Terms of Use & End User License Agreement

1. Overview

Peel & Stick is a sticky-notes application for Mac. It lets you write and draw on sheets on a pad, peel them off and pin them to your desktop, format text, lists, and checklists, choose papers, pens, and inks, lock individual notes, keep pinned notes out of screen sharing, keep copies of your notes in a folder you choose, and find your notes again, depending on the features available to you.

Peel & Stick does not require an account. It is designed to run locally on your Mac. Your notes, drawings, and related content are stored on your Mac - in Peel & Stick’s own storage and, if you choose one, in a notes folder of your choosing - and remain under your control, subject to your device settings, operating-system behaviour, Apple services, backup settings, iCloud settings, and any third-party apps or services you choose to use.

2. Keep Copies of Important Notes

You are solely responsible for keeping copies and backups of your notes. Before you write, edit, lock, move, or delete any note that matters to you, keep a separate copy of its contents in a safe place, and maintain regular backups - for example, with Time Machine or another backup system of your choice.

Peel & Stick saves your notes automatically, without a Save command. It keeps each note as a file in its own storage on your Mac and, if you have chosen a notes folder, also keeps a copy of each unlocked note in that folder as a “.pstick” file. Each time a note is saved, Peel & Stick replaces the previous contents of its files. Peel & Stick has no export, print, or Save As command, does not keep earlier versions of a note, and has no Trash or archive from which a note can be brought back. The copies in your notes folder are not guaranteed: they may be missing, out of date, or incomplete - for example, while the folder cannot be reached (see Section 4).

A locked note is not kept in your notes folder at all: it exists only in Peel & Stick’s own storage on your Mac (see Section 5). Undo is available only while you are editing a note, does not cover every action, and cannot bring back a deleted note. Never rely on Peel & Stick, on your notes folder, or on undo as the only copy of a note.

3. Saving, Interruptions, and Data Loss

Writing and saving notes involves writing data to your storage. Although Peel & Stick is designed to save your notes carefully, the developer does not guarantee that any note will be saved completely or correctly, that a saved note will open, or that any note, change, or data will not be lost or damaged.

Peel & Stick saves an edit shortly after you stop typing, and saves pins, ticks, and locks as they happen. A note or its changes may be lost, damaged, corrupted, truncated, partially written, made unreadable, or replaced by an incomplete or earlier version if any interruption or failure occurs while you are working on it or while it is being saved, including without limitation: Peel & Stick quitting or crashing unexpectedly, including before a change has been saved; macOS crashing, restarting, or stopping responding; loss of power, a depleted battery, sleep, or a forced shutdown or restart; you or the operating system force-quitting or terminating Peel & Stick, including under low-memory or thermal pressure; a software or system update; your disk or volume becoming full, read-only, disconnected, or damaged; an external, network, or cloud drive - including iCloud Drive and other file providers - or a synchronization or backup service disconnecting, syncing, offloading, restoring, or modifying your notes folder or a file in it; another app, user, or process opening, moving, renaming, replacing, deleting, or changing a file; file-permission changes; security or antivirus software; file-system errors; or hardware failure.

If a note’s file cannot be read when Peel & Stick opens - for example, because it was damaged or changed outside Peel & Stick - Peel & Stick skips that note and continues with the others, and the note may not appear. Changes you have not yet saved exist only in your Mac’s memory and can be lost at any time. You agree to keep your own copies and backups as described in Section 2. To the maximum extent permitted by law, the developer accepts no liability for any loss of, damage to, or corruption of any note, file, change, or data, however caused, including in any of the circumstances described in this Section.

4. Deleting Notes and Your Notes Folder

Deleting is permanent. When you choose “Unstick and Throw Away” or “Delete” for a note, Peel & Stick deletes the note at once, without asking you to confirm, and also deletes its copy from your notes folder. A deleted note cannot be restored from Peel & Stick, and Undo does not bring it back. A sheet that you peel off a pad with nothing written or drawn on it is thrown away rather than pinned. To keep a note that you no longer want on your desktop, return it to its pad instead. Deleting a note, or locking it, does not remove copies of it that exist elsewhere - for example, in your backups, in a service that synchronizes your notes folder or keeps earlier versions of its files, on the clipboard, or in screenshots or recordings - and Peel & Stick does not control those copies.

Your notes folder. If you choose a notes folder, Peel & Stick keeps a copy of each unlocked note there, removes a note’s copy from the folder when you lock or delete the note, and, when it opens, adds to your notes any Peel & Stick note it finds in the folder that it does not already hold - including notes restored from a backup or copied from another Mac - and moves any locked note it finds there into its own storage. Where Peel & Stick holds a note and finds a different copy of the same note, it may keep one copy and replace or ignore the other. Peel & Stick does not sync notes between Macs, and the notes folder is not a synchronization, backup, or version-history service. If you edit, rename, move, replace, or delete files in the folder, keep the folder in a location that is synchronized by iCloud Drive or another service, restore it from a backup, or use the same folder from more than one Mac, notes may be duplicated, replaced by an older or newer version, moved, or lost.

If the folder is moved, renamed, or on a drive that is not connected, Peel & Stick cannot reach it until you choose it again, and the copies in it are not updated in the meantime. Pictures in PNG format placed directly in the folder may be listed in the Vault and read for search, as described in the Privacy Policy. Search, including the words Peel & Stick reads from pictures, may miss, misread, or leave out words and notes, and must not be relied on to find every note. You remain responsible for keeping copies of any other files you keep in the folder.

