Terms and Conditions

Version 5.0 · Last updated: September 7, 2026

1. Provider and acceptance

Just Our Circle is provided by Smart Deal UG (haftungsbeschränkt), Jakob-Husmans-Str. 1, 47839 Krefeld, Germany (see the Legal Notice). You must expressly agree to these Terms before using your circles. The Privacy Policy explains how we process data. Accepting these Terms does not waive your statutory rights or authorise unrestricted disclosure of your information.

2. Accounts and security

You must provide a valid email address and be at least 16 years old. You are responsible for your keeping your login credentials secure. Notify us promptly if you suspect unauthorised access. Users aged 16 or 17 must have any parental or guardian permission required for the service or a purchase.

3. Circles, ownership and membership

Each circle has one owner. The available roles are Owner, Admin, Member and Guest. Owners control ownership, deletion and Account Plus. Owners and Admins can manage circle content and invitations. Members can contribute within the permissions granted to them. Guests are read-only. Circles are private and access-controlled for members. Limited access by authorised service personnel and providers may be necessary to operate the service, investigate a specific report or meet a legal obligation, as explained in the Privacy Policy.

4. Acceptable use and user-generated content

You must not share or do any of the following:

  • Planning, facilitating or promoting criminal activity, including illegal trade, fraud or exploitation;
  • Threats, blackmail, extortion, coercion, stalking, harassment or unlawful hate speech;
  • Sharing private documents, personal data or intimate material without the necessary rights or permission, including using them to intimidate or expose a person unlawfully;
  • Child sexual abuse material, sexual exploitation or other unlawful sexual content;
  • Violating intellectual property, confidentiality or privacy rights;
  • Malware, phishing, spam, impersonation, evading an account restriction or attempts to gain unauthorised access.

You are responsible for the material you share and must have the rights and legal basis to share it with the intended recipients. These responsibilities do not remove our own legal duties. You can report content in the app or through Contact. Give the location, reason and relevant context; do not redistribute illegal material to make a report. Reports are reviewed by our authorised administrators and do not automatically establish a violation.

5. Our Circle: Free Forever

The free plan includes, at no cost:

  • Private circles;
  • Unlimited normal text chat, subject to fair-use and anti-abuse limits;
  • Events, tasks, notes and announcements;
  • In-app notifications;
  • Member management;
  • Email invitations to specific people;
  • Viewing and downloading files already stored in the circle.

New file/media uploads are not included in the free plan. "Free Forever" applies to these listed core communication and organisational features; it does not mean every current or future premium feature must be free.

6. Prepaid Account Plus access

Account Plus belongs to one account owner and covers file and media transfer in every current and future circle owned by that account. Invited members do not need their own purchase to upload inside a circle whose owner has active access. The circle owner's shared allowance applies.

  • One month: €2.99 per account, including applicable VAT.
  • One year: €19.99 per account, including applicable VAT.
  • Each purchase is a one-time payment. There is no automatic renewal or future charge.
  • Access ends automatically after the purchased period unless the owner manually buys another period.
  • Includes 100 file/media uploads and 5 GB of transfer data per monthly allowance period.
  • The allowance is shared across all circles owned by the account and all authorised members using them.
  • Unused allowance does not roll over.

7. Temporary transfer and allowance rules

  • An upload copies the selected file to private temporary transfer storage; it does not remove the sender's original.
  • Each successfully confirmed file counts as one upload and its bytes count toward the 5 GB allowance.
  • Failed, rejected or expired reservations are released and do not remain charged against the allowance.
  • Deleting or replacing a confirmed transfer does not restore already-consumed monthly allowance.
  • Downloads do not reduce the allowance; text messages and database actions do not reduce it.
  • New uploads stop when either 100 uploads or 5 GB is reached until the next reset.
  • The one-month purchase has one allowance period. During one-year access, the allowance resets monthly, anchored to the access start day.
  • Transfers expire for new online access after 7 days. When every recipient recorded at upload has successfully saved a copy, deletion is scheduled after a one-hour delivery delay. An hourly cleanup job removes due objects; failed deletions are retried. A transfer with no other recipients is scheduled for deletion after 24 hours. A justified legal preservation duty may require a specific exception.
  • When saving is permitted, opening a transfer downloads and saves a copy in this app's browser storage on that device before confirming receipt. The entry remains under Saved on this device after the online copy is deleted. Browser data clearing, app removal or storage eviction can remove this copy. Save important files separately. The whole app is not an offline service.

