Terms of Service

1. Agreement

These Terms are a contract between you and Kayetan Protas ("we", "us"), covering your use of the Housemates mobile app and any related services.

By creating an account or using the app, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the app.

2. Who can use Housemates

You must be at least 13 years old. If you are under the age of majority where you live, you may only use Housemates with the involvement of a parent or guardian who agrees to these Terms.

You confirm that you are not barred from using the app under the laws of your country, and that any information you give us is accurate.

3. What Housemates is, and what it is not

Housemates is a record-keeping tool. It helps a household write down shared expenses, work out how they split, track chores, and keep a grocery list.

Please read this carefully:

• We are not a payment service. Housemates does not transfer, hold, or process money. Marking something as "settled" records that you and your housemate agree it has been paid. It does not move any funds.
• We are not a bank, lender, money transmitter, or escrow service.
• We do not provide financial, tax, legal, or accounting advice.
• We are not a party to any agreement between you and your housemates. Debts recorded in the app are between the people involved. Settling them, and resolving any disagreement about them, is entirely up to you.
• The numbers are only as good as what is entered. Balances are calculated from what you and your housemates type in. We do not verify that any expense, amount, or split is accurate, and we are not responsible if it is not.

If you are relying on these figures for anything important, check them yourself.

4. Your account

You are responsible for keeping your login details secure and for everything that happens under your account. Tell us at kayetanp@gmail.com straight away if you think someone else has access to it.

One account per person. Do not share your account or impersonate anyone else.

5. Households and shared content

When you join a household, the other members can see the household's expenses, chores, grocery items, balances, and your display name. Anyone with your household's invite code can join it, so only share that code with people you actually live with.

Only add information you are comfortable sharing with your housemates.

You keep ownership of the content you add. You grant us a limited, worldwide, royalty-free licence to store, display, and process that content strictly for the purpose of operating the app for you and your household. That licence ends when the content is deleted, except for copies your housemates retain as part of the household's history, and any backups we hold for a limited period.

You are responsible for having the right to post whatever you add, and for making sure it does not break the law or infringe anyone's rights.

6. Acceptable use

Do not:

• Use the app for anything unlawful, fraudulent, or abusive
• Harass, threaten, or spam other users, including through nudges and reminders
• Add content that is unlawful, defamatory, hateful, or infringes anyone's rights
• Try to access accounts, households, or data that are not yours
• Attempt to break, overload, reverse-engineer, or circumvent the app's security or its rate limits
• Use bots, scrapers, or automated tools against the service
• Resell, sublicense, or commercially exploit the app without our permission

We apply limits to keep the service healthy, for example caps on how many items a household can hold, how quickly items can be added, and a 24-hour limit on nudging the same person. Do not try to work around them.

7. Notifications

If you enable notifications, we send them to coordinate your household (for example, a reminder about an overdue chore). You can turn them off at any time in the app or in iOS Settings. We do not send marketing notifications.

8. Availability and changes

We are still building Housemates. We may add, change, or remove features, and we may suspend or discontinue the service, at any time.

We try to keep the app running, but we do not promise it will be uninterrupted or error-free. It depends on third-party infrastructure and on your device and network, which are outside our control.

We may update these Terms. If a change is material, we will update the "Last updated" date and, where appropriate, tell you in the app before it takes effect. Continuing to use Housemates after that means you accept the new Terms.

9. Ending your use

You can stop using Housemates at any time, and you can delete your account from Profile → Account & Privacy → Delete Account. Deletion is permanent.

We may suspend or terminate your access if you break these Terms, if we are required to by law, or if we discontinue the service. Where it is reasonable to do so, we will give you notice.

Sections 3, 5 (licence survival), 10, 11, 12, and 14 survive termination.

10. Disclaimers

To the fullest extent the law allows, Housemates is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, or non-infringement.

We do not warrant that the app will meet your requirements, that it will be available without interruption, or that any calculation, balance, or reminder is accurate or complete.

11. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows:

• We are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, data, goodwill, or opportunity.
• We are not liable for any dispute between you and your housemates, for any money you do or do not receive, or for any decision you make based on information in the app.
• Our total liability arising out of or relating to the app is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim, or CAD $50.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation. If you are a consumer, you keep all the statutory rights the law gives you.

12. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from any claim, loss, or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising from your misuse of the app, your content, or your breach of these Terms or of anyone else's rights.

13. Third-party services

The app relies on third-party services, including Supabase, Expo, and Apple. Your use of the app is also subject to their terms, and we are not responsible for their acts or omissions. The app may link to third-party websites we do not control.

Where Housemates is obtained through the Apple App Store, you acknowledge that these Terms are between you and us, not Apple; that Apple has no obligation to provide support or maintenance; that Apple is not responsible for any product warranty or claim relating to the app; and that Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce them against you.

14. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada applicable in that province, and the courts of Ontario have exclusive jurisdiction. If you are a consumer, this does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory laws of the country you live in, or of the right to bring proceedings there.

15. General

If any provision of these Terms is found unenforceable, the rest stays in effect. Our not enforcing a provision is not a waiver of it. You may not assign these Terms. We may assign them to a successor. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between us about the app.

16. Contact

Kayetan Protas
Canada
kayetanp@gmail.com