The terms, in plain words.

Accepting these terms

Our Dacha is made by Dacha Town, a small, independent software studio. When this page says "we," "us," or "the studio," that's who we mean. These Terms of Service (the "Terms") are the agreement between you and us for using dacha.town, the Our Dacha web app at dachalove.com, and the Our Dacha mobile apps once they arrive — together, the "Service."

By creating an account, signing in, or using the Service, you're agreeing to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy, which is part of this agreement. If you don't agree with them, that's completely okay — but please don't use the Service.

Who can use Our Dacha

Our Dacha is built for two adults who want a private place of their own. To use the Service, you must be at least 18 years old — or the age of majority where you live, if that's higher — and able to enter into a binding agreement. The Service isn't intended for children, and we don't knowingly create accounts for anyone under 18.

Each account is for one person, and the app is designed to be shared between exactly two people who choose to connect — your dacha, and theirs, made into one. You're responsible for keeping your sign-in safe and for what happens under your account. If you think someone else has gotten in, let us know at hello@dacha.town.

What the service is

Our Dacha is a private app for two people — a cozy little country home you share and move through together, room by room. Inside it you can do things like set a shared mood, send love notes and painted postcards, leave each other small affections, keep a shared photo wall and a diary, answer a daily question, give gifts that fill a curio cabinet, shop and cook together, and find each other on a private map.

It is deliberately not a social network. There's no public feed, no followers, no ads, no metrics, and no growth tricks. The audience is exactly two people, and we mean to keep it that way. The Service is provided for your personal, non-commercial use — for the two of you to enjoy.

Using it kindly & fairly

Our Dacha is a quiet, private space, and there's really only one rule that matters: be good to each other and to the app. More specifically, please don't:

• use the Service to break the law, or to harass, threaten, or harm anyone;
• upload content you don't have the right to share, or that infringes someone else's rights;
• try to access accounts, data, or parts of the Service that aren't yours;
• probe, scrape, overload, reverse-engineer, or otherwise interfere with the Service or the systems that run it;
• use the Service to send spam, malware, or anything deceptive or harmful; or
• resell, rent out, or commercially exploit the Service without our written okay.

If something goes seriously sideways — abuse, security risks, or use that threatens the Service or other people — we may need to limit or suspend access to keep things safe. We'll always try to be fair, and to tell you why.

Your content stays yours

Everything the two of you make inside Our Dacha — your photos, messages, postcards, diary answers, notes, gifts, and all the rest ("Your Content") — belongs to you. We don't claim ownership of it. It's yours.

Our role is simple: we store it for you so the app can work. To do that, you give us the narrow, practical permission we need to host, back up, encrypt, and display Your Content back to the two of you — and to do the basic technical things (like copying it between our servers) required to run the Service. That's the whole of it.

• We don't sell Your Content

  Not ever, not to anyone. It isn't a product.

• We don't use it to train models or to advertise

  There's no advertising here and nothing learning from your private world.

• We don't show it publicly

  Even this website uses only anonymous, made-up examples — never anything real about anyone.

• Access is locked down by design

  The backend is self-hosted with row-level access control, so Your Content is reachable only by the two people it belongs to. Our Privacy Policy has the details.

You're responsible for Your Content and for having the right to share whatever you put in. The permission you give us ends when you delete the content or your account, except for copies that may briefly remain in routine backups before they age out — see Leaving & deleting below.

Availability, and "as is"

We're a small indie studio, and we look after Our Dacha with real care. The web app is live now at dachalove.com and still happily evolving; the mobile apps are on their way to the App Store and Google Play. As we add rooms and polish things, parts of the app will change over time.

We aim for best-effort uptime, and we'll do our honest best to keep the dacha warm and the lights on. But we can't promise the Service will always be available, uninterrupted, error-free, or perfectly preserved. Sometimes things break, maintenance happens, and a small team can only move so fast. So, to put it plainly:

Please keep your own copies of anything truly precious. We back things up, but we're no substitute for your own keepsakes of the memories that matter most.

Changes to the service

Our Dacha is a living place. We'll keep building, refining, adding rooms, and occasionally retiring things that no longer fit. We may change, add, or remove features, and we may update these Terms from time to time as the Service grows or the law changes.

When we make meaningful changes to these Terms, we'll update the "last updated" date at the top and, where it matters, give you a heads-up in the app rather than hoping you notice. If you keep using the Service after a change takes effect, that means you accept the updated Terms. If you don't like a change, you're always free to stop using the Service and delete your account — see below.

Leaving, and deleting your account

You can leave any time — no hard feelings, no dark patterns. You can stop using Our Dacha whenever you like, and you can delete your account from within the app or by writing to us at hello@dacha.town.

When you delete your account, we remove Your Content from our live systems. Copies may remain for a short while in routine encrypted backups before they age out on the normal backup cycle, and we may keep the minimum we're legally required to keep. They aren't restored or used for anything else.

We may also suspend or end access to the Service if these Terms are seriously or repeatedly broken, if it's needed to protect the Service or other people, or if we're required to by law. Where we reasonably can, we'll let you know and give you a chance to put things right, or to retrieve Your Content first.

Limitation of liability

We care a great deal about this app, and we'll always try to make things right. But there are limits to what a small studio can take on, and the law lets us set some sensible boundaries.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Dacha Town and the people who work on it won't be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, profits, goodwill, or content, arising out of or relating to your use of (or inability to use) the Service — even if we've been told such damages were possible.

Our Dacha is offered free of charge, so to the fullest extent permitted by law our total liability to you for all claims relating to the Service is limited to fifty US dollars (USD $50).

Some places don't allow certain warranty disclaimers or liability limits. If you live somewhere like that, those parts apply to you only as far as the law allows, and nothing in these Terms takes away rights you have that can't be waived.

Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of England & Wales, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, and you and we agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England & Wales for any dispute that isn't resolved informally first. Wherever possible, we'd much rather sort things out with a friendly email than a courtroom — so please reach out, and we'll do our best to make it right.

If any part of these Terms is found unenforceable, the rest stays in effect. And if we don't enforce a part of these Terms right away, that doesn't mean we've given it up.

How to reach us

We're a small studio and a real person reads your mail. For anything about these Terms, your account, or anything else:

Thank you for spending some of your life here. We don't take it lightly.