5. Locked Notes: Encoded, Not Encrypted

Peel & Stick lets you lock individual notes. A locked note’s words and drawing are not shown in Peel & Stick - on the pad, on your desktop, on the Corkboard, in the Vault, in search, in notifications, or in the Shortcuts app - until macOS confirms that it is you, with Touch ID, an unlocked paired Apple Watch, or your login password, depending on what your Mac supports, or until you enter the note’s PIN, if you set one. Locking is designed only to keep a note from being read in Peel & Stick.

A locked note is encoded, not encrypted. Its words and drawing are stored in a reversible encoded form, without any key or secret, so that they do not show at a glance. Anyone who has access to its file and knows how - for example, anyone who can use your macOS user account, any software running as you, anyone with access to your backups, or anyone who obtains a copy of your Mac’s storage - can read a locked note without Touch ID, your password, or the PIN. Peel & Stick does not encrypt any note, locked or not, and notes that are not locked are stored as readable text.

Limits of the lock. Without limitation: (a) anyone who knows your Mac’s login password, or whose fingerprint is enrolled in Touch ID on your Mac, or who has an Apple Watch that can unlock your Mac, can open every locked note in Peel & Stick, whether or not the note has a PIN; (b) a PIN is an additional way to open a note, not an additional lock, and it does not prevent anyone from opening the note with Touch ID, an Apple Watch, or your login password; (c) Peel & Stick does not limit the number of attempts to enter a PIN; (d) a PIN can be set only when a note is locked and cannot be changed afterwards - only the lock as a whole can be removed; (e) an open locked note can be read by anyone who can see your screen until it locks again, which Peel & Stick is designed to do when certain events occur - such as your screen sleeping, your user session switching, Peel & Stick quitting, or, for a note pinned to your desktop, another app coming to the front or the note being left untouched for a period of time (currently 15 minutes) - and the developer does not guarantee that a note will lock again at any particular moment; (f) a locked note is kept only in Peel & Stick’s own storage on your Mac, not in your notes folder, so it is not included in copies of that folder, but it is included, in encoded form, in backups of your Mac that cover Peel & Stick’s storage, such as Time Machine; (g) while a locked note is open, its words are held in your Mac’s memory; and (h) a note cannot be locked on a Mac that cannot confirm your identity with Touch ID, an Apple Watch, or a password.

Peel & Stick never stores your PIN; it keeps only information derived from it that is used to check a PIN you enter. If you forget a note’s PIN, neither Peel & Stick nor the developer can recover or reset it; the note can still be opened in Peel & Stick with Touch ID, an Apple Watch, or your login password, as described above. If you lose access to your macOS user account, you may lose access to your notes. Do not rely on locking to protect passwords, financial-account or payment-card details, health information, or other secrets. You are responsible for securing your Mac, your user account, and your backups (see Section 25).

6. Screen Sharing, Recordings, and Screenshots

Peel & Stick lets you choose whether notes pinned to your desktop appear when you share your screen, record it, or take screenshots, one note at a time or as a default. When a pinned note is set to stay private, Peel & Stick asks macOS to leave that note’s window out of screen captures. The developer does not guarantee that a private note will be left out of any screen share, recording, screenshot, or other capture. macOS, not Peel & Stick, applies the setting, and apps or devices that capture your whole display in their own way, capture methods that do not respect macOS window privacy, and cameras pointed at your screen may still show a private note.

The setting applies only to notes pinned to your desktop and to sheets moving to and from them. It does not apply to the pad and the sheet on it - including a private note that you return to the pad - to the Corkboard, to the idle screen, to the Vault window, or to notifications, any of which may appear in a capture with their contents. Unless you have chosen otherwise for a note or as your default, notes appear in captures like any other window. The setting “Fade notes during full-screen video and presentations” only makes pinned notes fainter while a full-screen app is in front; it does not keep them out of a capture. Keeping a note private in a capture does not lock it: anyone who can see your screen can still read it.

Before you share or record your screen or take a screenshot, check what will be visible - for example, with a test - and put away or close anything you do not want to show. To the maximum extent permitted by law, the developer accepts no liability for the appearance of any note or its content in any screen share, recording, screenshot, or other capture.

7. Pinned Notes, Windows, and Displays

Notes you pin to your desktop are designed to float above your other windows, to appear on every Space, and to appear over full-screen apps. The developer does not guarantee that a pinned note will appear above every window or app, or at all times. Other apps, windows at a higher level, some full-screen Spaces, the screen saver, the lock screen, and macOS itself can cover or hide pinned notes. A pinned note that was on a display that is no longer connected is moved to your main display, and a note may appear in a different position after a change to your displays.

Pinned notes stay on your screen until you return them to a pad or delete them, and anyone who can see your screen can read them. The same applies to the Corkboard and, if you turn on “Show my notes when the Mac is idle”, to the idle screen, which shows your pinned notes enlarged once your Mac has been idle for the time you choose. Peel & Stick’s keyboard shortcuts, such as ⌥⌘N and ⌥⌘Space, may not work where macOS or another app already uses the same combination, and Peel & Stick may not tell you when a shortcut cannot be used. The paper effects that respond to the pointer and to other windows are visual only, may not respond to every movement, and are switched off when Reduce Motion is turned on.

8. Shortcuts and Notes Left by Other Software

Shortcuts. Peel & Stick adds actions to Apple’s Shortcuts app that can create notes, pin notes to your desktop, and set a one-time reminder for a note. The Shortcuts app and Siri are provided by Apple (see Section 20), and a shortcut can run Peel & Stick’s actions without you watching. A reminder is delivered only while Peel & Stick is running, by a sound and a notification shown by macOS, and, if your Mac was asleep at the time, may be delivered late. Reminders are not guaranteed, and must not be relied on for anything important, time-critical, medical, or safety-related.

