Effective Date: August 24, 2026
Welcome to Rivu. Please read on to learn the rules and restrictions that govern your use of our website(s), products, services and applications (the "Services"). If you have any questions, comments, or concerns regarding these terms or the Services, please contact us at:
Email: support@rivunow.com
Mail: Rivu Technologies, 950 Columbus Ave Apt 9, San Francisco, CA 94133
These Terms of Use (the "Terms") are a binding contract between you and Rivu Technologies ("Rivu," "we" and "us"). Your use of the Services in any way means that you agree to all of these Terms, and these Terms will remain in effect while you use the Services. These Terms include the provisions in this document as well as those in the Community Policy. Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle your information; it is not part of this contract.
Please read these Terms carefully. They include information about future changes to these Terms, a class action waiver, and resolution of disputes by arbitration instead of in court.
ARBITRATION NOTICE AND CLASS ACTION WAIVER: Except for certain types of disputes described in the "Settling disputes between you and us" section below, you agree that disputes between you and us will be resolved by binding, individual arbitration and you waive your right to participate in a class action lawsuit or class-wide arbitration. You may opt out of arbitration within 30 days of first accepting these Terms, as described in that section.
We are always trying to improve our Services, so these Terms may need to change along with our Services. We reserve the right to change the Terms at any time, but if we do, we will place a notice on our site located at https://rivunow.com, send you an email, and/or notify you by some other means.
If you don't agree with the new Terms, you are free to reject them; unfortunately, that means you will no longer be able to use the Services. If you use the Services in any way after a change to the Terms is effective, that means you agree to all of the changes.
Rivu takes the privacy of its users very seriously. For details, see the Privacy Policy.
The Services are not intended for anyone under 13 years of age, and you may not create an account if you are under 13.
The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act ("COPPA") requires that online service providers obtain parental consent before they knowingly collect personally identifiable information online from children who are under thirteen (13). We do not knowingly collect or solicit personally identifiable information from children under thirteen (13). If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under 13, we will delete it. If you believe a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, contact us at support@rivunow.com.
If you are under 18 and you posted something on Rivu that you want removed, you can delete it yourself in the app — reviews, ratings, bookmarks, and your profile photo can all be removed from your account. You can also email us at support@rivunow.com and we will remove it.
Removal may not be complete or comprehensive. Content you posted may remain in our backups until they are replaced on our normal cycle, and if someone else has already copied or reposted it, we cannot remove it from wherever they put it.
You may be required to sign up for an account, select a password and user name ("Rivu User ID"), and provide us with certain information or data, such as your contact information. You promise to provide us with accurate, complete, and updated registration information about yourself.
You represent and warrant that you are an individual of legal age to form a binding contract (or if not, you've received your parent's or guardian's permission to use the Services and have gotten your parent or guardian to agree to these Terms on your behalf).
You will use the Services only in a manner that complies with all laws that apply to you.
You represent, warrant, and agree that you will not provide or contribute anything, including any Content or User Submission, to the Services, or otherwise use or interact with the Services, in a manner that:
(a) Infringes or violates the intellectual property rights or any other rights of anyone else (including Rivu);
(b) Violates any law or regulation, including, without limitation, any applicable export control or privacy laws;
(c) Is dangerous, harmful, fraudulent, deceptive, threatening, harassing, defamatory, obscene, or otherwise objectionable;
(d) Jeopardizes the security of your Rivu User ID, account or anyone else's;
(e) Attempts, in any manner, to obtain the password, account, or other security information from any other user;
(f) Violates the security of any computer network, or cracks any passwords or security encryption codes;
(g) Runs maillist, listserv, any form of auto-responder or "spam" on the Services;
(h) "Crawls," "scrapes," or "spiders" the Services, or extracts data from them by automated means; or
(i) Copies, stores, or redistributes a substantial portion of the Services' content in bulk, other than your own contributions; or
(j) Decompiles, reverse engineers, or otherwise attempts to obtain the source code or underlying ideas or information of or relating to the Services.
The Services, and all the text, images, software, and other material we provide through them, are owned by us or our licensors and are protected by copyright and other laws.
We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use the Services, subject to these Terms. You may not resell, sublicense, or redistribute the Services, or reproduce or commercially exploit their content.
Film and television metadata and images are licensed from The Movie Database (TMDB) and remain subject to TMDB's own terms. Your use of that material through the Services must comply with those terms.
You keep ownership of everything you contribute — your reviews, ratings, bookmarks, and profile photo ("User Submissions").
You grant Rivu a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to host, store, reproduce, display, and distribute your User Submissions solely to operate and provide the Services, and to other users to the extent your settings make your content visible to them.
This license exists only so we can show your content to the people you intend to see it. It ends when you delete the content or your account. When you delete your account, we delete your reviews, ratings, bookmarks, and profile photo. Copies may remain in routine backups until those backups are replaced on our normal backup cycle, and we may retain information where the law requires it or where we need it to resolve a dispute or enforce these Terms.
You are responsible for what you contribute. You represent that you have the right to contribute it, and that doing so does not violate anyone else's rights, including copyright, privacy, and publicity rights.
Our Community Policy sets out the rules for reviews, usernames, and profile photos. It forms part of these Terms. We may update it as the community grows, and we will give notice of material changes the same way we do for these Terms.
