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Stop Betting

Version: 1.3 · Effective date: October 17, 2026 This is a translation for convenience. The Portuguese version (https://www.stopaposta.com.br/termos) governs in case of any conflict.

Terms of Use: Stop Betting

1. Who we are and what this service is

Stop Betting is a support app against gambling addiction: it blocks betting sites and apps on the device, connects you to a trusted person (guardian) and offers AI support chat (Stop Betting AI) and an anonymous peer-support community.

Stop Betting is provided by G DA SILVA C ROCHA DESENVOLVIMENTO DE SOFTWARE & TECNOLOGIA (trade name GROCHA Tech), CNPJ 38.323.551/0001-69 ("we"). Official channels: email contato@grochatech.com.br and phone/WhatsApp +55 (19) 98847-2424. No other profile, group or person speaks on our behalf.

These Terms govern the use of the website www.stopaposta.com.br, the guardian's web dashboard and the Stop Betting apps for Android and iOS, both by protected users and by guardians. By creating an account or using the service, you represent that you have read and accepted these Terms and the Privacy Policy, which is part of this contract.

Your acceptance is recorded electronically, with the date, time and exact version of the document that was on screen.

2. What Stop Betting is, and what it is not

Stop Betting is a support tool. It creates barriers and warnings to help you not bet, but the decision whether or not to bet is always yours, and responsibility for your bets, your money and your choices remains yours. Our obligation is one of means, not of result: we undertake to provide the tools described here with care and in good faith, and we do not promise that you will stop betting, that you will not relapse or that no bet will get through.

Stop Betting is not medical, psychological or psychiatric treatment. Stop Betting AI is not a psychologist, does not diagnose, does not prescribe and does not replace professional care. Conversations with it are confidential as described in the Privacy Policy (§5): your guardian never sees their content and they are used only to generate the reply and check for signs of risk, but this is not clinical professional secrecy. If you have difficulty controlling gambling, also seek out a health professional (§8).

We do not guarantee total blocking. No app from any store can prevent 100% of access to betting sites on a device the person themselves controls. This is a technical limit of iOS and Android, and both the app's store listing and the onboarding itself explain this before you turn on the protection. Blocking also does not reach other devices, computers, in-person betting or bets placed by another person. What we offer is the highest barrier each platform allows (Shield, Lock with Guardian and, on Android, Fortress), combined with the guardian and monitoring with proof.

We are not an emergency, security or monitoring service. We do not follow anyone in real time, we do not respond to alerts and we do not contact the authorities. If there is a risk to life, call 188 (CVV) or 192 (SAMU); if you are in danger, call 190.

We are not financial or legal advisors, and we do not act as intermediaries for payments, debts or negotiations with betting operators.

3. Minimum age

Stop Betting is intended exclusively for people aged 18 and over. At sign-up you declare that you are 18 or older; the declaration is recorded with date and version. If an account belonging to a minor is identified, it is closed as soon as we learn of it, and the data erased as set out in the Privacy Policy, except for what the law requires us to keep.

4. Account, guardian and termination

Your account is personal and non-transferable. You are responsible for keeping your credentials secure and for everything that happens with your account; notify us as soon as you suspect unauthorized use.

The guardian is a person chosen by you and is not our employee, representative or service provider. We do not verify who they are and we are not liable for what they do or fail to do, for example, not seeing or not reacting to an alert, unlocking the protection, or misusing the information you decided to share with them. Choose someone you trust. Anyone who agrees to be a guardian also accepts these Terms and is responsible for how they use the protected person's information.

If you link a guardian, they start receiving integrity alerts, unlock requests and the summary you authorize, within what is described in the Privacy Policy. You can unlink a guardian at any time, subject to the reflection period of the protection level you chose.

You can close your account whenever you want, from within the app. The request enters a 7-day grace period, cancellable within that period; once the grace period ends, the account and linked data are deleted. Deletion is never blocked because you have an active lock. If a guardian was linked, they are notified of the request but cannot prevent it (basis: Privacy Policy, §8).

5. How protection works and the limits of each level

  • Shield (free forever): blocks known betting sites and apps, including mirrors and new domains identified by the Sentinel. It is the barrier any app can offer, which is why it is never charged for.
  • Lock with Guardian: adds the second person, the code/reflection period to turn protection off and monitoring with proof. It is what holds up against a change of heart in a moment of craving.
  • Fortress (Android, optional): the highest level, with the device becoming a managed device (Device Owner) after a guided factory reset, with your explicit confirmation before any change. Leaving Fortress also requires a factory reset. The app warns you about this before you enter. A factory reset erases everything on the device; backing up beforehand is your responsibility, and we are not liable for data lost in this process.

