What Fold'em is
Fold'em helps you block gambling apps and websites on your iPhone until you choose to end it or your subscription ends, using Apple's Screen Time technology. By starting an exclusion you are deliberately giving up the ability to undo it on a whim. That is the product.
The lock
- Protection has no end date. Once locked, blocking stays on until it is ended, and there is no length to choose.
- Ending protection is deliberately hard. With a keyholder, ending protection needs their agreement, given in person, followed by a wait of 48 hours. If they say no the request closes, and if they never answer it closes after seven days without opening anything. Without a keyholder the wait is seven days from the request. Either way the request is then ready for seven days and closes if you never end protection. There is no faster path, and support cannot end your protection.
- The lock does not stop the moment a payment does. If your subscription ends, a 72 hour lapse window runs on the server and the shields come off when it runs out. Renewing inside that window closes it and nothing is released.
Subscriptions
Fold'em offers subscriptions that renew automatically, billed through your Apple ID. The plans and their prices are shown before purchase. Subscriptions renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends; manage or cancel in your Apple ID settings. If a plan starts with a free trial, Apple takes the first payment when the trial ends unless you cancel at least 24 hours before. Apple's refund rules apply.
What Fold'em is not
Fold'em is a self exclusion tool, not medical care, therapy, or professional advice. If gambling is harming you, talk to someone: the National Problem Gambling Helpline is free and confidential. Call or text 1 800 697 3738 (1-800-MY-RESET).
Honest limits
Blocking is enforced by Apple's Screen Time technology and is strong, but no blocker is absolute. We detect protection being switched off and tell your keyholder and supporters, but a determined person with device passcodes and time can defeat any system that runs on the phone. Fold'em is a commitment device, not a cage.
Your responsibilities
- You must be at least 17 and own the device you lock.
- Only invite someone who has agreed to the role. You share your code, and they say yes in their own Fold'em account.
- Don't use Fold'em to restrict someone else's device without their informed consent.
Account deletion
You can delete your account from inside the app. During an active exclusion, deletion follows the same safeguards as asking to end protection. Otherwise deleting the account would be a one tap way out, and the product would be worthless to the person who needed it most. Deleting your account does not cancel your subscription; cancel it in your Apple ID settings.
Fold'em also offers an optional app deletion lock. If you turn it on, the app cannot be deleted while its deletion delay is on, unless Screen Time is switched off in iOS Settings, which no app can prevent, and turning it off again starts its own 72 hour wait that your keyholder can see. It is a choice you make, and it is off unless you make it.
Liability
Fold'em is provided "as is". To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect or consequential losses, including gambling losses incurred while using or after defeating the blocker. Nothing here limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited.
Changes & termination
We may update these terms; material changes will be posted here and flagged in the app. We may discontinue the service with reasonable notice. Active locks will be honored or released, and never silently extended.
Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of Norway, without affecting any mandatory consumer protections of your country of residence.