Terms of Service

Acceptance of Terms

By using AVSpot, you agree to these terms. If you don't agree, please don't use the app. AVSpot is provided by Sonoran Apps LLC ("we", "us").

Description of Service

AVSpot is a personal plane-spotting logbook that lets you log aircraft sightings, track spotting sessions, and build a personal collection of aircraft, airlines, and types you've seen. An optional subscription, AVSpot Premium, adds arrival alerts and the full list of an airline's aircraft you haven't logged yet.

Your Account

You sign in with a Google or Apple account. You're responsible for keeping your account secure. You must be able to legally enter into these terms to use AVSpot.

Your Content

You own the sightings, notes, and photos you log. By adding a photo, you confirm you have the right to share it and grant AVSpot permission to store and display it back to you within the app.

Acceptable Use

Don't use AVSpot to log false information intended to mislead other spotters, attempt to disrupt the service, or use it for any unlawful purpose.

AVSpot Premium Subscriptions

AVSpot Premium is an optional, auto-renewing subscription. Everything else in AVSpot works without it. What it includes, its price and how to cancel are also set out on the AVSpot Premium page.

• Plans and price. $2.99 a month, or $19.99 a year. Prices are in U.S. dollars; the App Store and Google Play show the price in your local currency, and tax may apply.
• Free trial. The annual plan starts with a 7-day free trial for new subscribers; each store decides who is eligible. If you cancel before the trial ends, you aren't charged. If you don't, the first year is charged when the trial ends.
• Where you buy it. In the iPhone and iPad app through Apple's App Store, in the Android app through Google Play, or in the web app at app.avspot.app. For web purchases, Stripe sells the subscription to you as the merchant of record (the seller of record), through Link, its checkout service, and handles payment, tax and receipts. RevenueCat, our subscription provider, keeps track of which plan your account has.
• One account, every device. Premium belongs to your AVSpot account, so it works wherever you sign in with that account, whichever store you bought it from.
• Renewal. A subscription renews automatically at the end of each month or year until you cancel it. To avoid the next charge, cancel at least 24 hours before the current period ends.
• Cancelling. You can cancel at any time. You keep Premium until the end of the period you've already paid for, and it doesn't renew after that. Cancel App Store and Google Play subscriptions in your Apple Account or Google Play settings, and web subscriptions in AVSpot on the web (app.avspot.app) under Settings > Manage Subscription, which opens Stripe's customer portal. Removing the app or deleting your AVSpot account doesn't cancel a subscription.
• Refunds. We don't give refunds or credits for partly used periods, except to correct a billing error or where the law requires it. Apple and Google handle billing and refund requests for purchases made through them. For web purchases, Stripe may also issue a refund where consumer law requires it or to resolve a payment dispute. If a charge looks wrong, email contact@sonoranapps.com.
• When Premium ends. Arrival alerts stop and the list of aircraft still to spot closes again. Your home airports stay saved, and everything you've logged stays yours.
• Changes. We may change the price or what Premium includes. We'll give reasonable notice before a change affects a subscription you already have, and a store may ask you to agree to a higher price before it applies.

Arrival Alerts

Arrival alerts are sent on a best-effort basis. They're worked out from live aircraft positions picked up by volunteer receivers and shared through adsb.lol and FlyItalyADSB, and that data doesn't say where an aircraft is going. An alert means an aircraft looks to be heading toward your airport, not that it will land there: one bound for a nearby field can be included. An earlier alert may also rely on published route data for the flight, which is sometimes out of date. Coverage depends on receivers near the airport and on the feed itself, which comes with no guarantee, so some arrivals will be missed or announced late, and the minutes shown are an estimate.

To keep notifications manageable, an account gets at most one notification every 10 minutes, naming up to three aircraft and counting the rest, and at most 100 alerts in any 24 hours. Aircraft whose owners have asked for their details not to be shown publicly are never announced. Alerts reach a phone or tablet only while you're signed in to AVSpot there and notifications are allowed for it. Always follow airport rules and local laws when you go to watch.

Aircraft Seen Flying for an Airline

The count on an airline's page, and the Premium list of the aircraft you haven't logged, come from the aircraft that adsb.lol's receivers saw flying under that airline's callsigns in recent weeks (up to the last 45 days). They aren't the airline's official fleet: aircraft in storage or maintenance, and aircraft flying where there are no receivers, aren't included, and airlines that share a callsign code share one list. An airline's numbers appear once enough has been collected.

Those lists are a database built from adsb.lol's data and are available under the Open Database License. They hold registrations, aircraft types and the days each was seen, nothing about any user, and we'll share them under the same license on request.

Third-Party Data

Aircraft identification data may come from third-party public aviation registries and compilations of them, and live flight data from adsb.lol (© adsb.lol contributors, ODbL) and FlyItalyADSB (© FlyItalyADSB, flyitalyadsb.com, CC BY-SA 4.0). How rare an aircraft is at an airport is worked out from a year of PlaneQuery's flight records (PlaneQuery, made from adsb.lol's data, ODbL); the tables built from them hold aircraft types, airlines and day counts, nothing about any user, and we'll share them under the same license on request. AVSpot doesn't guarantee the accuracy of that data.

Account Deletion

You may delete your account at any time from Settings. This is permanent - your account cannot be recovered afterward. Deleting your account doesn't cancel an AVSpot Premium subscription, so cancel it first (see AVSpot Premium Subscriptions).

Disclaimer of Warranties

AVSpot is provided "as is" without warranties of any kind. We don't guarantee the app will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that your data will never be lost.

Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, AVSpot and its developer aren't liable for any indirect, incidental, or consequential damages arising from your use of the app. Our total liability for any claim relating to AVSpot is limited to the amount you paid for AVSpot Premium (if anything) in the 12 months before the claim.

Changes to These Terms

We may update these terms as the app changes. Continuing to use AVSpot after a change means you accept the updated terms.

Contact Us

Questions about these terms? Email contact@sonoranapps.com.