Terms of Service

1. Agreement and Scope

By creating an account, clicking or tapping an acceptance button, signing in, uploading content, or otherwise accessing or using the Service, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not access or use the Service.

Our Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, and share information. Additional terms or policies presented for a particular feature are incorporated into these Terms when you use that feature. If you use the Service on behalf of an organization, you represent that you have authority to bind it, and "you" includes that organization.

2. Eligibility and Location

You must be at least 18 years old, have the legal capacity to enter a binding contract, and not be barred from using the Service under applicable law. The Service is intended for college students, alumni, and related communities, but Tunnel Daze is not affiliated with or endorsed by any HBCU, college, or university unless we expressly say otherwise. The presence of an official organizational account or a verification badge on the Service does not imply that the organization or institution endorses Tunnel Daze, or that a partnership exists, unless Tunnel Daze expressly states so.

The Service is directed to users in the United States and is not offered to residents of, or persons accessing from, the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland. You may not use the Service where access or use would violate applicable law or require Tunnel Daze to make a registration or appointment that it has not made.

3. Accounts and Security

• You must provide accurate, current, and complete information and promptly update it when it changes.
• Individual accounts are personal and non-transferable and may not be sold, licensed, rented, shared, or assigned. Organizational accounts may be created and administered only by persons authorized to act on behalf of the applicable organization. Organizations are responsible for maintaining appropriate control over their accounts, authorized administrators, credentials, and activity conducted through their accounts.
• If you create, claim, or administer an account representing an organization, institution, business, alumni association, or other entity, you represent and warrant that you have authority to act on its behalf. Tunnel Daze may require reasonable verification of that authority and may suspend, transfer, restrict, or remove an organizational account where ownership or authorization is disputed.
• You are responsible for safeguarding your credentials and for activity conducted through your account until you notify us of unauthorized access.
• You must promptly notify [email protected] of suspected compromise, fraud, or unauthorized use.
• We may require identity, school, or account verification, but any verification or badge is limited and is not a guarantee of identity, character, enrollment, affiliation, or trustworthiness.
• Accounts may register before completing HBCU-affiliation verification. A verified checkmark means only that Tunnel Daze reviewed evidence of HBCU affiliation submitted by that account; the absence of a checkmark means the account has not completed that review. Unverified accounts have limited capabilities (they cannot post, comment, or send messages) but can browse public content.
• We may reject or reclaim usernames, merge duplicate accounts, and correct account information when reasonably necessary to protect users, third-party rights, or the Service.

4. License to Use the Service

Subject to these Terms, Tunnel Daze grants you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to access and use the Service for lawful personal, professional, community, institutional, or organizational purposes, as applicable to your account type and any applicable plan, feature-specific terms, or separate agreement. The Service is licensed, not sold. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.

You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, lease, sublicense, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, derive source code from, or create derivative works of the Service except to the limited extent a restriction is prohibited by applicable law or an applicable open-source license.

5. Your Content

"User Content" means information or materials you submit, post, upload, transmit, store, or make available through the Service, including profile information, posts, photos, videos, comments, likes, messages, reports, and feedback.

5.1 Ownership

As between you and Tunnel Daze, you retain ownership of your User Content. You are solely responsible for your User Content and the consequences of providing it.

5.2 License to Tunnel Daze

You grant Tunnel Daze a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully paid, transferable, and sublicensable license to host, store, cache, reproduce, transmit, distribute, modify, adapt, translate, format, create technical derivative works from, publicly display, and publicly perform your User Content as reasonably necessary to operate, provide, secure, moderate, improve, and promote the Service. Our display and distribution of User Content will be subject to your applicable audience and privacy settings, except where disclosure is permitted by these Terms or our Privacy Policy.

This license continues for as long as your User Content is available through the Service and for a commercially reasonable period afterward for backups, legal compliance, fraud prevention, dispute resolution, and technical operations. Deletion may not remove copies previously shared with or saved by other users, content independently reposted by others, or material already incorporated into promotional materials with your authorization. To the extent permitted by law, you waive and agree not to assert moral rights or similar rights in connection with uses authorized by this license.

5.3 License to Other Users

By making User Content publicly available or visible to a particular audience on the Service, you grant each user who can access that content a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to access, view, and interact with it through the Service. Where the Service provides a download, save, or share feature for particular content, this license also permits those users to download and share copies of that content for personal, non-commercial purposes. Copies made available for download may carry a Tunnel Daze watermark identifying the Service as the source.

