ASVentor Terms
Effective date: 1 August 2026 · Version 3.0
These Terms govern your use of ASVentor, the media-tools product of the APERTURESyndicate platform operated by APERTURESyndicate OÜ (registry code 17384111, VAT EE102972654), Priisle tee 8, Lasnamäe linnaosa, Tallinn, Harju maakond, 13914, Estonia.
ASVentor is around twenty tools. Most of them work on files you already have: they convert, trim, compress, upscale, clean up and read them. One of them — the downloader — fetches media from a link you supply, and because it raises questions the other tools do not, it has its own sections (5 to 14) below.
They supplement, and do not replace, the Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, Acceptable Use Policy and Copyright & Takedown Policy. As a product-specific document, these Terms sit below the platform-wide ones: they can add detail or impose a stricter rule, but where they appear to conflict with a platform-level document, the platform-level document controls (Section 3 of the Terms of Service).
You accept these Terms by accepting the Terms of Service — creating a APERTURESyndicate account accepts every product document with it. ASVentor also works signed out; using it that way means you accept these Terms too.
We write these documents in good faith and keep them accurate to how the platform actually works. They have not yet been reviewed by qualified Estonian legal counsel.
1. The tools
ASVentor groups roughly twenty tools. They fall into four families:
| Family | Tools |
|---|---|
| Convert and compress | Format conversion for audio, video and images; compression; trimming; audio effects |
| Improve and edit | Upscaling, background removal, object erasing, image expansion, colourisation, restoration |
| Read and extract | OCR, PDF tools, data tools, text tools, colour tools |
| Create | QR codes, the collaborative map maker |
| Fetch | The downloader — Sections 5 to 14 |
The tool list changes: we add tools, retire tools and rename them. What a tool does is described in the tool itself.
Where your file is processed. Many tools run entirely in your browser — the file never leaves your computer, and we never receive it. Others need a server, because the work is too heavy for a browser or requires a model we run: upscaling, background removal, object erasing, expansion, colourisation, restoration and OCR are of that kind, as are some conversions of large files. Each tool states which of the two it is before you run it. If it runs on the server, your file is uploaded, processed and then deleted — we do not keep a library of what you processed, and nothing you upload is shown to anyone else.
AI-assisted tools. Upscaling, background removal, erasing, expansion, colourisation and restoration produce a generated result. It can be wrong, can invent detail that was not in the original, and is not a faithful reconstruction of anything. Section 7 of the Terms of Service and AI Output & Limitations apply. Do not use these tools to produce material presented as an authentic record — a restored photograph is a new image, not evidence.
The map maker additionally supports live collaboration: a host shares a code, others join, and everyone edits the same map. Everything a participant does is visible to the others. Do not put anything in a shared session you would not show them.
2. Your files and your responsibility
You need the rights to the files you put into ASVentor. By using a tool you confirm that you own the file, hold a licence covering what you are doing, or are otherwise permitted by law to process it that way.
We do not check what your file contains and we do not screen the output. What you make with these tools, and what you then do with it, is yours.
The Acceptable Use Policy applies in full. In particular, do not use these tools to produce sexual imagery of real people without their consent, to fabricate documents or identification, to remove watermarks or credits from someone else's work, or to make anything that would be illegal to make by hand.
3. Limits and plans
Usage is metered with a token allowance that refills over time: a signed-out visitor gets the smallest allowance, a signed-in account a larger one, and the paid ASVentor plan (€3/month or €30/year) a much larger one. Heavier operations cost more than light ones. The current numbers are shown in the product; we deliberately do not restate them here, because they are tuned more often than a legal document should change.
Individual operations have a processing budget and a size ceiling. Very large files may be refused or may not finish.
Paid plans are cancelled the same way as everything else — from your account settings or at https://subscriptions.aperturesyndicate.com. See Refunds & Cancellation.
4. No account required
Most of ASVentor works signed out, with the smaller allowance. Where a tool needs an account, it says so.
The platform minimum age of 16 applies to accounts (Section 4 of the Terms of Service). Signed-out use is not age-gated and ASVentor performs no age check of any kind. We are saying so plainly rather than implying a barrier that does not exist.
