terms

The rules for using SHOON. Written to be read, not to be survived.

Last updated 4 October 2026 · Version 2 · shoontheway.com

the short version

1. agreeing to these terms

By signing up for SHOON, or signing in to it, you agree to these terms and to the privacy policy at shoontheway.com/privacy, which explains in detail what SHOON keeps and where. The sign-in screen says so, with both one tap away.

If you do not agree, do not use SHOON.

2. who can use SHOON

• You must be 18 or over. SHOON asks for your date of birth when you join and refuses anyone younger. Indian law treats everyone under 18 as a child whose data needs a parent's consent; rather than build that system for an audience SHOON was never meant for, the app is for adults.
• One account belongs to one person. Do not share it, sell it, or create one for somebody else without their knowledge.
• The information you give must be true. In particular your date of birth.

3. what SHOON is, and what it is not

SHOON is a private photo journal and a day planner. It helps you record your days, plan them, compare the two, and notice your own patterns.

SHOON is not:

• medical, health, mental-health, fitness or nutrition advice. Goals, briefings, suggestions, sleep and screen-time notes, and anything about workouts or food are there to help you reflect, not to diagnose, treat or prescribe. Talk to a qualified professional before starting a new exercise programme or diet, or about anything concerning your health.
• an emergency service. If you or someone else is in danger, contact local emergency services.
• a guarantee that nothing will ever be lost. See section 16.

4. your account

• Keep your sign-in details to yourself. You are responsible for what happens through your account, unless it happened because of a failure on our side.
• Tell us straight away if you think somebody else has access to it.
• Your username is how people find you. Do not take one that pretends to be somebody else, a brand, or an organisation, and do not use one to mislead.

5. what you make stays yours

You own everything you put into SHOON — photographs, notes, Shadow entries, plans, goals, messages, ratings. Nothing here changes that.

What you give us is narrow and practical: permission to store your content, to show it back to you, to deliver it to the people you choose to share it with, and to make the copies needed to run and protect the service, such as backups. That is all. We do not license your content to anyone else, use it in marketing, or train models on it.

Feedback is different. If you send us an idea or suggestion through Send feedback, we may use it to improve SHOON without owing you anything for it. What you write in feedback is handled as the privacy policy describes.

6. what SHOON keeps

In short — the privacy policy has the full detail:

• In your account, on our servers: your profile, photographs, notes, Shadow entries, morning pages, plans, goals and their check-ins, messages, what you have shared and with whom, and any feedback you send.
• Only on your phone, never uploaded: what SHOON reads from Health Connect (sleep and exercise), your screen-time and phone-use readings, the places SHOON has learned for suggesting a label, your interests and your briefing settings.
• Never: the sound of your voice. Speech is turned into text by your phone, or by Google on phones that cannot do it themselves, and SHOON receives only the text.

7. goals, briefings, suggestions and voice

• Suggestions are only suggestions. SHOON may suggest times, activities or a plan for tomorrow based on what you have told it. It can be wrong, it does not know your whole life, and nothing it suggests is added to your calendar until you say so.
• Goals have no failures. SHOON records what you tell it about a goal. It does not score you or judge you, and it never moves your plans by itself.
• Voice planning works only when you press the microphone button. What you say is shown back to you as text before anything is saved, and you can correct or discard it.

8. suggestions from other people

Friends, family, a trainer, a dietitian or anyone else you connect with may be able to send you suggestions — a plan, a workout, a meal.

• What they suggest is theirs, not SHOON's. We do not check anybody's qualifications, and we are not responsible for the content, accuracy or results of advice that other people give you.
• Nothing they send changes your calendar on its own. It arrives as a suggestion; you accept it, change it, or decline it.
• They see only what you choose to share. A suggestion channel is not a window into your days.

9. sharing, messages and communities

• Sharing a day gives the person you chose access to what is in it, for the time you chose. They can see it, and depending on their device they may keep their own copy. Stopping a share removes their access from that moment; it cannot reach back and remove what they already saw or saved. Share accordingly.
• Messages are readable only by you and the person you sent them to.
• A community is run by the person who created it. They decide who joins and leaves; those decisions are theirs, not ours. Posts in a community are handed out one view at a time and then expire. That is how SHOON is built, not a promise about what any human being will do with what they saw.

Everything in these terms applies inside messages and communities too.

