Terms of service

Short enough to actually read.

The deal, in plain English.

the deal

You pay £9.99 a month to use Neutrily. We carry messages between you and your co-parent through Sam — our automated, staff-supervised messenger — rewriting each one into calm, factual language that keeps every date, time and arrangement intact, and delivering it by WhatsApp or email with delivery and read receipts. Your co-parent pays nothing and never signs up. We keep a faithful, shared record of what was sent and read, because that record protects both of you. There’s a 14-day free trial, you can cancel any time, and you can delete your account from the app. We are not lawyers, therapists, or an emergency service — in an emergency, call 999.

Nothing in these terms takes away the rights the law gives you as a consumer. If anything here ever conflicts with those rights, your legal rights win.

Last updated: 10 August 2026. These terms are written to sit alongside our privacy notice, which explains how we handle your data. Where the two touch the same subject, we’ve kept them consistent; where the privacy notice goes into more detail, we point you to it rather than repeat it. Some wording will be refined with our advisers, and we’ll always tell you plainly when it changes.

1. Who we are, and what these terms cover

Neutrily is a service provided by Neutrily Ltd (company number 16159614), a company registered in England and Wales, with its registered office at 86–90 Paul Street, London EC2A 4NE. In these terms, “Neutrily”, “we”, “us” and “our” mean Neutrily Ltd.

These terms are the agreement between you and us for using Neutrily. By signing up, paying, or using Sam, you’re agreeing to them. If you don’t agree with them, please don’t use the service. We’ve tried to keep them short and plain — if anything here is unclear, email us at help@neutrily.com and we’ll explain it in ordinary words.

2. What Neutrily is — and what it isn’t

What it is. Neutrily is a communication firewall for separated co-parents who find it hard to message each other directly. Instead of messaging each other, both parents message Sam (sam@neutrily.com). Sam reads each message, works out whether it’s meant to be passed on or is just for us, rewrites the ones to be passed on into neutral, factual, respectful language — keeping every date, time and arrangement intact — and delivers them by WhatsApp or email, with delivery and read receipts.

Sam is not a real person. Sam is an automated messenger persona operated by Neutrily’s software and supervised by trained Neutrily staff. It is not an individual personal assistant, and it does not take sides. Sam works for the situation — calm, accurate communication about a child — not for either parent.

What it isn’t. This matters, so we’ll say it plainly. Neutrily is a communication service, and nothing more. We are not:

  • legal advice, a solicitor, or a law firm — we don’t advise you on your rights, your case, or your child arrangements;
  • a mediator — we carry messages neutrally; we don’t mediate or make decisions between you;
  • a therapist or counsellor — Sam is not emotional support or mental-health care;
  • a substitute for a court order or professional advice — if you need legal, financial or clinical help, please get it from a qualified professional;
  • an emergency service. Sam does not monitor messages in real time for crises. If a child or anyone else is in immediate danger, call 999 (or contact the relevant emergency service). Do not rely on Sam to raise an alarm.

Neutralisation is best-effort, not a guarantee. Sam rewrites messages using software with human oversight, and it works hard to keep every message calm, faithful and complete. But no automated rewriting is perfect. We don’t promise that every message will be flawlessly neutral, that Sam will always read your intent correctly, or that delivery will be instant. When you can see the original wording alongside a rewrite (a setting you control), you’ll see exactly what Sam did.

We do commit to providing the service with reasonable care and skill — that’s your legal right as a consumer, and Section 11 confirms it.

3. Who can use Neutrily

You must be 18 or over to use Neutrily. By using it, you confirm that you are.

Neutrily is designed for co-parents arranging matters for their children. It is not for children to use, and it is not a channel for contacting a child directly.

You must give us accurate information when you sign up, and keep it up to date — particularly the contact details we use to deliver messages, and the co-parent’s name and contact details, which you provide so Sam can introduce itself. If we reasonably believe you don’t meet these requirements, we may decline to provide, or may stop providing, the service (see Section 10).

4. How accounts work — the two-parent structure

Every Neutrily “case” has two people in it, and only one of them has an account:

  • The primary — the parent who signs up, pays, and has a Neutrily login (email and password, or Sign in with Apple in the app). If that’s you, these terms are your agreement with us, and you’re responsible for keeping your login details secure and for activity on your account. Tell us at help@neutrily.com if you think someone else has access to it.
  • The co-parent — the other parent, who never signs up, never pays, and has no account or app. They use Sam through WhatsApp or email, on the phone they already have. The co-parent is not a customer, owes us nothing, and is not a party to these terms.

