Terms of Service

Who these terms are between.

They are an agreement between you and Tomáš Beňo, who publishes Naj Autoškola under the name Tree Among Shrubs. That name is a developer name rather than a company: there is no registered entity behind it, and the postal address and the email at the foot of this page are how you reach the person you are agreeing with. The app asks you to accept them before you use it, and asks again when they change; if you do not accept them, do not use the app. Reading these pages is not the same as accepting them — the acceptance happens in the app.

Nothing here obliges you to keep the app: uninstalling removes it from your device, and the app needs no account, so there is nothing to close.

What this app is.

Naj Autoškola is an independent study aid for the driving-theory test. It is not made by, affiliated with, or endorsed by any government authority, and it is not the official exam.

The questions and pictures come from the official question bank published by the Ministry of Interior of the Slovak Republic (minv.sk). We copy them as published and arrange them into practice tests and drills. Where anything in the app differs from the official source, the official exam and current law apply.

Practice is practice. A score in the app is not a prediction of the official exam, and passing a practice test here does not entitle you to a driving licence or to sit the exam.

Using the app.

What you may do, which is a lot:

• Study with it as much as you like. Nothing in the app is metered and there is no account to create.
• Run practice tests, drills and mistakes review for as long as you like.
• Use whichever parts of the app we publish free of charge, which today is all of it. The ads pay for that, and a one-time purchase in Google Play removes them.
• Take your progress with you: your tests are stored on your device, and a device backup brings them back after a reinstall or on a new phone (the privacy policy describes how).

What you may not do.

A short list, and it is mostly about the question bank rather than about the app:

• Do not republish the question bank as your own product or in an app of your own. The questions and pictures are not ours to license to you: they come from the ministry's published bank, and we bundle them as published.
• Do not present the app itself, its name, its design or the text we wrote as your own.
• Do not break, overload, scrape or work around the app's technical limits.
• Do not tap your own ads, or generate ad requests, views or taps by artificial means.
• Do not use the app for anything unlawful, or in a way that damages someone else's device or connection.

The ads.

The app is free, and ads are what pay for it, so it shows them to everyone. They are supplied by Google, through its advertising SDK. If you are 18 or older, whether they are personalized is your choice: you make it with the Personalized ads switch, and it is off until you turn it on. Under 18 the switch is locked and the ads are generic. The privacy policy says exactly what an ad request carries, and it is the document to read if that matters to you.

We do not choose the ads and we do not endorse them. An ad comes from a third party and may take you to a site or a product that has nothing to do with us; anything you agree with an advertiser, you agree with them, under their terms, and a problem with what they sold you is theirs to fix.

Refusing personalized ads does not take the app away, and it does not take the ads away either: you are shown generic ones instead, and everything else works exactly as it does now. Where Google shows its own consent form, declining it means you are shown only limited ads, often none, and the app works the same otherwise.

What belongs to whom.

The app itself belongs to us: its code, its design, the name Naj Autoškola, and the text we wrote. We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use the app on your own devices for your own study.

The question texts and pictures belong to whoever holds the rights in the ministry's published bank, and the road-sign designs come from the regulation that defines them. We use them as published and claim nothing over them.

If you hold a right in something the app carries and you think we are using it wrongly, write to us and we will act on a reasonable request.

Our promises, and their limits.

We work to keep the app working and its content right. What we cannot promise is that it is perfect. It is reformatted from published sources, it can lag behind a change in the law or in the exam, and it is provided as it is, without a warranty beyond what the law requires.

So, to the extent the law allows: we are not liable for a failed or delayed test, for a decision you take on the strength of a practice score, for what the official exam asks, or for a device, connection or store problem that is not ours. That stops where the law says it does: we do not exclude or limit our liability for intent, for gross negligence, or for death or personal injury caused by our fault, and no cap applies to any of those.

None of that reduces your rights as a consumer under Slovak or European Union law. Mandatory consumer protection applies whatever these terms say, and where these terms and that protection disagree, the protection wins.

We may also change what the app contains: add a feature, remove one, or stop publishing the app altogether. When we do, the store listing and the app itself will say so.

Removing the ads.

The app is free, and ads are what pay for it. A one-time purchase in Google Play, Remove ads, switches them off for good. The store handles the payment, its terms and its refund policy govern the purchase, and we never see your card details. A refund takes the purchase back, and the ads return. If we add other paid features, they will be described in the app before you buy, and a version of these terms will cover them properly at that point.

Your data.

These terms are about how you may use the app; the privacy policy is about what the app does with your data — what stays on your device, what can be sent, who receives it, and how to switch it off. It is linked at the top of this page, and it is the document to read for anything about your tests, the consent switches, or your rights over what we hold. If you are under 16, it also says who may make those choices for you: a parent or guardian.

Changes to these terms.

These terms have a version, and the app remembers which version you accepted. When they change in a way that matters, we bump the version and the app asks you again on its next launch. This is version 4, the version in which the ads switch stopped deciding whether you see ads and started deciding whether they are personalized.

The app asks you to accept a new version before it will carry on, so nothing is implied by carrying on using it: the copy you accepted is the copy the app showed you, and the version and the date at the top of this page are what to compare it against.

Which law applies.

These terms are governed by Slovak law, and the courts of Slovakia have jurisdiction over a dispute about them.

If you are a consumer, that does not take away the protection of the mandatory consumer law of the country you live in, and it does not stop you bringing proceedings there.

Contact.

Write to us about anything on this page: a complaint about an ad, a question about the content, a problem with the app, or a rights question.

Tomáš Beňo, publishing as Tree Among Shrubs
Podháj 6139/51, 974 05 Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
anima@tree-among-shrubs.com