Turas

Terms of Service

Last updated: · Maksym Myronenko · maximusik2@gmail.com

1. The parties, and what this agreement is

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) are a binding agreement between:

  • you, the person who downloads, installs or uses the app (“you”); and
  • Maksym Myronenko, an individual sole developer based in Ukraine (“we”, “us”, “our” or “the Developer”).
Licensor / providerMaksym Myronenko (a natural person, sole developer, not a company)
Contact emailmaximusik2@gmail.com
AppTuras: Driving Test Routes, iOS 17 or later, iPhone (and CarPlay where available)
Bundle identifiercom.myronenkomaksym.ietestroutes

Email is our only contact channel. We do not publish a postal address; if you need one for formal service of a legal notice or a written claim, email maximusik2@gmail.com and we will provide it on request.

The licence to use the app is governed by Apple’s standard Licensed Application End User Licence Agreement, which we have adopted for this app: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

These Terms sit alongside it and cover what the standard EULA does not: safe use while driving, the route data, your account, purchases, acceptable use, our liability and disputes. If anything in these Terms conflicts with the standard EULA on a matter the standard EULA covers, the standard EULA prevails.

By downloading, installing or using the app, you accept these Terms. If you do not accept them, do not use the app.

1.1 This agreement is with us, not with Apple

These Terms are concluded between you and the Developer only, and not with Apple. The Developer, not Apple, is solely responsible for the app and its content. Your use of the app is also subject to the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/

2. Not the RSA, and not an official route

Turas is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by or connected to the Road Safety Authority (RSA), the National Driver Licence Service, An Garda Síochána or any other government body. Nothing in the app is official RSA material.

The routes are practice aids. Each route is labelled either “From real tests” (recorded on real RSA driving tests) or “Practice route”. Manoeuvre spots are marked as “likely”. We do not claim, and cannot guarantee, that any route, manoeuvre spot or instruction in the app matches the route or instructions of any particular driving test. Examiners choose routes, roads change, and routes in the app may be out of date, incomplete or wrong.

Test centre names and locations come from the RSA’s public list of test centres. Using them identifies where a route starts; it does not suggest any connection with the RSA.

3. Driving safely: your responsibilities

Please read this section carefully. It matters more than anything else in these Terms.

You are responsible for how you drive. The app gives directions; it does not drive, and it does not know what is happening on the road in front of you. In particular:

  • Obey the law and the road at all times. Road signs, road markings, traffic lights, Garda instructions and the actual road conditions always take priority over anything the app says or shows. If an instruction is unsafe, illegal or impossible (for example a turn onto a road that is closed, one-way, or where the turn is banned), ignore it.
  • Never hold or use your phone while driving. In Ireland it is illegal to hold a mobile phone while driving. Mount the phone securely in a cradle, or use CarPlay, set everything up before you move off, and let the voice guide you. The app only accepts mute and end while the car is moving; everything else waits until you are stopped. Do not look at or touch the screen in a way that distracts you from driving.
  • Learner drivers must follow the learner permit rules, including driving only when accompanied by a qualified driver as the law requires, displaying L-plates, and not driving on motorways. The accompanying driver, not the app, is there to supervise you.
  • Your vehicle must be roadworthy, taxed and insured for you to drive it.
  • The app is not a substitute for driving lessons with an approved driving instructor (ADI), for the RSA’s Essential Driver Training where it applies to you, or for the Rules of the Road. It is an extra way to become familiar with the roads around a test centre.
  • Do not practise in a way that disrupts driving tests, for example by following a test car or stopping at a test centre where you are in the way.
  • Do not rely on the app for speed limits. Where a speed limit is shown or spoken, it may be missing, out of date or wrong; the posted signs are what count.

Maps, directions and rerouting use Apple Maps and OpenStreetMap data, and GPS positions on a phone can be inaccurate. Voice guidance may be delayed, missed or interrupted by your phone, another app or your car’s audio system.

4. Licence

We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable licence to install and use the app for your own personal, non-commercial use, on Apple-branded devices you own or control, as permitted by Apple’s Usage Rules and, where it applies, Family Sharing. Driving instructors may use the app while teaching their own pupils.

