Terms of Use
These terms cover your use of Foundation, whether that is the app on your phone or the version that runs in a browser at foundation100.com. Using either one means you accept them.
What Foundation is
Foundation is a personal tracking tool. Nearly everything in it is something you entered, and it reports that back to you. Your daily score is ordinary arithmetic on your own numbers: each pillar measures what you logged against the target you set for it. No model produces it, and it is not a judgement of you.
Three things are recorded without you typing them. Your phone's step counter banks each day's total on its own. A bill you mark as paid automatically logs its own payment on its due date each month, which moves your balance, your spending and your score. And if you turn Apple Health on, weight readings taken by your scale or another app arrive as weigh-ins. Bill payments and imported weigh-ins can be edited or deleted like anything you typed.
Foundation is not a medical device, not a health professional, and not a financial adviser.
Nothing in the app is medical advice. Calorie targets, macro splits, maintenance estimates and bodyweight targets are arithmetic performed on figures you supplied. Speak to a doctor or a dietitian before changing how you eat or train, particularly if you have any health condition.
Foundation does not know your medical history and it will not stop you. It accepts a daily calorie target as low as 800, and when you type your own target it checks only that it is not a slipped digit. Left to itself, Foundation never suggests a target below 1,200. The daily score is not a measure of your health: a target you set too low will still read as a full day when you hit it. If you are pregnant or breastfeeding, or you have or have had an eating disorder, please speak to a doctor before using Foundation to decide what you eat.
Nothing in the app is financial advice. Balances, net worth, budgets and investment values are a record of what you entered plus, where shown, a live market price fetched from a third party. Prices may be delayed, wrong, or unavailable. Foundation does not recommend, and no figure it displays is a projection or a promise of any outcome.
Foundation has no connection to your bank. It cannot see a bank account, it never asks for or holds a banking login, and it cannot move money or make a payment. Everything in the Money pillar is a record you keep, not an account you operate. The Foundation Pro subscription described below is the one place money changes hands, and Apple handles that.
One feature is easy to misread, so it is spelled out. Marking a bill as paid automatically tells Foundation to write that expense into your own record on its due date each month, without asking you. It does not pay anything. Nothing reaches your bank, so if the real payment fails or you cancel the service, the app will not know and your record will say you paid.
Where Foundation Is Offered
Foundation is made for the United States. The iPhone app is offered on the United States App Store and no other, Foundation Pro is priced in US dollars, and the app is written and supported in English only. We do not offer or market Foundation in any other country. These terms are written for someone living in the United States, and there is no other version of them.
The browser version at foundation100.com/app is reachable from anywhere, because that is what a public web address is. We do not block anyone by country and we do not check where you are, so if you open it from outside the United States you can make an account and use it. Being plain about what that does and does not mean: it does not make Foundation an offering in your country, nothing can be bought there, support is in English from the United States, and these are the only terms there are.
How It Was Built
Foundation is built and run by one person, and a large part of its code was written with AI coding tools working under that person's direction. It is said here because it is true and you may want to know it, not because any law or App Store rule requires it, and not to move responsibility onto a tool. Every change was decided on and released by a person. One person is responsible for all of it, whatever typed any given line, and your rights under these terms and under the consumer law where you live are exactly what they would be for software written any other way.
Foundation has not been through an independent security audit. That is the honest position for an app at this stage, and it would be true whether or not AI had been involved.
Your account
You need an account to use Foundation, and you are responsible for keeping your password safe. You must be at least 13 years old.
You keep ownership of everything you record. You grant us only the permission needed to store it and sync it to your own devices.
Foundation Pro
Foundation is free to download, and it stays useful for free. Logging workouts, cash in and out and calories, seeing today's score, and your account backing up and syncing across your devices all work with no subscription.
Foundation Pro opens everything else: weight and steps, macros and the food database, saved meals and saved workouts, physique photos, the journal, notes and goals, investments, assets, debts and portfolios, net worth, budget and bills, spending by category, the month review, Insights and every all-time stat, and opening any past day to read it back in full.
These are the terms Pro is sold on. The price and the trial are shown in the app on the screen that offers the subscription, and nothing is charged without you confirming the purchase with Apple first.
- Pro is an auto-renewing subscription, sold on two plans: $9.99 per month or $59.99 per year. Both prices are in US dollars, and they are the only ones offered. What you will be charged is shown on the Pro screen in the app before you confirm the purchase with Apple.
- A free trial is offered on both plans. Whether your Apple ID is still eligible for one, and how many days it runs, is decided by the App Store and shown on the Pro screen in the app before you buy. If you have already used a trial for Foundation, you will not be offered another one and the subscription starts charging at once.
