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Terms of Service

The rules, responsibilities, and service terms that apply when you use HappyKava.

Last updatedAugust 27, 2026Back to HappyKava

Effective date: August 22, 2026

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are a legally binding agreement between you and AppyKava LLC, doing business as HappyKava ("HappyKava," "we," "us," or "our"). They govern your access to and use of HappyKava's mobile applications, websites, owner and staff portals, public directories, widgets, communications tools, programs, paid products, and related services (collectively, the "Services").

HappyKava operates on the happykava.app domain. The owner portal is available at happykava.app/manage.

By accessing or using the Services, creating an account, making a purchase, submitting content, applying for a job through HappyKava, or using owner, staff, advertiser, merchant, or driver tools, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Services.

1. Related Terms and Feature Availability

Your use of a particular feature may also be governed by terms or disclosures presented with that feature, including Passport terms, subscription terms, promotion rules, checkout terms, delivery or Shop terms, community guidelines, order forms, or business agreements. If feature-specific terms conflict with these Terms for that feature, the more specific terms control.

The Services evolve over time. Some capabilities described here may be unavailable, in testing, offered only in certain markets, limited to particular account roles or plans, or controlled by a feature flag. Describing a capability in these Terms does not promise that it is currently available or that it will remain available.

2. Eligibility and Age Requirements

You must be at least 13 years old to use the Services. If you are under the age of legal majority where you live, you may use the Services only with permission from a parent or legal guardian who agrees to these Terms on your behalf.

You must meet all applicable age requirements to enter a venue, purchase or receive an age-restricted product, participate in an age-restricted offer, or use another age-restricted feature. HappyKava does not guarantee that a venue or product is appropriate or lawful for you.

If you use the Services for a bar, brand, employer, advertiser, merchant, or other organization, you represent that you are authorized to act for and bind that organization.

3. Accounts and Security

You must provide accurate information and keep it current. You are responsible for your credentials, devices, and activity under your account. Notify us promptly at support@happykava.app if you suspect unauthorized access.

You may not impersonate another person or organization, create a misleading account, share access except through an authorized business workflow, sell or transfer an account without permission, or bypass authentication, account, role, payment, or feature restrictions.

Some business features require identity, ownership, employment, merchant, or role verification. We may request additional information, deny a request, or remove access when verification is incomplete or unreliable.

4. HappyKava Services

The Services may include:

  • bar, event, deal, menu, price, strain, brand, job, and organization discovery;
  • Happening Now, Home Bar, saved places, alerts, public data, maps, and TravelRoot planning;
  • check-ins, Passport, Deal Pass, Always Happy Hour, rewards, loyalty, and validation;
  • Crew connections, invitations, meetups, presence, messaging, voice notes, and community features;
  • games, challenges, leaderboards, Bingo, wheel campaigns, prizes, and promotions;
  • job postings, applicant profiles, Quick Apply, resumes, and applicant-management tools;
  • pickup, delivery, Shop, catalog, cart, ordering, shipping, gift card, credit, and wallet features;
  • subscriptions and premium consumer features, including HappyKava Plus Membership;
  • owner, manager, kavatender, driver, merchant, advertiser, brand, and admin tools;
  • websites, widgets, public APIs, exports, promotional tools, announcements, analytics, and integrations; and
  • artificial-intelligence-assisted import, drafting, classification, generation, and moderation tools.

We may add, change, limit, pause, or discontinue any part of the Services. Availability may depend on location, market, account, role, venue participation, subscription, device, app version, inventory, third-party provider, or rollout state.

5. Listings, Discovery, Maps, and TravelRoot

Venue listings, hours, menus, prices, events, deals, jobs, product information, travel estimates, routes, and availability may come from venues, users, public sources, partners, or automated systems. Conditions change, and we do not guarantee that this information is complete, current, or error-free.

TravelRoot, maps, directions, travel times, and route suggestions are planning aids only. They are not emergency, traffic-control, or safety services. You are responsible for following road conditions, posted signs, applicable laws, venue rules, and the instructions of your chosen navigation provider. Do not interact with the Services while driving in an unsafe or unlawful manner.

