Terms
Spotty Terms
Spotty is a free mobile app for saving kite spots, viewing weather-derived scores, publishing anonymous Discover spots, and receiving condition alerts. These terms apply between you and Spotty when you use the app. They are written in English, the language of the app.
Who Provides Spotty
Spotty is provided by Julius Schroers, Judengasse 8, 52062 Aachen, Germany ("Spotty", "we"); see the Impressum. You can reach us at support@spotty.murri.me and through the support page. How Spotty handles personal data is in the privacy policy.
Who May Use Spotty
- You must be at least 16 years old to use Spotty. If you are under 18, you need the permission of a parent or guardian.
- One account is for one person. Give a real email address you can receive mail at, and keep your password to yourself.
- An email sign-up whose address is not verified within 7 days is deleted automatically, together with its login.
What Spotty Offers
Spotty is free of charge. We work to keep it running, but cannot promise that it is always available or free of errors, and we may change, add, or remove features. Spot alerts depend on your saved settings, device permissions, Firebase Messaging delivery, backend availability, and weather data availability; delivery is not guaranteed.
Weather data is provided by Open-Meteo under CC BY 4.0. Spotty caches, transforms, and scores forecast data. Spotty scores are derived guidance, not official safety forecasts: forecasts can be wrong, and a score says nothing about the safety of a spot on a given day.
Your Responsibilities
- Use Spotty only where it is lawful and safe.
- Verify weather, tides, access rules, local hazards, and your own skill level before riding. Kiting is dangerous; the decision to ride is yours.
- Do not rely on Spotty as your only safety source.
- Do not publish private homes, sensitive places, unsafe launch points, misleading locations, or abusive spot names, and follow the Community Guidelines when using Discover.
- Do not misuse Spotty: no automated access, no attempts to get around its limits or security, and no harassment of other users.
Discover And Your Spots
Discover lets users publish spots anonymously. When you publish a spot, its name and exact coordinates become public: every Spotty user can see them, and copy the spot into their own spots. By publishing, you confirm that you may share the spot and that it follows the Community Guidelines. You can unpublish or delete it at any time; copies other users already made stay theirs.
You keep whatever rights you have in what you publish. By publishing a spot, you give Spotty a free, non-exclusive, worldwide licence to store, show, and copy it in Discover, and to let other users copy it into their own spots, for as long as it is published. For the copies other users made while it was published, the licence lasts as long as they keep them. Backups and moderation records may keep it for as long as the privacy policy says.
Content Rules And Moderation
The Community Guidelines are part of these terms. They say what may not be published in Discover, and Spotty enforces them with these tools and steps:
- The name filter: an automatic check of every spot name against restricted words and character patterns when a spot is created, renamed, or published. A name it refuses cannot be saved or published, and the app says why.
- Reports: users report spots in the app; anyone, also without an account, can send a notice by email (support page). A person reviews every report and notice, normally within 24 hours, and the reporter learns what was decided.
- Hiding: each user can hide spots and anonymous contributors for themselves.
- Moderation decisions: Spotty's operator decides, as a person, every report and every hold. A spot that breaks the guidelines is taken off Discover and held: its owner keeps it privately, but cannot publish it again until moderation releases it.
- Accounts: for serious or repeated breaches, or abuse of other users, Spotty can turn off an account's sign-in, for a time or for good (see ending your use).
Spotty has no tolerance for objectionable content or abusive users. Spotty decides diligently, objectively, and proportionately, with regard to the rights of everyone involved, including the freedom of expression.
Reasons and review. When Spotty takes your spot off Discover, the app shows on the spot when and why: the rule it breaks, why it breaks it (for a spot that is illegal, which law), how moderation came to it, and how to contest it. When Spotty turns off your account, it tells you the same by email. You can ask for a review within six months of a decision, by Ask for a review in the app or by email to support@spotty.murri.me, with the reference the app shows and why you disagree; a reporter can do the same for a decision on a report. Spotty looks at the decision again, with what you wrote, reverses it if it was wrong, and answers you by email. You can also go to court.
Ending Your Use
- You can stop using Spotty at any time, and delete your account in the app; the account deletion page explains how, also without the app.
- Spotty can end your use of Spotty, or stop offering Spotty altogether, with 30 days' notice by email.
- Spotty can turn off your account at once, for a time or for good, for a serious reason: in particular serious or repeated breaches of these terms or the Community Guidelines, illegal content, or abuse of other users or of Spotty's systems. Spotty tells you why by email, and you can ask for a review as described above.
- When your account is deleted, your data is deleted as the privacy policy describes.
Liability
Spotty is liable without limit for damage caused intentionally or by gross negligence, for injury to life, body, or health, under the German Product Liability Act (Produkthaftungsgesetz), and where Spotty has given a guarantee.
For damage caused by slight negligence, Spotty is liable only for the breach of an essential obligation: an obligation whose fulfilment makes the proper use of Spotty possible in the first place, and on whose fulfilment you may regularly rely. Liability is then limited to the damage that was foreseeable and typical for a free app of this kind when you started using it. Otherwise Spotty is not liable for slight negligence.
These limits also apply to the people Spotty works with. They do not change who has to prove what.
Changes To These Terms
We may change these terms for a valid reason, such as new or changed features, a change in the law or its interpretation by the courts, or security. We tell you about a change at least 30 days before it takes effect, in the app or by email, and say what changes. A change that affects what you get from Spotty or what you owe takes effect for you only when you agree to it in the app: Discover, for example, asks you to agree to new terms before you use it again. If you do not agree, you can delete your account; what needs the new terms, such as Discover, stays closed to you until you agree, and we may end your use with notice as described above. Changes that only correct mistakes or that the law requires take effect when we publish them. The date at the top shows the latest change.
Governing Law
German law applies. If you are a consumer and live in another country, you also keep the protection of the consumer law of the country you live in that cannot be set aside by agreement.
Contact And Points Of Contact
Questions, notices of illegal content, and requests to review a moderation decision go to support@spotty.murri.me. The support page names Spotty's points of contact under the EU Digital Services Act.