Terms of Use

These Terms of Use ("Terms") form a binding agreement between you and Improvement Labs, an eenmanszaak established in the Netherlands at Van der Poelstraat 57 C, 3021 VT Rotterdam, registered with the Netherlands Chamber of Commerce under KvK number 42039945 and VAT identification number NL005448561B16 ("Future Self", "we", "us", "our"). They govern your access to and use of the Future Self mobile application, the joinfutureself.com website, related widgets, push notifications and any other services we make available (together, the "Service"). For any questions, write to hello@joinfutureself.com.

1. Acceptance

By downloading, installing, accessing, registering for, purchasing, subscribing to or otherwise using the Service, you confirm that you have read, understood and accepted these Terms and our Privacy Statement. If you do not accept them, do not use the Service. Where you use the Service on behalf of another person or organisation, you represent that you have authority to bind them.

2. About the Service

Future Self is a personal-development app that lets you read curated quotes and affirmations, follow topics, save and organise lines, write your own "future-self" statements and collections, schedule daily reminders, and display a daily line on iOS or Android widgets. Some features are free; some are reserved for paid subscribers (see Section 9). The Service depends on third parties — Apple, Google, Supabase, RevenueCat, Expo, PostHog and Sentry — whose role and limitations are described in our Privacy Statement.

3. Eligibility, account and children

You may use the Service only if (i) you are at least 16 years old, or 13 if you are a resident of an EU/EEA country whose national law sets a lower digital-consent age, and (ii) you have the legal capacity to enter into a binding contract under the laws applicable to you. If you are under the age of majority in your jurisdiction, you may use the Service only with the prior consent and supervision of your parent or legal guardian, who agrees to be bound by these Terms with you.

Future Self is not directed to children under 16 and we do not knowingly process personal data of children under that age in reliance on consent. If you believe a child under 16 has registered without the appropriate consent, please contact hello@joinfutureself.com and we will take appropriate steps under our Privacy Statement.

You are responsible for any activity carried out under your account and for keeping access to your sign-in method (Apple, Google or email one-time code). You agree to provide accurate, current and complete information when prompted, and to notify us promptly at hello@joinfutureself.com if you suspect your account has been used without authorisation.

4. App stores, distribution and app license

The Service is distributed through the Apple App Store and Google Play. Your download, purchase, subscription, refund, cancellation and family-sharing activities are also governed by the applicable store terms, your device terms, and any wireless-carrier terms. You must comply with those third-party terms when using the Service.

The mobile app is licensed, not sold, to you. We grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable licence to install and use the app for personal, non-commercial purposes on devices that you own or control, in accordance with these Terms and the relevant store's usage rules.

4.1 Apple-specific terms (Apple End User License Agreement minimum)

When you obtain the app from the Apple App Store, you acknowledge that:

• These Terms are concluded between you and us only, and not with Apple Inc. ("Apple"). We — not Apple — are solely responsible for the app and its content.
• Apple has no obligation to furnish maintenance or support services for the app.
• If the app fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple and Apple will refund any purchase price paid for the app to you. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Apple has no other warranty obligation whatsoever for the app.
• We — not Apple — are responsible for addressing any of your claims or any third-party claim relating to the app or your possession or use of it, including (i) product-liability claims, (ii) any claim that the app fails to conform to any applicable legal or regulatory requirement, and (iii) claims arising under consumer-protection, privacy or similar legislation.
• In case of any third-party claim that the app or your use of it infringes that third party's intellectual-property rights, we — not Apple — will be solely responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement and discharge of any such claim.
• You represent and warrant that (i) you are not located in a country that is subject to a U.S. Government embargo, or that has been designated by the U.S. Government as a "terrorist supporting" country, and (ii) you are not listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
• Apple and Apple's subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms, and upon your acceptance Apple will have the right (and will be deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce these Terms against you as a third-party beneficiary.

4.2 Google-specific notice

When you obtain the app from Google Play, your use of the app is also subject to the Google Play Terms of Service. Google is not a party to these Terms.

5. Acceptable use

You agree to use the Service lawfully and respectfully. You will not, and you will not allow others to:

• use the Service for unlawful, harmful, deceptive, defamatory, harassing, exploitative or fraudulent purposes;
• attempt to access another user's account or any data, systems or services without authorisation;
• bypass authentication, paywall, entitlement, rate-limit, security or access controls (including the premium-content checks);
• interfere with, overload, disrupt or stress-test the app, our Supabase infrastructure, RevenueCat purchase flows, Expo Push delivery, the app stores or any third-party service on which the Service depends;
• enter content that infringes third-party rights, invades privacy or contains malware, spam or harmful instructions;
• reverse-engineer, decompile, disassemble, scrape, mirror, frame or use automated means to extract data from the Service, except to the extent permitted by mandatory law (e.g. Article 6 of Directive 2009/24/EC for interoperability);
• use the Service or its content to train artificial-intelligence models, build a derivative dataset or develop a competing service; or
• use the Service to make medical, mental-health, emergency, financial, legal or other professional decisions.

