Terms of Use — Tairu Maps

Version 1.0 · Effective as of the date of publication

Service contracting party: Daniel H. Saint Martin — CPF (Brazilian individual taxpayer number) 001.627.811-99
Contact: danielhsmartin@gmail.com

1. These Terms

These Terms govern the use of the Tairu Maps application, the tairumaps.com website and the Tairu DB plugin for QGIS (together, the "Service"). By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to them.

If you use the Service on behalf of an organization, you represent that you have authority to bind it, and "you" then also means that organization.

The processing of personal data is governed by the Privacy Policy, which is part of these Terms and is available at tairumaps.com/privacy.html.

You must be 18 or older to use the Service.

2. What Tairu Maps is

A tool for collaborative mapping and geospatial data collection in the field: creating expeditions, recording points, lines and polygons, georeferenced photographs, tracking of routes travelled, offline base maps, communication among members and integration with QGIS.

2.1 What Tairu Maps is not — read this before relying on it

The Service is not a life-safety, emergency or incident-response system.

It depends on GPS, on battery, on the operating system and — in its cloud features — on connectivity and on third-party services. Any of these may fail, be delayed or provide inaccurate data, without warning.

Do not use Tairu Maps as the only means of locating people, coordinating rescue, ensuring the safety of teams or making decisions on which someone's physical integrity depends. Always keep independent means of communication and navigation.

Coordinate accuracy is whatever the device reports, and it varies with the device, the environment and sky conditions. Third-party base maps and layers may be outdated or incorrect. Route calculation is an estimate, not a guarantee that the path exists, is passable or is safe.

3. Your account

You are responsible for the truthfulness of your registration data and for safeguarding your password.
You are answerable for everything that happens in your account. If you suspect unauthorized access, notify us immediately.
One mobile device per account. When you sign in on a new mobile device, the previous session is terminated. The web version allows simultaneous sessions. The account is personal and non-transferable: do not share it.
You may delete your account at any time, at tairumaps.com/delete-account or through the application settings. Deletion is permanent — export beforehand whatever you want to keep.

4. Plans, free trial and payment

4.1 Plans

Plan	What it includes
Offline	Full and permanent local use, at no cost: expeditions, records, photographs, tracking, offline base maps, file import and export. No cloud sync, no chat and no team position.
Online	Everything in Offline, plus cloud sync, sharing among members and chat. Position updates every 5 minutes.
Realtime	Everything in Online, with position updates in real time.

4.2 Free trial

New accounts receive 7 days on the Realtime plan. When that period ends, they automatically move to 7 days on the Online plan and then to the Offline plan, which is free and permanent. No charge occurs in this transition and there is nothing to cancel.

4.3 Billing

Subscriptions are purchased from and billed by the App Store (Apple) or by Google Play, according to the store the application came from. Price, currency, taxes, payment method, receipt issuance and refund processing follow those stores' rules.

Subscriptions renew automatically. They renew for the same period, at the then-current price, until you cancel. Cancellation is done in the subscription settings of your account at the store — we cannot cancel it for you — and must be done at least 24 hours before the end of the period, as required by the stores' rules.

Cancelling stops future renewals. The plan you purchased remains active until the end of the period already paid for.

4.4 Right of withdrawal and refund

Under Article 49 of the Consumer Protection Code (CDC), you may withdraw from the purchase within 7 days from the date of purchase. Because billing is handled by the store, the request must be addressed to Apple or Google, which operate the respective refund flows. If you have difficulty, write to us and we will help to the extent we can.

4.5 Price changes

We may change prices. Changes do not affect periods already paid for and will be communicated with reasonable advance notice, through the store's channels and in the application. Continuing to subscribe after the new price takes effect means you agree with it; if you do not agree, cancel before renewal.

5. What happens when the plan changes or expires

This follows from the product's design and you need to know it before subscribing:

Your data is not deleted when the plan drops to Offline. It stays on your device and remains accessible.
Synced expeditions are paused for the other members. When the plan of an expedition's owner becomes Offline, the other members lose access to it until the plan is restored. The owner keeps their own access.
Cloud features stop: sync, chat and team position stop operating while the plan is Offline.
Tracking keeps working, recording locally on the device.

If you are a member of someone else's expedition, access to it depends on the plan of that expedition's owner, not on yours.

6. Your content

6.1 The content is yours

Records, geometries, photographs, routes travelled, imported files and other data you produce in the Service are yours. We do not claim ownership of them and we do not use them for advertising or to train artificial intelligence models.

You grant us only the license strictly necessary to operate the Service at your request: to store, transmit, sync and display that content to you and to the members you authorize. This license ends when the content is deleted.

6.2 You decide what goes to the cloud

Each expedition has a "Sync to the cloud" switch. With it off, the content stays exclusively on your device. With it on, the content is stored in our infrastructure and shared with the expedition's members, according to each one's role.

6.3 You are responsible for what you enter

You represent that you have the right to use the content you enter and to share it with the members you admit. When you enter personal data of third parties — people involved, contacts, photographs of individuals — you are the controller of that data and are answerable for the legal basis of the processing, under the LGPD (Brazil's General Data Protection Law). See section 2 of the Privacy Policy.

6.4 Portability

You may export your content at any time, without making a request and at no cost: full backup in JSON, and export in the .tairudb, KML, GPX and GeoPackage formats.

6.5 Content in other people's expeditions

Records you create inside another person's expedition remain under the control of that expedition's owner. Deleting your account does not remove them from there.

