Terms of Use

We're honest and up front about this and want you to understand what you're agreeing to. So here it is in plain words first. Below the line, the same sixteen points the way a court needs them, numbered to match. Same meaning, both ways. The plain ones are the ones we wrote first.

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Numbered to match the plain words above, one for one.

1. The free app; privacy.

Wayfarer may be used without charge, subject to the free tier's limits as shown in the app's Store from time to time. On the free tier, journeys are finished in the free skin, Graphite, and frames, posts, stories, photos and films exported from the app carry the Wayfarer seal; an exported film also carries the address wayfarer.pics for its length. Wayfarer requires no account and does not track you, build a profile of you, or sell, rent or share information about you. Your photos and the information the app derives from them remain on your device unless you choose to share them. Our Privacy Policy at wayfarer.pics/privacy describes this in full and forms part of these Terms.

2. What a plan provides.

Wayfarer offers three auto-renewing yearly subscriptions ("plans"): One Map Skin, Four Map Skins and Nine Map Skins. For the life of a plan: (a) you may choose, from the paid skins available in the app at the time of choosing, the number of skins in the plan's name ("picks"); (b) frames, posts, stories, photos and films exported from the app, and journeys finished in the app, in Graphite or in any chosen skin, leave without the Wayfarer seal; (c) the free tier's limits on the number of finished journeys and pictures per journey do not apply; (d) pace control in films and Export Movie from a draft are available. Picks are final for the life of the plan and are not exchanged; choices not yet made remain open for the life of the plan. Skins outside your plan may be applied within the app but may not be exported. The seal remains on the matte within the app for all users. A plan grants rights only to skins present in the app, as they stand from time to time and subject to clause 10; it does not entitle you to skins released later, which we may add to a plan or offer separately at our discretion. Changing plan follows Apple's rules: a move to a larger plan takes effect immediately, Apple credits the unused part of the old plan, and your picks carry over; a move to a smaller plan takes effect at the next renewal, and picks beyond the new count become dormant — journeys already finished in them are unaffected.

3. How a plan is sold.

Every plan is sold through Apple's App Store. Payment is charged by Apple to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase, at the price shown in the App Store at that time. A plan renews automatically for a further year unless you cancel it at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; the renewal is charged within the 24 hours before the current period ends. You may cancel at any time in your device's Settings (your name → Subscriptions). Cancellation takes effect at the end of the paid period; the plan remains active until then and no part of the period is refunded by us. If a renewal payment fails, Apple may keep the plan active for a grace period while it retries; if payment is not recovered, the plan ends at the close of that period. A plan belongs to the Apple ID that purchased it and is not available to a Family Sharing group. We never receive your payment details.

4. Refunds.

All purchases are made from Apple. Refunds are granted at Apple's discretion under Apple's terms; you may request one at reportaproblem.apple.com. We cannot see your payment method, issue a refund or reverse a charge.

5. Prices.

Prices are set for each App Store storefront and may differ by country. You are charged at the price and in the currency of your Apple ID's storefront, wherever you are. We may change prices. A change to the price of a plan you already hold does not take effect before your next renewal, and Apple notifies you in advance; where Apple's rules require your consent to an increase and you do not give it, your plan ends at the end of the paid period.

6. When a plan ends.

When a plan ends for any reason: (a) new frames, posts and stories in a paid skin, new finishes in a paid skin, and Export Movie from a draft require an active plan; new exports carry the seal and new finishes are in Graphite; (b) the free tier's limits apply to new work; (c) nothing you have made is deleted, locked or withheld — your photos, routes, captions, tips, drafts, finished journeys and exported films remain on your device and yours to use; (d) a journey finished while a plan was active keeps its skin indefinitely, subject only to clause 10, and may still be played and exported as a film in that skin, the export carrying the seal as any free export does. A copy made from a finished journey after the plan has ended is a new draft and is subject to (a).

7. Your content.

You keep every right in your photos, captions, tips, journeys and anything else you make with the app. Your photos never leave your device unless you share them, and Wayfarer holds none of your content on any server. To name a place and to fetch the weather for a photo's day, the app sends a location and a date to the services named in clause 9, anonymised: the request carries nothing that identifies you or the photo, and we keep no record of it. The Privacy Policy describes these requests in full. You alone decide what to share and with whom. A frame, film or journey file you share contains the photos and details you chose to include, including the location of each photo, down to the street; you are responsible for having the right to share them, and for choosing what to reveal about where you have been. A journey file you receive from another person plays on your device as its maker finished it, in its skin, whatever your own plan. You grant us no licence to your content, because we never hold it.

8. Our property; map credits.

The Wayfarer name, the W. seal, the design of the app, the skins and their style files, and the content of wayfarer.pics belong to Wayfarer or its licensors. You may use the skins only within the app and in exports the app makes. You may not copy, extract, resell, redistribute or sublicense a skin or its style files; use the seal to pass off work as Wayfarer's; or remove the seal from an export where the app has placed it. The music supplied in the app was made for it and is cleared for commercial use. You may use it in films and journeys made with the app, and publish those films wherever you choose, including on social and video platforms, without further permission or fee. You may not extract, copy, remix or distribute the music separately from a film or journey made with the app. Map tiles and data are supplied by Mapbox and by OpenStreetMap contributors under their own terms. Their attribution marks appear on the map and remain on any frame or film that includes it, and may not be removed. © Mapbox · © OpenStreetMap. International boundaries, disputed areas, and the names of places and features appear on the map as supplied by Mapbox and OpenStreetMap, according to their own rules; their depiction is not a statement of our views and should not be taken as authoritative or as an endorsement of any position.

