End User License Agreement

Definitions

• Provider means Slim Software Limited, a company registered in England and Wales under company number 09676113, whose registered office is at 24 Dering Street, London, England, W1S 1BL.
• End User means the person who downloads, installs, or uses Halves.
• App means Halves, including the iOS app, widgets, notification extension, and any updates supplied through the App Store.
• Bonded Pair means the two End Users who are currently bonded to each other in Halves.
• User Content means photos, captions, and city strings that an End User creates or chooses to share through Halves.

How the End User may use Halves

The Provider grants the End User a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use Halves on Apple-branded devices that the End User owns or controls, and as permitted by the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions and the App Store Terms of Service.

This licence is for personal, non-commercial use. The End User does not own the App, source code, design system, marks, or documentation.

What the End User must not do

• Copy, redistribute, rent, lease, lend, sell, sublicense, or host the App.
• Reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or try to derive the source code, except where the law does not allow that restriction.
• Remove copyright, trademark, or other notices from the App.
• Use Halves to harass, threaten, abuse, impersonate, or harm another person.
• Upload content the End User does not have the right to use.
• Use Halves in a way that breaks applicable law, Apple's terms, iCloud terms, or wireless data service terms.
• Try to interfere with CloudKit, iCloud, APNs, or any other Apple service used by Halves.

One bond at a time

Halves is built for one bond at a time. There are no groups, public profiles, discovery, comments, likes, or multiple bonds in v1.

Ending a bond is deliberate and destructive. When a bond ends, no new pictures can be made in that bond, the shared CloudKit zone is destroyed where technically available, and each device may keep a local read-only archive. There is no undo and no rejoin. The same two people would need to start a new bond.

User Content

The End User owns the photos and captions the End User creates. The Provider claims no ownership in User Content.

The End User gives the Provider only the limited licence needed to make Halves work: to render, store, sync, back up, display, and deliver User Content through CloudKit, iCloud, widgets, notifications, and the bonded person's device.

The End User is responsible for User Content and for having permission to share it with the bonded person.

Data

Halves uses Sign in with Apple and CloudKit. The privacy policy explains the data handled by Halves and is part of the practical context for this agreement: halves.one/privacy.

Apple-required terms

This agreement is concluded between the Provider and the End User only, and not with Apple. The Provider, not Apple, is solely responsible for Halves and its content.

The Provider is responsible for maintenance and support for Halves as described in this agreement or required by law. Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support services for Halves.

To the extent any warranty exists and Halves fails to conform to it, the End User may notify Apple, and Apple may refund the purchase price for Halves if any was paid. To the maximum extent allowed by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation for Halves.

The Provider, not Apple, is responsible for addressing claims by the End User or any third party relating to Halves or the End User's possession or use of Halves, including product liability claims, legal or regulatory claims, and consumer protection or privacy claims.

If a third party claims that Halves or the End User's possession or use of Halves infringes that third party's intellectual property rights, the Provider, not Apple, is responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement, and discharge of that claim.

The End User represents that the End User is not located in a country or region subject to a United States government embargo, is not in a country or region designated by the United States government as supporting terrorism, and is not listed on a United States government list of prohibited or restricted parties.

The End User must comply with applicable third-party terms when using Halves, including Apple Media Services, iCloud, and wireless data service terms.

Apple and Apple's subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of this agreement. When the End User accepts this agreement, Apple has the right to enforce this agreement against the End User as a third-party beneficiary.

No warranty

Halves is provided as is and as available. The Provider does not promise that Halves will be uninterrupted, error-free, or available on every device or network.

Nothing in this agreement limits rights that cannot be limited under applicable consumer law.

Limits

To the fullest extent allowed by law, the Provider is not liable for indirect, special, incidental, consequential, or punitive loss, or for loss of data, profits, goodwill, or opportunity arising from use of Halves.

Nothing in this agreement excludes or limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, fraud, fraudulent misrepresentation, or any liability that cannot be excluded under the law of England and Wales.

If the licence ends

The Provider may end this licence if the End User materially breaches this agreement. The End User may end the licence by deleting Halves from all devices. Sections that by nature should continue, including content ownership, warranty limits, liability limits, Apple terms, and governing law, continue after termination.

Governing law and courts

This agreement is governed by the laws of England and Wales. The courts of England have exclusive jurisdiction, except where applicable consumer law gives the End User a mandatory right to bring a claim somewhere else.

If any part of this agreement is unenforceable, the rest remains in effect.

How to reach the Provider

Email: hello@halves.one.

Registered office: 24 Dering Street, London, England, W1S 1BL.