What this service is
An album lives on the internet at its own address, and an NFC tag is a physical object that carries it, so touching a phone to the tag opens the album.
You can let other people add photos, videos, voice notes and written notes to an album you own. They never need an account to do it, and nothing they add appears until you approve it.
What an NFC tag can and cannot do
Everything an NFC tag holds is a web address. That address can be screenshotted, forwarded, copied out of a browser's history, or simply read by any phone that comes near it.
Nothing in this service can tell the difference between somebody who touched the tag and somebody who was sent the link. We do not promise that an album can only be opened by a person physically holding the tag, and you should not assume it.
Choose an album's visibility on the assumption that its address may travel. What protects a private album is its visibility setting and, if you set one, its password. Never the tag.
Your account
An account is an email address and a password, and that is all it is.
We do not verify the email address. Nothing is sent to it to prove you control it before the account exists. That is deliberate, and it keeps signing up to one step. It has a consequence worth knowing: an account can be created with an address that is not yours, and if you mistype your own, sign-in links and notifications go to the address you typed.
You must be 16 or over to hold an account. Nothing here checks that. See the privacy notice, which says so plainly rather than implying a verification that does not exist.
You are responsible for what happens under your account. A signed-in session lasts 30 days.
Paying for an album
An album that lives only on your phone costs nothing. Nothing is created on our side for it, and there is nothing to pay for until you want other people to be able to open it.
Paying is what gives an album an address on the internet. What is on sale is set in the App Store rather than here: a one-time unlock for a single album, or a subscription that keeps the albums you own open for as long as it runs, whichever the store offers you. No price is written on this page, because a page that named one would be wrong the day it changed.
Apple takes the payment. We never see your card and never see your billing address, and nothing in this service ever charges you directly. What reaches us from Apple is a receipt saying that a purchase happened.
If a payment is refunded, or a subscription ends, the album becomes read-only unless something else still keeps it open: a subscription you hold, or a shop-bought NFC tag. Read-only means it stops accepting new memories, new comments and new reactions. It is not deleted, and nothing already in it is touched. Every photograph, video, voice note and comment stays exactly where it is and stays readable by everyone your settings already allow. Paying again turns adding back on.
If you bought an NFC tag in a shop, you have already paid: connecting an unused one to an album puts that album online at no further cost.
What you and your guests upload
What you upload stays yours. You give us permission to store it, to process it into the sizes and formats needed to show it, and to display it to the people your album's visibility setting allows. Nothing beyond that: we do not sell it, do not use it to train anything, and do not show it to anyone your settings do not.
Upload only what you have the right to upload. If your album accepts contributions from other people, you are the one who decides what appears in it.
Review, and what that means for you
Every contribution lands in the album owner's review queue, and nothing appears in an album until the owner approves it.
There is no automated screening. If you open an album to the public, you or the person you delegate the queue to will be the first human to see whatever a stranger uploads. That is worth thinking about before you make an album public, and it is why the queue lets you blur thumbnails, reject in bulk, hand the queue to somebody else, and switch contributions off entirely without deleting the album.
There is no tolerance here for objectionable content, or for people who abuse other people with it.
A reported memory is hidden from its album the moment it is reported, before anybody has looked at it, and the owner is told. An owner can stop an album accepting anything further, at once, without deleting it. We can remove any memory and close any album ourselves, over material that is illegal, an abuse report we can substantiate, or a requirement from the providers this service runs on.
Deleting things
A deleted album is hidden immediately and erased 30 days later. Until then you can restore it, and the owner is reminded three days before the deadline.
You can delete your account from inside the app, or on the web from your profile page, where the last panel is Delete my account, and you never have to write to anybody to do it. It takes the albums you own and everything in them, including memories other people added. It also takes the memories, comments and reactions you left in other people's albums. An album somebody else also owns survives; what leaves it is you. None of it can be undone.
What we do not promise
This is a small service. There is no uptime commitment here, no support response time, and no promise that a feature behaves the way it did last month.
Keep your own copies of anything you would not want to lose. That is true of every service and we would rather say it than imply otherwise.
Who provides this service
Moments by NFC.cool is provided by Nicolo Stanciu, Rua Carminé Nobre 6, 3040-193 Coimbra, Portugal.
Tax number PT315901934. Legal notices go to the address above.
These terms are governed by Portuguese law.