Terms of Use

1Agreement to these terms

These Terms of Use (“Terms”) are a legal agreement between you and Zydeno, the developer of Lanefold (“we”, “us”). They apply to the Lanefold app for Android, its updates and everything it shows or produces (together, “the app”). By installing, opening or using the app you accept these Terms. If you do not accept them, do not use the app and uninstall it.

The Privacy Policy explains how the app handles data and forms part of these Terms. If we offer optional features under additional terms in the future, for example paid features, those terms will be shown to you before you accept them and will apply together with these Terms.

You must be old enough to enter into a binding contract where you live, or use the app with the consent and supervision of a parent or guardian who accepts these Terms for you. If you use the app for an organisation, you confirm that you may accept these Terms on its behalf; the consumer-protection provisions of these Terms apply only to consumers.

2What Lanefold provides

Lanefold is a stopwatch and lap timer for coaches. You can time several athletes in lanes by tap, record laps and splits, mark DNS, DNF or DQ, see placings, run interval sets with send-off and rest times, show hand times beside comparison values, use the phone’s camera as a finish gate that times crossings of a line and keeps a finish image for checking, measure the gate’s accuracy on your phone, start a heat with the phone’s text-to-speech voice and a starter beep, and export result sheets, spreadsheets, text and backups.

Features depend on the version you install and on your phone: the frame rates the camera supports, its timestamps, the text-to-speech engine and the apps available to open exported files. Descriptions of possible future features do not make them available in the current version.

3Not professional advice; no safety-critical use

The app is a tool to help you plan and calculate. It does not give professional, engineering, legal or other expert advice, and using it does not create a professional relationship with us. You remain responsible for your inputs, for how you interpret the results and for what you decide to do.

Do not use the app as the only basis for a decision where an error could cause death, personal injury, damage to property or the environment, or legal or financial loss, and do not use it in a safety-critical system, in an emergency or to control equipment. Lanefold is a practice timer. It is not a fully automatic timing (FAT) system, its times are not official results, and it gives no medical, health or training advice.

4Licence to use the app

Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, personal, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable and non-sublicensable licence to download, install and use the app on Android devices you own or control, for your own purposes (timing your own training and the practice sessions and time trials of athletes you coach or look after). The app is licensed to you, not sold.

Except where these Terms, an open-source licence or mandatory law allow it (for example decompiling for interoperability where the law permits), you may not: copy, modify, translate or create derivative works of the app; decompile, disassemble or reverse-engineer it; rent, lend, sell, sublicense, distribute or publish it, or make it available for use by others over a network; remove or change any copyright, trademark or legal notice; or get around any technical limit of the app, including any future purchase, licence or advertising mechanism.

Open-source components and fonts in the app are licensed under their own licences, listed in the app under About → Open-source licenses. Those licences prevail for those components, and nothing in these Terms limits the rights they give you.

5Practice timing, not official results

The start is taken by a tap or by the app’s starter beep, not by a starting pistol connected to the timer. Hand times depend on the reaction of the person timing. Hand-time comparisons shown beside a hand time are statistical approximations, for comparison only; they are not a conversion approved by any sports body and different conventions exist. Where the app rounds or labels times following a published convention, the rules of your own competition, league or federation prevail.

6The camera gate and its accuracy

Gate accuracy depends on your phone and on conditions at the line: the camera’s real frame rate and timestamps, exposure, light and shadows, rain, the stability and placement of the phone, how well the gate is aligned with the line, the angle and distance to the lanes, and how athletes cross (arms, leaning, clothing, several athletes together). The accuracy readout is an estimate measured on your phone at that moment. It is not a guarantee for later crossings or other conditions.

The gate can miss a crossing, register a crossing that is not a finish (another person, an object, an animal or a sudden change of light), or join or split close finishes. Check the finish image, correct or name crossings, and review every result before you rely on it. Calls, notifications, low battery, overheating, low storage or the phone being moved can interrupt or affect timing. For anything that matters, keep a second watch running.

7Safety at the track, pool and field

Supervising athletes, warm-up, rest, heat and weather, hydration, injury prevention and deciding whether an athlete is able to train are your responsibility. Lanefold gives no training, medical or health advice and is not a medical device. Interval plans, paces and times in the app are not recommendations about how hard anyone should train. Do not use the app while driving, cycling or doing anything else that needs your full attention for safety.

8Recording athletes: your responsibilities

You are responsible for the names, times, notes and finish images you enter, capture, export or share, and for having the right to do so. In particular:

• Permission. Time and record athletes only where they have agreed or, where it is required, their parent or guardian, school or club has agreed. Follow the safeguarding, data-protection and image rules of your club, school, federation and country, including those that protect minors.
• No hidden recording. The gate is used openly at a finish line. Do not hide the phone, use the camera to watch or record people secretly, or point it where people expect privacy, such as changing rooms or toilets.
• Sharing. Share results and finish images only with people who are allowed to see them, and respect requests to correct or delete them.
• Accuracy of what you publish. Check names and times before you publish or send them, and do not present practice times as official results.

