HONEYBEACON

HoneyBeacon Terms of Use

Version 1.10 · 3 October 2026

Who provides HoneyBeacon

The app and associated services are provided by HONEYBEACON LIMITED, company number 17440812. Our registered office is 5 Semaphore Road, Guildford, GU1 3PS, United Kingdom. Contact hello@honeybeacon.app.

These Terms cover the app, optional cloud accounts, Family Hive, Bee Together and app membership. The Apple Standard End User Licence Agreement applies to the app licence: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/. These Terms add HoneyBeacon-specific service terms and do not remove protections under that licence or mandatory law. Our Privacy Policy explains processing of personal information and does not waive privacy rights.

Please read these Terms before creating an account or confirming a purchase. The applicable service terms are presented before account creation or purchase. Where an adult arranges a child's account or buys membership, that adult is the contracting customer for those services. A parent or guardian arranging a child's use must have appropriate authority. Local focus tools have no separate minimum age, subject to Apple requirements. These Terms do not treat every child as having adult contractual capacity.

What the app does

HoneyBeacon helps reduce distractions using Apple's Screen Time frameworks, schedules, focus sessions, optional HoneyBeacon devices, Wake alarms, progress and household features. Core functions work on the device. Some features require compatible hardware, permissions, another participant or membership. Wake requires a supported version of iOS and alarm permission. Compatibility and feature information shown before purchase forms part of the information on which you can rely.

HoneyBeacon is not medical treatment, a safety or emergency system, or a substitute for parental supervision. It cannot guarantee perfect blocking, uninterrupted alarms, detection or a particular wellbeing result. Permissions, device state, battery, iOS behaviour, conflicting controls and radio conditions can affect operation. Available Flight and session-ending paths may temporarily release blocking. These practical limitations do not exclude our responsibility to provide the service with reasonable care and skill or your statutory rights.

Accounts, family use and permitted conduct

Optional cloud features use Sign in with Apple. Keep your Apple Account secure and do not share invitation codes publicly. You are responsible for your own misuse, but not for losses caused by our breach or matters outside your reasonable control.

Family Hive supports up to six active members including the Beekeeper. The Beekeeper can invite members and use the supervision and session-request tools available in the app. Supervision settings and requests apply through the member device and its permissions. The Beekeeper role is not verification of age, parental responsibility or entitlement to control another adult. A parent or legal guardian must arrange a child's participation where required and use the controls in the child's interests.

Bee Together coordinates sessions with invited participants. Participants should understand the shared session rules and what others can see before accepting. Bluetooth proximity is affected by surroundings and device behaviour.

Do not stalk, coerce, harass or secretly monitor anyone, impersonate another person, send abusive invitations, interfere with accounts, scrape personal information, upload unlawful material or bypass Apple protections for unlawful purposes. Reverse engineering is restricted except where the law gives you a right that cannot be excluded. We may act on abuse reports and suspend access where reasonably necessary to protect users or address a material breach.

Memberships and Apple billing

The Hive is available monthly or annually. The Hive Family is available monthly or annually and adds household features. Our UK prices are £2.99 per month or £29 per year for The Hive, and £4.99 per month or £49 per year for The Hive Family. The actual selected price, currency, billing period and applicable offer are shown by the App Store before confirmation. Nothing here removes rights arising from price or feature information we provide.

Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm purchase. Apple subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Renewal is charged within the 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel in iOS Settings → your name → Subscriptions. You can restore an eligible purchase using Restore purchases in the app.

A free trial is available only when the App Store confirms an applicable offer and your eligibility. Its actual duration, subsequent charge and renewal period are shown before purchase. Do not assume a trial applies because you previously saw one advertised. Membership included with a device pack is supplied as an App Store offer code, as described below. Prices and billing terms for a new purchase are confirmed before payment. Any change to an existing subscription price follows Apple's applicable notice and consent process and does not retrospectively change a period already paid for.