The app is licensed to you, not sold. You may not copy, distribute, resell, rent or sublicense it; modify it or create derivative works; or reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble it, except to the extent that applicable law expressly permits this notwithstanding a contractual prohibition (for example the interoperability provisions of EU Directive 2009/24/EC).

5. Eligibility and age

You must be at least 16 years old to use the app. If you are under 18, you may use it only with the consent of your parent or legal guardian, who is responsible for any purchase you make. Parents can use Apple’s Screen Time and Ask to Buy controls to manage purchases.

6. Your account

There is no sign-up. When you first open the app it creates an anonymous account tied to your device. You can optionally sign in with Apple so your passes, subscription and drives follow you to a new phone.

If you do not sign in with Apple and you delete the app, reset your phone or change phones, your drive history may be lost. Purchases are different: they belong to your Apple Account and can be restored with Restore Purchases on the same Apple Account; signing in with Apple keeps Centre Passes and rewards attached to your account most reliably (see the Subscription Terms, section 7).

You can delete your account at any time in Settings → Delete Account. This deletes your data from our server and your phone, but does not cancel an auto-renewing subscription, which you cancel with Apple.

7. What the app does

So you know exactly what you are agreeing to, and what you would be paying for:

  • routes around Irish driving test centres, each labelled “From real tests” or “Practice route”, with turn-by-turn steps, likely spots for the manoeuvres (reverse around a corner, turnabout, hill start) and hotspots such as roundabouts, traffic lights and bus lanes;
  • one route at each centre is free; the rest are unlocked by a Centre Pass, an All Centres subscription or Lifetime access (the Subscription Terms set out every product and price);
  • spoken turn-by-turn guidance that works offline, rerouting back onto the route if you leave it, starting from anywhere, and never routing on motorways;
  • “Record my test”, which records a drive from the centre so you can save the route you were given on a real test;
  • optional drive sharing, described in the Privacy Policy, and the real-test reward in section 7.2 below;
  • a CarPlay screen where it is available. CarPlay depends on Apple’s approval and may be switched off, or say “coming soon”, in some versions.

7.1 We may change the app

The app is a live product. We may add, change, correct, suspend or remove routes, centres and features. Routes are updated as roads and tests change, and a route may be withdrawn if it proves wrong. Where a change would materially reduce what you have paid for, we will give notice in the app before it takes effect, and nothing in this section removes your rights under mandatory consumer law (section 13).

7.2 The real-test reward

If you share a drive that you say was your real driving test, and the drive meets the checks the app applies to the recorded track (for example that it started and ended near the centre and was long enough to be a test), you may receive 30 free days of access at that centre, once per drive and at most once per centre in any 30 days. The reward is a free extra: it has no cash value, cannot be transferred, can be changed or ended for future drives, and is not available for drives that were not honestly a real test. We may withdraw a reward obtained by misuse.

8. Acceptable use

You agree not to, and not to help anyone else to:

  • use the app in any way that breaks road traffic law or endangers anyone;
  • submit false drives, false answers or false reports, for example to obtain the real-test reward;
  • scrape, extract, copy, republish or sell the routes, steps, manoeuvre spots or hotspots, or build a competing dataset or product from them;
  • circumvent the paywall or the free-route limit, or obtain paid access without paying;
  • attack, overload, probe or interfere with the app or our API, or access another user’s data;
  • use the app for any unlawful purpose, or in breach of Apple’s terms.

If you breach this section we may suspend or terminate your access under section 10.

9. Route data, map data and attribution

  • The routes, steps, manoeuvre spots, hotspots and their presentation are compiled by us and protected by copyright and database rights. The routes recorded on tests are ours.
  • Road data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence (ODbL): https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright. Where routes are snapped to OpenStreetMap roads, the snapped geometry is a derived database of OpenStreetMap and is offered under the ODbL.
  • Elevation (used to find likely hill-start spots): Copernicus GLO-30 DEM, © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018, provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA.
  • Test centre locations: Road Safety Authority (rsa.ie), public information.
  • Maps and directions in the app are provided by Apple MapKit and are subject to Apple’s terms.

The same attributions are shown in the app under Settings → Legal and Attribution.

