Terms of Use

1. Accepting these terms

These Terms of Use form an agreement between you and CARACCIOLO SRL ("we", "us"), the publisher of GigaClean (the "App"), and they govern your use of the App. By downloading, installing or using the App you accept them. If you do not accept them, do not use the App and delete it from your device.

The Privacy Policy forms part of these terms and describes how data is handled.

2. Your licence

You are granted a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the App on Apple-branded devices that you own or control, as permitted by the App Store Terms of Service and Apple's Usage Rules. The App is licensed to you, not sold.

You may not copy, redistribute, rent, lease, lend, sell or sublicense the App, and you may not reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble it except to the extent that applicable law expressly permits that despite this restriction.

3. Eligibility

You must be at least 13 years old, or older if the law where you live sets a higher minimum age for agreeing to terms of this kind. If you are under the age of majority in your country, you may use the App only with the involvement of a parent or guardian who accepts these terms on your behalf.

4. What the app does

Being precise here avoids disappointment later, so this section sets out what the App is and what it is not.

The App reads your photo library through Apple's Photos framework, compares items on your device and presents them in groups: exact duplicates, near-identical shots, screenshots, Live Photos, screen recordings and large videos. It also offers background removal for individual photos, and a checklist that reads two iOS settings and reports what they say.

The App does not:

• detect, remove or protect against viruses, malware or other malicious software, and it is not an antivirus product;
• access storage belonging to other apps, or to iOS itself, because iOS does not permit that;
• modify system files, clear system caches or alter how your device performs;
• guarantee that any particular amount of space will be reclaimed, since that depends entirely on what is in your library.

Grouping duplicates and near-identical shots relies on automated comparison, and automated comparison is not infallible. It may group items you consider different, or miss items you consider the same. Review what is selected before confirming, because the decision about what is removed is yours.

5. Deletion and your backups

The App does not remove anything without your confirmation. When you confirm, it asks iOS to move the selected items to the Recently Deleted album in Photos, where iOS keeps them for approximately 30 days before erasing them permanently. During that window you can restore them yourself from the Photos app.

After iOS erases them, recovery is no longer possible, by us or by Apple. Because the App never receives a copy of your library, no backup exists on our side at any stage.

You are responsible for maintaining your own backups, for example through iCloud Photos or a computer, before running any bulk deletion. Please treat that as the one genuinely important sentence on this page.

6. Acceptable use

You agree to use the App only for lawful purposes and only with content you are entitled to handle. You agree not to:

• use the App to process material you have no right to access, possess or modify;
• interfere with the App's operation, or attempt to gain unauthorised access to any system connected to it;
• circumvent or attempt to circumvent the subscription mechanism or any technical limitation;
• use the App in a way that breaches the App Store Terms of Service.

7. Your content

Your photos, videos and the results of a scan remain yours. No ownership of them is claimed, and no licence over them is asked for, because they are processed on your device and are never transmitted to us. Nothing in these terms gives anyone a right to use your content.

8. Subscriptions and payment

Some features require a paid subscription. Prices, the length of each period and any introductory or trial offer are shown in the App before you confirm a purchase, in your local currency.

Apple is the merchant of record for these purchases and processes all payments. We do not receive or store your card details.

9. Refunds

Because Apple processes the payment, Apple also handles refunds. Request one at reportaproblem.apple.com using the Apple Account that made the purchase. We cannot issue a refund for an App Store transaction ourselves, although we are happy to look at what went wrong and say so to Apple if that helps.

10. Right of withdrawal (EU/EEA)

If you are a consumer in the European Union or the European Economic Area, you generally have 14 days to withdraw from a distance contract for digital content.

That right ends once performance has begun with your prior express consent and your acknowledgement that you lose the right of withdrawal as a result. In practice, confirming a subscription in the App Store and immediately gaining access to the paid features is treated as exactly that. Where the right still applies, exercise it through Apple, which is your counterparty for the transaction. Nothing here limits any statutory right you have under the consumer law of your country.

11. Intellectual property

The App, its name, its icon, its interface, its source code and the material on gigaclean-cleaner.com are protected by intellectual property law and remain the property of their owner. These terms grant you a licence to use the App and nothing more. Apple, iPhone, iOS and App Store are trademarks of Apple Inc. GigaClean is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Apple Inc.

12. Disclaimers

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the App is provided "as is" and "as available", without 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 App will be uninterrupted or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or that automated grouping will produce a particular result on your library. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

13. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for loss of data, loss of profits or loss of goodwill, arising out of your use of the App.

Where liability cannot lawfully be excluded, it is limited to the amount you paid for the App in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim.

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law. If you are a consumer, your statutory rights are not affected.

14. Termination

You may end this agreement at any time by deleting the App. Remember to cancel any active subscription separately, since deleting the App does not cancel it.

We may suspend or end your licence if you materially breach these terms, in particular section 6. Sections 7, 11, 12, 13 and 16 survive termination.

15. Apple-specific terms

The following applies because the App is distributed through the App Store, and the terms in this section take precedence over anything inconsistent elsewhere in this agreement.

• This agreement is between you and us only, not with Apple. We, not Apple, are solely responsible for the App and its content.
• Apple has no obligation to provide any maintenance or support for the App.
• If the App fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation with respect to the App, and any other claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs or expenses attributable to a failure to conform to a warranty are our responsibility.
• We, not Apple, are responsible for addressing any claim by you or a third party relating to the App or your possession and use of it, including product liability claims, any claim that the App fails to conform to a legal or regulatory requirement, and claims under consumer protection or similar legislation, including in connection with the App's use of HealthKit or HomeKit frameworks if it ever uses them.
• We, not Apple, are responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement and discharge of any third-party claim that the App or your possession and use of it infringes that third party's intellectual property rights.
• You represent that you are not located in a country subject to a US Government embargo or designated as a "terrorist supporting" country, and that you are not listed on any US Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
• Apple and Apple's subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of this agreement, and upon your acceptance Apple will have the right, and is deemed to have accepted the right, to enforce this agreement against you as a third-party beneficiary of it.
• You must comply with any applicable third-party terms of agreement when using the App.

16. Governing law and your rights

If you are a consumer, you have the benefit of any mandatory provisions of the law of the country where you live. Nothing in these terms removes or reduces the protection that law gives you, including any right to bring proceedings in the courts of your own country, and where these terms conflict with it, that law prevails.

Consumers in the European Union can also use the European Commission's online dispute resolution service, although we would much rather hear from you directly first and usually resolve things by email.

17. Changes

These terms may be updated, for example when a feature changes or the law does. The current version is always on this page with its date at the top. If a change materially affects your rights, notice will be given in the App before it takes effect. Continuing to use the App after that means the updated terms apply to you.

18. Contact

Questions about these terms or about the App: [email protected]

Privacy requests: [email protected]

Publisher: CARACCIOLO SRL

See also the Privacy Policy and the Support page.