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First Followers Terms and Conditions

Publication status: Published September 22, 2026. Timeframes identified as targets remain planning estimates, as explained below.

Effective date: September 22, 2026 Draft revised: September 21, 2026

These Terms and Conditions (the "Terms") are a legal agreement between you and Devon Allary, an individual operating First Followers ("First Followers," "we," "us," or "our"). They govern your download, access to, and use of the First Followers mobile application, our first-party backend, curriculum, media, support, and related services (collectively, the "Service").

The prelaunch website and waitlist have separate terms. These Terms cover the app, including family test builds offered under these Terms.

Please read these Terms and the First Followers Privacy Policy. When you affirmatively accept these Terms during guardian setup, you agree to them. Acceptance of these Terms is separate from verifiable consent to child-data processing. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

1. Who may agree to these Terms

The guardian account holder must be at least 18 years old, have reached the age of majority where they live, and be legally capable of entering this agreement. By creating a household or child profile, you represent that:

• you are the child's parent or legal guardian and have lawful authority to authorize the child's use and the processing described in the Privacy Policy;
• the information you provide is accurate;
• you will supervise the child's use in a manner appropriate to the child's age; and
• you will obtain any permission required from another parent, guardian, device owner, Apple Family Sharing organizer, or account holder.

Children may use child mode only through a household established and authorized by a guardian. A child does not independently enter these Terms, purchase a subscription, or create a public account.

2. What First Followers does

First Followers helps a guardian assign structured Christian lessons, review a child's work, and connect lesson completion to a limited Screen Time reward on a compatible Apple device. Depending on the guardian's settings and available features, the Service may include curriculum browsing, assignments, quizzes, written responses, drawings, shared notes, parent reports, progress summaries, approvals, parent review comments and approved feedback, prayer invitations and acknowledgements, notifications, subscription access, and Apple Family Controls or Screen Time integration. An optional private prayer journal has different visibility and recovery limits, described in section 4 and the Privacy Policy.

First Followers may provide a free preview or free features. Paid features and household limits are described on the purchase screen at the time of purchase. Unless that screen states otherwise, the family plan supports up to five active child profiles with device support as shown during setup, subject to Apple's own Family Sharing and device limits. Shared-device Screen Time rules may affect everyone using that device.

3. Guardian responsibilities

The guardian—not First Followers—decides whether and how to use Screen Time restrictions, which apps/categories/websites to select through Apple's controls, which lessons and rewards are appropriate, and whether a child's work should be approved. You agree to:

• review the setup and test it on every child device;
• maintain access to the guardian Apple Account and compatible Apple Family Sharing group;
• keep guardian-only areas, pairing codes, and account credentials away from children and unauthorized people;
• use a nickname rather than a child's full legal name and avoid entering unnecessary personal information;
• explain which submitted work and notes are visible to authorized guardians and the different visibility of the private journal;
• respond appropriately if a child's answer reveals a safety, health, or welfare concern; and
• use First Followers in a lawful, proportionate, and age-appropriate way, not as punishment, coercion, surveillance, or a substitute for attentive parenting.

You must not require a child to reveal private beliefs, personal distress, or a journal entry to receive a lesson-completion reward. First Followers remains responsible for its own privacy and security obligations; these Terms do not transfer those obligations to the guardian.

First Followers does not monitor emergencies. If you believe someone is in immediate danger, contact local emergency services or another qualified source of help.

4. Parent notice, child privacy, and household visibility

Before activating a child profile or child device, the guardian must review the direct parent notice and complete the required verifiable consent process. You may withdraw consent or request access, correction, export, or deletion as described in the Privacy Policy. Withdrawal may end the child's online participation if the information is reasonably necessary to provide it.

The app enables indirect parent-child communication through assignments, submitted lesson work and drawings, shared notes, reviews, approved feedback, and prayer invitations. Authorized guardians can see the work shared with them, learning results, progress, approvals, and Screen Time records. This is a family feature; there are no public child profiles, public response feeds, stranger messages, or child-to-child chat. Parent-only comments are not automatically shared with the child.

The private prayer journal is separate from guardian-visible lesson work. It stores encrypted entries only on the child's device; cloud sync is disabled. A child-held passphrase or recovery code unlocks it; a guardian account cannot. Neither the Service nor a guardian can promise recovery without that secret. Entries can be deleted individually or the local journal can be erased using its controls. This does not waive statutory parental rights. Any future cloud journal would require a separate rights, access and deletion process and an updated notice.

