Terms of Use

Last updated: October 20, 2026

These terms are an agreement between you and Yahor Pashatniou, a private entrepreneur registered in the Republic of Armenia as PASHATNIOU YAHOR PE (“we,” “us”), the developer of the Vallumia app for iPhone and Android. By installing or using Vallumia, you accept them. If you don’t accept them, don’t use the app. If you are not old enough to enter into agreements like this under the law of your country, use the app only with a parent’s or guardian’s permission.

1. What the app is

Vallumia is a camera app built on film-era mechanics. A roll is shot blind and developed over days. A plate is exposed once a day, accumulating frames over a long exposure. The waiting is the product, not a defect in it.

You don’t create an account, and there is nothing to sign in to. Everything the app makes stays on your device.

2. Rules of the app you should know before you buy

Vallumia works the way it does on purpose. These rules are permanent and apply to everyone, paid or not:

• there is no preview of a frame you shot on a roll until the roll is developed;
• a frame can’t be deleted or re-shot before development;
• photos can’t be imported from your library into a roll or a plate;
• waiting can’t be shortened, and we will never sell a way to shorten it. Development timers run on real time and are designed so that changing your device clock doesn’t shorten the wait.

If any of this is unacceptable to you, the app is not for you — and it is better to find that out before buying than after.

3. Your photos

Negatives, positives, plates and notes are stored on your device, inside the app. We have no access to them, they are not uploaded anywhere, and we can’t recover them for you.

• Copies of developed frames are saved to your photo library — on iPhone, if you allow the app access to it; on Android, to the Camera folder of your gallery — where they live under your own control. You can turn copies off in the app’s settings. Without the Lab these copies are reduced in size; with the Lab they are full size.
• Deleting the app deletes everything the app holds, including rolls in development. This can’t be undone.
• Backups are yours to make. See the Privacy Policy for which of the app’s data is included in an iCloud, computer or Google backup.

You keep all rights to the images you make. We claim none.

4. The Lab

Some parts of the app are opened by a paid plan called the Lab. What it opens is shown in the app at the moment of purchase and may change as the app develops; at the time of writing it is:

• film stocks from the codex — the app’s catalogue of films — including seasonal limited editions during their windows;
• a second roll running in parallel;
• full-size copies saved to your photo library.

The Lab is offered as a monthly subscription, an annual subscription, or a one-time “lifetime” purchase. Prices are shown in the app exactly as the App Store or Google Play reports them for your region; they may differ between regions and may change over time. We never show a price we made up.

Limited editions taken into your collection while the Lab was active stay yours, Lab or not.

5. Free trial

The annual subscription may be offered with a free trial. When it is, the app states the length of the trial and the price charged after it, before you buy.

• A trial is available only if your Apple Account or Google Account is eligible for it. Eligibility is determined by the store — Apple or Google — not by us. A trial is offered once per account: after any subscription to the Lab, it is no longer offered.
• If you buy a subscription during a trial, any unused part of the trial is forfeited.
• A trial turns into a paid subscription automatically unless you cancel it in time: on the App Store, at least 24 hours before the trial ends; on Google Play, before the trial ends.
• If you cancel during the trial on the App Store, access to the Lab may end immediately rather than at the end of the trial. On Google Play, access normally lasts until the trial ends.

6. Automatic renewal and cancellation

• A subscription renews automatically at the end of each period unless you cancel it in time: on the App Store, auto-renewal must be turned off at least 24 hours before the period ends; on Google Play, the subscription must be cancelled before the period ends.
• On the App Store, your Apple Account is charged within 24 hours before the start of each new period; on Google Play, the payment method in your Google Account is charged when the new period starts — in both cases at the price then shown for your plan.
• You can manage or cancel a subscription in the store you bought it from: on iPhone, in Settings → your name → Subscriptions; on Android, in the Google Play app, under Payments & subscriptions → Subscriptions. The app can open that page for you, but only you can cancel.
• Cancelling stops future renewals. It doesn’t shorten a period you have already paid for, and it doesn’t refund it.
• Deleting the app does not cancel a subscription.

7. The lifetime purchase

The lifetime plan is a single payment, not a subscription: nothing renews and there is nothing to cancel. It opens the same things the subscription opens, for as long as the app exists and runs on your device. It is not a promise that the app will be developed or supported forever.

