Terms

Version 2 · in force from 22 August 2026

Installing Rote puts this agreement in place between you and the independent developer behind it. It is short on purpose, since the product is short too: free to install, with nothing on sale inside it and nothing kept about you.

1. What you are getting

An iPhone application that arranges equipment already in your possession into rooms and plays saved sequences of commands at it. Nothing is charged: no price, no trial that later becomes a price, no purchase inside the software, no advertising, no registration. It reaches you through the App Store, and Apple's own conditions govern that leg of the arrangement.

2. Permission to use it

What you receive is permission to run the software — personal to you, withdrawable, and shared with everyone else who installs it — on Apple hardware that is yours or in your charge, while this agreement stands. The software itself, and everything within it, remains the developer's property. It may not be resold, hired out, pulled apart, recompiled, mined for its pieces, or built into some other product.

3. How it should be used

Aim it at your own equipment, or at equipment whose owner is content to let you work it. This is a household tool; reaching into networks that are not yours falls outside what it is for. Disturbing somebody else's equipment is out, as is any purpose forbidden by whatever law applies where you are. Commands you choose to send remain yours, together with whatever follows from them.

4. Independence

5. What we do not promise

The software addresses equipment across a network the developer does not operate, in a dialect its manufacturer defined, running firmware that manufacturer may revise at will. Which models answer, and how they behave once they have, is settled at that end rather than this one. Manufacturers have narrowed and withdrawn such interfaces before now, unannounced.

The software is accordingly furnished as it stands, when it is available, under no warranty whatever — none stated, none implied, and specifically none as to merchantable quality, none as to its fitness for whatever you have in mind, and none as to freedom from infringement. Nothing here undertakes that a given model gets discovered, that a command lands, that a scene repeats itself identically, or that the software runs without fault or pause. Rights your local consumer legislation refuses to let anybody sign away survive all of this untouched.

6. Limits on what we owe

So far as the law permits, the developer answers for no consequential, special, incidental or indirect loss connected with the software — a set that refused to respond, a programme missed, a scene that fired at an unwanted moment, or anything that followed from a command going out. Where some liability cannot lawfully be shut out, it is limited to the sum you handed over for the software, namely zero.

7. Changes, and stopping

The software gets updated, and now and then so does this agreement. Whenever that happens the stamp beneath the heading moves. Carrying on afterwards is what counts as accepting the new text; should the new text not sit well with you, delete the software — that is the entire exit procedure. Publication may likewise cease, wholly or partly, whenever the developer decides.

8. Privacy

Dealt with at greater length on the privacy page. Briefly: the software gathers nothing whatever, and no service of the developer's sits behind it.

9. Everything else

Should a court strike out any part of this agreement, the remainder continues to operate. Declining to enforce something immediately is not the same as surrendering it. This text and the privacy page together form the whole of what has been agreed about the software, superseding anything said before.

10. Getting hold of us

Questions about this agreement, or anything else: henry.seo@calviona.link — written enquiries welcome.