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StepLock Terms of Service and End-User Licence Agreement

Last updated: 12 June 2026

1. Introduction

These Terms of Service and End-User Licence Agreement (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of the StepLock mobile application, including its related features, content, software, and services (collectively, the “Service”).

The Service is provided by:

M3 Strategies Limited
Unit 82a James Carter Road
Mildenhall
Bury St. Edmunds
England
IP28 7DE
United Kingdom

Email: admin@m3strategies.co.uk

In these Terms, “StepLock”, “we”, “us”, and “our” refer to M3 Strategies Limited. “You” and “your” refer to the individual accessing or using the Service.

Please read these Terms carefully before using StepLock. By creating an account, selecting an acceptance checkbox, or otherwise accessing or using the Service, you agree to these Terms.

If you do not agree to these Terms, do not create an account or use the Service.

2. About StepLock

StepLock is a productivity and general-wellbeing application designed to help you reduce distractions and develop activity habits.

Depending on your device, permissions, and the version of the Service, StepLock may allow you to:

• Select certain distracting apps to restrict or block;
• Set a daily step goal;
• Unlock access to selected apps after reaching a step goal;
• Unlock limited breaks after reaching smaller milestones, such as a short break after completing a specified number of steps;
• View your current and historical step progress;
• View estimated calories burned and related general-wellbeing information;
• Add friends and view limited progress information shared through the friend feature.

StepLock is intended to support your own voluntary habit-building choices. You remain responsible for deciding whether, when, and how to use the Service.

3. Eligibility and Accounts

You must be at least 13 years old to create an account or use StepLock.

If you are under 18 years old, you confirm that your parent or legal guardian has reviewed and agreed to these Terms and has permitted you to use the Service.

A higher minimum age may apply if required by the laws of your location or by an app-store platform.

You agree to:

• Provide accurate registration information;
• Use only an account that belongs to you;
• Keep your login credentials secure;
• Notify us promptly if you suspect unauthorised account access;
• Avoid sharing your password, login link, or authentication credentials with another person;
• Avoid accessing another user’s account without permission.

You are responsible for activity conducted through your account unless the activity results from a security failure for which we are legally responsible.

We may suspend or terminate accounts that contain false information, are used unlawfully, compromise the security of the Service, or breach these Terms.

4. Your Personal Safety Responsibilities

StepLock is not an emergency service, safety service, medical service, or substitute for your own judgement.

You are responsible for using StepLock safely. You must not:

• Walk, run, or exercise in a way that places you or another person at risk;
• Look at or interact with your device while crossing roads, driving, cycling, operating machinery, or moving through hazardous areas;
• Continue physical activity if you feel pain, dizziness, exhaustion, or discomfort;
• Use StepLock as a substitute for medical advice;
• Rely on StepLock to determine whether exercise is safe or appropriate for you;
• Rely on another user’s displayed progress to determine their safety, wellbeing, or physical location.

You should seek professional medical advice before beginning or materially increasing your physical activity if you have a health condition, are recovering from an injury, are pregnant, or have any reason to believe physical activity may present a risk.

In an emergency, contact the appropriate emergency service directly. Do not rely on StepLock.

5. Do Not Block Essential Apps

You are solely responsible for selecting the apps that StepLock attempts to restrict or block.

You should not restrict or block any app that you may need urgently or unexpectedly, including apps used for:

• Emergency communications;
• Telephone calls or messaging;
• Medical care or health monitoring;
• Safety alerts;
• Authentication codes or password management;
• Banking, payments, or travel tickets;
• Maps or navigation;
• Work, school, or caregiving responsibilities;
• Device administration;
• Access to your home, vehicle, workplace, or other essential services.

Before activating restrictions, consider whether losing access to a selected app could create a safety, financial, professional, or personal risk.

StepLock is a self-imposed productivity tool. You accept responsibility for the apps you select and the settings you configure.

6. Step Counts, Calories, Milestones, and Unlocking

StepLock may rely on information supplied by your device, operating system, sensors, health or fitness frameworks, permissions, and third-party services.

Step counts, estimated calories, progress information, and milestone calculations may be incomplete, delayed, duplicated, inaccurate, unavailable, or affected by factors outside our control. For example:

• Your device may not record every step;
• Your device may count movements that are not steps;
• Permissions may be disabled or changed;
• Your device may lose power or connectivity;
• Background processing may be restricted;
• Your operating system may delay or stop data updates;
• A software update may change the way device-level restrictions behave;
• Estimated calories may differ from your actual energy expenditure;
• A milestone may not unlock immediately or at all;
• An app may remain blocked longer than intended;
• An app may become accessible earlier than intended;
• A restriction may be bypassed by device settings or other technical behaviour.

You must not rely on StepLock’s calculations as exact measurements.

