Legal Issues

Is your software violating any licensing agreements? List all third-party software you plan to use and ensure that you have the right to use as you plan. Are there any intellectual property constraints placed by your client? or by the owner of some dataset you need to use? List them. Can your users use your app to break the law? post copyright works on your webapp? steal information? etc.

Our application does not violate any license agreements. We want to employ third-party technologies such as Google's Firebase and React-Native. We are not infringing on any of their legal rights by using their software as long as we follow their recommendations and utilize it properly. In terms of intellectual property limitations, their importance is reduced because the application's functioning does not require the user to generate or distribute any intellectual property. As of currently, our app cannot be used to violate the law. But there could be a chances of identity theft and credit/debit card fraud. However, pertaining to data breaches, we will try to prevent them by keeping our software up to date and employing appropriate data storage methods for any sensitive information kept on our systems. All local and international laws will be followed and enforced in all circumstances. Users will not be able to post any copyright work on our app, as there is no place for users to post anything on the app. Sensitive information that can be stolen could include the user's name, address and card information. In order to prevent this from happening we must make sure to properly store the data in a secure way and looking for any suspicious activity or logins on a user's account and a place on the app for someone to report if they believe some of their data has been compromised so that we can try to take action against this. Stripe API is another 3rd party software we plan to use. Stripe is a certified PCI Service Provider Level 1 (https://stripe.com/docs/security), which means that they are one of the most secure forms of 3rd party payment companies. They use HTTPS and TLS, TLS is the process of securely transferring data between the app and our server, the TLS forces HTTPS, which is a secure connection.