AudioChoices: Audiobooks Terms of Use

Version: 2.6.0
Last updated: 2026-10-11

This Terms of Use covers AudioChoices: Audiobooks across releases. Feature availability and information handling can differ by release; the relevant sections identify those differences. A planned feature described here applies only when it is available in your release. This scope does not remove obligations for older releases. Changes apply prospectively, subject to any notice or agreement required by law. An updated document does not remove accrued rights or automatically replace the terms of an earlier purchase. Previous versions of this document remain publicly available in its revision history.

These Terms of Use govern your use of the AudioChoices app for iOS and Android and the AudioChoices pages on alekjaltuszyk.xyz.

AudioChoices is provided by Alek Jałtuszyk, legally Aleksander Jałtuszyk (“Developer”, “we”, “us”, or “our”), an individual sole trader established in Poland. Contact: audiochoicesaudiobooks@gmail.com. Support page: https://alekjaltuszyk.xyz/apps/AudioBookChoices/support/. Full trader identification details, including the registered address, are published on the AudioChoices listings in the Apple App Store and Google Play.

1. Acceptance

By using AudioChoices you agree to these terms. The app shows you these terms and the Privacy Policy before you start listening, and asks you to accept them.

If you do not agree, do not use the app or the related AudioChoices website pages.

2. Eligibility

AudioChoices is for listeners aged 13 and over. It is not directed to children under 13, and children under 13 must not use it.

Planned age-access update. Builds carrying legal acceptance version 13 block ordinary app access when a self-declaration or shared platform range identifies someone as under 13. A mistaken answer can be corrected only through a new eligible age range from Apple or Google; an unsupported device or unavailable/declined response cannot unlock access. Support, data-deletion requests and store subscription management remain available from the access screen. A restriction does not automatically erase saved progress, remove purchase records, cancel subscriptions or waive consumer rights. Contact support about mistaken restrictions, existing purchases or remedies. Older installed builds do not acquire this screen merely because these Terms are published.

If you are 13 or older but under the age of majority where you live, use the app only with the permission of a parent or guardian, and only where that is permitted by local law. You may use AudioChoices only if you are able to enter into a binding agreement with us.

Purchases must be made by someone able to authorise payment on the Apple or Google account being used.

3. What AudioChoices Is

AudioChoices is an interactive “choose your story” audiobook app. You listen to a narrated story and steer where it goes with simple Yes or No choices, made by tapping the screen or, on iOS, by nodding your head with supported headphones. Each book is a branching tree of scenes with several different endings, and you can go back and explore paths you did not take.

Books are downloaded to your device as you listen, so playback continues offline once a section has been fetched.

Features, books, narration, artwork, input methods, prices and supported platforms may change over time. Section 14 explains how.

4. Your Licence To Listen

The books, story text, narration, audio, artwork, branding, and the app itself are owned by or licensed to the Developer. Books are published under the imprint AudioChoices Originals, which is the name shown as the author of every book in the app. That imprint is the Developer — not a separate publisher, and not a third party whose permission was obtained.

The story text is created and reviewed by the Developer, including AI-assisted drafting and revision, and a book’s narration is a recording of that text (section 11). Copying the audio therefore also copies the writing underneath it, whatever produced the voice reading it aloud.

On iOS, the licence to the app software is Apple’s Standard EULA, not this section — see section 20. This section is your licence to the content: the books, their narration and their artwork. On Android, where no store licence exists, this section licenses the app as well.

Subject to these terms, you are granted a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to listen to the books you have unlocked, subscribed to or bought, for your own personal and non-commercial use, on devices you control, through the AudioChoices app.

You may not:

copy, rip, record, extract, capture or otherwise reproduce the audio or story text outside the app
redistribute, share, upload, publish, broadcast, stream, publicly perform or sell any of the content
sublicense, rent, lend or transfer your access to anyone else
create derivative works from the books, narration or artwork
circumvent, disable or interfere with the app’s download, entitlement or access-control mechanisms

None of the above limits anything you are entitled to do under a non-waivable right given to you by applicable law, such as certain uses permitted by copyright law.

