Terms of Use
These terms are an agreement between you and the developer of PowerLock ("we", "us"). They cover the PowerLock app for iPhone, the PowerLock subscription and this website (together, "PowerLock"). By downloading or using PowerLock, you agree to these terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you don't agree, please don't use PowerLock.
In plain English: PowerLock is a commitment tool. Workouts at your gym earn screen-time minutes, using the apps you pick spends them, and those apps lock when you run out. It isn't medical advice, and it depends on Apple's Screen Time and GPS, which aren't perfect. Subscriptions renew automatically through Apple until you cancel. Please read the full terms below. This summary doesn't replace them.
1. Who can use PowerLock
You must be at least 13 years old. If you're under 18, or under the age of majority where you live, a parent or guardian must agree to these terms for you. PowerLock is for your own device and your own habits. Don't use it to restrict someone else's iPhone without their knowledge.
2. What PowerLock does, and its limits
PowerLock uses Apple's Screen Time features to manage apps you select. When location checks on your iPhone show you completed a workout at your gym, PowerLock adds the minutes you chose to your bank. Using the selected apps spends those minutes. When your balance reaches zero, PowerLock locks the apps again, every day or only on training days depending on your settings, until you earn more minutes or use one of your emergency unlocks. Unused minutes expire at the end of each week. Minutes have no cash value and can't be bought, sold or transferred. You understand that:
- It depends on Apple. Locks, schedules and notifications run through iOS. A lock may start or end a few minutes late, and the minutes spent may be counted slightly differently from what you expect. iOS updates, settings, low battery modes or bugs may also stop it from working. We don't control iOS and can't promise a lock will always work exactly as scheduled.
- GPS is imperfect. Signal inside buildings, your phone's settings or a weak connection can cause a session that doesn't verify. We try to be fair (see section 4), but we don't guarantee that every real workout will verify.
- You stay in control. You can turn off PowerLock's Screen Time access in iOS Settings or delete the app at any time. Doing that ends the lock.
- Plan for important apps. Calls to emergency services always work on iPhone. Even so, don't lock apps you may need for safety, work, school, travel, banking or reaching people who depend on you. You're responsible for anything you miss while an app is locked.
3. Health and safety
PowerLock's workout plans come from general templates. They aren't personalized medical, nutrition or training advice, and PowerLock doesn't promise any result, such as weight loss or strength gain. Talk to a doctor before you start a new exercise program, especially if you have a health condition, an injury or are pregnant. Stop exercising and seek help if you feel pain, dizziness or shortness of breath. You exercise at your own risk. Never let a lock push you to train when you're sick or hurt. That's what rest days and emergency unlocks are for.
4. Fair use of verification
PowerLock works only if it's honest. Please don't fake your location or tamper with the app to get around the lock. That includes location-spoofing tools, a modified iOS, or picking a "gym" that isn't one. We may change how verification works (for example the gym radius or the minutes required) to keep it fair and accurate. If you believe a session failed by mistake, use "Report a problem" in the app or email us.
5. Subscriptions and free trials
- Plans. PowerLock requires a subscription. The prices and the length of any free trial are shown in the app before you buy, in your local currency.
- Payment through Apple. Payment is charged to your Apple ID when you confirm the purchase. If your plan includes a free trial, you're charged when the trial ends unless you cancel at least 24 hours before it ends.
- Automatic renewal. Your subscription renews automatically at the same price and for the same length unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Your Apple ID is charged within 24 hours before each renewal.
- Cancelling. Manage or cancel any time in iOS Settings → your name → Subscriptions. Deleting the app doesn't cancel your subscription. After you cancel, you keep access until the end of the period you paid for.
- Refunds. Apple handles all payments and refunds under its own policies, and we can't issue refunds ourselves. To ask for one, go to reportaproblem.apple.com.
- Price changes. If we change a price, Apple will tell you first and, where the law or Apple's rules require it, ask you to agree before you're charged the new price.
