These Terms of Use (“Terms”) are an agreement between you and Sina Alparslan (“Developer”, “we”, “us”, “our”) for your use of the Baby Names: Meaning & Analysis app for iPhone and iPad (the “App”) and this website (the “Site”). By downloading, installing or using the App, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the App.
If you are under the age of legal majority where you live, you may use the App only with the consent of a parent or guardian who agrees to these Terms on your behalf.
1. Licence
Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable licence to download, install and use the App on Apple-branded devices that you own or control, as permitted by the Usage Rules in the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions. The App is licensed, not sold.
You may not:
- Copy, modify, adapt, translate or distribute the App or any part of it, including its name database, except as these Terms or the law expressly allow.
- Extract, scrape or reuse the App's or the Site's name data in bulk, or build a competing product or database from it.
- Reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the App, except to the extent this restriction is prohibited by applicable law.
- Rent, lease, lend, sell, sublicense or otherwise transfer the App.
- Remove, alter or obscure any copyright, trademark or other proprietary notice.
- Circumvent or interfere with security or advertising mechanisms in the App.
- Use the App for any unlawful purpose or in violation of any applicable law or regulation.
2. Intellectual property
The App and the Site, including their code, design, text, name descriptions, graphics and trademarks, are owned by Sina Alparslan or its licensors and are protected by intellectual-property laws. These Terms give you no rights in our names, logos or other brand elements. Open-source components included in the App are licensed under their own terms. Apple, iPhone, iPad and App Store are trademarks of Apple Inc.; the App is not endorsed by Apple.
3. Name meanings, numerology, zodiac matches and horoscopes
- Name information (meanings, origins, genders, similar names) is compiled from general sources and may be incomplete, simplified or disputed. Meanings can differ between languages, regions and traditions. Check important details with other sources, and with official registries where a name must be approved.
- Numerology, letter analyses, zodiac matches and daily horoscopes are provided for entertainment. They are traditions, not science, and say nothing reliable about a person's character or future. Do not base important decisions on them.
- Daily horoscopes are supplied by a third-party service and may be translated automatically. We do not write or check them and are not responsible for their content or availability.
- Wikipedia content is provided by the Wikimedia Foundation and its contributors under their own terms. We do not control it.
- Games such as Namedle, Scramble, Meaning Match and Star Match are for fun. Scores and streaks are kept on your device and may be lost when you delete the App.
4. Share cards and your content
- You keep all rights in photos you add to share cards. You are responsible for having the right to use them and for what you share.
- Share cards include the App's design and a link to the Site. You may share them for personal, non-commercial purposes.
- Do not use the App to create or share content that is unlawful, infringes the rights of others, or harasses anyone.
5. Advertising
The App is free and displays advertisements supplied by third parties. We do not control and are not responsible for the content of those ads or for the products, services or websites they promote. Any dealings you have with an advertiser are between you and that advertiser.
6. Third-party services
The App relies on services provided by third parties, including Apple (App Store, system voices, photo picker, share sheet), Google (Firebase, AdMob), the Wikimedia Foundation and a horoscope service. Those services are governed by their own terms and privacy policies. We are not responsible for their availability, content or practices, and a change or interruption in a third-party service may affect features of the App.
7. Privacy
Our Privacy Policy explains how data is handled when you use the App and forms part of these Terms.
8. Updates and changes to the App
We may update, change, suspend or discontinue the App or any feature at any time, including to comply with law or platform requirements. Updates may be required to keep using the App. We have no obligation to provide any particular feature, update or support, except as required by law.
9. Disclaimer of warranties
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the App and the Site are provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied or statutory, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, quiet enjoyment, accuracy and non-infringement.
We do not warrant that the App will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure or free of harmful components, that defects will be corrected, that name information is accurate or complete, or that the App will meet your requirements. You use the App at your own risk.
10. Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Sina Alparslan shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, use, goodwill or other intangible losses, arising out of or relating to:
- Your use of, or inability to use, the App or the Site.
- Any decision made on the basis of name meanings, numerology, zodiac matches or horoscopes.
