CircleRecs beta

Beta terms of use

Last updated: 22 July 2026

The German version is the legally binding version.

1. Provider, scope, and beta access

CircleRecs is provided by Axel Springer Deutschland GmbH, Axel-Springer-Straße 65, 10888 Berlin, Germany. Contact us at support@circlerecs.com. These terms govern use of the free private beta. After signing in, you must explicitly accept them and confirm that you are at least 16 years old. You also need a supported Apple or Google account enabled for the beta.

The beta is an experimental service for collecting, sharing, and finding personal place recommendations. Features may change, be temporarily limited, or be discontinued. There is no entitlement to admission to the beta or permanent availability of a particular feature.

2. Account, circles, and visibility

Keep your account secure and invite only people you intend to include. Circle content and chats are visible to active members of that circle. You are responsible for invitations you create or share.

A public profile and recommendations intended for it may be visible and shareable on the internet without sign-in. Review your visibility setting before publishing. Private places, Want and Pass lists, private profile areas, blocks, chats, and import previews remain private or limited to the relevant circle as indicated in the interface.

3. Your content and rights

You remain responsible for recommendations, text, photos, chat messages, public tips, votes, and other content you submit. For as long as it is stored, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free right to store, technically reproduce, process, display to your chosen audience, and technically adapt that content for different devices. This right is limited to operating and securing CircleRecs and providing the features you use.

Only upload content you are allowed to use. In particular, do not submit unlawful, misleading, insulting, discriminatory, threatening, privacy-invasive material or content that infringes copyright, trade marks, personality rights, or other rights. Do not publish credentials, private contact details, or sensitive information about other people.

4. Public community tips

Celeb Map entries are unverified community tips, not factual claims editorially confirmed by CircleRecs. Submit only past associations with publicly accessible restaurants, bars, cafes, or clubs. Live or real-time information, homes, hotels, hospitals, schools, religious or other sensitive places, information about minors, stalking, targeted following, and photos taken just for a submission are prohibited. Do not claim that a person loves, regularly visits, or is currently at a place.

By submitting, you confirm in good faith that the tip is based on a past first-hand observation or existing public information, does not reveal a private or sensitive place, and that any optional source link is lawfully accessible. Votes only show whether community members confirm or doubt a tip. They do not prove it true or false.

5. Recommendations, AI, maps, and external links

Friend recommendations, public community tips, opening hours, locations, map points, AI answers, and booking links may be incomplete, outdated, or wrong. CircleRecs is inspiration, not a guarantee or professional advice. Check important details with the venue or original source before travelling, booking, or spending money.

Ask and AI-assisted place capture use an AI system. The answers and editable suggestions shown by these features are generated automatically and are not editorially reviewed before display. The recommendations used remain visible as sources where available. See our privacy notice for more information.

Apple, Google, map services, venue websites, and future reservation partners have their own terms and privacy rules. External links do not mean that we control, endorse, or guarantee the linked content.

6. Acceptable use

Do not scrape CircleRecs, evade technical limits or access controls, exploit security vulnerabilities, distribute malicious code, impersonate others, manipulate votes, harass people, or use automated access without our permission. Do not use place or profile data to monitor people, follow them in a targeted manner, or create movement profiles.

7. Notices, moderation, and appeals

You may report unlawful or rule-breaking content by emailing support@circlerecs.com. Where possible, include the exact URL or content ID, your reason, sufficient facts for assessment, your name and email address, and a statement that the information is accurate and complete to the best of your knowledge. Public community tips may be challenged without signing in through our public notice form.

A sufficiently specific notice about a public community tip automatically hides the entry temporarily during review. A human makes the final decision. We may remove content, reduce its reach, limit features, or suspend accounts temporarily or permanently where necessary to enforce these terms, comply with law, or protect users, third parties, or the service. Where legally required, we inform affected users of the main reasons and available remedies.

If you believe a moderation decision is wrong, you may appeal by emailing support@circlerecs.com with the decision and your reasons. We will review the appeal again. Knowingly false, abusive, or repetitive notices may be rejected and restricted in cases of misuse.

8. Availability and liability

We aim to keep the beta useful and secure but do not promise uninterrupted availability, permanent storage, or error-free results. Do not rely on the beta as the only place where you keep important information or content.

Statutory liability remains unaffected, including liability for intent, gross negligence, injury to life, body or health, fraudulent concealment of a defect, and mandatory product liability. For slightly negligent breach of essential contractual duties, liability is limited to damage that is typical and foreseeable for the contract. Liability for other slight negligence is excluded where legally permitted.

9. Changes and termination

You may stop using the service and delete your account in the app at any time. We may end beta access for an objective reason, particularly a breach, security risk, or discontinuation of the beta. Urgent protective measures may take effect immediately.

We will notify you in the app or by email of material changes to these terms before they take effect and state the intended date. If you do not agree, you may stop using the service and delete your account before that date. Purely technical, clarifying, or beneficial changes may take effect immediately.

10. Governing law and dispute resolution

German law applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. If you are a consumer, mandatory protections of the country of your habitual residence remain unaffected. Axel Springer Deutschland GmbH does not participate in voluntary dispute resolution before a German consumer arbitration board and is not legally obliged to do so.