Terms of Service

Effective 13 October 2026

1. About these terms

These terms are an agreement between you and Dan Skirrow, an independent developer based in England who builds and runs Driftr ("we", "us"). They cover your use of the Driftr app and the teamdriftr.com website (together, "Driftr"). By creating an account or using Driftr, you agree to these terms. If you don't agree, please don't use Driftr.

Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle your personal information. It isn't part of these terms, but please read it, because it describes things these terms refer to.

You can contact us at support@teamdriftr.com.

2. Driftr is in beta

Driftr is currently a free, invitation-only beta. Features may change, break, or be removed, and we may reset or end the beta. We don't charge for Driftr. If that ever changes, we'll tell you first, and nothing will be charged without your agreement.

3. Who can use Driftr

• You must be 18 or over. Driftr isn't for children or teenagers. If we learn that an account belongs to someone under 18, we'll delete it.
• You may have one account for yourself. Don't create an account for someone else, or pretend to be someone you're not.
• You must not use Driftr if we've previously removed you from it, or if you're barred from receiving it by law.
• Keep your sign-in details secure. You're responsible for what happens on your account. Tell us straight away if you think someone else has accessed it.

4. Location is approximate

Driftr is designed so that friends never see your exact location. That also means the locations it shows are approximate:

• Before your location is saved, it's moved by a random distance of up to about 3 km. Friends see a city, region and country, and whether you're at home or travelling. They never see a pin or coordinates.
• Distances between friends are estimated from the centres of the cities involved, not from where anyone actually is. They can be well off, particularly in large or spread-out places.
• Driftr only updates your location when you tap to do so (or set it by hand), and sharing turns itself off after the period you choose. What a friend sees may be hours or days out of date.
• City names come from your device's map service and are sometimes wrong, for example near borders or in places that share a name.
• "Friend nearby" alerts are sent when a friend's saved location is roughly within 50 km of yours. They can arrive late, not at all, or when you're not actually that close.

Don't use Driftr for navigation, emergencies, or anything where your safety, or someone else's, depends on a location being accurate or up to date. In an emergency, contact the local emergency services.

5. Meeting people in person

Driftr helps friends notice when they're in the same area. Whether you meet up is entirely up to you and the other person, and we aren't involved in any meeting. In particular:

• We don't verify who users are and we don't carry out background checks. A profile name or photo doesn't prove who someone is.
• You're responsible for your own safety and decisions when you meet anyone you know through Driftr. Meet somewhere public, tell someone you trust where you'll be, arrange your own transport, and leave if you feel uncomfortable.
• We aren't responsible for what other users do, online or offline, except to the extent the law says we are (see section 12).

If someone makes you feel unsafe, block and report them in the app (see section 8). If you're in danger or a crime has been committed, contact the police.

6. Your content

"Your content" means anything you add to Driftr: your handle, display name, profile photo, Instagram handle, home and current city, messages, private notes about friends, and reports.

• You keep ownership of your content.
• You give us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide permission to store, copy, transmit and display your content, only as needed to run, secure and moderate Driftr (for example, delivering your messages to the friend you sent them to). This permission ends when your content is deleted, except for copies we keep as described in the Privacy Policy (such as report evidence).
• You're responsible for your content and must have the right to share it.

7. Zero tolerance for abuse and objectionable content

We have zero tolerance for objectionable content and abusive users. You must not use Driftr to:

• harass, bully, threaten, intimidate, stalk or shame anyone;
• track or monitor someone's whereabouts without their knowledge and consent, or use Driftr to turn up somewhere uninvited after someone has made clear they don't want contact;
• post or send hateful, discriminatory, violent, sexually explicit or otherwise objectionable content, or anything that sexualises children;
• impersonate anyone, or mislead people about who you are;
• send spam, scams, chain messages or unsolicited advertising;
• share someone else's personal information (including their location) without their permission;
• get around a block, for example by creating another account to contact someone who has blocked you;
• break the law, or encourage anyone else to;
• scrape, copy or harvest data from Driftr, access it by automated means, or try to find out other users' exact locations;
• interfere with, overload, probe or try to bypass the security of Driftr, or reverse engineer the app except where the law allows.

