Terms of use

Agreeing to these terms

These terms cover your use of Overlap, the group scheduling site you're on. Using the site means you accept them. If you don't, please don't use it.

You don't need an account to create a poll or to answer one. Each browser gets an anonymous session automatically. Signing up — adding an email and password, or linking Discord — ties the polls you've made to an account you can open on other devices, and that's the point where you're asked to accept these terms.

Your polls and the answers in them

What you create stays yours: poll titles, the days and hours you pick, and the availability you paint on other people's polls.

To show a poll to the people you share it with, we store it and display it to anyone who opens the link. Poll links are unlisted, not secret: they aren't advertised or added to search results, but anyone holding the link can read the poll's title, days and hours, and the names and availability people have submitted.

Only the person who created a poll can change its days and hours, and people can only change their own availability. Share a link with people you'd be happy to see those answers.

Using Overlap fairly

Don't use Overlap to spam or harass people, to impersonate someone, or to collect availability that people didn't agree to give you.

The Discord command that asks people to fill in a poll posts as the bot and notifies exactly the people the organizer names. Only use it to ask people who'd expect to hear from you.

Don't try to break, overload or scrape the site, or to get around who is allowed to edit what. We can remove a poll or stop access if the site is being used to harm people.

Accounts and keeping access

If you sign up, keep your password to yourself and change it if you think someone else has it.

Until you sign up, the anonymous session in your browser is the account. Clearing site data, using private browsing, or losing a device can lose access to those polls — that's what adding an email and password, or a Discord account, is for.

You can sign out of a device at any time from the account page.

Discord

If you connect Discord, or use the bot in a server, Discord's own terms and privacy policy apply to Discord and to the server you're in.

We keep the Discord account id and handle that sign-in returns, so the bot can recognise you in a server. Nothing you do on Discord outside the polls you're part of is available to us.

What we don't promise

Overlap is free and provided as it is. It can change, break, or be unavailable, and data can be lost. Keep your own copy of anything that matters — a screenshot of the grid is enough.

A poll shows what people typed, not what they'll actually do. Overlap isn't a calendar or a booking contract, so treat the overlap as a starting point rather than the final word.

Liability

To the extent the law allows, the people running this copy of Overlap aren't liable for missed meetings, lost data, or indirect or consequential losses that come from using the site.

Nothing here limits liability that can't be limited by law.

Ending use

You can stop using Overlap whenever you like. We can suspend or end access, and remove content, if these terms are broken, or if continuing to run the site isn't possible any more.

Copyright and ownership

The Overlap name, its design and the code behind it belong to Abhinav Suresh, and are protected by copyright — the notice at the bottom of every page says so in short.

Please don't copy the branding or the site wholesale to pass it off as your own. The polls and availability that you and your group create stay yours, as described above.

Changes to these terms

These terms may change as the site changes, and the date at the top of this page says when they last did. Using Overlap after a change means you accept the new version.

Contact

Questions about these terms, or want a poll or an account removed? Contact whoever operates the copy of Overlap you're using.

We'll do what we can, as quickly as we can. Please don't send passwords or anything else you'd want to keep private.