Because the co-parent doesn’t sign up, Neutrily begins with a careful, human-supervised first contact: Sam introduces itself and explains what’s happening, and the co-parent can opt out at any time simply by telling Sam. Opting out never reveals to the other parent that it was the co-parent who did so. Re-starting the relay after an opt-out needs both parents to agree. (How we handle each parent’s data, and their rights — including the parent who never signed up — is set out in the privacy notice.)

If you’re the co-parent and you’d like the plain-English version written for you, it’s at neutrily.com/you — the same link the first message from Sam contains.

The acceptable-use rules in Section 5 apply to how anyone uses Sam, so that the calm-communication guardrails hold for both parents even though only the primary is a contracting party.

5. Using Neutrily fairly — what’s allowed, and what isn’t

Neutrily exists to reduce conflict. Using it to do the opposite defeats the point, and some uses aren’t allowed at all. When using Sam, you agree not to:

  • harass, threaten, abuse, intimidate, coerce or stalk the other parent, a child, or anyone else;
  • try to make Sam take sides, deceive it, or manipulate it into carrying something it wouldn’t otherwise carry;
  • send anything unlawful — including threats of violence, content that incites harm, or material that’s illegal to share;
  • impersonate someone else, or misrepresent who you are, or use the service on behalf of a parent who hasn’t agreed to it;
  • attempt to break, overload, reverse-engineer, or interfere with the service or its security, or access parts of it you’re not entitled to;
  • use the service for anything other than genuine co-parenting communication.

Reducing the heat in a message is what Sam is for — venting, frustration and strong feeling in what you send to Sam are fine and expected. It’s using the service as a weapon against the other parent that isn’t allowed.

If Neutrily is misused, we may review the case and, in serious cases, suspend or close it — with both parents notified evenly, never singling one out (see Section 10). Where a message discloses a criminal offence, Section 7 explains what we may do.

6. The record, and read receipts

For every message that passes through Sam, we keep the original wording, the rewritten version, the classification, the thread, the timestamps, and the delivery and read receipts. Together, that’s the shared record.

We keep it deliberately, and for your protection. In high-conflict co-parenting, “I never got it” and “you never told me” are among the most damaging disputes — the record turns them from an argument into a look-up, visible to both parents, that neither can rewrite after the event. Read receipts have evidential value: they show what was sent, when it was delivered, and when it was read.

Two things follow from that, and we want you to understand them before you rely on the service:

  • The record is shared, and neither parent can unilaterally erase it. Both parents are part of the same conversation about the same children, so it was never one person’s alone to delete. We keep it for a finite six years after a case ends, then delete it — on the basis explained in the privacy notice (UK GDPR Article 17(3)(e), keeping records for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims). It is not kept forever.
  • We keep the record faithful, and we don’t edit history — for anyone, including you. A record either parent could quietly alter would protect no one.

The privacy notice also explains one honest boundary worth repeating here: when this record talks about deleting or keeping messages, we mean the record held inside Neutrily. Copies of a message that already exist on your phone, your co-parent’s phone, or on WhatsApp’s systems (Meta) are outside our control, and we can’t delete those.

7. Safety — when we act, and what we’re not

We don’t read your messages in order to police you, and we don’t share your data except with the providers who help us run the service (listed in the privacy notice). Neutrily runs an automated safety check (including a check for threats of violence) with human oversight. There are two situations where we may act on, or share, the content of a message:

  • When the law requires it. If we receive a court order or another valid, legally-binding request from an authority, we’re obliged to comply. We disclose only what’s necessary and proportionate.
  • To report a crime. If, in running the service — including our automated violence check and human oversight — we become aware that a message discloses a criminal offence (for example, a credible threat of violence), we may report it to the police.

When we do either, we share only what is necessary and proportionate, and we keep a record of what we shared and why. This is explained more fully, with the lawful bases, in the privacy notice.

We say all this so you know where you stand, not to monitor you. But please read Section 2 again on this point: Neutrily is not an emergency service. Our safety checks are part of running a calm messaging service, not a real-time guarantee that harm will be spotted and stopped. If someone is in danger, call 999.

