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Disclaimer and limits of use

Last updated: 13 September 2026

The app exists to give you a reason to leave: a call rings, you pick up, you have your excuse. It is useful for cutting short a date that is going nowhere, a meeting that drags on, a conversation you cannot see your way out of. This page says plainly what the app does not do, why it can fail, and what you should not ask of it.

1. What Faux Appel is not

• It is not an emergency service, nor a personal alarm, nor a panic button, nor a personal protection device. No alert is sent to anyone when the call rings: nobody is warned, nobody is coming.
• It is not a real call. No telephone call is made or received. Nothing goes through the telephone network, no number is dialled, and nothing appears on your carrier bill.
• It is not evidence. The call shown on screen and the app's history establish nothing: they prove neither that you were somewhere, nor that you spoke to anyone, and cannot be produced as such.
• It is not a licence to deceive. The fact that a call looks real does not make lawful the use that is made of it towards other people.

2. Why the call may not ring

The call is triggered by your own phone. Anything that stops your phone from ringing stops the app from working:

• an empty battery, a phone switched off, restarted or updating;
• aeroplane mode, silent mode, a focus mode, or notifications turned off;
• low power mode, background restrictions, manufacturer settings;
• no connection when the call is scheduled, or no network at the time of the call;
• a failure of the operating system, of a third-party service, or of our own servers;
• uninstalling, reinstalling or changing device between scheduling and the appointed time.

When you schedule a call, the app tells you if it could not make sure the call would be triggered. Take those messages seriously: they mean the call may not ring.

3. What you should never do

• Rely on the app to protect you from danger. If you feel followed, threatened or unsafe, do not wait for a scheduled call: call the emergency services, step into a shop, speak to someone.
• Use it while driving, or in any situation where using a phone is prohibited or dangerous.
• Record someone's voice without their knowledge, or use their image without their consent. Capturing words spoken in private without the speaker's consent is punishable under Article 226-1 of the French Criminal Code by one year's imprisonment and a fine of 45,000 euros; keeping or sharing such a recording is punishable too (Article 226-2). Similar rules exist in most countries.
• Use it to deceive someone to their detriment: obtaining money, consent or an advantage by means of a simulated call may amount to fraud (Article 313-1 of the French Criminal Code).
• Pretend the call comes from the emergency services, the police or a public authority, or use a simulated call to evade a check, an interview or a legal obligation.
• Use it to harass, threaten or pressure someone, or to make them believe in a situation likely to alarm them.

Users are solely responsible for the use they make of the app. The publisher endorses none of the uses listed above and cannot answer for them.

4. In an emergency

If you are in danger, or someone else is, call without waiting:

• 112: the European emergency number, from any country in the European Union;
• 999 in the United Kingdom, 911 in the United States and Canada, or your country's emergency number.

In France specifically:

• 17: police;
• 15: medical emergencies;
• 18: fire and rescue;
• 114: emergencies by text message, for deaf and hard of hearing people, and useful whenever speaking out loud is impossible;
• 3919: violence against women, free and anonymous;
• 116 006: victim support;
• 3018: online violence and cyberbullying;
• 3114: suicide prevention, free, around the clock.

5. Legal status of this page

This page is for information. It supplements, without replacing, the terms and conditions, which are what governs the legal relationship, and whose clause 5 restates the essentials of the above.