Terms of Service

These terms are a contract between you and Richard Huynh, trading as Noddr (“Noddr”, “we”, “us”), 4450 Nelson Brogdon Blvd, Ste A9, Buford, GA 30518, USA.

They cover the Noddr iOS and macOS apps, the Noddr hook and Mac helper you install alongside your coding agent, the backend services that relay approval requests, and the website at noddr.cloud — together, the Product.

By installing or using the Product you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, do not install it. How we handle information is covered separately by the Privacy Policy, which forms part of these terms.

1. What Noddr does, and what it does not

Noddr reads your coding agent’s permission prompt aloud and lets you answer it with a nod or a shake of your head. That is the whole of it.

If you nod at a command that deletes your work, drops a production table, pushes a secret, or spends your money, that is your decision and its consequences are yours. The same is true if you nod without listening, nod at the wrong moment, or nod because you assumed Noddr had checked something. It has not checked anything.

2. The destructive-command list is not a safety guarantee

Noddr keeps a list of command shapes that can never be approved by a gesture. Anything matching it falls through to your terminal, where approving takes a deliberate look.

Do not treat this as protection.It reads a command as text, and text has unlimited ways to express the same thing — a substituted command, a shell alias, a script whose name reveals nothing, a one-liner in another language. Anyone who wants to get a destructive command past it can, and an agent can produce one without trying.

It exists for one narrow purpose: to stop you, moving fast, from nodding at the recognisable shapes of destruction by reflex. It is a speed bump. We would rather say so plainly than let the list do reassurance work it cannot support.

3. Your licence

Subject to these terms, we grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the Product:

• The apps— on Apple-branded devices you own or control, as permitted by the App Store Terms of Service and the Usage Rules in them.
• The hook and Mac helper— on machines you own or control, in object form, for the purpose of using Noddr.

You may not sell, sublicense, rent, or redistribute the Product; reverse engineer it except where that right cannot lawfully be excluded; remove or obscure any notice in it; or use it to build a competing service.

The Product, its name, and its designs remain ours. Nothing here transfers ownership of anything.

4. Who may use it

You must be at least 16, and able to form a binding contract where you live. The Product is a developer tool and is not directed at children.

If you use it for an employer or client, you confirm you are authorised to do so, and that doing so does not breach any policy or agreement that binds you. Check before pointing it at work you do not own — approval content leaves your machine, which Section 6 of the Privacy Policy explains in detail, and that may be a decision your employer expects to make rather than you.

5. Free and Premium

Noddr has a free tier and a paid one.

Premium adds unlimited nods and Voice Reply. Prices are in US dollars and may differ in your local storefront; the price Apple shows you at purchase is the price that applies.

All purchases are made through Apple. We never see or handle your payment details. Because the macOS app ships under Universal Purchase, one purchase covers both platforms.

• Renewal. Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled. Apple charges you within 24 hours before each period ends.
• Cancellation. Manage or cancel at any time in your Apple account settings. Cancelling stops the next renewal; it does not shorten the period you have already paid for.
• Refundsare handled by Apple under its own policies. We cannot issue them, and asking us will only delay you — go to Apple directly. If you think something is genuinely broken, tell us anyway, because we would like to know.

If a payment fails or an entitlement lapses, Premium features stop and the free tier resumes. Your agent keeps working either way.

6. Beta and pre-release software

Parts of the Product are distributed as beta software, including through TestFlight. Beta builds contain defects, may change without notice, may lose data, and may be withdrawn.

Do not use beta builds with anything you cannot afford to lose or expose. Apple collects additional feedback and crash information from beta testers under its own terms.

7. Acceptable use

Do not:

• use the Product unlawfully, or to do something unlawful;
• interfere with or overload our backend services, or try to work around rate limits;
• access a channel, installation identifier, or link secret that is not yours;
• send someone else notifications through our push endpoint;
• use the Product to approve actions on systems you are not authorised to administer;
• resell access, or run the Product as a service for third parties.

8. Things we depend on, and things we do not control

Noddr sits between your agent and your ears, and most of that path is not ours:

• Your coding agent and its model provider. Everything the agent does before and after our approval is between you and that provider, under their terms.
• Apple— distribution, payment, push delivery, on-device speech and motion.
• Google Cloud— speech synthesis, if you leave the enhanced voice on. You can turn it off; see Section 8.2 of the Privacy Policy.
• Supabase— the relay that carries approval requests.
• Cloudflare— the website and its DNS.

We choose these providers and remain responsible for our own conduct, but we do not control theirs, and an outage or change at any of them can stop Noddr working.

9. Availability, and what happens when it breaks

We do not promise any uptime, and there is no service level agreement.

