Terms of Service

These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) are a binding legal agreement. They are written in two layers so that you can actually understand what you are agreeing to.

If you are a parent or legal guardian, references to “you” in sections that concern a teen’s account refer to the teen user, unless the context clearly refers to you in your capacity as the consenting parent or guardian. Words like “we,” “us,” “our,” and the “Company” refer to the operator of Lit Teen Social identified below.

These Terms govern your access to and use of the Lit Teen Social mobile application, our related websites, and all associated features, tools, and services we provide.

The Service is operated by Lit Teen Social & Adventures, currently in the process of incorporating in Estonia as Lit Teen Social & Adventures OÜ, with a principal address to be confirmed on completion of incorporation.

By creating an account, accessing, or using the App, you confirm that you have read and agree to be bound by these Terms and by our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, you must not use the App.

If you are below the age of majority where you live, you confirm that a parent or legal guardian has reviewed and accepted these Terms on your behalf as part of the parental-consent process.

You must be at least 13 years old to create an account or use the App. If the law where you live sets a higher minimum age, that higher age applies to you instead of 13.

We do not rely on self-reported birthdates or self-reported country of residence alone. We use Kids Web Services (KWS), a specialized third-party age-assurance and parental-consent platform, to help verify your age and determine the rules that apply to you.

Your applicable jurisdiction is determined primarily by your device’s detected physical location, not solely by what you enter as your country of residence. Where your detected location and stated country differ, we apply whichever jurisdiction’s rules are stricter.

Depending on your location, age assurance may involve methods offered by KWS such as document-based verification, payment-card verification, mobile-number verification, or other approved methods. We do not collect, receive, or store the underlying identity documents, payment details, or biometric data used for verification.

In some countries, applicable law prohibits minors below a specified age from using social media platforms at all, regardless of parental consent. Where that applies, affected users will be blocked from creating or keeping an account.

If you are below the age of digital consent that applies in your country, a parent or legal guardian must provide verifiable consent through KWS before you can create an account and before certain features or data uses become available to you.

Until that consent is obtained, we will not knowingly collect more personal data from you than is reasonably necessary to operate the age-verification and consent process itself.

A parent or guardian who has provided consent may withdraw it at any time. Withdrawal will result in deletion or deactivation of the associated account, subject to any retention we are legally required to maintain.

For users in the United States under the age of 13, this process is designed to meet the verifiable-parental-consent requirement of COPPA, including the amended rule that took full effect in 2026.

If you are 18 or older, you must also complete age verification before accessing the App. We do not offer unverified adult accounts.

This is a deliberate safety measure. An account that has not completed verification will not gain access to social features.

You may maintain only one active account. You agree to provide accurate registration information, including your real birthdate, and to keep it up to date.

Creating an account using a false birthdate, another person’s identity, or any other means designed to circumvent age verification or parental consent is a serious violation and will result in termination.

You are responsible for keeping your account credentials confidential and for activity that occurs under your account.

When you create your account, you actively choose whether your profile is private or public. There is no pre-selected default that quietly makes a teen’s account public, and you can change this setting at any time within the App.

You may delete your account at any time directly within the App, with a single, clearly labeled control. We will not route you through guilt screens or friction designed to discourage deletion.

We may suspend or terminate your account if you violate these Terms, if we are required to do so by law, if a parent or guardian withdraws consent for a minor’s account, or if we reasonably believe your account poses a safety risk.

Parents and guardians who need to make changes to their child’s account, including updating information, adjusting permissions, or closing the account, can contact us using the details at the end of this page.

We will verify your identity as the consenting parent or guardian on file before acting on any request.

You retain all ownership rights in the photos, videos, text, comments, Stories, and other content you create and post on the App.

To operate the App, you grant us a limited, non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to host, store, reproduce, adapt for technical purposes, and display Your Content solely for operating and maintaining the App, showing it in line with your privacy settings, and featuring it within Lit Teen Social itself or our own promotional materials where appropriate.

This license does not extend to selling or licensing Your Content to third parties for their own independent use, using Your Content in third-party advertising unrelated to Lit Teen Social, or using it in ways a reasonable person would consider exploitative given the user’s age.

We will not use a minor’s content in external paid advertising campaigns, and we do not use Your Content to train third-party artificial-intelligence models.

