Terms & Conditions

1. Agreeing to these terms

These Terms & Conditions (“Terms”) are an agreement between you and Sahal Nazar, an individual developer in India (“we”, “us”), about your use of the AppTutor app (“AppTutor” or “the app”). By installing or using AppTutor you agree to them. If you do not agree, please do not use the app.

AppTutor is made for adults. If you are under 18, please use it together with a parent or guardian who accepts these Terms. If a family member is helping you, they may help you with the app, but you are still the one using it.

2. What AppTutor is

AppTutor teaches smartphone skills through two steps for each lesson: a guided tutorial that shows you where to tap, and an independent practice on a pretend version of the app, with hints if you need them. Lessons cover topics such as messaging, digital payments, phone basics, camera and photos, video calls, videos, social media, maps and staying safe online. Lessons work without an internet connection. The app is offered in several languages; English is used if a translation is missing.

3. Independent app and trademarks

AppTutor is an independent educational companion. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Meta, Google, PhonePe, Zoom or any other app it teaches. WhatsApp, Google Pay, PhonePe, YouTube, Facebook, Google Maps, Google Meet and Zoom are trademarks of their respective owners. We use these names only to say which real app a lesson helps you learn.

The practice screens are our own designs that follow the general layout of such apps so that what you learn carries over. They use their own colours and names (for example “PracticeChat” and “PracticePay”) and do not use the real apps’ logos. Real apps change often, so the real screen on your phone may look or work a little differently from the lesson.

5. Not advice

AppTutor is learning help only. It is not financial, banking, legal, tax or professional security advice, and completing a lesson does not guarantee that you will be safe from fraud or scams. The “Stay Safe Online” lessons describe common warning signs in general terms. Scams change quickly. When in doubt about a real message, payment or call, stop, and check with your bank, the official app or a trusted family member. You alone are responsible for what you do in real apps and with real money.

6. AppTutor Plus and payments

• Free and paid lessons. A selection of lessons, including all the Stay Safe Online lessons, is free. The remaining lessons need AppTutor Plus. You can see what a locked lesson covers before you decide to buy.
• Plans and prices. Plus is offered as a one-time lifetime purchase and as a monthly subscription, as shown on the purchase screen. The price, currency, taxes and billing period are displayed by Google Play before you confirm. Plans, prices and free lessons can change over time.
• Billing. Purchases are made and charged by Google Play, using your Google account and the payment method you choose there. We do not receive or store your payment details. We use RevenueCat to confirm and restore your purchase.
• Subscriptions renew automatically until you cancel. Manage or cancel in the Google Play Store app under Payments & subscriptions → Subscriptions. Deleting the app does not cancel a subscription. If you cancel, you keep Plus until the end of the period you already paid for.
• Finished lessons stay open. If your Plus access ends, lessons you have already completed remain available.
• Restore. On a new phone, or after reinstalling, use Settings → AppTutor Plus → Restore purchases with the same Google account.
• Refunds. Refunds are handled by Google Play under its refund policy. Contact Google Play support, or write to us at the address below and we will help where we can. Nothing in these Terms limits any refund or consumer right you have by law.
• Family help. The “Ask a family member” button only shares a message and a Play Store link. The person who pays is responsible for their own purchase.

7. Your licence and fair use

We give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to install and use AppTutor on your Android devices for your own learning, or to teach family and friends, for non-commercial purposes. You agree not to:

• copy, sell, rent, sublicense or redistribute the app or its lessons, or use them to run a competing product;
• reverse engineer, decompile, extract content from, or tamper with the app, including its purchase checks;
• use the app or its practice screens to deceive or defraud anyone, for example to pose as a real payment, messaging or banking app;
• use the app in a way that breaks the law or harms others.

8. Our content and rights

The app, its lessons, text, translations, designs, practice screens and code are owned by us or our licensors and protected by copyright and other laws. These Terms give you a licence to use them, not ownership. Third-party names, marks and open-source components remain the property of their owners and are used under their own licences. If you send us feedback or suggestions, you allow us to use them to improve the app without paying you.

9. Third-party services

AppTutor relies on services from others, including Google Play, Google Firebase and RevenueCat, and on the text-to-speech voice installed on your phone. Their own terms and privacy policies apply when you use them, and we are not responsible for their services.

10. Privacy

How the app handles information is described in our Privacy Policy, which forms part of these Terms.

11. Changes and availability

We may update, improve, add or remove lessons, features, languages and plans, and may stop offering the app. We try to keep the app working and accurate but cannot promise it will always be available, error-free or work on every phone. Updates may be needed to keep using it.

12. Disclaimer

To the fullest extent the law allows, AppTutor is provided “as is” and “as available”, without promises of any kind, express or implied, including that it is accurate, complete, uninterrupted, fit for a particular purpose or that its lessons will exactly match the real apps. Some places do not allow certain exclusions, so some of this may not apply to you.

13. Limit of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special or consequential loss, or for loss of money, data or profit, that comes from your use of, or inability to use, AppTutor — including loss caused by what you do in real apps or from scams or fraud by others. Our total liability to you for any claim about the app is limited to the amount you paid us for AppTutor Plus in the 12 months before the claim (or INR 1,000 if you paid nothing). Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded by law, such as for fraud or for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or your rights as a consumer under the law of your country.

14. Ending use

You can stop using AppTutor at any time by uninstalling it. We may suspend or end your access if you break these Terms or misuse the app. Sections that by their nature should continue (for example 3, 5, 7, 8, 12, 13 and 15) continue after that.

15. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of India. Courts in Kerala, India have exclusive jurisdiction over disputes about them, except that if you are a consumer you keep any right you have under the mandatory law of your country to bring a claim in your local courts. Before going to court, please write to us so we can try to settle the matter informally.

16. Changes to these terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. We will change the “Last updated” date above and, for important changes, tell you in the app. If you keep using AppTutor after a change, you accept the new Terms.