Terms of Use

1. Parties and subject matter

“We”, “us”, “our”, “the company” — BuddyTrips Global LLC, a legal entity incorporated in the State of Wyoming, United States, trading under the Julius / Sapa Tech brand (hereinafter — the app or the service). “You” — any user of the app, acting personally or on behalf of an organization.

You can contact us by email at hello@sapa-tech.dev or by mail to our registered address: 1309 Coffeen Ave ste 1200, Sheridan, WY 82801, United States.

Julius helps split shared bills between participants in a group: calculating shares, syncing expenses, and reconciling balances. This is not a payment service: we do not process transactions, do not store payment details, and do not act as an intermediary in monetary settlements between you and anyone else.

2. Acceptance of terms

Installing the app, creating an anonymous account on first launch, and any subsequent use of the service mean that you have read, understood, and accepted these terms, as well as our Privacy Policy, which forms an integral part of this agreement.

3. User age

The service is intended for users 18 years of age and older. Persons under 18 are not entitled to use or register in the service. By using Julius, you confirm that you are at least 18 years old and that you have full legal capacity to enter into this agreement.

4. Account

On first launch the app automatically creates an anonymous account for you. Registration, email, password, or phone confirmation are not required. Access to the account is tied to the device; a full reinstallation of the app or a reset of device settings may lead to the creation of a new account and the loss of access to the old one. Storage and backup of local device data are your responsibility.

5. Acceptable use

Use Julius in good faith — to split your own expenses or jointly agreed shared expenses with participants in a group. You undertake to:

• ensure the consent of all group participants to join a shared pot and to sync expenses with each other;
• not use the service for illegal activity, including money laundering, fraud, or other unlawful operations;
• not upload other people’s personal data without legal grounds and not publish information that violates the rights of third parties;
• not provide the service with information whose entry is not explicitly supported by the app interface (passport data, banking details, etc.);
• not impersonate another person and not mislead participants regarding amounts, shares, or the identities of payers;
• not attempt to automate mass requests, bypass limits, reverse engineer, decrypt traffic, or otherwise disrupt the normal operation of the service;
• not use the service in violation of applicable U.S. export laws, including OFAC sanctions.

6. Your content and participant consent

Receipt photos, expense texts, comments, displayed participant names, and other materials you upload to the app remain yours. You grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, limited license to store, process, and display this content to the participants of the relevant shared pot — strictly to the extent necessary for the service to operate.

If you add data about other people to a shared pot (for example, their name or the amount they owe), you confirm that you have a legal basis to do so. All resulting relationships with those people are your responsibility.

7. Receipt and voice recognition

Recognition of receipt photos and voice descriptions is performed automatically using cloud AI models (see section 7 of the Privacy Policy). Accuracy depends on the quality of the image and the recording. The result is a suggestion which you must verify before saving. We are not responsible for calculation errors caused by incorrect recognition: you confirm the final amounts and shares yourself.

8. Pricing

On the effective date of these terms, Julius is provided free of charge. We may introduce paid features in the future — in that case, the terms of purchase, refunds, and subscription auto-renewal will be published in advance and will not apply until they actually come into force. Functionality that is available for free today will not become paid retroactively. All in-app purchases are made through the App Store and are governed by the store’s rules.

9. Service availability

We strive for stable operation, but we do not guarantee continuous availability. Planned maintenance, failures, and partial or temporary unavailability of certain features are possible. We reserve the right to change, suspend, or terminate specific features of the service at any time without prior notice.

10. Disclaimer of warranties

The service is provided “AS IS” and “AS AVAILABLE”, without any warranties, express or implied — including, without limitation, the implied warranties of MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, and NON-INFRINGEMENT. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we disclaim all such warranties.

11. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we and our directors, employees, and contractors are not liable for lost profits, data loss, reputational harm, direct, indirect, special, punitive, or incidental damages arising from your use of or inability to use the service, even if we were notified of the possibility of such damages. Our aggregate liability to you may not exceed the amount actually paid by you for use of the service over the last 6 (six) months, and for free use — USD 10 (ten).

12. Indemnification

You undertake to defend and indemnify us, our affiliates, directors, employees, and contractors from any claims, demands, damages, liabilities, and reasonable legal expenses arising from: (1) content you have uploaded; (2) your use of the service; (3) breach of these terms; (4) your infringement of third-party rights; (5) explicit harm caused to another user of the service.