Your licence lasts as long as your entitlement lasts. A subscription licence ends when the subscription ends. A licence for a book you bought outright continues for as long as the app and the book remain available, subject to section 14.

5. Free Unlocks

Every installation gets a number of free unlocks, and the current allowance is shown in the app. Spending one opens a paid book at no cost, and that book stays unlocked for that installation.

The limit is enforced on our server against your installation’s anonymous identifier, and it is not reset by clearing the app’s local data or by asking us to delete your data. Deliberately trying to obtain more free unlocks than the allowance permits — by manufacturing new identifiers, tampering with the app, or otherwise — is a breach of these terms.

Because free unlocks are tied to the same installation identifier as purchases, the Android reinstall note in section 6 applies to them as well. A free unlock is not a store purchase, so Restore purchases cannot bring one back; a fresh installation simply starts with its own allowance.

Free unlocks are a promotional feature. They may be changed, limited or withdrawn for future installations, but withdrawing them will not take away a book that a free unlock has already opened for you.

6. Book Unlocks: One-Time Purchases

A Book Unlock is a one-time purchase that permanently opens one specific book for you. It is not a subscription and does not renew.

What a Book Unlock gives you: access to that book, including its branches, endings and any corrections or re-recordings later published for it.

What it does not give you: access to any other book, access to future books, any subscription benefit, or any right to download or keep the audio outside the app.

On Android, reinstalling the app can lose your unlocks. The identifier that ties purchases to your installation lives in app storage on Android and is generally removed when you uninstall. If books look locked after a reinstall or on a new device, open Settings and tap Restore purchases. That reattaches purchases made with the same Google account. On iOS the identifier is stored in the system Keychain and normally survives a reinstall, but Restore purchases works there too. Restoring requires that you use the same store account you bought with.

7. All Access: Auto-Renewing Subscription

AudioChoices offers an auto-renewing subscription called All Access, which unlocks the whole catalogue for as long as it is active.

What you get: access to every book in the catalogue while the subscription is active, including books added during your subscription.
Name, length and price: the subscription name, the length of each billing period, the price in your local currency including applicable taxes, and any free-trial or introductory-offer terms are shown on the purchase screen in the app before you buy, and again on Apple’s or Google’s own confirmation sheet. Prices vary by country and may change; a price change is notified to you by the store before it takes effect, and you can cancel rather than accept it.
Payment: your Apple ID or Google Play account is charged when you confirm the purchase.
Automatic renewal: the subscription renews automatically for another period of the same length, at the then-current price, unless you cancel it. It continues to renew until you cancel.
Free trials: if a free trial is offered and you do not cancel before it ends, it converts into a paid subscription and you are charged the price shown at purchase. Any unused part of a free trial is forfeited if you buy a subscription during the trial.
How to cancel: cancel in your Apple ID subscription settings on iOS, or in Google Play subscription settings on Android, at least 24 hours before the current period ends. The app has a link to those settings, but cancellation is completed through the relevant store account.
When cancellation takes effect: at the end of the period you have already paid for. You keep All Access until then. Cancelling does not produce a partial refund for the remainder of the period.
When it ends: books that only All Access unlocked become locked again. Books you unlocked with a free unlock or bought outright stay yours.

If a subscription payment fails, or the store reports the subscription as expired, refunded or revoked, access ends.

8. Payments And Refunds

All payments are processed by Apple or Google through the App Store or Google Play, under their own terms. We never see or handle your card number, billing address or payment details.

Cancellation and refund requests for store purchases are handled through the relevant store, under its terms and policies.

Apple / iOS: request a refund at https://reportaproblem.apple.com, or through your purchase history.
Google / Android: request a refund through Google Play’s order history or Google Play support.

If a purchase is refunded, the corresponding access is withdrawn.

Nothing in these terms limits any mandatory consumer rights or any right to a remedy where content does not conform to what was described.

