Terms of Service

Last updated: October 11, 2026 · Effective: October 11, 2026

Please read these Terms carefully. They include a binding arbitration agreement and a class-action waiver (Section 17) that affect how disputes between you and Rivalto are resolved. If you do not agree, do not create an account or use the Service.

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are a legally binding contract between you and Gino Falcone, operating as Road to Jesus Ministry("Rivalto," "we," "us," or "our") and govern your use of the Rivalto mobile application, the rivalto.app website, and any related services we operate (together, the "Service"). By creating an account, downloading the app, or otherwise using the Service, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated by reference.

1. Who We Are

Rivalto is operated by Gino Falcone, operating as Road to Jesus Ministry, a sole-operator ministry publishing a daily-habit tracking and friendly-competition app. The Service is published on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store and distributed through rivalto.app.

2. Eligibility and Account Creation

• You must be at least 13 years old to use the Service in the United States, at least 14 in Spain and South Korea, and at least 16 in the European Economic Area and United Kingdom. If you are a minor in your jurisdiction, you must have your parent or legal guardian's consent, and that adult must co-agree to these Terms.
• You agree to provide accurate information when you register and to keep that information current.
• You are responsible for everything that happens under your account and for keeping your credentials confidential. Notify us immediately at roadtojesusministry@gmail.com if you suspect unauthorized access.
• You may not create an account for someone else, impersonate another person, use a username that violates the rights of a third party, or operate automated accounts without our prior written permission.
• One account per natural person. We may suspend or terminate duplicate or abusive accounts.

3. The Service

Rivalto provides, among other features:

• Daily habit tracking across six categories (cardio, strength, nutrition, study, detox, sleep).
• Streak tracking at the category and habit-template level.
• Milestone badges (bronze, silver, gold) earned through sustained streaks.
• A daily 1-on-1 duel against another user in your chosen timezone band.
• A global and friends-only social feed showing milestone posts in your chosen language.
• A community bulletin board where users may post, comment, react, and vote on feature ideas.
• A Pro subscription unlocking additional features such as the Photo Log, custom templates, and global-feed visibility.

We are continually improving the Service and may add, modify, suspend, or discontinue any feature at any time. We will give reasonable advance notice of changes that materially reduce the value of a paid subscription you already own.

4. Acceptable Use

You agree not to:

• Violate any applicable law, regulation, or third-party right (including intellectual property, privacy, and publicity rights).
• Post content that is unlawful, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, sexually explicit involving a minor, discriminatory, hateful, harassing, threatening, or that promotes self-harm, violence, or illegal activity.
• Harass, bully, impersonate, or target any user based on race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, age, or disability.
• Upload a photo that depicts another identifiable person without that person's consent.
• Attempt to game, inflate, or manipulate streaks, duel outcomes, milestones, leaderboards, or any numeric statistic in the Service.
• Use the Service to send spam, chain messages, phishing attempts, malware, or unsolicited promotional content.
• Reverse engineer, decompile, scrape, crawl, or systematically extract data from the Service, except as expressly permitted by law.
• Bypass, disable, or circumvent any security, rate-limit, or access-control mechanism.
• Interfere with other users' enjoyment of the Service, including by abusive reporting, mass-blocking, or coordinated harassment.
• Use the Service for commercial advertising without our prior written consent.

We may remove content and suspend or terminate accounts that violate these rules, with or without notice depending on the severity. Repeated or egregious violations are grounds for permanent termination.

5. User Content

5.1 Ownership and license

You retain ownership of any content you create, upload, or post on the Service, including habits you create, photos you upload, templates you publish, bulletin posts, and comments ("User Content"). By submitting User Content, you grant Rivalto a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license to host, store, cache, reproduce, display, perform, translate, modify (only as needed to format and deliver), and distribute that User Content for the purpose of operating and improving the Service. This license ends when you delete the User Content or close your account, except for copies already made in service of your use (such as a reaction left by another user to your deleted post) and routine backups cycling out of the system.

5.2 Representations

You represent and warrant that:

• You own or have the necessary rights to the User Content you submit.
• The User Content does not infringe or violate any third-party right.
• Any depicted individuals have consented to the depiction and to its public sharing where applicable.
• The User Content complies with Section 4 (Acceptable Use) and all applicable laws.

5.3 Our role

We do not actively monitor User Content, but we may review and remove content that we reasonably believe violates these Terms, our community rules, or applicable law. We are not responsible for User Content submitted by other users. Opinions expressed in User Content are the authors', not ours.

5.4 Reporting content

If you believe content on the Service violates these Terms or your rights, email roadtojesusministry@gmail.comwith the subject "Content report" and include a link or description sufficient to locate it. For copyright, use the DMCA process in Section 16.

