Terms & Conditions

Effective August 18, 2026

Welcome to The Gnomestead Collective. These Terms & Conditions (“Terms”) are an agreement between you and The Gnomestead Collective (“the Collective,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) governing your use of our website and mobile applications (together, the “Services”). By using the Services, you agree to these Terms. If you don’t agree, please don’t use the Services.

1. How to read these Terms

These Terms come in two parts. Sections 1 through 22 are the core, and they apply to everything we make. After them, a short annex for each app covers the things that are true only of that app — there is one for Little Wings and one for Amber Lock.

Where an app’s annex conflicts with the core Terms, the annex controls for that app. Not every section applies to every app: some of our apps have accounts and some do not, some are games and some are tools. Where a section begins “where an app offers” or similar, it applies only to the apps that actually do.

2. Who can use the Services

You must be at least 13 years old (or the minimum age required in your region) to use the Services. We don’t ask for your date of birth, so by using the Services you are confirming that you meet that minimum.

If you are under the age of majority where you live, a parent or guardian needs to read these Terms with you and agree to them alongside you — including section 6, the release, and the agreement to cover costs. By continuing, you are both confirming that they have done so and that they have the authority to agree on your behalf.

3. Your account

Some of our apps offer an account, and some have none at all. Where an app does offer one, you’re responsible for keeping it secure and for activity that happens under it, and you should let us know right away if you believe it has been used without your permission. Where an app has no account, nothing in this section applies to it.

4. Your license to our apps

Our apps are licensed to you, not sold. Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use our apps for your own personal, non-commercial use on devices that you own or control, as permitted by the usage rules of the app store you downloaded the app from. We reserve all rights not expressly granted to you.

These Terms also govern any content, materials, or services you access or purchase inside our apps, as well as any updates or upgrades we provide, unless an update comes with its own separate agreement.

You may not:

• Distribute or make our apps available over a network where they could be used by several devices at once;
• Transfer, rent, lease, redistribute, or sublicense our apps (if you sell or give away your device, please remove our apps first);
• Copy (except as this license and the applicable app store usage rules allow), reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, attempt to derive the source code of, modify, or create derivative works of our apps or any part of them.

These restrictions do not apply where they are prohibited by applicable law, or to the extent permitted by the license terms of any open-source components included in our apps.

5. Being a good neighbor

When using the Services, you agree not to:

• Break the law or infringe anyone’s rights;
• Tamper with, reverse engineer, or interfere with the Services or the way they work;
• Falsify step or activity data, or use bots, scripts, or devices to generate movement you didn’t actually make;
• Upload harmful code, attempt to gain unauthorized access, or disrupt other visitors’ experience;
• Harass, threaten, or mistreat fellow members of our little community.

6. Health, safety & wellbeing

Movement and your surroundings

Several of our apps encourage walking and movement, but they are for enjoyment and are not medical or fitness advice. Always be aware of your surroundings, follow local laws, and don’t use the Services while doing anything that requires your full attention (like driving). Move at a pace that’s safe for you. If you have any condition that might make increased activity unwise, talk to a professional before changing what you do.

Taking part at your own risk

Because the walking happens in the real world, you knowingly and voluntarily take part at your own risk, and you assume all risk of injury, illness, loss, or property damage arising from your use of the Services — including anything that happens while you are walking or otherwise moving about. To the fullest extent permitted by law, you release and agree to hold harmless the Collective, its affiliates, and their officers, directors, employees, contractors, and agents from any claims, demands, damages, or injuries arising out of or related to your use of the Services. Nothing here takes away rights you have by law that cannot be waived, and this paragraph applies only as far as the law where you live allows.

If someone else makes a claim

If someone brings a claim against us because of something you did while using the Services — going somewhere you weren’t allowed to be, ignoring local laws or signs, or injuring another person — you agree to cover the costs we reasonably incur from it.

Apps that limit access to other apps

Some of our apps help you put down apps you’d rather use less, by restricting access to them on your device. If you use one of these, please read the rest of this section carefully — it matters more than anything else in these Terms.

It is not treatment, and not professional help. These apps are self-management tools for ordinary habits. They are not a medical device, not therapy, and not a substitute for professional help with compulsive use, addiction, or any mental-health condition. If your use of a phone, an app, a game, or anything else is causing you real distress or harm, please talk to a qualified professional. A tool that hides an icon cannot do what a person can.

