AURORA DIGITA

1. Who We Are

Aurora Digita ('Aurora Digita', 'the Platform', 'we', 'us', 'our') is a South African-owned, multi-service digital platform operating from auroradigita.com and its associated subdomains. Aurora Digita was created with the guiding purpose of making quality digital tools, education, and income-generating opportunities accessible and safe — with particular care for child safety, data privacy, and support for economically disadvantaged users, including pensioners and first-time digital creators.

Trading / operating name: Wovelna trading as Aurora Digita

Legal entity / registration number: Sole Proprietor / K2018311875

Registered address: 195 Green Street, Mayville,Pretoria,Gauteng,South Africa,0084

Contact email: admin@auroradigita.com

Website: auroradigita.com

2. What Aurora Digita Provides

Aurora Digita operates as a family of connected services under one platform, each accessible via its own subdomain:

• Nexus Biblioteek (nexus.auroradigita.com) — a code and component library where registered creators ('Skeppers') browse, upload, and share reusable app components, templates, and educational resources, and where platform role applications and role management take place.
• PCT Chatroom / Chatty (chat.auroradigita.com) — a structured, multi-model AI chat workspace used for project coordination, coding assistance, and content development, billed to registered users via an in-platform credit balance.
• App Specification Service / Appspec (appspec.auroradigita.com) — the platform's client-facing quotation, project-tracking, and payment service. A prospective client receives a quotation from a Skepper, tracks project progress, and makes payment through this service. The full content of this subdomain, including its displayed quotation terms, forms part of the applicable terms for that specific project.
• Aurora Digita Akademie (planned, academy.auroradigita.com) — a future curriculum-aligned educational platform for learners, built around child safety and data protection principles. Not yet payment-enabled.
• Equipment / Resource Store (planned, equipment.auroradigita.com) — a future store for physical and digital items relevant to learners and creators on the platform. Not yet payment-enabled.

Not all services listed above are payment-enabled at all times. Section 4 below specifies exactly which items currently accept payment through our payment gateway.

3. Eligibility and Accounts

• Users must be able to form a legally binding contract under South African law, or have the consent and involvement of a parent/legal guardian, to register an account.
• Where a service is directed at children (notably the planned Aurora Digita Akademie), account registration, payment, and data provision must be carried out by, or with the verifiable consent of, a parent or legal guardian, in accordance with the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 ('POPIA').
• Each user is responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of their login credentials and for all activity conducted through their account.
• New accounts default to the most restricted access level available (a 'pending' state) until the applicable payment step below is completed. Access is only widened by an explicit, verified action — never granted by default.
• Aurora Digita reserves the right to suspend or terminate accounts that violate these terms, applicable law, or the platform's child-safety principles.

4. Payment — What We Accept Payment For

Aurora Digita processes payments through PayFast, a South African payment service provider. We do not store full payment card details on our own servers; card, Instant EFT, and other supported payment methods are processed entirely by PayFast's secure, PCI-DSS-compliant systems. The table below lists every current and near-term category of item for which payment is accepted:

5. Revenue Split, Payout Process & Delivery Confirmation

For payments made against an Appspec project quotation, a portion of each payment is due to the project's Skepper. This section describes, honestly and currently, how that amount actually reaches the Skepper today, and how it will change once an additional payment-gateway feature is approved.

5.1 The Standard Split

• 85% to the Skepper — the independent creator/developer who quoted and builds the project.
• 10% to the Aurora Digita Universe Trust — a community and platform development fund.
• 5% retained by Aurora Digita for platform maintenance and hosting costs. This 5% is fixed and applied identically across every project.

Together, the Trust allocation (10%) and the Platform maintenance allocation (5%) make up Aurora Digita's total 15% share of each project payment. These are two internal accounting categories of the same overall Aurora Digita share, tracked separately for transparency.

