Homeward — Terms of Service
Last updated: 18 July 2026
Welcome to Homeward. By creating an account or joining a family circle, you agree to these Terms. Please read them alongside our .
1. What Homeward is
Homeward is a consent-based family-location app. It lets members of a family circle share their location with each other during trips, approved share windows, or emergencies. Homeward is a convenience and safety aid — not a life-safety or emergency-response service.
2. Eligibility
You must be legally able to enter into this agreement in your jurisdiction. Accounts for young children must be set up and managed by a parent or legal guardian, who is responsible for capturing the consent required for "always-on" sharing.
3. Your account
- You sign in with your phone number and are responsible for keeping access to it secure.
- You are responsible for the accuracy of the information you provide (name, phone number).
- One person, one account. Don't impersonate others or join a family circle without permission.
4. Acceptable use
You agree not to:
- Use Homeward to track, surveil, or locate anyone without their knowledge and consent, or in violation of any law (including stalking, harassment, or domestic-abuse laws).
- Add someone to a family circle who has not agreed to join.
- Attempt to spoof, falsify, or manipulate location data, or interfere with the service.
- Reverse engineer, resell, or misuse the app or its infrastructure.
Homeward is built to require consent. Using it to circumvent someone's consent is a serious violation of these Terms and may be unlawful.
5. Location sharing & how it works
- Location is shared only during a trip you start, a share you approve, or an SOS you trigger.
- Members choose their own sharing mode and can change or revoke it at any time.
- Admins can request location but cannot force a member (other than a consented child account) to share.
6. Your journey history
When a trip ends, Homeward saves a private entry to your own log: the destination you declared and the start/end time. This record is yours. Our security rules restrict it to your account — family admins cannot read it, and neither can other members. You may export it as a PDF, delete individual entries, or clear it entirely at any time. Deleting your account deletes it.
7. SOS and emergencies
The SOS feature notifies your family's admins with your live location. It does not contact emergency services (e.g. 911/112). Do not rely on Homeward in place of official emergency services. We do not guarantee message delivery, timing, or that anyone will respond.
8. Service availability
Homeward depends on third-party services (Google Firebase, mobile networks, GPS). We provide the service "as is" and "as available," and can't guarantee it will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free. Location accuracy depends on your device and environment.
9. Disclaimers & limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Homeward and its providers are not liable for any indirect, incidental, or consequential damages, or for any harm arising from reliance on location data, SOS delivery, missed notifications, or service unavailability. Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law.
10. Termination
You may stop using Homeward and delete your account at any time from Settings → Delete my account & data. We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these Terms.
11. Changes
We may update these Terms; we'll revise the "Last updated" date and notify you of material changes in-app. Continued use after changes means you accept them.
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