It is not a security product or a parental-control product. It is a gentle obstacle for someone who has chosen to place it in their own way — not an enforcement mechanism, and not a way to control someone else’s device. Anyone with access to the device can undo it: restrictions can be turned off, permissions revoked, the app uninstalled, the device restarted or reset. Do not use it where the consequence of it being bypassed would be serious.

It can and will sometimes fail. These apps depend on operating-system features that are outside our control. An operating system update, a permission change, a device restart, a low-power mode, a background-process limit, or a fault in the platform can all cause a restriction not to apply, to apply at the wrong moment, or to stop working without warning. We do not promise that a restriction will hold, that it will lift exactly when you expect, or that it will behave the same way on every device.

Never rely on one of these apps to gate anything you might urgently need. An app you seal may turn out to be one you need in a hurry — to call someone, to reach a service, to get somewhere, to handle an emergency, to receive something time-critical. You are solely responsible for making sure you keep access to anything of that kind, and for knowing how to remove a restriction quickly. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for anything you miss, lose, delay, or fail to receive while an app is restricted, or for any consequence of a restriction applying, failing to apply, or being removed.

7. Our content & intellectual property

The software, stories, artwork, characters, names, logos, designs, and other materials in the Services belong to the Collective and their respective makers, and are protected by law. You may enjoy them for your own personal, non-commercial use, but you may not copy, distribute, sell, or create derivative works from them without our permission.

8. Your content

Where the Services let you submit content (such as a display name or a message), you keep ownership of it, but you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide license to use it as needed to operate and improve the Services. Please only submit content you have the right to share, and keep it kind. Apps that don’t let you submit anything aren’t affected by this section.

9. Purchases

Where the Services offer paid items, purchases are handled through the applicable app store and are subject to that store’s terms. We don’t receive or store your payment card details. Unless required by law, purchases are non-refundable; refund requests for app store purchases are handled by the app store, not by us.

10. Subscriptions & automatic renewal

Some features of our apps are available through a paid subscription. The price, billing period (for example, monthly or yearly), and what’s included are shown to you before you purchase, and again at confirmation.

• Automatic renewal. Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each billing period at the then-current price, unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends.
• Managing and cancelling. You can manage or turn off automatic renewal at any time in your app store account settings. Deleting the app does not cancel your subscription.
• Free trials and introductory offers. Where offered, any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited if you buy a subscription during the trial. If you don’t cancel before the trial ends, the paid subscription begins automatically. Introductory and promotional offers are limited to eligible new subscribers and may be used only once.
• Refunds. Subscription payments, including for partial periods, are non-refundable except where required by law or by the rules of the app store that processed your payment. All refund requests are handled by that app store.
• Price and plan changes. We may change subscription prices or the contents of a plan. We’ll give you advance notice, and where required we’ll ask for your consent before a price increase takes effect. If you don’t agree, you can cancel before the change applies.
• When a subscription ends. Paid features stop being available at the end of the paid period, and subscriber-only content, items, limits, or perks may become inaccessible or revert to their free-tier equivalents. What you had before you subscribed generally remains. Each app’s annex sets out what specifically happens to that app when a subscription lapses.

11. Consent to use of data

You agree that we may collect and use technical data and related information — including information about your device, system and application software, and peripherals — gathered periodically to make it easier to provide software updates, product support, and other services related to our apps. We may use this information, as long as it is in a form that does not personally identify you, to improve our products or to provide services or technologies to you. Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle personal information, including which information stays on your device and never reaches us at all.

12. Third-party services

The Services may let you access third-party services, websites, or content (“External Services”). You use External Services at your own risk. We don’t review or endorse them and aren’t responsible for their content, accuracy, or availability. Data displayed through the Services or an External Service — including activity, health, or app-usage information — is for general informational purposes only, may be approximate or delayed, and isn’t guaranteed by us. You agree not to use External Services in a way that breaks these Terms, infringes anyone’s rights, or harasses, abuses, stalks, threatens, or defames any person. External Services may not be available in every language or country, and we may change, suspend, or remove access to them at any time.

13. Changes to the Services

We’re always tending and growing the Gnomestead, so we may add, change, or remove features, or pause or discontinue the Services, at any time.

14. Term & termination

These Terms apply until terminated by you or by us. Your rights under these Terms end automatically if you don’t comply with them, and we may suspend or close any account you have if you misuse the Services. You can end these Terms at any time by cancelling any subscription and deleting our apps. Sections that by their nature should survive — such as intellectual property, disclaimers, limitation of liability, and governing law — will continue to apply.

