Talking tree app terms and conditions
This is an agreement between you and Talking tree app (with its affiliates, “app”, "Talking tree", "we" or "us") regarding the digital spoken word audio entertainment service operated by Talking tree (the "Service"). These Conditions of Use, the rules, policies and guidance we provide regarding the Service (all as they may be changed over time) are collectively referred to as the "Terms", form part of this agreement, and govern your use of the Service.
By signing up for or using the Service, you agree to the Terms.
Your Account
Talking tree currently uses Google (google.com and its subsidiaries) account for authentication and signing up. If you do not have a Google account, you will need to establish an account with Google to use the Service.
Membership Plans
As part of our Service, we may offer membership plans and may change them and their features from time to time. If you sign up for a membership plan, you agree to the terms, conditions and limitations associated with them that are posted on our website(s) or applications.
Privacy Policy
Talking tree collects only the data essential to create and maintain your account in the app. This include the basic contact and demographic information. All the payments are processed by Google and the app does not store any users' banking information.
The app does not share, rent or sell the data collected.
Purchased Content
As of September 2020, all the content made available through Talking tree app is available for free for app members. In the future if paid content is available on content you purchase will be available in your Talking tree library for you to access at your convenience. We encourage you to download a copy of your purchased content promptly after the completion of your purchase.
Promotional and Membership Content
We may make content available to you from time to time through the Service for which a purchase is not required. You will have access to this content only for so long as we make it available generally or, where it is provided as a benefit of a membership plan, for so long as you remain an active member of your plan in good standing. We may also remove this content from your account, devices and applications or otherwise restrict your ability to access it.
Content Availability
We may add or remove purchasable, promotional and membership content (collectively, "Content") from our catalog, membership plans and our Service at any time and make no guarantee as to the availability of specific Content in any membership plan or as to any minimum amount of Content in any membership plan. Some of our Content may be offered in limited territories, and we may use geo-filtering technology to restrict access outside of those territories.
Fees and Renewal
Fees for purchased content, membership plans, subscriptions and other services will be stated at the time of your purchase or sign-up, as applicable, and provided in our help pages. The fees for membership plans may change at any time. Fees may be subject to tax, collected by us or a third party through which you transact, and are non-refundable except in the specific circumstances described in the Terms.
We accept a variety of payment methods depending on the type of membership plan you choose. If you sign up for an auto-renewing membership plan, your membership will automatically renew at the end of each period and we or the third party through which you transact will charge you the membership fees at the time of renewal (“Recurring Payments”). By signing up for an auto-renewing plan you authorize us, or a third party through which you transact to collect the membership fee for the next membership period.
Once Recurring Payments has been enabled for your Membership, you authorize us or the third party through which you transact to charge the Membership fees for the next Membership period(s) during the subsistence of your Membership, unless you cancel or disable Recurring Payment, by means specified by us or the third party through which you transacted and applicable at such time. In this case your Membership will not renew automatically.
In case you cancel your Membership before the end of the then current Membership period, you will not be entitled to any compensation, monetary or otherwise, from Talking tree and/or its affiliates for the unutilized Membership period. The amount of Membership fees shall be governed by the terms of the Membership, and you acknowledge that the same is subject to change.
Membership only becomes effective upon successful authorization of payment or successfully enabling Recurring Payments. If the payment methods provided by you are declined for payment of your membership or subscription fees or you do not have a valid payment method on file on your renewal date, we may at our option, limit access to non-purchased content and membership benefits and/or cancel your membership or subscription, as applicable, unless you provide us with a valid payment method. If you provide us with a valid payment method and are successfully charged before your membership or subscription is cancelled, your new membership or subscription period will be based on the original renewal date and not the date of the successful charge.
You may disable automatic renewal of your membership by disabling or deactivating the recurring payment from your Google account (or Playstore) subscription management option. If you cancel your membership or subscription, you will not receive a refund of any fees already paid. Your member benefits terminate when your membership is cancelled, but cancellation does not terminate your license and access to purchased content.
Service Restrictions
We reserve the right to accept or refuse membership or to restrict use of the Service in our discretion. You may not transfer or assign your membership or any Service benefits. We may take actions we deem reasonably necessary to prevent fraud and abuse, including placing restrictions on the amount of content or other services that can be accessed from the Service at any one time.
Content Restrictions
You may not (i) transfer, copy or display Content, except as permitted in this Agreement; (ii) sell, rent, lease, distribute, or broadcast any Content; (iii) remove any proprietary notices or labels on Content; (iv) attempt to disable, bypass, modify, defeat, or otherwise circumvent any digital rights management or other protection system applied to Content or used as part of the Service; or (v) use the Service or Content for any commercial or illegal purpose.
Promotional Trial Memberships
We sometimes offer certain customers various trial or other promotional memberships, which are subject to the Terms except as otherwise stated in the promotional offers. We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to determine your eligibility. Trial members may, at any time (through your Google account), choose not to continue to paid membership by cancelling prior to the end of the trial period. If a trial offer or a promotion requires you to have a valid payment instrument on file, such as a credit card or other permitted payment method, we may validate that payment method including by requesting a temporary authorization from the financial institution issuing your payment instrument. If we determine that your payment instrument is invalid, without limiting any of our other rights, we may revoke any benefits, Credits or Content you may have received as part of the offer.
Notice and Procedure for Making Claims of Copyright Infringement
If you believe that your intellectual property rights have been infringed, please submit your claim by emailing us.
e-mail: talkingtreeapp@gmail.com
Agreement Changes
We may in our discretion change the Terms and all elements of them and any aspect of the Service at any time. If any change to the Terms is found invalid, void, or for any reason unenforceable, that change is severable and does not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining changes and the remainder of the Terms. Your continued use of the Service after we change the Terms constitutes your acceptance of the changes. If you do not agree to any changes, you must not use the Service and must cancel your membership.
Termination by Us
Our business may change over time and we reserve the right to cancel the Service and any membership plan in whole or in part, and to terminate your membership and use of the Service at our discretion. If we do so, we may prorated refund based on the number of days remaining in your membership unless we terminate your membership for conduct that we determine, in our discretion, violates the Terms, violates any applicable law, involves fraud or misuse of the Service, or is harmful to our interests or another user. Our failure to insist upon or enforce your strict compliance with the Terms will not constitute a waiver of any of our rights.
Disputes; Limitation of Liability
The app is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. In no event shall the authors or copyright holders be liable for any claim, damages or other liability, whether in an action of contract, tort or otherwise, arising from, out of or in connection with the app or the use or the data collected through the app or other dealings in the app.
Any dispute or claim arising from or relating to the Terms or your use of the Service is subject to the governing law, jurisdiction, disclaimer of warranties and limitation of liability and all other terms stated above. You agree to those terms by signing up for Talking tree.