Terms of Service

1. About Travelism

Travelism is a travel-focused social platform that may allow users to:

• Create personal profiles
• Create and manage business profiles
• Publish travel experiences, posts, photographs, videos, and temporary content
• Follow and interact with other profiles
• Send direct or collaborative messages
• Create and manage trips
• Invite trip collaborators
• Create itineraries, activities, notes, and packing lists
• Report inappropriate content or conduct
• Apply for personal or business verification
• Use other travel-related social and planning features

Travelism may add, remove, suspend, or modify features over time.

2. Eligibility and Minimum Age

You must be at least 18 years old to create an account or use Travelism.

By using Travelism, you confirm that:

• You are at least 18 years old.
• You have the legal capacity to enter into these Terms.
• You are not prohibited from using Travelism under applicable law.
• The information you provide is accurate and not misleading.
• You will comply with these Terms and applicable laws.

You may not create or operate an account on behalf of a person under 18.

Travelism may request information reasonably necessary to verify your age, identity, authority, or eligibility.

3. Your Account

You may need an account to access Travelism features.

You agree to:

• Provide accurate and current account information
• Keep your login credentials confidential
• Use a secure password
• Maintain access to your registered email address
• Notify Travelism promptly if you suspect unauthorized access
• Accept responsibility for activity occurring through your account, except where caused by Travelism’s failure to use reasonable security measures

You must not:

• Share, sell, rent, transfer, or trade your account
• Create an account using another person’s identity without authorization
• Impersonate another person, business, organization, or public authority
• Create accounts to evade suspension, blocking, moderation, or enforcement
• Use automated methods to create or operate accounts
• Misrepresent your age, identity, affiliation, qualifications, or authority

Travelism may restrict or require additional verification for suspicious, duplicated, compromised, or misleading accounts.

4. Personal and Business Profiles

4.1 Personal profiles

A personal profile must represent the individual operating it.

You may not create a personal profile that:

• Impersonates another person
• Uses a misleading identity
• Falsely claims professional, official, or verified status
• Violates another person’s intellectual-property or privacy rights
• Is intended primarily for fraud, spam, manipulation, or abuse

4.2 Business profiles

You may create or manage a business profile only when you have authority to represent that business.

By creating or managing a business profile, you confirm that:

• The business information is accurate.
• You are the owner or an authorized representative.
• You have permission to use the business name, branding, images, and documents.
• The business operates lawfully.
• You will update information that becomes inaccurate or outdated.

Travelism may request proof of ownership, registration, authorization, licensing, or identity.

Travelism may remove or restrict business profiles that are misleading, unauthorized, fraudulent, inactive, unlawful, or inconsistent with these Terms.

5. Verification

Travelism may offer personal and business verification features.

Verification may require identity documents, selfies, business records, ownership information, licences, or other supporting evidence.

Submitting an application does not guarantee approval.

Travelism may:

• Approve or reject an application
• Request additional information
• Require corrections or resubmission
• Suspend review
• Revoke verification
• Hide or remove a verification badge
• Prevent reapplication where fraud or abuse is suspected

A verification badge indicates only that Travelism completed the applicable verification process at a particular time. It does not represent:

• An endorsement or recommendation
• A guarantee of trustworthiness
• A guarantee of professional competence
• A guarantee that content, products, services, or statements are accurate
• A guarantee that a user or business will continue meeting verification requirements

You must not alter, fabricate, misuse, sell, transfer, or publicly expose verification documents or verification access.

You must not falsely claim to be verified.

6. User Content

“User Content” means content that users submit, create, upload, publish, send, display, or otherwise make available through Travelism.

User Content may include:

• Profile information
• Business information
• Posts
• Captions
• Photographs
• Videos
• Temporary status or Moment content
• Comments and replies
• Messages
• Trip information
• Itineraries
• Packing lists
• Reviews
• Reports
• Links
• Other submitted material

You retain ownership of your User Content, subject to the permissions granted in these Terms.

You are responsible for your User Content and the consequences of publishing or sharing it.

You confirm that:

• You own the User Content or have permission to use it.
• Your User Content does not infringe another person’s rights.
• Your User Content is accurate where it is presented as factual.
• Your User Content complies with these Terms and applicable law.
• You have obtained any necessary consent from identifiable people shown or described in the content.

