These terms are between you (the business, and the person signing in for it) and Andrew Barber, trading as Pouch Apps (“Dote”, “we”), Clyde Offices, 48 West George Street, Glasgow G2 1BP, UK. Email: hello@dote.day. By signing in to Dote for Venues (venues.dote.day) you agree to them on behalf of your business.
1. What Dote for Venues is
Dote is an app for couples to save date ideas and remember the dates they go on. Dote for Venues lets a business:
- claim its place on Dote;
- see insights about how couples are getting on with it (free);
- post deals that couples see (each one checked by us first; free during the founding period, see section 5);
- add photos of its place (see section 6).
2. Your account
- You sign in with a one-time code we email you. Keep your inbox secure: anyone who can read it can sign in as you.
- In this version one person looks after a place. If someone else at your business needs in, email us.
- You must be allowed to act for the business you claim. You’re 18 or over.
3. Claiming a place
- A claim is instant when your email address is at the same domain as the place’s website. Otherwise we check by hand, usually within a day or two, and may ask for proof.
- We can refuse or remove a claim if we think it isn’t yours, or if there’s a dispute between people claiming the same place. We sort disputes by hand.
- Claiming doesn’t let you change what couples have saved or written about your place.
4. Insights
- Insights are totals only (saves, both partners ❤️, plans, dates done, trends, area rank, themes). Any number under 5 couples shows as “fewer than 5”, and weeks with fewer than 5 are left off trends. You’ll never see who saved you, when, or anything about one couple, and you mustn’t try to work it out.
- They’re our best count from what couples do in Dote. We don’t promise they’re complete or exact, and they’re not a measure of footfall or sales.
- You can share your own insights (say on social media), but not in a way that suggests Dote endorses you, and not in ads that make claims we haven’t agreed.
5. Deals
- Deals are free during the founding period, while Dote grows. If that changes, we’ll email you at least a month before, and venues who joined during the founding period keep an Early price for a year.
- If deals become paid, the seller is Andrew Barber, trading as Pouch Apps, and payments are taken by Stripe (stripe.com) as our payment processor. The paid plan is for UK businesses only. Prices are what you pay: Pouch Apps isn’t VAT registered, so no VAT is added. You can manage or cancel your plan from Stripe’s billing page, linked in Dote for Venues.
- On a paid plan, you can cancel any time. Cancelling stops the plan renewing and your deals stay up until the end of the period you’ve paid for, then come down. There are no partial refunds for the rest of a period.
- Every deal is checked by us before couples see it and is always labelled as a deal from your venue. We can say no, ask for changes, or take a deal down at any time, with a reason.
- A deal must be real, honoured as written, legal, and true to your place: no misleading prices, no alcohol deals that encourage drinking too much, nothing unsafe, nothing aimed at under-18s. You’re responsible for honouring it. Up to 3 live deals per place.
- Deals are shown on couples’ ideas for your place, on dote.day pages and, if a couple has switched it on, in at most one push notification a week.
6. Your content
- You keep the rights to what you write (deal titles, details, terms). You give us a free, worldwide licence to show it in Dote, on dote.day and in Dote’s own marketing of your deal, for as long as it’s live (and in records afterwards).
- Photos. When you upload a photo you confirm it’s yours, or you have permission from whoever owns it, and that anyone recognisable in it has agreed. You keep the rights to it. You give us a free, worldwide, non-exclusive licence to resize, crop and show it in Dote, on dote.day and in Dote’s own marketing of your place, for as long as it’s up, and to keep records afterwards. Removing a photo in Dote for Venues ends the licence for new uses.
- Every photo gets an automatic check (an AI looks at it), and a look from us if the check isn’t sure, before couples see it. We remove location and camera details from it. We can say no to a photo or take it down at any time, with a reason.
- Don’t post anything you don’t have the right to, or anything unlawful, hateful or misleading.
7. Couples’ privacy
Couples’ privacy comes first. You won’t get any couple’s personal data from us, and you agree not to try to identify couples from insights or deals (for example by combining them with other information).
8. Your data
How we handle your email, name and sign-in details is in our privacy policy, section “If you run a venue”.
9. Ending things
- You can stop any time: cancel any plan and email us to close your account.
- We can suspend or close an account, remove a claim or take deals down if these terms are broken, if we have to by law, or if we stop offering Dote for Venues (we’ll give at least 30 days’ notice of that where we can, and refund any paid time you haven’t used).
10. The legal bits
- Dote for Venues is provided as it is. We’ll do our best to keep it running and accurate, but we don’t promise it’ll always be available or error-free.
- Nothing in these terms limits liability that can’t be limited by law (death or personal injury from negligence, fraud).
- Otherwise: if you only use the free parts, we’re not liable to you at all, as far as the law allows. If you’re on a paid plan, our total liability to you is capped at what you paid us in the 12 months before the claim.
- We’re never liable for lost profits or lost business.
- We may update these terms; we’ll email you about changes that matter at least 30 days before they apply.
- These terms are governed by the law of Scotland, and the Scottish courts have jurisdiction.
Questions: hello@dote.day.