This is the same agreement shown inside the app. The short version: Tip Smart has no accounts, keeps no record of you, and nothing you type into it ever leaves your device. Sections 7 to 12 set out exactly what that means, and what the three outside services the app contacts do receive.
1. License
Diothas Systems, LLC (“we,” “us”) grants you a personal, non-transferable, non-exclusive license to use Tip Smart (“the App”) on devices you own or control, for your personal, non-commercial use. If you obtained the App from the Apple App Store, Section 17 also applies to this license.
2. Informational Purpose Only
Tip Smart provides general tipping guidance based on a reference dataset of country and service-category norms. Tipping customs vary by city, venue, and individual circumstance, and may change over time. The App’s suggestions are estimates only, are not professional, financial, or legal advice, and are not a substitute for your own judgment. You are solely responsible for any amount you choose to tip.
3. Currency Conversion
Where the App shows an amount converted into your selected home currency, that figure is an indicative estimate for orientation only — it is not a quoted or guaranteed rate. Rates are retrieved from a third-party provider, may be cached, delayed, or unavailable, and will differ from the rate your bank, card issuer, or a currency exchange actually applies. Conversions never affect the tip or total calculated in local currency, and the App may omit a converted figure entirely where no reliable rate is available.
4. No Warranty
THE APP IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE,” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR ACCURACY OF THE TIPPING DATA OR CURRENCY CONVERSIONS PROVIDED. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so parts of this Section may not apply to you.
5. Limitation of Liability
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, DIOTHAS SYSTEMS, LLC SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR ANY LOSS OF DATA, ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF THE APP. Nothing in this Agreement excludes or limits any liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited, or affects statutory rights you have as a consumer that cannot be waived.
6. No Account; Stateless Design
The App does not require an account and does not store your bill amounts, tip calculations, or split details after you close it. Your acceptance of this Agreement and basic settings (such as home currency or text size) may be stored locally on your device so you don’t have to re-enter them each time.
7. What the App Collects, and Why
We do not ask for, and have no way to receive, your name, email address, phone number, or any other information that identifies you. We operate no user accounts and no server that stores anything about you.
Handled on your device only:
- What you enter — bill amounts, the service you picked, party size, and the resulting tips. These are held in memory while you use the App and are discarded when you close it. They are never transmitted anywhere.
- Your settings — home currency, theme, text size, whether you have accepted this Agreement, and the last exchange rates downloaded. These are stored locally on your device.
Three outside services receive a request from the App:
- BigDataCloud receives your device’s coordinates, and only if you grant location permission — see Section 8.
- Google AdMob serves the banner advertisement and may collect your device’s advertising identifier and information about ad interactions — see Section 9.
- open.er-api.com supplies daily reference exchange rates. This request asks for a published rate table and carries no information about you, your location, or your bill.
We share data with these providers only on the basis that they afford it protection at least equivalent to this Agreement. Each remains subject to its own privacy policy, which governs what it does with what it receives. We do not sell your data, and we have no database in which to keep it.
8. Location Services
If you grant permission, the App uses your device’s location solely to suggest your current country for tipping guidance. To turn coordinates into a country name, the App sends those coordinates to a third-party reverse-geocoding service (BigDataCloud), which is subject to its own privacy practices. Only a country name comes back, and the App needs nothing finer. Both Android and iOS let you grant approximate location instead of precise, and the App works identically either way — if you would rather not share a precise position, choose approximate. We do not receive, store, or retain your location, and it is not used for any other purpose. The App does not track your movements and keeps no history of where you have been. You may decline location access and select your country manually at any time, and you may withdraw permission later as described in Section 11 — every feature still works.
9. Advertising and Your Advertising Identifier
The App displays banner advertising served by Google AdMob. On iOS, the App asks your permission through Apple’s App Tracking Transparency prompt before AdMob may use your device’s advertising identifier; if you decline, ads are still shown but are not personalised. AdMob may collect your device’s advertising identifier, approximate location and information about ad interactions, as described in Google’s privacy policy. Section 11 explains how to withdraw tracking permission and how to reset or delete your advertising identifier. When no ad is available, the App may show a promotion for another Diothas Systems app; that promotion is served from our own site and collects nothing about you.
10. Data Retention and Deletion
Because we hold no personal information about you, there is nothing on our side to retain or to delete. There is no account to close and no record to erase.
