Terms of use

The short version

protcul is a free digital pillbox. It schedules the medication protocols you enter and records what you took — nothing more. It is not medical advice, it checks nothing about your medication, and it never reminds you. Use it as a memory aid alongside your own judgment and your clinician's instructions, never instead of them.

1. Who we are, and what you're agreeing to

protcul is operated by Reinny Almonte, an individual based in the Dominican Republic ("we"). By using protcul you agree to these terms. If you don't agree with them, don't use the service — simply stop using it, take your export with you, and, if you wish, wipe your local data or delete your account in the app.

You can reach us at hello@movmnt.quest about anything here. These terms and the privacy policy are the whole of what is agreed between us about protcul; if a court ever finds one part of them unenforceable, that part falls away and everything else still stands. Which law applies, and where a disagreement would be heard, is section 12.

2. What protcul is

protcul is a scheduling and record-keeping tool for medication protocols you already have. You describe a protocol; protcul lays out the doses day by day, shows you today's, and records what you mark as taken or skipped. It works in your browser, offline, without an account, and it is free — no tiers, no subscriptions, no payments. An optional account adds end-to-end encrypted sync across devices, and nothing else.

3. What protcul is not — read this one

• protcul is not medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. It has no drug database, no interaction warnings, and no dosage validation. It schedules exactly what you type, verbatim. If you enter the wrong medication, dose, or schedule, protcul will faithfully display the wrong medication, dose, or schedule.
• protcul is not a reminder. It never notifies you. It is a pillbox you check, not one that pings you. Do not rely on protcul to prompt you to take medication.
• protcul is not a substitute for professional care. Decisions about starting, stopping, or changing medication belong with you and your doctor or pharmacist. Always follow the instructions of the prescribing professional and the medication's label; if protcul's display ever seems to disagree with them, they are right and the entry in protcul is wrong.
• protcul is not a shared-access or monitoring tool. Profiles let one person manage the pillboxes of people they physically care for, on their own device. They grant no one else access and are not remote oversight.

4. Your responsibilities

• Verify your entries. You are responsible for the accuracy of the protocols you enter and for checking them against your prescription.
• Back up your data. Your data lives on your devices, and for guests nowhere else. Clearing browser data or losing the device deletes it. The app offers export at any time — use it regularly. We cannot restore what we never had, and synced data we hold is ciphertext we cannot decrypt for you.
• Secure your device. Local data is stored unencrypted; anyone who can use your browser profile can read it. Your device login and disk encryption are the protection boundary.
• Care for others' data with care. If you keep a profile for someone else (a child, a parent), you are responsible for handling their information appropriately and, where required, for having the right to do so.
• protcul is not aimed at children. If you are under 16, use it only with a parent or guardian involved. A grown-up keeping a profile for a child they care for is the intended use, not the exception.

5. Accounts

Creating an account is optional, and shipped in 0.0.5; the changelog records which release brought what. Accounts are strictly individual — one person, one account. Don't share credentials or use an account to give another person access to someone's data; the supported handoff is profile export/import.

One secret, no recovery. Your handle and passphrase are the only credentials, and neither can be recovered — not because we won't help, but because the design gives us nothing to recover with: no email, no reset path, no server-side keys. Losing both your passphrase and your export file means losing access to your synced data permanently. You accept this trade-off by creating an account; the app states it plainly at signup.

Choose a passphrase you can retain and others can't guess (12–256 Unicode code points after normalization, with no composition rule); a guessable passphrase weakens the encryption protecting your synced data. Keep your export file as your backup. You are responsible for activity under your session on devices you control.

Your handle cannot be changed while the account exists. Deleting the account releases it for anyone to register again on a first-come basis; a later registration is a new, empty account and does not recover or reconnect the deleted account's data.

If you are a consumer in the EU, you have a statutory right to withdraw from an agreement like this within 14 days of entering it, and nothing here takes that away. In practice you have more than it gives you: you can delete your account at any moment, from inside the app, free, immediately, and without giving anyone a reason.

6. Acceptable use

Use protcul for its purpose: managing medication protocols for yourself and people whose medication you physically manage. Don't attempt to disrupt the service, probe or attack its infrastructure, or use it in violation of applicable law. That's the whole list — there is no content to moderate, because your content reaches us only as ciphertext we cannot read, or not at all.

7. Your data, your ownership

Everything you enter is yours. We claim no rights over it — we couldn't exercise any anyway, since we only ever hold it encrypted, if at all. Export is always available in a documented format; there is no lock-in. Privacy is covered in detail in the privacy policy, which is part of how the service works, not fine print.

One thing that runs the other way: protcul's source code is published so anyone can read and audit it, under the PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0. Published is not the same as open source, and we don't call it that: the license allows noncommercial use only.

