Terms
of use.

The agreement

These Terms of Use ("Terms") form a binding agreement between you and Uri Nachmias, an individual sole proprietor (referred to here as "we", "us", or "Pica Player"), and govern your use of the Pica Player iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS apps and the picaapps.com website (together, the "Service").

By downloading, installing, or using the Service you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

These Terms sit alongside Apple's Standard EULA for App Store apps. Where the two conflict, the more user-protective term applies.

Geographic scope

The Service is available only in App Store regions where we have published it. See the app's App Store listing for the current list of supported countries. We do not offer the Service in the European Economic Area. If you are accessing the Service from a region where we do not distribute it, you are not authorised to use it, and these Terms are not drafted to satisfy that region's consumer-protection law.

For users in the United Kingdom and Switzerland, these Terms apply alongside any local consumer-protection law that cannot be excluded by agreement.

Eligibility

You must be at least 13 years old to use the Service. If you are between 13 and the age of legal majority in your jurisdiction, you confirm that a parent or legal guardian has reviewed and agreed to these Terms on your behalf.

Your content

You do not create a Pica Player account. The audio files you import, the cover art, your playback positions, and any chapters or markers you create inside the Service ("Your Content") are stored on your device and, if you enable iCloud, synced through your own Apple ID via Apple's CloudKit framework.

• Ownership. Your Content belongs to you. We claim no rights of ownership over anything you import into the Service.
• Responsibility. You are solely responsible for Your Content, for backing it up, and for ensuring you have the legal right to store and play it.
• Our access. We do not have access to Your Content. We have no way to recover a lost file, restore a deleted library, or see what you listen to.

Acceptable use

You agree not to use the Service to:

• Store, process, or play audio that you do not have the legal right to use, or that infringes the copyright or other rights of any third party.
• Circumvent, remove, or bypass any digital-rights-management (DRM) or copy protection on any file. The Service plays standard audio files you provide and is not a tool for breaking such protection.
• Store, process, or transmit content that is unlawful, harassing, defamatory, infringing, or that violates the rights of any third party.
• Reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract the source code of the Service, except to the limited extent expressly permitted by law.
• Probe, scan, or test the Service for vulnerabilities, or breach any security measure, unless we have authorised you in writing.
• Use the Service in any way that would cause us to violate the App Store Review Guidelines or our agreement with Apple.

We may suspend or terminate your use of the Service if you violate these Terms, without notice if the violation is material.

Audio you import

Pica Player is a player for audio files you already own and provide. It does not include a store, a catalogue, or any audio of its own, and it does not stream content from us. Important things to understand:

• You are solely responsible for the legality of every file you import — that you own it, licensed it, or otherwise have the right to store and play it.
• Chapter detection, cover-art generation, and duration scanning are automatic and imperfect. Detected chapters or generated artwork may be wrong, missing, or incomplete.
• The Service does not remove or bypass any DRM. Files protected by another store's DRM may not import or play.

Playback & resume

The Service remembers your position in each file and, when iCloud is enabled, syncs that position so you can resume on another device. Sync depends on Apple's iCloud and your network; we do not warrant that a position will always be perfectly in sync, that a made-available file will always download, or that no playback position will ever be lost. You are responsible for keeping your own copy of any audio you care about.

Purchase, billing & refunds

The Service is offered on a freemium basis:

• The free tier allows a limited amount of listening time per day.
• A one-time purchase ("Unlock all") removes the limit permanently. It is a single payment, not a subscription — there is nothing to auto-renew and nothing to cancel. The current price is shown on the in-app paywall and may change for new purchasers; once you have unlocked, you keep access.

The purchase is sold and managed through Apple, not by us. By purchasing you also agree to Apple's Media Services Terms:

• Payment. Apple charges your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase.
• Restore. The unlock is tied to your Apple ID. Use "Restore purchase" on the paywall to re-enable it on a new device.

Third-party services

The Service interoperates with the following third parties, each governed by its own terms:

• Apple Inc. (App Store, StoreKit, iCloud / CloudKit). Subject to Apple's Media Services Terms and Privacy Policy.
• Sentry (crash diagnostics) and PostHog (product analytics), used only if you opt in. Their privacy practices are described in our Privacy Policy.

You are responsible for reviewing each third party's terms before relying on the Service.

Open-source notices

Pica Player incorporates open-source components. The full attribution list with licence text is available in the Service at Settings → Open Source and in the public LICENSES file in the project repository.

Warranty & liability

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY, OR UNINTERRUPTED OPERATION.

WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE ERROR-FREE, THAT CHAPTER DETECTION OR COVER ART WILL BE ACCURATE, OR THAT ICLOUD SYNC WILL PRESERVE EVERY FILE OR PLAYBACK POSITION. YOU ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR BACKING UP YOUR CONTENT.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL WE BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING DAMAGES FOR LOST PROFITS, LOST DATA, LOST AUDIO FILES, OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE.

OUR TOTAL CUMULATIVE LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ALL CLAIMS RELATING TO THE SERVICE, IN AGGREGATE, IS LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT YOU HAVE PAID US FOR THE SERVICE IN THE 12 MONTHS PRECEDING THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM (WHICH MAY BE ZERO), OR FIVE U.S. DOLLARS, WHICHEVER IS GREATER.

Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Uri Nachmias and any successors or assigns from any claim, demand, loss, or damage (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of: (a) Your Content, including any audio you import without the legal right to do so; (b) your use of the Service; (c) your violation of these Terms; or (d) your violation of any third-party right, including any copyright in audio you played or stored with the Service.

Apple-specific terms (App Store EULA)

You acknowledge and agree, in addition to the standard Apple Licensed Application End User Licence Agreement (the "Apple EULA"), that:

• These Terms are an agreement between you and us, not between you and Apple. Apple is not responsible for the Service or its content.
• Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for the Service.
• In the event the Service fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price (if any) to you.
• We, not Apple, are responsible for addressing any claims you or any third party have relating to the Service.
• We, not Apple, are responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement, and discharge of any third-party intellectual-property infringement claim relating to the Service.
• 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 Apple's subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce them against you.

Termination

You may stop using the Service at any time by deleting the app. We may suspend or terminate your access to the Service at any time, with or without notice, for any reason, including suspected violation of these Terms.

Changes

We may update these Terms when the Service changes meaningfully. Material changes will be announced inside the app on next launch and reflected in the "Effective" date at the top of this page. Your continued use after a change constitutes acceptance.

Contact & governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Israel, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles. Any dispute, controversy, or claim arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service will be brought exclusively in the competent courts of Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel.

Questions about these Terms go to hello@picaapps.com.