Terms of Service

By downloading, installing, or using Hamdam, you agree to these Terms. If you don't agree, don't use Hamdam.

Hamdam grants you a personal, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the app on Apple devices you own or control, obtained through the App Store. This licence doesn't extend to commercial use or redistribution of the app or its content.

The free tier includes fifteen of Today's reflections every calendar month, while writing in your own journal and recording voice reflections are unlimited; the last three days of your journal and the last fourteen days of insights; the Faal of Hafez as often as you like; sharing your reflections to any app; three plays in the Garden's games each day; daily verses drawn from all seven poets; and the full library of 700 bundled verses. Hamdam Plus currently includes:

1. Unlimited reflections, with no monthly limit.
2. Your whole journal, beyond the last three days, and insights across your whole history rather than the last fourteen days.
3. Private messages with your family, end to end encrypted.
4. iCloud synchronisation between your own devices.
5. Mood check-ins saved to Apple Health.
6. The Garden goes deeper: thirty nights of sleep and movement, more room to plant, and every past riddle.
7. Deep Mode, for longer and more searching reflection prompts.
8. Unlimited plays in the Garden's games, beyond the three a day the free tier includes.
9. Sharing reflections to Apple Journal.
10. Poet deep-dives for Saadi, Khayyam, Parvin Etesami, Ferdowsi and Nezami: their biography and cultural context pages, not their poetry. The verses themselves are free, from all seven poets. The Hafez and Rumi deep-dives are free as well.
11. Every symbol in Roots. One is free.
12. Podcasts and films in the Garden, and music alongside your reflection. Apple Music alongside your reflection is also available if you have your own Apple Music subscription.

Hamdam Plus is available as a monthly or yearly subscription, or as a single one-time Lifetime purchase.

3.1 Pricing

Pricing is set and displayed by Apple at the point of purchase. Current pricing is available on the App Store and is subject to change by Apple.

3.2 Free trial

Monthly and Yearly subscriptions include a 7-day free trial for new subscribers. The trial converts to a paid subscription unless cancelled before it ends. See Section 3.5 for cancellation instructions.

3.3 Family Sharing

The Lifetime plan supports Family Sharing, for up to six members through Apple's Family Sharing. Monthly and Yearly plans are single-user.

3.4 Auto-renewal

Monthly and Yearly plans auto-renew unless cancelled, at the then-current price, charged to your Apple ID. Manage or cancel renewal through your Apple ID subscription settings.

3.5 Cancellation

Cancel anytime via Settings → your Apple ID → Subscriptions on your device. Cancelling stops the next renewal; you keep access until the end of the current billing period. There's no refund for the unused portion of a current period, subject to Apple's own refund policy.

3.6 Price changes

Apple may adjust pricing. You'll be notified in advance via the App Store, per Apple's standard process. Continuing your subscription after that notification means you accept the change.

5.1 Persian poetry sources

Verses from Hafez, Rumi, Saadi, Khayyam, Parvin Etesami, Ferdowsi and Nezami are in the public domain, sourced from the Ganjoor.net archive with attribution. Hamdam's curation and English translations, along with its cultural context and reflections, are © Ealia Azizollahi.

5.2 Your rights to Hamdam content

Content is for your personal use within the app only. No commercial redistribution, and no republishing without permission.

5.3 Cultural sensitivity

Persian poetry references wine, love, and mystical imagery as literary and spiritual metaphor. These are historical Persian literary conventions, not endorsements of substance use.

6.1 Journal entries

You own your journal entries. Hamdam holds no licence to your journal content, and you can delete any entry at any time. Your journal syncs only through your own iCloud account.

6.2 Your journal is not shared

Hamdam does not share your journal content with anyone, including the people in your family. There is no public feed. If you share a family or join one, the people, stories and recordings you add are seen by its members, and a message is read by the person it is sent to, as sections 1.10 and 1.11 of the Privacy Policy describe.

• Reverse engineering the app
• Redistributing app content
• Commercial use of the app or its content
• Using Hamdam to harm yourself or others
• Using Hamdam in violation of applicable law

You can stop using Hamdam anytime by uninstalling it. Hamdam may terminate your access for violating these Terms. For subscription cancellation, see Section 3.5.

9.1 As-is

Hamdam is provided “as is” without warranties of any kind, except where non-excludable guarantees under Australian Consumer Law apply.

