These Terms of Use govern the BiteRadar application for iOS and Android, its websites, backend services, and application programming interfaces (together, the "Service"). They cover both free and paid access. Please read them before using the Service. For existing users, material changes apply after the notice described in section 12.
The Service is provided by Jeremiasz Grodzicki, Polish tax identification number (NIP) 8421782665, operating BiteRadar ("we," "our," or "us"). Contact us at onionsoftcontact@gmail.com for support, complaints, or requests to license content or data. Personal data is handled as described in our Privacy Policy. These Terms do not replace that policy or constitute consent to optional personal-data processing.
1. Features and Access
BiteRadar helps you plan fishing trips and record catches. Depending on your app version, location, platform, and subscription, features include:
- daily and hourly fishing forecasts, activity scores, species rankings, recommended fishing times, and explanations of forecast conditions;
- weather and related environmental information, maps, place search, saved fishing locations, and location-based forecast comparisons;
- species guides, fishing methods, baits, habitat information, illustrations, and translated educational content;
- a catch log with measurements, photos, tags, personal records, forecast snapshots, and catch-sharing cards;
- favorite species, optional fishing reminders, forecast ratings, species requests, and feedback.
The current app and purchase screen describe available features and any free or paid limits. Most online features require an internet connection and a compatible device. Cached information may be older than the current forecast. Device permissions such as location, photos, and notifications are used for the corresponding features; you can select a location manually instead of granting device-location access.
2. Forecasts, Guides, and Safety
Forecasts, scores, rankings, suggested times, and estimated environmental conditions are model-based guidance. They are not direct observations of fish activity or a guarantee of a catch. Local habitat, fishing pressure, stocking, water conditions, and other factors can change the outcome. Forecasts and cached data may be incomplete, delayed, or revised as new information becomes available.
Guides and maps provide general information. They do not confirm permission to fish, public access, navigability, ice safety, the presence of a species, or compliance with current local fishing rules. Check official weather warnings, the water manager's rules, permits, closed seasons, protected species, and local conditions before fishing.
BiteRadar is not a navigation, emergency, or safety service. Reminders may be delayed or prevented by device settings, connectivity, or the operating system and must not be relied on for safety. These limitations describe the nature of forecasts and do not remove your statutory rights if the Service fails to conform to the contract.
3. Accounts and Your Stored Data
The app may create a guest account to provide online features. You can sign in with supported providers, including Google and Apple. Protect your account and do not share access credentials or session tokens. Account linking, switching, and purchase restoration depend on the supported sign-in and store flows.
Saved locations synchronize with the active account. Switching accounts can replace the saved-location data visible on the device after the app's confirmation where required. Catch entries, catch photos, favorite species, and device preferences are currently stored locally; signing in does not provide cloud backup or cross-device restoration of those items. Catch analytics sent to the server are not a backup of your catch log.
Keep independent copies of important photos and records. Removing the app, clearing its storage, or losing the device may make local-only data unavailable. Account deletion is available through the app's account controls; further instructions and retained-data details are on our Account & Data Deletion page. Deleting an account does not automatically erase device-local catches or cancel a store subscription.
4. Your Content and Sharing
You retain your rights in the photos, catch records, and other content you provide. Only submit or share content you have the right to use, and respect other people's privacy and rights. You decide whether to share catch cards or other user content outside the app.
To the extent necessary to provide features you use, you grant us a non-exclusive permission to process, store, and display the content you submit to those features, including delivery to recipients you choose through sharing tools. This does not transfer ownership or give us a general right to sell your photos or publish your private fishing locations. Processing of personal data, including analytics used to improve forecasts, remains subject to the Privacy Policy and applicable law.
The restrictions on Service Content below do not prevent you from using your own original photos and catch records outside BiteRadar or exercising statutory access, portability, and retrieval rights.
5. Service Content and Permitted Use
"Service Content" means the material supplied by BiteRadar through the Service, including forecast results and snapshots, activity scores, rankings, hourly and daily time series, recommendations, explanations, environmental and location data, maps, species catalogs, guides, methods, baits, relationships between catalog entries, text, translations, images, and other API responses. It includes both free and paid content, wherever displayed or cached.
