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Terms of Service

Version 2026-10-30 · in force since 30 October 2026 · previous versions

1. Who we are

Startnest is operated by unytverse ag, Schlyffistrasse 5, 8806 Bäch SZ, Switzerland (“we”, “us”). These terms are the agreement between you and us for using Startnest. Company details are in the imprint.

2. The service

Startnest is a personal start page in your browser: your links, groups and boards, and widgets such as weather, a calendar agenda, notes and to-dos, synced across your devices. Some widgets show information from third parties (for example weather and public holidays) — see section 12.

We keep improving Startnest, so features change, are added or are removed over time. We tell you in advance about changes that matter to you.

3. Your account

• You sign in with your Google account. Your email address is your Startnest account. Use a base address — addresses with a “+” alias aren’t accepted.
• An account is for one person. You must be at least 16 years old.
• For personal use. Startnest is for individuals, each for their own use — at home or at work, including for your job or your own business. It isn’t for organisations: a company, school or other organisation may not buy, provide or manage Startnest for its staff or members, and you may not use one account as a team, share your access, resell Startnest or build it into a product or service of your own. Sharing a board with up to two people, as the app offers, is fine. For use by a team or organisation, write to us.
• Keep access to your Google account safe; anything done while signed in counts as done by you.
• If you change your Google address, contact us and we’ll move your account to the new address.

4. Subscription, trial and payment

• Price: USD 24 per year, including any sales tax or VAT that applies where you live. The price is shown before you subscribe.
• Free trial: 14 days. You add a payment method when you start the trial, but nothing is charged until the trial ends. We remind you in the app before the first payment.
• One free trial per customer and payment method. If you had a subscription before, or your card was already used for a trial, a new trial isn’t started — we cancel it right away, nothing is charged, and you can subscribe without a trial.
• Renewal: the subscription renews automatically every year until you cancel.
• Price changes: we tell you at least 30 days before a new price applies. It applies from your next renewal; you can cancel before then.
• Our reseller: purchases are processed by Paddle.com Market Limited (“Paddle”), our online reseller and Merchant of Record. Paddle takes your payment, issues invoices and handles sales tax/VAT; Paddle’s buyer terms apply to the purchase itself.

5. Cancelling

Cancel any time in the app’s settings. If you cancel during the trial, you are never charged. If you cancel later, your subscription stays active until the end of the year you paid for and isn’t renewed. Your boards and links stay; you can come back any time.

Deleting your account (in the app’s settings) removes your data right away and cancels a running subscription immediately; the rest of the paid year ends with it and is not refunded (see section 6).

6. Refunds

New customers can ask for a full refund within 30 days of their first payment, without giving a reason, by writing to us or to Paddle. The money goes back to the original payment method. After that, payments are non-refundable — including renewals and unused time after cancelling or deleting your account. This doesn’t affect rights you have under mandatory consumer law, such as the statutory right of withdrawal for consumers in the EU and UK, which Paddle handles.

7. Your content

Your links, boards, notes, to-dos, settings and the images you upload belong to you. You allow us to store and process them only as far as needed to run Startnest for you — we don’t publish them, sell them or use them for advertising. You can download all of it at any time in the app’s settings.

Images you upload as link icons must be yours or allowed to be used, and must be lawful. Icons are delivered through public, hard-to-guess addresses so your browser can load them quickly; if we receive a valid notice that an image infringes rights or is unlawful, we may remove it and every copy of it.

8. Fair use

Use Startnest for yourself and lawfully. In particular, don’t

• try to break, overload, scan or reverse-engineer the service, or get at other people’s data;
• use it to store or distribute unlawful content, malware or material that infringes others’ rights;
• automate access in ways that place an unreasonable load on us or on the third-party services behind the widgets;
• create several accounts to get repeated free trials, or resell access to Startnest.

9. Suspension and termination

We may suspend or close accounts at our own discretion, at any time — in particular if these terms are broken, in cases of abuse or fraud, or to protect the service and other users. Where possible, we tell you first. You may end the agreement at any time by cancelling or deleting your account.

10. Inactive accounts

An account that never had a free trial, a subscription or free access is deleted automatically after 12 months without a visit, with everything in it. Accounts that have or had a subscription are not affected by this.

11. Availability

We work to keep Startnest available, fast and safe, and announce planned maintenance in the app. Startnest is provided “as is” and “as available”; we don’t promise uninterrupted or error-free availability.

12. Information from third parties

Some widgets show information we obtain from third parties — for example weather (MET Norway), public and school holidays (OpenHolidays) and the calendars you connect. We show it as received and can’t guarantee it is complete, correct or current; please don’t rely on it where accuracy is critical. Links on your page lead to websites we don’t control.

13. Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we exclude all liability for any damage arising from or in connection with Startnest, its availability or the information shown in it — direct or indirect, including lost profits and lost data. Where the law does not allow liability to be excluded (for example for intent or gross negligence), we are liable only to the extent the law requires.

14. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. We tell you about changes in the app before they take effect. By continuing to use Startnest after a change takes effect, you accept the new version. If you don’t agree, stop using Startnest and cancel your subscription. Every version stays available under previous versions.

15. Law and courts

Swiss law applies, excluding its conflict-of-law rules and the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. Courts at the seat of unytverse ag (Freienbach SZ) have jurisdiction. If you are a consumer, you can also sue at your place of residence, and the mandatory consumer protection rules of your country of residence continue to apply.

16. Contact

Questions about these terms: [email protected] · unytverse ag, Schlyffistrasse 5, 8806 Bäch SZ, Switzerland.