Terms of Service

In these terms, "Birthday Buddy", "we", "us", and "our" mean SSS Tech LLC operating the Birthday Buddy service. "You" means you, the person using it.

The service

Birthday Buddy is a WhatsApp companion. It tracks the birthdays and the anniversaries of people you choose to import, reminds you before each one, and drafts a message for the occasion written to sound like you. It lives inside WhatsApp. There is no app to install.

You need a WhatsApp account to use it. WhatsApp is run by Meta, and your use of WhatsApp is governed by Meta's own terms.

Who can use Birthday Buddy

You must be at least 16 years old, or 13 where your local law allows it, to use Birthday Buddy. By using it you confirm that you meet this age requirement. If you are under 18, please make sure a parent or guardian has read these terms and agrees to them.

Optional extras you turn on yourself

Some parts of Birthday Buddy are off until you ask for them, and each one stays off until you do.

• Voice notes. You can send a voice note instead of typing. We transcribe it so we can act on what you said.
• The device link. Pro members can link a device so Birthday Buddy can learn the way you write from your own WhatsApp conversations. It reads both sides of those conversations. It is opt in, you can revoke it at any time, and the privacy policy sets out exactly what it reads, what is kept, and how long for. Turning it on means you confirm you are comfortable with that.

Your account and your contacts

When you import a contact, you are telling us you have the right to add that person's details. You are responsible for the contacts and the dates you import and for what you send to the people you know.

Acceptable use

Please use Birthday Buddy for what it is for: keeping up with the birthdays and the anniversaries of people in your life. Do not:

• Use it to spam, harass, or message people who do not want to hear from you.
• Import contact data you do not have the right to use.
• Try to break, overload, reverse engineer, or abuse the service.
• Use it to break the law or to break WhatsApp's or Meta's rules.

We can suspend or end your access if you misuse the service.

Drafts are suggestions

Birthday Buddy drafts messages for you, for birthdays and for anniversaries alike. The drafts are suggestions. You decide what to send and you send it yourself. You are responsible for the final message that goes out under your name.

Gift ideas and shopping links

When you ask, Birthday Buddy suggests gifts based on what you have told it about someone, each with a link to search for it on Amazon. Some of these links are affiliate links: if you buy through one, we may earn a small commission, at no extra cost to you. The suggestions are ideas, not endorsements. We never see what you buy, and Birthday Buddy never buys anything for you.

Subscriptions and billing

Birthday Buddy is free to try. Pro unlocks the full experience.

• Price. During our limited launch offer, Pro is $2.99 per month, or $29.99 per year, which is 50% off. After launch, Pro will cost new subscribers $5.99 per month, or $59.99 per year. Prices are in US dollars, and the price shown is the full amount we charge: we add no fees on top.
• Your launch price stays. If you subscribe at the launch price, you keep that price for as long as your subscription stays active, including after launch. If you cancel and subscribe again later, the price at that time applies.
• Trial. New members get their first month of Pro free, a 30 day trial. You add a payment method when you start it and nothing is charged during the trial. Birthday Buddy reminds you in WhatsApp a few days before it ends. Unless you cancel before the trial ends, your plan starts and the first payment is charged automatically. If you cancel during the trial, you are never charged and you go back to the free plan.
• Renewal. The monthly plan renews each month and the yearly plan renews each year, until you cancel.
• Cancellation. You can cancel anytime. Message Birthday Buddy to cancel. When you cancel, you keep Pro until the end of the period you have paid for, then it stops renewing.
• Refunds. See the refund policy below.
• Price changes. We may change the price. For a subscription you already have, we will tell you in WhatsApp at least 30 days before a new price applies, and you can cancel before it does. A launch price you locked in is never changed this way.

Payments are processed by Stripe. Stripe's terms apply to the payment itself.

Refund policy

You can try Pro free for 30 days, and Birthday Buddy reminds you in WhatsApp before anything is charged. You can cancel at any time by messaging Birthday Buddy, and you keep Pro until the end of the period you have already paid for. Payments are generally not refundable once a billing period has started, except where the law gives you a right to a refund, for example a cooling off right in your country. If you think you were charged by mistake, or you believe the law entitles you to a refund, email us at ssstechbusiness@gmail.com with the date of the charge and we will look into it.

Disclaimers

We work hard to make Birthday Buddy useful and reliable, but we provide it "as is" and "as available". We do not promise it will be uninterrupted, error free, or that every reminder will arrive exactly when you expect. Reminders depend on WhatsApp and Meta delivering messages, which is outside our control.

To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim all warranties that are not expressly stated here.

Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, SSS Tech LLC is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages, or for a missed birthday, a message that did not send, or data that did not sync. Our total liability for any claim relating to the service is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim, or 50 US dollars.

Some places do not allow these limits, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

Changes to the service and these terms

We may change, add, or remove features over time. We may also update these terms. When we make important changes, we will update the date above and let you know in WhatsApp. If you keep using Birthday Buddy after a change, you accept the updated terms.

Ending your use

You can stop using Birthday Buddy anytime and wipe your data with one message. We can suspend or end access if you break these terms or if we need to for legal or safety reasons.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, without regard to conflict of laws rules. Disputes will be handled in the state or federal courts located in Massachusetts.

Contact

Birthday Buddy, a product of SSS Tech LLC.
Email ssstechbusiness@gmail.com.