No level prevents 100% of access or "cures" the addiction; they reduce access and increase friction and support at the moment of risk.

6. Subscription, plans and billing

  • Core protection is free and permanent: Shield, Lock with Guardian, Fortress, monitoring and guardian alerts, blocking of betting operators and casinos, and also the Community. The app does not show ads today (§7); protection never depends on payment, for anyone.
  • The Stop Betting Full subscription has 4 plans, with no free trial: monthly (R$ 49.90), quarterly (R$ 129.90), semiannual (R$ 239.90) and annual (R$ 419.90). It unlocks chat with Stop Betting AI, detailed reports, location sharing with your guardian (current position, today's route and risk-place alert, see §6-A), the betting message filter, blocking of the extra categories (lotteries, tips/tipsters, betting affiliates and influencers, sweepstakes, raffles and bingo). Blocking of betting operators and casinos, licensed or illegal, always remains free.
  • Prices may change; a change applies only to future renewals and is communicated by the store, according to its rules.
  • Billing and automatic renewal are handled by the store where you subscribed (App Store or Google Play), under its billing and refund rules, without prejudice to the right of withdrawal provided for in art. 49 of the Consumer Protection Code (Código de Defesa do Consumidor). Cancel at any time in the store's own subscription settings; cancelling stops renewal, not the period already paid for. Uninstalling the app does not cancel the subscription.
  • The contracted protection is never interrupted by late or failed payment during the lock period: only the paid features (chat, detailed reports, location sharing, message filter and extra categories) become unavailable until payment is regularized; location sharing pauses and resumes on its own upon renewal. Switching plans within the subscription group also never takes protection down.

6-A. Location sharing with the guardian

This is an optional feature, off by default, that only the protected person can turn on, after seeing exactly what the guardian will see and giving specific consent and the device's location permission (including in the background). While it is on, the guardian sees the current position and today's route and receives an alert when the person enters or stays near a place where betting is possible. Location points are automatically deleted after 7 days. The protected person can turn it off whenever they want; turning it off notifies the guardian.

The guardian undertakes to use the location only to support the protected person in not betting. It is forbidden to use it to stalk, surveil, control, embarrass or expose anyone, or to pass it on to third parties, which leads to termination of the link and, depending on the case, reporting to the authorities. The risk-place database (OpenStreetMap, curated list and marked places) may contain inaccuracies: an alert does not prove that someone placed a bet, and the absence of an alert does not prove that they did not. Details of the processing are in the Privacy Policy (§4 and §8).

7. Ads

The app does not show ads and does not send data to ad networks. If this changes, we will update these Terms and the Privacy Policy before any ad appears. Protection does not depend on payment or on ads.

Without ads, the option to watch an ad to earn messages with Stop Betting AI does not exist: the AI chat is a subscription feature. A message showing a sign of risk always receives a reply with the crisis contacts, with or without a subscription.

8. Responsible gambling and help resources

Gambling can cause addiction and financial loss. Stop Betting exists precisely to help those who want to stop; if gambling is affecting your finances, family, work or mental health, seek help: CVV 188 (24 hours, free), the CAPS in your city, Jogadores Anônimos Brasil, and the self-exclusion program of the Secretariat of Prizes and Betting (SPA/MF). Stop Betting AI offers a shortcut to all these channels and, on detecting a sign of risk to life, interrupts the normal flow to offer support and show these contacts.

9. Community: permitted conduct

The Community is an anonymous peer-support space, moderated by AI and by humans before and after publication. Prohibited: harassment, hate speech, sharing third parties' personal data, encouraging or teaching gambling, sexual content, self-promotion and spam. Violations may lead to removal of the content, a warning, suspension or a ban, depending on severity, with a dedicated protocol for crisis signals.

You are solely responsible for what you post. Other participants' messages are their own personal opinions, not ours, and do not replace professional advice. Moderation reduces, but does not eliminate, the chance of seeing inappropriate content; report it through the app itself.

10. Permitted and prohibited use

You may use Stop Betting to protect yourself and to take part in the Community and the chat, within the limits of your plan. It is not permitted to: deliberately circumvent the protection to harm a third party; reverse-engineer the app beyond what the law allows; scrape, resell or redistribute content from the service; use bots or automation beyond what the interface offers; or use the app for unlawful purposes.

It is prohibited to install or configure Stop Betting on another person's device without their knowledge and consent, including location sharing and Fortress, or to use the service to monitor someone covertly. Anyone who does so is solely liable for the civil and criminal consequences.

