Terms of service
Version 1 · in force from 3 August 2026 · these terms govern the LiquidOpinion app, the web app at /app and the subscription
The deal in one paragraph: you keep a ledger of what you think, encrypted on your own device. €7.90 a year pays for the server that carries sealed messages to friends you have met in person and that holds the public corpus. The first 30 days are free and take no card. Anything you publish is public permanently, because nobody — including us — can take it back.
1. Who you are contracting with
LiquidOpinion is operated by Oumworld AB, a Swedish limited company (aktiebolag), Stadiongatan 65, 217 62 Malmö, Sweden, registered with the Swedish Companies Registration Office (Bolagsverket) under 556994-1304, VAT SE556994130401. Contact: support@liquidopinion.com. Full details are in the imprint.
These terms apply to consumers and to businesses alike. Where a clause is restricted to one or the other, it says so. Nothing in these terms limits rights that consumer law gives you and does not allow to be limited.
2. What the service is
LiquidOpinion is a private opinion journal that keeps your entries in an encrypted store on your own device, and a network layer on top of it. Our server does four things: it carries sealed messages between devices whose owners have connected in person, it hosts a catalog of subjects, it holds the opinions people chose to publish, and it handles the subscription.
The journal works with no friends and no network. If our server is unreachable — or if you never publish anything at all — the app you installed still records, searches, ranks and exports your own ledger.
3. Your account and your keys
An account is created on your device and consists of cryptographic keys. There is no password, no email address and no recovery link, because we hold nothing to recover you with.
You are responsible for your keys. Lose every device on an account with no key backup file and the account, its friendships, and the ability to delete anything you published are gone. The app can write an encrypted backup file from the account screen, and can pair a second device. Both are worth doing before you need them. We are unable to restore an account and will not pretend otherwise.
You must be at least 16 years old to use LiquidOpinion.
4. Price, trial and renewal
- €7.90 per year. Any VAT is calculated at checkout according to where you are and is shown before you pay. Payment is handled by Stripe; your card details never reach our server.
- 30 days free, no card. The trial clock starts when you first use the product — the first time the app needs a publishing token, which is the first thing you write or import — not on the day you sign up. Signing up and looking around costs nothing and starts nothing.
- It renews automatically every year until you cancel. You can cancel at any time, from the subscription screen in the app, which opens Stripe's billing portal. Cancelling stops the next renewal; you keep everything you have paid for until the end of the period.
- A failed renewal gets 14 days. If a payment fails, your subscription stays entitled while Stripe retries, for 14 days. Paying within that window is seamless.
- If the price changes, we will tell you before the renewal it applies to, in time for you to cancel.
5. Your 14-day right of withdrawal
If you are a consumer in the EU, you have the right to withdraw from this contract within 14 days without giving any reason. The period ends 14 days after the day the contract was concluded.
To withdraw, tell us clearly that you are withdrawing — an email to support@liquidopinion.com is enough. You may use the model form below, but you do not have to. Sending the message before the 14 days are up is sufficient; it does not have to reach us in time. If you withdraw, we refund everything you paid without undue delay and within 14 days, using the same means of payment you used.
What happens when service begins immediately
A subscription is a digital service, and you will normally want it to start the moment you pay rather than 14 days later. Confirming the purchase therefore asks you to do two things, both required by law before the service may begin inside the withdrawal period:
- you expressly request that performance begins immediately, during the withdrawal period; and
- you acknowledge that you thereby lose your right of withdrawal once the service has been fully performed, and that if you withdraw while it is partly performed you owe an amount proportionate to what was supplied up to that point.
If you would rather keep the withdrawal right intact, do not give that consent, and the subscription starts when the 14 days are up. In practice you lose nothing by waiting: the trial and your local journal carry on regardless, and only publishing and new friend connections depend on an active subscription.
In any case, our own refund policy below is more generous than the statutory minimum, and it applies whether or not you gave that consent.
Model withdrawal form
(Complete and return this form only if you wish to withdraw from the contract.)
To Oumworld AB, Stadiongatan 65, 217 62 Malmö, Sweden,
support@liquidopinion.com:
I hereby give notice that I withdraw from my contract for the supply of
the LiquidOpinion subscription.
Ordered on: ______
Name of consumer: ______
Address of consumer: ______
Signature (only if this form is notified on paper): ______
Date: ______
6. Refunds
- Within 14 days of a charge, we refund it in full, on request, no questions asked — whether it was the first payment or a renewal, and regardless of how much you used the service in the meantime. Ask at support@liquidopinion.com.
