Terms
These terms are an agreement between you and Vishwam Shanker Dhavale, an individual developer in India, who runs Thoughtbell (“we”). By signing in or using the app you accept them. If you don't accept them, please don't use it.
What Thoughtbell is
A reminder app: someone (a “helper”) sets reminders that ring on the phone of a person they help.
It isn't a medical device, a medical service or an emergency service. It gives no health advice. If someone is in danger, call your local emergency number.
“Seen” means someone pressed a button on the phone. It doesn't show that the person understood the reminder or did what it said. “No response” doesn't show that anything is wrong.
Reminders can fail
We work hard to make reminders ring, but we can't promise that every one will, or that it will ring on time. A phone can be off, offline, silenced, out of battery or set to stop apps. Android, phone makers, Google's services and our own service can fail or change.
Don't rely on Thoughtbell alone for anything that would be dangerous to miss, such as critical medicine, medical care or someone's safety. Keep another way of making sure it happens.
Who can use it
- You must be 18 or older to be a helper.
- Thoughtbell isn't for children under 18 at this time.
- You must be able to accept these terms, and you're responsible for keeping your Google account and your phone secure.
The person you help must agree
- Only connect a person who knows about it and agrees. They choose on their own phone, and they can stop at any time.
- If someone can't decide for themselves, only a person the law allows to decide for them may connect them.
- Never connect a phone without its owner knowing, and never pressure anyone to agree or stay connected.
Using it fairly
Don't use Thoughtbell to:
- harass, frighten, scam, pressure or control anyone, or watch over them without their agreement;
- send anything unlawful, hateful, sexual or threatening, or pretend to be someone else;
- record or use a voice or photo you have no right to use;
- get around the limits, copy or break the service, or reach anyone else's data.
Your content
What you write, record or upload stays yours, and you're responsible for it, including whether it's correct. You let us store, copy and deliver it only as needed to run the service. We don't check reminders before they're sent.
Free for now
Thoughtbell is free while we're new, with limits. We may change, limit or stop any part of it. If we stop the service, we'll try to give you reasonable notice. If we add paid extras, we'll say so clearly first, and nothing you already use becomes paid without your choosing it.
Closing accounts
You can delete your account at any time. We may limit or turn off an account that breaks these terms, is reported for misuse, or puts someone at risk, without notice where that's needed to protect people.
No promises beyond these terms
Thoughtbell is provided “as is” and “as available”. As far as the law allows, we make no promises, stated or implied, that it will be uninterrupted, free of faults, or fit for a particular purpose.
Limits on our responsibility
As far as the law allows:
- we aren't responsible for a reminder that doesn't ring, rings late or isn't seen, or for anything that follows from that, including harm to health, missed care, missed appointments or lost money;
- we aren't responsible for indirect or consequential loss, or for what users send each other;
- our total responsibility to you for everything connected with Thoughtbell is limited to the higher of ₹1,000 or what you paid us in the 12 months before the claim.
Nothing in these terms limits anything the law doesn't allow us to limit, such as responsibility for fraud, or your rights as a consumer.
If your use causes a claim
If someone makes a claim against us because you broke these terms, such as connecting a person who didn't agree or sending content you had no right to send, you agree to cover our reasonable losses and costs from it, as far as the law allows.
Things outside our control
We aren't responsible for failures caused by events we can't reasonably control, including failures of networks, phones, power, Google's services or other providers.
Disagreements
Please write to us first at hello@thoughtbell.com, and we'll try to sort it out within 30 days. These terms are governed by the laws of India, and the courts of Goa, India, decide any dispute. If the consumer law where you live gives you the right to bring a claim there or gives you stronger protection, you keep that right.
The rest
If part of these terms can't be enforced, the rest still applies. If we don't enforce something straight away, we can still enforce it later. You can't transfer this agreement to someone else; we may transfer it if the service moves to a company or a new owner, and we'll tell you if that happens. These terms and the privacy policy are the whole agreement about Thoughtbell.
Changes and contact
If we change these terms in an important way, we'll tell you in the app before the change applies. If you keep using Thoughtbell after that, the new terms apply. Questions: hello@thoughtbell.com.