Terms of Service

The short version

Owner & Pet is a private tool for consenting adults. It is not a party to your dynamic, not a monitor of it, and not responsible for what the two of you agree to or do. Use it lawfully, keep it between consenting adults, and the rest of this document is mostly us saying that carefully.

Agreement to these terms

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) are a binding agreement between you and Owner & Pet. By creating an account or using the app, you accept them. If you do not accept them, do not use the app.

The dynamic belongs to its two members. Each member accepts these Terms for themselves. The Owner who creates the dynamic is responsible for ensuring their Pet is aware of these Terms before joining.

Eligibility — adults only

You must be at least 18 years old to use Owner & Pet. By using the app, you represent and warrant that you are an adult and that your use of the app is lawful where you live.

Owner & Pet is designed for two consenting adults. It must never be used in any way that involves a minor — as a member, a subject of rules or tasks, or in any other capacity. Accounts are terminated immediately and permanently if we learn this has happened.

Consent — the foundation of the app

Everything inside Owner & Pet — every rule, ritual, merit, demerit, task, and consequence — is understood to exist inside consent that both members of the dynamic have given and continue to give. If it is not consensual, it is not this app. There is no version of Owner & Pet that tolerates coercion, manipulation, or pressuring someone into a dynamic they have not freely chosen.

Consent is yours to manage, not ours. Owner & Pet is a tool: it records what you enter and enforces what you configure. It does not verify, police, guarantee, or substitute for the agreement between the two of you. Each member is solely responsible for ensuring that everything in their dynamic is and remains fully consensual, that consent is informed and revocable at any time, and that both members communicate about what they want and where the limits are.

The app is not a substitute for communication, honesty, or ongoing consent between you. If your dynamic includes risks — physical, emotional, or otherwise — the two of you are responsible for managing them, including safewords, check-ins, and aftercare as you see fit. Nothing the app displays or suggests constitutes an instruction to do anything, and no ledger entry, rule, or consequence in the app obliges anyone to do anything they have not freely agreed to.

Not professional advice

Owner & Pet is not medical, psychological, psychiatric, legal, financial, or relationship advice, and its features — including AI suggestions — are not a substitute for professional help. Nothing in the app should be treated as diagnosis, therapy, counseling, or professional guidance of any kind. If you need professional support, please seek a qualified professional.

Your account

You are responsible for the accuracy of the information you provide, for keeping your login credentials confidential, and for all activity under your account. Tell us immediately if you suspect unauthorized access to your account.

One account per person. A dynamic consists of exactly two members: the Owner and the Pet. You may not share an account with anyone, and you may not invite a third person into a dynamic.

Acceptable use

You agree not to use Owner & Pet to: involve any person who has not consented, including anyone under 18; break any law where you live; store, share, or depict unlawful content; harass, stalk, threaten, defame, or coerce anyone; impersonate any person; or harm the service itself — including probing, scanning, or testing its security without authorization, reverse engineering it, scraping it, overloading it, or interfering with other users.

You may not use the app to pressure, trick, or manipulate your partner — inside or outside the dynamic. A dynamic built on manipulation is not consent, and using our tool to administrate one is a violation of these Terms.

You may not resell, sublicense, or commercially exploit access to the app.

Your content and your license to us

Your dynamic's content — rules, rituals, tasks, ledger entries, everything you write — remains yours. You own it. You grant us only the limited license we need to operate the service for you: to store it, display it to the two of you, back it up, and run the AI suggestion feature on it if you are on Premium. That license ends when your data is deleted.

We claim no ownership of your content and no right to use it beyond operating the service. We do not monitor dynamics as a matter of course — but we may investigate and act on credible reports of unlawful use, and we may preserve evidence where the law requires it.

AI features

On the Premium plan, the app's AI can read your ledger and task history and suggest rules, rituals, and consequences. Suggestions are algorithmic output, not advice, not endorsements, and not instructions. They may be wrong, unhelpful, or unsuited to your relationship. You can ignore every suggestion, and you remain solely responsible for what you adopt and what you do.

Do not rely on AI suggestions in place of your own judgment or your partner's consent.

