Terms of Use
Last updated 18 August 2026
This is a draft, written for an early-stage product with a small number of users. It has not been reviewed by a lawyer.
By using Wayfare you agree to what follows. If you do not, please do not use it.
1. What Wayfare is
A trip planner. You lay out a trip day by day, see it on a map, track a budget, keep checklists, record what happened while you travel, and optionally publish the result for other people to read and copy.
It is run by one person in British Columbia, Canada. There is no company. Contact: hello@thewayfare.app
2. It is free, and that has consequences
Wayfare costs nothing to use. There is no paid tier today. If that changes, existing users will be told before anything is charged.
Being free means the service is provided as it is, without guarantees of availability, and without a support obligation. It also means we cannot absorb unlimited cost: features that call paid services on your behalf — itinerary parsing, place suggestions, reservation reading — are rate-limited. Those limits exist to keep the service running, not to upsell you.
3. Accounts
Most of Wayfare works without one. Signing in enables syncing between devices, photos, publishing, and forwarding booking emails.
You are responsible for what happens under your account. Tell us if you think someone else has access to it.
You must be at least 16.
4. Your content stays yours
Everything you create — trips, notes, photographs, checklists — belongs to you. We claim no ownership of it.
When you publish a trip, you grant us a limited licence to display it publicly, and you allow other people to copy that itinerary into their own account. That is the point of publishing. The licence ends when you unpublish, except for copies other people have already made, which are theirs.
You keep control: export your data at any time, unpublish at any time, delete at any time.
5. What you must not do
Do not publish content you do not have the right to publish. Do not publish anything unlawful, or anything that would put another person at risk.
Do not use Wayfare to abuse the services it depends on. Automated hammering of the geocoding, routing or AI features, or building a scraper on top of them, breaks the usage policies of OpenStreetMap and others and will get the whole service blocked — for you and for everyone else.
Do not attempt to reach other people's data. Do not attempt to bypass rate limits. If you find a way to do either, tell us instead of using it.
Do not forward mail to a trip address that is not yours.
We may suspend an account that does these things. For anything serious, without warning.
6. Published trips
Publishing makes a page anyone can read, and search engines can index.
Before you publish, understand what that means. By default we exclude your notes, your accommodation, every expense, every photograph, confirmation numbers and PINs, and any location you recorded — because publishing where you are staying, on which dates, is a burglary brief.
Live publishing, before or during a trip, tells the world you are away. If you choose to do that, that is your choice, but make it knowingly.
Unpublishing removes the page immediately. Copies other people already made stay with them, and search engine caches are outside our control.
7. What other people publish
A published trip is one person's account of their own trip. We do not verify it. Opening hours change, places close, a stop that was pleasant in April may not be in August.
Check anything that matters before you rely on it — a booking, a closure, an entry requirement, a safety condition.
If a published trip breaks these terms, tell us at hello@thewayfare.app and we will look at it.
8. AI features, and their limits
Some features use a language model: reading an itinerary you paste, reading a booking confirmation you send, suggesting places, reviewing a day.
Everything a model produces is a draft. It is presented for you to accept or reject, one item at a time, and it is never added to your trip on its own.
We deliberately do not let the model produce prices, opening hours, or coordinates — those fields do not exist in what it returns, because a model states them confidently and gets them wrong. Coordinates always come from a geographic database. Anything else it says is a starting point, not a fact.
Do not rely on generated content for anything with consequences. Verify at the source.
9. Third-party data and services
Wayfare is built on services run by others, and their terms apply alongside these.
Map data comes from OpenStreetMap contributors, under the Open Database Licence. Coastline geometry comes from Natural Earth. Place photographs come from Wikimedia Commons under their individual licences, with author and licence shown wherever the image appears. Routing comes from OpenRouteService, place search from Photon, and AI features from Google Gemini.
If one of them changes its terms or stops working, a Wayfare feature may change or disappear with it. That is the trade for a free service built on open data.
10. Availability
We try to keep Wayfare running and do not promise that it will be. It may be unavailable, features may change, and data may be lost through failure or mistake.
Export your data. The feature exists for this reason. Your own copy is the only backup you fully control.
11. Liability
Wayfare is provided "as is", without warranties of any kind.
We are not liable for anything arising from your use of it — a missed flight, a wrong itinerary, a place that turned out to be closed, or data that was lost. Where the law does not permit that exclusion, our liability is limited to the amount you have paid us, which is nothing.
This does not limit liability for anything that cannot be limited by law.
12. Ending it
You can stop at any time. Delete your trips, or email us to delete your account.
We may end your access if you break these terms. If we do, you may ask for an export of your data.
13. Changes
These terms may change. If a change matters, we will say so in the app before it takes effect. Continuing to use Wayfare after that means you accept it.
14. Law
These terms are governed by the laws of British Columbia, Canada. If you are a consumer elsewhere, you keep the protections your own law gives you.