Terms of Use

1. Who publishes the app

• Louis-Frédéric Fortier, sole trader publishing under their own name (the “Developer”)
• Address: CDV 260133, 350 chemin du Pré Neuf, France
• Telephone: +33 7 58 45 89 65
• Email: loufi.officiel@gmail.com
• Publication director: Louis-Frédéric Fortier

becune-technologies.com is hosted by Vercel Inc., 440 N Barranca Ave #4133, Covina, CA 91723, United States (https://vercel.com).

The “Birth Plan – Hospital Bag List” app (the “App”), identifier fr.becune.birthplan, is distributed through Apple’s App Store.

2. Purpose and acceptance

These terms form a single agreement between you (the “User”) and the Developer. They serve at once as terms of use, end user licence agreement and terms of the in-app purchase offered in the App.

Downloading or using the App means accepting these terms. If you do not accept them, do not use the App and delete it.

These terms were drafted in French; this page is the English translation. The French original is available at www.becune-technologies.com/projet-bebe/conditions. In the event of a discrepancy the French version prevails, without depriving a consumer of the protection afforded by the mandatory provisions of the law of their country of habitual residence.

3. Medical disclaimer — please read

This disclaimer is essential and takes precedence over any other reading of these terms.

• The App is not a medical device within the meaning of Regulation (EU) 2017/745. It performs no diagnosis, prediction, prognosis, monitoring or treatment. It does not analyse the information you enter and draws no conclusion from it.
• The App gives no medical advice and makes no recommendation. It never states that one choice is preferable to another, quotes no statistics, and attributes no benefit or risk to any option. It merely organises and formats preferences that you express.
• The App is not a substitute for a consultation. It in no way replaces the advice, diagnosis or follow-up of a healthcare professional. Any question about your pregnancy, your health or your baby’s health must be put to your medical team.
• In an emergency, do not use the App. Call 15 (SAMU, in France) or 112 (the European emergency number), or go to the nearest emergency department.
• A birth plan is not binding. The document produced expresses wishes. It binds neither the medical team nor the facility, who decide according to the clinical situation, their protocols and the resources available. The Developer does not and cannot guarantee that any preference will be followed.
• The bag lists are indicative and not exhaustive. The list given to you by your maternity unit or facility takes precedence over the App’s.

4. What the app does

The App, which works offline, lets you:

• work through a guided questionnaire to put together a birth plan, one question at a time, with every question skippable, revisitable and flaggable “to discuss with my medical team”;
• preview the resulting document on screen;
• export that document as a PDF and share it;
• keep three hospital bag lists, tailored to the season, length of stay and place of birth you entered;
• receive two optional local reminders, four and two weeks before the due date.

The App has no account, no sign-up and no synchronisation. It requires a compatible device and sufficient storage. An internet connection is needed only to make or restore the in-app purchase and, if you consented, to send anonymous usage statistics.

5. Licence to use

The Developer grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable and revocable right of use, limited to private and non-commercial use, on Apple-branded devices that you own or control, as permitted by the Usage Rules set out in the Apple App Store Terms of Service, including, where applicable, under Family Sharing or Volume Purchasing. The App is licensed to you, not sold.

The content you produce — your answers, your free text, the exported PDF — belongs to you. The Developer has no access to it and claims no rights over it.

6. One-time purchase, price and restoration

This is a one-time purchase (a non-consumable product): there is no subscription, no renewal and no later charge. Nothing further is owed after that purchase.

The price that applies is the one shown by the App Store at the time of purchase, in your currency and inclusive of tax under your country’s rules. It differs from one national storefront to another and may change over time, so no amount is stated in this document — any figure here would be wrong for some readers. That price, as the store reports it, is shown in the App before you confirm, and it is the one that prevails.

Apple is the seller. The contract of sale is between you and the Apple entity responsible for your country; the Developer is the supplier of the digital content. Apple takes the payment, issues the receipt and applies its own terms (see the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions).

