Last updated: 2026-10-14
1. What Ventura is
Ventura records your drives on your phone and turns each one into a *memory* — a route, photos and statistics computed on our servers from the raw GPS trace. Every recorded drive becomes a memory automatically; there is no separate "publish" action. Who can see a drive is set out in the Privacy Policy §4: you; the followers you have approved (after the delay you chose, if you set one on a paid plan); for a drive you confirmed you made together with someone, the other people on it and their approved followers; and anyone you send a share link to. Your approved followers may get a notification when a new drive of yours becomes visible to them.
To record drives you need a phone with location access granted. Viewing your drives, managing your garage and seeing your plan also work on the web; a subscription bought in the app is managed in your Apple Account on iPhone, or on Google Play on Android (§5).
2. The app, your device and the app stores
Ventura requires a supported iOS or Android device with location services and an internet connection to upload and process drives, or a current web browser for the website. Recording is available on the phone app only.
Your licence to the app. We give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to install and use the Ventura app on devices you own or control, for as long as you have an account, under these Terms. You may not copy, modify, sell or redistribute the app, or reverse engineer it, except where the law expressly allows that despite this sentence. The app contains open-source components under their own licences, listed in the app and at the open-source licences page on our website; nothing in these Terms limits your rights under those licences.
Permissions. The app asks for permissions only when a feature needs them, and works without any you decline, minus that feature:
- Location — to record a drive. With access "while using the app" Ventura records only while it is open; with "always" it keeps recording when the screen is locked or you switch apps. Without location access nothing can be recorded.
- Photos — to attach the photos you pick to a drive, a vehicle or your profile. The app reads only the photos you choose.
- Notifications — to tell you when a memory is ready, when someone reacts to or comments on your drive, when someone you follow posts a drive, and to ask whether to add kilometres when you set off again during a paused recording.
You can change any of these at any time in your phone's settings. Ventura does not use your camera, microphone, contacts or Bluetooth.
What stays on your phone. A drive is recorded on your phone first and uploaded when there is a connection. Until then it exists only on that phone: if you delete the app or lose the phone before a drive has uploaded, that drive is lost and we cannot recover it. After upload, the phone keeps its own copy of the trace only until the drive has been processed, and for no more than seven days.
Updates. We release updates to the app. Some may be needed to keep using Ventura — an old version may stop working with our servers. Keeping the app updated is your responsibility; your device or app store may do it for you.
Battery and data. Recording uses GPS continuously and noticeably shortens battery life; uploading drives and photos uses mobile data, which your network operator may charge for.
The app stores. If you got the app from Apple's App Store or Google Play, the store's own terms also apply to downloading it and to anything you buy through the store. For the iPhone app, in addition:
- these Terms are between you and us, not Apple; Apple is not responsible for the app or its content;
- Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for the app;
- if the app fails to conform to a warranty that applies to it, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price of the app, if any; to the extent the law allows, Apple has no other warranty obligation for the app;
- Apple is not responsible for addressing any claim by you or anyone else relating to the app or your use of it, including product-liability claims, claims that the app fails to meet a legal or regulatory requirement, and claims under consumer-protection, privacy or similar law;
- if anyone claims that the app or your use of it infringes their intellectual property rights, we, not Apple, are responsible for investigating, defending, settling and discharging that claim;
- you confirm that you are not located in a country subject to a United States government embargo or designated as a "terrorist supporting" country, and that you are not on any United States government list of prohibited or restricted parties;
- Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce them against you.
Nothing in this list limits your statutory rights as a consumer (§11, §14).
3. Eligibility
You must be at least 16 years old to use Ventura. By creating an account you confirm that you are. We ask for your date of birth at sign-up, and we may close an account if we find this is not true.
Being old enough to use Ventura is not the same as being allowed to drive. You are responsible for holding whatever licence and insurance the law where you drive requires; Ventura neither checks nor implies anything about that.
4. Your account
- Sign-in is through Google or Apple only. Ventura has no separate password, so the security of your account depends on the provider account you use.
- You are responsible for activity under your account.
- One person, one account. Do not share an account or impersonate anyone.
