These Terms govern your use of the AIPoolGuy mobile application ("the App") and any related services we provide. By downloading, installing, opening, or using the App, you agree to these Terms in full. If you do not agree to any part of these Terms, do not use the App.
We may update these Terms at any time. Material changes will re-prompt the in-app acceptance gate. Your continued use of the App after an update means you accept the updated Terms.
1. What AIPoolGuy is — and what it is not
AIPoolGuy is a consumer mobile application that helps DIY pool owners log pool data and receive AI-generated suggestions about pool chemistry, equipment, and maintenance. It is software, nothing more.
AIPoolGuy is not a pool service company. It is not a licensed pool professional. It is not a licensed electrician, plumber, gas technician, or chemical manufacturer. AIPoolGuy does not inspect your pool, measure your water, handle your chemicals, or perform any physical work. Every suggestion the App makes is, by nature, a guess based on the information you choose to type in.
You are the only person who can see, smell, taste, test, and physically interact with your pool. You are the only person responsible for what happens at your pool.
The App is available on iOS and Android. The operator is 0.0.0 LLC, organized in Wyoming, U.S.A.
2. AI advice is informational only
AIPoolGuy uses third-party AI services — currently DeepSeek (chat responses) and OpenAI's GPT-4o-mini (image descriptions via vision). These services can and will produce responses that are:
- Wrong. AI models hallucinate — they invent confident-sounding answers that have no basis in reality.
- Outdated. Models are trained on data with a cutoff date. Newer products, recent chemistry research, code changes, recalls, or seasonal context may not be known to the model.
- Mismatched to your situation. The AI does not know your specific pool, weather, water condition, or equipment beyond what you have typed. Its answers are general patterns applied to incomplete information.
- Unsafe out of context. A correct general answer can become dangerous when applied to a specific situation the AI cannot see.
You agree that AI-generated content in the App is for general informational purposes only and is not a substitute for the judgment of a licensed pool service technician, a licensed electrician, a licensed plumber, the chemical manufacturer's published instructions, or a poison control professional.
You agree to independently verify any AI-generated suggestion before acting on it — especially any suggestion involving chemical dosing, electrical equipment, gas equipment, water entry, or anyone's physical safety.
3. Chemical safety — your sole responsibility
When you use the App, you agree that:
- You will read and follow the manufacturer's label on every chemical product you handle. The manufacturer's instructions govern, not the App.
- You will wear personal protective equipment appropriate to each chemical (eye protection, gloves, respirator as the label requires, closed-toe shoes).
- You will never mix chemicals together. Combining chlorine products with acid, with each other, or with ammonia-containing substances can release chlorine gas, cause explosions, or generate toxic fumes that have killed people.
- You will never enter, or allow any person or pet to enter, a pool with elevated chlorine, low pH, recently dosed chemicals, or any unverified water condition.
- You will store chemicals safely — locked, dry, ventilated, away from children, pets, heat sources, and incompatible substances.
- You will dispose of chemical containers and treated water according to local regulations. Pool water can kill fish and contaminate groundwater.
- You accept that the App cannot know the actual concentration of the chemical product you are using.
Any chemical dosage the App suggests is a rough order-of-magnitude estimate based on the values you typed. The exact amount depends on factors the App cannot see: water temperature, sun exposure, bather load, rain dilution, the specific product's concentration, the precision of your test kit, the accuracy of your stated pool volume, and your local water's mineral composition. Apply less than suggested, re-test, and add more as needed — never apply more than suggested.
4. Equipment, electrical work, and physical hazards
Pool equipment combines water with high-voltage electricity, pressurized gas, pressurized water, sharp moving parts, and confined spaces. The App provides general guidance only about equipment.
