Terms of Use

Last updated: 27 July 2026

These Terms of Use ("Terms") govern your use of the Vink mobile application and related services ("Vink", the "App"). By creating an account or using the App, you agree to these Terms.

1. Provider

The App is provided by Tom Skoropinski, trading as TSK Software (sole proprietorship), Raiffeisenstraße 2, 63633 Birstein, Germany, contact@vink-app.com (the "Provider", "we", "us").

2. Eligibility

The App is strictly for adults. By registering you confirm and warrant that you are at least 18 years old. We may request age verification and will delete your account if we determine that you are under 18.

3. Your account

You are responsible for keeping your login credentials confidential and for activity under your account. You must provide accurate information and keep it up to date. You may not transfer your account to anyone else.

4. The service and acceptable use

Vink lets you upload your own photos and receive aggregated feedback on how other users responded to them. You agree to use the App only for lawful purposes and in accordance with these Terms. You must not, for example: upload content you have no right to upload; upload content depicting anyone who has not consented; harass, abuse or impersonate others; attempt to identify, contact or stalk other users; circumvent moderation, security or rate limits; or use bots or automated means to manipulate ratings.

5. Your content and the licence you grant

5.1 Ownership. You retain all rights in the photos and other content you upload ("Your Content").

5.2 Licence. You grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, reproduce, adapt (only for technical formatting such as cropping or resizing), and display Your Content solely for the purpose of operating and providing the App — that is, to show it to other users for rating and to show your results back to you. This licence is limited to that purpose, includes the right to use our processors strictly as necessary to operate the App (see our Privacy Policy), and ends when you delete the content or your account, except for copies we are required to retain by law or that remain in backups for a limited period before routine deletion.

5.3 No other use. We do not use Your Content for advertising, and we do not sell it. This licence does not cover using Your Content, or the ratings you give, to develop or train machine-learning models. We will only do that if you give us separate, optional consent in the App, which you can withdraw at any time (see Section 3 of our Privacy Policy).

5.4 Your warranties and indemnity. You represent and warrant that you own Your Content or have all rights necessary to upload it, and that Your Content depicts only yourself, or that you have obtained the consent of every identifiable person shown (including as required by § 22 of the German Act on the Protection of Copyright in Works of Art and Photography, KUG). You will indemnify and hold us harmless against third-party claims arising from Your Content or from your breach of these warranties, except to the extent the claim is caused by us.

6. Prohibited content

You must not upload content that is unlawful, that depicts minors, that is sexually explicit or pornographic, that infringes others' rights, or that is otherwise objectionable. Uploaded photos are screened by an automated filter before storage, and may be reviewed following reports.

7. Moderation, reporting and notice-and-action (Digital Services Act)

You can report content you consider illegal or in breach of these Terms using the in-app report function. When you submit a report with the required information, we confirm receipt (Art. 16 DSA). We review reports and may remove content, issue warnings, restrict, or terminate accounts. Where we remove content or restrict an account on the basis of a report or our moderation, we provide the affected user with a statement of reasons and information about how to appeal (Art. 17 DSA), unless prohibited by law. Appeals can be submitted within 14 days to contact@vink-app.com. Our point of contact for users and authorities under Art. 11/12 DSA is contact@vink-app.com (German and English).

8. Liability

We are liable without limitation for damages arising from injury to life, body or health caused by our negligent or intentional breach of duty, and for other damages caused by our intent or gross negligence.

For slight negligence we are liable only for breach of a material contractual obligation (an obligation whose fulfilment makes the proper performance of the contract possible in the first place and on whose observance you may regularly rely), and in that case our liability is limited to the foreseeable damage typical of this kind of contract.

Liability under the German Product Liability Act (Produkthaftungsgesetz) and under any guarantee we may have given remains unaffected. Any further liability is excluded. The statistics and scores provided through the App are for informational purposes and come with no warranty as to accuracy.

9. Indemnification

See Section 5.4. In addition, you will reimburse us for reasonable costs of legal defence arising from your culpable breach of these Terms or of applicable law.

10. Term and termination

These Terms apply for as long as you use the App. You may stop using the App and delete your account at any time in Settings → Delete account. We may suspend or terminate your account if you materially breach these Terms or the law, or where required to protect users or comply with legal obligations; where proportionate we will give notice and, in moderation cases, a statement of reasons under Section 7. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (including Sections 5.4, 8, 9 and 11) continue to apply.

11. Governing law and dispute resolution

These Terms are governed by the law of the Federal Republic of Germany, excluding its conflict-of-laws rules and the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. If you are a consumer with habitual residence in the EU, mandatory consumer-protection provisions of your country of residence remain unaffected.

Consumer dispute resolution (VSBG): we are neither willing nor obliged to participate in dispute-resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board.

12. Apple-specific terms

The following applies if you obtained the App from the Apple App Store and use it on an Apple device:

• These Terms are concluded between you and the Provider only, not with Apple. Apple is not responsible for the App or its content.
• The Provider, not Apple, is solely responsible for providing maintenance and support, and for addressing any claims relating to the App, including product-liability, legal/regulatory and intellectual-property claims.
• In the event the App fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple may refund the purchase price (if any); to the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation with respect to the App.
• You represent that you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. Government embargo and are not on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
• Objectionable content (zero tolerance): there is zero tolerance for objectionable content or abusive behaviour. By using the App you agree to these Terms; the App provides a method to flag objectionable content and to block abusive users; and we will review reports of objectionable content and remove the content and remove the offending user within 24 hours.
• Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and, upon your acceptance, have the right to enforce them against you.

13. Changes to these Terms

We may amend these Terms where there is a valid reason (for example, changes to the service or the law). We will inform you of material changes in an appropriate manner and, where your continued use is concerned, give you the opportunity to object or stop using the App. The version published at https://vink-app.com/terms/ is authoritative and is kept identical to the version shown in the App.

14. Contact

Provider and DSA point of contact: contact@vink-app.com. Company details are set out in our Impressum.