Terms of Service — Democracy

Effective Date: October 30, 2026
Last Updated: November 6, 2026

1. Agreement

These terms govern your use of Democracy, provided by Dimitrios Daskaleas, trading as FineApps, Athens, Greece ("we"). The app asks you to accept them before you create an account, and again before you post your first question or cast your first vote; you cannot post without accepting them. Our Privacy Policy explains how data is handled.

2. What Democracy Is — and Is Not

Democracy is a place where people pose questions and verified people answer them. Its results show what the people who chose to vote think.

  • Results are not opinion polls within the meaning of Greek Law 3603/2007 or any similar law. Participants choose themselves; results are not a representative sample and do not predict any election. Every results view says so.
  • They are not referendums or elections, and they bind no one.
  • Democracy is not affiliated with any government, electoral authority, party or candidate.
  • Do not present Democracy results as an opinion poll or as an official result.

3. Eligibility

  • You must be 18 or older. We close accounts we find to belong to someone under 18.
  • To vote you must verify yourself with a genuine identity document — a passport, an identity card or another official identity document, with or without a chip — that is your own.
  • Each person may register once per citizenship. Using someone else's document or a photo of it, a forged, altered or edited document or image, or any method to vote more than once is forbidden. Every registered voter counts the same.

4. Your Account

You can sign in with email and password, Apple, Google or Facebook. Keep your sign-in details secure. Your voting key is backed up in your own encrypted Apple or Google keychain and returns when you sign in to a new phone. If that backup is lost too, you can register again with your identity document: you receive a new voting key, the votes you cast earlier still count, and you can vote on polls created after you register again (from the start of the following month), so that no one votes twice on the same poll.

5. Questions and Answers

  • You write your question and its answers (two to twenty). We never edit wording.
  • You choose to post under your name or anonymously. Anonymous posting requires a verified voter.
  • Answers are append-only. You may add new answers later, up to twenty in total — for example a new party on a question that runs for years. A published answer can never be changed, reordered or removed by you, because every vote refers to its position: changing it would change the meaning of votes already cast. Check your answers before you post.
  • Only the person who asked can add answers. For an anonymous question, only the phone holding that question's key can.
  • Questions stay open permanently and their results are shown live, except during election quiet periods (section 10).
  • You remain responsible for what you post, and you keep your rights in it. You give us a worldwide, free, non-exclusive licence to display and distribute it as part of the service, for as long as the question exists.

6. Votes

  • One vote per person per question. You may change it at any time, with a waiting period between changes.
  • Every vote is anonymous. No vote is ever shown on a profile, and nobody, including us, can tell how you voted.
  • Votes recorded on the blockchain cannot be deleted by anyone, including us.

7. What Is Not Allowed

  • Illegal content of any kind, including child sexual abuse material
  • Defamation: false statements of fact that harm the reputation of an identifiable person
  • Publishing someone's private information — home address, phone number, identity document, or similar — without their consent (doxxing)
  • Threats, and incitement to violence or to hatred against people because of who they are
  • Terrorist content (section 8)
  • Impersonating another person or organisation, or falsely claiming to speak for a government, party or authority
  • Paid or sponsored political content: posting questions or answers for a party, candidate, campaign or government in exchange for payment or any other benefit, or promoting them for money
  • Bots, automation, fake registrations, or any attempt to vote more than once or to falsify results
  • Buying, selling or coercing votes, or pressuring anyone to vote a certain way or to reveal their vote
  • Attacking, overloading or reverse-engineering the service to defeat its protections
  • Spam

Disagreement is not a violation. We do not remove a question or an answer because of the opinion it expresses or because it criticises public figures, governments or us.

8. Terrorist Content

Content that incites, solicits, threatens or instructs on terrorist offences, or that glorifies them, is forbidden, as defined in Regulation (EU) 2021/784. When a competent authority sends us a removal order, we remove or disable the content within one hour, keep it and its related data for six months (longer only if a court or authority requires it), and tell the person who posted it, unless the authority tells us not to. That person may challenge the order before the courts of the country that issued it, and may also ask us to review our own action through the reconsideration route in section 9. We report on these actions as the Regulation requires.

9. How Moderation Works

  • Filter before publication. Every question and answer passes an automatic filter before it is published. It looks only for clearly prohibited content (section 7). When it holds something back, a person reviews it, and you are told. The filter never changes your wording.
  • Reports. Anyone can report a question, an answer or a profile with the Report button on each, or through the contact page. A report should explain why the content is illegal or breaks these terms, where it is, and include a statement that the report is made in good faith; give a name and email if you want to hear the outcome. We confirm receipt and tell you what we decided.
  • Review. A person reviews every report and every item the filter holds back. We act quickly on content that is clearly illegal. We do not monitor all content in advance.
  • What we may do: remove a question, or a single added answer; hide it in some countries where the law requires; reduce its visibility; suspend or close an account. A removed question disappears from the app and is listed, without personal data, in our public log of removals; its votes remain on the blockchain.
  • Statement of reasons. Whenever we remove or restrict your content or account, we tell you in the app and by email: what we did, the facts, whether automated means were used, the legal or contractual ground, and how to challenge it.
  • Reconsideration. Reply to the statement of reasons within six months and a person who did not take the first decision reviews it. We tell you the result. You can also go to court.
  • Repeated abuse. An account with three upheld removals within twelve months is suspended. We may also stop handling reports from someone who repeatedly sends manifestly unfounded ones.
  • Block. You can block any user from their profile. Their questions and answers are then hidden from you. Blocking is separate from reporting and the other user is not told.

10. Election Quiet Periods

Many countries forbid publishing voting-intention results shortly before an election. During such a period we hide live results for questions tagged with that country, and that country's breakdown. For Greek parliamentary elections the period runs from 00:00 on the day before polling day until 19:00 on polling day. Voting continues normally; results return when the period ends.

11. Fees

Democracy is free. We pay the blockchain fees for every vote. There are no ads, tokens or paid features.

12. Availability

We work to keep Democracy running and secure, but we cannot promise uninterrupted service. The blockchain is operated by third parties we do not control.

13. Liability

We are liable under Greek law for damage we cause intentionally or through gross negligence, and for harm to life, body or health. For slight negligence we are liable only for breach of an essential obligation of these terms, and only for the damage typically foreseeable when you started using Democracy. We are not liable for content posted by other users, except where the law makes a hosting service liable — for example, if we fail to act on clearly illegal content after we learn of it. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, or your rights as a consumer.

14. Ending

You may delete your account at any time (see the Privacy Policy for what deletion does). We may suspend or end access for serious or repeated breaches of these terms, and we tell you why (section 9).

15. Changes

We will announce material changes in the app and on this page at least 30 days before they take effect, unless a law or a security need requires a faster change. If you do not agree, you may delete your account before the change takes effect.

16. Law and Courts

Greek law governs these terms, without prejudice to the mandatory consumer protections of the country where you live. The courts of Athens have jurisdiction, but not exclusively: if you are a consumer you may also bring a claim in the courts of the country where you live, and you can be sued only there.

17. Contact

democracy@fineapps.gr — all our contact points, including those for authorities, are on the contact page.