Terms of Service

Welcome to Tembea Nami — a travel companion for documenting the Kenya you have experienced, county by county. These Terms of Service (“Terms”) are a contract between you and the operator of Tembea Nami (“Tembea Nami”, “we”, “us”). By creating an account or using the Service you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the Service.

1. The Service

Tembea Nami lets you: add memories of places you have visited in Kenya (each with a photo, a place name, and an optional caption and recommendation); see your memories laid out on a personal map of Kenya’s 47 counties; and unlock counties as your Kenya grows. Public content helps other travellers discover authentic experiences through the Explore map, county pages and public profiles.

The Service is mobile-first web software. We may change, suspend or discontinue features from time to time, and we will try to give you reasonable notice of material changes.

2. Eligibility & your account

• You must be at least 18 years old, or a minor using the Service with the consent of a parent or guardian who agrees to these Terms.
• You are responsible for keeping your login details safe and for everything done through your account.
• You must provide accurate account information (email, and where you choose phone verification, your phone number).
• You may not create accounts to bypass a ban or misuse the Service.

3. Content you add

“Your Content” means the memories, photos, captions, place names, recommendations and other material you submit. You keep full ownership of Your Content. You confirm that:

• you created Your Content or otherwise have the rights to share it;
• Your Content does not violate anyone’s rights (including copyright, privacy or personality rights); and
• where Your Content shows identifiable people, you have their permission to share it.

Memories are public by default. Deleting a memory (or your account) removes it from the Service, though copies may persist briefly in backups as described in our Privacy Policy.

4. Photo-republish licence

To run the Service you grant Tembea Nami a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to use Your Content for the limited purposes of operating Tembea Nami, specifically to:

• host, store and display Your Content on the Service (including maps, county pages, galleries and public profiles);
• re-encode and reformat your photos so they work well across devices (for example resized variants);
• use the content to power features you choose to use (such as sharing a memory or, with your separate consent, future share cards and keepsakes).

We will not sell Your Content or republish it outside the Service for advertising or promotional purposes without your separate, informed consent. The licence ends when you delete Your Content or your account (except for residual backup copies, which are deleted within our retention periods).

5. Acceptable use & moderation

You agree not to post Content that violates our Content Policy, including spam, hateful or harassing material, sexually explicit content, dangerous or unsafe content, and material that infringes others’ rights. We may hide or remove Content and suspend or terminate accounts that breach these Terms or the Content Policy.

6. Other people’s content & location

Other users’ memories are shared for discovery. You may not copy or reuse them outside the Service without the author’s permission. Counties and place names on memories are declared by the author and are not independently verified; we do not warrant their accuracy.

7. Intellectual property & third parties

The Tembea Nami name, look and feel, and the map artwork we create are ours. The map base used by the Service is provided by Google Maps and is subject to Google’s own terms and privacy policy. Other tools (bot protection, analytics, login providers) are described in our Privacy Policy and are subject to their providers’ terms.

8. Termination

You may stop using the Service at any time and delete your account from your Profile (Danger zone), which permanently removes your memories and media. We may suspend or terminate access for breaches of these Terms or where required by law.

9. Disclaimers & limitation of liability

The Service is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Tembea Nami is not liable for indirect, incidental or consequential damages, and its total liability arising from the Service will not exceed the amount you paid us (if any) in the twelve months before the claim. Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law.

10. Changes & contact

We may update these Terms from time to time; material changes will be announced in the Service. Continued use after changes take effect means you accept them. Questions about these Terms can be sent to [email protected].