Terms of Use

Effective date: July 27, 2026
Last updated: July 27, 2026

1. Provider and agreement

Favvy is provided by:

palmstudio GmbH
Pfalzgrafenstraße 38
67434 Neustadt an der Weinstraße
Germany

Represented by Benedikt Falkenstein, Managing Director.

These Terms of Use govern your access to and use of Favvy at favvy.link, www.favvy.link, and any related Favvy service that links to these Terms. In these Terms, palmstudio GmbH is referred to as Favvy, we, us, or our, and the person or organization using the service is referred to as you.

By creating an account or using Favvy, you confirm that you have read and agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not create an account or use the service.

The Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, Legal Notice, Accessibility Information, and Report Content pages provide additional information. They do not reduce mandatory rights that cannot legally be limited.

2. What Favvy is

Favvy is an experimental online service for curating favorites and showing how preferences change over time. Depending on the current feature set, Favvy can allow users to:

create an email-and-password account;
create a username, profile, display name, biography, avatar, and cover image;
choose public or private profile visibility;
create ranked lists or collections;
add, remove, replace, and reorder list items;
view historical list states and recent list changes;
follow users and view a feed derived from followed public profiles;
search authenticated users by username or display name;
search Spotify for tracks and artists;
search Geoapify for places and open generated Google Maps links;
create link previews and add external links;
add plain-text items.

Favvy is currently a small, free, experimental service. It is not a permanent archive, emergency service, professional advice service, regulated records system, or guaranteed storage service. Features can remain incomplete, change, or be discontinued as explained below.

3. Definitions

Account means the registered Firebase Authentication and Favvy profile associated with a user.

Content means information made available through Favvy, including usernames, display names, biographies, images, list titles, descriptions, rankings, list items, links, text, provider metadata, reports, and feedback.

User Content means Content that you submit, select, upload, arrange, or otherwise make available through your Account.

Public Profile means a profile whose visible lists and activity can be shown to other authenticated Favvy users under the current product rules.

Private Profile means a profile whose lists and timeline are hidden from other users, while limited identity information can still be discoverable as described below.

Provider Content means metadata, images, links, identifiers, or search results supplied by a third-party provider or external website.

Consumer means a natural person acting mainly for purposes outside their trade, business, craft, or profession.

4. Eligibility and minimum age

You must be at least 16 years old to create or use a Favvy Account. Favvy is not directed to children under 16.

If the law where you live requires a higher age to enter into these Terms without parental or guardian authorization, you may use Favvy only if that authorization has been validly provided. We may request reasonable age or authorization information if necessary to comply with law or address a credible child-safety concern.

If you use Favvy for an organization, you represent that you have authority to bind that organization. In that case, you includes both you and the organization, except where a provision applies specifically to Consumers.

You must not use Favvy if applicable law prohibits you from receiving the service.

5. Contract formation and service start

The account-registration screen is an invitation to create a Favvy Account. A user contract is formed when:

you submit valid registration information;
Firebase Authentication creates the authentication account; and
Favvy successfully creates or synchronizes the corresponding Favvy profile.

Favvy begins providing the service immediately after successful registration. The current service is free of charge. If paid features are introduced, the price, billing terms, contract formation, withdrawal information, and any recurring-payment conditions will be presented separately before purchase.

We may reject or reverse a registration where a username is unavailable, the request is technically invalid, the user is ineligible, or the Account would violate these Terms or applicable law.

6. Account registration and security

You agree to:

provide an email address you are authorized to use;
select a username that does not impersonate another person, violate rights, or mislead users;
keep registration and profile information reasonably current;
use a strong, unique password;
keep credentials, tokens, and signed-in devices secure;
notify support@favi.link promptly if you suspect unauthorized access;
remain responsible for activity carried out through your Account to the extent permitted by law.

You must not sell, rent, transfer, or share an Account in a way that undermines security or evades enforcement. You must not create Accounts through bots, scripts, or misleading identities.

Favvy uses Firebase Authentication. We cannot retrieve or tell you your existing password. Account-recovery and credential-management options depend on the functions currently made available by Favvy and Firebase.

7. Usernames and profile identity

Usernames are unique within Favvy and are assigned on a first-available basis. A username does not give you trademark, name, or other exclusive rights beyond the limited ability to use it within the service.

We may rename, release, restrict, or remove a username where reasonably necessary to:

address impersonation, fraud, infringement, harassment, or confusion;
comply with law or a binding order;
protect another person's rights;
resolve a technical conflict;
enforce these Terms.

