Terms of Service. The house rules.

These terms govern your use of the OfficeSquats app for macOS and the website at officesquats.app (together, the "Service"). By installing, opening, or using the Service, you agree to them.

1. Provider

The Service is provided by Dr. Jan Philip Wahle, Siedlungsweg 24, 37124 Rosdorf, Germany. Contact: [email protected]. Further details are in our Imprint.

2. What the Service is

OfficeSquats is a menu bar app for macOS. On a schedule you set, it puts a full-screen prompt on your Mac asking you to do a number of squats, watches you through the camera you selected, counts the repetitions it thinks it sees, and then gets out of the way. Every break can be snoozed or skipped, and the app can be quit at any time like any other Mac application.

That is the entire product. OfficeSquats is a scheduling and counting tool for a general-audience wellbeing habit. It is not a training programme, a coaching service, a fitness assessment, a posture or form check, a medical device, or a workplace health and safety measure, and nothing it shows you is advice of any kind.

3. Health, fitness, and injury

Before you use the app to exercise, satisfy yourself that you are fit to do so, and consult a doctor or other qualified professional if there is any reason to doubt it — including if you have or have had problems with your knees, hips, back, joints, heart, circulation or blood pressure, if you get dizzy or faint, if you are pregnant or recently gave birth, if you are recovering from injury, illness or surgery, or if you are otherwise unaccustomed to physical activity. If you are not sure, ask before you squat, not after.

While you use it: warm up if you need to, work within your own capacity, and stop immediately if you feel pain, dizziness, breathlessness, or anything else that is not ordinary effort. Seek medical attention if symptoms persist. Make sure you have clear, stable, non-slip space around you before a break begins — a squat is a poor idea on a rolling chair mat, in a narrow gap between a desk and a wall, or while holding anything.

The rep target is a number you chose, not a prescription and not a goal you owe anyone. The app will happily let a break end unfinished; nothing bad happens. Never push through pain in order to satisfy a counter.

Nothing in the Service constitutes medical, physiotherapeutic, nutritional, or other professional advice, diagnosis, or treatment, and it must not be used as a substitute for any of them or as a reason to delay or disregard professional advice. The responsibility for the decision to exercise, and for how you exercise, is and remains yours. Section 17 sets out the limits of our liability and does not limit our liability for injury to life, body, or health where the law does not permit that.

4. Screen locking and interruption

You are responsible for choosing when breaks may fire, and for saving your work. Save early and often, exactly as you would anyway: we are not responsible for unsaved work, unsent messages, dropped inputs, timed-out sessions, or anything else lost because a break came up. The app does not close, quit, or interfere with your other applications, but a full-screen prompt is still an interruption, and some software behaves badly when it loses focus.

Do not use OfficeSquats on any Mac where an unexpected interruption could cause harm, danger, or serious loss. That includes, without limitation, machines used for medical or clinical purposes, emergency or dispatch services, industrial, vehicle, aviation, maritime or machinery control, security or alarm monitoring, live broadcast or performance, trading and other time-critical financial operations, examinations, or any other safety-critical or time-critical use. The Service is not designed, tested, certified, or licensed for such use, and using it there is outside the intended purpose of the product and at your own risk.

If you need the interruption to stop, you can snooze the break, skip it, adjust or clear your schedule, or quit the app entirely.

5. Counting, meetings, and other best-effort features

The rep counter, the meeting detection, and the awareness of what is running on your Mac are all provided on a best-effort basis and are produced automatically by software running on your device. They can be wrong in both directions. The counter may miss repetitions or count ones you did not intend, depending on lighting, camera angle, clothing, framing, and how you move. Meeting detection depends on what your calendars actually contain and on the access macOS grants: a break may fire during a meeting that was not in your calendar, was declined, was added late, or was simply not visible to the app, and a break may be skipped when you were free.

These features are informational conveniences, not guarantees. We give no warranty that any of them will be accurate, complete, available, retained in a future version, or fit for any particular purpose, and you should not rely on any of them where being wrong would matter.

6. Eligibility

You must be at least 18 years old and legally able to enter into a contract to buy and use OfficeSquats. The Service is not directed to children.

7. Buying it, and who you buy from

OfficeSquats is sold as a one-time purchase. There is no subscription and nothing renews.

Depending on where you buy it, your purchase contract is concluded either with Apple or with us:

• Through the App Store. Installation and purchase are additionally governed by the Apple Media Services Terms & Conditions. Apple is the merchant of record, collects any applicable tax, and handles refunds under its own policy. We have no access to your Apple Account and cannot issue a refund on Apple's behalf.
• Directly from officesquats.app. The purchase is processed by our payment provider, whose terms apply to the payment itself. Where that provider acts as the merchant or seller of record, it collects any applicable tax and operates the refund process; where it acts only as a payment processor, we are your contractual counterpart and Sections 10 and 11 apply to us directly.

