Last updated: 6 October 2026. These terms cover both the website distribot.de and the distribot iPhone app in one document. Sections 1–5 concern the website, sections 6–13 the app, sections 14–19 both; section 4 applies to the website and to the app alike.
1. Scope, contracting party and what these terms cover
These terms cover two things in one document: the website distribot.de and the distribot iPhone app. Sections 1 to 5 concern the website (section 4 — ownership, brand assets, the reservation for text and data mining, and feedback — applies to the website and to the app alike). Sections 6 to 13 are the terms for the app and your distribot account. Sections 14 to 19 apply to both. Your contracting party in every case is:
Aron Taner
Burgfriedstr. 15
83024 Rosenheim
Germany
Email: hello@distribot.de
Phone: +49 160 98123994
How to reach us is on our Support page, further details in the Imprint (Legal notice).
Deviating, conflicting or supplementary terms of your own do not become part of this agreement unless we expressly agree to them.
2. What this website is
This website is an information and support page for the distribot iPhone app. It offers no registration, no user account, no login, no purchase and no download. Using it is free of charge, and it does not create any continuing obligation for either side.
Nothing on this website is a binding offer within the meaning of § 145 BGB (German Civil Code). Statements about the app describe the app as we build and release it; where a feature is described as planned or not yet available, it is marked as such and may change or be dropped before release.
3. Permitted use of the website and of what it shows
You may view this website and use it for information purposes. You may not:
- interfere with the operation of the website or its underlying infrastructure, or attempt to do so — for example by overloading it, by circumventing security measures, or by automated access that goes beyond ordinary search-engine indexing;
- use the website in a way that breaches applicable law or infringes the rights of third parties;
- copy, scrape or systematically extract content in order to reproduce it elsewhere, beyond what copyright law permits without consent (section 4);
- collect, extract or reproduce content from this website or from the app in order to develop, train, validate or fine-tune a machine learning system, an artificial intelligence model or a generative model — we have expressly reserved that use in section 4.3.
We may block access if any of these is breached and the breach is not remedied after notice, or immediately where a delay would cause harm.
4. Intellectual property and reserved uses
4.1 Who owns what is here
All content on this website — text, layout, graphics, the penguin mascot and other illustrations, the logo and the source code — is protected by copyright and other intellectual property rights and belongs to us or to our licensors. Any use beyond what statutory copyright exceptions permit requires our prior written consent.
4.2 Brand assets and third-party marks
“distribot”, the distribot logo and the mascot are our brand assets. Third-party names and marks that appear on this website or in the app belong to their respective owners and are used descriptively only, to say what the software does. Their use implies no association, sponsorship or endorsement.
4.3 Reservation of use for text and data mining, including AI training
We expressly reserve the use of all content on this website and in the app for text and data mining within the meaning of § 44b(1) UrhG (German Copyright Act) and Art. 2(2) of Directive (EU) 2019/790, and in particular against the exception in § 44b(2) UrhG and Art. 4(1) of that Directive. The reservation covers any use of that content to develop, train, validate or fine-tune a machine learning system, an artificial intelligence model or a generative model, and any storage of it in a data set assembled for such a purpose. It is declared under § 44b(3) UrhG and Art. 4(3) of that Directive.
The reservation is stated here in human-readable form and, in machine-readable form, in a tdm-reservation meta tag on every page of this domain and in the reservation file at /.well-known/tdmrep.json. It applies however the content was retrieved; copying it by hand needs our consent in any event, under ordinary copyright law. Text and data mining for scientific research under § 60d UrhG is unaffected. Any use for a reserved purpose requires our prior written consent, which we give or withhold at our discretion.
4.4 Ideas and feedback you send us
You are welcome to send us ideas, suggestions, bug reports or feature requests, and we are glad when you do. An idea as such is not protected by copyright, and we may act on one freely: we cannot promise never to build something you also thought of, and sending us an idea does not by itself create a claim to payment, to credit, or to confidentiality.
Where what you send is a protected work of your own — a drawing, a text, a piece of code — you keep every right in it. We will read it and think about it, and we will not use it beyond that unless we ask you first and you agree. If you would rather we treated your message as confidential, tell us and we will. If you send us screenshots, recordings or files with a bug report, you allow us to use them free of charge solely to analyse and fix the issue; we delete them once it is resolved. None of this touches your TikTok videos: they stay yours, and the app does not store them (section 9.2).
