Sheaf
Terms
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1. Who you are dealing with
Sheaf is provided by … ("we", "us", "our"). The full provider details are on the imprint; the postal and email addresses are also at the bottom of this page.
2. What these terms cover
Your use of the Sheaf app and of this website, and the Sheaf Plus subscription. They are our general terms and conditions in the sense of §§ 305 ff. BGB. We do not accept differing or conflicting terms of your own unless we have agreed to them in text form.
3. What Sheaf is
An app for Catholic families: songs, quizzes, a learning path made to be worked through together with your children, and a devotional page for each morning. A devotional and educational product.
It carries no ecclesiastical approval and claims none. Every item is read by a person before it is published — that is quality assurance, not an ecclesiastical judgement. Nothing in Sheaf is an official teaching of the Catholic Church, and none of it replaces your own parish or your own pastor.
Songs, daily devotionals and lessons are made with AI, and every one of them is read by a person before it is published. Scripture is quoted from public-domain translations and credited where it appears.
4. How a contract comes about
The app is free to install and free to use in the way described under section 5. Installing it obliges you to pay nothing.
A Sheaf Plus subscription is bought inside the App Store or inside Google Play — not on this website and not directly from us. The store shows you the price in your currency and the length of any free trial before you confirm, and the purchase is concluded when you confirm it there.
Which of us is your contractual partner for that purchase is decided by the store and by its own terms: on the App Store, Apple sells to you as seller of record; on Google Play, Google generally acts for us and handles the payment. Either way, payment, invoicing, renewal, cancellation and refunds are handled by the store, and these terms govern how you may use Sheaf.
5. What stays free
Without paying anything, every day:
- a whole song and a whole quiz — not samples of them;
- your streak, your level and your progress;
- every achievement — none is behind the subscription;
- everything you write, which stays on your device.
Which items are free on a given day may change. We will not take away something you have already paid for.
6. Sheaf Plus
Plus opens the rest of the library: every song, every quiz, and every lesson and check. The page for the morning is not part of it — that one is free for everybody, every day, and it stays that way.
- Price and term. Monthly or yearly. The price in your currency and the exact length of the term are shown to you by the store before you confirm, and those figures are the ones that count. We deliberately do not restate them here: a number written on a page is wrong in some currency on some day, and nothing here would notice.
- Free trial. A subscription may begin with a free trial whose length the store shows you. A trial not cancelled before it ends becomes a paid period. Introductory offers are once per store account, so a household that has used one is quoted the ordinary price.
- Renewal. It renews at the end of each period, at the then-current price, until you stop it.
- Cancelling. In your store account, not with us — on iPhone under Settings → your name → Subscriptions, on Android in the Google Play app under Payments and subscriptions. Cancelling takes effect at the end of the period you have paid for, and Plus keeps working until then.
- Refunds are the store's to give. Apple and Google took the payment, so we cannot issue one. Write to us and we will help you make the request — and we will say so plainly if we think you are owed it.
- One subscription, one store account. It is restored on a new device by signing in with the account that bought it. There is no family plan today.
7. Your right of withdrawal
As a consumer you have a statutory right to withdraw from a contract for digital content within fourteen days, without giving a reason (§§ 355, 356 BGB).
Because the subscription is bought in the store, the withdrawal is exercised there. Apple and Google each provide a process for it, and the fourteen days run from the day the contract was concluded.
How it can end early. Under § 356 (5) BGB the right lapses for digital content once performance has begun, if you expressly agreed that it should begin before the withdrawal period ends and confirmed that you know you lose the right by agreeing. The store asks you for exactly that when you confirm, because the content becomes available immediately.
A free trial is not a payment. Cancelling during one costs nothing and needs no withdrawal.
8. Updates, and changes to what Sheaf does
For as long as you have a subscription — and, for the free part of the app, for the period you may reasonably expect — we will supply the updates needed to keep Sheaf working as agreed, including security updates (§ 327f BGB). We will tell you about them and you will be able to install them.
