Community Group Organizer Terms

1. Who this covers

You are an organizer if you create or administer a group. A group can be a small private circle or a public community — for example a city, interest, or visitor community — that anyone can find and join. Running a community is not a business account; if you operate as a business (claiming a venue, selling, or paying Apperah to advertise), the Business Terms of Service and Promotion & Advertising Terms apply instead.

2. Your responsibilities as an organizer

Keep your community’s name, description, and content accurate and lawful.
Apply these terms, the Terms of Service, and the Community Guidelines to your community, and moderate content members post.
Treat members’ information responsibly (see §6).
You are responsible for what you and your administrators do; Apperah does not arbitrate internal community disputes unless our policies are broken.

3. Naming and identity

No impersonation. Do not name or present a community so as to impersonate a person, an organisation, or an official body, or to imply an official status you do not have.
No brand confusion. Do not use someone else’s brand, trademark, or name in a way that suggests they run or endorse your community when they do not.

4. Featuring events and places

You can highlight events and places to your community (“featured” and “recommended” lists). Whether or not money is involved, featured content must be lawful and must follow the Acceptable Use Policy and Community Guidelines.

5. Paid promotion — only if you are paid to feature content

Most communities never involve money. This section applies only if you accept payment, goods, or any other benefit to feature an event or place (for example, a venue or event organiser pays you to promote them). If that happens:

Label it. You must mark every paid placement using the in-app “Paid partnership” label so members can see the content is paid. Do not run undisclosed paid promotion — that is prohibited under the Acceptable Use Policy and breaches consumer-protection and marketing law (including, in Norway, the Marketing Control Act, and across the EU/EEA the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive 2005/29/EC and the advertising-transparency rule in Digital Services Act Article 26).
Say on whose behalf. Make clear who you are promoting.
You are the advertiser. You are responsible for the promotion being lawful, accurate, and that you hold the rights to the content, in every place it is shown.
Restricted and prohibited sectors. Some promotions are restricted or banned regardless of labelling. Alcohol advertising is prohibited or tightly restricted in several markets (for example Norway, where only neutral venue information is permitted — not promotion of alcohol itself). The same applies to gambling, tobacco and vaping, financial services, and health claims, and to anything age-restricted. You must not promote to people below the applicable age, and you must comply with the law of each market your community reaches.
Your deal is your own. Any payment arrangement is between you and the advertiser. Apperah is not a party to it and receives no part of it. You are solely responsible for any invoicing, tax, and consumer-law obligations arising from your arrangement.

6. Members’ data and privacy

In a public community, member participation (such as that a member is going to an event) may be visible to other members and discoverable. Members can limit this in their settings.
For some community processing (member directories, community analytics), Apperah and you as organizer may be joint controllers under GDPR Article 26; the split of responsibilities is set out here and in our Privacy Policy. You may use member information only to run the community — not for your own marketing or any paid promotion — unless the member has agreed.

7. Moderation, removal, and appeals

Apperah may relabel, demote, remove, restrict, or close a community or its content where it breaks these terms, the Acceptable Use Policy, or the law — including undisclosed paid promotion, impersonation, or unlawful content.
Where we take such action we give a statement of reasons and you can use the appeal process in the Acceptable Use Policy.
Members can report a community or its content to us, not only individual posts.

8. Changes and ending

We may update these terms; material changes are notified in advance. You can stop running a community at any time. These terms end when you no longer administer any group, except for provisions that by their nature survive (such as your responsibility for past paid promotions).