1. Eligibility
You must be legally able to agree to these Terms. If you are under the age of legal majority where you live, you may use the Service only with permission and supervision from a parent or legal guardian who agrees to these Terms. You may not use the Service if doing so would violate applicable law.
2. What the Service provides
Block until… lets you create rules that ask Apple’s Screen Time frameworks to shield selected apps, categories, or websites until a Health goal is complete, a duration ends, or a recurring schedule is no longer active. When rules overlap, an item may remain blocked until every matching rule is clear.
3. Your configuration and permissions
You choose your rules, targets, schedules, durations, and private Screen Time selections. You are responsible for reviewing them and for maintaining any Apple permissions required by a rule. Health information and automated progress can be incomplete or delayed. Review the app’s status before relying on a rule.
Your use of HealthKit, Screen Time, the App Store, iOS, and other Apple services is also subject to Apple’s applicable terms and policies. Our handling of information is described in the Privacy Policy.
4. Acceptable use
You agree not to:
- use the Service unlawfully or infringe another person’s rights;
- use the Service to control another person’s device without their permission or lawful authority;
- attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Service or another person’s data or device;
- interfere with, overload, distribute malicious code through, or circumvent security of the Service; or
- reverse engineer or copy the Service except to the extent applicable law does not permit that restriction.
5. License and intellectual property
Subject to these Terms, we grant you a personal, limited, revocable, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, non-exclusive license to use the Service for its intended purpose. The Service, including its software, design, branding, and documentation, is owned by Kin-Lung Wong or licensed to us and is protected by intellectual-property laws. These Terms do not transfer ownership of the Service to you.
6. Feedback
If you send ideas or feedback, you grant us a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free right to use that feedback without restriction or compensation. Do not send confidential information as feedback.
7. Purchases and subscriptions
The app includes a free tier and optional Pro access sold through Apple as monthly and annual auto-renewable subscriptions or a one-time lifetime purchase. The exact price and billing period shown in the App Store purchase confirmation control. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled through your Apple Account at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Apple processes payments, renewals, cancellations, refunds, offer codes, and Family Sharing under its terms.
“Lifetime” means access to the Pro features of this app for as long as we make the app available and technically support those features; it does not guarantee perpetual operation, compatibility, updates, or availability. Losing Pro access will not cause the app to delete rules or unexpectedly remove restrictions that are already active, but starting additional rules may require renewed Pro access.
8. Updates and availability
We may update, add, change, suspend, or discontinue all or part of the Service. Updates may be required for continued use. We do not promise that the Service, any feature, or support will always be available, compatible with every device or iOS version, or free from errors.
9. Ending use
You may stop using the Service at any time and may reset or delete the app. We may suspend or terminate access when reasonably necessary to protect the Service or others, comply with law, or address a material breach of these Terms. Provisions that by their nature should survive termination will survive.
10. Disclaimers
To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Service is provided “as is” and “as available.” We disclaim all express and implied warranties, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, non-infringement, and uninterrupted or error-free operation. We do not warrant that restrictions will always activate or deactivate at a particular time, that Health information will be complete or current, or that the Service cannot be bypassed. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain disclaimers, so parts of this section may not apply to you.
11. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, Kin-Lung Wong and Block until… will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, data, goodwill, opportunities, or device access arising from the Service. Our total liability for all claims relating to the Service will not exceed the greater of US$100 or the amount you paid for the Service during the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim. These limits do not apply where prohibited by law.
12. Indemnity
To the extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Kin-Lung Wong and Block until… from claims, losses, liabilities, and reasonable costs arising from your unlawful misuse of the Service or material violation of these Terms or another person’s rights.
13. Disputes, arbitration, and governing law
Please contact us first at developer@valentinowong.com so we can try to resolve a dispute informally. Except for claims eligible for small-claims court or requests for injunctive relief concerning intellectual-property or unauthorized-access matters, disputes arising from these Terms or the Service will be resolved by individual, binding arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its applicable Consumer Arbitration Rules. Arbitration may be conducted remotely unless the parties agree otherwise.
You and Block until… waive the right to a jury trial and to participate in a class, collective, consolidated, or representative action to the fullest extent permitted by law. These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of New York and applicable federal law, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. If arbitration is found not to apply, exclusive venue will be in the state or federal courts located in New York, subject to applicable consumer-law rights.
14. Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms as the Service or law changes. If a change materially affects your rights, we will provide notice through the Service or another reasonable method when required. The updated Terms will show a new effective date. Continued use after the effective date means you accept the updated Terms.
15. General terms
These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and us about the Service. If a provision is unenforceable, it will be modified to the minimum extent necessary and the rest will remain effective. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; we may assign them in connection with a reorganization, sale, or transfer of the Service. We are not liable for delays caused by events outside our reasonable control.
16. Contact
Block until… is operated by Kin-Lung Wong. Questions about these Terms may be sent to developer@valentinowong.com.