Terms and conditions
This is the agreement between you and the person who runs Proof Of Fun. It is written to be read rather than skimmed, and it is short because the app is small: you keep a record of the places you have been, your friends keep theirs, and nobody sells anything. Using the app means you accept what follows.
1 · The agreement
"We" and "us" mean Naseem Raad, operating Proof Of Fun as an independent developer. "You" means the person using the app. "The service" means the Proof Of Fun iPhone app and the server at api.proof-of-fun.com that it talks to.
The privacy policy is part of this agreement. Where the two say different things about data, the privacy policy wins.
2 · Who may use it
You must be at least 13 years old, and old enough where you live to agree to a contract like this one without a parent. In parts of the EEA and the UK that means 16 for the parts of the service that rely on your consent. If you are using the app on behalf of somebody else, you need their permission.
3 · Your account
Accounts are created through Sign in with Apple. Keep your Apple account secure, because whoever controls it controls your Proof Of Fun account. Tell us promptly if you think somebody else has got into yours.
One account per person. Do not impersonate anybody, and do not pick a handle designed to make people think you are somebody you are not.
4 · Your content
Your marks, notes, photos, lists and trips remain yours. We claim no ownership of them.
To run the service at all we need a narrow permission from you: a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to store your content, process it, and display it to the people you have chosen to show it to, for as long as you keep it in the app. That licence exists only so the app can do the thing you are asking it to do. It ends when you delete the content or your account. It does not let us publish your content anywhere, use it in marketing, sell it, or train anything on it.
You are responsible for what you upload. By adding a photo you confirm you took it or have the right to use it, and that anybody clearly identifiable in it is content to be there. The same goes for a profile picture: it is shown to people who can see you in the app, so use a picture you are entitled to use.
Photos are re-encoded when you add them, which strips the location and timestamp your camera wrote into the file. That is a privacy measure rather than an edit to your content, but it does mean the copy we hold is not byte-for-byte the file on your phone. Keep your own originals; the app is not a backup of your photo library.
5 · What you agree not to do
- Post anything unlawful, harassing, hateful, or designed to threaten or expose somebody.
- Upload somebody else's private information, or photos of them taken without their knowledge.
- Use the service to stalk, track, or build a picture of another person's movements.
- Scrape it, hammer it with automated requests, or try to get at data belonging to accounts that are not yours.
- Reverse engineer the service, interfere with it, or work around its rate limits and access controls.
- Resell access, or use the service to run a commercial listings or reviews business on top of it.
If you break these in a serious or repeated way, we may suspend or close your account. Where it is reasonable to do so, you will be told why and given a chance to respond.
6 · Friends and visibility
Friendship in the app is mutual: both people have to accept. Every log, list and trip carries its own visibility setting, and you control it.
You can block anyone, from their profile or from the report sheet. Blocking is stronger than unfriending: it ends the friendship, cancels any pending request, and hides the two of you from each other everywhere — the feed, the map, search, suggestions, contact matching and invite links. They cannot send you a request again, and they are not told. Undo it in You › Edit › Blocked accounts; unblocking makes you strangers again, not friends again.
Once you show something to a friend, they can see it, remember it, and screenshot it. The app cannot prevent that, and neither can we. Treat anything you share with a friend as shared. If you do not want it seen, keep it private.
7 · Place data
Information about restaurants, cafés, museums and the rest comes from Apple Maps, and in some configurations from Google. Opening hours, prices, addresses and ratings come from those providers and can be wrong or out of date. We do not verify them, and we are not responsible for what happens when a place turns out to be shut.
Place data shown in the app is provided by Apple Maps, and its use is subject to Apple's terms. Where Google Places is used instead, Google's terms apply to that data.
8 · Answers from the AI
The Ask feature can compose an answer using Google's Gemini model. Its answers are generated text, they are sometimes confidently wrong, and they are not professional advice of any kind. Check anything that matters. Answers your actual friends give you are their opinions, not ours.
9 · Reporting something
There are two different things called a report, and they are answered on different clocks.
Telling us something is broken
If you send a bug report, you are giving us permission to read it, act on it, and keep it while the problem is open — including the screenshots and the technical details attached to it, which the app shows you in full before anything is sent. We may quote a report internally to fix the thing it describes. We will not publish it, attribute it to you publicly, or use it in marketing.
