Terms of Use

Last updated August 20, 2026

These terms are an agreement between you and Chaitanya Nijhara, an independent developer based in California, United States, doing business as Valio. By downloading or using the Valio iPhone app, you agree to them. If you do not agree, please do not use the app.

Looking for the subscription price, renewal, and cancellation terms? They are under Subscriptions.

Your license to use Valio

We grant you a personal, non-transferable, non-exclusive license to use Valio on Apple-branded devices that you own or control, as permitted by the App Store Usage Rules in Apple’s Media Services Terms and Conditions. You may not sell, rent, redistribute, or sublicense the app, and you may not reverse engineer or attempt to extract its source code except where that restriction is prohibited by law.

Who may use Valio

You represent that you are at least 13 years old, or at least 16 if you are in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, and that you have the legal capacity to agree to these terms.

Valio is a record keeping tool, not professional advice

This is the most important thing on this page. Valio helps you record the hours you worked and calculates figures from the pay rates and rules you enter. Those figures are estimates produced from your own settings.

• Valio does not give legal, tax, payroll, or accounting advice. Any reference in the app to what is common in a place or industry, for example an overtime threshold, is a starting suggestion and not a statement of the law that applies to you.
• You are responsible for checking that the rates, overtime rules, holiday settings, and hours you enter are correct, and for verifying any total before you rely on it, send it to someone, or use it in a dispute.
• Overtime, holiday pay, minimum wage, and record keeping obligations vary by country, state, and employer. Consult a qualified professional for your situation.

Some specific limits are worth knowing before you rely on a figure:

• Suggested rules cover very little ground. Where Valio proposes a premium pay rule for your region, those suggestions currently exist only for California and United States federal practice. Choosing any other country or state seeds nothing, and the absence of a suggestion is not a statement that no rule applies.
• Overtime is calculated per job. If you work more than one job, Valio does not combine hours across them for a weekly overtime threshold, even where the law where you live would.
• The week boundary is an assumption. For jobs paid monthly or twice monthly, Valio has to assume where the overtime week starts, and it assumes a week beginning on Sunday. If your employer or your law uses a different workweek, check the result.
• Rounding is applied to each punch. Valio rounds your clock-in and clock-out separately, never the total, and it keeps the exact times you recorded. It offers a mode that always rounds down; that mode is not lawful in every place, and in the United States a rounding practice must be neutral over time rather than consistently favour the employer.
• Holiday pay uses only the dates you enter. There is no built-in calendar of public holidays, so a day is only treated as a holiday if you mark it as one.
• The tax figure is a rough display estimate. It is calculated from a single percentage you type in yourself. Valio has no knowledge of tax brackets, withholding tables, allowances, or local rules, and this estimate is never written into a timesheet you close or export.
• Currency amounts are never converted. Changing the currency changes the symbol shown next to identical numbers; it does not convert anything at an exchange rate.

Your data is your responsibility

Valio stores your records on your device, as described in our Privacy Policy. There is no cloud sync and no server-side backup. We have no copy of your data and cannot recover it for you, so if your iPhone is lost, damaged, or reset, anything not backed up is gone.

Keep your own backups of anything you would be unwilling to lose. The two reliable ways are to leave iCloud Backup or encrypted local backups turned on, and to export your timesheets as you close each period.

Acceptable use

Use Valio lawfully. Do not use it to misrepresent hours worked, to defraud an employer, worker, or client, or in any way that breaks the law where you are.

Subscriptions

Valio is sold as an auto-renewing subscription called Valio Unlimited, available in two lengths:

• Monthly — $6.99 per month, renewing every month.
• Yearly — $49.99 per year, renewing every year.

Those are the prices on the United States App Store. Prices differ by country and may change with local taxes and exchange rates, so the price and billing period shown to you in the App Store at the moment you confirm the purchase are the ones that apply. They are always displayed before you are asked to buy.

