BackLinx Terms of Service

Effective Date: September 1, 2026
Hybridizing Dragon Fruit LLC

These terms cover BackLinx, our software for macOS. They are our terms of service and, for copies obtained from the Mac App Store, the licence agreement (EULA) for the software. Purchases of plants from this website are governed separately by our
nursery Terms of Service.

By installing or using BackLinx you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, do not use the software.

1. Your licence

We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to install and use BackLinx on Macs you own or control, for your own use and your own business. This licence covers everything in the BackLinx application bundle — including the BackLinx Setup Guide Safari extension and the AI models that ship inside the app.

You may not resell, sublicense, rent, or redistribute the software, and you may not attempt to derive its source code, except to the extent a law that applies to you gives you that right despite this sentence, and except for the open-source components described in section 10, which come with their own rights that these terms do not take away.

If you obtained BackLinx from the Mac App Store, section 15 also applies to this licence and, where it conflicts with anything else here, controls.

2. Eligibility

You must be old enough to form a binding contract where you live — in most places, 18. If you connect accounts that belong to a business, you must be authorised to act for that business.

3. What BackLinx does and does not do

BackLinx drafts replies and shows analysis. It does not send anything on your behalf. You review and send every message yourself. You are responsible for everything you post.

You are also responsible for following the rules of the places you post — the terms of service, community guidelines, and self-promotion policies of any forum, comment section, or platform. Some communities prohibit or restrict promotional replies. BackLinx surfaces conversations; judging whether it is appropriate to join one is your call, not ours.

4. Drafts are suggestions, not advice

BackLinx's drafts are produced by a machine-learning model that runs on your own Mac. Drafts can be wrong. They may be inaccurate, incomplete, or a poor fit for the conversation, even when they sound confident. They are suggestions, not advice — read every draft, change what needs changing, and send nothing you have not checked yourself.

The same goes for everything else BackLinx shows you. Its analysis, its guidance, and its bundled reference material are general information for running your business — not legal, tax, financial, or other professional advice. For advice you can rely on, ask a licensed professional who knows your situation.

5. Your Google account and other connected services

Connecting a Google account is optional. Your use of Google's services remains governed by Google's own terms, and you may disconnect at any time from within BackLinx or from your Google account settings. The same applies to every other service you choose to connect.

6. No guarantee of results

Search rankings, traffic, and sales depend on many factors outside anyone's control, including decisions made by search engines and platforms. We do not promise any particular ranking, traffic, engagement, or revenue outcome. BackLinx is a tool, not a result.

7. Availability, updates, and third-party services

BackLinx depends on services we do not operate. Those services may change, restrict, price, or withdraw access at any time, and features that rely on them may stop working as a result. We will make reasonable efforts to adapt, but we cannot guarantee continued availability of any integration.

We may publish updates to BackLinx through the Mac App Store. We do not promise any particular update, feature, or timetable.

8. Buying BackLinx, and refunds

BackLinx is sold through Apple's Mac App Store as a one-time purchase. Apple handles the sale, the payment, and any refund: refund requests go to Apple under Apple's own policies (see also section 15), and we cannot issue App Store refunds ourselves. A price change never affects a copy you have already bought. If we ever offer optional paid features or subscriptions, Apple will process those too, under Apple's terms, and we will describe exactly what you are buying before you buy it.

9. Your data is yours

We do not collect, receive, or store your data. Everything BackLinx works with lives on your own Mac, and backing it up is your responsibility. See the
BackLinx Privacy Policy for exactly where it lives.

10. Third-party software and content

BackLinx ships with work we did not create, and its creators deserve an honest accounting:

  • Open-source software. The app includes open-source components, among them the bundled Qwen AI models (Apache License 2.0) and the CSQLiteVec library (Apache License 2.0 / MIT). Each component is governed by its own licence, and nothing in these terms limits any right those licences give you.
  • Reference content. Some of BackLinx's bundled advisory content is adapted from third-party sources, including modifications based on work created and shared by Google and used according to terms described in the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. The optional domain-authority feature uses scores from Open PageRank, which are derived from Common Crawl data.

The full list of notices, licences, and source links is in the app, at
Settings ▸ Attributions & Licenses.

The next three sections limit our legal responsibility to you and explain which of your rights survive anyway. They are the sections a lawyer would tell you to read twice, so they are set in bold.

11. Warranty disclaimer

To the fullest extent permitted by law, BackLinx is provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, express or implied — including the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that BackLinx will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that it will meet your requirements.

Section 13 explains that some of this may not apply to you, because some places do not let a seller disclaim everything. If you obtained BackLinx from the Mac App Store, section 15 describes the one refund path that always remains: Apple.