We may monitor, investigate and suspend or terminate accounts that we reasonably believe are violating this Section, in accordance with Section 14 below.

6. Your content

You may write custom statements, collection names, and other personal content within the Service ("Your Content"). You retain all rights you have in Your Content. You grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sub-licensable licence (only to our sub-processors and only as needed) to host, store, transmit, back up, display to you, and otherwise process Your Content for the sole purpose of operating the Service for you, providing the features you choose, complying with law, and supporting export and deletion. We do not use Your Content for training models, advertising or any unrelated purpose. The Service is not designed as a public posting platform; Your Content is not visible to other users.

You are responsible for Your Content, including its legality, accuracy and appropriateness, and for ensuring you have the rights necessary to enter and use it. Please do not enter information you do not want to be stored, including special-category data as defined in Article 9 GDPR.

7. Our content and intellectual property

The Service, the website, the application code, the user interface, our trade marks (including "Future Self"), the original affirmations, the practice flows, the topic taxonomy and pack organisation, and the compilations, designs and other materials we make available are owned by us or our licensors and are protected by copyright, database, trade-mark and other intellectual-property laws. Some quotations may be public-domain, licensed from third parties, or original; their inclusion in the Service does not transfer ownership to you.

Except for the limited licence granted to you in Section 4 and except to the extent permitted by mandatory law, you may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, lease, sub-licence, publicly display, scrape, train models on or create derivative works of the Service or its content without our prior written permission.

8. Personalisation, notifications, widgets and device features

The Service personalises which quotes, affirmations and topic packs we surface to you on the basis of your followed topics and onboarding answers. This is content recommendation, not automated decision-making with legal or similarly significant effects within the meaning of Article 22 GDPR. You can change your followed topics and onboarding-related preferences at any time in the app.

If you enable notifications, the app will store an Expo push token in our database and our edge functions will schedule pushes within the cadence and quiet-window you choose. Push delivery depends on Expo Push, Apple Push Notification service, Google/Firebase Cloud Messaging, your network, your device and operating-system rules. Widget refresh and reminder timing depend on the operating system and device, and may differ from what you configure. We make no promise that any specific notification or widget update will arrive at a specific time, and notifications are not a substitute for any safety- or health-critical alert.

9. Subscriptions, free trials and lifetime purchases

The Service offers a free tier and paid subscription tiers (currently weekly, monthly and yearly), and may from time to time offer lifetime or promotional purchases. The product name, duration, free-trial period (if any), price, currency, renewal price and included features displayed on the in-app purchase sheet at the time of purchase form part of these Terms.

Apple subscriptions. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew at the displayed renewal price unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Renewal may be charged within 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel subscriptions in your App Store account settings after purchase. A free trial converts to a paid subscription at the displayed price unless cancelled before the trial ends.

Google Play subscriptions. Subscriptions are billed each period under the terms shown in the Google Play purchase sheet. Trials convert to paid subscriptions unless cancelled before the trial ends. Cancellation through Google Play takes effect at the end of the current billing period unless applicable law or Google Play rules provide otherwise.

Lifetime purchases. A "lifetime" purchase, if offered, grants access to the included Future Self premium features for as long as the relevant product is offered, subject to these Terms and applicable law. It is not a promise that every future product, separate app or unrelated service will be included.

RevenueCat. We use RevenueCat to validate purchase receipts, manage entitlements and enable purchase restoration. Restoring a purchase requires you to be signed into the same store account used for the original purchase.

Price changes. We may change subscription prices for new billing periods. Where required by applicable consumer law and the relevant app store, you will be notified in advance and given the opportunity to cancel before the new price takes effect.

10. Right of withdrawal (EU/EEA/UK consumers) and refunds

If you are a consumer ordinarily resident in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, you may have a statutory 14-day right of withdrawal when concluding a distance contract with us for digital services or digital content (Articles 9 and 16 of Directive 2011/83/EU and equivalent national law).

You expressly acknowledge that, by activating, using or accessing premium digital content or services through the Service before the 14-day withdrawal period has elapsed, you request that performance begins immediately and acknowledge that you will lose your right of withdrawal once performance has fully begun (Article 16(m) Consumer Rights Directive). For digital services, you remain entitled to a proportional refund for the unused portion if you withdraw before performance is complete; for purely digital content, your right of withdrawal expires when performance begins with your express prior consent and acknowledgement.

To exercise any right of withdrawal that has not lapsed, write to hello@joinfutureself.com before the 14-day period ends, identifying the purchase. You may use the model withdrawal form appended in Annex I(B) of Directive 2011/83/EU.

App Store refunds are processed by Apple under its policies. Google Play refunds are processed by Google under its policies. We are not able to override store-level refund decisions, but we can help direct you to the right support channel. Nothing in this Section limits any mandatory consumer-conformity, withdrawal or refund rights you have under Dutch, EU or other applicable consumer law (including Title 7.1AA of the Dutch Civil Code on the supply of digital content and digital services).