Do not promise confidentiality for shared lesson work or use the app as a private counselling, confession, crisis, or emergency service. We do not undertake to read every submission, mediate family disputes, or monitor communications in real time. Report suspected unauthorized household access or misuse to devonallary1@gmail.com. We may restrict access while we investigate and verify authority. A request from a school, church, relative, or an Apple family member does not automatically authorize access to the child's records.

5. Accounts, household access, and security

Guardian access uses Sign in with Apple and a First Followers session. Child devices use a limited credential created through pairing. You are responsible for activity under your household to the extent allowed by law and for promptly telling us at devonallary1@gmail.com about suspected unauthorized access, a lost paired device, or compromised credentials.

You may not sell, transfer, rent, or share a guardian account outside the authorized household. Any later co-guardian feature must be used only for a person who has lawful authority concerning the child. We may require reauthentication or a parental gate for sensitive controls, purchases, child responses, data exports, or deletion.

6. Apple requirements and technical limits

The Screen Time feature depends on compatible Apple hardware, supported operating systems, Apple Family Sharing roles, Family Controls authorization, device settings, network availability for remote actions, and distribution entitlements controlled by Apple. These requirements can change and are not controlled by First Followers.

You understand that:

• Apple may limit which household members or devices can be controlled;
• an Apple authorization, token, selected app, device, operating-system update, network outage, force quit, reinstall, account change, or other event can delay or prevent a restriction, unlock, usage count, notification, or re-lock;
• First Followers does not provide mobile-device management, cannot view a child's general Screen Time history, and cannot guarantee that a child cannot bypass every device restriction;
• remote approval requires connectivity, while some previously downloaded and guardian-authorized flows may work offline;
• push notifications are optional hints, not the source of truth; and
• when subscription or authorization status cannot safely be verified after the permitted offline period, First Followers is designed to fail open and clear its own restrictions rather than keep a child's apps blocked indefinitely.

Do not rely on First Followers for safety-critical access control, emergency communication, medical adherence, or prevention of harmful device use. The guardian should always know how to use Apple's device settings and remove First Followers-managed restrictions.

7. Subscriptions, free trials, billing, and cancellation

Paid subscriptions are offered through Apple's App Store as shown on the purchase screen. Before purchase, First Followers will display the subscription name, duration, features, any trial period, and the full renewal price in the storefront currency.

If you start an auto-renewable subscription:

• payment is charged by Apple to the Apple Account used for purchase;
• the subscription automatically renews for the period and price shown by Apple unless cancelled through Apple before renewal;
• Apple may provide billing retry or grace treatment under the storefront settings;
• you can manage or cancel in the Apple Account subscription settings;
• deleting First Followers, deleting a child profile, or deleting the First Followers household does not itself cancel the App Store subscription;
• cancellation normally stops future renewal and does not remove paid access before the end of the already-paid period, subject to Apple's rules and applicable law;
• refunds, billing disputes, taxes, price-change notices, and payment-method issues are administered by Apple under Apple's policies and applicable law; and
• a restore-purchases control is available for an eligible purchase.

Where a free trial is offered, the purchase screen will state its duration and the price that applies after it ends. Unless you cancel through Apple before the trial renews, Apple will charge the displayed subscription price. Eligibility for a trial or promotional offer is determined by Apple and the offer terms.

We may change future subscription prices or offerings. Apple will provide any notice or request for price consent required by its rules or applicable law. We will provide the paid Service for the applicable subscription period, subject to these Terms and any lawful suspension for misuse.

8. Licence to use the Service

Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, personal, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable licence to install and use the app on compatible Apple-branded products you own or control, as permitted by the Apple Media Services Usage Rules. The app may also be accessed through Family Sharing or other Apple features where Apple permits. The Service and its content are licensed, not sold.

You may use the Service only for a private household's personal, non-commercial faith-learning activities. Separate written terms are required for a school, church, classroom, business, resale, public performance, or institutional deployment.

9. Acceptable use

You may not, and may not help another person to:

• use the Service unlawfully or infringe another person's rights;
• create a child profile without authority or misrepresent identity, age, guardianship, consent, or subscription status;
• seek access to another household, child profile, device, response, or credential;
• share a pairing code outside the intended pairing session;
• probe, scan, disrupt, overload, reverse engineer, bypass, or defeat security or usage limits except where applicable law expressly permits limited interoperability work that cannot be waived;
• extract, scrape, copy, republish, sell, train a model on, or create a competing dataset from the curriculum, media, reports, or software;
• upload malicious code or content that is unlawful, threatening, exploitative, harassing, infringing, or privacy-invasive; or
• use Screen Time controls in an abusive, deceptive, unsafe, or punitive manner.

