Ulyssify

Ulyssify Terms of Service

Effective date: September 5, 2026 Last updated: September 5, 2026

These Terms are an agreement between you and Ulyssify, Inc. ("Ulyssify", "we", "us"), a Delaware corporation. They govern your use of the Ulyssify apps and website (together, the "Service").

Please read section 11 carefully. It describes what you are agreeing to when you use Ulyssify to restrict your own access to your own devices, and it is the most important part of this agreement.

1. Accepting these Terms

By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle your information and is part of this agreement.

2. Eligibility

You must be at least 13 years old to use Ulyssify, and by creating an account you confirm that you are at least 13. If you are between 13 and the age of majority where you live, you may use the Service only with the involvement of a parent or legal guardian, who agrees to these Terms on your behalf.

Ulyssify is a general-audience product and is not directed to children under 13. If we learn that an account belongs to someone under 13, we will close it.

You also confirm that you are not barred from using the Service under the laws of your country or under United States sanctions and export laws.

3. Your account

  • Give accurate information. Keep your email address current so we can reach you about your account and your blocks.
  • Keep it secure. You are responsible for your password and for everything that happens under your account. Tell us promptly at support@ulyssify.com if you believe someone else has access.
  • One account, one person. Accounts are personal. Do not share, sell or transfer your account.
  • Your devices are yours. Only install Ulyssify's blocking or enforcement components on devices you own or are authorized to configure. Do not use Ulyssify to restrict someone else's device without their knowledge and consent.

4. What the Service does

Ulyssify is a commitment device. You choose apps, websites and time windows to restrict, you set the conditions under which those restrictions apply, and Ulyssify enforces the choices you made. The Service includes iOS and watchOS apps, a macOS app with a background enforcement daemon, a Windows app with a background enforcement service, and a web app.

The Service also includes optional features such as tasks and habits, an in-app points system, and optional AI features. Features vary by platform and may change over time.

Ulyssify is not a medical device and is not a health service. It does not diagnose, treat or prevent any condition, and it is not a substitute for professional advice. If you are struggling with compulsive use, addiction, or your mental health, please talk to a qualified professional.

5. License and intellectual property

We grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use the Service for your own personal, non-commercial purposes, subject to these Terms.

Ulyssify and its licensors own the Service, including the software, design, branding and content we provide. Nothing in these Terms transfers any of those rights to you. You may not copy, modify, reverse engineer, decompile, resell, sublicense or create derivative works from the Service, except where that restriction is unenforceable under the law that applies to you.

6. Subscriptions and billing

Some features require a paid subscription.

6.1 On iOS and other Apple platforms

Purchases are made through Apple In-App Purchase and are governed by Apple's terms in addition to these Terms. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription renews automatically unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. You manage and cancel the subscription in your Apple Account settings, not through us. We cannot cancel or refund an Apple purchase on your behalf.

6.2 On the web and other platforms

Purchases are made through our own checkout with our payment processor. Your subscription renews automatically at the interval and price shown at purchase, until you cancel. You can cancel at any time from your account settings; cancellation stops future billing and your access continues to the end of the period you already paid for.

6.3 Prices and changes

Prices, plans and included features are shown before you purchase. We may change them for future billing periods. If we do, we will give you notice before the change takes effect, and where required we will obtain your consent. If you do not accept a price change, cancel before the next renewal.

6.4 Free trials and promotions

If we offer a free trial, it converts to a paid subscription at the end of the trial unless you cancel before the trial ends. The terms of any promotion are stated in the promotion itself.

6.5 Refunds

  • Apple purchases: refunds are handled entirely by Apple under Apple's policies. Request them through Apple.
  • Direct and web purchases: payments are non-refundable except where a refund is required by law. You may cancel at any time to stop future charges.

6.6 EU and UK right of withdrawal

If you are a consumer in the EEA or UK, you generally have 14 days to withdraw from a purchase of digital services. By starting to use a paid feature during that period, you request that we begin performance immediately, and you acknowledge that you lose the right of withdrawal once performance is complete.

6.7 Taxes

Prices may exclude applicable taxes, which will be added where required.

6.8 Commitment settings after a subscription lapses

Your commitment settings (the master cooldown and the Coin-gain delay) are the part of the Service that keeps a restriction hard to weaken on impulse. If a paid subscription lapses, whether you cancel or a payment fails, these settings are not dropped the instant your access ends. They are honored for a short safety window, up to about 24 hours after your paid period ends plus any cooldown you configured, and then they revert to the free level. This is intentional: a billing hiccup or a brief lapse should not instantly drop a commitment you set for yourself. Blocking itself is free and is unaffected by a lapse; only these commitment settings revert, and only after the window has passed.

