Terms

These terms are an agreement between you and Flarp Studios LLC (“we”), which makes alng. By using the app or this website you agree to them. Our Privacy page explains how we handle your data.

What alng does

alng lets you share a run, walk or ride with people you choose. You set when you expect to be back, or a distance. While it’s under way, the people you share it with can follow along, and if you don’t check in by the end, the people you chose are alerted. Those who can see your map get your last known location. Nothing is shared when you aren’t out.

alng is not an emergency service

alng does not contact emergency services, and it can’t guarantee that anyone will see an alert or respond to it. Alerts and locations depend on your phone and watch, their batteries, GPS, your network connection, Apple’s notification service, our servers and the people you share with. Any of these can fail or be delayed, and people can turn off notifications.

Don’t rely on alng for your safety. If you or someone else is in danger, call 911.

Stay aware

Pay attention to where you are, especially near traffic and on a bike. Don’t look at your phone or watch when it isn’t safe to. alng isn’t medical or fitness advice, and distance, pace and time may be inaccurate.

Who can use alng

You must be at least 18 to use alng.

Your account

You can sign in with Apple, Google or a code sent to your email. Give accurate details, keep your devices and sign-in secure, and don’t share your account. You’re responsible for what happens on it.

You can delete your account at any time in the app (Settings, then Delete Account). This removes you from everyone’s circles and you from theirs.

Your circle

You add people by sending an invite link or QR code. Circles are mutual: when someone joins, you’re each in the other’s circle. You choose what each person gets, such as being alerted if you’re late or seeing your location, and you can leave people out of a single run. You can remove anyone at any time.

Only invite people who want to be in your circle. When you follow someone, use what they share only to look out for them and cheer them on. Don’t use alng to track, monitor or harass anyone, or to get someone’s location without their knowledge.

Reactions and cheers

People following a run can send emoji and short messages, which can be read aloud to the runner. You’re responsible for what you send. Keep it kind: nothing abusive, threatening, hateful, sexual or illegal. Messages are end-to-end encrypted, so we can’t read or moderate them. If someone in your circle misuses them, remove them and let us know.

Using alng fairly

Don’t misuse the app or our servers. That means no breaking the law with it, interfering with how it works, trying to access other people’s data, or copying, reverse engineering or reselling it, except where the law allows.

We may suspend or close accounts that break these terms.

Plans and subscriptions

Following other people is free. Sharing your own runs needs a plan, and your plan decides how many people your runs go to. A run already under way finishes as it started, whatever happens to your plan.

Plans are sold and billed by Apple through your Apple Account, and the price is shown in the app before you buy. A free trial, if offered, turns into a paid subscription when it ends unless you cancel at least 24 hours before. Subscriptions renew automatically until you cancel. You can cancel in your iPhone’s Settings, under your name, then Subscriptions. Cancelling takes effect at the end of the current period. Refunds are handled by Apple under its policies.

Your content

Your runs, routes and messages are yours. You give us permission to store, process and deliver them only so we can run alng for you and the people you share with.

Our app

alng, its design and its name belong to us. We give you a personal, non-transferable license to use the app on Apple devices you own or control, under these terms and Apple’s Media Services Terms.

We’re always improving alng, so features may change, and we may stop offering some of them.

Disclaimers

alng is provided “as is” and “as available”. To the extent the law allows, we make no warranties, express or implied, including that it will be uninterrupted, error-free, accurate or fit for a particular purpose.

Limits on our liability

To the extent the law allows, we aren’t liable for any indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages, or for any harm arising from a missed, late or inaccurate alert or location, or from anyone’s failure to respond to one. Our total liability for any claim relating to alng is limited to the greater of what you paid for alng in the 12 months before the claim or US$50.

Some places don’t allow these limits, so they may not apply to you.

Apple

These terms are between you and us, not Apple. Apple isn’t responsible for alng or its content, and has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for it. If alng fails to meet a warranty that applies, you can notify Apple and it will refund the purchase price, if any; Apple has no other warranty obligation. Apple isn’t responsible for any claims relating to alng, including product liability, legal or regulatory claims, or claims that it infringes someone’s intellectual property; we are, to the extent these terms say so. You confirm you aren’t in a country under a US embargo and aren’t on a US government list of prohibited or restricted parties. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and can enforce them against you.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of South Carolina, without regard to its conflict of law rules. Any dispute will be handled in the state or federal courts located in South Carolina, unless the law where you live says otherwise.

Changes

We may update these terms. We’ll post changes here and update the date above, and tell you in the app if a change is significant. If you keep using alng after a change, you accept the new terms.

Contact

Flarp Studios LLC. Email hello@alng.app.