Terms of Service
These terms cover your use of Folio, a personal journaling app for Android. They are written to be read, not to be skimmed past — the whole thing is short, and there is nothing buried in it.
The short version. Folio is free. What you write in it is yours, stays on your device unless you switch on a cloud feature, and can be exported or deleted by you at any time. It is offered as-is by one person, not a company, so it comes with no warranty and you should keep your own backups of anything you cannot afford to lose.
1. Who provides Folio
Folio is made and operated by Kapileswar Singh, an individual developer, contactable at kapileswarsingh@gmail.com. There is no company behind it and no support desk beyond that address.
2. What you may use it for
Anything lawful. Folio is a private notebook; what you keep in it is your business.
The one feature that reaches other people is Memo, which lets you send a memo to someone whose email address you already know. When you use it, you agree not to use it to harass anyone, to send anyone unlawful material, or to impersonate someone else. A person you send to can remove the memo from their own list at any time.
3. Your content belongs to you
Everything you write, photograph, scan or record in Folio is yours. Using the app grants no licence over it to anyone. Nothing in it is read, mined, analysed, sold, or used to train anything.
Where your content is stored, and which optional features move any of it off your device, is set out in full in the Privacy Policy, which forms part of these terms.
4. Accounts and optional cloud features
Folio works without an account. Signing in with Google is only needed for the features that genuinely require it — cloud backup to your own Google Drive, shared memos, and syncing between your own devices.
If you sign in, you are responsible for the security of the Google account you use. If you turn on Drive backup, the backup lives in your own Drive, in the app's private data folder, and the developer has no access to it at any point.
5. Services Folio relies on
Folio uses Google Firebase (authentication, Firestore, and push notifications), Google Drive for backup, and two weather services for the line on the Home screen. Those services have terms of their own, which apply to your use of them through Folio. Folio cannot control their availability, and an outage at one of them may make the corresponding feature in Folio stop working until it is resolved.
6. No warranty
Folio is provided as is, without warranty of any kind. It is not promised to be uninterrupted, error-free, or fit for any particular purpose, and it is not a substitute for a backup regime of your own.
This is not boilerplate hedging: it is a free app written by one person, and you should treat anything you would be upset to lose as needing a copy somewhere else as well. Folio's own export and Drive backup are there to help you do that.
7. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent the law allows, the developer is not liable for any loss of data, loss of profit, or indirect or consequential loss arising from your use of Folio. Nothing in these terms limits liability for anything that cannot lawfully be limited.
8. Ending it
You can stop using Folio at any time. Uninstalling removes the app and everything stored locally on that device.
If you created an account, you can delete it from within the app — Settings → Account → Delete account. That deletes your authentication record, your shared memos, and the backup file in your Drive. Deletion is permanent.
The developer may stop offering Folio, or a particular cloud feature within it, with notice given in the app or on this site. If that happens, your export and backup options will keep working for long enough for you to take your data with you.
9. Changes to these terms
If these terms change, the date at the top of this page changes with them, and a material change will be announced in the app before it takes effect. Continuing to use Folio after that means you accept the revised terms.
10. Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of India, and the courts of India have jurisdiction over any dispute arising from them. This does not take away any protection you have under the consumer law of the country you live in.
11. Contact
Questions about these terms: kapileswarsingh@gmail.com