9. Store Purchases And Consumer Rights

Purchases are made through Apple or Google. Their checkout, terms and policies, together with applicable law, govern cancellation, withdrawal and refund rights for those purchases.

About the right to withdraw. Distance purchases generally carry a 14-day withdrawal right in the EU, the EEA and the UK, subject to the law and contract that apply. For paid digital content supplied without a physical medium, loss of that right requires the conditions in applicable law to be satisfied, including prior express agreement to immediate supply, acknowledgement of the loss of the right, and any required confirmation. Starting a download, accepting these terms or opening the app alone does not supply those conditions. Rules for an ongoing digital service can differ from rules for a content download. Consult the checkout and purchase confirmation for your particular store and transaction; we do not assume that every storefront uses the same seller or obtains the same agreement. Section 8 links to store refund routes, and you may also contact us about statutory remedies.

None of that limits your rights when something is wrong with a book rather than simply unwanted. Nothing in these terms limits any mandatory rights that apply to you, including rights concerning content that is faulty, unavailable or not as described. See section 15.

10. Ratings

You can give each book a rating from one to five stars. Ratings are optional.

One rating per book, per installation. Submitting again replaces your previous rating for that book rather than adding a new one.
Ratings are numbers only. There is no comment field, no review text and no username anywhere in the app. Do not attempt to encode personal information, contact details or messages into a rating — there is nothing to encode it in.
Your rating may be shown publicly in aggregate. Individual ratings are stored against your anonymous installation identifier, but what other listeners see is only the per-book average and the number of ratings. Your individual rating is never displayed to anyone else, and is not attributed to you.
Rating requires access and listening. You can rate a book once you have access to it — because it is free, or through All Access, an outright purchase, or a free unlock — and have listened far enough into it to have made a few choices. How far is enforced on our server, and the app tells you when you are not there yet. Where your access did not come from a payment, ratings also open a short time after this installation first reaches our server, which is what stops ratings being manufactured on fresh installations.
Books in testing take no ratings. A book the app labels as in testing is finished enough to hear but not yet released, and it collects no star ratings until it is. This is a rule about the book’s status, applied the same way to every book in testing and to every listener; it is never switched on or off for a particular book. The app does not show you a star row on such a book, and the server refuses a rating for one. You can still write to the Developer about it from the book’s own page, whatever you think of it.
Do not manipulate ratings. Submitting ratings through automated means, or across multiple installations, to influence a book’s average is a breach of these terms, and such ratings may be removed.

You can ask for your ratings to be deleted. See the Privacy Policy.

11. AI-Assisted Writing And Narration

Stories in AudioChoices use pre-recorded AI narration. The narration models used include Kokoro-82M (Apache 2.0 licence) and Chatterbox (MIT licence). Applicable model and reference-voice credits and licence information are available in the app. The narration is generated by the Developer offline, before a book is published, and the finished audio is then delivered to your device like any other audio file.

No listening data, no voice recording, no choice you make and no personal information is ever sent to an AI service or a text-to-speech service. There is no runtime AI in the app.

The Developer creates and reviews the story text with the help of generative AI, which may be used to draft and revise passages. This editorial work happens before publication; the app does not generate stories from your listening choices. Section 4 describes your licence to the books and their narration.

AI narration is good but not perfect: it can occasionally mispronounce a name, misplace an emphasis or read a line in an unexpected tone. AudioChoices is entertainment. It is not a source of factual, professional, medical, legal, financial or safety advice, and nothing in a story should be treated as such.