11. No medical, mental-health or professional advice

The Service is intended for personal reflection, motivation and self-development. It is not therapy, medical care, mental-health treatment, crisis support, legal or financial advice, and is not a substitute for qualified professionals. We do not guarantee any particular emotional, psychological, health, productivity, financial or life outcome. If you are in crisis or believe you may harm yourself or others, contact your local emergency number or an appropriate crisis service immediately. In the Netherlands you can reach 113 Zelfmoordpreventie at 0800-0113.

12. Third-party services

The Service depends on third parties, including Supabase, RevenueCat, Apple, Google, Expo, PostHog and Sentry. Their services may change, fail, be paused, be withdrawn or be subject to outages, store-review actions, refund decisions and identity-provider behaviour outside our control. We are not responsible for third-party services, terms, policies or decisions, but we will use reasonable efforts to communicate material disruptions that affect you.

13. Service changes, availability and updates

We may add, modify, suspend, withdraw or discontinue features, content packs, prices, plans, reminders, widgets, topics, quotes or platform support at any time, subject to applicable law and app-store rules. We do not promise uninterrupted or permanent availability of any feature, content or integration. Where mandatory law requires us to deliver updates necessary to keep digital services or content in conformity with the contract for a reasonable period (Article 7:50ag Dutch Civil Code / Directive (EU) 2019/770), we will do so.

14. Suspension and termination

You may stop using the Service at any time and may delete your account in Settings → Account → Delete account. Deletion of your Future Self account does not automatically cancel an active App Store or Google Play subscription — you must cancel through the relevant store account.

We may suspend or terminate your access (in whole or in part) if we reasonably believe you have violated these Terms, created risk for the Service or other users, used the Service unlawfully, or attempted to harm the Service or our third-party providers. Where reasonable and lawful, we will give you advance notice and an opportunity to cure. The Sections that by their nature should survive termination (including 6 final sentence, 7, 11, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 19) will survive.

15. Disclaimers

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Service is provided "as is" and "as available" and we disclaim all warranties, express, implied, statutory or otherwise, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, quiet enjoyment, accuracy, availability, reliability, security and non-infringement. Nothing in this Section excludes or limits any warranty, conformity or other right that cannot be excluded or limited under Dutch, EU or other mandatory consumer law.

16. Limitation of liability

Nothing in these Terms limits or excludes any liability that cannot be limited or excluded by law, including liability for intent, gross negligence, death or personal injury caused by negligence, fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, mandatory consumer-conformity remedies, or rights under Dutch, EU or other mandatory law.

Subject to the previous paragraph, and to the fullest extent permitted by law:

• (a) we will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost data, lost goodwill, business interruption, device issues, or for any failure to receive a notification, widget update or reminder; and
• (b) our aggregate liability for all claims arising out of or relating to these Terms and the Service in any twelve-month period will not exceed the greater of (i) the amounts you actually paid us for the Service in that twelve-month period or (ii) one hundred euros (€100).

17. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold us, and our owners, employees, contractors and service providers, harmless from claims, damages, liabilities, losses and reasonable expenses (including legal fees) arising out of or related to (i) Your Content, (ii) your misuse of the Service, (iii) your breach of these Terms, or (iv) your violation of applicable law or third-party rights. This obligation applies only to the extent permitted by applicable law and does not apply to consumers acting outside their trade, business, craft or profession to the extent that mandatory law restricts such indemnities.

18. Governing law and jurisdiction

These Terms and any non-contractual obligations arising from or in connection with them are governed by the laws of the Netherlands, excluding the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods and conflict-of-law rules. Subject to mandatory consumer-protection law, the courts of Rotterdam have exclusive jurisdiction over disputes arising from or in connection with these Terms. If you are a consumer ordinarily resident in the EU/EEA, you retain the protection of the mandatory provisions of the law of your country of residence and may bring proceedings before the competent courts of that country.

The European Commission provides an Online Dispute Resolution platform at ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr. We are not currently obliged to participate in alternative dispute resolution before a consumer-disputes body, but consumers may always contact us at hello@joinfutureself.com to attempt informal resolution.

19. Miscellaneous

Severability. If any provision is held invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain in full effect.

No waiver. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of that provision or of any other right.

Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our prior written consent. We may assign these Terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganisation or sale of substantially all of our assets, provided your rights are not materially diminished.

Entire agreement. These Terms, together with our Privacy Statement and the purchase terms shown by the relevant app store, constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to the Service and supersede prior agreements on the same subject matter.

Notices. We may give notices through the Service, by email to the address linked to your account, or by posting on the website. You give notice to us at hello@joinfutureself.com.

20. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. We will revise the "Last updated" date and, where the change is material, give you reasonable advance notice through the Service or by email. Continued use after the effective date of an update means you accept the revised Terms, except where applicable law requires a different process or your express consent.

21. Contact

Improvement Labs
Van der Poelstraat 57 C, 3021 VT Rotterdam
The Netherlands
KvK: 42039945 · BTW-id: NL005448561B16
hello@joinfutureself.com