5. Availability of this website
We aim to keep this website available continuously, but we do not warrant uninterrupted availability. Maintenance, technical faults and events outside our control (including disruptions at our hosting provider) can lead to temporary unavailability. As the website is provided free of charge and for information only, this creates no claim against us.
6. The distribot app — licence terms
The app is distributed through Apple's App Store. The terms in sections 6 to 13 are our terms for the app. Where Apple's standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement applies to your download, these terms apply alongside it; nothing here reduces any right that licence gives you.
6.1 Your agreement is with us, not with Apple
This licence is concluded between you and us only, and not with Apple. We, not Apple, are solely responsible for the app and its content.
6.2 Scope of the licence
We grant you a non-transferable licence to use the app on any Apple-branded products that you own or control, as permitted by the Usage Rules set out in the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions — except that the app may also be accessed and used by other accounts associated with the purchaser via Family Sharing or volume purchasing. You may not distribute the app over a network, transfer the licence, or reverse-engineer it beyond what applicable law permits.
6.3 Maintenance and support
We alone provide any maintenance and support for the app. Apple has no obligation whatsoever to furnish any maintenance or support services in relation to it. You reach us via our Support page.
6.4 Warranty and product claims
We are solely responsible for any product warranties, whether express or implied by law, to the extent they are not effectively disclaimed. If the app fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price for the app to you — for distribot that price is zero, so no refund arises in practice. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Apple has no other warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to the app, and any other claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs or expenses attributable to any failure to conform to any warranty are our sole responsibility. We, not Apple, are responsible for addressing any claim you or a third party may have relating to the app — including product liability claims, any claim that the app fails to conform to a legal or regulatory requirement, and claims under consumer protection, privacy or similar legislation.
6.5 Intellectual property claims
If a third party claims that the app infringes its intellectual property rights, we, not Apple, are solely responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement and discharge of that claim.
6.6 Legal compliance
By using the app you represent and warrant that you are not located in a country that is subject to a U.S. Government embargo, or that has been designated by the U.S. Government as a “terrorist supporting” country, and that you are not listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
6.7 Third-party services and their terms
When you use the app you must comply with the applicable terms of any third party whose service you use through it. You sign in to the app with your own TikTok account, and the app reads your profile and your videos from it. TikTok's terms of service and privacy policy govern your use of TikTok. They apply in addition to these terms, we are not a party to them, and we cannot change them or waive them on your behalf. What that means in practice is described in section 9.
6.8 Apple as third-party beneficiary
Apple and Apple's subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these licence terms. Once you accept them, Apple has the right — and is deemed to have accepted the right — to enforce them against you as a third-party beneficiary.
6.9 Who is responsible for the app, and where to reach us about it
The app is provided and licensed to you by Aron Taner, Burgfriedstr. 15, 83024 Rosenheim, Germany. Any questions, complaints or claims with respect to the app should be directed to us at hello@distribot.de or +49 160 98123994. Apple is not responsible for handling them.
7. What the app does
distribot is a habit app for people who post short videos on TikTok. You sign in with your own TikTok account and set a weekly goal. Every calendar day on which TikTok lists at least one public video of yours that was published on that day counts towards that goal. The app only reads; it does not publish anything. Pip the penguin keeps you company on the home screen, shows you an idea for your next post, and can remind you if you have not posted yet.
- A week is seven days. Your first week starts on the day of your first counted video. You choose a goal of 3, 5 or 7 posting days per week; a change to the goal applies from the next week.
- A day counts once. However many videos you publish on one day, that day counts once. Days end at midnight in the time zone stored for your account.
- Reaching the goal finishes the week. The rest of that week is rest days, and the next week starts the day after it ends. If a week ends short of the goal, the count of weeks in a row starts again, and your next counted video starts week 1. Your best run is kept.
- What the app reads. From TikTok it reads only your basic profile and the list of your own videos — not your followers or messages. Videos that TikTok does not list for your account, such as private ones, do not count. A day that has counted stays counted.
- The app publishes nothing. It cannot post, schedule, change or delete anything on your TikTok account.
The weeks, the flame and the penguin are a game. They have no monetary value, confer no claim against us, and cannot be transferred, sold or exchanged.
8. Your distribot account
8.1 Who may create an account
You must be at least 16 years old. You must also be able to enter into these terms. If you are under 18, you need the consent of a parent or legal guardian. Each account is for one natural person and for that person's own use; accounts may not be shared, sold or transferred. You may not create a new account if we have closed an account of yours for good cause under the second paragraph of section 13.3, unless we agree.
