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Terms & Conditions

The short version

LyPinn is a free, hyper-local notice-board app. You agree to be kind, to follow Indian law, to keep cards anonymous and non-commercial unless you're on a business account, to honour the Neighbour Pledge, and to accept that the service can be paused, throttled or shut down at our discretion. Use of LyPinn is at your own risk — we are a marketplace of intent, not a vetting service.

1. Eligibility — 18+ self-declaration

You must be at least 18 years old to use LyPinn. We do not collect a date of birth at signup. Instead, by ticking the registration checkbox you make a legally binding self-declaration that you are 18+, that you are legally competent to enter this agreement under §11 of the Indian Contract Act, 1872, and that you accept both these Terms and the Privacy Policy. Misrepresenting your age is a material breach — we will terminate the account, retain server logs as required by law, and reserve every other remedy available to us.

2. The Neighbour Pledge

Every account-holder ticks three commitments before they can publish or connect: 1. I'll keep it kind. No harassment, slurs, hate speech, threats, or targeting of any individual or group. 2. I won't share personal information. Names, home addresses, phone numbers, financial details, anyone's identity documents — none of that belongs on a card. 3. I'll always meet in public. Any face-to-face meeting prompted by LyPinn must happen in a public, visible location during reasonable hours. Tell a friend where you're going.

Breaking the Pledge is grounds for immediate account suspension.

3. What you can publish

Allowed

  • Genuine, neighbourhood-relevant cards across the supported categories — Cause (community / activism / volunteer drives), Meet Up, Service, Sports, Urgency, Social, Mystery and your private Reminders.
  • A business card with truthful contact intent if you signed up as a business account.
  • GNotes — a 140-character note tied to a single spot, unlocked for the recipient inside the 500 m radius. A GNote can optionally carry one attachment: a ≤15 s voice clip you recorded, a Spotify track, a YouTube video, a sticker, a one-line song lyric, or a Strava route link you choose to share. By attaching a Strava route you confirm the route is yours to share (your own activity or a public route) and that Strava's own terms govern that route's contents.
  • NLocal ideas — short proposals for neighbourhood-specific product features. Ideas are voted on by verified neighbours within the same 3 km radius and reviewed by LyPinn's sub- admin moderators. Posting an idea grants LyPinn a perpetual, royalty-free licence to evaluate, prototype, ship or decline the idea inside the product — see §3a below.
  • A LyPinn ID (public handle) you have claimed for your account. Your LyPinn ID is permanent and identifies you to people you've trusted via LyPinn Connect; treat it the same way you would a public username on any other social product.

Not allowed (non-exhaustive)

  • Anything illegal under Indian law, including but not limited to drug sales, weapons sales, sex work, trafficking, fraud, or facilitation of crime.
  • Hate speech, harassment, doxxing, impersonation, spam, repetitive cards, or content targeting minors.
  • Profanity targeted at a specific person or group. Our server runs a per-language profanity filter at card-create time and rejects obvious slurs; this is a backstop, not a complete shield — you are still responsible for what you post.
  • Sexually explicit content of any kind. LyPinn is strictly not a hookup app even though connections are local.
  • Political campaigning, election-related solicitation, large-scale petitioning, or content that endangers the public order.
  • Any content that violates the IP rights of someone else — this expressly includes attaching a Spotify track, YouTube video, song lyric or Strava route you have no right to share.
  • Multi-level marketing pitches, paid promotions or referral links disguised as neighbourhood requests.

We take down offending content the moment we hear about it. Repeated violations cost you your account.

3a. NLocal — community ideas, our roadmap

When you post an idea on NLocal you confirm that you have the right to do so, that no third party's rights are infringed by the post, and that LyPinn may build (or decline to build) anything inspired by the idea without owing you compensation, credit beyond the in-product credit, or any other consideration. Sub-admin moderators with the `nlocal.moderate` permission may edit your idea for clarity, merge duplicates, change its status (under review / planned / shipped / declined), or take it down if it breaches §3 above. We act on takedowns within a reasonable time of receiving a well-formed report, and (where the law requires) within 36 hours per Rule 3(2)(b) of the Intermediary Guidelines, 2021.

