Dominate

Terms of Use — Dominate

Effective date: 2 September 2026
Last updated: 2 September 2026

These terms are an agreement between you and the developer ("we", "us") covering your use of the Dominate iPhone app ("the app").

By downloading or using the app you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, do not use the app.

1. What the app is

Dominate is an app blocker for iPhone. It lets you:

• choose apps and websites and hold them shut;
• start a block by hand and watch it run on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island;
• set schedules, with hours and repeat days, that block and unblock themselves whether or not the app is open;
• set a daily limit that caps how long chosen apps can be used each day;
• see the time you have reclaimed, as statistics and on a calendar; and
• put that figure on your Home Screen as a widget.

The blocking is performed by Apple's Screen Time (Family Controls) system, not by us. Section 5 sets out what that means for what you can rely on.

2. Who may use it

You must be at least 13 years old, or older if the law where you live sets a higher age for agreeing to terms like these. If you are under 18, you may use the app only with the involvement of a parent or guardian.

3. Licence

We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the app on Apple devices that you own or control, as permitted by the App Store Terms of Service.

You may not: copy, modify, reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the app; rent, lease, lend, sell or sublicense it; remove any proprietary notices; or use it in any unlawful way or in any way that interferes with its operation.

4. Subscription, billing and cancellation

Dominate is sold as an auto-renewing subscription, and the subscription is required to use the app — there is no free tier and no separate purchase. The plans, prices, lengths and any free trial are shown in the app before you pay, and prices may vary by region.

• Payment is charged to your Apple Account on confirmation of purchase.
• Renewal is automatic. Your subscription renews at the end of each period unless you turn off auto-renewal at least 24 hours before the period ends.
• Renewal charges are taken by Apple within 24 hours before the end of the current period, at the price then in effect for your plan.
• Managing and cancelling is done in your Apple Account settings — in the iPhone Settings app, under your name → Subscriptions. Deleting the app does not cancel your subscription.
• Free trials, where offered, convert to a paid subscription unless auto-renewal is turned off before the trial ends. Any unused part of a free trial is forfeited when you buy a subscription.
• Price changes take effect at your next renewal, and Apple will ask for your consent where required. You can cancel before then.
• Restoring a subscription you already bought is done with Restore purchases, on the subscription screen, while signed in to the Apple Account you originally bought with.

5. Refunds

All purchases are processed by Apple, not by us. We cannot issue refunds. Refund requests are handled by Apple at reportaproblem.apple.com, under Apple's own policy. Where local law gives you a statutory right to cancel or to a refund, that right is unaffected by this section.

6. What the blocking is, and what you must not rely on it for

This is the most important section in these terms. Dominate blocks apps by asking Apple's Family Controls system to shield them. It is a self-control aid, nothing more.

You accept that:

• It is not a parental control and not a security feature. Anyone holding the device can end a block, delete the app, or turn the permission off in the iPhone Settings app. It is designed to add friction to a habit, not to stop a determined person.
• It depends on Apple's system behaving as documented, which we do not control. If iOS changes how Family Controls works, or a background component is not run when expected, a scheduled block may start late, end late, or not run at all.
• If you never grant Screen Time permission, nothing is blocked. iOS silently ignores every shield. The app shows a warning when it detects this, but you are responsible for granting the permission if you want the app to work.
• You must not rely on it in any situation where being unable to reach an app could cause harm. You remain responsible for your own access to emergency services, to communications, to navigation, to medical or financial applications, and to anything else you may need. Do not block anything you might need in an emergency.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not responsible for anything you miss, lose or fail to do because an app was blocked, or because a block did not run when you expected it to.

7. Your content

Everything you put into the app — your schedules, your limits, your app selections and your statistics — remains yours. We claim no ownership of it.

Because it is stored on your device, you are responsible for keeping your own records if they matter to you. The app has no backup, no account and no sync. We cannot recover data lost to a lost or damaged device, a deleted app, or a device transfer.

Our Privacy Policy sets out the narrow and specific circumstances in which anything you have typed can reach us — chiefly the first name you enter during setup, which is sent to the company that runs our subscription screen — and you should read it alongside this section.

8. Privacy and analytics

The app measures how it is used. Two parts of that are worth naming here, because they are the ones where something leaves your phone:

• Anonymous usage statistics. Which setup screens people reach and leave, whether permissions were granted, and what happened on the subscription screen. These are tied to an installation, not to a person.
• Your setup answers. These go to Superwall, which runs the subscription screen, so that it can be written in your own terms. The first name you enter is among them.

There is no advertising, no advertising identifier, no tracking prompt and no screen recording. What each of the above involves, who receives it and how to have it deleted are set out in full in our Privacy Policy, which forms part of these terms.

9. Availability and changes

We may add, change or remove features, and we may stop offering the app. If we discontinue it we will not charge for a renewal after that point. Reasonable downtime for maintenance, and interruptions caused by Apple, your network or your device, are not a breach of these terms.

10. Disclaimer of warranties

The app is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the app will be uninterrupted, error-free, that any defect will be corrected, or that any block will run at the exact moment you set it for.

Nothing in these terms excludes any warranty or right that cannot be excluded under the law that applies to you, including consumer rights.

11. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, profits or goodwill, arising from your use of the app.

Our total liability for any claim relating to the app is limited to the amount you paid us for it in the twelve months before the claim.

Some jurisdictions do not allow these limitations, in which case they apply to you only as far as the law permits.

12. Termination

You may stop using the app at any time by deleting it and cancelling your subscription. We may suspend or end your licence if you breach these terms. Sections 6, 7, 10 and 11 survive termination.

13. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of Mexico, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. If you are a consumer, you keep the protection of the mandatory laws of the country where you live, and you may bring proceedings in your local courts.

14. Apple

You acknowledge that:

• These terms are between you and us, not Apple. Apple is not responsible for the app or its content.
• Apple has no obligation to provide support or maintenance for the app.
• If the app fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple and Apple will refund the purchase price; to the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation.
• Apple is not responsible for addressing any claim relating to the app, including product liability, regulatory non-compliance, or consumer protection claims.
• If a third party claims the app infringes their intellectual property, we, not Apple, are responsible for handling it.
• You represent that you are not in a country subject to a U.S. Government embargo or designated as terrorist-supporting, and that you are not on any U.S. Government restricted-parties list.
• Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and, upon your acceptance, have the right to enforce them against you.

15. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. The date at the top will change, and for anything significant we will tell you in the app. Continuing to use the app after a change means you accept it.

16. Contact

Email: abeto.studio@gmail.com