terms.

who this is for.

libya pulse is for anyone old enough to look out for their neighbourhood — practically, that means 13 and up. by signing in, you're saying you meet that bar and that you have the right to agree to these terms (parents/guardians, this means you, if you're helping a kid).

the app is built for libya. you can use it from anywhere, but the map and the alerts are tuned to libyan cities and libyan life.

your account.

• one account per person. not five.
• be yourself. don't impersonate someone else, real or invented. a handle is fine; pretending to be your neighbour isn't.
• keep your sign-in safe. if someone gets into your account, it's still your account until you tell us. tell us quickly.
• no bots. the live signal works because real people are watching real places. automating posts breaks that.

what you can post.

tell what you saw, where, and when. keep it short and useful. the spirit:

• true. if you didn't see it, don't post it.
• useful. "fuel at brega station, long queue" beats "fuel somewhere."
• specific. drop the pin where it belongs.
• brief. say it like you'd tell a neighbour.

say what you see — that's the whole job.

what you can't post.

some things will get a report hidden — and the account behind it slowed down or closed:

• false alerts. made-up incidents, fake crashes, fake outages. this isn't a prank line.
• private people's details. no names, phone numbers, plate numbers, home addresses. "an atm on omar mukhtar" is fine; the person operating it is not.
• harassment, threats, hate. against any person, group, tribe, region, faith.
• illegal stuff. incitement to violence, content involving minors, anything that's a crime in libya.
• spam & ads. the map isn't a billboard.
• copyrighted photos that aren't yours. snap your own.

how reports get handled.

• every report is public — that's what makes the map useful.
• neighbours nearby can confirm or dispute what you said. corroboration moves a report from pending to verified; conflicting reports flip it to disputed.
• old reports fade. reports past a category's freshness window go outdated on their own — re-confirm to keep them live.
• we can hide, remove, or de-prioritise reports that break the rules above. moderators may also force-deny a report when there's clear bad-faith.
• think a moderation call was wrong? email us. a person looks at it.

reputation.

everyone starts neutral. report well — accurately, often enough to matter — and your reports start carrying more weight in the map and the feed. consistently false reports do the opposite.

reputation isn't a badge of honour or a guarantee of accuracy. it's just a way for the community to weigh recent signal. we can change how it's calculated as we learn what works.

who owns what.

your reports stay yours. by posting, you give libya pulse a worldwide, royalty-free licence to display, distribute, and back up your content — only to run the service and only for as long as we run it. we don't claim ownership and we don't sell your content to anyone.

the brand, the design system, the code that runs libya pulse — those are ours (or our contributors'). don't pass them off as your own.

don't bet your life on it.

libya pulse is community knowledge — a snapshot of what neighbours are seeing, right now. it is not an emergency service. it is not professional advice. it is not the police, the ambulance, the fire brigade, the electricity company, or the news.

for anything life-safety-critical — a real emergency, a medical situation, an active threat — call the proper services. use libya pulse as one signal among many; verify before acting on it; never let it stand alone for a decision that really matters.

we help you see the city. we don't decide for you.

when an account ends.

• you can leave any time. delete your account in the app. your reports stay (detached from your name); your profile goes.
• we can close an account that repeatedly breaks the rules above, abuses other reporters, or tries to game the system. for serious cases (illegal content, doxxing, coordinated false alerts) we close it on the first incident.
• you'll usually get a warning first for honest mistakes, with a chance to fix it.

when these terms change.

if we change something that matters, we'll bump the date at the top and tell you in the app — usually with a one-line note about what changed. small fixes (typos, clearer wording) just get the date bump. using the app after a change means you're okay with the new terms.

"as is".

libya pulse is offered as it is, doing the best it can with the signal it has. we don't promise it'll always be online, always be accurate, or always be right for what you need. we don't promise specific reports are true — they're people saying what they saw.

so: to the extent the law allows, libya pulse and the people who build it aren't liable for losses that follow from using the app — missed fuel, a wrong-turn detour, a closed atm. for direct, serious harm caused by us being grossly negligent, of course, the law still applies.

talk to us.

questions about anything above, a moderation appeal, a takedown request, a polite "this paragraph is unclear" — email abdurahman.i@gmail.com. a real person reads it.