1. Acceptance of Terms

By creating an account or using Johk (the “Service”), you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service. If you do not agree, please do not use the Service.

2. Eligibility

You must be at least 13 years of age, or the minimum age required under the laws applicable to you, to use the Service.

3. Your Account

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your login credentials and for all activity that occurs under your account.

You agree to provide accurate information and to notify us promptly of any unauthorized use of your account.

4. Your Content

You retain ownership of the content you submit to the Service.

By submitting content, you grant Johk a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, transferable and sublicensable license to host, use, reproduce, display and distribute such content in connection with operating, providing and improving the Service.

You represent that you hold all rights necessary to submit your content and that it does not infringe the rights of any third party.

5. Acceptable Use

You agree not to use the Service to post or engage in content or conduct that is unlawful, harmful, offensive, misleading, or that infringes the rights of others, or to interfere with the proper operation or security of the Service.

Johk may determine, at its sole discretion, whether any content or conduct violates these Terms.

6. Usernames and Features

Your username is yours: the username you register is held by you alone, with an exclusive right of use, for as long as your account remains active. It will not be taken from you or given to anyone else at the request of any person or company, including Johk's own management.

This protection does not apply where the username is used to violate these Terms, including impersonation, meaning presenting yourself as a well-known person or entity you are not. Using a word in its ordinary meaning is not impersonation.

Nor does it apply to hoarding usernames: creating several accounts, or accounts with no genuine use, in order to hold usernames, keep them from others, or trade them. Johk may reclaim usernames held this way and make them available to others, and may restrict or close the accounts involved.

Inactive usernames: if a full year passes without any sign-in to the account, its username is considered abandoned. Before that, we will send a notice to your registered email at least thirty (30) days in advance, and signing in once is enough to keep your username. If the notice receives no response, Johk may reclaim the username and make it available to others. Your account and its content remain intact under a replacement username.

When you delete your account, its username is released and may be made available to others.

Certain usernames are reserved by Johk and cannot be registered, including the names of government and security bodies, educational institutions, well-known brands, companies and titles, and offensive words. Johk may assign a reserved username to its rightful owner.

Badges, colors and other account features are provided by Johk and remain subject to its policies, and Johk may modify or withdraw them.

Users may not buy, sell or trade usernames or accounts among themselves.

7. Usage Limits

To protect the Service from spam and abuse, Johk applies limits on how many times certain actions can be performed within a given period, such as following, unfollowing, liking, commenting, messaging and posting. Johk may change these limits at any time.

8. Intellectual Property

The Service, including its name, logo, design and software, is the property of Johk and is protected by applicable laws. No rights are granted to you other than those expressly stated in these Terms.

9. Suspension and Termination

Johk may remove content, restrict features, or suspend or terminate any account, with or without notice, where it deems appropriate.

Warnings: when content is removed for violating these Terms, the account receives a warning. An account that receives three (3) warnings within any three (3) month period may be suspended or permanently banned.

Temporary restrictions: Johk may temporarily restrict specific features of an account, such as sending messages, following accounts, commenting or posting, for a set period, while the rest of the Service remains available. One appeal may be submitted for each restriction.

Bans are permanent. One appeal may be submitted for each ban decision, except as stated below.

Serious violations, including insulting religion, insulting the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia or its leadership, or posting sexual content, result in an immediate and permanent ban without prior warning. Such decisions are final, cannot be appealed, and the account is signed out on all devices.

Other violations, including fraud, buying or selling usernames, hoarding usernames, insults and harassment, and impersonation, may result in a warning, a temporary restriction or a ban, and may be appealed once.

When an account is banned, Johk may delete its content, and its username is frozen permanently so that it can never be registered again.

You may delete your account at any time through the Service settings, unless the account is suspended or banned.

10. Channels

Johk may allow accounts to create channels within the limits it sets for each type of account. Each account may own one channel unless its account type allows more. Johk may also set the number of members a channel can hold.

Private channels are visible only to their members. Anyone may find a private channel by its owner's username and request to join, and the owner decides whether to accept.

Channel owners may appoint admins, choose who can write in the channel, and remove messages and members. Channel names, descriptions and pictures are subject to these Terms like any other content.

Johk may freeze or close any channel, or remove its content, where it deems this necessary to enforce these Terms or protect the Service.

Public channels are visible to everyone and may be suggested to any user; they cannot be made private or hidden from suggestions. Channel owners may remove members, and a removed member cannot rejoin that channel.

Channel owners are responsible for the content of their channels, and members are responsible for what they post in them.

If Johk closes a channel for offensive or violating content, the owner may no longer create any channel. For regular accounts this decision is final, cannot be appealed, and the account loses all of its features.

Subscribers and accounts eligible for this may submit one appeal. If the appeal is rejected, the account permanently loses all of its features, including username colors, priority, and its private channel, and its features may be restricted below those of a regular account.

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, amounts paid for subscriptions or features are non-refundable when features are removed because of a violation of these Terms.

11. Disclaimer

The Service is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis, without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied.

12. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Johk shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages, or for any loss of data or content, arising from or related to your use of the Service.

13. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold Johk harmless from any claims, losses or expenses arising out of your use of the Service or your violation of these Terms.

14. Changes to These Terms

Johk may amend these Terms from time to time. Continued use of the Service after changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the amended Terms.

15. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws and regulations in force in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

16. Contact

For inquiries regarding these Terms, please contact support@johk.online.