Notes from Claude. If you turn on “Let Claude leave notes on your screen” in Settings, Peel & Stick accepts a note from any request that carries the connection key shown in Settings. Such a request is a link that any app, script, or web page can open, so anyone or anything that has the key - not only a Claude session you give it to - can place a note on your screen. Each such note is marked “From Claude”, and Peel & Stick limits how many can be placed, but the developer does not write, review, or control their content. The key is stored with Peel & Stick’s preferences, where other software running on your Mac can read it, and “Copy Instructions for Claude” places it on the clipboard, where other apps can read it. You are responsible for keeping the key private, for making a new key if it may have been disclosed, and for checking any such note before you rely on it. Claude is a product of a third party, not of the developer, and is an External Service under Section 20. The setting is off until you turn it on, and you can turn it off at any time.

9. Acceptance, Withdrawal, and Termination

You must accept these Terms to use Peel & Stick. Peel & Stick does not ask you to click to agree: you accept these Terms by downloading, installing, opening, accessing, purchasing, subscribing to, or using Peel & Stick, or any feature, in-app purchase, or subscription within it, and you accept them again each time you do so. These Terms remain in force until terminated by you or by the developer.

Termination by you. You may terminate these Terms at any time by ceasing all use of Peel & Stick and deleting it from your devices. Deleting Peel & Stick does not cancel a subscription; to stop future charges, cancel the subscription through Apple as described in Section 18. Deleting the Peel & Stick app may also leave your notes on your Mac, in Peel & Stick’s own storage and in your notes folder, as described in the Privacy Policy.

Termination by the developer. Your rights under these Terms terminate automatically, without notice, if you fail to comply with any provision of these Terms or of the Acceptable Use Policy. Upon termination, you must immediately cease all use of Peel & Stick and delete it from your devices. No refund or compensation is owed in connection with any termination, except where required by applicable law.

Survival. Termination does not affect any obligation, right, or remedy that, by its nature, is intended to survive, including Sections 2 to 8, 12, 13, 22 to 33, 35, 36, and 39 to 43.

10. Age Requirement

You must be at least 13 years old to use Peel & Stick, or older where the law of your country requires a higher age for the use of digital services without parental consent. If you are under the age of majority where you live, you may use Peel & Stick only with the consent and involvement of a parent or legal guardian, who accepts these Terms on your behalf and is responsible for your use of Peel & Stick, including any purchase made on your device or with your Apple Account. By using Peel & Stick, you represent that these requirements are met. If they are not met, do not download, install, open, purchase, or use Peel & Stick.

11. License to Use the App

Subject to your compliance with these Terms and with the Usage Rules set forth in the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions (the “Apple Usage Rules”), the developer grants you a limited, personal, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use Peel & Stick on Apple-branded products that you own or control, as permitted by the Apple Usage Rules, including any applicable Family Sharing or volume-purchase rules.

You do not acquire ownership of Peel & Stick, its source code, object code, design, interface, icons, branding, workflows, papers, pads, sounds, documentation, or other intellectual property. All rights not expressly granted to you are reserved by the developer and its licensors.

12. Restrictions on the Software

You may not distribute Peel & Stick or any copy, component, modified version, extracted portion, build, package, binary, installer, or derivative of Peel & Stick.

Except where expressly permitted by applicable law, you must not: (a) copy, reproduce, redistribute, sell, rent, lease, lend, sublicense, assign, publish, upload, host, mirror, share, transfer, or make Peel & Stick available to any third party; (b) distribute Peel & Stick outside authorized Apple distribution channels; (c) include Peel & Stick in another software package, bundle, marketplace, repository, device image, managed deployment, or commercial service without the developer’s prior written consent; (d) modify, adapt, translate, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, attempt to derive the source code of, or create derivative works from Peel & Stick; (e) bypass, disable, reset, or interfere with any in-app purchase, subscription, entitlement, license, pinned-note limit, purchase record, or security mechanism in Peel & Stick, including by editing or replacing the files Peel & Stick keeps on your Mac, or by using its actions in the Shortcuts app or its connection with other software, for that purpose; (f) extract, copy, or redistribute, as such or as your own work, the papers, paper textures, icons, sounds, or other content bundled with Peel & Stick - the notes you write and draw on Peel & Stick’s papers are not restricted by this item; (g) remove, alter, obscure, or misrepresent any copyright, trademark, ownership, licensing, security, or attribution notice; or (h) use Peel & Stick to build, train, benchmark, or market a competing product in a way that violates these Terms or applicable law.

These restrictions apply to the maximum extent permitted by law and do not limit rights that cannot legally be restricted.

13. Permitted Use and Your Responsibility

Peel & Stick is intended for lawful, privacy-respecting, good-faith use. You are solely responsible for: (a) the notes, drawings, checklists, and other content you write, draw, store, pin, display, lock, or delete with Peel & Stick, and for their content; (b) having the rights, permissions, and authority needed to do so, including under copyright, contract, confidentiality, and privacy law, and in particular where a note contains other people’s personal data or confidential information; (c) keeping copies and backups of your notes; (d) deciding what to write in a note, where to pin it, who can see your screen, and what to show when you share or record your screen; (e) reviewing every note, reminder, and note placed by other software before you rely on it; (f) complying with all applicable laws, regulations, platform rules, professional rules, and obligations owed to others, including employment, confidentiality, and evidence-preservation obligations; and (g) ensuring that your use of Peel & Stick does not violate the rights of any person or organization.

