Last updated: August 1, 2026
This is the licence agreement for HearthWire for iPhone and iPad. It replaces Apple's standard end user licence agreement for this app. It has to, because the app carries an open source video engine whose licence gives you rights that Apple's standard agreement does not allow. Section 8 is where those rights are set out.
This End User License Agreement ("Agreement") is a binding contract between you ("you") and Nir Nagar ("we", "us", "our"), the developer of the HearthWire application for iPhone and iPad and its documentation ("the App"). By downloading, installing, or using the App, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agree to this Agreement, and that you are of legal age to enter into it. If you do not agree, do not download, install, or use the App, and delete it.
PLEASE READ THIS AGREEMENT CAREFULLY. It contains important provisions that disclaim warranties, limit and cap our liability, place responsibility for your data, devices, and network on you, require you to use the App lawfully and only from the App Store, and require you to indemnify us in certain cases. These provisions apply to the maximum extent permitted by the law that applies to you, and they survive even after you stop using the App.
We grant you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to use the App on any Apple-branded products that you own or control, for your personal and household use only, and as permitted by the Usage Rules set out in the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions, except that the App may be accessed and used by other accounts associated with you via Family Sharing or volume purchasing. The App is licensed, not sold. We and our licensors retain all right, title, and interest in and to the App, and all rights not expressly granted to you are reserved.
Home use only. The App is made and licensed for use in a private home, by individuals and households. Installing or using the App in or for a business, office, company, organization, government body, school, or other commercial, professional, or multi-user environment is outside the scope of this license and is not intended, supported, or tested. If you choose to do so, you do so entirely at your own risk: we provide no warranty for that use, will not provide support for it, and, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, accept no responsibility or liability of any kind arising out of or related to it.
You may not, and may not permit anyone else to: (a) copy, distribute, resell, rent, lease, sublicense, publish, or otherwise make the App available to others, except installing it on your own devices as intended; (b) modify, adapt, translate, or create derivative works of the App; (c) reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the App, or attempt to derive its source code; (d) remove, alter, or obscure any proprietary notice; (e) use the App to develop a competing product; or (f) bypass, disable, or tamper with any security, licensing, or technical-protection feature of the App.
Section 8 overrides this one in respect of the open source video engine described there, and nothing in this section limits any right you have that cannot be excluded under the law that applies to you.
You understand and agree that the App:
You acknowledge that connecting devices, sharing folders, sending files and granting screen access are inherently powerful actions, and that by choosing to use them you accept the ordinary risks involved, including the possibility that data may be copied, changed, deleted, or seen by another device or person you allowed into your household. All of this stays on your devices and your local network. See the Privacy Policy for details.
The App's screen features require the explicit consent of the person at the computer being viewed or controlled, for each session, and that person can end the session at any time. You agree to use these features only with permission. The App cannot be used to view or control the iPhone or iPad it is running on: iOS does not permit it and the App does not ask to.
Traffic between your devices is encrypted, a new device can only join after you approve it, and the App uses no accounts, servers, or cloud. At the same time, no software can be guaranteed perfectly secure, and the App is a convenience tool for making the devices in a home work together: its permission prompts and folder settings are reasonable safeguards, not a guarantee of security for your stored files. Do not rely on the App as your only protection for confidential or sensitive information, keep your devices updated and locked, and admit into your household only people you trust.
Install the App only from Apple's App Store. Because it connects your devices and your home network, a tampered copy obtained anywhere else is especially dangerous. This Agreement, including the no-warranty and limitation-of-liability terms, and any responsibility on our part, apply only to genuine copies obtained from the App Store.
You acknowledge that file transfer can result in files being overwritten, deleted, duplicated, or not delivered, and that any network, playback, call or screen feature can fail or behave unexpectedly. You assume full responsibility for maintaining independent, current backups of your data, and you accept that you use the App and all of its features at your own risk.
This section is why this Agreement exists. The App contains libVLC, an open source video engine published by VideoLAN and licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1 or later ("the LGPL"). It is what allows the App to play the film formats the system cannot open on its own. The LGPL grants you rights in respect of that library, and those rights come first.
In respect of libVLC and no other part of the App:
Everything else in the App is our own proprietary work. Including libVLC does not make HearthWire open source, does not place any other part of the App under the LGPL, and does not give you rights over anything except that library. The App contains no code licensed under the GPL.
VideoLAN and VLC are trademarks of their owners. VideoLAN does not sponsor, endorse or support this App, and this App is not a version of VLC.
