Terms of Service
Effective September 17, 2026 · Last updated September 17, 2026 · 日本語
Introduction
These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of the mobile app Weird ("the App"). The App is developed and run by the operator of Weird (lukiita) ("we", "us"), an individual developer.
By downloading or using the App, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, please stop using the App and delete it.
These Terms take effect on September 17, 2026. For how we handle personal data, see our Privacy Policy.
About the App
Weird lets you record strange experiences — ghosts, UFOs, urban legends and the like — on a map, together with the location where they happened, and share them with other people.
Everything you read in the App was written by its users. We make no claim that any of it is true. The App exists for entertainment and for keeping a record; it does not prove or endorse the existence of any paranormal phenomenon.
This version of the App lets you:
- browse the map and read the details of an experience (no sign-in needed);
- post an experience — from where you are now, or as a past experience — and save drafts;
- create and edit your profile (display name, user ID, bio, web link, avatar, background image);
- follow other people, and see who follows whom;
- report a post, and block or unblock another user;
- search for experiences by the criteria you choose (for subscribers to the paid feature, Weird+).
Who may use the App
- You must be 13 years or older to use the App.
- If you are a minor, use the App only with the consent of a parent or guardian. The same applies to buying the paid feature (Weird+).
- If we have previously suspended your access for violating these Terms, you may not use the App again.
Accounts and signing in
- You can browse the map and read experiences without signing in, as a guest.
- Signing in is required to post, follow, report or block.
- You sign in with a Google account or an Apple account (Sign in with Apple). We never handle your password.
- You are responsible for your own account. Do not let anyone else use it. If you think your account has been used without your permission, contact us at the address below.
- Your profile — display name, user ID, bio, web link, avatar and background image — is visible to everyone. Do not use a name that impersonates someone else, or wording that others would find offensive.
Deleting your account
You can delete your account from inside the App. Tap the icon at the top right of the map to open your profile, then choose Settings → Delete account. Once you confirm, your posts, photos, profile and follow relationships are deleted, and this cannot be undone. For the steps and for exactly what is removed, see Deleting Your Account.
Records we keep for safety reasons — such as reports other people have filed — may remain.
If you subscribe to Weird+, cancel the subscription in the App Store before you delete your account. Deleting your account does not cancel the subscription, and Apple will keep charging you. You can cancel in Settings → your Apple ID → Subscriptions, or at apps.apple.com/account/subscriptions.
Posts and what becomes public
When you post, the exact location of the experience is published along with it. Your post appears as a pin on the map and can be seen by anyone using the App, including people who are not signed in.
| Public | Post title, experience text, your thoughts on the cause, photos, tag, weather, date and time of the experience
The location of the experience (exact latitude and longitude)
Your profile (display name, user ID, bio, web link, avatar, background image)
Follow relationships |
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| Hidden on an anonymous post | The author's display name, user ID, avatar and account identifiers
(anonymous posts are also left out of the post list other people see on your profile) |
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| Not public | Drafts, your block list, your email address |
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Posting anonymously hides information about the author only. The location, photos, text and date are published exactly as they are for any other post. There is no option to blur, round or shift the location.
For this reason, do not post from your home, workplace, school, or anywhere else you would not want others to find you. Do not post someone else's home, or a place that would reveal where a particular person can be found.
Photos are stored where anyone with the link can view them. Converting the image on upload removes Exif data such as the time and GPS coordinates of the shot, but whatever is visible in the photo itself — a nameplate, a license plate, a person's face — is published as it is.
Your rights in what you post
You keep the rights to everything you post. We do not take ownership of your content.
You do grant us permission — free of charge, worldwide and non-exclusive — to do the following, to the extent needed to run the App:
- display your content in the App and on the map;
- store and copy it on our servers, including backups;
- convert its format or size as display requires, such as making thumbnails;
- use it to present the App, for example in App Store screenshots and announcements. For anonymous posts, we will not show information about the author.
