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Terms of Use

Draft — not legal advice. Have a lawyer (or a UK-based service like Termly / iubenda) review before publishing.

Last updated: 2026-05-11

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.
  • Sessions are passwordless (magic-link or Google) — there's no password to lose, but anyone with access to your email 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.

3. What you can do

  • Build a wishlist for personal, non-commercial purposes.
  • Share your public profile link (opia.social/@your-handle) with whoever you like.
  • Follow other users; claim items on lists you've been linked to.

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 retain all rights to the content you add to Opia (item titles, notes, profile bio, etc.). By submitting it, you grant Opia a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, display, and process that content only for the purpose of running the service. We do not use your content to train AI models or resell it.

You're responsible for what you submit. Don't paste content you don't have the right to share. We can remove content we believe violates these terms or applicable 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.

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.

Some outbound links pass through affiliate networks (see Affiliate Disclosure). This may earn Opia a commission but never changes the price you pay.

7. Privacy

Use of Opia is also governed by our Privacy Policy. The single most important rule baked into the product: 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.

9. Disclaimers

To the maximum extent permitted by law:

  • Opia is provided without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.
  • We do not warrant that link previews, prices, or merchant pages are accurate.
  • We do not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted, secure, or free of bugs.

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

To the maximum extent permitted by law:

  • We are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost data, business interruption, or loss of goodwill.
  • Our total aggregate liability to you for any claim arising from your use of Opia is limited to the greater of (a) £50 or (b) the amount you have paid us in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim. Since the service is currently free, this is effectively £50.

11. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify Opia against any third-party claim arising from content you submit or your breach of these terms, except where that claim arises from our own negligence or breach of law.

12. Changes to the service or terms

We may change the service, these terms, or pricing. Material changes will be communicated by email or an in-app notice. Continued use after a change means you accept the new version. If you don't, you can delete your account.

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, indemnity, governing law) will survive.

14. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales. The courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute, except where you are a consumer and your local law gives you a non-waivable right to bring proceedings in your country of residence.

15. Contact

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