These Terms of Service ("Terms") are an agreement between you and Amblee LLC, a Delaware limited liability company ("Amblee", "we", "us"). They govern your use of the Amblee iOS app, web dashboard, and browser extension (together, the "Service"). By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy.
Amblee is a self-restriction tool, not treatment. It cannot make gambling impossible, and it is not a substitute for professional help. If gambling is harming you or someone you care about, free and confidential support is available 24/7: call or text 1-800-MY-RESET (1-800-697-3738) or visit ncpgambling.org.
You may use the Service only if you are at least 18 years old, are located in the United States, and can form a binding contract with us. You are responsible for your account credentials and for everything that happens under your account. You may sign in with an email and password or with Sign in with Apple or Google.
Amblee helps you block gambling and prediction-market apps and sites until you meet a monthly deposit goal you set for yourself (your "monthly minimum"). Progress toward that goal is verified through a read-only bank connection.
Amblee is not:
Medical care, therapy, or addiction treatment. The Service does not diagnose, treat, or cure any condition, and nothing in the Service is medical advice.
Financial, investment, or tax advice. The Service does not project investment returns and does not assume any rate of return. Figures it shows about your money are your own deposits added up. They are not predictions, guarantees, or recommendations.
A bank, broker, or money transmitter. See Section 5.
Blocking on iPhone uses Apple's Screen Time framework. You choose which apps to block in Apple's own picker. Your selections stay on your device; Amblee records only that a selection exists, not which apps you picked.
The browser extension blocks sites using a seed blocklist (80+ gambling and prediction-market sites) plus any domains you add yourself. Removing a domain from your blocklist takes effect only after a delay, by design. When the extension cannot reach our servers and its data is stale, blocks fail closed (they stay on).
Sensitive changes, such as lowering your goal, removing blocklist entries, or unlinking a bank account, require your 4-digit guardrail PIN or your account password. If you need access in an emergency, a hardship unlock lifts your blocks for 24 hours after a 10-minute delay. You can use it at most 3 times per month, and it asks you to write a short reflection that only you can see.
A determined user can always get around Amblee, for example by deleting the app, removing the Screen Time configuration or the browser extension, or using another device. Amblee is designed to add friction and time between impulse and action. It cannot and does not promise to make betting impossible, and you agree not to rely on it as if it could.
Your account starts with a 7-day free trial. It asks for no payment method and charges nothing. It does not turn itself into a paid subscription: when the week is over it lapses, and paid features stop until you subscribe. It is granted once, when the account is created.
The free trial the iPhone app offers when you buy is a different thing, and it does convert. It is Apple's own introductory offer. If your Apple ID is eligible for it, Apple states its length on the purchase sheet before you confirm, and when it ends the subscription renews at the price shown until you cancel with Apple. If your Apple ID is not eligible, Apple charges you when you confirm.
There are two places to subscribe, and which one you use decides who takes your money, where you cancel, and who can refund you. In the United States, Amblee costs $4.99 per month or $49.99 per year on either of them. The total shown before you confirm is what you are charged, and a subscription renews until it is canceled.
A subscription bought inside the Amblee iPhone app is an Apple In-App Purchase. Apple takes the payment and is the seller for that purchase. We never see or hold your card details. Any free trial on this route is Apple's introductory offer, described above, and it renews into a paid subscription.
You cancel it with Apple, not with us. On your iPhone, open Settings, tap your name, tap Subscriptions, choose Amblee, and tap Cancel Subscription, or go to apps.apple.com/account/subscriptions. We have no way to cancel an App Store subscription on your behalf.
Refunds for an App Store purchase are Apple's to give, under Apple's policies, and we cannot issue one. If Apple refunds or revokes a purchase, your paid access ends at that point.
A subscription bought on the web is sold by us and charged through Stripe, our payment processor. Stripe handles the card; we never see or store your full card details. There is no second free trial on the web, so a web subscription is charged when you complete checkout.
You manage and cancel a web subscription in the Stripe billing portal, which you reach from Billing in your Amblee account.
We can refund a payment made on the web, because it is our charge to refund. Email support@amblee.co to ask about one. We do not promise a refund in every case, and there is one case where we refund without being asked, described next. A refund on the web does not by itself end your access; access ends when the subscription is canceled or when the paid period runs out.
You can hold one Amblee subscription at a time. If you already pay through Apple, the web checkout refuses to sell you a second one and points you at the subscription you have. It refuses in the same way while Apple is still trying to collect a renewal that failed, so sort that out with Apple, or cancel with Apple, before buying on the web.