You must not rely on StepLock to guarantee that any app will be blocked, remain blocked, become unlocked, or become unlocked at a particular time.

Estimated calories and similar metrics are provided for general informational purposes only. They are not medical measurements and must not be used to diagnose, treat, monitor, or prevent any medical condition.

7. Friend Features and Progress Sharing

StepLock may allow you to connect with other users and view limited progress information.

Depending on the available features, a connected friend may be able to view information such as:

• Your display name;
• Your daily step count;
• Your progress towards a daily step goal;
• Your milestone progress or completion status.

Friend-progress information may be delayed, incomplete, or inaccurate. It is not intended to provide live tracking.

You must not use the friend feature to:

• Harass, intimidate, shame, pressure, or threaten another person;
• Monitor another person without their knowledge;
• Attempt to infer another person’s location;
• Attempt to determine whether another person is safe;
• Publish another person’s progress without permission;
• Scrape, extract, sell, or commercially exploit another person’s information;
• Discriminate against another person;
• Use information for employment, insurance, credit, housing, medical, or eligibility decisions;
• Encourage excessive, unsafe, or unhealthy physical activity.

Only connect with people you trust. You are responsible for reviewing your friend connections and removing users with whom you no longer wish to share progress.

We may remove friend connections, suspend accounts, or take other reasonable steps if the feature is misused.

8. Acceptable Use

You may use StepLock only for lawful personal purposes and in accordance with these Terms. You must not:

• Use the Service unlawfully, fraudulently, or deceptively;
• Pretend to be another person;
• Attempt to gain unauthorised access to an account, database, server, or network;
• Circumvent authentication or security controls;
• Interfere with the operation, availability, or integrity of the Service;
• Upload malware or malicious code;
• Use automated tools to scrape, extract, or copy information from the Service;
• Reverse-engineer, decompile, disassemble, modify, or attempt to obtain the source code of the Service, except where applicable law expressly permits this despite this restriction;
• Copy, resell, sublicense, distribute, or commercially exploit the Service;
• Manipulate, fabricate, spoof, or falsify activity data;
• Exploit bugs, vulnerabilities, or unintended behaviour;
• Use the Service to harass, abuse, stalk, threaten, shame, or harm another person;
• Encourage another person to undertake unsafe physical activity;
• Use another person’s account without their permission;
• Use the Service in a way that infringes intellectual-property rights, privacy rights, or other legal rights;
• Use the Service in a way that violates applicable third-party terms.

You agree to notify us at admin@m3strategies.co.uk if you become aware of a security vulnerability or serious misuse.

9. Health and Fitness Permissions

StepLock may request access to limited health or fitness information through device-level services such as Apple HealthKit, Apple Motion & Fitness, or equivalent platform functionality.

Your use of these features is optional. However, refusing or withdrawing the relevant permissions may prevent step-based restrictions, milestones, charts, progress features, or estimated-calorie features from operating correctly.

You may manage permissions using your device settings.

Our collection and use of personal information is explained in the StepLock Privacy Policy:

StepLock Privacy Policy → https://m3strategies.co.uk/steplock/privacy/

The Privacy Policy forms part of these Terms.

10. Third-Party Platforms and Services

StepLock may depend on services and technologies provided by third parties, including:

• Your device manufacturer;
• Your operating-system provider;
• Apple device frameworks and platform services;
• App-store platforms;
• Health or fitness data frameworks;
• Device-level app-restriction or screen-time frameworks;
• Supabase backend and authentication services;
• Internet, mobile-network, and cloud-service providers.

Third-party services may have their own terms, privacy notices, limitations, and availability requirements.

We do not control every aspect of a third-party service. To the extent permitted by law, we are not responsible for an interruption, restriction, change, error, delay, or failure caused by a third-party service or by your device settings.

You must comply with applicable third-party terms when using StepLock.

11. Licence to Use StepLock

Subject to your compliance with these Terms, we grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable licence to install and use StepLock on devices that you own or control for your personal, non-commercial use.

This licence does not transfer ownership of StepLock or any related intellectual-property rights to you.

We reserve all rights not expressly granted under these Terms.

12. Intellectual Property

StepLock, including its software, branding, design, text, graphics, logos, features, and underlying technology, is owned by or licensed to M3 Strategies Limited and is protected by applicable intellectual-property laws.

You may not use our name, trademarks, logos, or branding without our prior written permission.

If you provide suggestions, ideas, or feedback about StepLock, you grant us a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free right to use that feedback to improve or develop our products and services without payment or obligation to you.

13. Changes to the Service

We may update, improve, modify, suspend, restrict, or discontinue part or all of the Service. We may make changes to:

• Available features;
• Step goals and milestone options;
• Friend features;
• Technical integrations;
• Device compatibility;
• Account requirements;
• Free or paid features;
• Security controls.