8. Payment, trial, cancellation and refunds

Price and trial. Neutrily costs £9.99 a month, following a 14-day free trial. We won’t take any payment before your trial ends, so you have a genuine chance to decide before you pay anything. £9.99 a month is the total price you pay — there are no separate fees added on top. Only the primary pays; the co-parent never pays.

How you’re billed depends on how you signed up:

  • On the web, payments are handled by Stripe. The subscription renews automatically each month until you cancel. You can cancel any time — from your account or by contacting us — and the service runs to the end of the period you’ve paid for. We never store your card details.
  • In the iOS app, purchases are handled by Apple as an in-app purchase, under Apple’s own payment terms and standard licence (EULA). For app subscriptions, Apple — not Neutrily — takes the payment, manages renewals, and handles cancellations and refunds. To cancel or request a refund for an app subscription, use your Apple subscription settings or contact Apple; we can’t cancel or refund an Apple subscription for you. We don’t see or store your card details there either.

Your right to change your mind. You have a statutory right, under the Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013, to change your mind within 14 days of entering into the contract. Sam starts relaying during your trial — that is, the service begins within that window, with your consent — but because those first 14 days are a free trial, you pay nothing if you cancel in that time.

Refunds and your remedies. Your statutory rights as a consumer always apply (see Section 11).

  • For web subscriptions, we don’t generally give refunds for the remainder of a monthly period after you cancel, but the service continues to the end of the period you’ve paid for. If something’s gone wrong, contact help@neutrily.com and we’ll deal with it fairly.
  • If we’ve failed to provide the service with reasonable care and skill, or otherwise haven’t met your legal rights, you may be entitled to a repeat performance, a price reduction or a refund under the Consumer Rights Act 2015 — none of this section removes that.
  • For app subscriptions, refunds are handled by Apple under Apple’s terms. That doesn’t remove your underlying statutory rights against us as the service provider.

If a payment fails. We’ll tell you, and give you a fair chance to fix it. We never hold your messages hostage over a billing hiccup — but a subscription that stays unpaid will eventually pause the service, and we’ll always warn you first.

One thing to note: deleting your account in the app does not automatically cancel your subscription. If you subscribed through Apple, cancel in your Apple subscription settings; if through the web, cancel it from your account settings or contact us. We’ll remind you of this when you delete.

9. Changes — to the service and to these terms

To the service. Neutrily is a live, evolving product, and we’ll keep improving it. We may add, change or remove features to improve the service, keep it secure, or reflect changes in the third parties we rely on. If we ever make a change that materially reduces the core service you’re paying for, we’ll tell you, and you’ll be free to cancel.

To these terms. We may update these terms from time to time — for example, to reflect new features, new legal requirements, or clearer wording. If we make a change that materially affects you, we’ll give you reasonable advance notice (by email or in the app) before it takes effect, and you’ll be free to cancel if you don’t accept it. We may make genuinely non-substantive corrections — such as fixing a typo or formatting — without notice, but these won’t change your rights or obligations. The “last updated” date at the top always tells you when these terms last changed. We’ll never use a change to these terms to take away the statutory rights described in Section 11.

10. Suspension and termination

By you. You can stop using Neutrily at any time. To end your subscription, cancel it (Section 8). To remove your account, delete it from within the app — this deletes your login, ends your session, deletes your preferences, and scrubs your live contact details, and it stops the relay for your case, as described in the privacy notice. As explained in Section 6 and the privacy notice, the shared record and your children’s facts remain for the finite six-year retention period, because that record was never yours alone to erase. Remember that deleting your account is not the same as cancelling your subscription — do both if you mean to stop paying.

By us. We may suspend or close a case, or end your access, if:

  • the service is being misused in breach of Section 5 — for example, to harass or threaten the other parent, or for an unlawful purpose;
  • you don’t meet the requirements in Section 3;
  • a subscription stays unpaid after we’ve warned you and given you a fair chance to fix it; or
  • we’re required to by law, or need to in order to protect someone’s safety or the integrity of the service.

Where it’s appropriate and safe to, we’ll tell you first and give you a chance to put things right. If we close a case for misuse, we notify both parents evenly — we never reveal one parent’s conduct or choices to the other beyond what fairness and the law require. Closing a case stops the relay; it does not delete the shared record, which is retained as described above. If we stop the service through no fault of yours, and you’ve paid in advance for a period you can no longer use, we’ll refund the unused part.

