Aurora terms of service

Last updated 25 September 2026.

These are the terms on which you may use Aurora. The short version:

• Aurora is a player. It brings no content, and you answer for the playlists and media servers you add to it.
• Aurora Premium is bought from the App Store or Google Play, and a refund is theirs to give.
• Aurora is offered as it is, and may change or come to an end.
• Nothing here takes away a right the law gives you as a consumer and does not let a contract remove.

1. Who we are

Aurora is made and licensed by Rhythmcode, Unipessoal Lda — "we", "us".

Rhythmcode, Unipessoal Lda — NIPC 516661493 — Portugal.

Questions, complaints and claims about Aurora go to support@rhythmcode.pt.

2. Accepting these terms

By installing or using Aurora you agree to these terms; if you do not agree, do not use it. You must be at least 18, or the age of majority where you live if that is higher. How Aurora handles data is explained in the privacy policy, which is there to inform you and is not part of this contract.

3. Aurora is a player, and only a player

Aurora plays the playlists and media servers that you add to it. It does not include, sell, host, index, transmit, endorse or recommend any channel, film, series, playlist or service. What it lists is whatever the address you entered sends back, and a stream travels directly between that server and your device: we operate no servers, we cannot see what you add or watch, and so we do not and cannot monitor it.

Aurora is rated for adults because it will play whatever a source carries. Hiding categories labelled as adult, which is on by default, is a convenience that depends on how a source names things; it is not a guarantee, and what is watched on your device is for you to supervise.

4. Your sources are your responsibility

You alone are responsible for every playlist, login and stream address you add, and you confirm that you have whatever right, licence or paid service its use requires where you are. You agree not to use Aurora to reach content you have no right to reach, or in any way that infringes someone else's rights or breaks the law. Where a source is a service with terms of its own, those apply to your use of it, and keeping to them is for you.

Rights holders. Aurora hosts nothing, so there is nothing of yours we could take down: a complaint about a stream belongs with whoever hosts or sells it. If you believe Aurora itself — its code, name or artwork — infringes your rights, write to the address in section 1.

5. Your licence

We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to install and use Aurora, for your own non-commercial use, on devices you own or control, as the rules of the store you got it from allow (including its family-sharing rules). Aurora is licensed, not sold, and its code, name and artwork remain ours or our licensors'.

You agree not to: resell, rent, sublicense or build a commercial service on Aurora; tamper with or get around its purchase or advertising systems, including requesting or tapping ads with no intention of watching them; or reverse engineer it — except as far as the law, or the licence of an open-source component, gives you that right. Those components, with their licences, are listed at rhythmcode.pt/aurora/licences, and each stays under its own licence, which prevails over these terms for that component.

6. Aurora Premium

What it is. Aurora is free, with an ad break as each channel, film or episode starts and after periods of viewing. The free version also shows a small mark on the picture. Aurora Premium is one optional purchase that removes the breaks and the mark. It is bought once: it does not expire, and there is nothing to renew or cancel. It buys no content and no channels, and changes nothing about the sources you add.

Where it applies. A purchase belongs to the store account that made it. Bought from Apple, it covers Aurora on the iPhone, iPad and Apple TV using that Apple Account; bought from Google, on the Android phone, tablet and TV using that Google account. It does not pass from one store to the other, and it does not cover the desktop app.

What "for good" means. That Premium never runs out or renews — not that Aurora will be distributed, updated or kept compatible for ever. Section 8 says what happens if Aurora changes or ends.

Who sells it. You buy Premium through the App Store or Google Play, with their payment system and under their terms. The store takes the payment and sets out the price and any tax; we never see your payment details.

Refunds. A refund is asked of the store you bought from — Apple at reportaproblem.apple.com, Google through Google Play's refund help — and is decided under that store's policy and the law. We take no payments ourselves, and, except where the law requires otherwise, a purchase is final. Nothing in these terms removes a legal right you may have to withdraw from a purchase or to a remedy if what you bought is faulty; such a right is exercised through the store that sold to you, and you may always write to us as well.

7. Ads in the free version

On a phone or tablet the free version's breaks may offer an ad, which is provided by Google and is only ever opened by you. We do not choose or vouch for an individual ad or for what it advertises; your dealings with an advertiser are between you and them. The privacy policy explains what the ad software collects and the choices you have.

8. Changes, availability, and the end of Aurora

What you get. Aurora is an app, not a service. You receive a licence to the version you install and, with Premium, the removal of the breaks in it. It runs on your device against servers that are yours, not ours, and there is no switch with which we can turn an installed copy, or a Premium already bought, off.

What we may change. We may change, add or remove features, stop distributing Aurora in any store or country, or stop developing it altogether, where there is a reason to: a law, a court or authority's order, or a legal claim; a store's rules or decision; security; a change in something Aurora depends on, such as an operating system, the player engine, or a store's purchase or advertising software; or because continuing is no longer technically or commercially workable. We will provide the updates, security updates included, that the law requires of us for as long as it requires them. Beyond that we make no promise that Aurora will be updated, or will work with future devices, future operating system versions, or any particular source.