- After 14 days we do not refund the remainder of a paid year as a matter of course, because cancelling already stops the next one and you keep the full period you paid for. If something went genuinely wrong — a renewal you did not notice, an outage that made the service unusable — write to us; we would rather refund than argue over €7.90.
- Refunds go back to the original payment method through Stripe, normally within a few working days.
- Purchases made through the App Store or Google Play, if we ever offer them, are refunded by Apple or Google under their own policies, not by us.
- A refund does not delete your account or anything you published; see section 9 and the privacy policy.
7. What happens if you stop paying
Nothing you wrote goes away. Your journal, your rankings, your search, your yearly review and your exports keep working, offline, on the device they already live on. What waits for a payment is publishing and new friend connections — the two things that use the server on your behalf. Existing friends keep working. Reading stays open to everyone, subscriber or not, forever.
8. What you write
Your entries are yours. We claim no ownership of them and we cannot read the ones that stay on your device or travel to your friends.
When you publish an opinion, comparison or lens, you grant us and every reader a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to store, copy, relay and display it as part of the public corpus, for as long as it exists. This is the licence that makes publishing mean anything; it is limited to that purpose and does not let us sell your writing to anyone. You keep the copyright.
You are responsible for what you publish being lawful and yours to publish.
9. Publishing is permanent
Published opinions carry no account identifier. Our server therefore cannot find them in order to change or remove them — not for us, not for you, not for anyone who asks. That is the same property that keeps them unlinkable to you.
Your device holds the one-time keys for the ones it still knows about and can sign a deletion for those. Anything already relayed to another person's device is on that device, and is not recallable by anybody.
Please treat every publish as final. The app deliberately holds a publish back for several minutes for privacy reasons, which gives you a short window to change your mind, and that window is a side effect rather than a guarantee.
10. What you may not do
- Publish anything unlawful, defamatory, or that infringes someone else's rights.
- Publish personal information about a private individual who is not a public figure, or use a person's name as a subject in order to attack them.
- Flood the corpus: mass-produced, automated or bought opinions, or accounts created to manufacture agreement. There is no global score to game here, which is the point, and trying anyway is a breach of these terms.
- Attack the service — probing, overloading, or trying to break the unlinkability guarantees of other users.
- Resell or share your subscription. It covers one person and their own devices.
- Scrape the public corpus in a way that burdens the service. Reading it as a human, linking it and quoting it is exactly what it is for.
11. Suppression and takedowns
We maintain a signed, public suppression list for content that is illegal or must come down for legal reasons, and for catalog entries that should not exist. Apps honour it and stop displaying the item. Because published opinions are anonymous, suppression is what we have instead of deletion — the item stops being shown, and we cannot reach into anybody's device to erase a copy already relayed there.
To report something, write to legal@liquidopinion.com with a link and the reason. We will look at it and act where the report is justified.
12. Availability, warranty and liability
We aim to keep the service running and make no guarantee of uninterrupted availability. Maintenance happens. The design means an outage costs you access to friends and publishing rather than access to your own ledger.
For consumers, the statutory rules on conformity of digital services apply in full and nothing here limits them. Beyond that, and to the extent the law allows: we are liable without limit for intent and gross negligence, for injury to life, body or health, and where mandatory law provides; for ordinary negligence we are liable only for breach of an obligation essential to the contract, and then limited to foreseeable damage typical of this kind of contract. We are not liable for loss of data you did not back up, given that the ledger lives on your device and the app provides both an export and an encrypted key backup.
13. Ending the contract
You can cancel the subscription at any time from the app, and you can delete the account entirely from the account screen. Deleting the account cancels a live subscription at the same time. What deletion does and does not reach is set out in the privacy policy.
We may suspend or terminate an account that materially breaches section 10, after warning you where it is reasonable to do so, and will refund the unused part of a paid period unless the breach was deliberate.
14. Law, disputes and changes
These terms are governed by the law of Sweden. If you are a consumer, you also keep the protection of the mandatory law of the country you live in, and you may bring proceedings in your own courts.
If something is wrong, please write to support@liquidopinion.com first — most things are a reply away.
We may change these terms. If a change matters to you, we will tell you in the app before it takes effect and, for a change that disadvantages you, you can cancel before it applies. The version and date at the top of this page always say which text is in force.