Terms of Use

1. Acceptance and eligibility

By downloading, installing, accessing, or using Note Hero, you agree to these Terms and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use Note Hero. You must be legally capable of entering this agreement. If you use Note Hero for a business or organization, you represent that you have authority to bind it, and “you” includes that organization.

Children may use Note Hero only with permission and supervision of a parent or legal guardian where required. You may not use Note Hero where prohibited by law.

2. What Note Hero provides

Note Hero is a local-first productivity tool for creating, organizing, searching, and managing personal information such as notes, ideas, lists, reminders, dates, people, borrowed or lent items, places, stored-item locations, custom records, photos, files, and encrypted Vault records. Features may vary by device, operating system, region, permissions, or App version.

Note Hero currently works without an account. Otipu does not operate cloud sync for App content. Some actions use device or third-party features, including notifications, location, camera, photos, files, biometrics, external links, sharing, and storage destinations.

3. License

Subject to these Terms, Otipu grants you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to install and use the App for personal or internal business purposes on devices you own or control, as permitted by applicable app-store rules. Note Hero is licensed, not sold. Otipu and its licensors reserve every right not expressly granted.

4. Your content and responsibilities

You keep ownership of content you create or import. You are solely responsible for its accuracy, legality, quality, permissions, and consequences. You represent that your content and use do not violate law, contracts, privacy, publicity, intellectual-property, confidentiality, or other rights.

You are responsible for maintaining your device, installing updates, protecting device credentials, choosing strong backup passwords, controlling access, checking exports, keeping independent backups, testing restoration, and verifying important records and reminders. Otipu does not monitor, moderate, verify, or retain locally stored content.

5. Permissions and third-party services

Features may require permissions that you can grant or revoke. Denying permission may disable related features. When you export, share, open, call, email, navigate, print, or save content through another app or service, that third party—not Otipu—controls its service, availability, security, charges, and data practices.

You must comply with third-party terms. Otipu does not endorse and is not responsible for app stores, operating systems, devices, networks, maps, websites, storage providers, communication tools, external content, or other third-party products or services.

6. Prohibited conduct

You may not: violate applicable law; infringe rights; use Note Hero for unlawful, fraudulent, abusive, dangerous, or deceptive activity; distribute malware; interfere with security or operation; access systems without authorization; probe or exploit vulnerabilities; bypass usage or security controls; copy, sell, rent, sublicense, distribute, or commercially exploit Note Hero; remove proprietary notices; impersonate others; or use automated means to burden the Website.

You may not reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, derive source code, modify, or create derivative works except to the limited extent such restriction is prohibited by applicable law or allowed by open-source licenses. You must not store or use content when doing so would violate duties to another person or organization.

7. Intellectual property and feedback

Note Hero, Website design, software, documentation, branding, logos, and related materials are owned by Otipu or its licensors and protected by intellectual-property laws. These Terms do not transfer ownership.

If you submit ideas, suggestions, or feedback, you grant Otipu a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable right to use, modify, publish, and commercialize that feedback without compensation or obligation, provided this does not grant us ownership of your private App content.

8. Updates, changes, and availability

We may add, remove, limit, suspend, replace, or discontinue any feature or the App; change compatibility; issue updates; or stop support at any time. Updates may be required for continued use. We do not promise that Note Hero will always be available, compatible, secure, complete, uninterrupted, or error-free.

We may discontinue the App or Website without liability to the extent permitted by law. You should export or back up information you need and must not depend on Note Hero as the only copy of important information.

9. Data loss, backups, and security limits

Local data can be lost or corrupted through deletion, device loss or damage, operating-system changes, storage failure, insufficient space, software defects, malware, unauthorized access, forgotten credentials, failed migration, incompatible versions, or backup failure. Otipu cannot access or restore local content, Vault keys, or forgotten backup passwords.

Secure Vault and encrypted backup features reduce certain risks but are not guarantees. Protection does not cover compromised, rooted, or jailbroken devices; malicious system software; observation or capture while unlocked; disclosure by you; weak credentials; or attacks beyond reasonable design assumptions. Use Note Hero at your own risk and keep independent, tested backups.

10. Reminders, location, and important decisions

Notifications, reminders, dates, locations, search results, and stored information may be late, missing, inaccurate, incomplete, duplicated, or unavailable because of device settings, permissions, battery controls, time-zone changes, operating-system behavior, user input, or software error. Always verify important information independently.

Note Hero is not an emergency, safety, medical, medication, legal, financial, tax, navigation, security, or professional service. Do not use it to make urgent or high-risk decisions, contact emergency services, secure critical infrastructure, store the only copy of credentials or legal records, or schedule medication or safety-critical actions. Seek qualified professional help and use dedicated emergency or safety systems.

