Please read these Terms of Service ("Terms") carefully before using the Irania mobile application ("App") or any related services operated by Irania ("we," "us," "our"). By downloading, installing, or using the App, you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the App.
1. Acceptance of Terms
By accessing or using Irania, you confirm that you are at least 13 years old, have the legal capacity to enter into these Terms, and agree to comply with all applicable laws and regulations. If you are using Irania on behalf of an organization, you represent that you have the authority to bind that organization to these Terms.
2. Description of Service
Irania is a bilingual (English and Persian) community directory mobile application that allows users to:
- Browse and search Persian-owned businesses and services by city and category.
- View business listings on an interactive map.
- Save businesses, events, and deals to a device-local favourites list, including while browsing as a guest.
- Discover local events and cultural happenings, and browse or create casual community gatherings in supported cities.
- Browse city-scoped housing, job posts, Wall of Kindness items, and Kolbar traveler or parcel requests.
- Access educational resources for newcomers.
- Use Daily Glimpse, Taghvim, city news, weather, and date-conversion tools.
- View deals and follow their redemption instructions ("Iraniantastic Deals") from participating businesses.
- Submit businesses, events, deals, housing listings, job posts, Wall of Kindness items, and Kolbar posts for review.
- Ask questions and comment under educational lessons.
- Take part in the Community feed, available in every supported city: post questions, recommendations, and daily updates, reply, vote in polls, and like, save, or follow posts.
The App may include Google Maps features and content. Your use of Google Maps features and content is also subject to the Google Maps/Google Earth Additional Terms of Service and the Google Privacy Policy.
The App is free to use. Features carry no usage fee, but some require an account, verified email, accepted Terms, or availability in your city, and we reserve the right to modify, suspend, or discontinue any part of the service at any time without prior notice.
2.1 Voluntary contributions
Irania offers an optional way to contribute money toward running costs, found under Settings → Support Irania. Contributions are entirely voluntary and are never required to use any part of the App.
- Nothing is unlocked. A contribution grants no feature, content, subscription, badge, recognition, ranking benefit, ad removal, or any other benefit inside or outside the App. Everything in Irania remains available to everyone, whether or not they contribute.
- Recipient. Contributions are received by Irania, the operator of the App, and are used toward hosting, mapping services, and the work of keeping listings current.
- Not a charitable donation. Irania is not a registered charity or non-profit. Contributions are not charitable donations, are not tax-deductible, and no tax receipt is issued.
- One-off. Each contribution is a single payment. Nothing recurring is created, and there is no subscription to cancel.
- How payment is processed. On iOS, contributions are made as in-app purchases processed by Apple and are subject to the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions. On Android, the App opens a payment page hosted by Stripe, and the payment is subject to Stripe's terms. Irania never receives, handles, or stores your card number, security code, or bank details.
- Refunds and disputes. Because a contribution buys nothing, contributions are generally non-refundable. If a contribution was made in error, contact us at [email protected] and we will help where we are able. Refunds for iOS in-app purchases are handled by Apple and must be requested through Apple; refunds and payment disputes for contributions made through Stripe are handled under Stripe's process and our own review.
- Records held by others. Apple and Stripe keep their own records of a transaction under their own terms and retention policies. Deleting your Irania account does not delete those records, and we cannot delete them on your behalf.
2.2 News content
City news cards may be AI-assisted summaries of third-party news sources, generated by Irania's system from an admin-allowlisted publisher RSS or Atom feed. Routine community updates may be published automatically after a contextual risk assessment: the source must be current and approved, the summary must be valid low-risk output with no risk signals or concrete backstop signal, and an independent safety check must pass. A sensitive-domain mention by itself does not block routine publication. Concrete harmful incidents, threats, casualties, missing people, criminal allegations, emergencies, contamination or outbreaks, dangerous instructions, medical, legal, or financial advice, political or election claims needing verification, privacy or identity claims, and ambiguous, unsupported, malformed, stale, flagged, or failed-check items are held in a private editorial queue until an administrator reviews them. AI-assisted summaries may contain errors and should be checked against the original source. Each AI-assisted news card shows the original source, its source publication date when supplied, and a link to the original source. You can report an AI-assisted news card in the app if it is inaccurate or objectionable. Irania may correct, edit, or remove published items. AI-assisted summaries are not staff-authored unless stated otherwise, and Irania does not warrant their factual accuracy.
3. User Accounts
You can browse public content and save local favourites as a guest. Features such as Reviews, submitting community content, creating gatherings, Education comments, Community interactions, and event reminders require an account through Firebase Authentication using email/password, Google sign-in, or Sign in with Apple where available. Some actions also require a verified email and acceptance of the current Terms. You agree to:
- Provide accurate and truthful registration information.
- Maintain the security of your account credentials.
