Utility Island Terms of Use

01The agreement

Utility Island is developed and published by Andrii Kolisnyk, an independent developer based in Ukraine. By downloading, installing or using it you agree to these terms. If you do not agree to them, do not use the app.

How your information is handled is covered separately, in the Utility Island Privacy Policy, which forms part of this agreement.

02Your licence

Andrii Kolisnyk grants you a personal, non-transferable, non-exclusive licence to use Utility Island on any Apple-branded Mac that you own or control, as permitted by the Usage Rules in Apple's App Store Terms of Service. The licence is granted — Utility Island is licensed to you, not sold.

• You may not redistribute, rent, lease, lend, sell or sublicense the app.
• You may not reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble it, except to the extent that applicable law expressly permits despite this restriction.
• You may not remove or obscure any copyright, trade mark or other proprietary notice.

03Eligibility

You must be at least 13 years old to use Utility Island. If you are under 18, you must have permission from a parent or guardian.

04Payments and subscriptions

Utility Island offers paid features through the Mac App Store. Prices are displayed in the app and may vary by region.

• Payments are processed by Apple under Apple’s own terms and conditions.
• If the purchase is a subscription, it renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged within 24 hours prior to the end of that period.
• Manage or cancel at any time in System Settings → Apple Account → Media & Purchases → Subscriptions.
• No refunds are handled directly by me — contact Apple for refund requests.
• Prices are subject to change, with notice.

Statutory rights come first: if you are a consumer in the EEA or the UK, your right to withdraw from a purchase within the legal cooling-off period applies regardless of anything in this section.

05Using the app responsibly

You agree not to use Utility Island to store, transmit or process material you have no right to, not to use it in a way that breaks any applicable law, and not to attempt to interfere with or gain unauthorised access to any system through it.

06Your files and your clipboard

Everything you put on the shelf or copy through the clipboard is yours. I claim no ownership and no licence over any of it, which is easy to promise given that none of it ever reaches me.

The shelf is a temporary holding place, not a backup. Files parked there can be lost if the app is deleted, if its container is cleared, or if the file is moved at source. Keep your own copy of anything you cannot afford to lose. I have no ability to recover it.

Please also read the clipboard warning in the privacy policy before you use the history feature with sensitive material.

07Intellectual property

Utility Island, its name, its icon, its design and its code remain the property of Andrii Kolisnyk and are protected by copyright and trade mark law. Nothing here transfers any of that to you beyond the licence described above.

08Changes to the app

Utility Island is actively developed, and it depends on macOS behaviour that Apple controls — notch geometry, window layering, drag-and-drop and the permission model. A future version of macOS may change or remove behaviour the app relies on. Features may be added, changed or removed as a result, and support for older versions of macOS ends as Apple’s own support does.

09Limitation of liability

Utility Island is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. I do not warrant that it will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that it will remain compatible with every future version of macOS.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, I am not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for any loss of data or files, arising from your use of or inability to use the app, and I am not responsible for third-party services such as app stores. Where liability cannot be excluded, my total liability shall not exceed the amount you paid for the app in the 12 months preceding the claim.

Some jurisdictions do not allow these exclusions. Where that is the case they apply only so far as permitted, and your statutory consumer rights are unaffected.

10Termination

This licence ends automatically if you breach these terms, and you may end it at any time by deleting Utility Island from your Mac. The sections on intellectual property, liability and governing law survive termination.

11Apple’s licence and Apple’s role

Utility Island is licensed, not sold, under Apple’s Licensed Application End User License Agreement — the standard agreement that applies to every app distributed through the App Store. It governs the licence itself: which devices you may install on, Family Sharing, and what you may not do with the app. These Terms sit on top of it and cover everything else.

Where the two ever conflict on a question of licence scope, Apple’s agreement wins.

This agreement is between you and Andrii Kolisnyk only, not with Apple. Apple does not sponsor or endorse Utility Island, and is not responsible for it or for its contents. Andrii Kolisnyk, not Apple, is responsible for support, for any warranty that applies, and for addressing any claim about the app — including product liability, regulatory-compliance and consumer-protection claims.

You must also comply with any third-party terms that apply while using Utility Island — your carrier’s data agreement, and the terms of any service the app connects to.

12Modifications to these Terms

These terms may change as the app changes. The date at the top of this page is always the date of the current version, and material changes will be announced in the App Store release notes. Continuing to use the app after a change means you accept the revised terms; if you do not, stop using it and delete it.

13Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by and interpreted under the laws of Ukraine, and any disputes will be resolved in the courts of Ukraine. For users in the EU: nothing in these terms affects your rights as a consumer under EU law.

If any provision is found to be unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue in full force and effect.

14Contact

Andrii Kolisnyk — independent iOS and macOS developer, Ukraine.

App support and privacy contact — kolisnyk7@gmail.com. Use it for anything about this document, a privacy request, a deletion request, or a problem with the app. I read and answer these myself; there is no support desk in between.

Freelance and hiring enquiries go somewhere else — kolisnyk9@gmail.com, or the contact panel on the portfolio. The two inboxes are deliberately separate, so app support is never sitting behind a pile of work enquiries.