9.1 What you send us

When you send a route report, a post-drive answer or a note, or email us feedback, you grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual licence to use it to operate and improve the app and its routes. Please do not include anything confidential or anyone else’s personal information.

9.2 Our own intellectual property

The name “Turas”, the logo, the design and the source code are ours. Nothing in these Terms transfers them to you.

10. Suspension and termination

You may stop using the app at any time by deleting it; that does not cancel an auto-renewing subscription (see the Subscription Terms, section 8).

We may suspend or terminate your access if you materially breach these Terms, in particular sections 3 and 8; if we are required to by law, by a competent authority or by Apple; or if we discontinue the app. Where circumstances allow, we will give notice and a chance to put things right, and act proportionately.

If we shut the app down, we will announce it in the app and stop selling new passes and subscriptions. Where you have paid for a period you cannot use because we shut the service down, you are entitled to a proportionate refund under applicable consumer law; because Apple takes the payment, we will support your refund request to Apple and, where Apple does not refund you and the law requires us to, we will pay it ourselves.

11. No warranty

Your mandatory rights as a consumer come first, in section 13, and are not affected by this section.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the app is provided “AS IS” and “AS AVAILABLE”, without warranty of any kind. We do not warrant that routes match any driving test, that directions, manoeuvre spots, hotspots or speed limits are accurate or current, that GPS positions or voice guidance will be reliable, that the app will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that using it will help you pass your test.

In the event of any failure of the app to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price of the app to you (if any). To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Apple will have no other warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to the app.

12. Limitation of liability

This section is expressly subject to section 13.

12.1 What we do not limit

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits our liability for:

  • death or personal injury caused by our negligence;
  • fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;
  • gross negligence or wilful misconduct;
  • any liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited under the law that applies to you, including, for consumers in Ireland and elsewhere in the EU/EEA, liability under mandatory consumer protection law.

12.2 What we do limit

Subject to section 12.1 and section 13, and to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law:

  • we are not responsible for how you or anyone else drives, or for the outcome of any driving test. We are not liable for any accident, injury, damage, fine, penalty points, test fee, failed test or other consequence that results from driving in breach of section 3, or from following an instruction that the road, signs or law showed to be wrong;
  • we are not liable for indirect or consequential losses, loss of profits or loss of data;
  • our total aggregate liability to you for all claims arising out of the app and these Terms is limited to the greater of (a) the total amount you paid for the app and its in-app purchases in the twelve (12) months before the event giving rise to the claim, and (b) EUR 100.

We are one person, not a company, and the app is a practice aid costing a few euros. We ask you to accept that this is a fair allocation of risk for a product at that price.

13. Your mandatory consumer rights are unaffected

If you are a consumer, this section overrides anything else in these Terms that conflicts with it.

Nothing in these Terms takes away, limits or replaces:

  • your mandatory statutory rights as a consumer under the law of your country of residence;
  • for consumers in Ireland: your rights under the Consumer Rights Act 2022, including the right to digital content and digital services that conform to the contract, and to a remedy if they do not;
  • for consumers elsewhere in the EU/EEA: your rights under Directive (EU) 2019/770 on digital content and digital services and Directive 2011/83/EU on consumer rights (including the withdrawal right described in the Subscription Terms);
  • for consumers in the UK: your rights under the Consumer Rights Act 2015;
  • any other right the law says a consumer cannot contract out of.

Where a term would be unfair or unenforceable against you as a consumer, it does not apply to you, and the rest of the Terms continue to apply.

14. Purchases and refunds

Turas offers Centre Passes, an All Centres subscription and Lifetime access through Apple’s in-app purchase system. Every product, price and renewal rule is set out in the Subscription Terms, which form part of these Terms.

Apple takes the payment and Apple handles refunds. The Developer cannot refund an App Store charge. Refund requests go to Apple at https://reportaproblem.apple.com

15. External services

The app depends on services we do not control: Apple (App Store, StoreKit, Sign in with Apple, MapKit maps and directions, CarPlay), our backend hosted by Railway, product analytics by Amplitude where configured, and OpenStreetMap data. We are not responsible for their availability or accuracy, and they may change without notice.

