Terms of Use
The following Website terms of use (Terms of Use) govern your access to and use of this Website and the products and services available through this Website (Goods and Services). By using this Website and any related Goods and Services, you are agreeing to all of the Terms of Use, current at the time of your use of the Website.
1. Amendments to the Website Terms of Use
The Website Owner reserves the right to amend these Terms of Use from time to time at its discretion (Amendments). Amendments will be effective immediately. Where practicable we will endeavour to notify you of the Amendments to the Terms of Use. Your continued use of the Website and any related Goods and Services following any such Amendment will represent an agreement by you to be bound by the Amendments to the Terms of Use. We suggest you check the Terms of Use regularly to ensure you are aware of the most up to date terms.
2. Website
Access to the Website is permitted on a temporary and limited basis for the purpose of browsing the Website and interacting with the Website Owner. We reserve the right to withdraw or amend the Website and any Good or Services listed on the Website without notice. We will not be liable if for any reason this Website is unavailable at any time or for any period. From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts or all of this Website, Goods and Services.
3. Linked Sites
This Website may contain links to other websites (Linked Sites), which are not operated by this Website Owner. The Website Owner has no control over the Linked Sites and accepts no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of the Linked Sites. Your use of the Linked Sites will be subject to the terms of use and service contained within each such Linked Sites, if any.
4. Privacy Policy
Our privacy policy, which sets out how we will use your information, can be found at https://shomerdns.com/privacy
5. Prohibitions
5.1 Access to the Website is provided to you on the basis that you must not misuse this Website. Accordingly, you will not do any of the following:
5.2 i Commit or encourage a criminal offence.
5.2.ii Transmit or distribute a virus, trojan, worm, logic bomb or any other material which is malicious, technologically harmful, in breach of confidence or in any way offensive or obscene.
5.2.iii Hack into any aspect of the Website or DNS server(s), corrupt data, cause annoyance to other users.
5.2.iv Maliciously interrupt the Goods and Services from the Website.
5.2.v Infringe upon the rights of any other person's proprietary rights.
5.2.vi Send any unsolicited advertising or promotional material (spam), or attempt to affect the performance or functionality of any computer facilities of or accessed through this Website.
5.3 You acknowledge that breaching this prohibitions clause would constitute a criminal offence and, if breached, the Website Owner will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and disclose your identifiers to them.
5.4 The Website Owner will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your systems or network, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of this Website, Goods or Services or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any Linked Sites.
6. Intellectual Property, Software and Content
The intellectual property rights in all software, the Goods and Services and Website content (including photographic images) made available to you on or through this Website remain the property of the Website Owner or its licensors and are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. The Website Owner and its licensor (where appropriate) reserve all such rights. You may store, print and display the content supplied solely for your own personal use. You are not permitted to publish, manipulate, distribute or otherwise reproduce, in any format, any of the content or copies of the content supplied to you or which appears on this Website nor may you use any such content in connection with any business or commercial enterprise.
7. Disclaimer of Liability
Subject to any non-excludable consumer guarantees and other consumer protection provisions set out in the Australian Consumer Law (ACL), the material and any goods or services provided through this Website are supplied “as is” and “as available”, without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to their accuracy, completeness, reliability, or fitness for a particular purpose.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Website Owner expressly excludes all warranties, representations, and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law, or equity. The Website Owner will not be liable for any loss or damage whatsoever, including (without limitation) any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or damages for loss of use, profits, data, goodwill, or other intangibles, arising out of or in connection with the use, inability to use, performance, or failures of this Website, any linked sites, or any materials posted on those sites whether in contract, tort, equity, restitution, under statute, at common law, or otherwise.
Where goods or services are provided free of charge, they are provided solely for informational or general use purposes. In such cases, and to the fullest extent permitted by law, no warranties or guarantees (express or implied) apply to those goods or services. However, nothing in this disclaimer affects the Website Owner’s liability for any non-excludable rights under the ACL that may still apply to goods or services provided in trade or commerce, or for death or personal injury arising from negligence, fraudulent misrepresentation, or any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.
As there is no commercial transaction when using Goods and Services provided by ShomerDNS (e.g., no payment, subscription, or exchange of value), then ACL consumer guarantees usually do not apply.
8. Indemnity
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Website Owner, its directors, officers, employees, consultants, agents, and affiliates, from any and all third party claims, liability, damages or costs (including, but not limited to, legal fees) arising from your use of this Website or your breach of the Terms of Use.
9. Variation
The Website Owner must have the right in its absolute discretion at any time and without notice to amend, remove or vary the Goods and Services or any page of this Website.
10. Invalidity
If any part of the Terms of Use is unenforceable (including any provision in which we exclude our liability to you) the enforceability of any other part of the Terms of Use will not be affected and all other clauses remain in full force and effect. So far as possible where any clause/subclause or part of a clause/subclause can be severed to render the remaining part valid, the clause must be interpreted accordingly. Alternatively, you agree that the clause must be rectified and interpreted in such a way that closely resembles the original meaning of the clause/subclause as is permitted by law.
11. Complaints
ShomerDNS will try to resolve disputes when they first arise, please let us know if you have any complaints or comments. Complaints can be made using the contact form at https://shomerdns.com/contact
12. Device Lock and Factory Reset (Frum Phone App)
12.1 ShomerDNS's Frum Phone application (the App) functions as a Device Owner application under Android's enterprise management framework. As a core part of its content-filtering purpose, the App is capable of restricting or fully disabling the device's ability to perform a factory reset and other device administration functions, so that the restrictions it applies cannot be bypassed by the device's primary user (e.g., a minor).
12.2 By provisioning a device with the App, you acknowledge and agree that:
12.2.i This is intentional, not a bug. The App is designed to make factory reset and other bypass methods unavailable while its restrictions are active. This is a core security feature, not a defect.
12.2.ii The unlock path lives inside the App. Restrictions applied by the App, including the factory-reset block, are intended to be removed only from within the App itself (via administrator PIN and the appropriate unlock controls) before a factory reset or other administrative action becomes possible. If the App crashes, is corrupted, is uninstalled or interrupted mid-setup, or otherwise becomes non-functional while these restrictions are active, the device may become permanently unable to be factory reset, reconfigured, resold, or serviced by any means other than manufacturer-level intervention (if one exists at all).
12.2.iii No guaranteed recovery. You acknowledge that loss of the administrator PIN, an interrupted or duplicated provisioning attempt, an app malfunction, or an incompatible OS update occurring while device restrictions are active may leave the device in a state that cannot be recovered by the developer, by you, or in some cases by the device manufacturer. The App's developer does not guarantee that any such device can be restored to a usable or resettable state.
12.2.iv Assumption of risk. You assume full responsibility for maintaining access to the App's administrator PIN and for following setup and unlock instructions exactly as provided. You provision a device with the App at your own risk.
12.2.v No warranty; limitation of liability. To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Website Owner shall not be liable for any loss of use, loss of data, loss of access to a device, cost of device replacement or repair, or any direct, indirect, incidental, or consequential damages arising from a device becoming locked, unresettable, or otherwise unusable as a result of using the App.
12.2.vi Recommended safeguards. You are strongly advised to record the administrator PIN in a safe, retrievable location separate from the managed device, to avoid interrupting the provisioning process once started, and to unlock restrictions through the App before attempting any factory reset, OS update, or device transfer.
This page was last updated on 8/14/2026