Everything the App stores is stored on your device. Bill amounts, tips and splits are discarded as soon as you close the App. Settings and your acceptance of this Agreement persist until you remove them.
To delete everything the App has stored, uninstall it. Uninstalling removes all of the App’s local data from the device, and reinstalling starts from a clean state.
You may contact us at tipsmart@diothassystems.com with any question or request about your data, including a request for deletion, and we will respond within 30 days. In most cases the answer will be that we hold nothing to delete, and we will confirm that to you in writing.
Data collected by Google AdMob is retained under Google’s privacy policy, not ours; Section 11 explains the controls Apple and Google provide.
11. Your Choices and How to Withdraw Consent
Every permission the App asks for is optional, and you can change your mind at any time without losing the use of the App.
- Location — decline it, or revoke it later under iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Location Services → Tip Smart, or Android Settings → Apps → Tip Smart → Permissions. The App then asks you to pick your country from a list and works identically in every other respect.
- Camera — the torch is the only feature that uses it, and no image is ever captured. Revoke it in the same place.
- Tracking (iOS) — if you allowed tracking at the App Tracking Transparency prompt, withdraw it under iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking. Ads continue, but stop being personalised.
- Advertising identifier — on iOS, turn off Allow Apps to Request to Track under Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking. On Android, delete or reset the advertising ID under Settings → Privacy → Ads.
- Everything else — uninstalling the App removes it, as described in Section 10.
12. Children
The App is not directed to children under 13, or under the equivalent minimum age where you live, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. The App has no account system and collects no personal information from anyone, so there is in practice nothing for a child to submit to us. If you believe a child has provided information through the App, contact us and we will act on it.
13. Changes to This Agreement
We may update this Agreement, including in connection with an app update. If we make material changes, you will be asked to review and accept the updated Agreement before continuing to use the App.
14. Termination
We may suspend or terminate your license if you violate this Agreement.
15. Governing Law
This Agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Georgia, USA, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles. This does not deprive you of the protection of any mandatory consumer-protection law of your country of residence.
16. Contact
Questions, complaints or claims about the App or this Agreement can be directed to Diothas Systems, LLC at tipsmart@diothassystems.com, or by post to 450 Millhaven Way, Alpharetta, GA 30005, USA.
17. Additional Terms for Apps Obtained from the Apple App Store
This Section applies only if you obtained the App from the Apple App Store. Where it conflicts with anything above, this Section controls for that copy of the App.
(a) Acknowledgement. This Agreement is between you and Diothas Systems, LLC only, and not with Apple Inc. (“Apple”). We, not Apple, are solely responsible for the App and its content.
(b) Scope of Licence. The licence granted in Section 1 is a non-transferable licence to use the App on any Apple-branded products that you own or control, and as permitted by the Usage Rules set out in the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions, except that the App may be accessed and used by other accounts associated with you via Family Sharing or volume purchasing.
© Maintenance and Support. We are solely responsible for providing any maintenance and support services for the App, as specified in this Agreement or as required by applicable law. Apple has no obligation whatsoever to furnish any maintenance and support services for the App.
(d) Warranty. We are solely responsible for any product warranties, whether express or implied by law, to the extent not effectively disclaimed. In the event of any failure of the App to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price for the App to you; the App is free of charge, so there is no purchase price to refund. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Apple will have no other warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to the App.
(e) Product Claims. We, not Apple, are responsible for addressing any claims by you or any 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 any applicable legal or regulatory requirement, and claims arising under consumer protection, privacy, or similar legislation.
(f) Intellectual Property Rights. In the event of any third-party claim that the App or your possession and use of it infringes that third party’s intellectual property rights, we, not Apple, will be solely responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement and discharge of any such claim.
(g) Legal Compliance. You represent and warrant that you are not located in a country that is subject to a U.S. Government embargo, or that has been designated by the U.S. Government as a “terrorist supporting” country, and that you are not listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
(h) Developer Name and Address. Questions, complaints or claims with respect to the App should be directed to Diothas Systems, LLC at the email address and postal address given in Section 16.
(i) Third Party Terms of Agreement. You must comply with applicable third-party terms of agreement when using the App.
(j) Third Party Beneficiary. You acknowledge and agree that Apple, and Apple’s subsidiaries, are third-party beneficiaries of this Agreement, and that upon your acceptance of this Agreement Apple will have the right (and will be deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce this Agreement against you as a third-party beneficiary of it.