The short version. Use PhonePact kindly and lawfully. Be respectful in your circle — harassment, hate, threats, sharing someone’s intimate images, and other objectionable content are not allowed, and we can remove content or accounts that break these rules. Pacts are promises between friends: PhonePact never handles money, a pact is not a legal contract, and nobody has to do a consequence that is unsafe. The core experience is currently available without a Supporter purchase, and optional Supporter purchases unlock private Insights where available. Feature availability can vary by installed version, platform, account, and staged store rollout. PhonePact is a wellbeing tool, not medical advice.

These Terms of Use (“Terms”) are a legal agreement between you and PhonePact LLC (“PhonePact,” “we,” “us”) governing your use of the PhonePact mobile application (the “App”) and its website (including Pacts by PhonePact at getphonepact.com/pacts), backend, features, and support offerings (collectively, the “Service”). By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

Your app store’s terms also apply. On Apple platforms, your use of the App is also subject to Apple’s Licensed Application End User License Agreement (Standard EULA). Where these Terms and the Apple Standard EULA both apply, both are in effect; the Apple EULA governs the license to use the App itself. On Android, Google Play’s terms govern the App’s distribution and billing, and the same is true of any other app store that offers PhonePact.

1. Who can use PhonePact

You must be at least 13 years old to use PhonePact, or at least 14 if you live in South Korea or Spain, where the law sets 14 as the age to agree on your own to how your personal data is used. If you are under 18, or under the age of majority where you live, you may use PhonePact only with the permission of a parent or guardian, who agrees to these Terms on your behalf and is responsible for your use of the Service. In some countries the law sets a higher age (up to 16) before you can agree on your own to how your personal data is used; below that age, a parent or guardian must agree for you where the law requires it. Where the law requires it, your app store may ask a parent or guardian to approve a download, a purchase, or a significant change to the App, and we may rely on the age category and approval your app store reports. You may not use PhonePact if the law bars you from doing so or if we previously removed your account for breaking these Terms. By using the Service, you confirm that you meet these requirements.

2. Your account

  • You are responsible for keeping your login credentials secure and for activity under your account.
  • Provide accurate information, including your age, and keep it up to date. One person per account; do not share, sell, or transfer an account, or use someone else’s.
  • You may link supported Google, Apple, or email/password sign-in methods only when you are authorized to use them. Linking a method does not merge separate PhonePact accounts merely because their emails match.
  • We may require email verification or recent reauthentication before sharing, linking a sign-in method, changing sensitive account details, restoring purchases, or deleting an account.
  • Tell us promptly at support@getphonepact.com if you suspect unauthorized use.

3. Supporter purchases, subscriptions, and billing

  • The core experience is currently available without a Supporter purchase. Optional PhonePact Supporter purchases help fund the Service and unlock the personal Insights described below where available. Availability can vary by installed version, platform, account, and staged store rollout. A payment that unlocks features is a digital purchase, not a charitable donation.
  • The purchase screen obtains the authoritative localized product and price from the applicable app store through RevenueCat. The amount, currency, billing period, and any tax the store displays at confirmation control over any rounded example or fallback copy. Review those terms before confirming.
  • A one-time purchase is charged once and does not renew. If you choose monthly support, it renews automatically each month at the then-applicable store price until you cancel through that store. Your store controls charge timing, payment method, renewal notices, and any price-change notice or consent. A trial, introductory offer, or code applies only when the store expressly displays its terms.
  • Canceling normally stops future renewal and leaves access until the paid period ends. You can cancel at any time, online, in your store’s subscription settings; uninstalling the App or deleting your PhonePact account does not cancel a store subscription. Use the direct store-management link in You or the instructions on our Support page.
  • Each current Supporter option unlocks the same current private Insights. Monthly access lasts while the entitlement is active. A one-time purchase grants continuing access while the relevant PhonePact account, store entitlement, App, Service, and feature remain available; it is not a promise that PhonePact will operate or support a particular feature forever, and it does not guarantee every future paid feature.
  • Purchases and restores are associated with both the PhonePact account identified to RevenueCat and the store account/platform that owns the transaction. Sign in to the correct accounts before purchasing or restoring. Transfers, family sharing, cross-account restores, refunds, revocations, and charge disputes are controlled by the store, RevenueCat’s configured transfer behavior, the accounts involved, and applicable law. We generally cannot issue a store refund directly. Any right you have under your local law to withdraw from a digital purchase is handled through the store that sold it.
  • If you live in Japan, the seller information and purchase terms required by the Act on Specified Commercial Transactions are on our 特定商取引法に基づく表記 page.
  • Entitlement updates can be delayed by connectivity, store processing, refunds, billing problems, account switching, or provider outages. Contact us with the store platform and non-sensitive transaction context if confirmed access does not appear; never email card or bank details.
  • Subscription expiration, cancellation, or refund does not itself delete the account, device permissions, or history. Deletion and purchase-provider retention are governed by our Privacy Policy.