The downloader
The remaining sections apply only to the downloader.
5. What the Downloader is
The Downloader is a general-purpose technical tool. It acts on a link that you supply: it resolves the link, retrieves the audio or video it points to, and hands the resulting file to you.
- You paste a link. Nothing is browsed, indexed, curated, recommended or suggested by us.
- You choose the output: video (MP4) or audio (MP3), and the quality — audio bitrate from 128 to 320 kbps, video up to whatever resolution the source actually offers.
- Playlists are shown to you as a list of items. You download items one at a time; there is no bulk or batch download.
- One exception to "we do not search". If you paste a Spotify link, the Downloader cannot fetch from Spotify. It reads the public title and artist from the link and then searches other public services, such as YouTube and SoundCloud, for a matching recording and offers you the best match it finds. That is a server-side search we perform on your instruction, and the result may be a different recording, a cover, or an upload by someone with no rights to it. Check what you have actually been given.
Whether any particular use is lawful depends on the content you point it at and the rights you hold in that content — matters within your knowledge, not ours.
6. Your responsibility
Each time you use the Downloader you confirm that, for the content you are retrieving, at least one of the following is true:
- you own the copyright and all other rights in it; or
- you have permission or a valid licence from the rightsholder to download and use it in the way you intend; or
- your download and intended use are otherwise permitted by law — a genuine private-use copy under an applicable copyright exception, content in the public domain, or content released under a licence (such as a Creative Commons licence) whose terms allow it.
You are solely responsible for the content you download, for judging whether you hold the necessary rights, and for everything you then do with the file. You decide which links to submit. You are responsible for compliance with copyright, intellectual-property, contract and privacy law, and with the terms of the service the content came from.
Copyright exceptions vary between countries, a private-use copy is narrow, and downloading can be unlawful even where streaming the same thing is not. We cannot make that assessment for you and we do not try to.
7. What you must not do
You must not use the Downloader to:
- download, copy or retain copyrighted material — music, films, series, podcasts, images or anything else — without authorisation or a clear legal basis;
- circumvent, bypass, disable or interfere with DRM, encryption, access controls, paywalls or any other technical protection measure;
- break the terms of service or API/robots restrictions of the source service;
- redistribute, publish, sell, sublicense or commercially exploit downloaded content you have no rights to;
- download content that is unlawful in itself, or that you are not permitted to access; or
- use the Downloader through automation, at scale, or in any way designed to systematically harvest or scrape a third-party service.
Circumventing technical protection measures is unlawful in many jurisdictions, including under EU and Estonia law, independently of any underlying infringement.
To be clear about what enforces this: nothing. The Downloader has no DRM detection, no rights check and no source blocklist. These are rules you are bound by, not filters we apply. They are enforced by consequence — see Section 11 — not by the tool refusing you.
8. We do not keep what you download
The Downloader is not a library and not a sharing service. We do not build a catalogue of downloaded files, we do not make anyone's downloads available to anyone else, and there is no public or shared storage of retrieved content.
Mechanically, and stated precisely because the previous version of this document was not: the file is assembled in temporary storage on the server and then sent to you, after which it is deleted. It is not a live pass-through. If a download fails or times out, fragments may remain in that temporary storage until the machine is recycled; nothing there is served to anyone, indexed, or kept deliberately.
Logs. When a download fails, the underlying tool's error output is written to our server logs, and that output usually contains the link you submitted. So the URLs you paste can appear in operational logs. Those logs are kept for 30 days — see Data Retention and the Privacy Policy.
9. Limits, plans, and availability
No account is required. You can use the Downloader signed out. Usage is metered with a token allowance that refills over time: a signed-out visitor gets the smallest allowance, a signed-in account a larger one, and the paid ASVentor plan (€3/month or €30/year) a much larger one. A video costs more than an audio download. The current numbers are shown in the product; we deliberately do not restate them here, because they are tuned more often than a legal document should change.
A single download is given a limited processing budget — currently about ten minutes — after which it is stopped. Very long or very large media may not complete.