You must not use Peel & Stick for fraud or unlawful surveillance, to harass, threaten, or deceive anyone, to impersonate any person or organization, to store or display other people’s personal data without a lawful basis, to destroy or conceal evidence, to infringe anyone’s rights, or for any other unlawful or harmful purpose. Detailed rules are set out in the Peel & Stick Acceptable Use Policy, which forms part of these Terms.

14. No Data Collection by the Developer

Peel & Stick is designed not to collect, transmit, sell, rent, share, analyze, or remotely store your notes, drawings, their content, usage analytics, identifiers, or telemetry on servers controlled by the developer. Peel & Stick does not operate a user-account system, has no server, does not upload your notes, and does not use them for advertising, tracking, profiling, analytics, model training, resale, or marketing.

To work, Peel & Stick keeps certain information locally on your Mac - for example, your notes and where they are pinned, your preferences, its access to the notes folder you choose, the information used to check a note’s PIN, and a cache of words read from pictures in your notes folder. This information stays on your Mac and is not received, accessed, or held by the developer. Peel & Stick does not store anything in your Mac’s keychain. Further detail is provided in the Privacy Policy.

15. Local Processing, Storage, and File Access

Peel & Stick’s writing, drawing, locking, search, and display features are designed to run on your Mac. Peel & Stick runs inside the macOS App Sandbox. It keeps your notes in its own storage on your Mac and, if you choose a notes folder through the choice Peel & Stick offers, it can read and write only that folder and folders you chose before, whose access it remembers so that it can reach them again. Notes can also reach Peel & Stick when you drop text or a “.pstick” file onto a pad, in which case Peel & Stick may remember its access to that file, through its actions in the Shortcuts app, and, if you turn it on, from other software as described in Section 8. When you open a locked note, macOS performs the check that it is you and tells Peel & Stick only whether it succeeded; Peel & Stick never receives your fingerprint or your password. Peel & Stick does not request access to your camera, microphone, location, contacts, calendars, photo library, screen recording, or Accessibility features, and it asks for permission to show notifications only when a reminder is first set. If you deny or limit a permission, or Peel & Stick’s access to your notes folder, some features may not work.

Your notes remain subject to your own storage, operating-system behaviour, iCloud settings, backup settings, and the other apps and services you use. The developer does not control iCloud, iCloud Drive, device backups, file providers, synchronization or cloud-storage services, external or network drives, screen-sharing or recording apps, or any other system or service outside Peel & Stick.

16. Free and Pro Features

Some of Peel & Stick’s features are available without charge, and others require Peel & Stick Pro (“Pro”), which is available as an auto-renewable subscription or as a one-time purchase. The features included in each tier are described in Peel & Stick, on its App Store page, and on its website, and may change over time, subject to applicable law. Without Pro, Peel & Stick currently keeps up to three notes pinned to your desktop at once and offers a limited selection of papers, pads, and pens.

Free features are provided free of charge, as a courtesy, and to the maximum extent permitted by law without any warranty or liability of any kind.

When Pro is not active - for example because a subscription has ended, a purchase has been refunded or revoked, or Peel & Stick has been unable to confirm your purchase with the App Store (see Section 18) - Pro features return to the locked state. Peel & Stick is designed not to change or delete notes you have already made when this happens: your notes still open and can be edited, notes already pinned to your desktop stay pinned, and notes keep the paper they were written on and their drawings. Until Pro is active again, however, you cannot choose a Pro paper or pen, pin another note while the free tier’s limit is reached or exceeded, or take a new sheet from a pad that requires Pro. Any other in-app purchase the developer may offer grants only what is described at the time of purchase, as set out in Section 17.

17. Purchases, Payments, and Refunds

In-app purchases as licenses. Each in-app purchase grants you a limited, personal, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to access the corresponding features for the period and on the terms shown at the time of purchase. You do not acquire ownership of any feature, code, content, or other component of Peel & Stick. In-app purchases are licenses to use, not sales of goods, and remain subject to these Terms, the Apple Usage Rules, and applicable law. Any other in-app purchase the developer may offer, in addition to Pro, grants only what is described at the time of purchase and does not include Pro unless that description says so.

Purchases are processed by Apple through the App Store, and Apple is the merchant of record. The developer does not receive or store your payment details. Apple may process purchase, refund, tax, invoice, subscription, device, account, and transaction information under Apple’s own terms and privacy policies. The developer is not responsible for Apple’s payment processing, refund decisions, billing rules, taxes, exchange rates, chargebacks, subscription management, Ask to Buy approvals, Family Sharing rules, or App Store availability. Prices are those shown in the App Store at the time of purchase; they may differ between countries and regions and may change over time.

Purchases that need approval. If a purchase requires approval - for example through Apple’s Ask to Buy - what you purchase is not provided until the purchase is approved, and the developer is not responsible for whether, when, or how it is approved.

Family Sharing. Where Family Sharing is enabled for a Peel & Stick purchase in the App Store, members of your family group may be able to use it under Apple’s Family Sharing rules. Family Sharing is currently enabled for the yearly subscription and the one-time purchase of Pro, and not for the monthly subscription. The developer does not guarantee that Family Sharing is available for any other product, and its availability may change.

Refunds and withdrawal. Requests for refunds or cancellations must be made to Apple and are subject to Apple’s policies and applicable law. If you are a consumer in the European Union or the European Economic Area, you may have a statutory right to withdraw from a distance purchase within 14 days. By using Pro, or any other feature unlocked by an in-app purchase, once the App Store has confirmed the transaction, you expressly request that supply begin immediately. Where you request that the digital content or service be supplied immediately, you acknowledge that, to the extent permitted by Article 16(m) of Directive 2011/83/EU and equivalent national law, you lose your right of withdrawal once supply has begun.

