Terms of Use

The short version: Daily Captain is a daily goal sheet. What you write is yours, and we never read it. Some of it you can choose to publish, on a profile page of your own that is private until you make it public, or send to an accountability buddy; that part is on you, and we can take down anything published that should not be. It costs US$49.99 a year or US$9.99 a month, plus tax where it applies, after a free week of 7 days that starts with a payment method. Both plans renew until you cancel, which takes two clicks from Settings, and some accounts pay nothing: the people who were with us during the preview, and anyone we give a free-access code. Payment is taken by Link, LLC on our behalf, so that is the name on your bank statement. If you subscribe inside the Android or iPhone app instead, Google Play or the App Store sells it to you at the store's own price, the free week is the store's to give, and you cancel it in the store. It is early software made by a small company, so do not treat it as the only place your data lives. Be decent, and we will be too.

1. The agreement

These terms are between you and Heegstra LLC, 30 N Gould St Ste N, Sheridan, WY 82801, USA ("we", "us"), and they apply when you use Daily Captain at dailycaptain.app, at goals.heegstra.io, or installed on your device.

You create your account by signing in for the first time, and by doing that you confirm you have read, and agree to these terms and our Privacy Notice. If you do not agree to them, do not sign in.

The Privacy Notice is part of this agreement. It explains what we collect, why, and who else sees it, and signing in means you agree to us handling your data that way to run the service for you. It is linked from the sign-in screen and from Settings, and it is worth two minutes of your time.

2. Who can use it

You must be 16 or older. If you are under 18, you may use Daily Captain only with the agreement of a parent or guardian, who accepts these terms with you.

One account per person. You may not use Daily Captain on behalf of anyone else or resell access to it.

3. What Daily Captain is

A daily sheet: goals in the morning, a check at midday, an honest count in the evening, with one quote a day and optional reminders. Around it, a year and a week to plan against, a profile page of your own that anyone can read once you publish it, an accountability buddy you can send a week to, and a community quote you can submit for everyone's sheet.

It is a tool for your own use. It is not medical, psychological, therapeutic, financial or professional advice, it is not a treatment for anything, and it is not a substitute for talking to a professional. Nothing in the app, including the daily quote, is advice about your life. What you decide to do with your day is your decision and your responsibility.

4. Getting in, and what it costs

Anyone can create an account. You create it by signing in for the first time, and at that moment you have read, and agree to these terms and the Privacy Notice.

The free week. A membership starts with a free week: 7 days before anything is charged, the same on the website, in the Android app and in the iPhone app. It is a free trial, given once per account, and it always starts with a payment method, so that the membership can continue without an interruption when the week ends. On the website you give a card or a wallet on Link's checkout page, and we show you the date and the amount of the first charge before you go there. In a store it is the payment method on your Google or Apple account, and the store shows you the date and the price on its own sheet before you confirm. In a store the free week is also the store's to give, once per store account: if your Google or Apple account has already had a free week of Daily Captain, the store takes the first payment at once, and its sheet says so before you confirm. Whichever way you start, cancel before the first charge and you pay nothing. In the App Store, cancel at least a day before it, because Apple asks for 24 hours. A free week of 8 days that started on the website before the change to 7, on 28 September 2026, runs to the date it was given.

The reminder. Two days before the first charge we remind you, by email and with a notice in the app. The reminder says what will be charged, on which date, and how to cancel before it. That holds for every free week that starts on or after 28 September 2026, wherever you start it. A store may send you a reminder of its own as well; ours does not depend on it.

The price. US$49.99 a year, or US$9.99 a month, plus tax where it applies. Two plans for the same Daily Captain. The yearly plan is charged once a year and renews every year, the monthly plan is charged and renews every month, both run until you cancel, and there is no fee of ours on top of either, ever. Twelve monthly payments come to US$119.88, so the yearly plan costs 58% less than paying by the month, which works out at about US$4.17 a month, each figure plus tax where it applies. Two things can be added to the price, and neither is set by us. First, sales tax, VAT, GST or IVA, where the place you live charges it on a subscription like this: the checkout shows you the total with it before you confirm, and your receipt itemises it. Second, what your own bank or card issuer charges you for paying in another currency: prices are set in US dollars, the checkout may show you the equivalent in your own currency, and a conversion or foreign-transaction fee your bank adds is between you and your bank, set by them and never seen by us. If you subscribe through Google Play or the App Store, the store's own prices for the same two plans apply instead, and section 12 says how that works.

