Spatia terms of service

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These terms govern your use of Spatia’s app, website and related services. The agreement is between you and Spatia LLC, at Operator postal address. Contact us at contact@hotspothub.xyz about these terms, privacy requests, safety and unauthorized-network reports.

1. Agreement and eligibility

These terms form an agreement when you affirmatively accept them in the app or web app. We ask for acceptance before you contribute, share or sign in. A link to these terms alone does not establish your agreement. If you do not agree, do not use features that require acceptance. These terms do not replace rights you have under applicable law.

You must be at least 18, have reached the age of legal majority where you live and be legally able to enter this agreement. Parental permission does not make a person below that age eligible for this release. If you act for an organization, you must have authority to bind it. You must not use the service where doing so is prohibited by applicable law.

Our privacy policy explains our handling of personal information. Acceptance of these terms is not blanket consent to optional analytics, sensitive-information processing or international transfers.

2. What Spatia provides

Spatia is a directory and sharing service for WiFi information. It presents listings, shared credentials, confirmations, estimated walking routes and connection measurements. It does not operate the listed networks, provide internet access or authorize you to enter a property or use a network.

Listings come from contributors and third-party directories, which may be named on a listing. A listing, “open” status, working-password confirmation, score or Premium label does not establish the network operator’s permission, security, availability or endorsement. Verify permission with the operator when needed. Passwords and details may be wrong or out of date.

Trust signals describe past reports, not a guarantee that access will work. Speed measurements depend on the device, its connection and our server, and do not verify that the measured connection is the selected network. Routes can be estimates or contain errors. Follow signs, access restrictions and local conditions. Do not rely on Spatia for emergencies or safety-critical navigation.

Features differ by platform and release. We may update or discontinue features for security, legal or operational reasons, subject to mandatory consumer rights and any commitments made when you obtain a paid service.

Spatia is available only in countries and territories where we offer the service. A translated policy or the ability to download a build does not itself establish availability of every feature. Any required local supplement forms part of these terms and controls where local law requires a different result. We do not ask you to waive local protections to use a feature.

3. Accounts and device access

Some features work without a signed-in account but use a persistent device contributor identity. Account features require accurate information and an available sign-in method. Protect access to your device, account and invitations. Notify us of suspected unauthorized access. You are responsible for activity you authorize, not automatically for activity outside your control.

Signing out unlinks that device from the account. It does not delete the account, contributions, confirmations, cached credentials or information held by recipients. Account deletion instructions Privacy requests and deletion are handled under our privacy policy and applicable law.

Do not impersonate another person, misrepresent authority over a network or use multiple identities to manipulate confirmations, scores or service restrictions.

4. Permission to contribute and connect

Share a network or password only if its owner or authorized operator permits sharing with the audience you select. Permission to connect, a password on a receipt or permission from an employee to use WiFi does not by itself authorize public distribution. Choose “Everyone” only when public distribution is authorized.

Do not submit:

• Stolen, leaked, guessed or cracked credentials, or credentials acquired by deception or unauthorized access.
• Router-administration passwords, personal account passwords, one-time codes, payment credentials, enterprise credentials or credentials that identify an individual user.
• A home, workplace or other restricted network unless its authorized operator has specifically permitted that listing and audience.
• Information that discloses someone else’s home, identity, health care or other sensitive activity without an appropriate legal basis and authorization.

Your contributions and confirmations must reflect what you reasonably believe to be accurate. Do not mark a password as working if you have not tested it, or contribute information for a place you cannot reasonably identify. Do not post credentials merely to earn rewards.

Connect only when the network operator permits your access. Comply with the operator’s current rules, payment requirements, time limits and acceptable-use terms. Do not bypass a captive portal, paywall, device limit or other access control. Finding a password in Spatia does not grant permission to use it, enter a venue or remain on private property.

5. Sharing audiences and copies

Public listings can be accessed by other Spatia users and copied outside the service. Public access is not restricted to people physically nearby.

Friend and group sharing limits who our service makes a listing available to, including the sharing owner. Group access follows membership. New members may see existing group networks. A shared link does not grant access beyond the listing’s audience, but an invitation can allow someone to join its group. Protect invitations. Replacing an invite code does not remove people who already joined.

Anyone with your friend code can add you without a separate approval, see your display name and send you networks. Share it only with people you trust.

Private sharing is not a guarantee of secrecy. Spatia and authorized recipients can process the credentials. Recipients can copy, photograph, export or retain them, including in the system clipboard, a QR code, device backups or the operating system’s saved WiFi configuration. Do not redistribute private credentials beyond the operator’s permitted audience.