18. Subscriptions and Auto-Renewal

Peel & Stick currently offers Pro as a monthly and a yearly auto-renewable subscription. A subscription grants you a limited, personal, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to access Pro features for the duration of an active, paid subscription period. When a subscription lapses, is cancelled, is refunded, is revoked, or otherwise ends, that license ends, and Pro features return to the locked state, as described in Section 16, until you subscribe again or make a one-time purchase.

The subscription title, length, and price shown in the App Store and in Peel & Stick at the time of purchase are the binding terms of that subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically at the then-current price for the same period unless automatic renewal is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your Apple Account is charged for renewal within the 24 hours before the current period ends. Peel & Stick does not provide a control for managing subscriptions: you can manage, change, or cancel your subscription at any time in your App Store account settings - in System Settings, under your Apple Account, in Media & Purchases, or in the App Store. Moving between the monthly and the yearly subscription is handled by Apple under its rules. Check in your App Store account settings which of your subscriptions are active: each active subscription renews, and is charged, until you cancel it.

Cancelling stops future renewals; the current paid period remains active until its end date, and no refund is provided for any unused portion except where required by law. If Apple cannot collect payment, Apple may offer a billing grace period or retry billing, during which Peel & Stick is designed to keep Pro active; if payment is not collected, the subscription lapses. If the price of a subscription increases, Apple notifies you in advance and, where required, asks for your consent. Any introductory offer for a subscription, and its terms, are shown in the App Store before you purchase; the developer does not guarantee that any introductory offer will be available to you, and, where applicable under Apple’s rules, any unused portion of an introductory offer is forfeited when you purchase another subscription or the one-time purchase of Pro. If you make the one-time purchase of Pro while a subscription is active, the subscription is not cancelled automatically: it continues to renew, and you continue to be charged, until you cancel it through Apple.

Peel & Stick checks your purchases on your Mac using records provided by Apple, and is designed to recognize a valid purchase without an internet connection once those records are on your Mac. It unlocks nothing on a record that it cannot verify. Peel & Stick may be temporarily unable to recognize a valid purchase, or to show or complete a purchase - for example, on a Mac that has not been online since the purchase, during an outage of Apple’s services, if the App Store could not be reached when Peel & Stick was opened, or if a record cannot be verified on your Mac - and the developer is not liable for any such temporary unavailability.

19. One-Time Purchase

Peel & Stick offers Pro as a one-time, non-consumable purchase. It grants you a personal, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license - not ownership - to access the Pro feature set for as long as the purchase is recognized as valid by Apple’s App Store systems and for as long as the developer makes the applicable Peel & Stick product, feature set, and platform support available. “One-time” means that you pay once for that license, without a subscription; it does not mean that the license, Peel & Stick, or any feature will be available for any particular period, or for the life of the user, the developer, any company, any device, any operating system, the App Store, Apple services, or any third-party service. It does not transfer to you any ownership interest in Peel & Stick, any feature, any code, any content, or any underlying intellectual property.

The developer will not charge you again for the same Pro feature set on the same supported platform, provided that: (a) the purchase remains valid and is not refunded, reversed, revoked, cancelled, charged back, found fraudulent, or otherwise invalidated; (b) Peel & Stick remains available, maintained, operable, and supported on the relevant platform; (c) your device, operating system, Apple Account, and Apple’s services continue to support recognition or restoration of the purchase; and (d) continued access is not prevented by law, regulation, court order, platform rule, security requirement, technical limitation, or circumstances outside the developer’s reasonable control.

A one-time purchase covers the Pro feature set identified at the time of purchase, together with any fixes, compatibility updates, or improvements the developer chooses to provide, but not separate future applications, separate products or services, features released as a distinct paid product or subscription, features on platforms not included in the original purchase, or third-party services offered separately. Where supported by Apple, you may restore a valid purchase with “Restore Purchases” on the “Peel & Stick Pro” screen in Peel & Stick, using the Apple Account used to make it. The developer does not control Apple’s purchase records, refund decisions, App Store account status, Family Sharing behaviour, App Store availability, device compatibility, or operating-system support.

20. Apple Terms and Third-Party Services

Your use of Peel & Stick may also be subject to Apple’s App Store terms, the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions, device and operating-system terms, iCloud terms, and any applicable third-party terms, and you agree to comply with them. Where Apple’s standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement also applies to your use of Peel & Stick, these Terms apply in addition to it, to the maximum extent permitted by Apple’s rules and applicable law.

Peel & Stick may use, link to, or interact with products and services provided by Apple or by other third parties, such as the App Store and its purchase services; Touch ID, Apple Watch, notifications, the Shortcuts app, Siri, and other macOS services; iCloud Drive and other file providers and synchronization services that may hold your notes folder; backup services; screen-sharing, recording, and video-call apps; other software on your Mac, including Claude; and websites you open from links, including the developer’s own published websites and supervisory-authority websites (together, “External Services”). External Services are provided by their operators under their own terms and policies. The developer does not control, endorse, monitor, or assume responsibility for any External Service, and you use them at your own risk; to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the developer disclaims any liability arising from your use of any External Service. A reference to an External Service does not imply any affiliation with, or endorsement by, its operator.

Apple is not responsible for Peel & Stick, its content, maintenance, support, claims, warranties, or your use of it, except as Apple may separately provide under its own terms or applicable law.