9Local data, deletion and backups

Your data stays on your phone unless you choose to export or share it. There is no developer account, no server copy and no automatic cloud backup. Finish images are deleted automatically after the period set in Settings (30 days by default); this is intended behaviour, and you can change it before images expire. Delete finish images now and Delete all data remove data permanently after you confirm. Imports add data to what is already on the phone; export a backup first if you want to keep a copy.

Backups and exported files are ordinary, unencrypted files and are your responsibility. Integrity checks cannot guarantee recovery from hardware failure, storage exhaustion, corruption or an incompatible file. The share sheet and file picker pass files to apps and providers you choose, under their own terms. Copies saved outside the app are not removed by Delete all data. See the Privacy Policy for details.

10Fonts and open-source components

The app bundles the Fixel typeface (© 2023 MacPaw Way Ltd.) and the Alumni Sans typeface (© 2015 The Alumni Sans Project Authors) under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, and AndroidX libraries (including CameraX, Room, DataStore and Jetpack Compose), Kotlin and kotlinx libraries under the Apache License 2.0. The licence texts and notices are available in the app under Settings, About, Open-source licences, and work offline. The sounds, icons, drawings and help text in the app were created by Zydeno; the starter voice is produced by the text-to-speech engine on your phone.

Open-source licences prevail for the components they cover. These Terms do not grant permission to resell a font file or library contrary to its own licence. Names of sports bodies appear only to identify their published rules. Lanefold is not affiliated with or endorsed by any athletics or swimming federation, league or timing-equipment maker. Android, Google Play and other third-party names identify their respective products and services; their use does not imply endorsement or affiliation.

11Acceptable use

Use the app lawfully and considerately. Do not use Lanefold to settle bets or wagers, to present practice times as official results or records, to change times in order to misrepresent an athlete’s performance, to record people secretly or where they expect privacy, or to harass, expose or embarrass anyone with their times or images.

12Your content and our materials

You keep the rights you hold in your own data. Recording or exporting it in Lanefold does not transfer ownership of it to Zydeno, and you may print, share and publish your result sheets, subject to the rights of the athletes in them.

The app, its brand, interface artwork, sounds and help text are protected by intellectual-property law. These Terms do not grant a right to extract and redistribute them as a separate product.

13Price, payments, ads and future paid features

Current version. The current version of Lanefold is provided free of charge, without ads and without in-app purchases or subscriptions. This describes the current version only. It is not a promise that the app, or any feature of it, will remain free of charge or free of ads.

Possible changes. We may at any time introduce advertising; offer paid features, in-app purchases, subscriptions or a paid edition; change which features are free; and set or change prices. Features that are free today may require payment in a future version. We will describe such changes in the store listing and release notes, and in the Privacy Policy where they affect data.

Purchases. Any purchase will be made through Google Play and processed by Google under the Google Play Terms of Service and its payment policies. Prices are shown in Google Play before you buy, including taxes where applicable. Subscriptions renew automatically until you cancel them in Google Play; cancelling stops future renewals. Refunds follow Google Play’s refund policies and your mandatory consumer rights, such as the right of withdrawal in the EU and the UK. Where you ask for immediate access to digital content during a withdrawal period, you may lose that right to the extent the law allows, and you will be asked to confirm this before you buy. You are charged only if you choose to buy something.

Ads. If the app shows ads, they are supplied by third parties. We are not responsible for the content of ads or for the products and services advertised, and any dealings with advertisers are between you and them.

Price changes. We may change prices for future purchases at any time. For an active subscription, we will announce a price increase as Google Play and the law require, and you can cancel before it applies.

14Disclaimer of warranties

Times, laps, splits, placings, gate crossings, accuracy readouts, comparisons and exported files can be wrong. We do not promise that the gate detects every crossing or only real ones, that any time is accurate to a stated value on your phone, that your camera supports a given frame rate, that the starter voice works with every text-to-speech engine, that an exported file opens identically in every app, or that lost or deleted data can be recovered.

15Limitation of liability

To the extent the law permits, we are not responsible for any loss or harm arising from wrong, missed or lost times, laps, splits or placings; a missed qualification, selection, record, scholarship or prize; disputes about results or finish images; the consequences of sharing results or images, including images of minors; finish images or other data deleted by the retention setting, Delete finish images now, Delete all data or an import; injuries, accidents or damage to the phone or other property during a timing session; or disclosure through a destination you select. The limitations and mandatory exceptions below govern this clause.

