Terms of Use

Last updated: 18th September 2026

These terms govern your use of Opia (opia.social), a wishlist service operated by Abbas Alibhai, sole trader, London, United Kingdom ("we", "us", "Opia"). By creating an account or using the service, you agree to them.

If you don't agree, please don't use the service.

1. Who can use Opia

You must be at least 13 years old. By signing up, you confirm you are. If we discover an under-13 account, we delete it.

If you're between 13 and the age of majority in your country, you confirm a parent or guardian has reviewed these terms.

2. Your account

One account per person.
You're responsible for keeping access to your sign-in email and Google account secure.
There are no passwords. You sign in with an email link or Google, so anyone with access to your inbox can sign in as you. Treat your inbox accordingly.
You can delete your account from /settings at any time. Deletion is permanent after a 30-day grace period.
During those 30 days your profile is hidden and nobody can see your lists, but nothing is erased yet. You can't use the account in the meantime. Signing in gives you one choice: keep the account, or leave the deletion running and sign out again. Anyone who can reach your email inbox can sign in as you, and that means they could also stop a deletion you started.
Once the 30 days have passed, your handle is released and someone else may claim it.

3. What you can do

Build a wishlist for personal, non-commercial purposes.
Share your list's link (opia.social/your-handle) with whoever you like. Anyone with it can see your list. It isn't listed in search engines.
Follow other users. The people you follow are told it was you.
Claim items on lists you've been linked to. A claim holds an item for 14 days, then it goes back on the list unless you mark it bought. Once 7 days are left you can add one more week, once per claim. A claim is a courtesy between friends. It doesn't reserve anything at the shop, and we can't promise nobody else buys the same thing. You can hold up to three claims on one person's list at a time, once you've finished setting up your account.

4. What you can't do

You agree not to:

Use Opia to harass, threaten, dox, or impersonate any person.
Add items that promote illegal goods, sexually explicit content, or items targeting minors in inappropriate ways.
Scrape, copy, or systematically extract data from Opia's pages or APIs (you may export your own data anytime).
Run automated agents (bots) against the service. Search engine crawlers are tolerated only on Opia's marketing and legal pages (the landing page, /legal/*, and similar). Crawling, indexing, archiving, scraping, or systematically downloading any personal wishlist (e.g. opia.social/anyone) is prohibited regardless of robots.txt interpretation; personal pages additionally serve noindex directives that must be respected.
Attempt to bypass the claim-privacy mechanism (e.g. trying to reveal which user claimed which item on a list you own).
Reverse-engineer, decompile, or attempt to derive the source code, except where this right cannot be waived under your local law.
Reuse Opia's name, marks, or design without written permission.

We may suspend or terminate accounts that breach these rules. Where possible we'll warn you first.

5. Content you submit

You keep all rights in what you write or upload to Opia: notes, list titles and taglines, titles you type, and photos you upload. By adding it, you give Opia a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, display and process it only to run the service. We don't use it to train AI models, and we don't sell it.

Product names, photos and prices that Opia reads from a shop's page belong to the shop or brand, not to you or us. We show them so your friends know what you'd like, and we keep them in a cache other people's lists can reuse. If you own something shown on Opia and want it taken down, email abbasalibhai.business@gmail.com.

You're responsible for what you add. Don't upload content you don't have the right to share, or paste a link to a page that's meant to be private. We can remove content we believe breaks these terms or the law.

6. Third-party links and merchants

Opia displays links to merchant websites you paste in. We:

Do not sell anything ourselves.
Do not verify merchant accuracy, prices, availability, or shipping terms.
Are not a party to any transaction between you and a merchant.

Product names, photos and prices are read from the shop's page when an item is added, and may be out of date or wrong. Check them on the shop's site before you buy.

If you buy something via a link on Opia, your contract is with the merchant. Disputes, refunds, returns, and warranty claims go through them. Read the merchant's own terms.

Links to shops can earn Opia a commission if you've agreed to affiliate links (see the Affiliate Disclosure). We don't add anything to the price you pay.

7. Privacy

Our Privacy Policy explains what we do with your data. The most important rule built into Opia: a wishlist owner never sees who has claimed what on their list. We treat this as a core promise. If we ever discover a bug that broke it, we'll disclose it.

8. Service availability

Opia is provided "as is" and "as available". We don't guarantee uptime, error-free operation, or that the service will stay free forever. Planned changes (paid tiers, pooling, etc.) will be announced first.

We limit how much one account can do in a short time, and how big a list can grow, to keep Opia working for everyone.

9. Disclaimers

We run Opia with reasonable care and skill. Beyond that, and as far as the law allows, we don't promise:

that product names, photos, prices or availability shown on Opia are accurate or current
that Opia will always be available, or free of faults

Nothing in these terms limits liability for fraud, fraudulent misrepresentation, death, personal injury caused by negligence, or anything else that cannot be limited under UK law (including statutory rights you may have as a consumer under the Consumer Rights Act 2015).

10. Limitation of liability

We're responsible for loss or damage you suffer that is a foreseeable result of us breaking these terms or failing to use reasonable care and skill. We're not responsible for loss or damage that isn't foreseeable.
Opia is for personal use. We're not liable for business losses, like lost profit or lost business opportunity.
Our total liability to you for any claim is limited to the greater of (a) £50 or (b) what you've paid us in the 12 months before the event. Opia is free today, so this is £50.

11. Emails and notifications

We send sign-in links when you ask for one, and reminders about gifts you've claimed, which you can turn off from any reminder. Everything else, emails about friends' occasions, new followers and the weekly digest, and notifications on your devices, only comes if you turn it on. The Privacy Policy explains each one.

12. Changes to the service or terms

We may change these terms to reflect changes to Opia, to the law, or to how we run the service. If a change matters to you, we'll tell you by email at least 30 days before it takes effect, unless the law or a security problem needs it sooner. If you don't want to carry on under the new terms, you can delete your account before then. If Opia ever stops being free, nothing will be charged without you agreeing to pay first.

13. Termination

You can stop using Opia and delete your account at any time. We can suspend or terminate your account for breach of these terms, on reasonable notice except where immediate action is needed to protect users or comply with law.

Sections that by their nature should survive termination (content licence, disclaimers, limitation of liability, governing law) will survive.

14. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales. You can bring proceedings in the courts of England and Wales. If you live in Scotland, you can also bring them in Scotland, and if you live in Northern Ireland, in Northern Ireland. If you live elsewhere, you keep any right your local law gives you to bring proceedings where you live.

15. General

If a court finds part of these terms unenforceable, the rest still applies.
If we don't enforce a term straight away, we can still enforce it later.
Nobody except you and us has any right to enforce these terms.

16. Contact

Abbas Alibhai · London, UK
Email: abbasalibhai.business@gmail.com