admins that it has happened and why, and we lift it if the report does not stand up.

Taking a community down goes further, and we reserve it for the most serious cases — where the community itself breaks these Terms or the law, rather than something posted inside it. A community that has been taken down is no longer available to anyone, including its own members, who lose access to its chats, events, and photos. We tell every member and give a reason, and they can challenge the decision as described in this section. We do not delete the content: we retain it so that a challenge can be reviewed and so that we can meet our legal obligations, and we restore the community if we got it wrong.

If we remove your content, remove you from a community, or suspend or take down a community you belong to, we will tell you. You will get a notification saying what happened, which community it concerned, and why, and for a community suspension its admins are emailed as well. You do not have to notice it yourself. We may withhold that explanation only where giving it would itself be unlawful, would compromise an investigation, or would create a serious safety or security risk.

You can challenge any decision we make. Email hello@kommunitea.app and tell us what you think we got wrong. A person — not an automated system — will review it, and we will respond within 14 days. If we agree we were wrong, we will restore the content or your access.

10. Our intellectual property

The Service itself — the app, the website, the software behind them, and the Kommunitea name, logo, design, and branding — belongs to us or our licensors. These Terms let you use the Service; they do not transfer any ownership in it to you.

You may not copy, modify, reverse engineer, redistribute, resell, or commercially exploit the Service, except where the law expressly permits it regardless of what these Terms say.

11. Feedback

If you send us a suggestion or idea, we may use it to improve the Service without owing you payment or attribution, unless we have agreed otherwise with you in writing. This applies only to feedback about the Service itself; it does not affect ownership of anything else you post.

12. Third-party services

The Service relies on other companies’ services, including Apple and Google for optional sign-in and for delivering push notifications, Google Maps for maps and place lookup, and Amazon Web Services for hosting and email delivery. It may also link to websites we do not control.

Those providers have their own terms and privacy policies, which apply to your use of them. Except where the law says otherwise, we are not responsible for the operation, availability, security, or content of third-party services.

13. Availability and changes to the Service

We provide the Service with reasonable care and skill, but we cannot promise it will always be available or entirely free of faults. Maintenance, technical problems, and events outside our control can all affect it.

We may add, change, or remove features as the Service develops, and some features may be experimental. If we decide to discontinue the Service, or a significant part of it, we will give you reasonable notice where it is practical to do so, so that you can retrieve your content. Nothing in this section affects your mandatory rights as a consumer.

14. Suspension and termination

You may stop using the Service and delete your account at any time, for any reason.

We may restrict, suspend, or close your access where it is reasonably necessary because of a material breach of these Terms, illegal activity, a serious risk to other people, fraud or abuse, a security threat, a legal obligation, or because we are discontinuing the Service.

Where we do, we will tell you and give a reason, and you can challenge the decision as described in section 9. We may act first and explain afterwards where waiting would put people at risk, breach the law, or worsen a security problem. Sections that by their nature should continue — including sections 5, 10, 16, and 18 — survive the end of this agreement.

15. Disclaimers

Apart from the commitments we have expressly made in these Terms, and except for your mandatory rights as a consumer, the Service is provided as it is and as available. We do not warrant that it will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that it will meet a particular requirement you have in mind.

16. Limitation of liability

We are fully liable, without limitation:

• for damage caused intentionally or by gross negligence;
• for injury to life, body, or health;
• under the German Product Liability Act (Produkthaftungsgesetz); and
• to the extent we have given a guarantee.

For slight negligence, we are liable only where we breach an obligation that is essential to performing this agreement and that you may reasonably rely on us to meet. In that case our liability is limited to the damage that was foreseeable and typical for an agreement of this kind. Any further liability for slight negligence is excluded.

Nothing in these Terms limits or excludes liability that cannot be limited or excluded by law, and your mandatory rights as a consumer are unaffected.

17. Changes to these Terms

We may need to update these Terms as the Service develops or as the law requires. If we make a change that affects your rights or obligations, we will tell you at least 30 days before it takes effect, through the Service or by email, and we will say clearly what is changing and when it applies from.

If you do not agree to a change, you may stop using the Service and delete your account at any time before it takes effect, at no cost. If you are still using the Service after that date, the updated Terms apply to you from then on, to the extent the law allows.

Corrections that do not affect your rights, such as fixing a typo, clarifying wording, or adding a new optional feature, may take effect without that notice period.

18. Governing law and your rights as a consumer

These Terms are governed by German law, together with applicable EU law, so far as the law permits that choice.

If you are a consumer, this does not take away any mandatory protection available to you under the law of the country you live in, and you keep the right to bring proceedings in the courts of that country.

We are neither willing nor obliged to take part in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board.

19. Contact

General questions: hello@kommunitea.app
Privacy and data protection: privacy@kommunitea.app
Operator details: Impressum
How we handle your data: Privacy Policy