10. Guardian and child submissions

You and the child retain any rights you hold in original writing, drawings, notes, and other material submitted through the Service ("Household Content"). You grant us a limited, non-exclusive licence to host, copy, transmit, display to authorized household members, evaluate, secure, and delete Household Content only as needed to provide the Service and for the retention period in the Privacy Policy. Display and evaluation are limited by each feature's privacy settings; this licence does not authorize us to decrypt a private journal, publish a child's work, or use it in advertising. Operational permissions end when the content is deleted, apart from the limited backup or legal retention disclosed in the Privacy Policy.

You represent that you have the authority needed for the Household Content and that its submission and our permitted processing do not violate law or another person's rights. Do not submit another person's confidential information, a child's full legal name or contact details, or copyrighted material the household is not entitled to use.

We do not use Household Content to train public or third-party AI models. Any future third-party AI processing of child information will require the disclosure and permission described in the Privacy Policy.

11. Curriculum, faith, and automated-output disclaimer

First Followers provides educational and family-discussion material from a Christian perspective. Christian traditions interpret scripture and doctrine differently. A guardian is responsible for choosing the available curriculum lens appropriate for the household and reviewing the material.

First Followers does not claim divine authority, speak for God, determine a person's faith, or replace a parent, pastor, church, qualified teacher, therapist, doctor, lawyer, or other professional. Progress indicators describe bounded lesson evidence; they are not measures of faith, morality, character, sincerity, salvation, mental health, or a child's value.

Some outputs may be produced by deterministic rules or constrained automated tools and may be incomplete or wrong. Parent-facing drafts must be reviewed in context. An automated interpretation must not be the sole basis for disciplining a child, denying an earned reward, making a significant educational decision, or drawing a conclusion about the child's beliefs or wellbeing.

12. Our content and intellectual property

The Service, including software, designs, trademarks, curriculum structure, original lesson text, illustrations, audio, video, compilations, and non-user data, belongs to us or our licensors and is protected by intellectual-property laws. Public-domain scripture or source material remains public domain; third-party translations and media remain subject to their own licences and attribution notices.

No right is granted except the limited licence in section 8. "First Followers," its logos, and related branding may not be used without prior written permission.

13. Feedback

If you voluntarily send an idea or suggestion, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free right to use it without an obligation to compensate you. This does not give us a licence to a child's lesson answer or other personal information, which remains governed by section 10 and the Privacy Policy.

14. Third-party services

The Service interoperates with Apple services and may use contracted hosting and support providers. Your use of Apple hardware, Apple Accounts, Family Sharing, the App Store, notifications, network access, and other third-party services remains subject to their applicable terms. You must comply with those terms. We are not responsible for a third party's independent service, account decision, outage, or terms, but we remain responsible for our own obligations concerning providers that process information on our behalf.

15. Changes, availability, and discontinuation

We may update the app, fix errors, add or remove features, change compatible devices, or modify curriculum. We will not take away paid access during an active paid period without a remedy required by law or Apple's rules. We may discontinue the Service after reasonable notice where practical and will honour non-waivable consumer rights.

We may update these Terms prospectively. For a material change, we will provide reasonable notice through the app, the adult's available contact channel, or another appropriate method. If law requires renewed agreement, we will request it. Changes to child-data practices are also governed by the new-notice and consent commitments in the Privacy Policy.

16. Suspension and termination

You may stop using the Service at any time and may delete the First Followers account using the in-app control. You must separately cancel an App Store subscription to stop renewal.

We may suspend or terminate access if we reasonably believe the account presents a security or child-safety risk, lacks required consent, materially breaches these Terms, infringes rights, is fraudulent, or must be restricted by law. Where reasonable and safe, we will give notice and an opportunity to correct the issue.

On termination, the licence ends and sections that by their nature should survive do so, including ownership, disclaimers, liability limits, dispute terms, and the Apple-specific provisions. We will handle stored information under the Privacy Policy. Child-device restrictions must fail open as described in section 6.

17. Disclaimer of warranties

Nothing in these Terms excludes a warranty, guarantee, or consumer right that cannot lawfully be excluded.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Service is provided "as is" and "as available." We disclaim implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, uninterrupted availability, and accuracy. We do not warrant that every lesson, automated output, notification, subscription check, Screen Time restriction, unlock, usage count, sync, or device interaction will be accurate, immediate, compatible, secure, or error-free.

