Terms and conditions

These terms and conditions ("terms") are an agreement between you and MVPKraft ("we", "us", "our") about the Stayward: OPT & H-1B Days app ("the app" or "Stayward") and this website. By downloading, installing or using the app, or using the website, you agree to these terms and to our privacy policy. If you don't agree, please don't use the app.

Please read sections 3 (not legal advice), 4 (the count and reminders), 5 (your data), 11 (disclaimer) and 12 (limitation of liability) carefully.

1. Who can use the app

The app is for adults and students managing their own US status. If you are under the age of majority where you live, you may use it only with a parent or guardian, who accepts these terms for you.

2. Your licence and cost

We grant you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to download, install and use the app on devices you own or control, for your own non-commercial use, in line with these terms and the terms of Google Play or the App Store. The app is free. It contains no advertising, no in-app purchases and no subscription. If we ever charge for the app, the price will be shown on the store listing before you pay, and purchases and refunds will follow the store's terms.

3. Not legal advice

Stayward is a counting and reminder tool. It is not a law firm, an immigration service or a substitute for an attorney, and nothing in it is legal advice. The rules about OPT, STEM OPT, grace periods and documents are simplified, can change, and can differ for your situation. USCIS, SEVP, your school's DSO and your employer decide your status, not the app. Always confirm with your DSO or an immigration attorney before you act or decide not to act.

4. The count and reminders

• The count depends on your input. Days left are calculated from the dates, jobs and trips you enter. A wrong or missing date gives a wrong count. Check it against your SEVP Portal, your I-94 and your documents.
• Reminders are best effort. They are local notifications scheduled on your phone. They can be late or not appear if notifications or exact alarms are off, battery saving or the phone's maker stops background work, the phone is off, or its date or time is wrong. Do not rely on Stayward as your only reminder for anything important.
• Part-time and unpaid work. The app counts the jobs you log as working days. It does not check whether work meets the hours or other requirements of your status.

5. Your data

• Your data is yours. We claim no rights in it and never receive it.
• It exists only on your phone. If your phone is lost, broken or reset, or the app is uninstalled, your data is gone unless you turned on the optional backup in Settings (which uses your own Google or iCloud account and does not include attached document files).
• Sharing. When you export a summary or share a file, it leaves the app's protection. Check what you share and with whom.

6. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• use the app or the website in any unlawful way, or in a way that could harm us, other people or the services we use;
• copy, sell, rent, sublicense, distribute or publish the app or any of its code, graphics or text;
• modify, decompile or reverse engineer the app, except where the law allows this despite this restriction;
• remove or change any copyright, trademark or licence notices, or present the app as your own work.

7. Ownership

The app and the website, including their code, design, graphics, text, the name Stayward and its icon, belong to us or our licensors and are protected by copyright, trademark and other laws. These terms do not give you any ownership of them or the right to use the name or icon, except to share links to the app.

8. Third-party software

The app includes open-source software, such as Android Jetpack libraries, Kotlin, Swift and the Plus Jakarta Sans font (SIL Open Font License), each used under its own licence.

9. Supported devices and updates

The app requires Android 9 or later on Android, or iOS 17 or later on iPhone. We may update, change, suspend or stop offering the app or any feature at any time, for example to fix bugs, keep it secure, follow store rules or follow changes to immigration rules. We can't promise that the app or the website will always be available or free of errors.

10. Google Play and the App Store

If you get the app through Google Play or the App Store, that store's terms also apply to your download. These terms are between you and us, not Google or Apple. We, not they, are responsible for the app and for support, maintenance and claims relating to it.

11. Disclaimer

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the app and the website are provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the count, the rules or the reminders are correct, complete, timely or uninterrupted, or that your data will never be lost.

12. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, status, work authorisation, employment, money or goodwill, including a missed deadline, a lapse in status or a missed document expiry, arising from your use of, or inability to use, the app or the website, or from your reliance on the count, the rules or the reminders. Because the app is free, where our liability cannot be excluded it is limited to the amount you paid for the app, if anything.

Nothing in these terms limits or excludes any liability that cannot be limited or excluded by law, such as for death or personal injury caused by negligence or for fraud, or affects your statutory rights as a consumer under the laws of the country where you live.

13. Ending this agreement

You can stop using the app at any time by uninstalling it. Your licence ends automatically if you break these terms; you must then stop using and uninstall the app. Sections 3 to 5, 7 and 11 to 15 continue to apply after the licence ends.

14. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of India, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. If a dispute arises, please contact us first so we can try to resolve it informally. Otherwise, the courts of India have jurisdiction. If you are a consumer, you also keep the protection of the mandatory laws of the country where you live and may bring claims in its courts.

15. General and changes

If any part of these terms is found to be unenforceable, the rest stays in effect. If we don't enforce a part straight away, we can still enforce it later. These terms, together with the privacy policy, are the whole agreement between you and us about the app and the website. We may update these terms, for example when we add features or when the law changes, and will change the date at the top. If you keep using the app after a change takes effect, the updated terms apply.

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