Terms of Use

1. Agreement

These terms are an agreement between you and Dylan McCaffrey ("we", "us"), the developer of Leashnote. They cover the Leashnote app for iPhone and iPad, including the free features and Leashnote Plus (together, "the app"), and the website at leashnote.app. By installing or using the app or the website, you agree to these terms and to the privacy policy. If you don't agree, don't use them.

You must be old enough to hold an Apple Account in your country, and if you're under the age of majority where you live, a parent or guardian must agree to these terms for you.

2. Apple's terms

The app is distributed through the App Store, and Apple's Licensed Application End User License Agreement applies to your use of it. Where these terms give you less than Apple's agreement requires, Apple's agreement wins. Apple is not a party to these terms and has no obligation to provide support or maintenance for the app. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and may enforce them against you.

3. Your licence

We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to install and use the app on Apple devices you own or control, as allowed by the App Store's usage rules, for the purpose of writing and sharing pet-care guides. You may not copy, modify, reverse engineer, resell, or redistribute the app except where the law allows it regardless of this clause.

4. Your content

Everything you put into Leashnote, including pet details, photos, contacts, house information, access codes, and notes ("your content"), belongs to you. We claim no rights to it, and because the app has no servers, we never receive it.

You are responsible for your content, including:

• Making sure care instructions, medication details, and emergency contacts are accurate and current. A sitter will act on what you write.
• Having the right to share any photos or personal details of other people you include, such as your vet, neighbours, or sitters.
• Deciding what to include. Door codes, alarm codes, and Wi-Fi passwords are sensitive. The app hides and time-limits them where it can, but you decide whether to enter them and whom to give them to.

5. Sharing and sitters

Leashnote lets you share a guide with people you choose, through your own iCloud account, and lets those people send you check-ins. When you share a guide or a PDF, you are choosing to give those people the information in it. A PDF cannot be recalled once sent. Shared iCloud guides can be revoked in the app, but we can't guarantee that a recipient hasn't already copied, screenshotted, or written down what they saw.

Leashnote is not a pet-sitting service or marketplace. We don't find, vet, employ, or insure sitters, and we are not a party to any arrangement between you and your sitter. Any dispute about the care of your pets or your home is between you and them.

If you're a sitter, you agree to use information in a guide only to care for the owner's pets and home as they've asked, and not to keep, share, or use it for anything else.

6. Not veterinary or emergency advice

Leashnote stores and displays instructions and contacts that you provide. It does not give veterinary, medical, or safety advice, and nothing in the app or on this website should be treated as such. Default entries such as a poison control number are provided for convenience; they are third-party services that may charge fees and may not be appropriate for your location. In an emergency, contact a veterinarian or emergency service directly. Reminders and dose alerts are a convenience and can be delayed or missed by the operating system, so don't rely on them alone for time-critical medication.

7. iCloud and other services

Sharing, check-ins, pet backup, and purchases depend on Apple services, including iCloud, CloudKit, push notifications, and the App Store, which are governed by Apple's terms and may be unavailable, changed, or discontinued by Apple. We don't control these services and aren't responsible for interruptions, data loss, or delays caused by them, by your device, or by your network. You're responsible for keeping backups of anything important, for example by exporting a PDF.

8. Purchases

Leashnote Plus is a one-time, non-consumable in-app purchase sold by Apple through the App Store. The price is shown in the App Store for your region and may change. Payment, receipts, refunds, and Family Sharing are handled by Apple under its terms; we can't issue refunds ourselves. You can restore a purchase on another device signed in with the same Apple Account. Features included in Plus may be added, changed, or, where necessary, removed over time, but we won't start charging for a feature you've already paid for.

9. Acceptable use

You agree not to use the app or website to break the law, to share content you don't have the right to share, to harass or deceive anyone, to interfere with Apple's services, or to attempt to gain access to another person's guide, iCloud data, or device without their permission.

10. Intellectual property

The app, this website, the Leashnote name and logo, and their design and text are ours or our licensors' and are protected by copyright and trademark law. You may not use the Leashnote name or logo to suggest endorsement without written permission. Leashnote is not affiliated with Apple or the ASPCA; their names and marks belong to them.

If you send us feedback or suggestions, you agree we may use them without any obligation to you.

11. No warranty

The app and website are provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We don't promise the app will be error-free, uninterrupted, or that notifications and reminders will always arrive. Some jurisdictions don't allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so some of this may not apply to you.

12. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we won't be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, profits, or goodwill, or for any injury, illness, loss, or damage to any pet, person, or property, arising from your use of the app or website, from anything a sitter or other person does or fails to do, or from the unavailability of Apple's services. Our total liability for any claim relating to the app or website is limited to the amount you paid us for the app in the twelve months before the claim, or ten US dollars if you paid nothing. Nothing in these terms limits liability that can't be limited by law, including for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud.

13. Termination

You can stop using the app at any time by deleting it; see the privacy policy for how to remove iCloud data. We may end or suspend your licence if you materially breach these terms. Sections 4, 6, and 10 through 15 survive termination.

14. Changes

We may update these terms from time to time. The current version is always at leashnote.app/terms, with the effective date at the top. If a change is significant, we'll point it out in the app or in release notes. Continuing to use the app after a change means you accept the new terms.

15. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the jurisdiction in which the developer resides, without regard to conflict-of-law rules, and any dispute will be brought in the courts there, except that nothing prevents you from relying on mandatory consumer protection laws of the country where you live. If any part of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest still applies. These terms, Apple's agreement, and the privacy policy are the whole agreement between us about the app.

16. Contact

Questions about these terms? Email 33.savings-voyager@icloud.com.