Rights in the app, software, branding, original materials, and protected selection, arrangement, and databases belong to BiteRadar or the relevant rights holders. These Terms do not claim exclusive ownership of individual facts, public-domain information, your original content, or third-party material. Third-party and open licenses continue to apply to the material they cover and take precedence over conflicting restrictions here.
We give you a limited, non-exclusive permission to use the app and Service Content for your own fishing planning, learning, and record keeping through the features we provide. This includes normal app caching and offline use where supported. A subscription extends access to the features in your plan; it does not grant a data-resale license or permission to operate a separate service using our API.
You may use the app's sharing features and share occasional screenshots for personal, non-commercial purposes, preserving applicable third-party credits and avoiding misleading claims of endorsement. Using a built-in option to hide BiteRadar branding on a catch card is permitted. Sharing does not authorize bulk publication, redistribution of a guide collection, or distribution of a forecast feed.
6. Automated Access, Extraction, and Reuse
Except as expressly permitted by us in writing, by an applicable third-party license, or by law, you must not:
- use bots, scrapers, crawlers, scripts, automated clients, or coordinated manual collection to harvest Service Content;
- extract or reuse all or a substantial part of a protected database, or repeatedly collect smaller parts in a way that conflicts with its normal use or unreasonably harms the rights holder's legitimate interests;
- resell, sublicense, republish, mirror, or provide a data feed of Service Content, or use it to populate another app, website, API, commercial dataset, or competing forecast service;
- use Service Content to train, fine-tune, or distill machine-learning models, reconstruct our forecast model through systematic querying, or build a substitute content database;
- access backend interfaces through an independent client without permission, share or reuse credentials outside their authorized purpose, or bypass authentication, subscription checks, rate limits, or other access controls;
- probe or enumerate records to access other users' data, overload the Service, interfere with its operation, or remove required rights notices;
- copy, modify, decompile, or reverse engineer protected software beyond what applicable law permits.
These restrictions apply regardless of whether content is obtained from the app, network responses, an API, a website, or a local cache, and whether access is free, paid, or available without signing in. Technical accessibility alone is not permission for an otherwise restricted use.
Normal use of accessibility tools, authorized app features, and search-engine indexing of public website pages in accordance with our published crawling rules is permitted. This indexing permission does not extend to app-only data, private user records, or API harvesting.
Text and data mining reservation. To the extent that we hold the relevant rights and the law allows a reservation, we expressly reserve reproduction and extraction rights for text and data mining, including machine-learning training, under Article 4(3) of Directive (EU) 2019/790 and the corresponding national provisions. A separate license is required for those uses where this reservation is effective. This does not restrict mandatory exceptions, including qualifying scientific research, lawful use of insubstantial database parts, quotation, or other uses that cannot lawfully be excluded by contract.
For bulk data, research, integrations, or commercial reuse, contact onionsoftcontact@gmail.com with the proposed purpose, data scope, and frequency of access.
7. Third-Party Data and Services
BiteRadar uses external weather, mapping, geocoding, authentication, hosting, and app-store services. Their availability and data coverage can affect the Service. Relevant attribution and license notices remain applicable; purchasing BiteRadar does not grant rights beyond those licenses.
We may replace a provider to maintain compatibility, reliability, or legal compliance, subject to section 12 and your rights concerning paid features. Use of a third-party provider does not remove our responsibility for delivering the Service in conformity with the contract.
8. Subscriptions and Payments
BiteRadar PRO offers paid features through Apple App Store or Google Play. The purchase screen identifies the plan, price, billing period, included features, and any trial or introductory terms before you confirm payment.
- Payments and renewals are processed by the store used for the purchase under its disclosed billing terms.
- Auto-renewing plans continue until canceled. Cancel through the relevant store's subscription settings before its renewal deadline; the app's subscription-management option opens those settings where supported.
- Cancellation normally stops future renewals while access continues until the end of the paid period, subject to any refund or statutory termination.
- Uninstalling the app, signing out, or deleting a BiteRadar account does not cancel your store subscription.