If a post is deleted, this permission ends with it, except for copies and backups that were already distributed and that remain for technical reasons.
Before you post, make sure you hold the rights to what you are posting: do not use someone else's photos, writing or artwork without permission, and get the consent of people who appear in your photos.
Taking a post down
- In this version, you cannot change a post after it is published. Please check what you have written before you post it.
- This version has no button inside the App for deleting a single post. To have a post taken down, write to us at the address below. Tell us the title of the post and roughly when you posted it; we will confirm that the post is yours and take it down. Deleting individual posts from inside the App is planned for a future release.
- A post taken down this way stops appearing to other users, but the record itself stays in our database, and so does the image file. If you want everything erased, delete your account instead: deleting your account removes your posts and their photo files together.
- Anything you publish may be saved or screenshotted by other people. Taking a post down cannot undo those copies. Decide whether something is safe to publish before you post it.
What you may not do
When using the App, you must not:
- break the law, or encourage others to commit crimes;
- post content that infringes anyone's copyright, trademark, likeness, privacy or other rights;
- impersonate another person or organization, including by using their name, photo or user ID;
- harass, threaten or stalk anyone, post discriminatory or abusive content, or encourage violence or self-harm;
- post sexually explicit material, or anything involving the sexual exploitation of children;
- post information that identifies a private individual — name, address, contact details, workplace — without their consent;
- post content that encourages entering private property, restricted areas or dangerous places, or that explains how to get into them (including abandoned buildings, construction sites, railway lines, tunnels and closed facilities);
- post experiences that never happened, deliberately falsify a location, or post as a prank;
- post advertising, solicitations or spam, or repeat the same content;
- file reports you know to be false, or use reporting to harass someone;
- gain unauthorized access to our systems, misuse the App's APIs, scrape data with automated tools, or modify or reverse-engineer the App (except where the law allows it);
- obtain the paid feature by improper means;
- create another account to keep using the App after your access has been suspended;
- otherwise harm other users, third parties or us.
How we handle objectionable content
We have zero tolerance for objectionable content and for abusive users. We remove posts that violate these Terms and eject the people who posted them from the App. You can protect yourself in the following ways:
- Report: open an experience, swipe up to reveal the action row, and tap ⋮, then choose Report. Pick a reason — Privacy violation or Spam — add details if you want, and send. If neither reason fits, say so in the details box. Reporting requires signing in. The person you report is never told who reported them. You can also write to us at lukiitaengineer@gmail.com.
- Block: open the person's profile and swipe up to expand it — ⋮ appears to the left of the follow button — then choose Block. Their posts disappear from your view, and any follow relationship between you ends in both directions. The other person is not notified.
- Unblock: from your profile, go to Settings → Blocked users and tap Unblock. You can do this at any time. Unblocking does not restore the follows that were removed.
We review every report within 24 hours of receiving it and remove any post we find to be in breach of these Terms. We also delete the account of the person who posted it, ending their access to the App. Explaining our decision in detail, or finishing a case that requires looking into who holds which rights, can take longer than that. Where someone's privacy is involved, we may not be able to share the details of what we did.
When you post, we run an automated check on the title and body against a list of prohibited words. We are not obliged to monitor every post, but we review reported content within 24 hours as described above, and we act the same way on violations we find ourselves.
If you believe your post was removed or your account suspended in error, contact us at the address below.
Visiting real places
The App deals with real locations. Please keep the following in mind.
- A place shown on the map may be private property, closed to the public, restricted, or physically dangerous. Its presence in the App does not mean you are allowed to go there.
- Whether to visit a place is your own decision and your own responsibility. Obey the law, the instructions of owners and site managers, and any signage, and keep yourself safe.
- We do not guarantee that a location is accurate, that a route exists, or that access is permitted.
- Do not use the App while driving or while walking.
- Take extra care at night or in remote places, and avoid going alone.
