What these terms cover
These terms are an agreement between you and Atelier Advani LLC, a New York company, about Podkin for Android from Google Play and its testing builds, and the services behind it. By installing or using the app you accept them. If you don’t accept them, please don’t use the app.
On iPhone, Podkin is licensed under Apple’s standard license, and these terms don’t change it.
The Podkin Privacy Policy explains what the app sends and keeps, and is part of how the service works. Google Play’s own terms apply to your Google account and to anything you buy through it.
Who can use Podkin
You must be at least 13 to use Podkin. If you are under the age of majority where you live, a parent or guardian must agree to these terms for you and is responsible for any purchase.
Your license
We give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the app on devices you control, for your own non-commercial listening. We keep all other rights in the app, its name, its face and its design. Open-source parts of the app are under their own licenses, listed in the app’s credits.
Podcasts and other people’s content
Podkin is a player. Shows and episodes belong to their publishers and come from the feeds and hosts you choose; we don’t make them, check them or control them, and they can contain anything their publishers put in them, including their own ads. Your rights to listen to a show are between you and its publisher.
If you own a show and want something changed, or think something Podkin shows infringes your rights, write to support@atelieradvani.com with the show, the episode and what you own.
AI features
Asking, Thoughts, topics, transcripts, speaker names, ad detection and sketches are made by automated systems, some run by the AI providers named in the privacy policy. They are available only if you allow them in the app.
AI can be wrong. An answer, a transcript, a name, a marked ad or a sketch may be inaccurate, incomplete or out of date, and may not reflect what a show said. Don’t rely on them for medical, legal, financial or safety decisions, and check anything that matters. They aren’t the views of the show, its publisher or Atelier Advani.
You can report anything Podkin says with a long press on it. We may change, move between providers, limit or stop any AI feature.
Plans and purchases
Listening is free. Asking is measured in Ask minutes. Ten free Ask minutes come with the app, once for each device. Podkin Plus is a monthly subscription with Ask minutes each month, and you can buy extra minutes on top. The price, the number of minutes and your local taxes are shown before you buy.
Renewal. Plus renews automatically every month and Google Play charges your Google account until you cancel. Cancel in Google Play → Payments and subscriptions → Subscriptions, at least a day before the period ends. Cancelling stops the next renewal; your plan runs to the end of the period you paid for. If a price changes, Google Play tells you first as its rules require.
Minutes. A month’s subscription minutes don’t carry over to the next month. Extra minutes don’t expire while Podkin’s service runs. Minutes have no cash value and can’t be transferred or sold. A conversation is counted by how long it lasts, and our server’s count is the one that applies.
Refunds. Google Play handles every payment and refund, under its refund policies. When a purchase is refunded or reversed, the minutes it bought are taken back. Nothing here limits a refund your local law gives you.
Limits. Fair daily limits apply to protect the service for everyone, and a conversation may be refused while they are reached.
Using Podkin properly
Please don’t:
- break the law or anyone’s rights with the app, or use it to copy or redistribute shows;
- get round the Ask minutes, limits, purchase checks or free-minute rules;
- reverse engineer the app or its services, except where the law allows it, or attack or overload them;
- use the app or its output to build or train a competing product or AI model, or scrape its services;
- use the AI features to make anything unlawful, harmful or abusive.
Don’t use the app in a way that takes your attention from driving or anything else that needs it.
What you send us
What you ask and report stays yours. You give us permission to process it, and to pass it to our service providers, only to run, protect and improve Podkin, as the privacy policy describes. If you send feedback, we may use it without owing you anything.
Changes and ending
Podkin changes as it grows: features may be added, changed or removed, and the service may be interrupted or closed. If we close it for good, we will give notice in the app where we reasonably can.
You can stop at any time by deleting the app; a running subscription must be cancelled in Google Play as well. We may suspend or end your access if you break these terms or to protect the service or others. The parts of these terms that by their nature should last, such as those below, continue afterwards.
We will update these terms and their effective date when they change, and explain material changes in the app or its release information. Continuing to use Podkin after that means you accept them.
No warranty
To the extent the law allows, Podkin is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy and non-infringement. We don’t promise it will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that any show, transcript or feature will be available.
Limit of liability
To the extent the law allows, Atelier Advani LLC isn’t liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, data or goodwill. Our total liability for anything to do with Podkin is limited to the greater of what you paid us through Google Play in the twelve months before the claim and US$50.
Some places don’t allow these limits. Nothing in these terms limits a right or remedy that your local consumer law says can’t be limited, or our liability for anything that can’t lawfully be excluded.
Law and disputes
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of New York, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules, and disputes belong in the state and federal courts in New York. If you are a consumer living elsewhere, you keep the mandatory protections of the law where you live and may be able to bring a claim in your local courts. Please write to us first: most things can be settled that way.
If part of these terms can’t be enforced, the rest still applies. Not enforcing a term isn’t a waiver of it. You may not transfer these terms; we may transfer them with the business.
Contact
Atelier Advani LLC, 418 Broadway, Ste N, Albany, NY 12207, United States. support@atelieradvani.com.