Terms of Service

3.1No affiliation or endorsement

UUDO is an independent, third-party service. UUDO is not affiliated with, sponsored by, endorsed by, licensed by, or acting on behalf of any university, college, faculty, department, or educational institution, unless a specific partnership is expressly and publicly announced by both UUDO and that institution.

The presence of a university on the platform does not mean that the institution has approved, reviewed, partnered with, or has any relationship with UUDO.

3.2Email-domain verification is identity verification, not partnership

UUDO separates its communities by university. To enter a university’s community, you register with an email address on a domain that we have associated with that university. This requirement exists solely as an automated identity-verification and community-separation mechanism. It is not evidence of an institutional relationship, it is not administered by the institution, and it creates no rights or obligations for the institution.

We maintain the association between email domains and universities ourselves, and we may add, change, or remove domains at any time. Domain conventions differ by country — a university’s domain may end in .edu, .edu.br, .ac.uk, or anything else — and the form of a domain implies nothing about UUDO’s relationship with the institution.

3.3University names and marks

University names, abbreviations, crests, logos, and other trademarks remain the exclusive property of their respective owners. Where such names or marks appear in the Service, they are used solely to identify the campus community concerned — a nominative, descriptive use — or they have been submitted by users and are shown as user content. UUDO claims no ownership of, and asserts no rights in, any institution’s marks, and their appearance does not indicate sponsorship, affiliation, or endorsement.

3.4If you are an institution or a rights holder

A university, or the owner of any mark used in the Service, may write to legal@uudo.app to ask us to remove or change any use of its name or marks. We will respond promptly and in good faith.

4.1Registration and accuracy

Please give accurate information when you register, and keep it current. You may not impersonate another person, misrepresent your academic affiliation, or create an account for someone else.

4.2One account per person

You may hold one account. You may not sell, rent, share, or transfer your account or your access credentials.

4.3Keeping your account secure

You are responsible for keeping your credentials confidential and for what happens under your account. We offer two-factor authentication (TOTP) and recovery codes in Settings, and we strongly recommend turning them on. Tell us at help@uudo.app straight away if you think your account has been compromised.

4.4Alternate email

You can add a verified alternate email address in Settings. We recommend doing so — see section 5.

5.1Continued access requirement

Your membership of a university community depends on your continuing to control an email address that we associate with that university.

5.2Graduation and loss of access

Universities routinely deactivate student email addresses on graduation, withdrawal, or transfer.

We may change your access, archive your profile, restrict your visibility within a campus community, or close your account if you stop controlling a qualifying university email address.

Where we reasonably can, we will tell you before we do this and give you a chance to add a verified alternate email address or otherwise confirm that you are still eligible.

5.3We do not monitor your enrolment

We receive no enrolment, registration, transcript, or graduation data from any institution, and we do not verify your academic standing. What we know is limited to whether your email address still works and what you tell us.

5.4Deactivation and deletion

You can deactivate your account at any time in Settings, and deactivation is reversible. You can also delete your account permanently in Settings. A deletion request has a 7-day grace period during which you can cancel it; after that, your data is permanently erased within 30 days. The full retention picture is in the Privacy Policy.

7.1You keep ownership

You keep every right you already hold in what you create, post, upload, or send through the Service (“Your Content”) — profile text and photos, messages, posts, events, organization pages, and anything else.

7.2The permission you give us

So that we can operate the Service, you give UUDO a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable licence — sublicensable only to our service providers, and only so they can host and deliver the Service — to host, store, reproduce, adapt for technical purposes such as resizing and format conversion, transmit, and display Your Content within the Service, to the audience you chose when you posted it.

This permission exists only to run the Service. It does not allow us to publish Your Content outside the Service, to sell it, or to use it in advertising, and it ends when you delete the content or your account — subject only to backups and to copies other users have already lawfully received, such as a message already delivered to its recipient.

7.3Your responsibility

You are responsible for Your Content, and you confirm that you hold the rights needed to post it and that it infringes nobody else’s rights and breaks no law.

7.4Feedback

If you send us suggestions or feedback about the Service, we may use them freely and without obligation to you. Feedback is not confidential and is not Your Content under 7.2.

8.1Harm to people

• Harass, bully, stalk, intimidate, or threaten anyone.
• Publish private information about someone without their consent — home address, personal phone number, private email, identity-document numbers, or class schedule (“doxxing”).
• Post hate speech, or content that attacks or demeans a person or group on the basis of race, colour, ethnicity, national origin, religion, disability, disease, age, sex, gender, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
• Post sexual content involving minors, non-consensual intimate images, or content that sexualises any person without their consent.
• Promote or glorify self-harm, suicide, eating disorders, or violence.

8.2Academic integrity

• Organise, advertise, broker, or take part in academic dishonesty — contract cheating, ghost-writing, selling or distributing exam material, answer-sharing rings, or impersonating a student in an assessment.
• Use UUDO to recruit for, or to coordinate, any such activity.

