Oathly Terms of Use

The agreement between you and Midknight Entertainment Ltd for the Oathly app.

Effective date: 12 August 2026 · Last updated: 14 August 2026

These terms are the agreement for Oathly (“the app”), published by Midknight Entertainment Ltd (“we”, “us”, “our”). They also serve as the end-user licence agreement for the app. They replace our general company terms of use for Oathly, because Oathly has accounts and shows content created by its users. Where the two differ, these govern Oathly.

By creating an account or using the app you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, do not use the app.

1. Who we are

Midknight Entertainment Ltd is a company incorporated in the Province of Nova Scotia, Canada. You can reach us at support@midknightltd.com.

How we handle your information is set out in the Oathly Privacy Policy, which forms part of these terms.

2. Who may use Oathly

You must be at least 13 years old to use Oathly. If you are under the age of majority where you live, you may use it only with the involvement of a parent or guardian, who accepts these terms with you and is responsible for your use of it.

You must not use the app if you are barred from doing so by law, or if we have previously ended your account for breaking these terms.

Oathly shows photographs and text created by other users. If you are a young person, please think carefully about what you photograph and who you agree a pact with.

3. Your account

Oathly requires an account. You sign in with Apple or with a one-time code sent to your email address.

• Give accurate sign-in information and keep access to the email address or Apple account you signed in with. It is the only way back into your account.
• Your account is yours alone. Do not share it or let someone else use it. You are responsible for what happens under it.
• Choose a display name that is not offensive, not impersonating someone else, and not a piece of advertising. We may change or remove a display name that breaks this.
• One person, one account. Do not create accounts in bulk or by automated means, and do not create a second account to get around a limit or a block.
• Tell us promptly if you think someone else has got into your account.

You can delete your account at any time from the app's Settings. See section 19.

4. Your licence to use the app

We give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable licence to install and use Oathly on devices you own or control, for your own personal, non-commercial use, in line with these terms and the rules of the app store you downloaded it from.

In plain terms: the app is licensed to you, not sold to you. We keep ownership of it. The licence lasts while you comply with these terms, and ends if you stop complying or if you delete the app.

You must not sublicense, rent, lend, sell or otherwise make the app available to anyone else.

5. What Oathly is, and what it is not

Oathly lets you agree a pact with one or more friends: something you will do, how often, for how long, and what you owe them if you do not. You check in, sometimes with a photograph, and they confirm or reject it. If you miss, the app records a forfeit and notes what you agreed you owe.

Oathly is a shared record of promises between people who already know each other. It is not:

• a payment service, a money transfer service, an escrow, a wallet, or a financial institution of any kind;
• a betting, gambling, wagering, lottery, prize or contest service;
• a social network for meeting strangers: there is no discovery, no public profile and no directory, and the only way into a pact is a link somebody sent you;
• a source of professional advice of any kind (see section 11);
• a way to enforce anything against anybody.

6. Pacts, stakes and the IOU ledger

This is the section that most needs to be clear.

You are responsible for the stakes you agree. In particular:

• Do not use Oathly for gambling or wagering. A stake must be a consequence you accept for not keeping a promise to yourself: not a bet on an uncertain event, not a game of chance, not a pooled pot to be won, and not anything staked against a stranger.
• Do not agree a stake that is unlawful, that involves anything you may not lawfully possess or give, or that would harm you or anyone else if it were carried out.
• Do not agree a stake designed to humiliate, coerce, sexualize or endanger anyone, and do not use a stake to pressure someone into anything. If a pact starts to feel like coercion rather than encouragement, leave it. You can leave any pact at any time, without anyone's agreement.
• Only agree stakes with people you actually know and trust. An invitation link works for whoever holds it, so send it only to the people you mean.

Streak, forfeit and repair calculations are a convenience, not a certification. They depend on clocks, time zones, when devices last connected and when people got round to voting. If the app and the members of a pact disagree about what happened, the members are right and the app is wrong.

Automatic approval. The app is designed to treat a check-in as approved if nobody votes within 48 hours, so a pact cannot be stalled by someone not opening the app. That step runs only when a scheduled job on our servers invokes it. Until that job is running, a check-in stays pending until a partner votes. Automatic approval, when it runs, is a design choice about keeping things moving, not a judgment by us that the proof was good.

7. Content you put in

Oathly accepts content from you: pact titles and stake descriptions, notes, your display name, and photographs you take with your camera.

You keep your rights

You keep any rights you already have in what you put in. You give us a limited, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, reproduce and transmit that content, for these purposes only:

• to show it to the other members of the pact you posted it in, which is what you asked the app to do;
• to operate, back up and secure the service;
• where content is reported to us, to review it and act on the report, identify repeat problems and enforce these terms.

