Aether Forge Studio

Effective Date: 2026-05-24 Last Updated: 2026-05-24

These Terms of Service (the "Terms") form a binding legal agreement between you ("you", "your", or "User") and AetherForge ("AetherForge", "we", "us", or "our") and govern your access to and use of the Paw-diction mobile application, any associated services, websites, content, software, updates, documentation, and any related online or offline features (collectively, the "App" or the "Service"). By installing, downloading, accessing, opening, browsing, registering for, or using the App in any manner, you acknowledge and represent that you have read, understood, and unconditionally agree to be bound by these Terms, the Privacy Policy referenced below, the Apple Standard EULA where applicable, and all other policies, rules, and guidelines we publish in connection with the App from time to time. If you do not agree to any part of these Terms, you must immediately cease all use of the App, uninstall the App from every device on which you have installed it, and destroy any local copies of the App's data within your possession or control.

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS CAREFULLY. THEY CONTAIN IMPORTANT PROVISIONS THAT LIMIT OUR LIABILITY, DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, REQUIRE YOU TO INDEMNIFY US, REQUIRE BINDING INDIVIDUAL ARBITRATION OF DISPUTES (WHERE LAWFUL), WAIVE YOUR RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS ACTION (WHERE LAWFUL), AND ALLOCATE THE RISK OF USING THE APP TO YOU.

1. Acceptance, Eligibility, and Authority to Agree

1.1 Acceptance. Your installation, download, access, registration, opening, or use of the App constitutes your express, irrevocable, and unconditional acceptance of these Terms. No other form of assent is required.

1.2 Minimum Age. You must be at least thirteen (13) years of age to use the App. If you are between 13 and the age of majority in your jurisdiction (typically 18 in Australia), you represent that a parent or legal guardian has reviewed and agreed to these Terms on your behalf and that they accept full responsibility for your use of the App.

1.3 Authority. If you are using the App on behalf of an organisation, partnership, household, or any third party, you represent and warrant that (a) you have full legal authority to bind that entity or party to these Terms, (b) you have read these Terms to that entity or party, and (c) you accept these Terms on their behalf as well as your own.

1.4 Restricted Persons. You represent and warrant that you (a) are not located in, under the control of, or a national or resident of any country subject to a comprehensive embargo by Australia, the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom, or the United Nations; (b) are not on any restricted-party, sanctions, denied-persons, or terrorism-related list maintained by any government or international authority; and (c) will not use the App in violation of any applicable export-control, sanctions, anti-money-laundering, or counter-terrorism law.

1.5 Geographic Scope. The App is provided from Australia. We make no representation that the App is appropriate, lawful, or available for use in any other jurisdiction. If you access or use the App from outside Australia, you do so at your own risk and on your own initiative, and you are solely responsible for complying with all applicable local laws.

2. Nature of the App and Important Disclaimer About Forecasts

2.1 What Paw-diction Is. The App is a personal cashflow tracking and forecasting tool. It allows you to manually record income, expenses, and recurring transactions, and to view simple projections based on the data you enter. The App stores your data locally on your device using standard mobile operating system facilities.

2.2 What Paw-diction Is Not. The App is not, and must not be construed as, financial advice, financial product advice, personal advice, general advice, tax advice, accounting advice, investment advice, credit advice, legal advice, superannuation advice, insurance advice, lending services, banking services, or any other regulated financial service. AetherForge is not a licensed financial adviser, registered tax agent, accountant, lawyer, lender, deposit-taking institution, insurer, broker, or fiduciary, and the App must not be relied upon as if AetherForge were any of those things.

2.3 Forecasts Are Estimates Only. Any "safe to spend", "forecast", "balance projection", "monthly view", "future date amount", "category breakdown", "rollover", "bankruptcy date", or similar figure displayed by the App is an automated arithmetic estimate produced from the data you provide combined with mechanical assumptions selected by you (such as financial-strategy mode and recurring-transaction frequency). These figures are not predictions of fact, are not guarantees of any future financial outcome, are not assurances of solvency, are not statements of account, and must not be treated as such. Real-world outcomes will differ, often materially, from any figure displayed by the App.

2.4 No Reliance. You agree that you will not rely on the App for any decision having financial, legal, tax, contractual, lending, investment, employment, medical, family, or material consequence. You agree that any such decision must be made on the basis of independent professional advice obtained from a suitably qualified and licensed adviser who has reviewed your full circumstances. You further agree that any reliance you nonetheless choose to place on the App is at your own sole risk and responsibility.