We may suspend or terminate, with notice whenever possible, the account of anyone who violates these Terms, without prejudice to any other appropriate measures.

The brand, design, code and blocking methodology are ours or licensed to us. You receive a personal, limited, revocable and non-transferable license to use the service.

11. Limitation of liability

We work to keep the service up and the block list current, but Stop Betting is provided "as is" and "as available". We do not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free operation or compatibility with every device, nor blocking of 100% of betting sites and apps. The technical reasons are in §2 and in the app's store listing.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for:

  • bets, relapses and financial losses, including debts, bets placed on another device, in person or through another person, or on a site/app that the protection did not block;
  • failure, delay or shutdown of the protection caused by a limitation or update of the operating system, by device settings (battery saving, revoked permissions, airplane mode, no internet connection), by removal or deactivation carried out by you or by anyone with access to your device, or by temporary unavailability of the service;
  • acts or omissions of the guardian (§4) and of other users, including what they post in the Community;
  • replies from Stop Betting AI: it is an automated support feature, it can make mistakes, and what it says is not medical, psychological, financial or legal advice. Decisions made based on it are yours;
  • classifications by the Sentinel, Pix detection and the message filter, which may let something betting-related through or flag something as betting when it is not;
  • location and risk-place alerts, which depend on GPS, the network and place databases that may be incomplete or out of date. An alert does not prove that someone placed a bet, and the absence of one does not prove that they did not;
  • third-party services that Stop Betting uses (App Store, Google Play, Google Firebase, carriers, cloud and map providers);
  • data lost on the device, including in the Fortress factory reset (§5);
  • lost profits, indirect damages or damages arising from acts of God or force majeure.

All features are explained before you turn them on, and you can turn them off, within the rules of the protection level you chose. You are responsible for keeping the device, the operating system and the app up to date and with the necessary permissions granted.

Nothing in this section removes the rights that the Consumer Protection Code guarantees you and that the law does not allow you to waive, nor our liability for willful misconduct or gross negligence. If any part of this section is held invalid, the rest remains in effect (§16).

12. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify us for any claim, loss, cost or expense, including attorneys' fees, arising from use of Stop Betting in breach of these Terms or the law, from violation of a third party's rights, from content you post in the Community in violation of §9, or, in the case of the guardian, from use of the protected person's location or other information in breach of §6-A.

13. Users outside Brazil

Stop Betting is operated from Brazil and governed by Brazilian law, even though it is accessible from other countries. If you access it from outside Brazil, it is your responsibility to check whether using a betting-blocking app is lawful in your jurisdiction. Your data may be processed on servers outside your country, as set out in the Privacy Policy.

14. Communications

You agree to receive operational communications (security, billing, guardian alerts, changes to these Terms or the Policy) by email, push notification or within the app. Marketing communication is optional and you can opt out whenever you want, without affecting operational communications.

15. Changes to these Terms

We may change these Terms. The current version is always published on this page, with a version identifier and effective date. A material change is announced in the service itself and requires new acceptance on your next access; if you do not agree, you can close your account (§4).

We may also change, suspend or discontinue features of the service, for example due to changes in app store rules, operating system rules or the law. When this affects a paid feature, we will give reasonable advance notice, and any pro-rata refund follows the store's rules and the Consumer Protection Code.

16. General provisions

The invalidity of one clause does not affect the others. Tolerating a breach once does not waive the right to enforce it later. You may not assign this contract; we may, in a corporate reorganization, keeping the same conditions and notifying you in advance. These Terms, the Privacy Policy and the conditions of the contracted plan form the entire agreement between you and Stop Betting.

17. Governing law and venue

These Terms are governed by Brazilian law, in particular the Consumer Protection Code (Law 8.078/1990), the Civil Code, the Brazilian Internet Civil Framework (Marco Civil da Internet, Law 12.965/2014) and the General Data Protection Law (Law 13.709/2018). Before going to court, contact us through the channel in §18. You can also use consumidor.gov.br or the Procon in your city. To settle any dispute arising from these Terms, the chosen venue is the courts of the consumer's domicile, pursuant to art. 101, I, of the Consumer Protection Code.

18. Contact

contato@grochatech.com.br · phone/WhatsApp +55 (19) 98847-2424, the same channel as the Privacy Policy and the store-listing support. No other profile, group or person speaks on behalf of Stop Betting; we never ask for your password or verification code by message.

G DA SILVA C ROCHA DESENVOLVIMENTO DE SOFTWARE & TECNOLOGIA (GROCHA Tech), CNPJ 38.323.551/0001-69.