The short version
Spend Life Living is a $4.99/month membership in Austin, Texas. Your first week is free. You reduce your social media screen time, show us a weekly Screen Time screenshot, and unlock real rewards from local businesses. You can cancel from your Profile in the app. These terms explain the rest.
Spend Life Living ("Spend Life Living," "we," "us") operates the Spend Life Living membership and app. You can reach us any time at [email protected]. We are based in Austin, Texas.
These Terms of Service are a binding agreement between you and Spend Life Living. By creating an account, starting a free trial, or using the app, you agree to them. If you do not agree, do not use the service.
You must be at least 18 years old to start a paid membership, because you are entering a recurring payment agreement. If you are between 13 and 17, you may only use the service with the involvement of a parent or legal guardian who accepts these terms and owns the payment method. The service is not intended for anyone under 13, and we do not knowingly create accounts for them.
You also need to be physically able to use the rewards, which are redeemed in person in Austin.
Spend Life Living is a membership that rewards you for reducing your social media screen time. Each week you submit a screenshot of your Social Networking total from your iPhone's Screen Time report. We compare it against your baseline. If you are at or below your target for that week, that week's rewards unlock, and you can redeem them at partner businesses around Austin.
We are not a medical, clinical, or mental-health service. Nothing in the app is health advice, and the service is not designed to diagnose, treat, or manage any condition. It is a rewards membership.
Austin, Texas only. Rewards come from local partner businesses and are redeemed in person. You need to be in Austin to get value from a membership.
iPhone only. The service reads your weekly iPhone Screen Time report. Android is not supported. We do not offer a workaround, and we cannot verify submissions from a device that does not produce an Apple Screen Time report.
You are responsible for your account and for keeping your login details private. One account per person. Do not share your account, and do not create a second account to restart your baseline or claim rewards twice.
Tell us promptly at [email protected] if you think someone else is using your account.
Price. Membership is $4.99 per month. There is no annual plan, and there is no free version.
Free trial. New members get a 7-day free trial. We do not charge you during the trial. At the end of the 7 days, your paid membership begins automatically and your card is charged $4.99, then $4.99 every month after that on the same cycle. The app shows you the exact date of your first charge before you start.
Auto-renewal. Your membership renews automatically each month until you cancel. By starting a trial or a membership, you authorize us to charge your payment method on a recurring basis.
Payments. Payments are processed by Stripe on a Stripe-hosted checkout page in your browser. We never see or store your full card number. Stripe's terms and privacy policy govern how they handle your payment details.
Price changes. We may change the price of a membership. If we do, we will tell you before the change takes effect, and the new price will only apply to billing periods that begin after that notice.
Failed payments. If a payment fails, we may retry it, and we may suspend access to rewards until the payment succeeds.
You can cancel from Profile, then Manage Subscription, inside the app. Cancelling stops your next charge. You keep full access through the end of the period you have already paid for, including redeeming that week's rewards, and the app shows you when your access ends. After that date your access ends.
If you cancel during the free trial before it ends, you are not charged.
Membership fees are charged for a full month at a time and are generally non-refundable, including partial months after a cancellation. If something went wrong, email [email protected] and tell us what happened. We review refund requests individually, and we will issue a refund where we think it is the right outcome, including duplicate charges and charges caused by a failure on our side.
If you believe a charge is wrong, contact us first. We can almost always resolve it faster than a bank dispute, and a chargeback filed without contacting us may result in your account being suspended while the dispute is open.
These are the mechanics of the membership, and they are part of this agreement.
We may adjust these mechanics. If we make a change that affects how you qualify, we will tell you before it applies to you.
The right week. Your screenshot has to be your last complete week. In Screen Time that is the Week tab, one tap back. We cannot accept the week you are still in, because it has not finished counting, and we cannot accept a week older than the last complete one. If you send the wrong week, the app tells you right away and you can submit the right one. If a week closes without a valid screenshot, that week's rewards do not unlock.
Your registered device. Your first submission registers the phone you send it from, and later submissions need to come from that same phone. If you get a new phone, tell us first: go to Profile, then Changed Your Phone?, and confirm. Your next submission registers the new phone. This is available once every six months. If you switch phones without telling us first, that submission will not go through; complete that step in Profile and submit again. Repeated device changes may be flagged for review.
Automated review. Submissions are checked automatically, and some are reviewed by a person. We explain exactly how in our Privacy Policy. If an automated check rejects a submission and you think that is wrong, email us and a person will look at it.