21. Maintenance and Support

The developer is responsible for maintenance and support of Peel & Stick only as stated in these Terms or as required by applicable law. Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support services for Peel & Stick. The developer has no obligation to recover, repair, or restore any note, file, or data, and cannot recover a forgotten PIN. Support questions can be sent to peelandstick@mahtca.com. Legal notices, complaints, and claims should be directed to: office@mahtca.com - MAHTCA GLOBAL, Bechetului, Nr. 26, Malu Mare, Dolj, Romania; Romanian Trade Register: J16/663/2018; VAT / CUI: 39070729.

22. Ownership of Your Content

You retain all rights you already have in your notes, drawings, and other content. Peel & Stick does not claim ownership of any note or other content you write, draw, or process with it. You represent that you have the rights, permissions, and lawful authority needed for everything you do with Peel & Stick, including where a note contains the work, personal data, or confidential information of another person.

23. Intellectual Property

Peel & Stick, including its software, design, interface, graphics, icons, papers, paper textures, pads, sounds, workflows, branding, names, documentation, and related materials, is owned by the developer or its licensors and is protected by copyright, trademark, trade-secret, and other intellectual-property laws. You may not use the Peel & Stick name, logos, branding, screenshots, interface, or other proprietary materials in a way that suggests endorsement, affiliation, resale, redistribution, or ownership without the developer’s prior written permission.

24. Privacy and Data Roles

The developer does not receive, access, host, or store the notes or other content that you handle with Peel & Stick. Because the developer never sees or holds your content, the developer does not act as a “controller” or “processor” of it within the meaning of the EU General Data Protection Regulation, the UK GDPR, or equivalent laws. When you use Peel & Stick to write, store, pin, display, or show on a shared screen notes - including notes that contain personal data about you or other people - you determine the purposes and means of that processing on your own device, and you are solely responsible for its lawfulness and for any data-protection, privacy, confidentiality, or consent obligations owed to others.

Trader information. MAHTCA GLOBAL, Bechetului, Nr. 26, Malu Mare, Dolj, Romania; Romanian Trade Register: J16/663/2018; VAT / CUI: 39070729; office@mahtca.com. In Romania, you may lodge a complaint with the National Supervisory Authority for Personal Data Processing (ANSPDCP, www.dataprotection.ro); elsewhere, with your local supervisory authority.

25. Security

Peel & Stick is designed to operate locally, but no software, device, operating system, or workflow can be guaranteed to be error-free, uninterrupted, secure, or immune from data loss. Peel & Stick does not encrypt your notes (see Section 5). You are responsible for securing your Mac - including with a strong login password, by controlling whose fingerprints are enrolled in Touch ID and which Apple Watch can unlock your Mac, and, where appropriate, with FileVault and encrypted backups - for keeping macOS up to date, for maintaining backups, and for controlling who can access your Mac, your user account, your backups, your notes folder, and the information Peel & Stick keeps on it.

26. No Warranty

Peel & Stick is provided “as is” and “as available,” with all faults and without warranty of any kind. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the developer and its owners, contributors, licensors, and affiliates disclaim all warranties, representations, and conditions of any kind, whether express, implied, statutory, or otherwise, including the implied warranties or conditions of merchantability, satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, title, accuracy, quiet enjoyment, non-infringement, availability, uninterrupted or error-free operation, and compatibility with any device, display, operating system, file, app, or service. Without limitation, the developer does not warrant that any note or change will be preserved, saved, or recoverable; that a deleted note can be recovered; that the copies in your notes folder will be complete or current; that locking will keep any note private or secure, or that a locked note cannot be read outside Peel & Stick; that a private note will be left out of any screen share, recording, or screenshot; that pinned notes will remain visible above other windows; that search will find every note or read every word in a picture correctly; that keyboard shortcuts, Shortcuts actions, or reminders will work or will be delivered on time; or that any purchase will be recognized at all times, including offline.

No oral or written information or advice given by the developer or by Apple creates a warranty. Should Peel & Stick or any function prove defective, you assume the entire cost of any servicing, repair, recovery, or correction. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so some of these exclusions may not apply to you, and you may have additional rights under the mandatory consumer-protection law of your country of residence. You use Peel & Stick at your own risk.

27. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the developer and its owners, contributors, licensors, and affiliates will not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss or damage of any kind, arising out of or relating to Peel & Stick or these Terms, including damages for: (a) loss of, damage to, or corruption of notes, drawings, checklists, files, copies in your notes folder, backups, or data; (b) failed, partial, delayed, or irreversible saving, copying, adopting, replacing, or deleting - including notes thrown away or deleted without confirmation, blank sheets thrown away, notes replaced by another copy, and notes skipped because their files could not be read - including as a result of app crashes, system crashes, power loss, force-quit, termination by the operating system, system updates, full or disconnected storage, synchronization or backup services, or any other interruption; (c) the disclosure of, or access by anyone to, the content of any note, including a locked note read outside Peel & Stick from its file or a backup, or opened by anyone who knows your login password or can use Touch ID or an Apple Watch on your Mac, and including any note or content shown in a screen share, recording, screenshot, notification, Shortcuts action, the Corkboard, the idle screen, or otherwise on your screen; (d) forgotten PINs, lost access to your user account, or notes that cannot be opened; (e) pinned notes that are hidden, covered, moved, or not shown, keyboard shortcuts that do not work, search results that miss or misread notes or words, and reminders that are not delivered, are delivered late, or are missed; (f) the content of any note placed on your screen by other software, including a Claude session, or your reliance on it; (g) the unavailability, locking, or loss of Pro features or purchase recognition, including while offline; (h) lost profits, revenue, business, opportunity, goodwill, or reputation, emotional distress, or business interruption; (i) the acts or omissions of Apple, iCloud, operating systems, file providers, synchronization services, screen-sharing and recording apps, third-party apps, or other external systems; or (j) any unlawful, negligent, or unauthorized use of Peel & Stick by you or by any third party.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the developer’s total aggregate liability for all claims relating to Peel & Stick will not exceed the greater of: (a) the amount you paid for the Peel & Stick purchase or subscription from which the claim arises during the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim; or (b) EUR 25. This cap applies per user and to all of your claims taken together. For free features, the developer’s liability is excluded to the maximum extent permitted by law. Where liability for loss of data cannot be excluded, it is limited to the typical cost of restoring the data from the backup copies that you should have kept in accordance with Section 2.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits any liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, for intentional misconduct or gross negligence where the law does not permit its exclusion, under mandatory product-liability law, or under the mandatory rights of consumers - including the rights of consumers in the European Union regarding the conformity of digital content and services under Directive (EU) 2019/770 and its national implementations.

