Terms of Service

01The agreement

These Terms of Service govern your use of the NextLayer Technology website at nextlayertechnology.net and of our apps. NextLayer Technology is a business registered in Ontario, Canada, and in these terms "we", "us" and "our" mean NextLayer Technology; "you" means the person using the website or an app.

By installing or using an app, or by using this website, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree with them, please do not use the apps — and if you have already installed one, uninstalling it ends the agreement.

Some apps have their own privacy notice covering what that specific app collects. Where an app-specific notice says something more precise about that app, the app-specific notice is the one that applies.

02Your licence to use the apps

We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to install and use our apps on devices you own or control, for as long as you comply with these terms. That licence covers using the app as it is meant to be used. It does not transfer ownership of the software to you.

You may not:

• Reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble an app, except where that right cannot lawfully be excluded.
• Remove or obscure any copyright, trade mark or attribution notice.
• Redistribute, resell, sublicense or rent an app, or republish it in another store.
• Use an app to build a substantially similar competing product.

We keep all rights we have not expressly granted here, including the name NextLayer Technology, our logos, and the design and source of the apps.

03Your content stays yours

Anything you create, enter or import into one of our apps — notes, photos, invoices, contacts, schedules, scanned pictures — belongs to you. We claim no ownership of it and no licence to use it beyond what is needed to make the feature you asked for work.

Most of our apps never send that content anywhere: it is written to your device and stays there. Where an app does sync through our servers, it is because the app's purpose requires it — a shared family board, or a phone sending photos to a television — and our Privacy Policy sets out exactly which apps those are and what is stored.

04Acceptable use

Use the apps for anything lawful. Do not use them to break the law, to infringe someone else's rights, to store or distribute material you have no right to, or to harass anyone. Do not attempt to disrupt, overload or gain unauthorised access to our services or to anyone else's data held in them.

Where an app has a shared or multi-user feature, you are responsible for who you invite and for what is shared with them.

05Purchases, subscriptions and refunds

Paid features are sold through the platform you installed the app from — Google Play or the Apple App Store. We do not take your payment details and never see your card.

Because the store handles the transaction, refunds are governed by that store's policy and are requested from the store, not from us. Google Play refund requests go through Google; App Store requests go through Apple. If a store declines a refund and you think the outcome is wrong, write to us anyway and we will look at it.

Where a subscription renews automatically, the store manages the renewal and the cancellation. Cancelling stops future charges; it does not retroactively refund a period already paid for unless the store's policy says otherwise. Prices may change, and where they do the store will tell you before a renewal at the new price.

06Availability and changes

We add features, change them and occasionally remove them. We may update an app, change how a feature works, or stop offering an app altogether. Where we retire an app or a server-backed feature that holds your data, we will give reasonable notice and, where practical, a way to export what is yours.

Apps that depend on our servers need those servers to be up, and we do not guarantee uninterrupted service. Apps that work entirely on your device keep working regardless.

07Third-party services and platforms

Our apps run on operating systems and stores we do not control, and some features rely on third-party services. Those platforms have their own terms, and your use of them is between you and them. We are not responsible for a third-party service changing, failing or discontinuing, though we will do what we reasonably can to adapt.

Links from our website or apps to other sites are provided for convenience. We do not endorse them and are not responsible for their content.

08Disclaimers

The apps and the website are provided "as is" and "as available". To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim all warranties, whether express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.

We do not warrant that an app will be error-free, that it will meet your particular requirements, or that any defect will be corrected. Some of our apps produce documents such as estimates and invoices, or summaries generated on your device; these are tools, and you remain responsible for checking that what they produce is correct before you rely on it or send it to anyone.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties, so parts of this section may not apply to you. Nothing here is intended to limit any consumer rights you have under the law of your province, state or country that cannot lawfully be limited.

09Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, NextLayer Technology will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, goodwill or data, arising out of or in connection with your use of the apps or the website, whether the claim is based in contract, tort or otherwise, and even if we have been advised that such damages are possible.

Where liability cannot lawfully be excluded, our total aggregate liability to you is limited to the greater of the amount you actually paid us for the app in question in the twelve months before the claim arose, or CAD $50.

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded.

10Ending the agreement

You can end this agreement at any time by uninstalling the apps and no longer using the website.

We may suspend or end your access to a server-backed feature if you materially breach these terms — for example by attacking the service or using it unlawfully. Where the circumstances allow it, we will tell you first and give you a chance to put it right.

The sections on your content, disclaimers, limitation of liability and governing law survive the end of this agreement.

11Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada that apply there, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. The courts of Ontario have jurisdiction over any dispute, though this does not deprive you of the protection of mandatory consumer-protection law in the place where you live.

12Changes to these terms

We may update these terms as the apps change or as the law requires. When we do, we will change the effective date at the top of this page, and for a material change we will give notice in the app or on this website before it takes effect. Continuing to use the apps after a change takes effect means you accept the updated terms.

13Contact us

NextLayer Technology, Ontario, Canada.

Email support@nextlayertechnology.net. We read everything that arrives there.