Terms of Use

1Agreement to these terms

These Terms of Use (“Terms”) are a legal agreement between you and Zydeno, the developer of Lindencroft (“we”, “us”). They apply to the Lindencroft 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.

2Who provides Lindencroft

Lindencroft is developed and published by Zydeno (“we”, “us”), an independent developer. Contact: support@zydeno.com, website zydeno.com.

The app is intended for adults. If you are under the age of majority where you live, use it only with the involvement of a parent or guardian.

3What Lindencroft is and is not

Lindencroft is a personal family archive. It lets you record people, relationships, events, places, sources and notes; shows them in hourglass, pedigree, descendant, fan and overview charts; describes how two people are related in the app’s languages; imports and exports GEDCOM 5.5.1 and 7.0 files and GEDZIP archives; and produces PDF posters, family books and PNG images. It works offline, has no ads and needs no account.

Lindencroft is not a record-search service, a DNA or ethnicity service, a social network or an online family tree. It does not look up, verify or match people, records or relationships, and it does not give medical, genetic, legal or financial advice. Kinship terms follow general language conventions, which vary by region and family; they are descriptions, not legal definitions of relationship.

4Not proof of descent or relationship

• Living status is an estimate from the dates you record and the threshold you set. Check it before you share a file; the app cannot know who is alive.
• Dates and ages are calculated from what you entered, including approximate dates and conversions between calendars, and may be wrong if the source is wrong or ambiguous.
• Possible duplicates listed after an import are suggestions based on similar names and dates. The app never merges people on its own, and an import can be undone.
• Imported files may contain data the app cannot read or must adjust; the import report lists it. Check important records against your sources.

5Information about other people

You decide what you record about other people and with whom you share it. You are responsible for:

• having the right to record and keep the personal details and notes you add, and respecting the privacy of living relatives;
• asking living relatives for consent where the law or common decency requires it, in particular before you publish a tree online, upload it to a genealogy website or give it to people outside your family;
• respecting copyright in transcriptions and other material you add, print or share;
• choosing the privacy settings for each export, print and share, and checking the result before you give it to anyone.

We do not store, host or publish anything you create in the app. See the Privacy Policy for how the app protects information about living people.

6Your responsibility

You are responsible for:

• the people, relationships, dates, places, sources and other information you enter, and for checking them against your sources;
• keeping your own backups and protecting your phone, backups and exported files;
• how you use charts, books, files and kinship descriptions made with the app, and the consequences of sharing or publishing them;
• complying with the laws that apply to you, including data-protection, copyright and personality-rights laws when you share information about others.

7GEDCOM and file formats

Lindencroft reads and writes GEDCOM 5.5.1 and GEDCOM 7.0 files and GEDZIP archives with its own implementation of the published specifications. GEDCOM is named only to identify the file format; Lindencroft is not affiliated with, certified or endorsed by FamilySearch or Intellectual Reserve, Inc., or by any genealogy program or website. Other programs may read the same file differently, and some information in a file may not survive a transfer between programs. Keep your original files and check imported and exported data in your other software before relying on it.

8Not 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. Lindencroft does not verify family relationships: its charts and kinship terms reflect what you entered and are not evidence of descent, relationship or status for any legal or official purpose. The app gives no medical, genetic or hereditary-health advice.

9Licence 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 (including keeping your family archive and making charts and books for your family). 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.

10Your data and backups

Your trees and settings are stored only on your device. You own them. We do not have a copy and cannot recover them if you lose your phone, uninstall the app, clear its storage or use “Delete all data”. Use “Back up all data” in Settings to keep your own copy, and keep it somewhere private, because it contains details of living relatives. See the Privacy Policy for details.

The trees, charts, books and files you create are yours to use. We claim no rights in them.

11Fonts, specifications and open-source components

Lindencroft is built with open-source software, fonts and a published specification, shown in the app under About → Open-source licenses:

“FAMILYSEARCH GEDCOM” and “FAMILYSEARCH” are trademarks of Intellectual Reserve, Inc. The fonts, libraries and specification remain the property of their authors. Nothing in these Terms limits the rights those licences give you for those components.

12Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• use the app in breach of any law or of other people’s rights, including their privacy and personality rights;
• use the app to harass, expose or harm anyone, or to compile information about people who are not part of your genuine family or genealogy research;
• present charts, books or files made with the app as certified, official or verified evidence of descent, relationship or status;
• copy, modify, redistribute, sell or reverse-engineer the app, except as allowed by law or by an open-source licence.

13Intellectual property

The app, its design, text, icon and the name Lindencroft belong to the developer, except for the open-source components, fonts and specification above, which belong to their owners. Other names, including GEDCOM-related marks, are used only to identify file formats and belong to their respective owners.

14Price, payments, ads and future paid features

Current version. The current version of Lindencroft 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.

15Disclaimer of warranties

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the app and everything it produces are provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including warranties of accuracy, reliability, fitness for a particular purpose, merchantability and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the app is free of errors, that kinship terms, living-status estimates, calculated dates or ages are correct for your family, that every part of a GEDCOM file is read or written without loss, that exported files open correctly in other software, or that the app will work on every device or Android version.

16Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the developer is not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for loss of data or family records, mistaken conclusions about descent or relationship, disputes within families or with third parties, claims arising from information you shared or published, inheritance, citizenship or other legal or official consequences, lost profits or business losses, arising from or related to the app, its output or decisions based on it, even if we were told such damage was possible.

17Your 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.

18Indemnity

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) the information and notes about other people that you record, export, print, publish or share, including family trees you upload to other services, (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.

19Changes, 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.

20Google 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.

21Governing 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 support@zydeno.com 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.

22General 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 support@zydeno.com.
• 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.

23Changes to these terms

We may update these Terms, for example when we change the app, introduce ads or paid features (§14), or when the law changes. The effective date and version at the top of this page show which version applies, and the version history (§24) 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.

24Version history

25Contact

• Developer: Zydeno, the developer of Lindencroft on Google Play
• E-mail: support@zydeno.com
• Website: zydeno.com

See also the Privacy Policy.