28. Indemnity

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the developer and its owners, contributors, licensors, affiliates, officers, employees, agents, and successors (the “Indemnified Parties”) from and against all claims, demands, investigations, regulatory inquiries, enforcement actions, liabilities, damages, judgments, awards, fines, penalties, losses, costs, and expenses, including reasonable legal fees, expert fees, and reasonable internal investigation costs, in any jurisdiction, arising from or relating to: (a) your use, misuse, or inability to use Peel & Stick; (b) the notes and other content you write, draw, store, pin, display, lock, or delete with Peel & Stick, and their content; (c) your violation of these Terms or the Acceptable Use Policy; (d) your violation of any law, regulation, court order, contract, or third-party right, including intellectual-property, privacy, data-protection, publicity, and confidentiality rights, and including the EU GDPR, the UK GDPR, the California Consumer Privacy Act and California Privacy Rights Act, the Brazilian LGPD, the Chinese Personal Information Protection Law, the Indian Digital Personal Data Protection Act, the Australian Privacy Principles, and the Canadian PIPEDA; (e) any claim by a person whose personal data, confidential information, work, or likeness appears in a note you wrote, stored, pinned, or displayed, or who saw a note you displayed on your screen or in a screen share, recording, or screenshot; (f) any note you placed on a screen used by another person, or any misleading, falsified, or impersonating note you created or displayed, or presented as genuine or unaltered; (g) your reliance on any content or output of Peel & Stick, including reminders and notes placed by other software; (h) your use of Peel & Stick in connection with employment, commercial, client, professional, journalistic, fiduciary, or other obligations owed to any third party; or (i) any chargeback, payment dispute, or fraudulent transaction initiated by you.

The Indemnified Parties may, at their option and at your expense, assume the exclusive defence and control of any matter subject to indemnification by you, in which case you agree to cooperate. You must not settle, compromise, or admit liability in any such matter without the developer’s prior written consent, and you must promptly notify the developer at office@mahtca.com of any actual or threatened claim. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, these obligations apply whether or not the underlying claim is ultimately found to be valid, frivolous, or without merit, and they survive your deletion of Peel & Stick and any termination of these Terms.

29. Product Claims

You and the developer acknowledge that the developer, not Apple, is responsible for addressing any claims by you or any third party relating to Peel & Stick or your possession and use of it, including: (a) product-liability claims; (b) any claim that Peel & Stick fails to conform to any applicable legal or regulatory requirement; (c) claims arising under consumer-protection, privacy, or similar legislation; and (d) claims relating to saving, deleting, locking, screen-sharing privacy, reminders, or app performance. This Section does not make the developer liable for any claim or damage that is excluded or limited elsewhere in these Terms to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.

30. Intellectual Property Claims

If a third party claims that Peel & Stick or your possession and use of it infringes that party’s intellectual-property rights, the developer, not Apple, is solely responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement, and discharge of that claim, subject to these Terms and applicable law. You must promptly notify the developer of any such claim and must not admit liability or settle it without the developer’s prior written consent. This Section does not apply to claims about content you write, store, or display with Peel & Stick, which are your responsibility under Sections 13, 22, and 28.

31. Apple Warranty Acknowledgement

If Peel & Stick fails to conform to any applicable warranty that cannot legally be disclaimed, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price for Peel & Stick, if any, in accordance with Apple’s rules. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Apple has no other warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to Peel & Stick, and any other claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs, or expenses attributable to any failure to conform to any warranty are the developer’s responsibility only to the extent required by applicable law and subject to these Terms.

32. Export and Legal Compliance

You represent and warrant that: (a) you are not located in a country that is subject to a U.S. Government embargo or that has been designated by the U.S. Government as a “terrorist supporting” country; (b) you are not listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties; and (c) your use of Peel & Stick complies with all applicable export-control, sanctions, and trade laws, including those of the European Union and Romania, and with all applicable data-protection, privacy, intellectual-property, and consumer-protection laws. You may not use, export, re-export, import, sell, release, or transfer Peel & Stick except as permitted by applicable law and these Terms.

United States Government end users. Peel & Stick and its documentation are “Commercial Items,” as defined at 48 C.F.R. §2.101, consisting of “Commercial Computer Software” and “Commercial Computer Software Documentation,” licensed to United States Government end users only as Commercial Items and with only the rights granted to all other end users under these Terms.

33. Apple Third-Party Beneficiary

Apple and Apple’s subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms. Upon your acceptance of these Terms, Apple will have the right, and will be deemed to have accepted the right, to enforce these Terms against you as a third-party beneficiary.