4. Community rules

PhonePact includes circle rooms, pacts, and one-to-one private conversations between current members of a shared circle. You are responsible for the content you post and for how you treat other people. You agree not to post, send, or share content that is:

  • harassing, bullying, threatening, or abusive toward any person;
  • hateful or discriminatory, or that promotes violence against any group or individual;
  • sexually explicit, obscene, or exploitative — and never any sexual content involving anyone under 18;
  • an intimate or sexual image of a person shared without their consent, including an altered or AI-generated one, or a threat to share one;
  • someone else’s private information, such as their address, phone number, or screen-time details they have not chosen to share, or a photo or video of a person who has not agreed to be recorded or shared;
  • encouraging self-harm, suicide, disordered eating, or dangerous activities, or pressuring anyone into a consequence they do not want to do;
  • impersonating a person or organization, or misleading people about who you are;
  • offering or promoting illegal goods or services, weapons, or drugs;
  • unlawful, defamatory, or that infringes anyone’s privacy or intellectual-property rights;
  • spam, scams, or malware; or
  • otherwise objectionable or that violates these Terms.

5. Reporting, moderation, and appeals

Zero tolerance. There is no tolerance for objectionable content or abusive behavior. You can report a message or block another member from within the App at any time. We review reports and act on objectionable content — removing content and/or suspending or terminating accounts — and you can always reach a human at support@getphonepact.com.

Intimate images shared without consent. If an intimate image of you, or of someone you are authorized to act for, has been shared on PhonePact without consent, report it in the App or email support@getphonepact.com with the subject “Intimate image removal.” Tell us where it appears (for example, the circle, profile, or message), include a short statement that it was shared without consent, your contact details, and your name as a signature. Never send us the image itself. We remove the image, and any identical copies we know of, within 48 hours of receiving a valid request.

Reporting illegal content. Anyone, including someone without an account, can report content they believe is illegal by emailing support@getphonepact.com with where it is and why it is illegal. We confirm that we received the report and tell you what we decided.

Our decisions and your appeal. If we remove your content or restrict or close your account, we tell you what we did and why, unless the law or someone’s safety prevents it. If you think we got it wrong, reply or email support@getphonepact.com within six months, and a person will look at the decision again. Reporters can ask for the same review of a decision not to act. We may preserve and disclose content and account information when the law requires it or to protect someone from serious harm, and we report apparent child sexual exploitation to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children as United States law requires.

Limited deterministic server rules inspect profile/display names, circle names, phone labels, Room/private messages, optional check-in notes, and pact/What Counts reasons for blocked safety terms or patterns. Depending on the field, blocked required text is rejected or sanitized, while blocked optional text can be omitted as the underlying action continues. This rule-based screening is not AI analysis, can make mistakes, and does not replace reporting or human review.

Ordinary room rows and ordinary one-to-one messages expire after 24 hours. Any current circle member may visibly keep a member-written room message for everyone for up to 30 days after it was sent. Either participant in a one-to-one conversation may visibly keep an individual message for the same period. PhonePact clients stop displaying expired rows; an hourly server sweep normally removes them on its next successful run, but backlog or job failure can delay physical removal. If a message is reported, a copy of it is kept with the report so that we can review it — we cannot act on something we can no longer read. That copy becomes eligible for deletion 90 days after we finish reviewing the report, and a daily server sweep normally removes it on its next successful run; a failed job can delay physical removal. Deleting your account starts cleanup of your private conversations, ordinary room notes and check-in rows attributed to you, your entries in pacts, and reports you filed; the process can take time. Reports about you may remain as safety records under an opaque pseudonymous identifier, with copied name and text attributable to you scrubbed. See the Privacy Policy for what happens to reports when an account is deleted.

6. Pacts and consequences

In a circle’s room, members can start a pact (for example, a screen time goal or three workouts a week), sign it, and agree on a consequence for each break. PhonePact provides the tools to write, sign, and keep track of a pact. We are not a party to any pact.