- You can delete your account at any time in account settings. What that does to your data is described in the Privacy Policy, §7.
5. Subscriptions
- Ventura has a permanently free tier. Recording drives, your memories, your statistics, your timeline and your feed are never placed behind a paywall, and nothing you have already recorded is ever hidden from you because you stopped paying.
- Paid plans (Plus, Pro) raise limits — how many vehicles your garage holds, how many photos you can attach — and unlock additional features.
- Where you can buy. Plus and Pro are sold as auto-renewable subscriptions, monthly or yearly, inside the Ventura app: through In-App Purchase in the app for iPhone and through Google Play in the app for Android. The store you buy from processes the payment, and its own terms apply to the purchase itself in addition to these Terms — Apple's Media Services Terms and Conditions on iPhone, the Google Play Terms of Service on Android. Subscriptions are not currently sold on our website; if that changes, this section will say so before any payment is possible there.
- One plan, one store. A plan is managed in the store that sold it. If your plan was bought somewhere else, the app does not offer to sell you a second one, so you are not charged twice for the same account.
- Price. The store shows the price in your local currency, including any taxes that apply, before you confirm the purchase.
- Renewal. A subscription renews automatically for the same period until you cancel it. On iPhone, auto-renewal must be turned off at least 24 hours before the current period ends, and Apple charges the renewal within the 24 hours before the period ends. On Android, cancel before the renewal date; Google Play charges the renewal when the new period begins.
- Cancelling. You can turn off auto-renewal at any time — on iPhone in Settings → Apple Account → Subscriptions, on Android in the Google Play Store app → Payments & subscriptions → Subscriptions. Your plan stays active until the end of the period you have already paid for; we do not cut your access off early. Cancellation does not delete anything you have recorded.
- Your account. A plan belongs to the Ventura account you are signed in to when you buy it, and it follows that account to every device and to the web. If you reinstall the app or change phones, use Restore purchases on the plan screen; this works on a phone signed in to the same store account that made the purchase.
- Refunds for store purchases are decided and paid by the store that sold the subscription, subject to §6. If the store refunds a subscription, the paid plan ends.
- If a renewal payment fails, the store may retry it for a limited period. We do not delete any of your data because a payment failed.
6. Right of withdrawal (consumers in the EU)
If you are a consumer in the European Union, you may withdraw from a subscription bought in the Ventura app within 14 days of receiving the purchase confirmation, without giving a reason. For a subscription this applies to the first purchase, not to its renewals.
- iPhone (App Store). Because Apple is the seller of record for App Store purchases, the withdrawal is made through Apple, as its Media Services Terms and Conditions describe: in your Apple Account, open Purchase History, select the purchase and choose to withdraw from the transaction. Apple handles the withdrawal and the refund; once it does, your paid plan ends.
- Android (Google Play). You can withdraw through Google Play, by requesting a refund for the purchase from your Google Play order history as Google Play's terms describe, or by writing to us at vasialeleka@ukr.net within the same 14 days: we will cancel the subscription and refund the purchase through Google Play. Once it is refunded, your paid plan ends.
The paid features become available immediately after purchase. This does not remove your right of withdrawal.
Creating a Ventura account costs nothing, and you can delete it at any time (§4).
7. Location data and route privacy
Recording a drive requires access to your location, including in the background if you grant it. That is how Ventura builds a memory.
People you approve as followers see your route with a stretch removed from each end, so a drive does not point at your front door. As explained in the Privacy Policy §4, this makes your start and end points harder to determine — it is not anonymity, and we do not warrant that any location shown or concealed by Ventura is untraceable. Choose who follows you accordingly.
Ventura is a record of drives, not a navigation or safety system. Do not operate the app while driving, and do not rely on it for anything safety- critical.
8. Content you upload
You keep ownership of your photos and everything else you upload. You grant us the licence we need to store, process and display that content to you and to the people who can see the drive it belongs to (§1): your approved followers, the people on a drive you confirmed you made together and their approved followers, and anyone holding a share link you created — nothing broader, and only for the purpose of running Ventura.
