Seal & RevealTerms of use
In short: Seal & Reveal lets you seal a text now and reveal it later, alone or with a group in an online round, for fun. A matching reveal shows that the text was fixed when the seal was made, and nothing more. You are responsible for what you write and share. Rounds have a few content rules, anyone can report a round, and reported rounds can be removed. Your own seals exist only on your phone, so keep a backup.
1. Agreement
By installing or using Seal & Reveal you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the app. Seal & Reveal is for adults aged 18 and over.
2. What Seal & Reveal does
You type a text. The app turns it into a seal that shows nothing about the text. Later you share a reveal, and anyone with the app can check whether the reveal belongs to the seal.
In an online round, a host asks a question and shares a link. Everyone who opens the link can seal an answer. At the reveal, which happens at the time the host chose or when the host starts it, each phone releases its answer and every phone checks each answer against its seal.
3. What a match means, and its limits
A matching reveal shows that the text was fixed when the seal was created.
- Seal & Reveal cannot tell when that was. For a seal of your own, the time is shown only by where the seal was posted, for example the time on the chat message that carried it, or the day another phone first saw it.
- In a round, the time shown next to an answer is the time our server received the seal. "Verified" means that the revealed answer matches the seal that was entered for that nickname in that round.
- Seal & Reveal does not show who created a seal. A nickname is just text typed by the person sealing.
- A person can create several seals and reveal only some of them. In a round, each phone can hold one answer at a time.
Seal & Reveal is meant for fun between people who know each other. It is not a formal record of anything, and you should not rely on it for any decision that matters.
4. Online rounds
- The link is the key. Anyone who has a round's link can read the round and add an answer. Share it only with the people who should take part.
- Times are fixed. Once a host has set a closing or reveal time it cannot be changed, by the host or by us. If plans change, the host deletes the round and creates a new one.
- After entries close, an answer stays. While a round is open you can replace or withdraw your answer. After that you cannot, and when the reveal has started your phone releases your answer by itself the next time you open the app. The app tells you this before you seal.
- The host can remove an answer or delete the round. An answer removed after entries have closed stays visible as removed, without its content.
- The host's phone holds the key of a round that is revealed by the host's tap. If that phone is lost without a backup file, the round can never be revealed. A round with a set reveal time does not depend on the host's phone.
- Rounds are deleted from our server 30 days after their reveal started, or 90 days after they were created if they were never revealed. Your phone keeps what it has loaded.
- We do not promise that the server is always available. We may limit how often one phone or one connection can use it.
5. Your content, and the rules for it
You are responsible for everything you write in the app and everything you share from it. You keep all rights in what you write. By putting a question, a nickname or an answer into a round you allow us to store it on our server and to show it to everyone who has that round's link, for as long as the round exists.
Do not use Seal & Reveal for content that:
- is unlawful where you live or where it is received;
- is hateful, harasses or threatens anyone, or is sexual;
- gives personal details about other people, or is false or harmful about them;
- breaks someone else's rights, including copyright and trade marks.
A seal that is not part of a round never reaches us; it stays on your phone and goes only where you send it. Online rounds are not checked before others see them.
6. Reporting and removal
- Anyone in a round can report it from the round's screen, or by writing to the developer (section 16) with the round's link.
- A round reported from three different phones is hidden from everyone until the developer has looked at it.
- The developer may remove any round, and may block a copy of the app from using online rounds, when these terms are broken. Reports are read by a person. We do not promise a response time.
- If your round was removed and you believe that was a mistake, write to the developer (section 16).
7. Acceptable use
Seal & Reveal records predictions and answers only. It cannot hold, transfer or settle anything of value: nothing of value may depend on a round or a seal, and you may not use the app for gambling or for any unlawful purpose. You may not use it to mislead others about what a seal shows, for example by claiming that it shows when a text was written.
You may not disturb the server or other people's rounds: no automated use, no attempts to guess round links, to get around the limits or to reach information that is not yours.
8. Your data and backups
There is no account. Your own seals, and the keys of the rounds you host or joined, exist only on your phone. If you lose or reset the phone, or remove the app, anything that is not in a backup file cannot be recovered or revealed by anyone, including the developer. Making and safely keeping backup files is up to you. A backup file contains your sealed texts in readable form. How information is handled is described in the privacy policy.
9. Seal & Reveal Pro
The app is free to use within the limits described in the app. Joining rounds is always free. Seal & Reveal Pro is an optional single purchase through Google Play that lifts the limits for hosts and for your own seals, as described in the app before you buy. It is not a subscription.
- The price shown in the app comes from Google Play and includes the taxes that Google Play shows for your country.
- Payment and refunds are handled by Google Play under its refund rules. You can ask for a refund through Google Play.
- The purchase is tied to your Google account and can be restored on another phone signed in to the same account.
- Nothing in these terms takes away rights you have under the consumer protection law of your country, such as the Consumer Protection Act and the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act in South Africa, or the cooling off rights that apply to digital purchases in the EU and the UK.
10. The app and its licence
The developer gives you a personal, non-transferable licence to use Seal & Reveal on your devices. The app, the website and their original artwork belong to the developer. Open source components are used under their own licences, which are listed in the app under Settings, Open source licences.
11. No warranty
The app, the server and the website are provided as they are and as available. The developer does not promise that they will always work, be free of errors, or stay available. The app may change, and features may be added or removed.
12. Liability
As far as the law allows, the developer is not liable for indirect or consequential loss, for loss of data, or for anything that follows from what you or others write, share or decide on the basis of the app. Where liability cannot be excluded, it is limited to the amount you paid for Seal & Reveal Pro. Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited by law, and nothing reduces your rights as a consumer.
13. Ending use
You can stop using Seal & Reveal at any time by uninstalling it. If you break these terms, your licence to use the app ends and your rounds may be removed.
14. Changes
These terms may be updated when the app changes. The effective date above shows the current version. If you keep using the app after a change, the new terms apply.
15. Law
These terms are governed by the law of South Africa. If you are a consumer living in another country, you also keep the protection of the mandatory consumer laws of that country, and you may bring a claim where you live when that law gives you the right.
16. Contact
Stefan Verster
In the Seal & Reveal app, open Settings and tap Contact. That starts an email to the developer in your own mail app.