Terms of Service

App: Pomodoro Plus (com.pomodoroplus.app)

Publisher: Beluga Forge

Last updated: 2 September 2026

Applies from app version: 1.0.13

In short: Pomodoro Plus is a focus timer, provided as-is for your personal use. You may buy one optional Appearance Upgrade through Google Play. Please do not rely on the app for anything where a missed alert could hurt you — it is a productivity aid, not a safety device. Nothing here takes away consumer rights the law gives you.

1. Who these terms are between

These Terms of Service ("Terms") form an agreement between you and Beluga Forge ("we", "us"), an independent app developer based in the United States, covering your use of the Pomodoro Plus Android application and any updates to it (the "App").

By installing or using the App, you accept these Terms. If you do not accept them, please do not use the App, and uninstall it.

Your use of the App is also subject to the Google Play Terms of Service. Where Google Play's terms govern the distribution of the App or your purchases through it, those terms apply alongside these.

How the App handles data is described separately in our Privacy Policy, which forms part of these Terms.

2. Your licence to use the App

We grant you a personal, worldwide, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to install and use one copy of the App on devices you own or control, for your own personal or internal business use.

This is a licence, not a sale. We retain all rights in the App that these Terms do not expressly grant you.

3. What you may not do

You agree not to:

• copy, redistribute, sell, rent, lease, sublicense or commercially exploit the App or any part of it, except as the applicable open-source or app-store terms permit;

• reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the App, except to the extent that applicable law expressly permits you to do so despite this restriction (for example, for interoperability under EU law);

• remove, obscure or alter any copyright, trademark or other proprietary notice;

• attempt to circumvent, defeat or tamper with the in-app purchase mechanism, or unlock paid features without paying for them;

• use the App in any way that breaks the law, or that interferes with anyone else's use of their device.

4. Purchases

4.1 What is for sale

The App is free to download and its core timer functionality is free to use, with no time limit and no advertising.

The App offers one optional in-app purchase: the Appearance Upgrade, a one-time, non-consumable purchase that permanently unlocks additional colour palettes and background options. There is no subscription, and no recurring charge of any kind.

4.2 How payment works

All purchases are processed by Google Play, not by us. Your payment details are entered into Google's interface and are handled under Google's terms; we never see or store them. Your contract of sale for the purchase is with Google, and prices, taxes and currency are as displayed by Google Play at the time of purchase.

4.3 Restoring your purchase

Your purchase is tied to your Google account, not to your device. If you reinstall the App or move to a new device, it will detect your existing purchase automatically the next time it connects to Google Play, and re-unlock the Appearance Upgrade at no further charge. This requires a working connection to Google Play.

Please note that your purchase carries over but your data does not. Because the App is excluded from Android's backup system so that nothing is copied off your device, a reinstall or a new phone starts with an empty session history and default settings. See section 6 of the Privacy Policy.

4.4 Refunds

Refunds are handled by Google Play under Google's refund policy. Please raise refund requests with Google in the first instance, since we cannot process a refund for a payment we never received. If Google directs you back to us, contact beluga.forge@gmail.com and we will do what we reasonably can to help.

4.5 If you are a consumer in the EU or UK

You normally have a 14-day right to withdraw from a purchase of digital content. Because the Appearance Upgrade is delivered immediately on purchase, you are asked to consent to immediate delivery and thereby acknowledge that you lose that withdrawal right once delivery begins — this is how Google Play presents the purchase.

This does not affect your statutory rights if the content is faulty, not as described, or does not work as it should. Those rights remain fully available to you.

5. Important limits on what the App can do

Please read this section carefully — it is the part that matters most in practice.

5.1 The App is a productivity aid, not a safety-critical timer

Pomodoro Plus is intended to help you structure focused work. It is not designed or tested for, and must not be relied upon for, any purpose where a late, early or missed alert could cause harm, loss or danger. That includes, without limitation: medication and medical timing, cooking or other unattended heat sources, laboratory or industrial processes, driving, childcare, exams and any professional or legal deadline.

Please use a purpose-built device or a dedicated alarm for anything that matters in that way.

5.2 Android may interfere with timer accuracy

The App keeps time using a foreground service, which is the most reliable mechanism Android offers to an ordinary app. It is still not a guarantee. Android — and manufacturer-specific battery-saving software, which is particularly aggressive on some devices — may delay, suspend or terminate background work without notifying the App. Notifications may also be delayed, silenced or suppressed by Do Not Disturb, focus modes, notification settings or a permission you declined.

We therefore cannot warrant that a timer will always complete, or that an alert will always sound at exactly the right moment. If accurate alerting matters to you, we suggest excluding Pomodoro Plus from battery optimisation in your device settings — and even then, treating the result as best-effort.