9. Services we depend on.

Wayfarer relies on the services below. If one became unavailable, the effect would be as described. If a dependency changes, we say so on this page, with a date.

• Apple — the App Store, every purchase, Restore Purchases and refunds; iCloud for a few synced settings; your photo library; and the geocoder that names a place. Without it there is no app.
• Mapbox — the map tiles, the skins (map styles kept in our account), place names, and the route lines between journey stops. If it stopped, or changed what it serves, maps and routes would not draw as they do today until we moved or rebuilt; see clause 10.
• OpenStreetMap — the data beneath the maps. Its credit sits on the map.
• Visual Crossing — the weather and temperature for a photo's day and place, as an estimate for that place and day built from historical records and models, not a measurement at the spot. If it stopped, the "i" card would show the photo's own facts and no sky; answers already fetched stay, as they are kept on your device.
• Cloudflare — a store that receives weather answers. Today it returns nothing to you; its loss would cost you nothing.
• Vercel — hosts wayfarer.pics, including this page.

Accuracy. What these services supply, and what the app reads from your photos, is presented as the best information available and not as a record of fact. In particular: weather and temperature are estimates and may be wrong for the spot and hour; the date, time, elevation and compass heading shown for a photo come from the photo's own file and may be missing or inaccurate; a place name is the geocoder's best match for a location and may be corrected by you in the app; and the route drawn between two stops of a journey is the map's path between them by the mode you chose, not a trace of the way you actually went. We do not warrant the accuracy of any of this, and it is not intended for navigation or any purpose where an error could cause harm.

The app's fonts are bundled under open licences and cannot be withdrawn. We chose each provider because it is the best at what it does, and we use them on their commercial terms. We are not responsible for their acts or availability, but we will take reasonable steps to restore any function one of them interrupts.

10. Skins: changes outside our control.

Every skin is drawn from map data, map styles and rendering services supplied by Mapbox (clause 9). Mapbox may change, version, deprecate or withdraw any of these at any time, and we have no control over such changes. Where a change at Mapbox alters the appearance of a skin or makes it unavailable, that is not a defect in the app or a breach of these Terms. In that event we will, within a reasonable time, (a) adjust or rebuild the skin to resemble the original as closely as we reasonably can, or, where that is not reasonably achievable, (b) provide a replacement skin at no charge, in which case you may instead choose any other skin in the app in place of the affected one, also at no charge. Journeys finished in the affected skin will play in the adjusted or replacement skin. We do not warrant that an adjusted or replacement skin will be identical to the original. Receiving it may require updating the app. Frames, films and other files already exported are unaffected. Our obligation under this clause is to provide the adjustment or replacement described; refunds remain a matter for Apple under clause 4. Should Wayfarer cease operation, we intend that its final update make every skin available to every user at no charge; that sentence states our intention and does not create a warranty.

11. The web.

Features that publish journeys or frames to wayfarer.pics are not part of this version of the app. When they are released, this page will gain a section describing them and any reader record they require. That release will not, by itself, change the Terms that govern the app.

12. Who we are; governing law.

These Terms of Use ("Terms") are an agreement between you and Neeraj Sabharwal, Hyderabad, India, the developer of the Wayfarer application and the operator of wayfarer.pics ("Wayfarer", "we", "us"). You may contact us at support@wayfarer.pics or through wayfarer.pics/support. These Terms, and any dispute arising from them or from the app, are governed by the laws of India, and the courts at Hyderabad have exclusive jurisdiction, without prejudice to any right you have to bring a consumer claim in your own jurisdiction where the law gives you that right.

13. Eligibility; Apple's licence.

You must be at least 16 years of age to use Wayfarer. The software is licensed to you under Apple's standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement (the "Apple EULA"), which governs your licence to the app. These Terms govern the plans, our commitments and the matters set out here. Where the two differ on the licence itself, the Apple EULA prevails. Apple is not a party to these Terms and has no obligation to you under them.

14. Warranty and liability.

The app is provided "as is" and "as available". To the fullest extent the law allows, we exclude all warranties, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose and uninterrupted or error-free operation. To the fullest extent the law allows, our total liability to you for all claims arising from the app or these Terms is limited to the amount you paid for your plan in the twelve months before the claim arose, and we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss or for loss of data you have not backed up. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits any liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law, including the Consumer Protection Act, 2019 of India where it applies.

15. Changes to these Terms.

We may amend these Terms. Every version is dated at the head of this page, and earlier versions are available on request. A material change is named in the app's What's New notes for the release that carries it and takes effect from that release; your continued use after that date is your acceptance. A change does not reduce what you have already paid for in the current period.

16. General.

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and the Apple EULA, are the entire agreement between you and us concerning the app and the plans, and replace any earlier statement on the same matters. If any provision of these Terms is held invalid or unenforceable, it is to be read down to the extent necessary, and the remaining provisions continue in full force. Our failure or delay in enforcing any provision is not a waiver of it or of any later breach. You may not assign these Terms; we may assign them to a successor who takes over Wayfarer and these commitments.