Terms of use

H-sib Workshop. Last updated 28 October 2026.

Please read these terms. By tapping "I agree and continue" when the Workshop first asks, and by using H-sib Workshop ("the Workshop"), you agree to them. If you do not agree, please do not use the Workshop. If you sign in with Google, you confirm that you have read these terms and the Privacy policy.

1. What the Workshop is

H-sib Workshop is an app for Android phones that lets you design and make your own small Android apps ("your apps") from ready made starting points and a design editor. The Workshop builds your app as a file on your phone and signs it with a key that is kept on your phone, locked by the phone's secure key store. The Workshop does not install your apps for you and does not publish them anywhere: you decide whether to save, share or install the file.

2. Who may use it

You must be at least 13 years old, or older if the law where you live sets a higher age for signing in to an online service. If you are under the age of majority where you live, you need a parent or guardian's permission. The Workshop is not designed for children under 13.

3. Your apps belong to you

You own the designs, words, pictures and data you put into your apps, and you own the apps you make, subject to these terms and to the licences of the parts the Workshop adds (the runtime, the starting templates and the typeface). You may use, share and publish your apps, including on Google Play, as long as you follow these terms and the rules of the places where you publish.

4. The credit line

Every app made with the Workshop carries the line "Created by (your name) using H-sib" on its About screen, with your name first. The credit line is fixed. You may not remove it, hide it or change its meaning, and a made app checks that its design has not been changed after it was made.

5. You are responsible for your apps

You are responsible for what your apps say and do, for the people who use them, and for keeping to the law. You must not make or share an app that:

• is unlawful, deceptive, or meant to harm, spy on, defraud or harass anyone, or to steal passwords, money or personal data;
• contains malware or tries to hide what it does from the person who installs it;
• infringes someone else's copyright, trademark, privacy or other rights;
• pretends to be made by another person or company;
• breaks the policies of any store or service where you publish it.

We may stop a feature or an account if we are told about, or find, a serious breach.

6. Your signing keys

Each of your apps is signed with its own key. The key is kept on your phone, locked by the phone's secure key store, and never leaves your phone except in a backup file that you save yourself, locked with a passphrase that the Workshop never stores. If you lose the key and have no backup, you cannot publish an update that installs over the earlier version of that app. Keeping key backups is your responsibility.

7. Signing in is optional

Everything works without an account. If you choose to sign in with Google, a private copy of your designs (their pages and words, never your signing keys or pictures) and a small profile of counters are kept in your account so that you can use your designs on other phones. You can switch this off, sign out, or delete everything kept about you at any time in Settings, Account. The Privacy policy explains what is kept.

8. Accepting these terms, and changes to them

You accept these terms by tapping "I agree and continue" the first time the Workshop asks. The Workshop keeps a record of the version you accepted and the date, on your phone and, if you are signed in, in your account.

We may change, improve or remove features, and we may change these terms. When the terms change in an important way, the Workshop asks you to accept the new version before you go on. If you do not accept, you should stop using the Workshop.

9. The Atelier (publishing your apps)

The Atelier is the part of the Workshop where makers publish apps, see rankings, rate apps and use published apps as a starting point. It needs you to sign in with Google and to choose a public handle. Your handle is public and cannot be changed later.

If you publish an app, you give everyone who uses the Workshop permission to see its design, its name, its one line description, your handle and its counts. If you switch on "Let others use it as a template", you also give them permission to copy the design and change it into their own app, which will say it was made from yours. If you leave that off, your app is for looking only. You keep your rights to your app. You can take it down at any time; copies other people already made stay theirs. Only the design is shared, never your signing key.

Publish only apps you made and may share. Section 5 applies to everything you publish, rate or write. Do not publish or write anything unlawful, hateful, sexual, violent or misleading, or that copies other people's work.

Anyone can report an app, and you can hide a maker. We may remove apps, ratings and handles that break these terms and may close your access to the Atelier. Do not choose a handle that pretends to be another person, the Workshop or its staff.

To report something or to ask for a takedown (for example because an app copies your work), use the contact below and give the name of the app, its maker's handle and what is yours. We will look at it, and we may remove the app while we do. Do not send private details in a public message.

A view, a remix and a rating count once for each account. Counts and rankings are for fun, can be wrong, and are not a promise of quality.

10. No warranty

The Workshop is provided "as is" and "as available", without any promise that it will be free of mistakes, that it will always work on every phone, or that it will meet your needs. The Disclaimer lists some specific cautions. Some places do not allow some of these exclusions; where that is so, they apply only as far as the law allows.

11. Limit of liability

As far as the law allows, the maker of the Workshop is not responsible for indirect or consequential loss, lost profits, lost data, or lost keys, or for anything that happens because of the apps that you make or share, or because of apps, ratings or words that other people publish in the Atelier. Nothing in these terms limits any liability that cannot be limited by law, and nothing in them takes away rights that you have by law where you live.

12. Ending

You may stop using the Workshop at any time by uninstalling it; your apps that are already installed keep working. We may suspend or end your access to the optional sign in if you break these terms. Sections that by their nature should continue (such as 3, 5, 9, 10 and 11) continue after the terms end.

13. If part of these terms is not valid

If any part of these terms cannot be enforced, the rest stays in force.

14. Contact

Questions, reports and takedown requests: https://github.com/H-sib/hsib-workshop-legal/issues (open a new issue). Issues are public, so do not write anything private there; if you must, say so in the issue and ask for another way to talk.