Terms of Sale
Last updated: November 5, 2026. This is the English version of the French terms; if the two differ, the French text prevails.
1. Purpose
These terms govern the sale of the "Rupteur Basics" license (called "Rupteur Premium" until November 5, 2026): digital content that unlocks the five engines of the garage and the manual transmission in the Rupteur web app, with their updates. New engines added to the app after your purchase may be offered separately, one by one or in packs, to license holders only: they are optional and take nothing away from what the license unlocks. These terms also govern the "Rupteur Premium" license (called "Rupteur Premium All included" until November 5, 2026), which adds all of those engines (section 6b). The seller is Arthur Verne, sole proprietor, France (see the legal notice).
2. Price
The price is shown in euros or in US dollars, depending on the payment page, and is the full price you pay (French VAT not applicable, article 293 B of the French tax code; no US sales tax is collected). The price that applies is the one shown on the payment page when you order. Two licenses are offered: "Rupteur Basics" at 9.99 and "Rupteur Premium" at 19.90 (in euros or US dollars, depending on the payment page; see section 6b), since November 3, 2026. They were renamed on November 5, 2026, with no change to what they give: a license bought under the former name keeps all its rights. Before that date they were at 4.99 and 9.99: the 4.99 launch price was announced for the first 5,000 licenses, a mark now passed. Every license of the same offer carries the same rights and the same updates, whatever the price paid. It is a one-time payment: no subscription, no recurring fee.
3. Order and payment
Payment is made online through Stripe (card, Apple Pay, Google Pay). No card data ever reaches our servers. The order is final once Stripe confirms the payment.
For buyers in the United Kingdom, South Korea, Turkey, Mexico, India and Saudi Arabia, the sale is made by Link (a Stripe company), acting as merchant of record: the price shown includes local tax, which Link collects and remits, payment may be made in the local currency, and the receipt is issued by Link. The license, its delivery and its support remain provided by the seller.
4. Delivery
The license is delivered immediately after payment: either the paired car unlocks by itself (purchase by QR code), or a license code is shown on the confirmation page and emailed to you, to be entered in the app in the car. One license covers one car; if you change cars, the transfer is free on request by email. The code can be retrieved at any time with the email used for payment.
5. Refunds and right of withdrawal
A Rupteur license is digital content supplied immediately: by paying, you ask for immediate delivery and, where a statutory withdrawal period would otherwise apply (EU and UK consumers), you expressly waive it. The free version lets you try the complete sound engine before buying. Since 27 September 2026, cars discovering Rupteur no longer have a free version; every engine can be listened to before buying. Cars that were already using Rupteur before that date keep the free engine. If your license does not work in your car, write to us: we fix it or refund you.
6. License
The license is personal, tied to one car, and valid for life: the five engines of the garage and the manual transmission stay unlocked in current and future versions of Rupteur. It transfers no intellectual property: copying, reselling, decompiling, or extracting the code or the sound models is prohibited. A license used in clear breach of these rules may be deactivated after we contact you. Rupteur™ and RST™ are trademarks of Arthur Verne; the RUPTEUR trademark is filed with the French IP office (INPI application no. 5308670, 13 October 2026).
6a. Engines sold individually
Engines may be sold on top of the license, one by one or in packs, to "Rupteur Basics" license holders; the "Rupteur Premium" license already includes them (section 6b). Their price is shown on the payment page, in euros or US dollars, and is the full price you pay; it is a one-time payment, with no subscription.
A purchased engine is tied to the buyer's license, and therefore to that license's car, and comes on top of the five engines the license unlocks. It is delivered by unlocking it in the app: right away if the car is waiting for the payment (purchase by QR code), otherwise the next time the app starts. It is yours for life, with its updates, in current and future versions of Rupteur, and follows the license if you change cars. Every engine can be listened to before buying.
Sections 3 (order and payment, including sales through Link in the countries listed there), 5 (refunds and right of withdrawal), 6 (license) and 7 (warranty) apply to engines sold individually. An engine paid twice for the same license is refunded on request at contact@rupteur.app.
6b. Rupteur Premium
The "Rupteur Premium" license gives everything the Rupteur Basics license gives (sections 1 and 6), plus every engine sold individually in the shop (section 6a): those on sale on the date of purchase and those put on sale afterwards, at no extra cost. An engine in testing, not on sale, is not part of it until it is put on sale.
