Terms of Use

Welcome to Alphabates. These Terms of Use (“Terms”) apply when you use our website, www.alphabates.com (the “Website”), and the Android apps that Alphabates publishes on Google Play (our “Apps”). Please read them carefully.

By using the Website or installing or using any of our Apps, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you don’t agree, please don’t use the Website or our Apps.

1. About Alphabates

Alphabates (“we”, “us”, “our”) is an independent studio that designs and publishes apps for Android. You can contact us at info@alphabates.com.

2. Using the Website

You’re welcome to browse the Website, learn about our Apps and contact us. When using the Website, you agree not to:

break any law, or encourage anyone else to do so,
try to gain unauthorised access to the Website, our servers or any connected systems,
interfere with the Website’s security or performance — for example with viruses, denial-of-service attacks or excessive automated requests,
copy large parts of the Website with bots, scrapers or other automated tools without our written permission,
use our contact form to send spam, advertising, abusive or unlawful content, or content that infringes anyone else’s rights, or
pretend to be someone else, or misrepresent your connection with any person or organisation.

We may limit or block access for anyone who breaks these Terms.

3. Using our Apps

Our Apps are distributed through Google Play. When you download an App, Google Play’s own terms also apply to you, and Google is responsible for the store, downloads and payments.

Subject to these Terms, we give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable and revocable licence to download, install and use our Apps on Android devices that you own or control, for your own personal use. Our Apps are licensed to you, not sold.

You agree not to:

copy, modify, translate or create works based on our Apps,
reverse-engineer, decompile or disassemble our Apps, except where the law allows this despite this restriction,
remove, hide or change any copyright, trademark or other notices,
rent, lend, sell, sublicense or redistribute our Apps, or make them available to others over a network,
get around any security, licensing or payment features, or
use our Apps for anything unlawful, harmful or abusive.

Some features may need an internet connection, a particular Android version or certain device permissions. Information about this is shown in each App’s Google Play listing.

4. Purchases and subscriptions

Some Apps may offer optional in-app purchases or subscriptions. Where they do:

Payments are processed by Google Play under Google’s terms. Prices are shown in Google Play before you buy and may include taxes.
Subscriptions renew automatically until you cancel them. You can manage or cancel a subscription at any time in the Google Play app under Payments & subscriptions. Cancelling stops future renewals; you keep access until the end of the period you’ve paid for.
Refunds are handled under Google Play’s refund policies. If you have a problem with a purchase, contact us too and we’ll do our best to help.
Nothing in these Terms affects any rights you have as a consumer under the laws of the country where you live.

5. Updates and availability

We may update our Apps to fix problems, improve them or add, change or remove features. Some updates may be needed for an App to keep working properly, so please keep your Apps up to date.

We may also change, pause or stop offering the Website or any App — or any part of them — at any time. We’ll try to give reasonable notice where we can, for example in the App or on the Website. We don’t guarantee that the Website or our Apps will always be available, uninterrupted or free from errors.

6. Your content

Anything you create or store in our Apps (your “content”) belongs to you. Unless an App clearly says otherwise, your content is stored on your device — so it may be lost if you uninstall the App, clear its storage, reset or lose your device. Please back up anything important. You’re responsible for the content you create and for making sure it’s lawful.

7. Our content and intellectual property

The Website, our Apps and everything in them — including text, graphics, logos, icons, designs, software and code — are owned by Alphabates or our licensors and are protected by copyright, trademark and other laws. Apart from the rights we give you in these Terms, all rights are reserved.

You may share links to our Website and Apps. You may not use the Alphabates name or logo, or our Apps’ names or icons, in a way that suggests we endorse you, your products or your services without our written permission.

8. Messages and feedback you send us

When you send us a message, feedback, an idea or a suggestion:

you confirm that it’s lawful and doesn’t contain anything confidential or infringe anyone else’s rights, and
you agree that we may use your ideas and suggestions to improve our Website and Apps — “Because You Asked” — without any obligation to you.

We read every message, but we can’t promise to reply to every one or to build every suggestion.

9. Third-party services and trademarks

Our Website and Apps may link to or work with services run by other companies, such as Google Play. We’re not responsible for third-party services, content or privacy practices, and their own terms apply when you use them.

Android and Google Play are trademarks of Google LLC. Alphabates is independent and is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by Google or any other company mentioned on our Website or in our Apps, unless we clearly say otherwise.

10. Advertising

The Website or our Apps may show advertising. If they do, advertisers are responsible for their own ads, and an ad appearing doesn’t mean we recommend the product. Any sponsored content will always be clearly labelled.

11. Disclaimer

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Website, our Apps and all content are provided ”as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied — including warranties of accuracy, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, and that they will be uninterrupted, secure or error-free.

12. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Alphabates will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, profits, revenue, business or goodwill, arising from or related to your use of — or inability to use — the Website or our Apps.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total liability for any claim relating to the Website or our Apps is limited to the amount you paid us for the App or purchase concerned in the 12 months before the claim (or zero, if you haven’t paid anything).

Nothing in these Terms limits or excludes any liability that cannot be limited or excluded by law, or any rights you have as a consumer under the laws of the country where you live.

13. Indemnity

If you break these Terms or the law while using the Website or our Apps, you agree to cover any reasonable claims, losses and costs (including legal fees) that Alphabates suffers as a result, to the extent permitted by law.

14. Ending your use

You can stop using our Apps at any time by uninstalling them. We may suspend or end your right to use the Website or an App if you seriously or repeatedly break these Terms. Sections that by their nature should continue — such as sections 7, 11, 12 and 13 — will continue to apply after your use ends.

15. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time — for example, when we release a new App or feature. The latest version will always be on this page, with the “Last updated” date at the top. If the changes are significant, we’ll make that clear on our Website or in our Apps. If you keep using the Website or our Apps after changes take effect, you accept the updated Terms.

16. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the country in which Alphabates is established, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute will be handled by the courts of that country — unless, as a consumer, the law of the country where you live gives you the right to bring a claim there.

17. Contact us

Questions about these Terms? Email info@alphabates.com or use our contact form.