12. Limit on our liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Hybridizing Dragon Fruit LLC will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost data, or business interruption, arising out of or relating to BackLinx — even if we have been told such damages are possible. Our total liability arising out of or relating to BackLinx will not exceed the greater of (a) the total amount you paid us for BackLinx, and (b) fifty U.S. dollars (US $50).

13. Your consumer rights

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, or the exclusion or limitation of certain damages, so some or all of sections 11 and 12 may not apply to you. Nothing in these terms excludes or limits any warranty, guarantee, or liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited, or any right you have as a consumer under the mandatory law of the place where you live.

In particular: if you live in the European Union or the United Kingdom, you keep every right your consumer law gives you, including your remedies if digital content does not conform to the contract. If you are a consumer in Australia, our software comes with guarantees that cannot be excluded under the Australian Consumer Law, and nothing in these terms limits them. If the law of a U.S. state gives you additional consumer rights, you keep those too.

14. Termination

You may stop using BackLinx at any time by deleting it. We may terminate your licence if you materially breach these terms and do not fix the breach within thirty days of us pointing it out — or immediately, for a breach that cannot be fixed. Ending the licence does not by itself create a refund; refunds work as described in section 8. Sections 3, 4, 9 through 13, and 15 through 18 survive termination.

15. Mac App Store terms

BackLinx is distributed through Apple's Mac App Store. If you obtained BackLinx from the Mac App Store, the following terms also apply, and to the extent of any conflict with the rest of these terms, they control:

  1. These terms are between you and us, not Apple. This agreement is concluded between you and Hybridizing Dragon Fruit LLC only — not with Apple Inc. ("Apple"). Hybridizing Dragon Fruit LLC, not Apple, is solely responsible for BackLinx and its content.
  2. Scope of licence. Your licence to BackLinx is a non-transferable licence to use it on Apple-branded products that you own or control, as permitted by the Usage Rules set out in the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions, except that BackLinx may be accessed and used by other accounts associated with you via Family Sharing or volume purchasing.
  3. Maintenance and support. We are solely responsible for providing any maintenance and support for BackLinx, as specified in these terms or as required under applicable law. Apple has no obligation whatsoever to furnish any maintenance and support services for it.
  4. Warranty. We are solely responsible for any product warranties, whether express or implied by law, to the extent not effectively disclaimed. If BackLinx fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price of BackLinx to you. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Apple has no other warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to BackLinx, and any other claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs, or expenses attributable to a failure to conform to any warranty are our sole responsibility.
  5. Product claims. We, not Apple, are responsible for addressing any claims by you or any third party relating to BackLinx or your possession and use of it, including: (i) product liability claims; (ii) any claim that BackLinx fails to conform to an applicable legal or regulatory requirement; and (iii) claims arising under consumer protection, privacy, or similar legislation.
  6. Intellectual property claims. In the event of any third-party claim that BackLinx, or your possession and use of it, infringes that third party's intellectual property rights, we, not Apple, are solely responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement, and discharge of the claim.
  7. Legal compliance. You represent and warrant that (i) you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. Government embargo or designated by the U.S. Government as a "terrorist supporting" country, and (ii) you are not listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
  8. Third-party terms. You must comply with any applicable third-party terms of agreement when using BackLinx — for example, Google's terms for any Google services you choose to connect.
  9. Third-party beneficiary. Apple, and Apple's subsidiaries, are third-party beneficiaries of these terms. Upon your acceptance of these terms, Apple will have the right (and will be deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce these terms against you as a third-party beneficiary of them.
  10. Questions and complaints should be directed to us at the address in section 19.

16. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. The revised version will be posted at this address with a new effective date. If a change is material, we will give notice before it takes effect — inside the app, on this page, or both — and continuing to use BackLinx after the effective date accepts the revised terms. If you do not accept a change, stop using BackLinx.

17. Governing law, and where disputes are heard

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Florida, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles, and any dispute will be brought in the state or federal courts located in Lee County, Florida — with one important exception. If the law of the place where you live gives you the right to bring or defend proceedings in your local courts, or the protection of local mandatory rules, nothing in this section takes that away. In particular, if you are a consumer in the European Union or the United Kingdom, you may bring proceedings in the courts of the place where you live, and Florida law applies only to the extent it does not deprive you of protections your local law does not allow you to lose.

18. General

  • Severability. If any part of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest remains in effect, and the unenforceable part will be enforced to the maximum extent permitted.
  • Entire agreement. These terms and the BackLinx Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and us about BackLinx.
  • Assignment. You may not assign these terms. We may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.
  • Waiver. Our not enforcing a provision is not a waiver of it.
  • Export. BackLinx is subject to United States export laws and regulations. You must not use or export it in violation of them (see also section 15, clause 7).

19. Contact

Hybridizing Dragon Fruit LLC
2219 SE 15th Ave, Cape Coral, FL 33990
Email: support@hybridizingdragonfruit.com