Vestigo Terms of Use

Last updated: 25 October 2026

1. About these Terms

These Terms apply to the Vestigo app for iOS (the “App”) and the website at vestigo-app.com (the “Website”), together the “Service”. Vestigo is created by Josiah Hyman and run by Katie Hyman (“Vestigo,” “we,” or “us”).

By using the Service you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, please do not use it. Our Privacy Notice explains how we handle personal information.

2. Who can use Vestigo

You must be at least 13 to use the Service. If you are under 18, a parent or guardian must agree to these Terms for you. The App can show titles intended for adults unless you turn on “Hide adult results” in Settings.

3. The Service

Vestigo is a personal tracker for movies and series. You can keep a library, rate titles and write notes, build collections, get recommendations, check where titles are streaming, add release dates to your calendar, find cinema showtimes and, if you choose, share with friends.

The Service is free and has no in-app purchases. We may change, add or remove features, and the Service may sometimes be unavailable.

4. Your account

Most of the App works without an account. Friends needs one, created with Sign in with Apple. Keep your Apple ID and device secure, and tell us promptly at vestigosupport@gmail.com if you think someone has used your account without permission.

You are responsible for activity on your account, unless it results from our failure to meet our legal obligations. You can delete your account at any time in Settings.

5. Friends and respect for others

Friends is for people who know each other. Friendships start only when an invitation is accepted, and either person can end one at any time. Your display name, profile photo and profile picks are always visible to your confirmed friends. Other sharing is your choice.

Treat other people with respect. Do not send unwanted, hostile or sexual content to anyone, and do not use profile names, photos, notes or picks to target someone.

6. What you must not do

You must not use the Service to:

• promote hatred, violence or discrimination against anyone, including on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability or age;
• harass, threaten, bully or intimidate anyone, or try to obtain personal information from them;
• pretend to be someone else, or mislead people about who you are;
• post anything that sexually exploits or endangers children (we will report this kind of material to the authorities where the law requires);
• post pornographic or sexually explicit images;
• post anything unlawful, defamatory or infringing, or anything that invades someone’s privacy;
• make false or malicious reports about another person, or report the same thing repeatedly to cause trouble;
• create accounts, or invite people, in order to get around a block, removal or suspension.

You must also not:

• scrape, copy, export or index content or data from the Service, except your own content;
• use bots or other automated tools to access the Service;
• reverse engineer the App, except where the law allows it;
• probe, scan or test the security of the Service, or get around its limits or protections (requests are rate limited);
• upload anything containing malware or harmful code;
• use the Service to build or run a competing product;
• help or encourage anyone else to do any of these things.

7. Reports, blocking, removal and suspension

We do not tolerate abusive behaviour or objectionable content. You can report or block a friend from their profile. Blocking ends the friendship and stops you seeing each other in the App. Invitations are sent outside the App, so we can’t stop someone sending you one, but if a blocked person invites you, we’ll warn you before you accept.

We review reports promptly and may remove content, end friendships, or suspend or close accounts that break these Terms or put others at risk. We may also act where the law requires it or to protect the Service.

Where practical, we will tell you what we have done and why, and you can ask us to review the decision by emailing vestigosupport@gmail.com. We do not check content before it is shared and are not responsible for content posted by other people, except where the law makes us responsible.

8. Your content

“Your content” means anything you add to the Service, such as your display name, profile photo, ratings, notes, collections, profile picks and shared lists. You own your content, and you promise that you have the right to use any photo or text you add.

You give us permission to store, copy, process and display your content only as needed to run the Service, including showing it to your confirmed friends when you choose to share it. We do not use your content for advertising and we do not sell it. This permission ends when you delete the content or your account, except for anything friends have already seen.

9. Feedback

If you send us ideas or suggestions, you confirm you have the right to share them. We may use them to improve Vestigo without owing you anything, and we do not have to keep them confidential.

10. Third party content and services

Titles, images, ratings, streaming availability, recommendations, showtimes and trailers come from third party providers. They belong to their owners and are shown under those providers’ terms. You may not reuse them outside the Service. Links to other apps and websites are governed by their own terms, and we are not responsible for them.

This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB. Trailers are provided through YouTube. By watching trailers in the Service, you agree to be bound by the YouTube Terms of Service at https://www.youtube.com/t/terms.

Information from third parties can be incomplete, wrong or out of date. Check important details, such as showtimes or where a title is streaming, with the provider before relying on them.

11. Ownership and your licence

The App, the Website, the Vestigo name and their design are owned by Katie Hyman. Your licence to use the App comes from Apple’s Standard EULA (section 15) and these Terms, for your own non-commercial use. Nothing in these Terms gives you any other right to use our name, design or software.

If you think something in the Service infringes your rights, email vestigosupport@gmail.com with details of the work and where it appears, and we will look into it.

12. Disclaimer

You use the Service at your own risk. The Service is provided “as is” and “as available”. To the extent the law allows, we make no promises that it will be accurate, uninterrupted, secure or free of errors, or that it will meet your needs. Nothing in this section affects rights you have as a consumer that cannot be excluded.

13. Our liability

To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, loss of data, or events outside our reasonable control. Our total liability to you for all claims is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us for the Service in the 12 months before the claim or USD 50, except where the law does not allow this limit.

We do not exclude liability that cannot be excluded by law, such as for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud. If you live in the UK or the EEA, we are responsible for loss you suffer that is a foreseeable result of our breaking these Terms or failing to use reasonable care.

14. Indemnity

If you break these Terms or the law and someone brings a claim against us because of it, you agree to cover our reasonable losses and costs, to the extent the law allows. This section does not apply if you live in the UK or the EEA.

15. Apple

Your licence to use the App comes from Apple’s Licensed Application End User License Agreement (the “Standard EULA”), at https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/. These Terms add rules for using the Service. If these Terms and the Standard EULA conflict about your licence to the App, the Standard EULA applies. Apple is not a party to these Terms and is not responsible for the Service.

16. Export controls

You may not use the Service if you are subject to US sanctions or are in a country under a US embargo. You must comply with export laws that apply to you.

17. Changes to the Service and these Terms

We may change, suspend or stop the Service. If a change will significantly affect you, we will try to tell you in advance in the App or on the Website.

We may also update these Terms. If a change is material, we will tell you before it takes effect. If you keep using the Service after that, the updated Terms apply.

18. Ending your use

You can stop using the Service at any time and delete your account in Settings. We may suspend or end your access if you break these Terms, if we need to protect the Service or other people, or if we stop offering the Service.

Sections 8 to 14 and 19 to 20 continue to apply after your use ends. What happens to your data is explained in the Privacy Notice.

19. General

These Terms, together with the Privacy Notice and Apple’s Standard EULA, are the whole agreement between you and us about the Service. In addition:

• If part of these Terms cannot be enforced, the rest still applies.
• If we do not enforce a right straight away, we can still enforce it later.
• We may transfer these Terms to someone who takes over the Service. If you live in the UK or the EEA, we will tell you, and it will not reduce your rights.
• You may not transfer these Terms without our agreement.
• We may send you legal notices electronically, in the App, on the Website or by email.

20. Governing law

If you live in the United States, these Terms are governed by the laws of the District of Columbia, and disputes will be heard in the courts located in the District of Columbia.

If you live in the UK or the EEA, the law of your country applies to the extent its consumer protection rules require, and you can bring a claim in your local courts.

Everywhere else, the laws of the District of Columbia apply, without affecting any mandatory protections where you live.

21. Contact

Questions about these Terms: Katie Hyman, vestigosupport@gmail.com.