Terms of Service
Please read these Terms of Service ("Terms") before using Aalixer Screen Select & Share (the "app"), which is provided by Aalixer LLC ("Aalixer"). The app shows you these Terms the first time you open it and asks you to accept them. You must accept them to use the app. By accepting, or by continuing to use the app, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the app: close it and uninstall it.
1. What the app is, and what it is not
The app puts a floating handle on your screen. When you tap it, you drag out a region and the app takes a picture of what is inside that region, which you can then save to your device or pass to another app to share. That is all it is: a convenience tool for capturing what is already visible on your own screen, at the moment you ask it to.
It is not a monitoring, recording, surveillance, or evidence-gathering system, and it is not designed or supported for any of those uses. It does not run in the background taking pictures, it captures only when you tap the handle, and it has no way to send anything anywhere by itself. Whether a capture succeeds at all depends on your device and its operating system, which are outside the app's control: the operating system can refuse a capture, black out protected content, or stop the app entirely, and battery optimisation, manufacturer power management, low storage, a revoked permission, or another app can prevent a capture, delay it, or lose the result. The app does not and cannot guarantee that any capture will happen, will contain what you expected, or will be saved. Section 7 sets out how responsibility is divided between failures that come from your device, its operating system, or other software, and failures caused by the app itself.
2. What you capture is your responsibility
The app captures whatever your screen is showing when you ask it to. That may include other people's messages, personal information, photographs, account details, or work material, and it may include content that somebody else owns or that you were given in confidence. You are solely responsible for what you capture, for what you keep, and for who you send it to. The app does not review, filter, or judge any of it, and it has no way to take a capture back once you have shared it.
You agree that you will not use the app to capture, keep, or share anything you do not have the right to: material protected by copyright or other intellectual-property rights, confidential or trade-secret information, another person's private or personal data, or anything covered by an agreement, a workplace policy, or a court order you are bound by. You agree not to use it to harass, stalk, defraud, impersonate, or endanger anyone, or to capture anyone else's device or screen without their knowledge and agreement.
Some laws restrict recording, intercepting, or disclosing communications and personal data, and they differ from place to place. You are responsible for knowing and following the laws that apply to you, including the laws of anywhere the person on the other side of a conversation happens to be. If you are not sure whether a capture is lawful, do not take it.
You are also responsible for keeping your captures safe once they exist. A saved capture is an ordinary image file in your device's gallery: anything on your device that can read your photos can read it, a backup or sync service will carry it wherever that service goes, and deleting the app does not delete it.
3. The permissions the app asks for
The app asks for an accessibility service, permission to draw over other apps, and permission to post notifications. You grant each of them yourself, in your device's settings, and you can withdraw any of them at any time in the same place, and the app will simply stop working, in whole or in part, until you grant them again. It also declares a handful of permissions Android grants without asking you, which appear in its store listing: one to vibrate, which is the small tap you feel when you use the handle, two that let it run the short-lived foreground service a capture needs, and one to be told that the device has finished starting up, which is used only if you switch on "Start on boot".
The accessibility service is used for exactly two things: to take the screenshot when you ask for one, and to notice when a system permission dialog is on screen so the floating handle can step out of its way. It is not used to read, record, log, or transmit the content of your screen or of any other app, and it is not used to change your settings or to act on your behalf. The Privacy Policy describes this in full. The app does not bypass any privacy control on your device: content the operating system protects from capture stays protected, and Aalixer will not attempt to defeat that.
Granting these permissions does not change who is responsible for what you do with the app. Section 2 still applies.
4. Who can use the app
You may use the app only if you are able to enter into a binding agreement under the law that applies to you. If you are setting the app up for someone else (a family member, or an organisation) you are confirming that you have the authority to accept these Terms on their behalf, and you remain responsible for how the app is used. The app is not directed at children under 13, which is what the Privacy Policy says too, and it neither asks for nor needs an account.
5. Buying the app
The app is sold through Google Play at the price shown to you there, in your local currency and inclusive of any tax Google collects. Google Play takes the payment and issues the receipt, and Aalixer never sees or handles your payment details. Who you are actually buying from depends on where you are. Google is the seller of record in the countries and territories it lists for that purpose, broadly the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and a handful of others. Everywhere else, including the United States, Aalixer is the seller of record and Google is acting as its agent, so the sale is between you and Aalixer even though Google collects the money.
Ask for a refund through Google Play first, whoever the seller of record is: that is where the transaction lives, Google can refund you directly, and it is almost always the quickest route. Google's refund policy is Google's to set and to change, and its then-current version is what applies to that route; at the time of writing it handles a request made within 48 hours of purchase and points you at the developer after that. Where Aalixer is the seller of record, the obligation behind the refund is Aalixer's rather than Google's, so if Google Play will not refund you, write to support@aalixer.com. Beyond the rights this paragraph goes on to preserve, a refund at that stage is at Aalixer's discretion, and nothing in these Terms is a commitment to give one, to give one on any particular timescale, or to keep doing so because it has been done before; where one is given, Aalixer will need the order number or the email address you bought with to issue it. Nothing in this section takes away any refund or cancellation right you have under consumer law that cannot be waived.