Free accounts. Some accounts pay nothing: everyone who was with us while Daily Captain was an invitation-only preview, and anyone we hand free access to with a code. A preview account stays free for as long as it is open, and we never ask it for a card. A code says, on the day we give it to you, how long it runs; while it runs you are not charged, and we tell you before that changes. Either way it is personal to you, it cannot be transferred or sold, it has no cash value, and it does not survive you deleting the account. None of it obliges us to run Daily Captain forever; section 9 says what happens if we stop.

Being invited by a buddy. Accepting an invitation makes the two of you buddies. It does not change the price or the free week: yours starts with a payment method, like everyone's. Free days without a card that an invitation gave you before this changed, on 28 September 2026, run to the date you were given, and when they end you choose whether to subscribe.

Your first day. A new account can write its sheet, tick it and close its day on the day it was made, without a membership and without a payment method. On that day you can also make your page, add a photo, publish the page, put a goal for the year on it and add a buddy. That lasts until the end of that day on your own clock, or until we offer you the free week and you answer, whichever comes first. Say yes and your free week starts. Say no and the account is read-only from that moment.

If you say no to the free week, leave it unanswered past your first day, or it ends and you have not subscribed. You keep your account and you keep signing in. Daily Captain goes read-only: everything you have written is still there to read, and you can still delete any of it, take your photo and your Cookie Jar lines down, change every setting, take a copy of everything from Settings, and close the account. Your profile and the social side keep working too: you can change your photo and your profile, connect with people, become buddies, nudge, and send or like a community quote. What stops is the writing on the sheet and around it: no new day, no new goal for the year, no new dream, no new task for the week, and no sending a week to a buddy, until you subscribe. A buddy can still send you their week, and you can still read it. Your public page does not change: if it was on it stays on, and the switch that turns it off still works, because that choice is yours whether or not you are paying. Nothing is deleted, and nothing is deleted later either: your sheets stay for as long as the account is open, however long that is. Subscribing puts you back exactly where you were, at the price above. The free week is given once: an account that has had one pays from the day it comes back.

Access is personal to you. One account per person, and do not resell it or share it.

5. Early software

Daily Captain is early software. It may be incomplete, may change without warning, may be unavailable, and may contain bugs that lose data. Do not use it as the only record of anything you cannot afford to lose, and keep your own copy of anything that matters. We may change how the product works, reset test data, or end the service, and we will tell you in the app or by email before we do anything that would delete your sheets.

6. Our content

Daily Captain, its software, design, text and branding belong to us or to our licensors. We give you a personal, non-transferable, non-exclusive right to use the app as it is intended to be used, for as long as your account is open. You may not copy, resell, reverse-engineer or build a competing service out of it.

The daily quotes are quoted for reference and remain the work of the people who said or wrote them; where we know the source, we name it.

If we approve a quote you submitted, it goes out on everybody's sheet for a day with your name on it. You keep every right in what you wrote; you give us permission to publish it that way, and to keep publishing it on the day it was given. Ask us and we will change the name on it or take it down.

7. Your content

Everything you write is yours. You keep every right in it. What changes from one part of the app to the next is who else gets to see it, so this section is in four parts.

What you keep to yourself. Your daily sheets, your evening notes, your Dream Year while its switch is off, and everything else that is not covered below. You give us only the permission we need to run the service for you: to store it, to show it back to you, and to sync it between your devices. That permission ends when you delete the content or your account. We do not read it, publish it, share it, or use it to train any AI model. If we ever build an AI feature that would send your content to a model, it will be off unless you switch it on.

What you publish. Your profile page is private until you publish it: you press Publish, or you turn on the switch "Show my page to the world". While it is on, anyone with its address can read it and search engines are asked to index it, and under "What is public" you decide part by part what it shows. Pages that existed before this changed are as their owners left them, on or off: we have switched nothing. By putting something there you ask us to publish it, and you give us permission to store it, to render it on that page and to let it be shared and previewed while the switch is on. Switch it off and we stop, at once. But publishing cannot be fully undone: a search engine's cache, a preview a chat app kept, or somebody's screenshot are outside our reach and outside yours. Publish accordingly.

