PliumPic

PliumPic: Terms of Use

Last updated: 12 September 2026

1. Provider

1.1 The App "PliumPic" (the "App") is provided by:

Lukas Usinskas
c/o Postflex PFX-955-773, Emsdettener Str. 10, 48268 Greven, Germany
Phone: +49 151 28169018
Email: info@pliumpic.app

(the "Developer").

2. Scope and acceptance

2.1 These Terms of Use (the "Terms") govern your use of the App. They form a contract between you and the Developer only. They form no contract with Apple Inc. ("Apple"). The Developer, and not Apple, is responsible for the App and its content. "Content" here and in 20.1 means the content of the App itself; responsibility for content shared by participants is governed by 11.4.

2.2 When you first open the App it presents these Terms and the Privacy Policy and asks you to confirm that you accept them and meet the age requirement in 6.1; nothing else in the App is reachable until you do. If you do not accept them, do not use the App. Acceptance of later amendments is governed by 19.2.

2.3 The current version of the Terms is available at https://pliumpic.app/terms and in the App under Settings → Privacy & Terms.

3. The App

3.1 Participants' devices transfer photos and videos directly between one another using the App, over local peer-to-peer connections (Wi-Fi Aware and the local network), according to that trip's time and place settings. Transfers are encrypted in transit and authenticated between paired devices.

3.2 No server. The Developer operates no server, no cloud storage and no user accounts for the App. No content and no personal data concerning your use of the App is transmitted to the Developer. The Developer has no technical means of receiving, viewing, storing, checking or deleting content shared through the App. The purchase of PliumPic+ is the only step that is not device-to-device; Apple processes it (Section 13).

3.3 Transfer between participants' devices, including onward transfer. A participant's device that has received content may transmit that content onward to other participants of the same trip. Membership records (13.11) are exchanged between devices as complete sets and may therefore reach a participant whose device yours has never connected to. Every such transfer takes place between participants' own devices, within the trip concerned, and at no point through infrastructure operated by the Developer.

3.4 The App is not a backup service. Content you receive is stored on your device; content you share remains in your own photo library. You are responsible for backing up your device.

4. Personal use

4.1 The App is designed for private, personal use outside any trade, business, craft or profession.

4.2 Use of the App for professional, business or commercial purposes is at your own risk. You are responsible for meeting any requirements that then apply to you, including obligations as a controller under data protection law, sector-specific rules, and obligations towards employees or works councils. The Developer gives no assurance that the App satisfies such requirements.

4.3 Paragraph 4.2 does not affect your rights as a consumer where you use the App as a consumer.

5. Licence to use the App

5.1 The Developer grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use the App on any Apple-branded device that you own or control, subject to the App Store terms, including Family Sharing where you have enabled it.

5.2 You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell or rent the App or any part of it, and you may not reverse-engineer or decompile it. This restriction does not apply to the extent mandatory law permits such acts, in particular §§ 69d and 69e of the German Copyright Act (Urheberrechtsgesetz) for interoperability purposes.

5.3 The licence under 5.1 and a PliumPic+ purchase are separate (13.9).

6. Eligibility and capacity to contract

6.1 You must be at least 16 years old to use the App.

6.2 The minimum age in 6.1 is a contractual requirement set by the Developer. It is not a consent threshold under data protection law: the App relies on no consent as a legal basis and transmits no personal data to the Developer (Section 15).

6.3 You must have full legal capacity to enter into these Terms.

6.4 Where a parent or guardian allows a person under 16 to use the App, that parent or guardian accepts these Terms in their own name, is the Developer's contracting party in respect of that use, and is responsible for the minor's use of the App. The minor does not become a party to these Terms.

6.5 Mandatory provisions of your country of habitual residence governing the capacity of minors remain unaffected (21.1).

7. Your content

7.1 You retain all rights to the photos and videos you share. No content reaches any system operated by the Developer, and you grant the Developer no licence to your content of any kind.

7.2 You are responsible for the content you share. For each photo and video you share you warrant that:

7.3 Why this responsibility is yours. What you share travels from your device straight to the other participants' devices, so what is shared, and with whom, is decided on your device and nowhere else (3.1, 3.2). No intermediary stands in between who could review the content, hold it back or remove it: the Developer never receives it and has no means of acting on it (11.1, 12.2). Responsibility therefore rests where the control over the content does: with you.

8. Permission granted to the other participants

8.1 By sharing content with the other participants of a trip you grant each of them a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable right, free of charge and for private use, to receive that content, to store and view it on their own devices, and to transmit it onward to other participants of the same trip where their devices do so automatically (3.3).