This license does not transfer ownership of your User Content and does not permit commercial exploitation of it by other users. For newly made copies, the license ends when you delete the content or restrict its audience, but as described in Section 5.2, deletion may not remove copies other users have already saved or shared.

5.4 Your Promises

You represent and warrant that you own or have all rights, licenses, consents, permissions, and releases needed for your User Content and for the licenses granted in these Terms; your User Content and our permitted use of it will not violate law or another person's rights; and information you provide is not subject to duties that would prevent the uses authorized here.

5.5 Messages and Public Content

Direct messages are stored on our systems and are not end-to-end encrypted. Public or broadly shared User Content should not be treated as confidential. Do not submit sensitive information that you do not want stored or disclosed to the intended audience.

5.6 Organizational Accounts and Materials

If you operate an organizational account, you represent that you have the rights and authority necessary to provide the organization's name, trademarks, logos, images, materials, and other User Content through the Service. The licenses granted under this Section apply to such materials only as necessary to operate, display, promote, and provide the Service consistent with these Terms and any applicable account settings or separate agreement. Tunnel Daze acquires no ownership of, and claims no rights in, an organization's name, trademarks, or logos beyond this limited license.

5.7 Feedback

If you provide ideas, suggestions, or feedback, you grant Tunnel Daze a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, fully paid, transferable, and sublicensable right to use and exploit that feedback for any lawful purpose without notice, attribution, or compensation.

6. Community Standards and Prohibited Conduct

You may not use the Service to create, upload, transmit, promote, solicit, or facilitate any content or conduct that:

• is unlawful, fraudulent, deceptive, defamatory, or infringes intellectual property, privacy, publicity, contractual, or other rights;
• sexually exploits or endangers a child, depicts child sexual abuse material, grooms a minor, or sexualizes a person under 18;
• includes nonconsensual intimate imagery, sexual extortion, trafficking, sexual services, pornography, or content primarily intended for sexual gratification;
• threatens, harasses, bullies, stalks, intimidates, exploits, or encourages violence, self-harm, suicide, or dangerous conduct;
• attacks or dehumanizes people based on race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, caste, age, veteran status, or another protected characteristic;
• impersonates another person or organization, misrepresents affiliation, uses deceptive synthetic media or deepfakes, or exposes another person's private information without authority;
• promotes scams, spam, pyramid schemes, unauthorized advertising, counterfeit goods, illegal drugs, unlawful weapons, or other illegal transactions;
• contains malware, malicious code, or instructions intended to compromise, disrupt, overload, test, scan, or evade the security of the Service or another system;
• scrapes, crawls, indexes, harvests, monitors, or extracts data from the Service through automated means, including for training artificial-intelligence systems, without our prior written permission;
• uses bots, scripts, fake accounts, coordinated inauthentic activity, or other means to manipulate engagement, access, rankings, reports, or enforcement systems;
• attempts to bypass blocks, access controls, rate limits, content restrictions, suspensions, or other technical or safety measures;
• collects, sells, licenses, or misuses another user's information or content without authorization;
• abuses reporting, appeals, support, or complaint mechanisms; or
• otherwise interferes with the Service, harms users, or creates legal, security, operational, or reputational risk for the Company Parties.

7. Moderation and Enforcement

Zero tolerance. Tunnel Daze has no tolerance for objectionable content or abusive users. The Service provides in-app tools to flag objectionable content and to block abusive users; blocking a user immediately removes their content from your feed. We review reports of objectionable content and act on confirmed violations within 24 hours, including removing the content and ejecting the user who provided it.

We may, but are not obligated to, review, monitor, screen, preserve, restrict, remove, disable, or disclose User Content or accounts at any time. We may take action with or without notice when we reasonably believe content or conduct violates these Terms, creates risk, is objectionable, or is necessary to comply with law or protect the Company Parties, users, or others.

Enforcement decisions may be based on automated systems, human review, user reports, account history, and other available information. We do not guarantee that all prohibited content will be identified or removed, that reports will remain confidential, or that enforcement will be error-free or consistent in every circumstance. Blocking and reporting tools reduce contact but cannot guarantee that a person will not attempt contact through another account or channel.

We may preserve and disclose information to comply with legal process, enforce these Terms, investigate fraud or security incidents, prevent harm, report apparent child exploitation or other crimes, or protect rights and safety.