You agree that for the following, you will engage a licensed professional, not the App:
- Any electrical work on pumps, heaters, salt cells, automation systems, lights, or bonding/grounding
- Any gas work on heaters, including pilot light service, gas line connections, and venting
- Any structural work on the pool shell, deck, plumbing, or surrounding infrastructure
- Any work that requires breaking a manufacturer's warranty seal
- Any repair you are not certain you can complete safely with your skill level and tools
You also agree that the App's identification of equipment from photos may be wrong. Brand names, model numbers, and part compatibility extracted from images can be misread. Always confirm the actual model number printed on the equipment label, and verify compatibility with the manufacturer or a licensed tech, before purchasing or installing any part.
5. Image uploads
When you upload a photo (test strip, equipment label, water condition, pool overview, etc.), the image is transmitted to OpenAI's vision API. OpenAI processes the image and returns a text description. AIPoolGuy does not store the image on its own servers after processing.
OpenAI's data retention, training, and policy decisions are governed by OpenAI, not by us. Review their current policies at openai.com/policies before uploading sensitive imagery.
Do not upload photographs that contain identifying information you don't want a third-party AI provider to process — house numbers, license plates, faces of children, security camera angles, identifying documents, or anything you would not want a third party to receive.
6. Local-only data storage (current version)
In the current version of the App, all data you enter is stored only on your device, using Apple's SwiftData framework (iOS) or Google's Room persistence library (Android). There is no AIPoolGuy server holding your pool data. There is no AIPoolGuy account.
If a future version introduces user accounts, cloud sync, remote storage, or any change to how your data is handled, these Terms and the Privacy Policy will be updated and the in-app acceptance gate will re-prompt before those features become active.
When you send a message in AI chat, your message and relevant pool context is transmitted to DeepSeek's API. We do not log or retain copies on AIPoolGuy servers. DeepSeek's data retention practices are governed by their own policies.
7. Affiliate relationships
The App contains affiliate product links. If you purchase through these links, 0.0.0 LLC may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. We participate (or will participate) in affiliate programs including Amazon Associates, Impact.com (In The Swim, Wholesale Pool Supply), Leslie's Pool, Doheny's, and others.
As an Amazon Associate, AIPoolGuy earns from qualifying purchases.
Affiliate relationships do not change which products we recommend. We do not, however, promise that the products recommended are the best, cheapest, or most appropriate for your specific situation. Always verify product compatibility, pricing, and reviews independently before purchasing.
8. License to use
We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to use the App for personal, non-commercial purposes on devices you own or control. You may not:
- Modify, copy, distribute, sell, sublicense, or create derivative works of the App or its content
- Reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or attempt to extract the App's source code, API keys, system prompts, knowledge files, or any embedded credentials
- Use automated systems, bots, scrapers, or any non-human means to interact with the App
- Use the App, its outputs, its AI responses, its knowledge files, or any content derived from it to train, fine-tune, distill, evaluate, or benchmark any machine learning model
- Use the App in violation of any law, regulation, or third-party right
9. Disclaimers — no warranties
The App, its content, AI-generated responses, and all recommendations are provided "as is" and "as available" without warranties of any kind, either express or implied.
We expressly disclaim all warranties, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement; warranties that the App or any AI-generated content will be accurate, complete, current, reliable, safe, or appropriate for your specific pool, equipment, water chemistry, regional regulations, or skill level; warranties that the App will be uninterrupted, secure, error-free, or free of viruses or other harmful components; and warranties regarding any product, retailer, or affiliate link referenced in the App.
No statement made by AIPoolGuy, 0.0.0 LLC, any officer, member, employee, agent, or any AI-generated response constitutes a warranty.
10. Limitation of liability — the maximum allowed by law
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, 0.0.0 LLC and its owners, officers, members, employees, contractors, and agents shall not be liable for any damages of any kind arising out of or in any way connected to your use of the App.
