Minimali Terms of Service

Version 0.2, dated 2026-09-27. Effective on publication at minimali.app/terms.

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These terms are the agreement between you and me, Michael Tzach, a private individual living in Israel who runs Minimali. In these terms, “I” and “me” mean me.

“Minimali” and “the service” mean the iPhone, iPad and Mac apps, the web app, the server and the website.

Nothing in these terms takes away rights that the law where you live gives you and that cannot be given up by agreement. If you are a consumer in the European Union or the United Kingdom, section 12 has a paragraph written for you.

1. Accepting these terms

When you create an account, you are asked to agree to these terms and the Privacy Policy. [launch 3]

If you use the apps without an account, these terms apply from the first time you open them. The first screen links to them. [launch 3]

If you do not agree, do not use the service.

2. Who can use Minimali

You must be at least 16, or the age of digital consent in your country if that is higher. By using the service you confirm that you are.

You may not use the service if sanctions law bars me or my providers from serving you. That means Israeli, United States or European Union sanctions law, whether because of where you are or because you are on a sanctions list. My providers may block access from such places.

3. What Minimali is

Minimali is a free hobby project run by one person in his spare time. There is no company, no staff, no support team and no revenue.
It is free. There is nothing to buy.
Minimali is new, early-release software. Sync, history and restore have been tested by me but not yet by many people. They may have bugs that lose, duplicate or reorder lines.
There is no service level. I do not promise that it will be available, fast, or free of errors.
I may change, add or remove features at any time.
I may pause or end the service at any time. If I decide to end it, I will tell you by email or in the app at least 30 days before sync stops. I will do this wherever it is practicable. The copy of your note on each of your devices keeps working after that. If I cannot give notice, for example because a provider shuts down without warning, I will tell you as soon as I can.
If I die or become unable to run the service, it may stop without notice. Your devices keep their copies.

4. Your account

You are responsible for keeping your password secret and your devices secure.
You are responsible for what happens in your account, unless it happened because of a failure on my side.
Tell me at hello@minimali.app as soon as you think someone else has accessed your account.
Do not share accounts or create them automatically.

5. Acceptable use

Use the service lawfully and for yourself. Do not:

store or send anything illegal, or anything you have no right to store;
attack, probe, overload or disrupt the service, its servers or its providers;
try to get around the service’s limits or security;
access another person’s account or data;
use the service to send spam or malware, or to harm others;
resell access to the service, or use it to run a service for other people.

6. Your content

Your note is yours. I claim no ownership of anything you write.
You give me a limited, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to use your note only to provide the service to you. That means to store, copy, sync, back up, process and display it. The licence ends when your note is deleted. Copies can remain for a limited time in backups and logs, as the Privacy Policy explains.
I do not monitor your note, and I use no automated moderation. I may learn of content that breaks these terms or the law, or receive a lawful demand about it. Then I may remove the content, or suspend or close the account involved, as far as the law allows.
You are responsible for your content and for having the right to store it.
Reporting content. Notes are private and not published. If you believe the service holds illegal content, or content that infringes your copyright, email hello@minimali.app. Say what it is, why it is illegal, and how to find it. I will review the report and tell you what I decided.
Reasons for my decisions. If I remove content or restrict an account, I tell the account holder what I did and why, unless the law forbids it. They can reply to ask me to reconsider.
Point of contact. The single point of contact for users and for authorities in any EU member state is hello@minimali.app, in English or Hebrew.
Feedback. If you send me ideas or suggestions, I may use them to improve Minimali without paying you or owing you anything. This gives me no right to your note.

7. Your data and keeping copies

You are responsible for keeping your own copies of anything that matters to you. Every device holds a full copy of your note. To keep a copy elsewhere, select all the text in the note and paste it somewhere else.
Minimali is a scratch note. Do not rely on it as the only place you keep anything you need for your health, safety, work, money or legal matters.
I do not guarantee that your note, its history or any backup will be kept, will be complete, or can be recovered.
History, “Recently deleted” and conflict handling are best effort. I do not promise to keep backups.
Two devices may change the same part of the note at the same time. The result then follows fixed rules, and it may not be what you expected. A line can appear twice, or one device’s version can replace another’s. The other version is kept in history for a limited time, as the Privacy Policy explains. After that it may be gone.
Do not store sensitive data in your note: passwords, secret keys, financial or health information, government id numbers, or personal data about other people.

8. Availability

The service runs on third-party hosting. It may be slow, interrupted or unavailable at any time. That can happen for maintenance, failures, attacks, provider problems or any other reason. I make no promise about uptime.

9. Events outside my control

I am not responsible for any failure or delay caused by events I cannot reasonably control. Examples are provider outages, attacks, natural disasters, war, government action, or illness.

10. Third-party services

The service depends on other companies, including Railway, Cloudflare, PostHog, Google and Apple. They are listed in the Privacy Policy. I am not responsible for their services, outages or acts, as far as the law allows.