8. Expiry and manual renewal

  • Account Plus remains active until the already-paid period ends, then the account returns to Free automatically.
  • We aim to send the account owner an email reminder about seven days before access ends.
  • Renewal happens only when the account owner manually buys another one-month or one-year period.
  • Stopping use after the statutory withdrawal period does not by itself create a right to a prorated refund. Mandatory consumer, defect, termination and warranty rights remain unaffected.
  • New uploads stop after access ends. Existing temporary transfers continue only until their normal delivery or seven-day expiry.
  • Account Plus is not tied to any one circle, so an individual circle can be transferred or deleted without affecting account-wide access.

9. Payments

One-time payments are processed by Stripe. Card details are handled by Stripe and are not stored by us. Published prices include VAT. We do not store a payment method for automatic renewal and do not initiate a future charge. Free communication features remain available after paid access ends.

10. Statutory withdrawal right

Consumers have a statutory 14-day withdrawal right. See the Withdrawal Information. Mandatory consumer and warranty rights remain unaffected.

11. Availability and maintenance

We take reasonable measures to operate and protect the service. Maintenance, outages and third-party infrastructure failures can interrupt availability. We do not promise uninterrupted operation or absolute security. Nothing in this section limits mandatory rights concerning service quality, defects or remedies.

12. Fair use and anti-abuse

Reasonable rate limits apply against spam, automated messaging, mass invitations and upload abuse. Ordinary users are not charged for these protections.

13. Intellectual property

You retain ownership of your content. You grant the limited permissions needed for us and our technical providers to host, transmit and display it to the recipients you choose. Recipients may retain permitted copies on their own devices; removing the online copy cannot recall those copies. Other uses require an independent right or permission.

14. Liability

Liability is governed by the mandatory provisions of German law. We do not unlawfully exclude liability and remain liable for intent, gross negligence and harm to life, body or health, and under the German Product Liability Act.

15. Suspension, termination and data deletion

We may temporarily restrict an account where there are reasonable grounds to suspect misuse or an urgent security risk, while asking the account holder for an explanation. We may remove or restrict content and permanently terminate access for justified serious or repeated violations. We consider the evidence, severity, context and proportionality. Where legally permitted, we provide a reason and a way to request review at info@smartdealbusiness.de. A report alone does not make private content public or remove data-protection rights. Statutory refund, withdrawal and other remedies remain available. You may submit an account deletion request in Settings. Before doing so, you must transfer any circle that still has other active members. Deleting your account forfeits any remaining paid access, subject to mandatory consumer rights. Once accepted, circle access is removed, profile and authorship data are anonymised, and solo-owned circles enter a 7-day deletion window. Final removal of the Base44 authentication record is completed by the provider's administrator. Billing and other records may be retained where law requires.

Lawful requests and privacy safeguards

We may preserve or disclose information we actually hold where required by a valid legal obligation, or otherwise permitted under an applicable legal basis. We verify the requesting authority, legal basis and scope and limit any disclosure to what is necessary. An informal request or an allegation alone does not give unrestricted access. We notify affected users where legally permitted and appropriate. We cannot provide file contents already deleted from our systems, or retrieve copies from a member's device.

16. Governing law and dispute resolution

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, preserving mandatory consumer protections. Smart Deal UG is neither willing nor obliged to participate in dispute-resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board.

17. Changes

We may update these Terms. Material changes are communicated in-app or by email and may require renewed acceptance before further use. Changes do not reduce mandatory consumer rights.