Terms and Conditions

Effective: 24 October 2026 · Version: 2.2

1. The agreement

These Terms and Conditions (the "Terms") are a binding agreement between you and Cont SIA, a limited liability company registered in Latvia under registration number 40203709068, registered office Gardenes iela 7 - 24, Riga, LV-1002, Latvia ("Cont SIA", "we", "us"). They govern your use of the cont. mobile applications, the website at conthubs.com, and everything we provide through them (the "Services").

Where these Terms refer to "cont.", that is the name of the product. The contracting party is always Cont SIA.

2. Eligibility and your account

2.1 Minimum age

You must be at least 16 years old to use the Services. By creating an account you confirm that you are. The catalogue includes third-party podcasts and videos that are not filtered for younger audiences.

2.2 Your account

You can register with Google, with Apple, or with an email address and password. You are responsible for keeping your credentials secure and for activity on your account. Tell us at [email protected] if you believe it has been used without your permission.

One account is for one person. Do not share it, sell it, or transfer it. One subscription covers every device you personally sign in on.

2.3 Closing your account

You can delete your account at any time from Profile > Settings > Delete Account, or by emailing [email protected]. Deleting your account does not by itself cancel a subscription bought through Apple or Google. See section 4.5 for how to cancel in the store.

3. How the platform works

cont. brings podcasts, book lenses, video and encyclopedic knowledge onto one curated path. Different parts of the catalogue work differently, and your use of them is also subject to the terms of the platforms the content comes from.

3.1 Podcasts

We index publicly available podcast RSS feeds and act as a directory and player, in the same way as other podcast apps. Cont SIA does not host, copy or claim ownership of any podcast audio. Episodes stream directly from the hosting provider the creator chose, and any advertising the host inserts stays exactly as published. If you are a creator and want your feed removed from our directory, email [email protected] and we will remove it.

3.2 Video

Video is delivered through the official YouTube API and played in the YouTube player. By using it you also agree to the YouTube Terms of Service and the Google Privacy Policy. Cont SIA does not host or claim copyright in any YouTube content, and all playback metrics and advertising revenue belong to the creator and Google.

3.3 Knowledge

Encyclopedic content is shown from Wikipedia, with attribution and a link to the source article. Where a topic also exists on Grokipedia, cont. shows our own editorial summary of the topic and a link that opens the Grokipedia article on Grokipedia's own site. We do not copy, host or republish Grokipedia's article text.

3.4 Book lenses and editorial content

Book lenses, video breakdowns and article syntheses are original editorial works written by the cont. team. They are commentary and criticism about a work, not a reproduction of it, and they are not a substitute for reading or watching the original. Every one links back to the source. Our Editorial Policy explains how they are produced.

3.5 Availability

The catalogue depends on third-party feeds and APIs that their owners can change or withdraw at any time. Content may therefore be added or removed without notice, and we cannot guarantee any particular title will remain available.

4. Subscriptions and billing

4.1 Free and Premium

cont. has a free plan and a paid subscription, cont. Premium, billed monthly or yearly. What each plan includes and the current prices are shown on our Pricing page and in the app. We may adjust what the free plan includes as the product develops.

4.2 Where you buy

Premium is sold only inside the cont. mobile apps, as an in-app subscription through Apple's App Store on iPhone and iPad or Google Play on Android. It cannot be bought on our website or from us directly. Apple or Google takes the payment, charges it to your App Store or Google Play account, and applies its own terms of sale alongside these Terms. We never receive your card or bank details; we only receive confirmation of which plan is active so we can unlock it.

The price, billing period and any free trial are shown by the store before you confirm the purchase. Prices may vary by country and include any taxes the store collects.

4.3 Free trial

A subscription may start with a free trial, if one is offered at the time. When the trial ends, the paid subscription starts automatically and the store charges your account, unless you cancel in the store before the trial ends. One free trial is available per person, and we take reasonable steps to prevent the same device claiming it repeatedly.

