Terms of Use

1.This agreement

These terms are between you and the PRECEDE app team ("we", "us"), the publisher of Precede. They apply when you download or use the Precede app, or use precedeapp.com.

By using Precede you accept these terms. If you don't accept them, don't use the app — and if you've already installed it, delete it.

Apple's own App Store terms also apply to your download. Where they conflict with ours on a matter Apple governs, Apple's terms win.

Our privacy policy explains what happens to data. It is part of this agreement.

2.Your licence to use Precede

We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use Precede on devices you own or control, for your own use, in line with these terms and Apple's rules.

We keep all rights in the app, its name, its design, and its content. You may not copy, sell, sublicense, rent, reverse-engineer, decompile, or attempt to derive the source code, except where the law expressly permits it regardless of contract.

3.Who can use it

You need to be old enough to form a binding contract where you live, or have a parent or guardian agree on your behalf. Precede is built for a general audience and is not directed at children.

If the device is managed through Family Sharing or by an organisation, the person managing it controls Screen Time permissions, and their settings override what Precede can do.

4.Acceptable use

Don't use Precede to:

• restrict someone else's device without their knowledge and agreement — Precede is a tool for the person holding the phone, not a surveillance or control product;
• break the law, or infringe anyone's rights;
• interfere with the app's operation, or with Apple's frameworks, or attempt to gain unauthorised access to any system;
• misrepresent Precede, or use our name, wordmark, or design to imply an endorsement we haven't given.

5.Precede depends on Apple's Screen Time

Pausing apps is not something Precede does by itself. It asks iOS to do it, through Apple's Family Controls and Managed Settings frameworks. That means:

• the feature only works if you grant Screen Time permission, and stops if you revoke it;
• changes Apple makes to iOS or to those frameworks can change or interrupt how Precede behaves, sometimes without notice;
• a pause is not a security boundary. It's a deliberate speed bump you've asked for, and you can remove it at any time by turning off automatic pausing, changing your selection, or deleting the app.

6.Precede is not medical or psychological advice

Precede is a productivity tool. It is not a medical device, it does not diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any condition, and it is not a substitute for professional care.

We make no claim that it treats or helps with attention disorders, compulsive phone use, anxiety, or any other health condition. If you're worried about your relationship with your phone or your wellbeing, please talk to a qualified professional — that's a better use of your time than any app, including ours.

7.No guarantee of outcomes

Precede pauses the apps you select while the essentials you set remain unfinished. That is the whole of what it promises.

We do not promise that you will finish your list, focus better, save time, or change any habit. Those depend on you and on circumstances neither of us controls. We publish no numeric claims about time saved or productivity gained, and you should treat any such claim about Precede as one we didn't make.

The app is provided "as is". To the extent the law allows, we exclude implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. Nothing here limits rights you have under mandatory consumer law — your statutory rights as a consumer are unaffected by this section.

8.Availability, updates, and ending the agreement

We may update Precede, change features, or stop distributing it. We'll avoid removing something you depend on without warning, but we can't promise the app will remain available indefinitely or work with every future version of iOS.

You can end this agreement whenever you like by deleting the app. We may suspend or end your licence if you materially breach these terms, and we'll tell you why where we reasonably can.

If we make a significant change to these terms, we'll update this page and the effective date above.

9.Liability

We are liable for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud, and for anything else the law does not permit us to exclude. Nothing in these terms affects that.

Otherwise, and to the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, lost profits, lost opportunities, or loss of data, and our total liability arising from your use of Precede is limited to the amount you paid us for the app in the twelve months before the claim.

We're aware that an app which pauses other apps could, if it misbehaves, cause you to miss something. That's precisely why the app is designed so you can always remove a pause yourself, and why the recovery steps are published on the support page rather than buried.

10.Purchases and subscriptions

Precede currently has no in-app purchases or subscriptions. If that changes, this section will set out the price, billing period, any free trial and when it ends, how renewal works, how to cancel through your Apple ID settings, and how to restore purchases — before any paid version ships.

All payments would be handled by Apple under your App Store account. Refunds are Apple's to give; requests go through Apple, not us, though we're happy to help you sort out a problem first.

11.Governing law

We have not yet specified the law governing these terms or the courts that would hear a dispute. We will state both here before Precede is offered for sale, and this section will be updated with the effective date above.

In the meantime, nothing in these terms deprives you of the protection of mandatory rules where you live, and you may bring proceedings there where the law gives you that right.

If any part of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest continues to apply.

12.Contact

The PRECEDE app team
support@precedeapp.com

See also the privacy policy and the support page.