Buying the app buys the licence described in section 9, for the app as it exists when you buy it. It is a one-time purchase with no subscription and no in-app purchases, and it does not entitle you to any particular future feature. Section 11 covers what happens when the app changes, and what you can ask for if you do not agree to a change.
6. No warranty
The app is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory, to the fullest extent permitted by law. This includes, without limitation, any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, reliability, availability, accuracy, uninterrupted or error-free operation, and non-infringement. Aalixer does not warrant that the app will meet your requirements, that any capture will succeed, that a captured image will be complete, accurate, or of any particular quality, or that a saved image will remain on your device. Nothing in this section excludes or limits any warranty, guarantee, or right that cannot be excluded or limited under the law that applies to you, including, where they apply to you, the statutory guarantees that come with goods and digital content sold to consumers.
7. Limitation of liability
What Aalixer is not responsible for. Aalixer is not responsible for what you capture, keep, or share with the app, or for any consequence of it. Section 2 puts that squarely with you. Nor is Aalixer responsible for a failed, incomplete, or lost capture to the extent it is caused by something outside Aalixer's reasonable control, including your device and its settings, the operating system, other apps, available storage, or a permission you have withdrawn. Section 1 gives the common examples. Where a capture fails, is incomplete, or is lost because of the app itself rather than any of those, Aalixer does not disclaim responsibility for it. It is subject to the exclusions and the cap set out below, and to the exceptions that follow them.
Damages that are excluded. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Aalixer will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, wages, opportunities, data, images, or goodwill, arising out of or relating to your use of, or inability to use, the app, or any failure of a capture, whether based on warranty, contract, tort (including negligence), or any other legal theory, and even if Aalixer has been advised of the possibility of such damages.
The overall cap. Subject to the exceptions below, and to the maximum extent permitted by law, Aalixer's total liability for all claims relating to the app will not exceed the greater of the total amount you paid for the app, or fifty US dollars (US$50). The app is bought once rather than by the year, so this is not limited to what you paid in any particular period.
What is never excluded or capped. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits Aalixer's liability for death or personal injury caused by Aalixer's negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, for gross negligence or wilful misconduct, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited. The exclusions and the cap above do not apply to any of those.
8. Indemnification
If someone else brings a claim against Aalixer because of something you did, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold Aalixer harmless from that third-party claim and from the damages, losses, liabilities, and reasonable legal fees that come with it, to the extent the claim arises out of your breach of these Terms, your use of the app in a way these Terms or the law forbid, or what you captured, kept, or shared with it, including a claim that a capture infringed someone's rights, disclosed their confidential or personal information, or was taken or shared unlawfully.
This does not apply to any claim to the extent it arises from Aalixer's own acts or omissions, including its negligence, its wilful misconduct, or its breach of these Terms. Aalixer will tell you promptly about any claim it expects you to cover, will not settle it without your consent (which you will not unreasonably withhold), and you may take part in the defence with your own lawyer at your own expense. Nothing here requires you to indemnify Aalixer to any extent the law that applies to you prohibits.
9. Intellectual property
The app, including its name, design, user interface, code, and graphics, is owned by Aalixer and is protected by intellectual-property laws. Your purchase grants you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use the app on devices you own or control, for your own use. That licence is revocable only as section 12 describes, since it ends if you breach these Terms, and not at will. Except as the law expressly allows, you may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, rent, sublicense, reverse engineer, or create derivative works from the app.
The images you capture are not Aalixer's. Aalixer claims no ownership of, licence to, or interest in anything you capture, and never receives a copy. Whatever rights exist in a captured image are between you and whoever else has a claim to what was on the screen. How your captures are handled on your device is described in the Privacy Policy.
10. Your device, the store, and other services
The app runs on hardware and software Aalixer does not make or control: your phone, its operating system, the store you installed from, and the other apps and services on the device, including whichever app you choose when you share a capture, and any gallery, backup, or cloud service that later picks up a saved image. Those come with their own terms and privacy policies, which apply to you separately from these Terms and which you are responsible for keeping to. Aalixer is not responsible for whether they are available, for how they behave, for what they do with an image you hand them, or for what they change. If one of them stops supporting something the app relies on, a feature may have to change or go away; section 11 covers that.
11. Changes to the app and to these Terms
Aalixer may add, change, or remove features, may stop selling the app or stop supporting it, and may change these Terms, where there is a reason to do so: to reflect a change in the app or in how it works, to comply with a law, a court, or a regulator, to meet a requirement of the store you installed from or of the operating system, to deal with a security or safety problem, to correct an error, or to reflect a change in Aalixer's costs or in how it provides, supports, or operates the app. Because the app is bought once and runs entirely on your device, that does not switch off the copy you have: there is no account, no licence check, and no server that has to stay up for it to work, so a version you have installed keeps running until your device or its operating system stops supporting it, though it may stop receiving updates. There is no mechanism in the app by which Aalixer could switch off a copy you have already installed. These Terms may be updated from time to time, and the version shown here is always the current one.
