The terms, written like a letter.

Hello, and welcome.

HiBud is a small iOS app for keeping in touch with the people who matter to you. Use it kindly, don't try to break it, don't use it to break anyone else, and we'll all get along. The longer version follows.

Your account.

You don't need an account to use HiBud — the app is designed to work fully on-device. If accounts are introduced later (for sync, or a paid tier), please use a real email so we can send you a sign-in link, and please look after your login. You're responsible for what happens under your account.

You must be old enough where you live to enter a basic agreement. If you're using HiBud on behalf of a company, you're telling us you have the authority to do that.

How you may use HiBud.

As a personal companion, on as many of your devices as you like. Add the people who matter, name your friendships whatever you want, tend to them, forget them, come back to them. Tell your friends about it. Send us a screenshot if you make something pretty.

• For yourself.Personal use is the primary use case, and it's the one we optimise for.
• For a small team.If you'd like to use HiBud at work or with an organisation, write to us — we're happy to talk.
• In a calm room.If HiBud helps you sit still for a moment, that's the whole point.

How you may not.

We don't write a long list of forbidden things; here are the ones that matter:

• Don't try to break HiBud, reverse-engineer it, or run automated traffic against our servers or our waitlist endpoint.
• Don't use HiBud to harass, deceive, surveil, or harm another person — including the people in your own garden.
• Don't upload anything illegal where you live or where we live (Australia).
• Don't resell HiBud, white-label it, or pretend you made it. Tell people about it instead — we like that.

If you do any of the above, we may suspend or close your access. If we do, we'll tell you why where we reasonably can.

What's yours stays yours.

Everything in your garden — the friends you've added, the notes you've written, the histories you've kept — is yours. We don't claim any ownership of your content. If, in future, you opt into a sync feature, we'll need a small, unromantic license to host your data on your behalf (so we can show it back to you, more or less). That license ends the moment you delete the data.

What's ours stays ours.

The HiBud app, its illustrations, the name, the logo, the garden metaphor, and the way the whole thing fits together are ours (or our partners', where credited). You're welcome to use HiBud; please don't copy the app and ship it as your own.

Money, when there is some.

HiBud is currently waitlist-only — there's nothing to pay for yet. When the app launches, there will be a free tier that we intend to keep free. If we introduce an optional paid tier later, you'll see the price before you're charged, and again at every renewal. Cancel any time — your subscription runs to the end of the period you've paid for, no clawbacks, no dark patterns.

• Refunds.Within 14 days of a charge, write to us and we'll refund it without asking why. This is on top of any refund rights you have under the Australian Consumer Law.
• Taxes. Prices are quoted in AUD where possible, and may include or exclude GST as shown at checkout. App Store payments are processed by Apple under their own terms.
• Price changes.If we change a price, we'll notify you at least 30 days before your next renewal so you can decide.

No warranties (sorry).

HiBud is provided "as it is, on the day you used it."We work hard to make it pleasant and reliable, but we can't promise it'll be perfect, uninterrupted, or fit for any specific purpose you have in mind. Don't rely on it for anything medical, legal, or load-bearing — it is a small app for remembering to call your friends.

Limits of liability.

To the maximum extent permitted by Australian law, our total liability to you for anything related to HiBud is capped at the greater of (a) what you've paid us in the twelve months before the claim, or (b) AUD 100. We're not liable for indirect or consequential losses — lost profits, lost data, lost serenity, and so on.

None of the above limits or excludes any rights or remedies you have under the Australian Consumer Lawor any other law where those rights can't be limited or excluded by agreement. Where we have failed to meet a consumer guarantee, you're entitled to the remedies provided by that law.

Ending things, if you'd like.

You can stop using HiBud at any time, and (when accounts are introduced) delete your account from Settings → Privacy → "Pull up the garden." We can also end the agreement, with reasonable notice, if you've broken these terms badly enough or if we have to stop offering the service — in which case we'd give you a heads-up and an export of your data.

A few sections naturally outlive the agreement — anything to do with payments owed, intellectual property, liability, and the law & venue clause below.

If these terms change.

We'll move the "last tended"date at the top of this page, and for anything substantive we'll send you a small, unmissable notice — in the app, or by email if accounts exist. If you don't like the change, you can stop using HiBud (or close your account) before it takes effect.

The law& the venue.

These terms are governed by the laws of New South Wales, Australia, and the Commonwealth of Australia, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. If we ever disagree about something we can't sort out by writing to each other, the courts of New South Wales have non-exclusive jurisdiction — unless mandatory consumer-protection law in your country gives you a friendlier venue, in which case, that one.

Writing to us.

For anything terms- or billing-shaped, the inbox is dev@ctrlsze.studio. We're a small team, but a real human will write back.