A Rupteur Basics license holder can upgrade to Rupteur Premium by paying the upgrade price, shown on the payment page: the difference with the Rupteur Premium price at the time of purchase. As of November 3, 2026, 4.99 for a license bought before 9:30 pm that day (Paris time) or paid 4.99, and 9.91 for a license paid 9.99 since then. Engines already bought individually remain yours; their price is not deducted from the upgrade. An engine paid individually by a license that already has Rupteur Premium is refunded on request.
Sections 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 apply to the Rupteur Premium license and to the upgrade. Like engines sold individually, the engines it unlocks follow the license if you change cars.
7. Warranty
Consumers in the European Union benefit from the legal guarantee of conformity for digital content. Wherever you live, if something is defective, write to contact@rupteur.app: you are entitled to a fix or, failing that, a refund. Nothing in these terms limits the rights your local consumer law gives you.
8. Responsible use
Rupteur is a sound ambience. The driver alone remains responsible for their driving, for obeying traffic laws, and for keeping a volume that lets them hear their surroundings (sirens, horns). Operate the app only while parked.
9. Availability
The app works offline once loaded. The seller strives to keep the activation service available; a temporary outage does not affect licenses already activated.
10. Disputes
These terms are governed by French law, without depriving you of the mandatory protections of the country where you live. We will always look for an amicable solution first: write to the contact address above. Rupteur is an independent product, not affiliated with or endorsed by Tesla, Inc.
11. Advertising trackers and your privacy choices
This site can load three advertising trackers to measure how well our ads work: the Meta pixel, for our ads on Facebook and Instagram, the TikTok pixel, for our ads on TikTok, and the Google tag, for our ads on Google Search. They send Meta and TikTok your IP address, the pages of rupteur.app you visit, a browser identifier, and five events: viewing the home page, listening to the sound sample, reaching the payment page, pressing "Pay", and the purchase itself; Meta also receives a request for the link by email, without the address. The Google tag sends Google your IP address, the pages of rupteur.app you visit, a browser identifier, the identifier of your click if you came through one of its ads, and a single event: the purchase, with its amount, currency and an order identifier; we do not allow Google to use it to personalize ads. Nothing else is collected by these trackers. Consent given before October 28, 2026 only covers Meta and TikTok, the two the banner named at the time: it does not load the Google tag, and the banner asks you once more, for all three. Legal basis in Europe and the United Kingdom: your consent. Retention: set by each company, 13 months at most. Meta is based in the United States, TikTok in Singapore and the United States, and Google in Ireland for Europe (Google Ireland Limited), which transfers this data to the United States (Google LLC), as it explains in its policy on partner sites; transfers rely on the European Commission's standard contractual clauses, and for Google also on the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework.
A purchase paid on another device is linked to the Google ad. When the Google tag is active (after you agree, or in the United States), it keeps the identifier of your click on its ad in a rupteur.app cookie. Your browser sends that cookie to our server when it shows the payment QR code in the car, or the confirmation page after a payment. If you buy, our server sends Google that identifier, the date of the purchase, its amount, its currency and an order identifier, so Google can link the purchase to its ad even when you clicked in the car and paid on your phone. Nothing else is sent: not your email, not your name, not your IP address, and we still do not allow Google to use it to personalize ads. Without your consent the cookie does not exist and nothing is sent; refusing the trackers deletes it. We keep the identifier for 90 days at most after the click. Legal basis in Europe and the United Kingdom: your consent. For a purchase already sent, you can also exercise your rights with Google.
The purchase itself is also reported by our server. When you buy a license, our server tells Meta about the purchase, whatever you chose in the banner: the email address used for payment and your country, both sent hashed (a SHA-256 digest, never in clear text), plus the amount, the currency and an order identifier. If the country of your payment is in the European Union, the EEA, the United Kingdom, Switzerland or the United States, we also send, hashed the same way, your first name, last name, city, postal code and state or region as you entered them at payment, and an identifier derived from your license, also hashed, that cannot be traced back to your code. Not your street address, nothing about your browsing, and not your IP address. We do this to measure which ads lead to sales and to show them to people likely to be interested. Meta compares these digests with those of its own users; according to Meta, a digest that matches no account is discarded. Nothing is sent to TikTok or Google this way. Legal basis, for visitors in Europe and the United Kingdom: our legitimate interest in measuring our advertising. You can object at any time, and opt out of this sharing if you are in the United States, by writing to contact@rupteur.app: nothing will be sent for your future purchases. Since the report is made at the time of payment, you can also exercise your rights with Meta directly for a purchase already reported.