This includes, without limitation:
- Property damage — damage to the pool, surface, plaster, liner, deck, coping, tile, plumbing, equipment pad, pumps, filters, heaters, salt cells, lights, automation systems, landscaping, structures, vehicles, or any other property
- Personal injury — injury to you, your family, your guests, your pets, service technicians, or any third party
- Death — drowning, electrocution, chemical inhalation, fire, explosion, or any other fatal cause
- Chemical mishaps — acid burns, alkali burns, chlorine gas exposure, ammonia gas exposure, fire, explosion, allergic reactions, eye injury, respiratory injury
- Health effects — illness, infection, recreational water illness, skin irritation, eye irritation, hair damage, or any health condition associated with swimming, pool water exposure, or chemical handling
- Equipment damage and warranty loss — damage to or premature failure of any pool equipment, voided manufacturer warranties, voided service contracts
- Financial loss — lost income, lost data, lost time, costs of professional remediation, costs of replacement equipment, costs of legal action
- Indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages of any kind whatsoever
- Damages arising from third-party services — DeepSeek, OpenAI, Amazon, Impact.com, or any retailer linked from the App
- Damages caused by reliance on AI-generated content
Liability cap. In no event shall 0.0.0 LLC's total cumulative liability to you for all claims arising out of these Terms or the App exceed the greater of (a) the total amount you have paid to 0.0.0 LLC for the App in the twelve (12) months immediately preceding the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) ten U.S. dollars ($10). The App is currently free of charge; therefore your liability cap is presently $10.
Some jurisdictions do not allow certain warranty exclusions or liability limitations. To the extent applicable law prohibits these exclusions, our liability is limited to the maximum extent permitted by that law.
10A. Your specific commitments — things you agree you will NEVER do
You agree to the following enumerated commitments. By accepting these Terms you affirm that you have read each item and that you understand the consequences of violating it. Each commitment below is an independent obligation, and your violation of any one of them voids any claim you may otherwise have against 0.0.0 LLC arising from that violation or its consequences.
Chemical handling — you will NEVER:
- Never mix any chlorinating product (liquid chlorine / sodium hypochlorite, calcium hypochlorite "cal-hypo," dichlor, trichlor, lithium hypochlorite, salt cell output, or any other chlorine source) with acid of any kind (muriatic acid, hydrochloric acid, dry acid / sodium bisulfate, pH down). This combination releases chlorine gas and can be fatal.
- Never mix any chlorinating product with ammonia or any ammonia-containing cleaning product. This creates chloramine gas.
- Never mix two different types of chlorinating product together (for example, cal-hypo with trichlor). Some combinations can ignite, explode, or release toxic gas.
- Never mix bromine products with chlorine products in concentrated form.
- Never combine any pool chemical with any household cleaner, solvent, fuel, or unidentified substance.
- Never pour water into acid — always pour acid slowly into water, with PPE on.
- Never store chlorinating products and acids in the same enclosed area, on the same shelf, or in physical contact.
- Never store chemicals in direct sunlight, near heat sources, or in any container other than their original manufacturer container.
- Never reuse a chemical container for any other chemical or purpose.
- Never handle pool chemicals without manufacturer-recommended personal protective equipment.
- Never handle pool chemicals while children, pets, or untrained persons are within reach.
- Never apply more of any chemical than the App's suggestion or the manufacturer's label states — whichever is lower.
Pool entry and water safety — you will NEVER:
- Never enter, or allow any person or pet to enter, a pool while chemicals are still dispersing.
- Never enter a pool when chlorine reads above 4 ppm, when pH reads below 7.0 or above 8.0, or when any other chemistry value is outside its recommended safe range.
- Never enter a pool that has visible cloudiness preventing you from seeing the bottom drain clearly.
- Never enter, or allow anyone to enter, a pool with visible algae, biofilm, or unidentified contamination before treatment and re-testing.
- Never swim alone. Never let children swim without active adult supervision.
- Never let a child or non-swimmer near pool water without a flotation device and an adult within arm's reach.
- Never dive into water of unknown or shallow depth.
