Legal

Who can use Leechline

• You must be at least 13 years old.
• If you're under the age of majority where you live, you need a parent's or guardian's permission, and they agree to these terms for you.
• Keep your email address accurate and your password private. You're responsible for what happens on your account.

What Leechline does

Leechline helps you plan tasks and schedules time blocks before your deadlines. If you turn it on, it blocks apps you choose (and, with the browser extension, websites you choose) during those blocks until you submit a proof photo that our AI check approves. Blocking is a tool you choose for yourself:

• You pick which apps are blocked, and you can change them in Settings.
• You can unlock without proof 1 to 3 times a week in the app and on leechline.ca. You choose how many in Settings. The browser extension has its own emergency unlock, once every 7 days.
• You can turn blocking off at any time in your phone's settings (Screen Time on iPhone, Accessibility on Android).
• Don't block apps you may need for your safety, health or job, such as phone, messages, maps or medical apps.
• In the browser extension, you pick which websites are blocked and can remove the extension at any time.

Leechline also has the Colosseum: subjects you can study in short lessons and quizzes, boards for comparing progress with friends, and communities, rooms and messages for learning with other people.

Leaderboards, usernames, friends, communities, messages and Use my location are optional. You can use Leechline without them.

Proof checks and AI

Proof checks and the assistant use AI. They can make mistakes in either direction, and we don't promise any particular result. The assistant's plans and time estimates are suggestions. You stay responsible for your own work and deadlines.

Only photograph things you have the right to. Don't include other people without their permission, identity documents, or anything illegal or explicit.

Lessons, quizzes and Trials

• Lessons and quiz questions are written and checked by AI. They can contain mistakes, so don't rely on them alone for school, work, health, legal or money decisions. If something looks wrong, report it in the app.
• Levels, XP, Trials and boards measure progress inside Leechline only. They aren't grades, qualifications or certificates, and there are no prizes.
• Quiz questions are timed. If you leave Leechline, or the page on leechline.ca, while a question is on screen, that question counts as missed.
• While you take a quiz or Trial in the app, Leechline locks other apps on your phone (on iPhone, websites too), apart from essentials like Phone. This needs Screen Time on iPhone or the Leechline app blocker on Android. The lock lifts when the quiz ends or you leave it, and by itself within 15 minutes if the app closes.

Leaderboards, friends and communities

• Ranks are based on the unleeched hours and XP Leechline records, and they can be wrong, delayed or reset, for example when a block is skipped. There are no prizes.
• Other users can see your username and display name, and the hours, rings and learning progress the Privacy Policy describes. Share invite codes only with people you want in a community.
• Owners and moderators can remove people and messages, and close rooms, in the communities and group chats they run. Use that only to keep them on topic and within these terms.
• We may change or remove a username, display name or the name of a community, room or chat, or remove someone from a board or a community, if it breaks these terms, and reset ranks or progress we think were gained by cheating.

Community rules

The Colosseum is for learning together. Disagreement and debate about ideas are welcome, including on hard subjects. These aren't allowed in usernames, display names, messages, photos, or the names and descriptions of communities, rooms and chats:

• insults, bullying or harassment aimed at a person;
• slurs or hate toward people for their race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability;
• sexual content, sexual advances, or asking for sexual images;
• anything sexual involving someone under 18;
• encouraging self-harm or suicide;
• threats, or praise for violence or terrorism;
• promoting hard drugs, weapon sales or other crime;
• scams, phishing, spam or harmful links;
• posting someone's private details, or pretending to be someone else or to be Leechline staff.

Swearing, crude jokes, mild name-calling and advertising are stopped too, without a warning. Usernames, display names and the names of communities, rooms and chats are held to a stricter standard.

How we enforce the rules

• Names, messages and photos are checked automatically, by a word list and by AI, before anyone else sees them. Something that breaks the rules isn't posted. GIFs and stickers come from filtered libraries and can be reported.
• Clearly breaking the rules earns a warning. After 3 warnings, the next one closes your account.
• The most serious things, such as anything sexual involving someone under 18, a credible threat to hurt someone, or support for terrorism, close the account at once. We may report them to the police or other authorities.
• Closing an account signs it out everywhere and bans its email address from Leechline, including for new accounts. It stays closed unless we agree to reopen it. If you think we got it wrong, email support@leechline.ca and a person will look at it.
• Closing an account doesn't stop a paid plan. Cancel an App Store or Google Play plan in your store account. For a plan bought on leechline.ca, email us and we'll cancel it.
• Anyone can report a message, person, community, room or lesson to us, and block people. A message in a room or group chat that three people report is hidden until we've looked at it.
• We can also remove content, close rooms or communities, and close accounts ourselves when something breaks these terms.

