Balance Widget Terms

Terms of Service

Effective
5 September 2026
Contact
support@lavafactory.com

These terms are the agreement between you and Lava Factory LLC for using Balance Widget — the app and this website. They are written to be read. By using Balance Widget you accept them; if you don't, don't use it.

  1. Who we are
  2. What Balance Widget is — and isn't
  3. Your licence to use the app
  4. Ownership and intellectual property
  5. Eligibility and your account
  6. Connecting a bank
  7. Accuracy of balances
  8. Acceptable use
  9. Paid features
  10. Third-party services
  11. App Store terms
  12. No warranty
  13. Limitation of liability
  14. Termination
  15. General terms
  16. Changes to these terms
  17. Governing law
  18. Contact and legal notices

1Who we are

Balance Widget ("we", "us") is operated by Lava Factory LLC. These terms cover the app on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and this website. Your privacy is covered separately by the privacy policy, which is part of this agreement by reference.

2What Balance Widget is — and isn't

Balance Widget reads your bank account balances, with your consent, and displays them as native widgets and inside the app. That is all it does. It is not a financial institution and provides no banking, deposit, payment, or transaction services.

It is not a bank, and it is not financial advice. It cannot move money, make payments, or transfer funds — the connection is read-only. Nothing it shows is a recommendation, and you should not rely on it as the sole basis for any financial decision.

3Your licence to use the app

We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use Balance Widget for your own use, subject to these terms and, on the App Store, to Apple's Licensed Application End User Licence Agreement (see section 11). You may not sublicense, resell, or redistribute the app.

4Ownership and intellectual property

Balance Widget, including the app, this website, and all software, designs, text, and marks in them, is owned by Lava Factory LLC and its licensors and is protected by intellectual-property law. Except for the limited licence in section 3, we reserve all rights. Nothing in these terms transfers any ownership to you, and you gain no right to our name, logo, or branding.

5Eligibility and your account

You must be at least 18 to use Balance Widget. You are responsible for keeping access to your account secure and for the activity that happens under it. Tell us at support@lavafactory.com if you believe your account has been compromised.

6Connecting a bank

When you link a financial institution, you do so through Plaid. You sign in to your bank inside Plaid's flow, directly with your institution — we never receive or store your bank credentials. You authorise us to retrieve, through Plaid, the account and balance information the app needs to work. The access is read-only and you can revoke it at any time by unlinking the account in the app. How that data is handled is set out in the privacy policy.

7Accuracy of balances

Balances come from your bank through Plaid, and they can be delayed, cached, or temporarily unavailable. Plaid typically refreshes an account's balance about once a day, and an institution can be slow, down, or return stale figures. The number Balance Widget shows is therefore an indication, not an authoritative statement of your balance.

Always treat your bank as the source of truth for your actual balance, available funds, and transactions — especially before spending, transferring, or relying on a figure. We are not responsible for any decision made on a balance that turned out to be stale or wrong.

8Acceptable use

You agree not to:

9Paid features

Balance Widget may offer paid features or subscription tiers. If and when it does, they are sold and billed through the Apple App Store under Apple's terms — we never see your card. Price, billing period, and what each tier includes are shown at the point of purchase. Auto-renewing subscriptions renew until cancelled; you manage and cancel them in your App Store account settings, and Apple's refund policy applies. We will not charge you for a paid feature without showing you the price first.

10Third-party services

Balance Widget relies on third parties to work — chiefly Plaid for the bank connection and Apple for distribution and payments. Your use of those services is also governed by their own terms, including Plaid's end-user agreements. We are not responsible for third-party services we do not control, though we choose them with care and name them plainly in the privacy policy.

11App Store terms

For the version installed from Apple's App Store, you acknowledge that:

12No warranty

Balance Widget is provided "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE", without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including the implied warranties of MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, and NON-INFRINGEMENT. We do not warrant that the app will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that the balances it shows will always be current or accurate. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

13Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Lava Factory LLC will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss arising from your reliance on a balance that was delayed, cached, or inaccurate. Our total liability for any claim relating to Balance Widget is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us for it in the twelve months before the claim, or twenty US dollars. These limits do not apply to liability for fraud, gross negligence, or personal injury, or to any other liability that cannot be limited by law.

14Termination

You can stop using Balance Widget at any time — unlink your banks and delete your account from inside the app, or write to us. We may suspend or end your access if you materially breach these terms or use the app in a way that risks harm to you, to us, or to others. Any provision that by its nature should survive termination — including sections 4, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, and 17 — does survive.

15General terms

Entire agreement. These terms and the privacy policy are the entire agreement between you and Lava Factory LLC regarding Balance Widget, and supersede any prior understandings, including marketing statements about the app.

Severability. If any provision of these terms is held unenforceable, that provision will be limited or removed to the minimum extent necessary and the remaining terms will stay in full force and effect.

No waiver. If we do not enforce a right under these terms, that is not a waiver of it.

Assignment. You may not assign these terms. We may assign them to an affiliate, or in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.

Force majeure. We are not liable for failure or delay caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including outages at your bank, Plaid, Apple, or our hosting providers.

Electronic communications. You agree that we may communicate with you about Balance Widget by email or in-app notice, and that those communications satisfy any legal requirement that they be in writing.

Feedback. If you send us suggestions or feedback, you grant us a perpetual, royalty-free licence to use them without obligation to you.

16Changes to these terms

We'll update these terms as the app changes, and the effective date at the top will change with them. If a change materially affects your rights, we'll tell you in the app or by email before it takes effect rather than quietly editing the page. Continuing to use Balance Widget after a change means you accept it.

17Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, except where mandatory consumer-protection law in your place of residence says otherwise. The state and federal courts located in Virginia have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute, subject to the same exception.

18Contact and legal notices

Questions about these terms go to support@lavafactory.com.

Formal legal notices to us must be sent to: Lava Factory LLC, 8401 Mayland Dr Ste S, Henrico, VA, USA.