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Terms of Service

Last updated: 6 September 2026. These terms cover both the website distribot.de and the distribot iPhone app in one document. Sections 1–5 concern the website, sections 6–11 the app, sections 12–17 both; section 4 applies to the website and to the app alike. Section 7 states plainly what the app does today and what version 1.1 is planned to add.

1. Scope, contracting party and what these terms cover

These terms cover two things in one document: the website distribot.de and the distribot iPhone app. Sections 1 to 5 concern the website (section 4 — ownership, brand assets, the reservation for text and data mining, and feedback — applies to the website and to the app alike). Sections 6 to 11 are the licence terms for the app. Sections 12 to 17 apply to both. Your contracting party in every case is:

Aron Taner
Burgfriedstr. 15
83024 Rosenheim
Germany
Email: hello@distribot.de
Phone: +49 160 98123994

How to reach us is on our Support page, further details in the Imprint (Legal notice).

Deviating, conflicting or supplementary terms of your own do not become part of this agreement unless we have agreed to them in writing.

2. What this website is

This website is an information and support page for the distribot iPhone app. It offers no registration, no user account, no login, no purchase and no download. Using it is free of charge, and it does not create any continuing obligation for either side.

Nothing on this website is a binding offer within the meaning of § 145 BGB (German Civil Code). Statements about the app describe the app as we build and release it; where a feature is described as planned or not yet available, it is marked as such and may change or be dropped before release.

3. Permitted use of the website and of what it shows

You may view this website and use it for information purposes. You may not:

  • interfere with the operation of the website or its underlying infrastructure, or attempt to do so — for example by overloading it, by circumventing security measures, or by automated access that goes beyond ordinary search-engine indexing;
  • use the website in a way that breaches applicable law or infringes the rights of third parties;
  • copy, scrape or systematically extract content in order to reproduce it elsewhere, beyond what copyright law permits without consent (section 4);
  • collect, extract or reproduce content from this website or from the app in order to develop, train, validate or fine-tune a machine learning system, an artificial intelligence model or a generative model — we have expressly reserved that use in section 4.3.

We may block access if any of these is breached and the breach is not remedied after notice, or immediately where a delay would cause harm.

4. Intellectual property and reserved uses

4.1 Who owns what is here

All content on this website — text, layout, graphics, the penguin mascot and other illustrations, the logo and the source code — is protected by copyright and other intellectual property rights and belongs to us or to our licensors. Any use beyond what statutory copyright exceptions permit requires our prior written consent.

4.2 Brand assets and third-party marks

“distribot”, the distribot logo and the mascot are our brand assets. Third-party names and marks that appear on this website or in the app belong to their respective owners and are used descriptively only, to say what the software does. Their use implies no association, sponsorship or endorsement.

4.3 Reservation of use for text and data mining, including AI training

We expressly reserve the use of all content on this website and in the app for text and data mining within the meaning of § 44b(1) UrhG (German Copyright Act) and Art. 2(2) of Directive (EU) 2019/790, and in particular against the exception in § 44b(2) UrhG and Art. 4(1) of that Directive. The reservation covers any use of that content to develop, train, validate or fine-tune a machine learning system, an artificial intelligence model or a generative model, and any storage of it in a data set assembled for such a purpose. It is declared under § 44b(3) UrhG and Art. 4(3) of that Directive.

The reservation is stated here in human-readable form and, in machine-readable form, in a tdm-reservation meta tag on every page of this domain and in the reservation file at /.well-known/tdmrep.json. It applies however the content was retrieved; copying it by hand needs our consent in any event, under ordinary copyright law. Text and data mining for scientific research under § 60d UrhG is unaffected. Any use for a reserved purpose requires our prior written consent, which we give or withhold at our discretion.

4.4 Ideas and feedback you send us

You are welcome to send us ideas, suggestions, bug reports or feature requests, and we are glad when you do. An idea as such is not protected by copyright, and we may act on one freely: we cannot promise never to build something you also thought of, and sending us an idea does not by itself create a claim to payment, to credit, or to confidentiality.