The link by email. On the home page, you can ask to receive by email the address to open in your Tesla. Your address is used for that email, sent by our provider Resend, a US company, from its servers in Ireland (standard contractual clauses), and our server does not keep it in readable form: it only keeps an irreversible digest (SHA-256), for 60 days at most after your last request, so as not to send you more than one email a day and to know whether a purchase followed. On your first request, this digest is also sent to Meta, as for a purchase, to measure which ads bring Tesla owners; if you accepted the trackers, your click identifier, your browser identifier, the IP address and the browser identification of your phone are added. Nothing is sent to Meta from a page in Korean or Chinese. Legal basis, for visitors in Europe and the United Kingdom: your request for the email, and our legitimate interest in measuring our advertising for the report. You can object to the report, or opt out if you are in the United States, by writing to contact@rupteur.app.
If you answer yes to the question provided, our server may also tell Meta that a Tesla opened Rupteur on your network. Since October 4, 2026, this question is no longer asked: what follows only applies to consents already given, until they expire or are withdrawn. When you arrive from Facebook or Instagram (through an ad or not) without having declined the trackers, the page asks you a separate question when you stop listening to the sound sample after at least three seconds: "Got a Tesla?", followed by what a yes involves, a link to this paragraph and two answers, "No thanks" and "Yes, fine". If you answer "Yes, fine", the page sends our server the identifier of that click (Meta's "_fbc" cookie, taken from the "fbclid" parameter of the address), your Meta browser identifier ("_fbp"), the source of the visit, the date of the text you accepted, and an identifier the page draws at random when you answer yes: it is never sent to Meta, and only serves to find all your clicks if you withdraw your consent. With that request our server also receives your IP address and what your browser says about itself (device model, operating system, browser version). It then notes, as a digest, the Teslas that open Rupteur from the same public IP address (in practice the same Wi-Fi).
If, within 48 hours, a browser recognized as a Tesla's (a Linux computer running Chrome looks the same), which our server sees for the first time after your click (it remembers no further back than 90 days), which is not tied to any license bought before your click, and whose app has the "Help spread the word" setting on at that moment (it is on by default, see below), opens Rupteur from the same public IP address, our server sends Meta, once for that car and for only one car from your browser, a "VoitureTesla" event with your click identifier, your Meta browser identifier, your IP address and what your browser says about itself, in clear text (the form Meta requires). Meta thus learns that a Tesla opened Rupteur on your network, when it did, and the public IP address of that network; it receives neither the car's identifier nor its browser. We do this to show our ads to Tesla owners: to measure which ads reach them, to target them (you and your household included, for instance to show you our ads again), and to build advertising audiences at Meta, for instance of people similar to them.
No match is ever made from certain known relay addresses (Gmail's proxy, part of the iCloud and Cloudflare relays, Meta's robots), nor from an address where our server saw, within 48 hours, more than two Teslas or more than three phones that answered yes to this question. The Teslas counted are all those that open Rupteur there, before your click as well as after it (see "App performance data" below). A click made on such an address, or on an address that becomes one while the click is kept, is never used, even once those devices have left. This does not rule out every shared address, for instance those of a mobile carrier. A new click from the same browser on the same network replaces the previous one and starts afresh: a Tesla seen before it will not be reported from it. Our server deletes the identifier of each of your clicks, your Meta browser identifier and what your browser says about itself as soon as a car has been reported from one of them, as soon as you withdraw your consent, and no later than 49 hours after each click, even if we switch this feature off in the meantime; for a click made on a shared address, as soon as the address is recognized as such. Until then it keeps from those clicks only digests that tie them to your browser. It keeps for 400 days a digest of each reported car and, when one of your clicks was used, digests of your browser: neither that car nor a second car from your browser will be reported in that time. Withdrawing your consent deletes those digests of your browser. The web server log and the backups described below keep their own retention periods. Your consent lasts six months; after that, the question will be asked again after you listen to the sample, the next time you arrive from Facebook or Instagram. A "No thanks" is also kept for six months: the question does not come back before then.