11. Our responsibility to you, and the honest limits

We want to be straight about this, because your trust is the product.

What we take seriously — genuinely. Reliably carrying a message about your child is the whole job, and we’ve built Neutrily to a real safety bar around it: delivery is driven by confirmed status callbacks, and the pipeline is designed to reduce the risk that messages are silently dropped or let through unfiltered — though, as the honest limit below explains, we cannot absolutely guarantee it. We provide the service with reasonable care and skill, as the law requires, and we mean to.

The honest limit. We can’t absolutely guarantee perfect delivery, instant delivery, constant uptime, or perfectly neutral rewriting — and we won’t pretend we can. Neutrily depends on software and on third parties we don’t control, including WhatsApp/Meta (which carries the messages), Apple (app and payments), Stripe, our messaging and hosting providers, and the internet and phone networks themselves. If one of them is down or delays a message, that can affect delivery in ways outside our hands. So we promise our best effort to a real reliability standard — not a cast-iron guarantee that no messaging product could truthfully make. This is not us saying “we take no responsibility for delivering your messages”: we take that responsibility seriously, and we stand behind our duty to provide the service with reasonable care and skill.

What we don’t limit — and never would. Nothing in these terms limits or excludes our liability for:

  • death or personal injury caused by our negligence;
  • fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;
  • our duty to provide the service with reasonable care and skill, and the other rights the Consumer Rights Act 2015 gives you; or
  • anything else that the law does not allow us to exclude or limit.

What we do limit, reasonably. Subject to the paragraph above, and to the extent the law permits:

  • we are not liable for losses outside our reasonable control — including the acts, outages or delays of the third parties named above;
  • we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, or for loss that wasn’t a reasonably foreseeable result of the problem, or for loss of profit, opportunity or anticipated savings arising from a business use of a service we provide to you as a consumer for personal, family use; and
  • for everything else that we can limit, our total liability to you for any claim connected with the service is limited to the greater of (a) the fees you have paid us in the 12 months before the claim arose, and (b) £100. We consider this fair and proportionate for a low-cost consumer service, and it does not touch any of the things listed above that we never limit.

Your statutory rights are not affected. These terms sit on top of your rights under the Consumer Rights Act 2015 and other UK consumer law — including that services must be provided with reasonable care and skill, and, where relevant, as described — and they don’t replace or reduce them. If anything here ever conflicted with those rights, your rights win. For free information about your rights, you can contact Citizens Advice (citizensadvice.org.uk).

12. A few practical points

  • These terms are between you and us. No one else has any right to enforce them under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 — including the co-parent, who is not a party to them.
  • You can’t transfer your agreement to someone else. We may transfer ours (for example, if the company is reorganised), but only in a way that doesn’t reduce your rights.
  • If part of these terms doesn’t hold, the rest still does. If any clause turns out to be unenforceable or unfair, it’s removed and the remaining terms carry on.
  • Not enforcing a term isn’t waiving it. If we don’t act on a breach straight away, we can still act on it later.

13. Governing law, complaints and contact

Governing law. These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and disputes can be dealt with by the courts of England and Wales. If you live in Scotland or Northern Ireland, you can bring proceedings in your own local courts and rely on the consumer-protection rules that apply where you live — nothing here takes that away.

How to complain. If something’s gone wrong, please tell us first — email complaints@neutrily.com and we’ll do our best to put it right, quickly and fairly. We’d genuinely rather hear from you and fix it than have you feel let down.

Alternative dispute resolution. Neutrily is not currently a member of an alternative dispute resolution (ADR) scheme. If we can’t resolve a complaint between us, you can get free, independent guidance on your options from Citizens Advice (citizensadvice.org.uk). If we join a certified ADR scheme in future, we’ll name it here.

How to reach us:

  • General help with the service: help@neutrily.com
  • Complaints: complaints@neutrily.com
  • Sam (your day-to-day messenger): sam@neutrily.com
  • Questions about your data / privacy: privacy@neutrily.com (see the privacy notice)
  • Provider: Neutrily Ltd, company number 16159614, registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 86–90 Paul Street, London EC2A 4NE.

These terms reflect how Neutrily actually operates today. They are our careful reading of what UK consumer law requires and permits, written to be readable, honest, and fair to a consumer — and we’ll keep them that way as the service grows. Some wording will be refined with our advisers, and we’ll always tell you plainly when it changes.