The rules for using CaughtShipping.

Agreement to terms

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of CaughtShipping (the "Service"), operated by CaughtShipping ("we", "us", "our"). By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you don't agree, don't use the Service.

What CaughtShipping is

CaughtShipping is a voluntary commitment device. You declare your own Curfew hours, and CaughtShipping watches its catalog of work apps (editors, terminals, AI coding tools and the like) during that window. If a watched app comes to the foreground during your Curfew and you don't stop within your grace period, that's logged as a "fall." CaughtShipping is designed to help you keep a promise to yourself — it watches and it reports; it never blocks, restricts, or otherwise controls your device. You remain free to use your computer however you like; the only consequence of a fall is a record of it.

Accounts & sign-in

You sign in by email magic link or by "Sign in with X" (Twitter OAuth). We don't use passwords. On sign-in we issue a session token and a refresh token to keep you logged in; you're responsible for keeping any device where you're signed in secure. One account per person — don't create extras to game the Wall, dodge a fall, or reset a streak you actually lost.

Subscription & payments

CaughtShipping is free to use. When it is offered, the optional Rested plan adds all-day usage reports on your dashboard, a weekly report card, one automatic pardon a month, a Rested mark on the Wall of Rest, and the Apps, Streak, and Rest report views. Rested costs $7 per month or $60 per year, billed in advance through Stripe, our payment processor. Billing starts when you subscribe.

Renewal and cancellation. Rested renews automatically at the end of each monthly or yearly period until you cancel. You can cancel at any time from your account page, under Plan, using "Manage billing". Cancelling stops the next renewal, and you keep Rested until the end of the period you've paid for. We don't refund partial periods, except where the law requires it.

UK and EU consumers. You may cancel within 14 days of your first payment and get that payment back in full by emailing [email protected].

We do not store your card details — Stripe handles all payment card data on our behalf. We keep only a Stripe customer identifier, your subscription status, and your billing period dates.

Subscribing through the Mac App Store. If you subscribe to Rested from the Mac App Store version of the app, Apple processes your payment, and pricing may differ from the website (including any introductory offer, which is available only through the App Store). Your subscription auto-renews at the end of each period until you cancel, and Apple — not us — bills you, so cancellation, refunds, and payment method changes are handled entirely through your Apple ID subscription settings, not through your CaughtShipping account page. We only receive Apple's subscription record for your purchase — transaction identifier, product, status, and expiry — never your Apple ID, email, or payment details. We use it to grant Rested. If you already have an active Rested subscription bought on the website, signing in to the App Store app won't prompt you to pay again.

Every account, Free or Rested, gets two emergency overrides per month, which let you cancel an active countdown without it being logged as a fall. Overrides are a product feature, not a purchase — using one never triggers a charge.

The Wall is public

CaughtShipping is a public accountability product. When you sign in, your handle, current and longest streaks, and your falls (violations, including the time they occurred and the streak you lost) are published on the Wall of Rest and the Blotter. Your display name and anything else you add to your profile are shown on your public profile page, linked from your handle. This is the point of the product. Your time zone, Curfew hours and platform are shown only if you turn on “Show details on the Wall” in your account settings.

If you have a serious reason your data must not be public, contact us at [email protected] — we will review objections case by case and can withdraw a profile from public display. Deleting your account removes your profile and public entries per our Privacy Policy.

Acceptable use

Don't use the Service to harass or impersonate others, to circumvent its intended purpose (e.g. falsifying your own Curfew to grief a public wall), or to attempt to access accounts or data that aren't yours. We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate this section.

Community content

Handles, bios, avatars, and links are user-supplied and public. We don't allow objectionable, abusive, or otherwise inappropriate content in any of them — no harassment, hate speech, slurs, sexual content, spam, or malicious links. A filter blocks the worst of this automatically at sign-up and whenever a profile is edited.

Anyone — signed in or not — can report a profile via the “⋯” menu on their handle, on a Wall of Rest or Blotter entry, or on their profile page. We review reports within 24 hours; content that violates this section is removed and, where appropriate, the account is hidden from the public Wall or banned outright. Separately, any signed-in user can block another user, which hides that user's entries from their own Wall of Rest, Blotter, and profile.

Your data & account deletion

We store event metadata about which watched apps came to the foreground during your declared Curfew and, if you subscribe to Rested, hourly totals of how long each app was in use. If you use the Contact or Suggest-an-app form, we store your message, a hashed IP address, and your browser's user-agent. We never collect window titles, file names, URLs, keystrokes, screenshots, or a continuous activity stream. See our Privacy Policy for full detail on what we collect and why. You may delete your account at any time from your account page, or by contacting us; we purge your public history, falls, cards, and personal data within 24 hours.

Disclaimer of warranties

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose or that the Service will be uninterrupted or error-free. CaughtShipping is a self-accountability tool, not professional advice of any kind.

Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, our aggregate liability arising out of or relating to the Service is limited to the amounts you paid us in the 12 months before the claim arose (which is $0 on the free tier). We are not liable for indirect, incidental, or consequential damages.

Changes to these terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. If we make material changes, we'll make a reasonable effort to notify you before they take effect. Continued use of the Service after changes take effect means you accept the updated Terms.

Effective date: July 13, 2026 · Last updated: September 27, 2026.

Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales, and any disputes are subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

Contact

Questions about these Terms? Reach us at [email protected].