8.2 The permission under 8.1 covers only the operations the App performs. It confers no right to publish, redistribute or commercially exploit the content, and it extends to no person outside the participants of that trip.

8.3 You may withdraw the permission with effect for the future by asking the participants concerned to delete the content. The withdrawal takes effect once the participant concerned acts on it (Section 10).

8.4 Why this permission is needed. Nothing you share reaches the Developer, and the Developer takes no licence to it (3.2, 7.1). Your photos and videos are protected works, so the rights each participant needs - to keep a copy on their device, to view it, and to let their device relay it within the trip (3.3) - can come from no one but you. That is what 8.1 grants: directly, to those participants only, and without the Developer being a party to it.

9. Content received from other participants

9.1 Content you receive through the App is shared with you by another participant for private use within that trip. Unless the participant who shared it agrees otherwise, you may not publish, redistribute or commercially exploit it beyond the participants of that trip.

9.2 Where a participant asks you to delete a photo or video that they shared, or in which they are depicted, you shall delete it. The App allows you to delete received content at any time.

9.3 The Developer does not check content transferred to you and has no means of doing so (3.2). The Developer gives no warranty that received content is lawful, accurate, complete or free of third-party rights. Responsibility for shared content lies with the participant who shared it (11.4).

10. Copies on other devices

10.1 Sharing through the App is based on trust between participants. Share trips only with persons you trust, and review the participants of your trips.

10.2 Content that has reached another participant's device is stored on that device and is under that participant's control. Neither the App nor the Developer has any means of deleting or retrieving data on another person's device. Deleting content, a trip, or the App on your own device removes your own copy only.

10.3 Paragraph 10.2 states a limit on what any participant can do after content has been transferred. It is distinct from 3.2, under which the Developer never receives the content at all.

11. Acceptable use

11.1 This Section imposes no moderation obligation on the Developer, which has no access to shared content and performs no filtering (3.2). By accepting these Terms you confirm your awareness that the law governing private sharing - in particular copyright, personality rights and criminal law - applies to sharing through the App exactly as it applies to sending a photograph to another person by any other means.

11.2 You must not use the App to share content that:

11.3 You must not:

11.4 Responsibility and liability for shared content lie with the participant who shares it. A breach of this Section entitles the Developer to terminate your licence under 18.2 and may give rise to criminal and civil liability.

11.5 Indemnification. Where a third party asserts a claim against the Developer because content you shared through the App was unlawful or infringed that party's rights, and you caused this culpably, you shall indemnify the Developer against that claim and against the reasonable costs of legal defence, limited to the statutory fees under the German Lawyers' Remuneration Act (Rechtsanwaltsvergütungsgesetz, RVG). This does not apply where the claim arises from the Developer's own failure to act after becoming aware of the infringement, nor to the extent the Developer is itself responsible for it. The Developer shall notify you of such a claim without undue delay, shall give you the opportunity to comment, and shall not settle it without your consent unless legally obliged to do so. You shall provide the Developer, without undue delay and to the best of your knowledge, with the information reasonably required to assess and defend the claim.

12. Abuse and self-protection

12.1 Where you receive content that breaches Section 11 or applicable law, or where another user harasses you, you may at any time:

12.2 You may report abuse to the Developer at info@pliumpic.app. The Developer reviews reports without undue delay. Because content is transferred only between users' devices, the Developer can neither view, delete nor filter it. The measures available to the Developer are limited to advising you, improving the protections in the App, and, in serious or repeated cases, terminating the licence of the user concerned (18.2).

13. PliumPic+

13.1 What PliumPic+ is. The App is available without charge. PliumPic+ is an optional paid membership. Its sole function is to raise the number of devices that may join a trip from 5 to 25. It unlocks no other function.

13.2 Devices, not people. The limit counts devices, not participants. A participant who joins with both an iPhone and an iPad occupies two slots. The App displays the current count and the applicable limit for each trip.

13.3 Who benefits. Where any participant of a trip holds PliumPic+, that trip's limit rises to 25 for all of its participants. You therefore need no PliumPic+ of your own to take part in a 25-device trip, and a membership you hold raises the limit of every trip you take part in.

13.4 The products.

Prices are those displayed in the App Store at the time of purchase and include VAT where applicable. The products are independent: purchasing Lifetime does not cancel an existing Annual subscription, which continues to renew until you cancel it (13.5).