You are responsible for having the right to upload what you upload. Do not upload content that is illegal, infringes someone else's rights, or depicts other people in a way they have not agreed to.
9. Acceptable use
Do not use Ventura to break the law, harass anyone, or infringe others' rights. Do not interfere with the service, attempt to circumvent limits, scrape it, or try to access data that is not yours. (An untrimmed route is not something you could obtain by any means: Ventura does not store one.)
Do not use Ventura to track another person.
No objectionable content, and no abuse of other people. There is no tolerance for content or behaviour that is illegal, hateful, harassing, threatening, sexually explicit, violent, or that exposes someone's private information — in comments, photos, profiles or anything else you post. Do not claim that someone drove with you unless they did; a shared drive appears in their history only after they confirm it.
Reporting and blocking. You can report a drive, a photo, a comment, a journey or a person from inside the app, and block anyone; blocking removes the follow in both directions and hides each of you from the other. The owner of a drive can delete any comment on it. We review every report within 24 hours and act on it: we remove content that breaks these Terms and may suspend or close the accounts responsible (§15).
10. Map data and attribution
Ventura's maps use data from OpenStreetMap and OpenMapTiles, attributed in the app. OpenStreetMap data is licensed under the Open Database License (ODbL). We do not republish road-coverage or other map-derived datasets for use outside Ventura, and neither may you.
11. Service availability, disclaimers and liability
Use Ventura safely. Start the recording before you set off and stop it once you are no longer driving. Do not operate the app, read your statistics or look at the map while the car is moving. Your attention belongs to the road, and no feature of Ventura is worth a moment of it. How you drive, and whether you comply with the traffic and licensing rules where you drive, is entirely your responsibility.
What Ventura is not. Ventura is a record of drives you have already made. It is not:
- a navigation system, a driver-assistance system or any kind of guidance — it gives no instructions, warnings or routes;
- a safety, emergency, breakdown or roadside-assistance service — it does not monitor you and will not call anyone on your behalf;
- a security or vehicle-recovery system — it does not track a vehicle and must not be relied on to find one;
- a measuring instrument — nothing in it is calibrated or certified;
- a logbook for tax, employment, insurance or regulatory purposes, and not a source of evidence for any of them;
- a fleet-management or driver-monitoring tool.
It must never be relied on in any situation where safety, money or a legal position depends on the answer. If you need any of the things listed above, use a product built and certified for it.
Accuracy. Routes, distances, speeds, stops, elevation and every other figure are derived from your phone's GPS and from map data contributed by volunteers. Both are approximate. Signal degrades in tunnels, cities, garages and bad weather; a phone can report a position it never occupied; the operating system can stop the app in the background at any moment and end a recording without telling either of us. We do not warrant that any recorded route, time, speed, distance or statistic is accurate, complete or fit for any purpose, and we do not warrant that a drive you make will be recorded at all.
Availability. Ventura is provided as it is and as it happens to be available. We make no promise about uptime, about how long processing takes, or that the service, or any particular feature of it, will continue to exist. We may change, suspend or discontinue any part of it.
Things outside our control. Ventura depends on services we do not operate — your phone and its operating system, your network, our hosting and database provider, the payment provider, and the map and geocoding data of the OpenStreetMap project. We are not liable for their failures, changes, interruptions or errors, nor for events beyond our reasonable control, including outages, attacks, strikes, natural events and acts of authority.
Your data is yours to keep a copy of. Ventura offers a full export of your data at any time, free of charge, from account settings on the website. We are not liable for the loss of data you could have exported and did not, and we do not promise that anything deleted, lost or corrupted can be restored.
Liability. We are liable without limit for damage we cause intentionally or through gross negligence, for damage to life, body or health, and in every other case where Polish or EU law does not permit liability to be limited or excluded — this section neither excludes nor attempts to exclude any of that.
In every other case, and to the fullest extent the law allows:
- our total liability arising out of or in connection with Ventura is limited to the amount you actually paid us for the service in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim, and where you have paid us nothing, to nothing;
- we are not liable for indirect, incidental or consequential loss, for loss of profit, revenue, opportunity, goodwill or data, or for any loss that was not reasonably foreseeable when you accepted these Terms;
- we are not liable for any loss arising because you used Ventura as something it is not, as described above, or relied on a figure it displayed;
- we are not liable for any consequence of how you drove, of a decision you took while driving, or of any accident, fine, dispute or claim connected with a drive.