34. Availability, Updates, and Feature Changes

The developer may update, modify, suspend, remove, replace, or discontinue Peel & Stick or any feature, paper, pen, pad, or sound at any time, subject to applicable law and Apple’s rules. Updates may change how Peel & Stick saves, stores, locks, displays, or finds notes, and how papers, pens, pads, and sounds look, sound, or behave. Some features depend on your Mac’s capabilities, the version of macOS, Touch ID or an Apple Watch, available storage, the Shortcuts app, or third-party services. The developer does not guarantee that Peel & Stick or any feature will remain available, compatible, unchanged, or supported. Keep copies of your notes before installing any update to Peel & Stick or macOS.

35. Events Outside the Developer’s Control

The developer is not liable for any delay, failure, partial performance, data loss, interruption, unavailability, degraded performance, loss of access, loss of purchase recognition, or other adverse outcome caused in whole or in part by events or conditions outside its reasonable control, including: acts or omissions of Apple, the App Store, the Apple Developer Program, or Apple’s in-app purchase, iCloud, notification, or authentication services; changes, deprecations, or removals in operating systems, services, file formats, or device capabilities; failures of hardware, storage, displays, third-party apps, file providers, synchronization or cloud services, or networks; malware, cyber attacks, or unauthorized access; natural disasters, epidemics, war, civil unrest, or terrorism; governmental, regulatory, or judicial action; power, utility, or internet failures; labour disputes; and failures of payment processors or App Store billing systems. During any such event, the developer may suspend, restrict, or modify any feature without prior notice and without liability, and is under no obligation to provide refunds, credits, or compensation except where required by applicable law.

36. Professional, Regulated, and High-Risk Use

Peel & Stick is a general-purpose consumer application for notes. It is not designed, tested, or certified for use where its failure, an error in a note, a missed or late reminder, the disclosure of a note, or the loss of a note could lead to death, personal injury, serious environmental or property damage, or significant financial, legal, or regulatory consequences. It is not a password manager, an encrypted or secure store, a records-management, archiving, legal-hold, e-discovery, or evidence-preservation system, or a medical, medication, or safety reminder or alarm, and it must not be used to keep passwords, financial-account or payment-card details, health information, or other secrets that require protection. Nothing produced by Peel & Stick is legal, financial, medical, or other professional advice. If you use Peel & Stick in connection with commercial, client, legal, medical, financial, governmental, regulated, or other professional work, you do so at your own risk and remain solely responsible for verifying every note, for meeting your deadlines and your professional, contractual, record-keeping, retention, and confidentiality obligations to clients and others, and for keeping your own copies and backups.

37. Assignment

You may not assign, transfer, delegate, or sublicense your rights or obligations under these Terms without the developer’s prior written consent, except where prohibited by applicable law. The developer may assign or transfer these Terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, restructuring, sale of assets, transfer of the app, change of control, or similar transaction, subject to applicable law.

38. Changes to These Terms

The version of these Terms published at www.peelandstick.mahtca.com/terms/ is the authoritative and binding version. Any copy made available elsewhere, for example on the App Store or within Peel & Stick, is provided for your convenience and may lag the published version; where they differ, the published version controls.

The developer may update these Terms to reflect changes in Peel & Stick, applicable law, Apple’s requirements, or its practices. When it does, the version number and effective date change. Where a change materially affects your rights, the developer will use reasonable efforts to inform you before it takes effect, for example within Peel & Stick or on its website, and may ask you to agree to the updated Terms before you continue to use Peel & Stick. If you do not accept an update, your remedy is to stop using and delete Peel & Stick. These principles apply equally to the Privacy Policy and the Acceptable Use Policy.

39. Governing Law and Jurisdiction

These Terms, and any dispute arising out of or in connection with them or with your use of Peel & Stick, are governed by the laws of Romania, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (Vienna, 11 April 1980) does not apply. The courts of Dolj County, Romania, have non-exclusive jurisdiction over any such dispute.

Nothing in this Section deprives you of the protection of the mandatory consumer-protection rules of the country in which you reside. Consumers in the European Union, the European Economic Area, and the United Kingdom may rely on those rules and may bring proceedings in the courts of their country of residence where those rules allow. Consumers in Romania may also contact the National Authority for Consumer Protection (ANPC, anpc.ro), including about alternative dispute resolution.

40. Severability and No Waiver

If any part of these Terms is found to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable, that part will be enforced to the maximum extent permitted by law or modified to achieve the closest lawful effect, and the remaining parts will remain in full force and effect. No failure or delay by the developer in exercising any right or remedy operates as a waiver of it.

41. Entire Agreement

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and the Acceptable Use Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and the developer regarding Peel & Stick and supersede any prior or contemporaneous agreements on that subject. Apple’s terms, App Store rules, and applicable third-party terms may also apply separately.

42. Language

These Terms may be translated for convenience. If there is a conflict between a translation and the English version, the English version controls, except where applicable law requires otherwise.

43. Your Acknowledgement

By downloading, installing, opening, purchasing, or using Peel & Stick, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agreed to these Terms. In particular, you acknowledge that Peel & Stick cannot guarantee that your notes or the changes you make to them will be preserved; that crashes, power failures, and other interruptions can damage or destroy notes, including while they are being saved; that deleting a note is permanent and cannot be undone; that locked notes are encoded, not encrypted, can be read by anyone with access to their files who knows how, and can be opened in Peel & Stick by anyone who knows your login password; that private notes may still appear in some screen captures; that pinned notes are not guaranteed to stay above every window; that reminders are not guaranteed; that you will keep copies of important notes and regular backups; and that you accept these risks. If you do not agree, do not use Peel & Stick.