Terms of Use

The agreement

By creating an account, joining the waitlist, visiting the site, or using the iOS app, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Services.

We may update these Terms. The “Last updated” date will change, and continued use after that date is acceptance. If a change is material, we will try to tell you in the product or by email.

What Habitual is

Habitual is not a solo habit tracker. Commitments live in a pair or pod of two or three people. Each due day the group shares one ring. The ring closes only when everyone due that day completes their commitment. Different goals, same promise.

History is permanent. A missed day stays missed. Yesterday is not rewritten because today went well. Seasons, Chapters, rest days, and Perfect Weeks are part of that design.

Communities can organize pairs and host challenges. They never own the ring. You still lock your own commitment and invite a partner as themselves.

Shared starts are named commitment templates. Publishing one creates a public page at habitual.site/t/{slug} that credits your first name. Adopting someone’s start only prefills your own word — it never binds your partner, and adopting does not close a ring for the creator or anyone else. Attribution is a credit, not a ranking.

The web app is a real product with accounts and a shared world. Camera, Apple Health, and Strava proof stay on iOS. Web proof is a personal check-in. The ring rules are the same.

Eligibility and accounts

You must be at least 16 years old. You must provide accurate information and keep it current. One person, one account — do not impersonate someone else or run a pair as a single user.

You are responsible for your login, including Sign in with Apple or email. Tell us if you think someone else has access. We may refuse, suspend, or reclaim a handle that is misleading or abusive.

Joining the waitlist does not guarantee access to the iOS app or any Season. We may contact you about early access as capacity allows.

Your word, proof, and content

When you lock a commitment, you are making a promise to the people in that Chapter. Habitual records whether you showed up. It does not guarantee that you will, and it does not provide medical, training, or professional advice.

You retain whatever rights you have in photos, text, and other content you submit (“User Content”). You grant Habitual a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, display, and transmit that User Content as needed to operate the Services — including showing proof to your partner or pod and, if you set visibility wider, to others on Habitual.

Photo proof and attested check-ins must be honest. Do not submit someone else’s activity as your own, manipulate connected-app data, or harass a partner with the proof tools. Connected proof is labeled as coming from that provider. Attested check-ins are labeled as check-ins, not as verified workouts.

You represent that you have the rights to the User Content you post and that it does not violate the law or someone else’s rights. We may remove content or end a Chapter that breaks these Terms, but we are not obligated to monitor everything people post.

Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• Use Habitual to abuse, stalk, threaten, or shame someone.
• Post illegal, sexual involving minors, or otherwise unlawful content. That includes CSAM; we will report it.
• Scrape, reverse engineer, or overload the Services except as allowed by law.
• Circumvent ring rules, create fake partners, or otherwise game permanence.
• Use the Services to send spam, or to collect other people’s emails or photos without their involvement in a pair or community they joined.

You may block accounts in the iOS app. We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these Terms, including when a partner reports abuse.

Third-party services

Apple, Strava, Health, and other providers you connect have their own terms. Habitual is not those services. If a connection fails, your obligation for the day is still yours — use photo or attested proof, or accept a miss.

Deep links such as habitual://invite/… and https://habitual.site/invite/… exist so a partner can join as themselves. Do not post private invite tokens in public places if you do not want strangers in the Chapter.

Our intellectual property

The Services, including the Habitual name, mark, ring geometry, copy, and software, belong to Habitual or its licensors. These Terms do not transfer ownership. You may not copy the product, scrape the design system for a competing accountability app, or use our marks in a way that suggests we endorse you, except for honest factual reference.

Availability, seasons, and changes to the product

We may change, pause, or discontinue features, Seasons, or the Services. Early access, demo mode, and the brochure site may not match a later production build. We are not liable for downtime, a missed notification, or a ring that did not close because a server or a phone failed — though we will try to keep the record honest when we can.

Disclaimers

The Services are provided “as is” and “as available.” Habitual does not warrant that the ring, proof pipeline, or notifications will be uninterrupted or error-free. To the fullest extent allowed by law, we disclaim implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.

Habitual is not a medical device, coach, therapist, or emergency service. Commitments about training, sleep, nutrition, or alcohol are your choices. Talk to a professional when that is the responsible thing to do.

Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent allowed by law, Habitual and its operators will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost data, or missed days, even if we were told they were possible.

Our total liability for any claim arising out of the Services will not exceed the greater of (a) the amount you paid us for the Services in the twelve months before the claim, or (b) fifty US dollars. Some places do not allow these limits; there, they apply to the maximum extent permitted.

Indemnity

If your use of the Services, your User Content, or your break of these Terms causes a claim against Habitual, you will defend and indemnify us against that claim, including reasonable legal fees, except to the extent we caused it.

Ending the relationship

You may stop using the Services and delete your account. We may suspend or end access if you violate these Terms, if the Chapter or community cannot continue safely, or if we shut the product down.

Provisions that should survive — including permanence of a partner’s remaining history, intellectual property, disclaimers, limits of liability, and governing law — survive termination.

Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, United States, without regard to conflict-of-law rules, except that the Federal Arbitration Act would apply if we later add an arbitration clause (we have not). Courts in Travis County, Texas will have exclusive jurisdiction, except that you may have consumer rights in your home jurisdiction that this sentence cannot waive.

If a particular clause cannot be enforced, the rest of the Terms still apply. These Terms are the entire agreement for the Services and supersede prior terms for the same subject. A failure to enforce a clause is not a waiver.

Contact

Questions about these Terms: legal@habitual.site. Privacy: privacy@habitual.site.