Terms of service

1What these cover

These terms cover the Staterunner iPhone app, the service behind it, and this website including the waitlist. They are an agreement between you and Aurora Algorithm Inc., 42 Almond Lane, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K2L 3T4. There is no Android app.

The legal entity and address above are real as of 3 September 2026. Aurora Algorithm Inc. is registered in Ontario.

They do not cover buying a device. Nothing is for sale, and no hardware has been manufactured. When there is something to buy, the price, shipping, returns and the warranty on the device itself will be in a separate terms of sale document. These terms cover the app and the service only, including the service that comes with a device once one has been bought.

Where these terms and consumer protection law disagree, the law wins. Ontario's Consumer Protection Act, 2002 applies to a consumer transaction when either side is in Ontario, and the rights it gives apply despite anything an agreement says. Nothing here tries to take one of those rights away. A sentence that read as if it did would be void, not binding.

[VERIFY] Whether the service is a consumer agreement under that Act at all. The Act's definition needs goods or services supplied for payment. The app and the service are free today; after a sale, the service is included in the device price. A lawyer must say which parts of the Act reach the service before a device is bought, which reach it after, and whether the Consumer Protection Act, 2023 — passed on 6 December 2023, in force on a date still to be proclaimed — has replaced the 2002 Act by the time this page is published.

The app is distributed through Apple's App Store. Apple is not a party to these terms, does not support the app, and owes you nothing about the service. Support and responsibility for the app are ours.

[VERIFY] If these terms are entered in App Store Connect as the app's licence agreement in place of Apple's standard one, Apple's minimum terms must be added word for word: a non-transferable licence limited to Apple devices you own or control, an export-compliance statement, and Apple and its subsidiaries as third-party beneficiaries able to enforce the terms. Whether to keep Apple's standard licence for the app and use this page for the service alone is a choice to make with the lawyer.

2Your account

• You need an account to use the app. It is created in the app with an email address and a password, then confirmed with a code sent to that address. Nothing else is asked for.
• One person, one account. Do not share it or let anyone else sign in as you.
• Keep your password to yourself. We never see it — sign-in proves you know it without sending it. If you think someone else has it, reset it from the sign-in screen.
• You are responsible for what happens under your account until you tell us it has been compromised.
• Notices about your account go to the email address it was created with.
• You can delete your account at any time from the app, under Settings and then Account. What that erases, and the one step that is still manual, is set out in the privacy policy.

We can delete an account that breaks section 5, or that the law requires us to close. Our deletion does exactly what your own deletion does — the same code runs. We have no way to suspend an account short of deleting it. We can suspend a display device, which stops it receiving new pictures and clears the one it would otherwise keep redrawing; that is a support action and every use of it is written to an audit log. Before deleting an account for a breach we will write to its email address, unless the account is being used to attack the service.

[VERIFY] These terms are not shown at sign-up today. The app links to them from its About screen once the website address is built into it, and nowhere else. Whether a link after the fact is enough to form the agreement, and whether the Act's internet-agreement rules — an express opportunity to accept or decline before entering, and a copy delivered afterwards — apply to a free account, is a question for a lawyer. If they do, the sign-up screen has to change.

3Age

The app does not ask your age and cannot check it. Nothing in the sign-in system holds a birth date.

Two facts stand anyway. Apple lets a person in Canada hold their own Apple Account from age 13; a younger child's account is managed by a parent. And a contract with a person under the age of majority — 18 in Ontario — is generally not enforceable against them.

So: the service is built for adults training for something. If you are under 18, use it only with a parent or guardian who has read these terms and agrees to them for you. Do not create an account for a child under 13.

[VERIFY] Whether to set a minimum age here, and at what number. PIPEDA sets none, but the Privacy Commissioner's guidance treats consent from a child under 13 as needing a parent in all but exceptional cases, and Quebec's private-sector privacy law requires a parent's consent to collect personal information from a child under 14. A lawyer must say whether 13, 14 or 18 is the right line for training data, and whether that line has to be enforced in the app rather than stated on this page.

4What the service does, and what it does not

The service reads training figures you have already recorded in Apple Health, draws them as a picture, and sends that picture to a display device you own.

It is not a medical device. It does not diagnose, treat or monitor any condition, and nothing it shows is medical advice. The numbers come from Apple Health, so they are only as accurate as whatever recorded them.

Sync depends on your phone. Apple Health passes daily figures to an app roughly hourly at best, and not at all if you force-quit the app, so a figure on the display can be behind the one in Apple Health.

It is not a backup of Apple Health. The app never writes to Apple Health. Delete your account and the copy we hold is gone; Apple Health on your phone is untouched.

It keeps the display device's software current. When we release a new version, the device downloads it from the service on one of its wakes, checks that we signed it, refuses to install below 40 percent battery, and boots back into the previous version if the new one fails its self-test. There is no setting to turn updates off, and this page does not pretend there is.

5Acceptable use

What you get is permission to use the app on an iPhone you own or control, and to use the service with it, for the purpose in section 4. The app, the service and the widget designs are ours. Your data, and the pictures drawn from it, are yours.

Do not:

• Break, overload, probe or scan the service, or work around a rate limit or an upload limit.
• Sign in as someone else, or upload data that is not yours.
• Pair, claim or send pictures to a display device you do not own or have permission to use.
• Copy, sell, rent or resell access to the service or the app, or offer either as part of something you sell.
• Use the service to break a law, or to watch another person.
• Rely on it as a medical device. It is not one.

