These terms apply to the thereabouts iOS and Android apps supplied by Arcturus Digital Consulting. By using the app, you agree to these terms and the privacy policy.
1. What thereabouts is
thereabouts is a language-readiness app for preparing practical conversations around a real trip. It provides language material, likely replies, listening playback, speech-transcript evidence, trip context, and personal practice tools.
2. Service status
thereabouts is released on the App Store and Google Play. Features may be changed, added or withdrawn as the app develops. We aim to keep the app available, but do not promise uninterrupted access, cloud synchronisation, or that any particular feature will continue in its current form. This does not entitle us to withdraw access you have paid for: a purchase made under section 10 remains unlocked.
3. Personal use
You may use thereabouts for your own non-commercial language preparation. You must not attempt to compromise the app, bypass App Check or usage controls, probe another learner's records, automate abusive requests, or use the service for unlawful or harmful activity.
4. Language accuracy and real-world judgement
thereabouts prepares language for real situations, and no phrase can guarantee that every speaker, region or situation will use the same wording. Context, register, dialect, hearing conditions and local custom all matter. Much of the language in the app is written by an AI model and checked by a second one rather than by a person.
If something does not sound right, tell the app so. The phrase is withdrawn and replaced, and it will not come back.
Do not rely on thereabouts as an emergency interpreting service, or as professional medical, legal, immigration, safety or financial advice. Verify important or high-consequence communication with a qualified person.
5. Speech recognition and playback
Speech transcripts can be affected by microphone quality, background noise, accent, network or platform recognition behaviour. Transcript matching is not phoneme-level pronunciation or accent assessment. Text-to-speech is a learning aid and may not reflect every natural speaker.
6. AI-assisted material
Model output may be inaccurate. A response that is well-formed is not evidence that it is linguistically correct, and should not be treated as such.
You remain responsible for the text you submit. Do not submit confidential information, or another person's personal data — particularly health information, identification numbers or financial details — unless you have a lawful reason and their knowledge or permission.
7. Your content
You retain rights in trip notes, memories, corrections, and other material you add. You give us only the limited permission needed to process that material to provide features you choose, such as consented cloud backup or translation. We do not claim ownership of your content.
8. Accounts and deletion
The app creates an anonymous Firebase account and may let you link Apple or Google sign-in. Account deletion and learner-data deletion are separate because local and cloud records have different lifecycles. Follow the delete account or data instructions. If you have bought full access, read section 13 before deleting: your purchase is not cancelled, but you will need to restore it.
9. Availability and updates
We may update the app to improve features, correct language, fix defects, protect users, or meet platform and legal requirements. Internet-dependent, sign-in, backup, speech, and AI services may be interrupted by third-party availability.
10. Free use, purchase and payment
Your first trip is free in full: the situations and phrases prepared for it, piece-by-piece learning, practice, everything you save, your trip history, and five successful Say it now translations. It is a complete trip rather than a limited demonstration.
Starting a second trip, or making a sixth translation, requires full access. Anything you have already prepared — trips, phrases and history — stays readable whether or not you buy.
Full access is a single one-time purchase. It is not a subscription, there is no trial, and there is no recurring charge. One purchase unlocks the app on that store account and does not expire. The price and currency are always the ones shown to you in the app by the App Store or Google Play at the time you buy. We may change the price of the app in future; that affects new purchases only and never a purchase you have already made.
Payment is taken by Apple or Google, not by us. Your purchase is a transaction with that store under its own terms, and we never see or hold your payment card details. Access unlocks when the store confirms the purchase, so a payment awaiting approval — which Google Play in particular may hold — unlocks when it clears rather than immediately.
11. Restoring your purchase
Because the purchase belongs to your store account, you can restore it on a new device, after reinstalling, or after deleting your account. Use Restore purchases on the unlock screen or in settings, signed in to the same Apple or Google account you bought with. A purchase made before you signed in with Apple or Google is carried over when you link that sign-in.
If a restore finds nothing, your existing access is left as it is rather than switched off. The app never removes an unlock it has previously confirmed because a check failed or you were offline.
12. Refunds
Refunds for App Store and Google Play purchases are granted by Apple and Google under their own refund policies, and are requested from them — we cannot issue a refund for a store purchase ourselves. This does not affect statutory cancellation or consumer rights you have where you live. If you believe something has gone wrong with a purchase, email help@arcturusdc.com and we will help as far as the store permits.
13. Purchases and account deletion
Deleting your account removes our record of your purchase, including the record held by our payments processor. It does not cancel your purchase and it is not a refund.Ownership stays with your Apple or Google account, so reinstalling the app and choosing Restore purchases returns your access.
14. Liability
Nothing in these terms excludes liability that cannot legally be excluded. Subject to that, thereabouts is supplied for personal use without a guarantee that it will be error-free or suitable for every conversation, and we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss arising from reliance on the app.
15. Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales. The courts of England and Wales have non-exclusive jurisdiction, without removing consumer rights that apply where you live.
16. Changes and contact
We may update these terms as the app changes. Material changes will be identified before they take effect. Questions: help@arcturusdc.com.