THE APP IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE", WITH ALL FAULTS AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, SATISFACTORY QUALITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, ACCURACY, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE APP WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, SECURE, OR FREE OF HARMFUL COMPONENTS, THAT DATA WILL BE TRANSFERRED WITHOUT LOSS OR ERROR, OR THAT THE APP WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS. NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, CREATES ANY WARRANTY.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL WE BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF OR DAMAGE TO DATA, LOSS OF FILES TRANSFERRED, LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, GOODWILL, OR BUSINESS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, COST OF SUBSTITUTE PRODUCTS, DAMAGE TO DEVICES OR NETWORKS, UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR USE OF ANY FOLDER, FILE, OR SCREEN THAT YOU PERMITTED OR THAT RESULTED FROM A DEVICE YOU APPROVED INTO YOUR HOUSEHOLD, OR LOSS OF PRIVACY, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE APP OR THIS AGREEMENT, WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STRICT LIABILITY, OR ANY OTHER THEORY, AND EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE APP OR THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (a) THE AMOUNT YOU ACTUALLY PAID FOR THE APP IN THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR (b) USD 10.
Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain warranties or damages, so some of the above may not apply to you. Nothing in this Agreement excludes or limits any liability or right that cannot be excluded or limited under the law that applies to you, including, where applicable, liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or your non-waivable rights as a consumer.
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold us harmless from and against any claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or related to: (a) your use or misuse of the App; (b) content you share or send; (c) your breach of this Agreement or of any law or third-party right; or (d) access you granted to your household, folders, files, or screen.
The App runs on Apple's operating systems and uses your network hardware and other components we do not provide or control. We are not responsible for those components, or for any act, omission, failure, or change in them. Your use of iOS, iPadOS, the App Store and your network is also governed by the terms of their respective providers, and you agree to comply with any applicable third party terms when using the App.
You agree not to misuse the App, including not to: use it to access devices, files, or screens without permission; transmit unlawful, infringing, or malicious content; interfere with or disrupt the App or any network; or use it in violation of the rights of others or of any applicable law.
You represent and warrant that you are not located in a country that is subject to a U.S. Government embargo, or that has been designated by the U.S. Government as a "terrorist supporting" country, and that you are not listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties. You will not use or export the App in violation of any applicable export-control or sanctions laws.
We may release updates that add, change, or remove features, and we may update this Agreement. The current version will be posted at this address with a new "Last updated" date. Your continued use of the App after a change takes effect means you accept the updated Agreement; if you do not agree, stop using and delete the App.
This license ends automatically if you breach this Agreement, and we may suspend or end it where permitted by law. You may end it at any time by deleting the App. The provisions that by their nature should survive (including the license restrictions, disclaimers, limitations and cap on liability, indemnification, and governing law) survive termination.
This Agreement, together with the Privacy Policy, is the entire agreement between you and us about the App and supersedes any prior understanding on its subject. If any provision is held unenforceable, it will be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable, or severed, and the remaining provisions will stay in full force. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. You may not assign this Agreement without our prior written consent; we may assign it in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets. Section headings are for convenience only. We will not be liable for any failure or delay caused by circumstances beyond our reasonable control.
This Agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Israel, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, and the competent courts located in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel will have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising out of or related to it. This does not deprive you of the protection of any mandatory consumer-protection law of your country of residence, where such law applies.
If you choose to send us suggestions, ideas, bug reports, or other feedback about the App, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, transferable, royalty-free right to use, modify, and incorporate that feedback for any purpose, without any obligation, attribution, or compensation to you, and we are equally free not to use it.
The App is a consumer application intended for ordinary home use. It is not designed, tested, certified, or licensed for use in any high-risk or safety-critical environment or activity, including medical or life-support systems, emergency services, aviation, nuclear facilities, or any other setting in which a failure, error, or delay of the App could lead to death, personal injury, or severe physical, property, or environmental damage. You must not use the App in any such environment, and, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we accept no responsibility or liability for any such use.
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, any claim arising out of or relating to the App or this Agreement must be brought within twelve (12) months after the event giving rise to the claim first occurred; otherwise, the claim is permanently barred. Where the law that applies to you does not permit such a limitation, the shortest limitation period that it does permit applies instead.
This Agreement was drafted in English. Translations, including the German version, are provided for convenience only. To the extent permitted by applicable law, if there is any inconsistency between the English version and a translation, the English version prevails.
The following terms apply because the App is obtained through the App Store, and they are required by Apple.
Nir Nagar (Hearth Software), support@hearth-software.com or iam@nirnagar.com