7. Licence Granted to Travelism

When you submit User Content, you grant Travelism a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, and sublicensable licence to host, store, reproduce, process, adapt, resize, compress, transmit, display, distribute, and otherwise use that User Content only as reasonably necessary to:

• Operate Travelism
• Display the content according to your selected audience
• Deliver content to other users
• Provide sharing and collaboration features
• Store backups
• Improve technical presentation and compatibility
• Moderate content
• Investigate reports
• Protect users and the platform
• Promote Travelism using content you have made public, subject to applicable law

This licence does not transfer ownership of your User Content to Travelism.

The licence ends when the content is deleted from Travelism’s active systems, except where:

• The content was shared with or copied by another user
• Retention is required for backups
• Retention is necessary for safety, fraud prevention, moderation, legal compliance, or dispute resolution
• The content has been anonymized or aggregated
• A separate permission or agreement applies

You must not upload content for which you cannot grant these permissions.

8. Prohibited Content and Conduct

You must not use Travelism to create, upload, promote, request, transmit, or distribute content or conduct involving:

8.1 Illegal or dangerous activity

• Illegal goods, services, transactions, or instructions
• Terrorism or violent extremist activity
• Human trafficking or exploitation
• Credible threats of violence
• Instructions intended to facilitate serious wrongdoing
• Fraud, scams, money laundering, or deceptive financial activity
• Unauthorized access, malware, phishing, or cyberattacks
• Dangerous activities likely to cause serious injury

8.2 Violence and harm

• Graphic or gratuitous violence
• Content praising or encouraging violent harm
• Threats, intimidation, or coercion
• Promotion or encouragement of suicide or self-harm
• Instructions intended to facilitate self-harm
• Exploitation of vulnerable individuals

Travelism may allow limited educational, documentary, awareness, recovery, or news-related discussion where it does not promote harm.

8.3 Sexual exploitation and prohibited sexual content

• Child sexual abuse or exploitation
• Sexual content involving minors
• Grooming or solicitation of minors
• Non-consensual intimate imagery
• Sexual extortion
• Sexual exploitation or trafficking
• Content that unlawfully facilitates sexual services
• Explicit pornographic content where prohibited by Travelism policies

Travelism will report suspected child exploitation or other serious illegal activity where required or appropriate.

8.4 Harassment and hateful conduct

• Bullying
• Targeted harassment
• Repeated unwanted contact
• Stalking
• Doxxing
• Threats
• Degrading or dehumanizing attacks
• Hateful conduct targeting protected characteristics
• Encouragement of discrimination, exclusion, or violence

Protected characteristics may include race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, disability, sex, gender, sexual orientation, age, caste, or similar legally protected status.

8.5 Privacy violations

• Another person’s private address
• Passwords or authentication credentials
• Private identity documents
• Financial-account information
• Private medical information
• Precise location information shared without permission
• Private communications shared without authorization
• Personal information used for harassment, fraud, or harm

8.6 Intellectual-property violations

• Copyright infringement
• Trademark infringement
• Counterfeit goods
• Unauthorized photographs, videos, music, designs, or written content
• Content copied from another platform without permission
• Misuse of another business’s branding

8.7 Spam and manipulation

• Unsolicited repetitive messages
• Mass following or interaction abuse
• Fake engagement
• Artificial likes, comments, followers, reviews, or shares
• Misleading links
• Chain messages
• Automated scraping
• Bot activity
• Coordinated manipulation
• Search or recommendation manipulation
• Attempts to bypass platform limits

8.8 Misrepresentation

• Impersonation
• False verification claims
• Fake business profiles
• Fraudulent travel offers
• Fabricated reviews
• Deceptive qualifications
• Misleading destinations, properties, services, or availability
• Content designed to deceive users about identity, sponsorship, or commercial relationships

8.9 Platform abuse

• Reverse engineering except where legally permitted
• Interfering with Travelism systems
• Testing vulnerabilities without written authorization
• Circumventing access controls
• Collecting user information through unauthorized means
• Selling access to Travelism data
• Using Travelism to develop competing datasets through scraping
• Overloading, disrupting, or damaging the service
• Circumventing suspension, blocking, deletion, or moderation controls

9. Community Guidelines

Travelism’s Community Guidelines form part of these Terms.

