Terms & Conditions
These terms govern your use of My Maternity Friend. We have written them in plain English so they are easy to understand — but they are still legally binding. Please read them carefully before using the app.
Important — Not Medical Advice
My Maternity Friend is not a medical device and is not a substitute for professional medical care. The information, health check-ins, and content in the app are for general informational and wellbeing support purposes only. They do not constitute medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.
Our health check-in questions are based on clinically reviewed guidance, but they are not diagnostic tools and cannot detect, diagnose, or rule out any medical condition. Always consult a qualified healthcare professional — such as your midwife, doctor, or obstetrician — before making any decisions about your health or your pregnancy.
If you experience any symptoms that concern you — including but not limited to reduced fetal movement, bleeding, severe pain, difficulty breathing, or sudden swelling — seek immediate medical attention. Do not rely on this app in an emergency.
Emergency button disclaimer
The in-app emergency button is designed to help you quickly dial your local emergency services (999 in the UK; 999 in Uganda; or the relevant number for your country). Pressing it initiates a standard phone call to emergency services — it does not send location data, trigger an alert, or contact Sallan Holdings Ltd. We have no control over, and accept no responsibility for, emergency service response times, availability, or outcomes. Always call emergency services directly if you are in danger and the app is unavailable.
Contents
- 1. Acceptance of terms
- 2. Who we are
- 3. Medical disclaimer
- 4. Eligibility
- 5. Account registration and security
- 6. Subscription and payments
- 7. Acceptable use
- 8. Intellectual property
- 9. User content
- 10. Data protection
- 11. Availability and service interruptions
- 12. Limitation of liability
- 13. Indemnification
- 14. Termination
- 15. Changes to these terms
- 16. Governing law
- 17. Contact
1. Acceptance of terms
By creating an account or using My Maternity Friend in any way, you agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions. If you do not agree, please do not use the app.
These terms form a legally binding agreement between you and Sallan Holdings Ltd. When these terms say “we”, “us”, or “our”, we mean Sallan Holdings Ltd. When they say “you” or “your”, we mean the person using the app.
We may update these terms from time to time. If we make material changes, we will notify you by email and display a notice in the app. Continued use of the app after changes take effect means you accept the updated terms.
2. Who we are
My Maternity Friend is operated by Sallan Holdings Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales. Our registered address and company number are available on request.
We are the data controller for all personal data processed through the app and are registered with the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).
Legal & general enquiries
legal@mymaternityfriend.appCompany
Sallan Holdings Ltd
Registered in England and Wales
3. Medical disclaimer
The app provides pregnancy tracking, general health information, and wellbeing support. It is designed to complement — not replace — care from qualified healthcare professionals including midwives, doctors, obstetricians, and nurses.
Health check-ins
The health check-in feature uses questions developed with reference to clinically reviewed maternal health guidance. However, check-in responses and any prompts or information generated are not diagnoses and are not medical advice. They are general wellbeing prompts intended to encourage you to reflect on how you are feeling and to seek professional help when needed.
No diagnostic purpose
Nothing in this app is intended to detect, diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease or medical condition. Do not use check-in results, symptom prompts, or any other app output to make decisions about your health without first consulting a qualified healthcare professional.
Always seek professional care
If you are worried about your health or your baby's wellbeing at any time, contact your midwife, doctor, or go to your nearest maternity unit. Do not delay seeking professional help because of anything you have read or seen in this app.
Emergency services
The in-app emergency button initiates a standard telephone call to local emergency services — 999 in the UK and Uganda, or the applicable number in your country as determined at sign-up. This is a dialling shortcut only.
Sallan Holdings Ltd has no control over emergency service dispatch, response times, resource availability, or outcomes. We are not liable for any loss, injury, or harm arising from the use of, or inability to use, the emergency button — including in circumstances where the app is unavailable, your device has no signal, or emergency services are delayed or unable to respond.
Always call emergency services directly on your device if the app is unavailable or if time is critical.
4. Eligibility
To use My Maternity Friend you must:
- Be at least 18 years old. The app is designed for adults and is not intended for anyone under 18.
- Be pregnant, planning a pregnancy, or a new parent in the postnatal period — or be accessing the app in a professional capacity (for example, as a registered healthcare provider under a separate provider agreement).
- Have the legal capacity to enter into a binding agreement in your jurisdiction.
- Not be prohibited from using the app under any applicable law.
By creating an account, you confirm that you meet these requirements. If we reasonably believe you do not, we may suspend or close your account.
5. Account registration and security
You must provide accurate, complete, and up-to-date information when creating your account. You are responsible for keeping this information current.
Account security
You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your login credentials and for all activity that occurs under your account. Choose a strong, unique password and do not share your account with anyone else.