Where what you send is a protected work of your own — a drawing, a text, a piece of code — you keep every right in it. We will read it and think about it, and we will not use it beyond that unless we ask you first and you agree. If you would rather we treated your message as confidential, tell us and we will. None of this touches anything you publish through the app to your own account on another service: that content is yours, it never reaches us, and we claim nothing in it.

5. Availability of this website

We aim to keep this website available continuously, but we do not warrant uninterrupted availability. Maintenance, technical faults and events outside our control (including disruptions at our hosting provider) can lead to temporary unavailability. As the website is provided free of charge and for information only, this creates no claim against us.

6. The distribot app — licence terms

The app is distributed through Apple's App Store. The terms in sections 6 to 11 are our licence terms for the app. Where Apple's standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement applies to your download, these terms apply alongside it; nothing here reduces any right that licence gives you.

6.1 Your agreement is with us, not with Apple

This licence is concluded between you and us only, and not with Apple. We, not Apple, are solely responsible for the app and its content.

6.2 Scope of the licence

We grant you a non-transferable licence to use the app on any Apple-branded products that you own or control, as permitted by the Usage Rules set out in the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions — except that the app may also be accessed and used by other accounts associated with the purchaser via Family Sharing or volume purchasing. You may not distribute the app over a network, transfer the licence, or reverse-engineer it beyond what applicable law permits.

6.3 Maintenance and support

We alone provide any maintenance and support for the app. Apple has no obligation whatsoever to furnish any maintenance or support services in relation to it. You reach us via our Support page.

6.4 Warranty and product claims

We are solely responsible for any product warranties, whether express or implied by law, to the extent they are not effectively disclaimed. If the app fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price for the app to you — for distribot that price is zero, so no refund arises in practice. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Apple has no other warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to the app, and any other claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs or expenses attributable to any failure to conform to any warranty are our sole responsibility. We, not Apple, are responsible for addressing any claim you or a third party may have relating to the app — including product liability claims, any claim that the app fails to conform to a legal or regulatory requirement, and claims under consumer protection, privacy or similar legislation.

6.5 Intellectual property claims

If a third party claims that the app infringes its intellectual property rights, we, not Apple, are solely responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement and discharge of that claim.

6.6 Legal compliance

By using the app you represent and warrant that you are not located in a country that is subject to a U.S. Government embargo, or that has been designated by the U.S. Government as a “terrorist supporting” country, and that you are not listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.

6.7 Third-party services and their terms

When you use the app you must comply with the applicable terms of any third party whose service you use through it. If a future version of the app lets you connect an account with a third-party service and publish to it, that service's own terms of service and privacy policy govern your use of that service. They apply in addition to these terms, we are not a party to them, and we cannot change them or waive them on your behalf. What that means in practice for the planned TikTok connection is described in section 7.

6.8 Apple as third-party beneficiary

Apple and Apple's subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these licence terms. Once you accept them, Apple has the right — and is deemed to have accepted the right — to enforce them against you as a third-party beneficiary.

6.9 Who is responsible for the app, and where to reach us about it

The app is provided and licensed to you by Aron Taner, Burgfriedstr. 15, 83024 Rosenheim, Germany. Any questions, complaints or claims with respect to the app should be directed to us at hello@distribot.de or +49 160 98123994. Apple is not responsible for handling them.

7. What the app does — and does not do

distribot is a habit app. You set yourself a weekly posting goal and you check off the posts you made. The check-offs fill the week you are in; the streak counts the weeks in which you reached your goal, and a penguin and an igloo to furnish grow out of that. Checking a post off is also what feeds the penguin; there is no minigame, no shop and no currency in the app. A week in which you miss your goal costs you nothing — nothing is taken away and nothing is reset.

Version 1.0 — the version in the App Store today

Version 1.0 connects to no service at all. There is no account connection, no authorisation step, no access token and no automated publishing. You post yourself, on whatever platform you use, and record it in the app afterwards. Everything the app knows is what you told it.

