Terms of use

Last updated: 2 November 2026

This is a translation. The French version is the one that legally applies.

By using Bocal, you accept these terms. They are short: read them.

Legal notice

Bocal is published by Guillaume Vanden Herrewegen, in Belgium.

Contact: contact@g-vandenherrewegen.be

Data hosting: Supabase Inc., servers in the European Union. Invite page and encrypted backups: GitHub (GitHub Inc.).

The service

Bocal lets you create “jars” (shared lists of links), invite other people to them with a code, and keep links in them together. Bocal is free and has no ads. Paid options will come later (see “In-app purchases”).

Bocal works without an account: a first name is enough. To get your jars back on another phone, there is the Google backup (on Android, with the same Google account), iCloud Keychain (on iPhone, with the same Apple Account) and the recovery code (see below).

In-app purchases

Purchases are not offered yet: this part will apply once they are. Everything essential in Bocal will stay free. The Android app will offer optional purchases:

• Bocal+: more jars (50 instead of 10), all colours, all emojis and all tags, the home screen themes, a 30-day bin and a choice of app icon. The other members benefit from it too in the jars you are the admin of.
• A home screen theme, on its own.
• “Fill the jar”: a donation to support the project. It unlocks nothing except a badge next to your first name.

These are one-time purchases, with no subscription: nothing is charged afterwards. The price, all taxes included, is shown in the app and by Google Play before you pay. Payment goes through Google Play, under its own terms: Bocal never sees your payment method.

“Lifetime” means: for as long as Bocal is running, without paying anything more. If Bocal were to shut down, you would be told at least 30 days in advance (see “Availability”).

A purchase is linked to your Google account. On a new phone, or after “Delete my data”, “Restore purchases” gets Bocal+ and your themes back with the same Google account. A donation badge stays on the Bocal account that received it.

Right of withdrawal. Bocal+, themes and badges are digital content supplied as soon as you pay. By buying, you ask for them to be supplied straight away and you acknowledge that you thereby lose your 14-day right of withdrawal (Belgian Code of Economic Law, article VI.53, 13°).

Refunds. You can ask Google Play for a refund (in Google Play: profile, “Payments & subscriptions”, “Budget & history”), under its refund policy, or write to us. A refunded or cancelled purchase is removed from your account: Bocal+, the theme or the badge disappears. Your jars, links and tags are never erased because of it: whatever goes beyond the free version is frozen, not erased.

None of this limits your legal guarantee: if a purchase doesn't work as it should, write to us and we will sort it out.

Your commitments

• You only share in Bocal links that you have the right to share.
• You put nothing illegal in it: hateful content, harassment, sexual content involving minors, invasion of other people's privacy, counterfeiting, malware, scams…
• You don't pretend to be someone else, and you don't use someone else's recovery code.
• You don't try to get around Bocal's protections, guess codes or overload the service.

Invite codes

Anyone who has a jar's code can join it as a new member, and see its links and members. Only share your codes with people you trust. If a code has spread too far, any member of the jar can create a new one (“New code”): the old one stops working.

The recovery code

In the settings, you can create a recovery code: it lets you get your account back, with all your jars, on any phone. It is a secret code: anyone who has it can take over your account. Never give it to anyone, not even someone who says they work for Bocal: we will never ask you for it. If you think it has spread, create a new one: the old one stops working. Without your phone, a Google backup, iCloud Keychain or a recovery code, your account cannot be recovered.

Shared links

Each person is responsible for the links they add. Bocal only stores them: it doesn't check their content and is not responsible for the sites they lead to.

To report a link or a person, long-press the link (or ⋮ next to a member, in “People in…”), then “Report”. We look at every report within 24 hours, and may remove content or exclude a person who doesn't respect these terms. You can also block someone: you no longer see their links, and they don't know. You can also write to contact@g-vandenherrewegen.be with the name of the jar and the link concerned.

Availability

Bocal is provided as is. We do our best for it to work well and for your links to be safe, but we can't guarantee that it will always be available or error-free. For what you have bought, the legal guarantee of conformity for digital content applies. Keep the links that really matter to you somewhere else too.

We may change Bocal, or shut it down. Before shutting it down, we will let you know in the app at least 30 days in advance, so you can get your links back.

Liability

To the extent permitted by law, the publisher is not liable for indirect damage related to the use of Bocal, nor for content added by users. Nothing in these terms limits the rights the law guarantees you as a consumer.

Your data

Everything is explained in the privacy policy. You can delete your data at any time from the app.

Stopping

You can stop using Bocal whenever you like: delete your data in the app, then uninstall it.

Changes

If these terms change, the new version will be published in the app and on terms.html, with its date.

Governing law

These terms are governed by Belgian law. In case of dispute, we first look for an amicable solution: write to us. Otherwise, the competent courts are those provided for by law; as a consumer, you can always go to the court of your place of residence. You can also contact the Consumer Ombudsman Service (consumentenombudsdienst.be/en).