Age. The platform minimum age of 16 applies to accounts (Section 4 of the Terms of Service). The Downloader itself performs no age check of any kind, and signed-out use is not gated. We are saying so plainly rather than implying a barrier that does not exist.
10. Our right to block sources or withdraw the feature
We may, at our discretion and without prior notice:
- block or refuse specific sources, domains, links or categories of link;
- disable, suspend or remove the Downloader in whole or in part, temporarily or permanently;
- act on a rightsholder request or a valid legal notice by blocking a source or restricting the feature; and
- apply technical measures against abuse.
These are rights we reserve, not filters that are running today: as noted in Section 7, no source blocklist currently exists, and implementing a block requires a change on our side. Nothing here creates any obligation to monitor, pre-screen or assess the links you submit.
11. Misuse, and what happens
We are not responsible for your use or misuse of the Downloader, for the content you choose to retrieve, for your failure to hold the necessary rights, or for any infringement or breach of third-party terms arising from it. That liability is yours.
If you are using the Downloader in the course of a business, you agree to indemnify us against claims, damages, losses and reasonable costs arising from your use of it, from content you downloaded through it, from your breach of these Terms, or from your violation of the law or of anyone's rights. This indemnity does not apply if you are a consumer.
Repeat infringement. Accounts associated with repeated or serious infringement, or with repeated misuse of the Downloader, may be terminated, and access to ASVentor and other Services may be withdrawn. The strike ladder is in Copyright & Takedown, Section 5. Be aware that we do not keep a per-user record of what was downloaded, so in practice we act on what a rightsholder or a report brings to us.
Nothing in this Section limits liability that cannot be excluded under Estonia or EU law, including mandatory consumer rights.
12. Copyright complaints
If you believe content retrieved through the Downloader infringes your rights, the procedure is in Copyright & Takedown — the EU notice-and-action route, with the DMCA available to US rightsholders. Write to [email protected].
Please note what we can and cannot do: because we do not host the content and do not keep copies, a takedown addressed to us cannot remove a file from wherever it originally lives. What we can do is act against an account and, where appropriate, block a source.
13. No warranty
The Downloader is provided "as is" and "as available", to the maximum extent permitted by law. We do not warrant that it will be uninterrupted, error-free, or able to resolve any particular link. Third-party sources change, restrict and remove content constantly, and links that worked yesterday may fail today.
This does not affect the mandatory statutory rights of consumers under Estonia and EU law, or the conformity rights in Section 15 of the Terms of Service.
14. Governing law
These Terms, and any dispute about the Downloader, are governed by the law of Estonia, subject to the mandatory consumer-protection law of your country of residence in the EU where that applies. the courts of Tallinn have jurisdiction, without prejudice to any non-waivable right you have to bring proceedings where you live.
The English version is the controlling version; any translation is for convenience.
Contact
| Purpose | Contact |
|---|---|
| Questions about these Terms | [email protected] |
| Copyright notices | [email protected] |
We accept correspondence in English or Estonian. Our website is https://aperturesyndicate.com.
APERTURESyndicate OÜ Registry code 17384111 · VAT EE102972654 Priisle tee 8, Lasnamäe linnaosa, Tallinn, Harju maakond, 13914, Estonia Company registration details
Version history
- v3.0 — 2026-08-01 — Widened from the downloader alone to all of ASVentor: the tool families, which tools run in your browser and which run on our servers, that server-side files are deleted after processing, that the AI-assisted tools generate rather than reconstruct, the collaborative map-maker session, limits and plans, and cancellation via https://subscriptions.aperturesyndicate.com. The downloader sections are unchanged in substance and now run from Section 5.
- v2.0 — 2026-08-01 — Corrected the company domain (the previous version
pointed at a
.eewebsite that is not ours) and removed the dead product name "ASAIStudio". Rewritten to match the tool as built: the Spotify path does search third-party services, downloads are assembled in server-side temporary storage rather than streamed through, submitted links can appear in error logs, there is no DRM detection and no source blocklist, no account is required and no age check exists. Source blocking is now stated as a reserved right rather than a current capability. Indemnity limited to business users. - v1.0 — 2026-06-22 — Initial publication.