Version 1.1 — planned, not yet available

This describes a version that has not been released. It is not available in the App Store today, and it may change or be dropped before release (section 2). We publish it here so that nothing about the direction of the app comes as a surprise.

Version 1.1 is planned to add an optional connection to TikTok, so that you can publish a post to your own TikTok account from inside the app instead of switching to another app first. What may be published through such a connection, and who is able to see it, is determined by TikTok and by the settings of your own account — not by us. When and if it ships, these principles apply:

  • It is optional. The app is planned to keep working fully without any connection, exactly as version 1.0 does. Checking a post off by hand remains a complete way to use it.
  • You start it and you end it. Nothing is connected unless you connect it yourself, and disconnecting is planned to be available inside the app at any time, without contacting us.
  • Nothing is published without you. The app is planned to send a post only when you have expressly confirmed that post, in that moment. There is no scheduling, no queue and no automated publishing.
  • Your access token stays on your device. It is planned to be stored on your iPhone only, never transmitted to us, and never held by us in any form.
  • You choose the settings, and nothing is preset for you. Before anything is sent, the app is planned to show you which account it is about to post to, a preview of the post itself, and the choices that are yours to make: the title, who may see the post, and whether comments and other interactions are allowed. None of those would carry a default that we picked — you would select them yourself, each time.
  • TikTok's own conditions travel with the post. Publishing there means accepting them — among other things, confirming that you are entitled to use any music in your post, and declaring it where a post promotes you, a brand or somebody else. The app is planned to put those confirmations in front of you before you confirm, and to send exactly what you selected — nothing more.
  • We add nothing to what you publish. No watermark, no logo, no promotional text and no link of ours would be placed on or in anything you send to your own account. What goes out is what you wrote.
  • TikTok's own terms apply to your TikTok account. Publishing to TikTok is governed by TikTok's terms of service and privacy policy alongside these terms, as set out in section 6.7. We are not a party to your agreement with TikTok, we cannot act for you inside it, and we cannot promise that any particular post will be accepted, published, or visible to anybody in particular.

The corresponding data protection details are in our Privacy Policy; how to disconnect and what that removes is on our Data deletion page.

8. Price, purchases and unlockable items

The app is free. It contains no advertising, no subscription and no in-app purchases, and there is nothing in it that can be bought with money: there is no shop and no in-app currency of any kind. Furniture for the igloo and cosmetic items for the penguin are unlocked by use alone — one item for each week in which you met your goal. They are purely decorative: they have no monetary value, cannot be traded, sold, transferred or exchanged, and confer no claim of any kind against us. They exist only in your installation of the app and are lost when you delete it.

No item is unlocked for installing the app, or for opening it the first time. Every item there is comes from a week in which you reached the goal you set yourself. That is the whole of it: there is no starting gift, no trial, no bonus, no referral reward and no way to obtain an item other than by reaching a weekly goal.

9. Withdrawal

The app is supplied free of charge and you give us nothing in return — no payment and no personal data. Downloading it therefore does not create the kind of contract to which the statutory right of withdrawal for distance contracts attaches. You can simply delete the app at any time, with no notice, no reason and no consequence. Should paid content ever be introduced, you would be informed of your withdrawal rights before any purchase, as the law requires.

10. Your data

Everything the app records stays on your device. There is no distribot account, no sign-in to us and no distribot server, and we hold no copy of anything. Deleting the app deletes it all — permanently, and beyond our ability to restore. This remains true for the planned TikTok connection: the connection would run directly between your iPhone and TikTok, and would not pass through any system of ours. Details are in our Privacy Policy.

11. Availability and changes to the app

We aim to keep the app working and to keep it available in the App Store, but we cannot warrant that it will remain available indefinitely, that it will be compatible with every future version of iOS, or that any particular feature will be kept. A third-party service can also change or withdraw the interface a connection depends on, at its own discretion and without notice to us; if that happens, the corresponding feature may stop working or be removed. Apple may likewise change the terms on which apps are distributed. As the app is provided free of charge, none of this creates a claim against us beyond the liability rules in section 12.

