Terms of Use

Alternate summarizes public parking-sign and street-cleaning information. It does not provide legal advice, guarantee that parking is lawful, reserve a space, or replace posted signs, temporary restrictions, emergency orders, meter rules, police directions, or applicable law.

Data may be incomplete, delayed, ambiguous, unavailable, or incorrect. Always inspect the posted sign and surrounding curb. You remain responsible for parking decisions, fines, towing, damage, and legal compliance.

Location access is optional but needed for nearby rules, walking distance, and some map features. Vehicle labels, optional plates, and parked locations are stored on the device and in Apple-managed app-group storage used by Alternate’s extensions.

Notifications, widgets, Live Activities, and App Intents are conveniences. Delivery or refresh may be delayed by device settings, system limits, Focus, battery state, connectivity, or software errors. Do not rely on a reminder as your only way to know when a vehicle must move.

Paid features may require an auto-renewing subscription or one-time App Store purchase. The app shows the price and plan before purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the current period ends.

Apple bills, manages, and refunds purchases under its policies. Manage or cancel a subscription in Apple Account settings; restoring requires the Apple Account used to purchase.

Reinaldo Simoes grants you a personal, limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use Alternate, subject to these Terms and Apple’s usage rules.

You may not interfere with the service, bypass purchase controls, use it unlawfully, redistribute substantial portions of its data, or present Alternate as an official New York City service. Reverse engineering is prohibited except where law permits it.

Alternate uses NYC Open Data, Apple system services, PostHog for fixed Settings configuration, and—only after opt-in—PostHog analytics. Those services operate under their own terms. Alternate is not endorsed by or affiliated with the City of New York, NYC DOT, NYC Sanitation, Apple, or PostHog.

Except for public and third-party data, Alternate, its icon, interface, and original content belong to Reinaldo Simoes and are protected by applicable intellectual-property law.

Features, sources, prices, and availability may change, and the service may be suspended or discontinued. Material changes to paid services will be communicated when required.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Alternate is provided “as is” and “as available,” without express or implied warranties, including accuracy, reliability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, or uninterrupted availability.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Reinaldo Simoes is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for parking tickets, towing, vehicle damage, lost data, lost profits, or loss of use. Total liability will not exceed the greater of US$50 or the amount paid for Alternate in the 12 months before the claim. Applicable law may provide additional rights.

You may stop using Alternate at any time. Access may be suspended for a material violation or when necessary to protect users, the service, or legal compliance. Provisions that should survive termination will survive.

These Terms are governed by the laws that apply to the provider in the provider’s principal place of business, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Disputes must be brought in a court with competent jurisdiction unless consumer law permits otherwise.

Apple is not a party to these Terms and is not responsible for Alternate. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries and may enforce these Terms.

Apple’s Standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement also applies and controls where inconsistent.

These Terms may be updated as Alternate changes. The effective date will be revised and material changes communicated where required. Continued use after revised Terms take effect means you accept them.

Questions: me@reinaldo.pt.