5.3 Gravity Mode

Gravity Mode pauses and resumes the timer based on how you are holding your device. It depends on your device having a working accelerometer, and on you physically handling your phone. Please use ordinary care: do not place your device where it could fall, overheat or be damaged, and do not use Gravity Mode while driving or doing anything else that needs your attention. Where a device has no accelerometer, the App disables Gravity Mode automatically.

5.4 Custom photos and sounds

When you choose a background photo or a notification sound, you are responsible for having the right to use that content. The App stores only a reference to what you selected and displays or plays it back on your own device; it does not copy, publish, share or transmit it anywhere. If you delete, move or revoke access to the underlying file, the App may no longer be able to display or play it.

6. Availability, updates and changes

We may update the App to fix problems, improve it, or keep it working with new Android versions. Some updates may be installed automatically depending on your device settings.

We may also change, suspend or discontinue features, or stop distributing the App altogether. Where we discontinue a paid feature you have bought, and we can no longer reasonably provide it, we will act fairly and in line with your statutory rights and Google Play's policies.

We do not promise that the App will always be available, uninterrupted or free of errors.

7. Intellectual property

The App, its source code, design, name, icon and original assets are owned by Beluga Forge or licensed to us, and are protected by copyright and other laws.

The App includes third-party open-source components, each licensed under its own terms, which continue to apply to those components and prevail over these Terms to the extent of any conflict. Android, Google Play and related marks are trademarks of Google LLC. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Google.

Any content you supply — the names you give favourites, and the photos or sounds you select — remains yours. We claim no rights over it and never receive it.

8. Disclaimer of warranties

To the fullest extent permitted by law, and without limiting the statutory rights described in section 10, the App is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied or statutory, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy and non-infringement.

We do not warrant that the App will meet your requirements, that it will operate without interruption or error, that timing or notifications will be accurate, or that defects will be corrected.

9. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, nor for any loss of profit, revenue, data, goodwill, opportunity, or missed deadline, arising out of or connected with your use of or inability to use the App — including any failure of a timer to run, or of a notification to arrive.

Where liability cannot lawfully be excluded but may be limited, our total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to the App is limited to the greater of the amount you actually paid us for the App in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim, or EUR 20.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits our liability for: death or personal injury caused by our negligence; fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; gross negligence or wilful misconduct; or any other liability that the law does not permit us to exclude or limit.

10. Your statutory rights as a consumer

If you use the App as a consumer, you have rights under the mandatory consumer protection law of your country of residence, including — in the EEA and the UK — rights relating to digital content that is faulty, not as described, or not of satisfactory quality.

Nothing in these Terms restricts those rights. Where any provision of these Terms conflicts with mandatory consumer law that applies to you, that law prevails and the conflicting provision does not apply to you.

11. Termination

You may stop using the App at any time by uninstalling it.

We may suspend or terminate your licence if you materially breach these Terms, in particular section 3. On termination, your licence ends and you must stop using and uninstall the App. Sections 7 to 10, 12 and 13 survive termination.

Termination does not by itself remove data stored on your device; see the Privacy Policy for how to erase it.

12. Governing law and where disputes are heard

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Indiana and the federal laws of the United States, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules.

If you are a consumer in the EEA or the UK, this choice of law does not deprive you of the protection of mandatory provisions of the law of your country of residence, and you may bring proceedings in the courts of your country of residence. We will bring any proceedings against you only in the courts of your country of residence.

For everyone else, the state and federal courts located in the State of Indiana have exclusive jurisdiction, and you consent to their personal jurisdiction over you.

We would much rather resolve any problem informally — please write to beluga.forge@gmail.com first, and we will make a genuine effort to sort it out.

13. General

Entire agreement. These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and us about the App, and replace any earlier understanding on the subject.

Severability. If any provision is held unenforceable, the rest remains in force and the unenforceable provision is applied to the maximum extent permitted.

No waiver. If we do not enforce a provision, that is not a waiver of our right to enforce it later.

Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our consent. We may assign them in connection with a transfer of the App, provided your rights are not reduced.

14. Changes to these Terms

We may revise these Terms as the App changes or the law requires. We will update the "Last updated" date above and publish the revised Terms in the App and at https://sites.google.com/view/pomodoroplus/terms.

Where changes are significant, we will bring them to your attention in the App. If you do not agree with a revision, your remedy is to stop using the App and uninstall it. Continuing to use it after a revision takes effect means you accept it.

15. Contact

• Email: beluga.forge@gmail.com

• Publisher: Beluga Forge, United States