You are solely responsible for Your Content and for ensuring you have the rights to post it.

Lit Teen Social only works if it feels safe. When using the App, you agree that you will not do any of the following:

You can report content, accounts, or messages directly within the App. Reporting tools are available at the point of contact.

User activity passes through a layered moderation system that operates continuously.

Where we have a good-faith belief that content or conduct involves illegal activity, an imminent risk of harm, or the exploitation or endangerment of a minor, we may, and in some cases are legally required to, disclose relevant information to law enforcement or other authorities.

Enforcement is proportionate to the severity and frequency of the violation, and may include content removal, warnings, temporary suspension, or permanent termination.

The App includes a Stories feature that lets you post photos and videos visible to your connections for 24 hours, after which they automatically disappear from the App.

Stories are subject to the same ownership, license, Community Guidelines, and moderation described in these Terms. The 24-hour expiry applies to visibility within the App only.

The App offers one-to-one direct messaging and group chat between connected users only. Both teens and adults can only message users they are already connected with.

Messages are stored on our servers for a minimum period, currently 30 days, to support moderation, safety review, and dispute resolution, after which they are automatically deleted from our servers.

The App may display or link to events listed by third-party ticketing and event platforms, such as Eventbrite and Ticketmaster. We surface these listings so users have ideas for things to do, but we do not organize, host, sponsor, staff, or operate any third-party event.

Link Ups are in-person meetups that users create and organize themselves using scheduling tools we provide within the App. We are not the organizer, host, chaperone, or guarantor of any Link Up.

Parents and guardians do not currently have visibility into a teen’s planned Link Ups. This is disclosed so that a parent or guardian providing consent understands the scope of this feature before consenting.

If you create or join a Link Up, you are responsible for exercising reasonable judgment about who you agree to meet, where, and under what circumstances. Use at your own risk.

The App includes a friend-matching feature that suggests potential connections based on shared interests, location, and activity within the App.

Friend matching is strictly age-separated. Users under 18 are only ever matched with other users under 18. Users 18 and over are only ever matched with other users 18 and over.

Additional friend-match credits may be offered as an in-app purchase in the future. When introduced, purchases will be processed through Apple Pay or Google Pay, and for users under 18 they will require parental approval consistent with Apple’s and Google’s controls.

The App relies on certain third-party service providers to operate. In particular, we use KWS, operated by Kids Web Services Ltd, a specialist UK age-assurance provider, to perform age verification and parental-consent management on our behalf.

KWS acts as an independent controller of the personal data it processes during verification and operates under its own privacy policy and terms.

We do not receive, store, or control the underlying identity, payment, or biometric information a user or parent provides to KWS. We receive only the verification outcome and the minimum information needed to apply the correct rules.

Deals and Steals is a feature built around Lit Teen Social’s core purpose of turning screen time into real time. Local and national businesses offer discounts, free items, and experiences for users to redeem in person.

We are not the seller, supplier, or provider of any deal. The deal is between you and the participating business, and the business’s own terms govern your interaction with it.

All listings, paid or unpaid, are reviewed by us for age-appropriateness before going live, and we may remove any listing at any time.

Lit Teen Social is built around the principle that a teen platform should not be engineered to maximize time spent in the app.

We do not use infinite scroll or other interface patterns specifically designed to discourage you from putting the app down.

Advertising is scoped to broad categories of products and services. Ads are shown based on general content categories, not on an individual user’s personal activity, behavior, or profile, and every ad is reviewed by a human for age-appropriateness.

Core features are designed, where reasonably possible, to encourage offline connection, real-world meetups, events, and activities, rather than passive engagement.

With your affirmative, opt-in consent, we may contact you by email or text message with product updates, announcements, or promotional content about Lit Teen Social itself only.

You will not be enrolled by default, and consent is requested separately from your acceptance of these Terms. If you are below the applicable age of digital consent, this opt-in must be provided by your verified parent or guardian.

We do not send marketing communications on behalf of any other company, brand, advertiser, or third party, and we do not sell, rent, or share your email address or phone number with any third party for their own marketing.

You may withdraw consent at any time, free of charge. Opting out does not affect your ability to use the App or receive non-marketing communications such as security alerts or safety notices.

Other than Your Content, the App and all related software, text, graphics, logos, and other materials are owned by us or our licensors and are protected by intellectual-property laws.

