Disclaimer
Please keep these cautions in mind. They add to the Terms of use.
Not professional advice
The starting apps (Notes, Expense tracker, Quiz, Catalog) and everything the Workshop shows are tools for your own use. They are not financial, accounting, tax, legal, medical or any other kind of professional advice. The totals, averages and charts of an Expense tracker are simple sums of what was typed in; check anything important yourself before you rely on it.
Your data lives on your phone
The Workshop and the apps you make keep their data on the phone where they are installed. Data is lost if the app is uninstalled, if its data is cleared, or if the phone is lost, damaged or reset. If the data matters, keep your own copy. The optional account copy covers the designs of your apps (their pages and words), not the data that people type into the apps you made.
Keep your signing keys safe
If the key of an app is lost and there is no key backup, no update of that app can be installed over the old one. Save a key backup (Settings and the details of each app) and keep the file and the passphrase in a safe place. The Workshop does not store your passphrase and cannot recover it.
The apps you make are your apps
The Workshop does not review, approve or endorse the apps people make. What an app says and does is the responsibility of the person who made it. A credit line "Created by (name) using H-sib" means the app was made with the Workshop; it does not mean the Workshop's maker made it or stands behind it.
The Atelier
Apps in the Atelier are made by other people. The Workshop does not review them before they appear, does not promise they are safe, accurate or suitable, and does not stand behind them. Ratings, words, counts and rankings come from people and can be wrong or unfair. Use a published app as a template only if you are comfortable with what it contains, and check it before you make and share it. If something is wrong, report it from the app's page.
Handing off to other apps
Some apps you make can open the phone's email, messages, dialler or web browser (for example the Catalog's ask by email). Once another app opens, its own terms and privacy rules apply.
Cloud copy and availability
The optional sign in and cloud copy depend on Google's services and on your internet connection. We do not promise that they are always available, and we may change or stop them. Your designs on the phone are never removed by signing out or by deleting the cloud copy.
Third party parts
The Workshop uses open source libraries and a typeface under their own licences (see Settings, Licences). Google, Android, Firebase, Google Play and Google Sign-In are trademarks of Google LLC, and are used here only to say what the Workshop works with. The Workshop is not made by or endorsed by Google.
Accuracy
We try to keep the Workshop correct and its texts true, but mistakes can happen. If you find one, please tell us.