12. Content Advisory And The Age Setting

Each book carries an advisory minimum age set by its author, and the library hides books whose advisory age is higher than the age the app has for you. There are two ways it gets one. On devices that offer it — iOS 26 and later, and Android where Google Play supports it — the app asks the platform which age range you fall into, and you decide on your own device whether to share it; the app keeps the bottom of that range. Where no platform range is held and access is unrestricted, you can pick a range yourself and the app does not independently verify it. Earlier releases offered 13–15, 16–17 and 18 or over; the planned access-screen builds also offer Under 13, which leads to the restriction in section 2; on the devices that do offer a platform range there is a link on the same screen for picking it yourself instead of being asked, so nobody has to be looked up. If you decline the platform’s own sharing prompt, the app does not put the picker up in its place — it assumes 13 and moves on, rather than asking you the same question twice. Either way it stays on your device. Where no range was shared and no under-13 restriction applies, you can set or change the age in Settings, including after declining; where a range was shared, that range is what the app goes by and there is no picker — a range you think is wrong is corrected in your phone’s own account, and then re-read with “Check my age range”. If the app has no age, it assumes 13.

Please understand what this is and is not:

A range shared by Apple or Google is established by them, not by us. This app performs no age check of its own: it asks for no birth date, no identity document and no account details, and it sees only the range and a label describing how it was arrived at. Where no range is available, the age is self-declared and not verified — nothing checks it.
The per-book age ratings are advisory guidance from the author, not a certification, and not equivalent to a film or game classification.
The filter is a convenience feature, not a parental control, and not a substitute for a parent’s or guardian’s own judgement. Where no range has been shared and access is unrestricted, Settings may offer an unverified manual age choice. Where a range has been shared, the app acts on nothing above the bottom of that range — wherever you are, and whatever number may be stored beside it — because a range established by your phone’s own store is a better answer than one anybody can pick for themselves. This changed on 14 August 2026: until then the range applied only where a law requiring an age check said so, and a number set in the app overrode it everywhere else.
Separately, where the platform tells the app a law requiring age assurance applies to you and no range has been shared, the app acts on nothing above 13, whatever higher age is set in Settings. Your own number is still stored and still shown to you; it is simply not acted on above that limit. The app does not work out where you are in order to decide this; it relies only on what the platform tells it. Clearing the app’s data does not lift that limit. The clear-local-data control erases the age and the range, but the app keeps the fact that the platform said an age check is required where you are, precisely so that clearing cannot be used as a way around this; only the platform telling the app otherwise removes it.
That second limit operates only where the platform actually tells the app, and the platform does not always tell it. Where the app is not told and no range was shared, nothing is capped and an age you set yourself stands in full — which is most devices in use today. On iPhones and iPads below iOS 26 there is no such signal at all. On iOS 26.0 and iOS 26.1 the phone offers an age range but not that signal, so on those two releases the 13 limit never applies; from iOS 26.2 the phone answers the question and the app acts on the answer, including a “no”, which lifts it again. On Android, Google Play tells the app one thing here and only in one situation — that age verification is required and you have not yet completed it with the store. Play has no signal meaning the opposite and stops saying this once you have completed the verification, so on an Android device where Play has never reported an outstanding verification the 13 limit never applies, and where it has, the app keeps that answer. These limits are stated rather than left out, because describing a protection that does not always operate would be worse than saying where it stops.
Ordinary rechecks preserve a prior manual age; recovery from an under-13 restriction instead adopts the fresh eligible platform range. Outside that recovery flow: Using “Check my age range” in Settings records whatever your phone says at that moment, but where you had set the age yourself it leaves your number in place rather than replacing it. Where the age came from your phone in the first place, the newer range replaces it. The app then works to whichever of the two is lower, so a stored number below the range is what stands, and a stored number above it does nothing — Settings offers a single control for adopting the range instead, which is the only thing that can raise what the app acts on. “Newest” means the most recent range your phone actually confirmed to this app, which is not necessarily a recent one. The app never asks your phone again by itself and the range it holds has no expiry, so a range confirmed long ago goes on setting the limit until a successful check replaces it — and a check that fails, or that you decline, leaves the older range in place rather than clearing it.
A book’s advisory age decides what is offered in the library. The app-access restriction in section 2 and separate purchase/processing eligibility checks also apply. A restriction does not itself erase purchase records or waive rights relating to something already bought.

Books may include tension, peril, violence, frightening scenes, mature themes or strong language. Parents and guardians who want a firmer boundary should use the device’s own parental controls and screen-time features alongside the app’s age rating on the App Store and Google Play.

