Terms of Service

01Agreeing to these terms

Install Circular, sign in, or use it and you accept these terms together with our Privacy Policy. If you don't accept them, don't use the app — and if you've already got it, deleting your account ends the agreement.

If you're accepting on behalf of an organisation, you confirm you're authorised to bind it.

02What Circular is

Circular is a private messaging product: direct and group conversations, encrypted media sharing, profiles you control, communities, bots you can program, and paid extras that add capacity and refinement rather than replacing the core.

It is not a public broadcast network, not a content platform you're expected to feed, and not a calling product. We decide what we build; we tell you what changes.

03Who can use it

• You must be at least 16 years old, or the age at which you can legally consent where you live, whichever is higher.
• You must not be barred from receiving our service under applicable law.
• One human gets one account. Multiple accounts to evade an enforcement action is a breach.

If we learn an account belongs to a child under the minimum age, we delete it. If you're a parent who believes your child signed up, write to us and we'll act.

04Your account

• Keep your credentials to yourself. Share a password or a recovery secret and you've shared your conversations.
• You're responsible for activity on your account, including what happens on devices you signed in on and forgot about. Remove devices you no longer use.
• Tell us quickly if you think someone else has access — support@zovhra.com.
• Usernames are public. Choose one you won't regret; the handle is how people find you, and it may be reused after deletion.
• Recovery is in your hands. Encrypted history recovery only works if you kept the secret. Lose it and we cannot rebuild your history — by design, not by accident.

05Conduct

You agree not to:

• Break the law, or use Circular to plan or coordinate conduct that does.
• Send content that is unlawful, threatening, harassing, hateful, or sexual material involving anyone under 18 — and we treat child sexual abuse material as a report-and-remove, zero-tolerance category.
• Impersonate another person, or misrepresent what a bot is.
• Scrape, harvest, or enumerate other users, their profiles, or their relationships.
• Interfere with the service: reverse-engineer the client to extract keys, overload our systems, forge requests, or probe for access our authorisation rules don't grant you.
• Use automation to mass-message, spam friend requests, or run botnets against real people.
• Weaponise the privacy features. A disguise icon, an encrypted vault, or a disappearing message is protection for a normal person. Using any of them to conceal abuse, evade a block, or destroy evidence of harm is a breach — and we will act on it.
• Sell, resell, or rent out access to Circular.

Enforcement happens on our side of the wire, not just in the app: blocks, rate limits, and authorisation rules are enforced by the service, so a modified client doesn't get extra room.

06Your content, and ours

You keep everything you send or post. Because we can't deliver a message without handling it, you grant us a narrow licence: to host, transmit, store, cache, display to the people you chose, and encrypt it. That licence exists only to operate the service, ends when your content is deleted, and does not let us sell it or hand it to advertisers.

We can't read most of it. Where content is plaintext by contract — a conversation with a bot, for instance — treat it as disclosed to that bot's developer.

What you warrant

You own or have the right to share what you send, and you're responsible for it. If you send someone a file, that doesn't mean the recipient has any licence beyond reading it in the conversation.

07Paying for Circular

• Purchases go through your app store — Google Play or the App Store — or our payments provider. We don't take your card number.
• Subscriptions renew automatically until you cancel them in your store. Cancel at least 24 hours before the period ends; the store controls refunds, and so does its process.
• What you pay for is an entitlement, not a promise of permanence. We may change, rename, or retire paid features; if we remove something you're paying for and can't replace it, we'll make it right in line with the store's policies and your local consumer law.
• Coins and in-app currency have no cash value, are non-transferable between accounts, and are consumed when you use them.
• Price changes are set by us and applied by your store; existing periods finish at the price you paid.
• Deleting your account doesn't refund anything. Cancel the subscription first if that's what you actually want.

Apple-specific: where you subscribe on an iOS device, the standard Apple-approved addendum to these terms applies to that purchase.

08Bots and developers

Circular lets people build bots — programmable identities with their own distinguishable usernames. If you build one:

• You are responsible for what it does and for what it does with what people send it.
• Bot conversations are not end-to-end encrypted. Say so in your bot's description; don't let people believe otherwise.
• Don't use a bot to harvest accounts, run unattended spam, or imitate a human.
• We may suspend a bot that abuses the platform, its users, or our infrastructure.