8.2 Signing in and keeping access safe
You sign in with your own TikTok account; there is no other way to sign in. The information you give us must be accurate. Keep access to your TikTok account and to your iPhone safe, and tell us without undue delay if you believe someone else has used your account. You are responsible for what happens in your account, unless you are not at fault for its misuse.
8.3 Ending your account
You can delete your account at any time in the app (tap your picture, then “Delete account”), without notice, without giving a reason and without any cost. Deletion is permanent: your weeks, your settings and your video records cannot be restored afterwards. Nothing on your TikTok account is affected.
9. Your TikTok account, and what the app reads
9.1 Your TikTok account and TikTok's rules
The app needs a TikTok account of your own. When you sign in with it, you act on your own account and under TikTok's terms of service, community guidelines and policies, which apply alongside these terms. You can end the connection at any time in the app or in your TikTok settings.
Which videos TikTok makes available to the app, how soon, and whether a video is listed at all are decided by TikTok and by the settings of your own account — not by us. We cannot promise that a video will be listed or counted at a particular time. A video that TikTok does not list for your account does not count.
9.2 What the app does with your videos
The app only reads. It does not publish, change or delete anything on your TikTok account, and it never stores your video files. To show you your last 30 days it keeps, for each of your videos, its reference number, its publication time, its title, the address of its cover image and its link on TikTok; the details are in our Privacy Policy. We use this only to provide the app to you — not for advertising, not to train any AI model, and not for any other purpose of our own.
9.3 What you publish on TikTok, and Pip's ideas
What you publish on TikTok is your own decision and your own responsibility. The app is not involved in it and does not check it.
The ideas Pip shows you are general suggestions for a post. Whether and how you use one is up to you; make sure that what you post respects the rights of others and TikTok's rules. We do not promise that an idea suits you, your topic or your audience, or that it leads to any particular result.
9.4 If something goes wrong
Reading your videos depends on your connection, on TikTok and on our servers. If TikTok cannot be reached, a video may be counted later than it was published. If you think a day should have counted, write to us and we will look at it.
10. Rules for using the app
When you use the app, you may not:
- connect a TikTok account that is not yours, or use the app in a way that breaks the law or TikTok's rules;
- use the app to circumvent limits that TikTok or we set on access to data;
- access the app or our servers by automated means, or use them other than through the app as we provide it;
- attempt to manipulate your weeks or another user's, for example by interfering with the time zone or with the communication between the app and our servers;
- probe, test or circumvent the security of the app or our servers, or place an unreasonable load on them;
- use another person's account, or give a false identity.
11. Price, purchases and withdrawal
The app is free. It contains no advertising, no subscription and no in-app purchases, and there is nothing in it that can be bought with money: there is no shop and no in-app currency of any kind. Should paid features ever be introduced, they would be offered separately, with their price and your rights of withdrawal shown before any purchase, and counting your days and weeks would not be moved behind a payment.
As the app is supplied free of charge, you can simply stop using it and delete your account at any time, with no notice, no reason and no consequence.
12. Your data
To provide the app we process your account data, your topic and settings, your weeks, your TikTok connection and information about your own TikTok videos. We do so only as described in our Privacy Policy, never for advertising, and we do not sell your data. How to delete your account and what that removes is on our Data deletion page.
13. Availability, changes to the app, and ending the service
13.1 Availability
We aim to keep the app and our servers working and available, but we cannot warrant uninterrupted availability. Maintenance, technical faults, and events outside our control can lead to interruptions. A third-party service can change or withdraw the interface the app depends on, at its own discretion and without notice to us; if that happens, reading your videos may stop working until we have adapted the app, or the feature may have to be removed. Apple may likewise change the terms on which apps are distributed. If a day cannot count because our service was unavailable, we will look at it on request, but we cannot promise to restore a week.
13.2 Changes to the app
We may develop the app further and change its features, where the change is reasonable for you taking our interests into account — in particular where it is needed for technical or security reasons, because of a change at a connected service, or because of a change in the law. We will not remove the ability to delete your account or to disconnect TikTok.
To be explicit about the legal position as we see it: the app is supplied without a price of any kind, and the personal data you provide is processed exclusively to provide the app to you (§ 327(3) BGB). On that basis the statutory rules on consumer contracts for digital products (§§ 327 ff. BGB) do not apply, and we owe you no updates as a matter of statute. We intend to maintain the app and to keep it working on current versions of iOS, but that is our own undertaking, freely given. Should a court see the matter differently, your statutory rights apply in full and nothing here limits them.
