Beacon terms of use

1. Agreeing to these terms

These terms are an agreement between you and Novacraft Engineering Studio Limited (“Novacraft”, “we”, “us”), 54b Adeniyi Jones, Oba Akran, Ikeja, Lagos 100282, Nigeria, for the Beacon app on iPhone and Android and the Beacon service behind it. They are also the end user licence agreement for Beacon and for Beacon Pro.

By installing or using Beacon you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, do not use Beacon. How we handle your data is described in the Beacon privacy policy.

2. The service

Beacon reminds you of tasks at a time, when you arrive at or leave a place, when your phone changes network, and on other signals you set. It also offers briefs, costs and budgets, imports from other apps, shared lists and optional account sync. We may change, add or remove features over time. If we remove a feature that is part of Beacon Pro while your subscription is active, we will tell you in the app.

We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use Beacon on phones you own or control, for your own use, under these terms. You may not copy, modify, resell, reverse engineer or redistribute the app, except where the law allows it.

3. Accounts are optional

You can use Beacon without an account. If you create one, you sign in with your email address and a code we send you. You are responsible for keeping access to that email address and for what happens in your account. Tell us at [email protected] if you think someone else has used it; you can also sign out other devices under Settings, Devices.

You must be old enough to agree to these terms where you live, or have a parent or guardian agree for you.

4. Acceptable use

Do not use Beacon to:

• break the law or infringe anyone's rights;
• send spam, harassment or unwanted invites through shared lists;
• track another person's location without their knowledge and consent;
• probe, overload or attack our servers, or get around rate limits, Pro checks or security controls;
• scrape, resell or build a competing service from the Beacon service.

5. Your content

What you put in Beacon, such as tasks, lists, notes and places, stays yours. When you sign in or use features that need our server, you give us a limited licence to store, copy, sync and process that content only to provide Beacon to you and to the people you share lists with. This licence ends when you delete the content or your account, apart from backups, which expire within 30 days.

You are responsible for your content and for having the right to share anything you put in a shared list.

6. Beacon Pro

Beacon is free to use. Beacon Pro adds extra features, such as unlimited places, Nag and Alarm, list briefs, more signal types, budgets and brain dump. Pro is offered as:

• Monthly and yearly auto-renewing subscriptions, and
• Lifetime, a one-time purchase that does not renew.

Purchases are made through the App Store or Google Play and billed by Apple or Google to the account you use there, under their terms. Prices are shown in the app as the store provides them, in your local currency, before you buy.

Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each period, and your store account is charged for the next period, unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the current period ends. You can manage or cancel a subscription in your store account settings: App Store subscriptions or Google Play subscriptions. Cancelling stops the next renewal; Pro stays on until the end of the period you paid for. Deleting the app or your Beacon account does not cancel a subscription.

Refunds are handled by Apple or Google under their refund policies: request a refund from Apple or from Google Play. We cannot issue store refunds ourselves.

If we change the price of a subscription, the store will tell you in advance and, where required, ask for your agreement before charging the new price.

7. The free trial

New installs of Beacon get 14 days of Pro free. The trial is run by the app, not by the App Store or Google Play: you do not enter payment details, nothing is charged, and it does not turn into a subscription. When the trial ends, Beacon stays free and the Pro extras pause. Signals that need Pro are kept, not deleted, and work again if you buy Pro.

8. Reminders are best effort

We work hard to make reminders arrive on time, but we cannot guarantee that every alert is delivered, or delivered on time. Your phone's settings, battery saving and manufacturer power management, missing permissions, location accuracy, being out of signal, the phone being off, and limits set by iOS and Android can delay or block alerts. The Reliability screen in the app shows what may be in the way on your phone.

Do not rely on Beacon for anything safety critical, medical (such as taking medicine), legal or financial deadlines, or anything where a missed alert could cause harm or loss. Use another reliable method for those as well.