The Hive Family includes membership benefits for up to six active members of the same in-app Family Hive, including the paying member. Share the Hive invitation to add someone; Apple Family Sharing is not required. Shared benefits depend on a valid Family membership held by an active member of that Hive and end when the recipient leaves, is removed, or the Hive no longer has an eligible paying member. Joining does not give anyone permission to start blocking on another adult’s phone. Existing Apple Family Sharing entitlements remain supported where Apple identifies the product as eligible; they do not automatically join an in-app Hive or increase its six-member limit.

When membership ends, paid features stop being available; the free functions remain available as described in the app. We do not sell Honey as money or promise cash for it.

Kickstarter bundles and hardware

Hardware crowdfunding and rewards are administered through Kickstarter and the relevant campaign terms, which must state the selected reward, shipping charges, destinations and estimated delivery. Hardware campaign dates will be announced before ordering opens. Estimated delivery windows are shown on the relevant product pages and will be confirmed before ordering. We plan to offer UK delivery initially. Only the destinations expressly listed for a reward are offered; viewing the campaign from another country does not make that destination available. Before you pledge, the campaign will explain shipping charges or, where they cannot reasonably be calculated in advance, how they are calculated and collected, and any applicable taxes or import charges.

Some device packs include a period of membership, supplied as an App Store offer code. Redeeming the code opens Apple's redemption sheet, which shows the membership, its length and whether it renews before you confirm. Apple's terms for that offer then apply, and you can turn off any renewal in your Apple subscription settings. Redeeming a code does not cancel an Apple subscription you already have; that subscription continues under its own billing terms until you cancel it. Any redemption deadline will be stated in the offer before you pledge. We will not retrospectively add a deadline to an existing reward purchase.

Kickstarter's platform terms also apply to use of its platform. They do not remove any mandatory rights you have against HONEYBEACON LIMITED. These app Terms are not a substitute for the campaign's reward, delivery and cancellation information. The campaign's delivery and cancellation information must be available before you pledge and supplied with your contract confirmation in a form you can keep. Contact us for return instructions before posting a device; this does not make a statutory cancellation dependent on our permission. We bear reasonable return costs where required for faulty or misdescribed goods. Contact hello@honeybeacon.app about reward or hardware problems.

Cancellation, refunds and statutory rights

You can request an IAP refund through Apple. This does not limit any rights or remedies you have against us. Where the law permits a digital-content cancellation right to end when supply begins, this requires your express consent to immediate supply and acknowledgement that the right will be lost. Other applicable cancellation rights remain unaffected; simply using a feature does not create a blanket waiver.

UK consumers have rights under the Consumer Rights Act 2015, including requirements for applicable digital content to be of satisfactory quality, fit for purpose and as described. Remedies may include repair, replacement, price reduction or refund in the circumstances provided by law, and remedies for qualifying damage to a device or other digital content. Service obligations, including reasonable care and skill, also remain protected where applicable. No clause in these Terms excludes or limits rights that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.

Hardware cancellation and delivery rights

Where UK distance-selling cancellation rights apply, you may cancel a hardware order without giving a reason before delivery or within 14 days after you, or a person you nominate, receives the goods. For one order delivered separately, the period normally starts on receipt of the last item. Tell us by a clear statement to hello@honeybeacon.app or by post to our registered office. You may use the cancellation form below but do not have to. Return the goods within 14 days after telling us.

We refund the applicable payment and basic outward delivery charge within 14 days after being told of cancellation. Unless we have offered to collect, we may withhold the goods refund until we receive the goods back or evidence of return, whichever is earlier. Refunds use the original payment method unless you agree otherwise, without a refund fee. You bear direct change-of-mind return costs only if we told you before purchase; otherwise we bear them. We may make a lawful deduction for handling beyond what is necessary to establish the goods' nature, characteristics and functioning. Statutory exceptions and any longer period required by law remain applicable.

