Terms of Service

1Eligibility

You must be at least 13 years old to use Chronos. By creating an account, you represent that you are at least 13, that all information you provide is accurate, and that your use of the Services will not violate any law or regulation applicable to you. If you are under the age of majority where you live, you may use the Services only with the involvement of a parent or legal guardian who agrees to these Terms on your behalf.

2Your account

• You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your credentials and for all activity under your account.
• You agree to provide accurate information at signup and to keep it current.
• You may not create an account for anyone other than yourself, and you may not sell, transfer, or share your account with anyone else.
• Notify us promptly at ethanb@chronosapp.info if you suspect unauthorized access to your account.

3The Services

Chronos is a personal scheduling and social accountability app. You plan a daily schedule, mark task completion with optional photo or video evidence, receive a score, and (optionally) share your progress with users you have approved as followers. The Services are provided as a productivity tool for personal use. They are not medical, legal, financial, or professional advice.

We may add, change, or discontinue features at any time. Some features are subject to hard product rules — for example, schedules lock once a day begins and cannot be edited or deleted for that day. These rules are part of the Services.

4Acceptable use

You agree not to, and not to attempt to:

• Use the Services in violation of any applicable law or regulation.
• Post, upload, or transmit content that is unlawful, harassing, threatening, defamatory, obscene, sexually explicit, hateful, discriminatory, violent, or that depicts a minor in a sexual or exploitative manner.
• Impersonate another person or misrepresent your affiliation with any person or entity.
• Solicit personal or financial information from other users, or use the Services to promote scams, spam, or unsolicited advertising.
• Access another user's account, or attempt to circumvent the follow-approval model or Firestore security rules.
• Reverse-engineer, decompile, disassemble, scrape, or otherwise attempt to derive the source code of the Services, except to the extent applicable law prohibits this restriction.
• Use bots, automated scripts, or any non-standard client to interact with the Services.
• Interfere with, overload, or disrupt the Services or the infrastructure that supports them.
• Use the Services to develop a competing product.

5User content

5.1 Ownership

You retain ownership of the content you create in Chronos — schedules, evidence photos and videos, comments, reactions, and profile information ("User Content").

5.2 License to us

You grant Chronos a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, display, transmit, and otherwise use your User Content solely to operate, provide, and improve the Services and to make your User Content available to users you have approved. This license lasts only as long as we retain the User Content per Section 5 of the Privacy Policy; it ends when the content is deleted from active systems.

5.3 Your responsibility

You are solely responsible for your User Content and for any consequences of posting or sharing it. You represent that you have the rights necessary to grant the license above and that your User Content does not violate these Terms or any third party's rights (including intellectual-property, privacy, and publicity rights).

5.4 Removal

We may remove, restrict access to, or refuse to display User Content that we believe, in our sole discretion, violates these Terms or applicable law, or is otherwise objectionable. We are not obligated to monitor User Content, but we may.

6Social features, reporting, and blocking

Chronos includes social features. Your schedule, scores, comments, reactions, and evidence media may be visible to users you have approved as followers. You are responsible for choosing who to approve. You can:

• Block another user from inside their profile. Blocking removes follow relationships in both directions and hides content between the two accounts.
• Report another user, comment, or piece of content from inside the App.

We commit to reviewing every report of objectionable content and taking appropriate action — which may include removing content, warning the offending user, or suspending or terminating the offending account — within 24 hours of receiving the report. Repeat or severe violations may result in permanent removal from the Services.

7Feedback

If you send us feedback, suggestions, or ideas about the Services, you grant Chronos a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free license to use them without obligation to you.

8Intellectual property

Except for User Content, all rights, title, and interest in the Services — including the App, the website, the "Chronos" name and marks, and all associated software, designs, and content — are owned by Chronos or its licensors and are protected by intellectual-property laws. Nothing in these Terms grants you any right to our trademarks or trade dress. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.

9DMCA / copyright

If you believe content on the Services infringes your copyright, send a notice to ethanb@chronosapp.info that includes: (i) a physical or electronic signature of the rights holder or authorized agent; (ii) identification of the copyrighted work; (iii) identification of the material claimed to be infringing and information reasonably sufficient to locate it; (iv) your contact information; (v) a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized; and (vi) a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information is accurate and you are authorized to act on the owner's behalf. We may remove the material and terminate repeat infringers.

