Homeward Terms of Service

Version 1.0.1 · Last reviewed 2026-08-29 · Effective date 2026-08-29

1. Acceptance

By creating a Homeward account or using the Homeward app, you agree to these Terms of Service ("Terms") and the Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the app.

Homeward is operated by Nick Arning, sole proprietor, based in Basel, Switzerland. Pre-validation, Homeward is a personal project — not a registered company. Post-validation a Swiss GmbH may be formed (per Operating Principle #6); these Terms are updated when that happens.

2. Eligibility

You must be 16 years of age or older to use Homeward. We do not knowingly accept users under 16. By using Homeward you represent that you are 16 or older. See Privacy Policy § 10 for our children's-data position.

3. What Homeward is

Homeward is a local editorial discovery app. We select and maintain outing plans, walking routes, and event suggestions for going outside, meeting up with the people you care about, or self-treating with a handpicked experience. The going-as model supports five modes: solo, with a partner, with friends, with parents, with family. Per Operating Principle #11 (location-lite by design), Homeward never collects device location — city selection is explicit; navigation hands off to your installed Maps app.

What Homeward is NOT:

4. Your account

You are responsible for safeguarding your username, password, and the one-time recovery code shown to you at account creation. There is no email-based password-reset path (Homeward never asks for your email address — see Privacy Policy § 2). If you lose your recovery code and forget your password, account recovery may not be possible. Keep your recovery code somewhere safe. You are responsible for all activity under your account. Notify us at security@gethomeward.app if you suspect unauthorized access.

You may have only one account per person. Multiple-account abuse (rating manipulation, spam) is grounds for suspension or termination.

5. Content you contribute

When you submit ratings, tips, or photos to Homeward, you grant Homeward a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, display, and distribute that content within the app and on the Homeward marketing site, for the purpose of operating and promoting the service. You retain ownership.

You represent that:

6. Acceptable use

You agree NOT to:

7. Reports and moderation

8. Account termination

You may delete your account at any time in app settings. Per our Apple 5.1.1(v) compliance path:

We may suspend or terminate your account if:

We will give reasonable notice except where notification would defeat enforcement (e.g., active investigation of fraud).

9. Intellectual property

The Homeward app, marketing site, content (template prose, editorial writing, illustrations, brand identity), and source code are owned by Nick Arning (or post-validation, the Swiss GmbH that succeeds the sole-proprietor entity). You may not copy, modify, or redistribute without written permission.

User-contributed content (ratings, tips, photos) remains owned by the contributing user, subject to the license in § 5.

10. Disclaimer of warranties

Homeward is provided "AS IS" without warranties of any kind, express or implied, to the maximum extent permitted by Swiss + EU law. We do not warrant that:

11. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by Swiss + EU law, Nick Arning (and any successor entity) shall NOT be liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or punitive damages arising from your use of Homeward, including but not limited to:

Aggregate liability for direct damages is capped at the amount you have paid to Homeward in the 12 months preceding the claim (which, while Homeward is free to use, is CHF 0).

This limitation does NOT apply to:

12. Governing law and jurisdiction

These Terms are governed by Swiss law, excluding conflict-of-laws principles. Disputes are subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Basel-Stadt, Switzerland, without prejudice to mandatory consumer-protection forum rules under EU law.

If you are an EU consumer, you may also lodge complaints via the European Commission's online dispute resolution platform (ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr).

13. Discontinuation

Homeward is built nights-and-weekends per Operating Principle #7. We reserve the right to discontinue the service at any time, with reasonable notice (at least 30 days; longer for any future paid-tier users). On discontinuation, we will provide an export of your data per Privacy Policy § 6.

14. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. Every change requires a decision-log entry. Substantive changes (data rights, liability, fees) trigger a notification to active users with at least 14 days' notice before effect.

15. Contact

Changelog (this document)

VersionDateChange
1.0.12026-08-29One word in § 8 (Liability): “during a date or outing” becomes “during an outing”. The product noun is outing everywhere; the old pairing noun had survived in one clause. No change in meaning.
1.0.02026-08-26First public-release version. Removed the friends-beta posture banner and the internal “Honest Gaps” section; generalised the friends-beta phrasing in the liability and discontinuation clauses. No substantive terms changes.
0.1.0-friends-beta2026-05-05Initial Termageddon-template scaffold
0.2.0-friends-beta2026-07-02Auth-drift correction: replaced "magic-link sign-in via email" with username+password+recovery-code account model in § 4; corrected § 3 "not a social network" to accurately reflect the approve-required follow system; corrected § 8 deletion clause to remove "email" from the list of purged data (no email was ever stored).

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