Terms of Use

Last updated: 9 November 2026 · Operator: Tekno · Contact: teknobus.dev@gmail.com

By using the PooDuo mobile app and the services at https://pooduo.com, you agree to these Terms of Use and to our Community & Room Rules. You must accept these terms before you join the room or send your first message.

1. Age requirement (18+ only) and account checks

• Adults only (18+): PooDuo is only for adults aged 18 and over. People under 18 must not create an account, enter the room or use the service.
• If someone says they are under 18: If a user says they are under 18 (including mentioning a school year) in group chat, one-to-one chat or on the Bathroom Wall, their one-to-one messaging is restricted right away and a priority moderation review is opened. Accounts confirmed to belong to minors are closed, and the phone they used is also closed to new sign-ups.
• Sign-in and verification: You sign in with a Google account only. To prevent bots and fake installs, sign-up may require a Google Play Integrity check (it confirms the app was installed from Google Play and not modified). New sign-ups may be paused for a while when moderation is busy.

2. How the service works, limits and Solo Mode

• 10-minute sessions: A session lasts 10 minutes. When it ends, the chat on your screen is flushed away and cannot be reopened for you. How long the server keeps data is explained in the Privacy Policy.
• Usage limits: To prevent abuse and protect the free infrastructure, there is a limit of 5 full sessions per user per day, a 10-minute wait between sessions (9 minutes at the least) and 100 messages per day. Sessions shorter than 30 seconds do not count toward statistics or streaks (2-minute wait, at most twice a day).
• One-to-one rule: To send someone a one-to-one chat request, you must have overlapped with them for at least 60 seconds in the same session before, or be mutual Duo partners. The other person must always accept the request. A decline, or a second unanswered request within 7 days, stops new requests for that pair for 7 days.
• Infrastructure quotas and Solo Mode: The service runs on free cloud quotas. When the daily quota limits come close, the app moves through automatic protection levels. It may switch off the trivia first, then one-to-one chat, free text, or the whole live room until 00:00 UTC the next day (03:00 Turkey time) ("Solo Mode"). In Solo Mode your 10-minute timer keeps running on your phone. Fake people or made-up numbers are never shown.

3. Automatic filtering, human review and translation hints (DSA Art. 14)

• Automatic text filter: Group messages, one-to-one messages, usernames and Bathroom Wall posts go through a rule-based filter on the server before they are delivered. Phone numbers (in digits, in words or split across messages), email addresses, social media accounts, web links, Duo invite codes, severe slurs, threats, encouragement of self-harm and child-safety violations are masked or rejected.
• Automatic safety scanning in one-to-one chats: As stated and agreed at your first one-to-one request and acceptance, one-to-one messages are scanned automatically for sharing of contact details, severe violations, and grooming signals over the last 10 lines. If the threshold is passed, both people see a safety warning and a report is opened for the moderator to review.
• Human review: When a message, user or Wall post is reported, or an automatic safety signal goes off, a human moderator reviews the message window the reporter could see (and, in serious child-safety cases, the preserved message records and Wall evidence).
• Moderation by language: Free text is open only in languages that have a native-language reader who can handle child-safety reports within 12 hours (at first Turkish and English). In other languages (at first German, Spanish and French), chat works with ready-made phrases only until a native-language moderator is in place.
• The role of machine translation: In the moderator console, on-device translation or Cloudflare's translation model can be used as a hint only. A translation can help start or raise a review. A child-safety report in a language the moderator cannot read is never closed on machine translation alone, and a Wall post in a language that cannot be read is never approved based on a translation.

5. Intellectual property and open-licensed content

The PooDuo name, logo, original interface design, software code and content created by the operator belong to Tekno. Users may not copy the app, reverse engineer it or change it without permission.

Open-licensed content: Third-party open-licensed material in the trivia question bank or in the language and filter components (in particular content under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0), CC BY 4.0 and CC0 1.0, and translations and adaptations of it) is outside any claim of ownership or exclusive rights by the operator. Questions translated or edited from a CC BY-SA 4.0 source stay under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence. All sources, authors, licence links and notices of changes are published on the Credits page.

6. Penalties, statement of reasons and how to appeal

• If you break the rules, you can receive a warning, a temporary mute, a one-to-one restriction, a pause on writing to the Wall, an account suspension or a permanent ban (including the phone digest).
• Automatic restrictions applied because of a keyword or two different clean reporters last at most 12 hours and can be applied once per target every 7 days. Anything longer needs a human moderator's decision.
• For every restriction, mute, suspension and Wall rejection or hiding, you are told the reason, whether automation was used and how to appeal, in your interface language.
• Appeal with human review: You can ask for a human review of any moderation decision, or of a device restriction caused by a shared phone, in Turkish or English. Use the "Appeal" link in the app or write to teknobus.dev@gmail.com. While your appeal is open, your account data and the related records are not deleted.