Terms of use

Last updated: 1 September 2026

These terms are an agreement between you and Charlvdh Apps ("we", "us") about your use of the Not A Browser Android app and the notabrowser.app website (together, "Not A Browser").

Installing or using Not A Browser means you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, do not install it, and if you have, uninstalling is the complete remedy.

1. What Not A Browser is

Not A Browser is a web browser for Android, with two deliberate restrictions: it has no address bar and no search function. It exists to open web addresses that reach it in one of two ways: handed to it by another app, or decoded from a QR code you scan.

Not A Browser displays web pages published by other people. We do not create, host, review, endorse or control any of that content.

2. Licence

We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, revocable, non-transferable licence to use Not A Browser on devices you control, for any lawful purpose. We keep all intellectual property rights in the app, its name and the website. This licence gives you the right to use the app, not to own it.

You may not sell, rent or sublicense the app; remove or alter attribution or legal notices; or use the Not A Browser name or branding in a way that suggests we endorse you.

Reverse engineering, decompiling and modification are permitted only to the extent that applicable law says we cannot prohibit them.

3. Acceptable use

Do not use Not A Browser to break the law, to access material you have no right to access, to interfere with or attack any website or service, or to attempt to disrupt the app or the website.

Not A Browser does not filter, block, rate or age-restrict web content. What appears is determined entirely by the address you open. You are responsible for the addresses you choose to open and for complying with the terms of the sites you visit.

4. Availability, and what we do not promise

Not A Browser is provided as is and as available, without warranties of any kind, to the fullest extent the law allows. In particular we do not promise that:

• every website will render or behave correctly. Not A Browser uses Android's built-in browser engine, and some sites assume features or interface elements (an address bar, multiple tabs) that Not A Browser deliberately does not have;
• third-party sign-in will keep working. "Sign in with Google" works in Not A Browser today, tested on a device rather than assumed. Google's published policy reserves the right to refuse sign-in inside app-embedded browsers, and whether it exercises that right is Google's decision and outside our control. If sign-in is refused, the app explains it rather than leaving you on an unexplained error;
• PDFs and other file types will display in the app rather than being downloaded;
• the app is free of defects, or that defects will be fixed on any particular timescale;
• the app or the website will be available uninterrupted, or that either will continue to be offered at all.

Nothing here excludes any right you have as a consumer under the law of your country that cannot lawfully be excluded. In particular, statutory consumer guarantees continue to apply where they do.

5. Third-party content and services

Every page you open in Not A Browser belongs to somebody else and is governed by their terms and their privacy policy. Any transaction you enter into through a page opened in Not A Browser is between you and that other party, and we are not a participant in it.

Distribution and updates are handled by Google Play under Google's terms, and additional terms from Google may apply to your use of the app store and of Android itself.

6. Purchases

Not A Browser contains no advertising. Any purchase or paid feature is sold through Google Play, and is priced and disclosed to you before you buy. Payment, billing, cancellation and refunds are handled by Google under Google Play's terms; we never receive your payment details, and refund requests go to Google rather than to us.

7. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential loss, for loss of profit, revenue, data or goodwill, or for loss arising from content on websites you open, from a website failing to work in Not A Browser, or from your inability to access a website.

Where liability cannot lawfully be excluded, our total liability to you for all claims is limited to the greater of the amount you have paid us for Not A Browser in the twelve months before the claim, or £50.

We do not exclude liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded.

8. Privacy

Not A Browser collects no personal data. The privacy policy sets out exactly what that means, what remains on your device, and which third parties are involved.

9. Ending this agreement

You may end it at any time by uninstalling the app. We may suspend or discontinue Not A Browser, in whole or in part, at any time. Sections 4, 7, 10 and 11 survive the end of this agreement.

10. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. The date at the top will change, and material changes will be noted in the app's release notes. Continuing to use Not A Browser after a change means you accept the revised terms; if you do not, uninstall the app.

11. Governing law

These terms are governed by the law of the Republic of South Africa, and the courts of the Republic of South Africa have non-exclusive jurisdiction. If you are a consumer, you keep the benefit of any mandatory protections of the law of the country where you live, and the right to bring proceedings there.

12. General

If any provision is found unenforceable, the rest continues in force. Our not enforcing a term is not a waiver of it. These terms, with the privacy policy, are the entire agreement between us about Not A Browser.

Contact

Charlvdh Apps hello@notabrowser.app