Display names do not have to be unique. You must not imply endorsement, affiliation, professional status, or identity that you do not have.

8. Profile visibility and discoverability

You are responsible for selecting the appropriate profile visibility.

For a Public Profile, other authenticated Favvy users can currently view identity information, visible lists, rankings, descriptions, list items, list history, and social counts. Recent list changes can appear in followers' feeds.

For a Private Profile, another authenticated user cannot currently view the profile's lists, timeline, or list-change summaries. Limited identity information — avatar, display name, username, and social counts — can still appear in profile search and identity surfaces so that people can locate and distinguish Accounts.

Your email address is not intended to be a public profile field.

Visibility controls cannot recall copies already made by other people. Screenshots, browser caches, messages, exports, or external copies can remain after you change visibility or delete Content.

9. Your responsibility for User Content

You retain ownership of User Content to the extent you own intellectual-property rights in it. You are solely responsible for User Content and for having the rights and lawful basis necessary to submit and display it.

You represent and warrant that:

you created the User Content or have all permissions needed to use it on Favvy;
submitting it does not infringe copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity, data-protection, contractual, confidentiality, or other rights;
it is accurate where accuracy matters and is not materially misleading;
it complies with these Terms and applicable law;
you have an appropriate legal basis before submitting personal data about another person;
you will not use Favvy to publish confidential credentials, private keys, passwords, government identifiers, or other information that creates an unreasonable security or privacy risk.

Favorite lists and rankings express user preferences. Favvy does not verify that a ranking is objective, complete, current, or endorsed by a listed artist, place, business, rights holder, or provider.

10. License needed to operate Favvy

You grant palmstudio GmbH a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, process, resize, re-encode, adapt for technical display, transmit, and display your User Content only as reasonably necessary to:

provide and operate Favvy;
display the Content according to your visibility and feature choices;
create list history, feeds, previews, thumbnails, and backups;
secure, maintain, debug, and improve the service;
enforce these Terms and comply with law.

This license permits technical changes such as image resizing, WebP conversion, formatting, and responsive display. It does not give us ownership of your User Content and does not authorize us to sell your User Content as a standalone product.

The license ends when the relevant User Content is deleted from active systems, except to the extent that:

a technical backup remains until routine expiry;
another user has independently copied or lawfully incorporated information;
a shared provider catalog record no longer identifies you;
retention is required for security, legal compliance, dispute resolution, or evidence;
applicable law otherwise permits continued processing.

11. Content you submit about other people

Favvy can allow biographies, images, text, links, lists, and reports that refer to another person. You must respect that person's privacy, image rights, reputation, copyright, and other rights.

Do not submit another person's private contact information, intimate material, precise non-public location, health information, financial information, identity document, or other sensitive data without a valid legal basis and a legitimate reason.

You must not upload an image of another person if you lack the permissions required for the intended use. If another person asks you to remove their data and their request is justified, you should remove it promptly and cooperate with Favvy's lawful handling process.

12. Prohibited conduct and content

You must not use Favvy to create, upload, link to, arrange, promote, or distribute Content or activity that:

violates applicable law or a binding order;
sexually exploits or endangers a child;
depicts non-consensual intimate material or facilitates sexual abuse;
credibly threatens violence, encourages terrorism, or facilitates serious wrongdoing;
unlawfully harasses, stalks, intimidates, defames, or discriminates against a person;
unlawfully reveals personal, confidential, or security-sensitive information;
infringes copyright, trademark, database, publicity, privacy, or other rights;
impersonates another person or misrepresents affiliation;
is fraudulent, deceptive, spam, phishing, or an unauthorized commercial solicitation;
contains malware, malicious code, credential theft, or unsafe redirects;
manipulates rankings, follows, searches, or traffic through automation or coordinated abuse;
scrapes, crawls, harvests, or exports Favvy or user data without authorization;
probes, bypasses, or interferes with authentication, authorization, rate limits, network restrictions, APIs, storage, or security controls;
reverse engineers non-public service components except where applicable law expressly permits it;
overloads, disrupts, or degrades the service;
uses provider data contrary to the relevant provider's terms or attribution requirements;
uses Favvy for regulated records, emergency coordination, or high-risk decisions for which the service is not designed.

You must not attempt to access another Account, private profile content, non-public API operation, or internal system without authorization.

13. Third-party providers, metadata, and external links

Favvy integrates or links to services operated by third parties. Current examples include Firebase and Google Cloud, Vercel, CookieHub, Spotify, Geoapify, OpenStreetMap data, Google Maps links, and websites added by users.