Subscriptions and payment

Every account starts on the Free plan — 10 active tasks, 5 rules, 5 rituals. Upgrades to Pro ($9.99/mo) or Premium ($19.99/mo) happen inside the app. We never collect payment anywhere else, and no payment is required to begin.

Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled, and you can cancel at any time from inside the app; cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. Prices may change, but a price change will never apply to your current billing period without advance notice to you.

We may suspend or terminate accounts for non-payment. If a subscription is cancelled or an account is terminated by us for a violation of these Terms, no refund is owed except where the law requires one.

Availability and changes to the service

We work to keep the app available and reliable, but we do not promise uninterrupted access. We may fix, change, improve, add, or remove features. If we ever discontinue the service, we will give you reasonable notice and a way to export your dynamic's data.

Intellectual property

The app — its design, code, branding, and everything in it that is not your content — belongs to Owner & Pet and its licensors. You get no rights in it beyond the permission to use the app as these Terms describe.

Third-party services

The app may link to or rely on third-party services (for example, payment processing or email delivery). Those services are governed by their own terms and policies; we are not responsible for them. If you leave the app through a link, review the destination's terms yourself.

Disclaimers

The app is provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, or non-infringement. We do not warrant that the service will be error-free, secure, timely, or uninterrupted, or that suggestions, scores, or reports in the app are accurate or fit for your purposes.

Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Owner & Pet, its operators, and its suppliers are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages — including emotional distress, relationship harm, loss of data, loss of use, or loss of profits — arising from or relating to your use of the app, even if we have been advised of the possibility of those damages.

You acknowledge that the app is a record-keeping and communication tool between two adults, and that what happens in your dynamic — and in your relationship — is the result of your and your partner's own choices, agreements, and conduct, not ours. Our role is limited to storing and displaying what you enter. To the maximum extent permitted by law, our total aggregate liability for any claim relating to the app is limited to the greater of one hundred dollars ($100) or the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations or exclusions; in those jurisdictions, the limitations above apply to the fullest extent the law allows, and nothing here deprives you of rights the law gives you and cannot be waived.

Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Owner & Pet, its operators, and its suppliers from any claim, demand, damages, loss, or expense (including reasonable legal costs) arising out of or relating to: your use of the app; your violation of these Terms; your violation of any law or the rights of another person; or the content, rules, or conduct of your dynamic. This includes, without limitation, claims by any third party — including your partner or anyone who did not consent to being part of your dynamic.

Reporting misuse

If you become aware of the app being used unlawfully — to involve a minor, to abuse or coerce anyone, or otherwise in violation of these Terms — report it to us immediately through the support channel in the app's settings. We treat credible reports seriously, and we act on them, including by suspending or terminating accounts and preserving evidence where the law requires.

If you are in a dynamic in the app that no longer feels consensual, you may end it at any time by deleting your account — no one can hold you to a ledger you have left.

Termination

You may stop using the app and delete your account at any time, for any reason. We may suspend or terminate your account if you violate these Terms, if the law requires it, or if we cease operating the service — in which case notice and export rights apply as described above.

On termination, your license to use the app ends. Sections that by their nature should survive termination — ownership, disclaimers, limitations of liability, indemnification — survive it.

Disputes and governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the state in which Owner & Pet's operator is established, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Before filing any claim, you agree to contact us and attempt in good faith to resolve the dispute informally for at least thirty (30) days — most problems are fixable.

Any claim arising out of these Terms or the app must be brought within one (1) year of the event giving rise to it, in a court of competent jurisdiction where the operator is established. Where the law of your place of residence gives you a mandatory right to sue locally, this paragraph does not remove it.

General

If any part of these Terms is found unenforceable, the rest remains in force, and the unenforceable part is replaced by an enforceable one that comes closest to its intent. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between you and Owner & Pet regarding the app.

Changes to these terms

If these Terms change, we will tell you inside the app before the change takes effect, with a summary of what changed. Continued use after the effective date means acceptance of the updated Terms.

Contact

Questions about these Terms? Contact us through the support channel in the app's settings.