Terms of Use
Safety first: ScaNature is an aid for identifying finds in nature and does not replace expert identification. The app gives no clearance to eat, touch or collect anything. Never eat, taste or use mushrooms, plants, fruits, nuts or seeds based on an app identification. Warnings in the app are a help but not exhaustive. When in doubt – and always for mushrooms and plants – consult a qualified person (e.g. a mushroom expert or your local poison control centre).
1. Provider and scope
The app is provided by Jonas Polenz, [Street and number], [Postcode City], Germany, email jpmini2004@googlemail.com (“we”). These terms govern the use of the app “ScaNature” including the “ScaNature Pro” subscription. They take effect when you install or use the app. The Privacy Policy applies in addition.
2. Services
ScaNature lets you identify photos of finds in nature – trees, stones, mushrooms, plants, animals and their parts such as leaves, fruits or nuts – using AI-based image recognition, and collect the results in a field book stored locally on your device. Identification is automated and probabilistic; the app shows a confidence level and points out possible confusions. No particular result, and no correctness of a result, is owed.
The free version includes a limited number of identifications; beyond that a subscription is required (section 4). We may develop the app further, change features and set fair-use limits (e.g. requests per minute) to keep the service available for everyone.
3. Your obligations and responsibility
- You use identification results as non-binding guidance and make no decisions about consumption, touching, medicinal use or collecting solely on the basis of the app.
- You comply with applicable law, in particular nature and species protection (e.g. collecting bans, protected species) and access rights.
- You upload only photos you hold the necessary rights to, and no photos showing identifiable people or unlawful content.
- You do not access our servers in an automated way, by circumventing security mechanisms, or with modified versions of the app.
4. “ScaNature Pro” subscription
- Offer: monthly or yearly subscription with unlimited identifications; the yearly plan may include a free trial. Prices and terms are shown in the App Store before purchase.
- Purchase and payment: exclusively via your Apple ID account; billing is handled by Apple.
- Renewal: the subscription renews automatically for the same period unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. A free trial converts into a paid subscription unless cancelled before it ends.
- Cancellation: at any time in iOS Settings under Apple ID → Subscriptions; it takes effect at the end of the paid period.
- Withdrawal and refunds: are governed by the Apple App Store terms; refund requests must be addressed to Apple.
- Price changes are announced to you by Apple in advance; they apply only to the following period and you can cancel beforehand.
5. Licence
We grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use the app on Apple devices you own or control, within the Apple Media Services usage rules. The app’s content, design, illustrations and software are protected by copyright. Your own photos and field-book entries remain yours.
6. Availability
Identification requires an internet connection and external services (hosting, image recognition). We aim for high availability but cannot rule out interruptions, e.g. due to maintenance or third-party outages. The local field book remains usable offline.
7. Liability
We are liable without limitation for intent and gross negligence and for damage resulting from injury to life, body or health. In case of slightly negligent breach of essential contractual obligations (obligations whose fulfilment is essential for the proper performance of the contract and on whose observance you may regularly rely), our liability is limited to the foreseeable damage typical for this kind of contract. Otherwise liability is excluded. Liability under product liability law remains unaffected.
Please note that automated image recognition can make mistakes and that confusing mushrooms or plants can be life-threatening. The app deliberately makes no statements about edibility or harmlessness. Decisions you take contrary to the app’s warnings are your responsibility.
8. Apple-specific terms
This agreement is between you and us, not with Apple. Apple is not responsible for the app or its content and has no obligation to provide maintenance or support. In the event of any failure of the app to conform to an applicable warranty you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price; to the maximum extent permitted by law Apple has no other warranty obligation. We, not Apple, are responsible for addressing any claims relating to the app (e.g. product liability, legal or regulatory requirements, consumer protection) and any claims that the app infringes third-party intellectual property rights. You represent that you are not located in a country subject to a US Government embargo and are not on any US Government list of prohibited or restricted parties. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of this agreement and may enforce it against you.
9. Changes to these terms
We may change these terms with effect for the future where there is good reason (e.g. new features, changes in law). We announce material changes in the app. If you object within four weeks you may stop using the app; a running subscription can be cancelled at any time.
10. Final provisions
German law applies; mandatory consumer-protection provisions of the country in which you habitually reside remain unaffected. We are neither willing nor obliged to participate in dispute-resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board. Should individual provisions be invalid, the remainder of the agreement remains effective.