13.5 Apple sells PliumPic+. PliumPic+ is sold through the App Store. In Germany and throughout the European Economic Area, and in the United Kingdom and Switzerland, Apple markets and delivers PliumPic+ as commissionaire, that is in its own name for the Developer's account; in those territories the purchase contract is concluded between you and Apple. In the territories where Apple acts as the Developer's agent - in particular the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia and New Zealand - the purchase contract is concluded with the Developer through Apple. Which of the two applies to your purchase is set by Apple and follows the App Store storefront of your Apple Account; Apple's Media Services Terms and Conditions (apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes) identify the Apple company you buy from. In every territory it is Apple, and not the Developer, that:

The Developer receives no payment details and no Apple Account information, and can neither issue, refuse nor reverse a charge.

13.6 Right of withdrawal (Widerruf). For consumers in the European Economic Area the purchase contract is concluded with Apple (13.5). A statutory right of withdrawal in respect of that purchase therefore exists against Apple, and is governed by Apple's Media Services Terms and Conditions (apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes). The statutory withdrawal period is 14 days. For digital content the right lapses where you have expressly consented to performance beginning before that period ends and have acknowledged that you thereby lose the right (§ 356(5) BGB); Apple's purchase flow is where that consent and acknowledgement are obtained. Exercise withdrawal through Apple; the Developer can neither grant nor refuse it. Your statutory rights against the Developer, in particular the conformity and update rights for digital products under §§ 327 ff. BGB (14.4, 17.1), are separate and remain unaffected.

13.7 Offer codes. The Developer may issue offer codes for PliumPic+. Redemption runs through Apple and is subject to Apple's terms and to the conditions stated with the code. Codes have no cash value, cannot be exchanged for money, can normally be redeemed once only and by one Apple Account only, and may expire. Where a code starts a subscription, that subscription renews at the regular price once the promotional period ends, unless you cancel it first.

13.8 Price changes. The Developer may change the price of either product for the future. For the Annual subscription, Apple notifies you of a change and, where its rules require, asks for your consent; without that consent the subscription does not renew at the new price. A price change never affects a term you have already paid for. A change to the Lifetime price applies only to purchases made after it.

13.9 Family Sharing. The licence to use the App is covered by 5.1 and includes Family Sharing where you have enabled it. The PliumPic+ purchase is separate and is not shared with your Family Sharing group; neither product is offered as a family-shareable purchase, so each Apple Account that requires its own membership purchases it separately. Under 13.3, one member's PliumPic+ already raises the limit for every trip that member takes part in.

13.10 When PliumPic+ ends. Where a member's PliumPic+ ends, because an Annual subscription expires or is cancelled or because a purchase is refunded, the trips it was raising return to the free limit. No participant already in a trip is removed, and syncing between existing participants continues; only further devices are prevented from joining a trip that is at or above its limit. Because the App uses no server, a change to a membership travels from device to device as participants meet, and may take some time to reach every participant's device. Your device does not delete the membership record it shared (13.11); it replaces it with one marked inactive, which stays part of that trip's data on the other participants' devices. Paragraph 8.6 of the Privacy Policy (https://pliumpic.app/privacy) explains why a deletion cannot reliably propagate between devices without a server.

13.11 Your purchase is not transmitted to the Developer. Whether you hold PliumPic+ is determined on your own device from the purchase data Apple signs and delivers to the App. It is never sent to the Developer, which learns of sales only from the aggregated sales and subscriber reports Apple provides. So that the other participants of a trip can calculate the same limit, your device shares a membership record with them; the Privacy Policy (https://pliumpic.app/privacy) sets out what that record contains and who receives it.

13.12 Withdrawal from sale, and discontinuation. Withdrawal from sale means that the Developer stops offering new PliumPic+ purchases; memberships already purchased are unaffected (13.13). Discontinuation means that the raised device limit stops being provided. The Developer may do either, and may also stop offering the App as a whole. The Developer announces any of these steps at least 12 months in advance, in the App and at https://pliumpic.app. That period exceeds the one-year Annual term, so that no term already paid for is cut short. From the date of the announcement the Developer stops selling PliumPic+ Lifetime, and Annual subscriptions are not renewed beyond the announced date; a term already paid for runs to its end.

13.13 Effect of withdrawal from sale. Whether you hold PliumPic+ is decided on your own device (13.11). If the Developer stops selling PliumPic+, a Lifetime purchase you already hold continues to raise your trips as before, and 14.4 continues to bind the Developer. The App continues to function on your device for as long as that device and its version of iOS support it. The Developer does not warrant that future versions of iOS will remain compatible with the App, and is not obliged to keep the App available for download indefinitely.