The Community Guidelines may provide additional rules concerning:

• User-generated content
• Safety
• Harassment
• Impersonation
• Spam
• Travel-related scams
• Reporting
• Blocking
• Moderation
• Enforcement

The Community Guidelines will be available at:

https://travelism.app/community-guidelines

Where these Terms and the Community Guidelines address the same conduct, both apply.

10. Reporting, Blocking, and Moderation

Travelism may provide tools that allow users to:

• Report profiles
• Report posts or comments
• Report messages or chats
• Report safety concerns
• Block other profiles
• Hide or remove certain interactions
• Contact support

Travelism may review reports and take action including:

• Removing content
• Limiting content visibility
• Issuing warnings
• Restricting features
• Suspending accounts
• Removing verification
• Deleting accounts
• Preserving evidence
• Reporting conduct to relevant authorities

Travelism may use automated systems, human review, or both to detect or evaluate potential violations.

Travelism is not required to disclose confidential moderation methods, internal evidence, reporter identities, security information, or information that could facilitate abuse.

Submitting false, malicious, repetitive, or retaliatory reports is prohibited.

Travelism may decide not to remove content where it determines that the content does not violate these Terms, the Community Guidelines, or applicable law.

11. Messages and Communications

Travelism may provide direct, group, business, or trip-related communication features.

You must not use messages to:

• Harass or threaten others
• Send spam
• Distribute malware or phishing links
• Solicit illegal transactions
• Obtain sensitive information deceptively
• Send sexually exploitative content
• Evade blocks or contact restrictions
• Impersonate Travelism staff
• Manipulate or defraud users

Messages are intended for their participants. However, Travelism may access, preserve, or review messages when:

• A participant reports the conversation
• Safety or abuse detection requires review
• Legal compliance requires access
• Necessary technical support is requested
• Necessary to protect Travelism or its users

Users should not use Travelism messages for emergency communications.

12. Trips, Destinations, and Travel Information

Travelism may allow users to create trips, destinations, itineraries, activities, packing lists, notes, collaboration invitations, and other travel-related content.

Travelism does not guarantee that user-provided travel information is:

• Accurate
• Complete
• Current
• Safe
• Lawful
• Suitable for a particular user
• Available at the stated time
• Free from travel restrictions, health risks, or security concerns

You are responsible for independently checking:

• Entry and visa requirements
• Passport requirements
• Health requirements
• Travel advisories
• Weather conditions
• Local laws
• Insurance requirements
• Transportation information
• Accommodation information
• Safety conditions
• Accessibility
• Costs and availability

Travelism is not a government authority, emergency service, travel insurer, medical provider, legal adviser, or official travel-advisory service.

Do not rely solely on Travelism or User Content when making safety-critical travel decisions.

13. Trip Collaboration

Trip owners may invite other profiles to collaborate.

Collaborators may be permitted to view or modify trip information depending on their assigned role.

When using collaboration features:

• Invite only people you intend to include.
• Review collaborator permissions carefully.
• Do not alter or delete another person’s contributions maliciously.
• Do not share private trip information outside the intended group.
• Remove collaborators who should no longer have access.

Travelism is not responsible for disagreements between trip owners and collaborators.

Travelism may preserve activity records or versions to support functionality, safety, dispute review, or data recovery.

14. Businesses, External Services, and Travel Providers

Business profiles and users may describe services, destinations, accommodations, activities, or other commercial offerings.

Unless Travelism expressly states otherwise, Travelism is not:

• The owner or operator of a listed business
• A party to an agreement between users and businesses
• A travel agent
• A hotel operator
• A tour operator
• A transportation provider
• A payment provider
• A guarantor of any product or service

You are responsible for independently evaluating a business, provider, listing, offer, or service.

A verification badge does not guarantee quality, safety, legality, availability, licensing, pricing, or performance.

Disputes relating to an external purchase, reservation, service, or transaction are primarily between the relevant user and third-party provider.

15. Current Commercial Features

The current version of Travelism does not offer active paid subscriptions, in-app purchases, payment processing, paid bookings, commissions, promoted posts, or other paid Travelism services.