8. Blocking, reporting and moderation

Blocking

You can block anyone from their profile in the app. The person you block isn't told. Once you block someone:

• your friendship with them, or any pending request between you, is removed;
• your chat with them is deleted for both of you. If either of you has reported the other, the most recent messages are kept as evidence first (see "Reporting" below);
• they can no longer see your location status, send you friend requests or messages, or find you by your handle, shortcode, QR code or invite link;
• neither of you receives "friend nearby" alerts about the other.

Blocking has limits. It can't undo anything the other person has already seen or saved, such as a screenshot. It also can't stop someone who creates a different account, although doing that to contact you breaks these terms and is grounds for removal. You can unblock someone in Settings, but your old chat won't come back.

Reporting

You can report a user from their profile in the app, choosing a reason and adding details. The person you report isn't told who reported them. When you report someone you've chatted with, a copy of your 20 most recent messages with them is kept privately as evidence for our review. That evidence is deleted automatically 90 days later. The Privacy Policy explains exactly what's shared with moderators.

What we do

We review reports and aim to act within 24 hours. We may remove content, warn a user, restrict their account, or permanently remove them and the content they've shared, whenever we reasonably believe they've broken these terms or put anyone at risk. We may do this without warning where we think it's needed to protect someone. We may also pass information to the police or other authorities where the law requires it, or where we believe someone is at risk of serious harm.

Messages on Driftr can only be exchanged between people who have both accepted each other as friends, so you control who can contact you in the app.

9. Notifications

With your permission, Driftr sends notifications about friend requests, messages, nearby friends and travel. You can turn each kind off in Settings, or turn them all off in your device settings. Notifications can be delayed or not delivered, so don't rely on them.

10. Other services

You can sign in with Google or Apple, and Driftr may link to other services such as Instagram or maps apps. Those services are run by other companies under their own terms and privacy policies, and we're not responsible for them.

11. Ending your use of Driftr

• You can stop using Driftr whenever you like, and delete your account at any time in Settings → Delete Account or by following the steps on our account deletion page.
• We may suspend or close your account if you break these terms, if we reasonably need to in order to protect other users or Driftr, or if the law requires it. Where it's reasonable and safe to, we'll tell you why.
• We may stop providing Driftr altogether, for example at the end of the beta. If we do, we'll try to give you reasonable notice first.

12. Our responsibility to you

Driftr is a free beta provided "as is". We'll provide it with reasonable care and skill, but we can't promise it will always be available, error-free, or that locations, distances or notifications will be accurate (see section 4).

Nothing in these terms limits or excludes our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else that can't be limited or excluded under the law of England and Wales. Nothing in these terms affects your legal rights as a consumer.

Subject to that:

• we're not responsible for loss or damage that wasn't a foreseeable result of us breaking these terms or failing to use reasonable care and skill;
• Driftr is for personal use only, so we're not responsible for business losses, such as lost profit, revenue or opportunity;
• we're not responsible for the actions, content or behaviour of other users, online or offline, including at any meeting;
• because Driftr is free, our total liability to you for anything relating to Driftr is limited to £100.

13. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms, for example when Driftr changes or the law does. If a change is significant, we'll tell you in the app or by email before it takes effect. If you keep using Driftr after a change takes effect, the new terms apply. If you don't agree with them, you can delete your account.

14. Apple and Google

If you got Driftr from Apple's App Store or TestFlight, or from Google Play, these terms are between you and us, not Apple or Google. We alone are responsible for Driftr and its content, for support, and for dealing with any claim about it, including claims that it doesn't meet a legal requirement or infringes someone's intellectual property. Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for Driftr. You must also follow the app store's own terms. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and may enforce them against you.

15. General

• These terms, together with any notices we show in the app, are the whole agreement between you and us about Driftr.
• If a court decides part of these terms can't be enforced, the rest still applies.
• If we don't enforce a term straight away, we can still enforce it later.
• We may transfer this agreement to someone who takes over running Driftr. If we do, your rights under these terms won't be reduced. You may not transfer your account or this agreement to anyone else.
• Apart from Apple and its subsidiaries (section 14), nobody else has any right to enforce these terms.

16. Governing law

These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales can hear any dispute about them. If you live in Scotland or Northern Ireland, you can also bring proceedings in your local courts. If you live elsewhere, you keep any protection that the consumer law of your home country gives you and that can't be overridden by agreement.

If you have a problem with Driftr, please email support@teamdriftr.com first. Most issues can be sorted out that way.

Contact us

Questions about these terms? Email support@teamdriftr.com or dan@teamdriftr.com.