Terms of Service

Last updated 6 November 2026.

These terms apply between you and Marcel Marais (“we”), whose details are in the Impressum. They cover the Timeline iPhone app, this website, your account and assistant access (together, “Timeline”). The contract language is English.

The app

Apple’s Standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement governs your licence to use the app. These terms add to it for your account, the website, assistant access and Timeline Pro. Apple isn’t a party to these terms and isn’t responsible for those services.

What Timeline does

Timeline records the places you visit and keeps that history on your iPhone. Recording, your timeline and export are free and need no account. Timeline Pro adds filling in your past from your photos, assistant access and your timeline on the web.

Location history is based on what iOS reports. Visits can be missed, delayed or placed at the wrong business. Timeline is a personal record, not a safety, navigation, medical or legal tool, so don’t rely on it for those purposes.

Your account

You need an account only for assistant access and your timeline on the web. You sign in with Apple or Google and must be at least 16. Keep that sign-in secure, because anyone who controls it can see your shared history.

Acceptable use

Use Timeline for your own location history only. You must not:

• track another person without their knowledge and consent;
• try to access other people’s data;
• disrupt or overload the service, or get around its limits or security;
• resell the service or give others access to it.

Your data

Your history stays yours. We use it only as the Privacy Policy describes. You can download your shared history on this website and delete it at any time.

When you connect an assistant, you instruct us to give it your history. The assistant and its answers come from its provider under that provider’s terms. We don’t control them, and answers can be wrong.

Timeline Pro

Timeline Pro isn’t on sale yet. During the preview, filling in your past from your photos, assistant access and the web timeline are free. We’ll say so in the app before that changes, and nothing is ever charged unless you choose to subscribe.

Timeline Pro will be a monthly subscription bought in the app through Apple, at the price the app shows. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. It renews each month unless you turn off automatic renewal at least 24 hours before the period ends. You can manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. Deleting your Timeline account doesn’t cancel it.

Apple handles refunds. If you are a consumer in the EU or UK, Apple’s terms let you withdraw from a new subscription within 14 days; its Media Services Terms explain how. Your statutory rights aren’t affected.

When Timeline Pro ends, uploads, assistant access and the web timeline stop. Shared history is kept for 90 days and then deleted. Recording, and everything already on your iPhone, keep working without it.

Availability and changes

We work to keep Timeline available but can’t promise it will always be uninterrupted, for example during maintenance or when a service we depend on fails.

We may change Timeline to keep it secure, follow the law, adapt to changes in iOS or the services it depends on, or improve it. If a change to Timeline Pro would more than slightly reduce what you can do with it, we’ll tell you in good time beforehand. You can then end your subscription within 30 days of the change and get back what you paid for the time after it.

We may end the online services with at least 30 days’ notice, so you have time to download your history. We then delete stored history and refund anything paid for the time after the end. The app and everything on your iPhone keep working.

Liability

Your statutory rights in the event of defects apply. We are liable without limit for intent and gross negligence, for injury to life, body or health, under the German Product Liability Act, and where we have given a guarantee.

For slight negligence, we are liable only for breach of an essential contractual obligation: one that makes proper performance of the contract possible in the first place and on which you may regularly rely. In that case our liability is limited to the foreseeable damage typical of this kind of contract. Otherwise, liability for slight negligence is excluded.

For lost data, we are liable only for the cost of restoring it from a backup or export you could reasonably have made. These limits also apply to anyone working for us.

Ending your use

You can stop using Timeline and delete your account at any time, in the app or on this website. We may suspend or close an account for a serious breach of these terms or where the law requires it. We’ll tell you first unless there is a good reason not to.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms when Timeline or the law changes. We’ll tell you about changes that matter, in the app or by email, at least 30 days before they apply. If you don’t accept them, you can delete your account and cancel Timeline Pro before then. Changes that need your agreement apply only once you have given it.

Law and disputes

German law applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. If you are a consumer, you keep the protection of the mandatory rules of the country where you live and can bring proceedings there.

We are neither obliged nor willing to take part in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board.

Contact

Questions or requests: marcel@differentiated.io