Removing a person or group member can stop future authorized access through our service. Previously downloaded information can remain in an offline cache until a refresh or expiry. Removing a listing, leaving a group, signing out or deleting an account cannot recall independent copies or disconnect a device from WiFi. The network operator must change its password to invalidate existing copies.

The device’s Saved list keeps separate summaries without passwords. A private network’s name, venue and precise location can remain in that local summary after sign-out, an account change or loss of access until the saved entry or local app data is removed. A private audience does not automatically erase those summaries.

6. Rights in contributions

You retain any rights you have in your contributions. You grant Spatia a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, copy, transmit, format and display them only as reasonably necessary to operate, secure and maintain the service for the audience you authorize, handle complaints and meet legal obligations. We may allow service providers acting for us to perform those operations under appropriate restrictions. This limited license does not authorize unrelated advertising or the sale of personal information, whether it appears in a public or private contribution.

You must have the rights and permission needed to grant this license. You cannot grant rights belonging to another person or network operator merely by accepting these terms. A password’s presence in a third-party directory does not prove permission to republish it.

When a contribution is removed, this license ends except for copies reasonably needed for a specific legal obligation, dispute or restricted backup period described in the privacy policy. Copies other users independently made cannot be withdrawn by us. Public contribution treatment after account deletion

Spatia’s software, branding and original materials belong to us or their respective licensors. Your use of the service gives you no ownership in them. Third-party map, directory and open-source materials remain subject to their licenses and attribution requirements.

For the website and app versions not governed by the Apple app license in section 14, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to access and use the service for its intended purposes, subject to these terms and applicable law. This permission ends when your access lawfully ends under section 12. It does not grant bulk redistribution rights or restrict rights granted by an applicable open-source license.

7. Acceptable use

Do not use Spatia to commit or facilitate unlawful access, intercept traffic, stalk or harass people, expose personal information, discriminate unlawfully, share abusive or unlawful material, or evade a network operator’s restrictions.

Do not introduce malicious code, interfere with the service, probe other users’ credentials, defeat access controls or use automated requests to harvest passwords or personal information. Do not scrape or redistribute the directory in bulk without our written permission and the necessary source rights. These restrictions do not override legal rights to interoperability, accessibility, permitted research or use of open-source software. Report security issues at contact@hotspothub.xyz without publishing credentials or accessing another person’s information.

8. Reports, removals and enforcement

Report an unauthorized listing, exposed personal information, abusive content or suspected infringement to contact@hotspothub.xyz. Include the listing or account identifier, why it is a problem and enough information for us to assess your authority if you act for an owner. Do not send the password. In app abuse report and block instructions

A “worked” or “didn’t work” vote is a password confirmation. It is not an abuse or removal request.

We review complaints and may restrict a listing while investigating, remove content, revoke sharing access or suspend an account or device identity for a violation, a serious security risk or a legal requirement. Moderation response times and appeals We use proportionate measures. When we restrict content or access, we give the affected person the required explanation and available ways to dispute the decision where we have their contact details, unless a specific legal exception applies. Urgent action does not remove a duty to give reasons by the deadline the law requires. We may preserve limited evidence where legally justified, subject to the privacy policy.

To report specific content you believe is unlawful, send its exact listing or other location, explain the alleged violation and include your name, a contact address and a statement that your report is accurate and made in good faith. Where law permits an anonymous report, we do not require identifying or contact information. We acknowledge reports and communicate decisions and available redress as required by applicable law. Moderation policy tools human review and EU DSA contacts

Network operators can withdraw authorization by contacting us. Removal does not change the password on the network or remove copies from recipients. Change the network password if unauthorized access is a concern. Network removal process and response time

9. Rewards and charges

This release has no in-app purchase or subscription flow. Contribution points, ranks and earned network unlocks are service features. They have no cash value, are not a financial account, and cannot be sold, transferred or redeemed for money. We can correct errors or reverse rewards obtained by fraud. An unlock does not guarantee that a network will remain listed or available.

Some credentials marked Premium are available only to an entitled account or after an earned network unlock. An “Everyone” audience does not override that credential-access requirement or make the network a private share. Premium designation criteria and any venue consideration A Premium designation does not guarantee better security, permission or performance. Any payment or other consideration affecting designation, placement or ranking must be disclosed with the affected presentation.

We will disclose prices, billing periods, renewal and cancellation terms and required refund information before offering a purchase or subscription. Nothing in these terms authorizes a charge or creates an automatic renewal. Paid features require their own compliant purchase flow and any legally required agreement. Mandatory refund and consumer rights remain intact.