2.5 No Fiduciary, Advisory, or Confidential Relationship. Nothing in these Terms or in your use of the App creates a fiduciary, advisory, agency, partnership, joint venture, employer–employee, or confidential relationship between you and AetherForge.

3. Your Account, Data, and Device Responsibility

3.1 Local-First Storage. Version 1 of the App stores all of your transactions, categories, books, and settings on the device on which the App is installed. AetherForge does not, in Version 1, host, replicate, mirror, or back up your financial data on its servers.

3.2 Anonymous Sessions. The App may create an anonymous Firebase Authentication session for technical purposes. This session is not tied to a verified personal identity and does not constitute an "account" in the conventional sense.

3.3 You Are Solely Responsible For. You are, at all times, solely and exclusively responsible for: (a) the accuracy, completeness, lawfulness, and currency of every piece of data you enter; (b) backing up your device by means external to the App, including via iCloud, Google One, iTunes, Finder, or any other facility you choose; (c) the physical security of your device; (d) preventing unauthorised access to your device, including by means of a passcode, biometric lock, or device-encryption setting; (e) updating the App and your device's operating system to the latest available version; (f) maintaining a stable internet connection where any optional online feature requires one; (g) all carrier, data, roaming, and connectivity charges incurred while using the App; and (h) any tax, legal, or regulatory obligation that arises from your activities, including but not limited to those that you record in the App.

3.4 No Recovery After Device Loss, Wipe, or Reset. You acknowledge and agree that AetherForge has no technical ability and no obligation to restore your data if your device is lost, stolen, damaged, sold, returned, factory-reset, jailbroken, rooted, repaired, or wiped, or if you delete the App, clear its storage, or migrate to a new device without first exporting your data. We disclaim all liability arising from such loss to the maximum extent permitted by law.

4. Licence Grant and Reservation of Rights

4.1 Licence. Subject to your continuing compliance with these Terms, AetherForge grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable, limited licence to install and use the App on devices that you personally own or control, solely for your own personal, non-commercial use, and solely in the form supplied by AetherForge through an authorised distribution channel.

4.2 Reservation. All rights not expressly granted to you in these Terms are reserved by AetherForge and its licensors. No title, ownership, or intellectual property right in or to the App is transferred to you under these Terms.

4.3 Updates. AetherForge may from time to time release patches, bug fixes, updates, upgrades, new versions, or new features of the App. You agree that any such release is part of the App and is governed by these Terms (or any updated terms accompanying the release). AetherForge has no obligation to maintain backward compatibility, to preserve any feature, or to continue offering the App in its current form.

5. Acceptable Use; Prohibited Conduct

5.1 You agree that you will not, and will not attempt to, and will not authorise, encourage, or permit any third party to:

(a) reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, decrypt, modify, port, or attempt to derive the source code, underlying ideas, algorithms, file formats, programming, or interoperability interfaces of the App, except and only to the extent that this restriction is unenforceable under applicable law;

(b) remove, obscure, alter, or fail to reproduce any copyright, trademark, service-mark, patent, or other proprietary notice contained in or on the App;

(c) use the App to commit, facilitate, conceal, or further any unlawful act, including without limitation fraud, tax evasion, money laundering, terrorism financing, sanctions evasion, identity theft, market manipulation, insider trading, or breach of fiduciary duty;

(d) use the App to record, manage, or process data on behalf of any third party in a regulated capacity (for example, as a bookkeeper, accountant, financial counsellor, trustee, or financial adviser), without first obtaining a separate written commercial licence from AetherForge;

(e) interfere with, disrupt, overload, probe, scan, attack, or attempt to gain unauthorised access to the App, its underlying infrastructure, or the systems or networks of AetherForge or any third party;

(f) introduce malware, ransomware, spyware, trojans, viruses, worms, time bombs, cancel-bots, or any other malicious or harmful code into the App or any related system;

(g) sublicense, sell, lease, rent, distribute, transfer, assign, or commercially exploit the App or access to it, in whole or in part, including by way of timesharing or service-bureau arrangement;

(h) use the App to develop, test, train, or improve a competing product, service, dataset, or model, including by means of automated scraping, harvesting, or extraction; or

(i) use the App in any manner inconsistent with these Terms, the Apple Standard EULA, the Google Play Developer Distribution Agreement, or any law, regulation, or order applicable to you.