13.3 Suspension and termination by us
We may end the agreement for the app, and with it your account, with at least four weeks' notice, for example if we discontinue the app. We will tell you in the app, and you can use the time to save anything you want to keep.
We may suspend or close an account without notice for good cause, in particular where it is used in serious breach of section 10, where this is necessary to protect other people, the service or our servers, or where we are legally required to do so. Where the circumstances allow, we will first warn you and give you the opportunity to remedy the breach, and we will tell you the reason. Where TikTok requires it, or where the way an account is used endangers the app's ability to read TikTok data for other users, we may restrict the TikTok connection for that account in the same way. Where days or weeks were obtained in breach of section 10, we may correct them to the value they would have had without the breach and will tell you why. Your statutory rights are unaffected.
13.4 Transfer of the agreement
We may transfer this agreement to a successor who takes over the app. We will tell you at least four weeks in advance; you may then end the agreement and delete your account at any time.
14. Liability
We are liable without limitation for damage arising from injury to life, body or health, for damage caused intentionally or by gross negligence, under the German Product Liability Act (Produkthaftungsgesetz), and to the extent we have given a guarantee.
In the case of slight negligence we are liable only for breach of a material contractual obligation — that is, an obligation whose fulfilment makes proper performance possible in the first place and on whose observance you may regularly rely — and in that case only for the foreseeable damage typical of this type of contract.
Any further liability is excluded. This limitation applies equally to our legal representatives, employees and other agents. Statutory rights, in particular under mandatory consumer protection law, remain unaffected.
Both the app and this website are provided to you free of charge, and we receive nothing in return. Where German law treats a free provision of this kind as a gift, the statutory liability privilege for donors (§ 521 BGB) would give you less than the paragraphs above already give you. Those paragraphs are what we undertake towards you, and they are what applies.
The content of this website is compiled with care, but we give no warranty that it is complete, accurate or up to date.
If you breach these terms culpably and a third party raises a claim against us because of it, you will indemnify us against that claim and against the necessary costs of our legal defence. We will tell you about any such claim without undue delay, give you the chance to respond to it, and will not settle it without your agreement, which you may not unreasonably withhold. Where we contributed to the damage ourselves, the indemnity is reduced accordingly (§ 254 BGB).
15. External links and third-party content
This website contains links to external third-party websites over whose content we have no influence. Responsibility lies at all times with the respective provider or operator of the linked pages. At the time of linking, the linked pages were checked for possible legal infringements and none were apparent. Permanent monitoring of linked pages is not reasonable without concrete indications of an infringement; if we become aware of one, we will remove the link promptly. The corresponding statutory notice under § 7(2) DDG is in the Imprint (Legal notice).
The same applies to any third-party service the app connects to: we do not control it, we are not responsible for its content, its availability or its own handling of your data, and your relationship with that service is yours, not ours.
16. Changes to these terms
We may amend these terms where a change in the legal situation, in the app, or in the technical operation of the website or of a connected service makes it necessary. The current version is always available on this page and applies from the date shown at the top.
For the app and your account (sections 6 to 13) it works differently: an amendment that touches rights you already have does not apply to you unless you accept it. We will announce such an amendment at least six weeks before we intend to apply it — on this page and, so that you cannot miss it, in the app itself — and ask for your agreement there. We will not treat your silence as agreement, and nothing in these terms is meant to do so. If you do not agree, the version you accepted goes on applying; in that case we may end the agreement under section 13.3 with the notice set out there. You may of course also delete your account at any moment, with no notice period, no reason and nothing owed in either direction.
17. Governing law, jurisdiction and severability
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.
If you are a consumer with habitual residence in the EU, this choice of law does not deprive you of the protection of mandatory provisions of the law of your country of residence (Art. 6(2) Rome I Regulation), and you may also bring proceedings in the courts of your country of residence.
If you are a merchant, a legal person under public law or a special fund under public law, the place of jurisdiction for all disputes arising from this agreement is Rosenheim, Germany.
Should any provision of these terms be or become invalid, the validity of the remaining provisions is unaffected.
18. Consumer dispute resolution
We are neither obliged nor willing to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board (§ 36 VSBG). The European Commission's online dispute resolution platform was discontinued on 20 July 2025 and is therefore no longer referenced here.
19. Contact
Questions about these terms: hello@distribot.de