That is the whole licence. We do not use your content to advertise, we do not use it to train artificial intelligence, we do not publish it, and we do not give it to anyone except as the Privacy Policy describes. The licence ends when the content is deleted, except for copies we must keep for a short time in backups or for an open moderation case.

You are responsible for what you put in

You confirm that you have the right to submit it, and that submitting it breaks no law and no one else's rights.

Content is shared, and sharing cannot be undone

There is no way today to delete a single check-in on its own; the only way to remove one is to delete your whole account (section 19). We intend to delete photographs 90 days after upload once a scheduled job is running; until then they remain with the check-in. We cannot retrieve what another member has already seen, remembered, or screenshotted. Treat anything you post as permanently seen by the people in that pact.

8. Objectionable content and behaviour

You must not create, submit, post, send or share, in any part of the app (including in a pact title, a stake description, a note, a display name or a photograph):

• Anything sexual involving a minor, or that sexualizes a minor in any way. There is no context in which this is acceptable, and we report it to the appropriate authorities.
• Nudity, sexually explicit or pornographic material, or sexual content involving anyone who has not consented to it.
• Content that harasses, bullies, threatens, intimidates, stalks, defames or degrades a person, or that is designed to humiliate someone.
• Hate speech: content attacking or demeaning a person or group on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, colour, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, age or any comparable characteristic.
• Content that incites, praises or instructs violence, terrorism, or serious self-harm, or that encourages anyone to hurt themselves. This includes stakes framed as self-punishment involving injury, starvation, or purging.
• Content depicting or promoting the abuse of a person or an animal.
• Another person's private or identifying information posted without their agreement, and images of a person taken or shared without their agreement.
• Content that impersonates another person, or that falsely suggests you are connected with us.
• Unlawful content, content promoting illegal drugs or weapons, and content infringing anyone's copyright, trademark or other rights.
• Spam, advertising, promotion, solicitation, chain messages, or links to any of those, including in an invitation.
• Anything that turns the app into a betting, gambling or prize scheme, or that solicits money from another user.

You must not use a pact, a stake or an invitation to coerce, pressure, blackmail, punish or control another person, and you must not use the app to contact someone who has blocked you or asked you to stop.

You accept these rules as a condition of using Oathly, and you accept that we may remove content and end accounts to enforce them. If you see something that breaks them, report it (section 9).

9. Reporting, blocking and what we do about it

Every check-in and every member can be reported from inside the app, and you can block any user, with or without reporting them.

• Blocking takes effect on the server. A blocked person is removed from any pact you share: their active membership ends immediately, and with it, all of their access to that pact through the app, including their own check-ins and photographs, not only yours, because access follows active membership rather than who posted something. You, the person who blocked them, keep your own membership and your own content, but you likewise cannot see theirs. Check-ins, forfeits and the ledger stay so history is not silently destroyed, but neither of you can read the other's rows through the app, and the person removed cannot read their own former rows in that pact either. Neither of you can join a new pact with the other through an invitation link, and neither of you receives notifications about the other. A proof link issued before the block can work only until its expiry, no more than ten minutes. Unblocking does not bring any of this back. The membership that ended stays ended. They are not told that you blocked them.
• Leaving. You can leave any pact at any time, for any reason, without anyone's agreement. The moment you do, your own membership in that pact ends and you lose access to it through the app, including your own past check-ins and photographs, the same mechanism a block uses. Unlike a block, though, leaving is not permanent: if you rejoin using a valid invitation link, and there is no block between you and anyone still in that pact, your membership and your access to that pact's history come back. Being removed by a block does not reverse this way. See the point above.
• Our response. A report is a row a person can review. We do not promise to review it within a set number of hours. To review a report we look at the reported content, including a reported photograph. We may remove content, warn a user, remove them from a pact, suspend an account, or end an account permanently.
• Serious matters. Where content appears to involve a child, a credible threat, or a risk to someone's life, we act immediately and report it to the appropriate authorities.
• Abuse of reporting. Do not make reports in bad faith to harass someone; doing so is itself a breach of these terms.

We are not obliged to monitor content proactively, and we do not read your pacts unless something is reported. We do not promise to find everything, and we do not promise a review time.

To report content or a safety concern outside the app, email support@midknightltd.com.

10. Acceptable use

In addition to section 8, you agree not to:

• use the app for anything unlawful, or to help anyone else do anything unlawful;
• get around, or try to get around, usage limits, free-plan limits, paywalls, blocks, account terminations or security measures;
• use scripts, bots, scrapers or other automated means to access the app or the services behind it, or to create accounts, pacts or check-ins;
• submit a check-in you know to be false in order to deceive the other members of a pact;
• probe, scan or test the security of our systems, or try to access data that is not yours (including another user's pacts, photographs or account);
• copy, modify, translate, decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer the app, or try to extract its source code, except to the extent the law expressly allows despite this restriction, such as the limited right under section 30.61 of the Copyright Act (Canada) to reproduce a copy of a computer program for the sole purpose of obtaining information needed to make it interoperable with another program;
• remove or obscure any notice of ownership in the app;
• interfere with the app or the servers behind it, or put an unreasonable load on them;
• resell access to the app, or use it to provide a commercial service to third parties, unless we have agreed in writing.