Provider Content can be incomplete, outdated, unavailable, geographically restricted, or subject to third-party rights. We may normalize, cache, reformat, update, or remove Provider Content as needed to operate Favvy and comply with provider requirements.

Spotify search uses Favvy's application credentials and does not connect your personal Spotify Account. Spotify names, artwork, metadata, links, and trademarks belong to their respective rights holders and are subject to Spotify's applicable terms.

Geoapify place results can include OpenStreetMap-derived data and require attribution. Coordinates, addresses, categories, and place names may contain errors. They must not be relied on for navigation, emergency response, legal boundaries, safety-critical decisions, or professional surveying.

Favvy can generate a Google Maps search URL but does not control the Google Maps destination. Opening Spotify, Google Maps, or another external website leaves Favvy and subjects you to that provider's terms, privacy practices, and availability.

Favvy is not responsible for a third party's independent service, content, transaction, security, or decision, except where mandatory law provides otherwise.

14. Intellectual-property rights in Favvy

Favvy and its operator-provided software, design, branding, text, graphics, user interface, and original materials are owned by palmstudio GmbH or its licensors and are protected by applicable intellectual-property laws.

Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to access and use Favvy for its intended purpose. This right does not allow you to:

copy or commercially exploit the service or operator materials;
use Favvy branding in a way that suggests endorsement;
remove rights notices or provider attribution;
resell access to Favvy;
create a competing dataset through unauthorized extraction;
use non-public source code, APIs, or infrastructure except as expressly permitted.

Open-source software included in the service remains subject to its applicable license.

15. Feedback

If you voluntarily provide suggestions, ideas, or product feedback, you allow us to use that feedback without payment or confidentiality obligation to improve or develop Favvy. This does not transfer ownership of unrelated material or personal data included in the communication, and privacy law continues to apply.

16. Content moderation

Favvy does not promise to review every item before it is stored or displayed and is not subject to a general obligation to monitor all User Content. We may nevertheless use reports, technical rules, provider signals, human review, and proportionate voluntary checks to identify violations.

Moderation can include:

rejecting or sanitizing invalid input;
limiting visibility or discoverability;
removing or disabling access to Content;
removing a link, image, list item, list, biography, username, or profile field;
restricting a feature or Account;
suspending or terminating an Account;
preserving evidence;
notifying authorities where legally required or necessary to address an emergency.

When deciding on action, we can consider the content, context, severity, frequency, intent, likely harm, legal basis, past violations, and effect on other users. We seek to act diligently, objectively, and proportionately and to respect freedom of expression and other legitimate rights.

Where required by the Digital Services Act, we will provide the affected user with a statement of reasons unless a legal exception applies. Reasons may be limited where disclosure would violate law, reveal confidential information, undermine security, or create a risk to another person.

17. Reporting illegal content and Terms violations

Specific allegedly illegal content can be reported through the process described on Report Content. The notice should provide the exact URL or electronic location, a sufficiently substantiated explanation, contact information where required, and a good-faith statement.

General support questions and reports of conduct that violates these Terms but is not alleged to be illegal can be sent to support@favi.link. Clearly identify the Account, Content, or URL and explain the concern.

Submitting a report does not guarantee removal. We assess the available facts and law. Knowingly false, abusive, duplicative, or bad-faith reports can themselves violate these Terms and applicable law.

18. Appeals and complaints about moderation

If Favvy removes or restricts your Content or Account, you may ask for review by emailing support@favi.link. Include:

the affected username and email address;
the Content or decision concerned;
the original notice or decision reference, if available;
why you believe the decision should be changed;
relevant supporting information.

Submit the appeal within six months after receiving the decision where possible. We will review it in a timely, non-discriminatory, diligent, and non-arbitrary manner. A person involved in review will have appropriate authority to change the result.

Where the Digital Services Act applies, additional rights can include certified out-of-court dispute settlement and judicial redress. Information relevant to a particular decision will be provided where legally required. Nothing in these Terms limits the right to contact a competent authority or court.

19. Service availability and experimental status

Favvy is provided on an experimental and evolving basis. We do not guarantee uninterrupted, error-free, secure, or permanent availability.

The service may be unavailable because of maintenance, deployment, provider downtime, quota limits, internet failures, security incidents, force majeure, or technical defects. Search providers can be unconfigured or temporarily unavailable. Historical data, feeds, previews, images, or metadata can fail to load.

