Terms of Service

01The agreement

These Terms of Service are an agreement between you and Speedshift LLC, a North Carolina limited liability company. They govern your use of the Speedshift website, Track Evolution and Orbit Rings, together the "Services".

By using the Services, or by creating an account, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Services. Our Privacy Policy is part of this agreement and describes how we handle your information.

02Who may use the Services

You must be at least 13 years old, or 16 where that is the minimum age in your country, and you must have the legal capacity to enter into this agreement. If you are using the Services on behalf of an organisation, you confirm you are authorised to bind it, and "you" means that organisation.

03Your account

Track Evolution and Orbit Rings require an account, created through Google, Apple, or an email address. Give accurate information, keep your sign-in credentials with that provider secure, and tell us promptly if you believe someone else has access to your account.

You are responsible for activity under your account. You may close it at any time from within the app or by writing to us.

04Your content stays yours

Everything you put into the Services — lap times, notes, telemetry, setup sheets, the people in your circles — remains yours. We claim no ownership of it.

You grant us only the licence we need to run the Services for you: to host, store, back up, process and display your content, and to transmit it to your other devices. Where you publish content yourself, such as a Track Evolution share link, that licence extends to displaying it publicly for as long as you keep the link active. The licence ends when you delete the content or your account, apart from copies in routine backups pending deletion.

You are responsible for your content: for having the right to store it, and for it not being unlawful or infringing. This includes information about other people, such as the contacts you add to a circle in Orbit Rings — only store what you have a legitimate reason to hold, and remove it when asked.

05Acceptable use

Use the Services for their intended purpose. Do not:

• Break the law, infringe anyone’s rights, or store content you have no right to store.
• Attempt to access another user’s account or data, or probe, scan or test the security of our systems without our written permission.
• Disrupt the Services — denial-of-service attacks, automated traffic at volumes that degrade the service for others, or attempts to circumvent rate limits.
• Scrape or bulk-harvest content, including published share pages, other than through interfaces we provide for that purpose.
• Upload malware, or use the Services to distribute spam or harass anyone.
• Resell or commercially redistribute access to our hosted Services. Running your own instance of the open-source code is a different thing, and is expressly allowed under its licence.

Security research conducted in good faith is welcome — tell us first, and report what you find to us before anywhere else.

06Track Evolution: safety and accuracy

Read this section if you use Track Evolution. Driving on a racetrack is inherently dangerous and can result in serious injury or death. You are solely responsible for your own safety, for your vehicle, and for following the rules and instructions of your event organiser, instructors and track officials.

• Track Evolution is a logbook and analysis tool. It is not a safety device, a driver-training programme, a substitute for instruction, or a timing system of record.
• Do not interact with your phone while driving. Start a recording before you go out, stow the device securely, and do everything else in the paddock. Mount any device so it cannot come loose.
• Lap times, GPS traces, speeds and derived statistics are estimates produced from consumer hardware and imported files. They may be inaccurate or incomplete, and must not be relied on for competition results, official timing, technical inspection, or any safety-critical decision.
• Nothing in the app is an instruction, a recommendation, or encouragement to drive faster, to exceed your abilities, or to break any law. Do not use it on public roads to time or record driving.
• Wear projections for pads, tyres and fluids are estimates based on the time you have logged. Inspect your car. A projection is not a substitute for a maintenance check by someone qualified.

To the fullest extent the law allows, you assume all risk arising from your track activity and release us from any claim relating to it.

07Orbit Rings: reminders and other people

Orbit Rings sends nudges when a relationship passes its circle’s cadence. Notification delivery depends on your device, your operating system’s power management, and your network, none of which we control. Reminders are best-effort — do not rely on them for anything time-critical.

The app holds information about people who are not our users and have not agreed to these terms. You are responsible for what you store about them and for handling their requests about it. If someone asks to be removed, remove them.

Orbit Rings is in active development. Pre-release builds may change, break, lose data or be discontinued without notice, and are provided for evaluation. Keep your own copy of anything you cannot afford to lose.