Travelism may introduce commercial features later.

Before introducing paid features, Travelism may publish additional terms covering:

• Prices
• Taxes
• Payment processing
• Subscriptions
• Renewals
• Cancellations
• Refunds
• Booking terms
• Commissions
• Provider obligations
• Consumer rights

You will be shown applicable commercial terms before entering a paid transaction with Travelism.

16. Third-Party Links and Services

Travelism may contain links to third-party websites, social platforms, maps, businesses, booking services, payment providers, or other external resources.

Travelism does not control and is not responsible for:

• Third-party content
• Third-party privacy practices
• External availability
• External security
• Prices or offers
• Products or services
• Transactions completed outside Travelism
• Loss caused by third-party services

Accessing a third-party service is at your own risk and may be governed by separate terms and privacy policies.

17. Intellectual Property

Travelism and its licensors own all rights in the Travelism service that are not owned by users, including:

• The Travelism name
• Logos
• Branding
• Interface designs
• Software
• Source code
• Databases
• Graphics
• Layouts
• Features
• Documentation
• Original written material
• Compilations and arrangements

These Terms do not grant you ownership of Travelism intellectual property.

Travelism grants you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the service for its intended purposes in accordance with these Terms.

You may not use Travelism branding or intellectual property without prior written permission, except where applicable law permits such use.

18. Copyright and Intellectual-Property Complaints

If you believe content on Travelism infringes your copyright, trademark, or other intellectual-property rights, contact:

legal@travelism.app

Your notice should include:

• Your name and contact information
• Identification of the protected work or right
• Identification of the allegedly infringing content
• The content’s location on Travelism
• A statement explaining your good-faith belief
• Evidence of ownership or authority
• A declaration that the information provided is accurate

Travelism may remove or restrict disputed content while reviewing a complaint.

Users who repeatedly infringe intellectual-property rights may have their accounts restricted or terminated.

You must not knowingly submit false infringement claims.

19. Suggestions and Feedback

You may provide suggestions, ideas, or feedback about Travelism.

You grant Travelism permission to use feedback without payment, attribution, confidentiality, or restriction.

This does not give Travelism ownership of unrelated User Content or confidential information that Travelism separately agrees in writing to protect.

20. Service Availability and Changes

Travelism is provided on an evolving basis.

Travelism may:

• Add or remove features
• Change layouts
• Modify technical requirements
• Impose reasonable limits
• Suspend features
• Restrict access
• Conduct maintenance
• Discontinue part or all of the service

Travelism does not guarantee uninterrupted, error-free, or permanently available service.

Where reasonably practical, Travelism may provide notice of material changes or discontinuation.

21. Account Deactivation and Deletion

You may deactivate or request deletion of your account using available Travelism settings.

Account-deletion information will also be available at:

https://travelism.app/account-deletion

You may contact:

support@travelism.app

Travelism may require identity or account-ownership verification before processing a deletion request.

A deletion request may be subject to a short security or recovery period where displayed in the app.

Following completion, Travelism may delete, anonymize, or retain information as described in the Privacy Policy.

Deletion may not remove:

• Content independently copied or shared by other users
• Information necessary for legal compliance
• Records necessary for fraud or abuse prevention
• Moderation or safety records
• Information required to resolve disputes
• Information contained temporarily in protected backups

Temporary deactivation is not the same as permanent deletion.

22. Suspension and Termination

You may stop using Travelism at any time.

Travelism may restrict, suspend, or terminate your account or access where reasonably necessary because:

• You violated these Terms.
• You violated the Community Guidelines.
• Your account creates a safety or security risk.
• Fraud, impersonation, or illegal activity is suspected.
• Your account was compromised.
• You repeatedly infringe intellectual-property rights.
• You misuse verification.
• You attempt to evade enforcement.
• Required by law.
• Necessary to protect Travelism, users, or others.

Travelism may act immediately where there is a serious safety, fraud, security, or legal risk.

Where appropriate, Travelism may provide notice or an opportunity to request review.

Termination does not affect provisions that by their nature should survive, including ownership, licences relating to retained content, disclaimers, liability limitations, dispute provisions, and enforcement rights.

23. Disclaimers

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Travelism is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis.

