These terms are an agreement between you and Peter Durlacher, the developer of Spare, about your use of the Spare app. By using Spare you agree to them. Apple's standard licence agreement for App Store apps also applies.
1. What Spare does
Spare copies photos and videos from your iPhone to cloud storage accounts that you own and connect, and helps you view, restore and manage those copies. Spare doesn't provide storage itself. Your backups live in your accounts with providers such as Google, Dropbox, Microsoft, Backblaze, Cloudflare and Koofr (“providers”).
2. Your cloud accounts are yours
- Connect only accounts that you own or are allowed to use.
- Each provider's terms, acceptable use policy and storage limits apply to your account and to what you store there, and you're responsible for following them. Spare isn't a party to your agreement with any provider.
- Don't use Spare to get around a provider's limits, for example by creating accounts in bulk or abusing referral or promotional storage. Many providers prohibit this and may close accounts that do it.
- Providers can change their free plans, limits or terms, suspend accounts, or close accounts they consider inactive. Some close free accounts that aren't used for a year or two, deleting what's in them. Sign in to each account on the provider's website or app from time to time.
3. Your photos
Your photos remain yours. The developer doesn't receive them, and these terms give the developer no rights to them. See the Spare Privacy Policy for how Spare handles your information.
4. Encryption and passwords
If you turn on encryption, only your vault password can unlock those backups. Nobody, including the developer, can see, reset or recover it. If you lose it, encrypted backups can't be restored.
5. Keep more than one copy
Spare is designed to keep two copies of each photo on different clouds, but no backup is guaranteed. Uploads can fail, providers can lose or delete data, and accounts can be closed. Keep at least two copies of anything you can't afford to lose, and check your backups. Before removing photos from your iPhone, Spare checks they're backed up, but you decide what to remove.
6. No warranty
To the extent the law allows, Spare is provided “as is”, without promises that it will be uninterrupted, error-free or compatible with every provider, or that any backup will be complete or recoverable. Your statutory rights as a consumer are not affected.
7. Limit of liability
To the extent the law allows, the developer isn't liable for lost or corrupted photos or data, for actions a provider takes on your account, or for indirect or consequential losses. Total liability for any claim is limited to the amount you paid for Spare in the 12 months before the claim. Nothing in these terms limits liability for intent or gross negligence, for personal injury, or any other liability that can't be limited by law.
8. Third-party services
Providers' services, and the open-source software Spare uses (including rclone), are made by others and have their own terms and licences. Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive and other names are trademarks of their owners; Spare isn't endorsed by them.
9. Ending use
You can stop using Spare at any time by deleting it; your backups stay in your accounts. Spare may stop offering a provider connection, for example if a provider withdraws access.
10. Changes
These terms may be updated. The date above will change, and significant changes will be noted in the app.
11. Law and contact
These terms are governed by Austrian law, without limiting the protection given to you by the mandatory consumer law of the country where you live. Questions: peter@peterdurlacher.com.