Terms

App

Mamou

iPhone app, plus the backend service that supports it

Mamou is an app for two people choosing a baby name together. These terms are the agreement between you and the maker of Mamou for using it.

What you can do with it

You get a personal, non-transferable right to use Mamou on iPhones you own or control, for your own private use. You do not get any ownership of the app or the service behind it.

Your account

• Mamou is for adults. Do not create an account if you are under 16.
• Use an email address you can actually receive mail at, and keep your password to yourself. What happens under your account is your responsibility.
• You are in one room at a time, shared with one other person. Only invite someone who wants to be invited.
• The sibling field takes a first name to improve recommendations. Put nothing else about a child in it, and nothing about anyone who has not agreed to it.

What not to do

• Do not use anyone else’s account, or try to reach another room’s data.
• Do not scrape, bulk-extract or resell the name data, and do not build a competing deck out of it.
• Do not attack, overload or probe the service, and do not work around its limits with automated clients.
• Do not take the app apart beyond what the law expressly allows you to do whatever the terms say.

The names, and the writing about them

The names come from open data published by national statistics offices, each under its own licence, plus open reference data for meanings and lore. Those offices keep their own rights in their own publications. Mamou gives you the right to use the app, not a licence to redistribute the underlying datasets.

The written dossier for a name is reference material, compiled and cited. It is offered in good faith and it can still be wrong or incomplete. It is not a scholarly authority, and nothing in the app is a recommendation about what to call a child. That decision is entirely yours, and Mamou does not make it for you.

What it costs

Mamou is free to download and free to use, and there is nothing to buy inside it. If that ever changes, it will be said plainly in the app and on this page before it takes effect, and it will not be applied retroactively to something you already have.

Availability and changes

Mamou is a small service run by a small operation. Features change, and the app can be unavailable while it is being repaired or improved. There is no uptime guarantee. If it is ever discontinued, notice will be given in the app and here, with time to get your result out.

Ending it

You can leave at any moment by deleting your account in the app, which removes your data as described in the privacy policy. An account can be suspended or removed from this side if it is being used to attack the service or to harm someone else.

Apple’s part in this

You get Mamou from the App Store, so Apple’s own terms cover the download. Apple is not a party to this agreement, does not operate Mamou, and does not provide support for it. Support comes from us. Write to mamou@kennyalami.com and a person answers.

No warranty, and what we are liable for

Mamou is provided as it is. To the extent the law allows, there is no warranty that it will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that it will produce a name you both love. To the extent the law allows, the maker of Mamou is not liable for indirect or consequential losses arising from using it.

None of that takes away the rights you have as a consumer under the law of the country you live in. Where those rights conflict with anything above, those rights win.

Contact about Mamou

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