6. Location, Check-Ins, Presence, and Validation

Nearby discovery, TravelRoot, check-ins, presence, redemptions, auto check-ins, and active delivery workflows may use approximate or precise location. Some optional features may use location in the background after you grant device permission. You can control device permissions through your operating-system settings, although disabling them may prevent certain features from working.

Check-ins, offers, passes, and redemptions may require on-site presence, geofence compliance, time windows, account eligibility, device signals, QR or staff validation, or other anti-fraud checks.

You may not spoof location or device state, reuse or copy validation credentials, present a screenshot or recording as live proof, manipulate eligibility, or attempt duplicate or fraudulent redemption. We may investigate, block, reverse, or invalidate suspicious activity.

If you choose to share Crew presence, other eligible users may see the bar or meetup where you chose to share. Presence does not guarantee another person's identity, safety, continued presence, or willingness to interact.

7. Crew, Messaging, and Community Features

Crew and community features may let you find people you know, create connections, invite guests, plan meetups, vote, share presence, exchange messages or voice notes, react to content, and participate in group spaces.

You must respect other users' privacy and choices. You may not harass, threaten, stalk, discriminate, impersonate, spam, scam, unlawfully solicit, expose another person's private information, or use community features for illegal activity.

Messaging is not an emergency channel. Messages and notifications may be delayed, filtered, unavailable, or not delivered. We may review reported content and relevant account or technical information, preserve records when reasonably necessary, and restrict content or accounts to address safety, abuse, fraud, legal requests, or policy violations.

Use available blocking, reporting, muting, visibility, discoverability, and presence controls. Those controls reduce platform interactions but cannot control information another person has already seen, copied, or received outside HappyKava.

8. Content and Community Standards

You may submit profiles, reviews, ratings, messages, audio, photos, videos, menus, events, jobs, applications, listings, reports, suggestions, campaign materials, brand information, or other content ("Content"). You retain ownership of your Content.

You grant HappyKava a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, and sublicensable license to host, store, reproduce, format, adapt, display, distribute, analyze, moderate, and otherwise use your Content as reasonably necessary to operate, secure, improve, and promote the Services. Public Content may remain visible until it is removed by you or us, subject to operational, legal, and archival limitations.

You represent that you have the rights needed to submit the Content and that it is not unlawful, infringing, deceptive, defamatory, abusive, malicious, or an unauthorized disclosure of personal information. Do not upload confidential, regulated, or sensitive information unless the applicable feature expressly requests it.

We may reject, remove, limit, label, moderate, or preserve Content. We are not required to publish or continue hosting any Content. Feedback and product suggestions may be used without restriction or compensation.

9. Bars, Owners, Managers, Staff, and Business Accounts

Business users are responsible for maintaining accurate venue, menu, hours, product, staff, deal, event, inventory, participation, campaign, and fulfillment information. Owners and managers must assign and revoke roles appropriately and ensure staff use HappyKava only for authorized business purposes.

Bars and other businesses remain responsible for their own operations, employees and contractors, products, licenses, pricing, taxes, inventory, service decisions, house rules, health and safety practices, marketing communications, customer support, and compliance with law.

Business tools may record staff actions, access, changes, communications, validations, orders, and other operational events for security, support, attribution, billing, and audit purposes.

10. Jobs and Applications

HappyKava may display job postings supplied by independent bars or other businesses. HappyKava is not the employer, staffing agency, recruiter, joint employer, or agent of a hiring business unless expressly stated in writing.

Businesses are solely responsible for their postings, hiring criteria, communications, interviews, employment decisions, legal notices, recordkeeping, and compliance with employment and anti-discrimination laws. Applicants are responsible for providing accurate information and may not submit another person's information without authorization.

When you use Quick Apply, the relevant hiring business may receive your application information, contact details, cover note, resume, and status history. Withdrawing an application stops it from remaining active in the product but may not require immediate deletion of employment records that HappyKava or the hiring business must retain.

HappyKava does not guarantee a response, interview, offer, employment outcome, posting accuracy, employer conduct, compensation, work conditions, or continued availability of a job.

11. Deals, Passport, Passes, Loyalty, and Rewards

Deals, events, Passport, passes, happy-hour programs, loyalty benefits, rewards, referrals, and other offers are subject to the rules shown in the Services, participating-business settings, eligibility, inventory, limits, validation, and applicable feature-specific terms.

