Terms of Service

1. Who operates this site

nik.app is operated by Nikapps, a mobile app studio. In these terms, "we", "us" and "our" mean Nikapps; "you" means anyone visiting the site. Contact details are in section 15.

2. Acceptance of these terms

By accessing nik.app you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, please do not use the site. No account, payment, or registration is involved, so these terms are the whole of the relationship between us in respect of this website.

3. What this website is

nik.app is an informational website. It describes who we are, links to the apps we have released, and hosts a blog about what we are building and learning. It is offered free of charge and is not itself a product, a service, or a platform you can transact on.

Nothing published here is professional, legal, financial, medical, or technical advice, and nothing on it constitutes a binding offer to enter into a contract.

4. Our apps are separate

These terms cover the website only. Each Nikapps mobile app — Placetory and any app we release later — is governed by its own terms of use and its own privacy policy, and by the terms of the app store you obtain it from. Where an app's own terms differ from these, the app's terms prevail for that app.

5. Intellectual property

The content of this site — text, blog posts, images, code, layout, design, the Nikapps name, and the Nikapps logo and word mark — belongs to us or to our licensors and is protected by copyright and trade mark law.

What you may do without asking:

• Read, print, and save pages for your own private, non-commercial use.
• Quote reasonable excerpts from our blog posts, provided you credit Nikapps and link to the original page.
• Link to any page on the site.

What needs our written permission:

• Republishing a post in full, or systematically reproducing substantial parts of the site.
• Any commercial use of our content.
• Use of the Nikapps name, logo, or word mark in a way that suggests we endorse, sponsor, or are affiliated with you.

Third-party names and marks appearing on the site — app store badges, social network names, and similar — remain the property of their respective owners.

6. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• Interfere with the operation, security, or availability of the site, including through denial-of-service attempts or attacks on the underlying infrastructure.
• Attempt to gain unauthorised access to any part of the site or its hosting environment.
• Use automated tooling in a way that places an unreasonable load on the site. Ordinary search-engine indexing and well-behaved crawlers that respect our robots.txt are welcome.
• Use the site to distribute malware or unlawful material, or to misrepresent your relationship with us.

We may block access where we reasonably believe conduct falls into any of the above.

7. Third-party links and content

The site links to external websites — our own app sites, social networks, and pages we reference in blog posts. Those sites are outside our control. We checked linked pages for evident unlawful content at the time we linked to them and found none; without concrete indications of an infringement, we are under no obligation to monitor them on an ongoing basis. Responsibility for the content of a linked page rests with its operator. If you tell us a link points to something unlawful, we will remove it promptly.

The same applies to embedded content such as YouTube videos: pressing play loads content from a third party under that party's own terms and privacy policy.

8. Availability and changes

We make a reasonable effort to keep the site available, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted access. Maintenance, hosting incidents, and network problems happen. We may change, move, or remove any part of the site — including blog posts — at any time and without notice, and we may discontinue the site altogether.

9. No warranty as to content

We publish in good faith and try to be accurate. Even so, the content is provided as it stands: we give no warranty that it is complete, current, or free of error. Blog posts reflect our views at the time of writing and are not updated as things change. Descriptions of our apps are indicative, and the app itself governs what it actually does.

10. Liability

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

In cases of slight negligence, we are liable only for breach of a material contractual obligation — that is, an obligation whose fulfilment makes the proper use of this website possible in the first place and on whose observance you may reasonably rely. In such cases our liability is limited to the damage that is foreseeable and typical for this kind of arrangement.

Any liability beyond that is excluded. This limitation applies equally to the personal liability of our employees, representatives, and agents.

11. Consumer dispute resolution

We are neither obliged nor willing to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board within the meaning of the German Consumer Dispute Resolution Act (Verbraucherstreitbeilegungsgesetz, VSBG).

12. Governing law and jurisdiction

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 resident in the European Union, this choice of law does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory provisions of the law of your country of residence, and you may bring proceedings in the courts of that country. Where you are a merchant, a legal entity under public law, or a special fund under public law, the exclusive place of jurisdiction for all disputes arising from these terms is our registered place of business.

13. Severability

If any provision of these terms is or becomes invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions stay in force. The invalid provision is to be replaced by whichever valid provision comes closest to its economic purpose.

14. Changes to these terms

We may revise these terms as the site develops. The current version always lives at this address, with the "last updated" date at the top. Continued use of the site after a revision means you accept the revised terms.

15. Contact

See also our Privacy Policy.