4.4 Automatic renewal

Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each billing period at the then-current price, unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the period ends. If the price increases, Apple or Google tells you in advance and, where its rules require, asks for your agreement before the new price applies. You can cancel before it does.

4.5 Cancelling

You can cancel at any time, in the store where you subscribed. Because Apple and Google manage the subscription, we cannot cancel it for you, and cancelling is not possible from the cont. app or website.

• iPhone or iPad (App Store): open Settings, tap your name, then Subscriptions, choose cont. and tap Cancel Subscription
• Android (Google Play): open the Play Store, tap your profile picture, then Payments and subscriptions, Subscriptions, choose cont. and tap Cancel

Cancelling stops the next renewal. You keep Premium until the end of the period you have already paid for, then your account returns to the free plan. Deleting the app or your cont. account does not cancel the subscription.

4.6 Refunds

Because Apple or Google takes the payment, any refund request is made to them and decided under their own refund policies:

• App Store: at reportaproblem.apple.com
• Google Play: from your Google Play order history

We cannot grant, prevent or reverse a store's refund decision. If you think you were charged in error, or a fault on our side left you unable to use what you paid for, email [email protected] and we will help you take it up with the store.

4.7 Your consumer rights

Consumers in the European Union, the United Kingdom and elsewhere may have statutory rights to cancel or withdraw from a purchase. For subscriptions bought through the App Store or Google Play, those rights are exercised with Apple or Google, which sells the subscription, under their terms and the law that applies to you. Nothing in these Terms limits rights you have under mandatory consumer law, such as remedies if the service is faulty or not as described.

5. Content you post

5.1 Your responsibility

Comments, replies, reactions, shared collections, profile details and anything else you post ("Your Content") are yours, and you are responsible for them. Only post what you have the right to post.

5.2 What is not allowed

You may not post content that is unlawful, harassing, threatening, hateful, sexually explicit, violent, defamatory, deceptive, spam, or that infringes anyone's rights. The full list is in our Community Guidelines, which form part of these Terms. We have zero tolerance for objectionable content and abusive users.

5.3 Filtering, reporting and blocking

• Filtering. New comments and replies pass through automated filtering before they appear
• Reporting. Every comment, reply, collection and profile has a Report control. You can also email [email protected]
• Our response. We review reports of objectionable content and remove anything that breaches these Terms or the Community Guidelines within 24 hours, and we suspend or permanently remove the accounts responsible
• Blocking. You can block any user from their profile or any of their comments. A blocked user can no longer see your content or interact with you
• Appeals. If we action your content or account and you think we got it wrong, email [email protected]. We answer appeals within 72 hours and we tell you why the decision was made

5.4 The licence you give us

You keep ownership of Your Content. You grant Cont SIA a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable and sublicensable licence to host, store, copy, display, adapt for formatting and distribute Your Content, solely for the purpose of operating, promoting and improving the Services. This licence ends when you delete Your Content or your account, except for copies retained as described in the Privacy Policy and for content others have already interacted with, which may be retained in anonymised form.

5.5 Removal

We may remove Your Content or limit its visibility if we reasonably believe it breaches these Terms, the Community Guidelines or the law. Except where we are legally prevented, or where the content is manifestly illegal or relates to a safety risk, we will tell you what was removed and why, and how to appeal.

6. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• Scrape, crawl, mine or extract content, data or editorial material from the Services using automated means, except as a search engine indexing our public pages in accordance with our robots file
• Reverse engineer, decompile or attempt to derive the source of our curation systems
• Circumvent rate limits, access controls, subscription limits or security measures
• Download, rip, redistribute or publicly perform content obtained through the Services
• Use the Services to distribute malware, spam or unlawful material
• Impersonate anyone, or misrepresent your affiliation with any person or organisation
• Interfere with the operation of the Services or place an unreasonable load on them
• Use the Services where doing so would breach sanctions or export control law

7. Copyright and takedowns

Cont SIA respects intellectual property rights and responds to properly made complaints. We comply with the United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), the EU Digital Services Act, and applicable EU and UK copyright law.

