Not yet a finished document. The descriptions of how the app behaves are accurate — they were read out of the source, not assumed. What is not settled is everything marked LIKE THIS: who the contract is with, the subscription price and trial length, and the jurisdiction. Those must be filled in and the whole document reviewed by a qualified adviser before the app is submitted. Apple additionally requires a working link to this page from the App Store listing and from the paywall inside the app. The full list is kept in CLAUDE.md.

The short version

This summary has no legal effect. The sections below do.

1. The agreement

These terms are a contract between you and LEGAL NAME of REGISTERED ADDRESS ("we", "us"), and they govern your use of the Two of Us iPhone app and this website. They are also the End User Licence Agreement for the app.

By downloading or using the app you accept them. If you do not, do not use the app — and if you have already paid, section 6 explains how to get your money back from Apple.

The Privacy Policy forms part of these terms.

2. What the app is

An iPhone app for two people in a relationship. It contains a shared map built from the date and location stamps on your own photographs; games you each answer in your own time and then compare; a shared list of things you are counting down to; and widgets that put some of it on your Lock Screen.

It is entertainment. It is not counselling, therapy, relationship advice, navigation, a safety tool or a record you should rely on for anything that matters. Please do not use it to settle an argument about where somebody was.

The app is currently in beta. Features may change, break, or be withdrawn, and data may occasionally be lost. We will not pretend otherwise.

3. Who may use it

You must be at least MINIMUM AGE years old. By using the app you confirm that you are, and that you are not barred from using it under the laws that apply to you.

4. Accounts

You can sign in with Apple, or continue without it. Both give you a real account. They differ in one important way:

You are responsible for what happens under your account and for keeping your device secure. Do not share your account with anyone; the second seat in a couple exists for exactly that purpose.

5. Couples

A couple is two accounts joined by a six-character invite code. One account is in one couple at a time, and a couple holds at most two people.

Joining a couple means the other person can see the things described in the Privacy Policy — your places, your wishlist, and your answers to questions they have also answered. Treat an invite code like a key: anyone you give it to can take the free seat.

Either of you may leave at any time. Leaving detaches you and lets you start again. It does not delete your account, and — see the Privacy Policy for exactly what leaving does and does not remove — it does not undo what your partner has already seen.

We take no view on your relationship and provide no mechanism for resolving a dispute between the two of you over shared content. If you want your own data gone, delete your account.

6. Subscriptions and payment

What costs money, and what doesn't

The games, the countdowns, and how far apart the two of you are do not cost anything. A subscription unlocks the Map, and having the rest arrive on your Lock Screen as widgets. We may change which features sit on which side of that line while the app is in beta; if we move something you are already using behind the subscription, we will say so in the app before we do it.

One subscription, two people

Access belongs to the couple, not to a person. Whoever subscribes unlocks the app for both members, for as long as the subscription is active. This is deliberate and is not a loophole; there is no second seat to buy.

Price and billing

The subscription is PRODUCT NAME at PRICE per PERIOD, following a TRIAL LENGTH free trial. The price shown in the app at the moment you buy is the price that applies, in your local currency, and it governs over anything written here.

Apple is the seller. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically at the same price unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. You manage and cancel subscriptions in your Apple ID account settings, not in this app — we cannot cancel one for you.

If a free trial is offered, any unused portion is forfeited when you buy a subscription, where Apple's rules provide for that.

Refunds and cancellation rights

Refunds are handled by Apple under the App Store terms, and we have no power to issue one. If you are a consumer in the UK or EU you also have a statutory right to cancel a distance contract within 14 days; because the app gives you access immediately, that right may be lost once you begin using the paid features, as the law allows. Either way, ask Apple first — it is the fastest route.

When it lapses

If the subscription ends, the paid features lock. Your data is not deleted; your map, answers and history wait for you. You can delete your account at any time if you would rather they did not.

Changes to the price

We may change the price for future periods. Apple will notify you and ask for your consent where its rules require it, and you can cancel before the new price takes effect.

7. Gift codes

We sometimes issue codes granting access without payment — for family, testers and reviewers. A code is not property, has no cash value, cannot be sold or exchanged, may be limited in uses and duration, and may be withdrawn if it is being abused. Redeeming one grants access to the couple you are already in.

8. Your content

Your names, your answers, your wishlist notes, the things you are counting down to, the places on your map, your profile picture and the photographs you take in the app are yours. We claim no ownership of any of it.