An account doing any of these can be deleted under section 2, and a device involved can be suspended.

6The waitlist

Joining the waitlist is not an order, not a reservation, and not a payment. It is permission to email you, given by ticking the box on the form. The next two paragraphs are the same words that appear beside it — this page does not restate them in its own wording, because two versions of one promise is how they come apart.

One email to confirm this address, and after that occasional updates about the product — no more than a few a month, and only about this product. Nothing is sent to anyone else and this address is never sold or shared.

Every message has a one-click unsubscribe, and you can also unsubscribe by replying or writing to support@auroraalgorithm.com. Withdrawing takes effect promptly and stops all further mail.

[VERIFY] Canadian anti-spam law governs this wording and the consent record behind it. The form now asks for express consent and carries the version of the wording shown, but nothing receives or stores a submission yet, so the record the law expects does not exist. AGE-335 and AGE-486.

7Availability

No uptime is promised. None is measured either, so quoting a figure would be inventing one. The service is built by one person and runs on rented cloud infrastructure in Canada. It can be down for maintenance, for a fault, or because that infrastructure is.

When it is down, the display keeps showing the last picture it received. The only thing a device loses without a connection is the arrival of a newer picture.

Features may change and the whole thing may stop. If it is going to stop, account holders will be told by email with enough notice to export their data from the app. How to export is in the privacy policy.

There is no support desk and no promised reply time. The address in section 11 is read by one person.

8What we promise, and the limits

What we promise. To run the service with reasonable care and skill, to describe on this site only what it does, and to hold your data as the privacy policy says. Where Ontario's Consumer Protection Act, 2002 applies, it deems the service to be of reasonably acceptable quality and makes any term denying that void. We do not deny it.

What we do not promise. That the service will be available at any given time — section 7. That a figure on the display is right: it is drawn from what Apple Health holds, and if that is wrong the picture is wrong. That the service will meet a purpose of your own beyond what section 4 describes. That it will run forever.

The device itself. Its condition, its warranty and what happens if it arrives broken belong to the terms of sale, not here.

Limits on what we owe you. As far as the law lets us set a limit, we are not liable for a loss that is indirect, for lost profit, for a missed race or a missed training target, or for a loss caused by something outside our control — Apple Health not delivering data, your phone being off, your Wi-Fi being down. Our total liability to you under these terms for the service is limited to what you have paid us for it. While the service is free that is nothing, and the sentence is not a trick: it is the consequence of charging nothing. Once a device has been bought, the terms of sale say what is owed for the device.

What the limits never touch. Nothing in this section removes or reduces a right that consumer protection law gives you and does not let you waive; liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence; liability for fraud or for a false or misleading statement; or any liability the law does not let anyone exclude. If part of this section is unenforceable where you live, the rest still stands, and an ambiguity is read in your favour — the Act says so.

[VERIFY] The cap and the exclusions above are drafted to sit inside sections 7 and 9 of the Act rather than against them, but no lawyer has checked that they do. Two questions. Whether a nil cap on a free service is unconscionable under the two-part test in Uber Technologies Inc. v. Heller, 2020 SCC 16. And whether the exclusion of indirect loss survives against a consumer in Ontario and in Quebec, whose Consumer Protection Act, section 10, prohibits a stipulation that releases a merchant from the consequences of its own act.

9Changes to these terms

If these terms change, the date at the top changes with them. This page is the only copy.

A change that takes something away from you, or adds something you must do, is told to account holders by email before it takes effect, at the address on the account. A change that only fixes wording, or adds something in your favour, is not announced beyond the date.

If you do not accept a change, delete your account before it takes effect. Using the service after that date is how you accept it. There is no in-app acceptance screen; this sentence is the mechanism, and this page says so rather than implying a button exists.

[VERIFY] Whether acceptance by continued use is enough. Section 13(4) of the Act treats a material change to an ongoing service as unsolicited unless the supplier can prove the consumer consented, and section 13(5) puts the burden of proof on the supplier. A lawyer must say whether that reaches this service and, if it does, whether the app needs an explicit acceptance step with a stored record — the kind the waitlist form already keeps for its own consent.

10Disputes and governing law

Ontario law governs these terms, and the courts of Ontario hear any dispute about them. If you live elsewhere in Canada, the consumer protection law of your province still applies to you wherever it cannot be contracted out of. Nothing here says otherwise.

There is no arbitration clause and no class-action waiver here, on purpose. Ontario's Consumer Protection Act, 2002 makes an arbitration term invalid as far as it stops a consumer going to the Superior Court of Justice, and lets a consumer join a class proceeding despite any term to the contrary. Quebec's Consumer Protection Act prohibits both outright. The Supreme Court of Canada struck down a mandatory arbitration clause as unconscionable in Uber Technologies Inc. v. Heller, 2020 SCC 16. A clause that would be void in the provinces most users live in is not worth the paragraph, and reading one here would mislead you about your rights.

Before any of that: write to us. Most problems with a small product are a bug, and a bug is fixed faster by email than by a filing.

[VERIFY] Whether the Charter of the French Language requires a French version of these terms for a person in Quebec, and whether its two-step rule — the French version first, then an express choice to proceed in English — applies to an Ontario company offering a free app there. The privacy policy already accepts inquiries in French. These terms exist only in English.

11Contact

Questions about these terms: support@auroraalgorithm.com. Privacy: support@auroraalgorithm.com. By post: Aurora Algorithm Inc., 42 Almond Lane, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K2L 3T4.