DIO Legal

Terms of Use

Version 1.0 · Effective 5 August 2026

These Terms are the agreement between you and Elitec LLC ("Elitec," "we," "us") for your use of DIO. Please read them. They are one document for every App Store territory. By using DIO you accept them; if you do not, do not use the app.

Nothing in these Terms takes away a right your local consumer law gives you and does not let you waive.

1. What DIO is, and is not

DIO is a productivity app informed by how ADHD brains work. It is a place to put loose thoughts, sort them when you have the capacity, and get started on the days that is hard.

DIO is not a medical device and does not provide medical care, mental-health treatment, diagnosis, or professional advice of any kind. DIO is not a crisis service. If you are in crisis, or worried you might hurt yourself or someone else, contact your local emergency number; in the US you can call or text 988 for the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, any time. Never disregard professional advice because of something you saw in DIO.

2. License

We grant you a personal, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use one copy of DIO on Apple devices you own or control, as permitted by the App Store Terms of Service, for as long as your subscription is active. You may not copy, modify, reverse engineer, decompile, rent, lease, lend, sell, redistribute, or sublicense the app, except where that restriction is prohibited by law.

3. Subscription, trial, and billing

DIO is subscription-only. There is no reduced free tier and no separate in-app purchase; one subscription includes everything.

Apple is the merchant of record. Apple takes the payment, issues the receipt, and handles billing, refunds, and cancellation. DIO never sees or stores your payment details.

Trial. Where an introductory free trial is offered and your Apple ID is eligible for it, the exact length and the price that follows are shown on the paywall before you agree to anything, and Apple confirms them again in its own sheet. The app also tells you before the first charge: a note in the app's notification bell either way, and then, if you allowed notifications, a reminder 24 hours before conversion carrying the real price, or, if you did not, a banner on Home for the final 48 hours.

Renewal and cancellation. Subscriptions renew automatically until you cancel. Cancel at least 24 hours before a period ends to avoid the next charge. Cancel in your Apple account, or from the bottom of DIO's Settings, which opens Apple's own sheet. Canceling keeps your access until the period you already paid for ends. Deleting the app does not cancel a subscription.

Refunds and withdrawal. Refunds are handled by Apple under the App Store Terms of Service, not by us; we cannot issue one. Where your local law gives you a statutory right of withdrawal or a cooling-off period, including the 14-day right for consumers in the EU and the UK, that right applies to your purchase from Apple and is exercised through Apple. Nothing here limits it.

Price changes. If a price changes, Apple notifies you and asks for your consent before the new price takes effect.

4. Your content, and the fact that we cannot see it

What you write in DIO is yours. You keep every right in it. We claim no license to it, and we could not exercise one if we did, because it never reaches us.

We do not monitor, review, moderate, screen, or access what you write, and we have no technical means to do so. There is no Elitec LLC server, no user database, and no copy of your content anywhere on our side. What you write lives on your device and, if you use iCloud, inside your own iCloud account under your own Apple ID. Nothing in the way DIO is built gives us a way in, and nothing we could add to a future version would give us a way into what is already there.

One consequence of that is worth stating plainly. Because we do not possess your content, we cannot produce it, disclose it, or preserve it in response to a subpoena, a court order, a law enforcement request, a civil discovery demand, or any other legal process. That is a description of what we hold, not a promise about how we would respond to a request. Anyone seeking what you wrote would have to seek it from you, or from Apple in respect of your own iCloud account.

Your content is your responsibility. You are responsible for what you write in DIO, what you keep there, and what you do with it, including making sure you have the right to record it and that keeping it does not break a law or an agreement that applies to you.

Your device and your copies are your responsibility too. The security of your iPhone, its passcode, your Apple ID, your iCloud account, and your backups is yours to look after, and it is what protects what you write. Keep your own copy of anything you would be upset to lose. DIO gives you an export in Settings, Privacy and Data, and everything is included in your device backup. We cannot recover data for you, because we never had it.

5. How you use DIO, and what we are not responsible for

DIO is a place to put things down. What you do next is yours.

Elitec LLC is not responsible for how you or anyone else uses DIO, for any decision you make while using it or because of it, or for any consequence of anything you write in DIO, keep in DIO, act on, or do not act on. That includes a reminder that did not arrive or was not seen, a to-do you never came back to, a thought you wrote down and left there, and anything you scheduled, missed, or forgot.

Nothing in DIO and nothing in these Terms creates any duty for Elitec LLC to act on, respond to, monitor, escalate, or report anything you write, including anything that indicates distress, crisis, harm to yourself, or harm to another person. We do not see what you write, so we could not act on it even if we wanted to, and no one should rely on DIO as a way of being heard or being found.

DIO is not a crisis service and it is not a medical device. It does not provide medical care, mental-health treatment, diagnosis, or professional advice of any kind. If you are in an emergency, or you are worried you might hurt yourself or someone else, contact your local emergency services. In the United States you can call or text 988 for the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, at any hour. DIO cannot do that for you and will never try.

Nothing in this section limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited where you live, and nothing in it affects a mandatory consumer right. Sections 9 and 10 say the same, and they say it about the whole agreement.