If you break these rules we may limit, suspend or end your access. See section 19.

11. Habits, health and safety

People use Oathly for exercise, diet, study, sleep, sobriety and other personal goals. You need to know how to treat it.

• Oathly gives no advice. Nothing in it is medical, psychological, nutritional, fitness, financial or legal advice, and using it creates no relationship of professional adviser and client. It does not know anything about you or your health.
• You choose your goal and your stake, and you are responsible for both. Take proper advice from a qualified person before starting anything that could affect your health.
• Do not use Oathly to enforce a harmful pattern. It is not designed for, and must not be used for, restricting food, purging, over-exercising, extreme fasting, or anything else connected with disordered eating, self-harm or addiction management that should be under professional care.
• Streaks are designed to be motivating, which means they can be stressful. If a pact stops being good for you, leave it. Nothing in the app matters more than that.
• It is not a crisis service and it does not monitor you. If you or someone else is at risk of harm, contact your local emergency services or a crisis line. In Canada, the Suicide Crisis Helpline is available by calling or texting 988.

12. Our intellectual property

The app, and everything in it that we provide (software, design, text, graphics, sounds, names and logos, including “Oathly”) belongs to us or to our licensors, and is protected by copyright, trademark and other laws. Section 4 gives you a licence to use it; nothing in these terms transfers ownership to you.

Feedback you send us is welcome, and we may use it to improve our apps without any obligation to you.

13. Subscriptions, renewal and cancellation

Oathly is free to use with one active pact. A paid subscription (“Pro”) unlocks unlimited pacts and additional features. The title, length, price and what is included are shown in the app before you buy, as is any free trial.

• Payment is taken by your app store, not by us, using your store account.
• Subscriptions renew automatically for the same period, at the price then applicable, unless you cancel. Renewal is charged to your store account. Your store sets the deadline for cancelling before a renewal is taken and shows it at the point of purchase. Cancel before that deadline or you will be charged for the next period.
• A free trial, if offered, converts into a paid subscription at the end of the trial unless you cancel before it ends. Cancel at least 24 hours before the trial ends.
• You cancel through your app store account: on iOS, Settings › your name › Subscriptions; on Android, the Play Store's Subscriptions screen.
• We cannot cancel a subscription for you, and the app cannot cancel it either. Deleting the app, or your account, does not cancel a subscription. Only your store account can. Where the platform allows it, the app offers a shortcut that opens the store's own subscription screen, but the cancellation happens in the store.
• Refunds are handled by the store under its own policy, not by us. We can ask Apple or Google to look at a case, but we cannot issue a refund ourselves.
• If you reinstall or use another device signed in to the same store account, use Restore purchases in the app to bring back your entitlement.
• If we change the price of a subscription, the change applies from your next renewal, and your store will ask you to agree before charging the new price.

If a subscription lapses, you keep your data, and every pact you are already in keeps working exactly as it did. Nothing about an existing pact is locked or deleted because you dropped below the free plan's limit. That limit only affects starting or joining a further pact once you are already at it.

14. One-off purchases

Some items (such as a Streak Repair, which cancels a single missed period and the IOUs it created) are one-off purchases rather than subscriptions.

• They are consumed when used and are not restorable afterwards. “Restore purchases” brings back subscriptions, not items you have already spent.
• A repair can only be applied within the window shown in the app. Once that window has passed, the item cannot be used on that miss.
• A repaired miss is shown to the other members as repaired. It is not hidden from them, and buying one does not rewrite the pact's history.
• Buying an item does not oblige the other members of a pact to accept anything, and does not settle an IOU that exists outside the app.

15. Availability and changes to the app

We try to keep Oathly working, but we do not promise it will always be available, uninterrupted or error-free. It needs an internet connection and a supported version of your phone's operating system; without a connection, some things will not work.

We may change, add or remove features, and we may stop supporting older versions of the app or of an operating system. If we ever discontinue Oathly altogether, we will give reasonable notice in the app and a way to get your content out before it stops, and we will not take payment for a renewal we do not intend to honour.

16. Warranties, and what we do not promise

Nothing in these terms takes away rights you have as a consumer that cannot be excluded by law, including under Nova Scotia's Consumer Protection Act and the federal Competition Act. Where such a right applies, it applies despite anything in this section.

Subject to that, the app is provided “as is” and “as available”, and we disclaim all implied warranties and conditions to the fullest extent the law allows, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.