- Any loss of favorites, scores or other data stored on your device.
- Any bugs, errors or inaccuracies in the App or its content.
- Any content, conduct, product or service of a third party, including advertisers and content providers.
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, our total liability for all claims relating to the App or these Terms is limited to fifty U.S. dollars (US$50).
These limitations apply whether the claim is based on contract, tort (including negligence), strict liability or any other legal theory, and even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.
11. Your statutory rights are not affected
Some countries, states and provinces do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or the limitation or exclusion of liability for certain damages. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited by law, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for intent or gross negligence where the law so provides. If you are a consumer, you keep the benefit of the mandatory consumer-protection laws of your country of residence, and nothing in these Terms takes those rights away.
12. Indemnification
To the extent permitted by law, you agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Sina Alparslan from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or in connection with your use of the App, the content you share with it, your violation of these Terms, or your violation of any law or the rights of a third party. This section does not apply to consumers where such an obligation is not permitted by the law of their country.
13. Termination
These Terms apply until terminated by you or us. You may end them at any time by deleting the App. We may suspend or terminate your licence at any time, without prior notice, if we reasonably believe you have breached these Terms or where required by law.
On termination your right to use the App ends immediately. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (including intellectual property, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnification and governing law) will survive.
14. Legal compliance and export
You represent and warrant that (a) you are not located in a country that is subject to a U.S. Government embargo or that has been designated by the U.S. Government as a “terrorist supporting” country, and (b) you are not listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties. You agree to comply with all export-control and sanctions laws that apply to your use of the App.
15. Apple-specific terms
The App is distributed through Apple's App Store, and the following terms apply to you:
- Acknowledgement. These Terms are between you and Sina Alparslan only, not Apple Inc. (“Apple”). We, not Apple, are solely responsible for the App and its content.
- Maintenance and support. Apple has no obligation to provide any maintenance or support services for the App.
- Warranty. If the App fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price of the App (if any). To the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to the App.
- Product claims. We, not Apple, are responsible for addressing any claims by you or a third party relating to the App or your possession or use of it, including product-liability claims, claims that the App fails to conform to a legal or regulatory requirement, and claims under consumer-protection, privacy or similar legislation.
- Intellectual-property claims. If a third party claims that the App or your possession and use of it infringes its intellectual-property rights, we, not Apple, are responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement and discharge of that claim.
- Third-party terms. You must comply with applicable third-party terms of agreement when using the App, such as your mobile data agreement.
- Third-party beneficiary. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and, on your acceptance, will have the right (and will be deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce these Terms against you as a third-party beneficiary.
Your use of the App is also subject to Apple's Licensed Application End User License Agreement (Standard EULA). If these Terms conflict with Apple's Standard EULA or the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions on a matter Apple requires, Apple's terms prevail.
16. Governing law and disputes
These Terms are governed by the laws of the country in which the Developer is established, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules, and the courts of that country have jurisdiction over disputes arising from these Terms. This does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory laws of the country where you live, or of your right as a consumer to bring proceedings in the courts of that country, where the law gives you those rights.
Before starting formal proceedings, please contact us through the Support page so we can try to resolve the matter informally.
17. General
- Entire agreement. These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and us about the App and replace any earlier understanding.
- Severability. If any provision is found unenforceable, it will be enforced to the maximum extent permitted and the remaining provisions stay in effect.
- No waiver. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of our right to do so later.
- Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our consent. We may assign them in connection with a transfer of the App.
- Events beyond our control. We are not responsible for any failure or delay caused by events outside our reasonable control.
- Language. These Terms are written in English. If a translation differs from the English text, the English text prevails to the extent the law allows.
18. Changes to these Terms
We may modify these Terms from time to time. Changes take effect when posted on this page, and the date at the top shows the latest version. If a change is significant, we will give notice in the App or on this Site. Your continued use of the App after a change takes effect constitutes acceptance of the modified Terms.
19. Contact
Developer: Sina Alparslan. If you have any questions, complaints or claims about the App or these Terms, use the Support page.