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Tickmate Terms of Use

These terms are an agreement between you and the developer of the iPhone and iPad app Tickmate (the "App"). "We" and "us" mean the developer. By downloading or using the App, you agree to these terms. If you don't agree, please don't use the App.

1. About these terms

  1. These terms cover everything between you and us that concerns your use of the App.
  2. They apply in addition to Apple's Licensed Application End User License Agreement, the standard agreement for apps on the App Store. Where the two differ, these terms apply to the extent the law allows.

2. Your right to use the App

As long as you follow these terms, we give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the App on Apple devices that you own or control.

3. Free features and Tickmate Pro

  1. The App is free to download. Every timing method, saved presets, the game history, low time warnings and three themes are free.
  2. Buying the in-app purchase Tickmate Pro adds more themes and removes the ads. It is a one-time purchase: there is no subscription and nothing renews. The price is shown in the App and on the App Store.
  3. Purchases, payments and refunds are handled by Apple under the App Store's terms. To ask for a refund, please contact Apple. We don't give refunds ourselves unless the law requires it.
  4. If you change devices or reinstall the App, choose Restore Purchases while signed in with the Apple Account you bought with, and Tickmate Pro comes back.

4. Ads

The free version shows ads from third parties on the presets, history and settings screens. The advertiser or provider is responsible for what an ad says and for anything it leads to. We are not.

5. Your data

  1. What you enter in the App (presets, the game history and settings) is stored on your device. We don't hold it.
  2. It can be lost if your device fails or is lost, if you delete the App, or for other reasons. Please keep your own copy of anything you can't afford to lose.
  3. Restore Purchases brings back Tickmate Pro only. It does not bring back presets or game history.

6. Privacy

We handle information connected with the App as described in the Tickmate Privacy Policy.

7. What you must not do

When you use the App, you must not:

  1. Break the law or act against public order and morals
  2. Modify, reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the App, except where the law allows it
  3. Get around the App's purchase system
  4. Copy, redistribute, sell or rent the App
  5. Interfere with the App being provided
  6. Do anything else that we reasonably consider inappropriate

8. Ownership

The App and everything in it, including its software, design, text and images, belong to us or to others who have the rights to them. These terms let you use the App. They don't transfer any of those rights to you.

9. Accuracy of the clock

  1. The time the App shows, and the moves and time used that it records in the game history, are worked out from your device's clock. The clock can stop, or a game can go unrecorded, because of a flat battery, an incoming call, a restart of the device, the operating system or other causes.
  2. The App pauses the clock automatically when you switch to another app or close the screen.
  3. Before you use the App for a game whose result matters, such as a tournament game, check for yourself that the organizer's rules allow it and that the App works as you expect.

10. No warranty, and limits on our liability

  1. The App is provided "as is". We don't promise that it is free of faults, including faults in its accuracy, completeness, usefulness or fitness for a particular purpose.
  2. We are not responsible for problems caused by outages of, or changes to, outside services the App depends on, such as the App Store.
  3. We are not liable for loss or damage you suffer from using the App or being unable to use it, unless it was caused by our intent or gross negligence.
  4. Where consumer law or any other law makes us liable despite the paragraph above, our liability is limited to the direct and ordinary loss you actually suffered, unless the loss was caused by our intent or gross negligence. Nothing in these terms takes away rights you have as a consumer under the law of the place where you live that cannot be limited by agreement.

11. Changes to the App

We may change the App or stop offering it without telling you beforehand.

12. Changes to these terms

  1. We may change these terms when the law changes, when the App's features change or when it is otherwise necessary.
  2. When we do, we will announce the new terms and the date they take effect, in the App or on this page, before that date.
  3. If you use the App after that date, you are taken to have agreed to the new terms.

13. Governing law and disputes

  1. These terms are governed by and interpreted under the laws of Japan.
  2. Any dispute about the App or these terms goes, in the first instance, to the court that has jurisdiction over the place where we live, and to no other court, to the extent the law allows. If you are a consumer, this does not take away any right you have to bring a case in the courts of the country where you live.

Contact

Questions about the App or these terms can be sent through the contact form:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdghiqFgH5_ff02iUMNfCOJXMP0Sav-1j4xZ_mwUjJNE-DbaQ/viewform

Effective date: November 12, 2026