The App Store. If you downloaded an app from the App Store, your use of it is also covered by Apple’s standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement. These terms are between you and me, not Apple. Apple is not responsible for the app or its content. Apple has no obligation to maintain or support it. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and may enforce them against you.

11. No warranties

As far as the law that applies to you allows, the service is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind. That covers express, implied and statutory warranties. It includes any warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, accuracy or security. It also includes any warranty that the service will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that data will not be lost or corrupted.

Some places do not allow some warranties to be excluded. There, the exclusions above apply only as far as the law allows.

12. Limitation of liability

The following limits apply as far as the law where you live allows. If a court decides one of them goes too far, the others still apply.

I am not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages. I am not liable for any loss of profits, revenue, business, goodwill or opportunity.
Minimali keeps several copies of your note, but I cannot promise it will never be lost. I am not liable for losing or corrupting your data, unless it happened because I did not take reasonable care. Please keep your own copy of anything that matters.
I am not liable for unauthorised access to your data that I could not reasonably have prevented. An example is a breach at a hosting provider despite the security measures described in the Privacy Policy. This does not affect any right to compensation you have under data protection law, such as Article 82 of the GDPR or Israel’s Privacy Protection Law.
I am not liable for downtime, delays, or the service changing or ending, as long as I keep to section 3.
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, my total liability to you for all claims about the service or these terms is limited to USD 50 (or its equivalent in your currency). I set it this low because the service is free, run by one person, and has no income. It does not apply to the cases listed below.

These limits apply whatever the legal theory: contract, tort including negligence, statute or otherwise.

What these limits do not cover. Nothing in these terms excludes or limits:

liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence;
liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;
liability for gross negligence or wilful misconduct;
your rights under data protection law;
any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law;
your rights as a consumer under the mandatory law of the country where you live.

If you are a consumer in the European Union or the United Kingdom, this paragraph replaces items 1 to 5 above. I am liable without limit for damage I cause intentionally or through gross negligence. The same applies to death or personal injury, and to any law that makes liability mandatory, including product liability and data protection law. For slight negligence, I am liable only if I breach an obligation that is essential to the service. Then I am liable only for the damage that was typical and foreseeable when you started using the service. The service is free, so what is foreseeable is limited.

Business use. Minimali is made for personal use. If you use it for work or for a business, you agree that it is not suitable as the only record of anything. For business use, the limits in this section apply to you in full, including the exclusion of lost profits and business loss. This applies to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.

13. Responsibility for your content

If you use the service for a business, you agree to cover me against third-party claims about your use of the service. That covers claims, losses and reasonable costs, including legal fees. It applies to claims arising from your breach of these terms, your misuse of the service, or content you store that breaks the law or someone else’s rights. It does not apply to the extent a claim was caused by me.

If you use the service as a consumer, this section does not apply to you. You remain responsible for your content under the law of your country.

14. Ending the agreement

You can stop using the service at any time, and delete your account as the Privacy Policy explains.
I can suspend or close your account if you break these terms, if the law requires it, or to protect the service or other users. Where reasonable, I will tell you first and give you a chance to copy your note out.
I can end the service for everyone, as section 3 says.

These sections continue after the agreement ends: 6 (the parts about your responsibility and about feedback), 7, 11, 12, 13, 16 and 17.

15. Changes to these terms

I may change these terms. The version and date at the top will change. For a significant change, I will tell you in the app or by email at least 30 days before it takes effect. The exception is a change needed sooner for legal or security reasons.

If you don’t agree, you can delete your account at no cost before the change takes effect. If you keep using the service after that date, the new terms apply.

16. Governing law and courts

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Israel, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules.

If you live in Israel, the competent courts in Tel Aviv-Jaffa have exclusive jurisdiction.
If you live anywhere else, you can bring a claim in the courts where you live, or in Tel Aviv-Jaffa. If I ever bring a claim against you as a consumer, I will bring it in the courts where you live.

The mandatory consumer and data protection laws of the country where you live still apply to you.

17. General

Entire agreement. These terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between us about the service.
Severability. A court may find part of these terms invalid. Then that part is limited or removed as little as possible, and the rest stays in force.
No waiver. If I do not enforce a right, I have not given it up.
Assignment. You may not transfer your rights under these terms. I may transfer them to someone who takes over running the service, and will tell you if I do. The transfer does not reduce your rights under these terms and the Privacy Policy.
Notices. I send notices to the email address on your account, or show them in the app. You send notices to hello@minimali.app. An email notice counts as given when it is sent, unless it bounces.
Third parties. Apple and its subsidiaries can enforce these terms, as section 10 says. Nobody else who is not a party to them can.
Language. If these terms are translated, the English version applies.

18. Contact

Michael Tzach, Israel. hello@minimali.app, in English or Hebrew.

If you get no answer within 14 days, write again; mail can be lost.

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