Terms of Service
Agreement
These terms are between you and Wezdenko L.L.C., an Arizona limited liability company. They apply to this website and to the products we publish, including Spotcraft™. Using them means you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, please do not use the products.
Identification results are informational
Spotcraft™ is a training and enthusiast tool. It identifies aircraft from images and public data, and it will sometimes be wrong.
Do not rely on it for the operation of an aircraft, for air traffic or ground control, for security or law-enforcement decisions, for maintenance or airworthiness determinations, or for any purpose where an incorrect identification could cause harm. It is not a navigational instrument, not a certified aviation product, and not a substitute for an authoritative source.
Using the products
You may use our products for their intended purpose. Please do not:
- break the law with them, or use them to harass, surveil or endanger anyone;
- capture images where photography is prohibited, or where you lack permission to be;
- interfere with the service, probe it for vulnerabilities without our written permission, or attempt to bypass access controls;
- scrape, resell or redistribute the service or its output as a competing product;
- upload content you have no right to submit.
You are responsible for what you capture and submit, and for complying with local law where you are.
Your content
The images and information you submit remain yours. Using the app, you grant us the limited permission we need to operate the service — to transmit, process, store and display your content back to you, and to have our providers do the same on our behalf.
Beyond that, two separate licences may apply, and neither implies the other.
The corpus licence covers images and video entering our training collection. It is a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive licence to use, reproduce, modify and create derivative works from what you contribute, for training machine-learning models and for use in the product. Accepting it is required to use the capture tool, which exists to contribute photographs; in the app it is optional, off by default, and declining does not reduce what the product does for you. You confirm the work is yours and that you are entitled to grant this.
The social media licence covers publishing your work on our social accounts. It is never a standing permission and never a condition of anything — you grant it one photograph or video at a time, by submitting that work for Picture of the Week, with credit to the handle you give us. If we feature it, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free licence to display and publish that work on our accounts and in our own promotional material, and to keep it published. Picture of the Week is open to people aged 18 or over; contributions to the training collection are accepted from age 13, are marked where the contributor is under 18, and are not published.
Posts already made stay up. You may stop submitting at any time and we will publish nothing further, but a Picture of the Week post is not withdrawn by later withdrawing from the collection. We say so at the moment you submit. We will still remove a post where the work was not yours to submit, or where a platform or the law requires it.
You keep copyright in everything you contribute, and both licences are non-exclusive — post, sell or license your own work anywhere else without asking us. You may withdraw from the collection at any time, through the same place you agreed — the app, or the person who sent you your capture link: we stop new training and product use and remove your work from it. Because the licences are irrevocable, models already trained are not affected, and we will not claim otherwise. Both are versioned, and the version you accepted is recorded — for the social media licence, against the individual work. Where these terms and a licence you accepted differ, that licence controls. See the Privacy Policy.
Our content
The products, the software and the site are ours, and are protected by copyright and other laws. Spotcraft™, together with our other product names and logos, are our marks. These terms grant you no right to use them beyond ordinary reference to the products.
Accounts
If you create an account, keep your credentials secure and tell us promptly if you believe they have been compromised. You may close your account at any time.
Availability and changes
We may change, suspend or discontinue any part of the products, and we may update these terms. If a change materially affects you, we will give notice in the app or by email before it takes effect. Continuing to use the products after that means you accept the new terms.
Paid features
Some features may be offered for a fee in future. Where they are, the price, billing period and cancellation terms will be disclosed before you are charged, and purchases made through an app store are also subject to that store’s terms and refund policy.
No warranty
The products are provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy and non-infringement. We do not warrant that identifications will be correct, or that the service will be uninterrupted or error-free. Some jurisdictions do not allow these exclusions, in which case they may not apply to you.
Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, Wezdenko L.L.C. will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenues or data, arising out of your use of the products. Our total liability for any claim relating to the products will not exceed the greater of the amount you paid us for them in the twelve months before the claim, or twenty-five United States dollars. Some jurisdictions do not allow these limitations, in which case they may not apply to you.
Termination
You may stop using the products at any time. We may suspend or end your access if you materially breach these terms, or if we are required to. The sections that by their nature should survive termination — ownership, warranty disclaimers, limitation of liability and governing law — do survive it.
Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Arizona, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. The courts located in Maricopa County, Arizona have exclusive jurisdiction over disputes arising from them, and you and we each consent to that jurisdiction.