Terms of Use

Last updated: 7 September 2026

1. Agreement to these terms

By creating an account or using the FishandBeer mobile application (the "App"), you agree to these Terms of Use. If you do not agree, do not use the App.

The App is operated by FNBgroup OÜ (the "Company", "we", "us"), registered in Estonia. Contact details, registry information, and the responsible authorities are in section 21 and on the Legal notice.

These Terms are available in the App in every language the App supports and on our website. If a translation differs from the English version, the English version governs.

If you downloaded the App from the Apple App Store, Apple's Standard End User Licence Agreement also applies. If these Terms conflict with mandatory App Store or Google Play terms, the store terms win, but only for that conflict.

2. The service

FishandBeer is a personal fishing log. You can record catches, build a species collection, read our curated info on fish and fishing waters, share catches with friends, and track trips together. Some features need a paid subscription ("Premium").

The App keeps itself up to date: when you open it, it can automatically download and apply the latest version of the app software. The App will also change over time; we add and remove features, for valid reasons such as adapting the App to new technical environments, keeping it secure, meeting legal requirements, or improving how it works. If a change negatively affects a paid feature in more than a minor way, we tell you reasonably in advance, in the App and in a form you can keep. If you are an EU/EEA consumer, you may then end your subscription free of charge within 30 days of the change, or of our notice if that comes later. The unused part of a prepaid period is refunded through the store.

3. Eligibility and accounts

You must have reached the digital age of consent in your country of residence, the age at which you can agree to an online service yourself, to create an account. That age is 13 in most of the countries the App launches in and 14 in Lithuania; some EEA countries set it as high as 16. We check it at sign-up using the date of birth you enter. If you are below the required age, no account is created, and an account found to belong to someone below the required age is removed.

Beer-related features are separate and stricter: they additionally require that you are of legal drinking age in the country of residence you gave at sign-up (18 in most countries; between 16 and 20 depending on the country), and they stay off unless you turn them on.

The age checks rely on the date of birth you enter, and by entering it you confirm it is true. Entering a false date of birth to pass an age check is a serious breach of these Terms. If we learn that the date on an account is false, we correct or close the account and switch off any feature the real age does not allow. To the extent the law permits, we are not responsible for the consequences of someone reaching an age-gated feature by misrepresenting their age.

If you are a parent or guardian and believe a child below the required age has an account, email legal@fishandbeer.app and we will remove it.

You sign in with Apple or Google to use the App. Keep the information you give us accurate, and keep access to your sign-in provider secure. That part is on you.

4. App licence and restrictions

We grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use the App, revocable only as described in sections 13 and 14. That is all the licence you get; we keep everything else.

You may not:

• decompile or reverse engineer the App, except where the law permits it;
• scrape or bulk-download data from the service, or access it by automated means;
• circumvent security measures or rate limits;
• resell access to the App; or
• use the App or its data to build a competing dataset or service.

5. Your content

Your catches, photos, notes, and the fishing spots you share stay yours ("Your Content"). By submitting them, you give the Company a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, transmit, and display Your Content, but only to run the App and the features you use, such as showing a catch to your friends, or to everyone when a catch is public (for example on the public feed, leaderboards, or discovery).

Who can see your content. Your profile is public by default, and so is a new catch unless you pick a different visibility when logging it. That means your display name, profile photo, any title you equip, your catch statistics, your most recent achievement badges, and your public catches are visible to other users; accepted friends also see the list of recent catches on your profile, with any showcase catch you pick shown first, and your personal bests. You can hide individual profile sections (Statistics, Personal bests, Catches, Beer counter, Achievements) in Edit profile, opened from your profile or from the top of Settings, and change your profile and catch visibility in Settings → Privacy.

Fishing groups. When you share a fishing spot or a catch with a group, you choose to disclose it to every current and future member of that group. A shared spot includes its exact coordinates and any note you wrote; a shared catch shows its location only at an approximate level, about 1 km. Sharing is your own decision, made separately for each spot and each catch, and you can un-share at any time, which removes the item from the group. We cannot control what a group member does with something you shared with them, so share a spot only with people you trust with it. Spots you share and the names you give groups are Your Content under this section, and the Community guidelines apply to them.

Groups are run by their members, not by us. The group owner can rename the group, invite their accepted friends, remove members, and delete the group; any other member can leave at any time. If another user removes you from a group or deletes the group, that is their decision, not a moderation decision by the Company, and section 6 does not apply to it. Section 6 still applies in full whenever we ourselves restrict a group, its name, or its content. Leaving a group, or being removed from one, deletes everything you had shared into that group.

