Acceptable Use Policy

1. Status and Incorporation

This AUP forms an integral part of the Peel & Stick Terms of Use and End User License Agreement (the “Terms”) and the Peel & Stick Privacy Policy. Any breach of this AUP is a material breach of the Terms and activates, without limitation, the indemnity in the Terms, and is subject to the limitation of liability, governing-law, and severability provisions of the Terms. Where this AUP and the Terms conflict, the Terms control.

2. Acceptance

You accept this AUP by accepting the Terms, or by downloading, installing, opening, purchasing, or using Peel & Stick, including any feature unlocked by an in-app purchase or subscription. If you do not accept this AUP, do not use Peel & Stick. Continued use after an update means you accept the AUP as updated.

3. Definitions

In this AUP: (a) “you” means any natural person who uses Peel & Stick; (b) “Content” means any note, sheet, text, list, checklist, drawing, ink, file, or other material you write, draw, store, pin, display, lock, or handle with Peel & Stick, including notes created or placed on your screen through the Shortcuts app or by other software; (c) “Personal Data” has the meaning given in Article 4(1) of the EU General Data Protection Regulation and equivalent terms under other data-protection laws; (d) “Misuse” means any use of Peel & Stick that violates this AUP, the Terms, the Privacy Policy, Apple’s platform rules, or applicable law; (e) “Credible Report” means a good-faith report of suspected Misuse with enough detail to enable MAHTCA GLOBAL to evaluate it; (f) “Authority” means any competent law-enforcement body, court, regulator, data-protection authority, prosecutor, child-protection hotline, or other public body with lawful jurisdiction; and (g) “Apple” means Apple Inc. and its affiliates.

4. Intended Uses

Peel & Stick is intended for lawful, privacy-respecting, good-faith uses, such as writing to-do lists, checklists, talking points, and short notes for yourself; keeping them in sight on your desktop; and locking, or keeping out of screen sharing, notes you want to keep to yourself. A use is permitted unless it falls within Section 5 or otherwise violates the Terms, the Privacy Policy, applicable law, or the rights of others.

5. Prohibited Conduct

You must not use Peel & Stick, or allow anyone to use Peel & Stick on your behalf, in any way that involves the following. This list is illustrative, not exhaustive.

(a) Child sexual abuse material - zero tolerance. You must not use Peel & Stick to create, write, draw, view, store, display, conceal, alter, prepare for distribution, or distribute any material that constitutes child sexual abuse material or that sexualizes, exploits, or endangers any person under 18, including written or drawn material, whether or not it depicts a real child. Reference: Directive 2011/93/EU; Budapest Convention Article 9; 18 U.S.C. §§ 2251–2258A; Romanian Penal Code Articles 374–375. Such material is reportable to NCMEC and to equivalent national hotlines and authorities.

(b) Non-consensual intimate content. You must not use Peel & Stick to create, store, display, conceal, distribute, or prepare for distribution any intimate or sexual content concerning a real, identifiable person without that person’s free, specific, informed, and unambiguous consent. Reference: Directive (EU) 2024/1385; UK Online Safety Act 2023 section 66B.

(c) Deception, fraud, and impersonation. You must not use Peel & Stick to deceive anyone, to obtain any benefit or advantage, or to cause loss to anyone - for example, by placing on a screen a note that imitates a message from another person or organization, a system alert, or a security warning; by using notes in phishing, scam, or social-engineering schemes; by impersonating any person or organization; or by presenting a note as a genuine, original, or unaltered record when it is not. Such conduct may constitute a criminal offence, including under the fraud and forgery offences of the Romanian Penal Code and under laws such as 18 U.S.C. §§ 1028 and 1343.

(d) Unauthorized access. You must not use Peel & Stick on a Mac or user account that you are not authorized to use; place notes on, read notes on, or open locked notes on another person’s Mac without authorization; decode or read a locked note that you are not authorized to read; or use a fingerprint, an Apple Watch, a password, or a PIN that is not yours, or that you are not authorized to use, to open a locked note.

(e) Evidence tampering and obstruction. You must not use Peel & Stick’s editing, deleting, locking, or other features to destroy, conceal, alter, fabricate, or misrepresent any note, record, or fact in connection with any actual or reasonably foreseeable legal, criminal, regulatory, tax, insurance, employment, audit, or other proceeding, or in breach of any legal duty to preserve evidence. Reference: Romanian Penal Code Articles 271–273 and equivalent statutes.