Unauthorised access
If you believe your account has been compromised or accessed without your authorisation, notify us immediately at legal@mymaternityfriend.app. We will help you secure your account, but we are not liable for losses resulting from unauthorised access where you have failed to take reasonable precautions.
One account per person
Each account is personal to you. You may not create multiple accounts, transfer your account to another person, or allow another person to use your account.
Account deletion
You can request deletion of your account and all associated data at any time from within the app settings, or by emailing us at legal@mymaternityfriend.app. We will complete deletion within 30 days. Deletion is permanent and irreversible — we recommend exporting any data you want to keep first.
6. Subscription and payments
My Maternity Friend offers a free tier and paid subscription plans. Paid plans unlock additional features. By subscribing to a paid plan, you agree to the pricing and payment terms set out in the app at the time of purchase.
Payment processors
Payments are processed by third-party payment providers. We do not store your payment credentials.
- Stripe — used for card payments by UK and international users. Stripe is PCI-DSS compliant and handles all card data directly. By paying via Stripe you agree to Stripe's terms of service.
- PawaPay — used for mobile money payments by Uganda users. By paying via PawaPay you agree to PawaPay's terms of service.
Billing and renewal
Subscriptions are billed on the cycle selected at checkout (monthly or annual). They renew automatically at the end of each billing period unless you cancel before the renewal date. We will send you a reminder before any annual renewal.
Cancellation
You may cancel your subscription at any time from your account settings or by contacting us. Cancellation takes effect at the end of your current billing period — you retain access to paid features until then. We do not charge a cancellation fee.
Refunds
If you are based in the UK you have a 14-day cooling-off right under the Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013 for digital services purchased online. You may request a full refund within 14 days of first subscribing, provided you have not already begun using the paid features — in which case your right to cancel may be lost or a proportionate charge may apply.
Outside the 14-day cooling-off window, we do not offer refunds for partial subscription periods, except where we are required to do so by law or at our sole discretion in exceptional circumstances. To request a refund, contact us at legal@mymaternityfriend.app.
Price changes
We may change subscription prices at any time. We will give you at least 30 days' advance notice of any price increase affecting your plan, and you may cancel before the new price takes effect if you do not wish to continue.
Free tier
The free tier is provided without charge and without any guarantee of continued availability. We reserve the right to change, restrict, or discontinue free-tier features at any time, with reasonable notice where practicable.
7. Acceptable use
You agree to use My Maternity Friend only for lawful purposes and in a manner that does not infringe the rights of others or restrict their use of the app.
You must not:
- Use the app for any unlawful purpose, or in any way that violates applicable local, national, or international law or regulation.
- Attempt to gain unauthorised access to any part of the app, its servers, databases, or systems connected to it.
- Reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or attempt to derive the source code of the app.
- Transmit any unsolicited commercial communications, spam, or malicious code through the app.
- Impersonate any person or entity, or misrepresent your affiliation with any person or entity.
- Use the app in a way that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the service or interfere with other users.
- Scrape, harvest, or systematically extract data from the app without our prior written permission.
- Use the app to provide services to third parties without a separate written agreement with us.
We reserve the right to suspend or terminate your account if we reasonably believe you have breached these acceptable use requirements.
8. Intellectual property
All content within the app — including but not limited to text, graphics, user interface elements, logos, trademarks, health guidance content, educational articles, illustrations, and software code — is owned by or licensed to Sallan Holdings Ltd and is protected by copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property laws.
We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the app for your own personal, non-commercial purposes in accordance with these terms. This licence does not include the right to:
- Copy or reproduce any substantial part of the app's content.
- Modify, adapt, or create derivative works from any app content.
- Use any content from the app for commercial purposes without our prior written consent.
- Remove, alter, or obscure any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary notices.
Nothing in these terms transfers any intellectual property rights to you. All rights not expressly granted are reserved by Sallan Holdings Ltd.
9. User content
The app allows you to create and store personal content, including pregnancy journal entries, notes, and responses to health check-in questions (“User Content”).
Ownership
Your User Content belongs to you. We do not claim ownership of your journal entries, personal notes, or check-in responses.
Licence to us
By submitting User Content through the app, you grant Sallan Holdings Ltd a limited, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to store, process, and use that content solely for the purpose of providing the service to you. This includes displaying your content back to you, generating your pregnancy history and check-in summaries, and transmitting your content to the third-party infrastructure providers listed in our Privacy Policy.
We do not use your personal User Content for advertising, AI model training, or any purpose beyond delivering the service to you. We will never sell or share your User Content with third parties except as described in our Privacy Policy.
Your responsibilities
You are responsible for the accuracy of the information you provide. We encourage you to share this information with your healthcare team, but we are not responsible for decisions made based on it.
Data export and deletion
You can request an export of your User Content at any time, and you can request deletion of your account and all associated User Content. We will complete deletion requests within 30 days. See our Privacy Policy for full details on your rights.
