Terms and Conditions of Use

This English version is provided for convenience. In case of any discrepancy, the Portuguese (Brazil) version prevails.

These Terms and Conditions of Use ("Terms") govern the use of the Veredas Reader application ("App"), developed and made available by Torres Applications, the brand used by independent developer Maykow Roberto Lima Torres, based in Pernambuco, Brazil ("Torres Applications", "we", "us"). Please read them carefully: they explain what the App does, what you may and may not do with it, and each party's responsibilities.

1. Acceptance

1.1. By downloading, installing, accessing or using the App, you confirm that you have read, understood and agree to these Terms and to the Privacy Policy, which is part of them. If you do not agree with any condition, do not use the App.

1.2. Your acceptance is recorded in the App itself the first time it is opened, and the documents can be reviewed at any time under Side menu > About.

1.3. If you are under 18, you must use the App with the knowledge and supervision of your parents or legal guardians, who are responsible for your acts under applicable civil law.

2. What the App is

2.1. Veredas Reader is exclusively a software tool to organize, read and play digital files (such as EPUB, MOBI, PDF, TXT, MD, DOCX, CBZ, CBR, CB7, CBT, MP3, M4B and MP4) that are already stored on your device.

2.2. The App does not host, sell, provide or distribute books, texts, audio, video, comics or any other content. All content opened in the App is chosen and imported by you.

2.3. Reading and playback happen locally, on your device. No copy of your library, notes or progress is sent to Torres Applications servers.

2.4. Read aloud. The App can read texts aloud using your device's operating system voice or, if you wish, a natural voice generated by an artificial intelligence model that runs on the device itself, as described in section 12.

3. License to use

3.1. Torres Applications grants you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable and revocable license to use the App for personal, non-commercial purposes, under Brazilian Law No. 9,609/1998 (Software Law) and Law No. 9,610/1998 (Copyright Law).

3.2. This license does not transfer to you any ownership of the App. Anything not expressly permitted in these Terms is reserved to Torres Applications.

4. Intellectual property of the App

4.1. The source code and object code, architecture, design, interface, texts, original icons, the Veredas Reader name and brand and all other elements of the App are protected by Brazilian law and international intellectual property treaties and belong to Torres Applications or its licensors.

4.2. Third-party open-source components included in the App remain governed by their own licenses (section 12).

5. Prohibited conduct

Without Torres Applications's prior written authorization, you may not:

• reproduce, copy, distribute, publish, sell, rent, lend or sublicense the App, in whole or in part;
• reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, decode or otherwise attempt to extract the source code of the App or reconstruct its internal logic;
• modify, adapt or translate the App or create derivative works from it, including altered, "modded" or "unlocked" versions;
• attempt to break into, hack, bypass or disable the App's security, licensing, subscription or ad-display mechanisms;
• remove, hide or alter copyright, trademark or license notices;
• use the App to infringe third-party copyrights, including consuming or distributing protected works without authorization (piracy);
• use the App for any unlawful purpose or in breach of these Terms.

The only exceptions are the cases expressly allowed by article 6 of Law No. 9,609/1998 and by the open-source licenses of third-party components.

Breach of this section immediately terminates your license and subjects the offender to the applicable civil and criminal measures, including those provided in article 12 of Law No. 9,609/1998, articles 102 to 110 of Law No. 9,610/1998 and article 184 of the Brazilian Criminal Code.

6. Imported content and copyright

6.1. You are solely responsible for the origin, lawfulness and licensing of the files you import, read, play or share through the App, and you must have the right to use them.

6.2. Torres Applications has no access to your library and does not control, check or take responsibility for the content of the files you choose to open.

6.3. Technical protection (DRM). The App respects technical copyright protection measures: it does not remove, break or circumvent DRM or any other protection. Protected files may simply not open, and this is expected.

6.4. Sharing. The App does not share your book files: it has no feature that sends a work to another person or to another app. What can be sent is (a) a passage selected while reading, limited to 200 words per share and accompanied by the work's credit, and (b) your backup file, which contains only your reading data and no books. In both cases the App merely calls your operating system's own sharing feature.

6.5. Sharing passages. Passage sharing is offered exclusively for purposes of study, criticism, review or private use, as a quotation of the work and with the source indicated. You are solely responsible for how you use this feature, including for shares that go beyond those purposes or infringe copyright, and you agree not to use it to reproduce or distribute a work, in whole or through successive parts.

7. Free version, ads and subscription

7.1. Free version. The App is offered free of charge with ads provided by Google AdMob: banners and optional rewarded videos. Some features (such as read aloud, PDF optimization and PDF-to-EPUB conversion) are unlocked in the free version after a short video and stay unlocked until the App is closed. If no video is available at that moment, the feature is unlocked anyway. The related data processing is described in the Privacy Policy.

7.2. Veredas Premium. You may subscribe to Veredas Premium through Google Play. It removes ads (banners and videos), unlocks the features described in section 7.1 without videos, lets you keep listening to read-aloud with the screen locked and watch videos in full screen. Plans, price, billing period, any free trial, automatic renewal and how to cancel are shown in the store before purchase. The subscription is tied to your store account and can be recovered on another device with Restore purchases.

7.3. Payments, renewals, cancellations and refunds are processed exclusively by the app store (for example, Google Play or the App Store) and are also subject to those platforms' terms. Torres Applications does not receive or store your card or bank details.

7.4. You can cancel the subscription at any time in the store settings. Cancelling stops future charges; the period already paid remains valid until it ends.

