Terms of Service

Safety — please read this

Parlawalk is a self-guided audio walking-tour app. You are responsible for your own safety at all times. The Service plays audio and suggests walking routes, but it is an aid to exploring on foot — not a substitute for your own judgement and awareness.

• Stay aware of your surroundings. Watch for traffic, other people, and hazards; do not walk while looking at your phone. Stop in a safe place before interacting with the app.
• Obey all traffic signals, laws, signs, and local rules. Routes are suggestions generated automatically and may be inaccurate, incomplete, blocked, closed, unsafe, or cross private property. Do not follow a route into danger or anywhere you are not permitted to be.
• Use your own judgement about weather, terrain, your physical condition, and the area you are visiting. Do not rely on the Service in an emergency.
• Points of interest, opening hours, descriptions, and historical or factual content are provided for general information and entertainment and may be out of date or inaccurate. Spoken pronunciation, especially of Catalan names, may not always be exact.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, you assume all risks arising from walking, travel, and your use of the Service, and we are not responsible for any injury, loss, or damage resulting from your reliance on routes, audio, or other content.

Who may use the Service

The Service is not intended for anyone under 18. By using it, you confirm you are at least 18 years old and able to enter into these Terms. No account is required to use the app.

Licence to use the Service

Subject to these Terms, we grant you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the Service for your own personal, non-commercial use. We may add, change, suspend, or discontinue any part of the Service at any time.

Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• use the Service for any unlawful purpose or in breach of any applicable law;
• copy, distribute, publicly perform, resell, or create derivative works from our audio, text, routes, or other content, except as expressly allowed by these Terms;
• reverse engineer, decompile, scrape, or attempt to extract our source code, content packs, or data, except to the extent this restriction is prohibited by law;
• interfere with, overload, or attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Service, our servers, or our providers' systems; or
• remove or obscure any proprietary notices in the Service.

Automated access, scraping, and data mining

Access to the Service — including our API, content packs, audio, transcripts, images, and route data — is licensed to you solely for personal use through the official Parlawalk app and website. In addition to the restrictions in "Acceptable use" above, you agree not to:

• access, query, or retrieve content from the Service by any automated means — including bots, crawlers, spiders, scrapers, or scripts — or through any interface other than the official app and website as provided to you;
• systematically or in bulk download, copy, index, cache, mirror, or store our content, or build or populate any database, dataset, or product from it;
• circumvent, disable, or interfere with any rate limit, access control, authentication, or other technical measure we use to protect the Service; or
• use our content, in whole or in part, to train, fine-tune, ground, or otherwise develop any machine-learning or artificial-intelligence model or dataset.

We expressly reserve all rights in our content, including the right to prevent text and data mining under Article 4 of Directive (EU) 2019/790. These reservations apply regardless of any technical signals, and any breach of this section immediately terminates your licence to use the Service.

Intellectual property

The Service and its content — including the Parlawalk name and branding, the app software, audio narration, written descriptions, route logic, and design — are owned by us or our licensors and are protected by intellectual-property laws. Except for the licence above, these Terms do not grant you any rights in the Service or its content. Map data and tiles are provided by third parties (see below) under their own licences. The "Fraunces" typeface is used under the SIL Open Font License.

Third-party services

The Service relies on third-party providers, including Mapbox (route geometry), OpenFreeMap (map tiles), DigitalOcean (backend hosting), and Supabase (database and storage), and is distributed through app stores such as Google Play. Your use of those services may be subject to their own terms, and we are not responsible for third-party services or content. Map and location data may be inaccurate or incomplete.

Price

The Service is currently provided free of charge. If we introduce paid features in the future, we will present the applicable price and purchase terms before you buy.

Disclaimer of warranties

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, or non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, or that routes, locations, audio, or other content will be accurate, current, complete, or safe.

Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, data, goodwill, or for any personal injury or property damage, arising out of or relating to your use of (or inability to use) the Service, your reliance on routes or content, or your conduct while using the Service. Where liability cannot be excluded, our total aggregate liability to you for all claims relating to the Service is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us for the Service in the 12 months before the claim, or EUR 50.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law — including liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud, or your non-waivable statutory consumer rights. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain exclusions, so some of the above may not apply to you.

Indemnity

To the extent permitted by law, you agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from claims, losses, and expenses arising from your misuse of the Service or your breach of these Terms.

Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. When we do, we will revise the "Last updated" date above, and the updated Terms take effect when posted. Your continued use of the Service after a change means you accept the updated Terms.

Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of Spain, and the courts of Spain have non-exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute, without affecting any mandatory consumer-protection rights you have in your country of residence.

Contact

Questions about these Terms? Email [email protected].