Terms of Service

1. Agreement

These Terms govern your use of Aligned, including our website and iPhone app (the “Service”). By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to them and to our Privacy Policy. If you don't agree, please don't use the Service.

2. What Aligned is

Aligned is a private app for two partners. Each day you both answer the same question, and your answers are revealed to each other once you've both answered. There is no public feed. Aligned is not therapy, counseling, or medical advice, and it is not a substitute for professional help. If you are in danger or experiencing abuse, contact local emergency services or a domestic violence hotline.

3. Your account

You must be 18 or older. Give us accurate information, keep your sign-in details secure, and tell us if you think someone else has accessed your account. You're responsible for activity under your account. A relationship in Aligned has two members; pairing requires an invite that your partner chooses to accept.

4. Subscriptions

Aligned is currently free, and nothing in it is for sale. If we introduce a paid subscription (Aligned Premium), we'll tell you before it launches, show the price before you buy, and the terms below will apply. One subscription would unlock Premium for both partners in your relationship.

• Free trial. New subscribers may get a 14-day free trial. Unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the trial ends, the yearly subscription starts and you are charged.
• Auto-renewal. Your subscription renews automatically each year at the then-current price unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period.
• Bought in the iPhone app: payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. Manage or cancel in Settings → [your name] → Subscriptions. Refunds are handled by Apple under its policies.
• Bought on our website: payment is processed by Stripe. Cancel any time on the web from You → Manage subscription, or by emailing us. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the period you've paid for, and we don't give partial refunds except where the law requires.
• If we change the price, we'll tell you in advance, and the new price applies from your next renewal.

5. Your content

What you write and upload is yours. You give us only the permission we need to run the Service: to store it, show it to you and your partner, and produce features from it such as your weekly magazine. Once you share something with your partner, they can see it, and it stays in their history even if you later delete your account (with nothing identifying you attached). Don't upload anything you don't have the right to share.

6. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• Use Aligned to harass, threaten, monitor, or control another person
• Upload illegal content, or images of anyone who hasn't agreed to share them
• Access accounts or data that aren't yours, or interfere with the Service
• Scrape, copy, resell, or reverse-engineer the Service

We may suspend or close accounts that break these rules.

7. Ending your use

You can delete your account at any time from You → Account & data. Deleting your account doesn't cancel an App Store subscription; cancel that in your iPhone's settings. We may stop offering the Service; if we do, we'll give you reasonable notice and a chance to download your data.

8. Our property

The Aligned name, logo, questions, design, and software belong to us or our licensors. These Terms don't give you rights to them beyond using the Service.

9. Disclaimers

The Service is provided “as is.” We work to keep it running and your data safe, but we don't promise it will be uninterrupted or error-free. We aren't responsible for decisions you or your partner make based on using it.

10. Limitation of liability

To the extent the law allows, we aren't liable for indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages, or for lost data or profits. Our total liability for any claim about the Service is limited to the greater of what you paid us in the 12 months before the claim or $100. Some places don't allow these limits, so they may not apply to you.

11. Apple

If you use the iPhone app: these Terms are between you and us, not Apple. Apple isn't responsible for the app, its content, maintenance, support, or any claims about it, and has no obligation to provide support. If the app fails to meet any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, which may refund the purchase price; Apple has no other warranty obligation to the extent the law allows. We, not Apple, handle any intellectual-property claims about the app. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce them against you.

12. Changes

If we change these Terms we'll update the date above and, for significant changes, tell you in the app or by email before they take effect. Continuing to use the Service after that means you accept the new Terms.

13. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware and the United States, without regard to conflict-of-law rules, except where the law where you live requires otherwise. Disputes will be resolved in the state or federal courts in Delaware.

14. General

If part of these Terms can't be enforced, the rest still applies. Not enforcing a right doesn't waive it. You can't transfer these Terms; we may transfer them as part of a merger or sale. These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between us about the Service.

Contact

Questions about these Terms: support@alignedconnectingcouples.com.