(f) Circumventing protections. You must not use Peel & Stick to open, unlock, decode, or modify any file or Content that you are not authorized to access or modify, or to circumvent any technical protection measure, digital-rights-management measure, or access restriction (see, for example, Article 6 of Directive 2001/29/EC and 17 U.S.C. §§ 1201–1202). You must not bypass, reset, or facilitate the bypass of any in-app purchase, subscription, entitlement, license, pinned-note limit, purchase record, or security mechanism in Peel & Stick, including by editing the files Peel & Stick keeps on your Mac or by using its Shortcuts actions or its connection with other software for that purpose.

(g) Privacy violations. You must not use Peel & Stick to collect, store, display, or disclose the Personal Data of any identifiable person - such as another person’s passwords, account details, health information, contact details, or private messages - without a lawful basis under applicable data-protection law, including the EU GDPR, the UK GDPR, the CCPA/CPRA, the LGPD, the PIPL, the Indian DPDP Act, the Australian Privacy Principles, and PIPEDA, or to covertly identify, locate, or monitor anyone, or to dox, stalk, harass, intimidate, humiliate, or facilitate harm against anyone. Reference: Directive (EU) 2024/1385; Istanbul Convention.

(h) Infringement and confidentiality. You must not use Peel & Stick to copy, store, display, or distribute any material in breach of anyone’s copyright, trademark, confidentiality, trade-secret, contractual, or other rights, including by displaying the confidential information of your employer, clients, or others on a screen, in a screen share, or in a recording without authorization.

(i) Harmful files and automation. You must not use Peel & Stick to create, modify, or distribute “.pstick” files or other files that contain malware or exploits, that are crafted to crash or compromise software, or that contain phishing or other content designed to deceive, defraud, or harm their recipients, and you must not use Peel & Stick’s Shortcuts actions, its connection with other software, or any other automation to flood a screen with notes, to display misleading notes, or to interfere with anyone’s use of their Mac.

(j) Defamation, harassment, and threats. You must not use Peel & Stick to create or display defamatory, threatening, harassing, or hateful Content, or Content that incites violence, including on a screen that others can see or in a screen share or recording.

(k) Reverse engineering, redistribution, or modification of Peel & Stick, as prohibited by the Terms.

(l) Any other unlawful activity under any law, regulation, court order, sanctions regime, or platform rule applicable to you or to MAHTCA GLOBAL.

The absence of a specific category from this Section does not mean that it is permitted. Conduct that is unlawful, harmful, deceptive, or that violates the rights of any person is prohibited whether or not it is listed here.

6. What We Can and Cannot Do

Peel & Stick runs on your Mac. MAHTCA GLOBAL does not receive, access, host, or store your Content or any record of how you use Peel & Stick. As a result, MAHTCA GLOBAL: (a) cannot detect, monitor, scan, or observe your use of Peel & Stick; (b) has no technical means to suspend or restrict Peel & Stick on your Mac; (c) has no usage record to consult in connection with any report; (d) may act on Credible Reports as described in Sections 7 and 8; (e) may refuse support, goodwill consideration, or future product access to anyone who is the subject of a Credible Report of Misuse; and (f) does not warrant that it will detect, prevent, or remedy any Misuse. The absence of detection or action is not an endorsement of any conduct and does not waive any provision of this AUP.

7. Cooperation with Authorities and Apple

MAHTCA GLOBAL will cooperate in good faith, subject to applicable law, with Authorities and with Apple in response to valid legal process, Credible Reports indicating an imminent risk of serious harm, reports of suspected material described in Section 5(a) - which will be referred to NCMEC and equivalent national hotlines - and requests from Apple relating to the App Store or the Apple Developer Program. Because MAHTCA GLOBAL keeps no Content or usage records, its cooperation is limited to confirming Peel & Stick’s local-only design and the absence of server-side records, providing technical documentation to the extent legally required, modifying or removing Peel & Stick features at Apple’s request or the lawful direction of an Authority, and any other action required by law.