You should keep your own copy of Content that is important to you. Favvy is not a substitute for a backup, archival, medical, financial, legal, safety, or emergency system.

Mandatory statutory rights concerning digital services remain unaffected.

20. Changes to features and service discontinuation

We may add, change, limit, or remove features to improve Favvy, address security or legal requirements, manage cost or provider limits, or refine the experiment.

For changes that materially reduce a Consumer's current contractual use, we will provide reasonable notice where required and explain available rights. We will not use this clause to avoid mandatory conformity, remedy, termination, or refund rights.

Because Favvy is currently free, we may discontinue the entire service. Where reasonably possible, we will give registered users advance notice and an opportunity to copy important Content. Immediate action can be necessary for security, legal, insolvency, provider, or operational reasons.

21. Suspension and termination by Favvy

We may restrict, suspend, or terminate an Account or specific Content where reasonably necessary because:

you materially or repeatedly breach these Terms;
Content is illegal or infringes another person's rights;
the Account creates a security, fraud, abuse, or operational risk;
required account information is invalid or unauthorized;
a competent authority or court requires action;
a provider dependency or law makes continued service impossible;
Favvy or the relevant feature is discontinued.

Except where immediate action is justified, we will consider the seriousness and frequency of the issue and whether notice or a less restrictive measure is appropriate. We may give you an opportunity to correct a remediable breach.

Termination does not remove obligations or liabilities that arose before termination. Provisions that by their purpose should survive — including rights ownership, lawful retention, liability, dispute, and interpretation provisions — continue to apply.

22. Your cancellation and account deletion

You may stop using Favvy at any time. You can terminate the ongoing user contract and delete the Account through the Delete account action in Settings.

The deletion action is intended to permanently remove the active Firebase Authentication user, profile, lists, list items, list events, follow relationships, relevant feed/activity records, username reservations, and current Favvy-hosted avatar and cover image. Shared provider catalog metadata, technical backups, logs, consent evidence, legal correspondence, and lawfully preserved records can remain as described in the Privacy Policy.

Account deletion cannot be undone. Before deleting, copy any Content you want to keep. Favvy does not currently promise a dedicated product export beyond applicable data-access or portability rights.

If the deletion process reports an error, contact support@favi.link.

23. Privacy and cookies

Our Privacy Policy explains how personal data is processed. Our Cookie Policy explains necessary browser storage, CookieHub, and optional Firebase Analytics.

Analytics is optional. Refusing or withdrawing Analytics does not prevent use of core Favvy features. Necessary authentication and security storage can be required to maintain a signed-in session.

24. Electronic communications

You agree that we may provide contractual, operational, security, moderation, privacy, and legal communications electronically through Favvy or the email associated with your Account, where law permits.

You are responsible for keeping the email address usable. A message is not treated as received where we know delivery failed and law requires another method.

Electronic communications do not replace a legally required specific form where applicable law requires another form.

25. Statutory consumer rights

Consumers can have mandatory rights concerning digital services, conformity, updates, remedies, termination, damages, and unfair contract terms. These Terms do not exclude or reduce rights that cannot legally be waived.

If Favvy fails to meet a mandatory conformity requirement, a Consumer may be entitled to require correction, terminate the contract, or exercise another statutory remedy, subject to the conditions of applicable law. Because the current service is free, there may be no price to reduce or refund.

Nothing in these Terms limits statutory privacy, product-liability, consumer-protection, or platform rights.

26. Consumer right of withdrawal

If you are an EU or EEA Consumer entering into a distance contract, you generally have the right to withdraw from the Favvy user contract within 14 days without giving a reason.

The withdrawal period expires 14 days after the day the user contract is concluded.

To exercise the right of withdrawal, inform:

palmstudio GmbH
Pfalzgrafenstraße 38
67434 Neustadt an der Weinstraße
Germany
Email: support@favi.link

of your decision to withdraw by an unequivocal statement, for example an email or postal letter. You may use the model form below, but it is not mandatory. Sending the notice before the withdrawal period expires is sufficient.

Effects of withdrawal

If you withdraw, we will end the user contract and stop providing the Account. No purchase payment is currently collected for Favvy, so there is ordinarily no payment to reimburse. Personal data and User Content will be handled in accordance with applicable law and the Privacy Policy, including lawful retention exceptions.

If you requested that the free service begin during the withdrawal period, no service fee is currently due. Mandatory rules for digital services supplied in exchange for personal data remain unaffected.