A listing does not guarantee that a venue is open, participating, stocked, staffed, or able to honor an offer. Bars may change or pause participation, permitted windows, included items, substitutions, and restrictions. HappyKava may correct errors and limit, reverse, or revoke benefits obtained through mistake, manipulation, fraud, chargeback, or violation of rules.

Passport and similar account entitlements are personal and non-transferable unless their specific terms state otherwise. Review the applicable Passport terms presented in the app or at happykava.app/legal/passport-terms.

Attended redemption on a guest device

Some eligible deals, Deal Passes, Passport benefits, and similar offers may be redeemed on the account holder's device while venue staff are present. A button labeled “STAFF HERE,” “KAVATENDER TAP HERE,” or similar records the account holder's confirmation that staff are present; it does not authenticate the identity, employment status, or authority of the person who touches the device.

The account holder is responsible for keeping control of the account and device and for using the confirmation only when staff are present and the account holder intends to consume the claim immediately. A completed claim ordinarily cannot be undone by the guest in the app. HappyKava or an authorized administrator may investigate, reverse, block, or invalidate a claim when appropriate for error correction, support, fraud prevention, or rule enforcement.

The age shown in an offer is an eligibility requirement, not identity or age verification. A participating bar remains responsible for any identification check, lawful-sale requirement, purchase or tab condition, product eligibility, inventory decision, and house rule, and may refuse an offer when those requirements are not met. Attempting an unattended, duplicate, transferred, manipulated, or otherwise fraudulent redemption may result in refusal, reversal, loss of benefits, or account restriction.

12. Games, Contests, and Promotions

Games, challenges, leaderboards, Bingo, wheel campaigns, drawings, prizes, and other promotions may have separate official rules covering eligibility, dates, entry, odds, judging, prizes, verification, taxes, and sponsor information. Those official rules control the applicable promotion.

Unless official rules expressly say otherwise, gameplay points, rankings, badges, virtual items, credits, and rewards have no cash value, are non-transferable, and may be corrected, limited, expired, or revoked. Manipulation, automation, collusion, false check-ins, duplicate accounts, and other abuse are prohibited.

Apple, Google, and other app-store operators are not sponsors of a HappyKava promotion unless the official rules expressly identify them as sponsors.

13. Orders, Pickup, and Delivery

HappyKava may enable you to place pickup or delivery orders with participating businesses. The checkout screen will identify the products, price, fees, taxes, tip, fulfillment method, estimated timing, and applicable seller or merchant information.

Unless expressly stated otherwise at checkout, the participating bar, brand, or merchant—not HappyKava—is the seller and is responsible for product descriptions, lawful sale, age checks, inventory, preparation, substitutions, packaging, pickup, delivery, refunds, and customer service. HappyKava provides technology and support tools and is not a food preparer, product manufacturer, common carrier, or delivery employer.

You are responsible for accurate recipient, contact, and address information, lawful receipt, safe access, and any required age or identity verification. Estimates are not guarantees. Orders may be delayed, modified, rejected, or canceled because of availability, safety, verification, payment, weather, routing, staffing, or other operational conditions.

Drivers and merchants may receive the information reasonably needed to fulfill an accepted order. Do not use delivery tracking to harass, monitor, or contact a driver or recipient outside the fulfillment purpose.

14. HappyKava Shop, Products, and Shipping

Shop features may allow bars, brands, or other merchants to list and sell physical or digital products. The applicable listing or checkout identifies the seller and any product, shipping, return, subscription, or age restrictions.

Sellers are responsible for product legality, accuracy, safety, labeling, inventory, fulfillment, shipping, recalls, returns, refunds, taxes, and customer service unless HappyKava expressly accepts a responsibility in writing. HappyKava does not independently test or certify third-party products.

Risk of loss, title, shipping timing, return eligibility, and product warranties are governed by the terms shown at checkout and applicable law. Product images and colors may vary by device and production batch.

15. Payments, Billing, and Subscriptions

Payments may be processed by HappyKava, app stores, or third-party payment providers. Their terms and privacy practices may also apply. HappyKava generally receives transaction, status, entitlement, and limited payment-method information rather than full card numbers.

You authorize the charges, taxes, fees, tips, and recurring payments displayed at checkout. You are responsible for keeping payment information current. We may delay, refuse, reverse, or review a transaction for fraud, sanctions, legal compliance, pricing errors, disputes, or operational risk.

