Terms

1. Acceptance

These Terms of Service form a binding agreement between you and Qrious Technologies Inc., a Delaware C-Corporation headquartered at 251 Little Falls Drive, Wilmington, DE 19808, USA (“Qrious”, “we”, “us”).

By using sparks.qrious.social or any assessment published on it, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

2. Age Requirement

You must be at least 18 years old to use the Service. Some result content may not be appropriate for younger audiences.

3. Your Email Address

• Real email. If you join our mailing list, use a real email address that you control.
• One person, one signup. Do not subscribe other people without their consent. We use double opt-in so the address holder has to confirm before they are added.
• Unsubscribing is free. Every email we send contains an unsubscribe link. We honor unsubscribes within 24 hours.

4. The Service

Sparks is a web service that publishes a growing family of self-knowledge assessments. Today this includes a personality quiz; we are developing additional formats (for example, a political-orientation compass, an astrology-style profile, and an attachment-style assessment) that will be published on the same domain over time.

Every assessment is for entertainment, education, and self-reflection. We make no diagnostic, therapeutic, or predictive claims. The full statement of what the Service is not lives in section 14 (Disclaimers).

5. Your Answers and Your Result

When you take an assessment, you give us answers. Those answers never leave your browser. We do not store them against your identity, and we do not claim any rights in them. The result the assessment produces is rendered in your browser from your answers; it belongs to you.

If you choose to share your result by copying the share URL or using your device’s native share sheet, that share is your decision. The URL encodes a compact representation of the result so that whoever opens it sees what you saw. You are responsible for how you share it.

6. Sharing Your Result

• Sharing is opt-in. We never share your result on your behalf; the share action is yours.
• Do not share other people’s results without their permission. Treat a share URL the way you would treat a screenshot.
• Do not use a Sparks result to make a hiring, lending, insurance, housing, or medical decision about anyone. The assessment is not designed for that and is not validated for it.
• Do not present a Sparks result as a professional diagnosis or as the output of a regulated assessment. It is neither.

7. Mailing List & Newsletter

If you sign up for launch updates, we confirm your address through a double opt-in: you give us an email, we send you a confirmation link, and only after you click it do we add you to the list. This protects you from being subscribed without your knowledge.

Every email we send contains an unsubscribe link, and we honor unsubscribes within 24 hours. You can also email privacy@qrious.social to request removal at any time.

8. Prohibited Conduct

You agree not to:

• Use the Service to harass, stalk, threaten, defame, or impersonate any person.
• Subscribe email addresses you do not control to our mailing list.
• Send unsolicited commercial messages, spam, or chain messages using shareable Sparks URLs.
• Scrape, crawl, or harvest data from the Service at a rate or scale that interferes with its normal operation.
• Reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract proprietary scoring logic, designs, or models from the Service.
• Use the Service in a country embargoed by the United States or while on a U.S. government denied-parties list.
• Interfere with the security or normal operation of the Service, including bypassing rate limits or our consent mechanism.

9. Pricing

Sparks is currently free to use. There are no paid features today.

If we add paid features in the future, we will update these Terms and you will see the new terms before you make any purchase. We will not retroactively charge for assessments you have already taken.

10. Cookies & Local Storage

Sparks runs in your web browser and uses cookies and local storage in narrow, declared ways. The full list of what is stored is published in our Privacy Policy.

• Consent banner. On first visit you see a banner asking what you accept. Strictly-necessary entries always run; functional and analytics entries are off until you opt in.
• Quiz state. While you take an assessment, your answers are saved in your browser’s sessionStorage so a refresh does not lose your progress. Closing the tab clears them.
• Language and display preferences. Your selected language and display preferences are stored locally so you do not have to set them every visit.
• Manage cookies. You can change your choices at any time using the “Manage cookies” link in the footer.

11. Removing Your Data

If you joined our mailing list, you can remove your email at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in any email or by writing to privacy@qrious.social. We will remove your address within 24 hours.

