Aboot

Terms of Service

Last updated 4 September 2026

These Terms of Service are an agreement between you and Luminosity, SIA (“Luminosity”, “we”, “us”), a limited liability company registered in the Latvian Commercial Register under number 40203768292, with its registered address at Liepājas iela 34, Kuldīga, Kuldīgas novads, LV-3301, Latvia.

They govern the Aboot mobile app, Aboot accounts and services, and this website. Our Privacy Policy, Subscription Terms, Community and Content Standards, Copyright and Illegal Content Policy, and AI and Academic Content Notice form part of these Terms.

By creating an account, accessing a paid feature, uploading content, or otherwise using Aboot, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the service.

You must accept these Terms and the Community and Content Standards before creating, uploading, or publishing user-generated content. The version and time of acceptance may be recorded for compliance and dispute-resolution purposes.

1. What Aboot provides

Aboot provides research-listening, content-generation, discovery, organization, and related features described in the app.

Some content is created or assisted by automated systems. It may be inaccurate, incomplete, outdated, or misleading. Aboot is an entry point to source material, not a substitute for the original work or for qualified professional advice.

2. Eligibility and accounts

You must be at least 16 and must meet any higher minimum age required where you live. If you are under the age of legal majority, a parent or guardian must review and accept these Terms where applicable.

Provide accurate information, keep your sign-in credentials secure, and promptly notify us if you suspect unauthorized use. You are responsible for activity under your account unless applicable law says otherwise. Do not sell, transfer, or share an account in a way that compromises its security or another person’s rights.

Sign in with Apple or Google is also subject to the selected provider’s terms. You may receive a private relay email address from Apple.

3. Free, Go, and Plus

Aboot offers Free, Go, and Plus access. Paid subscriptions are sold through the Apple App Store or Google Play. Plan limits, prices, renewal, cancellation, restore, plan-change, and refund rules are explained in the Subscription Terms, which control if this section conflicts with them.

Deleting the app or deleting your Aboot account does not itself cancel an App Store or Google Play subscription. Cancel through the store before deleting your account if you do not want future store charges.

4. Documents you upload

You retain any rights you have in a document you upload. You grant Luminosity a limited, worldwide, non-exclusive licence to host, copy, extract, transform, analyze, and transmit the document and its contents only as needed to provide, secure, support, and improve the requested Aboot service, including through our service providers.

You represent that:

  • you have the legal right to upload and process the document;
  • the upload and requested processing do not infringe intellectual-property, privacy, confidentiality, contractual, or other rights;
  • you will not upload unlawful content, malicious files, or personal data you have no lawful basis to process; and
  • you will not use Aboot to evade access controls, paywalls, licences, or technical protections.

Do not upload confidential, export-controlled, privileged, or highly sensitive material unless you have assessed the service and have authority to use the third-party processing described in the Privacy Policy.

5. Generated content and public sharing

Generated content may reflect rights in source material or other third-party material. Except for rights held by others, and subject to these Terms, you may use private generated content for personal, non-commercial listening and study.

Publishing to Discovery gives Luminosity a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, reproduce, adapt, display, distribute, moderate, and promote the contribution through Aboot while it remains public. You can request removal, subject to limited lawful retention.

If you enable a setting that permits automatic public sharing, eligible content may be published without a separate confirmation for each item. You can change that setting before creating content. Generated summaries are eligible for Discovery only after Aboot verifies the source as open access and the content passes applicable checks.

6. Playlists, invitations, and author narrations

You retain rights in original content you submit. You grant Luminosity the limited licence needed to provide, share, and moderate it according to your selected visibility.

Do not misuse restricted access or share content that another user has kept private. An author narration must concern your own work and be submitted with the necessary rights and permissions. Submission does not guarantee publication.

7. Community, moderation, and reports

You must follow the Community and Content Standards. They prohibit illegal, infringing, abusive, dangerous, deceptive, sexually exploitative, privacy-invasive, and malicious content and conduct.

We may use automated tools and human review to restrict content or features, or suspend or terminate an account. We will act diligently and proportionately. Where applicable, a material content or account restriction notice will identify the contractual or legal basis, the facts and circumstances relied on, the scope and duration, any use of automated means, and available review or redress. We may act without prior notice where delay would risk harm, legal breach, security, or evidence loss, but will provide later notice when required.

Use the in-app report action where available or email help@aboot.app. Rights and illegal content notices follow the Copyright and Illegal Content Policy. We review good-faith reports and may preserve relevant evidence where permitted by law.

8. Podcasts and third-party content

Aboot may provide access to third-party content. That content remains the property of its rights holders and may be governed by their terms and privacy notices. We do not guarantee its continued availability, accuracy, legality, or compatibility.

Do not copy, redistribute, or commercially exploit third-party content except as permitted by the rights holder and law. We may restrict access when required by a rights holder, law, store rule, or technical condition.