5.2 Suspension and Termination of Access. AetherForge reserves the right, in its sole discretion and without prior notice, to suspend, restrict, throttle, or terminate your access to the App, in whole or in part, for any breach or suspected breach of these Terms, for any safety, security, or legal reason, or for the purpose of protecting AetherForge, its users, or third parties.

6. Intellectual Property

6.1 Ownership. The App, including all source code, object code, executables, build artefacts, designs, layouts, user interfaces, animations, illustrations, sounds, music, mascot characters and likenesses (including the Paw-diction cat), iconography, mmoji assets, avatars, fonts (subject to their respective open-source licences), copy, documentation, and look-and-feel, together with all derivative works of any of the foregoing, is and shall remain the exclusive property of AetherForge or its licensors. The "Paw-diction" name and logo are trademarks of AetherForge, whether registered or unregistered.

6.2 Open Source Components. The App incorporates third-party open source software. The names, versions, licences, and source repositories of those components are listed at https://aetherforge.com.au/cloud-saas/pawdiction/licenses. Your use of any open source component is governed by the licence accompanying that component, in addition to these Terms.

6.3 Feedback. If you submit any suggestion, idea, enhancement request, recommendation, bug report, or other feedback to AetherForge regarding the App ("Feedback"), you grant AetherForge a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, fully paid-up, sublicensable, transferable licence to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, and display the Feedback for any purpose, without any obligation of compensation, attribution, or confidentiality. You waive, to the maximum extent permitted by law, all moral rights you may have in any Feedback.

7. Privacy

Your privacy is important to us. The collection, use, and disclosure of personal information in connection with the App is described in our Privacy Policy, which is available at https://aetherforge.com.au/cloud-saas/pawdiction/privacy-policy and which is incorporated into these Terms by reference. By using the App you confirm that you have read and understood the Privacy Policy.

8. Subscriptions, In-App Purchases, and Future Paid Features

8.1 Free in v1. Version 1 of the App is provided free of charge.

8.2 Future Paid Features. Future versions of the App may offer paid features, subscriptions, consumable or non-consumable in-app purchases, or trials ("Paid Features"), all of which will be processed exclusively through the Apple App Store or Google Play. AetherForge does not directly accept or store payment cards, bank details, or other financial credentials.

8.3 Auto-Renewal. Where a Paid Feature is offered as an auto-renewing subscription, the subscription will automatically renew at the end of each billing period at the then-current rate unless cancelled at least twenty-four (24) hours before the end of the current period through your App Store or Play Store account. We reserve the right to change pricing for new billing periods, with notice as required by the relevant store and applicable law.

8.4 Refunds. All refund requests for Paid Features must be made directly to Apple or Google in accordance with their respective policies. AetherForge has no ability to issue or compel refunds on the platforms' behalf, except where required by law.

8.5 Australian Consumer Law. Where you are a "consumer" under the Australian Consumer Law (Schedule 2 to the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth)) ("ACL"), nothing in this clause 8 limits any guarantee, right, or remedy you have under the ACL that cannot lawfully be excluded.

9. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES

9.1 AS-IS BASIS. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE APP IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS", "AS AVAILABLE", AND "WITH ALL FAULTS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTY OR CONDITION OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY, COLLATERAL, OR OTHERWISE.

9.2 EXCLUDED WARRANTIES. WITHOUT LIMITING CLAUSE 9.1, AETHERFORGE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS, TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, ALL WARRANTIES, REPRESENTATIONS, AND CONDITIONS, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO: (A) MERCHANTABILITY; (B) FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR OR ANY PURPOSE; (C) ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, OR COMPLETENESS OF DATA, FORECASTS, CALCULATIONS, PROJECTIONS, OR OUTPUT; (D) ABSENCE OF DEFECTS, BUGS, ERRORS, INTERRUPTIONS, OR LOSS OF DATA; (E) UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, OR SECURE OPERATION; (F) FREEDOM FROM HARMFUL COMPONENTS; (G) NON-INFRINGEMENT; (H) COMPATIBILITY WITH ANY DEVICE, OPERATING SYSTEM, NETWORK, OR THIRD-PARTY SERVICE; (I) AVAILABILITY OR CONTINUED AVAILABILITY OF ANY FEATURE; AND (J) THAT THE APP WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, EXPECTATIONS, OR REGULATORY OBLIGATIONS.