We do not guarantee that a particular feature will always remain available.

Where required by applicable law, we will provide reasonable notice of material changes that adversely affect your rights.

14. Free Features, Paid Features, and Purchases

Some or all StepLock features may be provided free of charge. We may introduce optional paid features, subscriptions, or one-off purchases in the future.

If paid features are offered:

• Pricing and the relevant billing period will be displayed before purchase;
• Purchases made through an app-store platform will also be subject to that platform’s payment and refund rules;
• You are responsible for reviewing the purchase terms before confirming a transaction;
• Any mandatory consumer rights remain unaffected.

We will not charge you for a paid feature unless you actively confirm the relevant purchase through the applicable purchase flow.

15. Suspension and Termination

You may stop using StepLock at any time.

You may request deletion of your account through the account-settings area of the App, where available, or by contacting us at admin@m3strategies.co.uk.

We may suspend, restrict, or terminate your account if reasonably necessary, including where:

• You materially or repeatedly breach these Terms;
• You misuse the friend feature;
• You attempt to compromise the security or availability of the Service;
• We reasonably suspect fraud or unlawful behaviour;
• Your use creates a risk to another person;
• We are required to act by law, regulation, court order, or an app-store platform;
• We discontinue the Service.

Where reasonably practicable and legally appropriate, we will provide notice before terminating your account.

Sections that are intended by their nature to continue after termination will remain effective, including provisions concerning intellectual property, disclaimers, liability, governing law, and dispute resolution.

16. Disclaimer of Warranties

Nothing in these Terms removes any warranty or consumer right that cannot lawfully be excluded.

Subject to that statement, and to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, StepLock is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. We do not promise or guarantee that:

• The Service will always be available, uninterrupted, secure, or error-free;
• Step data or calorie estimates will be accurate;
• Every step will be recorded;
• Every app restriction will operate correctly;
• An app will unlock immediately after a milestone;
• An app will remain blocked until a milestone;
• The Service will work with every device, operating-system version, app, or configuration;
• The Service will achieve a particular productivity, fitness, health, or wellbeing outcome;
• Friend-progress information will be complete, current, or accurate;
• Every defect will be corrected.

Any statements about productivity, habits, focus, activity, steps, calories, or wellbeing describe the intended purpose of the Service. They are not guarantees of a particular result.

17. Limitation of Liability

17.1 Liabilities That Are Not Excluded

Nothing in these Terms excludes or restricts liability where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes liability for:

• Death or personal injury caused by our negligence;
• Fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;
• Any other liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or restricted;
• Your mandatory statutory consumer rights.

17.2 Losses Outside Our Responsibility

Subject to Section 17.1 and to the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not responsible for losses caused by:

• Your decision to restrict or block an essential app;
• Your failure to review your selected apps or settings;
• Unsafe walking, running, exercise, or device use;
• Your reliance on estimated calories, step counts, milestones, or friend-progress information as exact or medical information;
• A delayed, inaccurate, failed, or bypassed app restriction;
• A delayed, inaccurate, failed, or premature unlock;
• Missed calls, messages, alerts, appointments, deadlines, tickets, authentication codes, payments, work obligations, school obligations, or other communications;
• A failure of your device, battery, internet connection, operating system, sensor, permissions, or third-party service;
• A third party’s misuse of information that you chose to share through the friend feature, except where we are legally responsible;
• Your breach of these Terms;
• Events outside our reasonable control.

17.3 Consumer Use

StepLock is provided primarily for personal and consumer use.

If you are using StepLock as a consumer, we are not responsible for business losses, including loss of profit, loss of revenue, loss of business opportunity, loss of anticipated savings, loss of goodwill, or business interruption.

We remain responsible for foreseeable loss or damage caused by our breach of these Terms where applicable consumer law requires us to accept that responsibility.

17.4 Liability Cap

Subject to Section 17.1 and only to the extent permitted by applicable law, our total aggregate liability to you arising from or relating to the Service will not exceed the greater of:

• The total amount you paid directly for StepLock during the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim; or
• £50.

This liability cap does not apply where enforcing it would be unlawful or unfair under applicable consumer law.

18. Responsibility for Your Misuse

You are responsible for losses that you cause through your unlawful use of the Service or material breach of these Terms.

If you use StepLock for business purposes or on behalf of an organisation, you agree, to the extent permitted by law, to indemnify M3 Strategies Limited against third-party claims, losses, and reasonable costs resulting from your unlawful use of the Service or your material breach of these Terms.

This Section does not require a consumer to compensate us for losses that were caused by our own negligence, breach of law, or failure to comply with these Terms.

