Terms of Use

Charge is a recordkeeping tool. It does not determine your compliance with any regulation, and it is not a substitute for the regulation itself or for professional advice.

What Charge is

Charge keeps your record of refrigerant additions, repairs, verification tests and inspections, and applies the thresholds and deadlines set out in 40 CFR part 84 subpart C to that record. It shows you the arithmetic of every leak-rate calculation, states which provision requires each obligation, and prints a Compliance Binder you can hand to an inspector.

What Charge is not

Charge does not determine compliance. No status, countdown, verdict or exported binder is a determination that you are compliant, or a defence if you are not. The regulation is the authority; the EPA and its inspectors decide what it means in your case.

Charge is not a substitute for reading the rule. Every obligation carries its citation so you can check the source text, and the source text governs.

Scope is stated, not implied

Charge implements the leak-repair provisions of 40 CFR part 84 subpart C — the AIM Act rules that took effect on 1 January 2026. It does not implement the separate Clean Air Act Section 608 regime at 40 CFR 82.157, which governs appliances charged with ozone-depleting refrigerants such as R-22. Where an appliance falls outside subpart C, Charge says so rather than applying the wrong thresholds. An empty deadline list means the rules in the app do not reach that appliance — it does not mean no rules do.

"Treated as covered" means exactly that

Where the refrigerant or the full charge is missing, Charge assumes the appliance is covered and keeps it flagged. It never resolves an unknown into a pass. Treat those as open items, not as clear.

Your responsibilities

You are responsible for the accuracy of what you enter, for verifying each obligation against the published regulation, for having work performed by appropriately certified technicians, and for filing any report the rule requires — Charge never transmits anything to the EPA on your behalf. Records subject to 40 CFR 84.106(l) must be retained for three years; because nothing is uploaded, keeping a copy is your responsibility.

The rules in the app

Thresholds, deadlines and citations are transcribed by hand from the regulation text. We take care over that, but transcription can contain errors and rules are amended. The date the rules were last verified is shown in Settings and on every binder, so you can tell what you are looking at. Check against the published text before acting.

Sealing

Entries are sealed into a hash chain so that a later edit or deletion is detectable. That is what sealing proves, and all it proves. It does not establish that an entry was accurate when it was made, or that the work described was performed.

Purchase

The unlock is a one-time in-app purchase for the features listed on the paywall. There is no subscription. Your first three appliances keep working whether or not you unlock. Refunds are handled by Apple under the App Store terms; we cannot issue them directly.

Disclaimer & liability

Charge is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind. To the fullest extent permitted by law, Ashvara is not liable for any loss, penalty or damage arising from use of the app, from reliance on any status it displays, or from any error or omission in the rules it applies. Nothing here excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.

Changes

If these terms change, the updated date above will change.

Contact

Questions? Email hello@ashvara.io.