Terms of Service

1. Acceptance of Terms

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of Focus Better, including our website at focusbetter.io, web applications, APIs, and related services (collectively, the “Service”), operated by Focus Better (“we,” “us,” or “our”).

By registering for an account, accessing, or using any part of the Service, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to these Terms, you may not access or use the Service.

2. Eligibility & Account Security

• Age Requirement: You must be at least 18 years of age (or the age of legal majority in your jurisdiction) to form a binding contract. If you are between the ages of 13 and 18, you may only use the Service with the consent and supervision of a parent or legal guardian who agrees to be bound by these Terms.
• Account Accuracy: You agree to provide accurate, current, and complete registration information and to maintain the accuracy of this information.
• Credential Confidentiality: You are responsible for safeguarding your login credentials. You are solely responsible for all activities that occur under your account. You agree to notify us immediately via Contact Support of any unauthorized access or security breach.

3. Software License & Permitted Use

Subject to your compliance with these Terms, Focus Better grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use the Service for your personal productivity and organization purposes.

You may not sublicense, resell, lease, or commercially exploit the Service without prior written authorization from Focus Better.

4. Acceptable Use Policy

You agree that you will NOT:

• Reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or attempt to derive source code from any part of the Service;
• Scrape, crawl, harvest, or extract data from the Service using automated bots, crawlers, or scripts without our express written consent;
• Attempt to probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of our systems or networks, or breach any security or authentication measures;
• Impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure (such as denial-of-service attacks or automated spamming of API endpoints);
• Upload or transmit any viruses, malware, worms, or malicious code;
• Use the Service to transmit unsolicited commercial communications, defamatory, or unlawful materials;
• Manipulate or fabricate focus sessions, habit streaks, project milestones, or gamification parameters to defraud leaderboards or challenge systems.

5. Third-Party Integrations (Google & Microsoft)

Focus Better offers optional Google and Microsoft login, Google Calendar and Outlook Calendar connections, Gmail and Outlook Mail access, and Google Tasks synchronization. Login, calendar, mail, and task authorization are separate; you may connect both providers without replacing your Focus Better account.

• Third-Party Terms: Your use of connected services remains subject to the relevant Google or Microsoft terms, privacy policies, account requirements, and organizational restrictions. Only connect accounts and calendars you are authorized to access; a work or school administrator may restrict consent or availability.
• Limited Use Guarantee: As detailed in our Privacy Policy, Focus Better strictly adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. Your Google data is never sold, never shared with data brokers, and never used to train generalized AI/ML models.
• Calendar Actions: External event creation requires selecting Add to calendar and a writable destination. Supported future app-created scheduled blocks can synchronize with that destination; ordinary external meetings remain read-only. Changing your default destination does not move existing events. Review reported conflicts before choosing which version to keep.
• Mail Actions: Inbox views support listing, search, reading, attachment downloads, marking read or unread, archiving, snoozing, moving to Trash or Spam and back, blocking senders, drafts, signatures, sending, scheduled sending, replying, forwarding, and creating tasks from emails. Gmail is read and managed in your browser, directly with Google, after Google's review; Focus Better servers send only new emails you write, including scheduled ones. Every action is carried out in your own mailbox, at your request, and is subject to your provider's rules; Focus Better never permanently deletes mail. Sent email is sent from your account and you are responsible for its content. Scheduling applies to new Gmail emails only, not replies or forwards. A Gmail reply can be undone for 10 seconds while the tab stays open; closing the tab cancels the send and leaves the email in Gmail Drafts. A scheduled send can be cancelled until it goes out. Snoozed Gmail conversations come back when Focus Better is open at or after the chosen time. Blocking a Gmail sender creates a Gmail filter in your mailbox; Outlook blocks apply to Outlook only and are carried out by Focus Better on your behalf. Remote images load only when you choose to show them, as described in our Privacy Policy.
• Availability & Synchronization: Provider outages, throttling, expired authorization, or conflicting edits can delay or interrupt synchronization. Updates are not guaranteed to be instantaneous. Review sync status and reconnect or resolve conflicts when requested.
• Disconnect & Revocation: Manage connections from the account menu → Integrations. Disconnecting a calendar, mailbox, or task connection does not sign you out or disconnect another capability. Provider-wide consent revocation is managed separately in your Google or Microsoft account and may affect multiple capabilities.
• External Events After Disconnect: Existing external events are preserved by default. Optional cleanup, when selected, attempts to remove only future app-created events; failures are reported and may require manual action in the provider. Disconnecting does not delete your tasks, habits, or historical activity.

6. User Content & Intellectual Property

Your Content: You retain full ownership of all data, text, task descriptions, and files that you input into the Service (“User Content”). By uploading User Content, you grant Focus Better a limited, worldwide, royalty-free license to store, process, display, and transmit your User Content solely to operate, improve, and provide the Service to you.

Focus Better Intellectual Property: The Service, including its code, software architecture, UI designs, brand logos, soundscapes, audio compositions, and the Mount Olympus gamification engine, is the proprietary property of Focus Better and is protected by copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property laws.

7. Gamification & Virtual Elements

Focus Better incorporates productivity gamification (including “Summit Coins,” “Momentum Points,” expedition basecamps, and virtual milestone share cards):

• Virtual points, Summit Coins, and levels are informational, motivational indicators of personal productivity only.
• Virtual items have no real-world monetary value, cannot be exchanged for cash, and cannot be transferred or sold to other users.
• Focus Better reserves the right to adjust, rebalance, or update gamification algorithms, badge thresholds, and scoring formulas to improve the platform experience.

8. Pricing, Billing & Subscriptions

Focus Better provides free core features and may introduce optional paid premium subscription plans. If you enroll in a paid subscription:

• Billing: Fees will be billed on a recurring monthly or annual basis via our authorized payment processor.
• Cancellation: You may cancel your subscription at any time via your account settings. Cancellation will take effect at the conclusion of your current billing cycle.
• Refunds: Except as required by applicable consumer law, all paid fees are non-refundable.

9. Termination & Account Cancellation

You may terminate your account at any time directly through Account Settings or by reaching our support team via Contact Support.

Focus Better may suspend or terminate your access to the Service immediately, without prior notice or liability, if you violate any provision of these Terms or engage in conduct that harms the platform, other users, or third parties.

12. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Focus Better and its officers, directors, employees, and agents from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or in any way connected with your breach of these Terms or your misuse of the Service.

13. Dispute Resolution, Arbitration & Governing Law

These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with applicable laws, without regard to conflict of law principles.

Binding Arbitration & Class Action Waiver: Any dispute, controversy, or claim arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service shall be settled by binding individual arbitration administered in accordance with standard commercial arbitration rules. YOU AND FOCUS BETTER AGREE THAT EACH MAY BRING CLAIMS AGAINST THE OTHER ONLY IN AN INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING.

14. Contact Information

If you have any questions, concerns, or legal notices regarding these Terms of Service, please contact us directly: