Terms of Use

Version 1.0 · in effect from 2026-08-02

This is the agreement between you and us about using WhenStars. It is written to be read. Where a term exists to protect us rather than you, it says so plainly instead of hiding behind length.

1. Who you are agreeing with

WhenStars is operated by COMPANYA s.r.o., registered IČO 51 816 237, IČ DPH SK2120802222, Obchodný register Mestského súdu Bratislava III, oddiel Sro, vložka č. 129873/B, at Pod Vachmajstrom 13973/13, 831 01 Bratislava, Slovakia. "We" and "us" mean that company. "You" means you. Contact: contact@companya.eu.

2. What WhenStars is, and what it is not

WhenStars computes the classical astrological hours for a place and a birth chart, and shows you written passages about them. The astronomy is real: positions come from a published ephemeris and are accurate to a fraction of a degree.

The astrology is not advice, and nothing in this app is a prediction of fact. It is a traditional interpretive system, offered for reflection and entertainment. In particular:

• Nothing here is medical advice. The app has a section it calls health. It is about vitality in the traditional sense and it is not a clinician. Do not use it to decide anything about illness, treatment, medication or surgery. Speak to a doctor.
• Nothing here is financial or investment advice. The app has a section it calls money. Do not use it to decide about investments, borrowing or any transaction.
• Nothing here is legal advice, and nothing here is a substitute for professional judgement of any kind.

What we do promise is the astronomy: the computed positions are checked against an independent reference to a fraction of a degree, and if a calculation is wrong we will fix it. What no one can promise is the interpretation. Readings are interpretive work in a classical tradition, offered for reflection; they are not statements of fact about your future, and we guarantee the correctness of our calculations, never the accuracy of an interpretation.

Decisions you make after reading anything in this app are yours.

3. You must be 16

You need to be at least 16 years old to hold an account. If you are not, you may not use the service, and we will delete an account if we learn it belongs to someone younger.

4. Your account

Keep your password to yourself. You are responsible for what happens under your account until you tell us it has been compromised. One person, one account. Tell us at contact@companya.eu if you think someone else has got in.

You must confirm your email address before the account works. If you never confirm it, we will eventually remove the unfinished registration.

5. Birth data, and why it is fixed

A chart is a single moment in a single place. Changing that moment does not adjust the chart, it describes a different person. So the birth moment on a chart is set once when you create it.

Because a birth time is typed by hand from a certificate or a memory, and getting it wrong is the commonest mistake there is, the first correction is free. The app asks you to confirm it, rewrites the moment, and recomputes everything.

Beyond that, an additional birth moment is an additional chart and is charged as one. This is a product rule, not a limit on your rights, and it has three lanes worth stating plainly:

• The data you gave us was inaccurate. You have a legal right to have it corrected, that right is not for sale, and we will correct it free of charge however many times it takes. Write to us and say the data is inaccurate.
• We got it wrong. If WhenStars computed, geocoded or stored your birth data incorrectly, fixing it is our defect to repair: always free, never counted against your free correction, and we recompute what it affected.
• A different person's moment. Entering a new birth moment that is not a correction of either kind is a new chart, and that is the one that is charged.

6. This is a beta

The service is offered as it is, while it is being built. Things will change, occasionally break, and sometimes be unavailable. We do not promise the service will be uninterrupted or error-free, and we may change or remove features. Statutory warranty rights that consumer law gives you, including conformity rights for digital content once you pay for anything, remain unaffected by this section; the sentence below applies only as far as the law lets it.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT THE LAW ALLOWS, THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE", WITHOUT IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. This paragraph is set apart because some laws require a warranty disclaimer to be conspicuous; it does not take away anything the paragraph above preserves.

7. Money

Nothing can currently be bought. A new account gets thirty days of the full calendar at no cost. When purchasing opens, prices will be shown before you buy, you will never be charged without choosing to be, and purchases made through the Apple App Store or Google Play are also subject to those stores' own terms and refund policies. Your statutory right of withdrawal as a consumer in the EU applies, subject to the usual rule that it ends once you ask for immediate delivery of digital content and acknowledge losing it.

