General Terms of Use & Pivacy Policy
Hestia Compatibility Test App
Version 1.0 in date of 18/07/2023
1. PREAMBLE
These general terms of use govern your use of our HESTIA COMPATIBILITY TEST application.
2. EDITOR OF THE APPLICATION
The HESTIA COMPATIBILITY TEST application is published by our company VAONIS, a French company whose registered office is located at 225 rue Didier Daurat, 34170, Castelnau-le-Lez, en France, with a share capital of €17133.80, with the Trade and Companies Register of Montpellier under number SIRET 823 710 447.
3. DESCRIPTION OF THE APPLICATION
The HESTIA COMPATIBILITY TEST application allows you to quickly and easily determine if your smartphone meets the necessary requirements to interact smoothly with telescopes developed by our company VAONIS, such as the HESTIA (hereinafter the “VAONIS Telescope”).
More precisely, VAONIS Telescopes are new generation telescopes developed and marketed by our company VAONIS allowing you to observe space.
When using the HESTIA COMPATIBILITY TEST application, you can:
- Determine if your smartphone is compatible with the HESTIA telescope.
- Share the result anonymously with Vaonis.
Creating a member account is not necessary to access these features.
4. TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS
The HESTIA COMPATIBILITY TEST application can be downloaded to smartphones and tablets from the Google Play Store, depending on the operating system of your device. Our application is supported from version Android 11 for other devices.
An internet connection (Wi-Fi) is required while the application is being downloaded and used. The cost of this connection to access and use the application is at your expense.
5. UPDATE
We may update these terms of use from time to time. In this case, you will receive information about this update as well as the new version of our terms of use on the email address associated with your member account.
The current general terms of use of the HESTIA COMPATIBILITY TEST application are also always available on our website www.vaonis.com.
5. FREE OF CHARGE APPLICATION
There is no charge for using the SINGULARITY application or for creating a member account on the application (except for the cost of your internet connection).
6. ACCESS REQUESTS RELATED TO THE USE OF THE APPLICATION
6.1 Camera Access
Upon your first connection,you will be asked to authorize access to the camera on your smartphone. This information is processed anonymously by the HESTIA COMPATIBILITY TEST application, and no photos or videos are taken with the camera.
This camera data is needed to determine whether your smartphone is compatible with the VAONIS telescope.
6.2 Result Sharing
The Hestia Compatibility application allows you to share your results with the Vaonis team via a “Share Result with Vaonis” button. The collected data includes:
- Phone model
- Brand
- Android version
- Screen size
- Level of camera2 API
- Whether the phone has “MANUAL_SENSOR” capability
- Whether the phone has “RAW” capability
- Whether the phone has “BURST_CAPTURE” capability
- Whether it is a tablet
All usage data collected in this context is completely anonymous and is in no way associated with a user. Under no circumstances does HESTIA COMPATIBILITY TEST have access to the data contained in your smartphone.
7. RESPONSIBILITY
7.1 Interruption of our application
We make every effort to allow you to use our application 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. However, we cannot be held liable for any interruptions or temporary alterations to our application resulting from maintenance, updates, or any other cause outside of VAONIS, in particular if the interruption is caused by the Internet network itself or by the means of connection you use.
VAONIS shall not be held liable if it chooses to stop making its SINGULARITY application available to the public for its own discretionary reasons.
7.2 Consequential damages
VAONIS shall not be liable for any consequential damages that you may suffer because of access to, use of or interruption of our HESTIA COMPATIBILITY TEST application.
8. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
8.1 Our intellectual property rights
The HESTIA COMPATIBILITY TEST application is protected by intellectual property rights.
Nevertheless, VAONIS grants you a free, non-exclusive, worldwide, and temporary right to use the HESTIA COMPATIBILITY TEST application, including the use of its interfaces, its functionalities and the consultation of its contents.
This right of use is granted for personal and private use of our application, in compliance with these general terms of use. This use is exceptionally limited to members of your household.
Any use of our applications and our VAONIS Telescopes for professional purposes requires prior express written permission, independent of these general terms of use. In this case, you should contact us at info@vaonis.com.
If you make professional use of our application, and in particular commercial use, without having obtained prior authorization from our company, you may not only be subject to deletion of your member account, but also to legal proceedings.
This license also ends if the HESTIA COMPATIBILITY TEST application is no longer used by our company for reasons of its own.
In any case, the license granted to you does not allow you to reproduce the contents of our HESTIA COMPATIBILITY TEST application (images, videos, files, texts, trademarks, logos, etc.), to modify them, to extract them, to export them, or to distribute them to third parties outside your family circle or your close relations, as such acts may constitute infringement of copyright, which may allow our company VAONIS to sue you.
9. PERSONAL DATA
VAONIS processes some of your personal data anonymously to provide you with the services you expect from our application.
In this context, our company acts as a data controller within the meaning of the EU Regulation n°2016/679 and the French Data Protection Act n° 78-17 of 6 January 1978 as amended.
The data processing carried out by our company VAONIS therefore requires compliance with specific legal obligations arising from the regulations on the protection of personal data.
Our company VAONIS is committed to respecting these obligations.
10. DURATION
These general terms of use govern your use of our HESTIA COMPATIBILITY TEST application until you cease using it. They are therefore concluded for an indefinite period.
It is specified that these general terms of use will continue to be enforceable against you to resolve any dispute arising from your past use of our application and the VAONIS Telescope. In addition, the
articles that are intended to survive the end of these terms and conditions of use will remain in force until the rights and obligations relating to them expire.
11. CONTACT – ASSISTANCE
11.1 generalities
For any questions or requests regarding our application, such as how it works, how to use it, our services, you can contact us at the following address:
11.2 Personal data
For any questions or requests specifically about your personal data, you can contact us at the following address:
Our contact person will respond within one month of receiving your request.
However, this period may be extended by two months, depending on the complexity and number of requests. In addition, you may be asked to provide proof of identity to respond to your request.
12. GOVERNING LAW – DISPUTE
These general terms of use are written in English and are subject to French law, subject to the imperative provisions of private international law.
In the event of a dispute concerning the present general terms of use and our HESTIA COMPATIBILITY TEST application, amicable settlement will be preferred. Mediation will be proposed to our users with consumer status.
In the absence of an amicable settlement, you may refer the matter to the competent courts. 13. MEDIATION
Persons who have the status of consumers are informed of the possibility of referring their dispute free of charge to a consumer mediator, and more specifically to a mediator of the Centre de médiation de la consommation de Conciliateurs de Justice (website: https://cm2c.net/).
You can also access the European platform for online dispute resolution provided by Regulation (EU) No 524/2013 of 21 May 2013 on the online settlement of consumer disputes, in particular cross-border disputes, by following the link below: http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/
14. LEGAL NOTICES
We remind you that the HESTIA COMPATIBILITY TEST application is published by VAONIS, a French company whose registered office is located at 225 rue Didier Daurat, 34170, Castelnau-le-Lez, en France, with a share capital of €17133.80, registered, with the Trade and Companies Register of Montpellier under number SIRET 823 710 447 and with an individual intra-community VAT identification number FR93823710447.
The Director of the publication is: Cyril Dupuy
The contact details of VAONIS are:
? E-mail address: info@vaonis.com.
? Numéro de téléphone FR : +33 (0)4 84 98 00 21
? Numéro de téléphone US : +1 (646) 956-5933
The HESTIA COMPATIBILITY TEST application is hosted by:
? Amazon Web Services, Inc. P.O. Box 81226 Seattle, WA 98108-1226 USA which can be contacted via: https://aws.amazon.com/fr/