Terms of Service

1. Scope and Provider

These Terms of Service govern your use of the APTV app and the website aptv.cloud. Your contractual counterparty is the operator named in the Imprint (“we” or “APTV”).

Deviating terms of the user do not become part of the contract unless we expressly agree to them in text form.

2. What the Service Is

APTV is a media player, nothing more. The app performs the technical playback of streams that you configure yourself — in particular by entering an M3U playlist or Xtream Codes credentials.

We provide no content, host no streams and do not broker any IPTV subscriptions. We have neither knowledge of nor control over the content a user accesses through the app. Obtaining lawful access to content is solely your responsibility.

The app additionally displays metadata (e.g. cover art, descriptions) from the third-party source TMDB. We assume no warranty for its accuracy.

3. Contract and Account

An account is required. By submitting the registration form you make an offer to conclude a usage contract; the contract is concluded when your account is activated.

Registration requires a valid email address and a six-digit PIN of your choosing. You must keep your PIN confidential and notify us without undue delay if you have any indication of unauthorised use of your account. Sharing your credentials with third parties is not permitted.

The service is intended for persons aged 18 and over.

4. Free Trial

New accounts receive a free 90-day trial. It starts with your first login in the app, not at registration. No payment method is required for the trial.

The trial is granted per device and managed by means of a device characteristic. Attempting to obtain repeated trials by resetting, manipulating or circumventing that characteristic is prohibited.

When the trial ends, access ends automatically. It does not convert into a paid subscription.

5. Subscription, Prices and Payment

After the trial, continued use requires a paid subscription at the prices displayed on the website at the time of your order:

• Monthly — €1.00 per month
• Yearly — €10.00 per year

All prices include statutory VAT. Payments are processed exclusively by our payment provider Stripe. We store no card data. Stripe's terms apply additionally to the payment itself.

Billing occurs in advance for each billing period. In the event of payment default we may suspend access until the amount is settled.

We will notify you of price changes in text form at least six weeks before they take effect. If you do not object before they take effect, the change is deemed accepted; we will point this out separately in the notice. If you object, the contract ends when the change takes effect.

6. Term and Cancellation

The subscription runs for an indefinite period and renews automatically for the same period at the end of each billing period unless cancelled beforehand.

You may cancel at any time with effect from the end of the current billing period — yourself via the Stripe customer portal in your account area, or by email to support@aptv.cloud. Fees already paid for the current period are not refunded pro rata; access remains active until the period ends.

The right of either party to terminate for cause remains unaffected.

You may request deletion of your account at any time by email to support@aptv.cloud.

7. Right of Withdrawal for Consumers

Instructions on withdrawal. You have the right to withdraw from this contract within fourteen days without giving any reason. The withdrawal period is fourteen days from the day of conclusion of the contract.

To exercise your right of withdrawal, you must inform us (contact details in the Imprint, email: support@aptv.cloud) by means of a clear statement (e.g. by email) of your decision to withdraw from this contract. Sending the notification before the period expires is sufficient to meet the deadline.

Consequences of withdrawal. If you withdraw from this contract, we shall reimburse all payments received from you without undue delay and at the latest within fourteen days of the day on which we receive notice of your withdrawal. We will use the same means of payment you used for the original transaction; you will not be charged any fees for this reimbursement.

Early expiry. If you expressly request that we begin performance before the withdrawal period expires, your right of withdrawal expires upon our complete performance of the contract; where you withdraw earlier, you owe reasonable compensation for the value of the service provided up to that point.

8. Permitted Use — Unlawful Purposes Prohibited

For the term of the contract we grant you a simple, non-transferable, non-sublicensable right to use the app for your own private purposes.

You must not use the app for unlawful purposes. The following is prohibited in particular:

• playing back, reproducing or making publicly available any content for which you lack the necessary authorisation from the rights holder — in particular using IPTV access that distributes copyrighted content without a licence;
• circumventing technical protection measures, geoblocking or other access restrictions;
• any use that violates applicable law, in particular copyright, trademark, youth protection, data protection or criminal law;
• public or commercial playback of content through the app (e.g. in bars, hotels, practices or retail premises) without the corresponding licence;
• transferring, renting, reselling or sharing your account with third parties;
• reverse engineering, decompiling, modifying or circumventing the app's licensing, trial or authentication mechanisms;
• automated or abusive access to our servers, in particular anything impairing their availability or security.

You alone are responsible for the lawfulness of the access you configure and the content you retrieve through it. You shall indemnify us against third-party claims asserted against us on account of unlawful use of the app for which you are responsible, including reasonable costs of legal defence.

9. Suspension and Termination for Cause

Where there is concrete suspicion of a material breach of section 8, we may temporarily suspend the account concerned. In the event of a serious or repeated breach we may terminate the contract without notice and delete the account.

Before taking a permanent measure we will give you the opportunity to comment, unless this is dispensable due to a legal obligation, an official or judicial order, or to avert an immediate danger. We will inform you of any suspension and its reasons in text form.

Where termination for cause is attributable to you, there is no claim to reimbursement of fees already paid for the current billing period.

10. Availability

We strive for the highest possible availability of our services but do not owe any specific availability rate. Maintenance, internet disruptions and circumstances beyond our control may cause interruptions.

The availability and quality of the streams themselves rests solely with the provider of the access configured by the user and is outside our responsibility.

We may continue to develop the app and adjust features, provided this is reasonable for you and does not jeopardise the purpose of the contract.

11. Liability

We are liable without limitation for intent and gross negligence, for fraudulent concealment of a defect, for injury to life, body or health, within the scope of a warranty assumed, and under the German Product Liability Act.

In the event of slightly negligent breach of a material contractual obligation — an obligation whose fulfilment makes the proper performance of the contract possible in the first place and on whose observance you may regularly rely — our liability is limited to the damage typically foreseeable at the time the contract was concluded. Liability for slight negligence is otherwise excluded.

We are not liable for content you retrieve through the app, nor for damage arising from use contrary to section 8.

You are responsible for backing up your own data (in particular playlists and settings).

12. Changes to These Terms

We may amend these Terms with effect for the future insofar as this is necessary to adapt to changes in the law, case law or technical circumstances and does not unreasonably disadvantage you.

We will notify you of the change in text form at least six weeks before it takes effect. If you do not object before it takes effect, the change is deemed accepted; we will point this out separately in the notice. If you object, the previous terms continue to apply; either party may then terminate the contract with effect from the next billing date.

13. Final Provisions

The law of the Federal Republic of Germany applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. If you are a consumer habitually resident in the EU, mandatory consumer protection provisions of your country of residence remain unaffected.

We are neither willing nor obliged to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board (§ 36 VSBG).

Should any provision of these Terms be or become invalid, the validity of the remaining provisions remains unaffected.