Using Burst Out

The community guidelines carry the detail about what you can post, and the page terms cover running a page — both are part of these terms.

• Burst Out is run by Harshal Pawle (sole proprietor, trading as Burst Out). By using Burst Out you agree to these terms, the community guidelines and the privacy policy. If you run a page, the page terms apply too.

• You must be 18 or over. Burst Out is made for India; it may also be available in other countries, including the United States, for testing.
• You need a mobile number that can receive a code. One account per person: accounts made to vote twice or to pretend to be someone else are removed.
• Keep your phone and account safe; you are responsible for what is done from your account.

• What you post — topics, bursts, sides, evidence, photos, videos, comments — stays yours.
• By posting it you give Burst Out a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide licence to store, show and send it to the people it is for (its area, group, followers or everyone) and on the public web page of public content, and to make the copies needed to run the service. The licence ends when you delete it, except for copies the law makes us keep and anonymous meter counts.
• You must have the right to post anything you attach, and you are responsible for what you post.

• Anything the community guidelines forbid — including threats, harassment, hate, exposing private people, sexual content, fake evidence, spam and manipulating a meter.
• Under the IT Rules 2021 (rule 3(1)(b)), anything that: belongs to someone else without the right to share it; is obscene, pornographic, paedophilic or invades someone’s privacy, including bodily privacy; insults or harasses on the basis of gender; is racially or ethnically objectionable; relates to or encourages money laundering or gambling; is harmful to children; infringes a patent, trademark, copyright or other right; deceives about where a message comes from or knowingly spreads information that is false or misleading; impersonates another person; threatens the unity, integrity, defence, security or sovereignty of India, friendly relations with other countries or public order, or incites an offence; contains malware; or breaks any law in force.
• Do not get around a topic’s area or group, scrape the service, or interfere with how it works.

• Posts are checked automatically against the guidelines as they appear, and people review what is reported. Reports about threats, sexual content and private people are reviewed within 3 hours; others within 24.
• We may remove content, limit an account, or suspend or close it for breaking these terms or the law, and will say why unless the law prevents it.
• To appeal a decision, write to the Grievance Officer at [email protected]; a person will look again.

• A page’s owner is responsible for the page: that its information is accurate, that they are allowed to represent the business or organisation, and for what the page and its staff post and reply. The page terms set this out.
• A page may use an automatic assistant that answers from the owner’s own information. It is labelled as automatic, never asks for your number, email, codes, Aadhaar or payment details, and hands you to a person when asked.

• Burst Out uses your location only while you use the app, to check you are inside a topic’s area and to show what is nearby. It keeps a rough area, never your exact position, and never tracks you in the background.

• Burst Out takes no payments in the app today: no store, no subscription and no advertising. If you order printed cards, nothing is charged in the app; we confirm the price, payment and delivery address with you before printing.
• Burst Out connects people with each other and with businesses. A booking, purchase, service or payment you arrange with a page or another person is between you and them; Burst Out is not a party to it and does not guarantee it.
• If paid features are added, their terms will be published and you will be asked to agree before anything is charged.

• The meter shows how the people verified inside a topic’s scope are split, weighted by evidence and credibility. It is a measure of opinion at a moment, not a finding of fact.
• “Leans With” or “leans Against” never means true or false, and nothing in the app is a judgment about a person.

• Burst Out is provided as it is and as available. We do not promise it will always work, be error-free, or that what people post is accurate.
• To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, or for what other users or pages post or do, and our total liability to you is limited to what you paid us in the 12 months before the claim (nothing, while Burst Out is free). Nothing here limits a liability the law does not allow to be limited.

• You can close your account at any time from Settings → Privacy → Delete account, or at burstout.cc/delete-account.
• We can suspend or close an account that breaks these terms or the law.

• These terms are governed by the laws of India. Write to the Grievance Officer first; disputes not resolved that way go to the courts of India.

• A change is a new version with a new date, published here with its date.

• Harshal Pawle (sole proprietor, trading as Burst Out). Grievance Officer: Harshal Pawle · [email protected].