- Notify us immediately of any unauthorized use of your account.
- Accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account.
We reserve the right to suspend or terminate accounts that violate these Terms or engage in fraudulent activity.
4. Acceptable Use
You agree to use Irania only for lawful purposes and in a manner that does not infringe the rights of others. You must not:
- Submit false, misleading, or fraudulent business listings or deals.
- Use the App to harass, defame, or harm any individual or business.
- Attempt to gain unauthorized access to any part of the App or its infrastructure.
- Scrape, harvest, or copy data from the App without our written permission.
- Upload or transmit malware, viruses, or any code designed to disrupt or damage the App.
- Use the App to send unsolicited commercial communications (spam).
- Impersonate any person, business, or entity.
- Violate any applicable local, provincial, national, or international law or regulation.
Violations of this section may result in immediate account suspension and, where appropriate, reporting to law enforcement authorities.
5. Business Listings & Submissions
Irania's business listings may be provided by business owners, workers, community members, Irania administrators, publicly available information, third-party sources, business websites, map or place providers, and direct submissions. We may create, curate, import, edit, or publish listings to help launch and maintain the community directory.
A business listing does not mean the business submitted the listing, approved the listing, is affiliated with Irania, or is endorsed by Irania. We do not independently verify all listing information, and business details may become inaccurate, incomplete, or outdated.
Business owners or authorized representatives may request corrections, claim a listing, or request removal by contacting [email protected]. By submitting a business listing, you represent that:
- You are authorized to submit information about the business.
- All information provided is accurate, current, and not misleading.
- You will promptly notify us of any changes to the listing information.
We reserve the right to approve, reject, edit, or remove any listing at our sole discretion, including but not limited to listings that are inaccurate, duplicates, offensive, or irrelevant to the community directory.
If a listing, deal, or placement is sponsored, paid, promoted, or otherwise receives preferential placement because of a business relationship with Irania, we will identify it as sponsored or promoted where it appears.
5.1 Sponsored Advertisements
Business category lists may include clearly labeled sponsored business placements above regular listings, with rotating order. Current business category screens do not display interleaved banner advertisements. News and Education module lists may include banner advertisements selected, published, and managed by Irania administrators. Banner slots follow every second news item or education submodule; Education lists omit a slot after the final submodule. Ads may target a city, education module, or a broader audience, and may include an image and a link to a third-party website. Unfilled News and Education slots may show an Irania contact or house banner.
- Clear labeling. Sponsored business placements are clearly labeled as advertisements or sponsored content where they appear. Their position or appearance does not mean that Irania endorses the advertiser.
- Advertiser responsibility. Advertisers and their authorized representatives are responsible for ensuring that their advertisement, claims, images, offers, and destination links are truthful, current, and legally permitted, and that they have the rights needed for all submitted materials.
- No endorsement or guarantee. An advertisement or click-through link does not constitute an endorsement by Irania. Irania does not guarantee an advertiser's products, services, pricing, availability, safety, legality, or fulfillment, and disputes should be directed to the advertiser.
- Review and removal. Irania may reject, edit, pause, or remove an advertisement at any time, including when it is inaccurate, misleading, inappropriate, unavailable, or inconsistent with our policies.
- External links. Following an advertisement link takes you to a third-party website. That website has its own terms, privacy policy, cookies, and practices, which Irania does not control.
Disclaimer: Irania is a community directory. We do not endorse, guarantee, or warrant any business listed on the platform. Users are encouraged to independently verify business information before making decisions.
6. Iraniantastic Deals
"Iraniantastic Deals" are promotional offers submitted by businesses and published by Irania administrators. By participating in a deal (as a business or user), you acknowledge that:
- Deals are subject to change or cancellation at any time by the participating business or by Irania.
- Irania makes no guarantees regarding deal availability, accuracy, or fulfillment.
- Any dispute regarding a deal must be resolved directly with the business offering it.
- Irania is not liable for any loss or dissatisfaction arising from the use of any deal.
Businesses that submit deals represent that the offers are genuine, authorized, and that the business will honor the deal as described.
7. User-Generated Content
When you submit business listings, events, gatherings, deals, housing listings, job posts, Wall of Kindness items, Kolbar posts, reviews, Education questions and comments, Community feed posts, replies, photos or profile avatars, or any other content ("User Content") through Irania, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, display, reproduce, and distribute that content within the App and related promotional materials.
You retain ownership of your User Content. You are solely responsible for the accuracy and legality of any content you submit. We may remove User Content that violates these Terms at any time without notice.