16. Export control

You represent that you are not located in a country subject to a comprehensive embargo by the United States, the European Union or Ukraine, and that you are not on any U.S., EU, UK or Ukrainian list of prohibited or restricted parties.

17. Apple-specific terms

17.1 Maintenance and support

The Developer is solely responsible for providing any maintenance and support services for the app. Apple has no obligation whatsoever to furnish any maintenance or support services with respect to the app. For support, email maximusik2@gmail.com.

17.2 Product claims

The Developer, and not Apple, is responsible for addressing any claims by you or any third party relating to the app or your possession and use of it, including (1) product liability claims; (2) any claim that the app fails to conform to any applicable legal or regulatory requirement; and (3) claims arising under consumer protection, privacy or similar legislation.

17.3 Intellectual property claims

In the event of any third-party claim that the app or your possession and use of it infringes that third party’s intellectual property rights, the Developer, not Apple, is solely responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement and discharge of that claim.

17.4 Third-party beneficiary

Apple, and Apple’s subsidiaries, are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms, and upon your acceptance Apple has the right (and is deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce these Terms against you as a third-party beneficiary.

17.5 Developer contact

Any question, complaint or claim about the app should be sent to the Developer at maximusik2@gmail.com. A postal address for formal service of notice is available on request.

18. Governing law, venue, and the consumer carve-out

18.1 Governing law

These Terms, and any dispute arising out of them or the app, are governed by the law of Ukraine, excluding its conflict-of-laws rules and the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods.

18.2 Venue

Subject to section 18.3, the competent courts of Kyiv, Ukraine have exclusive jurisdiction.

18.3 If you are a consumer, this overrides 18.1 and 18.2 for you

If you are a consumer resident in Ireland, elsewhere in the EU/EEA, or in the UK:

  • the choice of Ukrainian law does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory consumer protection provisions of the law of your country of habitual residence (for Irish consumers, Irish law), which continue to apply to you in full (Article 6 of Regulation (EC) No 593/2008, “Rome I”);
  • you keep the right to bring proceedings in the courts of your own country (for Irish consumers, the Irish courts, including the District Court’s small claims procedure), and you may only be sued there (Articles 17–19 of Regulation (EU) No 1215/2012, “Brussels I bis”, and the corresponding UK rules);
  • nothing in these Terms may be read as requiring you to litigate in Kyiv.

If you are a consumer resident anywhere else, your local mandatory consumer rights and any non-waivable right to your local courts survive sections 18.1 and 18.2.

19. Complaints

Please email maximusik2@gmail.com first. We will acknowledge your complaint and try to resolve it within 14 days, and tell you our position within 30 days. This does not affect your legal rights or time limits.

For anything about a charge, a renewal or a refund, contact Apple: https://reportaproblem.apple.com

If you are a consumer in Ireland you can get information and help from the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (https://www.ccpc.ie/) and, for cross-border disputes in the EU, the European Consumer Centre Ireland (https://www.eccireland.ie/). We are not committed to any specific alternative dispute resolution entity. This does not affect your right to go to court under section 18.3.

20. General

  • Changes. We may change these Terms, for example when a feature ships or the law changes. The current version always lives on this website with its “Last updated” date at the top. For material changes we will give at least 14 days’ notice in the app before they take effect, and never apply them retroactively to a period you have already paid for.
  • Severability. If a provision is held invalid, it is modified to the minimum extent necessary or severed; the rest stays in force.
  • No waiver. Not enforcing a provision is not a waiver of it.
  • Assignment. You may not transfer these Terms. We may assign them to a new owner of the app, provided your rights are not reduced, and will announce it first.
  • Force majeure. Neither party is liable for a failure caused by events beyond its reasonable control. This does not affect your consumer-law remedies if the app is unavailable.
  • Language. These Terms are written in English, which prevails over any translation except where consumer law requires otherwise.
  • Entire agreement. These Terms, the Privacy Policy and the Subscription Terms are the entire agreement between you and us about the app, except that nothing here excludes liability for fraudulent misrepresentation or affects your agreement with Apple.

21. Contact

Maksym Myronenko, sole developer, Ukraine Email: maximusik2@gmail.com

A postal address for formal legal notice is available on request by email.