Terms of Use

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These Terms of Use (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of Halfed (the “Service”), available at halfed.app and as an installable web app. By creating an account or otherwise using the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

Halfed is currently offered as a free private beta. A separate commercial section will be added when paid plans launch; you will be asked to re-accept the Terms at that point.

1. Who provides Halfed

Halfed is operated by a private individual established in the European Union (the “Operator”, “we”, “us”). The Operator acts as the data controller for personal data processed through the Service.

The Operator’s full legal name and address are not published on this page. They are disclosed to users on written request to legal@halfed.app, and to competent supervisory authorities and courts on demand.

Contact:

• General and legal: legal@halfed.app
• Privacy: privacy@halfed.app
• Support, abuse and safety: support@halfed.app

2. Eligibility

You must be at least 18 years old to create an account. The Service is designed for adults sharing a household. You confirm that the information you provide on signup is accurate and that you are using the Service for your own personal, non-commercial purposes.

Halfed is a two-adult product. Each user belongs to at most one Family, and a Family may contain at most two adult parent accounts. The Service does not host profiles for children; see Section 6.

3. Beta Service

While Halfed is in beta:

• The Service is provided free of charge.
• It is provided “as is” and “as available”, with no service-level commitment, no uptime guarantee and no compensation for outages, data loss, bugs or feature changes.
• Features may be added, changed, suspended or discontinued at any time.
• We may invite a limited number of users, throttle access, or close signups without notice.

When paid plans launch, this section will be replaced by commercial terms (price, billing, renewal, withdrawal rights under EU consumer law) and you will be asked to accept the new version (see Section 11).

4. Your account

You are responsible for keeping your login credentials confidential and for all activity that takes place under your account. You agree to use a strong, unique password, to enable available security features such as multi-factor authentication where offered, and to notify us promptly at support@halfed.app if you suspect unauthorised access.

Each person may hold one account. Sharing an account with another person defeats the purpose of the Service and is not permitted; the second adult should join the Family with their own account via the invite link.

5. The Family and how tasks work

Halfed is built around a shared inbox for two parents. By using the Service you agree to the following operating rules, which are part of these Terms as well as enforced by the product:

• A Family contains at most two active parent members.
• Tasks placed in the inbox are visible identically to both parents. There is no private, hidden or personalised view.
• Tasks are claimed, not assigned. Either parent may choose to take a task. There is no “owner” or “assignee” until a task is claimed.
• Every task has a deadline. Tasks without a deadline are not supported.
• Tasks may be tagged with one or both parents as a categorisation label. Tagging is not assignment and does not change who may claim the task.
• The Service does not store profiles, names, photographs or other identifying data for children or other third parties. Do not enter such data into task titles, notes, tags or any other field.

6. Acceptable use

You agree not to use the Service to:

• Enter or transmit content that is unlawful, fraudulent, defamatory, harassing, threatening, hateful, sexually explicit, or that promotes violence or self-harm.
• Enter or transmit content describing identifiable third parties (including children, extended family, neighbours or co-workers) in a way that would breach their privacy or applicable data-protection law.
• Enter, in free-text fields, special-category personal data within the meaning of Article 9 GDPR — for example specific health conditions, medication details, religious or philosophical beliefs, political opinions, trade-union membership, sexual orientation, genetic or biometric data — beyond what is strictly necessary for an ordinary household task. Examples that are not acceptable: detailed clinical notes, therapy records, custody-dispute material, or anything you would not want a household member or a vendor’s support engineer to see.
• Use the Service to monitor, surveil, coerce or control another adult against their will, or to circumvent another person’s safety decisions about their own data.
• Attempt to bypass the two-parent cap, scrape the Service, reverse engineer it, probe its security other than through a good-faith responsible-disclosure report to security@halfed.app, or use it to build a competing product.
• Upload malware, run automated load against the Service, or interfere with other users’ use of the Service.
• Use the Service in violation of any applicable law, including export-control and sanctions law.

We may remove content and suspend or terminate access where we reasonably believe these rules have been broken (see Section 9).

7. AI-assisted task processing

To extract structured tasks from text or shared content, the Service uses an artificial intelligence component provided by a third-party processor established in the European Union. You acknowledge that:

• Content you submit through task-creation flows may be transmitted to this processor for the sole purpose of extracting and structuring tasks for you.
• Your content is not used to train the underlying models of that processor or of any third party. This is contractually required of our processor and reflected in our data-processing agreement.
• The AI component may produce inaccurate, incomplete or unexpected results. You remain responsible for reviewing tasks before relying on them.
• Output is informational, not professional advice (medical, legal, financial or otherwise).

The identity of the AI processor, the legal bases for processing, and the safeguards applied are described in the Privacy Policy at /privacy.

8. Your content and the licence you grant us

You retain all rights in the content you submit to the Service (task titles, notes, family name, etc.). You grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, narrowly limited licence to host, store, copy, display and process that content only to the extent necessary to:

• Operate the Service for you and your Family member;
• Diagnose problems, prevent abuse, and meet legal obligations;
• Improve the reliability and quality of the Service for you, understood as bug fixes and stability — not as training of any machine-learning model on your content.

