Terms of Service

1. The agreement

These terms are an agreement between you and Mahida Kalpesh Jayantilal, a sole proprietorship trading as Buildify, at Kabir Astoria, Gotri, Vadodara, Gujarat 390021, India (“FocusTribe”, “we”, “us”). They govern your use of the FocusTribe website and application at focustribe.in. By signing in or otherwise using the service you accept them. If you do not accept them, do not use the service.

Our Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, and Refund Policy form part of this agreement.

2. Eligibility

You must be at least 16 years old to use FocusTribe, or at least 13 where local law permits and a parent or guardian consents on your behalf. You must have the legal capacity to enter into this agreement. If you are using FocusTribe on behalf of an organisation, you confirm you have authority to bind that organisation to these terms.

3. Your account and sign-in

FocusTribe accounts are created in one of two ways: Google sign-in, or a six digit code sent to your email address. There is no password in either case, so we never hold a password for you and you cannot reset one with us. Access to FocusTribe therefore depends on your continued access to the Google Account or the mailbox you signed in with, and your use of those is governed by your agreement with that provider, not by us.

One account belongs to one email address. If you first signed in with Google and later use a code sent to the same address, you reach the same account and the same workspaces; we do not create a second one.

Email codes expire ten minutes after we send them, work once, and are void after five wrong attempts. Anyone who can read your email can therefore sign in as you, so keep that mailbox secure. You are responsible for keeping your Google Account and your mailbox secure and for everything that happens under your FocusTribe account. Tell us at kalpesh@buildifyapp.in if you believe your account has been accessed without your permission.

A FocusTribe workspace holds a maximum of two members. Anyone holding a workspace invite link or code can join a workspace that has fewer than two members, so share invite links only with the person you intend to work alongside. Both members of a workspace can see and edit the tasks in that workspace.

4. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• use FocusTribe for anything unlawful, or to store or transmit unlawful content;
• harass, abuse, threaten, or impersonate anyone, including the other member of your workspace;
• upload or enter content you have no right to share, including someone else’s confidential or personal information;
• attempt to access accounts, workspaces, or data that are not yours, or to circumvent the security rules that protect them;
• probe, scan, overload, or otherwise interfere with the service or its infrastructure, or attempt to bypass any rate limit or usage restriction;
• scrape, crawl, or bulk-extract data from the service by automated means without our written permission;
• reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to derive the source of any part of the service except to the extent applicable law says you may;
• resell, sublicense, or commercially exploit the service without our written permission.

5. Your content stays yours

You own your content. The tasks you write, the notes attached to them, your daily reflections, and everything else you enter into FocusTribe remain yours. We claim no ownership of any of it.

To operate the service we need a narrow, purely functional licence from you: a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, back up, transmit, and display your content, solely so that we can provide FocusTribe to you and to the other member of your workspace where the product is designed to show it. That licence exists only for the purpose of running the service and ends when the content is deleted, except for any residual copies held in routine backups until those expire. We do not use your content to advertise to you, we do not sell it, and we do not use it to train machine learning models.

You are responsible for your content, including for having the right to store it and for its accuracy and legality.

6. The service is provided “as is”

FocusTribe is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement, to the fullest extent the law allows. This applies to the free plan and to a paid subscription alike.

We do not promise any particular level of uptime, and we make no service level commitment. Subscribing does not create one. The service depends on third-party infrastructure — Google Firebase for authentication and data storage, and Vercel for hosting — and outages, maintenance, or changes at those providers can interrupt it. Features may change, be added, or be removed at any time.

FocusTribe is a productivity tool, not a medical, psychological, or professional advisory service. The reflections, analytics, and statistics it shows you are descriptions of what you entered, not advice. In particular, the focus-minute figures shown in analytics are derived from the durations you planned for your tasks; they are not an independent measurement of time you actually spent working.

Keep your own copies of anything important. We do not guarantee that your data will never be lost, and we strongly recommend you do not rely on FocusTribe as the only record of anything you cannot afford to lose.

7. Suspension and termination

You may stop using FocusTribe at any time. The person who created a workspace can delete that workspace from inside the app, which removes the workspace record.

Account deletion is not yet self-serve. There is no “delete my account” button in the product today. Until we ship one, email kalpesh@buildifyapp.in from the address on your account and we will delete your account record and the workspace data associated with it.

