TANOOKISTUDIOS

Terms

The Deal

What you can expect from me, and what I need from you.

Last updated 23 August 2026.

1. Who You Are Dealing With

These terms are between you and Tanooki Studios LLC, a limited liability company registered in the State of Florida, United States (“Tanooki Studios”, “I”, “me”). The studio is run by one person, which is relevant to several things below and is not false modesty.

You can reach me through the support page or the contact form. Both go to the same desk.

2. What These Terms Cover

They cover this website, and they cover the software Tanooki Studios publishes — the apps, their beta builds, and anything else I put out — together, “the apps”.

If a particular app ships with its own licence or terms, that document wins for that app where the two disagree. If an app is distributed through a store, that store's terms also apply — see section 5.

Using the site or the apps means you accept these terms. If you don't, that is a perfectly reasonable position: don't use them.

3. Your Licence

When you obtain an app from me or from a store, you get a personal, worldwide, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to install and use it on devices you own or control, for as long as you like, subject to these terms and to any device limits the store applies to your account.

You may use the apps for personal or commercial work. Making a living with something I built is the entire point.

You may not:

  • sell, rent, sublicense, or redistribute the apps, or share licence keys or promo codes you were given for your own use;
  • remove or obscure copyright notices or branding;
  • reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the apps, except to the precise extent that applicable law says you may do so regardless of what a contract states — in the UK, EU and several other places, it does, and that right stands;
  • use the apps to break the law, or to harm other people.

I keep ownership of the apps and everything in them — code, artwork, the name, the logo. A licence is permission to use something, not a transfer of it.

4. Your Stuff Stays Yours

Anything you write, record, import or create using an app belongs to you. I claim no licence over it, no right to use it, and no ownership of it.

Most of the apps keep your data on your own machine and never send it anywhere. Where an app does transmit or store something, its own privacy policy says so plainly, and the privacy page covers this website.

5. Apps From The App Store

If you got an app through Apple's App Store, Apple's Licensed Application End User License Agreement also applies to it. Where that agreement and these terms conflict, Apple's wins for that copy of the app.

To spell out what that means in practice:

  • Your agreement for that copy is with me, not with Apple.
  • Apple has no obligation to provide support for the app. I do — through the support page.
  • If the app fails to conform to any warranty, you may tell Apple, and Apple may refund the purchase price. Beyond that refund, Apple has no other warranty obligation.
  • I am responsible for handling any claim that the app or your use of it infringes somebody's intellectual property, and for any product liability or legal non-compliance claim relating to the app. Apple is not.
  • Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms, and may enforce them against you.

The equivalent applies to any other store an app is distributed through.

6. Beta Builds

Beta and TestFlight builds are unfinished software handed to you on purpose. They will have bugs. They may crash, behave strangely, lose data, or be withdrawn without notice. Keep your own backups of anything you care about before pointing a beta build at it.

Beta builds are provided free, are for testing rather than for production work, and may stop working when a build expires. If you helped test an app, you keep that app free when it is released — that is a promise I intend to keep, and it is not a term you can sue me over if a store makes it impossible.

Feedback you send me — bug reports, suggestions, complaints — I may act on freely and without owing you anything. That is not me taking your ideas; it is me being able to fix the thing you told me about without a legal conversation first.

7. Paying For Things

Where an app is sold through a store, that store takes the payment, sets the tax, and handles refunds under its own policy. I never see your card details.

Refunds for App Store purchases go through Apple, using reportaproblem.apple.com. I cannot issue those refunds myself — that is a limitation of the store, not unwillingness. If Apple turns you down and you think that's unfair, tell me and I will see what I can do.

For anything bought directly from me: fourteen days, no interrogation, ask through the support page.

Subscriptions, where one exists, renew until you cancel them, and you cancel them through the store you bought them from. Prices can change; if one does, it applies from your next renewal and not retroactively.

8. Using The Site And The Apps Sensibly

Don't attack the site, don't try to break into parts of it that aren't yours, don't automate the forms, and don't use the contact or support forms to send abuse. I will bin abusive messages and block the sender, and I sleep fine about it.

Finding a security problem is different from causing one. If you find a genuine vulnerability, tell me through the support page and give me a reasonable chance to fix it. I will not come after you for reporting it in good faith.

9. Availability

This is a one-person studio. I cannot promise the site or the apps will always be available, always be current, or exist forever. Apps may be updated in ways that change how they work, and may eventually be discontinued.

If I discontinue an app you paid for, I will say so publicly, and existing copies keep working for as long as your operating system lets them. What I cannot do is promise that a future version of macOS or iOS will keep running software I have stopped maintaining.

10. Warranties

I build these carefully and I use them myself. But I have to be straight with you about what I can guarantee, so:

The apps and this website are provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, or non-infringement. I do not warrant that the apps will be uninterrupted, error-free, or free of harmful components, or that any defect will be corrected.

None of that removes rights the law gives you. If you are a consumer in the UK, the EU, or anywhere else with statutory consumer guarantees, those guarantees apply on top of this and cannot be signed away — including the right to a repair, replacement or refund for software that is faulty or not as described.

11. Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Tanooki Studios LLC is not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, or goodwill, arising out of or relating to these terms, the apps, or this website — whether the claim is in contract, tort, or anything else, and even if I had been warned it might happen.

Where liability cannot be excluded, my total liability to you for all claims combined is limited to the greater of (a) the amount you actually paid me or a store for the app in question in the twelve months before the claim arose, or (b) fifty US dollars.

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded. If your local law does not allow some of the exclusions above, they simply do not apply to you and the rest still stands.

12. Ending It

You can stop using the site and the apps whenever you like; delete them and you're done.

I may end your licence if you seriously breach these terms — pirating the apps, attacking the service, that sort of thing — and I will tell you why. Sections 3 (ownership), 10, 11, 12 and 14 survive the licence ending.

13. Changes

These terms can change: the law moves, the apps change, and I will get things wrong and need to fix them. When they change in a way that matters, the date at the top changes, and the previous version stays in the site's git history rather than quietly disappearing.

Continuing to use the apps after a change means you accept the new version. If you don't, stop using them — and if a change genuinely leaves you worse off on something you paid for, tell me and we'll sort it out.

14. Which Law, And Where

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Florida, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, and the courts of Osceola County, Florida have jurisdiction.

If you are a consumer, that does not take anything away from you. You keep the protection of the mandatory consumer laws of the country you live in, and you can bring proceedings in your own local courts. I am not going to argue that a person in Manchester or Munich has to fly to Florida over an app.

15. The Usual Small Print

If a court decides some part of these terms is unenforceable, that part is cut out and the rest carries on. Not enforcing something once doesn't mean giving it up forever. You may not transfer your rights under these terms to somebody else; I may transfer mine if the studio is ever sold or restructured, and your rights come with it.

These terms, plus any app-specific licence and the privacy policy, are the whole agreement between us about the apps.

16. Talking To Me

Tanooki Studios LLC, through the support page. It reaches one person directly — there is no queue and nobody reading from a script.

I deliberately don't publish an email address anywhere on this site. It isn't evasiveness: a plain address in the footer of every page is harvested within days and then the real messages drown. The forms go to the same place.