We will not sell your content, share it for advertising, or licence it to third parties to train their models. The licence ends when the relevant content is deleted, subject to short, documented backup and audit-log retention windows described in the Privacy Policy.

9. Suspension and termination by us

We may suspend or terminate your access to the Service, with notice where reasonably feasible, where we have a good-faith reason to believe that:

• You have materially breached these Terms, in particular Section 6 (Acceptable use) or Section 5 (Family rules);
• Continued access creates a credible security, fraud or safety risk to another user, to us or to a third party;
• We are required to do so by law, court order or supervisory authority;
• You have not used the Service for an extended period and the account is being closed for housekeeping (with reasonable prior notice and an opportunity to export your data).

Where the breach is curable, we will give you a reasonable opportunity to cure before termination. Termination does not affect any rights or obligations that have already accrued.

10. Ending your use of the Service

You may stop using the Service at any time and delete your account from the in-app settings, or by writing to privacy@halfed.app.

One partner leaving a Family. If only one of the two parents deletes their account, the Family and the shared task history continue to exist for the remaining parent. The leaving member is shown on historical tasks as “removed”. The remaining parent may invite a new parent to fill the empty seat.

Both partners leaving. When no active parent remains, the Family and its tasks are deleted in line with the retention periods set out in the Privacy Policy.

Export-and-leave for users in unsafe situations. Halfed is a relational product, and we recognise that some users need to leave it quickly and quietly. If you are in such a situation, you may request a complete export of your own data and deletion of your account by writing to privacy@halfed.app from the email associated with your account. We will treat such requests as a priority and will not notify the other Family member of the request beyond what is technically unavoidable (for example, the absence of your name in the inbox going forward). If you believe you are in immediate physical danger, please contact your local emergency services or a specialist support service first.

11. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time.

• For material changes — for example, changes to acceptable-use rules, the licence in Section 8, liability, governing law, or the introduction of paid plans — we will publish the new version, set a new effective date, and ask you to re-accept the Terms before you can continue using the Service. Your prior acceptance of the previous version is preserved as an immutable record.
• For non-material changes — for example, typographical fixes, clarifications, contact-detail updates — we will publish the new version and notify you in-app at least 30 days before it takes effect. Continued use after that date constitutes acceptance.

A history of versions is maintained internally and made available on request to legal@halfed.app.

12. Disclaimer and liability

The Service is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranty of any kind, whether express, implied or statutory, including but not limited to warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, availability, or non-infringement, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.

Halfed is a household-organisation tool. It is not a medical, legal, financial, safety, emergency, custody or therapeutic service, and must not be relied on as such. You are responsible for the tasks and decisions you record in the Service.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Operator’s total aggregate liability arising out of or in connection with these Terms or your use of the Service is limited to fifty euros (€50) during the beta period.

Statutory carve-outs. Nothing in these Terms limits or excludes:

• Liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence;
• Liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;
• Liability for gross negligence or wilful misconduct;
• Any rights you have as a consumer under the mandatory law of your country of habitual residence in the European Union, including under Directive (EU) 2019/770 on digital content and services;
• Any rights or remedies you have under applicable data-protection law, including Articles 79 and 82 GDPR.

To the extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, consequential or special damages, lost profits, lost opportunities or relational harms arising from use of, or inability to use, the Service.

13. Governing law, courts and dispute resolution

These Terms and any dispute arising out of them are governed by the laws of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, excluding its conflict-of- laws rules and the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. The competent courts are those of the city of Luxembourg.

If you are a consumer habitually resident in the European Union, this choice does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory rules of law of your country of habitual residence (Article 6 of Regulation (EC) No 593/2008, “Rome I”), and you may bring proceedings in your home jurisdiction where applicable EU consumer-protection law so allows (Regulation (EU) No 1215/2012, “Brussels I bis”).

Online dispute resolution. The European Commission provides an online dispute-resolution platform at ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr. We are not currently obliged to participate in alternative dispute resolution and do not commit to doing so during the beta.

Data-protection complaints. You have the right to lodge a complaint with a data-protection supervisory authority. The competent authority for the Operator is the Commission Nationale pour la Protection des Données (CNPD), 15 Boulevard du Jazz, L-4370 Belvaux, Luxembourg — www.cnpd.lu. You may also complain to the authority of your country of habitual residence.

14. Miscellaneous

• Severability. If any provision of these Terms is held unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue in full force.
• No waiver. Failure to enforce any right is not a waiver of it.
• Assignment. You may not assign these Terms. We may assign them in connection with a transfer of the Service, including on incorporation, with notice and a re-acceptance gate where required by law.
• Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any in-product notices, are the entire agreement between you and the Operator concerning the Service.
• Language. These Terms are provided in English. Translations, if any, are for convenience only; the English version controls in case of conflict.

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