Free trial

New subscribers get a free trial of one week. The trial is offered once, and both lengths share it, so starting a monthly trial and later switching to yearly does not give you a second one. Unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the trial ends, it converts automatically into a paid subscription at the price above. If you purchase a subscription during the trial, any unused portion of the trial is forfeited at that point.

Renewal, payment, and cancellation

• Payment is charged to your Apple ID account when you confirm the purchase, or, if you start with a free trial, when the trial converts to a paid subscription.
• The subscription renews automatically unless you turn off auto-renewal at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Apple charges the renewal within 24 hours of the end of that period.
• You can view, change, or cancel your subscription at any time in your App Store account settings, under Subscriptions. Deleting the app does not cancel it. See Apple’s instructions for managing subscriptions.
• Cancelling stops the next renewal. Your subscription stays active until the end of the period you have already paid for.
• Purchases are handled entirely by Apple, and so are refunds. We cannot issue one. Refund requests go to Apple and are decided under Apple’s Media Services Terms and Conditions. This does not affect any statutory withdrawal or refund right you have under the law of the country where you live.
• If you reinstall Valio or move to a new iPhone, use Restore Purchases to bring your subscription back. Because Valio has no accounts, your subscription is tied to the Apple ID that bought it.

What a subscription gives you, and what happens without one

Valio requires an active subscription to use. New users start with the free trial described above, and from there, recording and changing your data — starting the timer, adding or editing shifts, adding notes, expenses, tips, or discounts, configuring premium pay rules and rates, and closing, marking paid, archiving, or deleting a timesheet — all depend on having an active subscription.

Two commitments run the other way, and they hold permanently, including after a subscription ends:

• Your records stay readable and exportable for free. Viewing everything you have already recorded, and exporting it as a PDF or CSV, is never behind the subscription. Work you did is not held hostage.
• Work already started can always be finished. Clocking out, and starting or ending a break or pause on a running shift, are never refused.

If your subscription lapses, those two commitments still apply, but everything else again requires you to resubscribe.

Apple’s role

• This agreement is between you and us, not with Apple. We alone, not Apple, are responsible for Valio and its content.
• Apple has no obligation to provide any maintenance or support for Valio. That responsibility is ours alone.
• If Valio fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price of the app, if any. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation with respect to Valio, and any other claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs, or expenses attributable to a failure to conform to a warranty are ours to address, not Apple’s.
• We, not Apple, are responsible for addressing any claim relating to Valio, including product liability claims, any claim that the app fails to conform to a legal or regulatory requirement, and claims arising under consumer protection or privacy law.
• If a third party claims that Valio infringes their intellectual property rights, we, not Apple, are solely responsible for the investigation, defense, settlement, and discharge of that claim.
• You must comply with any applicable third-party terms when using Valio, for example your wireless carrier’s agreement.
• You represent that you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. Government embargo or designated as a terrorist supporting country, and that you are not listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
• Apple and its subsidiaries are third party beneficiaries of these terms and, upon your acceptance, have the right to enforce them against you.

No warranty

Valio is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the app will be uninterrupted, error free, or that its calculations will suit every situation. Nothing in this section limits any warranty or condition that the law of the country where you live does not allow us to exclude.

Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost wages, or lost or corrupted data, arising out of your use of Valio. Our total liability for any claim relating to the app will not exceed the greater of the amount you paid for it in the twelve months before the claim or twenty United States dollars. Nothing in this section limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud, or for anything else the law does not allow us to limit or exclude. Some jurisdictions do not allow these limits, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

Ending this agreement

You may end this agreement at any time by deleting Valio from your devices. The license granted above ends if you materially breach these terms.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms as the app changes. When we do, we will revise the date at the top of this page. Continuing to use Valio after an update means you accept the revised terms.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, United States, without regard to its conflict of law rules. This does not remove any protection you have under the mandatory law of the country where you live.

Severability

If any part of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest remains in effect.

Entire agreement

These terms, together with our Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between you and us about Valio, and replace any earlier agreement on the same subject.

Contact

Questions about these terms: support@govalio.com

Chaitanya Nijhara, 1259 El Camino Real, Unit #1119, Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States