Prices are those displayed at the point of purchase in the relevant store, in the relevant currency, and may differ between storefronts and over time. We may change prices, run offers, and end offers at any time; a change never affects a purchase already made. We may test different prices for the same product, which means the price you were shown is not a representation about what anyone else pays or paid.

8. What "one payment, yours forever" means

You pay once for a personal licence to the app. It does not expire on a date and it does not renew.

Updates are included in the sense that matters: if we release an update to OfficeSquats, your licence covers it and we will not charge you again for it. That is a promise about price, not a promise about development. It is not a commitment that any particular update, feature, fix, platform version, or amount of future work will exist, and "forever" refers to the supported life of OfficeSquats as a product, not to your lifetime and not to any minimum number of years.

In particular, your purchase does not include:

• any right to a specific future update, upgrade, redesign, feature, or model improvement;
• any guaranteed response time, service level, maintenance window, or support commitment — support is provided on a reasonable-effort basis by the people who built the app;
• continued compatibility with future Macs, future versions of macOS, future Apple frameworks or store rules, or future camera hardware;
• access to separate apps, successor products, renamed or replacement products, paid add-ons, server-side or cloud services, or third-party services we may offer in the future;
• any transfer of the licence to another person, account, or organisation, except where Apple's own family sharing rules independently allow it or where Section 9 applies;
• any refund, credit, or compensation if the app is later modified, discontinued, withdrawn from sale, or ceases to work because of technical, legal, security, or commercial reasons — except where mandatory statutory law provides otherwise.

Section 14 applies equally to one-time purchases. Your mandatory statutory rights as a consumer, including statutory warranty rights and the rights concerning digital products under Sections 327 ff. BGB, remain unaffected by this section.

9. Team and office licences

Multi-seat licences are sold as a fixed number of seats. Each seat entitles one named individual to install and use the app on Macs that person owns or controls. Seats are not concurrent-use licences and may not be shared, pooled, resold, sublicensed, or made available to anyone outside your organisation. You may reassign a seat to a different individual when the previous holder no longer needs it.

If you buy seats for other people, you are responsible for distributing them, for keeping the number of individuals within the number of seats you bought, and for your users' compliance with these terms. Purchases made in a commercial, professional, or institutional capacity are business purchases: you are not a consumer, Sections 10 and 11 do not apply to you, and Section 16 applies in full.

If you deploy OfficeSquats to people who work for you, that is your deployment, not ours. You are solely responsible for the legal basis for it and for compliance with employment law, co-determination and works council requirements, occupational health and safety obligations, and data protection law in your jurisdiction — including anything that follows from asking employees to switch on a camera or to perform physical activity at work. Participation should be voluntary. We are not a joint controller, an employer, or an occupational health provider, and we give no assurance that any particular deployment is lawful where you are.

10. Right of withdrawal (consumers)

Where you buy through the App Store, Apple's cancellation and refund process for your storefront applies, and Apple provides the applicable withdrawal information at the point of purchase.

Where you buy directly from us as a consumer in the EU or the UK, you have a statutory right to withdraw from the contract within 14 days without giving reasons. Because OfficeSquats is digital content supplied immediately on purchase, that right lapses once we have begun performance, provided that you have expressly consented at checkout to us beginning performance before the withdrawal period ends and have acknowledged that you thereby lose your right of withdrawal, and provided that we confirm this to you on a durable medium (Section 356(5) BGB, Art. 16(m) Directive 2011/83/EU). If you do not give that consent, the download begins after the 14-day period, or on withdrawal within it.

Nothing in these terms asks you to waive a statutory right merely by opening the app, and your mandatory statutory rights remain unaffected.

11. Our 14-day money-back promise

Separately from anything the law requires, we offer a voluntary guarantee: if OfficeSquats is not for you, reply to your receipt within 14 days of purchase and tell us, and we will refund you. No form, no justification.

This is a goodwill promise, freely given, and it has limits: it applies once per person, to purchases made directly from us, and we may decline it where it is being used abusively — for example repeated buy-and-refund cycles, or a refund request accompanied by continued use of a licence. For App Store purchases, refunds run through Apple, and Apple's decision governs; we will support a reasonable request but cannot overrule it. We may change or withdraw this guarantee for future purchases at any time. It does not restrict your statutory rights under Section 10 or your statutory warranty rights.

12. Licence and restrictions

Subject to these terms, we grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to install and use OfficeSquats on Macs you own or control. You may not:

• rent, lease, sell, sublicense, or otherwise distribute the app or your licence;
• copy, modify, translate, or create derivative works from the app;
• reverse-engineer, decompile, or disassemble the app, except to the extent that such restrictions are prohibited by law;
• remove, obscure, or alter any proprietary notice, branding, or overlay the app produces;
• circumvent or attempt to circumvent the paywall, licensing, entitlement checks, or any other technical limit or security control;
• use the app to break the law, to infringe anyone's rights, to record or monitor other people without their knowledge and consent, or in breach of Apple's guidelines.

All rights not expressly granted are reserved. The app, its name, its logo, its interface, its code, and the content of this website remain ours or our licensors'.