8. Social Interactions and Safety

Tunnel Daze is a communications platform and is not responsible for the conduct, identity, statements, transactions, or User Content of users. We do not conduct comprehensive background checks and do not guarantee enrollment, affiliation, identity, intentions, truthfulness, safety, or compatibility. You are responsible for evaluating interactions, protecting your information, and using appropriate caution online and offline.

Unverified users. You acknowledge that accounts that have not completed HBCU-affiliation verification are present on the Service and may appear in public feeds, comments visibility, follower lists, and search. Treat unverified accounts accordingly: a checkmark reflects only our limited review of submitted affiliation evidence, and its absence means no such review has been completed. Your use of the Service constitutes acceptance of the presence of unverified users.

Tunnel Daze is not an emergency service. If you or another person may be in immediate danger, contact 911 or the appropriate local emergency service. Do not rely on the Service for emergency communications, medical advice, legal advice, financial advice, or other professional services.

Any purchase, sale, event, meeting, employment discussion, or other arrangement between users or business accounts is solely between the participants. Tunnel Daze is not a party, broker, fiduciary, agent, guarantor, or insurer for those arrangements.

9. Third-Party Services and Content

The Service may link to, integrate with, or depend on third-party services, content, devices, networks, app stores, payment processors, hosting providers, and notification services. We do not control and are not responsible for third-party availability, security, accuracy, terms, privacy practices, content, products, or conduct. Your use of third-party services is governed by their terms and is at your own risk.

10. Company Intellectual Property

The Service, including its software, design, interfaces, databases, text, graphics, logos, trademarks, trade dress, compilations, and Company-provided content, is owned by or licensed to Tunnel Daze and is protected by intellectual-property and other laws. "Tunnel Daze," related marks, and logos may not be used without prior written permission. No implied license is granted.

11. Copyright Complaints and Repeat Infringers

We respect intellectual-property rights and may terminate repeat infringers. To report claimed copyright infringement, email [email protected] with:

1. a physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or authorized agent;
2. identification of the copyrighted work, or a representative list of works;
3. identification and location of the allegedly infringing material;
4. your name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address;
5. a statement of your good-faith belief that the use is not authorized by the owner, its agent, or law; and
6. a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the notice is accurate and you are authorized to act for the owner.

We may forward a notice to the affected user. A user may submit a legally sufficient counter-notice to the same address. Knowingly making material misrepresentations in a notice or counter-notice may result in liability.

12. Fees, Purchases, and Plans

Some or all features may currently be free. We may introduce paid features, subscriptions, or fees in the future, but we will disclose applicable pricing and material payment terms before charging you. Purchases through an app store or third-party processor are also subject to that provider's terms, refund rules, and billing practices. You are responsible for applicable taxes.

Tunnel Daze may offer different plans, features, pricing, promotional periods, complimentary access, or negotiated terms to individuals, organizations, institutions, businesses, or other categories of users. Complimentary or promotional access does not create a right to continued free access, and will not convert into a paid subscription unless you or the organization you represent separately agrees to the paid terms.

13. Privacy

Please review our Privacy Policy. It explains our information practices, including collection of account, content, message, social, device, and log information. No method of storage or transmission is completely secure, and you provide information at your own risk.

14. Electronic Communications

You consent to receive agreements, disclosures, notices, receipts, and other communications electronically, including by email, in-app message, push notification, or posting through the Service. Electronic communications satisfy legal requirements that communications be in writing to the extent permitted by law.

You may control optional notifications through available settings. You may not be able to opt out of transactional, security, legal, or account-related communications while maintaining an account.

15. Availability, Experimental Features, and Changes

The Service is generally available. We may from time to time offer beta, test, or experimental features, which may contain errors, change without notice, or be discontinued. We do not promise that any feature, content, communication, account, or data will be available, accurate, preserved, compatible, secure, or uninterrupted.

We may add, modify, restrict, suspend, discontinue, or impose limits on any part of the Service at any time, with or without notice. You are responsible for maintaining independent copies of User Content you wish to preserve.

16. Suspension, Termination, and Account Deletion

You may stop using the Service at any time and may request account deletion through available settings. We may suspend, restrict, deactivate, or terminate your account or access; remove content; or discontinue the Service at any time if we believe it is reasonably necessary for legal, safety, security, operational, or business reasons, including suspected violations of these Terms.

Termination ends your license to use the Service but does not limit rights or obligations that accrued before termination. Sections that by their nature should survive will survive, including provisions concerning licenses, ownership, disclaimers, liability, release, indemnity, disputes, and general terms.