If you find content in a book that seems wrongly rated, tell us at audiochoicesaudiobooks@gmail.com.

13. Acceptable Use

You agree not to:

copy, rip, record, redistribute, resell or publicly perform the books, audio or story text
reverse engineer, decompile, tamper with, probe, scrape or disrupt the app, its content delivery, its entitlement logic or its servers, except where applicable law gives you a non-waivable right to do so
circumvent purchase, subscription, entitlement, free-unlock or age-filtering mechanisms, or attempt to obtain content you have not paid for
use automated means to access the service, or place unreasonable load on it
manipulate book ratings
use the app unlawfully, or in a way that infringes the rights of others
send false, harmful, abusive, infringing or unlawful content through support

14. Availability, Changes And Discontinuation

We may add, change, suspend, remove, limit or discontinue AudioChoices, individual books, features, prices or the related website pages, where reasonably needed to operate the service, comply with law or platform rules, protect users, or manage cost.

If a book you bought outright is removed from the catalogue, we will make reasonable efforts to keep it available to you within the app, but a rights, legal or technical issue can make that impossible. If a book you bought outright becomes permanently unavailable to you, that is a failure to supply what you paid for. Tell us and you are entitled, under your statutory rights, to have it put right, to a proportionate reduction of what you paid, or to end the contract for that book and be reimbursed. We will help you obtain that from the store, which holds the payment, and we will not treat it as a favour or condition it on how much of the book you had already heard.

If we change All Access itself — beyond what is needed to keep it working — in a way that negatively affects your access to it or your use of it, we will tell you a reasonable time in advance, on a durable medium, and you may end the subscription free of charge within 30 days of being told or of the change taking effect, whichever is later.

We do not guarantee uninterrupted availability. The app needs an internet connection to fetch books, verify entitlements and refresh the catalogue; sections already downloaded continue to play offline.

If the service were to be discontinued altogether, reasonable advance notice would be given in the app and on these pages where practical.

15. Conformity And Disclaimers

We must supply content that matches its description and is fit for its purpose, and we do not exclude that obligation. If a book does not conform — for example, if audio is missing, corrupted or does not match what was described — tell us at audiochoicesaudiobooks@gmail.com. Depending on the circumstances you may be entitled to have it put right, to a price reduction, or to terminate the contract for that content, in line with your statutory rights.

Subject to that, and to the extent permitted by law, the app and the website pages are provided without any additional warranties beyond those given here and those implied by law that cannot be excluded. In particular we do not warrant that the app will be free of every error, that it will be compatible with every device or every pair of headphones, that any specific book will remain available, or that AI narration will match every listener’s expectations.

Nothing in this section limits, and nothing is intended to limit, any warranty, remedy or statutory right that cannot legally be limited or excluded, including your mandatory rights as a consumer.

16. Limitation Of Liability

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 other liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited, including your mandatory rights as a consumer under the law of your country of residence

The additional exclusions below apply only to users acting wholly for business purposes. They do not apply to consumers or claims under data-protection law. Subject to the above, and to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law:

for loss caused by our failure to supply a book, or by a book that does not conform to what was described, you have the statutory remedies set out in section 15, and we do not cap them
for any other loss, our liability is limited to loss that was a reasonably foreseeable consequence of our breach at the time you accepted these terms; we are not liable for loss that was not reasonably foreseeable, or for indirect or consequential loss
we are not liable for loss of profits, loss of business, or loss arising from your use of the app for any business purpose, since AudioChoices is supplied for personal use

If you are a consumer, your applicable statutory rights and remedies apply without these additional exclusions.

17. Changes To These Terms

We may update these terms, and the Privacy Policy, as the app changes, as the law changes, or as our business practices change. We will not change them silently or without notice.

The version and effective date appear at the top of each document and in the hosted legal manifest at https://alekjaltuszyk.xyz/apps/AudioBookChoices/legal-manifest.json.