10. Data protection
We take your privacy and the protection of your personal data seriously. Because My Maternity Friend handles health data — which is classified as special category data under UK GDPR — we apply the highest standard of data protection.
Our Privacy Policy explains in detail:
- What personal data we collect and why.
- The legal basis on which we process it.
- Who we share it with and why.
- How long we keep it.
- Your rights as a data subject, including the right to access, correct, erase, and port your data.
By using the app you confirm you have read and understood our Privacy Policy and you consent to the processing of your health data for the purposes described therein.
11. Availability and service interruptions
We aim to keep My Maternity Friend available and running smoothly, but we cannot guarantee uninterrupted access at all times.
Planned maintenance
We will endeavour to carry out maintenance at times of low usage and to give reasonable advance notice where possible.
Unplanned outages
The app may be temporarily unavailable due to technical failures, third-party service outages (for example, database or cloud infrastructure), or other circumstances beyond our control. We will work to restore service as quickly as possible and will communicate significant outages through our app and, where practicable, by email.
No guarantee of availability
We do not guarantee any specific uptime or availability. The app is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. To the extent permitted by law, we exclude any liability for losses arising from service interruptions.
Offline capability
As a Progressive Web App (PWA), some features of the app are designed to work offline. However, offline functionality is limited and we cannot guarantee it will be available on all devices or in all circumstances.
12. Limitation of liability
Nothing in these terms limits or excludes our liability for:
- Death or personal injury caused by our negligence.
- Fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.
- Any liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited under English law, including rights under the Consumer Rights Act 2015.
Subject to the above, and to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law:
We exclude all liability for any loss or damage arising from your reliance on the app as a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.
We exclude all liability for any loss or damage arising from the use of, or failure to use, the emergency button — including any loss arising from emergency service response times, availability, or outcomes.
We exclude all liability for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive loss or damage, including loss of profits, loss of data, or loss of goodwill.
Our total aggregate liability to you in connection with these terms or your use of the app, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), or otherwise, shall not exceed the greater of: (a) the total subscription fees paid by you in the 12 months preceding the claim, or (b) £100 (one hundred pounds sterling).
13. Indemnification
You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Sallan Holdings Ltd, its officers, directors, employees, and agents from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or in connection with:
- Your breach of these Terms and Conditions.
- Your violation of any applicable law or the rights of any third party.
- Any User Content you submit that infringes the intellectual property rights, privacy rights, or other rights of a third party.
This indemnity does not apply to the extent that a claim arises from our own negligence or wilful misconduct.
14. Termination
Termination by you
You may stop using the app and close your account at any time. You can do this from within the app settings or by emailing us. Closing your account ends your rights under these terms, but does not affect any obligations that have already arisen (for example, outstanding payment obligations).
Termination by us
We may suspend or permanently terminate your access to the app at any time if:
- You breach these Terms and Conditions.
- We are required to do so by law or a regulatory authority.
- We decide to discontinue the app or a significant part of it, with reasonable notice where practicable.
Effect of termination
On termination, your right to use the app and access your data ceases. We will handle your data in accordance with our Privacy Policy. Sections of these terms that by their nature should survive termination (including intellectual property, limitation of liability, indemnification, and governing law) will continue to apply.
15. Changes to these terms
We may update these Terms and Conditions from time to time to reflect changes in the law, our services, or our business practices.
When we make significant changes, we will:
- Notify you by email at the address associated with your account.
- Display a prominent notice in the app.
- Update the “Last updated” date at the top of this page.
Changes will take effect no sooner than 14 days after notice is given, except where we are required to make changes immediately by law. If you do not agree with the changes, you may close your account before they take effect. Continued use of the app after the effective date means you accept the updated terms.
16. Governing law
These Terms and Conditions are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales. Any dispute arising out of or in connection with these terms or your use of the app shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.
If you are a consumer resident in the UK, you also have the benefit of any mandatory consumer protection provisions of the law of the country in which you are resident, and nothing in this clause removes that protection.
If you are a consumer resident in Uganda, you also retain the benefit of any mandatory consumer protection provisions under Ugandan law.
17. Contact
If you have any questions about these Terms and Conditions, or if you wish to exercise any of your rights under them, please contact us. We aim to respond to all legal enquiries within 5 working days.
Legal & general enquiries
legal@mymaternityfriend.appPrivacy & data enquiries
privacy@mymaternityfriend.appOperator
Sallan Holdings Ltd
Registered in England and Wales
Privacy Policy
mymaternityfriend.app/privacyUK supervisory authority
Information Commissioner's Office — ico.org.ukThese Terms and Conditions were last updated in April 2026. They apply to the My Maternity Friend PWA and any related services operated by Sallan Holdings Ltd. For questions, contact legal@mymaternityfriend.app.