We may remove any content that violates these Terms or the Community Policy, and we may suspend or terminate accounts for doing so.
Rivu does not moderate or approve content before it is posted, though we may apply automated checks to submitted text. You are responsible for your own User Submissions and for your interactions with other users. We are not a party to disputes between users.
Ratings, reviews, community scores, and predicted scores are opinions and estimates. They are not advice, and you should not treat them as anything more than a suggestion about what you might enjoy.
We respect the intellectual property rights of others.
If you believe content on the Services infringes your copyright, contact us at support@rivunow.com with:
We review notices we receive, may remove content we believe in good faith is infringing, and may terminate the accounts of users who repeatedly infringe.
If we remove something of yours and you think we got it wrong, email us at support@rivunow.com with a description of what was removed, where it appeared, and why you believe the removal was a mistake. We will review it and restore the content if the objection is well founded.
All titles, images, and trademarks displayed in the Services are property of their respective owners.
This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB. Streaming availability is provided through TMDB and is powered by JustWatch. References or links do not imply affiliation or endorsement.
You agree not to scrape, bulk download, or redistribute third-party content beyond normal app use.
Content metadata and streaming availability are provided "as is" and may change without notice. Streaming availability may vary by region.
THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
We do not warrant that the Services will be uninterrupted or error-free, and we make no warranty as to the accuracy, completeness, or currency of film and television metadata, streaming availability, community scores, or predicted scores. Availability information originates with third parties and changes without notice.
Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties, so some of these exclusions may not apply to you.
You may stop using the Services at any time, and you can delete your account from within the app.
We may suspend or terminate your account, or remove your content, if you violate these Terms or the Community Policy, if we are required to by law, or if we discontinue the Services. If we terminate your account for a reason other than your violation of these Terms, we will make reasonable efforts to notify you.
The sections of these Terms that by their nature should survive termination will survive, including the license you granted for content you have not deleted, the disclaimers, and the dispute-resolution provisions.
These Terms are between you and Rivu Technologies only, not with Apple Inc. ("Apple"), and Apple is not responsible for the Services or their content.
Rivu Technologies, not Apple, is solely responsible for providing any maintenance and support for the Services. Apple has no obligation to provide any maintenance or support. If the Services fail to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price (if any) for the application; to the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation with respect to the Services.
Rivu Technologies, not Apple, is responsible for addressing any claims relating to the Services, including product liability claims, any claim that the Services fail to conform to a legal or regulatory requirement, and claims arising under consumer protection or similar legislation. Rivu Technologies, not Apple, is responsible for the investigation, defense, settlement, and discharge of any third-party claim that the Services infringe that third party's intellectual property rights.
You represent that you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. Government embargo or designated as a "terrorist supporting" country, and that you are not listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms, and upon your acceptance Apple has the right (and is deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce these Terms against you as a third-party beneficiary.
Please read this section carefully. It affects how disputes between us are resolved.
Informal resolution first. If you have a dispute with us, contact us at support@rivunow.com with a short description of the dispute and the relief you want. We will try in good faith to resolve it with you. Neither of us may start arbitration until 30 days after that notice.
Arbitration. If we cannot resolve the dispute informally, you and we agree that any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Services will be resolved by binding, individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association ("AAA") under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, rather than in court. The arbitrator's decision is final and may be entered as a judgment in any court of competent jurisdiction.
Location and format. Arbitration will take place in the county where you live, or — at your election — by telephone, video conference, or on written submissions only. If you prefer a different location, we will agree to any reasonable request.
Class action waiver. YOU AND WE AGREE THAT EACH MAY BRING CLAIMS AGAINST THE OTHER ONLY IN AN INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. The arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person's claims or preside over any form of class proceeding.
Exceptions. Either of us may bring a claim in small claims court if it qualifies. Either of us may also seek injunctive relief in court to stop unauthorized use or abuse of the Services or infringement of intellectual property rights. Nothing in this section waives your right to seek public injunctive relief, and any claim for public injunctive relief will be heard in court rather than in arbitration. Nothing in this section waives any other right that cannot lawfully be waived.
Costs. We will pay the arbitration fees charged by the AAA beyond the portion the AAA Consumer Arbitration Rules require you to pay.
Your right to opt out. You may opt out of this arbitration agreement and the class action waiver by emailing support@rivunow.com with the subject line "Arbitration Opt-Out" within 30 days of first accepting these Terms. Include your name and the email address on your account. Opting out will not affect any other part of these Terms, and it will not affect your use of the Services in any way.
Severability. If any part of this section is found unenforceable, that part will be severed and the rest will remain in effect — except that if the class action waiver is found unenforceable as to a particular claim, that claim will proceed in court rather than in arbitration.
These Terms and any dispute arising out of them are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. For any dispute not subject to arbitration, you and we agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in San Francisco County, California.
These Terms, together with the Community Policy, are the entire agreement between you and us about the Services.
If any provision of these Terms is found unenforceable, the rest remains in effect. Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of it.
You may not assign these Terms without our written consent. We may assign them to an affiliate or successor, including in connection with a merger, acquisition, sale of assets, or a change in our legal form such as incorporating our business.
We may give you notice by email to the address on your account or by posting on the Services.
For questions about these Terms of Use, please contact us at support@rivunow.com.
Last updated: August 24, 2026