5.2 Current Payout Process (Manual, Pending Split-Payment Approval)

At present, the full amount of every project payment (deposit and final payment) is received into Aurora Digita's own primary PayFast account. No portion is automatically routed to a third party at the moment of payment. Instead:

• Aurora Digita holds each payment until a clear, verifiable trigger has occurred — this protects both the client and the Skepper by preventing money from being paid out for work that has not yet reasonably begun, and by preventing a client's legitimate refund from being complicated by funds already paid to a third party.
• Deposit share: the Skepper's 85% becomes eligible for payout once the project has reached an agreed early-progress milestone (recorded on the project's tracking page).
• Final payment share: the Skepper's 85% becomes eligible for payout once the client has confirmed receipt/availability of the completed project (see 5.4, 'download unlocked' status).
• Eligible Skepper amounts are disbursed by Aurora Digita's Master Admin via direct EFT to the Skepper's own bank account, on a periodic (weekly or monthly) payout run — not paid out individually per transaction. Each payout is recorded against the specific project it relates to, and every payout action is logged in Aurora Digita's internal, append-only administrative audit record.
• Aurora Digita's own 15% share (Trust + Platform maintenance) is reconciled and internally transferred between Aurora Digita's own accounts on a monthly basis, based on that month's confirmed income.

5.3 Planned Automatic Split (Pending Separate PayFast Approval)

Aurora Digita intends to adopt PayFast's Split Payments feature, which — once a separate approval/onboarding process with PayFast has been completed — will route the Skepper's 85% share directly and automatically to the Skepper's own verified PayFast merchant account at the moment a payment is made, with Aurora Digita's 15% share remaining in its own primary account. This is a planned enhancement to the process described in 5.2 above, not a change to the underlying 85/10/5 split itself, and will be reflected here with an updated effective date once it is live.

5.4 Delivery Confirmation

All services described in Section 4 are delivered digitally — there is no physical shipping. Delivery works as follows:

Because delivery is confirmed by the Skepper (who bears responsibility for actually getting the completed work to their client), Aurora Digita's role is to provide and preserve the record of that confirmation — not to independently inspect or guarantee the delivered work's quality, which remains a matter between the client and the Skepper under the applicable project quotation.

5.5 The R100 Self-Registration Fee is Never Split

The R100 self-registration access fee described in Section 4 does not involve a Skepper at all, and is therefore never split — 100% is retained by Aurora Digita as the platform operator.

6. Referral Program

Registered users who hold the 'Recruiter' role may share a personal referral code. When a new user registers using that code, a reward (currently R40.00) becomes payable to the referring Recruiter once the referred registration and its associated R100 access fee are confirmed. This is an internal reward paid from Aurora Digita's own share of revenue — it is not an additional charge to the referred user and does not affect the price they pay.

The Recruiter reward is exclusive to the Recruiter role. Skeppers do not receive a referral reward for clients they bring to the Platform; a Skepper's income is earned exclusively through the project quotations they complete, as described in Sections 4 and 5.

7. Refunds and Cancellations

7.1 Appspec Project Quotations (Deposit and Final Payment)

• If the client cancels before work has started on the project: the client receives a full refund of any amount paid, less the payment processing fee charged by PayFast for the original transaction (this fee is not recoverable from PayFast and is therefore borne by the client).
• If the client cancels after work has started on the project: the deposit already paid is forfeited to the Skepper as compensation for work performed. Any PayFast transaction fee applicable to that deposit is borne by the Skepper, deducted from the forfeited deposit before it is paid out.
• If a project is not delivered by the Skepper: the Skepper's final-payment share is withheld pending confirmation that the project has in fact been delivered to the client (see 5.4). Aurora Digita remains neutral in any dispute over delivery — see 7.2 below.
• Where a cancellation request is submitted, Aurora Digita's Master Admin reviews and processes the applicable refund or deposit forfeiture manually, in line with the rules above. Aurora Digita does not take over or complete an incomplete project on the Skepper's behalf.

7.2 Dispute Resolution

Aurora Digita's role in any dispute between a client and a Skepper is that of a neutral platform operator, not an arbiter of the underlying work. As a default position: if work has genuinely not yet started, a clean refund (per 7.1) applies; if work has genuinely started, the deposit-forfeiture rule (per 7.1) applies. Aurora Digita may request evidence of project status (e.g. the project's tracking/milestone history) from either party before processing a refund or payout.

