The deal between us.

Pair Cafe (often just “Pair”) is a small, two-person todo app. Use it to share things with one other person you actually want to do them with. Don’t use it to do anything illegal or harmful. You own what you put in; we’ll do our best to keep the lights on, but we can’t promise perfection.

The full terms are below. By creating an account or signing in, you agree to them.

These Terms of Service form a binding agreement between you (the person using Pair Cafe) and Pair Cafe (“Pair Cafe,” “Pair,” “we,” or “us”), the operator of the Service at pair.cafe. If you don’t agree, please don’t use the Service.

Pair Cafe is a private, two-person shared todo and bucket-list app. A single account belongs to one person; an account can be paired with exactly one partner via an invite link, and the resulting couple is the unit that owns todos, completion notes, photos, and reactions.

Pair Cafe is intentionally not a social network. There are no feeds, followers, recommendations, or ads. We may add or remove features from time to time as we improve the Service.

• You must be at least 13 years old, or the minimum age in your jurisdiction for online services, whichever is higher.
• You're responsible for keeping access to the email address you sign in with. Anyone with that mailbox can sign into your Pair account, because that's how magic-link auth works.
• You're responsible for everything that happens in your account, including content your partner adds while connected to you.
• You may have only one Pair account. If you want to start a fresh couple with a new partner, leave the existing one first.

By using Pair you agree not to:

• Use the Service for anything illegal, fraudulent, abusive, or designed to harass another person.
• Upload content that is illegal where you live, infringes someone else's rights, or that you don't have permission to share — including photos of people who haven't consented to be uploaded.
• Reverse engineer, scrape, or attempt to access the Service in any way other than through the official UI and documented public endpoints.
• Try to break, overload, or test the security of Pair without first contacting us.
• Impersonate another person, or invite someone you have no consensual relationship with.

We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these rules — see Termination below.

You and your partner own the todos, notes, photos, and reactions you put into Pair (“Your Content”). We don’t claim any ownership of it.

To run the Service, you grant us a limited, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, transmit, display, resize, and back up Your Content for the sole purpose of providing Pair to you and your partner. This license ends when you delete the content or your account, except for backups already made in the ordinary course of operations, which are deleted on a rolling basis.

You’re responsible for the legality of what you upload. Pair will respond to valid takedown requests where applicable law requires.

New todos may be sent to a third-party AI provider (currently OpenAI) so the app can suggest one or two category labels. Only the todo’s title and free-text notes are sent — never your name, email, photos, completion notes, or anything else from your account. Categorizations are suggestions; you can change them at any time.

If you opt in to web push, Pair will send notifications about activity on your shared list. You can disable push or any individual category from Settings → Notifications; you can also revoke permission directly in your browser. Sign-in and account-management emails are transactional and you can’t opt out of them while you have an active account.

Pair is built and maintained by a small team. Features may change, launch in a rough state, or go away entirely. When we make changes that materially reduce functionality, we’ll do our best to tell you in advance through the app.

You can stop using Pair at any time:

• Sign out from Settings → Account.
• Leave your couple from Settings → Danger zone. The couple is archived for your partner.
• Delete your account entirely from Settings → Danger zone. Your profile and the entire couple — including every todo, photo, comment, and recap you and your partner created together — are removed immediately. This can't be undone, and your partner loses access to that shared content too.

We may suspend or terminate your access if you violate these Terms, if your continued use puts other users or the Service at risk, or if we’re required to by law. Where reasonable we’ll contact you first.

Pair is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis, without warranties of any kind, express or implied. We don’t guarantee the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or fit for a particular purpose, and we don’t warrant that it will preserve every photo or note exactly as you left it (though we obviously try). Back up anything you can’t afford to lose.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Pair and its operators won’t be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising out of or related to your use of the Service, including loss of data, loss of profits, or emotional distress. Our total aggregate liability for any claim arising out of these Terms or the Service is limited to the greater of $50 USD or the amount you paid us in the twelve months prior to the event giving rise to the claim. (Pair is currently free, so that’s usually $50 USD.)

You agree to indemnify and hold Pair harmless from any claim or demand made by any third party arising out of content you upload, your violation of these Terms, or your violation of someone else’s rights.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, USA, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles. Any dispute that can’t be resolved through a friendly conversation will be handled in the state or federal courts located in San Francisco County, California, and you consent to that jurisdiction.

We may update these Terms over time. When we make a substantive change, we’ll update the Last updated date and, where the change is material, give you reasonable notice through the app before it takes effect. Continuing to use Pair after a change means you accept the updated Terms.

Questions about these Terms? Send a message via /contact. We read everything that comes through.