Corrections, clarifications, and changes of wording take effect when they appear here, and the "last updated" date at the top will have moved. A change that materially affects your rights or your obligations works differently: the app shows it to you and asks you to accept it, and it does not bind you unless and until you accept it. Until then the app will not run, and there is no way to carry on using it under the old wording, because the app cannot be two different agreements at once.
You do not have to accept a material change, and it does not bind you unless you do. What you cannot do is carry on using the app under the old wording, so declining means uninstalling it. Whether anything is refunded in that situation is covered by section 5 and is at Aalixer's discretion, except where consumer law says otherwise; nothing here takes away a right of yours that cannot be waived.
Changes are not retroactive. The version of these Terms in force when a dispute arose is the version that governs that dispute, and previous versions are kept at aalixer.com/screenshotcapture/terms-archive/ so it is always possible to read what the Terms said on a given date. If you do not agree to a change, stop using the app and uninstall it.
12. Termination
You may stop using the app and uninstall it at any time. The licence granted to you ends if you breach these Terms, and where it ends for that reason no refund is due for the part of the purchase you did not get to use. Ending the licence does not by itself entitle you to a refund, and does not affect any refund right you have under section 5 or under consumer law. The sections that by their nature should survive, including no warranty, limitation of liability, indemnification, intellectual property, and governing law, continue to apply after you stop using the app.
13. Severability
If any provision of these Terms is found to be unenforceable or invalid, that provision will be limited or removed to the minimum extent necessary, and the remaining provisions will stay in full force and effect.
14. Governing law
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Utah, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. Nothing in these Terms limits any rights you have under mandatory consumer-protection laws that apply to you and cannot be waived by agreement. If you live somewhere other than Utah, choosing Utah law does not take away the protection of the mandatory laws of the place you live, and it does not stop you bringing a claim in the courts of your own jurisdiction where the law gives you that right.
15. Resolving disputes
Most concerns can be sorted out quickly, and you and Aalixer agree to try that first. Before starting any formal court case or other legal proceeding, you agree to give Aalixer written notice of the dispute and a chance to fix it. Send the notice to legal@aalixer.com, describing the problem and what you would like done, and you and Aalixer will then try in good faith to resolve it for 30 days from when the notice is received. Subject to the exceptions in the next paragraph, neither of you may begin a formal court case or other legal proceeding until those 30 days have passed.
This step will never cost you a claim, and it is not a way of keeping you out of court. Aalixer agrees not to argue that the time spent on this informal process counts against any deadline for bringing your claim. And if waiting would let a deadline pass anyway, you do not have to wait: either of you may file whatever is needed to protect a claim, and then carry on with the informal process alongside it. Either of you may also bring an individual claim in a small-claims court that has jurisdiction without waiting out the informal process, as long as the claim stays in that court and is brought only on an individual basis. Nor does the wait apply to urgent relief: as section 17 says, either of you may at any time ask a court with jurisdiction for relief needed to prevent immediate harm. And nothing in this section stops you from reporting a concern to a government agency, a regulator, or a consumer-protection body, or from taking part in anything one of them brings. None of that requires notice to Aalixer or a wait of any length, and none of it is a breach of these Terms.
16. No class actions
To the fullest extent permitted by law, any dispute with Aalixer may be brought only in your individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class, collective, consolidated, representative, or private attorney general proceeding. You and Aalixer each agree to bring claims against the other only individually. Unless both you and Aalixer agree otherwise, no claim may be joined or consolidated with anyone else's, and no court may preside over any form of class or representative proceeding. If the law that applies to you does not permit this waiver, it does not apply to you. If it is held unenforceable as to a particular claim, that claim, and only that claim, is severed from these Terms and may proceed separately, while all remaining claims continue on an individual basis.
17. Where court claims are brought
If a dispute does end up in court, you and Aalixer agree that it will be brought in the state courts located in Salt Lake County, Utah, or, where that court has jurisdiction over the claim, in the United States District Court for the District of Utah, and each of you consents to those courts. A federal court can hear a claim only where the law gives it jurisdiction, which an agreement like this one cannot create. This does not take away any right you have, under a law that cannot be waived, to bring a claim where you live, and either of you may ask any court with jurisdiction for urgent relief needed to prevent immediate harm.
18. If some limits don't apply where you live
Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or the limitation of certain damages, so parts of the "No warranty" and "Limitation of liability" sections above may not apply to you. Where that is the case, Aalixer's warranties and liability are limited to the least extent the law allows.
19. Entire agreement, transfers, and contact
These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between you and Aalixer regarding the app.
You may not transfer these Terms or your rights under them to anyone else without Aalixer's written consent, except where the law says you may. Aalixer may transfer them to an affiliate, or in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganisation, or sale of the business, as long as doing so does not materially reduce your rights under these Terms.
If Aalixer does not enforce part of these Terms straight away, that is not a waiver of it, and Aalixer may still enforce it later.
Legal notices about a dispute go to legal@aalixer.com. That is the address section 15 asks you to use, and the 30 days start when a notice reaches it. For anything else, including questions about these Terms, use support@aalixer.com.