A bug report is not a support contract. There is no promised response time, and no guarantee that a thing you report will be fixed. Please do not put anything in one you would not want us to read.
Reporting someone else's content
Every photo, mark, note, list, trip, ask and profile in the app carries a report action. That is a different thing from a bug report, and it is not covered by the paragraph above.
We will look at a content report within 24 hours. If what you reported breaks the rules in section 5, it comes down, and the account that posted it may be suspended or closed. If it does not, nothing happens to it — but somebody will have read it and decided. You will not be named to the person you reported.
Reporting and blocking are separate things and you can do either without the other. The report sheet offers to block them at the same time, and pre-ticks it when the reason is about the person rather than the thing; a block takes effect straight away, whatever we decide about the report later.
Reporting the same thing repeatedly does not move it up the queue. Filing reports in bad faith, to harass somebody or to bury content you simply disagree with, is itself a breach of section 5.
10 · The service itself
Proof Of Fun is a young app run by one person. Features will change, some will be removed, and there will be downtime. We will not deliberately throw away your data, and there is a snapshot of it, but you should not treat the app as the only copy of anything you would be upset to lose.
We may change or discontinue parts of the service. If we ever shut the whole thing down, we will give reasonable notice and a way to get your data out first.
11 · Price
The app is free to use at the time of writing. If paid features are ever introduced, they will be described plainly at the time, and nothing will be charged to you without you agreeing to it first. Anything you have already logged stays reachable to you.
12 · Our side of the intellectual property
The app, the server, the name Proof Of Fun, the marks and stamps, the icon and the design are ours. You get permission to use the app, personally and non-commercially, and nothing more. The typefaces used in the app and on this site (Bricolage Grotesque, Instrument Sans and JetBrains Mono) are licensed under the SIL Open Font License by their respective authors.
13 · Ending it
You can stop at any time by deleting your account inside the app, under You. That removes your account and everything you own on the server, including your photo files, and it cannot be undone.
We may suspend or close an account that breaches section 5, or where we are required to by law. Sections 4, 11, 13, 14 and 16 survive the end of the agreement.
14 · No warranty
The service is provided as is and as available. To the fullest extent the law allows, we make no warranties of any kind, express or implied, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. We do not promise that the service will be uninterrupted, error free, or that any information in it is accurate.
Nothing here takes away the rights you have as a consumer that cannot be excluded by law. If you are in the UK or the EEA, your statutory rights are unaffected.
15 · Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential losses, lost profits, lost data, or losses arising from your use of, or inability to use, the service. Our total liability to you for any claim connected with the service is limited to the greater of the amount you have paid us in the twelve months before the claim, or fifty US dollars.
We do not exclude liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded.
16 · Apple's required terms
These terms apply because the app is distributed through the App Store, and Apple requires them.
- This agreement is between you and us, not between you and Apple. Apple is not responsible for the app or its contents.
- Your licence to use the app is a non-transferable licence to run it on an Apple-branded device that you own or control, as permitted by the App Store Terms of Service.
- Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for the app. Support requests go to us.
- If the app fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price of the app if there was one. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation with respect to the app.
- We, not Apple, are responsible for addressing any claim by you or a third party relating to the app, including product liability claims, any claim that the app fails to conform to a legal or regulatory requirement, and claims arising under consumer protection or similar legislation.
- We, not Apple, are responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement and discharge of any third-party claim that the app infringes that party's intellectual property rights.
- You confirm that you are not in a country subject to a US Government embargo or designated as a terrorist-supporting country, and that you are not on any US Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
- Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of this agreement, and Apple has the right to enforce it against you.
17 · Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of [jurisdiction to be confirmed before launch], and the courts of that place have non-exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute. If you are a consumer, you keep the right to bring a claim in the courts of the country you live in, and to rely on the consumer protections of that country.
18 · Changes
These terms may change as the app does. The date at the top changes with them, and material changes will be announced in the app before they take effect. Continuing to use the service after that means you accept the new version. If you do not, delete your account.
19 · Contact
Write to [email protected].
The companion document is the privacy policy.