Terms of Use

Last updated: 17 August 2026

These Terms of Use govern your use of the ARIVD website at arivd.app, the ARIVD mobile application and related ARIVD services.

Please read these Terms carefully before using ARIVD.

By creating an ARIVD account, using the ARIVD app or otherwise using services that require acceptance of these Terms, you agree to them.

If you do not agree to these Terms, do not use ARIVD.

1. Who operates ARIVD

ARIVD is operated by:

MATTHEW ADRIAN NESBITT

United Kingdom.

Email:

support@arivd.app

In these Terms, “ARIVD”, “we”, “us” and “our” refer to the operator of ARIVD.

“You” and “your” refer to the person using the ARIVD website, app or services.


2. What ARIVD is

ARIVD is a personal journey-safety and reassurance app.

ARIVD allows a user to select trusted contacts, set an expected journey duration and start a journey.

Depending on the features and journey mode being used, ARIVD may provide functions including:

  • journey timers;
  • optional journey-start notifications;
  • ARRIVED confirmation;
  • optional safe-arrival notifications;
  • missed-arrival alerts;
  • unexpected-stop or inactivity checks;
  • trusted-contact alerts;
  • emergency location sharing;
  • manual SHARE LOCATION functionality;
  • trusted-contact location and directions features;
  • alert acknowledgement and resolution; and
  • journey and alert history.

Features may change as ARIVD develops.


3. ARIVD is not an emergency service

ARIVD is not an emergency service.

ARIVD does not replace:

  • the police;
  • ambulance services;
  • fire and rescue services;
  • medical assistance;
  • professional security services; or
  • any other emergency-response service.

ARIVD does not automatically know whether you are in danger.

It reacts to events and conditions supported by the app, such as a missed ARRIVED confirmation or an unanswered safety check.

If you believe that you or another person is in immediate danger, you should contact the appropriate emergency services directly rather than relying on ARIVD alone.


4. ARIVD cannot guarantee your safety

ARIVD is intended to provide an additional safety net, not a guarantee that harm will be prevented.

Using ARIVD does not guarantee that:

  • an accident or emergency will be detected;
  • a trusted contact will receive or see an alert immediately;
  • a trusted contact will respond;
  • location information will always be available or accurate;
  • stop detection will identify every unexpected stop;
  • ARIVD will correctly distinguish a genuine problem from a harmless stop;
  • mobile networks, GPS, internet connections or third-party services will always be available; or
  • ARIVD will operate without interruption or error.

You should continue to take appropriate precautions for your journey.


5. Journey timers and ARRIVED

When starting an ARIVD journey, you are responsible for choosing an appropriate expected journey duration.

When you reach your destination, you are expected to press:

ARRIVED

to confirm the journey has ended normally.

If ARRIVED is not confirmed before the timer expires, ARIVD may treat the journey as a missed arrival and begin its safety process.

You should therefore allow a reasonable amount of time for delays when setting a journey timer.


6. Stop detection and safety checks

Where stop detection is available and active, ARIVD may use information from your device to determine whether the device appears to have remained stationary for a prolonged period.

ARIVD may then ask whether you are OK.

If you respond, the journey may continue normally.

If you do not respond, ARIVD may escalate the journey, alert your selected trusted contacts and share your location.

You understand that:

  • ARIVD is detecting the behaviour of the device, not independently observing you;
  • a stationary device does not necessarily mean that the user is in danger;
  • a user may be in difficulty without the device becoming stationary;
  • different journey types can affect movement detection; and
  • false positives and false negatives are possible.

Stop detection should not be treated as a substitute for emergency assistance or personal judgement.


7. Vehicle and travel modes

Some journey types may require ARIVD to use location information differently because a phone can remain physically still while travelling in a car, taxi, bus, train or other vehicle.

Where applicable, ARIVD may use location or movement information to support these journey modes.

Stops caused by traffic, stations, congestion or ordinary travel may affect the information available to ARIVD.

You should use the journey mode appropriate to your journey where such options are provided.


8. Trusted contacts

You are responsible for selecting appropriate trusted contacts.

You should only add someone as a trusted contact where you are entitled to provide their information and where it is reasonable for them to receive ARIVD journey or safety information.

You should make trusted contacts aware:

  • that you have selected them;
  • what ARIVD is;
  • that they may receive journey or emergency notifications; and
  • that they may receive your location if ARIVD’s safety process is activated.