We may sublicense the licence above to the service providers who help us run the App (for example cloud hosting), for that purpose only.

By submitting Your Content you promise that you own it or have all the rights needed to share it, and that any recognisable person appearing in a photo has given you their permission to share it.

The licence ends when you delete the content or your account. Copies may remain in routine backups for a short while; those are purged on the normal backup cycle, within 30 days.

We do not use Your Content to train AI models (see the AI features page). What you upload must be legal, and that is your responsibility.

Your Content is yours, not ours. We host it for you, we do not endorse it, and we do not review everything users post before it appears. When we obtain actual knowledge of illegal content, we act to remove it or disable access to it, as described in section 6.

6. Community rules and moderation

The Community guidelines are part of these Terms and describe what is not allowed. In short: no harassment, no unlawful content, no sexual or violent content, no fake catches on integrity-relevant features, no impersonation, no photos of recognisable people without their permission.

How moderation works. We moderate through reports from users, notices from anyone else, and our own review. When the automated image safety check is enabled, a photo you make public can additionally be screened by an automated image-classification service before other people see it, and a flagged photo is withheld from public view while a person can look at it (see the AI features page). Every decision about your account, and every appeal, is made by a person; we do not suspend or terminate accounts by automated means alone.

Reporting and notices. You can report content and block users directly in the App. Anyone, even without an account, can report content they believe is illegal by emailing support@fishandbeer.app. So that we can act on it, a notice should include: an explanation of why you believe the content is illegal, a link to or precise description of where the content is, your name and email address, and a statement that you believe the notice is accurate and complete. You do not have to give your name or email if the notice concerns the sexual abuse or sexual exploitation of a child, child sexual abuse material, or the solicitation (grooming) of a child. We confirm receipt, handle every notice diligently and without undue delay, and tell the person who submitted it what we decided and how they can challenge it; if any automated tool contributed to the decision, we say so. The same follow-through applies when you report content as illegal from inside the App.

If we restrict your content or account, we act diligently, objectively, and proportionately, with regard to your rights including freedom of expression. When we do, we tell you:

• what we did, its scope, and for how long;
• the facts we relied on and the specific rule or law involved;
• whether it started from a report or our own detection, and whether any automated tools were used; and
• how you can challenge the decision: by appeal (below), through out-of-court dispute settlement, or in court (section 18).

Appeals. To appeal a moderation decision, email support@fishandbeer.app with the subject "Appeal". A person who did not make the original decision reviews the appeal, and we reply by email with the outcome and reasons. You keep the right to out-of-court dispute settlement (section 18) and to go to court.

If we become aware of content suggesting a criminal offence that threatens the life or safety of a person, we inform the competent authorities as the law requires.

Acting in good faith on a report, a notice, or our own review, as this section describes, is not a breach of these Terms, even if the content is later restored on appeal. Your right to appeal, your statutory rights, and section 18 stay untouched.

7. Premium subscription

Premium is an auto-renewing subscription purchased through the Apple App Store or Google Play. Before you pay, the purchase screen shows the price including tax, the billing period (monthly or yearly), and any introductory offer or free trial.

• Free trial. If a free trial is offered, its length is shown before you start it. When the trial ends, the subscription converts automatically to a paid subscription and the store charges the price shown, unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the trial ends. You can cancel during the trial at no cost, and any unused trial time is forfeited if you switch to a paid subscription early.
• Your subscription renews automatically at the end of each billing period unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the period ends.
• You can cancel any time in your device's subscription settings (on iOS: Settings, Apple ID, Subscriptions; on Android: Play Store, Payments and subscriptions). Premium remains active until the end of the paid period. Cancelling is free and takes effect at the period end.
• Payment is charged to your store account when you confirm the purchase. Payment, renewal, and refunds are handled by Apple or Google as the seller of record, under their terms. We never see your payment details.
• If the price of your subscription increases, the store notifies you in advance. Where its rules or your local law require it, the store asks you to agree before the new price applies. Where only a notice is required, the new price applies from a later renewal, unless you cancel first, which you can always do in your device's subscription settings.
• Premium features without a stated numeric limit are for normal personal use. We may apply reasonable technical limits to prevent abuse and keep the service working for everyone; those limits never make a feature unusable for normal personal use.
• When Premium ends, premium-only features stop being available. Catches you already logged are kept, and your non-premium data is unaffected.

