Terms of use

App: Morse Beacon · Android package com.luckytools.morse_beacon
Data controller: Cloudy NI (sole trader)
ICO data protection registration: ZC222090
Region: Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Effective date: 30 September 2026
Contact: support@cloudyni.com

These terms

These terms are the agreement between you and Cloudy NI (sole trader), the publisher of Morse Beacon (Android package com.luckytools.morse_beacon). Installing or using the app means you accept them; if you do not accept them, do not use the app.

They cover the app and the cloudyni.com pages that support it, including the privacy policy. That policy explains what the app does with your information; these terms explain what you may and may not do with the app, and what we are responsible for.

Your licence to use the app

We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to install and use the app on devices you own or control, for your own private use, for as long as these terms are in force.

You must not:

• copy, sell, rent, sublicense or redistribute the app, or make it available to anyone else;
• modify the app or create a derivative work from it;
• reverse engineer, decompile or try to extract source code, except to the extent that the law says the restriction cannot apply;
• remove or hide our notices, branding or attribution;
• use the app to break the law, to infringe anyone's rights, or in a way that breaks Google Play policy.

Google Play

The app is distributed through Google Play, so Google Play Terms of Service apply to you as well, and Google's own policies govern the store, the download and the payment.

Google is the merchant of record for anything you buy inside the app: it takes the payment, keeps the billing record, and handles refunds and billing disputes under its own policy. If your use of the app breaks Google Play's rules, Google can act against your Google account as well, which is outside our control.

Free tier, advertising and paid products

Morse Beacon is free to download and supported by advertising. Two optional purchases are sold through Google Play Billing: a monthly auto-renewing subscription and a one-time lifetime unlock.

Premium removes advertising and unlocks the full Koch-style lesson path beyond the first free character groups, the daily decode challenge, custom phrases and the on-device message history. The lifetime product is a single payment and never renews; the subscription renews every month until you cancel. Both grant the same features while they are active. Prices are never written on this page: Google Play is the merchant of record and shows the exact amount, including tax, on the sheet you confirm.

The free version contains banner and interstitial advertising served by Google AdMob, with advertising consent collected through Google's User Messaging Platform where the law requires it. Advertising never appears while your own transmission is in progress. An active Premium subscription or lifetime unlock removes advertising.

The product identifiers the app requests from Google Play are:

• morse_beacon_premium — monthly auto-renewing subscription (Google Play may also offer a free-trial base plan on it; the length of any trial and the price you pay afterwards are stated on Play's purchase sheet)
• morse_beacon_lifetime — one-time, non-consumable purchase that does not renew

The product identifiers below are the ones the app requests from Google Play. The price is deliberately not fixed on this page: Play is the merchant of record and the amount you pay is always the amount shown on the Google Play purchase sheet when you confirm, including any local tax. Treat the price on that screen as the authoritative one.

These rules apply to every purchase:

• Auto-renewal. If the product you buy is a subscription it renews automatically at the end of each billing period, at the price shown in Google Play, until you cancel. If the product is a one-time purchase it does not renew.
• Cancelling. Cancel in Google Play → Payments & subscriptions → Subscriptions. Uninstalling the app does not cancel billing. You keep the paid features until the end of the period you have already paid for.
• Refunds. Google is the merchant of record, so refunds and billing disputes are handled by Google under Google Play policy, not by us. We cannot issue, block or reverse a Google Play charge.
• Price changes. We do not set the amount you are charged — Play does, and it shows the exact price (including tax) before you confirm. If a subscription price changes, Play notifies you and asks you to accept it before it applies.
• Restoring a purchase. Reinstalling the app and signing in with the same Google account restores an active entitlement. If it does not appear, use Restore purchases in the app, then contact support.

Accounts, backup and the switched-off cloud feature

In the build you can download today this app is local-only: there is no account, no sign-in and no server copy of your data, so nothing about you is held on our servers to read, export or delete. The app's code does contain a dormant, optional encrypted-backup feature, but it is switched off and unreachable in this release — there is no control in the app that can enable it.

If we ever ship that feature we will update this policy first, state exactly what a backup would store and where, and provide in-app controls to delete it. Until then, no data from this app is uploaded to us.

Because that feature is switched off, this release creates no account and uploads nothing, so the data deletion page has nothing on our side to delete. If we turn it on, we will update the privacy policy and publish the deletion route before that build ships.