8.3Unlawful transactions and trade

• Offer, solicit, or arrange any illegal transaction, including the sale of drugs, alcohol to minors, weapons, stolen goods, counterfeit items, forged documents, or academic work as described in 8.2.
• Use the Service for gambling, pyramid or referral schemes, unlicensed financial services, or any activity that needs a licence you do not hold.

8.4Deception and platform abuse

• Impersonate any person, organization, university, or UUDO itself.
• Create multiple or automated accounts, or try to register with an email address you are not entitled to use.
• Post spam, chain messages, unsolicited commercial messages, or mass unsolicited connection requests.

8.5Technical integrity

• Scrape, crawl, harvest, or bulk-collect data or personal information from the Service by any means, automated or manual.
• Try to reach data belonging to another university community, another user, or any part of the Service you are not authorised to reach, or try in any way to defeat the separation between campus communities.
• Reverse engineer, decompile, or try to derive the source code of the App, except where that restriction is unenforceable under applicable law.
• Interfere with, overload, or disrupt the Service, get around rate limits or security measures, or introduce malware.

8.6Legal compliance

You must comply with every law that applies to your use of the Service, and with the terms of any third party whose service you use to reach UUDO — your mobile network operator, for example.

9.1How to report someone

You can report a user straight from their profile or from a conversation in the App, block any user from their profile or from a conversation, and manage everyone you have blocked in Settings. You can also write to help@uudo.app. This reporting channel is permanent, free, and open to every user, and we publicise it in the App and on the Site.

9.2What we may do

We review reports and may take any of these steps, in proportion to what we find: remove or restrict content; issue a warning; limit features; suspend an account; end an account; revoke an organization’s approval; or refer a matter to law enforcement where we believe there is a risk to life or a serious crime.

9.3Removal without a court order

We may remove or restrict content or accounts on our own initiative or after being notified, where we consider in good faith that these Terms or the law have been broken. For users in Brazil this reflects the framework set by the Federal Supreme Court in its 2025 ruling on Art. 19 of the Marco Civil da Internet: for most categories of unlawful content an out-of-court notice is enough to trigger our duty to act, while content said to be a crime against honour is generally removed on the basis of a court order.

Nothing in this section obliges us to monitor all content, and nothing in it limits any right you have under law.

9.4We tell you, and you can appeal

When we act against your account or your content, we will tell you what we did and why, unless the law prevents us or telling you would put someone else at risk. You can appeal any enforcement decision by writing to help@uudo.app. We will review appeals in good faith and respond within a reasonable time.

Where a decision involved automated processing, you can ask us to review it — that is your right under LGPD Art. 20 — and a person will carry out that review.

9.5Transparency

We intend to publish periodic reports on out-of-court removal notices and enforcement actions, in line with the self-regulation duties described by the Federal Supreme Court.

9.6Copyright and other rights

If you believe content on UUDO infringes your copyright or another right, write to legal@uudo.app with a description of the work, where the content is, your contact details, and a statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorised. We act on well-founded notices, and we may remove content and, for repeat infringers, end accounts.

10.1In-app roles are platform privileges only

UUDO lets certain student groups — a student government, a Diretório Central dos Estudantes (DCE), or a Diretório Acadêmico (DA), for example — be designated as the governing body for their university, and lets organizations give their members positions such as President, Vice-President, Commissioner, or Treasurer.

These roles are internal platform moderation and administration privileges, granted by UUDO after a request and a verification process. Holding any role or designation on UUDO does not create employment, a partnership, a joint venture, legal agency, or any authority to represent UUDO or any university. No role holder may speak or act for UUDO or for any institution, or bind either of them.

10.2Delegated review authority

There is exactly one designated governing body per university, with jurisdiction over the whole university. Designation happens outside the App, through UUDO, at organizations@uudo.app. Where a university has a designated governing body, the position holders in that body with review rights may review, approve, or decline requests to create new student organizations in that university’s community.

While a university has no designated governing body, UUDO reviews all such requests directly. If a designation is revoked, undecided requests return to UUDO automatically.

Approval and decline decisions are recorded against the name of the person who made them. A decline must carry a written reason, which is shown to the requester, who may correct the request and resubmit it.

10.3Reviewers see other students’ data

Position holders with review rights can see the names and profiles of the students named in a request. If you hold such a role, you may use that information only to decide the request. You may not export it, share it outside the review queue, or use it for anything else.

UUDO remains the controller of that personal data. Misusing it breaches these Terms and may breach the LGPD.

10.4UUDO’s overriding authority

UUDO keeps sole and final discretion over all content, organizations, roles, and governance on the platform. At any time, with or without prior notice, we may review, change, reverse, or override any decision taken by a governing body or an organization leader — including reversing an approval or a decline — and we may remove content, dissolve or suspend an organization, reassign or revoke any role or designation, and restrict any account.

We will use this power reasonably and, wherever it is practical, we will explain what we did.