Your quiz answers never reach us, so there is nothing to delete on our end. To clear them from your browser, close the tab. To delete your cookie consent record, use “Manage cookies” in the footer and reset, or clear site data in your browser.

12. License Grant

Subject to these Terms, Qrious grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use the Service through a standard web browser. This license does not give you any right to the underlying source code, scoring logic, designs, models, or content that make the Service work.

13. Termination

You can stop using the Service at any time by closing the page. We can revoke your access to the Service if we believe you have violated these Terms, posed a safety risk to other visitors, or used the Service in a way that exposes us to legal risk.

On termination, your right to use the Service ends. Sections that by their nature should survive (ownership, disclaimers, liability, arbitration, governing law) will survive.

14. Disclaimers

The Service is provided “as is” and “as available”. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Qrious disclaims all warranties, whether express, implied, or statutory, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.

Every assessment published on Sparks — whether a personality quiz, a political-orientation compass, an astrology-style profile, an attachment-style assessment, or any future format — is for entertainment, education, and self-reflection. Our results are not a medical or psychological diagnosis, not a substitute for professional advice (medical, psychological, legal, financial, or otherwise), not a hiring, lending, insurance, housing, or admissions criterion, and not a predictor of compatibility, performance, success, or any future outcome. Scoring models are heuristic. Different assessments use different frameworks (some peer-reviewed, some not) and we describe each one’s basis on its result page. You should not make significant life decisions based solely on a Sparks result. If something in a result resonates and you want to act on it, please speak to a qualified professional.

15. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Qrious and its affiliates, directors, employees, and agents will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, or goodwill, arising out of or in connection with the Service.

Our total aggregate liability for any claim arising out of or relating to the Service or these Terms will not exceed USD $100, given that the Service is provided to you free of charge.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability for (i) death or personal injury caused by our negligence, (ii) gross negligence or willful misconduct, (iii) fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or (iv) any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law (including, where applicable, § 309 Nr. 7 of the German Civil Code and equivalent EU consumer protections).

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain damages. In those jurisdictions, the exclusions and limitations above apply only to the extent permitted by law, and your statutory consumer rights are not affected.

16. Arbitration & Class Waiver (U.S. Users)

If you are a resident of the United States, you and Qrious agree that any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service will be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules. The seat of arbitration is Wilmington, Delaware. The arbitrator, not any court, has exclusive authority to resolve any dispute relating to the interpretation, applicability, or enforceability of this arbitration agreement.

You and Qrious waive the right to participate in a class action, class arbitration, or representative proceeding. Either party may bring an individual claim in small-claims court if the dispute qualifies.

You can opt out of this arbitration agreement by sending written notice to legal@qrious.social within 30 days of first accepting these Terms. The opt-out has no other effect on your use of the Service.

This arbitration agreement and the class-action waiver in p2 do not apply where prohibited by law. Visitors outside the United States are not bound by this arbitration clause, and the class-action waiver does not apply to the extent it is unenforceable, including against consumers in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and any U.S. state whose law renders such waivers unenforceable. Nothing in this section deprives you of any mandatory right to bring an individual or representative claim under your local law.

17. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.

If you are a consumer in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or another jurisdiction whose laws grant you mandatory consumer protections, nothing in this section deprives you of those protections.

18. DMCA & Copyright

If you believe content on the Service infringes your copyright, send a DMCA notice to our Designated Agent (below) with: (a) a signature of the rights holder or an authorized agent; (b) identification of the work claimed to be infringed; (c) identification of the allegedly infringing material and where it appears on the Service; (d) your contact information; (e) a statement of good-faith belief that the use is unauthorized; and (f) a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information is accurate and that you are authorized to act for the rights holder.

We will respond to valid notices and may remove allegedly infringing content. Repeat infringers will be banned from interacting with the Service.

Designated Agent under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(2)

Qrious Technologies Inc.

dmca@qrious.social

The Designated Agent is registered with the U.S. Copyright Office. Counter-notifications and other notices under 17 U.S.C. § 512 should be sent to the same agent.

