Terms of Service

Agreement

These terms are between you and FitDawg Ltd and govern your use of the Lockout iPhone app. By using Lockout you accept them. If you do not, please do not use the app.

What Lockout does

Lockout puts apps you choose behind a challenge, using Apple's Screen Time framework. Each protected app is given the daily allowance you set for it at the start of every day, and that allowance is spent by using the app. When it runs out the app is blocked, and completing the challenge earns more. Locking an app yourself gives up whatever access it had left for that day.

Lockout depends on features Apple provides. It relies on you granting Screen Time access, and it can be switched off at any time in the app or by revoking that access in iOS Settings. Lockout is a tool for making a habit harder to act on without thinking — it is not, and does not claim to be, impossible to bypass.

Screen Time is Apple's, and its behaviour is Apple's to change. Lockout cannot guarantee that a shield appears on every device, in every iOS version, or in every circumstance; that a blocked app cannot be reached another way, such as through a website or a second device; or that Apple will continue to offer the frameworks it is built on.

Changes that make a rule easier — fewer reps, longer access, protection off — are held for thirty minutes before they apply. That delay is Lockout's, and it is the point of the product rather than a fault in it.

Lockout counts the days in a row you keep your protection on, as a streak. Turning protection off, for one app or for all of them, ends it; changing a challenge or an allowance does not. The streak is kept on your iPhone and is a record of your own use of the app, nothing more.

Health and safety

Lockout is not a fitness, health or medical product, and nothing in it is medical advice. Exercise challenges carry the ordinary risks of physical activity.

Choose challenges and amounts appropriate to you, and change them at any time. Stop immediately if you feel pain, dizziness, breathlessness or discomfort. If you have any condition that may be affected by exercise, speak to a doctor before using exercise challenges. You use exercise challenges at your own risk.

What the camera can and cannot do

Camera challenges are counted by Apple's on-device body-pose detection. That is a movement detector, not a fitness assessment, and it does not judge your form, your technique or your effort.

It will sometimes be wrong. Poor light, a bad camera angle, loose clothing, a partly visible body or an unusual movement can all make Lockout miss reps you have done, or count a movement you did not intend as one. You can change the challenge or the amount for any app at any time, and every app can be unlocked by switching protection off in Lockout — no exercise Lockout fails to recognise can leave you permanently unable to reach an app.

Do not treat a count as a measurement of your exercise, and do not repeat a movement in a way that hurts in order to make Lockout register it.

Subscriptions

Lockout requires a subscription. You set your apps and your challenge during setup, and a subscription turns that on; where a free trial is offered you can use everything during it and cancel before it ends at no charge.

Subscriptions are sold through the App Store, and prices are shown in the app in your local currency before you buy. Where a free trial is offered, the length is stated on the purchase screen; unless you cancel at least 24 hours before it ends, it converts automatically to a paid subscription.

Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled. Manage or cancel yours in your Apple Account settings. Refunds are handled by Apple under the App Store terms, not by us.

Your account

Lockout creates an anonymous account so your settings have somewhere to live. You may optionally link it using Sign in with Apple.

You may delete your account at any time in Settings. Doing so removes your synced data and cannot be undone. Your subscription is held by Apple and is not cancelled by deleting your Lockout account.

Acceptable use

Do not attempt to interfere with Lockout's operation, reverse engineer it except as permitted by law, or use it in a way that breaks the law or interferes with anyone else's use of it.

Third-party services

Lockout depends on services we do not control: Apple's App Store, Screen Time and device frameworks; Supabase for your account and settings; RevenueCat for subscription status; and Meta for measuring whether our ads lead to installs. Their terms govern their own services, and an outage or a change at any of them can affect Lockout.

What each of them receives is set out in the Privacy Policy.

Intellectual property

Lockout, its name, its design and its software belong to FitDawg Ltd. You get a personal, non-transferable licence to use the app on devices you own, for as long as these terms are kept. Nothing here transfers ownership of anything.

Your data is yours. Your settings, rules and challenge history belong to you; we process them to run the app, as described in the Privacy Policy, and you can delete them at any time. Lockout has no user-posted content and no way to share anything with other users.

Availability and liability

Lockout is provided as-is. We do not warrant that it will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that it will prevent you from using any particular app.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, or for loss arising from your use of, or inability to use, Lockout. Nothing in these terms limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited.

Nothing here affects your statutory rights as a consumer.

Changes and termination

We may change these terms; material changes will be shown in the app before taking effect. We may suspend or end your access if you break these terms.

You may stop using Lockout at any time by deleting the app.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction, except where mandatory consumer law in your country of residence gives you the right to bring proceedings there.

FitDawg Ltd, Linden Tree Cottage, Alton, GU34 3AS, United Kingdom. Questions: support@lockout.adai.systems.