Terms of Use

Last updated: 11 November 2026. These terms also serve as the app’s end user license agreement (EULA). This is a translation; the German version is authoritative.

1. What this is about

These terms govern the use of the “Nodbase” app for iPhone, its App Clip and the related services (together “the app”). The provider is Ben Schwöbel, Am Wallstadter Bahnhof 25, 68259 Mannheim, Deutschland, email support@nodbase.app (“we”). The provider is a private individual, not a company.

By registering, you enter into an agreement with us to use the app under these terms. Our Community Guidelines are part of these terms. How we handle your data is described in the Privacy Policy.

2. What the app offers

• A network that lives only on your iPhone: people, notes, relationships and reminders.
• Connect: a card with profiles, link and QR code, requests, connections and introductions.
• Chats with your connections, one-to-one and in groups, end-to-end encrypted.
• Voice and video calls with your connections and rooms in your groups, end-to-end encrypted, also with screen sharing.
• Goals that you can choose to share with your connections.
• Communities: shared rooms that you join with a code, link or invitation or create yourself, moderated by their creators, admins and moderators. Posts in communities are not end-to-end encrypted.
• Your network strength, optional and off by default: phase, circles, history and phase cards that the app calculates only on your iPhone from your in-person meetings and your contact. It is not a measure of trust or of a person’s worth. Others only see the card you show.

The app is free. There are no ads and no in-app purchases. We keep developing the app and may change, add or discontinue features where this is reasonable for you. There is no right to the app being available at all times and without interruption. Maintenance and outages can limit it temporarily.

3. Minimum age

You must be at least 16 years old. By registering you confirm this. If we learn that you are younger, we delete your account.

In states whose laws require parental consent through the App Store for minors (for example Texas, USA), Nodbase is 18+ only. There, the age range of your Apple Account counts.

Some communities are 18+ only. There, “18+” is only an age limit: the same Terms and Community Guidelines apply as everywhere else in the app. Pornography, sexual content and everything else these rules prohibit remain prohibited there too.

4. Your account

• An account belongs to exactly one person. Do not create an account for someone else and do not pass your account on.
• Give true information and do not pretend to be someone else.
• Protect your password and your device. Anyone holding your unlocked iPhone can see your data. The app lock with Face ID helps.
• If you suspect someone else is using your account, change your password and write to us.
• You may not get around a suspended account by creating a new one.

5. Your content

• Your content belongs to you: your card, profiles, pictures, videos, messages, requests, introductions, shared goals and group titles.
• So that we can run the app, you grant us a simple, free right to store, transmit and display your content as far as necessary for this, for example to show your card to the people you share it with. This right ends when you delete the content or your account, unless we must keep content longer because of a report or by law.
• Only upload content you hold the necessary rights to. Pictures of other people only with their consent.
• You are responsible for your content. We do not adopt other people’s content as our own.

6. Rules for everyone: zero tolerance

There is zero tolerance for objectionable content and for people who harass or abuse others. In particular, the following is prohibited:

• harassment, bullying, stalking, threats and extortion, also by call,
• secretly recording calls or rooms; you may only record with the consent of everyone involved,
• hate and incitement against people because of origin, skin colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability or other characteristics,
• any sexual depiction of minors and any approach to minors with sexual intent,
• intimate images of a person without their consent, including fake or AI-generated ones,
• pornography, glorification of violence and calls for violence, terrorism or self-harm,
• spam, fraud, phishing, malware and pyramid schemes,
• pretending to be someone else,
• sharing other people’s contact details or private information without their consent,
• trading illegal goods or services and anything else that breaks applicable law.

Details and examples are in the Community Guidelines.

You also may not misuse the app: no automated access (bots, scraping), no mass messaging, no getting around blocks, limits or security measures, no manipulating the network strength or phase cards, for example with invented meetings or modified apps, no attacks on the server and no use that harms others or disrupts operation. You may only examine the program code as far as the law allows.

7. Reporting and blocking

• You can report profiles, requests, introductions, groups, group members, messages and calls directly in the app and block people, also during a call. Someone you block can no longer send you requests, message you or call you, and no longer sees your profile.
• You can also email us at support@nodbase.app. Please tell us what you are reporting and where to find it, why it breaks the law or our rules, and give your name and email address. For child sexual abuse material you do not need to give your name.
• We review every report as soon as we can and confirm receipt to you. The reported person does not learn who reported them.
• Please only report in good faith. Knowingly false reports are themselves a breach of these terms.
• In acute danger, contact the police or emergency services immediately (112 in the EU).

