Terms of Use

These Terms of Use govern your use of the mobile app Buildry between you as a user and me as the provider.

This is a translation of the binding German original (terms-de). In case of any conflict, the German version prevails.

1. Provider and Contracting Party

The provider and contracting party for the use of Buildry is:

Alexander Löfflad Im Speicher 18 79353 Bahlingen am Kaiserstuhl Germany

Email: support@buildry.app

The app is distributed through the Apple App Store (Apple Distribution International Ltd., Hollyhill Industrial Estate, Hollyhill, Cork, Ireland) and the Google Play Store (Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland). Apple and Google act as agents or commissionaires: they handle payment, taxes, and delivery of the app and any in-app purchases. The contracting party for the functionality and content of the app remains me.

Note on VAT: I operate under the German small-business regulation (Section 19 (1) UStG). No German VAT is shown on invoices. Any consumer taxes applicable to your purchase are collected and remitted by Apple or Google according to the rules of the respective store.

2. Scope and Conclusion of Contract

These Terms of Use apply to every use of Buildry — whether you use the free version or a paid extension. By downloading and starting the app, you agree to these Terms.

These Terms of Use are written for consumers within the meaning of Section 13 of the German Civil Code (BGB). Commercial use is not excluded but is not the primary intended use case.

Use of Buildry requires full legal capacity under the BGB or, in case of limited legal capacity, the consent of your legal guardian. Buildry is intended for users aged 16 and over.

3. Description of Services

Buildry is a local-first mobile app for the private documentation of home construction, renovation, maintenance, and garden projects. The app stores your data exclusively on your device and — optionally — in your own iCloud or your own Google Drive.

3.1 Feature Set

Buildry provides the following core features:

• Creation and management of building projects, rooms, and materials (with photo, manufacturer, model, datasheet link, quantities, and prices)
• Management of warranties (with automatic expiry-date calculation and local reminders)
• Recurring maintenance schedules (with local reminders)
• Tasks per room and per project (with optional cost estimate and attachments)
• Receipt capture with on-device text recognition (OCR) to pre-fill amount, date, and merchant
• Management of contractor contacts (with private rating)
• Photo documentation with automatic removal of EXIF/GPS metadata on import
• Optional synchronisation via your own iCloud (iOS) or your own Google Drive (Android)
• Data export as JSON or PDF; full house documentation export (Unlimited feature)
• Tax export per project and tax year (ZIP with a CSV cost statement, PDF summary and receipt scans; paid tiers)
• Multi-language interface (German, English, French, Spanish)

3.2 Tier Model

Buildry is offered in three tiers — all as one-time purchases without any subscription component:

Free

The free baseline. The following quantity limits apply per account:

• 1 project slot
• Up to 3 rooms per project
• Up to 20 cost entries per project
• Up to 3 contractors in the directory
• Up to 5 PDF documents in total (receipts and warranties combined)

Warranties, maintenances, tasks, photos, and data export are available without quantity limit on the Free tier.

Pay-per-Project (€14.99)

One-time purchase at €14.99 (or the equivalent in your local store currency). Takes effect immediately and permanently on your account:

• + 1 additional project slot per pass purchased. Passes stack (two purchases = two additional slots, i.e. three projects total).
• All Free quantity limits are lifted for all your projects: unlimited rooms, cost entries, contractors, and PDF documents.

Which of your projects counts as the “paid” project is not fixed — passes are not bound to a specific project; they simply raise your global project-slot counter.

Unlimited (€49.99)

One-time purchase at €49.99 (or the equivalent in your local store currency). Unlocks unlimited project slots and additionally includes the full house documentation export (PDF containing all projects, rooms, materials, warranties, maintenances, and receipts — suitable e.g. for a change of ownership).

Upgrade from Pay-per-Project to Unlimited

If you have already purchased Pay-per-Project passes, I offer the switch to Unlimited at a correspondingly reduced upgrade price. The exact tiers (for 1, 2, 3, 4+ passes already purchased) are configured in the platform stores and shown to you in the app before purchase. With four or more passes already purchased, the upgrade price is the lowest possible platform tier (typically €0.99).

4. What “Unlimited” Specifically Means

“Unlimited” refers to the feature set of the purchase — unlimited building projects and the full house documentation export — and not to a statement about the temporal availability of the app itself.