Acceptable use and your responsibilities

You are responsible for how you use the app, for anything you enter, send or save in it, and for keeping your device and your account secure. Keep your own copy of anything you cannot afford to lose, and where the app can export or share your data, use it.

Do not try to interfere with the app, its servers or other users, do not try to unlock a paid feature without paying for it, and do not use the app in a way that breaks the law.

On the free tier, advertising is part of how the app is paid for. If you would rather not see it, buy the paid product or uninstall the app.

Content and ownership

The app itself, its design, its text, its icon and our branding belong to us or to our licensors, and nothing in these terms transfers any of that to you.

Anything you write, record, scan, photograph or save in the app stays yours. We claim no ownership over it, and where it never leaves your device we never even see it.

Where the app includes reference material supplied by someone else — a published text, a public dataset, a third-party image or a calculation method — that material stays the property of its supplier, and the limitations below explain what it can and cannot be used for.

Important limitations

• Not an emergency, rescue, maritime or aviation device. Morse Beacon flashes a phone's torch or screen and pulses the phone's vibration motor. It is not a distress beacon, an EPIRB, a signal lamp, a radio or any kind of certified equipment, and nobody is listening on the other end. For any emergency, contact the emergency services on the proper channel.
• A flash is only useful if someone is looking. Light signalling needs line of sight and an attentive, competent receiver who knows Morse. Trees, weather, distance, daylight and the phone's own battery all defeat it — do not rely on this app to summon help or to keep anyone safe.
• Do not flash at people or traffic. Aiming a bright light at drivers, pilots, cyclists or anyone operating machinery is dangerous and can be unlawful, and flashing light can trigger photosensitivity reactions in some people. Point the torch away from eyes and never use the app while driving.
• Heat and battery. Running the torch continuously draws significant current and makes the phone hot. The LED can dim, thermal-throttle or switch off, and continuous use can damage the torch or drain the battery. Take breaks.
• Morse is only as good as the operator. Timing, spacing and character accuracy are yours. A mistyped character sends the wrong letter, and the app cannot know whether the other end copied you correctly.
• Your transmission is public. A flashing torch can be seen from a distance, and a phone buzzing on a table can be heard. Anyone nearby can read or hear what you send, so do not transmit anything you want kept private.

These limitations are part of the app's design rather than small print added afterwards. If one of them rules out the way you need to use the app, then the app is not the right tool for that job, and you should not rely on it.

Our liability

Nothing in these terms limits a right you have as a consumer that cannot be limited, and nothing here excludes our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud, or for anything else the law does not allow us to exclude.

Subject to that, the app is provided as it is. We do not promise that it will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that it will suit a particular purpose, and we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, for lost data, or for loss that was not reasonably foreseeable when you started using the app.

Subject to the first paragraph above, our total liability for any claim connected with the app is limited to the amount you paid for the app in the twelve months before the event that gave rise to the claim.

If you are a consumer in the UK, the Consumer Rights Act 2015 gives you rights against us and against Google, and these terms do not reduce them.

Changes to the app and to these terms

We may update the app and these terms. This is the current version, dated 30 September 2026. If we change the terms in a way that matters we will update this page before the change takes effect, and continuing to use the app after that means you accept the new version.

We may also change, suspend or withdraw the app, or a feature in it. If we withdraw something you have already paid for, we will deal with that in line with Google Play's policies and with your consumer rights.

Ending this agreement

You can end this agreement at any time by uninstalling the app and, if you created an account, deleting it as the data deletion page describes. Cancelling a subscription is separate and is done in Google Play.

We may end this agreement if you seriously break these terms. Where we do, we will tell you what happens to any account you hold, and the sections on your licence and on our liability continue to apply.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the law of Northern Ireland, and disputes may be brought in the courts of Northern Ireland. If you live elsewhere in the United Kingdom you can also bring a claim in your own courts, and nothing here stops you using a consumer advice service, a regulator or an alternative dispute-resolution scheme.

Contact us

Cloudy NI (sole trader) is a sole trader based in Northern Ireland, registered with the ICO for data protection under reference ZC222090.

Email support@cloudyni.com for privacy questions, a purchase problem or a deletion request. We answer data-protection requests within one month and deletion requests within 30 days.

Questions about a charge, a receipt or a refund should go to Google Play first, because Google takes the payment; we can still help you work out what to ask for.