What you send to a buddy. When you send a week, you give us permission to deliver a frozen copy of it to the person you chose, and you give that person permission to read it while the two of you are connected. Unlinking, from either side, stops that in both directions without deleting anything, and connecting again starts it. You can take a send back yourself, which deletes it and the replies on it. If somebody sends you a week you would rather not keep, you can remove it from your side; they are not told, because the week is theirs. Deleting your account removes the weeks you sent from their inbox altogether. Their reply is theirs on the same terms, and they can delete it. Our founder, Jan Sytze, has an account of his own and may be offered to you as a first buddy. Add him and he is your buddy like any other: he reads a week you send him, as your buddy, and nothing else of yours.

What you send us for the community. A quote submission asks us to consider publishing it; section 6 says what happens then.

You are responsible for everything you write, publish or send, and for having the right to publish it. Do not put anything unlawful there.

Feedback is different.

If you send us feedback, ideas or bug reports, we may use them freely to improve Daily Captain, with no obligation and no payment to you. You are not giving away rights in your sheet; only in the suggestion you chose to send us. Do not send us confidential information in feedback.

8. Fair use

Do not use Daily Captain to break the law, to attack or overload the service, to access anyone else's account, or to store unlawful content. Do not try to get around the invitation gate, the payment gate, the rate limits or the bot check, and do not scrape or automate access to the app.

Because parts of Daily Captain are seen by other people, a few more:

• Do not publish anything unlawful, hateful, sexual, threatening, or that impersonates somebody else, on your profile page, in your handle, in your photo or in a quote you submit.
• Do not publish other people's private information, or a photo of someone who has not agreed to it.
• Do not use an invitation link to walk strangers past the invitation gate, and do not sell or trade invitations.
• Do not use a buddy reply, a nudge, a quote or a profile field to harass, abuse or advertise to anyone.
• Do not publish a page or a photo for anyone under 16.

We do not read what you put on your own page before it goes up: it passes an automatic check and nothing more, and nobody looks at a photo before it is published. A quote you submit to the community is the exception: a person reads every one of those before it goes anywhere. Either way, the rules above are yours to keep, not ours to enforce in advance.

Your handle. Your handle is an address we lend you while you use Daily Captain, not something you own. Pick one that is yours to use: not another person's name, not a brand or trademark that is not yours, and not one that makes you look like us or like another member. We keep some handles back. We may take back or change a handle that breaks this section, and when you change yours we keep the old one reserved to you for 30 days before anyone else can have it.

9. Availability and changes to the product

We aim to keep Daily Captain available and your data safe, and we take backups. We do not promise uninterrupted service.

We may change, add or remove features. If a change materially reduces what you paid for, we will tell you in the app or by email before it takes effect. If we ever stop offering Daily Captain, we will give at least 30 days' notice and a way to get your data out first.

10. Taking things down, suspension, and ending the agreement

Taking things down. We may remove or hide anything published through Daily Captain, whether a profile page, a photo, a handle, a Cookie Jar line or a published quote, if we believe it breaks section 8 or the law, or if someone tells us it does and they are right. We will say why where we can, and you can reply and ask us to put it back. We do not promise to catch anything in advance; what we promise is to act once we know.

Reporting something. If you see something on Daily Captain that should not be there, email hello@dailycaptain.app with the address of the page and what is wrong with it. If it concerns you personally, for instance your photo, your name, or your private information sitting on somebody else's page, say so and we will treat it as urgent.

Suspension. We may suspend or close an account that breaks section 8, or that we are legally required to close. Except where the law or an active attack makes that impossible, we will tell you why first and give you a chance to put it right. If we close a paid account, we refund the unused part of the month or the year you had already paid for; if you paid through Google Play or the App Store, we ask the store to refund it and support your request.

Ending it yourself. You may stop at any time and delete your account from Settings; deletion becomes final after 30 days, as described in the Privacy Notice. Deleting takes your page and photo down at once, removes any published quote of yours, and removes the weeks you sent from your buddies' inboxes. It cannot reach copies that have already left us, such as a search engine's cache, a stored link preview or a screenshot, and unlinking from a buddy stops them reading a week you sent rather than deleting it, unless you take that send back yourself, which does delete it. If you subscribed on the website, deleting your account also cancels your subscription: nothing further is charged, and we do not refund the month or the year already running, except in the cases section 12 sets out for consumers in the EU, the UK and the EEA. If you subscribed through Google Play or the App Store, deleting your account does not cancel that subscription, because the store sold it and only the store can stop it: cancel it in the store first, in Google Play under Payments and subscriptions > Subscriptions, or on your iPhone or iPad under Settings > Subscriptions, or it keeps renewing after your account is gone. We tell you this again on the deletion screen.