In concrete terms:

• You retain permanent access to the Buildry version and the features that were available at the time of your Unlimited purchase, for as long as the app is installed on your device and remains compatible with your operating system.
• Through the restore-purchases function you can reactivate your purchase after a device change or reinstall, as long as you are signed in to the same App Store account and Apple or Google continue to record the purchase.
• Future features will — where technically and economically feasible — be delivered free of additional charge if they are flagged as part of Unlimited. Significant, standalone extensions may, in individual cases, be offered separately; this will be transparently indicated before purchase.
• There is no guarantee of a minimum operating period for the app. Should I have to discontinue the app in the future, you retain access to versions already installed insofar as the respective platform (Apple/Google) permits. No obligation of continued development can be derived from the term “Unlimited”.

5. Conclusion of Contract, Delivery, and Payment Processing

A contract for an in-app purchase is concluded when you confirm the purchase in the App Store or Play Store. Processing is carried out by Apple or Google in accordance with their respective terms.

The purchased features are unlocked in the app immediately upon successful payment confirmation; I do not send a separate confirmation email. The receipt comes from Apple or Google.

Payment data is processed exclusively by Apple or Google. I have no access to your payment data and receive only anonymous transaction reports and aggregated payouts.

6. Right of Withdrawal

When purchasing digital content via the App Store or Play Store, as a consumer you generally have a statutory 14-day right of withdrawal from the conclusion of the contract (Section 312g BGB in conjunction with Section 355 BGB).

Because the contract is processed via the platforms, the withdrawal must be addressed to Apple or Google:

• Apple: Via https://reportaproblem.apple.com or the “Report a Problem” function in your purchase history.
• Google: Via https://play.google.com/store/account/orderhistory and the refund function provided there.

Expiry of the right of withdrawal: For digital content not delivered on a tangible medium, the right of withdrawal expires as soon as you, during the purchase process, expressly consent to the performance of the contract beginning before the end of the withdrawal period, and at the same time confirm that you thereby lose your right of withdrawal (Section 356 (5) BGB). This consent is obtained by the respective App Store as part of its purchase flow; the purchased feature is then immediately usable in the app.

Refunds outside the statutory right of withdrawal are subject to Apple’s or Google’s respective goodwill rules.

7. Warranty for Digital Products

The statutory warranty rights under Sections 327 et seq. BGB (consumer contracts for digital products) apply to the provision of Buildry’s digital content and digital services. In particular:

• Buildry is provided in the agreed condition — i.e. with the features described in the product description in the App Store / Play Store and in this description of services.
• In case of a defect, you have a claim to subsequent performance (remedy of the defect); in case of persistent non-performance, you may also claim termination or a reduction of the price.
• Update obligations under Section 327f BGB are fulfilled through regular app updates via the App Store / Play Store, insofar as these are required to maintain conformity with the contract. There is no obligation to provide updates for devices or operating-system versions no longer supported by Apple or Google.

Please report defects by email to: support@buildry.app

8. License of Use

I grant you a simple, non-exclusive, non-transferable, and non-sublicensable right to install and privately use Buildry on the Apple or Android devices you use, in accordance with the usage rules of the respective App Store.

You may not:

• decompile, disassemble, or otherwise reverse-engineer the app beyond the extent mandatorily permitted under Section 69e UrhG (German Copyright Act),
• rent, lend, sell, or otherwise commercially exploit the app,
• use the app in a way that violates applicable law or infringes third-party rights,
• circumvent security mechanisms or attempt to unlock features of other tiers without a corresponding purchase.

9. Ownership of Content

All content you create in Buildry — projects, rooms, materials, warranties, maintenances, tasks, contractor contacts, costs, receipts, photos, and notes — remains your content. I do not acquire any rights to it and do not use it.

You warrant that you hold the necessary rights to any content you store in the app (e.g. that you are entitled to store the photos and datasheets you upload) and do not infringe third-party rights.

10. User Obligations and Responsibilities

Buildry is a local-first app. This entails responsibilities that typically do not arise with cloud apps:

• Backing up your data is your own responsibility. Buildry can optionally synchronise via your iCloud or your Google Drive — but that only constitutes a backup as long as you actively use and safeguard that cloud.
• If you lose, reset, or uninstall your device without sync enabled, your data is gone. I cannot restore it, because I have no access to your data.
• When switching devices you can reactivate purchased content via the “Restore Purchases” function in the app; your project data, however, only via your own iCloud/Drive.
• Entries in the app do not replace professional review. Task deadlines, warranty dates, cost summaries, and maintenance schedules serve as your documentation and reminder, but are not legally or technically binding statements (see Section 12 — Liability).

