These terms are a contract between you and the operator of Aviators. Read them before you open an account. By opening an account or using the app you accept them. If you do not accept them, do not use the app.
These terms are governed by Israeli law and are written to be read by an Israeli pilot. Nothing in them takes away a right the law gives you, and where a term here would conflict with a mandatory provision of Israeli law, the law wins and the rest of these terms stay in force.
The Privacy Policy is a separate document. It explains what we do with your data, and it is not part of this contract.
1. Who you are contracting with
Operator: Omer Weiner.
Address: Hatayasim 9, Ness Ziona 7406209, Israel.
Contact:support@aviators.org.il.
In these terms "we", "us" and "Aviators" mean the operator, and "you" means the account holder.
2. Safety — read this section even if you read nothing else
Aviators is a training aid and a record-keeping tool. It is not an aviation information service, it is not certified, and it is not approved by any aviation authority.
2.1 This app is not a source of official aviation information
The official and binding aviation information for Israel is the Aeronautical Information Publication (פמ"ת / AIP) published by the Civil Aviation Authority of Israel, together with official NOTAMs and official meteorological products. Where anything in this app differs from those publications, the official publication is correct and this app is wrong.
Charts, airspace, aerodrome data, frequencies, obstacles and terrain shown in the app are a convenience copy. They may be out of date, incomplete or in error.
Weather and NOTAM information is supplied by third parties, is cached, and may be delayed, incomplete or unavailable. Some aerodromes publish no weather report at all. Where the app can show you the time the information was retrieved or observed, it does — but never assume that what you see is current. The absence of a warning in this app never means that conditions are safe, that no NOTAM is in force, or that the app successfully checked.
Aerodrome and procedure charts included in the app are copies made at a point in time and carry no AIRAC cycle. They may have been superseded. Fly the current chart from the AIP, not this one.
The app is not certified for navigation and must not be used as a navigation source.
2.2 The pilot in command decides, not the app
Final authority for a flight rests with the pilot in command, under the Aviation Law, 5771-2011 and the Aviation Regulations (Operation of Aircraft and Flight Rules), 5742-1981. Nothing in this app changes that, reduces it, or substitutes for it.
You must obtain an official preflight briefing from official sources. This app is not a briefing.
Nothing here replaces your aviation authority's rules, your operator's procedures, your aircraft's approved flight manual, or your instructor's instructions.
2.3 This is not an approved Electronic Flight Bag
Aviators is not an approved EFB application. If an operator wishes to use it as part of an EFB, that authorisation is a matter between that operator and the Civil Aviation Authority of Israel. We make no claim, and give no undertaking, that the app meets any EFB requirement.
2.4 Calculations must be checked
Any figure the app calculates or displays — flight time, hours totals, distance, bearing, altitude, fuel required or fuel remaining, or any other computed value — must be verified independently against the aircraft's Pilot's Operating Handbook or Approved Flight Manual and against official data before you rely on it for a flight. Treat every number in the app as a draft you are checking, not as an answer.
2.5 Never rely on this app in an emergency
Aviators is not a safety system, not an emergency system, and not a backup for aircraft equipment. Do not use it for emergency navigation, emergency communication or emergency decision-making.
2.6 It needs a working phone, and sometimes a connection
Parts of the app need an internet connection and will show older cached data, or no data, without one. Your phone may run out of battery, overheat, fail in sunlight, or be commanded off. Plan every flight so that losing this app entirely changes nothing about your ability to complete it safely.
2.7 Your logbook is not the official logbook
The logbook in this app is a convenience record for you. It does not replace the pilot logbook the Civil Aviation Authority of Israel requires you to keep, and it is not evidence of licence, currency or qualification. Keeping the records your licence requires, and keeping your own copies of them, remains your responsibility. The app can export your records so you can do that.
Where the app shows currency, recency or check status — for example a "current" indicator, a landings count or a check-due date — that is arithmetic on what you typed in, not a determination that you meet any regulatory requirement. The requirements are set out in the Aviation Regulations and by the Civil Aviation Authority; the app does not state them, and where the app and the regulations differ, the regulations govern.
2.8 Warnings, risk flags and status indicators the app generates itself
Some things in this app are not information from someone else — they are the app's own output. This includes pre-flight risk flags, "ready" and "complete" indicators, currency and check-status indicators, wind and weather summaries, and any coloured warning or all-clear.
These are prompts to go and check something. They are not an assessment of whether a flight is safe, legal or advisable.
The thresholds are generic and are not yours. They are not taken from your licence, your medical, your aircraft's POH or AFM, your operator's or school's minima, or your instructor's authorisation. Where any of those differ from the app, those govern and the app does not.
The absence of a warning means nothing. It may mean the app found no matching condition; it may equally mean the data could not be fetched, that the aerodrome publishes none, or that the condition is one the app does not test for. Never read silence, a green indicator or a "cleared" message as confirmation that it is safe or legal to fly.
Acknowledging or dismissing a flag inside the app records only that you saw it. It is not an approval, a clearance, or a sign-off by anyone.