10.5Governance disputes

UUDO is not responsible or liable for the decisions, delays, omissions, or conduct of student-run governing bodies or organization leaders, including refusals to approve an organization, delays in reviewing a request, or disputes within or between student groups.

If you disagree with a decision taken by a student governing body, please do not escalate it inside the App — write to organizations@uudo.app. UUDO will make the final administrative determination for the platform. That determination concerns your access to and standing on UUDO only; it is not a ruling on any dispute you may have off the platform, and it does not affect your right to go to court.

10.6What “accredited” means on UUDO

An organization may be shown as accredited. This means only that its request was approved through the process described above. It is not certification, recognition, or endorsement by any university.

11.1We are not the organiser

Events on UUDO are created and run by users and student organizations. UUDO does not organise, host, sponsor, supervise, inspect, insure, or vet any event, venue, or organiser, and does not verify any description, time, location, capacity, or safety arrangement.

11.2Offline risk is yours

You attend events, meet other users, and interact offline entirely at your own risk. To the fullest extent permitted by law, UUDO is not responsible or liable for any death, personal injury, illness, harassment, assault, property damage, theft, financial loss, or other harm arising from any event listed on the Service, any meeting between users, or any offline interaction, whether or not it began on UUDO.

11.3Sensible precautions

Meet in public places, tell someone where you are going, and do not share personal or financial information with people you do not know. If you feel unsafe, contact your local emergency services first, and then report the user to us.

11.4Adding an event to your calendar

When you add a UUDO event to your device calendar, that information is written only to your phone. No calendar data is sent to us.

14.1We are not a school official

UUDO is an independent commercial service. UUDO is not an educational agency or institution, is not a “school official” acting under the control of any institution, and does not receive, hold, or process education records on behalf of any institution.

The United States Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (“FERPA”) therefore does not govern UUDO’s handling of your information, and no institution’s FERPA obligations extend to us. What you give us comes from you, not from your institution’s records, and how we handle it is governed only by our Privacy Policy and by applicable data protection law.

14.2Chat is encrypted, but not end-to-end

Messages are encrypted at rest on our servers using AES-256-GCM, with keys we hold. Chat is not end-to-end encrypted: our systems are technically able to process message content in order to operate the Service, respond to reports, and comply with legal obligations. Please bear that in mind in what you send.

20.1By you

You can stop using the Service at any time, and can deactivate or delete your account in Settings (see 5.4).

20.2By us

We may suspend or end your access to the Service, in whole or in part, with or without notice, if you breach these Terms, if the law requires it, if your continued access creates a risk to other users or to the Service, or if you stop being eligible under sections 2 or 5.

Where we can safely and lawfully do so, we will give you notice and a chance to respond, and you can always appeal under 9.4.

20.3What survives

Sections 3, 7.3, 7.4, 8, 10.4, 10.5, 11.2, 12, 14, 16, 18, 19, and 21 to 24 continue to apply after your account ends.

20.4Organizations you lead

If your account ends while you lead an organization, we may transfer or reassign that organization’s leadership, or suspend the organization, so that its members are not left stranded.

22.1Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Federative Republic of Brazil.

22.2Where you can bring a claim

If you are a consumer, you may always bring a claim in the courts of the place where you live. Nothing in these Terms requires you to litigate anywhere else, and we impose no forum-selection clause on consumers (Consumer Protection Code, Art. 101, I).

22.3No mandatory arbitration

We do not require you to arbitrate. There is no compulsory pre-dispute arbitration clause in these Terms — such a clause would be void in a Brazilian consumer contract (Consumer Protection Code, Art. 51, VII).

22.4Talk to us first

We would much rather solve a problem directly. Please write to help@uudo.app, or to legal@uudo.app for a formal legal notice, before starting proceedings. This is a request, not a condition: it does not delay or restrict your right to go to court, or to complain to a consumer protection body or to the ANPD.

24.1Transferring this agreement

You may not transfer your rights or obligations under these Terms. UUDO may transfer this agreement, in whole or in part, in connection with a merger, acquisition, or reorganisation, provided the transferee takes on these Terms in full and your rights are not reduced. We will tell you if that happens.

24.2Severability

If any provision of these Terms is held invalid or unenforceable, that provision will be limited or removed to the smallest extent necessary, and the rest of the Terms stay in force.

24.3No waiver

If we do not enforce a provision, that is not a waiver of our right to enforce it later.

24.4Entire agreement

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and — where they apply — the Organization Terms, are the entire agreement between you and us about the Service.

24.5Language

These Terms are published in English and in Brazilian Portuguese. For users in Brazil, the Brazilian Portuguese version prevails if the two differ.

24.6Events outside our control

We are not liable for any failure or delay caused by an event beyond our reasonable control, including outages at our infrastructure providers, network failures, natural events, or acts of government.

24.7Notices

We will send notices to the email address on your account. Please send notices to legal@uudo.app or to the address in section 1.