Right of withdrawal (EU/EEA consumers). EU consumer law gives you a 14-day right of withdrawal for digital services. Because Apple or Google is the seller of record for the purchase, withdrawal, cancellation, and refund requests for a subscription are made through their refund processes, under their terms. Nothing in these Terms limits the statutory rights you have as a consumer, including any right of withdrawal that applies to your purchase.

8. AI features

The App can suggest a fish species from your catch photo using a small model that runs entirely on your device; the photo is not uploaded for it and you always choose the final species yourself. Separately, when the automated image safety check is enabled, a photo you make public can be scanned to detect objectionable imagery before other people see it. Both are described on the AI features page and in the Privacy Policy.

Beyond that: there is no chatbot, we do not use your content to train AI models, and no decision with legal or similarly significant effect is ever made about you automatically. AI suggestions can be wrong; section 10 applies to them. If we add any further AI feature we will describe it on the AI features page and, where the law requires it, ask your permission first.

9. Privacy

How we handle your personal data is in the Privacy Policy and the Your data & GDPR page.

10. Fishing regulations disclaimer

The App shows information about fishing regulations (seasonal closures, protected species, permit requirements) taken from publicly available material published by the relevant authorities. It is there for convenience and is not legal advice.

You are solely responsible for following the fishing laws that apply to you and for checking the current rules with the relevant authority before you fish. What the App shows may be incomplete or out of date. When in doubt, follow the official source.

This applies equally to the App's on-device species suggestion: it is an automated guess that can be wrong, and it must never be your basis for deciding that a fish may legally be kept. Always confirm the species and the rules yourself.

11. Safety and alcohol

The optional beer counter is a personal, informational log, nothing more. It does not measure fitness or sobriety, it does not estimate blood alcohol, and it is not medical or health advice. Never use it to judge whether you can safely operate a boat, drive, swim, or fish. Only use alcohol-related features if you are of legal drinking age where you are, and you can turn beer tracking off entirely in Settings → Preferences.

FishandBeer does not promote or encourage alcohol consumption, and nothing in the App encourages drinking to excess. You are solely responsible for your own alcohol consumption and for the decisions you make around it. Please drink responsibly, and never drink and drive or operate a boat under the influence.

Fishing and boating carry inherent risks, including weather, water, and ice conditions. You participate at your own risk. The App gives no information about current weather, water, or ice conditions and no safety guidance of any kind. A place shown in the App, whether in the waters catalogue, on a map, in another user's catch, or shared with you by another user, for example a fishing spot shared in a group, is not a recommendation that it is safe, legal, or permitted to fish there. Pins, categories, and notes made by other users are their personal notes, not checked by us, and neither a pin nor the absence of one is safety information. Judge the conditions, your own ability, and the access and permit rules yourself before you go.

12. Intellectual property and feedback

The App, its design, the curated species and waters content, and associated marks are owned by the Company or its licensors. You may not reproduce or redistribute them outside the App without our written permission. Open-source components are listed under Settings → Legal → Acknowledgements.

If you send us ideas or suggestions for the App, we may use them without restriction or payment.

13. Termination

You can delete your account at any time in Settings → Danger zone → Delete account; deleting it is as easy as creating it and is not conditioned on anything else. Deletion is staged for 30 days. During that time you can cancel it by signing in again; after the 30-day grace period your data is erased, and residual copies in routine backups are purged within a further 30 days. Deleting your account does not cancel a store subscription: cancel it in your store settings, and the deletion screen links you there.

We can suspend or close your account only for good reason: a breach of these Terms, the Community guidelines, or the law, or where the law requires us to. While we investigate a suspected serious breach, we may temporarily restrict the account or the affected feature, keeping the restriction as narrow and as short as we can. We act proportionately (for less serious cases, a warning or a feature restriction comes before suspension), we tell you what we did and why as described in section 6, and you can appeal. If we close your account, you keep the right to a refund of the part of any prepaid subscription period you will not receive, except to the extent your serious breach caused us damage; refund processing goes through the store as the seller of record.

14. Discontinuing the service

We aim to keep the App available at all times, but we do not promise uninterrupted operation: maintenance, updates, technical faults, and events beyond our control can interrupt it. We may change or discontinue the service, entirely or in a particular country, with reasonable advance notice. If you have prepaid for subscription time you will not receive, refunds are handled through the store. None of this limits your statutory conformity rights.

