Bekanto Terms of Use

Last updated: 5 October 2026

This English version is provided for information. The German version is the binding one.

1. Provider and scope

Bekanto is an iPhone app by Simon Gneuß, Birkenweg 6, 09569 Oederan, Germany, info@simongneuss.com ("we"). These terms apply to any use of the app. When you get the app from the App Store, Apple's Licensed Application End User License Agreement applies as well. How Bekanto handles your data is described in the privacy policy.

2. What Bekanto does

• Bekanto is free. The app reads business cards on your iPhone and stores cards, notes, tasks and connections on your device and, if you turn it on, in your own iCloud account.
• We run no server and have no access to your data.
• Features that rely on Apple services (iCloud, speech recognition, Apple Maps, Apple Intelligence) are only available as far as Apple offers them on your device.
• Text recognition and automatic extraction can make mistakes. Check the recognised details before you rely on them.
• There is no entitlement to particular features or to constant availability. We may develop, change or discontinue the app.

3. Your data and backing it up

• Your data lives on your iPhone and, with sync on, in your iCloud account, not with us. We can neither see it nor back it up or restore it for you.
• You are responsible for backing up your data. Turn on iCloud sync in Bekanto and back up your iPhone regularly (iCloud Backup or a computer).
• What you delete while sync is on is also deleted from iCloud and from your other devices. Deleted data can only be recovered from a backup of your own.
• Cards you save to the Contacts app are copies. Changing or deleting them in Bekanto does not affect those copies.

4. Data about other people

The people whose business cards you scan do not use Bekanto themselves. You decide what you keep about them and you are responsible for that data. If you use Bekanto for work, follow the data protection rules that apply to you. Do not use Bekanto for unlawful purposes.

5. Liability

1. We are liable without limitation for intent and gross negligence, for injury to life, body or health, under the German Product Liability Act and for defects we fraudulently concealed.
2. For a slightly negligent breach of an essential duty, meaning a duty whose fulfilment makes proper use of the app possible in the first place and on which you may regularly rely, our liability is limited to the foreseeable damage typical for this kind of app. Otherwise we are not liable for slight negligence.
3. Except in the cases of paragraph 1, our liability for loss of data is limited to the damage that would also have occurred had you backed up regularly as described in section 3, that is, the effort of restoring the data from such a backup.
4. For outages, errors or data loss in third-party services, in particular iCloud, we are only liable where we are responsible for them.

6. Changes

We may change these terms, for example when the app or the law changes. We publish the new version with a new date at this address.

7. Final provisions

German law applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. Mandatory consumer protection rules of the country where you have your habitual residence remain unaffected. If a provision is invalid, the others remain valid.