08Open source and self-hosting

Track Evolution’s source is published under the Apache License 2.0. That licence governs your use of the code, including running your own instance — these terms do not restrict rights the licence grants you, and where the two conflict about the code, the licence wins.

These terms govern the instances we host. If you deploy your own, you are its operator: you are responsible for it and for its users, you may not present it as an official Speedshift service, and you may not use our names, logos or marks in a way that suggests we run or endorse it.

09Free today

The Services are currently free, with no plans and no paywall. If we ever introduce paid features, we will say so clearly in advance, and anything you already have will not be taken away and sold back to you without notice and a chance to export your data.

10Third-party services

The Services depend on third parties — Google, Apple, Cloudflare and Vercel among them — and link to third-party sites. Their terms and privacy policies govern their part, we do not control them, and we are not responsible for their content or availability.

11Apps from the App Store and Google Play

If you install one of our apps from a mobile app store, the store’s own terms also apply, and the following applies to Apple:

• This agreement is between you and us alone, not with Apple, and we — not Apple — are solely responsible for the app and its content.
• Your licence to use the app on Apple-branded products is the one described in Apple’s standard Licensed Application End User Licence Agreement, as varied by these terms.
• Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for the app.
• If the app fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple and Apple will refund the purchase price, if any. 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, claims that the app fails to conform to a legal requirement, and claims under consumer protection or similar law.
• We, not Apple, are responsible for investigating and defending any third-party claim that the app infringes intellectual property rights.
• You confirm you are not located 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 these terms and may enforce them against you.

12Availability, changes and termination

We may change, suspend or discontinue any part of the Services. If we discontinue a product entirely, we will give reasonable advance notice and a way to export your data, unless circumstances outside our control make that impossible.

You may stop using the Services and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate your access if you materially breach these terms, if your use puts the Services or other users at risk, or if we are required to by law — with notice where practical, and immediately where it is not. Sections that by their nature should survive termination do.

13Disclaimer of warranties

The Services are provided "as is" and "as available", without warranty of any kind. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, and any warranty arising from course of dealing or usage of trade.

We do not warrant that the Services will be uninterrupted, secure or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or that any data, timing, statistic or projection they produce is accurate or complete. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

14Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost data, loss of goodwill, personal injury, or property damage, arising out of or relating to the Services — whether the claim is in contract, tort, or any other theory, and even if we were advised such damages were possible.

Our total liability for all claims relating to the Services is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, or fifty US dollars. Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited by law, including for fraud, or for death or personal injury caused by our negligence. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

15Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Speedshift LLC and its members, officers and contractors from any claim, loss, liability or expense, including reasonable legal fees, arising from your content, your use of the Services, your breach of these terms, or your violation of any law or third-party right. We will notify you of any such claim and may participate in its defence with counsel of our choosing.

16Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of North Carolina, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.

You and we agree to try to resolve any dispute informally first: write to eric@speedshift.io describing the problem and what you want, and give us 30 days to respond. If that fails, the state and federal courts located in North Carolina have exclusive jurisdiction, and both of us consent to venue there — except that either of us may seek injunctive relief in any court of competent jurisdiction to protect intellectual property or confidential information.

If you are a consumer resident in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, nothing here deprives you of the protection of mandatory consumer law in your country of residence, or of the right to bring proceedings in your local courts.

17General

These terms, together with the Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between us about the Services. If a provision is held unenforceable, the rest stays in force and that provision is limited to the minimum extent necessary. Our failure to enforce a right is not a waiver of it. You may not assign this agreement without our consent; we may assign it in connection with a merger, acquisition or sale of assets.

We may update these terms. The effective date at the top reflects the current version, and material changes will be announced in the app or by email before they take effect. Continuing to use the Services after that means you accept the updated terms; if you do not, stop using them and delete your account.

18Contact us

Questions about these terms, and any legal notice, go to eric@speedshift.io.