19. Events Outside Our Reasonable Control

We are not responsible for delays, interruptions, or failures caused by events outside our reasonable control. These may include:

• Failures of internet or mobile-network services;
• Cloud-service interruptions;
• Operating-system changes;
• App-store restrictions;
• Device-framework changes;
• Cyberattacks;
• Power failures;
• Natural disasters;
• Government actions;
• Labour disputes;
• Events that could not reasonably have been prevented.

Where practicable, we will take reasonable steps to restore affected functionality.

20. Apple App Store Additional Terms

This Section applies where you obtain or use StepLock through Apple’s App Store or on an Apple-branded product.

20.1 Agreement Between You and Us

You acknowledge that these Terms are between you and M3 Strategies Limited, not Apple. M3 Strategies Limited, not Apple, is solely responsible for StepLock and its content. These Terms do not create usage rules that conflict with the applicable Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions.

20.2 Scope of Licence

Your licence to use StepLock on Apple-branded products is limited to a non-transferable licence to use the App on Apple-branded products that you own or control, as permitted by the applicable Apple usage rules. The App may also be accessed and used by other accounts associated with the purchaser through Family Sharing or volume purchasing where permitted by Apple.

20.3 Maintenance and Support

M3 Strategies Limited is solely responsible for providing maintenance and support for StepLock where required by applicable law. Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for StepLock.

20.4 Warranties

To the extent that any warranty applies and StepLock fails to conform to that warranty, you may notify Apple. Where applicable, Apple may refund the purchase price paid for the App. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Apple has no other warranty obligation in relation to StepLock. M3 Strategies Limited is solely responsible for any other claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs, or expenses attributable to a failure to conform to an applicable warranty, subject to these Terms and applicable law.

20.5 Product Claims

M3 Strategies Limited, not Apple, is responsible for addressing claims relating to StepLock or your possession or use of StepLock, including:

• Product-liability claims;
• Claims that StepLock fails to conform to a legal or regulatory requirement;
• Consumer-protection claims;
• Privacy claims;
• Claims connected with the use of Apple HealthKit or other Apple frameworks.

20.6 Intellectual-Property Claims

If a third party claims that StepLock or your possession or use of StepLock infringes their intellectual-property rights, M3 Strategies Limited, not Apple, is responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement, and discharge of that claim.

20.7 Legal Compliance

You represent and warrant that:

• You are not located in a country subject to a United States Government embargo or designated by the United States Government as a terrorist-supporting country; and
• You are not listed on any United States Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.

20.8 Third-Party Terms

You must comply with applicable third-party terms when using StepLock, including any relevant Apple terms and any terms imposed by your mobile-network or internet-service provider.

20.9 Apple as a Third-Party Beneficiary

You acknowledge and agree that Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of this Section and of any provisions of these Terms that apply to your use of StepLock on Apple-branded products. When you accept these Terms, Apple will have the right to enforce those applicable provisions against you as a third-party beneficiary.

21. Privacy

Our collection, use, retention, and sharing of personal information is described in the StepLock Privacy Policy:

StepLock Privacy Policy → https://m3strategies.co.uk/steplock/privacy/

You should read the Privacy Policy before using the Service.

22. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time.

If we make material changes, we will update the “Last updated” date and provide reasonable notice where required by law. We may provide notice through the App, by email, or through another appropriate method.

Where required by law, we will request your agreement to materially updated Terms before the changes take effect.

If you do not agree to updated Terms, you should stop using the Service and delete your account.

23. Governing Law and Disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales.

If you are a consumer, this choice of law does not remove any mandatory legal protections that apply in your country of residence.

If you are a consumer living in the United Kingdom, you may bring legal proceedings in the courts that apply to your place of residence.

Before starting formal proceedings, you and M3 Strategies Limited should attempt to resolve the issue by contacting each other and providing a reasonable opportunity to respond.

Nothing in this Section prevents either party from seeking urgent legal relief where appropriate.

24. General Terms

24.1 Entire Agreement

These Terms and the StepLock Privacy Policy form the agreement between you and us concerning your use of the Service.

24.2 Severability

If a court or other competent authority finds that part of these Terms is unlawful or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will continue to apply.

24.3 No Waiver

If we do not immediately enforce a provision of these Terms, that does not mean we have waived our right to enforce it later.

24.4 Assignment

You may not transfer your rights or obligations under these Terms without our prior written permission. We may transfer our rights and obligations where reasonably necessary as part of a merger, restructuring, financing, acquisition, or sale of our business, provided that your mandatory legal rights remain protected.

24.5 Third-Party Rights

Except for Apple and its subsidiaries as described in Section 20, a person who is not a party to these Terms does not have the right to enforce them.

25. Contact Us

For questions, complaints, or claims relating to StepLock, contact:

M3 Strategies Limited
Unit 82a James Carter Road
Mildenhall
Bury St. Edmunds
England
IP28 7DE
United Kingdom

Email: admin@m3strategies.co.uk

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See also: StepLock Privacy Policy