Terms of use
Last updated: 01.10.2026
1. Who provides what
TripPhoto – the website and the iPhone app – is operated by Michael Grewelding (details in the imprint). These terms apply to use with and without an account. How we handle your data is described in the privacy policy.
2. What TripPhoto is
With TripPhoto you plan trips, record them with your iPhone and turn route and photos into a memory you can keep and share. Use is free of charge. We keep developing TripPhoto; features may change or be removed in the process. There is no right to the service being available at all times – maintenance and outages happen. Should we ever offer paid features, their own terms, shown to you before any purchase, apply in addition; without a purchase everything described here stays free.
3. Your account
- You may create an account from the age of 16.
- An account belongs to one person. Keep your password secret and let us know if you think someone else has access.
- You can delete your account yourself at any time – in the website settings or in the app profile. Beforehand you can download all your data.
4. Your content
Photos, texts, routes and plans remain yours. You only grant us the simple, free right to store them, to resize them for display and to show them the way you set it – private, via link only or public. Everyone, including search engines, can see public trips. This right ends when you delete an item or your account; caches expire on their own afterwards. Aggregated, anonymous information about many travellers (such as the typical time spent at a place) remains, but no longer contains anything of yours.
You are responsible for having the right to upload and share what you upload and share. If you make a trip public, people recognisable in it and their addresses are your responsibility: ask them first, or set those photos to private.
5. What is not allowed
- Content that breaks the law or infringes the rights of others – such as copyright, personality or trademark rights.
- Harassing, threatening or exposing others, including in comments.
- Publishing other people’s home addresses or movements without their consent.
- Scraping TripPhoto automatically, overloading it or circumventing protective measures. The app interface is meant for the TripPhoto app, not for your own programs.
- Advertising or spam in trips, profiles and comments.
6. Reporting and removal
You can report any public trip and any comment; illegal content also by email to michael@grewelding.com. We look at every report. If content breaks the law or these terms, we may hide or remove it, and suspend an account for serious or repeated breaches. We then tell you what we did and why, and you can object by email.
7. On the road: safety first
Do not operate the app while driving – that is what Siri, the Action button and CarPlay are for. Drive times, opening hours, light and weather forecasts, entry information and all other details in the planner come from calculations and open sources. We compile them carefully but without guarantee: check anything important with the responsible authority before you travel, and on the road follow road conditions, signs and weather, not the app.
8. Liability
We are liable without limitation for intent and gross negligence, for injury to life, body and health and under the German Product Liability Act. Otherwise, because TripPhoto is free of charge, we are only liable for intent and gross negligence. We back up our servers regularly; for important trips we still recommend downloading the data export from time to time.
9. Ending use
You can stop at any time and delete your account. We can end your use with four weeks’ notice, immediately in the case of serious breaches. Should we shut TripPhoto down entirely, we will tell you at least four weeks in advance so you can download your data.
10. Changes to these terms
If we change these terms materially, we will email you at least four weeks in advance and tell you what changes. If you do not agree, you can delete your account before then.
11. Law and disputes
German law applies. If you are a consumer habitually resident in another country, you keep the protection of that country’s mandatory provisions. We do not take part in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board; just write to us if something is wrong.