Martinet terms of use
Last updated: 8 October 2026. The same text is in the app under Settings > Terms of use. Not legal advice: have a lawyer read it before the app is published.
These terms cover your use of Martinet. Martinet is a personal focus app that acts on your own phone, on your instructions. By using it you agree to them.
What Martinet does
With the Accessibility access you grant it, Martinet covers Instagram Reels, closes YouTube Shorts, covers or locks feeds, and shows your own coursework, events and applications in their place, in the apps you switch it on for. It does only what you have set it to do. You can turn it off at any time in Settings > Accessibility, and switch each app off in Martinet, except during a commitment period or timeout you set (below).
Not affiliated
Martinet is independent. It is not made, endorsed or sponsored by Instagram or Meta, TikTok or ByteDance, YouTube or Google, X Corp., Instructure (Canvas) or any school. Their names are used only to say which apps and services Martinet works with, and their marks belong to them.
No guarantees
Those apps change often. Martinet may stop recognising a screen, close a Reel late or not at all, or put a panel in the wrong place; its status line says what it last managed. It is a help, not a guarantee, and not a substitute for your own choices or for professional help with compulsive use.
Commitment periods and timeouts
A commitment period, made from Instagram's card in Martinet, is your own instruction to keep it (and any other app you add) blocked at the times you choose, until a date you choose, with no way to switch it off early, not even by changing the phone's clock. Before it starts you agree, line by line on its consent screen, not to switch it off, not to delete Martinet or turn off its Accessibility access until then, and to Android's uninstall protection for that time. You set it knowingly, and you accept that Martinet will hold you to it. Calls, messages and every other app are unaffected. Android itself always lets you turn off uninstall protection and Accessibility access in Settings; doing so breaks your commitment.
A timeout, started from Martinet's Apps tab, is the same kind of instruction for the hours and minutes you pick: the apps you choose stay blocked until it runs out, and it can't be ended early, only made longer. It has no consent screen and no uninstall protection.
Your accounts and data
Your Canvas tokens, coursework and applications are yours and stay on your phone (see PRIVACY.md). Keep your tokens to yourself and follow your school's rules for Canvas. School events come from public calendars the schools publish; details may be wrong or out of date, so check with the school before you go.
Ice breakers
Ice breakers' cards are written by Claude, an AI made by Anthropic, from what you add and what it finds on public web pages. They can be wrong, out of date or about the wrong person: check a fact before you bring it up, and use your own judgement about what's appropriate to say. Add only what you're allowed to share: your own notes, and about other people only what they shared with you or published themselves (a LinkedIn profile, a company bio). Don't use ice breakers to dig up private information about anyone, or to harass, impersonate or deceive. If a card is offensive or wrong, report it from the deck. Martinet limits how many decks each phone can make a day, and may change or stop the feature.
Age
Martinet is for students aged 13 and over. If you are under 18, use it with a parent's or guardian's knowledge.
Liability
Martinet is provided as is, without warranty of any kind, as far as the law allows. To the extent the law permits, its makers are not liable for missed deadlines, lost opportunities, or any other loss that comes from using it or from it not working.
Changes
These terms may change with new versions; the current ones are always in the app.
Governing law and contact
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