13. Termination of use

You may stop using the service and delete the app at any time. We may, at our sole discretion and without prior notice, suspend or terminate your access to the service — including upon a material breach of these terms, on demand by law-enforcement authorities, or for technical reasons. Provisions on license, disclaimer of warranties, limitation of liability, and governing law survive termination.

14. Apple App Store terms

If you have installed the app from the Apple App Store, the Apple Licensed Application End User License Agreement additionally applies. In particular:

• these terms are concluded between you and us, and not with Apple;
• service of the app, handling of quality claims, and third-party rights infringement claims are our responsibility, not Apple’s;
• in case the app fails to conform to any applicable warranty, Apple may refund the price paid for it (if any), but bears no other warranty obligations;
• you confirm that you are not located in a country subject to U.S. government sanctions and are not on any list of prohibited parties;
• Apple is a third-party beneficiary of these terms and is entitled to enforce them against you.

15. Copyright infringement notices (DMCA)

We respect the intellectual property of others. If you believe that material available through the service infringes your copyrights, send us a DMCA notice at hello@sapa-tech.dev indicating:

• a description of the work that you believe has been infringed;
• a description and the exact location of the allegedly infringing material;
• your contact details (name, address, email, phone);
• a statement of your good-faith belief that the use of the material is unlawful;
• a statement of the accuracy of the information and of your authority to act on behalf of the rights holder;
• your physical or electronic signature.

Knowingly false notices entail liability under applicable law.

16. Governing law and dispute resolution

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Wyoming, United States, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. Before going to court or arbitration, you agree to first send a claim to hello@sapa-tech.dev and allow a reasonable time for it to be reviewed — at least 30 days (informal negotiation period).

Mandatory arbitration. Any dispute, claim, or disagreement arising out of or in connection with these terms, and not resolved during the informal negotiation period, shall be finally resolved by individual binding arbitration under the Consumer Arbitration Rules of the American Arbitration Association (AAA). The seat of arbitration is Sheridan, Wyoming, United States. The language is English. The arbitrator’s decision is final and binding on both parties.

Class-action waiver. Disputes are heard solely on an individual basis. The parties waive participation in class, representative, or consolidated proceedings.

Exceptions. The arbitration clause does not cover: (a) intellectual-property disputes; (b) claims for injunctive relief; (c) actions in small claims court in your place of residence, if such an option is available.

If you are a consumer within the meaning of applicable law (including the Russian Federation and EU member states), the right to bring action in the court at your place of residence is preserved to the extent provided by mandatory rules of your national law.

17. California users

If your complaint about the service has not been satisfactorily resolved, you may contact the Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Services of the California Department of Consumer Affairs: 1625 North Market Blvd., Suite N 112, Sacramento, California 95834, telephone (800) 952-5210 or (916) 445-1254.

18. Electronic communications, records, and signatures

Use of the service, correspondence with us by email, and filling out forms in the app are electronic communications. You agree to receive electronic communications and confirm that any agreements, notices, and other messages we deliver in electronic form satisfy the writing requirements of applicable law. You accept the use of electronic signatures, contracts, and records, and waive any requirements for a handwritten signature where permitted by law.

19. Changes to terms

We may update these terms. We will notify you of material changes inside the app on the next launch at least 14 days before they take effect. Continued use of the service after the changes take effect means your agreement with the new version. If you disagree — stop using the service.

20. Miscellaneous

These terms and the Privacy Policy constitute the entire agreement between us regarding the service and supersede any prior agreements on the same subject. If any provision is held invalid, the remaining provisions remain in force. Our failure to enforce any provision does not constitute a waiver of it. Assignment of your rights under these terms to third parties without our written consent is not permitted; we may assign our rights and obligations to a successor upon notice.

We are not liable for non-performance caused by force majeure circumstances, including without limitation: failures and outages of contractor infrastructure, legislative acts, communications restrictions, military actions, natural disasters, and epidemics. These terms do not create a joint venture, partnership, employment, or agency relationship between you and us.

21. Contacts

Questions about these terms — hello@sapa-tech.dev. We respond in Russian and English.

BuddyTrips Global LLC
1309 Coffeen Ave ste 1200, Sheridan, WY 82801
United States