Terms of Service

The service

OrthoLife is an app for Orthodox Christian devotional life: Scripture, the church calendar, prayers, and teaching from the Fathers. Parts of it are free; parts require a subscription.

Your account

You must be at least 13 years old to use OrthoLife. You need an account for anything tied to you personally — your subscription, your saved verses, the parish chat. Keep your login details to yourself; you are responsible for what happens under your account. You may delete it at any time from inside the app.

Subscriptions and payment

OrthoLife Premium is an auto-renewing subscription with two plans: monthly and yearly. It is sold only through the Apple App Store and Google Play, and the price of each plan is shown in the app before you buy. Payment is charged to your store account at confirmation of purchase.

A subscription renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Your store account is charged for the renewal within the 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel it in your App Store or Google Play account settings — we cannot cancel it for you. Deleting the app does not cancel a subscription.

Refunds are handled by the store you bought it from, under its own policy. Your statutory rights as a consumer under EU and Swedish law are unaffected.

User content and conduct

You are responsible for what you write and share in OrthoLife — comments on the news feed, messages and images in the parish chat, and news posts if you are a church administrator. The content remains yours; you give us the right to show it in the app to the people it is meant for. When you delete your account, your content is deleted with it.

OrthoLife has zero tolerance for objectionable content and abusive users. You may not post anything threatening, hateful, harassing, sexually explicit or unlawful, anything that incites hatred against a people or a faith, or spam. Write as you would speak in church.

You can report any comment, post or chat message in the app, and you can block users who behave abusively. We review every report within 24 hours. When content breaks these terms, we remove it and block or remove the user who posted it. We may also act on our own initiative, without warning.

Texts and rights

Bibel 2000 and Svenska Folkbibeln are used under licence from their rights holders. The World English Bible, the King James Version, the Van Dyck Arabic translation and the Peshitta are in the public domain. The patristic commentaries come from the Historical Christian Faith Commentaries Database, which is dedicated to the public domain; the Swedish versions are our own translation (about the source).

You may use the content for personal devotional use. You may not republish it commercially or scrape it in bulk.

What the app is not

OrthoLife supports your spiritual life; it does not replace your priest, your confessor, or your parish. It is not medical, psychological or crisis care. If you are in danger or in crisis, contact emergency services on 112 (in Sweden) or your local equivalent.

Availability and liability

We work to keep the service running but cannot promise it will be uninterrupted or error-free. To the extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss. Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited under Swedish law.

Apple’s licence agreement

On iOS, Apple’s Standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement also applies: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Changes and governing law

We may update these terms; material changes will be announced in the app. These terms are governed by Swedish law, and disputes are heard by the Swedish courts. As a consumer you may also turn to the National Board for Consumer Disputes (ARN).

Questions: support@ortholife.app