8. Notice and Action Procedure

Reports of suspected Misuse should be sent to office@mahtca.com. To qualify as a Credible Report, a notice should include, as far as the reporter is able: a clear identification of the person, conduct, or material involved; a description of the suspected Misuse; contact details if the reporter is willing to be contacted; and a good-faith statement that the report is accurate. MAHTCA GLOBAL will acknowledge Credible Reports within a reasonable time, evaluate them in good faith, and take any action it considers appropriate in its sole discretion and in accordance with applicable law, without promising any specific outcome or timeline. MAHTCA GLOBAL may decline to act on, close, or refer to an Authority any report that is frivolous, abusive, manifestly unfounded, repetitive, or made in bad faith. This procedure follows the spirit of Article 16 of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 (the Digital Services Act) as voluntary good practice, and does not constitute an admission that Peel & Stick is a hosting or intermediary service.

9. Reporter Safe Harbour

To the maximum extent permitted by law, MAHTCA GLOBAL will keep the identity of a good-faith reporter confidential, subject to disclosure required by law; will not retaliate against anyone for a good-faith report; and will not be liable to any reported person for any claim arising from a good-faith report received from a third party. Reports made in bad faith, knowingly false reports, and reports made to harass others are not protected, may themselves constitute Misuse, may activate the indemnity in the Terms, and may be referred to an Authority.

10. Consequences of Breach

Any breach of this AUP: (a) is a material breach of the Terms and terminates your license to use Peel & Stick; (b) activates your indemnity obligations under the Terms; (c) is subject to the limitation of liability in the Terms, including its exclusion of indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, and punitive damages and its aggregate liability cap; (d) forfeits any goodwill consideration regarding refunds, support, or future products; and (e) may be reported to Apple, to any Authority, or to any person who has suffered or is at risk of harm. These remedies are cumulative and in addition to any other remedy available under the Terms, this AUP, or applicable law.

11. Reservation of Rights

MAHTCA GLOBAL reserves all rights not expressly granted to you, including the right to update, modify, or withdraw this AUP (subject to Section 16), to act or decline to act on any report, to publish anonymized information about confirmed patterns of Misuse, to cooperate with Authorities and Apple, to refuse support or future products to anyone credibly reported to be in breach, and to enforce this AUP selectively in light of the available evidence, resources, and legal advice, without waiving any other right or remedy. No failure or delay in exercising any right operates as a waiver.

12. No Third-Party Beneficiaries Except Apple

Apple and Apple’s subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of the Terms and of this AUP and may enforce this AUP against you. No other person has any right to enforce this AUP against MAHTCA GLOBAL. A person harmed by your Misuse must seek any remedy from you, not from MAHTCA GLOBAL. Nothing in this Section limits the right of an Authority to act against MAHTCA GLOBAL where MAHTCA GLOBAL has independent legal responsibility.

13. Survival

Your obligations under this AUP, and any indemnity, defence-control, cooperation, or consequence-of-breach obligation arising from your use of Peel & Stick while this AUP was in force, survive your deletion of Peel & Stick, any refund, expiry, or revocation of any purchase or subscription, and any termination or modification of the Terms, and apply to any Content you handled with Peel & Stick while this AUP or any earlier version of it was in force.

14. Severability

If any provision of this AUP is found to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable, it will be enforced to the maximum extent permitted by law or modified to achieve the closest lawful effect, and the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect.

15. Governing Law and Forum

This AUP, and any dispute arising out of or in connection with it, are governed by the laws of Romania, without regard to conflict-of-law principles, and are subject to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Dolj County, Romania. Nothing in this Section deprives you of the protection of the mandatory consumer-protection rules of the country in which you reside.

16. Changes

MAHTCA GLOBAL may update this AUP to reflect changes in Peel & Stick, applicable law, Apple’s requirements, or its practices. When it does, the version number and effective date change, and the updated AUP is published at www.peelandstick.mahtca.com/aup/, which is the authoritative version and is linked from the Terms. Where a change materially affects your rights, MAHTCA GLOBAL will use reasonable efforts to inform you before it takes effect, for example within Peel & Stick or on its website. If you do not accept an update, your remedy is to stop using and delete Peel & Stick.

17. Contact

For any question about this AUP, to submit a Credible Report under Section 8, or to raise any other matter: office@mahtca.com - MAHTCA GLOBAL, Bechetului, Nr. 26, Malu Mare, Dolj, Romania; Romanian Trade Register: J16/663/2018; VAT / CUI: 39070729.