Weird+ (paid feature)
Weird+ is an auto-renewing subscription that unlocks search in the App — finding experiences by the criteria you choose. Everything else, including the map, posting, profiles and following, stays free.
| Name | Weird+ |
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| What you get | Access to search (finding experiences by criteria) |
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| Billing period and price | One month, US$1.99 (the price shown in the United States App Store). The currency and amount differ by country or region. The amount actually charged, including any tax, is the one shown in the App Store at the time of purchase. |
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| Free trial | 7 days, if you are eligible. Eligibility is determined by the App Store |
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| Auto-renewal | The subscription renews automatically unless you turn off auto-renewal at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Renewal is charged within the 24 hours before the period ends, at the same price you paid when you subscribed (if the price changes, you will be notified in the way Apple requires) |
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| Payment | Charged to your Apple ID when you confirm the purchase |
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| Canceling | In Settings → your Apple ID → Subscriptions, or at apps.apple.com/account/subscriptions, at least 24 hours before the period ends. You cannot cancel from inside the App |
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| Seller | Apple (in-app purchase; Apple collects the payment) |
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| Refunds | Handled by Apple, under Apple's policies |
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- A free trial turns into a paid subscription automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before it ends.
- If you cancel during a free trial, you keep access until the trial period ends. If you buy a paid subscription while a trial is still running, the unused part of the trial is forfeited at that point.
- The subscription belongs to your Apple ID. You can buy it without signing in, and it carries over to your account when you do sign in. On a new device, use "Restore purchases" in the App to get your subscription back.
- We use RevenueCat to manage subscription status. See our Privacy Policy for details.
- Questions about purchases, billing and refunds go to Apple. For anything else, write to us at the address below.
Disclaimers and limits on our liability
- The App is provided as it is. We do not promise that it is free of defects, always available, or fit for any particular purpose.
- We do not guarantee that any post — the story it tells, the location it names or the photos it shows — is true, accurate or safe. Posts express the views of the people who wrote them, not ours.
- We are not responsible for anything that happens when you visit a place shown in the App. Visits are at your own risk.
- Disputes between users are for those users to resolve between themselves.
- Maintenance, faults, network conditions or outages at services we depend on may make the App temporarily unavailable, and data may be lost.
- Where we are liable, our liability is limited to ordinary, foreseeable damages, and the total amount is capped at the greater of what you paid for Weird+ in the twelve months before the event that gave rise to the claim and JPY 3,000.
These limits do not apply where we acted intentionally or with gross negligence, or where the law does not permit liability to be excluded or limited. If consumer protection law in your country or region gives you rights that are more favorable than these Terms, that law prevails.
Changes to the App
We may add, change or withdraw features. If we discontinue the App, or make a change that significantly affects you, we will give notice in advance where we reasonably can, in the App or on this page. If the App is discontinued, cancellation and any refund of subscriptions follow Apple's policies.
Changes to these Terms
We may revise these Terms. When we do, we will announce the revised text and the date it takes effect, before that date arrives, in the App or on this page. If you keep using the App on or after that date, you accept the revised Terms.
The App Store
- Your license to use the App is covered by Apple's standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement. These Terms set out the conditions for using the service we provide.
- These Terms are between you and us, not between you and Apple. We, not Apple, are responsible for the App and its content.
- Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for the App. Send questions to us at the address below.
- Weird+ is sold by Apple. Purchases, billing and refunds follow Apple's terms of sale.
Governing law and jurisdiction
These Terms are governed by the laws of Japan. Any dispute between you and us relating to the App or these Terms shall be submitted to the Tokyo District Court as the court of exclusive jurisdiction for the first instance. If consumer protection law where you live gives you the right to use a different court, that right is not affected.
These Terms exist in Japanese and English. If the two versions differ, the Japanese version prevails.
Contact
Weird is operated by:
Send questions, reports, claims of infringement, requests to take a post down, and anything else here. The App is run by one person, so general replies may take some time — but reports are reviewed within 24 hours, as described above.
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