13. Your recordings and your data

Your camera feed is analysed on your Mac and discarded. We operate no service that receives it, so we cannot and do not store, view, transmit, or process your video, your pose data, or your calendar. If you record a break, the resulting clip is a file on your own Mac and is yours entirely; we acquire no rights in it and take no responsibility for it once it exists. Full detail is in our Privacy Policy.

Because there is no account and no cloud, there is also no backup: your settings, your streak, and your history live on your Mac and disappear with it if you do not back it up yourself. We are not able to restore them.

You are responsible for what you film and for who else is in the frame. If you record in a shared or public space, you are responsible for the rights of anyone who ends up in the picture, and for any workplace rules that apply to filming.

14. Availability and changes to the Service

The app and the website are provided on a reasonable-effort basis. We offer no uptime guarantee and are not responsible for outages caused by Apple, your operating system, your internet provider, our hosting or analytics providers, or other upstream services.

We may at any time add, modify, suspend, restrict, or discontinue individual features, models, or integrations, or the app itself — including for technical, legal, security, or commercial reasons, for example to keep up with changes to macOS, Apple frameworks, or store rules. You have no right to demand the provision, restoration, continuation, or specific performance of any feature, model, integration, accuracy level, or service level. Where a change would materially reduce the functionality you paid for, we will give reasonable advance notice in accordance with Section 18 and with Sections 327 ff. BGB where those apply.

15. Beta features

We may label a feature "beta", "experimental", or "preview". Those are provided as-is, may change or disappear without notice, and are not part of what you paid for.

16. Indemnification

To the extent permitted by law, you will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless us, our affiliates, and our personnel from and against any third-party claims, demands, proceedings, losses, damages, liabilities, fines, penalties, costs, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or in connection with:

• your use of the app outside its intended purpose as described in Sections 2 and 4, including any safety-critical or time-critical use;
• recordings you make, including alleged infringement of the personality, image, privacy, or intellectual property rights of anyone who appears in them;
• your deployment of the app to employees, contractors, or other individuals, including any employment-law, works-council, occupational-safety, or data-protection consequences of that deployment;
• your breach of these terms, of the licence in Section 12, or of applicable law;
• use of your licence by anyone you allow to access your Mac or to whom you assign a seat.

This indemnification applies in full to users acting in a commercial, professional, or institutional capacity. For consumers (Verbraucher within the meaning of Section 13 BGB), it applies only to the extent permitted by mandatory consumer protection law and only where the claim is attributable to your fault.

17. Liability

We are liable without limitation for damages caused by intent or gross negligence, for injury to life, body, or health, under the German Product Liability Act (Produkthaftungsgesetz), and under any guarantee we have expressly given. For slight negligence, we are liable only for the breach of essential contractual obligations (cardinal duties) — obligations whose fulfilment makes the proper performance of the contract possible in the first place and on whose fulfilment you may regularly rely — and that liability is limited to foreseeable damages typical for this type of contract. All further liability is excluded to the extent permitted by law.

Subject to the paragraph above and to the extent not already excluded, our aggregate liability for all claims arising out of or in connection with the app, the website, or these terms is capped, per affected user and per twelve-month period, at the greater of (a) one hundred euros (EUR 100) or (b) the amount you actually paid for OfficeSquats in the twelve months preceding the event giving rise to the claim. This cap applies in particular to liability for slight negligence and to claims not covered by the unlimited-liability carve-outs above.

Within those limits, and without extending them, we are in particular not liable for: work, data, or messages lost because a scheduled break interrupted you; missed meetings, deadlines, or opportunities; repetitions counted incorrectly or not at all; a break that fired during a meeting or failed to fire when you wanted one; indirect or consequential damages; loss of profits, revenue, or goodwill; or loss of data that could have been recovered from reasonable and customary backups.

Section 3 governs decisions about your own body: the app supplies a prompt and a count, and the decision to exercise, and how, remains yours. This paragraph does not limit our liability for injury to life, body, or health.

The foregoing allocation of liability also applies in favour of our legal representatives, employees, and other persons acting on our behalf. You acknowledge that the price of the app reflects this allocation of risk.

18. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms to reflect changes in the Service or the law. The current version is always at this URL, with the date it last changed at the top. For material changes that disadvantage you, we will give reasonable advance notice through the Service or by email where we have your address. Continuing to use the Service after a change takes effect means you accept the updated terms; if you do not, stop using the Service.

19. Governing law and jurisdiction

These terms are governed by the law of the Federal Republic of Germany, excluding its conflict-of-laws rules and the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. If you are a consumer habitually resident in the EU, you keep the protection of the mandatory provisions of the law of your country of residence. The place of jurisdiction, where the law allows it to be agreed, is Göttingen, Germany.

We are not willing or obliged to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board. The former European Commission online dispute resolution platform was discontinued on July 20, 2025.

If any provision of these terms is or becomes invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions stay in force.

20. Contact

Questions about these terms? Write to [email protected].