9.3 NO ADVICE GIVEN. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT NO INFORMATION OR DATA, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM AETHERFORGE OR THE APP CONSTITUTES ADVICE OR CREATES ANY WARRANTY THAT IS NOT EXPRESSLY STATED IN THESE TERMS.

9.4 AUSTRALIAN CONSUMER LAW. Where you are a consumer under the ACL, certain consumer guarantees apply that cannot lawfully be excluded. Where any guarantee, warranty, condition, or right cannot be excluded under applicable law, AetherForge's liability for breach of that guarantee, warranty, condition, or right is, to the extent it lawfully can be limited, limited at AetherForge's sole option to one of the following: (i) re-supply of the relevant service; or (ii) payment of the cost of having the relevant service re-supplied. Nothing in this clause is intended to exclude, restrict, or modify the application of any provision of any statute, including the ACL, where to do so would contravene that statute or cause any provision of these Terms to be void.

10. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

10.1 EXCLUSION OF INDIRECT AND CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL AETHERFORGE OR ANY OF ITS DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS, AGENTS, AFFILIATES, LICENSORS, OR SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, BUSINESS, GOODWILL, REPUTATION, OPPORTUNITY, ANTICIPATED SAVINGS, DATA, USE, PRODUCTION, OR PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THESE TERMS OR YOUR USE OF, OR INABILITY TO USE, THE APP, REGARDLESS OF THE LEGAL THEORY (CONTRACT, TORT INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE, STATUTE, EQUITY, OR OTHERWISE), EVEN IF AETHERFORGE HAS BEEN ADVISED OF, OR OUGHT TO HAVE FORESEEN, THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

10.2 AGGREGATE CAP. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, AETHERFORGE'S TOTAL CUMULATIVE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THESE TERMS OR THE APP, REGARDLESS OF THE NUMBER OR NATURE OF CLAIMS, WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE TOTAL AMOUNT (IF ANY) ACTUALLY PAID BY YOU TO AETHERFORGE FOR ACCESS TO THE APP IN THE SIX (6) MONTHS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO LIABILITY OR (B) ONE AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR (AUD $1.00). YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT THIS CAP IS A REASONABLE ALLOCATION OF RISK GIVEN THAT THE APP IS PROVIDED FREE OF CHARGE OR AT MINIMAL CHARGE.

10.3 SPECIFIC LOSSES NOT RECOVERABLE. Without limiting any other provision, AetherForge will not be liable for, and you assume sole responsibility for, any loss arising out of or in connection with: (a) inaccurate, incomplete, or stale data you have entered or failed to enter; (b) reliance on any forecast, "safe to spend", balance, or category figure displayed by the App; (c) any decision to spend, save, borrow, lend, invest, donate, transact in any cryptocurrency, commit to any contract, or refrain from any of the foregoing, in whole or in part because of the App; (d) loss, corruption, or unavailability of locally stored data, including from device failure, theft, repair, software update, or App update; (e) any tax assessment, penalty, fine, audit, dispute, or interest charge; (f) any third-party service, integration, library, SDK, store, payment processor, push-notification service, network, ISP, carrier, or platform; (g) force majeure events as described in clause 16; or (h) your violation of any law or these Terms.

10.4 BASIS OF THE BARGAIN. You acknowledge that the disclaimers in clause 9 and the limitations in this clause 10 are an essential, fundamental, and bargained-for part of the basis on which AetherForge provides the App, and that the App would not be provided to you on these terms without these disclaimers and limitations.

10.5 AUSTRALIAN CONSUMER LAW. Nothing in this clause 10 is intended to exclude, restrict, or modify any liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, restricted, or modified under applicable law, including the ACL.

11. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless AetherForge and each of its directors, officers, employees, contractors, agents, affiliates, licensors, and suppliers (each, an "Indemnified Party") from and against any and all claims, demands, actions, suits, proceedings, liabilities, damages, judgments, settlements, fines, penalties, losses, costs, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees and disbursements on a full indemnity basis) arising out of or in connection with: (a) your access to or use of the App; (b) your breach or alleged breach of these Terms; (c) your violation or alleged violation of any law, regulation, or third-party right (including any privacy, publicity, intellectual property, or contractual right); (d) any data, content, or information you enter, generate, store, or share through the App; (e) your negligence, wilful misconduct, or fraud; (f) any tax, regulatory, or compliance obligation that arises in connection with the activities you record in the App; and (g) any reliance you or any third party places on a forecast, calculation, or output produced by the App. AetherForge reserves the right, at its own expense, to assume the exclusive defence and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, in which case you agree to cooperate with AetherForge's defence of such claim. You may not settle any matter for which you owe indemnification without AetherForge's prior written consent.

