These terms are the agreement between you and me about the Chalk app. They also serve as Chalk’s End User License Agreement (EULA).
The short version
Chalk is a small app made by one person. You can use it on the Apple devices you own. It is free, in full: no in-app purchase, no subscription, no counter limit, and nothing held back for a paid tier. Your data stays on your device and in your own iCloud, so there is very little here that can go wrong between us, and the rest of this page is the careful wording for the parts that can.
1. Who you are agreeing with
Chalk is made and licensed by Sepehr Mohammadi (“I”, “me”, “the developer”).
This agreement is between you and me only, and not with Apple. I, not Apple, am solely responsible for Chalk and its content. Apple distributes Chalk, and Apple is not a party to these terms.
By downloading or using Chalk, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the app, and you can delete it.
2. Your license
I grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use Chalk on any Apple-branded products that you own or control, as permitted by the Usage Rules in the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions. That includes access by other members of your Family Sharing group where Apple’s rules allow it.
This license covers use of the app, not ownership of it. You may not:
- copy, redistribute, sell, rent, sublicense, or lease the app
- reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble it, except where law says you may
- remove or obscure any copyright, attribution, or other notice in it
- use it in a way that breaks the law where you are
The app, its name, its design, and its code stay mine. What you count in Chalk stays yours, entirely, and I never see it.
3. What you get
All of it, at no cost. Chalk is free, it contains no in-app purchase and no subscription, and there is no counter limit and no paid tier. Counting, undoing, editing, archiving and deleting counters, prices and currencies and your own units, settling a cycle, the full settled history with every tick and what it cost, the home-screen and lock-screen widgets including the ones you can tap, the entire Apple Watch app and its complications, Siri and Shortcuts, CSV export, the alternate app icons, sync through your own iCloud, and light and dark. Every one of them, for everyone.
Two things that will not change:
- Nothing is ever deleted to sell you something. There is nothing to sell.
- Your data is never held hostage. Export is free and always will be, and you can take what you have counted out of Chalk at any time.
Since nothing is sold, there is nothing to refund and no purchase to restore.
4. Maintenance and support
I am solely responsible for providing any maintenance and support services for Chalk, to the extent those services are specified in these terms or required under applicable law. Apple has no obligation whatsoever to furnish any maintenance and support services with respect to Chalk.
In practice, support is one email address, read by one person: [email protected]. See the support page for what to expect. I try to answer everything, usually within a few days, and I cannot promise a response time or guarantee that any particular fix or feature will be built.
5. No warranty
Chalk is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranty of any kind. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, I disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, and non-infringement. I do not warrant that Chalk will be uninterrupted, error free, or free of defects, or that it will work with every future version of iOS or watchOS.
Please read this part in particular:
Chalk is a personal note of what you counted, not an accounting record. The totals it shows are arithmetic over the taps you made and the prices you typed. It is not bookkeeping software, it is not a payment system, it does not move money, and it is not tax, accounting, financial, or legal advice. What you and another person owe each other is between you and them. Do not rely on Chalk as evidence, as an invoice, or as the only record of a debt that matters, and check the numbers before you settle up.
You are responsible for your own backups. If you use iCloud, Apple keeps a copy for you and syncs it between your devices, subject to Apple’s own service and its availability. If you do not, your counters exist only on the device in your hand, and a lost, wiped, or broken device means lost data. Chalk can export a CSV, and a device backup covers the rest.
In the event of any failure of Chalk to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price for Chalk to you. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Apple will have no other warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to Chalk. Any other claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs, or expenses attributable to a failure to conform to any warranty are my responsibility, not Apple’s.
Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties, so parts of this section may not apply to you, and nothing here limits any statutory consumer right you have that cannot be waived.
6. Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, I am not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, loss of profits, loss of goodwill, or business interruption, arising out of or relating to your use of Chalk, however caused and on any theory of liability. That includes any amount you did or did not pay someone on the strength of a number Chalk showed you.
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, my total liability to you for all claims relating to Chalk is limited to five US dollars, Chalk being free.
