The rules, in plain English

Circled works because people trust the friends they plan with. These terms keep it that way.

Last updated 11 November 2026

Agreeing to these terms

By making an account or using Circled, you agree to these terms and to our privacy policy, which says what we keep and why. If you don’t agree, please don’t use Circled.

Friends who answer a plan or vote through a link, without an account, are using Circled too, and these terms apply to them as well.

Who can use it

You need to be at least 13 years old.
One account per person. Use your own name, or the name your friends know you by, and don’t pretend to be someone else.

Your account

Keep your password to yourself. You’re responsible for what happens on your account.
Keep your email address or phone number up to date, so you can reset your password if you forget it.
You can delete your account at any time in Settings. That removes you and your plans, photos and messages straight away.

Your plans, messages, photos and polls stay yours. You give us permission to store them and show them to the people you choose to share them with, only so that Circled can work. That permission ends when you delete them or your account, apart from copies we keep of anything that’s been reported, as the privacy policy explains.

You’re responsible for what you share, so only share what you have the right to, and remember that anyone you give a plan’s link to can see that plan.

What’s not allowed

Circled is for making plans with people you know. There’s no tolerance for objectionable content or abusive users. Don’t use it to:

Harass, bully, threaten or intimidate anyone.
Share hateful content, or attack people for who they are.
Share sexual content, nudity or graphic violence, or anything sexual involving anyone under 18.
Share someone else’s private information, or photos of them they haven’t agreed to.
Pretend to be someone else, or mislead people about who you are.
Send spam, scams or advertising, or invite people who don’t know you.
Break the law, or encourage someone else to.
Interfere with the app, get into other people’s accounts, or collect information about people who use it.

Reporting and blocking

You can block anyone, which stops them seeing your plans and contacting you.
You can report anyone, or any message, from inside the app. A person reads every report, and we act on reports within 24 hours.
If someone breaks these rules, we can remove what they shared and suspend or remove their account, without warning.

Meeting up

Circled helps you plan things with your friends, but what happens at a plan is up to the people there. We don’t check who people are or what they plan, so look after yourself and each other, and only meet people you trust.

The service

Circled is free. What’s free stays free: we won’t move a feature you use behind a paywall.
We keep improving the app, so features may change. We’ll try to keep it running all the time, but can’t promise it will never go down or lose something.
If we ever stop running it, we’ll give you notice in the app first, so you have time to save your plans to your own calendar.

Our responsibility to you

We provide Circled as it is. As far as the law allows, we aren’t responsible for losses that come from using it, like a missed plan or something a friend says. Nothing in these terms takes away rights you have under consumer law that can’t be excluded, such as New Zealand’s Consumer Guarantees Act 1993.

App stores

If you got Circled from Apple’s App Store or Google Play, their standard terms for apps apply too. Apple and Google aren’t responsible for Circled or for supporting it. We are.

Changes to these terms

When these terms change, so does the date at the top. If a change matters to how you use Circled, we’ll tell you in the app first. Using Circled after a change means you accept the new terms.

The law that applies

These terms are governed by the law of New Zealand, and the courts of New Zealand can settle any dispute about them.

Contact

Questions about these terms? Email adamwlee1890@gmail.com.