7. Acceptable use

Do not:

  • use the Service to break the law, or to help anyone else do so;
  • restrict, monitor or interfere with a device or an account that is not yours, or that you are not authorized to configure;
  • attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Service, other users' data, or our systems;
  • probe, scan, overload, or disrupt the Service or its infrastructure, or circumvent our rate limits, authentication or security controls;
  • reverse engineer or tamper with our enforcement components in order to defeat blocking for anyone other than yourself, or distribute tools whose purpose is to do so;
  • scrape or bulk-extract data from the Service, or use it to train a machine learning model;
  • upload content that is unlawful, that infringes someone's rights, that depicts a person without their consent, or that is sexual content involving minors;
  • impersonate anyone, or misrepresent your affiliation with a person or organization;
  • resell, rent or commercially redistribute the Service.

We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate this section.

8. Your content

You own what you create. Your tasks, notes, block lists, photos and messages remain yours.

To operate the Service, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, copy, transmit, display and process your content solely to provide and improve the Service for you, and to the extent needed to run the features you use (including sending content to our AI provider when you use an AI feature, as described in the Privacy Policy). This license ends when you delete the content or your account, except for copies retained in routine backups for a short period or where the law requires retention.

We do not use your content to train AI models, and we do not permit our AI provider to train on it.

You are responsible for your content, and you confirm you have the rights to it. We may remove content that violates these Terms or the law.

9. Third-party services

The Service works with third parties, including Apple, Google, our payment processor and our AI provider. Their terms and policies apply to their part of the experience, and we are not responsible for their services. Nothing in these Terms creates any obligation for those third parties toward you beyond their own terms.

10. Ulycoin and in-app points

Ulyssify includes an in-app points system that we call Ulycoin (also shown simply as Coins). You earn Ulycoin by doing what you committed to, and you spend it on the access you chose to gate.

Please understand exactly what Ulycoin is:

  • Ulycoin is a self-defined in-app mechanic. It is not currency, not a security, not a stored-value or prepaid instrument, and not a crypto asset.
  • Ulycoin has no cash value. It cannot be redeemed for money, goods or services outside the Service.
  • Ulycoin is not transferable: not between accounts, not to any other person, and not to any external system.
  • Ulycoin balances are not property, and you have no ownership interest in them.
  • We may adjust, correct, reset, expire or change point balances, earning rates, and the rules of the system, including to fix bugs, to correct abuse, or to improve the design of the product. Where a change would materially affect balances you have accrued, we will give notice where practical.
  • If your account is closed for any reason, any remaining Ulycoin is forfeited and is not refundable or convertible.

11. Commitment device, self-imposed restrictions, and assumption of risk

Read this section before you use Ulyssify.

Ulyssify is a commitment device. Its entire purpose is that you decide, in advance and while thinking clearly, to restrict your own access to apps, websites and devices, and that the restriction then holds even at the later moment when you would rather it did not. To make that work, some restrictions are deliberately designed to be hard to remove quickly. Certain actions that would weaken or remove enforcement, including logging out, uninstalling, disabling blocking, or deleting your account, are delay-gated or cooldown-gated by design. That is a feature, and it is the feature you chose.

By using the Service, you acknowledge and agree that:

(a) You are doing this to yourself, on purpose. You are voluntarily and intentionally imposing these restrictions on yourself, with knowledge of what they will prevent. You choose which apps, sites and devices are affected, and you choose the delays and cooldowns. Ulyssify carries out the choices you made.

(b) Restrictions may outlive the app. A restriction may persist after you log out, after you uninstall the app, or after you delete your account, until the delay you configured has elapsed. On macOS and Windows, enforcement runs as a background service that is separate from the app. If that service is disrupted, or if the app is removed while the service is still installed, the service is designed to fail closed, meaning it may continue blocking rather than stop. Removing enforcement is done through the in-app removal flow, which is itself delay-gated. Force-deleting the app is not a way to remove enforcement, and may leave you blocked for longer.

(c) Do not rely on Ulyssify where access matters urgently. Do not use Ulyssify to restrict anything you may need in an emergency or in any safety-critical or time-critical situation. Keep an independent means of reaching emergency services, essential communications, medical information, work systems, financial accounts, and anything else you cannot afford to lose access to. Software fails, devices fail, networks fail, and a delay you set cannot always be shortened. Your phone's emergency calling remains available at the operating system level, but you should not depend on Ulyssify behaving any particular way in an emergency.

(d) You accept the consequences of your own restrictions. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Ulyssify is not liable for any loss or harm arising from restrictions you chose to impose on yourself, or from the Service enforcing them as designed. That includes missed calls, messages and notifications; missed meetings, deadlines, work or study; lost income or opportunities; missed alerts from other apps; inability to access an account, a file or a device during a cooldown; and any consequential effects of the above. This applies whether the restriction ran exactly as intended, ran longer than you expected, or failed to lift on time because of a bug, an outage, a device problem, or a third-party platform change.

(e) You keep your own escape hatches. Before arming a long restriction, you are responsible for making sure you have another way to do anything essential: another device, another number, a written-down password, a colleague who can reach you.

Nothing in this section limits liability that cannot be limited by law, including liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that applicable consumer law does not permit us to exclude. If you are a consumer in the EEA or UK, your statutory rights are unaffected.

12. Availability and changes to the Service

We work to keep the Service running, but we do not promise it will be uninterrupted or error-free. We may modify, suspend or discontinue features, and we may perform maintenance. We will give notice of significant changes where practical.

