CatchCrop Licence Terms

1. This agreement

These terms form an agreement between you and Mirentha Ltd, a company incorporated in England and Wales (company number 17207914), registered office 71–75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2H 9JQ (“we”, “us”). They govern your use of the CatchCrop iPhone application and any updates to it (the “App”). By downloading or using the App you accept these terms; if you do not accept them, do not use the App.

This agreement is between you and us alone, not with Apple. Apple is not responsible for the App or its contents.

2. Your licence

We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to install and use the App on any Apple-branded device that you own or control, as permitted by the App Store Terms of Service. The licence is for your own use, personal or business; it is a licence of the software rather than a sale of it, and we keep all rights we do not expressly grant.

3. The free beds, the subscription and renewal

Two beds are free, for as long as you like — a raised bed, an allotment plot and a patio container all count the same — and creating a third raises the subscription screen. CatchCrop Full is sold as a subscription: £2.99 per month or £19.99 per year, the same access either way. There is no free trial and no introductory offer — the free beds are the trial, and they do not expire. The price and the term are shown to you before you confirm, and the price applying in your country and currency is the one the App Store displays.

Apple sells the subscription and takes the payment. Your Apple Account is charged when you confirm the purchase, and again at the start of each renewal period. The subscription renews automatically unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the current period ends. The subscription is recorded by Apple against your Apple Account rather than by us, so on a new or reset iPhone Restore purchases in the App picks it up. It is not set up for Family Sharing.

You manage and cancel the subscription in your App Store account settings, not in the App: Settings, then your name, then Subscriptions. We cannot cancel it for you. Refunds are requested from Apple at reportaproblem.apple.com; we cannot issue one ourselves. Nothing in these terms affects your statutory rights, including your right to a repair, replacement or refund if the App is faulty, not as described, or not fit for purpose.

Neither reaching the free limit nor letting a subscription lapse puts a garden at risk. Every bed you have planned, every job on the weekly list and the whole journal stay on your device, on screen and readable. What a lapse removes is the ability to change beds beyond the free two; nothing is hidden and nothing is deleted.

4. What you may not do

You may not copy, redistribute, rent, lease, sell or sublicense the App; modify it or create derivative works from it; reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble it except to the extent the law expressly permits despite this restriction; remove any proprietary notices; or use it in breach of any applicable law or export control. You must also comply with any applicable third-party terms of agreement when using the App.

5. Your content

Your garden is yours. Bed layouts, plantings, journal notes and photographs remain your property, and we claim no licence over any of it — we could not use it if we wanted to, since none of it reaches us. You are responsible for having the right to any photograph you add.

You are also responsible for your own backups. Where iCloud sync is on, your garden is in your own iCloud account and Apple's arrangements apply to it; where it is off, the only copy is on that iPhone, and deleting the App deletes it. Journal photographs are never synced, though they are ordinary files in the App's storage and so are included in an iCloud Backup of your device if you use one. We hold no copy of anything and cannot restore a garden for you.

6. The dates, the crop library, and what the App is not

Every date the App produces is arithmetic on two numbers you supply — your last spring frost and your first autumn frost — and a per-crop offset from the App's own library. If your frost dates are wrong, every date built on them will be wrong in the same direction, which is why changing them does not silently move existing plantings and the App offers Recalculate instead.

The crop library is a hand-written reference compiled from ordinary horticultural practice. It is a starting point, not an authority: seasons vary, microclimates vary, varieties vary, and a seed packet from your own supplier beats a general figure every time. Days to maturity in particular are typical rather than promised.

The App deliberately holds no watering or feeding data and generates no jobs of that kind, because a guessed schedule for those is worse than none.

CatchCrop is a planner, not horticultural, agricultural, commercial or food-safety advice. It does not identify plants, does not tell you whether anything is safe to eat, and cannot know the state of your soil, your water or your weather. Decisions about what to grow, when to sow it, and whether to eat it are yours.

7. Reminders

If you turn reminders on, the App schedules local notifications on your device for jobs that are due. Delivery is handled by iOS and is affected by your notification settings, Focus modes, Do Not Disturb, low-power mode and how many notifications the system is already holding — iOS keeps a limited number per app, so the App schedules the soonest and drops the rest. Reminders are a convenience, not a guarantee, and you should not rely on one arriving.

8. Privacy

The App collects no personal data and sends nothing to us. What it stores, what syncs and what does not, the one permission it asks for, and its only connections to Apple are set out in the CatchCrop privacy policy, which forms part of these terms.

9. Warranties

The App is provided “as is”. To the fullest extent permitted by law we exclude all implied warranties, including those of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement, and we do not warrant that the App will be uninterrupted or error-free, that any date it calculates will suit your plot, or that any crop will grow.

If the App fails to conform to any warranty that cannot be excluded, you may notify Apple, and Apple may refund the purchase price. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation in respect of the App, and any other claim arising from a failure to conform to a warranty is our responsibility.

10. Liability

Nothing in these terms limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited. Your statutory rights as a consumer are unaffected.

Subject to that, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, or for loss of profit, revenue, crops or data, arising from your use of the App; and our total liability arising out of or in connection with the App is limited to the greater of the amount you paid for it and £50.

11. Support and maintenance

We are solely responsible for support of the App; Apple has no obligation to provide any maintenance or support services. Support is offered by email at [email protected] and through the CatchCrop support page.

12. Third-party notices

The App bundles two typefaces, Nunito and Bricolage Grotesque, both used under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. Their licence texts ship with the App and with this website. The App uses no other third-party code.

13. Term and termination

This licence runs until terminated. It ends automatically if you breach these terms, and you may end it at any time by cancelling the subscription and deleting the App. Cancelling stops the next renewal; it does not refund the period you are in, and refunds are Apple's, as set out in section 3. Sections 5, 6, 9, 10, 14 and 15 survive termination.

14. Third-party claims and Apple

We, not Apple, are responsible for addressing any claim by you or a third party relating to the App, including product liability claims, any claim that the App fails to conform to a legal or regulatory requirement, and claims arising under consumer protection or similar legislation. We are also responsible for investigating and defending any claim that the App infringes a third party's intellectual property rights.

You represent that you are not located in a country subject to a US Government embargo or designated as a “terrorist supporting” country, and that you are not on any US Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.

Apple and Apple's subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of this agreement, and on your acceptance of it Apple has the right to enforce it against you as a third-party beneficiary.

15. Governing law

These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction. If you are a consumer resident elsewhere in the UK, you may also bring proceedings in your own jurisdiction. If you are a consumer resident outside the UK, nothing in this section deprives you of the protection of any mandatory law of your country of residence, or of your right to bring proceedings in the courts of that country.

16. Contact

Mirentha Ltd, 71–75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2H 9JQ, United Kingdom. [email protected].