These are the terms for using Dote. We’ve kept them short. By using Dote you agree to them.
Using Dote
- You need to be 18 or over.
- Sign in with your own Apple or Google account or your own email address, and keep your phone and inbox secure. You’re responsible for what happens in your Dote.
- A Dote is for two people. Only invite your partner, and only accept an invite that’s meant for you.
Your stuff
What you add to Dote (ideas, notes, ratings, photos) stays yours. You give us permission to store it, process it and show it to you and your partner so the app works, including sending link and note text to our AI provider to fill in idea cards. If you switch on sharing for a memory, you’re also allowing anyone with that link to see it until you switch sharing off.
Please only add things you have the right to share, and nothing illegal, hateful or harmful. We can remove content or close accounts that break these rules.
Premium
Dote is free to use. Dote Premium is an optional subscription bought through the App Store or Google Play; one subscription covers both of you. Prices, renewals, cancellations and refunds, including any right to cancel within 14 days where your country gives you one, are handled by Apple or Google under their terms. Cancel in your App Store or Google Play subscription settings; deleting your account doesn’t cancel it. If Premium ends, you keep everything you’ve already added; Premium-only limits (like photos per memory) apply to new additions only.
The AI bits
Idea cards are filled in automatically and can be wrong: a place, a price or whether it’s indoors might be off. Check before you set off, especially opening times and bookings. Weather badges are forecasts, not promises. You can switch AI features off in Settings → AI.
Our side
We’ll do our best to keep Dote running and your data safe, but Dote is provided “as is”. To the extent the law allows, we’re not liable for indirect losses, or for a date that didn’t go to plan. Nothing here limits the consumer rights you have under the law where you live.
Stopping
You can delete your account at any time in Settings. We may suspend or end accounts that break these terms, and if we ever close Dote we’ll give you notice and a way to export your data.
Reporting and contacting us
Email hello@dote.day about anything illegal or harmful in Dote, for example on a public memory link. We read every report, and if we remove something we’ll tell you what we decided and why. That email is also our single point of contact for people, courts and authorities, and we’ll answer in English.
The legal bit
These terms are governed by the law of Scotland, and the Scottish courts can hear disputes (if you live elsewhere in the UK, you can also use your local courts). If you live outside the UK, you keep any consumer protections your own country’s law gives you that can’t be waived by contract, and you can bring a claim in the courts where you live.
Dote is run by Andrew Barber, trading as Pouch Apps, Clyde Offices, 48 West George Street, Glasgow G2 1BP, UK. Questions: hello@dote.day.