Platform vendors (Apple, Google, Microsoft) can change the frameworks our enforcement depends on. Such a change can alter or break blocking behavior in ways we do not control. See section 11(c).

13. Disclaimers

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available". To the maximum extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, and any warranty arising from course of dealing or usage of trade.

We do not warrant that the Service will meet your requirements, that blocking will be complete or uninterrupted, that it cannot be circumvented, that lifts and re-blocks will always occur exactly on time, or that AI-generated content is accurate. AI outputs may be wrong. Use your own judgment.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain disclaimers, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

14. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law:

  • We are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, lost data, lost opportunities, or goodwill, even if we were advised such damages were possible.
  • Our total liability to you for all claims relating to the Service is limited to the greater of (i) the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim, or (ii) US$100.

These limits apply to every theory of liability, in contract, tort or otherwise, and they apply even if a limited remedy fails of its essential purpose.

Nothing here excludes liability that cannot be excluded by law, including for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or under mandatory consumer protection law. If you are a consumer in the EEA or UK, your statutory rights are unaffected, and we remain liable for foreseeable loss caused by our breach of these Terms.

15. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Ulyssify, Inc., its officers, directors, employees and agents from any claims, damages, liabilities, losses and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising from your misuse of the Service, your violation of these Terms or the law, your content, or your use of the Service to affect a device or a person other than yourself. We will notify you of any such claim and you may control the defense with counsel we reasonably approve; you may not settle in a way that imposes an obligation on us without our consent.

16. Termination

You may stop at any time. Cancel your subscription in your account settings (or, for Apple purchases, in your Apple Account settings), and delete your account from within the app, subject to the delay described in section 11(b).

We may suspend or terminate your access if you materially breach these Terms, if we are required to by law, or if continuing would create a legal or security risk. Except where a breach makes it inappropriate, we will give you notice and, where the issue can be fixed, a chance to fix it. If we terminate without cause, we will refund the unused portion of any prepaid period.

Sections 8 (as to licenses already exercised), 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 17 and 18 survive termination.

17. Disputes, arbitration, and class-action waiver

Please talk to us first. Before starting any formal proceeding, email legal@ulyssify.com with a description of the dispute and what you want. We will try in good faith to resolve it within 60 days.

Arbitration. If we cannot resolve it informally, you and Ulyssify agree that any dispute relating to these Terms or the Service will be resolved by binding individual arbitration, administered by a recognized arbitration provider under its consumer rules, rather than in court. The arbitration will be conducted in English, and it may be held remotely or in the county where you live.

Exceptions. Either of us may bring a claim in small claims court, and either of us may seek injunctive relief in court to protect intellectual property or to stop unauthorized access to the Service.

Class-action waiver. You and Ulyssify agree to bring claims only in an individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any class, collective, consolidated or representative proceeding. The arbitrator may not consolidate claims or preside over a representative action. If this waiver is found unenforceable as to a particular claim, that claim proceeds in court and the rest of this section still applies to the other claims.

Your right to opt out. You may opt out of this arbitration section by emailing legal@ulyssify.com within 30 days of first accepting these Terms, stating your name, the email on your account, and that you are opting out of arbitration. Opting out does not affect anything else in these Terms, and it will not affect your use of the Service.

Consumers in the EEA and UK are not covered by this section. If you are a consumer there, you may bring proceedings in the courts of your country of residence, and your mandatory consumer rights and access to your local dispute-resolution bodies are unaffected.

Nothing in this section prevents you from reporting a concern to a government agency.

18. Governing law and venue

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Subject to section 17, you and Ulyssify agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in California.

If you are a consumer, this does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory law of your country of residence, and you may have the right to bring proceedings there.

19. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. When we make a material change we will update the "Last updated" date and give you notice in the app or by email before it takes effect, generally at least 30 days in advance unless a shorter period is required for legal or security reasons. Where the law requires your renewed consent, we will ask for it. If you do not agree to a change, stop using the Service and cancel before it takes effect; continuing to use the Service after the effective date means you accept the updated Terms.

20. General

  • Entire agreement. These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between you and us about the Service, and they replace any earlier agreement on the same subject.
  • Severability. If any provision is unenforceable, it is modified to the minimum extent needed, or severed, and the rest stays in force.
  • No waiver. If we do not enforce a provision, that is not a waiver of it.
  • Assignment. You may not assign these Terms. We may assign them to an affiliate or in connection with a merger, acquisition or sale of assets.
  • Force majeure. Neither party is liable for a failure caused by events beyond its reasonable control.
  • No third-party beneficiaries, except that Apple is a third-party beneficiary of these Terms with respect to your use of the iOS and watchOS apps, and may enforce them against you.
  • Notices to you may be sent to the email on your account or shown in the app. Notices to us go to legal@ulyssify.com.

21. Contact us

Email: support@ulyssify.com for general questions; legal@ulyssify.com for disputes and legal notices. Postal: Ulyssify, Inc., 400 Corporate Pointe, Suite 300, Culver City, CA 90230