Beyond that we may change Sheaf, add to it or stop offering part of it, but only for a valid reason: a technical change we do not control, an adaptation to a new device or operating system, a legal requirement, or a change that does not disadvantage you (§ 327r BGB). Where a change would impair your access to or use of Sheaf in more than a minor way, we will tell you in text form in reasonable time before it takes effect, and you may terminate free of charge within thirty days of that notice or of the change, whichever is later. That right does not arise where we offer you the option of keeping the unchanged version.
The catalogue changes by design. Items are added, corrected and occasionally withdrawn. That is what a devotional catalogue topped up on a schedule means; it is part of what you subscribe to rather than a defect.
9. If something is wrong with it
Your statutory rights for digital products under §§ 327 ff. BGB apply in full and we neither limit nor exclude them. In short: Sheaf has to be as described and fit for the ordinary use of such a product, and if it is not you can ask us to put it right and, failing that, reduce the price or terminate.
Please tell us. Sheaf ships no crash reporting by choice, so a fault nobody writes about is a fault we do not know exists.
10. Our liability
We are liable without limitation:
- for intent and gross negligence;
- for injury to life, body or health;
- under the Produkthaftungsgesetz;
- where we have given a guarantee.
For slight negligence we are liable only where we have breached an obligation whose fulfilment makes performing this contract possible at all and on whose observance you may ordinarily rely (a cardinal obligation). Liability is then limited to the damage typical for this kind of contract and foreseeable when it was concluded.
Any further liability for slight negligence is excluded. The same limits apply to our staff and to anyone we engage to perform.
11. What belongs to whom
The recordings, the text, the artwork and the software in Sheaf belong to us or to our licensors. A subscription gives you a simple, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use them inside Sheaf, for yourself and your household, for as long as the subscription lasts.
It does not allow you to copy or extract the catalogue, redistribute it, make it publicly available, or use it commercially — in a parish or a school, for instance, outside your own household. Ask us; the answer may well be yes, and it needs to be a separate agreement.
What you write is yours. The answers you write into the morning's reflection stay in the app on your device. We never receive them, so we make no claim to them of any kind and could not use them if we wanted to.
12. Using it fairly
Please do not:
- work around the subscription, or help anybody else to;
- extract, scrape or bulk-download the catalogue;
- interfere with the service or disrupt it for other people;
- use Sheaf in a way that breaks the law.
If that happens we may block access. Where the breach is not serious we will warn you first and give you the chance to stop. Blocking access does not by itself entitle us to keep money for a period you have paid for and can no longer use.
13. Age
Sheaf is made for families to use together and is rated for all ages, but the account that pays is an adult's. If you are under eighteen, ask whoever is responsible for you before subscribing. A purchase made by a minor without that consent may be revocable under German law, and we will not stand on formalities about it.
14. How long this lasts
You may stop using Sheaf at any time by deleting the app, and cancel a subscription in your store account. Both of us may terminate for good cause.
If we end a paid subscription early for a reason that is not your breach of these terms, you are entitled to the part of what you paid that covers the time you can no longer use.
15. Changes to these terms
We may change these terms where there is a valid reason — a change in the law, in case law, or in how Sheaf works — and only so far as the change does not shift the balance of this contract to your disadvantage. We will tell you at least six weeks before a change takes effect, in text form, saying what is changing and why.
You may object before it takes effect. If you do, the contract continues on the old terms and either of us may terminate to the end of the current period. Your silence counts as agreement only if our notice told you so, together with how long you had and what silence would mean.
16. Disputes
The European Commission's online dispute resolution platform was shut down on 20 July 2025, so there is no platform to link to.
We are neither obliged nor willing to take part in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board (§ 36 VSBG). That affects neither your right to go to court nor your right to complain to any authority.
17. Law and jurisdiction
These terms and the contract are governed by German law, place of jurisdiction Hamburg, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods.
If you are a consumer, that choice does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory rules of the country you habitually live in (Art. 6 (2) Rome I), and you may sue and be sued in the courts of that country.
18. If a clause does not hold
If any provision is or becomes ineffective, the rest stays in force and the statutory rule takes the place of the ineffective one.
19. Contact
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- Email, for legal and billing questions
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