Terms of Use

The short version. personent is free, runs entirely on your device, and is provided without warranty. Everything you record lives only on your phone — making your own backups is your job, not ours, because we hold no copy to restore. Nothing here takes away your legal rights as a consumer. This box is a summary; the sections below are the terms that actually apply.

personent has not been released yet. There is nothing to download today. These terms are published in advance so you can read them before you ever install anything. They take effect when the app is available and you install it.

Who provides personent

personent is made and provided by Daniel Bracher, a sole operator based in the United Kingdom. In these terms, "we", "us" and "our" mean Daniel Bracher, and "you" means the person using the app.

Everything — support, complaints, questions about these terms — goes to one place: Admin@areyoufaster.com. There is no phone line, no live chat and no ticket system. One person reads that inbox.

Agreeing to these terms

Installing or using personent means you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, please do not install the app, or delete it if you already have.

personent is a general-audience productivity app. It is not directed at children, and you should be old enough to enter into a contract where you live before you agree to these terms.

Your licence to use the app

We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to install and use personent on devices you own or control, for your own use — personal or professional. That licence lasts for as long as you keep to these terms.

We keep ownership of the app itself: its code, its design, its name and its mark. You keep everything you put into it. We claim no rights over your notes, your contacts or your history, and we never receive them in the first place.

What you may not do

• Copy, republish, sell, rent, lease or sub-licence the app, or distribute it anywhere other than the official App Store and Google Play listings.
• Modify, reverse-engineer, decompile or disassemble the app, except to the extent UK law expressly allows it — for example the limited decompilation rights in the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, which we do not try to override.
• Remove or obscure our name, mark or notices, or present the app as your own work.
• Use the app to break the law, including any export-control or sanctions rules that apply to you.
• Use the app to hold information you have no right to hold, or try to defeat App Lock or any other protection on a device that is not yours.

The people you record

personent exists to keep notes about other people. You decide what goes into it, and you are responsible for what you put there.

• Record only what you have a proper reason to record, and keep it accurate and fair. A good rule: write it as though the person might one day read it.
• If you use personent for genuinely personal or household purposes, UK data-protection law generally treats that as outside its scope. If you use it in the course of a business or profession, you are likely to be the data controller for those notes and the responsibilities are yours. They cannot be ours — we never receive the data and have no ability to access it.
• Take particular care with sensitive details about other people, such as health or beliefs. Record them only if you genuinely need to and are entitled to.

Your data, and your backups

This is the most important term on this page.

personent has no account, no server and no cloud. Everything you record is stored only in the app's own private storage on your device. We hold no copy of it — not a backup, not a cache, nothing. That is the point of the product, and it has a consequence you need to plan for:

• If your device is lost, stolen, broken, wiped or reset, your personent data goes with it.
• If you delete the app, its data is deleted with it.
• If you move to a new phone, your data does not follow you unless you move it yourself.
• We cannot recover any of it for you, ever. There is nothing on our side to recover it from.

Keeping backups is your responsibility. The app gives you an Export Backup file, plus CSV and contact-card exports, and you choose where those files are saved using your device's own file picker. Make a backup, keep it somewhere you will still be able to find it, and check from time to time that you can still open it. Once an exported file leaves the app it is outside the app's protection — looking after a backup sitting on your computer or in a cloud drive you chose is up to you.

To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for data you lose because a backup was never made, was lost, or could not be restored.

The app is free

personent is free to download and free to use. It contains no purchases, no subscriptions and no advertising, and nobody pays us for your attention or your data.

A paid feature may be offered in a later version. It would arrive in a new version of the app that you would choose whether to install, and these terms would be updated and republished here first. We will not start charging for a version you already have.

Provided "as is"

We build carefully, but we cannot promise perfection. To the extent the law allows, personent is provided as it is and as it is available, without warranties of any kind. In particular, we do not promise that:

• the app will be free of bugs, or that any particular bug will be fixed;
• it will suit a purpose you have in mind that we have not described;
• reminders will always arrive at exactly the moment you expect — reminders are scheduled locally, and your operating system decides when to deliver them. Battery-saving modes, focus settings and system restrictions can delay or suppress a notification, and that is outside our control;
• it will keep working unchanged on future versions of iOS and Android.

personent is a memory aid. Please do not rely on it alone for anything where a missed reminder would cause you real harm.

Limits on our liability

Some liability cannot be excluded under English law, and we do not attempt to exclude it. Nothing in these terms limits or excludes our liability for:

• death or personal injury caused by our negligence;
• fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;
• anything else that the law does not permit us to limit or exclude.

Beyond that, and only so far as the law allows:

• We are responsible for loss or damage you suffer that is a foreseeable result of us breaking these terms or failing to use reasonable care and skill. We are not responsible for loss or damage that was not foreseeable.
• We are not responsible for loss caused by your device, your operating system, or software, services or storage we do not control — including a backup file you have moved somewhere else.
• If you use personent in the course of a business, we have no liability to you for loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption or loss of business opportunity.

Your rights as a consumer

If you are a consumer, you have rights under the law that these terms cannot reduce — including rights under the Consumer Rights Act 2015. Nothing on this page removes them, limits them, or asks you to give them up, and where anything here conflicts with a right you have by law, your legal right wins. Free, independent advice about consumer rights is available in the UK from Citizens Advice.

Apple and Google

personent will be distributed through Apple's App Store and Google Play, and each store's own terms apply to that distribution alongside these terms.

• This agreement is between you and us alone. Apple and Google are not parties to it.
• Apple and Google are not responsible for personent and give no warranty of any kind in relation to it. They have no obligation to provide any support or maintenance for it — support questions come to us at the email address above.
• personent is not endorsed by, sponsored by, or affiliated with Apple or Google. Apple, App Store, Google and Google Play are their respective owners' trademarks; we use the names only to say where the app can be found.
• If personent fails to meet a warranty we have given, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price. personent is free, so there is no purchase price to refund. To the maximum extent the law allows, Apple has no other warranty obligation for the app; anything beyond that refund is our responsibility, not Apple's.
• If a third party claims that personent infringes their intellectual property, responding to that claim is our responsibility, not Apple's or Google's.
• Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms, and on your acceptance may enforce them against you as such.

Updates, availability, and ending this agreement

We may release updates to the app. Your device's own settings decide whether updates install automatically. We may also stop distributing or stop updating personent — if that happens, a copy you have already installed keeps working for as long as your device supports it, and you can still export your data out of it.

You can end this agreement at any time by deleting the app. Export anything you want to keep first. We may end your licence if you seriously or repeatedly break these terms; if we do, you must stop using personent and delete it. Your own data remains yours either way — we have never had it.

Changes to these terms

If these terms change, the revised version is published on this page with a new date at the top. Significant changes will normally accompany a new version of the app, which you choose whether to install. Continuing to use personent after a change means you accept the updated terms; if you would rather not, you can delete the app.

Governing law, and where you can bring a claim

These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales. If you are a consumer living elsewhere, you also keep the protection of any mandatory rules of the country you live in — this clause does not remove them.

Proceedings can be brought in the courts of England and Wales. If you live in Scotland or Northern Ireland, you may bring proceedings in your own courts instead. If you live in another country and its law entitles you to bring proceedings there, you may do that.

Contact

Questions about these terms: Admin@areyoufaster.com

personent is published by Areyoufaster CIC, company number 16536715, registered office: Unit 82a James Carter Road, Mildenhall, Bury St. Edmunds, England, IP28 7DE.