Terms & conditions
1. The agreement
These terms are between you and Ahmed ElZarw. Using the app means you accept them. If you do not, stop using it, and you can delete your account from Settings at any time.
2. Your account
You sign in with Apple, Google, or an email address and password. Keep your sign-in details to yourself; anyone with them can see everything your mates share with you.
You must be 16 or over. We ask your date of birth when you sign up and an account that is too young cannot be completed. One account per person, and the address you sign up with has to be one you can still get into later, so temporary inbox services are refused.
Give us a name your mates will recognise. You can change it whenever you like.
3. Using it decently
Do not use the app to follow, harass or frighten anyone. Location sharing exists so friends can find each other; using it to keep tabs on someone who does not want it is a misuse, and we will close accounts that do it.
Do not add someone to a circle to get at their information under false pretences.
Do not try to get at data you have not been granted, or to break the app for other people.
There is no tolerance for objectionable content or abusive behaviour: no offensive or explicit photos or names, no harassment, no spam. You can block anyone, and report anyone or any circle, from inside the app. A person reads every report, usually within a day, and may remove what was reported and close the account responsible.
4. Circles and shared plans
Whoever starts a circle owns it: they can rename it, remove people, or delete it. Anyone in a circle can remove anyone else from it, except the owner.
What you share is always yours to decide, per person, and you can change or withdraw it at any time. Nobody is notified when you do.
Deleting a circle deletes its membership and its invite links. It does not delete anyone's calendar, events or other circles.
Anyone in a circle can invite people to it; the owner approves everyone who asks to join. Invite links last seven days.
Anyone in a plan can share its link. Whoever holds the link can see the plan's time and place, the organiser's first name and how many are in, and answer it with a first name. The organiser can turn the link off at any time.
Blocking someone means neither of you sees the other anywhere in the app. They are removed from the circles you started and cannot rejoin, and upcoming plans between you are undone. They are not told. You can lift a block from Settings.
Removing a calendar deletes its events from R U Free?. The calendar on your phone, or the one you subscribed to, is not touched.
5. Subscriptions and billing
Unlimited is bought through Apple's App Store, and Apple takes the payment.
There are two plans. Free includes one circle you start for up to five people, plus one circle you join, and stays free. Unlimited removes every limit on how many circles you have and how many people are in them, and costs A$6.99 a month or A$59.99 a year. Paying for the year saves A$23.89.
Unlimited begins with a free month on either billing period. You are not charged during it, and if you cancel before it ends you are not charged at all. After that it renews every month or every year, matching what you chose, until you cancel, which you do in your Apple account's subscription settings at least 24 hours before the next payment. The price the purchase screen shows is the App Store's, and is what you are charged.
Invite codes record who brought whom. Someone who joins with a friend's code, and has never subscribed to Unlimited, gets an extra 30 days free on top of the usual free month when they start Unlimited, monthly or yearly, through a one-time App Store offer code. This lasts while codes are available; if they run out, the usual free month still applies.
When someone you brought starts Unlimited, including its free period, you earn a discount on Unlimited: A$2.99 a month for your next three monthly payments, or A$24.99 for your next year if you pay yearly. You claim it in the app, on the Bring a friend screen, once you have started Unlimited, and Apple applies it from your next payment. Each friend who starts earns one discount, and a person can only be brought once. Rewards have no cash value, cannot be transferred, and are void for accounts made to earn them.
We always notify you when your free month starts, before your first payment is taken, and if you cancel. These are not optional, because they are about money.
Cancelling keeps Unlimited until the end of the period you have paid for, then drops you back to the free allowance. Nothing you have made is deleted and nobody is removed from a circle. Circles you started beyond the free allowance carry on for everyone in them, but you will not see what is shared in them until you subscribe again.
You have 48 hours from any charge to ask for a refund of it, through Apple at reportaproblem.apple.com, and Apple returns the money. Once a refund goes through, Unlimited ends. The Refund policy has the details.
6. Venues and third parties
Places shown near a meeting point come from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors), mapped by volunteers. We do not check them, we are not connected to them, and we cannot promise they are open, accurate or any good.
Nobody pays us to appear in the app. If that ever changes, paid placement will be labelled as such, plainly, on the card itself.
Some venues show an offer, such as a happy hour. These are things the venue already advertises publicly. They are not arrangements between us and the venue, they are not discounts we can give you, and no venue pays to have one shown. Each one names where we read it and when we last checked, and we stop showing it if nobody has checked it recently.
An offer is the venue’s to change or withdraw without telling us. Check with them before you rely on it, and if you find one that is wrong we would rather hear about it. Write to us at the address above.
7. Availability
We will try to keep the app working but we do not promise it always will. It depends on services we do not run, including your calendar provider and your phone.
Free/busy times and suggested places are our best effort from the information we have. Check with the venue before you rely on it.
8. Your consumer rights
Nothing in these terms excludes, restricts or modifies any guarantee, right or remedy you have under the Australian Consumer Law.
Our goods and services come with guarantees that cannot be excluded under the ACL. Where we are permitted to limit our liability, we limit it to re-supplying the service or paying the cost of having it re-supplied.
9. Ending it
You can delete your account at any time, and it happens immediately.
We may close an account that breaks section 3, including after a report, and will tell you why where we can.
These terms are governed by the law of Victoria, Australia.