Recurring subscriptions renew until canceled. The price, period, included benefits, and cancellation method are shown before purchase. App-store subscriptions must be managed through the applicable Apple or Google account unless another method is expressly provided. Cancellation normally stops future renewal and does not retroactively refund the current period, except where required by law or stated at checkout.

HappyKava Plus Membership, bar plans, Passport subscriptions, Shop subscriptions, and other paid offerings may have different products, entitlements, renewal terms, and management surfaces. Access may be delayed, suspended, downgraded, or removed after expiration, cancellation, failed payment, refund, chargeback, or abuse.

16. Gift Cards, Credits, KavaCash, and Stored Value

Gift cards, promotional credits, account credits, KavaCash, rewards, or similar value features may be subject to additional terms, expiration rules, geographic restrictions, merchant limitations, transfer restrictions, inactivity rules, and applicable law.

Unless expressly stated otherwise, promotional credits, points, rewards, and gameplay items are not cash, deposits, bank accounts, or legal tender; do not earn interest; cannot be redeemed for cash; and may be revoked when issued in error or obtained through abuse. Purchased gift cards or other regulated stored value will be handled according to the specific terms and applicable law.

17. Merchant and Payment Services

HappyKava may offer merchant onboarding, payment acceptance, settlement, refund, reporting, reconciliation, or related services, directly or through payment partners. These services may require a separate merchant agreement, underwriting, identity and business verification, beneficial-owner information, bank or settlement details, fees, reserves, and provider terms.

No merchant or payment service is available merely because it is described here. The applicable agreement and onboarding approval control. Merchants remain responsible for lawful sales, receipts, taxes, disputes, refunds, prohibited products, card-network requirements, and information they submit.

18. Advertising, Campaigns, and Communications

The Services may contain sponsored, promoted, affiliate, or partner content. HappyKava may receive compensation for placements, referrals, impressions, clicks, conversions, or transactions. Commercial content may be selected using context such as geography, page, bar, interests, feature activity, or eligibility, subject to applicable choices and law.

Businesses using announcement, email, push, campaign, audience, or outreach tools are responsible for their content, recipient rights, required consent, targeting, suppression lists, opt-outs, and compliance with advertising, privacy, and communications laws. We may impose limits, require review, or suspend a campaign.

You can manage available promotional communications through the settings or unsubscribe mechanism provided. Transactional, security, account, purchase, and service messages may still be sent when necessary.

19. Artificial Intelligence and Automated Tools

Some Services may use artificial intelligence or automated systems to import menus or content, extract information, draft text, recommend actions, generate images, classify submissions, detect abuse, or assist moderation and support.

Automated output may be incomplete, inaccurate, or unsuitable. You must review output before publishing or relying on it, particularly for prices, allergens, employment, legal compliance, product claims, and customer communications. You may not submit content you lack the right to use or use the tools to create illegal, deceptive, infringing, discriminatory, or harmful material.

HappyKava may correct, reject, label, or remove automated output and may impose usage, cost, or safety limits.

20. Third-Party Services

The Services may integrate with app stores, maps, navigation, payment processors, point-of-sale systems, analytics, communications providers, artificial-intelligence providers, social networks, websites, and other third parties. Their products, content, availability, and practices are outside our control and may be governed by separate terms.

HappyKava is not responsible for third-party outages, errors, content, conduct, security, transactions, or changes, except to the extent required by law.

21. Health, Products, Venues, and Personal Safety

HappyKava is a technology and discovery platform. Unless expressly stated, we do not operate venues; manufacture, prepare, prescribe, test, or certify products; employ venue staff or drivers; or provide medical, legal, employment, or transportation advice.

Kava, kratom, botanicals, food, beverages, supplements, and other products may have risks, age restrictions, warnings, interactions, or legal restrictions. You are responsible for evaluating ingredients, allergies, sensitivities, medications, health conditions, impairment, transportation, and applicable law. Consult an appropriate professional when needed.