16Your rights as a consumer

If you use the app as a consumer, you benefit from the mandatory consumer-protection rules of the country where you live, and nothing in these Terms affects them. In particular:

• EU and EEA: your statutory rights, including those on the conformity of digital content and digital services under the national rules implementing Directive (EU) 2019/770 where they apply, and mandatory product-liability rules, remain unaffected.
• United Kingdom: your statutory rights, including under the Consumer Rights Act 2015, remain unaffected.
• Australia: our services come with guarantees that cannot be excluded under the Australian Consumer Law. Where the law allows us to limit our liability for failing to meet a consumer guarantee for services that are not of a kind ordinarily acquired for personal, domestic or household use, our liability is limited to supplying the services again or paying the cost of having them supplied again.
• New Zealand: if you acquire the app for business purposes, you agree that the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 does not apply, to the extent the law permits.
• United States and Canada: some states and provinces do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties or the limitation of incidental or consequential damages, so some of the exclusions above may not apply to you. In Québec, the mandatory provisions of the Consumer Protection Act apply.

17Indemnity

To the extent permitted by law, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless the developer against claims, liabilities, damages, losses and reasonable costs, including reasonable legal fees, brought by third parties and arising out of (a) your coaching and timing sessions; the athletes’ names, times and finish images you record, export, publish or share; and any competition, selection, prize or wager decision based on them, (b) your breach of these Terms, (c) your violation of any law or of the rights of others, or (d) output of the app that you provide to another person, such as a client or employer. This does not apply to the extent a claim is caused by our own breach of these Terms or our negligence, or where local consumer law does not allow it.

18Changes, availability and termination

To the extent the law allows, we may change, update, add or remove features, change data sources, and suspend or discontinue the app, in whole or in part or in any country, at any time. We are not obliged to provide updates, maintenance or support, except where mandatory consumer law requires updates to keep the app in conformity.

You may stop using the app at any time by uninstalling it. Your licence ends automatically if you materially breach these Terms, and we may end or suspend it where the law requires. When it ends, you must stop using the app and uninstall it. Your data stays on your device under your control, so export what you need first.

Provisions that by their nature should continue after these Terms end continue to apply, including those on intellectual property, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnity, governing law and general provisions.

19Google Play

You obtain the app through Google Play. Your download, and any purchase you make, is also governed by the Google Play Terms of Service and Google’s policies. Where these Terms conflict with Google Play’s terms on the distribution, billing, refunds or licensing of apps obtained from Google Play, Google Play’s terms prevail to the extent of that conflict.

These Terms are between you and the developer only, not Google. Google is not responsible for the app or its content and has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for it. Android and Google Play are trademarks of Google LLC.

20Governing law and disputes

These Terms, and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or the app, including non-contractual disputes, are governed by the law of the country in which the developer is established, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.

The courts competent for the place where the developer is established have jurisdiction. If you are a consumer, you keep the protection of the mandatory provisions of the law of your country of residence, and you may bring proceedings in the courts of that country where that law allows it.

Before starting formal proceedings, please write to [email protected] and give us at least 30 days to try to resolve the issue informally. This does not affect any time limit that applies to you by law or your right to use an alternative dispute-resolution body available to consumers in your country.

21General provisions

• Entire agreement. These Terms, the Privacy Policy and any additional terms you accept for optional features are the entire agreement between you and us about the app.
• Severability. If a provision is found invalid or unenforceable, it applies to the maximum extent permitted and the rest remains in effect.
• No waiver. Not enforcing a provision is not a waiver of the right to enforce it later.
• Assignment. You may not transfer your rights or obligations under these Terms. We may transfer ours, for example together with the app to another developer; where the law requires, this will not reduce your rights as a consumer.
• Events beyond our control. We are not responsible for failure or delay caused by events beyond our reasonable control, such as outages of networks, devices or third-party services, natural disasters or acts of authorities.
• Export and sanctions. You agree to use the app in compliance with applicable export-control and sanctions laws.
• No third-party rights. No one other than you and us may enforce these Terms.
• Notices. We may give notices in the app, in its store listing or release notes, or on this page. You can send notices to [email protected].
• Language. These Terms are written in English, which is the binding version. A translation, if offered, is for convenience only, unless the law of your country requires otherwise.

22Changes to these terms

We may update these Terms, for example when we change the app, introduce ads or paid features (§13), or when the law changes. The effective date and version at the top of this page show which version applies, and the version history (§23) summarises the changes.

For material changes we give reasonable notice before they take effect, for example in the release notes or in the app. If you keep using the app after the changes take effect, you accept the updated Terms; if you do not agree, stop using the app and uninstall it. Changes do not apply to disputes that arose before they took effect.

23Version history

24Contact

• Developer: Zydeno, the developer of Lanefold on Google Play
• E-mail: [email protected]
• Website: zydeno.com

See also the Privacy Policy.