3. Who may use the app
You must be at least 16 years old.
If you are under 18, you confirm that your parent or guardian knows that you use the app and agrees to these terms on your behalf.
You must be training for, or holding, a pilot licence or a relevant aviation qualification.
If you register as an instructor, you must genuinely hold the instructional privileges you claim. We check instructor claims before enabling an instructor account, and we may decline or withdraw instructor status if we cannot verify them or if the claim proves false. We will tell you why, give you a chance to send us evidence, and look again if you ask.
4. Your account
Give accurate details and keep them up to date. Your instructor relies on them, and so do we.
One account per person. Do not create an account for anyone else or in anyone else's name.
Keep your password to yourself. You are responsible for what is done through your account while you are in control of it. You are not responsible for anything done without your knowledge and not through your fault, or for anything done after you told us. Tell us immediately at support@aviators.org.il if you believe someone else has access, and we will help you secure it.
A phone number may be registered to one account only.
The number of devices that can use one account at the same time is limited. Signing in on a further device may sign out the oldest one.
5. What is yours and what is ours
Your records are yours. Your logbook entries, documents, photos, notes, maps and messages remain your property. We claim no ownership of them.
You grant us the permission we need in order to run the service: to store your content, display it back to you, display it to the people you have chosen to share it with, and back it up. That permission is limited to operating the app and does not let us publish, sell, license or use your content for anything else. To do this we may let our hosting and storage providers store and serve your content on our behalf, and we may make technical changes needed for storage, display and security — nothing more. The permission lasts only as long as needed to complete deletion, for the backup period stated in the Privacy Policy, and for a flight that is also another pilot's own record.
The app itself is ours — its software, design, text, and the aviation datasets we have licensed. You get a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use it for your own flying and training, and nothing more.
Do not upload content that is unlawful, that infringes someone else's rights, or that contains personal information about another person without their agreement.
If you believe something in the app infringes your rights, write to us and we will investigate.
6. Instructor and student links
A link between an instructor and a student requires both sides to approve it. Neither side can create one alone.
While the link exists, the instructor can see that student's training data as described in the Privacy Policy.
Either side can end the link at any time, and access ends with it.
Grading, feedback and signatures are records of what an instructor did. A flight you flew with another person also appears in that person's logbook, as their own flight record. These stay with them even if the link ends or the account closes.
A signature or approval recorded in this app is a record of something that happened in the real world between two people. It is not, by itself, a certification, an endorsement or a legal attestation of anything.
We are not the arbiter of a training dispute. If you disagree with a grading, a signature or feedback, that is between you, your instructor and your flight school, and ultimately the Civil Aviation Authority. We will not change or delete another user's record at your request, except to correct data where the Protection of Privacy Law requires it.
7. Acceptable use
Do not:
try to reach another user's data, or test, probe or attack the service — but if you find a security weakness and report it to us privately at support@aviators.org.il without exploiting it or accessing anyone else's data, we will not treat that as a breach and we will not pursue you for it;
use automated means to access, copy or scrape the app or its data;
copy, resell, sublicense or redistribute the app or the data in it;
falsify a logbook entry, a qualification, a signature or an instructor claim;
use the app in a way that breaks aviation law or endangers anyone.
If you do any of this we may suspend or close the account, and we will tell you why unless the law prevents us.
8. Availability, changes and support
We work to keep the app available, but we do not promise uninterrupted or error-free operation. There will be maintenance, outages and bugs.
We may add, change or remove features. If we remove a feature you depend on, or make a change that materially reduces the service, we will give you at least 30 days' notice in the app so you can export your records.
This app is not a backup service, and we never undertake to restore anything. We do not guarantee that your records will be retained, and we have no obligation to recover, rebuild or restore data that has been deleted, lost or corrupted — whether that happened because you deleted it, because your device failed, because of a fault in the app, or because of a failure at our hosting provider. In most cases recovery will simply not be possible.
Keeping your own backups is your responsibility. Export your records regularly and keep the file somewhere you control. If you do not, and your records are gone, they are gone.
Deleting your account deletes your records immediately and irreversibly. There is no undo and no grace period.
Export. You can export your logbook and your records at any time, free of charge, in a common file format, from Settings. It works for as long as your account is open, and throughout any notice period under sections 9 and 12. If export is ever unavailable, tell us and we will send you your records within 14 days.
The app is free. If we ever introduce a charge, it will not apply to an existing account unless you actively agree to it.
Support is by email at support@aviators.org.il. We aim to answer within 5 working days.
9. Changing these terms
We may update these terms — for example when the law changes or when the app does.
For a change that materially affects your rights or obligations, we will notify you at least 30 days before it takes effect, both in the app and by email to your registered address, and show you what changed. A change is material if it reduces what the service does, increases what you must do, or reduces what we owe you — and if you tell us you consider a change material, we will treat it as material.
If you do not accept the change, you may close your account before it takes effect, and export your records first. We will not charge you anything for that. It is in addition to any remedy the law gives you, not instead of it.
Continuing to use the app after a change takes effect means you accept it.
