Froot Terms of Use

This is a product draft for legal review. Do not treat it as final legal advice or launch-ready terms until reviewed by qualified Israeli counsel.

1. Account Verification

Froot may require users to verify a mobile phone number before using features such as reporting or confirming trees. Phone verification confirms control of a phone number; it does not prove legal identity. Users must provide accurate account information and may not use temporary, shared, unauthorized, or misleading phone numbers.

Froot may retain verification records, timestamps, consent records, security logs, and moderation history as reasonably necessary to operate the service, prevent abuse, investigate unlawful activity, enforce these Terms, and comply with applicable law.

When a verified-phone user submits a public tree report, Froot may keep a minimized audit snapshot showing that the phone number was verified at the time of submission. The snapshot may include a masked phone number, a non-reversible phone hash, the verification timestamp, and request identifiers. It is used for dispute handling, abuse prevention, and legal compliance, not as public profile information.

2. Public Tree Reports

A user who submits a tree report represents and warrants that, to the best of their knowledge, the reported tree is located on public land or that public picking is expressly and legally permitted. Users must not report trees located on private property, restricted areas, schools, military areas, construction sites, or any location where access or picking rights are uncertain.

Users are responsible for the accuracy of tree location, access notes, photos, and descriptions they submit. False, misleading, reckless, or unauthorized reports may expose the reporting user to civil or criminal liability and may result in removal of content, loss of privileges, suspension, or termination.

For each tree report, Froot records the accepted declaration version, declaration text, declaration language, acceptance timestamp, account ID, tree ID, and relevant submission metadata. Froot does not grant access rights, legal advice, or permission to pick fruit; the user remains responsible for checking that public access and picking are lawful before submitting or using a report.

3. No Trespassing or Unsafe Picking

Froot does not grant permission to enter land or pick fruit. Users must independently respect property boundaries, posted signs, local rules, opening hours, safety conditions, and instructions from lawful property holders. Users must not climb unsafe structures, damage trees, block sidewalks or roads, or disturb residents.

4. User Content and Moderation

Users are responsible for their reports, photos, access notes, and confirmations. Froot may review, edit, hide, remove, quarantine, or reject content that appears inaccurate, unlawful, unsafe, privacy-invasive, abusive, or inconsistent with these Terms. Moderator approval does not make a report legally safe or authorized.

5. SMS and Service Messages

Froot may send SMS or WhatsApp messages for account verification, security, and essential service purposes. Marketing or promotional messages will require separate consent where required by law.

6. Privacy and Data Protection

Phone numbers, verification status, approximate location, reports, and moderation logs may be personal information. Froot will process personal information according to its Privacy Policy, applicable Israeli privacy law, and the purposes disclosed at collection. Froot will collect only what is needed, protect it with appropriate safeguards, restrict internal access, and delete, restrict, or anonymize data when it is no longer required.

7. Disclaimer

Froot provides community information and coordination tools only. Froot does not verify legal access to every tree and does not guarantee fruit safety or availability. Users participate at their own risk and must use independent judgment before entering any location or consuming any fruit.