15. Disclaimers

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE,” WITH ALL FAULTS AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, SATISFACTORY QUALITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ACCURACY, QUIET ENJOYMENT, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT ANY RESTRICTION, BLOCK, LIMIT, OR SCHEDULE APPLIED BY THE SERVICES WILL BE APPLIED, MAINTAINED, OR REMOVED RELIABLY, ACCURATELY, OR AT ANY PARTICULAR TIME. We don’t promise the Services will be uninterrupted, error-free, or perfectly accurate. If the Services prove defective, you assume the entire cost of all necessary servicing, repair, or correction. Some jurisdictions don’t allow the exclusion of implied warranties or limits on a consumer’s statutory rights, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

16. Limitation of liability

TO THE EXTENT NOT PROHIBITED BY LAW, THE COLLECTIVE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR PERSONAL INJURY OR FOR ANY INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOSS OF PROFITS, LOSS OF DATA, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, MISSED OR DELAYED COMMUNICATIONS, OR ANY OTHER COMMERCIAL DAMAGES OR LOSSES, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICES — INCLUDING ANY INABILITY TO ACCESS AN APPLICATION WHILE IT IS RESTRICTED BY THE SERVICES — HOWEVER CAUSED AND REGARDLESS OF THE THEORY OF LIABILITY, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. Some jurisdictions don’t allow these limitations, so they may not apply to you. Except where applicable law requires otherwise (including in cases involving personal injury), our total liability to you for all damages will not exceed the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim or fifty dollars ($50.00). These limits apply even if a remedy fails of its essential purpose.

17. Export compliance

You may not use, export, or re-export our apps except as authorized by United States law and the laws of the place where you obtained them. In particular, our apps may not be exported or re-exported into any U.S.-embargoed country, or to anyone on the U.S. Treasury Department’s Specially Designated Nationals List or the U.S. Department of Commerce Denied Persons List or Entity List. By using our apps, you represent that you are not located in any such country or on any such list, and that you will not use the Services for any purpose prohibited by United States law, including the development, design, manufacture, or production of nuclear, missile, or chemical or biological weapons.

18. U.S. Government end users

Our apps and any related documentation are “Commercial Items” as defined in 48 C.F.R. §2.101, consisting of “Commercial Computer Software” and “Commercial Computer Software Documentation” as those terms are used in 48 C.F.R. §12.212 or 48 C.F.R. §227.7202. Consistent with those provisions, they are licensed to U.S. Government end users only as Commercial Items and with only the rights granted to all other end users under these Terms.

19. App store terms

If you obtained one of our apps from the Apple App Store, the following also applies:

• These Terms are between you and the Collective only, not with Apple, and the Collective (not Apple) is solely responsible for the app and its content.
• Your use of the app must comply with the App Store Terms of Service and the applicable Usage Rules.
• Apple has no obligation to provide any maintenance or support for the app. Support requests should go to us at support@gnomesteadcollective.com.
• If the app fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple may refund the purchase price. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation with respect to the app.
• The Collective, not Apple, is responsible for addressing any claims relating to the app, including product liability claims, claims that the app fails to conform to a legal or regulatory requirement, consumer protection claims, and claims that the app infringes a third party’s intellectual property rights.
• You represent that you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. Government embargo or designated as a “terrorist supporting” country, and that you are not on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
• Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce them against you.

If you obtained one of our apps from another app store or platform, equivalent terms apply in favor of that store’s operator, and that store’s own terms and usage rules also apply.

20. Governing law

These Terms and your relationship with the Collective are governed by the laws of the State of California, excluding its conflict-of-law rules, and you and the Collective agree to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located in Santa Clara County, California. If you are a consumer resident in the European Union, Switzerland, Norway, or Iceland, the governing law and forum are instead the laws and courts of your usual place of residence, and nothing in these Terms affects the mandatory consumer rights you have there. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply to these Terms.

21. Changes to these Terms

We may tidy up these Terms now and then, including by adding a new annex when we release a new app. When we make meaningful changes, we’ll update the date above and, where appropriate, let you know within the Services. Continuing to use the Services means you accept the updated Terms.

22. Contact us

Questions about these Terms? Reach us at support@gnomesteadcollective.com.

The annexes below cover each app in turn. Open the one you’re interested in.