Legal basis: your consent, for what your phone sends; for the car, our legitimate interest in making Rupteur known to Tesla owners, with the information given in the app and the right to object at any time, in one tap (see below). For Europe, the recipient is Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd, joint controller with us for the collection and transmission of this data (Meta's Controller Addendum); Meta alone decides how it is used afterwards (Meta's Privacy Policy), and you can exercise your rights with Meta. Transfer to the United States: standard contractual clauses. Nothing is sent to TikTok or Google this way. This question is only asked in the European Union, the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and the United States, and never to someone who declined the trackers. The Trackers button also withdraws your consent to it, after which the question does not come back for six months, and deletes everything the page had sent our server for this question, for each of your clicks and whatever network it came from: no Tesla will be reported from them any more. If the withdrawal cannot go out right away (no network), the page sends it again on your next visit. A report already sent is handled with Meta.
In the car, "Help spread the word" is on by default and can be turned off at any time in the app's settings, under "Privacy"; turning off performance data turns it off too, and it stays off when performance data is turned back on. The report, if there is one, can go out as soon as Rupteur is first opened in the car, before its driver has had a chance to read this setting's help text or turn it off. Once it is off, our server no longer reports that car, and cancels a report about it that was still waiting to go out; a report already sent is handled with Meta. If you turn it back on, it may only count again ten minutes after it was turned off. A version of the app that does not carry this setting is never reported.
How you discovered Rupteur. After a purchase, the thank-you page asks how you discovered Rupteur. Answering is optional; your answer is kept with your license, to know where our customers come from, and is shared with no one.
App performance data. When it loads (which also reports, if it happened, that the previous page shut down with the engine running), when the engine starts, once a minute while the engine runs, when the page closes, on each error (five at most per session), and right away when you change "Help spread the word", the app sends our server performance data: a random identifier drawn at first launch (the one that also counts a license's activations), what the car's browser says about itself, the hardware (cores, memory, screen), the app version and language, the engine, car and modes selected, the settings you changed (their name and value, only those that differ from the original setting) and how many times the settings panel was opened, the GPS rate and accuracy, the top speed reached during the minute (never a location), the display frame rate, the state, load and dropouts of the sound, app errors, the state of the "Help spread the word" setting (see above), and the IP address with its last number masked. We use it to run the app, fix its problems car by car and learn which settings are actually used, to simplify it. Legal basis: our legitimate interest in making the app work. Retention: 90 days at most. You can turn it off at any time in the app's settings, under "Privacy". Turning it off also turns off "Help spread the word", which stays off when you turn performance data back on: if that setting was on, one last line is then sent, with no performance data (the random identifier, the app channel, production or beta, the setting turned off and, like every line, the IP address with its last number masked), so that our server cancels a report about this car that was still waiting to go out. The location used by the app stays in the car's browser: no location is ever sent to our servers. While the Tesla report (see above) is in service, our server also derives from this data, for each public IP address a Tesla opens Rupteur from, a digest of that address and a digest of the car's identifier, kept for at most 49 hours after the car was last seen from that address, whether or not a phone clicked there: this is how it recognizes an address shared by several Teslas (a hotel, an office, a car park) and links nothing there. Legal basis: our legitimate interest in not tying a car to a stranger's phone. Nothing goes to Meta for a car where "Help spread the word" is off, nor for a version of the app that does not carry this setting.
Web server log. Like any website, our web server keeps, for each request, the IP address, what the browser says about itself, the address of the page requested (parameters included) and the referring page. This log is used for security and to count visits; it is deleted after 15 days. The server's last two weekly backups, made by our hosting provider, contain the server's files as they were when backed up.
If you are in the United States, these trackers are active as soon as you arrive, with no banner. You can turn them off at any time with the Trackers button in the footer of every page; the choice is remembered in your browser. If your browser sends the Global Privacy Control signal, no tracker is loaded at all. We treat that signal as a valid opt-out of the sharing of personal information under the California Consumer Privacy Act and the comparable laws of Colorado and Connecticut. We do not sell personal information for money. The Tesla report above only happens if you answer Yes, fine to its question; the trackers that are on by default never trigger it.
If you are in Europe or the United Kingdom, no tracker is loaded until you press Accept in the banner, whichever language version of the site you are reading. Which rule applies is decided by your device's time zone, never by your language or by the page you opened.
Data controller: Arthur Verne EI, contact@rupteur.app.