Terms of use

These terms are the agreement between you and Novarque, which runs Orbit. By creating an account you accept them, together with the privacy notice.

Who can use Orbit

• You must be 18 or older.
• Orbit is by invitation: you join with a code from someone already on Orbit.
• One account per person, signed in with your own email address. Keep access to that email to yourself.

How Orbit works, and what stays fixed

• You can have 100 friends, and 2,000 with Orbit Plus. Friendship is mutual, and only you can see your list.
• Everything you post is visible only to the friends you share it with. Nothing on Orbit is public.
• You can keep 100 posts at a time, and 2,000 with Orbit Plus. Stories do not count, and they are deleted after 24 hours.
• Your feed is your friends' posts, newest first, and it ends. There are no ads.
• Your location is shared only when you turn it on, with the friends and for the time you choose.

Your content

What you post stays yours. You allow us to store it, process it and show it to the people you share it with, only to run Orbit. You can delete any post, and your whole account, at any time.

The community rules

Do not post, share or store anything on Orbit that:

• belongs to someone else and that you have no right to share;
• is obscene, pornographic or paedophilic, invades another person's privacy, including bodily privacy, or insults or harasses anyone on the basis of gender;
• is racially or ethnically objectionable, or promotes enmity between groups on the grounds of religion or caste with the intent to incite violence;
• relates to or encourages money laundering or gambling, or is an online game that is not permitted, or advertises one;
• is harmful to a child;
• infringes a patent, trademark, copyright or other right;
• deceives or misleads anyone about where a message came from, or is misinformation you know to be false or misleading;
• impersonates another person;
• threatens the unity, integrity, defence, security or sovereignty of India, its friendly relations with other countries or public order, incites an offence, or insults another nation;
• contains a virus or other code meant to damage or limit a computer resource;
• breaks any law in force.

And, because of what Orbit is:

• never share someone's photo, location or words from Orbit outside it without their consent;
• never use Orbit to watch or track a person who has not chosen to share with you;
• never accept payment, a discount or a reward for a pick: picks cannot be bought;
• no spam, and no automated accounts.

If the rules are broken

We may remove the content and suspend or end the account at once. Breaking the law can carry a penalty or punishment under the Information Technology Act, 2000 or another law, and where the law requires it we report an offence to the authorities. You can block and report any person or post in the app, or write to our Grievance Officer.

Ending your account

You can delete your account whenever you like. We may end an account that breaks these terms.

Orbit is in testing

Orbit is being tested with a small circle of friends and is provided as it is. Counsel is drafting the rest of these terms, including liability, disputes and the governing law.