7.1 Sending a notice

If you believe material on cont. infringes your copyright, send a notice to our designated agent at [email protected], or by post to Cont SIA, Gardenes iela 7 - 24, Riga, LV-1002, Latvia, marked "Copyright Agent". It must include:

• Your physical or electronic signature
• Identification of the copyrighted work you say has been infringed
• Identification of the material complained of, with enough detail for us to find it
• Your name, address, telephone number and email address
• A statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorised by the rights holder, its agent or the law
• A statement that the information in the notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the rights holder or authorised to act for them

We acknowledge and act on valid notices within 72 hours. We will tell the person who posted the material what was removed and why.

Note that podcast audio and YouTube video are hosted by third parties, not by us. For those, a notice to the host or to YouTube will be more effective, though we will still remove the item from our directory on request.

7.2 Counter-notice

If your material was removed and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, you can send a counter-notice to the same address including: your signature; identification of the material and where it was before removal; a statement under penalty of perjury that you believe in good faith it was removed by mistake or misidentification; your name, address and telephone number; and your consent to the jurisdiction of a competent court. If we receive a valid counter-notice we may restore the material unless the original complainant starts legal proceedings.

7.3 Repeat infringers

We terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of users who repeatedly infringe copyright. We also refuse to reinstate accounts terminated on that basis.

7.4 Misuse of notices

Knowingly making a material misrepresentation in a notice or counter-notice can make you liable for damages. Please be sure before you send one.

8. AI features

cont. uses artificial intelligence to build paths, curate albums and playlists, and to generate summaries, chapters and other material about content in the catalogue.

How your prompts are handled, including who processes them and how to delete them, is set out in the Privacy Policy.

9. Our intellectual property

The Services, the cont. name and logo, the interface, the design, and all editorial material we produce are owned by Cont SIA or licensed to it, and are protected by copyright, trade mark and other laws. We grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the Services for your own personal, non-commercial use, on the terms of this agreement. Nothing else is granted.

Feedback and suggestions you send us are welcome, and you agree we may use them freely without obligation to you.

10. Suspension and termination

You may stop using the Services and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate your access, with notice where reasonably practicable, if you materially breach these Terms or the Community Guidelines, if we are required to by law, or if your use creates a risk to other users or to the Services. For serious breaches, including illegal content or threats to safety, we may act immediately and without notice.

If we terminate your account other than for breach, we will make sure your subscription is not renewed and will help you obtain a refund of the unused part of any prepaid period from Apple or Google. Sections that by their nature should survive termination, including sections 5.4, 9, 11, 12 and 13, continue to apply.

11. Disclaimers and limitation of liability

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded. If you are a consumer, your mandatory statutory rights are unaffected by anything in this section.

Subject to that, and to the fullest extent permitted by law:

• The Services are provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis. We do not warrant that they will be uninterrupted, error free, or that third-party feeds and APIs will remain available
• We do not warrant the accuracy or completeness of AI generated material or of third-party content
• We are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, punitive or consequential loss, or for loss of profits, revenue, data or goodwill
• Our total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to the Services is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim, or fifty euro (EUR 50).

12. Indemnity

If you are using the Services other than as a consumer, you agree to indemnify Cont SIA against claims, losses and reasonable costs arising from your breach of these Terms, from Your Content, or from your unlawful use of the Services. This does not apply to consumers.

13. Governing law and disputes

13.1 Governing law

These Terms are governed by the law of the Republic of Latvia, without regard to its conflict of laws rules. If you are a consumer, this does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory consumer law of your country or state of residence, which continues to apply to you.

13.2 Talk to us first

Before starting formal proceedings, please email [email protected] describing the problem and what you would like us to do. Most disputes are resolved this way, and we will engage in good faith for 30 days.