11. No warranties

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Note Hero, the Website, and all related materials are provided “as is,” “as available,” and “with all faults.” Otipu and its licensors disclaim all express, implied, and statutory warranties, including merchantability, satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, quiet enjoyment, title, non-infringement, security, availability, compatibility, and warranties arising from course of dealing or usage of trade.

We do not warrant that Note Hero will meet your requirements; preserve, encrypt, recover, or deliver data; operate without interruption, delay, loss, corruption, vulnerability, or error; or that defects will be corrected. No statement or support response creates a warranty not expressly stated here. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain exclusions, so those exclusions apply only to the extent permitted.

12. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Otipu, its owners, officers, employees, contractors, affiliates, licensors, service providers, and distributors will not be liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, enhanced, or punitive damages; lost or corrupted data; lost profits, revenue, business, opportunity, goodwill, or anticipated savings; replacement-service costs; personal decisions based on App information; or unauthorized access, even if advised such loss was possible.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, total aggregate liability for all claims arising from or relating to Note Hero or these Terms will not exceed the greater of: (a) the amount you paid directly for Note Hero during the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim; or (b) US$25.

These limits apply regardless of legal theory and even if a remedy fails its essential purpose. They do not exclude or limit liability that applicable law does not permit to be excluded, including any mandatory consumer rights, and your local law may give you additional rights.

13. Indemnification

To the extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Otipu and its owners, officers, employees, contractors, affiliates, licensors, and service providers from claims, damages, judgments, losses, liabilities, costs, and reasonable legal fees arising from your content, unlawful or unauthorized use, violation of these Terms, violation of third-party rights, or misuse of exports, sharing, reminders, locations, or other features. This obligation does not apply where prohibited by consumer law or to claims caused solely by Otipu’s unlawful conduct.

14. Termination

You may terminate these Terms by stopping use and deleting the App. Your license ends automatically if you materially violate these Terms. We may suspend or terminate access to Website services or discontinue Note Hero where permitted by law. Upon termination, you must stop using Note Hero. Sections concerning ownership, feedback, responsibility, disclaimers, liability, indemnification, disputes, and other provisions intended by nature to survive will survive.

15. Disputes and claims

Before filing a claim, you agree to send a written description to notehero@otipu.com and allow 30 days for informal resolution, unless urgent injunctive relief or applicable law permits otherwise. To the maximum extent permitted by law, any claim must be filed within one year after it arose or it is permanently barred. Mandatory statutory limitation periods override this clause where they cannot lawfully be shortened.

These Terms are governed by laws applicable where Otipu is legally established, excluding conflict-of-law principles, while mandatory protections in your place of residence remain unaffected. Courts with lawful jurisdiction over Otipu and the dispute may hear claims. Nothing here prevents either party from seeking appropriate injunctive relief or using an eligible small-claims process.

16. Apple App Store terms

If you obtained the App through Apple’s App Store, these Terms are between you and Otipu, not Apple. Otipu, not Apple, is solely responsible for the App and its content, maintenance, support, warranties, and claims, subject to these Terms. Apple has no duty to provide maintenance or support.

Your license is limited to use on Apple-branded products you own or control as permitted by Apple Media Services Usage Rules, including Family Sharing or volume purchasing where applicable. If the App fails to conform to an applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple may refund any purchase price; to the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation.

Otipu, not Apple, is responsible for addressing product-liability, regulatory, consumer-protection, and intellectual-property claims concerning the App. You must comply with applicable third-party terms. You represent that you are not in a country subject to a U.S. government embargo, designated as supporting terrorism, or listed on a U.S. prohibited- or restricted-party list. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce them against you.

17. General terms

If any provision is invalid or unenforceable, it will be enforced to the greatest lawful extent and the rest will remain effective. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without written consent; Otipu may assign them in connection with a reorganization, financing, merger, acquisition, asset transfer, or by operation of law.

These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement about Note Hero and replace prior discussions on that subject. Headings are for convenience. “Including” means “including without limitation.” Electronic communications and records satisfy written requirements where law permits.

18. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms for legal, security, operational, or product reasons. Updated Terms will appear here with a revised effective date. We will provide additional notice where required. By continuing to use Note Hero after updated Terms take effect, you accept them to the extent permitted by law. If you disagree, stop using and delete the App.

19. Contact

Questions, notices, and support requests: notehero@otipu.com.

Note Hero is published by Otipu. Privacy details appear in our Privacy Policy.