8. What you may not do

• Break into other people's accounts, or try to read charts that are not yours.
• Scrape, bulk-download or resell the written passages, the artwork, or the computed results.
• Attack the service, or use it to attack anyone else.
• Pretend the readings come from someone else, or present them as professional advice.
• Use the service where doing so would break the law where you are.

9. Who owns what

The written passages, the interpretive engine, the card artwork and the design of the app belong to us. You may read them, quote a short passage with attribution, and screenshot your own chart to share it. You may not republish the library or use it to build a competing product.

Your birth data and your charts are yours. We claim no ownership of them, and we do not use them for anything except showing them to you.

Planetary positions come from the JPL DE440s ephemeris. Place names come from GeoNames under CC BY 4.0. Map tiles come from OpenStreetMap contributors.

10. Ending it

You can delete your account at any time from inside the app, and the deletion is real. We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms, and we will tell you why unless the law stops us. Sections 9, 11 and 12 survive the account ending.

11. Liability

We are liable to you for damage we cause by breaking this agreement, but, in cases of slight negligence, not for indirect or consequential loss, not for lost profits, and not for anything arising from a decision you took after reading a chart. For slight negligence our total liability is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, or fifty euro. Neither of us is liable for failure or delay caused by events genuinely beyond reasonable control, though anything you have paid for and not received is refunded.

None of that limits what the law does not allow us to limit. The cap and the exclusions above do not apply to damage we cause intentionally or by gross negligence, to death, bodily injury or damage to health, to liability under product liability law, to fraud, or to your statutory conformity remedies for paid digital content. Those stand at full height whatever this section says.

If your unlawful use of the service, or your breach of these terms, causes a third party to bring a claim against us, you will compensate us for the damage and reasonable costs that claim causes, to the extent you are responsible for it. This works in the ordinary way of fault-based liability; it does not make you an insurer of our business.

12. Which law, and which court

These terms are governed by the law of the Slovak Republic, and its courts have jurisdiction. If you are a consumer, this does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory law of the place where you live, and you may bring proceedings there. We have not committed to an alternative dispute resolution body; if a dispute arises, write to us first and we will try to resolve it like adults before anyone involves a court.

13. If you got the app from an app store

Copies installed through the Apple App Store or Google Play are additionally subject to that store's own terms. For copies from the Apple App Store, the following applies, because Apple requires it to be said: this agreement is between you and us, not with Apple, and Apple is not responsible for the app or its content. Apple has no obligation to furnish maintenance or support for it. In the event the app fails to conform to a warranty, you may notify Apple and Apple will refund the purchase price, and to the maximum extent permitted by law Apple has no other warranty obligation whatsoever. Apple is not responsible for addressing any claim relating to the app, including product liability claims, consumer protection claims, or claims under intellectual property law, and if a third party claims the app infringes their intellectual property rights, we, not Apple, are responsible for the defence of that claim to the extent required. You represent that you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. Government embargo and are not on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties. Apple and its subsidiaries are third party beneficiaries of this agreement and may enforce it against you.

14. Changes to these terms

If we change them we publish a new version with a new number and date, and earlier versions stay available. If the change is material you will be asked to accept it the next time you sign in. Continuing to use the service after accepting is what makes the new version binding.

15. Odds and ends

If a court finds part of this unenforceable, the rest still stands. If we do not enforce something immediately, we have not given it up. This, together with the Privacy Notice, is the whole agreement between us.

If you send us ideas or feedback, thank you: it is voluntary, not confidential, and we may use it without restriction or payment, which is the only arrangement under which a two-person project can safely read its inbox. You may not transfer this agreement to anyone else; we may transfer it to a successor of the business, provided your rights are not reduced by the change and you are told about it. Links that lead out of the service, including links in our emails, go to sites we do not control and are not responsible for. Terms which by their nature are meant to outlive the agreement, the ownership, liability and governing-law sections among them, survive the closing of an account.

COMPANYA s.r.o.
Pod Vachmajstrom 13973/13, 831 01 Bratislava, Slovakia
contact@companya.eu