6. Subscriptions (Rivalto Pro)

6.1 Pricing and billing

• Pro is a paid auto-renewing subscription processed by Apple (App Store) or Google (Google Play). Current prices and renewal periods are shown in the paywall screen inside the app.
• Payment is charged to your Apple ID or Google account at purchase and at each renewal.
• Prices may be adjusted; we will give reasonable notice before changes affect a renewal, and your continued subscription constitutes acceptance of the new price.
• Taxes and currency conversion are applied by the store at the point of sale.

6.2 Free trial

We may offer a 30-day free trial to new users. The trial converts to a paid subscription at the end of the trial period unless cancelled at least 24 hours before trial end. Only one free trial per Apple ID / Google account.

6.3 Auto-renewal and cancellation

Subscriptions auto-renew at the end of each billing period at the then-current rate unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the renewal. You can cancel at any time in your Apple ID subscription settings (iOS) or Play Store subscription settings (Android). We do not control cancellation inside the app for store-managed subscriptions.

6.4 Refunds

Refunds for App Store or Play Store purchases are issued at the sole discretion of Apple or Google under their respective refund policies. Where consumer-protection law in your jurisdiction grants additional refund rights, those apply.

6.5 Loss of Pro features on expiry

When a Pro subscription ends, Pro-only features (such as the Photo Log, custom templates, and global-feed visibility of your milestones) stop being available. Content you created while Pro remains in your account and becomes visible again if you resubscribe.

7. Rivalto Property and License to You

The Service, including all software, visual design, text, logos, trademarks, and non-user content, is owned by Gino Falcone, operating as Road to Jesus Ministry or licensed to us. We grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to install and use the Service on devices you own or control, solely for your personal, non-commercial use and subject to these Terms. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.

8. Feedback

If you submit suggestions, ideas, or feedback (through the in-app bulletin board, support tickets, email, or otherwise), you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, implement, and commercialize that feedback without obligation to you.

9. Third-Party Services and Links

The Service relies on third-party services (Apple App Store, Google Play Store, RevenueCat, Supabase, Expo, APNs, FCM, and any email provider listed in our Privacy Policy). We are not responsible for the acts, omissions, or policies of those third parties. If the Service links to a third-party website or resource, we do not endorse it and are not responsible for its content.

10. Beta Features

From time to time we may make features available on a preview, beta, or experimental basis. Those features are offered "AS IS" and may change or be removed at any time without notice.

11. Changes to the Service and Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. If we make material changes, we will notify you through the Service and update the dates at the top. For material changes we may require you to acknowledge the updated Terms before continued use. Your continued use of the Service after the effective date constitutes your acceptance of the updated Terms. If you do not agree, delete your account.

12. Termination

• You may terminate your account at any time from the Settings → Account section or by emailing us. Account deletion is permanent and takes effect within 30 days (subject to limited legal-retention carve-outs in our Privacy Policy).
• We may suspend or terminate your account at any time if you violate these Terms, if required by law, or if we discontinue the Service. For material terminations, we will give notice where feasible.
• Sections that by their nature should survive termination will survive (ownership, license to feedback, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnity, dispute resolution, miscellaneous).

13. Disclaimers

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, OR UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE OPERATION. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, THAT STREAK/DUEL/MILESTONE CALCULATIONS WILL ALWAYS BE ERROR-FREE, OR THAT USER CONTENT POSTED BY OTHERS WILL BE ACCURATE OR APPROPRIATE. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES; IN SUCH JURISDICTIONS, SOME OF THE ABOVE EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

Rivalto is a motivation and gamification tool. It is not a medical, nutritional, mental-health, or fitness-coaching service and does not provide medical advice. Consult a qualified professional before beginning or changing any exercise, diet, sleep, or wellness practice.

14. Limitation of Liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, GINO FALCONE, OPERATING AS ROAD TO JESUS MINISTRY AND ITS AGENTS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, GOODWILL, OR DATA, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO YOUR USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICE, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ANY CLAIM ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE IS LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US IN THE TWELVE MONTHS PRECEDING THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR (B) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS ($100). SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW CERTAIN LIABILITY LIMITATIONS; IN SUCH JURISDICTIONS, THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS APPLY TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.

15. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Gino Falcone, operating as Road to Jesus Ministryand its agents from and against any claims, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs, or expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or relating to (a) your use of the Service, (b) your User Content, (c) your violation of these Terms, or (d) your violation of any third-party right.