If we find an account paying on both at once, we keep the App Store subscription, then cancel the web subscription and refund its most recent payment in full. That happens by itself, without you having to ask. If something stops it running, email support@amblee.co and we will put it right. It goes that way round because we can refund our own charge, and only Apple can end an App Store subscription.
A gift is bought at amblee.co/gift and charged once, through Stripe, for a fixed number of months at the prices above; twelve months costs what a year costs. It is not a subscription: nothing renews, and no card is kept. The buyer receives a code. Whoever holds the code can redeem it, so treat it like cash.
A code is redeemed once, by a signed-in account, on amblee.co; it cannot be redeemed inside the app. If that account already has a subscription through an app store or on the web, that subscription keeps charging as before and the gifted months are added after it. When gifted time runs out, paid features stop. If the account has never had a paid subscription of its own, through an app store or on the web, the blocks come off; if it has, the blocks stay on, as they do when any subscription lapses, until the member subscribes again. In both cases the member can subscribe at any time. Gift purchases are not refundable except where the law requires it, and a code cannot be exchanged for money.
On the web, your access continues while Stripe retries the payment, and ends if those retries do not succeed.
On the App Store, it is Apple that decides. Apple goes on trying to collect, and your access runs to the end of the period you last paid for, plus any billing grace period Apple grants. If there is no grace period, access can stop while Apple is still trying to charge you. Cancel with Apple if you do not want it to keep trying.
Deleting your Amblee account ends a web subscription immediately, and the unused part of the period you already paid for is not refunded. It does not touch an App Store subscription, so Apple will keep charging you until you cancel with Apple. Cancel there first. Section 11 covers the rest of what deletion does.
You can connect bank and brokerage accounts through Plaid so Amblee can verify your deposits. This connection is read-only. We commit that Amblee:
never holds, moves, or invests your money;
never sees your bank username or password (you authenticate directly with Plaid);
never initiates transactions of any kind.
Savings goals count net confirmed deposits into the accounts you designate: withdrawals subtract from your progress, and reversed deposits subtract and can re-lock your blocks. Investing goals count transfers from your bank to known brokerages, or deposits into a brokerage account you have linked. Your use of Plaid is also subject to Plaid's own terms and privacy policy.
You agree not to:
use the Service for any unlawful purpose or in violation of these Terms;
probe, disrupt, reverse engineer, or attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Service or its systems;
connect financial accounts that you do not own or lack authority to connect;
resell the Service or misrepresent your affiliation with Amblee;
interfere with rate limits, blocklists, or safety mechanisms, except through the controls the Service provides.
Amblee and its licensors own the Service, including its software, design, blocklists, and branding. We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use the Service for your own non-commercial use while these Terms are in effect. You keep ownership of content you create in the Service, such as hardship reflections, and you grant us only the limited rights needed to store and display it back to you.
The Service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. In particular:
Blocking may fail or lapse. Operating system updates, App Store or Screen Time changes, browser changes, network outages, stale data, unsupported apps or sites, and similar factors can prevent blocks from applying or persisting.
Deposit verification depends on data from Plaid and your financial institutions, which may be delayed, incomplete, or inaccurate.
Savings and investing figures shown in the Service are deposit amounts added up. They are not estimates of investment growth and not promises of any financial outcome.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Amblee will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost savings, or gambling losses, even if we have been advised of the possibility. To the maximum extent permitted by law, our total liability for all claims relating to the Service is capped at the amount you paid us in subscription fees in the 12 months before the claim arose. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so parts of this section may not apply to you.
You agree to indemnify and hold Amblee harmless from claims, damages, and reasonable legal fees arising out of your misuse of the Service, your violation of these Terms, or your violation of any law or third-party right.
You can stop using the Service and delete your account at any time from the app or by emailing support@amblee.co. When you delete your account, your bank connections are severed immediately and your data is permanently deleted after 30 days, as described in our Privacy Policy. Deletion also ends a web subscription at once with no refund, and does not end an App Store subscription; Section 4 explains what you need to do about each. We may suspend or terminate your access if you materially violate these Terms. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (including Sections 7 through 10) do survive.
We may update these Terms from time to time. If a change is material, we will notify you in the app or by email before it takes effect. Continuing to use the Service after a change takes effect means you accept the updated Terms.
These Terms are governed by the laws of the United States and, where state law applies, the laws of the State of Delaware, where Amblee LLC is organized, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. Any dispute that cannot be resolved informally will be brought in a court of competent jurisdiction in the United States.
Questions about these Terms? Email support@amblee.co.