Subscriptions and the free trial

• Leechline needs a subscription after a 14-day free trial. Each store account gets one free trial.
• Prices are shown in the app and in the store before you buy. Taxes may apply.
• Subscriptions are sold and billed by Apple (App Store) or Google (Google Play). Payment is charged to your store account when you confirm the purchase, or when your free trial ends.
• On leechline.ca, subscriptions are sold by Leechline and billed by Stripe, our payment processor. We never see your full card number. One subscription covers the app, the website and the browser extension on the same Leechline account.
• Your subscription renews automatically for the same period at the current price unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the period ends. You can manage or cancel it in your App Store or Google Play account, or from Settings, Manage payment in Leechline.
• If you cancel, you keep access until the end of the period you paid for. Deleting the app or your account doesn't cancel a subscription.
• Refunds for store purchases are handled by Apple or Google under their policies. For web purchases, email support@leechline.ca within 14 days of a charge.
• If a price changes, the store tells you ahead of time and asks for your consent where required.

Your content

You own the tasks, text, messages and photos you put into Leechline. You let us store and process them, show them to the people you share them with (for example, everyone in a chat or community), and send them to our service providers, only to run Leechline as the Privacy Policy describes. This permission ends when you delete the content or your account, except for copies the law requires us to keep and the records the Privacy Policy says we keep to enforce these terms.

A subject you add becomes part of the Colosseum for everyone, and stays after your account is deleted, without your name.

If you send us feedback or ideas, we may use them to improve Leechline without owing you anything for them.

Acceptable use

Don't use Leechline to:

• break the law or anyone's rights;
• break the community rules above;
• upload content that is illegal, hateful, sexual or violent, or that you don't have the right to share;
• access other people's data or our systems without permission;
• copy, reverse engineer or resell the app, except where the law allows it;
• cheat on proof checks, quizzes, Trials or boards, for example with fake photos, extra accounts or automated answers;
• get around our checks, for example with creative spelling, or get back in with a new account after yours was closed;
• contact someone who has blocked you, or keep messaging someone who doesn't want to hear from you;
• overload our service or send automated requests to it;
• monitor or pressure someone else without their consent.

Our app

Leechline's software, design, lessons, assistants, orb and logo belong to us or our licensors. GIFs and stickers from our GIF provider belong to their owners. We give you a personal, non-transferable, non-exclusive licence to use the app on devices you own or control, under these terms and your app store's rules. We can end this licence if you break these terms.

Changes and availability

We may add, change or remove features, and Leechline may sometimes be unavailable, for example during maintenance. We'll tell you ahead of time about major changes when we reasonably can.

Ending your account

You can stop using Leechline at any time and delete your account in Settings. We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms or puts others at risk, as How we enforce the rules describes, with notice when reasonable. Sections that by their nature should continue, such as disclaimers and limits of liability, continue after your account ends.

Disclaimers

Leechline is provided as is and as available. To the fullest extent the law allows, we don't promise that it will be error-free, that it will block every app every time, that proof checks or lessons will be correct, or that it will help you meet any deadline, grade or goal.

What other people post is their own. Our checks stop a lot, but they can miss things, so please report what they miss.

Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, Leechline isn't liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages, or for lost data, missed deadlines, grades or profits. Our total liability for any claim about Leechline is limited to what you paid for Leechline in the 12 months before the claim.

Some places, including Quebec, don't allow these limits, so they may not apply to you. Nothing in these terms limits rights you have under consumer protection law.

If you got Leechline from Apple's App Store

• These terms are between you and Leechline only, not Apple. Leechline, not Apple, is responsible for the app and its content.
• Your licence lets you use the app on Apple-branded products you own or control, as the Usage Rules in Apple's Media Services Terms and Conditions allow.
• Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for the app.
• If the app fails to meet any warranty that applies, you can tell Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price, if any. To the extent the law allows, Apple has no other warranty obligation for the app.
• Leechline, not Apple, is responsible for any claims about the app, including product liability claims, claims that it fails to meet a legal or regulatory requirement, and claims under consumer protection or privacy law.
• Leechline, not Apple, is responsible for investigating, defending and settling any claim that the app infringes someone's intellectual property.
• You confirm that you're not in a country under a U.S. Government embargo or designated as a terrorist-supporting country, and that you're not on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
• You must follow any third-party terms that apply when you use the app, such as your wireless data agreement.
• Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and may enforce them against you.

Send questions, complaints or claims about the app to support@leechline.ca.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada that apply there. If you're a consumer, you also keep the protections of the laws where you live, and you can bring a claim in your local courts where that law allows.

Changes to these terms

If we change these terms in a meaningful way, we'll tell you in the app before the change takes effect. If you keep using Leechline after that, the new terms apply. If you don't agree, stop using Leechline and delete your account.

Contact

Questions about these terms: support@leechline.ca.

By mail: Leechline, 2161 Tokala Trail, London, Ontario N6G 0Z7, Canada.