  • A pact is a promise between friends, not a legal contract. The signature you draw on a pact shows the circle that you agreed; it is not a legal signature, and a pact does not create a binding agreement, a debt, or any obligation that PhonePact or anyone else can enforce.
  • PhonePact never handles money. We do not hold, collect, transfer, or guarantee any payment, and we never charge you for breaking a pact. A money consequence (such as “$20 to one person the room picks”) is a voluntary arrangement among the people involved, settled outside PhonePact if at all. Pacts are not bets, wagers, or games of chance; do not use them to gamble or to collect debts. If you are under 18, do not agree to a money consequence without a parent’s or guardian’s permission.
  • Keep consequences safe, legal, and kind. Nobody has to do a consequence that could hurt them or anyone else, break the law, cost more than they can afford, or expose something private. You can always say no, and so can everyone else. Do physical consequences (such as push-ups, burpees, or a cold shower) only if you can do them safely; check with a doctor if you are unsure, and stop if anything hurts. Do not record or share people who have not agreed to it.
  • Pact records can be wrong. Breaks and payments are recorded as members mark them or as the App measures them. We do not verify what anyone actually did, and measurement can be wrong (see section 8). Disagreements about a pact are for the people in it to work out.
  • Your choice, your responsibility. You take part in pacts and consequences voluntarily and at your own risk, and you are responsible for what you agree to, ask of others, and do. To the extent the law allows, PhonePact is not responsible for a consequence anyone chooses to do or for what happens between members because of a pact. We may remove a pact, a consequence, or a note that breaks these Terms.

7. Your content and feedback

You keep ownership of what you create in PhonePact: messages, notes, pact terms and consequences, profile details, your signature, and photos. You give PhonePact a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, copy, display, and transmit that content only as needed to operate, secure, and maintain the Service: to show it to the circle or one-to-one participant you choose, keep it for the periods described in the Privacy Policy (including when a member keeps a message or a report holds a copy), review it for safety, and comply with the law. The license ends when the content is deleted from the Service, except for copies we must keep under the Privacy Policy or the law. You confirm that you have the rights needed to share your content and that it does not break these Terms.

If you send us ideas, suggestions, or feedback, including through TestFlight or support, we may use them without any obligation to you.

8. Screen Time and wellbeing disclaimer

PhonePact uses the phone’s screen-usage features, with your permission, to count its configured usage. On iPhone that means the Apple Screen Time scope you select; on Android, Usage Access lets you choose the whole phone or individual launchable apps in a private on-device picker. PhonePact is a wellbeing and accountability tool. It is not a medical device and does not provide medical, psychological, or professional advice. It is not a substitute for professional help, and it is not an emergency service. If you are struggling, please contact a qualified professional; if you or someone else is in danger, contact local emergency services.

Screen-usage totals, app attribution, pickups, notifications, unlocks, visits, sessions, breaks, and Live Activity or widget updates are platform estimates. They can be missing, delayed, duplicated, rounded, or affected by software versions, permissions, restarts, power management, time-zone changes, the selected scope, and the operating system. A shared check-in is evidence that the App recorded a threshold, not proof of what someone was doing, their intent, or every minute they used the phone.

Subject to synchronization and stale/replay suppression, a phone can create a shared check-in at its pact point and every later 30-minute crossing through 1,410 minutes (23h 30m) of measured use. At the smallest 30-minute pact point, that is as many as 47 potential shared check-ins in a day. The private Moment/Talk First prompt is limited to the pact point and six later crossings; that private-prompt limit does not cap shared check-ins.

Supporter Insights can include daily, weekly, monthly, time-of-day, app-level, trend, comparison, research-context, and on-device pact-journal views. Available measurements and history differ between iPhone and Android. Missing days are not zero. On iPhone, Apple renders detailed Screen Time values inside its protected report extension. On Android, private summaries are created only after the separate local-history choice; if enabled, their refresh can continue after Supporter access expires until disabled or the relevant permission/data is cleared. The unpaywalled You → Profile → Private Insights data control remains available to stop collection and clear PhonePact’s saved summaries, as explained in the Privacy Policy.

Insights and linked research are informational context only. They do not diagnose a condition, provide a medical target, guarantee reduced usage, establish causation, or prove that PhonePact or a circle caused a change. PhonePact does not use AI to analyze your Insights or messages. The exact local/server boundary, retention, and controls are in the Privacy Policy’s Supporter Insights section.

9. Acceptable conduct

You agree not to misuse the Service, including by: accessing it, other accounts, or our systems without authorization; interfering with or overloading it; scraping it or using bots or other automated means to access it; probing or testing its security without our written permission; getting around blocks, bans, limits, age requirements, or safety features, including by creating new accounts; misrepresenting your age; reverse-engineering it (except where that restriction is prohibited by law); or using it to violate any law or the rights of others.

10. Intellectual property and copyright complaints

The App, including its design, text, graphics, and software, is owned by PhonePact LLC and protected by law. We grant you a personal, limited, non-transferable, revocable license to use the App under these Terms and the applicable app-store license. “PhonePact” and our logo are our marks and may not be used without permission.