Except for the limited right to use the App as intended for your personal, non-commercial use, no rights are granted to you in our intellectual property.

If you believe content on the App infringes your intellectual-property rights, please send a notice to our contact email with the work involved, the allegedly infringing material, your contact details, a good-faith statement, and confirmation that you are authorized to act on behalf of the rights holder.

The App is provided “as is” and “as available.” While we take safety seriously and have built meaningful safeguards into the App, we cannot guarantee that the App will be error-free, uninterrupted, or completely free of content or conduct that violates these Terms.

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.

No app or hosting infrastructure is immune to technical failure. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, we are not responsible for loss, corruption, or unavailability of content, messages, account data, or other information resulting from technical issues.

Lit Teen Social encourages real-world connection, and features such as Link Ups, Events, and Deals and Steals may lead to in-person interactions.

Any decision to meet another user, attend an event, or visit a business is made at your own discretion and risk. We do not conduct background checks on users beyond age and identity verification, do not supervise off-platform interactions, and are not responsible for the acts or omissions of other users, organizers, venues, or businesses in the physical world.

We strongly encourage every user, and every parent or guardian of a teen user, to meet only in safe, public places, tell a trusted adult their plans, and stop if a situation feels unsafe.

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, and except for liability arising from death, personal injury, fraud, or any other liability that cannot be limited or excluded, our total liability to you for any claim arising out of or relating to these Terms or the App will not exceed the greater of CAD $100 or the amount you paid us, if any, in the 12 months before the claim arose.

We are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for loss of profits, data, goodwill, or other intangible losses, except where local law prevents such limitations.

To the extent permitted by applicable law, and recognizing that this obligation does not apply to a minor to the extent local law prevents it, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless the Company and its officers, employees, and agents from third-party claims, damages, and reasonable expenses arising out of your misuse of the App, your violation of these Terms, or your infringement of another person’s rights.

We will not seek indemnification from a user for conduct that was our fault, and this section does not require you to cover losses caused by our own negligence or wrongdoing.

If you download the App through a platform such as the Apple App Store or Google Play, your use is also subject to that platform’s terms.

The platform provider is not a party to these Terms and is not responsible for the App or its content. Any in-app purchases are processed by the platform under its terms, and refunds are handled according to the platform’s policies.

We may update these Terms from time to time, including to reflect changes in law, our practices, or the App’s features.

If we make a material change, we will provide notice through the App and/or by email before the change takes effect, and we will update the Effective Date above.

For minors with parental consent on file, material changes affecting the scope of data collection or use may require renewed parental consent.

You may stop using the App and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate your access as described above.

Sections that by their nature should survive termination, including ownership, licenses already granted to other users, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnification, and dispute resolution, will continue to apply after your account is closed.

If you have a concern or dispute, we encourage you to contact us first so we can try to resolve it directly. This is a voluntary first step, not a precondition to any remedy otherwise available to you.

We do not require you to resolve disputes through mandatory binding arbitration, and we do not require you to waive your right to participate in a class, collective, or representative action.

Nothing in these Terms removes or limits any right you have under the mandatory consumer-protection laws of the country in which you reside.

We may assign or transfer these Terms, and our rights and obligations under them, to a successor entity, including Lit Teen Social & Adventures OÜ or any entity resulting from an incorporation, reorganization, merger, or acquisition, without your prior consent, provided the successor is bound by these Terms and our Privacy Policy and maintains the same or greater standard of privacy and data protection.

You may not assign your rights or obligations under these Terms to anyone else.

These Terms are governed by the laws of British Columbia, Canada, until Lit Teen Social & Adventures’ Estonian incorporation is complete, at which point they will be governed by the laws of Estonia.

Nothing in this section restricts any mandatory consumer-protection right you may have under the law of the country in which you reside.

If any provision of these Terms is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions will continue in full force and effect, and the unenforceable provision will be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable while reflecting its original intent.

Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy and any Community Guidelines we publish, constitute the entire agreement between you and us regarding the App.

These Terms are provided in English. Where we make a translation available for convenience and a conflict arises, the English version controls to the extent permitted by applicable law.

If you use assistive technology and have difficulty accessing any part of these Terms or the App, contact us and we will work with you to provide the information in an accessible format.