Terms and Conditions for the Treeceps App and Treeceps Club

Last updated: August 3, 2026

1. Provider and scope

Joe Waldow
Hasenbusch 52
25335 Elmshorn, Germany
Email: joe@waldow.app
Phone: +49 178 847 2487

These Terms govern the use of the Treeceps app and the Treeceps Club membership that can be unlocked within it, on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Mac. They govern the relationship between you and me as the provider of the app.

2. Contractual relationships: who your contract partner is

Two things need to be distinguished here.

For the use of the app, these Terms apply between you and me.

The purchase of the app as well as all in-app purchases and subscriptions, however, are not concluded with me. In that respect your contract partner is Apple Distribution International Ltd., Hollyhill Industrial Estate, Hollyhill, Cork, Ireland.

Prices, payment, billing, automatic renewal, cancellation, refunds and any statutory right of withdrawal are therefore governed by Apple's terms and must be asserted against Apple. Your statutory rights against Apple are not restricted by these Terms.

For your information: you manage and cancel subscriptions in your Apple Account settings under “Subscriptions”. You can request refunds at reportaproblem.apple.com. This information is provided for your orientation only and creates no obligations on my part.

3. Treeceps Club

A large part of Treeceps is free to use permanently. The Club membership unlocks additional features, including cross-device iCloud synchronisation, the leaderboards via Game Center, the weather and time-of-day simulation, and further statistics.

The Club is offered

• as a subscription in various durations, renewing automatically according to Apple's rules,
• as a one-time purchase (“Treeceps Unlimited”), meaning a permanent unlock without recurring costs.

Which products, durations and prices are offered, and whether a free trial period is available, is shown to you by the App Store before purchase; this may differ by country and point in time, and time-limited special offers may be added. Where Apple provides for it, any unused portion of a free trial period is forfeited if you take out a paid subscription beforehand.

To display offers, verify your entitlement and restore earlier purchases, I use the service RevenueCat. Payment itself, renewal, cancellation and any refunds run exclusively through Apple.

There is no entitlement to permanently unchanged prices or to the permanent continuation of individual products. One-time purchases you have already made remain unaffected.

4. Licence

You receive the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use Treeceps on Apple devices that you own or control, for private purposes, within the usage rules of Apple's Media Services Terms and Conditions. You may use Apple's Family Sharing where it is offered for the product in question.

You may not copy, modify, decompile, reverse engineer, sell or rent the app, circumvent protection mechanisms, or pass it on to third parties outside Family Sharing, insofar as this goes beyond the limits mandatorily permitted by law.

5. Health notice

Treeceps is not a medical device. The training plans, exercises, recommendations and progress displays serve general fitness, motivation and documentation purposes. They do not constitute medical advice, diagnosis or treatment and are no substitute for them.

Before you begin, continue or change a training programme, you should consult a qualified medical professional, in particular if you are injured, have health complaints or pre-existing conditions, are pregnant, are in the period following a pregnancy, or are undergoing medical treatment. Whether and how you can train in these situations cannot be answered in a blanket way and belongs in professional advice.

Stop training and seek professional advice if pain, dizziness, shortness of breath or other unusual symptoms occur during or after training. Listen to your body: if an exercise causes pain, do not perform it, or replace it with a pain-free alternative. Training close to exhaustion should only be done with someone spotting you.

The content is oriented towards the state of exercise science, which continues to develop. I give no warranty that a training plan, an increase in load or a recommendation is suitable for your individual physical situation.

6. Availability and updates

For the duration of your subscription — or, for a one-time purchase, for the period you can reasonably expect given the nature and purpose of the app — I provide the updates necessary to maintain the conformity of the app; this includes security updates. I inform you about available updates through the App Store.

If you do not install a provided update within a reasonable period, I am not liable for defects that result solely from the absence of that update; this applies only if I informed you about its availability and about the consequences of not installing it.

Beyond that, I may develop Treeceps further. Individual features may be available differently depending on device, operating system version and app version. Optional features such as Game Center, iCloud synchronisation, Apple Health or the weather data require the corresponding Apple services and an internet connection; I give no warranty for their uninterrupted availability.

7. Your data and backups

Treeceps stores your training and game data on your device, not in an account with me. If you activate iCloud synchronisation as a Club member, the data additionally resides in your private iCloud database at Apple; I have no access to it.

I cannot warrant that locally stored data can be restored after deleting the app, changing device, losing a device or a defect. Restoring purchased unlocks is independent of this and runs through your Apple Account.

8. Permitted use

You may use Treeceps only in accordance with applicable law. In particular, it is prohibited to misuse the app, to disrupt its operation, to gain unauthorised access to paid features, or to falsify leaderboards through manipulation. In the event of serious breaches I may block access to paid features.

If you enter a display name or names for your animals, these must not infringe the rights of third parties and must not be unlawful.

9. Intellectual property

All content and features of Treeceps, in particular text, graphics, characters, training visualisations, design elements, software and trademarks, are owned by me or by the respective rights holders. These Terms transfer no ownership rights to you, only the right of use described in section 4.

10. Liability

I am liable without limitation for damage caused intentionally or by gross negligence by me, my legal representatives or the people I engage to perform.

I am also liable without limitation for damage arising from injury to life, body or health, for damage for which I am answerable under the German Product Liability Act, and to the extent of any guarantee I have given.

In cases of simple negligence I am liable only for the breach of a material contractual obligation. Material contractual obligations are those obligations whose fulfilment makes achieving the purpose of the contract possible in the first place, on whose observance you may therefore rely, and whose breach endangers the achievement of the purpose of the contract. In such cases my liability is limited to the foreseeable damage typical for this type of contract at the time the contract was concluded.

For loss of data I am liable, within the scope of the preceding paragraphs, only up to the amount that would have been incurred to restore the data had it been backed up properly and regularly. The first two paragraphs of this section remain unaffected.

Any further liability is excluded. The statutory rules on the burden of proof remain unaffected. Your statutory rights in respect of defects in the app, and your rights against Apple, are not restricted by this section.

11. Changes to these Terms

I may change these Terms if and to the extent this is necessary to adapt them to a changed legal situation or case law, to changed requirements of Apple, or to technical and functional developments of Treeceps, and the change is reasonable for you taking my interests into account.

The scope of the service I owe and the balance between service and payment are not changed by this. I will inform you about a planned change at least 30 days in advance in the app or through the update description and point out the changes to you. A change becomes effective towards you only if you expressly agree to it; if you do not agree, the previous version continues to apply to you.

Prices, billing, renewal and cancellation of your subscription are governed exclusively by Apple's terms (section 2) and cannot be changed through these Terms.

12. Position of Apple

These Terms are concluded between you and me, not with Apple. I alone am responsible for maintenance and support, not Apple; please direct support requests to joe@waldow.app. Apple has no warranty obligation with respect to the app and is not responsible for claims relating to the app, such as product liability, defects in title or consumer protection claims. In the event of third-party claims that the app infringes their intellectual property rights, I alone am responsible for investigation, defence and settlement.

Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce them against you.

You represent that you are not located in a country subject to a US government embargo and that you are not on any US government list of prohibited or restricted parties.

13. Final provisions

These Terms and the legal relationship between you and me are governed by the law of the Federal Republic of Germany. If you are a consumer and have your habitual residence in another state, this choice of law applies only insofar as it does not deprive you of the protection afforded by the mandatory consumer protection provisions of the law of that state.

Should individual provisions be invalid, the validity of the remaining provisions remains unaffected.

How Treeceps handles data is described in the Privacy Policy.