Terms of Use

These Terms of Use ("Terms") govern your use of the Starvia mobile application ("Starvia", "the app", "we", "us"). By downloading or using Starvia you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the app.

Starvia is a curated video application for young children, operated by a parent or guardian on the child's behalf. These Terms form the End User License Agreement (EULA) for the app.

1. Who may use Starvia

Starvia is intended to be set up and managed by a parent or legal guardian aged 18 or over. By using the app you confirm that you are an adult and that you are responsible for the children who watch content through your account.

Children use Starvia under adult supervision. The grown-ups area of the app, which contains all account, subscription, and content controls, is protected by a PIN that you choose.

2. Licence

We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use Starvia on Apple devices that you own or control, in accordance with the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions and these Terms.

You may not copy, modify, reverse engineer, resell, or redistribute the app, or attempt to extract or re-host the video catalogue.

3. Content

Starvia presents a hand-picked catalogue of videos. Video playback is provided through the embedded YouTube player, and the videos themselves are hosted by YouTube and owned by their respective creators and rights holders. Starvia does not claim ownership of that content.

The app loads only the specific videos in our curated catalogue. It does not provide search, browsing, recommendations, or any other route into the wider YouTube service, and the player's own controls are hidden.

Because the videos are supplied by a third party, we cannot guarantee that any particular video will remain available, and advertising may be shown by YouTube on videos that its rights holders have monetised. We remove videos from the catalogue when they become unavailable or no longer suitable.

4. Subscriptions

Starvia is free to download and includes a free tier. Some grown-ups controls — the daily viewing time limit and category selection — require a Starvia Premium subscription.

Prices are shown in US dollars and may vary by territory; the price applicable to you is displayed in the app before you purchase.

Any unused portion of a free trial period, where one is offered, is forfeited when you purchase a subscription. Refunds are handled by Apple in accordance with the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions; we cannot issue refunds directly.

5. Your account and data

Creating an account lets your settings, profiles, and subscription follow you across devices. You are responsible for keeping your sign-in credentials and your parent PIN confidential.

Our handling of personal information is described in the Privacy Policy, which forms part of these Terms.

6. Acceptable use

You agree not to use Starvia to break any law, to interfere with the app's operation or security, to access it by automated means, or to circumvent the parental controls, PIN protection, or subscription checks.

7. Availability and changes

We may add, change, or remove features and catalogue content, and we may suspend the service for maintenance. We will not remove a feature that you have paid for during a paid period without offering a remedy.

We may update these Terms. When we make a material change we will update the effective date above and, where appropriate, notify you in the app. Continuing to use Starvia after a change means you accept the updated Terms.

8. Disclaimers and liability

Starvia is provided "as is" and "as available". To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.

Nothing in these Terms excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, including for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud. Subject to that, our total liability arising out of your use of Starvia is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose.

Parental controls are a tool, not a substitute for supervision. You remain responsible for what the children in your care watch.

9. Termination

You may stop using Starvia at any time and delete your account from the grown-ups area. We may suspend or terminate access if you materially breach these Terms. Termination does not affect subscription periods already paid for, which run to their end unless cancelled through Apple.

10. Apple

These Terms are between you and us, not with Apple. Apple is not responsible for Starvia or its content, and has no obligation to provide support or maintenance for it. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce them against you.

11. Contact

Questions about these Terms: starviacare@gmail.com, or through the Help & Support screen in the grown-ups area of the app.