We may suspend or terminate your access if you breach these terms, if your use puts the service or other users at risk, or if we are required to by law. Where it is reasonable and lawful to do so, we will tell you why and give you a chance to put things right first. We may also discontinue the service as a whole; if we do, we will give reasonable advance notice by email or in the app so you can export or copy your data.

8. What happens to your data

If you delete a workspace, the workspace record is removed and the content in it stops being available to either member. If you ask us to delete your account, we delete your account record and the associated workspace data, and we aim to complete the request within 30 days. Residual copies may persist in routine backups until those backups expire, and we may retain the minimum data we are legally required to keep.

Deletion is permanent and we cannot restore deleted content. Full detail on retention is in the Privacy Policy.

9. Plans, billing and cancellation

FocusTribe has a free plan and a paid plan called Pro. The free plan requires no payment and no card, and it is not a trial: it does not expire and it does not convert into a charge. On the free plan, reflections and insights older than 14 days stop being readable, and the formatted insights export is unavailable. A full export of your own account data is free on every plan and always will be.

Pro applies to a workspace, not to a person. A workspace holds two members, and a subscription bought by either member gives Pro to both of them within that workspace. There is no per-member charge and no second seat to buy. Pro costs $5 per month or $40 per year in US dollars, exclusive of any tax that applies where you are, which is shown at checkout. Customers in India are charged in Indian rupees instead: ₹99 per month or ₹599 per year, GST included. The current prices and what each plan includes are on the pricing page.

Payments are taken by our payment provider, Dodo Payments. We never receive or store your card details, and the charge may appear on your statement under the provider’s name rather than ours. Your use of the checkout is also subject to that provider’s own terms.

A subscription renews automatically at the end of each billing period, at the price then in force, until you cancel. You can cancel at any time from your account settings, without giving a reason; if that is unavailable to you for any reason, email us and we will cancel it for you. Cancelling stops the next renewal; Pro continues until the end of the period you have already paid for, and the workspace then returns to the free plan. Nothing is deleted when that happens — older reflections and insights simply stop being readable until the workspace is on Pro again.

If a renewal payment fails, we may retry it and may suspend Pro features while it is unpaid; the workspace keeps working on the free plan. If we change the price of a plan you are on, we will tell you by email before the change applies to a renewal, and you can cancel before it takes effect rather than pay the new price.

Refunds, including the 7-day no-questions-asked window and how it sits alongside the statutory withdrawal rights of consumers in the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom, are set out in the Refund Policy, which forms part of this agreement. Billing questions and payment disputes go to kalpesh@buildifyapp.in.

10. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, FocusTribe and its operators are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, nor for any loss of profits, revenue, goodwill, data, or business opportunity, arising out of or connected with your use of or inability to use the service, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damage.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total aggregate liability to you for all claims relating to the service, whether in contract, tort or otherwise, is limited in aggregate to the total amount you actually paid us for the service in the twelve months immediately before the event giving rise to the claim. Where you have paid us nothing in that period — which is the case on the free plan, and on the free tools, which take no payment at all — that limit is correspondingly nil, to the extent the law allows.

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited. If you are a consumer, you keep all the statutory rights your local law gives you, and nothing here overrides them.

11. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless FocusTribe and its operators from any claim, demand, loss, or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of your content, your use of the service, or your breach of these terms. This does not apply to the extent the claim arises from our own breach or negligence.

12. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms as the product changes or as the law requires. The “last updated” date at the top always reflects the current version. For material changes we will give reasonable notice by email or in the app before they take effect. Continuing to use FocusTribe after a change takes effect means you accept the updated terms; if you do not accept them, stop using the service and ask us to delete your account.

13. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of India, without regard to its conflict of law rules, and the courts at Vadodara, Gujarat have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising from them. If you are a consumer resident in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, this does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory consumer law of the country where you live, or of your right to bring proceedings there.

14. General

If any provision of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest remains in force. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. You may not assign this agreement without our consent; we may assign it as part of a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, on notice to you. These terms, together with the policies linked in section 1, are the entire agreement between you and us about the service.

15. Contact

Questions about these terms go to kalpesh@buildifyapp.in, or by post to Mahida Kalpesh Jayantilal, Kabir Astoria, Gotri, Vadodara, Gujarat 390021, India.