10Termination

You may stop using the Services at any time and delete your account from the Profile screen inside the App. We may suspend or terminate your account at any time, with or without notice, if you violate these Terms, if we are required by law, or if we discontinue the Services. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (including 5.2 (license), 7, 8, 9, 11–17) will survive.

11Third-party services

The Services rely on and may link to third-party services (including Firebase / Google Cloud and the Apple App Store). Your use of those services is governed by the applicable third-party terms. We are not responsible for third-party services.

12Disclaimers

THE SERVICES 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, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND QUIET ENJOYMENT. CHRONOS DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT THE SERVICES OR THE SERVERS THAT MAKE THEM AVAILABLE ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS.

Chronos is a productivity tool. Nothing in the Services is medical, mental-health, legal, financial, or other professional advice. If you need such advice, consult a qualified professional.

13Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL CHRONOS OR ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, OR AGENTS BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUES, DATA, GOODWILL, OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STATUTE, OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, AND WHETHER OR NOT CHRONOS HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

IN NO EVENT WILL CHRONOS'S AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICES EXCEED THE GREATER OF ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS ($100) OR THE AMOUNT YOU PAID CHRONOS IN THE TWELVE MONTHS PRECEDING THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain damages. In those jurisdictions, our liability is limited to the maximum extent permitted by law.

14Dispute resolution — arbitration and class-action waiver

14.1 Informal resolution

Before filing a claim, you agree to try to resolve the dispute informally by contacting us at ethanb@chronosapp.info. We will try to resolve the dispute by contacting you at the email associated with your account. If a dispute is not resolved within 60 days, either party may bring a formal proceeding.

14.2 Binding arbitration

Except for disputes in which either party seeks injunctive or equitable relief for the infringement or misappropriation of intellectual-property rights, and except for small-claims-court matters, you and Chronos agree that any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Services will be resolved by binding, individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules. The arbitration will be conducted in English and, unless you and we agree otherwise, in the county where you live. Judgment on the award may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction.

14.3 Class-action waiver

YOU AND CHRONOS AGREE THAT EACH MAY BRING CLAIMS AGAINST THE OTHER ONLY IN YOUR OR ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. UNLESS BOTH YOU AND CHRONOS AGREE OTHERWISE, THE ARBITRATOR MAY NOT CONSOLIDATE MORE THAN ONE PERSON'S CLAIMS AND MAY NOT PRESIDE OVER ANY FORM OF REPRESENTATIVE OR CLASS PROCEEDING.

14.4 Opt-out

You may opt out of Section 14.2 and 14.3 by emailing us at ethanb@chronosapp.info within 30 days of first accepting these Terms, stating your name, the email address associated with your account, and a clear statement that you wish to opt out of arbitration.

15Governing law and venue

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Michigan, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles. Subject to Section 14, any judicial action arising out of these Terms must be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Michigan, and you consent to their personal jurisdiction.

16Apple-specific terms

You acknowledge that these Terms are between you and Chronos, not Apple, and Chronos (not Apple) is solely responsible for the Services. Apple has no obligation to furnish any maintenance or support for the App. If the App fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price (if any); to the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation. Chronos, not Apple, is responsible for any product-liability, non-conformance, or third-party intellectual-property claims relating to the App. You represent that you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. government embargo or designated as a "terrorist supporting" country, and that you are not on any U.S. government list of prohibited or restricted parties. Apple and Apple's subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and, upon your acceptance, have the right (and will be deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce these Terms against you as a third-party beneficiary.

17Miscellaneous

• Entire agreement. These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and Chronos regarding the Services and supersede all prior agreements on the subject.
• Severability. If any provision is held unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in effect, and the unenforceable provision will be modified to the minimum extent needed to make it enforceable.
• No waiver. Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of our right to do so later.
• Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our prior written consent. We may assign these Terms freely, including in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.
• Force majeure. Neither party is liable for failures or delays caused by events beyond its reasonable control.
• Notices. We may give notices by email, inside the App, or on our website. You may give notices to us at the email address below.
• Relationship. These Terms do not create any agency, partnership, joint venture, or employment relationship.

18Changes

We may update these Terms from time to time. If we make material changes, we will update the effective date at the top of this page and, where appropriate, notify you inside the App or by email. Your continued use of the Services after the effective date constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.

19Contact

Chronos App, Inc.
Email: ethanb@chronosapp.info
Website: chronosapp.info