7.1 No tolerance for objectionable content or abusive behaviour
There is no tolerance for objectionable content or abusive users on Irania. You may not submit, post, or transmit User Content that is unlawful, defamatory, harassing, threatening, hateful, sexually explicit, violent, discriminatory, deceptive, or that infringes another person's rights. This applies to every part of the App that accepts your input, including business listings, events, gatherings, deals, housing listings, job posts, Wall of Kindness items, Kolbar posts, reviews, Education questions and comments, Community feed posts and replies, nicknames, avatars, and profile information.
We provide clearly labelled tools inside the App to report objectionable content and abusive users, and to block abusive users. Any content or user you report is reviewed by our moderators, and content found to be objectionable is removed, and the accounts responsible are suspended or ejected, within 24 hours of the report. You can report content from a listing, deal, event, gathering, housing listing, job post, Wall of Kindness item, Kolbar post, advertisement, review, Education comment, or Community feed post or reply. For gatherings, you can separately report the gathering, report its organizer, and block that organizer so their gatherings no longer appear for you. For reviews, you can report the review and block its author. For the Community feed, you can report any post or reply and block its author, which hides that author's posts and replies from you. You may also contact us directly at [email protected].
Accounts used to post objectionable content, to harass other users, or to evade a previous removal may be suspended or terminated without notice.
7.2 Community feed
The Community feed is a public space. Anything you post, reply, or upload there, including a profile avatar, can be read by anyone using Irania and may be seen by people outside your city. Do not post private information about yourself or others.
- Publication — Posts, replies, and photos are published as soon as you submit them, after automated checks, without advance human review. Photos attached to member posts are sent to OpenAI for automated safety checks before publication; see our Privacy Policy for photo processing and provider retention. Profile photos also appear immediately and are reviewed afterwards. We may hide, edit, or remove anything, and revoke a profile photo, at any time. Content reported by several different people is hidden automatically until a moderator has reviewed it.
- Anonymous questions — You may post a question anonymously. It is shown without your name or avatar to other users, but anonymous does not mean unaccountable: we keep a private record of the account behind it, these Terms apply to it in full, and we may use that record to moderate, to suspend the account, to enforce these Terms, and where the law requires it. You must not use anonymity to harass, threaten, or deceive anyone, or to try to identify or expose another user.
- Limits — To prevent abuse we limit how many posts, replies, edits, likes, votes, and profile changes an account can make in a day. Posts you wrote can be edited by you for 24 hours. You can delete your own posts and replies at any time; replies on a post are removed with it.
- Advice and recommendations — Community posts and answers, including answers marked as "best", come from other users, not from Irania. They are not professional, legal, medical, financial, or immigration advice, and we do not endorse or verify them.
- Use in the App — By posting, you grant us the license in section 7 to show your content in the App. Your content is removed from the App when you delete it or your account.
7.3 Casual gatherings
Verified signed-in users who have accepted the Terms can publish casual gatherings in supported cities. Gatherings publish immediately after automated checks, without advance moderator review, and may be removed afterwards. The organizer is responsible for the accuracy of the title, date, time, location, description, and any contact link, and for organizing the gathering lawfully and safely. Irania does not organize or endorse user gatherings. Only publish contact or location information you are entitled to share. Organizers can delete their own gatherings; users can report gatherings or organizers and block organizers.
8. Intellectual Property
The Irania name, logo, app design, source code, and all proprietary content are the intellectual property of Irania and are protected by applicable copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property laws. You may not reproduce, modify, distribute, or create derivative works from any part of the App without our written consent.
9. Disclaimer of Warranties
THE APP IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO:
- The accuracy, completeness, or reliability of any business listings or deal information.
- The uninterrupted or error-free operation of the App.
- The fitness of the App for any particular purpose.
- The security of data transmitted through the App.
Your use of the App is at your sole risk.
10. Limitation of Liability
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IRANIA AND ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AND AGENTS SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING FROM:
- Your use of or inability to use the App.
- Reliance on any business listing, deal, or content within the App.
- Unauthorized access to or alteration of your data.
- Any other matter relating to the App.
In no event shall our total liability to you exceed the amount you have paid us in the twelve months preceding the claim.
11. Termination
We may suspend or terminate your access to Irania at any time and for any reason, including violation of these Terms, without prior notice. You can request account deletion in the App under Profile → Delete my account, or through our account deletion page. If you cannot use the App, contact us at [email protected]. Upon termination, your right to use the App ceases immediately. Sections 7, 8, 9, 10, and 12 survive termination.
12. Governing Law
These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Province of Ontario, Canada, without regard to its conflict of law provisions. Any disputes arising from these Terms or your use of Irania shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Ontario, Canada.
13. Changes to Terms
We may update these Terms from time to time to reflect changes in our service or applicable law. When we make material changes, we will update the "Last Updated" date above and, where appropriate, notify you within the App. Your continued use of Irania after any changes constitutes your acceptance of the updated Terms. If you do not agree to the updated Terms, you must stop using the App.