These are the terms for using Trustnet. They are short and in plain English, because Trustnet is a free product in early testing used by people who were invited personally, and terms nobody can read are worth nothing to either side. Using Trustnet means you accept them.

1 · What Trustnet is

A private network for asking people you trust for a recommendation — a doctor, a restaurant, a plumber — keeping what they answer, and recommending back. It is made and run by one person, Dan Shapiro, in Israel.

2 · Your account

You sign in by sending a WhatsApp message or by following a link sent to your email. There is no password. That means whoever can use your phone or your mailbox can use your account, so keep those to yourself.

One account per person. Give your real name — the whole product rests on people knowing who is recommending to them.

You must be at least 16.

3 · The people you add

You must not load Trustnet with contact lists of people you do not personally know, or with details you obtained from somewhere they were not meant to leave.

4 · What you must not do with it

• Send anyone unwanted repeat messages, or use Trustnet to advertise, promote or sell.
• Harass, threaten or impersonate anyone.
• Collect people's details through Trustnet for use elsewhere.
• Write anything about a named person or business that you know to be untrue, or that is there to damage them.
• Break into it, hammer it with automated traffic, or try to reach other members' information.
• Use it for anything against the law.

5 · What you write stays yours

Your recommendations, notes and ratings belong to you. Nothing is sold, and nothing is published. The only permission you give is the one needed to run the service: to store what you write and show it to the people you send it to.

If you delete your account, it goes. The one exception is that a recommendation you already sent to someone stays in their library, the same way an answer you gave in a conversation stays with the person who heard it.

6 · It is an MVP, and this is what that means

7 · Recommendations are opinions

What you read in Trustnet is the personal opinion of the person who wrote it. It is not professional advice — not medical, not legal, not financial. Trustnet does not check the recommendations in it, does not endorse anyone named in them, and has no relationship with the businesses or professionals people mention. Whom you hire or visit is your decision.

8 · If something goes wrong

Trustnet is free, and is provided without any warranty. To the extent the law allows, neither the maker of Trustnet nor anyone helping run it is liable for loss arising from its use — including lost data, a message that did not arrive, or a recommendation that turned out badly. Nothing here limits liability that cannot legally be limited.

9 · Ending it

You can stop whenever you like, and ask from the help page to have your account and everything in it deleted.

An account may be suspended or removed if it is used in the ways listed in sections 3 and 4, or if it puts other members at risk. Where it is reasonable to do so, you will be told why and given the chance to answer.

10 · Money

Trustnet is free and takes no payment of any kind. If that ever changes you will be told before it does, and nothing will start charging you silently.

11 · Changes to these terms

If these terms change in a way that matters, the date at the top changes and active members are told. Carrying on using Trustnet after that means the new terms apply.

12 · Law

These terms are governed by the laws of Israel, and disputes go to the competent courts of Tel Aviv‑Yafo. If the law where you live gives you rights you cannot sign away, this does not touch them.

13 · Contact

One person answers all of it, from the help page.