Keep the two things apart, because they really are two things. These terms govern your use of the service we run. The license governs what you may do with the code, and using the app grants you no rights in the code beyond it. If you take the code and run your own copy — which the license lets you do for a noncommercial purpose — that copy is yours, not ours: these terms don't cover it, we don't operate it, and we aren't responsible for it.

8. Availability and changes

protcul is provided free of charge, and we intend to keep it running well, but we do not promise uninterrupted availability. Because the app works offline after first load, a server outage does not take your pillbox away — but we can't guarantee the absence of bugs.

We may change the service over time. Every release is documented in the public changelog. We will not change protcul into something these terms don't describe without updating them first (section 11). Features may also be discontinued; because your data is local and exportable, no change on our side can take your data from you.

None of that is a disclaimer of your statutory rights. Where the law gives you rights about digital content and services supplied by a trader — including free ones supplied in exchange for your data — those rights stand, and section 10 says the same thing about liability.

9. Ending things

You can stop using protcul at any time: wipe your local data in the app, and if you have an account, delete it — deletion wipes our servers' copy of your data.

We can also end things from our side, but only narrowly, and it's worth being precise about what we are actually able to do. We cannot read anything you store: it reaches us as ciphertext, and all we hold about an account is a handle you chose and the pattern of requests it makes. So there is no content for us to judge and no moderation for us to do — the only abuse we can even see is abuse of the infrastructure itself: flooding the service with requests, probing it, trying to get at other people's accounts, or the other things section 6 rules out.

When we see that, the response is an operator action on our own servers, not a feature of the app — and we should be precise about how rough an instrument that is, because the app has no suspension switch built into it. In practice it means blocking the offending requests at our infrastructure; anything narrower or more targeted than that would be done by hand, directly in the database. We will keep it to what stopping the abuse actually requires, and take the narrowest step that works.

Because we hold no way to contact you — no email, by design — a block simply shows up as sync no longer working. If that happens and you think we got it wrong, write to hello@movmnt.quest and we will look at it again and lift it if we were wrong. What a block never does is take your data: it stays on your device, exportable as always, and we don't erase the encrypted copy to punish anyone. If a block ever leaves you unable to delete your own account, write to us and we will delete it for you by hand — there is no automated path for that, and doing it manually is the mechanism we are committing to.

10. Liability — the honest version

protcul is a free memory aid, and these terms limit our liability accordingly — but within what the law allows, not beyond it:

• What we're not liable for: consequences of relying on protcul as a source of medical guidance or as a reminder (it is neither, per section 3); inaccurate outcomes caused by inaccurate entries; and loss of data you did not export (section 4), including synced data made permanently inaccessible by a lost passphrase (section 5).
• What we can't and don't exclude: anything the law that applies to you does not let us limit. Depending on where you live that will include deliberate wrongdoing and serious carelessness on our part, death or personal injury caused by our negligence, and liability under product-safety or product-liability rules. Nothing in these terms reduces the statutory rights you have as a consumer in the country you live in, including your rights about digital content and services.
• Which bullet wins: the second one. Where the exclusion above would cut into something the law does not permit us to exclude, it simply doesn't apply, and the rest of the section is unaffected.

protcul being free is a fact the law lets a court weigh, and we mention it in that spirit. It is not a licence for us to be careless with a tool people use around their medication, and we don't treat it as one.

11. Changes to these terms

If these terms change, the new version is published on this page with an updated date and noted in the changelog. For a material change — one that affects your rights or how the service works — we will publish it here and in the changelog at least 30 days before it takes effect, so you have real time to decide rather than discovering it afterwards.

A change never applies backwards: it governs what happens after it takes effect, not what already happened. Continuing to use protcul after that date means you accept the updated terms; if you don't want them, stop using the service and take your export with you. That costs you nothing, needs no notice to us, and you keep everything you entered.

12. Which law applies, and where a disagreement goes

We are in the Dominican Republic and protcul is built for people in the European Union, so rather than leave this to be argued about later, here it is plainly.

These terms are governed by the law of the Dominican Republic. That choice cannot take away the protection of the consumer law where you live, and it isn't meant to: if you are a consumer in the EU or EEA, the mandatory rules of your own country still protect you, and wherever they give you more than Dominican law does, they are what applies.

Where a disagreement would be heard works the same way. If you are a consumer, you can bring a claim in the courts of the country you live in — and that is also the only place we would bring one against you. Nothing here asks you to travel or to litigate somewhere far from home.

Before any of that, please just write to hello@movmnt.quest. Most problems are a misunderstanding and we would far rather fix one than argue about it. We have not signed up to any alternative dispute resolution body, so we can't point you to one; your national consumer authority or a consumer organisation where you live can advise you independently of us.