User Agreement

Journal Mate Service

Journal Mate provides tools for capturing, importing, organizing, editing, exporting, and synchronizing pages, media, and saved links. Some features depend on your device, operating system, language, Apple account settings, or the availability of Apple and other online services.

Pro and Billing

Your first 50 active pages are free. Pro removes the active-page limit and unlocks every color theme. Active pages are pages outside Trash.

Pro is available through an optional App Store subscription. The price, billing period, and any offer terms are shown before you confirm a purchase. Apple processes payments and renewals. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled according to the terms shown by Apple. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account subscription settings.

Use Restore Purchases in Journal Mate to check access associated with the Apple Account used for the purchase. Restoration depends on a valid entitlement and Apple's services; it does not create a new subscription. Refund requests for App Store purchases are handled through Apple, subject to Apple's policies and your rights under applicable consumer law.

If you have included early-supporter access, the app shows its expiration date. Purchasing a subscription during that period starts the subscription with the purchase; it does not postpone billing until the included access ends. Review the App Store confirmation before purchasing.

License

Subject to this User Agreement and any applicable App Store terms, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use Journal Mate for your personal lawful use.

• You may not copy, resell, rent, lease, sublicense, or commercially exploit the app except as permitted by applicable law.
• You may not reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract source code except where applicable law expressly permits that activity.
• You may not use the app in a way that violates law, infringes another person's rights, or interferes with the app's normal operation.

Your Content

You retain ownership of the journals, images, notes, text, and other content you create, scan, import, or store through Journal Mate. You are responsible for:

• ensuring that you have the right to scan, import, store, and share the content you place in the app;
• reviewing content before sharing or exporting it;
• complying with privacy, confidentiality, copyright, and other legal obligations related to your content.

OCR, AI, and Content Accuracy

Journal Mate may offer OCR and AI-assisted features, including recognized text, suggested titles, summaries, tags, and note improvements. These features are provided for convenience only.

• OCR and AI results may contain errors, omissions, false inferences, or formatting issues.
• You are responsible for reviewing and deciding whether to keep, use, edit, share, or rely on generated output.
• Journal Mate is not responsible for decisions made based on OCR or AI-generated output.

Apple Services, Local Storage, and Sync

Journal Mate may rely on Apple platform features such as iCloud, CloudKit, Camera, Photos, Files, widgets, share extensions, and Apple Intelligence.

• Availability of these features depends on Apple, your device, your operating system, your locale, and your account settings.
• We do not guarantee uninterrupted availability of Apple-provided services.
• If iCloud Sync is disabled, blocked, unavailable, or delayed, the app may continue to operate locally but some cross-device functionality may not work.
• iCloud sync is not instant. Changes may take time to reach another device depending on connectivity and system scheduling. Sync also carries changes to existing content; it is not a separate backup.

Backups and Your Responsibility

You are responsible for maintaining any backups, exports, or original source materials that matter to you. In particular:

• do not rely on the app as the sole copy of irreplaceable journals or documents;
• review your sync and backup setup periodically;
• verify exports and saved copies if you intend to use them for important personal, academic, legal, medical, archival, or business purposes.
• Export Backup creates a restorable snapshot. Finish saving it in Files to keep your copy.
• Import Backup adds new journals, skips matching versions, and keeps differing versions as separate copies instead of replacing your existing journals. If you choose to restore saved settings, the preferences included in the backup are also restored.
• A PDF export is a new document made from saved pages, not the original imported PDF and not a restorable library backup. Keep original files and separate backups when they matter to you, and verify saved exports.

Exports and Sharing

When you export or share content from Journal Mate, you are responsible for the destination, recipients, and consequences of that sharing. Once content leaves the app or your Apple-controlled storage environment, it may no longer be protected by the same controls.

App Changes and Availability

We may change, improve, suspend, or discontinue some or all app features at any time. We may also update the app to fix bugs, improve compatibility, comply with legal requirements, or refine product behavior.

We do not guarantee that every feature will remain available forever or that every version of iOS, device, locale, or hardware configuration will support the same capabilities.

Disclaimer of Warranties

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Journal Mate is provided "as is" and "as available" without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy, availability, or reliability.

• We do not warrant that the app will always be uninterrupted, error-free, or secure.
• We do not warrant that OCR or AI output will be correct or useful for your needs.
• We do not warrant that data will never be lost, delayed, duplicated, corrupted, or become unavailable.
• We do not warrant that Apple platform services or integrations will always function as expected.

Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, loss of journals, loss of business, loss of goodwill, device issues, sync failures, or other losses arising from or related to your use of Journal Mate.

Nothing in this User Agreement excludes liability that cannot be excluded under applicable law.

Termination

You may stop using Journal Mate at any time by deleting the app and its local data. We may limit or discontinue access to the app or specific features where reasonably necessary, including for legal, technical, security, or product reasons.

Changes to This User Agreement

We may update this User Agreement from time to time. When we do, we may revise the effective date and publish the updated version within the app or through another appropriate product surface.

Questions

legal@journalmate.app