9. Acceptable use

You may not:

  • bypass account, tier, usage, sharing, security, or rate limits;
  • probe, disrupt, overload, reverse engineer, or introduce malware to the service, except to the limited extent such a restriction is prohibited by law;
  • use bots, scraping, bulk extraction, or automated access without written permission;
  • resell Aboot, generated audio, or Discovery content as a competing service;
  • impersonate another person or misrepresent authorship, rights, affiliation, or research;
  • use the service to violate academic-integrity rules, fabricate evidence, or conceal prohibited AI use;
  • harass, threaten, defame, exploit, or invade the privacy of another person;
  • upload or distribute illegal, infringing, deceptive, malicious, or harmful material; or
  • use Aboot in connection with prohibited weapons, unlawful surveillance, or other conduct forbidden by applicable law or a provider’s binding rules.

10. Intellectual property

Luminosity and its licensors own the Aboot app, software, design, branding, compilation, and service technology. These Terms do not transfer those rights to you. We grant you a personal, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to install and use the app on devices you own or control, for its intended non-commercial purpose and in accordance with the applicable store usage rules.

Research papers, reports, podcasts, artwork, metadata, and other source materials are owned by their respective rights holders. Open access does not always mean unrestricted use; applicable licence conditions still apply.

If you send product feedback, you permit us to use it without restriction or payment, but you do not assign ownership of material that you identify as confidential.

11. Service changes and availability

We aim to provide a reliable service but do not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free operation. The service depends on third parties and networks. Features or content can be delayed, changed, withdrawn, or unavailable by region.

We may modify Aboot to improve safety, quality, compliance, cost, or performance. If we materially reduce a paid service during a current term, mandatory consumer rights and any store remedies remain available. If the service closes, we will give reasonable notice and an opportunity to export account data where practicable.

12. Suspension, termination, export, and deletion

You may stop using Aboot at any time, export your account data, delete individual content where the app provides that control, and request permanent account deletion. See Account and Data Deletion.

We may restrict or terminate access where we reasonably believe you violated these Terms, created risk or harm, failed to pay through the store, or where suspension is required by law or a provider. Where appropriate, we will tell you the reason and provide a way to ask for review. Account deletion removes user-generated public content associated with the account, subject only to disclosed legal-retention requirements and inaccessible backup cycles. Provisions that by nature should survive termination, including intellectual property, limited licences needed for lawful retention, disclaimers, liability, payment, and dispute terms, continue to apply.

13. Disclaimers

Aboot is for general information, discovery, and convenience. It is not medical, legal, financial, safety, clinical, academic-supervision, or other professional advice. Do not make high-impact decisions from a generated summary or podcast recommendation. Read the original source, verify citations and findings, and consult a qualified professional where needed.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the service is provided “as is” and “as available”. We do not promise that content is accurate, complete, non-infringing, fit for a particular purpose, or continuously available. These exclusions do not affect guarantees or remedies that cannot lawfully be excluded for consumers.

14. Liability

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability for fraud, deliberate misconduct, death or personal injury caused by negligence, breach of mandatory consumer rights, or any other liability that cannot be excluded by law.

For consumers, Luminosity is responsible for loss that was reasonably foreseeable when you accepted these Terms and that results from our breach of these Terms or failure to use reasonable care. We are not responsible for business losses suffered by a consumer, or for loss caused by events outside our reasonable control, except where applicable law provides otherwise.

For users acting in a trade, business, or profession, and to the extent permitted by law, Luminosity is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, or consequential loss, loss of profit or opportunity, or lost data that could reasonably have been backed up. Aggregate liability for claims arising in a 12-month period is limited to the greater of EUR 100 and the amount paid for Aboot during that period.

15. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by Latvian law. If you are a consumer, you keep the protection of mandatory law in the country where you habitually reside and may bring proceedings in any court available to you under applicable consumer law. Otherwise, the courts of Latvia have exclusive jurisdiction.

Please contact help@aboot.app first so we can try to resolve a concern. This does not limit any right to complain to a regulator, use an applicable consumer-dispute body, or go to court.

16. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms for legal, security, technical, or product reasons. We will give reasonable notice of material changes and request renewed acceptance where required. A change does not retroactively remove rights already accrued.

17. Apple App Store terms

Apple’s Standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement governs the licence to the iOS app unless Apple presents another applicable licence. These Terms govern the Aboot account and service and supplement that licence.

These Terms are between you and Luminosity, not Apple. Luminosity is responsible for Aboot and its support, subject to applicable law. Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of the Apple-specific terms and may enforce them. Apple’s mandatory terms control any conflict concerning the app licence. Nothing here reduces a mandatory consumer right.

18. Contact

  • Luminosity, SIA
  • Liepājas iela 34, Kuldīga, Kuldīgas novads, LV-3301, Latvia
  • Registration number 40203768292
  • help@aboot.app