13.14 Refunds on discontinuation. Where the Developer discontinues PliumPic+, so that the raised limit stops being provided:

13.15 Statutory rights unaffected. Nothing in 13.12 to 13.14 limits or excludes rights you have by law, in particular the conformity, update and change rights for digital products under §§ 327 ff. BGB (14.4, 17.1, 17.4) and any right of withdrawal against Apple (13.6). Paragraph 13.14 states a minimum the Developer commits to, and no cap on what the law gives you.

14. Availability, dependencies and changes to the App

14.1 What the App depends on. The App uses functions provided by your device and by iOS: Wi-Fi Aware, the local network, the system services of iOS, the permissions you grant, and the availability, proximity and readiness of the other participant's device. Those functions are provided by the device and its operating system, not by the Developer, and lie outside the Developer's sphere of control. The Developer's obligation is to supply the App. That obligation does not extend to establishing or maintaining connectivity between devices, nor to the transfer of any particular photo or video. Content that is not transferred remains in the sender's photo library and can be transferred again.

14.2 Changes to iOS, to the devices, or to the Apple services on which the App depends may affect how the App functions.

14.3 The Developer may improve, change or discontinue functions of the App where this is reasonable for you, taking account of the Developer's legitimate interests, or where required for legal or security reasons. Statutory update obligations for digital products (§§ 327 ff. BGB) remain unaffected.

14.4 PliumPic+: a narrower right. For the paid membership, 14.3 applies only within the limits of § 327r BGB. Beyond what is required to maintain conformity, the Developer changes PliumPic+ only where there is a valid reason, at no additional cost to you, and without impairing your access to or use of what you paid for. Where such a change would affect you more than insignificantly, the Developer informs you clearly and a reasonable time in advance in the App, and you may terminate PliumPic+ free of charge within 30 days of receiving that information or of the change, whichever is later. Withdrawal of PliumPic+ from sale and its discontinuation are governed by 13.12 to 13.15.

14.5 Circumstances outside the Developer's control. The Developer is not responsible for delays or failures caused by events outside its reasonable control, including force majeure, war, civil unrest, industrial action, epidemics, and power or telecommunications failures. Interruptions of that kind, and interruptions for maintenance or security purposes, do not constitute a defect of the App. Paragraphs 17.2 and 17.3 remain unaffected.

14.6 Technical limits. The App applies technical limits to some functions, for example the number of devices per trip (13.1) and limits on the size or number of media items that follow from the device and from iOS. The Developer may set and adjust such limits where this is reasonable for you, in particular for technical, security or performance reasons. For the device limits that PliumPic+ raises, 14.4 and 13.12 to 13.15 apply and take precedence.

15. Privacy

15.1 In ordinary use of the App, no personal data concerning your use of it is transmitted to the Developer. The Developer receives personal data only where you choose to send it, for example when you write to support or export and send diagnostic logs. The Privacy Policy at https://pliumpic.app/privacy provides detailed information on how the App handles data.

15.2 Where you share photos of other people, you decide on that sharing, not the Developer. Where sharing is exclusively personal or domestic, data protection law generally imposes no controller obligations on you (the household exemption under Art. 2(2)(c) GDPR). Where you use the App for professional or commercial purposes (Section 4), or publish content you received, you are responsible for your own compliance with data protection law.

16. Maintenance and support

16.1 The Developer bears sole responsibility for maintenance and support of the App, to the extent these Terms provide for it or the law requires it. Apple shall have no duty or obligation to provide any maintenance, support or servicing of the App. You can reach the Developer at info@pliumpic.app.

17. Warranty and liability

17.1 Warranty. The App itself is supplied without charge; PliumPic+ is a digital product supplied against payment (Section 13). Mandatory statutory rights remain unaffected in both cases; for PliumPic+ these include the conformity and update rights under §§ 327 ff. BGB. In the event of a failure of the App to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price (if any) to you; to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Apple has no other warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to the App. This does not restrict your statutory rights against the Developer.

17.2 Liability. Claims for damages against the Developer are excluded. This exclusion does not apply to:

17.3 Essential contractual obligations. An essential contractual obligation is an obligation whose fulfilment makes the proper performance of this contract possible in the first place, and on whose fulfilment you may regularly rely. Where such an obligation is breached through simple negligence, the Developer's liability is limited to the damage foreseeable at the time of contract formation and typical for this type of contract; this limitation does not apply to damage arising from injury to life, body or health.

17.4 Supply without charge: free tier only. Where the App is supplied to you without charge, statutory rules that further limit the liability of a gratuitous provider remain unaffected and apply in the Developer's favour. This paragraph does not apply to PliumPic+. For the paid membership, the statutory regime for digital products supplied against payment (§§ 327 ff. BGB: conformity, updates under § 327f, changes under § 327r) applies in full, and nothing in these Terms limits it.