7. Acceptable use

You may not use the Service to:

Violate the law, third-party rights or these Terms.
Monitor or track people without their knowledge and authorization, or without another legal basis allowing it.
Enter unlawful, defamatory or discriminatory content, or content that infringes intellectual property or image rights.
Attempt to gain unauthorized access to accounts, data or infrastructure; circumvent plan limits, access controls or the application's integrity checks.
Automate access in a way that degrades the Service, or impose a load incompatible with normal use.
Redistribute third-party base maps or layers in breach of the provider's license (see section 8).
Resell, sublicense or offer the Service to third parties as if it were your own.

8. Third-party content and services

The Service allows you to consume base maps, WMS/WFS layers and satellite imagery provided by third parties — among them Google, Esri, Microsoft, MapTiler, EOX, OpenFreeMap and OpenStreetMap — as well as servers you configure yourself.

This content is the responsibility of whoever provides it, subject to each provider's terms and licenses, and you must comply with them. Some prohibit bulk downloading, offline use or redistribution.
We do not guarantee the accuracy, currency, availability or suitability of this content for any purpose.
Providers may change conditions or prices, or discontinue services, which may make a layer unavailable in Tairu Maps without this constituting a defect in the Service.
Credentials for third-party services that you configure are your responsibility.

9. Application, plugin and updates

We grant you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable and revocable license to install and use the application and the Tairu DB plugin for QGIS, under the terms of this document. The software is licensed, not sold.

You may not decompile, reverse engineer or derive the source code, except to the extent the law expressly permits it.

We may release updates that change, add or remove features. Older versions may stop working with the cloud services. We recommend keeping the application up to date.

10. Intellectual property

Tairu Maps, its brand, visual identity, code, documentation and educational materials are owned by the contracting party identified in the header, protected by copyright and industrial property law. Nothing in these Terms transfers those rights to you.

11. Availability and support

We make our best effort to keep the Service available, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free operation. There may be unavailability due to maintenance, third-party failure, fortuitous event or force majeure.

The offline features were designed precisely to reduce dependence on connectivity: tracking, records and offline base maps keep operating without a network.

Support is provided at danielhsmartin@gmail.com, in Portuguese, on a best-efforts basis. There is no contracted response time, unless specifically agreed in writing.

12. Warranties and liability

The Service is provided as is. We do not warrant that it will meet your specific purpose, that results will be exact, or that operation will be uninterrupted.

We are not liable for:

decisions made on the basis of data, coordinates, routes or maps obtained in the Service;
inaccuracy of GPS, of base maps or of third-party layers;
loss of data you have not exported, when arising from the loss, damage, formatting or replacement of your device;
unavailability of third-party services;
use of the Service in breach of these Terms.

To the extent permitted by law, our total liability for any claim relating to the Service is limited to the amount actually paid by you in the 12 months preceding the event. We are not liable for lost profits or indirect damages.

Nothing in this section removes the rights the Consumer Protection Code assures you, nor excludes liability for willful misconduct or gross negligence. Where the law does not allow the limitation above, it does not apply.

13. Suspension and termination

We may suspend or terminate your access, with prior notice whenever possible, if you breach these Terms, if there is use that compromises the security or integrity of the Service, or by legal requirement. In the event of a serious breach or imminent risk, suspension may be immediate.

You may end the relationship at any time, by cancelling the subscription and deleting the account.

We may discontinue the Service, in whole or in part, upon prior notice of at least 60 days, during which data export will remain available. Subscriptions in progress and not enjoyed will be refunded proportionally.

14. Changes to these Terms

We may change these Terms. Material changes will be communicated in the application and by e-mail, with reasonable advance notice before they take effect. Continued use after they take effect means you agree. If you do not agree, you may cancel the subscription and close the account.

15. General provisions

Governing law: Brazilian law.
Venue: for consumer relations, the venue of the consumer's domicile has jurisdiction, as provided in Article 101, I, of the Consumer Protection Code. For all other relations, the venue of the judicial district of the domicile of the contracting party identified in the header is elected.
Severability: the invalidity of one clause does not affect the others.
Forbearance: failing to require compliance with a provision does not mean waiving it.
Assignment: you may not assign these Terms without our consent. We may assign them in the event of corporate reorganization or transfer of the Service, upon notice.
Languages: these Terms are published in Portuguese, English and Spanish. The translations exist to make reading easier; in the event of divergence, the Portuguese version prevails.

16. Contact

Daniel H. Saint Martin — CPF 001.627.811-99 E-mail: danielhsmartin@gmail.com

Annex A — Terms required by Apple

Applicable to those who obtained the application from the App Store. In the event of conflict with the body of these Terms, this Annex prevails as regards the iOS application.

Parties. These Terms are entered into between you and the contracting party identified in the header, and not with Apple. Apple is not a party to this contract and is not responsible for the application or its content.
License. The license granted is non-transferable and limited to use of the application on Apple devices that you own or control, in accordance with the Usage Rules of the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions.
Maintenance and support. Responsibility for maintenance and support is exclusively ours. Apple has no obligation whatsoever to provide support relating to the application.
Warranty. If the application fails to conform to the applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, which will refund the purchase price, if any. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple will have no other warranty obligation; any claim arising from failure to conform to a warranty is our responsibility.
Product claims. We are responsible for claims relating to the application, including civil liability, compliance with legal and regulatory requirements and consumer protection.
Intellectual property. Any allegation that the application infringes a third party's intellectual property right is our sole responsibility to defend and resolve.
Legal compliance. You represent that you are not located in a country under embargo by the United States government or designated as a "terrorist supporting" country, and that you are not on any list of prohibited or restricted parties.
Contact. Questions and complaints must be addressed to danielhsmartin@gmail.com.
Third-party services. When using third-party services through the application, you must comply with the terms applicable to them.
Third-party beneficiary. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and will have the right to enforce them against you.