17. Disclaimers

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Service is provided "as is," "as available," and with all faults. The Company Parties disclaim all express, implied, statutory, and other warranties, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, quiet enjoyment, non-infringement, accuracy, availability, security, and any warranties arising from course of dealing or usage of trade.

The Company Parties do not warrant that the Service or any content will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, accurate, complete, safe, or free of harmful components; that defects will be corrected; that messages or content will be delivered or preserved; or that any user is who they claim to be. You assume all risk arising from your use of the Service, User Content, third-party services, and interactions with other users.

No oral or written information from a Company Party creates a warranty not expressly stated in these Terms. Nothing in these Terms excludes, restricts, or modifies a warranty, right, or remedy that cannot lawfully be excluded, restricted, or modified.

18. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Company Parties will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, enhanced, or punitive damages; loss of profits, revenue, business, opportunity, goodwill, use, or data; personal or property damage arising from user conduct; or the cost of substitute services, under any theory of liability, even if advised that such damages were possible.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the aggregate liability of the Company Parties for all claims arising out of or relating to the Service or these Terms will not exceed the greater of (a) one hundred U.S. dollars ($100) or (b) the amount you paid directly to Tunnel Daze for the Service during the 12 months before the event giving rise to liability.

These limitations allocate risk between you and Tunnel Daze and are an essential basis of the agreement. They apply even if a remedy fails of its essential purpose. They do not apply to liability that cannot be limited under applicable law, including where applicable liability for gross negligence, willful misconduct, or certain personal injuries.

19. Release

To the maximum extent permitted by law, you release the Company Parties from claims, demands, liabilities, losses, and damages arising out of or connected with disputes between you and another user or third party, User Content, offline interactions, or transactions arranged through the Service. This release applies to known and unknown claims, except claims that cannot lawfully be released.

20. Indemnification

To the maximum extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the Company Parties from claims, demands, actions, proceedings, liabilities, damages, judgments, settlements, penalties, fines, costs, and expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising out of or related to your User Content, your use or misuse of the Service, your interactions or transactions with others, your breach of these Terms, or your violation of law or another person's rights.

We may control the defense and settlement of a covered matter, and you agree to cooperate. You may not settle a covered claim in a manner that admits fault by, imposes obligations on, or fails to fully release a Company Party without our written consent.

21. Dispute Resolution, Individual Arbitration, and Class Waiver

21.1 Informal Resolution First

Before starting arbitration or litigation, the complaining party must send an individualized written notice describing the dispute, relevant account or username, supporting facts, requested relief, and contact information. Notices to Tunnel Daze must be emailed to [email protected] with the subject "Legal Dispute Notice." We may send our notice to the email associated with your account. The parties will attempt in good faith to resolve the dispute for 60 days after receipt. Any limitations period is tolled during this 60-day process.

21.2 Agreement to Individual Arbitration

Except for the exceptions in Section 21.4, you and Tunnel Daze agree that any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms, the Service, your account, or the relationship between you and Tunnel Daze will be resolved exclusively by final and binding individual arbitration. This arbitration agreement involves interstate commerce and is governed by the Federal Arbitration Act, 9 U.S.C. Sections 1-16.

21.3 Arbitration Rules and Procedure

Arbitration will be administered by the American Arbitration Association ("AAA") under its Consumer Arbitration Rules then in effect, as modified by these Terms. One neutral arbitrator will decide the dispute. The arbitrator may award the same individual remedies a court could award and will issue a reasoned written decision. Fees will be allocated under AAA rules and applicable law. A hearing may occur remotely or, if an in-person hearing is required, in the county where you reside unless the parties agree otherwise.

If AAA is unavailable or declines to administer the arbitration, the parties will select another recognized arbitration provider. If they cannot agree, a court of competent jurisdiction may appoint an arbitrator under 9 U.S.C. Section 5.

21.4 Exceptions

Either party may bring an individual action in small-claims court if it qualifies and remains individual. Either party may seek temporary or preliminary injunctive relief in court to protect intellectual property, confidential information, accounts, systems, or safety while arbitration is pending. Claims concerning sexual assault or sexual harassment may be brought in court at the election of the person alleging that conduct as provided by federal law. A court, not an arbitrator, will decide whether that federal exception applies.

21.5 Class and Representative Action Waiver

You and Tunnel Daze agree that each may bring claims only in an individual capacity and not as a plaintiff, claimant, or class member in any purported class, collective, coordinated, consolidated, mass, private-attorney-general, or representative proceeding. Unless all affected parties agree in writing, the arbitrator may not combine claims or preside over any form of representative proceeding.