9.2 Australian Consumer Law

Nothing in these Terms excludes, restricts, or modifies any non-excludable right under Australian Consumer Law. Where the ACL implies a condition, warranty, or guarantee, our liability for breach is limited to the extent the law permits.

10.1 Standard limitations

To the maximum extent the law permits, Hamdam is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages.

10.2 Non-excludable rights

Where the ACL grants a non-excludable right, that right applies and this limitation does not restrict it.

10.3 Health-related limitations

Hamdam is not liable for decisions made based on reflections, observations, or content in the app. Health decisions are yours, made in consultation with qualified professionals.

You agree to indemnify Hamdam for claims arising from your misuse of the app or violation of these Terms, to the extent the law permits.

Hamdam uses Apple's HealthKit, EventKit, WeatherKit, iCloud, StoreKit, MusicKit (Apple Music), and Foundation Models frameworks, and the Apple public iTunes Search API. Apple's own terms and privacy policies apply to those services.

Hamdam also reads reference content from the Wikipedia REST API (en.wikipedia.org and fa.wikipedia.org) and upload.wikimedia.org; resolves cultural symbol photographs and their licences through www.wikidata.org and commons.wikimedia.org; falls back to iNaturalist (api.inaturalist.org, with images served from inaturalist-open-data.s3.amazonaws.com) when Wikimedia holds nothing it may use; and reads public holiday dates from Nager.Date (date.nager.at). Apart from the Kiosk, described below, those are the services Hamdam contacts that are not operated by Apple, and there are no others. Each is independent, and its own terms apply to it. What each one receives is set out in Section 5 of the Privacy Policy.

The one exception is the Kiosk in the Garden, which shows headlines from publications you add to it yourself; Hamdam bundles and suggests none. To show them, your device fetches each publication's news feed directly from the site you chose, loads the pictures that come with its headlines from wherever that feed says they are kept, and, when you add a publication by its web address, reads that site's pages to find its feed. Hamdam attaches no account or identifier to these requests, and none of them passes through us. An article you tap opens in Safari, on the publisher's own page. Those sites are chosen by you rather than by Hamdam, and each one's own terms apply to it.

12.1 Gemma, the Farsi model in Ask Hamdam

In Farsi, Ask Hamdam answers with a version of Google's Gemma model, converted by Hamdam to run on iPhone, which Hamdam offers as an optional download through Apple. Gemma is provided under and subject to the Gemma Terms of Use found at ai.google.dev/gemma/terms.

Those terms restrict how the model may be used, and Hamdam passes the restrictions on to you. By downloading or using Gemma through Hamdam you agree not to use it, or anything it produces in Hamdam, in a way that the Gemma Prohibited Use Policy forbids (ai.google.dev/gemma/prohibited_use_policy, as Google updates it from time to time), and you agree that those restrictions are enforceable against you as part of these Terms. The Gemma Terms of Use also apply to you directly where they say so.

Gemma runs on your iPhone. Hamdam does not receive what you ask it or what it answers. Its answers can be wrong, and nothing in section 4 changes because an answer came from a model.

If these Terms change materially, you'll be notified through an app update. Continuing to use Hamdam after a change means you accept the update. The effective date at the top of this page always reflects the current version.

These Terms are governed by the laws of Queensland, Australia. Australian Consumer Law applies where relevant. Disputes are subject to the jurisdiction of Queensland courts, unless the ACL provides otherwise.

The HAMDAM™ name, trade mark, and the Hamdam app (including the iOS app, watchOS app, and any related services), content (including curated Persian poetry selections, reflection prompts, and cultural moment content), and all associated intellectual property are owned by Seyed Valiallah Azizollahi.

HAMDAM™ is the subject of a pending Australian trade mark application (no. 2674427, filed 11 July 2026, Classes 9 and 42) with IP Australia.

You may not use the HAMDAM name, trade mark, or any associated intellectual property without prior written permission from the owner.

Persian poetry featured within the application is sourced from public domain works by classical Persian poets (Hafez, Rumi, Saadi, Khayyam, Parvin Etesami, Ferdowsi and Nezami). Original Persian text is sourced from Ganjoor.net. Reflections, curation, and English translations (where applicable) are the original work of the Hamdam team.

Email developer@hamdam.com.au.

Seyed Valiallah Azizollahi (sole trader) · ABN 74 389 481 503 · Brisbane, Queensland, Australia