Noddr is designed so that failure is boring: if the backend is unreachable, a request times out, or the app is not running, the approval falls through to your terminal, exactly as it would if Noddr were not installed. That is the intended behaviour, not a fault. A failure of Noddr should cost you a glance at your screen, not a broken workflow.

We may change, suspend, or discontinue any part of the Product at any time.

10. Disclaimer of warranties

The Product is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranty of any kind. To the fullest extent permitted by law we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, and any warranty arising from course of dealing or usage of trade.

We do not warrant that the Product will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free; that a gesture will always be detected, or detected correctly; that an announcement will always be audible or accurate; or that the destructive-command list will catch anything in particular.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so parts of this section may not apply to you. Nothing here limits rights you have as a consumer that cannot lawfully be excluded — including, in the EEA and UK, statutory rights in respect of digital content.

11. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law:

• We are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, lost data, lost work, business interruption, or the cost of substitute services.
• We are not liable for what your agent executes, whether or not a nod preceded it, and whether or not the destructive-command list did or did not match. Section 1 explains why: the decision and the execution are both yours.
• Our total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to the Product is limited to the greater of (a) the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, or (b) US $50.

These limits apply even if a remedy fails of its essential purpose, and they apply to all theories of liability. They do not apply to our own fraud, fraudulent misrepresentation, gross negligence, wilful misconduct, or death or personal injury caused by our negligence — nor to any liability that cannot lawfully be limited.

You may have consumer rights that override parts of this section. Where they do, they win.

12. If Noddr is discontinued

If we shut the Product down, we will give reasonable advance notice on the Site and in the App where we can. Because the local components run on your own machines and hold no data of ours, they will continue to function for as long as your operating system supports them, minus anything that needs our backend.

If you hold an unexpired subscription at shutdown, contact Apple for a refund of the unused portion under its policies.

13. Termination

You may stop using the Product at any time. Section 14.5 of the Privacy Policy lists exactly what to delete to remove every trace of it.

We may suspend or terminate your access if you materially breach these terms, including Section 7. Where the breach is capable of being fixed and the circumstances allow, we will say what is wrong and give you a chance to fix it first.

Sections 1, 2, 10, 11, 14 and 15 survive termination.

14. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Georgia, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, and the state and federal courts located in Georgia have exclusive jurisdiction — except where the law of your country of residence gives you the right to bring proceedings, or requires proceedings to be brought, elsewhere. If you are a consumer in the EEA or UK, nothing here deprives you of the protection of the mandatory law of your own country.

Before filing anything, please email us. Most things are a misunderstanding, and we would rather fix it than argue about it.

15. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. When we do, we will change the “last updated” date and increment the version.

If a change is material — a change to pricing, to the licence, or to Section 11 — we will give notice in the App or on the Site before it takes effect for you. For you is the part that matters: a price that changes only for new customers changes nothing you are paying. And if we ever raise the price of a subscription you already hold, Apple asks you to agree to it directly — your subscription does not renew at the new price unless you do, whatever this document says.

Continuing to use the Product after a change takes effect means you accept the updated terms. If you do not accept them, stop using the Product; if you hold an unexpired subscription, contact Apple about a refund.

16. Terms required by Apple

These apply to the apps obtained through the App Store, and Apple requires them.

1. These terms are between you and us alone, not with Apple. We, not Apple, are solely responsible for the App and its content.
2. Scope of licence. Your licence is non-transferable and limited to use on Apple-branded products you own or control, as permitted by the Usage Rules in the App Store Terms of Service.
3. Maintenance and support are our sole responsibility. Apple has no obligation to provide any maintenance or support for the App.
4. Warranty. We are solely responsible for any product warranties, whether express or implied, to the extent not effectively disclaimed. 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 whatsoever with respect to the App.
5. Product claims. We, not Apple, are responsible for addressing any claim by you or a third party relating to the App or your use of it, including product liability claims, any claim that the App fails to conform to a legal or regulatory requirement, and claims arising under consumer protection or privacy law.
6. Intellectual property. If a third party claims the App infringes its intellectual property rights, we, not Apple, are solely responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement and discharge of that claim.
7. Legal compliance.You represent that you are not located in a country subject to a US Government embargo or designated as a “terrorist supporting” country, and that you are not on any US Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
8. Our contact details for questions or complaints are in Section 17.
9. Third-party terms.You must comply with any applicable third-party terms when using the App — including the terms of your coding agent and its model provider.
10. Third-party beneficiary. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and, on your acceptance, have the right to enforce them against you.

17. Contact

18. The rest

These terms, with the Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between us about the Product. If any provision is held unenforceable, the rest stays in force and that provision is limited to the minimum extent necessary. Our not enforcing something is not a waiver of it. You may not assign these terms; we may assign them to a successor in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, and that successor remains bound by them.