Last updated: 24.06.2026
These Terms of Service govern your use of the Hovytory mobile application, related web links, and backend services operated by Otternway UG (haftungsbeschränkt).
Otternway UG (haftungsbeschränkt)
Amtsgericht Tostedt (Germany)
HRB 211390
Otternweg 3
21629 Neu Wulmstorf
Germany
Email: info@otternway.com
By creating an account, accessing Hovytory, or using Hovytory, you agree to these Terms of Service. If you do not agree, you must not use Hovytory.
If we make material changes to these Terms, we may ask you to accept the updated Terms before continuing to use affected features. Your continued use after an effective update means that the updated Terms apply to your future use, unless mandatory law requires a different procedure.
Hovytory helps users organize home inventory data such as spaces, rooms, containers, items, images, dates, reminders, and related activity. The service may include account features, local device storage, synchronization, collaboration, notifications, search, scanner features, statistics, audit-log views, and subscription-based functionality.
Hovytory is an organizational tool. It is not an insurance, tax, legal, valuation, product-safety, archival, or evidence-preservation service. You remain responsible for checking important information and keeping independent copies of documents, receipts, warranty records, insurance records, tax records, legal evidence, or other materials that are important to you.
We may change, improve, suspend, or discontinue parts of Hovytory where reasonable, including for maintenance, security, legal, app-store, technical, or product reasons. We will respect mandatory consumer rights that apply to digital services and digital content.
You are responsible for keeping access to your account, devices, and sign-in methods secure and for all activity under your account. You must provide accurate account information and keep it up to date where required.
You must not share credentials in a way that allows unauthorized access, use another person's account without permission, or bypass account or entitlement controls.
You must use Hovytory lawfully and responsibly. In particular, you must not:
You remain responsible for the inventory entries, images, profile data, names, notes, dates, prices, quantities, and other content you add to Hovytory. You must have the rights needed to upload, store, process, and share that content.
You grant us the non-exclusive rights needed to host, process, store, cache, display, synchronize, back up, transmit, index, generate previews from, and otherwise technically handle your content so we can provide Hovytory to you and, where applicable, to members of shared spaces.
You are responsible for the accuracy, completeness, and lawfulness of your content. Hovytory does not verify that inventory entries, values, dates, expiry information, labels, or images are correct.
When you join or create a shared space, other members may be able to see, edit, copy, export, delete, or act on content and activity associated with that space depending on the available permissions and product behavior. You are responsible for inviting only people who should have access.
Content and activity in a shared space may remain available to other members even if you leave the space or delete your account, where this is necessary to preserve shared records for the remaining members or to protect legitimate interests. You are responsible for managing permissions and removing access when someone should no longer see shared content.
Some features may require a paid subscription or in-app purchase. Purchases are processed by Apple App Store or Google Play under their applicable terms. We use RevenueCat to help manage subscription products, entitlements, purchase restoration, and subscription state.
The features available to you depend on your current plan and entitlement status. Free or paid limits may include, for example, limits for owned spaces, items, active members, scanner features, statistics, audit-log access, or other product limits shown in the app.
Subscription availability, pricing, renewal, cancellation, refund handling, and taxes may depend on the app store and your location. Unless stated otherwise by the relevant app store, you can manage or cancel subscriptions through your Apple App Store or Google Play account settings.
Deleting the app or deleting your Hovytory account may not cancel an app-store subscription. You are responsible for cancelling subscriptions through the relevant app-store account where required. Mandatory consumer cancellation, withdrawal, refund, warranty, and conformity rights remain unaffected.
Hovytory may rely on third-party services for authentication, hosting, databases, object storage, analytics, diagnostics, observability, notifications, email delivery, app-store purchases, and subscription management. Your use of app stores, sign-in providers, and device platform services may also be governed by their own terms.
Service availability may depend on third-party platforms such as Apple, Google, Firebase, RevenueCat, hosting providers, push-notification infrastructure, and object-storage providers.
We aim to provide Hovytory reliably, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted availability, error-free operation, permanent availability of every feature, successful synchronization at all times, or delivery of every notification or reminder. Maintenance, outages, platform changes, network issues, app-store changes, third-party failures, or security work may affect access.
Hovytory may store data locally on your device and synchronize with our backend. Sync conflicts, delayed connectivity, local device changes, account deletion, corrupted local state, or platform behavior may affect what data is available on a specific device.
We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect the service. No internet-connected service can be guaranteed to be completely secure or permanently available.
You are responsible for maintaining independent backups or exports of important information. Hovytory is not intended to be the only storage location for information that would cause material loss if unavailable, delayed, inaccurate, or deleted.
Hovytory, including its software, design, branding, and service content, is owned by Otternway UG (haftungsbeschränkt) or its licensors. These Terms do not transfer any intellectual property rights to you except for the limited right to use Hovytory as permitted by these Terms.
You may stop using Hovytory at any time. You may request account deletion in the app or through the Hovytory website account deletion page where available.
We may suspend or terminate access if you materially violate these Terms, create legal, security, operational, or payment risk, use Hovytory in a harmful or unlawful way, or if suspension is necessary to protect users, the service, or third-party rights.
We may discontinue the service or material features for legitimate business, technical, legal, security, or app-store reasons. Where reasonable and legally required, we will provide prior notice and an opportunity to export or retrieve data before discontinuation. Immediate action may be necessary for urgent security, legal, or operational reasons.
After termination or account deletion, access to account-linked data may be restricted or deleted, subject to legal retention duties, backup retention, billing or fraud-prevention needs, security interests, and shared-space records that remain relevant to other members.
Nothing in these Terms limits liability where limitation is not permitted by law. We remain liable without limitation for intent and gross negligence, injury to life, body, or health, guarantees expressly given by us, liability under the German Product Liability Act, and other mandatory statutory liability.
For ordinary negligence, we are liable only for breach of material contractual obligations and only for foreseeable, typical damage. Material contractual obligations are obligations whose fulfillment enables proper use of Hovytory and on which users may regularly rely.
Within the limits permitted by law, we are not liable for damage caused by inaccurate user entries, missing user backups, use of Hovytory for insurance, tax, legal, safety, valuation, archival, or evidence purposes beyond the intended organizational use, third-party platform failures, app-store failures, missed reminders, delayed notifications, or synchronization delays, unless the damage is caused by conduct for which we are liable under the paragraphs above.
Mandatory consumer rights, statutory warranty rights, and statutory rights for digital products and digital services remain unaffected.
Information about how we process personal data is available in our Privacy Policy.
We may update these Terms where needed for legal, technical, business, security, app-store, or product reasons. If changes are material, we may provide notice in the app, by email, or through other appropriate means. The version published at this URL applies unless a later version is made available to you.
Changes apply prospectively. If you do not agree to updated Terms, you must stop using Hovytory and, where relevant, cancel any app-store subscription through the relevant app-store account.
These Terms are governed by the laws of Germany, without prejudice to mandatory consumer-protection rules that apply in your country of residence.
If you are a merchant, legal entity under public law, or special fund under public law, the exclusive place of jurisdiction is our registered office, where legally permitted. This does not limit mandatory consumer jurisdiction rules.
We are not willing or obliged to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board, unless mandatory law requires otherwise.
If you have questions about these Terms, contact us at info@otternway.com.