8. Restoring purchases

Purchases are tied to the Apple Account or Google Account that made them. On a new device, or after reinstalling, use Restore purchases in the app to get access back. If we enable Family Sharing for a purchase in the App Store, it can also be used by members of your family group under Apple’s rules. Purchases are not tied to your photos, and restoring them does not bring back rolls or plates.

9. Payments and refunds

All purchases are processed by the store: on iPhone by Apple through the App Store, on Android by Google through Google Play. We don’t see or handle your payment details.

• App Store. We can’t issue refunds. Refund requests go to Apple, at reportaproblem.apple.com. Whether a refund is granted is Apple’s decision under its own terms.
• Google Play. Refunds follow Google Play’s refund policies; you can request one through Google Play, from your order history. You can also write to us: we can refund a Google Play purchase ourselves, and we consider each request.

10. Changes to the app and to these terms

The app changes: features are added, and some may be reworked or removed. The rules in section 2 are the part we commit to keeping.

We may update these terms. The date at the top says when they last changed. If a change is material, we will announce it in the app or on this page at least 14 days before it takes effect, so that you can stop using the app and cancel any subscription before then if you don’t accept it. Continuing to use the app after a change takes effect means you accept the updated terms.

11. Acceptable use

Use the app lawfully, and in line with any third-party terms that apply to your use of it, such as Apple’s or Google’s. Don’t attempt to break, decompile or circumvent the paid parts of the app or its timers, and don’t use the app to make images that are unlawful where you are.

If you seriously breach these terms, we may end your license to use the app. Sections 3, 12, 13, 14, 16 and 17 continue to apply after that.

12. Intellectual property

The app, its name, its interface, its artwork and its film-emulation profiles belong to us and are licensed to you, not sold. You get a personal, non-transferable license to use the app on devices you own or control: on Apple devices, as permitted by the Usage Rules in the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions, including use through Family Sharing where we enable it; on Android devices, in line with the Google Play Terms of Service. The images you shoot are yours.

13. Disclaimer

The app is provided “as is.” To the extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose. We don’t warrant that the app will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that a photograph you expect will survive a bug, a crash, or a device failure. Don’t shoot anything on Vallumia that you can’t afford to lose: this is a camera that keeps its work on one device.

14. Limitation of liability

To the extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental or consequential damages, or for lost images or lost data. Where liability can’t be excluded, it is limited to the amount you paid for the app through the App Store or Google Play in the twelve months before the claim.

These limits don’t apply to liability for intent or gross negligence, or for death or personal injury, and nothing here limits rights you have as a consumer that can’t be limited under the law of your country.

15. Terms required by Apple

For the app obtained from the App Store, Apple requires the following to be part of this agreement:

• This agreement is between you and us only, not with Apple. Apple is not responsible for the app or its content.
• Your license is limited to a non-transferable license to use the app on Apple devices you own or control, as permitted by the Usage Rules in the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions, except that the app may also be accessed and used by other accounts associated with you via Family Sharing or volume purchasing.
• We, not Apple, are solely responsible for support and maintenance of the app. Apple has no obligation to provide any.
• If the app fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price to you. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation regarding the app, and any other claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs or expenses attributable to a failure to conform to a warranty are our responsibility, not Apple’s.
• We, not Apple, are responsible for addressing any claim by you or a third party relating to the app or your use of it, including product liability claims, claims that the app fails to conform to a legal or regulatory requirement, and claims under consumer-protection, privacy or similar laws.
• We, not Apple, are responsible for investigating, defending, settling and discharging any claim that the app infringes someone’s intellectual property.
• You represent that you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. Government embargo or designated by the U.S. Government as “terrorist supporting,” and are not on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
• You must comply with applicable third-party terms when using the app.
• Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of this agreement. Once you accept it, Apple has the right (and is deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce it against you as a third-party beneficiary.

16. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of Armenia, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Disputes are subject to the courts of Yerevan, Armenia, except where the law of your country of residence gives you the right to bring proceedings in the courts of that country or to the protection of its mandatory rules.

17. Other terms

If any part of these terms is found invalid, the rest stays in effect. These terms are published in English and in Russian; if the two versions differ, the English version prevails. Together with the Privacy Policy, they are the entire agreement between you and us about the app.

18. Contact

Questions about these terms, or about the app: pashatniouyahor@gmail.com.

Postal address: PASHATNIOU YAHOR PE, 26a M. Khorenatsi str., office 201, Yerevan 0010, Republic of Armenia.

How the app handles data is described separately in the Privacy Policy.

Common questions are answered on the support page.