PAA Bootcamp Terms of Use

1Who we are and this agreement

PAA Bootcamp ("the app") is provided by Am3rgroup, 1052 St. Laurent Blvd, Unit 3, Ottawa, Ontario K1K 3B4, Canada ("we", "us", "our"). These terms are an agreement between you and us. You accept them by ticking the box on the app's terms page, and by using the app.

If you do not agree, do not use the app. You can uninstall it at any time, and the app never prevents or delays that.

2Who can use the app

• You must be at least 13 years old.
• If you are under the age of majority where you live (18 or 19 in Canada, depending on the province), a parent or guardian must agree to these terms on your behalf, and is responsible for your use of the app.
• You may use the app only for yourself, on a device you are allowed to use, and only in ways that are lawful where you are.

3What the app does

The app blocks apps you choose to restrict and lets you unlock them with screen-time minutes you earn by walking and by answering trivia. Minutes you have banked can instead be given up for points toward The Walk competition, which destroys them. Blocking uses the Android accessibility service, which you enable yourself and can switch off at any time in Android settings. The app's permission screens and our Privacy Policy explain what that service can and cannot see.

We may improve, change or remove features, including the rates at which steps and trivia earn minutes and points, to keep the app working and fair.

4Your licence, and what stays ours

We give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to install and use the app on devices you own or control, for your own non-commercial use, under these terms and Google Play's terms. The app, its design, text, code, trivia questions we wrote and the PAA Bootcamp name and marks belong to us or our licensors. Third-party images in the app are used under their own licences, which the app lists in Settings, Image credits.

5Fair play and acceptable use

You agree not to:

• modify, decompile, patch or tamper with the app, except where the law allows it despite this term;
• earn steps, minutes or points you did not genuinely earn, for example with a device or app that shakes the phone, writes fake steps, or automates trivia;
• use the app to break the law or to harm anyone, including yourself.

We may correct or remove minutes and points we reasonably believe were not genuinely earned, and may exclude anyone who breaks this section from a competition.

6Health and safety

Walking and other physical activity carry risk, and you take part at your own risk. Speak to a doctor first if you have a health condition or have not been active in a while, and stop if you feel pain, dizziness or shortness of breath. Stay aware of your surroundings: never use the app while driving, and never walk into traffic or anywhere unsafe to earn minutes or points. Nothing in the app is medical advice, and the app is not a medical device.

7Blocking is a self-control aid, not a safety device

Blocking can be bypassed, can fail, and can be switched off by you. Do not rely on it anywhere a failure would matter. The phone dialer, messages and contacts are never blocked, and neither are the Android settings screens where the service is switched off.

8Minutes, points, streaks and coins

• Minutes, points, streaks and sober coins are features of the app. They have no cash value, are not your property, and cannot be sold, transferred, or exchanged for money or anything else, except as a competition's official rules may say for that competition.
• They live only on your phone. Uninstalling the app or clearing its data deletes them permanently.
• Switching protection off, including by force stopping the app, wipes every point toward The Walk and every banked minute, and resets your streak. The app warns you about this before it can happen.

9The Walk competition

• The Walk is a planned competition. Nothing in these terms is an offer of a prize. Whether an event runs, where, when, who may enter and what can be won will be set out in that event's official rules, published before entries open. Those rules apply in addition to these terms.
• Competitions cannot run everywhere. Some countries, states and provinces restrict contests of this kind, so residents of those places may not be eligible to enter or to win. The official rules will say where each event runs.
• Points you earn in the app do not guarantee entry, a place, or a prize. The official rules will say whether and how earlier points count.
• We calculate scores, and our calculation and decisions about entries are final, except where the law gives you a right to challenge them.
• We may change, postpone or cancel planned competitions.
• Google is not a sponsor of, and is not involved in, any competition.

10Advertising

The free version shows ads served by Google AdMob, including banners, rewarded ads you choose to watch, an ad when you open the app, and one after an emergency unlock. We are not responsible for the content of third-party ads. How ad data is handled is described in our Privacy Policy.

11The ad-removal subscription

• Removing ads is an optional monthly subscription sold and billed by Google Play. The price is shown in the app and on Google's purchase screen before you buy, in your local currency, including any taxes Google applies.
• It renews automatically every month until you cancel. You can cancel at any time in Google Play, Subscriptions, and the app links there from Settings. Cancelling stops the next renewal; ads return when the month you paid for ends.
• Refunds follow Google Play's refund policies and any rights the law where you live gives you, which these terms do not reduce.
• If the price changes, Google Play will tell you before it applies, as its own rules require.
• The subscription removes ads and nothing else. It buys no minutes, no points, no extra unlocks and no advantage in any competition.

12Google and other third-party services

The app relies on Google services: Google Play (download and billing), AdMob (ads), Health Connect (an optional step source) and ML Kit (the code scanner used to move to a new phone). Your use of them is also governed by Google's terms. We are not responsible for services we do not control.

13Privacy

Our Privacy Policy explains what the app processes and where it goes. We run no server of our own, and your progress stays on your phone.

14No guarantee

To the maximum extent the law allows, the app is provided "as is" and "as available". We do not promise that it will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that it will count every step or block every app. This does not affect any guarantee the law gives consumers that cannot be excluded.

15Limits of responsibility

To the maximum extent the law allows, Am3rgroup and the people who make PAA Bootcamp are not responsible for any injury, illness, loss or damage arising from your use of the app or from taking part in a competition, including lost minutes, points or streaks. Where the law does not allow us to exclude responsibility entirely, our total responsibility is limited to the amount you paid us for the subscription in the twelve months before the claim, or CAD $50 if you paid nothing.

16Ending this agreement

You can end this agreement at any time by uninstalling the app; cancel any subscription in Google Play as well. We may stop offering the app, or exclude someone who breaks section 5 from competitions. Sections 8, 14, 15, 18 and 20 continue after the agreement ends.

17Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. If a change matters, we will tell you in the app before it applies to you, and where the law requires it we will ask you to accept the new terms. The "Last updated" date at the top shows when they last changed.

18Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada that apply there, and disputes may be brought in the courts of Ontario.

If you are a consumer, you keep every protection the mandatory law of the place where you live gives you, including the right to bring a claim in your local courts, and nothing in this section takes those away. In particular, residents of Quebec keep the protection of Quebec law and the jurisdiction of Quebec courts, and residents of the European Union and the United Kingdom keep their statutory consumer rights.

We would rather sort out a problem directly: please email us first.

19Language

These terms are available in French and in English, and the French version is offered first on the app's terms page. Both versions are equally authoritative. Les présentes conditions sont offertes en français et en anglais, et la version française est présentée en premier dans l'application. Les deux versions ont la même valeur. A Spanish translation is also offered for convenience. If it differs from the English version, the English version applies.

20General

• If any part of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest continues to apply.
• If we do not enforce a term straight away, we have not given up the right to enforce it later.
• These terms, the in-app key terms, the Privacy Policy and any official competition rules are the whole agreement between you and us about the app.
• You may not transfer this agreement. We may transfer it to a business that takes over the app, without reducing your rights.

21Contact

Am3rgroup, 1052 St. Laurent Blvd, Unit 3, Ottawa, Ontario K1K 3B4, Canada.
Email: paa@am3rgroup.com