The purchase is tied to the Apple Account used at the time. The “Restore purchases” button, available on the App’s purchase screen, brings it back after a reinstall or on another device signed in to the same Apple Account, at no further charge. Restoring requires an internet connection.

7. Right of withdrawal and refunds

The purchase concerns digital content supplied on an intangible medium, whose performance begins immediately upon confirmation. Under Article L. 221-28(13) of the French Consumer Code, the fourteen-day right of withdrawal cannot be exercised for such content once performance has begun with your prior express agreement and your express waiver of that right — agreement and waiver that confirming the purchase with Apple entails.

In practice, Apple goes beyond that minimum. The Apple Media Services Terms grant European Union users a fourteen-day cancellation right from the date of purchase, and Apple also handles refund requests case by case.

All refund requests must be addressed to Apple, not to the Developer, who does not take the payment and has no technical means of issuing a refund: go to reportaproblem.apple.com. The Developer will gladly help you with that process if you ask.

8. Legal guarantee of conformity and updates

The digital content supplied benefits from the legal guarantee of conformity provided for in Articles L. 224-25-1 et seq. of the French Consumer Code (implementing Directive (EU) 2019/770). A consumer User has two years from supply of the digital content to obtain that it be brought into conformity, free of charge and without significant inconvenience. Bringing it into conformity may take the form of an update; failing that, the User may obtain a price reduction or termination of the contract on the conditions laid down by law. The User does not have to prove the existence of the lack of conformity during that period. This guarantee applies independently of any commercial warranty.

The Developer provides the updates necessary to keep the App in conformity, including security updates, for the period the User may reasonably expect given the type and purpose of the content, in accordance with Article L. 224-25-25 of the French Consumer Code. Updates are distributed through the App Store; installing them may be necessary for the App to work properly.

These guarantees do not cover defects arising from a modified device (jailbreaking), an unsupported operating system, or use contrary to these terms.

9. Terms required by Apple

The following terms are required by Apple for any app distributed on the App Store. They supplement these terms and do not restrict any right that the law grants a consumer.

1. Acknowledgement. These terms are concluded between you and the Developer only, and not with Apple. The Developer, not Apple, is solely responsible for the App and its content.
2. Scope of licence. The licence granted is described in section 5: it is limited to a personal, non-transferable right of use on Apple-branded devices that you own or control, as permitted by the Usage Rules of the App Store Terms of Service.
3. Maintenance and support. The Developer is solely responsible for maintenance and support services for the App. Apple has no obligation whatsoever to furnish any maintenance and support services with respect to the App.
4. Warranty. The Developer is solely responsible for any product warranties, whether express or implied by law, to the extent not effectively disclaimed. In the event of any failure of the App to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple may refund the purchase price, if any, for the App. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Apple will have no other warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to the App, and any other claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs or expenses attributable to any failure to conform to any warranty will be the Developer’s sole responsibility.
5. Product claims. The Developer, not Apple, is responsible for addressing any claims by you or any third party relating to the App or your possession and use of it, including but not limited to product liability claims, any claim that the App fails to conform to any applicable legal or regulatory requirement, and claims arising under consumer protection, privacy or similar legislation.
6. Intellectual property rights. In the event of any third-party claim that the App or your possession and use of it infringes that third party’s intellectual property rights, the Developer, not Apple, will be solely responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement and discharge of any such claim.
7. Legal compliance. You represent and warrant that you are not located in a country that is subject to a U.S. Government embargo, or that has been designated by the U.S. Government as a “terrorist supporting” country, and that you are not listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
8. Developer name and address. For any question, complaint or claim relating to the App: Louis-Frédéric Fortier, CDV 260133, 350 chemin du Pré Neuf, France, loufi.officiel@gmail.com.
9. Third-party terms of agreement. You must comply with applicable third-party terms of agreement when using the App.
10. Third-party beneficiary. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms, and upon your acceptance of them, Apple will have the right (and will be deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce them against you as a third-party beneficiary.

