BINIT
terms
The whole of it
BINIT is a tool you run on your own phone, against your own mailbox. There is no account to make and no service to sign up to. It only ever does something because you pressed something. One payment, once — nothing renews and there is nothing to cancel.
What you're paying for
Reading your mailbox and seeing what's in it is free, always, and stays free. One payment unlocks the three things that change your mail: leaving a mailing list, clearing a sender's mail out, and blocking a sender.
The payment is taken by Apple and it lives with your Apple Account, not with BINIT. On a new phone, press I've already bought it and it comes back, as long as you're signed in to the same Apple Account.
Refunds
Apple takes the money, so Apple gives it back. Ask at reportaproblem.apple.com. I never receive your payment details and cannot refund a purchase myself — that isn't me being unhelpful, it's how buying inside an app works.
What BINIT does when you press the buttons
- Leaving a mailing list contacts the unsubscribe address that sender published in their own mail. Nothing else is sent.
- Clearing a sender out moves their mail to your Deleted folder. It does not erase anything, and you can drag it back for as long as your provider keeps deleted mail.
- Blocking is BINIT's own list, not your provider's. It cannot stop mail being delivered. What it does is clear that sender's mail automatically every time you read your mailbox.
Every one of those is shown to you before it happens, and none of them runs on its own without you.
What I can't promise
- That a sender honours an unsubscribe. BINIT sends the request the sender asked to be sent. Whether they act on it is theirs, not mine.
- That every junk sender is found, or that everything found is junk. It is a judgement made from the shape of the mail, and it will sometimes be wrong in both directions — which is why you always get the last word, and why Keep exists.
- That a break-in list is complete. The break-in and password answers come from a public dataset maintained by somebody else. "Not found" means not found in that list — it does not mean nothing ever happened.
- Advice. Nothing BINIT tells you is legal, financial or professional security advice. It's information about your own mailbox, to act on as you see fit.
Beyond that, the app is provided as it is. To the extent the law allows, I'm not liable for mail you meant to keep, a list you meant to stay on, or a decision you made on what the app showed you. Nothing here takes away your rights as a consumer.
Your side of it
Use BINIT only on a mailbox that is yours, or that you're allowed to act on. Keep a passcode on your phone — your mailbox sign-in is encrypted behind Face ID, and that protection is only as good as the lock on the device. Where your provider requires an app password rather than your real one, use the app password; that's their rule, not mine.
Delete the app and everything it worked out goes with it. Mail already moved to Deleted stays where it was moved — deleting BINIT doesn't bring it back.
What I hold
Nothing. There is no BINIT server, no account and no analytics, so there is nothing of yours for me to keep, sell, lose or be asked to hand over. The full account of what stays on the phone is on the privacy page.
Changes
If these terms change, they change on this page and the date below changes with them. Carrying on using the app after that is how you accept the new version; if you'd rather not, stop using it and the app deletes with everything in it.
Law
BINIT is made in the United Kingdom, and these terms are governed by the law of England and Wales.
Asking me about it
Write to theitgroupapps@gmail.com.