You undertake not to use the app for illegal purposes and not to store content that violates applicable law.

11. Availability, Updates, Support

I strive for high availability and regular updates of the app, but I do not owe any particular availability or update frequency beyond what follows from Sections 327 et seq. BGB.

Support is provided by email to support@buildry.app. No specific response time is guaranteed; I aim to respond within a few working days.

Should I permanently discontinue operation of Buildry, I will — where possible — announce this with reasonable notice in the app and via the App Store / Play Store. Already-purchased versions remain usable within the limits of the respective platform. There is no obligation to refund one-time purchases already made if the feature set corresponded to what was originally agreed; in case of a material restriction of the provided feature set, your rights are governed by Sections 327 et seq. BGB.

12. Liability

I am liable without limitation:

• for intent and gross negligence,
• for injury to life, body, or health,
• under the provisions of the German Product Liability Act,
• to the extent of any guarantee assumed by me.

For slightly negligent breach of a material contractual obligation (an obligation whose fulfilment is essential to the proper performance of the contract and on whose observance you may regularly rely), my liability is limited to the damage typical for the contract and foreseeable.

Liability beyond this — in particular for lost profits, lost savings, indirect damages, consequential damages, and for data losses that you could have avoided through your own backups or by enabling cloud synchronisation — is excluded to the extent permitted by law.

Buildry does not replace professional advice from architects, structural engineers, tax advisors, insurers, or contractors. Entries, calculations, and reminders in the app are a documentation and organisation aid; they do not constitute legally or professionally binding advice. You are responsible for the substantive correctness of warranty dates, maintenance intervals, and cost entries that you make yourself.

Tax export: The tax export compiles the costs and receipts you have recorded yourself for a given tax year (CSV, PDF and receipt scans). It is purely a documentation aid and does not constitute tax advice within the meaning of the German Tax Advisory Act (StBerG). In particular, I do not warrant

• that tax authorities will accept the exported documents,
• that recorded costs are tax-deductible (e.g. the distinction between labour and material costs, or between maintenance expenses and capital improvements),
• that the exported data is complete and accurate — amounts, dates and merchant names pre-filled via on-device text recognition (OCR) may contain errors.

Review the export before using it and clarify tax questions with a tax advisor or directly with your tax office. The export replaces neither the retention of original receipts nor legally compliant archiving (e.g. German GoBD).

13. Contract Term, Termination

The free use of Buildry has no fixed term. You can end it at any time by uninstalling the app.

Pay-per-Project and Unlimited are one-time purchases without a subscription component. There is no recurring payment and nothing to cancel. There are no refunds outside the statutory right of withdrawal (Section 6) and the statutory warranty (Section 7).

14. Data Protection

What personal data is processed in what form is governed by my separate privacy policy. You can find it in the app under “More → Privacy” or at https://buildry.app/en/privacy.

Buildry processes your project content exclusively on your device or — if synchronisation is enabled — in your personal iCloud or your Google Drive. I, as the provider, have no access to your project content.

15. Amendments to these Terms of Use

I reserve the right to amend these Terms of Use where this is necessary due to changes in the law, new features, or changed economic circumstances. Amendments are announced in the app in an appropriate manner and are always available via “More → Terms”.

Substantial amendments to your disadvantage — in particular concerning the feature set of tiers already purchased — do not apply to you without your express consent.

16. Applicable Law, Jurisdiction

The law of the Federal Republic of Germany applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. For consumer contracts, this choice of law applies only insofar as the consumer is not deprived of the protection granted by mandatory provisions of the law of the consumer’s habitual residence.

The place of performance and exclusive place of jurisdiction for disputes with merchants, legal entities under public law, or special funds under public law is my registered seat. For consumers, the statutory places of jurisdiction continue to apply.

17. Consumer Dispute Resolution

As a sole proprietor with no more than ten employees, I am exempt from the general information obligation under Section 36 (1) No. 1 of the German Consumer Dispute Resolution Act (VSBG) pursuant to Section 36 (3) VSBG.

Regardless of this exemption: I am not willing or obligated to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board.

In a concrete dispute, I will inform you in text form of the consumer arbitration board responsible for you, in accordance with Section 37 VSBG.

18. Final Provisions

Should individual provisions of these Terms of Use be or become invalid, the validity of the remaining provisions shall not be affected. The invalid provision shall be replaced by the statutory regulation.

There are no oral side agreements. Amendments or additions to these Terms of Use require text form; this also applies to the cancellation of this clause.