Terms & Conditions

Last updated 11 July 2026

Offline is an invite-only networking community in Abu Dhabi, run through the website offline.ae and the Offline members app. In these Terms, "Offline", "we", "us" and "our" refer to Offline; "you" refers to you as a member or applicant.

1. Accepting these Terms

By requesting membership, creating an account, or using the Offline website or app, you confirm that you are at least 18 years old and that you accept these Terms, our Privacy Policy and our Cookie Policy. If you do not agree, please do not use Offline. Continuing to use Offline confirms your acceptance of the version then in force.

2. Membership

Offline is invite-only and curated. We may accept, decline, pause or end any membership or application at our discretion, to keep the community relevant and safe. You agree to give accurate information about yourself and to keep it up to date. Your account is personal to you — please don't share your sign-in link or check-in QR with anyone else.

3. Events & conduct

We host gatherings such as drinks, padel and founder pitches. You RSVP to the ones you want and show your QR at the door to check in. Unless we say otherwise, you pay your own share — your drink, your court, your costs. Attendance is at your own risk. We may change, postpone or cancel any event at any time and for any reason, without liability to you.

We expect members to be respectful, honest and generous, to keep conversations off the record, and not to harass, pressure or mislead other members. We may remove anyone who doesn't.

Inside the app you can connect with other members, send and accept connection requests, and view other members' profiles. Treat other members' information as private to the community — use it only to connect within Offline, and don't export, copy or reuse it elsewhere. The app may also send you service messages and, if you enable them, push notifications; you can turn notifications off at any time in the app or your device settings.

4. Member offers (Perks)

Members and partner businesses may post discount offers ("Perks") to other members. Each offer is provided by the member or business making it, not by Offline. We don't sell those goods or services, we don't guarantee any offer, and we're not responsible for whether an offer is honored or for any dealings between you and the provider. Using an offer is a matter between you and the provider.

5. Payments

Offline does not currently charge membership fees or process any payments. At events, you pay your own costs directly to the relevant venue or provider. If we introduce paid features, fees or payments in the future, we will tell you and provide the applicable payment terms before you are charged.

6. Membership data & insights

As described in our Privacy Policy, Offline produces aggregated, anonymized insights about the membership as a whole and may share or sell these insights to partners and other third parties as part of our business. These are only ever group-level statistics; they never include your personal information and never identify you individually. We do not sell your personal data. By accepting these Terms and our Privacy Policy when you sign in, you agree to this use. We handle your personal data in line with the UAE Personal Data Protection Law (Federal Decree-Law No. 45 of 2021) and, where you are in the EEA or UK, the GDPR, as set out in our Privacy Policy.

7. Acceptable use

• Don't use Offline for anything unlawful, or in any way that harms or disrupts the service or other members.
• Don't copy, scrape, harvest or resell member information or any part of the app or website.
• Don't attempt to gain unauthorised access to accounts, systems or data.
• Don't reverse-engineer, decompile or disassemble the app or website, and don't use bots, crawlers, scrapers or other automated means to access, copy or collect any part of the service.

Asks, Perks, replies and other member-generated content must be professional and relevant to the network. We may remove any post or content — and may suspend or remove any member — that contains offensive language, non-professional or personal solicitations, spam, or anything that doesn't fit the purpose of the community, at our discretion.

8. Intellectual property

The Offline name, the Offline logo, the website and the app, and all of their content, design, layout, text, graphics, code and overall "look and feel", are owned by Offline or our licensors and are protected by copyright, trademark, database and other intellectual-property rights. © 2026 Offline. All rights reserved. "Offline" and the Offline logo are trademarks of Offline; trademark registration is being sought in the United Arab Emirates, and all rights in these marks are reserved. Nothing in these Terms transfers any intellectual-property right to you.

We grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable and revocable licence to access and use the website and app only as a member and for their intended purpose. Except as this licence expressly allows, and except to the limited extent that mandatory law says otherwise, you must not — and must not permit or assist anyone else to:

• copy, reproduce, republish, mirror, frame, distribute, sell, rent or create derivative, adapted or competing works from any part of the website, app, their content, design or source code;
• scrape, crawl, spider, data-mine, harvest or extract data or content by any automated means, or access the service other than through the interface we provide;
• reverse-engineer, decompile, disassemble or otherwise attempt to derive the source code, underlying structure, ideas or "look and feel" of the app or website, except to the limited extent this restriction cannot lawfully be excluded;
• remove, obscure or alter any copyright, trademark or other proprietary notice, or circumvent, disable or interfere with any security, access-control, authentication or rate-limiting measure.

We reserve all rights not expressly granted, and will enforce our intellectual-property rights to the fullest extent available under applicable law.

You keep ownership of the content you post — such as Asks, Perks and replies — and of the feedback you send us. By posting content in Offline, you grant us a worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store and display it to run the community; you're responsible for what you post and confirm you have the right to share it. Any feedback or suggestions you send us, we may use freely to operate and improve Offline, with no obligation to you.

9. No guarantees & liability

Offline is provided "as is" and "as available", and we don't guarantee any particular introductions, opportunities or outcomes from membership or events. We don't guarantee that the website or app will be uninterrupted, error-free or always available; they may be taken offline for short periods for maintenance or updates, and we may change, suspend or discontinue any feature, or the service itself, at any time without notice or liability. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Offline excludes all liability to you arising out of or in connection with your membership, your use of the website or app, the events, member offers (Perks), or the conduct of any member, partner or third party — whether in contract, tort (including negligence), or otherwise. To the extent any liability cannot be excluded, our total aggregate liability to you — for all claims arising out of or in connection with Offline — is limited to AED 10,000 (ten thousand UAE dirhams).

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits any liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law — for example, liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud, or for our gross negligence or wilful misconduct. Where such liability cannot lawfully be excluded, it is limited to the minimum the law allows.

10. Suspension & ending membership

You may stop using Offline at any time. You can permanently delete your account and personal data yourself, at any time, in the app under Profile → Settings → "Delete my account", or ask us to close your account by emailing info@offline.ae. We may suspend or end your membership if you breach these Terms or to protect the community.

11. Changes

We may update these Terms from time to time. We'll post the current version here with a new "last updated" date, and your continued use means you accept it.

12. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws applicable in the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), and any dispute arising out of or in connection with them is subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the ADGM Courts.

13. Contact

Questions about these Terms? Email us at info@offline.ae. Offline is based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.