Faulty or misdescribed goods have separate remedies, which can include a short-term right to reject, repair or replacement and, where applicable, a price reduction or final rejection. These rights are not limited to the change-of-mind period or a manufacturer's warranty. If delivery is delayed, your rights to require delivery or end the contract under applicable law remain available; calling a date an estimate does not remove them. Goods remain at our risk until delivered to you or your nominated recipient, except where the law provides otherwise for a carrier you independently appoint.

Optional cancellation form

To HONEYBEACON LIMITED, 5 Semaphore Road, Guildford, GU1 3PS, United Kingdom; hello@honeybeacon.app.

I/We give notice that I/We cancel my/our contract for the following goods or services: [describe]. Ordered on / received on: [date]. Consumer name(s): [name]. Consumer address: [address]. Signature (only if sent on paper): [signature]. Date: [date]. Delete whichever wording does not apply. An order or pledge reference is helpful but not required if we can otherwise identify the contract.

Honey, rewards and your content

Honey, ranks, tiles, streaks and reward jars are progress features, not money, securities or a payment account. Any real-world reward you promise yourself or another person is your arrangement, not an obligation for HoneyBeacon to buy it.

We may change progress calculations prospectively for product balance. Where a change materially affects a locked reward goal, we will provide reasonable migration or reconciliation. We will not use such changes to revoke a paid subscription entitlement.

You retain ownership of names, reward text and photos you provide. You give us permission to host, reproduce and display them only as needed to operate the service you request. Only provide content you have the right and appropriate authority to share. Photos use private storage and time-limited viewing links as described in the Privacy Policy. Someone who receives a viewing link can use it until it expires, and copies already downloaded cannot be recalled. Optional AI milestone wording and reward-emoji suggestions are available to signed-in adults who separately agree to the disclosure in Privacy & legal, when the service is available. Use these only for your own adult information. AI suggestions may be inaccurate or unsuitable; review them before sharing. They do not determine Honey, rewards or blocking and are not professional advice. Local insights and emoji choices work without AI. The Privacy Policy explains the information sent to OpenAI and how to turn this off.

Our responsibility and service changes

We are responsible for foreseeable loss caused by our breach of these Terms or failure to use reasonable care and skill, subject to applicable law. We do not limit liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or any liability or consumer remedy that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited. Your mandatory consumer rights remain unaffected.

We are not responsible for a loss to the extent it is caused by your unlawful misuse or an independent event beyond our reasonable control, but that does not excuse a failure by us to take reasonable steps or remove mandatory consumer remedies. We do not guarantee the performance of Apple or other independent services. If you use the app for business, we do not accept responsibility for business profits or losses that were not reasonably foreseeable.

We may suspend or terminate access for a material breach, abuse or legal requirement, giving reasons and a chance to resolve the issue where appropriate. If we discontinue paid services or materially reduce them during a paid period, we will explain the change, cancellation options and any refund or other remedy required by law. We will give reasonable advance notice where practicable. Material changes may be needed for security, legal compliance, compatibility or changes to the service. We will explain the reason and effect and any right to cancel or obtain a refund before the change takes effect, except where urgent action is reasonably necessary. Changes will not retrospectively remove accrued statutory rights.

Leaving, privacy requests and disputes

You can stop using the app at any time. Use Settings → Cloud backup → Delete account to request cloud-account deletion. Local Honey and settings remain until you clear them. Account deletion or uninstalling does not cancel an Apple subscription; cancel renewal separately with Apple. You can also contact hello@honeybeacon.app for help or privacy requests.

English and Welsh law governs these Terms. Consumers retain the mandatory protections and court rights available where they habitually live; this clause does not require a UK consumer to give up their right to use their local courts. Please contact us about a dispute so we can try to resolve it. No compulsory arbitration or class-action waiver is imposed.

If a provision is unenforceable, the rest remains effective to the extent permitted by law. We may transfer the business and these arrangements only in a way that respects your rights. The Apple Standard EULA remains applicable to the app licence. We will identify material changes to these Terms and request fresh agreement where required by law.