If applicable law prevents arbitration of a particular request for public injunctive relief, that request will be severed and decided by a court after the arbitrator resolves all arbitrable claims.

21.6 Jury-Trial Waiver

For any dispute that proceeds in court, you and Tunnel Daze knowingly and voluntarily waive, to the maximum extent permitted by law, any right to a trial by jury.

21.7 Right to Opt Out

You may opt out of Sections 21.2 through 21.6 by emailing [email protected] within 30 days after you first accept these Terms. Your notice must include your full name, account email, username, and an unambiguous statement that you opt out of arbitration. Opting out will not affect other Terms or your ability to use the Service.

21.8 Arbitration Severability

Except for Section 21.5, if part of this arbitration agreement is found unenforceable, it will be severed and the remainder enforced. If Section 21.5 is found unenforceable as to a particular claim or request for relief, that claim or request will proceed in court, and any enforceable individual claims will remain in arbitration.

22. Pennsylvania Law and Exclusive Venue

Except to the extent federal law governs, these Terms and any dispute are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Any claim not subject to arbitration or small-claims court must be brought exclusively in the state courts located in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, or the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. You and Tunnel Daze consent to personal jurisdiction and venue in those courts.

23. Time Limit for Claims

To the maximum extent permitted by law, any claim arising out of or relating to the Service or these Terms must be filed within one year after the claim accrued, or it is permanently barred. This provision does not shorten a limitations period that applicable law does not permit the parties to shorten.

24. Mobile Application and App Store Terms

If you download the mobile application from Apple App Store or Google Play, you also agree to the applicable store terms. These Terms are between you and Tunnel Daze, not Apple or Google, and Tunnel Daze is responsible for the application and its content, maintenance, support, and claims to the extent required by law.

For an Apple-distributed application: the license is limited to use on Apple-branded products you own or control as permitted by Apple Media Services Usage Rules, including permitted Family Sharing; Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support; if the application fails an applicable warranty, you may notify Apple for any refund Apple is required to provide, and Apple has no further warranty obligation to the maximum extent permitted by law; Tunnel Daze, not Apple, is responsible for product, regulatory, consumer-protection, privacy, and intellectual-property claims; and Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of this Section and may enforce it.

You must comply with applicable third-party terms when using the mobile application. Contact Tunnel Daze at [email protected] for application support.

25. Export Controls and Sanctions

You may not use, export, re-export, transfer, or make the Service available in violation of United States export-control, sanctions, or trade laws. You represent that you are not located in an embargoed jurisdiction, identified on a United States restricted-party list, or using the Service for a prohibited end use.

26. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms. For material changes, we will provide reasonable notice through the Service, by email, or by another appropriate method before the changes take effect when required by law. The updated Terms will identify their effective date. Your continued use after the effective date constitutes acceptance. Changes to Section 21 will not apply to a dispute for which either party received a Legal Dispute Notice before the change took effect.

27. General Terms

• Entire agreement and additional agreements. These Terms, the Privacy Policy, applicable feature-specific terms, and any separate written agreement entered into between Tunnel Daze and you or the organization you represent constitute the applicable agreement concerning the Service and supersede prior agreements on that subject. If a separate written agreement expressly conflicts with these Terms, the separate written agreement will control to the extent of that conflict.
• Assignment. You may not assign these Terms or your account without our written consent. We may assign these Terms in connection with an affiliate reorganization, financing, merger, acquisition, sale of assets, or by operation of law.
• Severability. Except as provided in Section 21.8, an unenforceable provision will be enforced to the maximum lawful extent and severed without affecting the remainder.
• No waiver. A failure or delay in enforcing a provision is not a waiver. A waiver must be in writing and applies only to the stated circumstance.
• Force majeure. The Company Parties are not liable for delay or failure caused by events beyond their reasonable control, including natural disasters, labor disputes, war, terrorism, civil unrest, epidemics, utility or network failures, cyberattacks, governmental actions, and third-party service failures.
• No agency. These Terms do not create an employment, partnership, joint venture, fiduciary, franchise, or agency relationship.
• Third-party beneficiaries. There are no third-party beneficiaries except as expressly provided in Section 24.
• Interpretation. Headings are for convenience only. "Including" means "including without limitation." The English version controls to the extent permitted by law.
• Survival. Provisions that by their nature should survive termination will survive.

28. Contact

Tunnel Daze LLC
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Email: [email protected]