Counter-Notification (17 U.S.C. § 512(g))

If your content was removed and you believe it was a mistake or misidentification, you may send a counter-notification to dmca@qrious.social containing: (a) your physical or electronic signature; (b) identification of the material that was removed and the location at which it appeared before removal; (c) a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief that the material was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification; (d) your name, address, and phone number, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for the judicial district in which your address is located (or, if outside the U.S., for any judicial district in which we may be found), and that you will accept service of process from the person who provided the original notice. We may replace the removed material in not less than ten and not more than fourteen business days after we receive the counter-notification, unless the rights holder files an action seeking a court order restraining the activity.

19. EU Digital Services Act (Notice & Action)

For visitors in the European Union, the following applies in addition to section 18 (DMCA). It implements our obligations under the EU Digital Services Act (Regulation (EU) 2022/2065, “DSA”).

• Notice-and-action mechanism (Art. 16). You can submit a sufficiently substantiated notice about illegal content to legal@qrious.social. A valid notice should include: a reasoned explanation of why the content is illegal, the exact URL or identifier of the content, your name and contact details (unless the content concerns Articles 3–7 of Directive 2011/93/EU), and a good-faith declaration that the information is accurate and complete.
• Statement of reasons (Art. 17). When we restrict the visibility of, suspend, or terminate access to information or interactions associated with a visitor, we will provide that visitor with a clear and specific statement of reasons where we have a means to do so.
• Internal complaint-handling (Art. 20). You may lodge a complaint against any of our content moderation decisions by emailing legal@qrious.social within six months of being notified of the decision. Complaints are reviewed by qualified personnel under human supervision.
• Out-of-court dispute settlement (Art. 21). You may also refer the dispute to a certified out-of-court dispute settlement body in your Member State. Our internal complaint-handling system is not a precondition to using such a body.
• Single point of contact. Single point of contact for visitors and authorities under Articles 11 and 12 DSA: legal@qrious.social. Communications may be sent in English or German.
• EU Legal Representative (Art. 13 DSA). Pablo Daniel Oba (Berlin, Germany) acts as our legal representative in the European Union for matters relating to the Digital Services Act. Contact: dpo@qrious.social. The Member States, the European Commission, and the European Board for Digital Services may address all communications relating to the DSA to this contact.

20. Boilerplate

• Indemnification. You agree to indemnify and hold Qrious harmless from claims arising out of your use of the Service, content you share, or your violation of these Terms.
• Force majeure. Neither party is liable for delays or failures caused by events beyond reasonable control (natural disasters, war, government action, network failures, etc.).
• Severability. If any provision is held unenforceable, the remainder of these Terms remains in effect.
• Entire agreement. These Terms and the Privacy Policy form the entire agreement between you and Qrious regarding the Service and supersede any prior agreements.
• No waiver. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of our right to enforce it later.
• Assignment. You may not assign these Terms. We may assign these Terms to an affiliate or in connection with a merger or sale of assets.
• Notices. We may send notices to the email associated with your mailing-list subscription, if you have one. You can send notices to us at legal@qrious.social.
• Language. These Terms are published in English and translated for convenience. In the event of a conflict between the English version and a translation, the English version controls, except where mandatory consumer law in your jurisdiction requires that the translation prevail.

21. Changes & Contact

We may update these Terms from time to time. When we make material changes, we will notify visitors through the Service or by email (where you have given us one) and update the “Last updated” date above. Continued use of the Service after changes become effective constitutes acceptance.

For consumers in the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom: where a change to these Terms materially affects your rights or obligations, we will give you at least 30 days’ notice before the change takes effect. If you do not agree, you may stop using the Service before the effective date and the prior version will apply to your remaining use until then. Continued use after that date constitutes acceptance only where you have been clearly informed of the change and the option to stop. Silent acceptance from continued use alone is not assumed.

For questions or to send a legal notice:

Legal: legal@qrious.social

Support: support@qrious.social

Report abuse: abuse@qrious.social

Mail: Qrious Technologies Inc., 251 Little Falls Drive, Wilmington, DE 19808, USA