Travelism does not guarantee:

• Continuous availability
• Error-free operation
• Accuracy of User Content
• Identity or trustworthiness of users
• Quality of external businesses or services
• Safety of destinations or travel activities
• Availability of travel services
• Compatibility with every device
• That all harmful content will be detected or removed immediately

Travelism does not provide legal, medical, immigration, financial, insurance, security, or professional travel advice.

Nothing in these Terms excludes warranties or rights that cannot legally be excluded.

24. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Travelism and its operator will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive loss arising from or relating to:

• Your use or inability to use Travelism
• User Content
• Actions of other users
• Travel decisions
• External services
• Loss of data
• Lost profits, revenue, opportunity, goodwill, or business
• Unauthorized account access not caused by Travelism’s failure to use reasonable safeguards
• Service interruptions
• Content copied or distributed by others

Travelism does not exclude or limit liability where exclusion or limitation is prohibited by law, including liability that cannot legally be excluded for fraud, wilful misconduct, or personal injury caused by negligence where applicable.

Subject to mandatory legal rights, Travelism’s aggregate liability arising from or relating to the free service will not exceed the greater of:

• The amount you paid directly to Travelism during the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim; or
• US$50

Because the current Travelism service does not include active paid services, the amount paid may be zero.

25. Your Responsibility for Claims

To the extent permitted by law, you agree to be responsible for losses, liabilities, damages, and reasonable costs arising from:

• Your unlawful use of Travelism
• Your violation of these Terms
• Your User Content
• Your infringement of another person’s rights
• Your fraud, misrepresentation, or intentional misconduct

This section does not require you to compensate Travelism for losses caused by Travelism’s own unlawful conduct, negligence, or breach of these Terms.

26. Governing Law and Disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of Sri Lanka.

Before commencing formal proceedings, you and Travelism should attempt in good faith to resolve a dispute by contacting:

legal@travelism.app

The notice should describe:

• The issue
• Relevant account information
• The requested resolution
• Supporting information

The following jurisdiction clause applies:

These Terms are governed by the laws of Sri Lanka. Subject to any mandatory rights available to you under the laws of your country of residence, the courts of Sri Lanka will have non-exclusive jurisdiction over disputes arising from or relating to these Terms or Travelism.

Nothing in these Terms prevents either party from seeking urgent protective or injunctive relief where legally available.

27. Mandatory Consumer Rights

These Terms do not limit rights that cannot be waived under the laws applicable to you.

Where a provision conflicts with a mandatory consumer-protection rule, the mandatory rule will apply to the extent of the conflict.

28. Changes to These Terms

Travelism may update these Terms when:

• Features change
• New services are introduced
• Legal requirements change
• Safety practices change
• Commercial features are introduced
• Platform operations change

The updated Terms will show a revised effective date, last-updated date, and version number.

Travelism may notify users of material changes through:

• The app
• The website
• Email
• Account notices
• Another reasonable method

Where legally required, Travelism will request renewed acceptance.

Continued use after updated Terms become effective constitutes acceptance, except where separate consent is required by law.

29. General Provisions

29.1 Entire agreement

These Terms, the Privacy Policy, the Community Guidelines, and any feature-specific terms form the agreement between you and Travelism concerning the service.

29.2 Severability

If any provision is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions will continue in effect.

The unenforceable provision will be interpreted or modified only to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable where permitted.

29.3 No waiver

Failure to enforce a provision does not waive the right to enforce it later.

29.4 Assignment

You may not transfer your rights or obligations under these Terms without written permission from Travelism.

Travelism may transfer these Terms as part of a merger, restructuring, financing, acquisition, sale, or transfer of the service, subject to applicable law.

29.5 No partnership

These Terms do not create an employment, agency, partnership, franchise, fiduciary, or joint-venture relationship between you and Travelism.

29.6 Headings

Section headings are provided for convenience and do not limit the meaning of the Terms.

30. Contact Us

For questions about these Terms, contact:

Legal: legal@travelism.app

Support: support@travelism.app

Privacy: privacy@travelism.app

Operator:

Nalagamage Nayanajith Dilshan

No. 04, Diyawiddagama

Nawamedagama

Ampara District, 32120

Sri Lanka

Website: https://travelism.app