If Aurora is removed from a store or discontinued — by the store or by us — that is not a breach of these terms. A copy already installed is not disabled by us. Whether you can download Aurora again, or restore a purchase, after that depends on the store and is outside our control. So far as the law allows, no refund, credit or compensation is owed by us because Aurora was removed, changed or discontinued. Your legal rights as a consumer, described in section 11, are untouched by this.

9. Services that are not ours

Aurora connects to things we neither run nor answer for: the server behind the address you enter, a Chromecast or AirPlay device on your network, the store's purchase system, and in the free version Google's advertising software. Whether they are available, what they carry, how secure they are, and the terms they work under are their own affair. Some servers use unencrypted connections; that is a property of the server you chose.

10. No warranty beyond the law's

Aurora is provided "as is" and "as available". We do not promise that it will be uninterrupted or free of errors, that it will work with every source, server, stream or device, or that anything reachable through a source you add is lawful, accurate or safe. Apart from guarantees the law imposes and does not allow to be excluded — for consumers in the European Union, the legal guarantee of conformity for digital content — we give no warranty, express or implied, including of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement.

11. Liability

What is never limited. Nothing in these terms excludes or limits our liability for intentional wrongdoing or gross negligence; for death or personal injury; for fraud; under the legal guarantee and the other consumer rights the law does not allow a contract to reduce; or for anything else the law says cannot be excluded or limited.

Otherwise, we are not liable for what is outside our control — what sources, streams, third-party servers, networks, stores or advertisers do or fail to do — nor for indirect or consequential loss, or loss of data. Our total liability to you in connection with Aurora is limited to the greater of what you paid for Aurora in the twelve months before the claim arose and twenty euros.

If you are a consumer, the paragraph above applies only as far as the mandatory law of the country where you live allows.

12. Claims caused by your use

If someone brings a claim against us because of a source you added, or because you broke these terms or the law, you will make good the loss this causes us, reasonable legal costs included. If you are a consumer in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, you answer for such loss only where you were at fault, and as your law provides.

13. If you got Aurora from the Apple App Store

Apple requires these terms to say the following, and you agree to it:

1. These terms are between you and us only, not Apple. We, not Apple, are solely responsible for Aurora and what is in it.
2. Your licence is limited to using Aurora on Apple-branded products you own or control, as permitted by the Usage Rules in the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions; Aurora may also be used by other accounts related to yours through Family Sharing or volume purchasing.
3. Apple has no obligation whatever to provide maintenance or support for Aurora.
4. If Aurora fails to conform to a warranty that applies, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund what you paid for it, if anything. To the maximum extent the law allows, Apple has no other warranty obligation with respect to Aurora; any other claim, loss, liability, damage, cost or expense attributable to a failure to conform is for us, subject to these terms.
5. We, not Apple, are responsible for addressing any claim by you or a third party relating to Aurora or your possession or use of it, including product liability claims, any claim that Aurora fails to conform to a legal or regulatory requirement, and claims under consumer protection, privacy or similar legislation.
6. If a third party claims that Aurora, or your possession and use of it, infringes its intellectual property rights, we, not Apple, are solely responsible for investigating, defending, settling and discharging that claim.
7. You represent that you are not located in a country subject to a United States Government embargo or designated by it as a "terrorist supporting" country, and that you are not on any United States Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
8. Our name and contact details for questions, complaints and claims are in section 1.
9. You must comply with any third-party terms that apply when you use Aurora, such as those of a service you connect it to and of your network operator.
10. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and, once you accept them, have the right to enforce them against you as a third-party beneficiary.

14. If you got Aurora from Google Play

Your licence to Aurora comes from us, not from Google, and Google is not responsible for Aurora or for its support. A purchase made through Google Play is also subject to Google Play's own terms of service and refund policy.

15. Ending

These terms last for as long as you use Aurora. You can end them at any time by uninstalling it. Your licence ends automatically if you seriously breach these terms, and you must then stop using Aurora. Sections 4, 6 and 8 to 17 continue to apply afterwards.

16. Law, courts and complaints

Law. These terms are governed by Portuguese law. If you are a consumer, you also keep the protection of the mandatory rules of the country where you live, and nothing here takes that away.

Courts. If you are a consumer you may bring proceedings in the courts of the country where you live, and we may bring proceedings against you only there. In every other case the Portuguese courts have exclusive jurisdiction.

Complaints. Write to us first, at the address in section 1; most things can be settled that way. If you are a consumer and we cannot settle it, you may turn to a consumer dispute resolution body. In Portugal these are listed at consumidor.gov.pt, and the Centro Nacional de Informação e Arbitragem de Conflitos de Consumo (cniacc.pt) acts nationwide. You may also use the Portuguese electronic complaints book, the Livro de Reclamações Eletrónico.

17. Changes to these terms

We may change these terms for the kinds of reason given in section 8, or to describe Aurora better as it changes. The new text is published here with a new date, and an update that depends on it says so in its release notes. Changes apply from then on, not backwards, and never reduce your rights in a purchase already made. If you do not accept a change, stop using Aurora.

18. General

If part of these terms cannot be enforced, the rest remains in force. These terms are the whole agreement between you and us about Aurora. Not enforcing a term on one occasion does not waive it. You may not transfer your rights under these terms; we may transfer ours to whoever takes over Aurora, provided your rights are not reduced by it.