These limits do not apply to liability that cannot be excluded or limited by law, such as liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation. Some jurisdictions do not allow the limits above, so they may not apply to you in full.
7. Product claims
I, not Apple, am responsible for addressing any claims by you or any third party relating to Chalk or your possession or use of it, including product liability claims, any claim that Chalk fails to conform to any applicable legal or regulatory requirement, and claims arising under consumer protection, privacy, or similar legislation, including in connection with Chalk’s use of any framework that processes health or fitness data (Chalk does not use any such framework).
These terms do not limit my liability to you beyond what applicable law permits.
8. Intellectual property claims
If any third party claims that Chalk, or your possession and use of Chalk, infringes that third party’s intellectual property rights, I, not Apple, will be solely responsible for the investigation, defense, settlement, and discharge of that claim.
9. Legal compliance and export
You represent and warrant that:
- you are not located in a country that is subject to a U.S. Government embargo, or that has been designated by the U.S. Government as a “terrorist supporting” country; and
- you are not listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
You agree to comply with all applicable U.S. and other export laws and regulations, and with all applicable local laws where you use Chalk. Chalk implements no cryptography of its own, and its only network use is Apple’s own iCloud sync.
10. Third-party terms
You must comply with any applicable third-party terms of agreement when using Chalk. That includes the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions, the iCloud terms that cover sync, and, if you choose to save an exported CSV into another service such as a cloud storage app, that service’s own terms.
11. Apple as a third-party beneficiary
Apple, and Apple’s subsidiaries, are third-party beneficiaries of these terms, and upon your acceptance of these terms, Apple will have the right (and will be deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce these terms against you as a third-party beneficiary of them.
Apple is otherwise not a party to these terms, has no responsibility for Chalk, and, as stated above, has no maintenance, support, or warranty obligation with respect to Chalk.
12. Acceptable use
Chalk is a private list on your own devices, so there is not much to police here. Still, please:
- use Chalk only for lawful purposes
- do not use a modified or repackaged copy of the app
- do not attempt to interfere with the app’s operation on someone else’s device
- do not use Chalk’s name, icon, or design to represent something that is not Chalk
There is no content moderation, because nothing you write in Chalk is ever shared or sent to me. What you type is yours, on your devices.
13. Changes to these terms
I may update these terms, for example if Chalk gains a feature that needs covering. The “Last updated” date at the top changes when they do, and the current version is always the one linked from Chalk’s App Store page.
If a change is significant, the app will tell you the next time you open it. Your continued use of Chalk after an update means the updated terms apply. If you do not agree with an update, you can stop using Chalk and delete it, and you can export your data first.
14. Termination
This license lasts until it ends. It ends when you delete Chalk from all your devices, or if you materially breach these terms, in which case the license terminates automatically. On termination you must stop using Chalk and delete it. Sections 5 through 11 survive termination. There is nothing to refund, since Chalk is free.
15. Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the Netherlands, without regard to its conflict of law rules, and you and I agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located in the Netherlands for any dispute arising out of them.
If you are a consumer, this does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory consumer laws of the country where you live, and it does not remove your right to bring proceedings in your local courts where the law gives you that right.
16. Everything else
- Entire agreement. These terms, together with the Privacy Policy, are the whole agreement between you and me about Chalk, and they replace any earlier understanding about it.
- Severability. If any part of these terms is held unenforceable, the rest stays in force and the unenforceable part is applied only as far as the law allows.
- No waiver. If I do not enforce a part of these terms straight away, I have not given it up.
- Assignment. You may not assign these terms. I may assign them if Chalk changes hands, and your license carries over.
- Language. These terms are written in English. If a translation is provided and it conflicts with the English, the English version governs, except where local law says otherwise.
17. Contact
Sepehr Mohammadi Box C8724, Keurenplein 41, 1069 CD Amsterdam, Netherlands [email protected]
That address and email are here because Apple’s minimum EULA terms require a developer name, address, and contact information. The email is the one that gets read.