Terms of use

These terms are an agreement between you and Cenk Gören, trading as Avarta in Türkiye. Avarta is not incorporated, so you are contracting with a person rather than a company. Using the app or this website means you accept them.

Your account

You need an account to use Avarta, you must be at least 16, and the email address you register has to be one you control — an account is not usable until the code we send has been entered. One account each, for your own use; do not share it or your subscription. Keep your credentials to yourself, tell us promptly if you think someone else has got into your account, and understand that what happens under it is your responsibility.

The gigs you log should be gigs you actually played. A career record that is not true is worth nothing to the person reading it, and inventing one is grounds for us to close the account.

Your content stays yours

Everything you log — sessions, gigs, bookings, photos, notes, riders — belongs to you. You confirm that it is yours to post, or that you have the right to post it, and that posting it infringes nobody else’s rights.

To run the service we need your permission to use it, and that permission is deliberately narrow: a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to store your content, sync it between your devices, and display it back to you and to the people you deliberately share it with. That is all. We do not claim ownership, we do not license it onward, and we do not use your name, photo or activity in advertising. The licence ends when the content is deleted.

What you post

Do not use Avarta to:

• post anything unlawful, abusive, hateful or harassing;
• impersonate another DJ, or misrepresent a set you did not play;
• post someone else’s photo or recording without their permission;
• scrape, crawl or collect data from the service by automated means, or reach it by anything other than the app itself;
• reverse engineer, decompile or try to extract source code, except where the law says you may;
• probe, load-test or interfere with the service or anyone else’s use of it;
• resell access, or charge anyone for any part of it.

We may remove content that breaks this and suspend or close accounts that do, and we will say why when we do. The Community Guidelines explain reporting, blocking, moderation actions and appeals.

If you think someone has used your work

If a photo, recording or other material on Avarta infringes your copyright, write to support@avarta.app with enough detail to identify the work and where it appears, plus a statement that you believe the use is unauthorised and that your claim is accurate. We will review it and remove anything that should not be there. Tell us too if you think we removed something in error.

Your feedback

If you send us a suggestion for the product, we may act on it and build it, with no obligation and no payment. That is the only sensible way to handle feature requests, but it is worth being explicit about — do not send us anything you need to keep ownership of.

Subscriptions and billing

• Avarta Pro is sold through the App Store and billed to your Apple ID. Prices are listed in USD and converted by Apple to your storefront.
• A subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends. A free trial converts on the same terms.
• Manage or cancel in your App Store account settings. Deleting the app does not cancel a subscription.
• Refunds are handled by Apple under its own policy, not by us. We can help you ask, but we cannot issue one. Consumer law where you live may give you a cancellation right on top of that.
• We may change prices or the shape of the free tier. Changes take effect on your next billing period, and we will tell you in advance.

Free accounts can log 2 completed gigs and make 2 bookings per calendar month. Those two allowances are counted separately and do not draw from one another.

When Pro ends, your data does not go anywhere. Your gigs, bookings and fees stay exactly as they are; the money features become read-only and the monthly allowances apply again to new entries. Nothing is deleted for cancelling.

Other people’s services

Signing in with Apple or Google, syncing to your calendar, reading heart rate from Apple Health, turning on Track ID through Apple Shazam, sharing a card to another app, or attaching a Mixcloud or SoundCloud link all involve companies that are not us. Their terms and privacy policies govern their part, we do not control them, and we are not responsible for them. Calendar sync uses a dedicated read/write calendar and requires both permission and Pro; turning it off or losing Pro stops future writes but leaves existing events until you remove them or sign out/delete the account.

What the app is not

Avarta measures the relative sound level of a room, not a calibrated sound-pressure level, and its heart-rate display is a record of an Apple Watch reading. Neither is a medical, occupational-safety or hearing-protection instrument, and neither should be relied on as one. If you are worried about your hearing or your heart, talk to a doctor rather than to an app. Avarta is not an accountant either: what it records about fees and expenses is a record you keep, not tax or legal advice.

Our intellectual property

The Avarta name, the app, the website and everything in them other than your content belong to us. You get a limited, personal, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the app. Nothing here transfers ownership of anything.

Availability, and changes to the service

We aim to keep the service running and your data intact, but we do not promise uninterrupted availability. Avarta is local-first, so the app keeps working without a connection and syncs when one returns. We may add, change or withdraw features; where a change materially reduces what you are paying for, we will tell you before it takes effect.

The service is provided as it is. We do not warrant that it will be uninterrupted, error-free or fit for a particular purpose, to the extent the law allows us to say so.

Ending it

You can delete your account at any time from inside the app. It takes effect at once — the account stops being visible, every session ends, the local app data is cleared and linked Avarta calendar events are removed from that device — and it becomes permanent 7 days later, during which signing in again lets you restore it in one tap. Deleting does not cancel an Avarta Pro subscription; Apple bills that and only you can cancel it. We can suspend or close an account that breaks these terms, that we are required to act on by law, or that has been dormant for a very long time. If we close yours without cause we will tell you first and give you a chance to export. The sections on content, intellectual property, feedback, liability and governing law survive the end of your account.

Liability

To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, for lost profit or lost data, or for anything arising from your use of a third party’s service. Our total liability to you is limited to what you paid us in the twelve months before the claim. Nothing here limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited — and if you are a consumer, your statutory rights are unaffected by any of this.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of Türkiye, and disputes will be heard in the courts and enforcement offices of Istanbul (Çağlayan), Türkiye. If you are a consumer, this does not remove your right to bring a claim where you live or to rely on the consumer protections of that place. Before anyone goes to court, write to us — most things are faster to fix that way.

The rest

These terms, together with the privacy policy and the cookie policy and Community Guidelines, are the whole agreement between us. If a court finds part of them unenforceable, the rest still stands. Our not enforcing something is not a waiver of it. You may not transfer your account or your rights under these terms; we may transfer ours if the product changes hands, and will tell you if that happens. Nothing here makes us partners, employer and employee, or agents of one another. Notice by email to the address on your account counts as notice.

Changes

We may update these terms. Material changes will be announced in the app before they take effect, and continuing to use Avarta afterwards means you accept them. If you do not, delete your account.

Contact

Cenk Gören — support@avarta.app