# pingwa: terms of use (plain text)

By texting "join" or creating an account you agree to these terms.
Base URL: https://pingwa.dev
Last updated: 2026-07-12

## What you can use it for
- Notifying yourself only. Messages arrive on the one phone that joined. That is the
  whole product and the only allowed use.

## What you must not do
pingwa shares one WhatsApp sender number across many accounts. Abuse by one person can
get that number blocked by Meta and break the service for everyone, so this is enforced.
- No marketing, promotions, or bulk messaging of any kind.
- No sending to other people; pingwa only ever texts the number that joined, and you
  must not try to work around that.
- No illegal, harmful, deceptive, or abusive content.
- No reselling the service or sharing one account across many end users.
- No attempts to break, overload, or bypass rate limits and quotas.
- Honor "stop": if a recipient opts out, sending stays off until they send "join" again.

## Suspension and removal
- We may suspend or delete any account at any time, with or without notice, if we
  believe it breaks these terms or puts the shared number at risk.

## Best-effort delivery, no guarantees
- Provided AS IS, with no warranty and no uptime or delivery guarantee. Messages can be
  delayed, dropped, or undelivered.
- Do not use pingwa as your only channel for safety-critical, medical, financial, or
  emergency alerts.
- To the maximum extent allowed by law, we are not liable for missed, delayed, or
  undelivered messages, or for any loss from using or not being able to use the service.

## Plans and billing
- Free: 30 paid-route notifications/month, plus unlimited messages inside your open 24h
  reply window.
- Pro: $9/month for 500 notifications. Scale: $19/month for 2,000 notifications. Billed through Stripe.
- Switch tier or cancel anytime in the Stripe portal from the panel. Access lasts until the end of the
  paid period. Partial months are not refunded.
- WhatsApp pricing is set by Meta and varies by country. Plan prices and limits can
  change; changes are posted before they take effect.

## Your data
- See https://pingwa.dev/privacy. Message text, keys, and phone numbers are never logged; keys
  are stored only as a hash; erase everything with DELETE /v1/me.

## Changes and shutdown
- We may update these terms; continued use after a change means acceptance.
- We may change or discontinue the service, with reasonable notice where practical. On
  shutdown, remaining data may be deleted.

## Governing law and contact
- Governed by the laws of Poland.
- Questions or abuse reports: grzgrzgrz3@gmail.com . Who runs pingwa: https://pingwa.dev/about