Terms of Service

Effective 4 October 2026 · Hicaso LLP, India

1. Agreement

These terms are an agreement between you and Hicaso LLP, India (“we”, “us”), which operates AppKavo, including the website, dashboard, CLI, GitHub Action, GitHub App and App Shield SDK. By creating an account or using AppKavo, you agree to these terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you use AppKavo for a company, you confirm you are authorised to accept these terms for it.

2. Your account

• You must be at least 18 years old.
• Give accurate details and keep your password, API tokens and SDK tokens safe. You are responsible for activity under your account.
• Tell us straight away at Hello@hicaso.com if you think your account has been misused.

3. Acceptable use

AppKavo’s scanners are read-only and are built to check your own work. You agree:

• to scan only what you own or have written permission to test. This covers app builds, source code, repositories, websites, APIs and store listings;
• not to use AppKavo to attack, disrupt or gain unauthorised access to any system, or to find weaknesses in someone else’s product without permission;
• not to upload malware, or content you have no right to share;
• not to get around plan limits or rate limits, for example by creating multiple free accounts;
• not to resell or white-label AppKavo, or copy it to build a competing product, without our written agreement;
• not to reverse engineer the service, except where the law allows it;
• to follow all laws that apply to you, including India’s Information Technology Act, 2000.

4. Your content

You keep all rights to the builds, code, screenshots and other material you submit (“your content”). You give us permission to process your content only as needed to run AppKavo for you, which includes sending parts of it to the providers listed in our Privacy Policy. We do not use your content to train AI models.

Reports, badges and generated documents (such as privacy policy drafts and SBOMs) are yours to use. A security badge is public by design, so anyone with its link can see your score.

5. About the results

Please read this carefully:

• Audits are automated, partly using AI. They can miss real problems and can flag things that aren’t problems. A high score does not mean your app is secure.
• Store Readiness and ASO Lint predict how Google Play or the Apple App Store might react. They are not affiliated with Google or Apple, and their decisions are not ours. We can’t promise approval.
• Privacy policies and Data Safety or App Privacy answers we generate are drafts based on what we detect in your build. Check them, and get legal advice where needed, before you publish them.
• Fix suggestions and AI-written prompts are suggestions. Review and test any change before you ship it.

You remain responsible for the security, legal compliance and store approval of your own apps.

6. Plans & billing

• AppKavo has a Free plan and paid monthly subscriptions. Current prices and limits are shown on our pricing section.
• Paid plans are billed in advance each month through Razorpay and renew automatically until you cancel. Prices may include or exclude applicable taxes, such as GST, as shown at checkout.
• Monthly limits reset on the 1st of each month. Unused audits do not carry over.
• If a payment fails, your account may move to the Free plan until payment succeeds.
• We may change prices. We will tell you at least 30 days in advance by email, and the new price applies from your next renewal after that.

7. Cancellation & refunds

• Cancel any time from your dashboard, or by emailing Hello@hicaso.com.
• After you cancel, your paid plan stays active until the end of the current billing month. You won’t be charged again, and your account then moves to the Free plan.
• We don’t refund payments already made, including partial months and unused audits, except where Indian law requires a refund.
• If you were charged by mistake, such as a duplicate charge or a charge after you cancelled, email us within 30 days and we will refund the incorrect amount. Approved refunds go back to the original payment method, usually within 5–7 working days.

AppKavo is a fully digital service. Nothing is shipped or delivered physically.

8. App Shield SDK

If you put the App Shield SDK in your app:

• you are responsible for how it behaves in your app, including blocking users on devices it judges unsafe. Test it before release;
• detection can never be perfect. Some unsafe devices may get through and some safe devices may be flagged;
• you must tell your users, in your own privacy policy, about the device data the SDK sends us (described in our Privacy Policy), and have a lawful basis for collecting it;
• keep your SDK token confidential, and turn off “Allow test (debuggable) builds” for apps you ship;
• App Shield features depend on an active paid plan. If your plan ends, protection can change as described in the SDK documentation.

9. Third-party services

AppKavo works with services we don’t control, including GitHub, Google, Razorpay, Anthropic and public vulnerability databases. Your use of them is governed by their own terms. We aren’t responsible for their availability or accuracy.

10. Our property

AppKavo, its software, design, scoring methods and brand belong to Hicaso LLP. These terms give you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use AppKavo while your account is active. If you send us feedback or ideas, we may use them without owing you anything.

11. Suspension & termination

You can stop using AppKavo and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms, puts others at risk, or that the law requires us to act on. Where reasonable, we will warn you first. When an account is closed, the sections of these terms that by their nature should continue (such as 5, 12, 13, 14 and 15) still apply.

12. Disclaimer

AppKavo is provided “as is” and “as available”. To the extent the law allows, we make no warranty that it will be uninterrupted, error-free, or find every vulnerability, and we disclaim implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.

13. Limitation of liability

To the extent the law allows:

• we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential losses, or for lost profits, revenue, data or goodwill, or app store rejections;
• our total liability for all claims about AppKavo is limited to the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim, or ₹1,000 if you have only used the Free plan.

Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited under Indian law.

14. Indemnity

You agree to cover Hicaso LLP for claims, losses and costs (including reasonable legal fees) that arise from your content, from scanning something you weren’t authorised to scan, or from your breach of these terms.

15. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of India. Courts with jurisdiction over Hicaso LLP’s registered office have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute. Before going to court, please email us so we can try to resolve it informally.

16. Changes

We may update these terms. We will change the date at the top and, for significant changes, email account holders at least 15 days before they take effect. If you keep using AppKavo after that, you accept the new terms.

17. Contact

Hicaso LLP
India
Email: Hello@hicaso.com