To run the app we need your permission to do a small, specific set of things with it: to store it, to back it up, to transmit it between your two devices, and to display it to you and to the partner you chose. That is the whole licence — non-exclusive, worldwide only because servers are, royalty-free, and lasting only as long as you keep the content in the app.

We will not use what you write to advertise, to train a model, to publish, or to show anybody who is not your partner.

You are responsible for having the right to share what you share — which includes a profile picture: only upload one you are entitled to use, and bear in mind that it will be shown on your partner's Lock Screen, where anyone glancing at their phone can see it. You keep your own copy of everything; the app is not a backup service.

Your name and your picture are yours. Once you are both in the couple, each of you can change only your own — neither of you can rename or re-photograph the other. Until the second person joins, whoever set the couple up can fill in both, because there is nobody there yet to do it themselves.

The countdown list is the other way round, and deliberately so: either of you can add, change or remove anything on it, because a plan belongs to the pair rather than to one of you. The anniversary works the same way. If that is not a level of trust you want, do not pair.

Sharing how far apart you are is switched on per person, on their own phone. Neither of you can turn it on for the other, and either of you can turn it off at any moment — including the optional setting that lets it keep up in the background. Pressing somebody to switch either of them on, or leaving them on for somebody who has asked you not to, is the behaviour section 9 prohibits.

9. How you may use it

We grant you a personal, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the app on Apple devices you own or control, in line with the App Store's Usage Rules. You may not:

The second and third bullets are not boilerplate. An app built on the places two people have been is capable of being misused against one of them, and doing so is a breach of these terms as well as, quite possibly, the law.

10. The Map is an inference

The Map does not know where you have been. It reads the date and location that your camera wrote onto your photographs, groups them, and concludes that two people who have photographs from the same area on overlapping days were probably there together.

That conclusion can be wrong, in both directions. A photograph can carry a missing, wrong or edited location. A phone can be borrowed. A trip with no photographs leaves no trace at all. Places you were genuinely together can be missed, and places you were not can appear.

Nothing the Map shows is evidence of anything. It is offered as a memory, not a record, and must not be relied upon for any decision that matters — legal, financial, or personal. We accept no liability for conclusions drawn from it.

11. Our intellectual property

The app, its design, its artwork, its name, its games and the text of its question decks belong to us and are protected by copyright and trade mark law. Nothing in these terms transfers any of that to you beyond the licence in section 9.

If you send us an idea or a suggestion, we may use it without owing you anything. We would rather have the suggestion than the silence.

12. Availability and changes

We aim to keep the app working and do not promise that it always will. It depends on Apple, on our hosting provider, and on your network, none of which we control.

We may change, add or remove features. If we remove something you are paying for, or make a change that materially reduces what a paid subscription gives you, we will tell you first and you may cancel.

We may change these terms. Material changes will be notified in the app or by email before they take effect, and continuing to use the app afterwards means you accept them. If you do not, you may cancel and stop using it.

13. Apple

The App Store requires the following, and all of it is true:

Questions, complaints or claims about the app should come to SUPPORT EMAIL, not to Apple.

14. Warranties

If you are a consumer, you have legal rights about digital content — that it be of satisfactory quality, fit for purpose and as described — and nothing in these terms limits them. In the UK those rights come from the Consumer Rights Act 2015.

Beyond those rights, and to the extent the law allows, the app is provided "as is". We do not warrant that it will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure against every threat, or that the places and conclusions it shows are accurate.

15. Liability

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded.

Subject to that, and to the extent the law permits:

We are not liable for failures caused by things outside our reasonable control, including outages at Apple or at our hosting provider.

16. Ending it

You may stop at any time: delete your account in Settings, cancel any subscription through Apple, and delete the app.

We may suspend or end your access if you materially breach these terms — in particular section 9 — or if we are required to by law. Where it is reasonable to do so we will warn you first and give you a chance to put it right. If we end your access without cause, we will refund the unused part of any subscription period, which in practice means asking Apple to.

Sections 8, 10, 11, 14, 15, 17 and 18 survive the end of this agreement.

17. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the law of JURISDICTION, and its courts have non-exclusive jurisdiction. If you are a consumer, this does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory law of the country you live in, and you may bring proceedings there.

Please write to us before doing any of that; almost everything is easier to fix than to litigate.

18. General

19. Contact

LEGAL NAME, REGISTERED ADDRESS
SUPPORT EMAIL

Also worth reading: the Privacy Policy.