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Terms of use

These terms govern the use of Aufera. They are written to be understood: if anything is unclear, write to us before accepting them.

1. Who we are

Aufera is a project by P. Pons, provided as a professional activity. You can write to us at info@aufera.com and we reply. The owner's full details are at the end.

2. What this is

Aufera plays instrumental music that accompanies what you are reading, at the pace you read.

It is not a regular e-book reader or a shop: we don't sell you books or give them to you. You bring your own.

3. Your account

• You must be 14 or older. Under that age, with the permission of a parent or guardian.
• The details you give must be accurate, especially the email: it is how access is recovered.
• You can create your account with your email and a password, or sign in with your Google account (and, on iPhone, with your Apple account). If you sign in with Google or Apple, they handle the password, not us.
• If you use a password, it is your responsibility. If you think someone has it, change it.
• You can delete your account whenever you like from Settings, with no explanation and no paperwork. Bear in mind that any soundtracks you bought and haven't used are lost with it.

4. The books you add

By adding a book you declare that you acquired it legally, or that it is in the public domain, or that you have permission from whoever holds the rights.

The text stays on your device. It only reaches our servers if you tap "Request soundtrack", and in that case it is deleted as soon as the analysis finishes. The details are in the privacy policy.

If a rights holder tells us that some content infringes their rights, we will remove it. You can write to us at info@aufera.com.

5. The music

The music is ours or used under licence. By using Aufera you are allowed to listen to it inside the app, while you read, and nothing else.

Specifically, you may not download it, extract it, redistribute it, use it in videos, live streams, podcasts or any other content, or resell it.

6. The emotional analysis

The analysis is produced by an artificial-intelligence model. It is an interpretation, not a truth: it can get the tone of a scene wrong, and sometimes it will.

Analyses produced from requests are made available to other users reading that same edition. By requesting one, you accept that — it is what avoids doing the same work a thousand times over.

7. Reasonable use

You may not:

• Try to access other users' data or non-public parts of the system.
• Bulk-extract the catalogue, the music or the analyses, with bots or by hand.
• Use the service for anything illegal, or upload content that is.
• Resell access or share your account with lots of people.

If you do any of this we may suspend the account. If it is serious, without notice.

8. Availability

Aufera is provided as is. We work hard to keep it running, but we don't guarantee that it will always be available, that it will be free of bugs, or that the music will always match what you read.

There may be outages for maintenance, because of failures at our providers, or for reasons beyond our control.

9. Liability

We are not liable for indirect damages, for the loss of data that exists only on your device, or for your use of books you don't hold the rights to.

None of this limits your rights as a consumer if you act outside your professional activity. The rights the law grants you cannot be excluded by contract, and we don't intend to.

10. Price and purchases

Reading is free, and so are the catalogue books that already have their soundtrack. What you pay for is composing the soundtrack of a book of yours that doesn't have one yet.

• How you pay. With soundtrack packs (of 1, 3 or 5 books) bought inside the app. The price of each pack is shown before you pay, taxes included. Each soundtrack you request uses one.
• Who takes the payment. The store you got the app from (Google Play or the App Store) handles the payment, with its own system and conditions, and it sends you the receipt. We never see your card details.
• The first one is free. The first soundtrack for a book of yours is free, once per phone: if it was already used on that phone with another account, there isn't another. To know this we keep a fingerprint of the phone, explained in the privacy policy.
• They don't expire. The soundtracks you buy don't expire while you have your account. They are tied to it: they can't be passed to someone else or exchanged for money.
• If it doesn't work out. If we can't compose a soundtrack you requested, the one you used comes back to your account automatically.
• If someone already requested it. If the book already has its soundtrack (because someone requested that same edition), you get it without using anything.
• Withdrawal. As a consumer you have 14 days from purchase to withdraw from a pack you haven't started to use. Ask the store where you paid for the refund, or write to us. When you request a soundtrack, you ask us to start composing it at that moment and you accept that, from then on, you can no longer withdraw from that soundtrack, because the supply of the digital content has begun.
• Store refunds. If the store refunds a purchase, the soundtracks from that pack are removed from your account; if you had already used them, your balance may go negative until your next purchase.
• Price changes. We may change pack prices for future purchases. What you have already bought doesn't change.

11. Changes and shutdown

We may change these terms. If the change matters, we will tell you inside the app before it takes effect, and you can leave if you don't like it.

If we ever close the service, we will give at least 30 days' notice so you can download your data and use the soundtracks you have left. Any you don't get to use, we will refund on request for what you paid for them.

12. Governing law

Spanish law applies. If you are a consumer, you can bring a claim before the courts of your place of residence or go to the consumer authorities where you live.

Owner: Pau Pons Fernandez · Tax ID (NIF) 43216705G · Camí Can Coler, 8, 07015 Palma (Balearic Islands, Spain) · info@aufera.com