10. what is not allowed

Do not use SHOON to:

• share sexual content involving anyone under 18, ever, under any circumstances;
• harass, threaten, bully, stalk or intimidate anybody;
• share another person's private photographs or information without their permission;
• impersonate anybody, or mislead people about who you are;
• share content that is illegal, hateful, or that encourages violence or self-harm;
• send spam, chain messages, or unwanted commercial messages;
• upload anything containing malware, or attack the service — breaking into accounts, scraping, probing, overloading it, or trying to get around its security;
• copy, modify, reverse-engineer or resell SHOON, or access it through automated means;
• break the law, or help somebody else break it.

11. reporting, and what we do about it

Every person and every piece of shared content can be reported from inside the app, and you can block anybody at any time. Blocking takes effect at the database, not merely on screen.

Reports are read by a person. If something here has been broken we may remove content, suspend an account, or close it. Where it is a close call we lean towards asking first. Where it involves a child, we will not.

If your account is closed for breaking these terms, you can still ask for a copy of your data, unless the law requires us to keep it from you.

Grievance Officer. Under India's Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, complaints about content on SHOON, or about these terms, can be sent to:

12. your phone's data

SHOON can read sleep and exercise from Health Connect, phone-use time from Android's Usage Access, your location while you take a photograph, and your microphone while you speak a plan. Every one of these is optional. SHOON asks for each the first time you use the feature that needs it, explains why, and keeps working if you say no. You can withdraw any of them at any time in your phone's settings.

13. services SHOON relies on

SHOON runs on services from other companies, chiefly Google: Firebase (where your account and content are stored and processed on our behalf), Google Play, Android, Health Connect, Google sign-in if you use it, and Google's speech service for voice planning on some phones. Their own terms and policies apply to your use of them. We choose them carefully, but we do not control them.

14. what SHOON costs

SHOON is free to download and free to use.

Storing photographs costs real money, and that cost grows with how much is stored. So we may in future limit how much a free account holds and offer more space as a paid option. If we do:

• reading, browsing and exporting what you already have stays free. That does not change, and we will not quietly revise it later;
• nothing you have stored will be deleted or reduced in quality to make you pay;
• you will be told before any limit applies to you.

Any paid option will come with its own clear terms before you pay anything.

15. your safety

Use common sense with anything SHOON helps you plan. Do not use the app while driving or in any situation where looking at a screen is unsafe. Physical activity, diets and routines are undertaken at your own judgement; listen to your body and to qualified professionals over any app.

16. what we do not promise

SHOON is provided as it is and as available. We work hard to keep it running and your content safe — your account is backed up every day and kept for 30 days — but we cannot promise SHOON will never be unavailable, never lose data, or never contain a fault.

This is exactly why the export exists. If your memories matter to you, export them from time to time. Insights gives you everything as a spreadsheet or a PDF.

17. limits on our responsibility

To the fullest extent the law allows:

• we are not responsible for indirect, incidental or consequential losses — lost opportunities, lost data you did not export, or anything that follows from advice given to you by other people or from suggestions you chose to act on;
• our total responsibility to you for anything arising from SHOON is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, or ₹1,000 if you paid nothing.

Nothing in these terms removes rights you have that the law does not allow to be removed, including your rights under the Consumer Protection Act, 2019, and the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, or our responsibility for our own fraud or gross negligence.

18. your responsibility to us

If you break these terms or the law while using SHOON, and that causes a claim against us by somebody else, you agree to cover the reasonable costs that result, to the extent the law allows.

19. ending it

• You can delete your account at any time from Profile → Settings → Delete my account, or through shoontheway.com/delete-account. It happens immediately and cannot be undone. Copies in our daily backups expire within 30 days. Anything you already shared, and photographs people saved to their own phones, stay with them.
• We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms, or that the law requires us to close.
• If we ever discontinue SHOON, we will give notice and time to export before anything is switched off.

20. changes

If these terms change in a way that affects what you can do or what we may do, the version and date at the top change, and we will tell you before the change takes effect — in the app or by email. Continuing to use SHOON after that means the new terms apply. Small corrections that change nothing for you may be made without notice.

21. things outside our control

We are not responsible for delays or failures caused by events we cannot reasonably control — outages at the services SHOON relies on, natural disasters, government action, or widespread network failures.

22. the legal details

• These terms are governed by the laws of India, and the courts of Bengaluru have jurisdiction.
• If any part of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest still applies.
• If we do not enforce a part of these terms straight away, we have not given it up.
• These terms and the privacy policy are the whole agreement between you and SHOON about using it.
• You may not transfer your account or these terms to anyone. We may transfer them to whoever runs SHOON in future, and will tell you if we do.

23. contact

Either address reaches the same person:

• dhruv@shoontheway.com
• shoondhruvtheway@gmail.com