Terms of Service

Who provides SplitRound

SplitRound is provided by João Abreu, Portugal (“we”, “us”). You can reach us at support@splitround.pt for anything about these terms, your account or a subscription.

How the app behaves — who owns a group, what leaving does, how a split is worked out — is set out question by question in How SplitRound behaves. What data is collected and why is in the Privacy Policy. Both are part of what you are agreeing to.

Your account

• You must be at least 16 to create an account. SplitRound is not intended for anyone younger.
• Give a name the people in your groups will recognise, and an email address or phone number that is yours. One account is for one person.
• Keep your password and your devices to yourself. What is done from your account is treated as done by you, unless you tell us it has been used without your permission.
• You can close your account at any time, under Account → Close account. What goes and what stays is set out on the account deletion page. Closing the account does not cancel a Premium subscription.

What you put in

The expenses, receipts, comments and photos you add remain yours. You allow us to store them, process them and show them to the members of the groups you add them to, because that is what the service is. A shared group’s expenses stay with that group when you leave it or close your account, since the other members’ balances are worked out from them.

Only add what you have the right to share. Images are delivered from addresses that are not individually access-controlled, as the Privacy Policy explains, so think before attaching a receipt that shows more than it needs to.

Using SplitRound fairly

You agree not to:

• harass, threaten or deceive the people you share groups with;
• add content that is unlawful, or that infringes somebody else’s rights or privacy;
• use SplitRound to record or disguise anything unlawful, such as fraud or money laundering;
• invite, add or contact people in bulk who have not asked to hear from you;
• get around the daily limit, the free trial or any other restriction by technical means or by opening extra accounts;
• probe, overload or interfere with the service, reach data that is not yours, or copy or reverse-engineer the app except where the law allows it.

You can block anybody, which hides them from your own lists, and report anybody you share a group with. Reports go to support, who look into them. Where an account breaks these terms, support can block it, so that it can no longer be signed in to. We will tell you why, unless the law or somebody’s safety stops us, and you can answer by writing to support@splitround.pt. A block does not change the expenses and balances other people share with that account.

The free plan

SplitRound is free to use, with no advertising. On the free plan an account can add a limited number of expenses a day, shown in the app and counted across all its groups; everything else — editing, settling up, commenting — is unlimited. The exact count is described in How SplitRound behaves. The free plan comes with no fee and no guaranteed feature set, and what it includes may change, but a change will never remove anything you have already saved.

Premium subscriptions

Premium lifts the daily limit and adds features that are marked as Premium in the app and on this website. It is sold in the app as a monthly or a yearly subscription, through the App Store or Google Play.

• Price and payment. The price, in your currency and including any tax, is shown by the store before you confirm. Payment is taken by Apple or Google, under their terms, to the account you buy with. We never see your card.
• Automatic renewal. A subscription renews for another month or year, at the price then in force, unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. The store charges the renewal within the 24 hours before that.
• Cancelling. Cancel in the App Store or Google Play subscription settings on your phone, or on the store’s website — the same place as any other subscription. Premium then carries on until the end of the period already paid for, and is not renewed.
• Price changes. If the price of a subscription goes up, the store tells you before it applies and, where its rules require, asks you to agree. If you do not want to pay the new price, cancel before it takes effect.
• Refunds. Because the store takes the payment, refunds of store purchases are requested from Apple or Google and handled under their policies. This does not limit any right to a refund or to withdraw that the law gives you.
• The web version. There is no checkout in the web version: Premium there is arranged by writing to support@splitround.pt, and what it costs and how long it lasts is agreed in writing before it is turned on.

When Premium ends — because you cancelled, a payment failed, or a trial or an arrangement ran out — nothing you saved is removed. Expenses split line by line, documents already attached, warranties and imported expenses all stay as they are, and a Premium feature can always be switched off. What stops is taking up a Premium feature again, and the daily limit applies once more.

The free trial

Every account can have one free trial of Premium, lasting three months. It is started in the app, needs no card and no store purchase, and is not a subscription: when it ends the account goes back to the free plan, and nothing is charged. It never turns into a paid subscription on its own. You can subscribe during the trial if you want to; what the store shows at checkout is what you pay, and from when. One trial per person — opening further accounts to get more is a breach of these terms.