11. Your account, and the emails we send

You sign in with a six-digit code we email you, or with Sign in with Apple or Sign in with Google; there is no password of ours. You type the code on the screen where you asked for it. It works for 15 minutes and once, five wrong guesses end it, and asking for a new one replaces it. Anyone who can read your email, or who is given the code out of it, can get into your account, and so can anyone who controls the Apple or Google account you sign in with, so keep them secure, do not forward a sign-in email, and give the code to nobody: we never ask you for it. If Apple or Google confirms an email address that already has a Daily Captain account, their button signs you in to that account. Tell us at hello@dailycaptain.app if you think someone else has used your account.

What we email you. Two kinds, and nothing else. First, what running your account requires: your sign-in codes, security notices, messages about your membership, such as the reminder before a free week ends and the notice before a yearly plan renews, and the occasional message this agreement obliges us to send, meaning a change to these terms, a change that would delete your sheets, or the end of the service. Second, what the features you use produce: a message when a buddy sends you their week, and, if you enter a giveaway we run, the messages about your entry and, if you win, about your prize. Every account gets both from the day it is created.

These are part of the service rather than something to subscribe to, so there is no unsubscribe link on any of them. The account emails stop when you delete your account. The feature emails stop when you stop using the feature: unlink the buddy, or, for a giveaway, withdraw your entry or wait for the draw. What we decide about a quote you submitted reaches you in the app, not by email.

A feature email never carries your sheet. It tells you something is waiting and links you to the app, where you sign in to read it. That is what keeps section 7 true: deleting your account can reach a week sitting in your buddy's inbox in the app, and it could never reach one sitting in their mailbox.

We do not send you marketing. The one exception is our newsletter, which is not part of your account: you only get it if you ask for it, by ticking the box when you set up your profile or by signing up on heegstra.io, and only after you confirm by clicking the link Kit emails you. It is written by Jan and it carries two kinds of thing: a piece on getting your days in order, and practical tips for using Daily Captain well. Every issue carries a one-click unsubscribe, and leaving it changes nothing about your account or your subscription. We will not put promotional content into any of the emails above to get around this.

12. Paying, cancelling, and refunds

Who takes the money. Daily Captain is ours, and this agreement is with Heegstra LLC. The payment itself is sold and processed through Link, LLC, a Stripe company acting as merchant of record for us. That is why your receipt and your bank statement say Link rather than Daily Captain, and why your statement line reads LINK.COM* followed by our name. Link issues your receipts and invoices, works out and collects any tax due where you live on top of the price, and can help you with a payment or a cancellation at link.com. Anything about the product itself, and everything in this agreement, is us: hello@dailycaptain.app.

What renews. A subscription renews automatically until you cancel it: the monthly plan every month at US$9.99, the yearly plan every year at US$49.99, each plus tax where it applies. If you subscribed on the website before 12 September 2026, your subscription keeps renewing at the US$10 a month you agreed to then, until you cancel it or we move you to US$9.99, which we will tell you about when we do it. We take the first payment when the free week ends, or at once where there is no free week, and the next ones on the same day each month or the same date each year. About a month before a yearly plan renews we email you the date, the amount and how to cancel, so that a renewal does not come as a surprise. If a payment fails we retry it and tell you; if it keeps failing the subscription ends and the account goes read-only, with everything kept as described in section 4.

If you subscribe through an app store. When Daily Captain is sold inside the Android app through Google Play, or inside the iOS app through the App Store, the store is the seller for that purchase, not Link. The store sets the prices for the same two plans in your country and in your currency, and it may include tax in them or add it, so the amounts you see there can be different numbers from US$49.99 and US$9.99 plus tax. The store takes the payment and any tax on it, using the payment method on your Google or Apple account, and the receipt you get is the store's. Because the store sold it, the store handles what comes after. You cancel in the store rather than in Settings > Billing: in Google Play under Payments and subscriptions > Subscriptions, or on your iPhone or iPad under Settings > Subscriptions. Cancelling there stops the next renewal, and your access runs to the end of the period you have already paid for. A refund of a store purchase is asked of the store and decided by the store under its own terms; we do not refund a store purchase ourselves, and "Refunds" below says what that means for your statutory rights. If a renewal payment through the App Store fails, you keep access for up to 16 days while Apple tries again: that is a grace period we chose, and it is the part you can see. Apple's own attempts run longer than that, for up to 60 days from the missed payment, so when the 16 days are up the account goes read-only, with everything kept as described in section 4, and the subscription is not over yet. If one of those later attempts goes through, the subscription picks up where it left off and your access comes back without you doing anything. If none of them does, it ends there. Cancelling in the App Store stops the attempts, so cancel there if you would rather it did not come back. A subscription bought anywhere works everywhere you use Daily Captain, on the website, on Android and on iOS, and the app will not sell you a second one while one is running; if a store takes a second payment by mistake, ask that store to refund it. Everything else in this agreement is unchanged, and Daily Captain is still ours.

