Terms of Service

01Who we are

Adaa Study is a service of Adaa Technology LLC, a Limited Liability Company formed under the laws of State of New Mexico, United States, Secretary of State filing number 3271990, registered at 1209 Mountain Road Pl NE, Ste N, Albuquerque, NM 87110, USA.

These terms cover the website and the app on browser and phone, and any version of the app we later publish in the app stores. They are read together with the Privacy Policy; the two are our agreement.

02Accepting these terms

By creating an account or using the app you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, do not use the service.

03Who may use it

The service is meant for people aged 13 and over. If you are under eighteen, use it with your guardian's knowledge and permission.

If we learn of an account belonging to someone under 13, we close it and delete its data.

04Your account and your responsibility for it

You are responsible for keeping your password safe and for everything done from your account. Do not share it with anyone.

Give us accurate details, especially an email you can reach — sign-in and verification messages go there.

If you notice unauthorised use of your account, tell us immediately.

05One account across Adaa services

Your Adaa Study account is the same account as on adaa.store. Signing up here creates an account usable there, and a password reset covers both.

Your study data is isolated from store data; only the sign-in identity is shared.

It follows that a suspension or ban on adaa.store may also prevent you from signing in to Adaa Study. We say it here plainly so you know before you sign up, not after it happens.

06What the service does

Adaa Study is a social study timer: you pick a subject, start the timer, your friends see that you are studying, and you follow your time, your streak, your weekly goal and a leaderboard among your friends.

It is a time-keeping tool. It is not a school system, not an educational service, and not psychological or medical advice. We promise no academic result or grade.

07The app is in beta

Adaa Study is still in beta. We may add, change or remove features, and during development we may need to migrate data or reset part of it.

If such a change would affect your study history, we will tell you in the app before we make it.

We do our best to keep the service available, but we do not commit to a specific uptime, and the service may pause for maintenance or for reasons outside our control.

08Free in beta — not free for life

For the whole beta, every feature of the app is completely free, and it carries no advertising.

The beta is a temporary stage. After it ends we may introduce paid plans or move some features into a paid plan, and we do not promise that the app stays free forever.

If that happens we will announce it at least 30 days before it takes effect, and you remain free to continue on whatever suits you or to leave and take your data.

We will never charge you anything without your explicit agreement, and your free account will not convert automatically into a paid one under any circumstances. A price change does not bind you merely because you kept using the service: we need your agreement first.

09Acceptable use

When using Adaa Study, you agree not to:

• Fake your study time or tamper with the timer by any means, including software, scripts and automation.
• Access the service by automated means, scrape its data, or probe it for vulnerabilities without our written permission.
• Harass or abuse anyone through your name, your subject names or cheers.
• Impersonate another person or claim a connection to us or to anyone else.
• Attempt to reach another user's data or parts of the system not made available to you.
• Send friend requests or invite codes in bulk or in a way that is a nuisance.

10What you add

Your nickname, your photo, your subject names and your goal remain yours.

By adding them you give us a limited permission to display them inside the app to your accepted friends only, and as far as running the service requires — no further. We do not use them in marketing and we show them to nobody else.

We may remove or change a name or picture that breaks the acceptable-use rules.

11Intellectual property

The app, its design, its text, its logo and its code are owned by or licensed to Adaa Technology LLC. They may not be copied, resold, or used to build a similar service without written permission.

The illustrated avatars are built on an open collection under a CC0 licence. The app also uses open-source components, each under its own licence.

12Third-party services

The app relies on external providers to run; their names and purposes are listed in the Privacy Policy.

An outage at one of those providers is not a breach of these terms by us, though we will do what we can to limit its effect on you.

13Suspension and ending your account

You may leave at any time. To delete your account and all its data, send a request from the Settings page or to our email, and we act on it within 7 days.

We may suspend or end your account if you break the acceptable-use rules, or if your use harms another user or the service itself. We try to warn you first unless the breach is serious.

When an account ends, your friends' view of your data stops immediately, and your data is deleted within the periods set out in the Privacy Policy.

14The service as it is

The service is provided "as is" and "as available", without any express or implied warranty beyond what the law requires.

We do not guarantee that the timer is accurate to the second in every circumstance, that your history will remain intact forever, or that the service will run without interruption or error.

The app is not a backup of your study history. If your record matters to you, keep what matters in your own way as well.

15Limits of liability

The service is free during the beta, and our liability to you is limited to the fullest extent the law allows.

We are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, nor for lost study time, a lost streak, or an exam result.

Nothing in these terms removes your mandatory consumer rights under the laws of your country of residence, nor our liability for fraud or gross negligence.

16Indemnity

If your use of the service in breach of these terms causes us harm or a claim from someone else, you are responsible for what arises from it, to the extent you caused it.

17Events outside our control

We are not responsible for delay or failure in providing the service caused by something outside our reasonable control, such as internet outages, provider failures or government decisions.

18Changes to these terms

We may change these terms. We update the last-updated date at the top of the page, and if the change is material we will tell you in the app before it takes effect; continuing to use the service afterwards counts as acceptance.

One exception: any change relating to price takes effect for you only with your explicit agreement, however long you keep using the service after the announcement. See "Free in beta".

19Governing law and resolving disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of State of New Mexico, United States, and its courts have jurisdiction over any dispute arising from them.

Before any formal step, please write to us at hello@adaatechnology.com — most of what gets called a dispute is settled by one message.

If you are a consumer, you keep the right to turn to the competent authorities in your country of residence under its mandatory laws.

20General

If one clause of these terms is invalid, the rest remain in force. Not enforcing a right does not mean we give it up.

We may transfer these terms to whoever succeeds us in owning the business, provided that does not reduce your rights.

These terms together with the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between us regarding the service.

Contact us

For any question about these terms: hello@adaatechnology.com