- Payment is charged to your Apple ID when the free trial ends. If you subscribe without a trial, it is charged at confirmation of purchase.
- It renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of the period.
- You can manage the subscription, or turn off auto-renew, in your Apple ID settings after purchase. Settings, Account in the app links straight to it.
- One subscription covers every device you sign in to Foundation on. On a new device, or after reinstalling, Restore Purchases on the Pro screen or in Settings under Account brings it back.
- If you have a free trial, any unused part of it is forfeited when you buy a subscription.
- Prices may change. Apple notifies subscribers of a price increase and, where its rules require it, asks you to agree before it takes effect.
Refunds are handled by Apple, not by us. Purchases are made through the App Store, so refund requests go to Apple through reportaproblem.apple.com.
If a subscription lapses, nothing is deleted because of it. Pro features stop being available, and everything held on your account is still there and reappears if you subscribe again.
Fair use
Do not attempt to break into other people's accounts, disrupt the service, or use Foundation for anything unlawful. Do not copy the app or take it apart to work out how it is built. Nothing in this section takes away a right the law where you live gives you regardless.
What you record in Foundation is yours and we do not go looking through it. But do not store anything in it that is unlawful to possess. If we are told an account holds that kind of content, we will remove it and close the account.
Availability
Foundation is provided as it is. We work to keep it running and correct, but we do not guarantee it will always be available, uninterrupted, or free of errors. Sync depends on your internet connection and on services we do not control.
Keep your own backups of anything you cannot afford to lose. Settings, Account includes an export of everything the app is currently holding. Two things are not in it. Physique photo images are files rather than data, so only the record of each photo travels. And Foundation clears individual meals after the following day and individual workouts once the week rolls over, so an export carries the daily and weekly totals for those rather than the entries behind them.
Limitation of liability
To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss arising from your use of Foundation, including lost data, lost income, or decisions made on the basis of figures shown in the app. Nothing here limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited.
Apple's Part In This
Foundation is downloaded through Apple's App Store. These terms are between you and us. Apple is not a party to them, and Apple is not responsible for Foundation or for anything in it. Apple's own Licensed Application End User License Agreement also applies to the download, and where it and these terms disagree about the download itself, Apple's takes precedence. That is the only thing it overrides. Everything else on this page is between you and us.
The copy you download is licensed to you, not sold, for your own use on Apple-branded devices you own or control, on the terms of the App Store's usage rules.
Apple has no obligation to support Foundation. All support comes from us, at Support@foundation100.com. If the app fails to conform to any warranty that applies, you may tell Apple and Apple will refund the purchase price if you paid one; beyond that refund Apple has no other warranty obligation, and any other claim about the app is ours to answer, not Apple's. That includes a claim that the app does not work, a claim under product liability or consumer protection law, and a claim that the app infringes someone else's intellectual property, which we would defend and settle.
You confirm you are not in a country subject to a United States embargo or listed by the United States as a prohibited or restricted party.
Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and may enforce them against you.
Ending it
You can delete your account at any time from Settings, under Account. That removes the account, everything saved to it, and the copy on this phone. It cannot be undone, so export your data first if you want to keep it.
We may suspend or close an account that breaches these terms. Unless the breach makes it impossible, we will tell you why and give you a chance to put it right first.
We may also stop running Foundation. If that happens we will email the address on your account before it closes, and the export in Settings will keep working until it does.
Changes
If these terms change, the date at the top of this page changes with them.
We will only change them for a reason: to reflect a change to the app or to what Foundation Pro includes, to keep up with a change in the law or in Apple's rules, or to correct something that is wrong or unclear.
If a change actually affects you, we will give you at least 30 days' notice, in the app or by email, before it takes effect. If you do not want the new terms you are free to leave: turn off auto-renew in your Apple ID settings and Pro keeps working until the end of the period you have already paid for. Your account and everything on it stay exactly as they are unless you choose to delete them.
Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of New Hampshire, United States, without regard to its conflict of laws rules. Any dispute arising out of them belongs in the state or federal courts sitting in New Hampshire, and both you and we agree to those courts. Nothing in this paragraph takes away a protection given to you by the law of the place you live that cannot be given up by agreement.
Contact
Foundation is made and sold by an individual, not a company:
Maximus A. Spada
19 Morgan Farm Rd
Raymond, NH 03077
United States
Telephone: 603-244-8241
Email: Support@foundation100.com
Email is read every day and is the fastest way to reach us. The address and telephone number are here because Apple's licence terms require a way to contact us about a complaint.