Terms of Service — Mo'chefe
Last updated: 10 May 2026. This is a courtesy translation. The Portuguese version is authoritative; in case of conflict, the Portuguese text prevails. → Ver versão em português
1. Acceptance of these Terms
By creating an account, installing the Mo'chefe application, or continuing to use it, you confirm that you have read, understood, and accepted these Terms and the Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with any part of these Terms, please do not use the application.
These Terms form a contract between you and Mo'chefe — a trading name; the registered legal entity in Angola is being formed. "Mo'chefe", "we", and "our" refer to the entity providing the service; "you" refers to the person accepting these Terms.
2. What Mo'chefe is
Mo'chefe is an application for managing households and domestic staff in Angola: attendance, tasks, schedule, payroll, pantry, and meals. Mo'chefe replaces informal coordination via WhatsApp, phone calls, and paper with a structured system.
3. Who can use Mo'chefe
Mo'chefe is for adults (18 or older).
These Terms use three distinct terms, even though, in most MVP-stage households, all three refer to the same person:
- Subscriber — the contracting party who creates the Mo'chefe account and pays for the subscription. The Subscriber is the only party with whom Mo'chefe has a contractual relationship.
- Employer — the legal employer of the domestic worker within the meaning of Lei 12/23 and Decreto Presidencial 155/16.
- Household — the physical premises and operational unit registered in the application.
There are two account types:
- Subscriber account — for the person who registers the household, adds domestic workers, and oversees the work. The Subscriber is Mo'chefe's customer.
- Domestic worker account — for the person working in a registered household. The account is created when the head of the household pairs the worker's phone to the household using a short code delivered verbally or on paper.
For the Subscriber. When you create your account, you confirm that (a) you are 18 or older, (b) you have the legal right to employ (or to act on behalf of those who employ) domestic staff in the households you register, and (c) the workers you add to the application have been informed in advance and consent.
For the domestic worker. By using the app on your phone you accept that the household that employs you uses Mo'chefe to record your attendance, calculate your pay, and coordinate your tasks, as described in the Privacy Policy.
4. The Employer's obligations to the worker
As a domestic-work employer in Angola, the Employer retains in full its obligations under Lei 12/23 (the General Labour Law) and Decreto Presidencial 155/16 (the legal regime for domestic work) — in particular, written contract, work booklet, social-security contributions, minimum wage, observance of working hours, and other worker rights. Mo'chefe is a coordination tool that can help organise some of these obligations, but does not replace fulfilling them nor guarantee their compliance.
The Employer represents and warrants that, before adding any person to the application as a domestic worker, it informed that person that the household uses Mo'chefe to record attendance, calculate pay, and coordinate tasks, and obtained their consent for this use. When the household chooses to activate additional features — for example, phone-biometric verification — the Employer will obtain the worker's specific consent for that feature, without making the continuation of the employment relationship depend on that consent.
5. Your obligations
When using Mo'chefe you undertake to:
As Subscriber (the contracting party):
- Pay the subscription under the terms communicated by Mo'chefe, where applicable.
- Comply with these Terms and the Privacy Policy, and ensure that the users you add to your account also comply.
- Provide truthful and current information. Do not create accounts with false identity or invented data.
- Keep credentials safe. Do not share your password or your PIN. Notify us immediately if you suspect your account has been accessed without authorisation.
- Not try to bypass security mechanisms. Do not defraud the attendance record (e.g. by falsifying location), access other households' data, reverse-engineer the application, or interfere with our systems.
- Not use the application for unlawful purposes. Mo'chefe may not be used for unlawful surveillance, stalking, monitoring of non-consenting persons, recording of minors, or any activity contrary to Angolan law.
As Employer (the legal employer of the worker):
- Comply with Lei 12/23 and Decreto Presidencial 155/16 — in particular, written contract, work booklet, social-security contributions, minimum wage, and other worker rights.
- Only add to the application persons you are entitled to add. You may only add as a domestic worker a person with whom you have, or are about to begin, a genuine domestic-work employment relationship, with their knowledge and consent.
