Terms of Service - Homeward

 

Terms of Service

By creating an account or joining a family circle you agree to these Terms. Please read them alongside our Privacy Policy.

1. What Homeward is

Homeward is a consent-based family location app. It lets members of a family circle share their location with one another during trips, approved sharing windows, or emergencies. Homeward is a convenience and safety aid — not a life-safety or emergency-response service.

SOS does not call for help. The SOS feature notifies your family's admins and attempts an SMS fallback if you are offline. It does not contact emergency services such as 911, 112 or 100. Never rely on Homeward in place of official emergency services. We cannot guarantee message delivery, timing, or that anyone will respond.

2. Eligibility

You must be legally able to enter into this agreement where you live. Accounts for young children must be set up and managed by a parent or legal guardian, who is responsible for the consent required to enable "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 details you provide.
• One person, one account. Do not impersonate anyone or join a circle without permission.

4. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• Use Homeward to track, monitor or locate anyone without their knowledge and consent, or in breach of any law — including stalking, harassment and domestic-abuse laws.
• Add someone to a family circle who has not agreed to join.
• Spoof, falsify or manipulate location data, or interfere with the service.
• Reverse engineer, resell or otherwise misuse the app or its infrastructure.

Homeward is built to require consent. Using it to circumvent someone's consent is a serious breach of these Terms and may be unlawful.

5. How sharing works

• Location is shared only during a trip you start, a window you approve, or an SOS you send.
• Members choose their own sharing mode and can change or revoke it at any time.
• Admins may request a location but cannot force a member to share, other than a consented child account.

6. Your journey history

When a trip ends, Homeward saves a private entry to your own log: the destination you declared and the start and 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, and deleting your account deletes it.

7. Availability

Homeward depends on third-party services (Google Firebase, mobile networks, SMS gateways, GPS). The service is provided "as is" and "as available". We cannot guarantee it will be uninterrupted, timely, secure or error-free, and location accuracy depends on your device and surroundings.

8. Disclaimers and liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Homeward and its providers are not liable for any indirect, incidental or consequential damages, or for harm arising from reliance on location data, SOS delivery, missed notifications or service unavailability. Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited by law.

9. 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 breach these Terms.

10. Changes

We may update these Terms. We will revise the date above and notify you in the app of material changes. Continuing to use Homeward after a change means you accept it.

11. Contact

apps.rhythmthemes@gmail.com