4. Connects and replies

Every connect costs one connect credit (we hand out credits free of charge based on your plan). The recipient may reply once, and then the thread is locked — there is no continuous DM channel on LyPinn. Use the locked thread to exchange contact info if you want to keep talking elsewhere; that's outside LyPinn's scope.

4b. LyPinn Connect and GNote daily limits

LyPinn Connect is an opt-in trusted-contact graph layered on top of LyPinn IDs. Sending someone a Connect request requires knowing their LyPinn ID; the recipient can accept or decline. Either side can pause incoming requests at any time from *Profile → Allow connect requests*. We do not surface your email address to anyone you've connected with — only the LyPinn ID you've chosen to make public.

Daily GNote cap. Every account starts at 1 GNote / 24 hours. You can request a higher cap from inside the app — the first request up to 10/day is auto-approved, anything above that goes to manual moderator review. The hard ceiling is 50 GNotes / day and applies to every account-holder regardless of plan. We reserve the right to lower or revoke an approved bump if we see abuse (spam, copyright violation, anything against §3 above).

Physical-gift QR (printable GNotes). You can flag a GNote as a *printable physical gift* at creation time. The GNote is held in a *deferred* state — the 24-hour clock does not start ticking until you tap Activate on the QR portrait page. Activation is one-time and irreversible: once tapped, the recipient has 24 hours to scan the printed QR and walk to the pinned spot. We do this on purpose — sending a GNote in a wrapped gift is a real-world ritual and the recipient's window should begin only when you choose. We don't refund or extend a GNote whose recipient missed the window. The QR encodes a stable LyPinn link; recipients can scan with any phone camera and, if they don't have the LyPinn app, will open a web fallback that asks them to (a) confirm the same email the GNote was addressed to, (b) enter a one-time 6-digit code we email them, and (c) share their phone's location so we can confirm they are physically near the pin. We log each step of this flow for compliance — see §2 of our Privacy Policy.

5. Reports, blocks, suspensions

Every card carries a Report menu and a Block this user option. Blocking is one-sided and instant — the blocked user's cards disappear from your feed; they can't see, connect, or interact with you. Reports flow to the moderation queue and may trigger a card takedown or account suspension. We do not promise an SLA on moderation but typically act within 24 hours of a well-formed report, and within 36 hours where Rule 3(2)(b) of the Intermediary Guidelines, 2021 applies.

6. Account closure

You can delete your account at any time from Settings → Account. We can suspend or terminate your account if you breach these Terms, the Neighbour Pledge, or applicable law; if you abuse the service in a way that harms other users; or if we are required to do so by a competent authority. We will tell you why where we lawfully can.

7. Service availability

LyPinn is offered free of charge on a best-effort basis. We do not guarantee uptime, latency, or that any specific feature will stay available. We may add, remove, or change features without notice. We may pause the service in regions affected by abuse, by request of authorities, or for maintenance. Features may also be turned off per device family or per content type via our feature flag system — in that case a clear "Not available on this device" badge appears in the UI.

7a. Per-feature opt-in

Reminders, GNotes, *Discovery — current location*, and Notify Me are all opt-in in LyPinn. All four default to OFF for every new account (the Discovery-location toggle was grandfathered to ON for accounts that existed before our 2026-05 release; the other three default OFF for everyone). You can turn any of them on or off at any time from Settings → Features (Reminders / GNotes / Discovery) or from Profile → Notify Me, and your choice takes effect immediately. Past data is preserved when you toggle off — only the ability to *add new ones*, *receive new ones*, *use your live GPS for Discover*, or *fire Notify Me pushes* is paused.