12. Suspension; Termination; Effect of Termination

12.1 By You. You may stop using the App at any time by uninstalling the App from your device(s) and discontinuing all access. Termination by you does not entitle you to any refund except as required by applicable law.

12.2 By Us. AetherForge may, in its sole discretion and without notice, suspend, restrict, or terminate your access to the App or to any feature for any reason, including for breach of these Terms, suspected fraud, security risk, legal compliance, or business reason.

12.3 Effect of Termination. Upon termination: (a) the licence granted under clause 4 immediately terminates; (b) you must cease all use of the App; (c) you remain responsible for all obligations accrued before termination; (d) any data stored locally on your device remains on your device, and AetherForge has no obligation to retrieve, export, or transmit it.

12.4 Survival. The following clauses survive termination of these Terms for any reason: 1.4 (Restricted Persons), 2 (Disclaimer About Forecasts and No Reliance), 3.3–3.4 (Responsibility and No Recovery), 5 (Acceptable Use), 6 (Intellectual Property), 9 (Disclaimer of Warranties), 10 (Limitation of Liability), 11 (Indemnity), 12 (this clause), 13 (Dispute Resolution and Governing Law), 14 (Class-Action Waiver), 15 (Apple-Specific Terms), 16 (Force Majeure), and 17 (General Provisions).

13. Dispute Resolution; Governing Law; Jurisdiction

13.1 Informal Resolution. Before commencing any formal proceeding, you and AetherForge agree to attempt in good faith to resolve any dispute, claim, controversy, or disagreement arising out of or in connection with these Terms or the App ("Dispute") through informal negotiation. You agree to send a written notice describing the Dispute to monday0301oc@gmail.com, and the parties agree to negotiate for at least sixty (60) days before commencing any formal proceeding.

13.2 Binding Individual Arbitration. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, any unresolved Dispute will be finally resolved by binding, individual (non-class) arbitration administered in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, under the rules of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration ("ACICA") then in force, by a single arbitrator. The seat of arbitration is Sydney. The language of the arbitration is English. Judgment on the arbitral award may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction. Either party may seek interim or injunctive relief from a court of competent jurisdiction without waiving this clause.

13.3 Limited Carve-Outs. Notwithstanding clause 13.2: (a) AetherForge may bring an action in any court of competent jurisdiction to protect its intellectual property, confidentiality, or security interests; (b) you may bring an individual claim in a small-claims tribunal of competent jurisdiction if your claim qualifies; and (c) any consumer right that cannot lawfully be subject to mandatory arbitration is preserved.

13.4 Governing Law. These Terms, and any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with them, are governed by the laws of New South Wales, Australia, excluding its rules on conflict of laws. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.

13.5 Forum (Where Arbitration Does Not Apply). Subject to clauses 13.2 and 13.3, the courts of New South Wales, Australia have exclusive jurisdiction over any Dispute, and you irrevocably submit to the personal jurisdiction of those courts.

14. Class-Action Waiver and Time Limit

14.1 Individual Claims Only. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, you and AetherForge each agree that Disputes will be brought solely in your or its individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class, collective, consolidated, representative, or private-attorney-general action or proceeding. The arbitrator (or, where arbitration does not apply, the court) may not consolidate more than one party's claims and may not preside over any form of representative or class proceeding.

14.2 Time Limit. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, any cause of action arising out of or related to these Terms or the App must be commenced within one (1) year after the cause of action accrues; otherwise, that cause of action is permanently barred.

14.3 ACL Carve-Out. Nothing in this clause 14 limits any right of group proceeding that you have under the ACL or any other law to the extent that right cannot lawfully be waived.

15. Apple App Store Additional Terms

If you obtained the App from the Apple App Store, the following additional terms apply between you and AetherForge:

(a) These Terms are concluded between you and AetherForge only, and not with Apple Inc. or its subsidiaries ("Apple"). AetherForge, not Apple, is solely responsible for the App and its content.