To be explicit about the legal position as we see it: the app is supplied without a price of any kind — there is no in-app currency and nothing in it represents a value — and you give us no personal data in exchange for it. On that basis the statutory rules on consumer contracts for digital products (§§ 327 ff. BGB) do not apply, because they attach either to payment of a price (§ 327(1) BGB) or to personal data you provide to us (§ 327(3) BGB), and neither is the case here. We therefore owe you no updates as a matter of statute. We intend to maintain the app and to keep it working on current versions of iOS, but that is our own undertaking, freely given. Should a court see the matter differently, your statutory rights apply in full and nothing here limits them.

12. Liability

We are liable without limitation for damage arising from injury to life, body or health, for damage caused intentionally or by gross negligence, under the German Product Liability Act (Produkthaftungsgesetz), and to the extent we have given a guarantee.

In the case of slight negligence we are liable only for breach of a material contractual obligation — that is, an obligation whose fulfilment makes proper performance possible in the first place and on whose observance you may regularly rely — and in that case only for the foreseeable damage typical of this type of contract.

Any further liability is excluded. This limitation applies equally to our legal representatives, employees and other agents. Statutory rights, in particular under mandatory consumer protection law, remain unaffected.

Both the app and this website are provided to you free of charge, and we receive nothing in return. Where German law treats a free provision of this kind as a gift, the statutory liability privilege for donors (§ 521 BGB) would give you less than the paragraphs above already give you. Those paragraphs are what we undertake towards you, and they are what applies.

The content of this website is compiled with care, but we give no warranty that it is complete, accurate or up to date.

If you breach these terms culpably and a third party raises a claim against us because of it, you will indemnify us against that claim and against the necessary costs of our legal defence. We will tell you about any such claim without undue delay, give you the chance to respond to it, and will not settle it without your agreement, which you may not unreasonably withhold. Where we contributed to the damage ourselves, the indemnity is reduced accordingly (§ 254 BGB).

13. External links and third-party content

This website contains links to external third-party websites over whose content we have no influence. Responsibility lies at all times with the respective provider or operator of the linked pages. At the time of linking, the linked pages were checked for possible legal infringements and none were apparent. Permanent monitoring of linked pages is not reasonable without concrete indications of an infringement; if we become aware of one, we will remove the link promptly. The corresponding statutory notice under § 7(2) DDG is in the Imprint (Legal notice).

The same applies to any third-party service the app connects to: we do not control it, we are not responsible for its content, its availability or its own handling of your data, and your relationship with that service is yours, not ours.

14. Changes to these terms

We may amend these terms where a change in the legal situation, in the app, or in the technical operation of the website makes it necessary. The current version is always available on this page and applies from the date shown at the top.

For the app licence in sections 6 to 11 it works differently: an amendment that touches rights you already have does not apply to you unless you accept it. We will announce such an amendment at least six weeks before we intend to apply it — on this page and, so that you cannot miss it, in the app itself — and ask for your agreement there. We will not treat your silence as agreement, and nothing in these terms is meant to do so. If you do not agree, the version you accepted goes on applying to the app you have. You may of course also delete the app at any moment, with no notice period, no reason and nothing owed in either direction.

15. Governing law, jurisdiction and severability

These terms are governed by the law of the Federal Republic of Germany, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods.

If you are a consumer with habitual residence in the EU, this choice of law does not deprive you of the protection of mandatory provisions of the law of your country of residence (Art. 6(2) Rome I Regulation), and you may also bring proceedings in the courts of your country of residence.

If you are a merchant, a legal person under public law or a special fund under public law, the place of jurisdiction for all disputes arising from this agreement is Rosenheim, Germany.

Should any provision of these terms be or become invalid, the validity of the remaining provisions is unaffected.

16. Consumer dispute resolution

We are neither obliged nor willing to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board (§ 36 VSBG). The European Commission's online dispute resolution platform was discontinued on 20 July 2025 and is therefore no longer referenced here.

17. Contact

Questions about these terms: hello@distribot.de