If you believe content on PhonePact infringes your copyright, email support@getphonepact.com with the subject “Copyright notice” and include: your physical or electronic signature; the work you believe is infringed; where the material is in PhonePact; your address, phone number, and email; a statement that you believe in good faith the use is not authorized by the owner, its agent, or the law; and a statement, under penalty of perjury, that your notice is accurate and that you are the owner or authorized to act for the owner. If your content was removed because of a notice and you believe that was a mistake, you may send a counter-notice to the same address. We end the accounts of repeat infringers in appropriate circumstances.

11. Other services and links

The Service relies on and links to services we do not control, such as app stores, sign-in and payment providers, and websites cited in articles or Insights. Their own terms and privacy policies apply to them, and we are not responsible for them.

12. Changes to the Service and test versions

We may add, change, or remove features, including free and paid ones, and may limit where or to whom a feature is available. Where a change materially reduces a feature you paid for, we will tell you in advance where we reasonably can; refunds are handled by your store under its rules and the law. Test versions, such as TestFlight builds, may contain errors and may change or stop working without notice.

13. Suspension and termination

You may stop using the Service and delete your account at any time in You → Profile → Delete account. We may suspend or terminate your access, remove content, or restrict features if you break these Terms, if the law requires it, or to protect people or the Service; where appropriate, we warn you first and explain our decision as described in section 5. Deleting your account does not cancel a store subscription. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (such as the content license for copies kept under the Privacy Policy, sections 6 and 14 to 19) will survive.

14. Disclaimers

The Service is provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or secure; that check-ins, notifications, or Screen Time data will always be accurate or timely; or that other members will behave in any particular way or keep a pact. Some places do not allow excluding implied warranties, so some of these exclusions may not apply to you, and they do not affect rights you have under consumer law that cannot be waived.

15. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, PhonePact LLC will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or any loss of data, profits, or goodwill, arising from your use of the Service, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), or otherwise. Our total liability for any claim relating to the Service will not exceed the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim or US $100. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited by law, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for breach of rights you have as a consumer that cannot be waived. Some places do not allow certain limitations, so some of the above may not apply to you.

16. Indemnification

To the extent permitted by law, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless PhonePact LLC from third-party claims arising out of your content, your breach of these Terms, or your violation of any law or third-party right, including through a consequence you do or ask of others. This section does not apply to you where the law where you live does not allow it.

17. App-store and platform terms

These Terms are between you and PhonePact LLC, not Apple, Google, RevenueCat, Firebase, or Expo. Those providers are not responsible for PhonePact’s content or support except as their own terms require. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms for Apple-platform use and may enforce them. Maintenance and support for the App are provided by us, not the app store. Your use of Apple Screen Time, Android Usage Access, platform sign-in, push/Live Activity, store billing, and update services is also subject to the applicable provider’s terms and technical availability.

18. Disputes and governing law

Talk to us first. If you have a problem with PhonePact, email support@getphonepact.com with “Dispute” in the subject and a description, and we will try to resolve it informally within 30 days before either of us goes further.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Wyoming, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Except where the law that applies to you gives you the right to bring a claim in your own courts, any claim relating to these Terms or the Service must be brought in the state or federal courts located in Wyoming, and you and PhonePact consent to their jurisdiction. Either of us may instead bring an individual claim in a small-claims court where it qualifies. Nothing in these Terms limits any consumer-protection rights that cannot be waived under the law that applies to you, including the right of consumers in the European Union and the United Kingdom to rely on their local mandatory consumer law and to bring proceedings where they live.

19. General terms

  • These Terms, the Privacy Policy, and your app store’s terms are the whole agreement between you and PhonePact about the Service.
  • If a court finds any part of these Terms unenforceable, the rest stays in effect, and that part is enforced to the extent the law allows.
  • If we do not enforce a part of these Terms, we have not waived our right to enforce it later.
  • You may not transfer your rights under these Terms. We may transfer ours as part of a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, or to an affiliate, with notice to you where the law requires it.
  • We are not responsible for delays or failures caused by events beyond our reasonable control, such as outages of the platforms we rely on.
  • We may communicate with you electronically, in the App or by email, and those communications satisfy any requirement that they be in writing.
  • You may not use the Service where United States export controls or sanctions prohibit it.
  • These Terms are written in English; if we provide a translation, the English version controls to the extent the law allows.

20. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. We will post the updated version here and update the “Last updated” date. For a material change, we will provide additional notice in the App and obtain consent where applicable law requires it, including a parent’s or guardian’s approval through the app store where the law requires one for a minor. If you do not agree to revised Terms, stop using the Service and cancel any renewing subscription through the store; account deletion alone does not cancel it.

21. Contact

PhonePact LLC
Email: support@getphonepact.com