(b) The licence granted to you in clause 4 is further limited to use of the App on any Apple-branded products that you own or control and as permitted by the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions, Schedule 2.

(d) In the event of any failure of the App to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund any applicable purchase price for the App to you. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Apple has no other warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to the App, and any other claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs, or expenses attributable to any failure to conform to any warranty are AetherForge's sole responsibility.

(e) AetherForge, not Apple, is responsible for addressing any claims by you or any third party relating to the App or your possession or use of the App, including: (i) product-liability claims; (ii) any claim that the App fails to conform to any applicable legal or regulatory requirement; and (iii) claims arising under consumer protection, privacy, or similar legislation.

(f) In the event of any third-party claim that the App or your possession and use of the App infringes that third party's intellectual property rights, AetherForge, not Apple, is solely responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement, and discharge of any such claim, to the extent required by these Terms.

(g) You represent and warrant that (i) you are not located in a country that is subject to a Australian, U.S., EU, UK, or UN embargo, or that has been designated as a "terrorist supporting" country, and (ii) you are not listed on any Australian, U.S., EU, UK, or UN list of prohibited or restricted parties.

(h) Apple and Apple's subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms, and upon your acceptance of these Terms, Apple has the right (and is deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce these Terms against you as a third-party beneficiary.

16. Force Majeure

AetherForge will not be liable for any failure or delay in performance under these Terms to the extent caused by circumstances beyond its reasonable control, including without limitation: acts of God; natural disasters; flood, fire, earthquake, or storm; war, terrorism, civil unrest, riot, or sabotage; cyberattack, denial-of-service attack, or large-scale data breach affecting third-party infrastructure; epidemic, pandemic, or public-health emergency; failure of internet, cloud, electrical, or telecommunications infrastructure; failure of any third-party service, library, SDK, push-notification service, payment processor, or app store; failure or fault of your device or its operating system; embargo, sanction, government order, court order, or change in law; strike or labour dispute; or shortage of materials, services, or skilled workers.

17. General Provisions

17.1 Entire Agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, the Apple Standard EULA where applicable, and any additional terms applicable to a Paid Feature, constitute the entire agreement between you and AetherForge regarding the App and supersede all prior or contemporaneous understandings, agreements, representations, and warranties.

17.2 No Reliance Beyond the Terms. You acknowledge that you have not relied on any statement, promise, representation, assurance, or warranty made or given by or on behalf of AetherForge that is not expressly set out in these Terms.

17.3 Severability. If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable by a court or arbitrator of competent jurisdiction, that provision will be severed or limited to the minimum extent necessary, and the remainder of the Terms will continue in full force and effect.

17.4 No Waiver. No failure or delay by AetherForge in exercising any right, power, or remedy under these Terms is a waiver of that right, power, or remedy, nor will any single or partial exercise preclude any other or further exercise.

17.5 Assignment. You may not assign, delegate, or transfer these Terms or any of your rights or obligations under them, by operation of law or otherwise, without AetherForge's prior written consent. AetherForge may freely assign or transfer these Terms in whole or in part, including in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganisation, or sale of assets. Any prohibited assignment is void.

17.6 Notices to You. AetherForge may give notices to you by in-app message, email to any address you have provided, posting on the AetherForge website, or push notification. Notices are deemed received upon transmission or posting.

17.7 Notices to Us. All legal notices to AetherForge must be sent to monday0301oc@gmail.com and are deemed received upon AetherForge's actual receipt.

17.8 Headings; Construction. Headings are for convenience only and have no legal effect. The words "include", "including", and "such as" are not limiting. Singular includes plural and vice versa.

17.9 Independent Contractors. Nothing in these Terms creates a partnership, joint venture, agency, employment, or fiduciary relationship between you and AetherForge.

17.10 Third-Party Beneficiaries. Except as expressly provided in clause 15(h), there are no third-party beneficiaries to these Terms.

17.11 Changes to These Terms. AetherForge may update these Terms from time to time. Material changes will be communicated via the App, by updating the "Last Updated" date above, or by another reasonable means. Your continued use of the App on or after the effective date of the updated Terms constitutes your acceptance of the changes. If you do not agree to the updated Terms, you must stop using the App and uninstall it.

18. Contact

Questions, complaints, or notices regarding these Terms or the App may be sent to:

Email: monday0301oc@gmail.com
Website: https://aetherforge.com.au/cloud-saas/pawdiction

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