13.3 Users in the United States: arbitration and class action waiver

Please read this section carefully. It affects your legal rights, including your right to bring a case in court and to participate in a class action.

If you are a resident of the United States, you and Cont SIA agree that any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Services will be resolved by binding individual arbitration rather than in court, except as stated below.

• Rules and forum. Arbitration is administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, in English. The seat is your judicial district of residence unless we agree otherwise. For claims under USD 10,000 you may choose to have it decided on written submissions, by telephone, or by video, without an in-person hearing
• Arbitrator. A single arbitrator is appointed under the AAA rules, and may award the same individual relief a court could
• Costs. Cont SIA pays all AAA filing, administration and arbitrator fees for claims under USD 10,000, except where the arbitrator finds the claim frivolous
• Applicable law. The Federal Arbitration Act governs the interpretation and enforcement of this section. The substantive law applied is Latvian law as set out in 13.1, together with any mandatory consumer protection law of your state that applies to you
• Class action waiver. Claims may be brought only in an individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any class, consolidated or representative proceeding. The arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person's claims. If this waiver is found unenforceable for a particular claim, that claim proceeds in court and the rest of this section still applies
• Exceptions. This section does not apply to claims that qualify for small claims court, to claims to enforce or protect intellectual property rights, or to requests for injunctive relief
• Opt out. You may opt out by emailing [email protected] with the subject "Arbitration Opt-Out" within 30 days of first accepting these Terms, giving your name and account email. Opting out costs you nothing and affects nothing else in this agreement

13.4 Consumers in the European Union

Nothing in these Terms limits your rights under the mandatory consumer law of your country of residence, and you may bring proceedings in the courts there. The European Commission provides an online dispute resolution platform at ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr. Our contact point for users, authorities and the European Commission under the Digital Services Act is [email protected], and we accept communications there in English or Latvian.

13.5 Consumers in the United Kingdom

Nothing in these Terms limits your rights under UK consumer law, and you may bring proceedings in the courts of England and Wales, or of Scotland or Northern Ireland if you live there.

13.6 Everyone else

If you are not covered by 13.3 to 13.5, the courts of Riga, Latvia have exclusive jurisdiction.

14. Terms that apply to the app stores

14.1 Apple

If you downloaded the app from the App Store, you acknowledge that:

• This agreement is between you and Cont SIA only, not with Apple, and Cont SIA alone is responsible for the app and its content
• Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for the app
• If the app fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple and Apple will refund the purchase price. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation
• Apple is not responsible for addressing any claim relating to the app, including product liability, legal compliance, or intellectual property claims
• You may not use the app if you are located in a country subject to a US Government embargo or designated as a terrorist supporting country, or if you are on any US Government list of prohibited or restricted parties
• Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of this agreement and may enforce it against you.

14.2 Google Play

If you downloaded the app from Google Play, your use is also subject to the Google Play Terms of Service, and Google is not a party to this agreement or responsible for the app.

15. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms as the product and the law change. The effective date and version at the top always reflect the current text.

If a change materially affects your rights or obligations, we will give you at least 30 days notice in the app or by email before it takes effect. Continuing to use the Services after that date means you accept the updated Terms. If you do not accept them, stop using the Services, cancel your subscription in the store and delete your account before the date.

16. General

• Entire agreement. These Terms and the policies they reference are the whole agreement between you and Cont SIA about the Services
• Severability. If any provision is held unenforceable, it is modified to the minimum extent necessary, or removed, and the rest stays in force
• No waiver. If we do not enforce a right, we have not waived it
• Assignment. You may not assign this agreement. We may assign it to an affiliate or in connection with a merger, acquisition or sale of assets, provided your rights are not reduced
• Force majeure. Neither party is liable for delay or failure caused by events beyond its reasonable control
• Notices. We contact you at the email on your account. You contact us at the addresses in section 17
• Language. These Terms are written in English, and the English text governs
• No third-party rights, except for Apple under section 14.1

17. Contact