- Safe Timer alerts you when you miss a check-in. If you authorise it, your phone then texts your emergency contacts.
- No one is watching. There is no monitoring centre, and no one at Safe Timer can see your sessions.
- It is not a substitute for emergency services. If you are in danger, call 000 or your local emergency number.
- It depends on your phone having battery and signal, on iOS running the app, and on your contacts reading and acting on a text. Any of these can fail.
- Test it with your contacts before you rely on it.
Who these terms are between
These terms are an agreement between you and the developer of Safe Timer ("we", "us"). They apply to the Safe Timer app and any related service we provide. By tapping I agree, or by using the app, you accept them.
What Safe Timer is
Safe Timer is a personal check-in timer. You set how often you will check in. If you miss a check-in, the app alerts you on your phone. If you also miss the grace period, and you have authorised it, your phone sends a text message to the emergency contacts you chose, saying you missed a check-in and where you were.
What Safe Timer is not
Safe Timer is not a monitoring service, an alarm-response service, or a medical device. Nobody at Safe Timer watches sessions or receives alerts. Nobody will call you, your contacts, or emergency services on your behalf. Safe Timer does not replace emergency services, a workplace safety procedure, a personal locator beacon, or a person who knows where you are.
What can go wrong
Alerts and texts depend on things outside our control: your phone being on and charged, having mobile signal at the moment a text is sent, iOS allowing the app to run and to send notifications, your carrier delivering the message, and your contacts reading it and acting on it. Apple may restrict or remove the features the app relies on. Any of these can fail, and a failure can mean that no one is told you missed a check-in. You accept this risk when you use the app.
Your responsibilities
You are responsible for choosing contacts who will act on an alert, for telling them what to do, for having their permission to send them texts, for keeping your phone charged and unmuted during a session, for granting the permissions the app asks for, and for testing the app with your contacts before relying on it. You must be at least 16 to use Safe Timer.
Messages sent from your phone
Texts to your contacts are sent by your own phone, using Apple's critical messaging feature or the Messages app, from your number and at your carrier's standard rates. We never see them. You are responsible for their content, including any note you add.
Requirements
Safe Timer needs an iPhone running iOS 18.2 or later with a mobile plan that can send text messages. Some features depend on permissions Apple grants to the app and to you; the app tells you when a feature is unavailable and what will happen instead.
Subscriptions
Version 1.0 is free. From version 1.1, Safe Timer offers a 30-day app-managed trial without a purchase commitment or automatic charge. After access ends, a monthly subscription, annual subscription or one-time lifetime purchase allows new sessions. All plans include the same features. Purchases are sold and billed through Apple, with local prices and renewal terms shown before you buy. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled in your Apple Account subscription settings. Buying lifetime does not cancel an existing subscription. Eligible version 1.0 users receive twelve months of access under the app's early-user policy. A lapsed entitlement only stops you starting a new session. It never ends a running session, never disarms alerts, and never stops your phone texting your contacts for a session that has already begun.
Your rights under consumer law
If you are in Australia, our services come with guarantees under the Australian Consumer Law that cannot be excluded, including that they will be provided with due care and skill. Nothing in these terms removes those rights. Where the law lets us limit our liability for a failure of a guarantee, it is limited to supplying the service again or refunding what you paid for it. If you are elsewhere, you may have similar rights under your local law, and nothing here removes them.
Limits on our liability
Apart from the rights described above, and to the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable to you or anyone else for any loss, injury, damage or cost arising from using or being unable to use Safe Timer, including from an alert or text that was late, not sent, or not acted on. Safe Timer is provided as a tool to help you and your contacts, not as a guarantee that help will come.
Changes
We may update the app and these terms. When the terms change in substance, the app will ask you to read and accept them again before you continue. The date at the bottom shows the current version.
Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of Australia and the state in which we are based. Any dispute will be dealt with in the courts of that state.
Contact
Questions about these terms can be sent to the support address shown on the Safe Timer website and in the App Store listing.