waited

waited Terms of Use

This is a translation provided for convenience. In case of discrepancy, the French version prevails.

Version 2 — draft to be reviewed by a lawyer before publication. Passages in square brackets are to be completed.

1. Who we are

waited is published by Julien Camboulives EI (a sole proprietorship under the French micro-enterprise scheme), [FULL ADDRESS], Paris, [SIREN NUMBER], reachable at contact@waited.app.

2. Access to the service

  • waited is restricted to persons aged 16 or over. When signing up, you give your month and year of birth: under 16, no account is created. An account found to belong to someone under 16 is suspended.
  • Under 18, additional protections apply (see article 4).
  • An account is personal. You are responsible for your username, your password and your recovery code.
  • We may suspend or delete an account that does not comply with these terms.

3. What you may send

You send photos and messages only to people who follow you and whom you follow (friends). It is prohibited to send:

  • any nude or sexual photo, even of yourself and even if the person receiving it agrees;
  • any content involving or depicting a minor in a sexual or degrading manner: it is a criminal offence, even for a photo of oneself, and such content is reported to the authorities;
  • a photo of a person without their consent, or an edited or generated image showing them naked;
  • harassment, threats, blackmail, insults, hateful or discriminatory content;
  • violent or illegal content, or content that incites dangerous acts;
  • advertising, spam or scams.

The challenges you propose must remain respectful. It is prohibited to ask someone to do something dangerous, humiliating, illegal or sexual in nature, or to ask them for an intimate photo.

Your profile photo can be seen by everyone: it must not contain any nudity.

Our Child Safety Standards, against Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation (CSAE), detail these prohibitions and what we do with any content that breaks them: waited.app/en/legal/securite-enfants/.

4. Nudity detection on your phone

  • The app analyses photos on your phone: before they are sent, and when a received photo is opened. Neither the photo nor the result of this analysis is sent to us.
  • If a photo seems to contain nudity: under 18, it cannot be sent; from 18, the app warns you and, if you send it anyway, it goes with the strongest protections (view once, screenshots blocked). Sending such a photo remains prohibited by article 3.
  • When received, a photo that seems to contain nudity is blurred until you choose to see it; under 18, it is not shown.
  • This detection can be wrong, either way. It replaces neither these rules nor reports.

5. Reporting and blocking

  • You can block someone at any time. You no longer follow each other, and they can no longer find you, write to you or send you photos.
  • You can report a person, a message or a photo. As photos are encrypted, reporting a photo transmits the photo to our moderation team, with your consent.
  • Anyone, even without an account, can report illegal content to us at contact@waited.app.
  • We review reports concerning a minor first, within 24 hours, and the others within 72 hours. While a photo reported as involving a minor is being reviewed, the person who sent it can no longer send photos.
  • Possible sanctions: removal of the content for all its recipients, warning, suspension or deletion of the account. Content involving a minor is removed and reported to the authorities (the French PHAROS platform).
  • Each decision is notified to you in the app, or when you sign in if your account is suspended, with its reason. To appeal it, write to us at contact@waited.app: we review the decision and answer you.

6. Photos, screenshots and saving

The sender chooses whether their photo may be captured or saved. waited blocks screenshots when the phone's operating system allows it, but no application can prevent the screen from being photographed with another device. Do not send anything you would not want to see shared. Sharing someone's intimate photo without their consent is a criminal offence.

7. Lifetime of photos

Each photo is automatically deleted according to the sender's setting (24 hours, 7 days or 30 days after it is sent); if the wait is longer, one day after it ends, 31 days at most. The sender may delete a photo at any time, whether or not it has been revealed. If the recipient had not opened it yet, the credits they used to see it sooner are returned to them. A photo that is still locked on the deletion date is deleted without having been revealed.

8. Credits

Credits cannot be bought: they are earned by using waited and by getting others to discover it. Conversation credits, earned by completing challenges or by sending photos (within the limit shown in the app), can only be used in the conversation in which they were earned. Universal credits, valid in every conversation, are earned when someone you invited with an invitation link or your profile link joins waited (within the monthly limit shown in the app); the invited person also receives some when joining. Credits obtained through abuse (fake accounts, multiple accounts, automated sending) may be withdrawn and the account suspended. No credit has any monetary value or can be exchanged for money, sold or transferred to another account.

9. Account deletion

You can delete your account at any time from Profile → Account and security. Your data is then erased, as provided for in the privacy policy, except for what the law requires us to keep (identification data, for one year). Any remaining credits are lost.

10. Liability

Each user is responsible for what they send. Like any hosting provider, we keep for one year the data that identifies the author of content and hand it to the judicial authorities that request it. We do our best to keep the service available and safe, without being able to guarantee permanent availability. Nothing in these terms limits the rights the law grants you, in particular as a consumer.

11. Help

If someone is pressuring you to send a photo, threatening to share a photo of you or harassing you, it is not your fault. The app's "Help and safety" screen lists who can help, for example Childline in the United Kingdom (free and confidential).

12. Changes and governing law

We may amend these terms; you will be notified in the app in the event of a significant change. These terms are governed by French law. [COMPETENT COURT / CONSUMER MEDIATOR].