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Terms of Use
These terms are the agreement between you and Vantage Machines Ltd for using our apps and this website. Please read them before you use the Services. If you do not agree to them, do not use the Services.
- About these terms
- Who can use the Services
- Your licence
- Accounts
- Acceptable use
- Your content
- Subscriptions and purchases
- Changes to the Services
- Our intellectual property
- Third-party services
- Disclaimers
- Liability
- Suspension and termination
- Apps downloaded from the App Store
- Apps downloaded from Google Play
- Governing law
- General
- Contact
1. About these terms
The Services are provided by Vantage Machines Ltd (“Vantage Machines”, “we”, “us”), a company registered in England and Wales under company number 17479238, with its registered office at Unit 8-14, Space Solutions Business Centre, 39 Sefton Lane Industrial Estate, Liverpool L31 8BX, United Kingdom.
“Services” means this website and every app published under the developer name “Vantage Machines Ltd”. An app may show additional terms for particular features. Those terms form part of this agreement, and they take priority for that feature if the two conflict.
How we handle personal data is explained in our Privacy Policy.
2. Who can use the Services
You must be at least 13 years old to use our apps. Some apps have a higher minimum age, which is shown in the store listing and inside the app. If an app is restricted to adults, you must be 18 or over to use it. If you are under 18, you confirm that a parent or guardian has agreed to these terms on your behalf.
3. Your licence
We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable and revocable licence to install and use our apps on devices you own or control, for your own non-commercial use, in line with these terms and the rules of the store you downloaded them from.
You may not copy, modify, sell, rent, sublicense or distribute an app; decompile, reverse engineer or try to extract its source code, except where the law expressly allows it; or remove any copyright or other notices from it.
4. Accounts
Where an app has accounts, you agree to give accurate information and keep it up to date, keep your sign-in details secure, and tell us promptly at [email protected] if you think someone else has used your account. You are responsible for activity on your account unless it results from our failure to keep it secure.
5. Acceptable use
When you use the Services you agree not to:
- break any law, or help anyone else to do so;
- infringe anyone’s intellectual property, privacy or other rights;
- upload or send content that is unlawful, threatening, harassing, hateful, sexually explicit or otherwise harmful;
- interfere with or disrupt the Services, probe them for vulnerabilities, or get around any security or usage limits;
- use bots, scrapers or other automated tools to access the Services, or create accounts by automated means;
- pretend to be someone else, or misrepresent your connection with any person or organisation.
Apps that let people interact with each other may set out more detailed community rules. Those rules form part of these terms.
6. Your content
You keep ownership of the content you create or upload. You give us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, process and display that content only as needed to operate and improve the Services for you. This licence ends when you delete the content or your account, except for copies we must keep by law or that remain for a limited time in backups.
You confirm that you have the rights needed to share the content you upload. We may remove content that breaks these terms or the law.
If you send us feedback or suggestions, we may use them freely and without any obligation to you.
7. Subscriptions and purchases
Some apps offer paid subscriptions or one-off in-app purchases. Before you buy, the app and the store show you what is included, the price and, for a subscription, how often it renews.
- Payment. Payment is taken by Apple or Google and charged to your App Store or Google Play account when you confirm the purchase.
- Automatic renewal. A subscription renews automatically at the end of each period, at the price then in effect, unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the period ends. Your account is charged for the renewal within the 24 hours before the current period ends.
- Managing and cancelling. You can manage or cancel a subscription at any time in your App Store or Google Play account settings. Cancelling stops future renewals. You keep access until the end of the period you have paid for.
- Free trials. If a trial is offered, it turns into a paid subscription when it ends unless you cancel at least 24 hours before. Any unused part of a trial ends when you buy a subscription.
- Price changes. If we change the price of a subscription, the store will tell you in advance and, where required, ask you to accept the new price.
- Refunds. Refunds are handled by Apple or Google under their own policies. We cannot issue refunds for purchases made through them.
If you are a consumer in the UK or EU, you have a right to cancel online purchases of digital content within 14 days. By asking for immediate access to paid features, you agree that this right ends once access begins. This does not affect your right to a remedy if the content is faulty.
8. Changes to the Services
We regularly update our apps, and may add, change or remove features. If we remove a feature you have paid for, or stop offering an app you have an active subscription for, we will give you reasonable notice where we can and will not charge you for renewals after the feature is gone.
