Terms of use
These cover using the app. What you may do with it, what we owe you, and the one thing about astrological software that has to be said plainly.
1. Who these are with
Andrew Foss, trading as Vedic Software, at PO Box 91, Earlysville, VA 22936, United States, Virginia, United States. Contact support@shrijyotistar.com.
They apply when you install or use the Shri Jyoti Star app, on any device it runs on. If you do not accept them, do not use the app.
2. What the app is
Software that computes astrological charts. It holds an ephemeris, a calculation engine and an atlas of places, and it draws charts, tables and graphs from them. It is a calculating instrument, and the reading is yours.
3. Your licence
We give you a personal, non-exclusive licence to use the app on the devices you own or control, for as long as these terms are kept. The software is licensed, not sold; we and our suppliers keep everything we own in it.
You may use it in your professional practice. Casting charts for clients, charging for readings, teaching from it and publishing charts drawn with it are all normal use and need no separate permission. The app is built for practitioners, and a licence that forbade practising with it would be absurd.
What you may not do:
- Copy, resell, sublicense or redistribute the app itself
- Extract the ephemeris, the atlas or the calculation engine, or use them in other software
- Reverse-engineer or decompile it, except where the law says you may despite this
- Work around the licensing, or use it under an account that is not yours
4. Your account
An account is one person’s. Keep your password to yourself; what happens under your account is your responsibility. Tell us at support@shrijyotistar.com if you think someone else has got into it.
You can close your account at any time. There is no export inside the app yet, so ask us at support@shrijyotistar.com for a copy of your data and we will send it. What we delete and what we have to keep is in the privacy policy.
5. Your work stays yours
The entries, pages, notes and layouts you create are yours. We claim no ownership of them and no licence over them beyond storing and syncing them so they reach your other devices. We do not read them, mine them, or use them to train anything.
Charts are computed on your device. Nothing is sent anywhere to produce one — see the privacy policy, section 1.
6. The records you keep about other people
Most of a practitioner’s library is other people — clients, family, people being studied. Those are your records. You decide what goes in and what happens to it, and we act on your instructions when we store and sync it.
That makes it your responsibility to have a proper reason for holding them, to tell those people what you hold if the law where you practise requires it, and to answer them if they ask. We will support you in that — deleting an entry deletes it on the server, and we will sign a data processing agreement if your practice needs one. What we cannot do is be the person who decided to record them.
7. Subscriptions
After launch, subscriptions are bought through the App Store or Google Play. Apple and Google take the payment under their own terms, and refunds are requested through them. You cancel in your App Store or Google Play subscription settings.
When a subscription lapses your data is not deleted. It stays in your account and on your devices.
8. Charts are not advice
The app computes positions and periods. It does not tell you what they mean, and neither do we. Nothing it produces is medical, legal, financial or psychological advice, and it must not be used as a substitute for a professional in any of those fields.
Decisions taken on the basis of a chart — yours or your client’s — are the decision of the person who took them. We are not responsible for them.
9. Availability
Charts are computed on your device, so they do not need a network. The app keeps working offline for up to 30 days; after that it has to reach our server once to confirm the account is still yours, and any connection resets that period. Sync, sign-in and account recovery need a network and depend on services we do not run, so we cannot promise they are never interrupted. We do not promise any particular feature will exist in a future version, and we may change or remove things as the app develops.
10. Other people’s software inside ours
The app includes third-party components, each under its own licence, including the Swiss Ephemeris for planetary positions. Those licences continue to apply to those components and nothing here overrides them.
11. What we are liable for
We are responsible for the app doing what these terms say it does. We are not responsible for indirect or consequential loss, for lost profits, or for the consequences of a reading. Where liability can be limited, it is limited to what you have paid us in the twelve months before the claim.
Nothing here limits what cannot be limited by law, including your statutory rights as a consumer, or liability for death, personal injury or fraud.
12. Ending it
You can stop using the app and close your account whenever you like. We may suspend or end your licence if these terms are seriously or repeatedly broken — and if we do, we will say why, and you keep the right to get your data out.
13. Changes
If we change these terms materially we will say so in the app or by email before the change applies. Continuing to use the app after that is acceptance; if you would rather not, close the account.
14. Law
Governed by the law of Virginia, United States. If you are a consumer in the European Union or the United Kingdom, that choice does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory rules of your own country, and you keep the right to bring proceedings in the courts where you live.
We are not committed to, and do not participate in, any alternative dispute resolution scheme.
15. Contact
support@shrijyotistar.com · Andrew Foss, PO Box 91, Earlysville, VA 22936, United States.