6. Acceptable use

Do not use DIO for anything illegal, do not attempt to interfere with the app or with other users' devices, and do not use it in a way that infringes someone else's rights. Because DIO has no accounts, no sharing, no comments, and no user-to-user features of any kind, there is no way to publish content to anyone else through it and no moderation system, because there is nothing to moderate.

7. Intellectual property

Copyright. Everything original in DIO is owned by Elitec LLC: the source code, the artwork and illustrations, the icon set, the app icon, the interface copy and the bundled documents, and the audio the app synthesises at runtime. Ownership sits with the company. No part of DIO is held in the name of an individual. © 2026 Elitec LLC. All rights reserved.

Trademarks. Elitec LLC claims exactly two marks, both through use in commerce and both owned by the company: DIO as a word mark, and the brain-in-wire-bin artwork as a design mark. No trademark application has been filed for either mark and no registration has issued for either mark. Neither carries a registered symbol, and nothing here states or implies that either is registered.

What is not claimed. "Brain dump," "brain dumping," and "dump it out" are ordinary descriptive English phrases. Elitec LLC claims no trademark rights in them and anyone is free to use them. Elitec LLC claims no marks other than the two named above.

8. Third-party services

DIO uses Apple's StoreKit for subscriptions, Apple's EventKit for calendar access, which DIO uses only to read, Apple's notification system for local reminders, and Apple's iCloud Key-Value Store for your own sync. Your use of those is governed by Apple's terms.

One third-party library, named and bounded. DIO links TelemetryDeck's analytics SDK, which runs only after you consent and sends only the anonymous usage signals the Privacy Policy describes. Every other framework in the app is Apple's own. There is no advertising or attribution framework and no crash-reporting service beyond Apple's own on-device MetricKit.

The four soundscapes are generated by the app at runtime. There are no bundled audio files and no licensed recordings, so no third-party media licence applies to anything you hear in DIO.

9. Disclaimers

DIO is provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. We do not warrant that DIO will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that it will suit your particular way of working.

We do not warrant that DIO will preserve, sync, back up, or recover anything. Sync is Apple's iCloud Key-Value Store working inside your own account, and it depends on your device, your Apple ID, your storage, your network, and Apple's service, none of which we operate or control. If something is lost, we cannot get it back for you, because we never held a copy of it. Keep your own copy of anything that matters.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties or of certain guarantees, including the consumer guarantees under the Australian Consumer Law and the New Zealand Consumer Guarantees Act. Where that is so, those exclusions do not apply to you and you keep every right your local law gives you.

10. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Elitec LLC is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost data, or lost opportunity, arising out of or relating to your use of DIO. To the same extent, Elitec LLC is not liable for any decision you make using DIO, or for any consequence of anything you wrote, kept, scheduled, missed, or did not act on. Where liability cannot be excluded, our total liability is limited to the greater of the amount you paid for DIO in the twelve months before the claim, or twenty-five US dollars.

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 lawfully be excluded or limited in your jurisdiction. Nothing in these Terms takes away a mandatory consumer right you hold where you live.

11. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify Elitec LLC against claims, losses, and reasonable costs arising from your misuse of DIO or your breach of these Terms, except to the extent the law where you live does not permit that.

12. Termination

You may stop using DIO at any time; cancel the subscription in your Apple account and, if you want the data gone, use Delete All My Data first. We may suspend or terminate your license if you materially breach these Terms. Sections 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, and 15 survive termination.

13. Changes to the app and these Terms

We may update, add, or remove features over time. If we materially change these Terms we will update this page and the effective date and highlight the change in the app; continued use after a change means you accept the updated Terms. The full text is bundled inside the app, so what you agreed to never depends on a website.

14. Apple-specific terms

These Terms are between you and Elitec LLC, not Apple. Apple has no obligation to provide any maintenance or support for DIO. If DIO fails to conform to an applicable warranty, you may notify Apple and Apple may refund the purchase price; to the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation for DIO. Apple is not responsible for any claim relating to DIO, including product liability, any failure to conform to a legal or regulatory requirement, or a claim under consumer protection or similar law. Apple is not responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement, or discharge of any third-party claim that DIO infringes intellectual property rights. You represent that you are not located in a country subject to a US Government embargo or designated as terrorist-supporting, and that you are not on any US Government restricted-parties list. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce them against you.

15. Governing law and where disputes go

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Colorado, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, and the courts located in Denver, Colorado are the venue for disputes.

This does not take away your local rights. If you are a consumer, you keep the protection of the mandatory laws of the country where you live, and you may bring proceedings in your local courts where your law gives you that right. Nothing in this section overrides a consumer right that cannot be waived where you live.

16. General

If a provision of these Terms is unenforceable, the rest stays in force. Our not enforcing a provision is not a waiver of it. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between you and Elitec LLC about DIO. You may not assign them; we may assign them in connection with a sale of the business.

17. Contact

Elitec LLC
1500 N Grant St, Ste N
Denver, CO 80203-1859
United States
Email: dio@elitechq.com
Support: elitechq.com/dio/support

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