Cancelling. Two clicks, from Settings > Billing, at any time, with no phone call, no email and nobody asking you to reconsider. You can also cancel at link.com, where your payment sits. Cancelling stops the next payment and leaves you with what you have already paid for: the subscription runs to the end of the month or the year you paid for, the part that is left is not refunded except in the cases below, and the account goes read-only after that. Cancel during the free week and nothing is charged.

Refunds. We do not advertise a money-back guarantee, and outside the cases below refunds are at our discretion. For a subscription bought on the website, ask us at hello@dailycaptain.app and tell us what happened; we would rather refund somebody than argue with them. For a subscription bought through Google Play or the App Store, the store took your money and the store decides refunds: ask Google or Apple, in the store's own refund process, and the store's terms say when it refunds. We do not refund a store purchase ourselves, so asking us for one only delays it.

If you are a consumer in the EU, the UK, or the EEA, you have a statutory right to withdraw from a distance contract within 14 days, and nothing in this agreement shortens it or asks you to waive it. For a subscription bought on the website, monthly or yearly, we do not calculate a part-month or a part-year: tell us within 14 days of your first payment and we refund that payment in full, no reason needed. One more case: where the law where you live lets you end a subscription early once it has renewed, as the law of the Netherlands and of Germany does for a year that has renewed, you can end it with one month of notice, and we refund the part of that year that comes after the notice. For a subscription bought through Google Play or the App Store, the store is the seller you bought from, so you exercise the right with the store, in the way and within the time its own terms and the law where you live provide, and the store refunds you. If a store's process leaves you stuck, write to us and we will help you make the request. Your other statutory rights are unaffected by anything in this agreement, and nothing here takes them away.

If we change the price, we will tell you at least 30 days before it applies to you, and you can cancel before it does. A price change never applies to a period you have already paid for. For a subscription bought through Google Play or the App Store, the price in your country is the store's to set and to change: the store tells you before an increase takes effect and, where its rules or the law where you live require it, asks you to agree before it charges you the new price, and you can cancel in the store before it applies. There too, a change never applies to a period you have already paid for.

Free accounts pay nothing, so there is nothing here to cancel and nothing to refund.

13. Disclaimers and liability

Daily Captain is provided as is and as available. To the fullest extent the law allows, we exclude implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.

To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect, incidental or consequential loss, for lost profits, or for loss of data beyond restoring what we hold in backup. Our total liability to you for any claim is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim and US$100.

None of this limits liability that cannot be limited by law, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, and, importantly, your mandatory rights as a consumer where you live. If you are a consumer in the EEA or the UK, your statutory rights against us are unaffected by anything in this section.

14. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Wyoming, USA, and the courts of Wyoming have jurisdiction, except that if you are a consumer, you keep the protection of the mandatory law of the country where you live, and you may bring proceedings in your own local courts.

Before going to court, email us at hello@dailycaptain.app. Almost everything gets solved that way, and we will answer.

15. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. We update the version and the date at the top, and we tell you in the app or by email before material changes take effect. Continuing to use Daily Captain after that means you accept the new terms; if you do not, you may delete your account, and if you had paid within the previous 14 days we will refund you, or, for a purchase through Google Play or the App Store, support your refund request to the store.

16. General

If any part of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest stays in force. Not enforcing something once does not mean we give up the right to enforce it later. You may not transfer this agreement; we may transfer it to a successor that takes on Daily Captain, on the same terms. These terms, the Privacy Notice and, if you enter one, the terms of a giveaway we run are the whole agreement between us about Daily Captain.

Contact: hello@dailycaptain.app