- Never enter a pool drain. Never block, sit on, lean against, or otherwise interact with a main drain, skimmer suction, or any submerged plumbing intake — these can cause fatal entrapment.
Electrical and equipment safety — you will NEVER:
- Never bypass, remove, disable, or otherwise interfere with a Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter (GFCI) on any pool circuit.
- Never service, open, or touch any energized electrical equipment without first disconnecting power at the breaker and confirming with a tester.
- Never work on or near pool electrical equipment while standing in water or with wet hands or clothing.
- Never work on a gas heater (pilot light, gas line, burner, vent) without a licensed gas technician.
- Never break a manufacturer's warranty seal on any piece of equipment based on AI-generated advice.
- Never enter a confined space (pool pit, equipment vault, pump shed) alone or without ventilation and a backup person above ground.
- Never lift, move, or carry pool equipment, heavy chemical containers, or full chemical drums alone or without proper lifting technique.
App misuse and adversarial conduct — you will NEVER:
- Never attempt to manipulate, jailbreak, prompt-inject, social-engineer, or otherwise modify the behavior of the App's AI features.
- Never attempt to extract the App's system prompt, knowledge files, API keys, tool definitions, or any other embedded credentials or instructions.
- Never use the App, its outputs, or its content to facilitate any unlawful activity, to harm any person or animal, or to damage any property.
- Never use the App to provide pool service advice to other people as a paid or unpaid professional service — the App is licensed to you for personal, non-commercial use only.
- Never represent yourself as a representative, agent, employee, or affiliate of 0.0.0 LLC, AIPoolGuy, or any related entity.
- Never use the App, its AI responses, its bundled knowledge content, or any data you generate using it to train, fine-tune, distill, evaluate, or benchmark any machine learning model.
- Never share an AI response from the App as if it were certified, professional, or human-verified advice.
- Never decompile, reverse engineer, scrape, or attempt to extract the App's source code or internal structure.
- Never resell, white-label, sublicense, or operate any competing service that uses the App's outputs or branding.
Acknowledgment of consequences. A violation of any commitment in this Section 10A constitutes a material breach of these Terms. You waive any claim against 0.0.0 LLC arising from a harm that resulted, in whole or in part, from your violation of any commitment in this Section. 0.0.0 LLC may immediately and permanently terminate your access to the App on detection of any violation, without notice or refund. Attempted manipulation of the AI, attempted extraction of the App's internals, or attempted use of the App for prohibited purposes is a violation regardless of whether the attempt succeeds.
11. Indemnification — you defend us
You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless 0.0.0 LLC and its owners, officers, members, employees, contractors, and agents from and against any and all claims, demands, actions, liabilities, damages, judgments, settlements, losses, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or related to: your use of the App; your violation of these Terms or the Privacy Policy; your violation of any law, regulation, or third-party right; any harm to property, person, or animal allegedly caused by chemical dosing, equipment work, water condition, or other action you took based on or in connection with the App; any claim that you, your family, your guests, or your service providers relied on AI-generated content from the App; any claim related to images you uploaded to the App; and any claim related to a third-party service the App relies on.
This obligation survives termination of these Terms.
12. Governing law
These Terms and any dispute arising out of them or your use of the App are governed by the laws of the State of Wyoming, U.S.A., without regard to its conflict-of-law rules.
13. Binding arbitration · class-action waiver · jury-trial waiver
Any dispute, claim, or controversy between you and 0.0.0 LLC arising out of or relating to these Terms or the App shall be resolved exclusively by binding individual arbitration, not in court.
13.1 Arbitration administrator and rules. Arbitration will be administered by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) under its Commercial Arbitration Rules then in effect.
13.2 Location. Arbitration shall take place in person in Sheridan, Wyoming. Remote arbitration is not permitted unless both parties agree in writing.