  • Reminders OFF: the Reminder category disappears from Drop and Filters; existing reminders stay visible read-only.
  • GNotes OFF: incoming GNotes are paused; senders are politely told you haven't enabled them; in-flight GNotes are held until you re-enable.
  • Discovery — current location OFF: the Discover feed switches to a custom map pin you choose. You can only set one pin per 24 hours (the lock keeps it deliberate); when the lock expires we send a single polite push notification reminding you that you can change the pin if you'd like.
  • Notify Me OFF: no keyword matching runs for your account and no Notify Me push can fire. Your saved keywords + pin are preserved so a re-enable resumes immediately. Notify Me pushes always deep-link to Discover (not to the specific matching card) — see §8 below for the disclaimer.

We don't share your opt-in choices with anyone but the sender attempting an action that needs it.

8. Disclaimers

LyPinn is a notice-board — we don't verify identity claims, we don't act as an introduction service, and we don't endorse any user, card, or activity. You meet other users at your own risk. Always meet in public. Trust your instincts. Tell someone where you're going.

Location-based reminders and GNotes (the in-app nudges that fire when you arrive at a pinned place) rely on the location and geofence services your device offers. They are a convenience, not a primary tool. Reminders run in the background only if you explicitly opt in; GNotes are foreground-only (they unlock the moment you next open LyPinn or scan the share link inside the pinned spot's radius). Notifications may be delayed, fire late, or be missed entirely depending on: GPS signal quality, your device's battery saver settings, manufacturer-specific power management (notably MIUI, ColorOS, Funtouch OS, OxygenOS, EMUI, and One UI), whether the app has been force-closed by the OS, and the granted location permissions. We do not maintain a continuously-running background location service. Do not use LyPinn reminders for time-critical or safety-critical tasks — set a separate alarm in your phone's clock app if you need a guaranteed nudge.

Notify Me alerts are an even softer convenience — a best-effort "a card near your pinned spot mentions something like one of your keywords" ping. Matching is a hybrid of substring search, LLM-generated synonyms, and a locally-computed semantic similarity score, and is not guaranteed: you may occasionally receive a notification for a card whose meaning is only loosely related (false positive) or *not* receive one for a card that, with hindsight, you'd have wanted (false negative). Notify Me pushes always deep-link to Discover (your normal 3 km feed centred on your current location) — not to the matching card directly. If you happen to be far from your pinned spot when a match fires, the matching card may not appear in your Discover feed at all; Notify Me is the *signal* that something interesting dropped, not a guaranteed delivery of the card itself.

9. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, LyPinn and its operators are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages arising from your use of the service. Our total aggregate liability for any direct claim is limited to ₹1,000 (one thousand Indian rupees) — a number that reflects the fact that the service is free for all users.

10. Intermediary status

LyPinn acts as an intermediary under §2(1)(w) of the IT Act, 2000 and is entitled to safe-harbour protection under §79 of the IT Act when third-party content is published by users. We comply with the Intermediary Guidelines, 2021 and have appointed a Grievance Officer (see Privacy Policy §1). Lawful takedown notices may be sent to contact@lypinn.com.

11. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of India. Disputes will be submitted to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts at Ahmedabad, Gujarat. Subject to that, the parties agree to first attempt resolution by arbitration seated in Ahmedabad under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — sole arbitrator, English language.

12. Changes

We update these Terms when the service changes meaningfully. A fresh acceptance prompt will appear in-app. Continued use after an update counts as acceptance.

13. Contact

Email contact@lypinn.com for anything legal, the Grievance Officer, takedown requests, or general support.

14. Trending Keywords (v1.1.19)

LyPinn publishes a Trending Keywords surface that aggregates the most-saved Notify Me keywords across the platform. The surface respects a k-anonymity floor of 3 distinct users per keyword. You agree that anything you save as a Notify Me keyword may, once at least three other neighbours save the same or a normalised-equivalent keyword, appear in the aggregate Trending list — without your identity, your exact location, or the original text you typed beyond the first user's representative spelling. To opt out entirely, do not save that keyword in Notify Me; removing the keyword from your account also withdraws it from your individual tally on the next snapshot tick.

_Last updated: 13 February 2026 — v19._

Last updated: 6/9/2026