Terms of use

Who we are

APRS Connect is published by AxelStack LLC. Using this website, or the app, means accepting what's below.

Amateur radio licensing is on you

APRS operates on amateur radio spectrum. Transmitting on it requires a valid amateur radio licence and compliance with the rules of the regulator wherever you are transmitting from. Every country has one, they do not agree with each other, and knowing which rules apply to you is part of holding the licence. You are solely responsible for holding it, for using a callsign you are entitled to use, for observing the band plan and the privileges that apply where you are, and for everything you transmit. The app will not check any of this for you.

Not for safety-critical use

Do not rely on APRS Connect for emergencies, navigation, or any situation where a missed or delayed message would cause harm. APRS is a best-effort, unacknowledged-by- default radio protocol on shared spectrum; messages are lost routinely and delivery is never guaranteed. Carry a real safety plan that does not involve this app.

Everything you send is public

APRS carries no encryption, and encrypting amateur radio traffic is generally prohibited. Assume every message, position, and beacon you send is permanently readable by anyone. Do not send anything you would not publish.

The app as it is

APRS Connect is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose. To the fullest extent the law allows, AxelStack LLC is not liable for any loss arising from your use of it. Young software especially: it will have bugs, and it may lose data.

Acceptable use

Don't use APRS Connect to break the law or your licence conditions, to interfere with other operators, to harass anyone, or to send unsolicited bulk traffic over the network or the third-party gateways it reaches. Gateway operators set their own rules and can block you; that's between you and them.

The subscription

APRS Connect is sold as a subscription, monthly or yearly, with a free trial where the store is offering one. Everything about the money is handled by the app store you bought it from, not by us: the store takes the payment, sets the price in your own currency, adds whatever tax applies where you are, and is the seller of record. We never see your card details.

• It renews until you stop it. A subscription renews automatically at the end of each period at the price shown when you bought it, and keeps renewing until you cancel. The app tells you the price, the period and the renewal before you buy.
• Cancelling is done in the store, not in the app. Every app store keeps its subscriptions on an account screen of its own, and that is the one place a cancellation counts — deleting the app does not cancel anything. Cancel at least a day before a renewal for it to take effect on that renewal. Cancelling stops future charges; the subscription runs to the end of the period you have already paid for.
• Refunds are the store's to give. Whichever store you bought from, its refund policy applies and asking it is the route that works. Some stores also let us look at a refund from our side, and where ours does, we will — write to us and say what happened. We are not promising an outcome, only that a message reaches a person.
• Prices can change. The store tells you before a price change affects a subscription you already have, and you can cancel rather than accept it.

Your rights as a consumer

Nothing in these terms takes away a right your own consumer law gives you. Where the two disagree, your law wins, and we are not going to argue about it. Many countries entitle a buyer of digital content to something of satisfactory quality, fit for the purpose described, with a remedy when it is not — and some give a short window in which a purchase can simply be cancelled. Whatever yours gives you, you have it, whether or not it is written here.

In particular, the section above about the app being provided "as is" applies only as far as the law where you live permits, which in a good many countries is not very far at all. If you would normally take a complaint like this to a consumer authority or an ombudsman where you live, that route is open to you.

Which law applies

Wherever these terms are governed, if you are a consumer you keep the protection of the mandatory consumer law of the country you live in, and you may bring proceedings in your own local courts. Choosing a law for the contract is not an attempt to move your dispute somewhere inconvenient, and it cannot take that protection away from you.

Trademarks

APRS^® is a registered trademark of the APRS Foundation and of Bob Bruninga, WB4APR. APRS Connect is an independent client, used descriptively, and is not affiliated with or endorsed by them or by any of the services it can reach.

Changes and contact

These terms may change; the date above will change with them. Questions: support@axelstack.com.

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