Unlimited expenses for a group

A Premium member who shares a group’s expenses can give that group 30 days of unlimited expenses from the group’s settings. While it runs, nobody in the group is held to the daily limit when adding expenses there. It lifts the limit in that group and nothing else; it is not a Premium subscription for the other members, and it has no cash value.

It costs nothing beyond the giver’s own Premium, cannot be taken back once it starts, and each member can give it once per group, with only one running in a group at a time. It ends after 30 days, or earlier if the person who gave it leaves the group or stops sharing its expenses.

SplitRound never moves money

SplitRound is a record of who paid what and who owes whom. It is not a bank, a payment service or an accountant, holds no money and has no card or bank connection. Payments between members are made outside the app — in cash, by transfer, through MB WAY or any other way you choose — and recording a payment in SplitRound does not make one.

The balances are worked out from what the members enter. Checking that an amount, a split or an exchange rate is right, and settling up, is between you and the people you share a group with; we are not a party to those arrangements or to any disagreement about them. Exchange rates come from a public source and are for convenience only.

The service, and changes to it

We work to keep SplitRound available, accurate and secure, but it may sometimes be interrupted — for maintenance, because of a fault, or because a provider we depend on is down. We improve and change the app over time, and may add, change or retire features.

If a change takes away something significant from a Premium subscription you have already paid for, we will tell you beforehand, and you may end the subscription; where the law entitles you to a refund for the rest of the period, you will get it. If we ever stop running SplitRound, we will give at least 30 days’ notice in the app, stop renewals, and send a copy of your data to anybody who asks for one before it closes.

The app licence

We give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to install and use the SplitRound app on devices you own or control, for as long as you follow these terms. The app, its name, its design and its code belong to us and are not sold to you.

If you got the app from the App Store or Google Play, this agreement is between you and us, not Apple or Google. We, not they, are responsible for the app, for supporting it, for any claim about it — including that it breaks the law or infringes somebody’s rights — and for any guarantee the law gives you. The stores’ own terms also apply to how you use their services. If the app fails to conform to a warranty that applies, you may tell Apple, who may refund the purchase price, and Apple has no other warranty obligation for the app to the extent the law allows. Apple and its subsidiaries may enforce these terms against you as a third-party beneficiary. You confirm that you are not in a country under a United States government embargo, or on a United States list of prohibited or restricted parties.

Responsibility and liability

If you are a consumer, you have the rights the law gives you, including the right to digital content and services that are as described and fit for their purpose. Nothing in these terms takes those rights away or limits them.

We are responsible for losses caused by our breach of these terms that were foreseeable when you agreed to them. We are not responsible for losses we did not cause, for how members of a group settle, or not, what they owe each other, for the content other people add, or for losses caused by events beyond our reasonable control. Keeping your own records of anything that matters to you, such as receipts needed for tax or a warranty claim, is sensible.

None of this limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, for harm caused intentionally or by gross negligence, or for anything else that the law does not allow to be limited.

Ending the agreement

You can stop using SplitRound and close your account at any time. We may suspend or close an account that seriously or repeatedly breaks these terms, or where the law requires it, and will tell you why, as described above. If we close an account for any other reason, we will give reasonable notice, and refund any Premium you paid us directly for time you can no longer use.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms, for example when the app gains a feature or the law changes. The date at the top shows the latest version. If a change is significant, we will tell you in the app at least 30 days before it applies. If you do not agree with it, you can cancel your subscription and close your account before then; continuing to use SplitRound after the change applies means you accept it.

Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the law of Portugal. If you are a consumer living elsewhere in the European Union, you also keep the protection of the mandatory rules of your own country, and you can bring a claim in the courts where you live.

If something goes wrong, please write to support@splitround.pt first — most problems are sorted out that way. If they are not, a consumer can turn to an alternative dispute resolution body; in Portugal, the Centro Nacional de Informação e Arbitragem de Conflitos de Consumo (CNIACC, www.cniacc.pt).

You can also make a complaint through the Portuguese electronic complaints book, the Livro de Reclamações (www.livroreclamacoes.pt).

If a part of these terms is found to be invalid, the rest still applies. If a translation of these terms differs from the English text, the version most favourable to you as a consumer prevails.

Contact

João Abreu, Portugal — support@splitround.pt