Terms of Use

Effective date: August 4, 2026

1. The agreement, and your licence

By downloading or using atlas. (“the app”) or this website, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, do not use them.

The app is licensed, not sold, to you under Apple’s Standard End User Licence Agreement for Licensed Applications (the “Apple EULA”), which forms the licence terms between you and us. These Terms of Use add to that licence; where the two genuinely conflict, the Apple EULA governs the licence itself and these terms govern everything else — in particular the public journal.

Apple is not a party to these terms and has no obligation to provide support for the app. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of the Apple EULA and may enforce it against you.

2. Using it while you travel

atlas. narrates while you drive or ride. It is entertainment and background, not navigation and not advice.

• Obey the road. You are responsible for your own driving, for the law where you are, and for keeping your attention on the road rather than the screen.
• Set the app up before you set off. Do not read, type or tap while driving; the app is built to be listened to, not looked at.
• Do not rely on it for routing, road conditions, closures, hazards or the accuracy of any place it describes.

3. What the stories are, and are not

Stories are generated by a language model from public sources — encyclopaedic records, historical datasets, open map data and, if you turn it on, archival news. That means:

• A story can be incomplete, out of date, or simply wrong, however confidently it is read aloud.
• Nothing in a story is professional, legal, medical, safety or travel advice, and no listed place is an endorsement or a recommendation to visit.
• Where a story recounts folklore or legend, it is telling you what people have said about a place, not asserting it as fact.

Verify anything that matters before acting on it. If you find a story that is factually wrong or offensive, please report it.

4. Publishing to the journal, and the rules for it

Publishing is automatic by default. A journey you have driven that ends with three or more stories is added to the public journal when the drive ends, without a further tap. Its route — with the first and last kilometre removed — together with its stories, narration audio, images and the pen name it is signed with become publicly readable on this website, where search engines can index them and other people can copy them. The Privacy Policy sets out exactly what a published page contains, and what the trimming does and does not hide.

How you control it.When your first journey starts, the app shows a notice card that explains this, with a button that keeps that journey out of the journal. Automatic publishing can be switched off altogether in Settings › Privacy & data › “Add journeys to the atlas”, and anything published can be unpublished at any time from the journey’s own page in the app. A route you prepared but have not driven is never published automatically; that still takes a tap.

The licence you give us. You keep ownership of what is published from your device. By agreeing to these terms and continuing past that in-app notice, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, reproduce and display that content for the purpose of running the journal, for as long as it stays published. The licence covers journeys published automatically as well as ones you publish yourself, and it ends for a journey when you unpublish it — except for copies other people or search engines have already taken, which nobody can recall.

What you are responsible for. The app writes the stories and now does the publishing, so we do not ask you to vouch for words you did not write. You are responsible for the journeys you make with it, and for the parts of a page that came from you: the pen name or byline it is signed with, the start and destination you type when you plan a route — they become the journey’s title — and any custom narrator direction, which can reach the story text itself. None of those may contain:

• Content that is unlawful, defamatory, harassing, threatening, hateful or that incites violence.
• Sexually explicit material, or anything that sexualises or endangers a child in any way.
• Personal information about other people — including anyone’s home address — without their consent.
• Content that infringes someone else’s copyright, trademark or other rights.
• Malware, spam, advertising, or attempts to impersonate another person.

Journeys that should not be public at all. Because the app publishes for you, it also does the one thing you would otherwise have to remember: it removes the first and last kilometre of every published route, and publishes any story that falls in those zones without its coordinates. That is a safeguard, not anonymity — the middle of the route goes up as it was recorded, with its timings. If a journey would show where someone else lives or works, or anywhere that should not be tied to them or to you, keep it out of the journal: decline it on the notice card as the drive begins, turn automatic publishing off beforehand, or unpublish it afterwards.

Reporting and removal. Anyone can report a published page by emailing woofer.ua@gmail.com with the link and what is wrong with it. We aim to review reports within 24 hours. We may remove any published content that breaks these rules, or that we reasonably believe is objectionable, without notice, and we may block the installation that published it from publishing again. You can unpublish anything published from your phone, at any time, from the trip’s page in the app.

5. Fair use of the service

Story generation, narration and publishing run through our servers at our cost. Do not attempt to circumvent the app’s attestation, automate requests, scrape the service, resell it, or use it in a way that degrades it for other people. We may rate-limit, suspend or block an installation that does.

6. Availability and changes

The app depends on third-party services and on your device’s connectivity; prepared offline editions are the exception, and they play without a connection. We may change, suspend or discontinue any part of the service, including the journal, at any time. We will try to give notice where a change would remove something you rely on.

7. No warranty, and limits on liability

The app and the website are provided “as is”, without warranties of any kind, to the fullest extent the law allows. We do not warrant that stories are accurate, that the service will be uninterrupted, or that it will be free of errors.

To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect, incidental or consequential damages, or for loss of data, arising from your use of the app or the website. Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited by law, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain exclusions, so parts of this section may not apply to you, and you may have rights under your local consumer law that these terms do not affect.

8. Ending it

You can stop using the app at any time by deleting it; deleting it removes your trips, stories and audio from your device. We may suspend or end your access if you break these terms. Sections 3, 4, 7 and 9 survive the end of this agreement.

9. Changes to these terms

If these terms change, this page changes with them and the effective date at the top is updated. Continuing to use the app after a change means you accept the updated terms.

10. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the developer’s country of residence, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, and without depriving you of the protection of the mandatory consumer law of the country you live in.

11. Contact

woofer.ua@gmail.com — see also our Privacy Policy and Support page.