16. DMCA / Copyright

If you believe content on the Service infringes your copyright, email roadtojesusministry@gmail.comwith the subject "DMCA notice" and include:

• Your physical or electronic signature.
• Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to be infringed.
• Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing and its location (link, user, post).
• Your contact information.
• A statement that you have a good-faith belief that use of the material is not authorized by the copyright owner, agent, or law.
• A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on their behalf.

We will respond consistent with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512). We may terminate the account of a repeat infringer.

17. Dispute Resolution — Binding Arbitration and Class-Action Waiver

17.1 Scope

Any dispute, controversy, or claim arising out of or relating to these Terms, the Service, or our relationship (a "Dispute") will be resolved by binding individual arbitration, except that (a) either party may bring a claim in small-claims court in the party's county of residence if the claim qualifies, and (b) either party may seek injunctive or other equitable relief in court to protect intellectual-property rights.

17.2 Informal resolution first

Before starting arbitration, you agree to try to resolve the Dispute informally for at least 60 days after emailing us at roadtojesusministry@gmail.comwith the subject "Dispute notice" describing your claim and the relief you seek.

17.3 Arbitration

If informal resolution fails, the Dispute will be resolved by binding arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, before a single arbitrator. Arbitration will be conducted in English, in California, United States, or by phone/video at the consumer's election. The arbitrator may award only individual relief and may not consolidate claims or preside over any class or representative proceeding. Judgment on the award may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction.

17.4 Class-action waiver

YOU AND RIVALTO AGREE THAT EACH MAY BRING CLAIMS AGAINST THE OTHER ONLY IN AN INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS, COLLECTIVE, OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. UNLESS BOTH YOU AND RIVALTO AGREE OTHERWISE, THE ARBITRATOR MAY NOT CONSOLIDATE MORE THAN ONE PERSON'S CLAIMS AND MAY NOT OTHERWISE PRESIDE OVER ANY FORM OF REPRESENTATIVE OR CLASS PROCEEDING.

17.5 Opt-out

You may opt out of Section 17 within 30 days of first accepting these Terms by sending an email to roadtojesusministry@gmail.comwith the subject "Arbitration opt-out" and your username. Opting out of Section 17 does not affect any other part of these Terms.

17.6 Severability

If any part of Section 17 is found unenforceable, the remainder of Section 17 continues in force, except that if the class-action waiver is found unenforceable, Section 17 in its entirety is null and void.

18. Governing Law and Venue

These Terms are governed by the laws of California, United States, without regard to its conflict of laws rules. Except for Disputes subject to arbitration under Section 17, the exclusive venue for any legal action is the state and federal courts located in California, United States, and the parties consent to personal jurisdiction there.

19. Export, Sanctions, and U.S. Government Use

You may not use the Service in violation of U.S. export-control or sanctions laws. The Service is "commercial computer software" and "commercial computer software documentation" as those terms are used in 48 C.F.R. § 12.212. Use by the U.S. Government is subject only to these Terms.

20. Apple-Specific Terms

If you downloaded the Service from the Apple App Store, the following also applies:

• These Terms are between you and Gino Falcone, operating as Road to Jesus Ministry only, not with Apple.
• Apple is not responsible for the Service or its content.
• Your license to the Service is limited to use on an Apple-branded product that you own or control, consistent with the Apple Media Services Terms.
• Apple has no obligation to furnish maintenance or support services for the Service.
• In the event of any failure of the Service to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple and Apple will refund the purchase price of the app to you (if any). To the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation with respect to the Service.
• Apple is not responsible for addressing any claims by you or any third party relating to the Service, including product-liability or consumer-protection claims.
• Apple is a third-party beneficiary of these Terms and may enforce them against you.

21. Google-Specific Terms

If you downloaded the Service from the Google Play Store, your use of the Service is also subject to the Google Play Terms of Service and any additional terms Google imposes on in-app purchases.

22. Notices and Consent to Electronic Communications

By using the Service you consent to receive communications from us electronically (email, push notification, and in-app message). Legal notices will satisfy any legal requirement to be in writing. Service email includes password reset, security alerts, essential changes to these Terms, and transactional subscription messages. Marketing email is sent only when you opt in.

23. Miscellaneous

• Entire agreement: these Terms, our Privacy Policy, and any additional terms we present for a specific feature constitute the entire agreement between you and us concerning the Service and supersede any prior agreement on the same subject.
• Assignment: you may not assign these Terms without our prior written consent; we may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.
• Waiver: our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver.
• Severability: if any provision is unenforceable, the rest remain in effect.
• Headings: are for convenience only and do not affect interpretation.
• Language: the English version of these Terms is the controlling version; translations are provided for convenience.
• Force majeure: we are not liable for failures caused by events beyond our reasonable control.

24. Contact

Questions about these Terms? Email roadtojesusministry@gmail.com.