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Last updated 6 November 2026

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These terms cover your use of Owt (the "app"). By using it, you agree to them. If you don't agree, please don't use the app.

1. What Owt is

Owt helps you discover public events happening near you in South Africa, including concerts, parties, markets, and more. We source event listings from third-party ticketing platforms (currently Quicket) and display them on a map with search and filters. Owt is a phone app: on the App Store for iPhone, and in testing on Android. The earlier web version has closed.

2. We're a discovery layer, not the seller

Owt does not sell tickets, process payments, or organize the events it lists. When you tap "Get tickets," you leave Owt and complete your purchase directly on the ticket seller's own platform (for most events today, Quicket), under that seller's own terms, for example Quicket's terms. Any issue with a ticket purchase, refund, or event cancellation is between you, the organizer, and the ticket seller. Owt isn't a party to that transaction and can't resolve it on your behalf.

3. Accuracy of listings

Event details (times, prices, availability, venue) are pulled from the ticketing platform's API and refreshed regularly, but we can't guarantee they're always current. Organizers sometimes update details faster than our sync catches them. Always confirm details on the ticket page before you travel. If you open the app with no signal, it may show a saved copy of the last events you loaded rather than live data, clearly labeled as such.

4. Ride-cost estimates

Any ride-cost figure shown in the app is a rough, non-live estimate for planning purposes only. It isn't sourced from Uber, Bolt, or any ride provider in real time, and Owt has no partnership with a ride provider today. Don't treat it as a quote.

5. Our mascot

The Android test version of Owt has an animated mascot, Groov: a decorative, scripted character. It's not a chatbot, not AI, and not a support channel. It doesn't read, understand, or respond to anything; its greeting is a fixed, pre-written line shown the same way to everyone, not a real conversation. If you need help, contact us directly using the details in section 13.

6. "Popular near you"

In the Android test version of Owt, the Popular page (the Popular button and the Popular near you tile) shows ten events for your area, ranked by a score we set ourselves. Events that have a photo, that are not in the uncurated "Other" category of the event listings, that are free or low priced, and that start soon score higher. A small daily variation is added so the list does not repeat, and no more than three events from one category are shown, so the list is mixed. Sold out events and events that have already started are left out. The ranking is not based on ticket sales or on how many people saved an event, and nobody can pay to be on it. The list can be narrowed to today, this week or the weekend.

Selection isn't personalized. No profile, account, location history, or browsing data is used to choose it, and every visitor sees the same picks for the same city on the same day, except that events you have chosen to hide with "Not interested" are left out for you. The ranking is refreshed once daily, not on every visit.

On that version's home screen, "Popular near you" is also shown as a slideshow of up to five events that moves by itself every few seconds. It is shown to people who have opened Owt a few times. Its events are chosen at random from that day's listings for your city, narrowed only by two fixed rules: we exclude the uncurated "Other" category of the event listings, and we require a photo. Sold out events are left out. If you have saved an event with "Interested", the next one of yours that is still to come is shown first and marked as yours; that is read from your own saved list (on your device, or in your account) and is not used to choose the other picks.

7. Accounts and your profile

Creating an account is optional. If you don't, your saved events and settings stay only on your own phone, and we're not responsible for data lost when you delete the app or switch phones. If you do sign up, you're responsible for keeping your password confidential and for anything that happens under your account. Let us know at the address below if you suspect it's been compromised. See our Privacy Policy for how account and profile data is handled.

8. Acceptable use

You agree not to: scrape or bulk-extract data from the app or its API beyond normal use; attempt to bypass rate limits or security controls; use the app to harass, defraud, or impersonate; or interfere with the service's normal operation.

9. Provided "as is" (early release)

Owt is under active development and offered as a free early release. Features may change, break, or be removed without notice, and we don't guarantee uptime. The app is provided "as is," without warranties of any kind, to the fullest extent permitted by law.

10. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Owt and its operator aren't liable for indirect, incidental, or consequential damages arising from your use of the app, including missed events, inaccurate listings, or third-party ticketing issues.

11. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms as the app evolves. The "last updated" date above will always reflect the current version.

12. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of South Africa.

13. Contact

Questions about these terms can be sent to groov.support@gmail.com.

Owt, est. 2026, South Africa.