9. Our intellectual property
The Services, including their software, design, text, graphics and the Vantage Machines name and logo, belong to Vantage Machines Ltd or our licensors and are protected by intellectual property law. Apart from the licence in section 3, these terms do not give you any rights in them.
10. Third-party services
The Services may link to, or work with, services run by other companies, such as sign-in providers or the app stores. Those services are governed by their own terms, and we are not responsible for them.
11. Disclaimers
We work hard to keep the Services reliable and useful, but we provide them “as is” and “as available”. To the extent the law allows, we do not promise that they will always be available, uninterrupted or error-free, or that they will meet every particular need you have.
If you are a consumer, you have legal rights in relation to digital content that is faulty or not as described. Nothing in these terms affects those rights. Citizens Advice can explain them in more detail.
12. Liability
Nothing in these terms limits or excludes our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else that cannot be limited or excluded by law.
Subject to that, we are not liable for losses that were not reasonably foreseeable when you started using the Services, or for business losses such as lost profits, revenue or opportunities. Our apps are for domestic and private use.
Also subject to that, our total liability to you in connection with the Services is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim arose, or £50.
13. Suspension and termination
You can stop using the Services at any time and delete your account from inside the app.
We may suspend or close your account if you seriously or repeatedly break these terms, if we are required to by law, or if your use puts other users or the Services at risk. Where it is appropriate, we will tell you why and give you a chance to respond. Sections 6, 9, 11, 12, 16 and 17 continue to apply after this agreement ends.
14. Apps downloaded from the App Store
If you downloaded an app from the Apple App Store, the following also applies:
- This agreement is between you and Vantage Machines Ltd only, not Apple Inc. (“Apple”). We, not Apple, are solely responsible for the app and its content.
- Your licence to use the app is limited to use on Apple-branded products that you own or control, as permitted by the Usage Rules in the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions. Apps may also be accessed by other accounts in your Family Sharing group or through volume purchasing, where that is enabled.
- We alone are responsible for maintaining and supporting the app. Apple has no obligation at all to provide maintenance or support services for it.
- If the app fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price for the app, if any. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation for the app. Any other claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs or expenses caused by a failure to conform to a warranty are our responsibility, to the extent that the law and these terms make them so.
- We, not Apple, are responsible for dealing with any claims by you or a third party relating to the app or your possession or use of it, including product liability claims, claims that the app fails to meet any legal or regulatory requirement, and claims under consumer protection, privacy or similar laws.
- If a third party claims that the app or your possession and use of it infringes their intellectual property rights, we, not Apple, are solely responsible for investigating, defending, settling and discharging that claim.
- You confirm that you are not located in a country that is subject to a US Government embargo or that the US Government has designated as a “terrorist supporting” country, and that you are not on any US Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
- Questions, complaints or claims about the app should be sent to us using the contact details in section 18.
- You must comply with any applicable third-party terms, such as your mobile network or internet provider’s terms, when you use the app.
- Apple and Apple’s subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of this agreement. Once you accept these terms, Apple has the right, and is deemed to have accepted the right, to enforce them against you as a third-party beneficiary.
15. Apps downloaded from Google Play
If you downloaded an app from Google Play, your purchases are also subject to the Google Play Terms of Service. Google is not a party to this agreement and is not responsible for the app.
16. Governing law
These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have jurisdiction over any dispute. If you are a consumer who lives in Scotland, Northern Ireland or another country, you may also bring proceedings in the courts where you live, and you keep the protection of any mandatory consumer laws of that place.
17. General
- Changes to these terms. We may update these terms to reflect changes to the Services or the law. If a change is significant, we will tell you in the app or by email before it takes effect. If you do not agree with the new terms, you can stop using the Services and delete your account.
- Transfer. We may transfer this agreement to another organisation, for example if our business or an app is sold. Your rights under these terms will not be reduced as a result. You may not transfer your rights under these terms to anyone else.
- Severability. If a court finds part of these terms unenforceable, the rest stays in force.
- No waiver. If we delay in enforcing these terms, we can still enforce them later.
- Entire agreement. These terms, any additional terms shown in an app, and our Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between you and us about the Services.
18. Contact
Vantage Machines Ltd
Unit 8-14, Space Solutions Business Centre
39 Sefton Lane Industrial Estate
Liverpool L31 8BX, United Kingdom
[email protected]