Model withdrawal form

To palmstudio GmbH, Pfalzgrafenstraße 38, 67434 Neustadt an der Weinstraße, Germany, email: support@favi.link

I/We hereby give notice that I/We withdraw from my/our contract for the provision of the Favvy service.

Account email or username:

Name of Consumer(s):

Address of Consumer(s), if sent by post:

Date:

Signature of Consumer(s), only if this form is sent on paper:

The ordinary in-app Account deletion option remains available independently of the statutory withdrawal right.

27. Warranty and disclaimer

Favvy will be provided with the care required by applicable law. However, subject to mandatory rights:

an experimental service can contain defects, incomplete features, or inaccurate metadata;
User Content and Provider Content are not verified or endorsed by Favvy;
rankings and recommendations are subjective user expressions;
addresses, coordinates, links, images, names, and provider data can be inaccurate or outdated;
external services can change or remove content without notice;
we do not guarantee that Favvy will meet a particular personal, business, archival, or technical requirement.

No statement in this section excludes a guarantee expressly given by us or a mandatory statutory warranty.

28. Liability

palmstudio GmbH is liable without limitation:

for intent and gross negligence;
for injury to life, body, or health caused by negligence or intent;
under the German Product Liability Act where applicable;
where we fraudulently conceal a defect;
under an expressly assumed guarantee;
in any other case where liability cannot legally be limited.

For slight negligence, we are liable only for breach of an essential contractual obligation whose performance is necessary for the proper execution of the contract and on which you may regularly rely. In that case, liability is limited to the foreseeable damage typical for this type of contract.

To the extent legally permitted, liability for slight-negligence breach of non-essential obligations is excluded.

These limitations also apply to our legal representatives, employees, and agents. They do not alter the allocation of proof required by law and do not limit mandatory data-protection, consumer, or Digital Services Act remedies.

You remain responsible under applicable law for harm caused by your unlawful or culpable User Content or conduct. For business users, you will compensate us for reasonable losses and third-party claims caused by your culpable breach of these Terms, provided we notify you and allow reasonable participation in the defense. This sentence does not impose a broader obligation on Consumers than applicable law permits.

29. Force majeure

Neither party is responsible for delay or failure caused by an event beyond reasonable control to the extent recognized by applicable law, such as widespread network failure, natural disaster, war, governmental action, labor dispute, provider outage, or major cyber incident. This does not excuse obligations that can reasonably still be performed or limit mandatory Consumer remedies.

30. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms for a valid reason, including changes to law, security, service features, providers, business model, or technical operation.

The updated Terms will be posted with a revised date. For registered users, we will provide reasonable advance notice of a material change where required. If a change requires consent, we will request it. If you do not accept a material change that cannot lawfully take effect without agreement, you may terminate the contract and delete the Account before it applies.

Changes do not retroactively remove accrued rights or legal claims.

31. Governing law and jurisdiction

These Terms and the user contract are governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, excluding the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods.

If you are a Consumer, this choice does not deprive you of mandatory protections provided by the law of the country in which you have your habitual residence when those protections apply regardless of the chosen law.

Courts are determined by applicable procedural law. For merchants, legal entities under public law, or special funds under public law, the courts at palmstudio GmbH's registered office have exclusive jurisdiction to the extent a jurisdiction agreement is legally permitted.

32. Consumer dispute resolution

palmstudio GmbH is not willing and is not obliged to participate in dispute-resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board unless a mandatory obligation applies in an individual case.

The former European Commission Online Dispute Resolution platform was discontinued on July 20, 2025.

You can contact support@favi.link so that we can try to resolve a concern directly. This does not limit access to a competent authority or court.

33. Miscellaneous

If a provision of these Terms is invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue to apply. The invalid provision is replaced only to the extent provided by applicable law; this clause does not reduce Consumer protection or permit us to rewrite an unfair term.

Failure to enforce a provision on one occasion is not a general waiver.

You may not transfer the user contract in a way that creates security or legal risk without our consent. We may transfer the contract as part of a lawful corporate reorganization or transfer of the Favvy business, provided mandatory notice and Consumer rights are respected and your contractual position is not unlawfully impaired.

These Terms and the incorporated documents identified in Section 1 constitute the agreement concerning ordinary Favvy use, except for separately agreed written terms or mandatory law.

34. Contact

Questions about these Terms can be sent to:

support@favi.link

palmstudio GmbH
Pfalzgrafenstraße 38
67434 Neustadt an der Weinstraße
Germany