Terms of Use

1. Agreeing to these terms

These terms are an agreement between you and TurboCycle Media, LLC (formerly Heintz Media, LLC), an Arizona limited liability company (“we”, “us”, “our”). They cover the TipCalculate apps for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Android (including the iMessage extension, widgets and Siri Shortcuts), the website and account dashboard at tipcalculateapp.com, and the TipCalculate developer API. Together we call these the “Service”.

By using the Service you agree to these terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you don’t agree, please don’t use the Service.

2. Who can use TipCalculate

You must be at least 13 years old to use TipCalculate, or 16 in the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom. If you’re under the age of majority where you live, a parent or guardian must agree to these terms for you. If you use the Service for an organization, you confirm you’re authorized to accept these terms on its behalf.

3. The service

TipCalculate calculates tips and totals, splits bills, converts currencies, keeps a history of what you tipped, and offers a tipping guide.

• Calculations are estimates. Results depend on what you enter and are rounded for display. Check the amount before you pay.
• The tipping guide is general guidance based on common customs in the United States. Customs differ by country, region and business, and some businesses include service charges.
• Exchange rates come from third-party providers, may be delayed, and may differ from the rate your bank or card uses.
• Nothing in the Service is financial, tax or legal advice.

We may add, change or remove features, and we may stop offering the Service with reasonable notice where we can.

4. Your account

You can use TipCalculate without an account. An account lets you sync your history and preferences and use the dashboard. You can sign up with an email and password, Google, or Apple.

• Give accurate information, and keep your password and sign-in methods secure.
• You’re responsible for activity on your account. Tell us right away if you think someone else has used it.
• One account is for one person. Don’t share it or sell it.

You can delete your account at any time in the app under Settings or at tipcalculateapp.com/account/delete.

5. Purchases and refunds

TipCalculate is free to download. You can unlock Premium and Pro features with one-time in-app purchases, and you can support development with optional Tip Jar purchases, which don’t unlock features.

• All purchases are processed by the Apple App Store or Google Play under their terms, in your local currency, including any applicable taxes.
• Refunds are handled by Apple or Google. Request them through Apple or Google Play. We can’t issue refunds directly.
• To restore purchases on a new device, use Restore Purchases in the app while signed in to the same Apple ID or Google account.
• Prices and what each purchase includes are shown in the app before you buy, and may change for future purchases. Features you’ve already unlocked stay unlocked while we offer the Service.

6. Your content

Your tip history, notes, places, photos and other information you add are your content, and you own it. You give us a limited, worldwide, royalty-free license to store, copy, process and display your content only as needed to run the Service for you, for example to sync it between your devices and show it in your dashboard. This license ends when you delete the content or your account, except for copies in backups that are overwritten over time.

Don’t add content that’s unlawful or that you don’t have the right to use. Keep your own records of anything important. We work hard to protect your data but can’t promise it will never be lost.

7. Acceptable use

Don’t use the Service to:

• break the law or anyone’s rights;
• access another person’s account or data without permission;
• probe, scan or test our systems for vulnerabilities without our written permission, or get around security or rate limits;
• scrape, crawl or copy the Service or its content with automated tools, except through the documented API;
• overload, disrupt or interfere with the Service, or send spam through our forms;
• reverse engineer, decompile or modify the apps, except where the law allows it;
• resell, rent or offer the Service to others as your own product.

If you find a security issue, please report it to support@tipcalculateapp.com. We appreciate responsible disclosure.

8. Developer API

The TipCalculate API lets you add and read tips in your own account from your own tools.

• Keys are personal. Each key acts as you and works only with your own account. Keep keys secret and revoke any key that may have been exposed.
• Use the API for your own tip records. Don’t use it to access other people’s data, or to build a competing service.
• We may set rate limits and usage limits, and you must stay within them.
• The API is provided “as is”, may change or be discontinued, and isn’t covered by any uptime promise. We’ll try to give notice of breaking changes.
• We may revoke keys or block access that breaks these terms or puts the Service or other users at risk.

9. Third-party services

The Service relies on others, including Apple, Google (Firebase, AdMob, Google Play and reCAPTCHA), Hostinger, Resend and exchange-rate providers. Their services have their own terms and policies, and we aren’t responsible for them. Ads in the free version come from Google AdMob, and we don’t endorse the advertisers.

10. Our intellectual property

The Service, including its software, design, text, tipping guide and graphics, belongs to TurboCycle Media, LLC or our licensors and is protected by law. “TipCalculate”, “TurboCycle Media” and their logos are our trademarks. You may not use them without our written permission. Apart from the right to use the Service under these terms, we don’t give you any rights in it.

11. Feedback and translations

If you send us suggestions or feedback, we may use them without any obligation to you. When you submit a translation, you give us a perpetual, royalty-free right to use, change and publish it in the Service. If you ask, we’ll credit you by the name you provide.

12. Disclaimers

The Service is provided “as is” and “as available”. To the extent the law allows, we disclaim all warranties, whether express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy and non-infringement. We don’t promise the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free or secure, or that calculations, exchange rates or the tipping guide will be accurate for your situation.

13. Limitation of liability

To the extent the law allows:

• we aren’t liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, data or goodwill, arising from the Service;
• our total liability for any claim about the Service is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim, or US $50.

Some places don’t allow these limits, so they may not all apply to you. Nothing in these terms limits liability that can’t be limited by law.

14. Indemnity

If you break these terms or the law, misuse the API, or your content infringes someone’s rights, you agree to cover our reasonable losses and costs from any resulting third-party claim, including reasonable legal fees, to the extent the law allows.

15. Suspension and termination

You can stop using the Service and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or end your access, or revoke API keys, if you seriously or repeatedly break these terms, if the law requires it, or to protect the Service or other users. Where it’s reasonable, we’ll tell you why and give you a chance to export your data. Sections that by their nature should survive, such as your content license, intellectual property, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnity and governing law, survive termination.

16. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Arizona and applicable US federal law, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute will be brought in the state or federal courts located in Maricopa County, Arizona, and you and we agree to their jurisdiction. Before filing a claim, please contact us so we can try to resolve it informally. If you’re a consumer in the EEA or UK, you also keep the protection of the mandatory laws of your country and can bring claims in your local courts.

17. Apple App Store terms

If you downloaded TipCalculate from the Apple App Store:

• these terms are between you and us, not Apple, and we, not Apple, are responsible for the app and its content;
• Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for the app;
• if the app fails to meet any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price, if any. Apple has no other warranty obligation;
• Apple isn’t responsible for any claims about the app, including product liability, legal compliance or intellectual property claims;
• you confirm you aren’t in a country subject to US embargo or on a US government restricted-party list;
• Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and may enforce them.

18. General

These terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between you and us about the Service. If any part can’t be enforced, the rest still applies. Not enforcing a term isn’t a waiver. You can’t transfer these terms without our consent. We may transfer them as part of a merger, acquisition or sale of assets. Neither of us is responsible for delays caused by events beyond reasonable control.

19. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. We’ll change the date at the top, and for significant changes we’ll give notice in the app or on this site before they take effect. If you keep using the Service after the changes take effect, you accept the new terms.

20. Contact us

TurboCycle Media, LLC
917 W Glendale Ave, Unit 34
Phoenix, AZ 85021, USA
support@tipcalculateapp.com · Contact form