8. Moderation and consequences

• Texts others see in plain text (card fields, the “For Your Network” sentence, shared goals, request messages, reasons for introductions, group titles) are checked by an automatic word filter when saved. If it matches, the text is not saved.
• We review reports ourselves, so a human does. We decide carefully and impartially.
• Depending on the severity of a breach we may: remove or block content, warn you, restrict features, suspend your account temporarily or permanently, and delete your account. For severe breaches, such as child sexual abuse material, threats, extortion or intimate images without consent, we suspend immediately and permanently.
• We report criminal offences that threaten people’s life or safety, and child sexual abuse material, to the competent authorities.
• We inform you of every decision that affects you by email to your account address, with the reasons. If you disagree, you can object within six months at support@nodbase.app. We will then review the case again. Your rights in court remain unaffected.

9. End-to-end encrypted chats and calls

• Chats and calls are end-to-end encrypted. We can neither read nor hear them and therefore cannot check them in advance. We do not record calls.
• When you report from a chat, you can include up to five of the latest messages. Only these are then visible to us in plain text. When you report a call, we review your description and, if you wish, the messages you include.
• Your chat history and your call list are stored only on your device. If it is lost or you switch iPhones, the history is gone. We have no copy and cannot restore it.
• You cannot make emergency calls through Nodbase. In an emergency, call emergency services from the Phone app.
• Calls need an internet connection and our call servers. We cannot promise that a call will always go through.

10. Data about other people

Your network is for your personal use. Only store what you are allowed to know about others, and do not use it for advertising, mass outreach or trading contact details. Only bring in contacts you are allowed to use.

11. Ending your account

• You can delete your account in the app at any time: You › Settings › Account › Delete Account.
• We may terminate the agreement with four weeks’ notice, for example if we discontinue the app. For good cause, especially for severe or repeated breaches, we may terminate without notice.
• Before it ends, you can export your network as a CSV file.

12. Warranty and liability

• We provide the app free of charge. Warranty applies only to the extent required by law.
• We are liable without limitation for intent and gross negligence, for injury to life, body or health, under the German Product Liability Act and where we have given a guarantee.
• For slight negligence we are only liable if we breach an essential contractual obligation, meaning an obligation whose fulfilment makes using the app possible in the first place and on which you may rely. In that case liability is limited to the foreseeable, typical damage. Otherwise liability for slight negligence is excluded.
• Your network and your chats are stored only on your device. We are only liable for the loss of this data to the extent you could not have avoided it by exporting.
• Other users are responsible for their own content.

13. App Store and Apple

If you download the app from the App Store, Apple’s App Store terms also apply. If these terms are provided as a custom license agreement (EULA) in App Store Connect, they apply instead of Apple’s standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement. Otherwise Apple’s standard agreement applies and these terms supplement it. In both cases:

• This agreement is between you and us, not Apple. We alone are responsible for the app and its content.
• We grant you a simple, non-transferable right to use the app on Apple-branded devices that you own or control, as permitted by the Usage Rules in Apple’s App Store terms. This includes use through Family Sharing where Apple provides for it.
• We provide maintenance and support. Apple has no obligation to do so.
• If the app fails to conform to a statutory warranty, you can notify Apple, and Apple will refund any purchase price paid; the app is free today. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation. Any other claims relating to defects are against us under these terms.
• We, not Apple, are responsible for any claims by you or third parties relating to the app, such as product liability claims, claims that the app fails to meet legal or regulatory requirements, and claims under consumer protection, privacy or similar laws.
• If anyone claims that the app or its use infringes third-party rights, we, not Apple, are responsible for investigating, defending, settling and discharging the claim.
• You confirm that you are not located in a country subject to a US government embargo or designated by the US government as a “terrorist supporting” country, and that you are not on any US government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
• Direct questions, complaints and claims about the app to us: Ben Schwöbel, Am Wallstadter Bahnhof 25, 68259 Mannheim, Deutschland, support@nodbase.app.
• When using the app you must comply with applicable third-party terms, for example those of your mobile carrier.
• Apple and Apple’s subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of this agreement. Upon your acceptance, Apple may enforce this agreement against you as a third-party beneficiary.

There is nothing to buy in the app today. If in-app purchases are added later, they go through Apple and Apple’s terms also apply.

14. Changes to these terms

We may change these terms if the app, the law or the security situation changes. We inform you about changes at least four weeks in advance in the app or by email. Changes that materially affect your rights or obligations only apply once you accept them in the app. If you do not accept, you can delete your account; we may then terminate the agreement with four weeks’ notice.

15. Law and dispute resolution

• German law applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. If you are a consumer, you keep the protection of the mandatory laws of the country where you live.
• We are neither willing nor obliged to take part in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board.
• If a provision is invalid, the others remain valid. The statutory rule replaces the invalid one.

16. Contact

Ben Schwöbel
Am Wallstadter Bahnhof 25
68259 Mannheim, Deutschland
Email: support@nodbase.app