- Use the app's restore-purchases option with the appropriate store account if paid access is missing. Contact us if restoration or activation fails.
- Price changes require the notices and any consent required by the store and applicable law. A new price is not applied retroactively to a period already paid for.
Refunds and billing requests. For purchases billed by Apple, request a refund through Apple's Report a Problem, under the applicable App Store terms and refund procedure. For Google Play purchases, follow Google Play's refund policy and request procedure. Eligibility and processing depend on the store, your country, the purchase, and applicable law. If Google Play directs you to the developer, contact us so we can review the request using the available store procedures.
These Terms do not create an additional voluntary refund guarantee. Store procedures do not limit mandatory consumer rights or prevent you from contacting us about a defective or undelivered BiteRadar service.
9. App Support and Consumer Rights
For payment refunds and subscription billing, use the store procedures in section 8. For app faults, missing PRO access, or complaints about the BiteRadar service, contact onionsoftcontact@gmail.com. Describe the issue and, where useful, include the app version, platform, purchase reference, and the outcome you request. Do not send passwords, authentication tokens, or full payment-card details. We will respond to consumer complaints within 14 days, or a shorter period required by applicable law.
Mandatory consumer rights remain in force, including rights relating to delivery, conformity, necessary updates, bringing the Service into conformity, price reduction, and termination or refunds where the legal conditions are met. EU/EEA consumers generally have a 14-day withdrawal period for distance contracts, subject to the statutory rules for digital content and services. Immediate access alone does not automatically waive that right; any exception requires the legally required conditions, information, and express consent. You can exercise applicable rights by sending us an unambiguous statement by email; no special form is required.
10. Availability and Liability
We take reasonable care in operating the Service, but maintenance, network problems, and provider outages can interrupt access. We do not promise uninterrupted availability or any particular fishing outcome. We remain responsible to the extent required by applicable law, including consumer rules governing digital content and services.
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability for fraud, intentional misconduct, gross negligence, death or personal injury where liability cannot be excluded, or any other liability that the law does not allow us to limit. For users acting in a business capacity, and only to the extent permitted by law, we exclude liability for lost profits and indirect or consequential business losses.
11. Misuse, Suspension, and Ending Use
We may proportionately restrict requests or suspend access where reasonably necessary to stop unauthorized extraction, protect user data, address security threats, or respond to a material breach of these Terms. Where practicable, we will explain the reason and allow you to remedy the breach before suspension. Urgent security risks or ongoing abuse may require immediate action.
You may contact us to challenge a restriction. We will review it and restore access when the grounds no longer apply. Suspension does not remove statutory refund, complaint, or personal-data rights. You can stop using the Service at any time, cancel renewal through your store, and request account deletion through the available controls.
12. Changes to the Service and These Terms
We may make changes for specific reasons: legal or regulatory requirements, security, correction of errors, device or store compatibility, changes to external data providers, or development of app features. Changes must be proportionate to the reason. We will provide updates required to maintain contractual conformity.
For material changes to these Terms, we will explain the change and its effective date at least 30 days in advance, unless an urgent legal or security requirement requires a shorter period. Where law requires a durable medium, we will provide a notice you can retain, such as an email. We will obtain agreement where required; merely editing this page does not remove existing contractual rights.
Changes to a continuing paid digital service beyond what is necessary for conformity will be made without additional cost and with the notices required by law. If a change negatively affects access or use by more than a minor amount, you retain applicable rights to terminate without charge, including the EU right to do so within 30 days of receiving the notice or the change taking effect, whichever is later, unless the law permits us to maintain the unchanged, conforming service for you at no additional cost. Any applicable refund rights remain in force.
13. Applicable Law
These Terms are governed by Polish law. If you are a consumer, this choice does not deprive you of mandatory protections under the law of your country of habitual residence where applicable. Disputes may be brought before the courts available under applicable law; these Terms do not require consumers to use an exclusive foreign court or mandatory arbitration.
If a provision is unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue to apply to the extent permitted by law. No provision restricts rights or exceptions that cannot lawfully be waived.