Terms
The agreement between you and whoever runs LDR. It is short because the app is small, and it says what the app actually does rather than what a template would have it do.
Who you are agreeing with
LDR is made and run by one person, not a company with a support department. Where this page says we, that is who it means. You can reach that person at [email protected], and a person reads it.
What you are agreeing to
By signing in to LDR you accept these terms and the privacy policy. If you do not, the thing to do is not sign in — and if you already have, delete your account.
It costs nothing
LDR is free. There is nothing to buy, no subscription, no trial that ends, and no feature held back for a payment. There is no advertising, and nothing in the app is sold or handed to anyone for their own purposes.
That is a decision rather than a launch promotion. But it is not a promise about the rest of time: if that ever changes, you will be told inside the app before it affects you, and no change will reach back and charge you for something you have already done.
Who can use it
- You need a Google account. Signing in with Google is the only way in, because your email address is what an invite is addressed to.
- You must be 13 or older. LDR is not intended for children and is not directed at them. If you are under 13, do not sign in; if an account turns out to belong to someone under 13, it will be deleted.
- The account is yours alone. Do not share it. Everything in a couple space is readable by whoever is holding the phone.
Two people, and how that is enforced
A couple space holds exactly two people. One of you generates an invite code bound to the other's email address; it works once and stops working after 48 hours. The person it is addressed to sees who sent it and has to accept before anything is shared. Nobody joins a space they were not invited to, and no third person joins one at all — that is enforced by the database's own rules rather than by the screens.
Either of you can unpair at any time, on your own, without the other's agreement. It ends the couple space and the other person is told. What you made together is then archived rather than deleted, and an archive is permanently deleted one year later.
What you make stays yours
The photos, videos, voice notes, letters, drawings, answers and words you put into LDR are yours. We claim no ownership of them and no right to use them for anything of ours. We do not read them, analyse them, show them to anyone, or train anything on them.
What we do need is narrow and purely mechanical: permission to store what you send and deliver it to the one person you sent it to, and to keep it in your shared record so you can both look back at it. That permission exists so the app can work, it covers nothing else, and it ends when the data does.
One consequence of a shared record is worth stating plainly, because it surprises people: what you send to your partner becomes part of their record as well as yours. Deleting your account does not reach into their copy and subtract you from it. The full reasoning is on the deletion page.
What not to use it for
Do not use LDR to harass, threaten, or deceive the person you are paired with or anyone else. Do not send anything illegal, anything sexual involving a minor, or anything you do not have the right to send. Do not try to reach another couple's space, work around the rules that keep spaces apart, or attack the service — probing it, flooding it, or pulling it apart to get at somebody else's data.
Do not use the app to monitor someone. Presence is optional, it is off until you turn it on, it is never more than a word, and it can be turned off again at any moment — and it is not to be used as a condition of a relationship or a way of checking up on a person.
There is no moderator, and that is deliberate
LDR has no feed, no discovery, no strangers and no public anything. The only person who can send you something is the one person you invited by email, or who invited you. So there is nothing to moderate in the usual sense — and because we do not read what you send, we could not moderate it even if there were.
What that means for you: your protection is the pairing, not a review team. If the person you are paired with is sending you something you do not want, unpair. It is unilateral, it takes effect immediately, and it does not need their agreement or ours. If something needs a human — including anything illegal — write to [email protected] and a person will read it.
What we can do
We can suspend or delete an account that is being used for something illegal, used to attack the service, or used by someone under 13. We can also stop running LDR, change what it does, or remove a feature. If the app is going to be shut down, you will be told inside it with enough warning to take your things out first — not found out by it failing to open.
What we do not promise
LDR is provided as it is. It is one person's app running on Google's infrastructure, and the honest version is this: it will sometimes be down, a notification will sometimes not arrive, and a bug could lose something. We do not promise it will be available, that it will be free of faults, or that anything in it is permanent.
So do not use LDR as the only copy of something you cannot lose. If a voice note matters that much, keep it somewhere else too.
To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for lost or corrupted content, for a message that did not arrive or arrived late, for anything that happens between you and the person you are paired with, or for any indirect or consequential loss. Where liability cannot be excluded, it is limited to what you paid us, which is nothing. Some places do not allow parts of this to be excluded, and where that is so, those parts do not apply to you and the rest still stands.
Changes to these terms
If this page changes in a way that matters, the app will say so rather than altering it here quietly. Continuing to use LDR after that is how you accept the change; if you would rather not, delete your account.