Terms of Use

1. What the service is

The app is a focus companion. You set your own tasks and commitments. During a focus session you explicitly start, the app uses artificial intelligence to analyse your current active window in real time, to help you notice when you have drifted and find your way back. Analysis happens only in sessions you start yourself. Raw screen content is processed instantly and not stored — see the Privacy Policy.

2. AI output is advisory

• The app’s judgements and suggestions are generated by artificial intelligence and are for reference only. They may be inaccurate, incomplete, or unsuited to your situation.
• AI output does not constitute medical, psychological, legal, financial or other professional advice. If you are struggling with your health or your state of mind, please consult a professional.
• You are responsible for decisions and actions you take based on AI output. We are not liable for losses caused by mistaken AI judgements — including a misjudged distraction or a mistimed nudge — except where the law requires otherwise.

3. Screen content: your authorisation, your responsibility

Starting a focus session authorises the app to process, in real time, the content displayed in your current window — including processing carried out on our behalf by a third-party AI provider — in order to produce focus judgements. How that data is handled is governed by the Privacy Policy.

You warrant that you are entitled to give that authorisation. In particular:

• If you use the app on a work device, or if confidential information belonging to your employer or clients may appear on your screen, it is your responsibility to confirm that this use does not breach confidentiality obligations you owe to third parties. Any dispute arising from that is yours to bear.
• Other people’s information may appear briefly on your screen — messages, emails, meeting windows. The app processes this instantly, does not store it, and does not use it to identify third parties. Where highly sensitive information about others may be on screen, please use the private apps list or pause the session.

We provide the private apps exclusion list — which covers password managers and similar surfaces by default — so that you can control what is captured. While an app on that list is in front, no content is captured at all.

4. Personal use, and witnesses you invite yourself

The app is a tool for managing yourself. You may use it only on devices you own or are entitled to administer and which you yourself use, and only to manage your own focus and tasks.

Witness exception: you may invite someone (a friend, say) to witness your tasks and commitments. What an invited witness can see is limited to the completion status of your commitments — expressed as counts and neutral task references, never the titles you wrote or any other content — and never, under any circumstances, your screen. This requires an invitation issued by you.

Prohibited: installing or deploying the app on a device used by someone else in order to observe, manage or control that person — including family members, minors and employees. Such use breaches these terms, we may terminate the service under section 9, and any resulting legal liability rests with whoever deployed it.

5. Minors

The app is intended for people able to give valid consent on their own behalf. Anyone below the applicable minimum age may not use it; a minor above that age may use it with a guardian’s consent, and only to manage themselves — a guardian may not use the app to observe a minor (see section 4).

The exact minimum age will be confirmed by counsel for each launch market before release.

6. Availability and changes

The app’s AI features depend on a third-party AI provider. Where a third-party outage, restriction or policy change, or our own risk controls such as an emergency shutdown, cause features to degrade or become unavailable, we will make reasonable efforts to restore and to tell you what is happening, but we are not liable for compensation for that period.

When features are degraded the app says so honestly and does not pretend to be working normally. Basic timing and task management do not depend on AI and remain available.

We may make reasonable adjustments to features. Material adverse changes will be announced in advance.

7. Subscriptions, quotas and refunds

This section takes effect when paid features launch.

• Paid subscriptions are completed through the App Store. Pricing and auto-renewal terms are as displayed on the store page. Refunds follow Apple’s policy and process — we cannot process store refunds directly.
• AI usage quota is determined solely by the records held by our server.
• We may restrict or terminate service for deliberate quota abuse, interface abuse, or resale of service capacity.

8. Intellectual property

Intellectual property in the app and its contents — excluding your data — belongs to us. Your tasks, commitments and review data belong to you; you grant us the licence to process them that is necessary to provide the service to you, with the scope governed by the Privacy Policy.

Data stored locally on your device is yours to look after. The app provides an export function; we recommend exporting regularly or using a system backup.

9. Termination

You may stop using the app and uninstall it at any time. If you seriously breach these terms — in particular section 4 or section 7 — we may suspend or terminate the service to you. Termination does not affect rights and obligations already arisen in law.

10. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law: we are not liable for indirect loss, loss of profit, or loss of data; and our aggregate liability will not exceed the amount you have actually paid for the app in the preceding twelve months (or, where you have paid nothing, the minimum permitted by law).

Some jurisdictions do not permit all of these exclusions; this section will be calibrated by counsel per launch market before release.

11. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. Material changes will be announced in the app or on this website. Continuing to use the app after a change means you accept it.

12. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the law of the developer’s place of residence, and disputes are subject to the courts having jurisdiction there.

This section will be confirmed by counsel before release, including its enforceability for users outside that jurisdiction.

13. Contact

support@ipokiapp.com