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<p class="text-brown-800 leading-relaxed">
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Arabica is a coffee brew tracking application built on the AT Protocol, a decentralized social networking protocol.
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Unlike traditional apps where your data is locked in a company's database, Arabica stores your brew logs,
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coffee beans, and equipment information in <strong>your own Personal Data Server (PDS)</strong>.
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coffee beans, and equipment information in <strong>your Personal Data Server (PDS)</strong> — hosted
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by a provider you choose (such as
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<a href="https://bsky.app" class="link-bold" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Bluesky</a>,
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<a href="https://selfhosted.social" class="link-bold" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">selfhosted.social</a>, or
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<a href="https://eurosky.cloud" class="link-bold" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Eurosky</a>),
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<a href="https://atproto.com/guides/self-hosting" class="link-bold" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">self-hosted</a> on your own
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infrastructure, and portable to a different provider at any time.
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<h4 class="font-semibold text-brown-900 mb-2">Community Feed</h4>
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<p class="text-brown-700 text-sm">Share your best brews with the community (coming soon: likes and comments!)</p>
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<p class="text-brown-700 text-sm">Share your best brews with the community, and interact with likes and comments</p>
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// <h4 class="font-semibold text-brown-900 mb-2">Export Your Data</h4>
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<h2 class="text-2xl font-semibold text-brown-900 mb-4">The AT Protocol Advantage</h2>
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The AT Protocol is a decentralized social networking protocol that gives users true ownership of their data
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and identity. When you use Arabica:
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The AT Protocol is a decentralized social networking protocol that gives users ownership of their data
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and a portable identity. When you use Arabica:
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<li>Your brew data is stored as ATProto records in collections on your PDS</li>
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<h3 class="font-semibold text-brown-900 mb-2">Personal Data Server (PDS)</h3>
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Your PDS is where all your data lives. Think of it as your personal database in the cloud.
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When you create brew logs in Arabica, they're stored in your PDS, not on Arabica's servers.
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You can switch PDS providers anytime without losing your data.
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Your PDS is where all your data lives. It can be hosted by a large provider like
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an independent host like
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<a href="https://selfhosted.social" class="link-bold" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">selfhosted.social</a> or
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<a href="https://eurosky.cloud" class="link-bold" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Eurosky</a>,
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or <a href="https://atproto.com/guides/self-hosting" class="link-bold" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">self-hosted</a>
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on your own server. You choose where your PDS lives and can migrate between
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providers at any time. When you create brew logs in Arabica, they're stored in
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your PDS, not on Arabica's servers.
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<h2 class="text-2xl font-semibold text-brown-800 mb-4">1. Your Data Ownership</h2>
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All data you create through Arabica is stored in your AT Protocol Personal Data Server (PDS).
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Your PDS may be operated by a large provider (such as
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or by you on
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You choose where your PDS lives, and the AT Protocol allows you to migrate to a different
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provider at any time, taking your data and identity with you.
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Arabica does not own or claim any rights to your data.
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<li>You retain full ownership and control of your data</li>
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<li>You retain ownership of your data and choose where it is hosted</li>
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<li>You can delete your data at any time — deletes are respected immediately (see below)</li>
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<li>You can migrate to a different PDS provider without losing your data or identity</li>
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<li>You can stop using Arabica and your data remains in your PDS</li>
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<h2 class="text-2xl font-semibold text-brown-800 mb-4">6. Service Availability</h2>
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<h2 class="text-2xl font-semibold text-brown-800 mb-4">6. Age Requirement</h2>
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You must be at least 13 years old to use Arabica. If you are between 13 and 18, you must have
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permission from a parent or legal guardian. We do not knowingly collect data from children
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under 13. If we become aware that a user is under 13, we will take steps to remove their
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data from our servers.
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Arabica has a moderation system to maintain a safe and welcoming community. Moderators may:
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<li><strong>Hide content</strong> — Records that violate community standards may be hidden from the community feed. Hidden records remain in your PDS and are not deleted.</li>
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<li><strong>Restrict accounts</strong> — Accounts that repeatedly violate community standards may be restricted from appearing in the community feed.</li>
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<li><strong>Auto-moderation</strong> — Arabica uses automated content filtering that may automatically hide records pending moderator review.</li>
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Users can report content they believe violates community standards. All moderation actions are
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logged in an audit trail. Moderation only affects visibility within Arabica — your data
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in your PDS is never modified or deleted by moderators.
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Arabica may restrict or terminate your access to the service if you violate these terms or
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community standards. Because your data lives in your PDS, termination from Arabica does not
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affect your data or your AT Protocol identity — you can still access your records through
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other AT Protocol applications.
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Arabica is provided "as is" without warranties of any kind. We make reasonable efforts to keep
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the service running but do not guarantee uptime or availability. Since your data is stored in
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your PDS rather than on Arabica's servers, you won't lose your data if Arabica goes offline.
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Arabica depends on third-party services including your PDS provider and the AT Protocol relay
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network. Your PDS provider (e.g. Bluesky) hosts your data and has its own terms of service
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and data handling practices. We are not responsible for the availability, performance, or
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data handling practices of these third-party services.
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To the maximum extent permitted by law, Arabica and its operators shall not be liable for any
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indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, including but not limited to
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loss of data, loss of profits, or interruption of service, arising from your use of or inability
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to use the service. Our total liability for any claim related to the service shall not exceed
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the amount you have paid us in the twelve months preceding the claim (which, since Arabica is
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free, is zero).
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<strong>All data on the AT Protocol is public.</strong> Records you create in Arabica — brews, beans,
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equipment, likes, comments — are publicly accessible on your PDS and through the AT Protocol firehose.
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<li><strong>Right to access</strong> — You can request a copy of the data we hold about you on our servers</li>
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<li><strong>Right to deletion</strong> — You can request that we remove your data from our witness cache, feed registry, and other server-side storage</li>
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<li><strong>Right to correction</strong> — Since your PDS is the source of truth, corrections are made by updating your PDS records, and the witness cache will reflect the change</li>
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social features you use). We do not transfer your data to third parties.
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Questions about these terms? You can reach us through our GitHub repository or by email at
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<a href="mailto:mail@arabica.systems" class="link-bold">mail@arabica.systems</a>.