7.5. Your consumer rights, including the right of withdrawal under article 49 of the Brazilian Consumer Protection Code, may be exercised through the store's channels or through our contact e-mail.

8. Your data and backups

8.1. Your progress, marks, notes, shelf organization and the copy of the files used for reading are stored only on your device. Torres Applications keeps no copy of this data on servers.

8.2. Therefore, uninstalling the App, clearing its data, or losing, damaging or replacing your device may make this data unrecoverable, unless you have created a backup file using the Backup and restore feature.

8.3. Keeping the backup file somewhere safe is your responsibility. It contains your notes and reading history: treat it as a personal document.

9. Availability, updates and warranties

9.1. We work to make the App run well, but e-book formats vary widely and depend on how each file was produced. Therefore, we do not guarantee that every existing file will open perfectly, nor uninterrupted operation on every device and system version.

9.2. The App may receive updates that add, change or remove features, including to fix bugs, improve security or meet legal and app store requirements.

9.3. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Torres Applications is not liable for indirect damages, lost profits or data loss resulting from improper use, device or operating system failures, corrupted files or acts of third parties. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits the rights granted to you by the Brazilian Consumer Protection Code or other mandatory consumer laws.

10. Suspension and termination

You may stop using the App at any time by uninstalling it. If these Terms are breached, especially section 5, the license granted is automatically terminated, without prejudice to any applicable legal measures.

11. Changes to these Terms

These Terms may be updated to reflect changes in the App or in the law. The date at the top shows the current version. Material changes will be announced in the App before they take effect and, where the law requires, your acceptance will be requested again.

12. Third-party licenses and natural voice

12.1. The App includes third-party open-source components (for example, PDF reading, file decompression, icons, fonts and the engine that runs the natural voice). Each component is licensed under its own license (such as MIT, ISC, Apache 2.0, BSD and the SIL Open Font License), whose full texts are available under About > Open-source licenses. Nothing in these Terms restricts the rights granted by those licenses regarding the respective components.

12.2. Natural voice. The natural voice uses the Supertonic 3 model, owned by Supertone Inc. and licensed under the BigScience OpenRAIL-M license. The model is not part of the App: it is downloaded only if you choose to — from an unmodified copy of the public files kept by Torres Applications on Cloudflare, or from Supertone's public repository on Hugging Face — and is then kept on your device, from which you can remove it at any time. Torres Applications does not modify the model and does not own it; the copy is redistributed under the OpenRAIL-M license, together with the use restrictions in section 12.4. Torres Applications does not guarantee that the download will be available without interruption.

12.3. Compatibility. The natural voice relies on memory and processing capabilities that not every device provides. It works only on compatible devices, and Torres Applications does not guarantee that it will work on every model of phone or tablet, nor on every operating system or browser version. Before downloading the model, the App tests the device and says so when it is not compatible; in that case read-aloud remains available through the system voice, and every other feature is unaffected. The natural voice being unavailable on a particular device is not a defect of the App.

12.4. Model use restrictions. As required by the OpenRAIL-M license, by using the natural voice you agree not to use the model, or the audio it generates:

• in any way that violates any applicable national or international law or regulation;
• to exploit, harm or attempt to exploit or harm minors in any way;
• to generate or disseminate verifiably false information with the purpose of harming others;
• to generate or disseminate personal information that can be used to harm an individual;
• to disseminate generated content without expressly and intelligibly stating that it is machine generated;
• to defame, disparage or otherwise harass others;
• to impersonate or attempt to impersonate others (for example, deepfakes) without their consent;
• for fully automated decision making that adversely impacts an individual's legal rights or creates or modifies a binding, enforceable obligation;
• for any use intended to, or having the effect of, discriminating against or harming individuals or groups based on social behavior or on known or predicted personal characteristics, or on legally protected characteristics or categories;
• to exploit the vulnerabilities of a specific group of persons based on their age or social, physical or mental characteristics, in order to materially distort the behavior of a person in that group in a manner that causes or is likely to cause physical or psychological harm;
• to provide medical advice or interpret medical results;
• to generate or disseminate information to be used for the administration of justice, law enforcement, immigration or asylum processes, such as predicting that an individual will commit fraud or a crime.

12.5. Audio generated by the natural voice is meant for your personal reading of content you imported yourself, within the limits of section 6. You are responsible for any use you make of that audio. The full text of the model license is available under About > Open-source licenses > Supertonic 3 (model).

13. Governing law and jurisdiction

13.1. These Terms are governed by the laws of the Federative Republic of Brazil, in particular the Consumer Protection Code (Law No. 8,078/1990), the Brazilian Civil Rights Framework for the Internet (Law No. 12,965/2014), the General Data Protection Law (Law No. 13,709/2018), the Software Law (Law No. 9,609/1998) and the Copyright Law (Law No. 9,610/1998).

13.2. The courts of the user's place of residence shall have jurisdiction over any matter related to these Terms, as provided in article 101, item I, of the Consumer Protection Code. This does not deprive users residing outside Brazil of any mandatory protection granted by the laws of their country of residence.

14. General provisions

14.1. If any provision of these Terms is held invalid, the remaining provisions remain in effect.

14.2. Failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of the right to enforce it.

14.3. These Terms may be made available in other languages for convenience. In case of any discrepancy, the Portuguese version prevails.

15. Contact

Questions, suggestions or requests about these Terms: torres.software.app@gmail.com