If you're a person talking to a bot, remember the same thing: an AI persona is a third party. Don't confide sensitive information to it.

09Safety and enforcement

You can block anyone, report anyone, and control who can find or message you. Reports carry the content you choose to attach, because a report nobody can see helps nobody.

When we act, we aim to tell you what happened and why, and we let you appeal unless doing so would tip off an abuser or compromise an investigation. We may warn, restrict a feature, suspend, or terminate an account, and we may remove content we're required to remove. Enforcement may involve authorities and our infrastructure partners where law or imminent harm requires it.

We are not a court. A decision we make in good faith on the information we have is not an admission that you did anything wrong, and a decision not to act is not an endorsement.

10Availability and changes

We aim to keep Circular up, but a service this size has upgrades, incidents, and platform dependencies outside our control — app stores, network operators, certificate expiry. We don't guarantee uninterrupted availability.

We may change the app, add or remove features, and require an updated version to keep using it. A forced update is sometimes the only way to fix a security problem, and an old build may then stop working.

Some features are rolled out to a share of accounts first, and an account may be assigned to a variant of a feature while we measure it. That assignment is stored and pruned; it isn't a permanent label on you.

11Trade marks

“Circular”, “Zovhra”, “Build the Future”, and the app's marks, names, icons and look belong to us. Feature names inside the app are ours too. You may say you use Circular; you may not register anything confusingly similar, use our marks to imply we endorse you, or resell the brand.

Everything else in the app — our code, design, and documentation — is protected. These terms give you a personal, non-transferable, revocable right to use the app for lawful purposes. No source rights, no white-labelling, no building a competing product out of our work.

12Disclaimers

Circular is provided as is. To the extent the law allows, we disclaim implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and error-free operation. We don't promise that the service is unhackable — no product is, and anyone who sells you that word isn't being straight with you.

Encryption protects content. It does not protect you from a recipient who screenshots, a device you don't control, or a password you gave away. Security is a shared job, and we tell you where our half ends.

13Liability

Where the law permits limiting liability: we're liable for our breaches, but not for losses that are indirect, incidental, or consequential, and our total aggregate liability for a claim is capped at the greater of the amount you paid us for the affected service in the 12 months before the claim, or the amount we're required by law not to cap.

These caps don't apply to what consumer law and applicable regulation refuse to let us cap — including our own wilful misconduct, fraud, and gross negligence. Nothing here excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.

If you're a business user, you indemnify us for claims arising from your bots, your content, or your commercial use of the service.

14Ending the relationship

You can end it whenever you like by deleting your account — two ways to do that, no questions required. We may end it for a serious or repeated breach, for legal reasons, or after notice and an appeal window for conduct that isn't serious but isn't workable.

On termination your licence stops, your data is deleted on the schedule in the Privacy Policy, and any payment obligations you already incurred survive. The sections that by their nature should survive — content rights, disclaimers, liability, law and disputes — do.

15Law and notices

• These terms are governed by the laws of India, and the courts at Bengaluru have jurisdiction, without stopping you from exercising mandatory consumer rights where you actually live.
• Notices to us go to support@zovhra.com. Notices to you go by email, or in-app where a message can't be missed.
• If you're in India, our Grievance Officer is reachable at grievance@zovhra.com, and we acknowledge complaints within 24 hours and resolve them within the timelines the Information Technology Rules require, insofar as they apply to a private messaging intermediary.
• Content complaints and lawful government requests are handled on the record, and we tell you when we're permitted to.
• If part of these terms is unenforceable, the rest stands, and we rewrite the broken part as close as possible to what we meant.
• These terms are the whole agreement about Circular, and they replace anything earlier. Our failure to enforce something isn't a waiver.

16Changes to these terms

We'll update this page and, when a change genuinely affects you, notify you in the app or by email before it takes effect. Keep using Circular after that date and the updated terms are yours. The date at the top tells you which version you're on.

17Contact

• Anything about your account — support@zovhra.com
• Grievance Officer, India — grievance@zovhra.com
• Privacy — Privacy Policy · Leaving — Delete your account