- Comply with applicable Angolan law. Using Mo'chefe does not replace your other obligations under Angolan legislation, in particular in labour, tax, and personal-data-protection matters.
5.A Multi-party arrangements
Where the Subscriber, the Employer, and the Household are not the same party, the Subscriber represents and warrants that it has the necessary authority from each Employer to register that Employer's workers in Mo'chefe, and shall indemnify Mo'chefe for any failure to do so.
6. Our obligations
Mo'chefe undertakes to:
- Keep the application available on a best-effort basis.
- Process your data as described in the Privacy Policy and applicable Angolan law.
- Notify you of security incidents that may affect your data, in line with applicable notification obligations.
- Communicate material changes to these Terms or the Privacy Policy before they take effect.
- Allow you to leave at any time — you may close your account or request data removal at any time, with the limits described in the Privacy Policy regarding attendance and payroll records.
7. Intellectual property
The Mo'chefe application, including code, design, logos, trademarks, written content, and icons, is owned by Mo'chefe and protected by Angolan and international copyright and trademark law. We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the application in compliance with these Terms.
Your data is yours. The data you enter into the application — employee names, household address, attendance records — remains yours (or the worker's, as applicable). Mo'chefe has only a limited licence to process that data to provide the service, as described in the Privacy Policy.
8. Payments
When Mo'chefe begins offering paid plans, we will communicate, with reasonable notice, the prices, conditions, and the option to continue — or not — using the application under the new terms. Nothing in these Terms currently creates any payment obligation on your part.
9. Termination
The Subscriber may terminate the use of Mo'chefe at any time, without giving a reason and at no cost, by closing the account in the application settings or emailing legal@mochefe.com. After closure, data is handled as described in the Privacy Policy.
Termination of the subscription ends the contractual relationship between the Subscriber and Mo'chefe; it does not, in itself, end the employment relationship between the Employer and the worker, which remains subject to Lei 12/23 and Decreto Presidencial 155/16.
Mo'chefe may terminate or suspend an account if (a) these Terms are materially breached, (b) the app is used for unlawful purposes or harm to third parties, (c) materially false information is provided, or (d) where required for Mo'chefe to comply with a legal order or protect other users. We will give prior notice where possible.
10. Limitation of liability
The Mo'chefe application is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of fitness for a specific purpose, uninterrupted operation, freedom from errors, or absolute calculation accuracy. Mo'chefe does not replace human verification — payroll calculations, attendance records, and reminders should be reviewed by the Employer before any payment or employment decision.
To the maximum extent permitted by Angolan law, Mo'chefe is not liable for:
- Indirect damages (lost profits, lost opportunities, reputation) arising from the application's use or unavailability;
- Decisions you take based on the application without independent verification, including dismissals, salary suspensions, and disciplinary sanctions;
- Defects resulting from misuse, breach of these Terms, or circumstances outside our reasonable control (network failure, sub-processor interruption, force majeure);
- Content entered by other users (e.g. tasks, notes, observations entered by another user of your household).
Nothing in these Terms limits Mo'chefe's liability where Angolan law does not allow such limitation — in particular, in cases of wilful misconduct, gross negligence, harm to the worker's personality rights, or breach of personal-data-protection rights.
11. Governing law and jurisdiction
These Terms are governed by Angolan law. Any dispute arising from the interpretation or performance of these Terms is submitted to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Luanda, without prejudice to consumer-law provisions that may grant jurisdiction to the consumer's domicile court.
12. Updates to these Terms
Mo'chefe may update these Terms as the application evolves. The date at the top of the document shows when they were last updated. If the change is material, we will notify you by email and in-app before the new version takes effect — continued use after that date means acceptance of the new Terms.
13. Miscellaneous
These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, form the entire agreement between you and Mo'chefe regarding the use of the application. If any clause of these Terms is found invalid or unenforceable, the remaining clauses remain in force. Failure to enforce any clause at one time does not waive the right to enforce it later. You may not assign your rights or obligations under these Terms to third parties without our written consent; Mo'chefe may assign its rights and obligations to a successor entity, with notice to you.
14. Contact
For any question about these Terms: legal@mochefe.com.