COMPASS TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Effective date: July 15, 2026
Welcome to Compass. These Terms and Conditions ("Terms") govern your access to and use of the Compass mobile application, its travel guide, recommendations, maps, audio features, subscriptions, and related services (collectively, the "Service"). Compass is created and operated by Victoria Ali ("Compass," "we," "us," or "our").
By downloading, accessing, or using Compass, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the Service.
1. Who May Use Compass
You must be at least 13 years old, or the minimum age required in your country, to use Compass. If you are under the age of legal majority where you live, a parent or legal guardian must review and accept these Terms for you.
You may use Compass only in compliance with applicable laws and these Terms.
2. What Compass Provides
Compass is a personal travel companion designed to help you discover places, explore cultural information, build travel memories, listen to city-inspired audio, and receive location-aware suggestions.
Features may include:
- Curated place and destination recommendations.
- Maps, estimated distances, directions, and nearby-place discovery using Apple Location Services and MapKit.
- Weather context provided through WeatherKit.
- Voice interaction and spoken guidance using Apple speech and audio frameworks.
- Personal travel journals, saved places, and synchronization through iCloud and CloudKit when enabled.
- Location-based reminders and notifications, when you grant permission.
- Free and subscription-based features purchased through the App Store using StoreKit.
Features may vary by region, language, device, availability, and subscription status.
3. Travel Information and Generated Guidance
Compass is designed for inspiration and general informational purposes. Place descriptions, addresses, opening hours, prices, availability, accessibility details, travel times, weather, cultural context, and recommendations can change or may occasionally be incomplete or inaccurate.
Always confirm important information directly with the venue or an authoritative local source before traveling, making a reservation, spending money, or relying on time-sensitive details.
Compass is not an emergency, safety, medical, legal, immigration, or financial service. Do not rely on Compass for urgent assistance, hazardous conditions, official travel warnings, or decisions affecting your health or safety. In an emergency, contact local emergency services.
You remain responsible for your route, surroundings, transportation decisions, personal safety, and compliance with local rules. Never interact with Compass while driving or when doing so would be unsafe.
4. Location and Notifications
Location-based features require your permission. You can change location permissions at any time in your device Settings. Approximate or unavailable location data may reduce the relevance or accuracy of recommendations.
If you enable location notifications, Compass may use Apple location services to notify you when you are near a relevant point of interest, including while the app is not open. Delivery is not guaranteed and may depend on device settings, battery conditions, connectivity, and system limits.
You should not use notifications or estimated proximity as a substitute for signs, official maps, professional guidance, or awareness of your surroundings.
5. Voice Features
Voice features require microphone and speech-recognition permission. Compass displays an interface indicating when voice capture is active. You are responsible for ensuring that your use of the microphone is lawful and respectful of others nearby.
Do not speak or submit confidential, sensitive, or legally protected information that you do not want processed for your request.
6. Your Content
You may create journal entries, save places, add notes, and attach photos or other personal content ("Your Content"). You retain ownership of Your Content.
You grant Compass only the limited rights needed to store, synchronize, display, process, and return Your Content to you as part of the Service. When iCloud synchronization is enabled, Your Content may be stored in your private CloudKit database and made available on devices connected to your Apple Account.
You are responsible for Your Content and must not upload anything unlawful, harmful, infringing, deceptive, or invasive of another person's privacy.
7. Acceptable Use
You agree not to:
- Use Compass for unlawful, fraudulent, abusive, or harmful purposes.
- Attempt to bypass security, access controls, subscription checks, or usage limits.
- Reverse engineer, copy, modify, distribute, sell, lease, or exploit the Service except where applicable law expressly permits it.
- Interfere with the Service, its networks, or another person's use of Compass.
- Use automated tools to extract, reproduce, or republish substantial portions of the Service.
- Misrepresent Compass content as official government, emergency, or professional advice.
- Infringe intellectual property, privacy, publicity, or other rights.
We may limit or suspend access when reasonably necessary to protect users, the Service, or legal compliance.
8. Compass Premium and App Store Billing
Compass may offer monthly and annual auto-renewable subscriptions through the App Store. The price, billing period, free-trial or introductory-offer terms, and included features are displayed before you confirm a purchase.
Payment is charged to your Apple Account when the purchase is confirmed. Subscriptions renew automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current billing period. Your Apple Account may be charged for renewal within 24 hours before that period ends.
You can manage or cancel subscriptions in your Apple Account subscription settings. Deleting Compass does not cancel an active subscription.
Free trials and introductory offers are subject to eligibility rules established through the App Store. Any unused portion of a trial may be forfeited when a paid subscription begins, where permitted by applicable rules.
Purchases, renewals, refunds, billing disputes, and payment methods are administered by Apple under the applicable App Store terms. Compass provides a Restore option for eligible purchases.
We may change subscription features or prices prospectively. Any price change will follow App Store requirements and applicable law. Your statutory consumer rights remain unaffected.
9. Intellectual Property
Compass, including its design, software, branding, organization, original text, and original visual elements, is owned by Victoria Ali or licensed to Compass and is protected by applicable intellectual property laws.
Maps, system interfaces, weather information, subscription services, and other Apple-provided elements remain subject to Apple's applicable terms and licenses. Place names, images, factual information, and linked material may belong to their respective rights holders.
These Terms grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, and revocable right to use Compass for its intended purpose. No other rights are granted.
10. Links and External Information
Compass may display links to official venue pages, public information, maps, menus, booking pages, or other online resources. These resources are provided for convenience. We do not control their availability, accuracy, security, policies, or content and are not responsible for transactions or interactions you choose to have with them.
11. Service Availability and Changes
We work to keep Compass useful and reliable, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free availability. Features may be delayed, unavailable, modified, or discontinued because of maintenance, connectivity, regional limitations, system requirements, legal obligations, or changes to Apple services.
We may update Compass and these Terms as the Service evolves. If a change materially affects your rights, we will provide reasonable notice through the app, the App Store listing, or another appropriate channel. Continuing to use Compass after the effective date of revised Terms means you accept them, to the extent permitted by law.
12. Disclaimer of Warranties
To the fullest extent permitted by law, Compass is provided "as is" and "as available." We disclaim implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, availability, and non-infringement.
Nothing in these Terms excludes warranties or protections that cannot legally be excluded under the consumer laws that apply to you.
13. Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, Victoria Ali and Compass will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, loss of data, loss of opportunity, travel disruption, missed reservations, or costs arising from reliance on changing or inaccurate travel information.
Where liability cannot be excluded, it will be limited only to the extent permitted by applicable law. These limitations do not apply to fraud, willful misconduct, gross negligence, personal injury caused by negligence, or any liability that cannot legally be limited.
14. Termination
You may stop using Compass at any time. You can remove local app data by deleting the app and can manage synchronized data through your Apple Account and available in-app controls.
We may suspend or terminate access if you materially violate these Terms, create a security risk, abuse the Service, or if required by law. Sections that by their nature should survive termination will remain in effect, including intellectual property, disclaimers, liability limitations, and dispute provisions.
15. Governing Law and Consumer Rights
These Terms are governed by the laws of Argentina, without regard to conflict-of-law principles, except where the mandatory laws of your country or region provide you with additional protections or require a different governing law or forum.
Before beginning a formal dispute, please contact us so we can try to resolve the issue in a fair and practical way. Nothing in these Terms limits your right to contact a consumer-protection authority or use any remedy available under applicable law.
16. Contact
Questions, accessibility feedback, subscription concerns, or legal notices may be sent to:
Victoria Ali
Compass Support
compass.app.ar@gmail.com