Firsts
These are the rules for using Firsts. We have kept them in plain English. The most important one is in the box.
Your photos are yours. You own the photographs and notes you put into Firsts. We do not claim ownership of them, we will not sell them, and we will not use them to advertise or to train models. We hold a permission to store and deliver them only so the app can do what you asked it to do.
These Terms are between you and Venshares Corp ("Firsts", "we", "us"). By creating an account or using the app, you agree to them. If you do not agree, please do not use Firsts.
Our Privacy Policy explains what we do with information and forms part of this agreement.
You must be at least 18 years old and able to enter a contract. Firsts is for parents and caregivers. It is not designed for children to use themselves, and you may not create an account on behalf of a child.
If you add information about a child, you are confirming that you are that child's parent or legal guardian, or that you have their parent's or guardian's permission to do so.
Firsts uses Sign in with Apple. Keep your Apple ID secure; anyone with access to it can reach your account. Tell us promptly if you believe someone else has used your account.
You are responsible for what happens in your family circle, including who you invite into it.
Photographs, notes, names, and dates you add to Firsts remain yours. Nothing in these Terms transfers ownership of them to us.
To run the service, you grant us a limited, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, back up, transmit, and display your content — solely for the purpose of operating Firsts and delivering your content to the family members you have chosen. This licence exists only so the app can function. It ends when you delete the content or your account, except where we must briefly retain a copy in routine backups or where the law requires us to keep it.
We will not license your content to anyone else, use it in advertising or promotion, or use it to train machine-learning models.
You confirm that you have the right to upload what you upload, and that sharing it through Firsts does not violate anyone's rights. If a photograph includes another person's child, get that parent's agreement before you share it.
| Role | May | May not |
|---|---|---|
| Owner | Invite and remove members, set roles and sharing groups, set the audience for each moment, delete any content in the circle | — |
| Contributor | View content their sharing group permits, add their own moments, delete their own moments | Delete or edit other people's content, manage the circle |
| Viewer | View content their sharing group permits | Add, edit, or delete anything |
The owner of a circle decides who is in it and what each person sees. An owner may remove any member at any time, and a member may leave at any time.
You are being trusted with photographs of a child. By joining, you agree that you will not republish, post publicly, sell, or redistribute photographs or information from the circle outside it without the owner's permission. This includes posting them to social media.
You may make a backup file of the photos on your device so they are not lost. That file names the child's parent. Keep it private, use it only to restore your own copy or to return the photos to that parent, and delete it if the parent asks.
We cannot technically prevent you from saving or screenshotting what you can see. This is an obligation you are accepting, not a control we are enforcing — and breaking it is grounds for removal from the circle and termination of your account.
You may not:
Firsts includes general information about developmental milestones and the age ranges in which they typically occur. Children develop at very different rates, and these ranges describe patterns, not requirements.
This is general information — not medical advice. Discuss any concern about your child's development with your OB-GYN or pediatrician, who can give recommendations suited to your child's health, genetics, and your family's needs.
Firsts is not a medical device and does not diagnose, treat, or screen for any condition. Never delay seeking professional advice because of something you read in the app.
Firsts stores your timeline on your device and can export a backup from Home → menu → Export Backup, or save one to your iCloud Drive each month if you turn that on in Settings. Automatic backups use your own iCloud storage, under Apple's terms. Please keep your own backups of photographs that matter to you. We are not a backup service, and devices are lost, broken, and replaced.
Firsts is currently free to use. If we introduce paid features, we will describe the price and what it includes before you are charged, and any purchase will be handled by Apple under the App Store's terms, including its refund process. We will not begin charging for something you already have without telling you first.
You may stop using Firsts at any time and delete your account from Home → menu → Delete Account.
We may suspend or terminate an account that breaches these Terms, particularly section 6. Where circumstances allow, we will tell you why and give you an opportunity to export your content.
We may also discontinue Firsts entirely. If we do, we will give you reasonable notice and a way to export your content before the service ends.
We will update these Terms from time to time. If a change is significant, we will tell you in the app or by email before it takes effect. Continuing to use Firsts after that means you accept the change.
Firsts is provided "as is" and "as available". To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that content will never be lost.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, we will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost data, or loss of goodwill, arising from your use of Firsts.
Our total liability for any claim relating to Firsts will not exceed the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, or one hundred United States dollars.
Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so parts of this section may not apply to you.
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Florida, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Any dispute will be brought in the state or federal courts located in Highlands County, Florida, and you and we consent to the jurisdiction of those courts.
Nothing here prevents either of us from seeking relief in small claims court.
If any provision of these Terms is unenforceable, the rest remain in effect. Our not enforcing a provision is not a waiver of it. You may not transfer your rights under these Terms; we may transfer ours to an affiliate or in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of the business, and your content moves with the same protections.
These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and us about Firsts.
The Store lists physical products from other companies. Buying happens on their site, in the browser, not as an In-App Purchase. We may earn an affiliate commission. The link we open uses a placement label for the product. It does not include your account id or a child's id.
Products are suggestions. They are not medical advice and not something you must buy. You can hide the Store in Settings. If you pause the Store for a pregnancy or child who was lost, we do not show product links for that child.
You must be 18 or older to suggest a product. A suggestion is not a promise that we will list it or that you will be paid. We can decline it. If you are the first signed-in parent to suggest a product link and we later decide to list that product, you are its finder. The finder may earn 10% of the affiliate commission we actually receive for that product, not a percentage of the brand's sale price, and not a share of purchases you personally drive. A later suggestion of the same link does not replace the first one. A vendor cannot be the finder of their own product.
We do not pay a finder until the unpaid share for their account is at least $25 and we have a tax form (a W-9 or W-8) on file. Payment is by ACH or PayPal, outside the App Store. The share ends if we remove the product or the affiliate program ends, and it ends if you delete your account. Suggesting products is not a way to earn money by recruiting other parents.
Brands submit products on our website, not in the app. That submission does not create an account and does not guarantee a listing.
Venshares Corp
4514 Bunker Drive, Sebring, FL 33872
support@firsts.family