Terms of Service

Last updated November 10, 2026

These terms are the agreement between you and Locale ("we", "us") for using the Locale app and website. By creating an account or using Locale, you agree to them and to our Privacy Policy.

Who can use Locale

You must be at least 18 to use Locale. Each account is for one person. Give accurate information, keep access to your email secure (it's how you sign in), and tell us if you think someone else is using your account. You're responsible for what happens on your account.

Your content

You own the photos, videos, captions, comments, tags and messages you post on Locale. You give us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, copy, resize, display and distribute that content so we can run, improve and promote Locale. For example, we may show your public posts in feeds, search and story images that people share. This license ends when you delete the content, except for copies that others have already shared or that we must keep by law.

Only post content you have the right to post. That includes being allowed to show the people who appear in it, and owning or having permission for anything you import from another service.

Rules for using Locale

Don't use Locale to:

• post anything that sexualizes or endangers children, which we remove and report to the authorities;
• harass, threaten, bully or impersonate anyone, or post someone's private information without their permission;
• post sexually explicit content, graphic violence, or content promoting hate, terrorism or self-harm;
• sell or promote illegal goods, weapons, drugs or counterfeits;
• infringe anyone's copyright, trademark or other rights;
• post misleading links, tags or prices, or links to harmful or fraudulent sites;
• spam, create fake engagement, or buy things through your own links or other people's to inflate earnings;
• scrape Locale, get around its limits, or interfere with how it works.

We may remove content, limit features or close accounts that break these rules. You can report posts, comments, people and groups from their menus.

Shopping and links

Locale doesn't sell the items tagged in posts. When you follow a link, you buy from the store, under the store's terms, and the store is responsible for the product, delivery and returns. Prices and stock shown on Locale come from posters or from store pages and can be out of date. Items found automatically are suggestions from software, may be wrong, and are labeled as found automatically.

Affiliate links and disclosure

Many store links on Locale are affiliate links. That means Locale, and the person who tagged the item, may earn a commission if you buy, at no extra cost to you. Locale says so next to the link.

If a brand pays you, sends you free products, or has any other relationship with you, you must disclose it clearly in your post, as the law requires (in the US, the FTC's Endorsement Guides). If you add your own affiliate links, mark them as yours when you tag the item.

Creator earnings

Earnings are being switched on in stages and may not be available everywhere yet. When they're available to you:

• Who earns: anyone 18 or older with a payout account at Stripe, in a country where Stripe can send payouts.
• What you earn: 70% of the commission Locale actually receives from the affiliate network for a qualifying purchase made through an item you tagged, or an answer of yours that the poster added to their post. Locale keeps the rest.
• What doesn't count: purchases you make through your own posts; links you marked as your own affiliate links (you're paid for those by your own network); and purchases the store or network cancels, returns or rejects, including for suspected fraud.
• When it's paid: a sale stays pending until the network confirms it, usually after the store's return period. Once it's confirmed it becomes available. On or after the 1st of each month, we pay out your available earnings through Stripe if they're at least $25 and your Stripe account is ready. Smaller amounts carry over to the next month.
• Reversals: if a sale is reversed after you've been paid, we take that amount out of your future earnings.
• Taxes: you're responsible for taxes on your earnings. Stripe may ask for tax information and issue tax forms, such as a 1099 in the US.
• Withholding: we may hold or cancel earnings linked to fraud, fake engagement or breaking these terms.
• Changes: we may change the share, the minimum or the schedule with at least 30 days' notice in the app. Changes don't affect earnings already credited to you.

Earning on Locale doesn't make you our employee, agent or partner.

Importing from Instagram

If you connect Instagram, you let Locale read your Instagram posts so you can choose which to copy to Locale. Imported posts follow these terms like any other post. Instagram's own terms continue to apply to your Instagram account. You can disconnect at any time from the import screen in Locale.

Copyright complaints

If you believe something on Locale infringes your copyright, email hello@shoplocale.app with: your contact details; the work you own; a link to or description of the content on Locale; a statement that you believe in good faith the use isn't authorized; a statement, under penalty of perjury, that your notice is accurate and that you're the owner or authorized to act for them; and your physical or electronic signature. We remove infringing content and close the accounts of repeat infringers.

Suspending or ending accounts

You can stop using Locale and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or close your account if you break these terms, if the law requires it, or if your account creates risk for others. Where it's safe and lawful, we'll tell you why. Earnings that are confirmed and not linked to a violation are paid out under the earnings rules above.

Disclaimers and liability

We work to keep Locale running well, but we provide it "as is", without warranties of any kind, to the extent the law allows. Features may change, and Locale may sometimes be unavailable.

To the extent the law allows, Locale isn't liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages, lost profits, or anything that happens between you and a store, brand or other user. Our total liability for any claim relating to Locale is limited to the greater of $100 or the amount we paid you in the 12 months before the claim. Some places don't allow these limits, so they may not apply to you.

If someone makes a claim against us because of content you posted or your breach of these terms, you agree to cover our reasonable costs of that claim, to the extent the law allows.

Disputes

Please email us first; most problems can be solved that way. These terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute will be handled in the state or federal courts in Santa Clara County, California, unless the law where you live gives you the right to bring it locally.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. If a change is significant, we'll tell you in the app at least 30 days before it takes effect. Continuing to use Locale after that means you accept the new terms.

Contact us

Email hello@shoplocale.app.