Terms of Service

1. The service

Fonala helps you record houses, rooms, storage locations, items, photos, and barcodes. Core item management works locally without an account. Optional services may include email-based accounts, cloud sync, house sharing, backups, memberships, model updates, and app updates.

We may improve, add, suspend, or change features for security, legal, maintenance, or product reasons. If a change materially affects your rights, we will provide reasonable notice when required by law.

2. Eligibility

Fonala is not directed to children under 13, and users under 13 may not create an account or submit personal information. If you are under the age of legal majority where you live, use account, sharing, or paid features only with permission from a parent or legal guardian.

3. Accounts and security

For the United States release, an account is created by verifying an email address and setting a password, then accessed using that email address and password. Use an email address you are authorized to use, choose a strong password, protect your device and credentials, and notify us of suspected unauthorized access. You may not sell, rent, transfer, impersonate, or bypass security controls for an account.

Local anonymous data and each signed-in account use separate data spaces. When signing in, you decide whether to move existing anonymous data into that account.

4. Your content

You retain ownership of item names, descriptions, photos, barcodes, house structures, and other content you create. You grant us a limited, nonexclusive license to host, copy, transmit, encrypt, and process that content only as needed to provide cloud sync, sharing, backup, recovery, and security features you request. The license ends when the content or account is deleted, except for information we must retain by law.

You must have the right to store and share your content. Do not upload unlawful content, another person's private information, or sensitive information you are not authorized to process. House members may view or edit content shared with that house.

5. Permissions and optional network features

Camera access is requested only when you take a photo or scan a barcode. Photo access is requested only when you select or save an image. Declining a permission disables only the related feature.

You may protect selected rooms or storage locations with a local PIN and, if supported by your device, optional face or fingerprint authentication. Biometric matching is performed by the device operating system; Fonala receives only the authentication result and does not receive your biometric template. Your PIN and its local verifier are not uploaded through cloud sync.

OCR, barcode recognition, image features, and installed-model inference run on the device by default. Enabling model updates downloads model files but does not upload the image being analyzed. House data and photos are uploaded only when you sign in and enable or manually run cloud sync.

6. Sync, sharing, and backups

Cloud sync is a convenience, not a substitute for keeping your own backup. Network failures, operating-system background limits, device settings, service availability, and concurrent edits may delay or conflict with sync. Export important data before deleting a house or account. Deleting an owner's house or account may remove the cloud copy and other members' access.

7. Subscriptions and payments

Fonala does not currently offer a purchase channel to users. This section does not mean that any particular payment provider is available.

If a subscription is offered, the purchase screen and the payment provider's confirmation sheet will state the title, duration, price, renewal terms, and included features. Auto-renewing subscriptions renew until canceled through Apple, Google Play, or the payment provider that manages the subscription. Deleting your Fonala account does not automatically cancel a store-managed subscription. Cancel it through the applicable provider before account deletion if you do not want future charges.

Refunds, cancellations, and restored purchases are governed by applicable law and the provider's rules. Nothing in these Terms limits non-waivable consumer rights.

8. Acceptable use

You may not use Fonala to break the law, infringe rights, distribute malware, interfere with services or another person's data, evade access controls, scrape nonpublic interfaces, impersonate others, or conduct unauthorized surveillance, identification, or data sales.

9. Intellectual property

Except for your content, Fonala's software, interfaces, marks, documentation, and service technology are protected by intellectual-property laws. Open-source components remain governed by their licenses. These Terms do not transfer ownership to you.

10. Suspension and account deletion

You may stop using Fonala, export local data, or request account deletion by emailing huangliang@jbnst.com or using in-app support. We may restrict activity that is unlawful, threatens security, or materially violates these Terms, subject to notice and appeal rights required by law.

After verification and confirmation, account credentials are revoked and ordinary account and business data is removed or de-identified. Cloud photos, files, historical object versions, or data that cannot be erased immediately for technical reasons may require additional processing time. During that period, processing is limited to storage, security, and completion of the deletion, and deletion continues after a temporary service failure is resolved. Transaction, refund, fraud-prevention, consent, and security records may be retained only where reasonably necessary or legally required. Store-managed subscriptions must be canceled separately.

11. Disclaimers and limits

We provide Fonala with reasonable care, but internet connections, operating systems, payment providers, and cloud infrastructure cannot be guaranteed uninterrupted or error-free. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, we are not responsible for losses caused by your failure to back up data, incorrect sharing settings, loss of your device, violation of these Terms, or independent third-party services.

We do not exclude or limit liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, including liability for fraud, willful misconduct, or rights protected by applicable consumer law.

12. Disputes and governing law

Applicable law governs these Terms without taking away mandatory rights you have where you live. Before filing a claim, please contact us so we can try to resolve it. Either party may bring a claim in a court with lawful jurisdiction. These Terms do not require arbitration or waive a right to participate in a class action.

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