If someone else claims against us because of you. If a third party brings a claim against us arising from content you uploaded, from your breach of these Terms, or from your unlawful use of Ventura, you will cover the reasonable costs we incur in dealing with it, to the extent the law allows this to be agreed.
Your statutory rights as a consumer are not affected by anything in this section, including the conformity rights the EU gives you for digital services.
12. Changes to the service and to these Terms
We may change or discontinue features. Where a change materially reduces what a paid plan provides, we will tell you in advance and you may cancel.
When these Terms change we update the date at the top and notify you in the app if the change is material. Continuing to use Ventura after a material change means you accept the new Terms; if you do not, you may close your account.
13. Complaints
If something is wrong, write to vasialeleka@ukr.net describing the problem and what you would like us to do. We confirm receipt and respond within 14 days.
If you are a consumer and our answer does not satisfy you, you may use out-of-court dispute resolution. In Poland that includes the mediation and consumer arbitration offered by the *Inspekcja Handlowa* through its regional inspectorates, and the entities listed in the register kept by the President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (UOKiK) at uokik.gov.pl (https://uokik.gov.pl). Free advice is also available from municipal and district consumer ombudsmen (*rzecznik konsumentów*).
Using any of these routes is your choice, not a condition of going to court.
14. Governing law, jurisdiction and general terms
Governing law. These Terms, and any dispute arising out of them or out of your use of Ventura, are governed by the law of Poland, where Ventura is registered, excluding its conflict-of-law rules.
If you are a consumer, this takes nothing away from you. You keep the protection of the mandatory consumer rules of the country where you habitually live, and nothing in these Terms may be read as removing them. You may bring a claim against us in the courts of your own country, and we will bring a claim against a consumer only in the courts of the country where that consumer lives.
If you are not a consumer — that is, if you use Ventura in the course of a trade, business, craft or profession — the courts competent for our registered seat in Poland have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute, and you waive any objection to that venue.
The English text is the authoritative one. These Terms are written in English. Any translation is provided for convenience only, and in the event of any difference in meaning the English version prevails — except where the law of a consumer's own country requires otherwise.
If part of these Terms cannot stand. If any provision is found invalid, unenforceable or contrary to mandatory law, it is severed and replaced by the lawful provision that comes closest to its purpose, and the rest of these Terms remain in full force. This applies in particular to the limitations in §11: a limitation that a court will not enforce in full applies to the fullest extent that court does allow, and does not take the remaining limitations with it.
No waiver. If we do not enforce a right under these Terms straight away, or at all, that is not a waiver of it, and it does not stop us enforcing it later.
Transfer. We may transfer our rights and obligations under these Terms to another entity — for example if the business is reorganised into a company or its assets are acquired — and we will tell you in the app if that happens; if you are a consumer and the transfer would leave you worse off, you may close your account and stop using Ventura. You may not transfer your account or your rights under these Terms to anyone else.
The whole agreement. These Terms together with the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and us about Ventura, and they replace anything said or written before. Nothing in this paragraph limits liability for statements made fraudulently.
15. Termination
You may close your account at any time (§4). We may suspend or terminate an account that breaches these Terms; where it is reasonable to do so we will warn you first and give you a chance to put it right. If we terminate your account without cause while a subscription bought in the app is running, the unused part is refunded: for an App Store purchase by Apple, not by us — we will tell you how to request it and support the request; for a Google Play purchase by us, through Google Play.
16. Who you are contracting with, and how to reach us
These Terms form a contract between you and Vasyl Leleka, Jednoosobowa działalność gospodarcza, registered at ul. Raciborska 4/3, 30-384 Kraków, Polska, NIP 6762659137, REGON 527272851 ("Ventura", "we", "us").
Contact: vasialeleka@ukr.net.
By creating a Ventura account you accept these Terms. If you do not accept them, do not create an account.