15. Disclaimers and liability

If you are an EU/EEA consumer, you have a statutory legal guarantee that the App and any Premium features conform to the contract (Directive (EU) 2019/770 as implemented where you live). Nothing in this section limits that guarantee or your statutory remedies for lack of conformity.

Beyond your statutory rights, the App is provided "as is" and "as available". To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Company disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.

Location and water data in the App is informational. It may be inaccurate or out of date and must not be used for navigation.

The App is not a backup service. Keep your own copies of photos and anything else you cannot afford to lose, and back up your device. Map markers and personal notes on the Home screen are stored only on your device and are lost if the App is removed from it. The exception is a spot you share with a group: sharing stores a server copy of that marker's name, category, note, and coordinates for the group, and un-sharing, leaving the group, or deleting your account removes that copy. The marker on your device itself is never backed up by us. This does not limit your statutory rights if the App fails to work as it should.

Nothing in these Terms limits our liability for intent or gross negligence, for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or for any other liability that cannot be limited by law.

For everything else: the Company is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages, including loss of data or profit, arising from your use of the App. To the extent liability can lawfully be limited, our total liability for any claim is capped at the greater of the amounts you paid us in the 12 months before the claim or EUR 50. Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited under the consumer-protection law that applies to you, including EU consumer law.

16. Indemnity (compensating us for claims caused by you)

To the extent permitted by the consumer law that applies to you, you will compensate us for third-party claims, damages, and reasonable legal costs that arise from Your Content or from your breach of these Terms or the law.

17. Apple and Google

These Terms are between you and the Company, not Apple or Google. Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for the App. Apple is a third-party beneficiary of these Terms and may enforce them against you.

18. Governing law, jurisdiction, and disputes

These Terms are governed by the law of Estonia. If you are a consumer, this choice does not take away the protection of the mandatory rules of the country where you live, and you keep your home-court rights: you may bring a claim against us in the courts of your country of residence or of Estonia, and a claim against you may be brought only in the courts of your country of residence.

If you send us a complaint in writing (including by email), we reply in the same form within 15 days with our answer or proposed solution, as Estonian consumer law requires.

As an EU consumer you can also take a dispute to an alternative dispute resolution body. In Estonia that is the Consumer Disputes Committee (Tarbijavaidluste komisjon) at the Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority (TTJA), Endla 10a, 10142 Tallinn, ttja.ee. The procedure is free for consumers, and the Committee can hear a dispute you bring whether or not we agree to the procedure. Its decisions are not legally binding on either party and either of us can still go to court; if we do not follow a decision, the TTJA publishes that.

19. General

• If part of these Terms turns out to be invalid, the rest still applies.
• These Terms, together with the policies they point to and the information shown to you before a purchase (such as the price, trial length, and renewal terms), are the entire agreement between you and us about the App.
• If we do not enforce a part of these Terms right away, we are not waiving it.
• We may assign these Terms to a successor of our business, provided the assignment does not reduce your rights under these Terms. You may not assign them without our consent.
• Sections that by their nature should survive the end of these Terms (including sections 5, 12, 15, 16, and 18) survive it.
• We are not responsible for delays or failures caused by events beyond our reasonable control.

20. Changes to these terms

We update these Terms only for good reason: a change in the law or in what the authorities require, new or changed features, security, or making the text clearer. Corrections that do not change your rights or obligations are made by updating the text and the date at the top.

For a material change we announce the new version in the App and ask you to accept it before you continue, and we give you at least 15 days between the announcement and the change taking effect, unless the law or the security of the service requires a shorter period. If you do not agree, you can decline: stop using the App, cancel your subscription before the change takes effect, and, if you wish, delete your account. Declining is never a trap; the acceptance screen always offers a way out.

21. Contact

FNBgroup OÜ, registered address tap to view registration details (registry code 17563256). General support: support@fishandbeer.app. Privacy and formal legal correspondence: legal@fishandbeer.app (reports of illegal content go to the support address, see section 6). Full registry details and the responsible authorities are on the Legal notice.

For the purposes of Articles 11 and 12 of the EU Digital Services Act, the Company's single point of contact for recipients of the service, for Member States' authorities, the European Commission, and the Board is support@fishandbeer.app. You can write to it electronically in English or Estonian, and a person, not just automated tools, handles it. The Digital Services Coordinator for Estonia is the Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority (TTJA).