13.3 Class-action waiver. All disputes must be brought on an individual basis. You may not bring or participate in any class action, class-wide arbitration, private attorney general action, collective action, consolidated arbitration, or representative proceeding.
13.4 Jury-trial waiver. You waive any right to a trial by jury.
13.5 Pre-arbitration notice. Before initiating arbitration, you must send a written notice describing your claim to legal@zer000.com (with a copy by certified mail to the address in Section 22) and wait at least thirty (30) days for a response. Good-faith informal resolution is a precondition to arbitration. Failure to follow this procedure may result in dismissal of your arbitration claim.
13.6 Fees. Each party bears its own costs in arbitration. Where AAA rules require us to pay your filing fee, we will. The party initiating the arbitration pays all initial filing fees.
13.7 Opt-out. You may opt out of this arbitration agreement by sending written notice via certified mail to 0.0.0 LLC at the address in Section 22 within thirty (30) days of your first use of the App. The notice must include your full name, postal address, and an unambiguous statement that you wish to opt out of arbitration.
13.8 Small-claims exception. Either party may bring an individual claim in small-claims court if it qualifies and remains in that court.
14. Statute of limitations — one year
Any claim or cause of action you have arising out of or relating to these Terms or the App must be filed within one (1) year after the event giving rise to the claim occurred. After that period, the claim is permanently barred. This shortened limitations period applies to the maximum extent permitted by law.
15. Bad-faith and frivolous claims
If we reasonably determine that any claim, demand, notice, or arbitration brought by you is frivolous, harassing, abusive, duplicative, or brought in bad faith, you agree to reimburse our reasonable attorneys' fees, arbitrator fees, and other costs incurred in responding. We may also immediately and permanently terminate your access to the App.
16. Confidentiality of disputes
Any arbitration, mediation, settlement discussions, related correspondence, and documents exchanged between you and 0.0.0 LLC concerning a dispute are confidential. You agree not to disclose their existence or contents to any third party except as required by law or to your own legal/financial advisor under a duty of confidentiality. This obligation does not apply to 0.0.0 LLC.
17. Intellectual property
The App, including its name "AIPoolGuy," its branding, design, code, bundled content (including the pool diagnostic guide, chemistry-dynamics knowledge files, equipment-lifespans knowledge files, system prompts, product catalog, and seasonal context hints), and any AI outputs generated by the App, are the property of 0.0.0 LLC and protected by U.S. and international intellectual property laws.
You may not use, copy, reproduce, distribute, publicly display, modify, or create derivative works of any of the above without our prior written consent.
Sole ownership and clean-room development. The App was independently developed by 0.0.0 LLC using public sources, AI-assisted research, and original work. No third party — including any current or former employer, contractor, client, or business associate of any 0.0.0 LLC member — holds any ownership, license, security interest, or other claim to the App, its code, its content, its brand, or any portion of its intellectual property. Any party asserting a claim to the App's intellectual property bears the burden of proving that claim with documentary evidence; absent such evidence, the claim is presumptively void and subject to Section 15 (Bad-Faith Claims) cost-shifting. No oral statement, informal arrangement, or unsigned communication creates a property interest in the App.
18. Your content & future logging notice
Any data you enter into the App remains your data and stays on your device per Section 6. You are responsible for the accuracy of information you enter.
By using the AI chat feature, you understand that your messages, pool context, and recent conversation summary are sent to DeepSeek's API. By using the image upload feature, your images are sent to OpenAI's vision API. These AI providers' terms and privacy policies govern how they handle data sent to their APIs.
19. Third-party services
The App relies on independent third-party services. Their availability, accuracy, and policies are not within our control: DeepSeek (AI chat), OpenAI GPT-4o-mini vision (image descriptions), Apple App Store, Google Play Store, Amazon.com via Associates, Impact.com network, FlexOffers / Pepperjam where applicable. We do not warrant or take responsibility for these services. Your interaction with them is governed by their respective terms.