Rewards are offers provided by independent local businesses. They are personal to you and non-transferable. You may not sell, trade, or give away a reward or a redemption code.
Each reward has a timer shown in the app. Once it expires, it is gone. Rewards refresh weekly when you qualify.
Partner businesses are independent. We do not control their hours, their staff, their stock, or the quality of what they serve, and a partner may leave the program. We may add, change, or remove partners and rewards at any time. A specific reward or a specific partner is not guaranteed for any period, and your membership is not a purchase of any particular reward.
Rewards have no cash value and cannot be exchanged for cash.
Use the service honestly. Do not:
We review submissions automatically and manually. If we detect manipulation, including screenshot editing, a secondary device, or anything else that looks off, we may flag your account, deny rewards, suspend your access, or cancel your membership without a refund. Where the behavior is clear and deliberate, we may do all of those at once.
You keep ownership of the screenshots you submit. You give us permission to store them and to process them for the purposes described in the Privacy Policy: verifying your reduction, deciding whether your rewards unlock, and detecting fraud. You confirm that the screenshots you submit are genuinely yours and genuinely unedited.
The app, the website, the Spend Life Living name and logo, and everything we publish belong to us or our licensors. You may not copy, republish, or use them commercially without our written permission.
We aim to keep the service running, but we do not promise it will be uninterrupted or error-free. We may suspend or change parts of the service for maintenance, for security, or because a third party we depend on has an outage. The service depends on Apple's Screen Time feature continuing to work the way it does today; if Apple changes it, the service may need to change with it.
The service is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the service will meet your requirements, that it will be available without interruption, or that any particular result, reward, or reduction in screen time will be achieved.
We are not responsible for the acts or omissions of partner businesses, including any injury, loss, or dissatisfaction arising out of a product, service, class, or experience you obtain through a reward. Your dealings with a partner are between you and that partner.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, Spend Life Living and the people who work on it will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, data, goodwill, or opportunity, arising out of or related to your use of the service, whether based in contract, tort, negligence, strict liability, or any other theory, and whether or not we have been advised of the possibility of those damages.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total aggregate liability to you for all claims arising out of or relating to the service or these terms will not exceed the greater of the total amount you paid us in the twelve months immediately before the event giving rise to the claim, or one hundred US dollars ($100).
Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain damages. Where that is the case, the exclusions and limits above apply to the fullest extent the law allows, and nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited.
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Spend Life Living from any claim, demand, loss, or expense, including reasonable legal fees, arising out of your misuse of the service, your breach of these terms, or your violation of any law or of the rights of a third party.
You can cancel from your Profile. We may suspend or terminate your account if you breach these terms, if we reasonably believe you are manipulating submissions, if we are required to by law, or if we discontinue the service. If we terminate your account without cause, we will refund the unused portion of the month you have already paid for.
We may update these terms. If a change is material, we will give you at least 30 days' notice by email or in the app before it takes effect, and we will update the date at the top of this page. Continuing to use the service after a change takes effect means you accept the updated terms. If you do not accept them, cancel before the change takes effect.
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules.
Talk to us first. Almost everything is solvable by email. Before starting any formal proceeding, you agree to contact us at [email protected] with a short description of the problem and what you would like us to do, and to give us 30 days to resolve it.
Arbitration. If we cannot resolve a dispute informally within 30 days, you and Spend Life Living agree that any dispute arising out of or relating to these terms or the service will be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, seated in Travis County, Texas, rather than in court. Judgment on the award may be entered in any court with jurisdiction.
Exceptions. Either of us may bring an individual claim in small claims court instead, and either of us may seek injunctive relief in court to protect intellectual property or to stop unauthorized access to the service.
Individual basis only. Disputes will be brought only in an individual capacity. You and Spend Life Living each waive the right to bring or participate in a class, collective, consolidated, or representative action.
Your right to opt out. You may opt out of this arbitration section by emailing [email protected] with the subject line "Arbitration Opt-Out" within 30 days of first accepting these terms. Opting out does not affect anything else in these terms, and it will not affect your membership in any way.
If any part of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest stays in force. If we do not enforce a provision, that is not a waiver of it. You may not transfer your rights under these terms; we may transfer ours in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets. These terms, together with the Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between you and us about the service.
Questions about these terms go to [email protected]. We are a small team and we actually read them.