17.5 Data loss. The Developer's liability for loss of data is limited to the recovery effort that would have been necessary had you performed regular, risk-appropriate backups (3.4). Paragraphs 17.2 and 17.3 remain unaffected.

18. Term and termination

18.1 These Terms apply for as long as you use the App. You may end them at any time by deleting the App, which also deletes the PliumPic data stored on your device, apart from the two items described in paragraph 5.5 of the Privacy Policy (https://pliumpic.app/privacy). The photos and videos you received are not part of that data: they were saved into your photo library (3.4), and they stay there until you delete them in the Photos app.

18.2 Your licence terminates automatically if you seriously breach these Terms, in particular Section 11. Where reasonable, the Developer will warn you before terminating. Once it terminates you must stop using the App and delete it from your devices. The Developer has no server and therefore no technical means of enforcing that; the protections available to the other participants are those in 12.1. Paragraph 18.3 governs PliumPic+.

18.3 Termination and PliumPic+. Ending these Terms, whether by deleting the App or by termination under 18.2, gives rise to no refund claim in itself, and does not cancel an Annual subscription; you cancel that through Apple (13.5), or it continues to renew. Your statutory rights remain unaffected, in particular those under §§ 327 ff. BGB against the Developer and any right of withdrawal against Apple (13.6). Refund requests are made to Apple at reportaproblem.apple.com.

19. Changes to these Terms

19.1 When the Developer may amend. The Developer may amend these Terms only where there is a valid reason: a change in the law or in binding case law, a decision of a court or authority, a security requirement, a change to Apple's requirements for apps on the App Store, or a change to the App's functions made under 14.3. The amendment is limited to what that reason requires and must be reasonable for you. It may not reduce rights you have already acquired, change the price of a purchase already made, or alter 13.12 to 13.15, Section 17 or Section 21 to your disadvantage.

19.2 How an amendment takes effect. Material changes are presented to you in the App the first time you open it after the update that contains them, and require your renewed acceptance. Until you accept, the App as a whole stays unavailable - not only the function the change concerns - and the version you last accepted continues to govern; 2.2 does not make an amendment binding through continued use. Other changes - corrections, clarifications, and changes that neither reduce your rights nor increase your obligations - take effect on publication. The current version is available at https://pliumpic.app/terms and in the App.

19.3 If you do not accept. You need not accept. If you do not, you cannot continue to use the App and these Terms end under 18.1. Where you hold PliumPic+ and the amendment affects it more than insignificantly, 14.4 applies: you may terminate PliumPic+ free of charge within 30 days, and the Developer refunds you on the basis set out in 13.14, with the date the amendment takes effect standing in for the announced end date.

20. Apple-specific terms

20.1 You acknowledge that these Terms are concluded between you and the Developer only, and not with Apple, and that the Developer, not Apple, is solely responsible for the App and its content.

20.2 In the event of any third-party claim that the App, or your possession and use of it, infringes that third party's intellectual property rights, the Developer, not Apple, is solely responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement and discharge of that claim. The Developer is likewise responsible for addressing any claim by you or a third party relating to the App, including product liability claims, claims that the App fails to conform to legal or regulatory requirements, and claims under consumer protection, privacy or similar legislation.

20.3 You represent and warrant that (a) you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. Government embargo or designated by the U.S. Government as a "terrorist supporting" country, and (b) you are not listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.

20.4 You shall comply with applicable third-party terms of agreement when using the App, for example your wireless data service agreement.

20.5 Apple and Apple's subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce them against you.

21. Governing law and disputes

21.1 These Terms are governed by the law of the Federal Republic of Germany, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG). Where you are a consumer habitually resident in another country, the mandatory consumer protection provisions of that country remain unaffected and continue to apply in your favour.

21.2 Where you are a consumer, the statutory venue rules apply. Where you are a merchant, a legal entity under public law, or have no general venue in Germany, the exclusive venue is the Developer's seat in Germany.

21.3 The Developer is neither obliged nor willing to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board (Verbraucherschlichtungsstelle).

22. Final provisions

22.1 Should any provision of these Terms be or become invalid, the remaining provisions remain in effect.

22.2 These Terms are provided in English.

Contact: Lukas Usinskas · c/o Postflex PFX-955-773, Emsdettener Str. 10, 48268 Greven, Germany · +49 151 28169018 · info@pliumpic.app

This document was drafted with AI assistance and reviewed, approved and assumed responsibility for by a human reviewer.