7.3 Nexus Biblioteek Self-Registration Fee

The R100 annual self-registration access fee is non-refundable once access has been granted, except where required by South African consumer protection law, or where the payment was made in error or due to a technical fault of the Platform.

7.4 Equipment Store and Other Planned Services

Equipment store purchases, once activated, will follow standard consumer protection timelines for physical/digital goods as applicable under the Consumer Protection Act 68 of 2008.

8. Acceptable Use

• Users may not use the Platform to upload, generate, or distribute unlawful, harmful, or child-endangering content.
• Users may not attempt to circumvent payment, security, or age-verification mechanisms, including attempting to gain Skepper-level or client-level access without completing the applicable payment or approval step.
• Content and components uploaded to Nexus Biblioteek must be the user's own work or appropriately licensed for redistribution.
• Aurora Digita reserves the right to remove content or suspend accounts that breach these terms.

9. Intellectual Property

Skeppers retain ownership of the projects, content, and components they build or upload on the Platform, subject to the license and delivery terms displayed in the applicable project quotation, which grant the client the rights described in that quotation once the project is paid for and delivered, and grant Aurora Digita the right to host, display, and process payment for that content on the Skepper's behalf under the revenue split described in Section 5. Aurora Digita's own platform code, branding, and design remain the property of Aurora Digita.

10. Privacy Policy — Personal Information (POPIA)

10.1 Information We Collect

• Account information: name, email address, and password (stored in hashed form, never in plain text).
• Payment information: processed and stored by PayFast; Aurora Digita retains only transaction references and status, not card or full bank account numbers. Where a Skepper is paid out, Aurora Digita retains the bank details necessary to make that payment.
• Usage information: platform activity such as sessions, uploaded content, project quotations, and referral relationships, used to operate and improve the service.
• Where the planned Aurora Digita Akademie is used by a child, information relating to that child will be collected and processed only with the consent and involvement of a parent or legal guardian, and used solely for the provision of educational services to that child.

10.2 How We Use Information

• To create and manage user accounts and process payments.
• To operate core platform features (the code library, chatroom, project quotation/tracking service, and referral program).
• To communicate with users about their account, transactions, or changes to these terms.
• We do not sell personal information to third parties. Information is shared only with service providers necessary to operate the platform (e.g. PayFast for payment processing, and, where a user actively uses the AI Chatroom, the relevant AI service provider for that conversation only).

10.3 Data Security

Passwords are stored using industry-standard one-way hashing. Access to the underlying database is restricted to authorised platform administrators. Users may request access to, correction of, or deletion of their personal information at any time by contacting us at the support email above, in accordance with their rights under POPIA.

10.4 Children's Information

Aurora Digita treats the protection of children's personal information as a foundational design principle, not an afterthought. Where the planned Akademie service processes information belonging to a child, this will be done only with appropriate parental/guardian consent, limited to what is necessary to provide the educational service, and never used for marketing directed at the child.

11. Limitation of Liability

The Platform and its services are provided on an 'as is' and 'as available' basis. To the maximum extent permitted by South African law, Aurora Digita is not liable for indirect or consequential loss arising from use of the Platform. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, including liability arising from gross negligence or under the Consumer Protection Act 68 of 2008.

12. Changes to These Terms

Aurora Digita may update these Terms & Conditions, Privacy Policy, and Payment Policy from time to time. The current version will always be published at the URL below, together with its effective date. Continued use of the Platform after an update constitutes acceptance of the revised terms.

13. Governing Law

These terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of South Africa. Any disputes will be subject to the jurisdiction of the South African courts.

14. Contact Us

Support / general queries: admin@auroradigita.com

Privacy / POPIA queries: admin@auroradigita.com

Postal / physical address: 195 Green Street, Mayville,Pretoria,Gauteng,South Africa,0084

Where these terms are published: auroradigita.com/terms