Last updated 2026-08-18. These terms cover the Kardhaus iOS app, this website, and the wishlist. Using any of them means accepting them. If you do not, do not use them — there is nothing else you need to do, because we hold no account of yours to close.

Kardhaus is made by an independent developer based in Taiwan. Contact for everything, including anything on this page: hello@kardhaus.com.

The app is not out yet

Kardhaus is in development. Nothing on this site is an offer to sell, the prices quoted are intended prices rather than committed ones, and joining the wishlist is neither a purchase nor a reservation. If the app never ships, you will have paid nothing.

Your licence, once it does

Buying Kardhaus buys a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use it on the devices your Apple Account allows, under Apple’s standard licence terms for App Store applications. You may not resell it, redistribute it, or decompile it beyond what your local law permits regardless of what a contract says.

Apple is the seller. Your purchase contract for the app is with Apple, not with us. That also means Apple handles refunds — we cannot issue one, and asking Apple directly is faster than asking us to ask them.

Price, and what happens when it rises

Kardhaus is a one-time purchase. There is no subscription, and we are not planning one.
The price rises in announced stages. We say so in advance rather than staging a fake discount countdown.
A price rise never reaches back to you. What you paid is what you paid, and the version you bought keeps working.
If a genuinely separate product is ever built — a Mac app, say — it would be its own purchase. Sold features do not get moved behind a new paywall.

Your cards are yours

We claim no rights over anything you put into Kardhaus, and we could not act on such a claim anyway: your cards never reach us. Exporting your library to vCard or CSV is available at any time and is not gated behind payment, because data you can only get out by paying is data being held hostage.

You are responsible for the cards you scan. They contain someone else’s personal data. Kardhaus is built so that data never reaches us, but what you then do with it — exporting it, forwarding it, adding it to a company system — is your decision and yours to justify under the law that applies to you.

The wishlist and this website

Do not submit anyone else’s email address, and do not use the comment box for anything confidential or for a third party’s contact details. We may remove submissions that are automated, abusive, or an attempt to flood the form. What we do with what you submit is set out in the privacy policy.

What we do not promise

Character recognition is not perfect and will never be. It misreads stylised type, low-contrast printing and unusual layouts, and it will occasionally put the right text in the wrong field. Kardhaus is a filing tool, not a system of record: check anything that matters before you rely on it. We are not liable for a consequence of a misread card, a missed meeting, or a contact detail that turned out to be wrong.

The app is provided as-is, without a warranty that it will be uninterrupted or error-free, and to the extent the law allows, our total liability is limited to what you paid for it. Two honest notes on that: at this price that is a very small number, and nothing here removes the consumer rights your own country gives you — where local law overrides a term on this page, local law wins.

Because your data lives on your device and in your own iCloud, backups are yours to keep. We have no copy to restore for you. Losing the phone without a backup means losing the library, and there is no support ticket that can undo it.

Ending it

Delete the app. There is no account to close, no subscription to cancel, and no data of yours on our side to be deleted — apart from a wishlist entry, which hello@kardhaus.com removes on request.

The part Apple requires us to spell out

An app that ships its own terms instead of relying on Apple’s standard licence has to cover a specific list of points. It is boilerplate — but it is the boilerplate that decides who you complain to when something goes wrong, so it is here in full rather than behind a link.

This agreement is with us, not with Apple. These terms are concluded between you and the developer of Kardhaus only. Apple is not a party to them, and we alone — not Apple — are responsible for the app and everything in it.
What the licence covers. Your purchase is a non-transferable licence to run Kardhaus on any Apple-branded device you own or control, on the terms of the Usage Rules in Apple’s Media Services Terms and Conditions. Those Usage Rules are also what make Family Sharing work.
Support is ours. Maintaining and supporting Kardhaus is entirely our job. Apple has no obligation whatsoever to furnish any maintenance or support for it. hello@kardhaus.com is the address, and a person answers it.
Warranty, and the one thing Apple does. Any warranty on Kardhaus is ours to honour, limited as described above. If the app fails to conform to a warranty that applies to it, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price to you. Beyond that refund Apple has no warranty obligation at all, and any other claim, loss, liability, cost or expense is between you and us.
Claims about the product are ours to answer. Product liability, a failure to meet a legal or regulatory requirement, a consumer protection or privacy claim — those are ours to address, not Apple’s.
Intellectual property claims are ours to defend. If a third party claims Kardhaus infringes their intellectual property, investigating, defending, settling and discharging that claim is our responsibility, not Apple’s.
Where you are. By using Kardhaus you confirm that you are not located in a country subject to a US Government embargo, or one the US Government has designated as supporting terrorism, and that you are not listed on any US Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
Who we are. Kardhaus is made by an independent developer based in Taiwan. Questions, complaints and claims about the app go to hello@kardhaus.com, which is also where the address of record is given on request.
Third-party terms still apply. Where Kardhaus works alongside someone else’s service — iCloud, most obviously — that company’s terms govern their side of it, and you have to comply with them too.
Apple can enforce these terms. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms, and on your acceptance of them Apple has the right — and is deemed to have accepted the right — to enforce them against you as a third-party beneficiary.

Changes, and the law that applies

If these terms change materially, the updated date above changes and the change is described on this page rather than replaced silently. These terms are governed by the laws of Taiwan, with the Taiwan Taipei District Court as the court of first instance — and again, without displacing any mandatory consumer protection in your own country of residence.

Company and product names elsewhere on this site belong to their owners and are used to describe compatibility and compare pricing models. Kardhaus is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to any of them.

Contact

hello@kardhaus.com — for anything on this page, and for everything else.