10. Your obligations

You undertake to:

• use the App for its intended purpose and in compliance with applicable law;
• not circumvent technical protection measures or the limits of the free tier;
• not decompile, disassemble or reverse-engineer the App, save for the acts expressly permitted by law, in particular those set out in Article L. 122-6-1 of the French Intellectual Property Code (interoperability, error correction, observing how the program works);
• not extract, reuse or redistribute the App’s editorial content — questions, explanations, lists — beyond your own private use;
• take care of the security of your own device and of the confidentiality of the PDF you export and share.

The App is supplied for private use. Any professional use, in particular by a healthcare facility with its patients, requires the Developer’s prior written agreement.

11. Intellectual property

The App, its code, its interface, its visual identity, its texts, its illustrations, its icon and all of its editorial content are protected by intellectual property law and remain the exclusive property of the Developer or its licensors. Trade marks and names cited remain the property of their respective owners. Nothing in these terms transfers any rights.

12. Liability

The Developer is liable for damage caused by a breach of its obligations under the general law. These terms neither intend nor operate to limit or exclude the Developer’s liability for personal injury, gross negligence or wilful misconduct, nor to set aside the legal guarantees owed to consumers.

The limits inherent to the service are, however, recalled:

• the App gives no medical advice and cannot form the basis of a health decision, as stated in section 3;
• the Developer does not guarantee that a preference expressed in the birth plan will be followed by a medical team or facility, that decision not being the Developer’s;
• the Developer cannot restore lost data: it is stored only on your device and the Developer holds no copy;
• the Developer is not responsible for the operation of the App Store, your carrier’s network, or the third-party services you choose to send your PDF to, nor for connection or roaming charges billed by your carrier.

13. Personal data

Data processing is described in the privacy policy, which forms an integral part of these terms. The essentials: your answers stay on your device, the Developer has no access to them, and anonymous usage statistics are only sent with your consent, which you can withdraw at any time.

14. Duration, changes and discontinuation

These terms apply for as long as the App is installed on your device. You may end them at any time by deleting the App; the local data is then removed from the device.

The Developer may change the App, in particular its editorial content, to improve it or to reflect technical or regulatory developments. Should the Developer stop distributing the App, the features already unlocked by your purchase would continue to work on the devices where it is installed, so far as the operating system remains compatible, with no guarantee that reinstalling would be possible.

These terms may be amended. The applicable version is the one in force at the time you use the App, published at this address. Any substantive change is signalled in the App; it does not apply retroactively to a purchase already made.

15. Complaints and mediation

For any complaint, write to loufi.officiel@gmail.com. The Developer aims to reply within fifteen working days. Complaints about payment, billing or refunds are a matter for Apple (section 7).

Under Articles L. 612-1 et seq. of the French Consumer Code, a consumer who has not obtained satisfaction after a written complaint to the Developer may refer the dispute free of charge to a consumer mediator for amicable resolution. The name and contact details of the competent mediator are provided on request to loufi.officiel@gmail.com and will be published on this page. The European Online Dispute Resolution platform ceased operating on 20 July 2025 and is therefore no longer a route of recourse.

16. Governing law and jurisdiction

These terms are governed by French law. That choice does not deprive a consumer of the protection afforded by the mandatory provisions of the law of the country of their habitual residence, in accordance with Article 6 of Regulation (EC) No 593/2008 (“Rome I”).

Failing an amicable settlement, a consumer may bring proceedings, at their choice, before the court of the place where they lived when the contract was concluded or where the harmful event occurred, or before one of the courts with territorial jurisdiction under the French Code of Civil Procedure (Article R. 631-3 of the French Consumer Code).

17. Miscellaneous

If any provision of these terms is held void or unenforceable, the others remain in force. The Developer’s failure to rely on a provision is not a waiver of it. These terms, together with the privacy policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and the Developer regarding the App.

Version 1.0, effective 2026-08-25.