Required notices and agreement accompany material changes. AudioChoices compiles its legal acceptance version into the app; a website-only change does not re-gate an older installed build. A build carrying a changed acceptance version can ask you to review the updated documents; existing acceptance may defer that gate while offline. Refusal does not remove accrued purchase or consumer rights. Clarifications without a substantive change may retain an acceptance version and appear in public revision history.

Changes that are materially adverse to you are not applied retroactively to purchases you already made.

18. Termination

You can stop using AudioChoices at any time by deleting the app. There is no account to close. The Privacy Policy explains how to delete data held on the server.

We may suspend or end your access where you seriously or repeatedly breach these terms — for example by ripping and redistributing audio, by attacking or overloading the service, or by abusing the free-unlock or entitlement systems. Where it is reasonable to do so, we will warn you first and give you a chance to put things right, and any suspension will be proportionate to what happened.

Because there is no account, ending access in practice means the app or particular features stop working for the installation concerned.

Ending your access does not remove your statutory rights, and does not affect a subscription you must still cancel yourself through Apple or Google.

19. Governing Law And Where Disputes Are Heard

These terms are governed by the law of Poland.

If you are a consumer, that choice of law does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory consumer-protection rules of the country where you habitually live. Those rules continue to apply to you in full and may give you more rights than these terms do.

If you are a consumer resident in the EU, the EEA, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, you may bring proceedings against us in the courts of your own country of residence, and we may bring proceedings against you only in the courts of your country of residence.

If you are a consumer resident anywhere else, the same principle applies wherever your own law provides it — including in Canada, and in Quebec in particular, where a consumer cannot be required to bring or defend a claim outside their own province. Where your law provides no such rule, disputes will be heard in the courts of Poland.

For users who are not consumers, disputes will be heard in the courts of Poland.

We do not require arbitration, and we do not ask you to waive any right to participate in a class or collective action.

20. Third-Party Services

AudioChoices relies on the Apple App Store, Google Play, and infrastructure and payment providers described in the Privacy Policy. Those services have their own terms, which apply to your use of them.

Which document licenses the app itself. On iOS, the AudioChoices app is licensed to you under Apple’s Standard End User Licence Agreement (“Apple’s Standard EULA”), because no custom end user licence agreement is supplied in App Store Connect. On Android there is no equivalent store licence, so section 4 of these terms is the licence for the app itself.

In both cases these Terms of Use govern everything else: the books and their narration, free unlocks, one-time book purchases and the All Access subscription, ratings, acceptable use, and the service behind them. Where these terms and Apple’s Standard EULA genuinely conflict about the licence to the app software on iOS, Apple’s Standard EULA prevails, and these terms continue to apply to everything Apple’s Standard EULA does not cover.

Apple is not a party to these Terms of Use and has no responsibility for the app or its content. Apple and its subsidiaries are, however, third-party beneficiaries of these terms and may enforce them against you.

21. Severability

If any part of these terms is found to be invalid or unenforceable, that part is modified to the minimum extent necessary, or removed, and the rest continues to apply.

22. Contact And Complaints

Questions, complaints and problems:

Email: audiochoicesaudiobooks@gmail.com
Support page: https://alekjaltuszyk.xyz/apps/AudioBookChoices/support/
Country: Poland

We aim to answer support and complaint emails within a few working days.

For privacy complaints you can also contact Poland’s data protection authority, the Urząd Ochrony Danych Osobowych (UODO), at https://uodo.gov.pl/en, or your own national authority.

For store refunds, billing and subscription controls, use the Apple or Google routes in section 8. You can also contact us about supply, conformity and other statutory remedies; a store procedure does not remove obligations we have under applicable law.

If we reject your complaint and you are a consumer, Polish law requires us to tell you where you stand on out-of-court dispute resolution. We consent to resolving consumer disputes through the Trade Inspection (Inspekcja Handlowa), whose permanent consumer arbitration courts and mediation are free to use; you can find the route through the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection at uokik.gov.pl. Using it is your choice, not a condition of anything, and it does not stop you going to court instead.