20. Changes to the App and these Terms
We may modify, suspend, or discontinue the App, any feature of the App, or any third-party integration at any time without prior notice and without liability to you or any third party. As the App is currently free, no refunds apply for changes.
We may update these Terms at any time. Updates take effect when posted at zer000.com/aipoolguy-terms. Material changes will re-trigger the in-app acceptance gate; continued use after a material change constitutes your acceptance.
21. Prohibited uses
You may not use the App for any unlawful purpose; to infringe on our or others' intellectual property; to harass, abuse, or harm others; to submit false or misleading information; to upload or transmit malicious code; to upload images containing identifying personal information of third parties without their consent; to interfere with or circumvent the App's security features; to extract data from the App using automated means; to train any AI model on the App's content; or to resell, rebrand, or operate a competing service using the App's outputs.
22. Contact and notice
0.0.0 LLC
1309 Coffeen Avenue STE 1200
Sheridan, WY 82801
United States
- General inquiries: support@zer000.com
- Legal notices: legal@zer000.com
Formal legal notices and service of process must be sent by certified mail to the physical address above. Email is not a substitute for service of process.
23. International users
The App is operated from the United States. If you access the App from outside the U.S., you consent to the transfer of your data to and processing of your data in the United States and other jurisdictions where our service providers operate, under those jurisdictions' laws.
24. Miscellaneous
- Severability. If any provision of these Terms is found invalid, illegal, or unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in full force and effect.
- Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between you and 0.0.0 LLC regarding the App and supersede all prior agreements or communications on the subject.
- No waiver. Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of our right to do so later.
- Force majeure. We are not liable for failure to perform due to events beyond our reasonable control.
- Assignment. We may assign these Terms or any rights or obligations under them without your consent. You may not assign these Terms without our prior written consent.
- No agency. No joint venture, partnership, employment, or agency relationship is created by these Terms or your use of the App.
- English controls. If these Terms are translated into another language, the English version controls in case of conflict.
25. Survival
The following sections survive any termination of these Terms or your use of the App: Section 2 (AI Advice), Section 3 (Chemical Safety), Section 4 (Equipment), Section 5 (Image Uploads), Section 9 (Disclaimers), Section 10 (Limitation of Liability), Section 10A (Your Specific Commitments), Section 11 (Indemnification), Section 12 (Governing Law), Section 13 (Arbitration), Section 14 (Statute of Limitations), Section 15 (Bad-Faith Claims), Section 16 (Confidentiality), Section 17 (Intellectual Property — including sole ownership and clean-room development), Section 18 (Future Logging Notice), Section 21 (Prohibited Uses), and any other provision that by its nature should survive.
26. Acknowledgment
By using AIPoolGuy, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agreed to these Terms in full.
You specifically acknowledge:
- AIPoolGuy is software, not a substitute for a licensed pool professional.
- AI advice can be wrong or outdated and must be independently verified before acting.
- You have read the enumerated commitments in Section 10A and agree that you will never do any of the things listed there. Your violation of any commitment in Section 10A voids any claim arising from that violation.
- All chemical handling is your sole responsibility, governed by manufacturer labels and not by the App.
- Electrical, gas, structural, and warranty-affecting work should be done by a licensed professional.
- 0.0.0 LLC is not liable for property damage, personal injury, death, chemical mishaps, health effects, equipment damage, or warranty loss.
- Liability cap is the greater of $10 or the amount you paid in the past 12 months. The App is currently free, so the cap is $10.
- Disputes go to binding individual arbitration in Sheridan, Wyoming.
- You waive your right to a jury trial and to class actions.
- Claims must be filed within one year.
- Attempted manipulation, jailbreaking, or adversarial use of the App's AI is a material breach and may be logged once the backend ships.
- 0.0.0 LLC owns the App in full; no current or former employer, contractor, or other third party has any claim to it.
- Affiliate links may earn us commission at no extra cost to you.