9. Third-party services

Some features depend on services we do not control, including Google (Google Tasks, Google Sign-In, Firebase Cloud Messaging, Google Maps, Google Play), Apple (App Store, Apple Maps, Apple Reminders), OpenStreetMap and komoot (address and place search) and Anthropic (brain dump). Your use of those services is also subject to their own terms. We are not responsible for them, and a feature may stop working if a provider changes or withdraws its service.

10. Ending these terms

You can stop using Beacon at any time and delete your account in the app (Settings, Your data, Delete account) or at beacon-api.novacraft.africa/account/delete.

We may suspend or close an account that seriously or repeatedly breaks these terms, or where the law requires it. Where we can, we will tell you first and give you a chance to export your data. If we stop offering Beacon altogether, we will give reasonable notice in the app. Sections 5, 11, 12 and 13 continue to apply after these terms end.

11. Disclaimers

Beacon is provided “as is” and “as available”. To the extent the law allows, we make no promises beyond those in these terms, including that Beacon will be uninterrupted, error free or fit for a particular purpose. Some places do not allow these exclusions, so they apply to you only as far as your local law permits.

12. Limitation of liability

To the extent the law allows, Novacraft is not liable for indirect or consequential loss, or for loss of data, profit, opportunity or goodwill, arising from your use of Beacon, including a reminder that was late or did not arrive. Our total liability to you for any claim about Beacon is limited to the amount you paid for Beacon Pro in the 12 months before the claim.

Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, such as for death or personal injury caused by negligence or for fraud, or takes away rights you have as a consumer.

13. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The courts of Lagos State have jurisdiction over any dispute, except that if you are a consumer you may also bring a claim in the courts where you live, and you keep the protection of the mandatory laws of that country. Before going to court, please write to us so we can try to resolve the issue.

14. Additional terms for the App Store

If you got Beacon from Apple's App Store, these terms also apply:

• Parties. These terms are between you and Novacraft only, not Apple. Novacraft, not Apple, is solely responsible for Beacon and its content.
• Licence. Your licence to use Beacon is limited to Apple-branded products that you own or control, as permitted by the Usage Rules in the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions, except that Beacon may be used by other accounts associated with you through Family Sharing or volume purchasing.
• Maintenance and support. Novacraft is solely responsible for maintenance and support of Beacon, as described in these terms and on the Beacon support page. Apple has no obligation to provide any maintenance or support for Beacon.
• Warranty. Novacraft is solely responsible for any product warranties, whether express or implied by law, to the extent not effectively disclaimed. If Beacon fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price, if any, for Beacon. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation for Beacon, and any other claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs or expenses from a failure to conform to a warranty are Novacraft's responsibility.
• Product claims. Novacraft, not Apple, is responsible for addressing any claims by you or a third party relating to Beacon or your possession and use of it, including product liability claims, claims that Beacon fails to conform to a legal or regulatory requirement, and claims under consumer protection, privacy or similar laws.
• Intellectual property. If a third party claims that Beacon or your possession and use of it infringes their intellectual property rights, Novacraft, not Apple, is solely responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement and discharge of that claim.
• Legal compliance. You confirm that you are not located in a country subject to a United States Government embargo or designated by it as a “terrorist supporting” country, and that you are not on any United States Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
• Third-party terms. You must comply with any applicable third-party terms when using Beacon, such as your mobile carrier or internet provider's terms.
• Third-party beneficiary. Apple and Apple's subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms, and once you accept them, Apple has the right, and is deemed to have accepted the right, to enforce them against you as a third-party beneficiary.

Questions, complaints or claims about Beacon go to Novacraft at the contact details in section 16.

15. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. We will change the effective date above and, for changes that materially affect you, tell you in the app or by email before they take effect. If you keep using Beacon after that, the new terms apply. If you do not agree, stop using Beacon and cancel any subscription in your store account.

16. Contact

Novacraft Engineering Studio Limited, 54b Adeniyi Jones, Oba Akran, Ikeja, Lagos 100282, Nigeria. Email [email protected]. Help with the app is at Beacon support.