In particular, we do not warrant that the app will meet your requirements, that it will be free of faults, that streak or forfeit calculations will be accurate, that notifications will arrive or arrive on time, or that content posted by other users will be accurate, lawful or inoffensive.

We do not vet users and we do not verify anyone's identity. A display name is chosen by whoever chose it. Deciding who to trust with a pact is your decision, not ours.

17. Our liability

Nothing in these terms limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else that cannot be limited by law.

Subject to that, and to the fullest extent the law allows:

• We are not liable for anything to do with a stake or a forfeit: whether it was owed, whether it was paid, what it was worth, or what happened between you and another user about it.
• We are not liable for what other users do, including content they post, what they do with a photograph you posted, and how they behave towards you inside or outside the app.
• We are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost data, lost opportunity, or damage to reputation.
• Our total liability arising out of or in connection with these terms and the app is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us for the app in the twelve months before the claim, or CAD $100.

This allocation of risk reflects a free or low-cost app in which the substance of any bargain is between you and your friends.

18. Your responsibility to us

You agree to indemnify us against claims, losses and reasonable costs arising from content you posted, from your breach of these terms, from your use of another person's personal information, or from a dispute between you and another user. We will tell you promptly of any such claim, and you may take over its defence with counsel we reasonably approve; we will not settle a claim in a way that imposes an obligation on you without your agreement.

19. Ending this agreement

By you

You may stop using Oathly at any time, leave any pact, delete the app, or delete your account from inside the app's Settings. Deleting your account removes your profile, photographs, check-ins, memberships, forfeits and IOUs, as described in the Privacy Policy. It cannot be undone, and it does not cancel a subscription. Cancel that in your store first.

By us

We may limit, suspend or end your access, remove content, or close your account:

• immediately and without notice, where you have breached section 8, where an account appears to be a danger to another user or to a child, or where we are legally required to;
• with reasonable notice, for other breaches of these terms, or if we discontinue the app.

Where we act without notice, we will tell you afterwards and give the reason, unless doing so would be unlawful or would put someone at risk. If you think we got it wrong, email us and a person will look at it again.

If we end your account for breaking these terms, you are not entitled to a refund of any subscription or purchase, and you must not create a new account.

Sections that by their nature should survive the end of this agreement (including 6, 12, 16, 17, 18 and 21) continue to apply.

20. Apple and Google

These terms are between you and us, not with Apple Inc. or Google LLC. The store you downloaded the app from is not responsible for the app or its content.

Where you obtained the app from the Apple App Store, the following also applies, as Apple requires:

• Apple has no obligation to provide any maintenance or support for the app.
• If the app fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple and Apple will refund the purchase price, if any. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation with respect to the app.
• Apple is not responsible for addressing any claim by you or a third party relating to the app, including product liability claims, any claim that the app fails to conform to a legal or regulatory requirement, and claims under consumer protection or privacy law.
• If a third party claims the app infringes its intellectual property rights, we, not Apple, are responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement and discharge of that claim.
• You confirm you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. Government embargo or designated as a “terrorist supporting” country, and that you are not on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
• Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and may enforce them against you.
• You must use the app in compliance with the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions.

21. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Nova Scotia and the laws of Canada applicable there, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. The courts of Nova Scotia have jurisdiction, and you and we submit to them, except that nothing prevents you from bringing a claim in the courts of your own place of residence where consumer protection law gives you that right, and nothing prevents either of us from bringing a small claim in a small claims court.

Please talk to us first. Most problems are a misunderstanding or a bug. Email support@midknightltd.com and give us 30 days to sort it out before starting formal proceedings.

The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.

22. Changes to these terms

We may change these terms when the app changes or the law does. The “last updated” date at the top always tells you when they last changed.

If a change is material (if it reduces your rights, adds an obligation, or changes what we may do with your content) we will tell you in the app before it takes effect, and give you a reasonable chance to read it. Continuing to use the app after that means you accept the new terms. If you do not accept them, stop using the app and cancel any subscription through your store account.

23. General

• Whole agreement. These terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between us about Oathly, and replace our general company terms for this app.
• Severability. If part of these terms is unenforceable, the rest continues to apply.
• No waiver. If we do not enforce something straight away, we do not lose the right to enforce it later.
• Assignment. You may not transfer your rights under these terms. We may transfer ours to a company that takes over this app, on notice, and provided your rights are not reduced.
• No third-party rights, other than Apple's as described in section 20.
• Language. These terms are in English, which is the language you and we have chosen. Les parties ont convenu que la présente entente soit rédigée en anglais.

24. Contact

Midknight Entertainment Ltd, Province of Nova Scotia, Canada.

support@midknightltd.com: for support, to report content, for a privacy request, or for anything in these terms.