We will not apply a change retroactively to anything that happened before it took effect.
10. Our responsibility, and its limits
We want this section to be honest rather than clever, because a clause that a court strikes out protects nobody.
We are responsible for operating the service with reasonable professional care. If we fail to do so and you suffer loss as a result, you may claim for it, subject to the limits below.
We are not liable for indirect or consequential loss — specifically loss of profit, loss of business and loss of commercial opportunity. Loss of your records is not treated as indirect loss. If we lose them or damage them in breach of these terms, we are responsible for the reasonable cost of reconstructing them, within the limits below. Where you did keep your own export, the loss is measured accordingly.
The app is free. Because there is no fee to measure a limit against, we set the limit by reference to the loss that can actually occur:
for loss of or damage to your records caused by our breach — the reasonable cost of reconstructing them, up to NIS 10,000;
for any other direct loss caused by our breach — up to NIS 10,000;
the most we will pay you in total for all claims arising from events in any 12-month period is NIS 10,000.
These limits do not apply at all to: death or personal injury; fraud or deliberate concealment; wilful misconduct or gross negligence; a breach by us of the Protection of Privacy Law, 5741-1981 or the data security regulations made under it, including compensation without proof of damage under section 29A of that Law; infringement by us of your intellectual property; or anything else Israeli law does not permit us to limit. Nothing in these terms attempts to limit any of those.
Decisions about a flight are yours. The app is one input among many, it is not an official source (section 2), and the pilot in command carries the legal responsibility for the flight. Where loss arises from a flight decision, responsibility is apportioned accordingly — not because this contract says so, but because that is where aviation law places it.
These limits apply to us and to our directors and employees for acts done in providing the service. They do not apply to wilful misconduct by any of them, and they do not affect any claim you may have directly against another company under the general law.
Nothing in this section limits your right to go to court. You may bring a claim against us in the Israeli courts at any time, and we do not ask you to arbitrate, to waive a class action, or to give up any statutory right.
11. Third-party services
The app relies on services operated by others, including our hosting provider, the app stores, and the aviation weather source named in the Privacy Policy. The app also links out to official aviation websites. We are not responsible for the content, accuracy or availability of a third party's service, and using one of them is subject to that party's own terms.
This does not apply to the providers we chose and engaged to run the service for us — our hosting, database and storage providers. For what they do in providing the service to you, we remain responsible as if we had done it ourselves.
Because the app is distributed through the Apple App Store, Apple requires us to state: this agreement is between you and us and not with Apple; Apple has no obligation to provide support or maintenance for the app; Apple is a third-party beneficiary of these terms and may enforce them against you; and we, not Apple, are responsible for any product-liability or intellectual-property claim relating to the app.
12. If things end
You may close your account at any time, in Settings or at https://links.aviators.org.il/delete-account. You do not need to give a reason and you do not need our agreement.
We may suspend or close an account that breaches these terms, that we reasonably believe presents a security risk to others, or where the law requires it. You may ask us to review the decision and to reinstate the account. Except where doing so would be unlawful or would defeat the purpose, we will warn you first and give you a chance to put it right, and we will always give you a reasonable opportunity to export your records.
We may discontinue the service, on at least 60 days' notice in the app and by email, so you can export everything.
We will not close an inactive account without 60 days' notice and a chance to export your records.
Sections 2, 10, 13 and 14, and the ownership provisions of section 5, continue to apply after your account closes. The permission you gave us over your content does not — it ends as section 5 describes.
13. Law and jurisdiction
These terms are governed by the law of the State of Israel.
The competent courts of Israel have jurisdiction. We will bring any claim against you in the court for the district where you live. You may sue us in any court that has jurisdiction under the law, including the court for the district where you live and the Small Claims Court. Nothing here affects your right to bring or join a class action, or to apply to the Standard Contracts Tribunal.
We do not require arbitration, and we do not limit your access to the courts in any way.
14. General
If a term here is found to be unenforceable, it does not apply, and everything else stays in force. We do not ask a court to rewrite an unfair term in order to save it.
If we do not enforce a term immediately, we do not lose the right to enforce it later.
We give notice in the app and by email to your registered address, and it is treated as received three days after we send it. Keep your address current.
You may not transfer your account or your rights under these terms to anyone else. We may transfer this contract to a company that takes over the service, provided your rights under it and under the Privacy Policy are not reduced; the transferee is bound by these terms and by the Privacy Policy, any transfer of the database is subject to the Protection of Privacy Law, and you may export your records and close your account before or after the transfer. We will tell you in advance if that happens.
These terms are between us and you. They do not affect the rights of anyone else — a passenger, another pilot, or any other person — who has not accepted them.
These terms are the whole agreement between us about your use of the app. The Privacy Policy is a separate document and a separate consent: it is not merged into this contract, and accepting these terms is not your consent to the Privacy Policy. This does not affect anything we actually told you about the app before you signed up, and it does not limit your rights if we misled you.
These terms exist in Hebrew and in English. In case of any inconsistency, the Hebrew version prevails. The English version is provided for convenience and we keep both current.