18. Limitation of liability

Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot legally be limited, including liability arising from our fraud, wilful misconduct, gross negligence where not excludable, or violation of a non-waivable consumer right.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, neither party will be liable to the other for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue, goodwill, or data, arising from the Service, even if advised that such damage was possible.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, our total liability for all claims relating to the Service will not exceed the greater of (a) the amount you paid for First Followers in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim or (b) CAD 100. This limit applies in the aggregate, not per claim. Some jurisdictions do not permit certain exclusions or limits, so some of this section may not apply to you.

19. Indemnity

To the extent permitted by law, you will indemnify and hold Devon Allary and people working on his behalf harmless from third-party claims, losses, and reasonable legal costs arising from your unlawful use of the Service, lack of authority to create or manage a child profile, violation of another person's rights, or material breach of these Terms. This section does not require indemnity for our own negligence, misconduct, or legal breach and does not limit non-waivable consumer rights.

20. Governing law and disputes

Before filing a claim, please contact devonallary1@gmail.com and provide a short description of the concern and requested resolution. We will try in good faith to resolve it.

Except where the consumer-protection law of your home jurisdiction requires otherwise, these Terms are governed by the laws of Quebec and the federal laws of Canada applicable there, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. The courts located in Quebec, Canada will have non-exclusive jurisdiction. You may bring a claim in another forum when applicable consumer law gives you that right.

These Terms do not require individual arbitration and do not waive participation in a class proceeding.

For a Quebec consumer, nothing in these Terms waives rights or remedies under Quebec consumer-protection law, the Civil Code of Québec, or other mandatory Quebec law. A French version of these Terms must be made available before a Quebec consumer is asked to agree to an English version.

21. General terms

These Terms, the Privacy Policy, the direct parent notice and consent accepted for a child, and the purchase terms shown by Apple form the agreement concerning the Service. If they conflict about personal information, the more protective applicable privacy commitment controls unless law requires otherwise.

If a provision is unenforceable, it will be enforced to the maximum lawful extent and the remainder will continue. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without our written consent. We may assign them in connection with a lawful reorganization or transfer, subject to the Privacy Policy. Headings are for convenience. "Including" means "including without limitation."

22. Apple App Store terms

This section applies when the app is obtained through Apple's App Store and is intended to satisfy Apple's minimum end-user licence terms.

1. Acknowledgement. These Terms are between you and Devon Allary, not Apple. We, not Apple, are solely responsible for the app and its content. These Terms do not conflict with the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions or applicable Usage Rules.
2. Scope of licence. The licence is non-transferable and limited to use on Apple-branded products that you own or control and as permitted by Apple's Usage Rules, including access through Family Sharing, volume purchasing, or Legacy Contacts where Apple permits.
3. Maintenance and support. We, not Apple, are responsible for maintenance and support required by these Terms or applicable law. Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for First Followers.
4. Warranty. We are responsible for any app warranty that cannot be disclaimed. If the app fails to conform to an applicable warranty, you may notify Apple and Apple will refund the purchase price, if any, for the app. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation concerning the app. We are responsible for other claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs, or expenses attributable to a failure to conform to a warranty.
5. Product claims. We, not Apple, are responsible for addressing claims relating to the app or your possession and use of it, including product-liability claims, claims that the app fails to meet a legal or regulatory requirement, and claims under consumer-protection, privacy, or similar law.
6. Intellectual-property claims. If a third party claims that the app or your use of it infringes intellectual-property rights, we, not Apple, are responsible for investigating, defending, settling, and discharging that claim.
7. Legal compliance. You represent that you are not located in a region subject to a U.S. Government embargo or designated by the U.S. Government as a "terrorist-supporting" region, and that you are not listed on a U.S. Government prohibited- or restricted-party list.
8. Developer contact. The app developer is Devon Allary, 1502 rue Noel Lareau, Chambly, Quebec J3L 5M7, Canada; +1 514-601-6435; devonallary1@gmail.com. Direct app questions, complaints, and claims there.
9. Third-party terms. You must comply with applicable third-party agreements, including Apple Media Services, Apple Account, Family Sharing, wireless-data, and internet-service terms, when using the app.
10. Third-party beneficiary. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms. When you accept these Terms, Apple has the right, and is deemed to have accepted the right, to enforce them against you as a third-party beneficiary.

23. Contact

Questions, complaints, or claims about the Service should be directed to:

Devon Allary 1502 rue Noel Lareau, Chambly, Quebec J3L 5M7, Canada devonallary1@gmail.com +1 514-601-6435