22. Prohibited Conduct

You may not:

  • violate law or another person's rights;
  • harass, stalk, threaten, discriminate, exploit, or expose private information;
  • defraud a user, bar, merchant, driver, applicant, employer, advertiser, or HappyKava;
  • manipulate check-ins, redemptions, reviews, votes, games, rankings, referrals, orders, payments, or analytics;
  • scrape, harvest, reverse engineer, attack, overload, or bypass the Services or their controls;
  • introduce malware, automated abuse, false content, or unauthorized commercial communications;
  • use another person's payment method, identity, account, application, location, or Content without permission; or
  • use the Services in a way that creates safety, legal, security, or operational risk.

23. Intellectual Property and Rights Complaints

HappyKava and its licensors own the Services, software, designs, trademarks, branding, and other platform materials. Subject to these Terms, HappyKava grants you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the Services for their intended purpose.

You may not copy, sell, license, decompile, distribute, or exploit the Services except as expressly permitted or allowed by law.

If you believe Content infringes your copyright or other rights, send a detailed notice to support@happykava.app, including your contact information, the work or right at issue, the location of the challenged material, the basis for your claim, and any legally required statements. We may remove challenged Content and address repeat infringement.

24. Suspension, Termination, and Account Deletion

You may stop using the Services or request account deletion. Deleting an account does not automatically cancel a subscription billed by an app store or another third party; follow the cancellation instructions for that provider.

We may restrict, suspend, or terminate an account, Content, entitlement, order, payment, business role, campaign, application workflow, or feature for violation, fraud, abuse, payment problems, legal obligations, safety, security, discontinuation, or operational risk.

Account deletion and termination do not erase obligations, transactions, records, or Content that must be retained for legal, security, fraud-prevention, employment, tax, accounting, payment, dispute, or legitimate archival purposes. Relevant sections of these Terms survive termination.

25. Disclaimers

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY, AVAILABILITY, OR SECURITY.

HAPPYKAVA DOES NOT GUARANTEE ANY PARTICULAR VENUE, PRODUCT, JOB, APPLICANT, ROUTE, EVENT, DEAL, ORDER, DELIVERY, MESSAGE, REWARD, REDEMPTION, PARTICIPANT, SALES RESULT, OR THIRD-PARTY SERVICE.

Some jurisdictions do not permit certain disclaimers, so they may not apply to you.

26. Limitation of Liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, HAPPYKAVA AND ITS AFFILIATES, OWNERS, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS, LICENSORS, SERVICE PROVIDERS, AND AGENTS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, GOODWILL, DATA, OR BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY ARISING OUT OF THE SERVICES OR THESE TERMS.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, HAPPYKAVA'S TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR CLAIMS RELATING TO THE SERVICES OR THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF THE AMOUNT YOU PAID HAPPYKAVA FOR THE RELEVANT SERVICE DURING THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM OR US $100.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so portions of this section may not apply to you.

27. Indemnification

To the extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless HappyKava and its affiliates, owners, officers, directors, employees, contractors, licensors, service providers, and agents from claims, liabilities, losses, damages, judgments, costs, and expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising from your misuse of the Services, your Content, your violation of these Terms or law, or the acts and omissions of a business you represent.

28. Governing Law and Disputes

These Terms are governed by Texas law, without regard to conflict-of-law principles.

Before filing a formal claim, you and HappyKava agree to provide written notice and allow 30 days to attempt informal resolution. If the matter is not resolved, proceedings relating to these Terms or the Services must be brought in the state or federal courts located in Travis County, Texas, unless applicable law requires otherwise. You and HappyKava consent to jurisdiction and venue in those courts.

Either party may seek injunctive or equitable relief when necessary to protect intellectual property, confidential information, platform security, or other rights for which monetary damages would be inadequate.

29. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms as the Services, our practices, or the law changes. We will update the date above and provide additional notice when reasonably appropriate for a material change. If we ask you to accept updated Terms, the updated Terms apply when you accept them. Otherwise, they apply on the stated effective date, and continued use after that date means you accept them to the extent permitted by law.

30. General Terms

These Terms and any applicable feature-specific terms are the entire agreement for the Services they cover. If a provision is unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain effective. Failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver.

You may not assign these Terms without our written consent. We may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, or sale of assets. We are not responsible for delay or failure caused by events outside our reasonable control.

31. Contact

HappyKava
AppyKava LLC
3902 S Congress Ave, PO BOX 40476
Austin, TX 78704
support@happykava.app