6. Your license and acceptable use
We give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use PowerLock on Apple devices you own or control, as permitted by Apple's Usage Rules in the App Store Terms. You agree not to:
- copy, modify, resell or redistribute PowerLock, or make derivative works from it;
- reverse engineer, decompile or try to extract its source code, except where the law allows it despite this restriction;
- get around its security, its subscription checks or its verification;
- use it for anything illegal or to harm, track or control another person.
7. Ownership
We own PowerLock, including its software, design, workout templates, text, logos and the PowerLock name. These terms don't give you any rights to them beyond the license in section 6. The data you create in the app, like your plan, history and bodyweight log, is yours, and it stays on your iPhone (see our Privacy Policy). If you send us feedback or ideas, we may use them without owing you anything.
8. Third-party services
PowerLock relies on Apple services, including the App Store, Screen Time, Location Services and Apple Maps. Your use of those services is also governed by Apple's terms and privacy policy. We aren't responsible for third-party services or their outages.
9. Changes to PowerLock or these terms
We may update, change or discontinue features. We may also update these terms. If a change is significant, we'll tell you in the app or on this page before it takes effect, and we'll update the date at the top. If you keep using PowerLock after a change takes effect, you accept the new terms. If you don't agree, stop using PowerLock and cancel your subscription.
10. Ending these terms
You can stop at any time by deleting the app and cancelling your subscription. We may suspend or end your license if you seriously or repeatedly break these terms. Sections 3, 7 and 11–16 still apply after these terms end.
11. Disclaimer
To the fullest extent the law allows, PowerLock is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied. That includes warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy and non-infringement. We don't promise that PowerLock will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that locks, schedules or location verification will always work.
12. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent the law allows, we won't be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages. That includes lost data, lost profits, missed messages or calls, and injury from exercise. It also includes anything that happens because an app was locked or failed to lock. Our total liability for any claim relating to PowerLock is limited to the greater of (a) the amount you paid for PowerLock in the 12 months before the claim and (b) US $50.
Some places don't allow these exclusions or limits, so some of them may not apply to you. Nothing in these terms limits liability that can't be limited by law.
13. Indemnity
If you break these terms or the law while using PowerLock, and that leads to a claim against us, you agree to cover our reasonable losses and costs from it, to the extent the law allows.
14. Apple
You obtained PowerLock through Apple's App Store, so these points also apply:
- These terms are between you and us, not Apple. We, not Apple, are solely responsible for PowerLock and its content.
- Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for PowerLock.
- If PowerLock fails to meet an applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price you paid for it, if any. To the fullest extent the law allows, Apple has no other warranty obligation for PowerLock. Any other claims, losses, costs or liabilities from a failure to meet a warranty are our responsibility, to the extent these terms don't disclaim them.
- We, not Apple, are responsible for handling any claims you or a third party have relating to PowerLock or your use of it. That includes product liability claims, claims that PowerLock fails to meet a legal or regulatory requirement, and claims under consumer protection, privacy or similar laws.
- If a third party claims that PowerLock or your use of it infringes their intellectual property, we, not Apple, are responsible for investigating, defending, settling and discharging that claim.
- You confirm that you are not in a country subject to a U.S. Government embargo, or one the U.S. Government has designated as a "terrorist supporting" country. You also confirm that you're not on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
- You must follow any third-party terms that apply when you use PowerLock, such as your wireless carrier's terms.
- Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms. Once you accept them, Apple has the right to enforce them against you as a third-party beneficiary.
15. Governing law and disputes
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Illinois and applicable U.S. federal law, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Before filing a claim, please email us so we can try to resolve it informally within 30 days. If we can't, either of us may bring the claim in small claims court, if it qualifies. Otherwise, the claim goes to the state or federal courts located in the State of Illinois, and you and we agree to their jurisdiction. If you're a consumer in the EU, the UK or another place whose laws give you the right to sue at home or keep local protections, those rights still apply.
16. General
These terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and us about PowerLock. If a court finds any part unenforceable, the rest stays in effect. If we don't enforce a term, that doesn't mean we've waived it. You can't transfer these terms. We may transfer them as part of a merger, sale or reorganization.
17. Contact
The developer of PowerLock
Email: support@powerlock.app