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Terms of Use

Effective date: 22 October 2026

These terms are an agreement between you and Abbas Anandwala, the independent developer in India who operates Spotted (“Spotted”, “we”, “us”). They cover your use of the Spotted app and this website. By creating an account or using Spotted you agree to them. If you don’t agree, please don’t use the app.

1. Your account

You must be at least 18 years old to use Spotted. You sign in with Google, or with Apple on iPhone. Keep your account secure and let us know if you think someone else is using it. You’re responsible for what happens under your account.

2. What Spotted does

When you share a link to a video, Spotted uses automated tools, including third-party AI services (Google Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude), to find the places it mentions and look them up on Google Maps. The app asks for your agreement before your first video is sent to them. Spotted is for your personal, non-commercial use: keeping a private map of places you want to visit.

3. Spotted Pro, subscriptions and payments

Free plan. Spotted is free to use with up to 3 saves in any rolling 7 days. Only videos that end up with at least one place on your map count as a save.

Spotted Pro removes that limit. It’s sold as a monthly or yearly auto-renewing subscription, or as a one-time lifetime purchase. Prices, in your local currency, are shown in the app before you buy.

  • Billing. Payment is taken by Apple (App Store) or Google (Google Play) and charged to that account when you confirm the purchase. We never see your payment details.
  • Auto-renewal. Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each period, at the price shown at the time, unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Your store account is charged for the renewal within the 24 hours before the period ends.
  • Cancelling. Manage or cancel your subscription in your App Store settings (iPhone: Settings → your name → Subscriptions) or in Google Play (Payments & subscriptions → Subscriptions). You can also open them from Spotted under Settings → Your plan. Cancelling stops future renewals; Pro stays on until the end of the period you’ve paid for. Uninstalling the app or deleting your Spotted account does not cancel a subscription.
  • Refunds. Refunds are handled by Apple or Google under their refund policies; we can’t issue them ourselves. Nothing here limits refund rights you have under consumer law.
  • Price changes. If a subscription price changes, the store tells you in advance and, where its rules require, asks for your agreement before charging the new price.
  • Lifetime. A lifetime purchase unlocks Pro for as long as we offer Spotted.
  • Restoring. If you reinstall or change phones, use “Restore purchases” in Settings → Your plan with the same store account.

To keep the service working for everyone, fair-use limits apply to all accounts, including Pro (for example, a limit on saves per hour and per day). If you reach one, the app tells you when you can save again.

4. Videos and other people’s content

Spotted works with links to public posts by other people. When you share a link, we read that post’s public information to find the places in it and show you a thumbnail, caption, creator name and a link back to the original post. We don’t host, republish or let you download the videos: video files are read once to find places and then deleted, and “Watch” opens the original post in its own app.

The videos, captions and other content belong to their creators and platforms; Spotted claims no rights in them. Only share links to content you’re allowed to view. If you’re a creator or rights holder with a concern, email us at the address below.

5. Acceptable use

Don’t:

  • use Spotted to break the law or anyone’s rights, including privacy and intellectual property rights;
  • use Spotted to collect information about other people, or to build a dataset or competing service;
  • try to get around the free plan or fair-use limits, for example with automated requests or multiple accounts;
  • try to break, overload, scrape, probe or reverse-engineer the app or its servers, except as the law allows;
  • resell, rent or share access to your account.

6. AI results may be wrong

Places, titles, summaries and other details are produced by automated AI extraction and third-party sources (such as Google Places), and may be incomplete, out of date or wrong: a place may be missed, mixed up with another one of the same name, closed, or not what the video showed. Spotted isn’t a recommendation or endorsement of any place. Check important details, such as opening hours, prices, accessibility and safety, before you rely on them or travel.

7. Third-party services

Spotted relies on services such as Google Sign-In, Sign in with Apple, Google Maps and Places, Apple Maps, the App Store and Google Play (for payments, with RevenueCat checking purchases), and the apps you share from (Instagram, YouTube, TikTok). Their own terms apply when you use them; for place information and photos that includes the Google Maps Terms of Service. Spotted isn’t affiliated with or endorsed by these companies, and we aren’t responsible for their services or content.

If you downloaded Spotted from the App Store, Apple’s Standard End User License Agreement also applies. Apple isn’t responsible for Spotted or for supporting it.

8. Our app

Spotted, its design, code and brand belong to us. We give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use the app on devices you own or control, under these terms. The AI-generated titles and summaries in your account are yours to use for your own purposes.

9. Privacy

Our Privacy Policy explains what data we use, why, and how to delete it.

10. Changes and availability

We’re improving Spotted all the time, so features may change or be removed. The service may sometimes be unavailable, and we can’t promise it will always work without interruption or that every video can be read. We may update these terms; we’ll change the effective date above and, for significant changes, tell you in the app before they take effect. If you keep using Spotted after that, the new terms apply.

11. Ending your use

You can stop using Spotted at any time and delete your account in the app (Settings → Delete account) or as described on the account deletion page. We may suspend or close your account if you seriously or repeatedly break these terms, or if the law requires it; where reasonable, we’ll tell you first. We may stop offering Spotted altogether, in which case we’ll give you reasonable notice. When an account is closed, its data is deleted as described in the Privacy Policy. Sections 4, 6, 12, 13 and 14 continue to apply after your use ends.

12. No warranty

Spotted is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose and accuracy of results, to the extent the law allows.

13. Limitation of liability

To the extent the law allows, we aren’t liable for any indirect, incidental, special or consequential loss, for loss of data or profits, or for anything that happens at or on the way to places you find through the app. Our total liability for any claim about Spotted is limited to the amount you paid for Spotted Pro in the 12 months before the claim. Nothing in these terms limits liability that can’t be limited by law, such as for fraud, or rights you have under consumer protection law.

14. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of India. Please contact us first so we can try to resolve any dispute informally. If we can’t, the courts of India have jurisdiction. If you live in a country whose consumer laws give you the right to bring proceedings in your local courts or to rely on local mandatory laws, nothing here takes that right away.

15. Contact

Questions about these terms: hello@adevtutorials.in