Your mobile carrier or network operator may charge for data or access. After a “worked” confirmation, Spatia may attempt a roughly 1 MiB performance download over a connection the device identifies as WiFi. A WiFi hotspot can itself use cellular data.

10. Third-party services and network safety

Google authentication, platform maps, geocoding services including Photon, web tiles, routing services and network operators have their own applicable terms and privacy practices. Follow applicable third-party terms presented to you for those services. Our use of a provider does not make you responsible for our contracts with it. Their involvement does not remove our responsibility for our own conduct or legal duties.

WiFi networks can be monitored, impersonated or compromised. A network can require a separate login or payment, record traffic or restrict activity. A valid password or positive confirmation is not a security assessment. Protect sensitive communications and verify the network with its operator. Spatia does not inspect or guarantee the security of the internet connection.

11. Service warranties and responsibility

We provide Spatia with the care required by applicable law. Subject to rights that cannot be excluded, the service is provided “as is” and “as available.” We do not promise uninterrupted access, error-free listings, working credentials, a particular speed or route, or freedom from security risks. To the extent permitted by law, we disclaim implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability for fraud, willful misconduct, gross negligence, death or personal injury caused by negligence, breach of obligations that cannot be limited, or any other liability that applicable law prohibits us from excluding or limiting. No disclaimer takes away a mandatory privacy, data-protection, consumer or product right.

For claims that may lawfully be limited, and subject to the preceding paragraph, we are not liable for indirect or consequential losses, lost profits or lost business opportunities. Our total liability to you for all claims relating to Spatia, including the iOS app, is limited to the greater of US$100 and the amount you paid us for Spatia in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim. Where an app-store license and these terms both address our warranties or liability, the provision more favorable to you applies. These limits apply only to the extent enforceable under the law that governs your claim. We remain responsible for losses for which that law makes us responsible.

12. Ending use and changing these terms

You may stop using Spatia at any time. Stopping use or uninstalling is not an account-deletion request. Use the deletion and privacy-request channels described above. Any paid-service cancellation must follow the disclosed purchase terms and applicable law.

We may end access for the reasons in section 8 or discontinue the service with reasonable notice where practicable. Legal rights, accrued obligations, necessary enforcement provisions and properly restricted retention can survive termination. We do not retain a broader content license than section 6 permits.

For material changes, we post the new terms at hotspothub.xyz/terms with their effective date and give notice in the app or web app at least 30 days in advance. The notice explains the change and how to stop using the service before it takes effect. We ask for affirmative acceptance before applying the changed terms to your use. Until you accept, the earlier terms govern the use they covered; we may end access under this section after the required notice if continued access under those terms cannot be supported. Urgent legal or security measures may take effect sooner only where law permits, without treating silence as agreement to a contractual change. Changes do not retroactively change an existing dispute, authorize a new personal-data use or remove mandatory cancellation or refund rights. If local law requires more notice or a particular method of amendment, that law controls.

13. Disputes and mandatory local rights

Email contact@hotspothub.xyz so we can try to resolve a concern. Contacting us first is not a condition of exercising a legal right, meeting a filing deadline or complaining to a regulator.

These service terms are governed by the laws of Delaware, United States, excluding its conflict-of-laws rules and subject to mandatory protections under the law that applies to you. Courts of competent jurisdiction in Delaware have non-exclusive jurisdiction. This choice does not deprive consumers of mandatory protections or a right to bring a claim in their home jurisdiction where law provides it. These terms do not require arbitration or waive class, collective, representative or public-injunctive remedies available by law.

For consumers in the EEA, United Kingdom, Quebec, Australia and other jurisdictions with non-waivable guarantees, those guarantees prevail over inconsistent terms. Where required, translated terms and local disclosures must be supplied before acceptance. If a provision is unenforceable, it is severed only to the extent the law allows; the rest continues where it can lawfully do so.

14. App-store licenses

For the iOS app, the Apple Standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement governs the license to the installed app copy, under the law stated in that license, unless we expressly supply a compliant custom EULA. These terms govern the Spatia service and do not restrict rights Apple’s usage rules allow. If both documents address our warranties or liability for the same matter, section 11’s more-favorable-provision rule applies. Neither document removes mandatory consumer rights. Apple is not the operator of Spatia. Questions about our service go to the operator identified above.

Android distribution and third-party software remain subject to the applicable store and software-license terms. Mandatory store usage rules govern distribution and use of an installed app copy, subject to section 11’s protections for claims against us. Nothing in a store license overrides a mandatory consumer right.