Trusted contacts are independent individuals.

ARIVD does not control whether a trusted contact:

  • has their phone switched on;
  • has internet or mobile service;
  • has notifications enabled;
  • sees an alert;
  • responds to an alert; or
  • takes any particular action after receiving one.

9. Routine notifications

Depending on your settings, selected trusted contacts may receive routine notifications such as:

  • a notification that your journey has started; and
  • a notification that you have pressed ARRIVED.

Routine notifications may be optional.

The absence of a routine notification does not necessarily indicate that an emergency has occurred.


10. Emergency alerts

ARIVD may begin its emergency process when a supported safety trigger occurs.

Examples may include:

  • the journey timer expiring without ARRIVED being confirmed; or
  • an applicable safety check going unanswered.

When ARIVD escalates, selected trusted contacts may receive information including:

  • your name;
  • the type of alert;
  • your location;
  • map information; and
  • options to contact you or confirm your safety.

11. Emergency location sharing and resolution

ARIVD is designed so that once emergency location sharing has begun, the traveller cannot simply cancel the emergency from their own ARIVD app.

A trusted contact can confirm that the traveller is safe and resolve the alert.

When the alert is successfully resolved, emergency location sharing should stop in accordance with the app’s functionality.

This design is intended to reduce the possibility of an active emergency being dismissed from the traveller’s own device without trusted-contact involvement.

Technical failures, connectivity problems or service interruptions may affect this process.


12. SHARE LOCATION

ARIVD may provide a SHARE LOCATION feature that allows you to share your location with selected trusted contacts without waiting for an automatic safety trigger.

By using SHARE LOCATION, you are deliberately instructing ARIVD to share your location with the contacts selected for that journey or alert.

You should only use this feature when you intend that information to be shared.


13. Location accuracy

Location information may depend on technologies including:

  • GPS;
  • mobile networks;
  • Wi-Fi;
  • device sensors;
  • operating-system services; and
  • mapping providers.

Location information may therefore:

  • be delayed;
  • be temporarily unavailable;
  • show an approximate rather than exact position; or
  • occasionally be incorrect.

You should not assume that an ARIVD map marker always represents a person’s precise physical location.


14. Device and connectivity requirements

ARIVD relies on compatible devices and external technology.

To use relevant features successfully, you may need:

  • a compatible smartphone;
  • sufficient battery charge;
  • a working internet or mobile-data connection;
  • location services;
  • notification permissions;
  • relevant movement/activity permissions;
  • an up-to-date operating system; and
  • an appropriate version of ARIVD.

You are responsible for maintaining your device and granting the permissions necessary for the features you choose to use.

Disabling permissions may prevent some ARIVD functions from working.


15. Children and young people

ARIVD is intended for users aged 13 and over.

Users aged 13 to 17 should use ARIVD with the knowledge and permission of a parent or guardian.

If you are a parent or guardian allowing a young person to use ARIVD, you should:

  • review these Terms with them;
  • help them understand how ARIVD uses location and movement information;
  • help them select appropriate trusted contacts where necessary; and
  • make sure they understand that ARIVD is an additional safety tool rather than a guarantee of safety.

ARIVD does not currently offer accounts to children under 13.

If ARIVD later supports younger users, additional parental-authorisation and age-appropriate measures may be introduced.


16. Account information

You are responsible for providing accurate information when creating or maintaining an ARIVD account.

You should keep your:

  • name;
  • telephone number;
  • trusted-contact information; and
  • other important account information

up to date.

You must not deliberately provide false information or impersonate another person.


17. Account security

You are responsible for taking reasonable steps to protect access to your device and ARIVD account.

You must not knowingly:

  • allow unauthorised people to access your account;
  • attempt to access another person’s account;
  • interfere with ARIVD’s authentication or security systems; or
  • misuse another person’s ARIVD information.

If you believe your account or device has been compromised, contact:

support@arivd.app


18. Acceptable use

You must not use ARIVD:

  • unlawfully;
  • to harass, threaten or intimidate another person;
  • to deliberately send false emergency alerts;
  • to track another person without an appropriate basis;
  • to obtain location information you are not entitled to receive;
  • to impersonate another person;
  • to interfere with ARIVD’s systems;
  • to attempt to gain unauthorised access to ARIVD, its infrastructure or other accounts;
  • to introduce malware or malicious code;
  • to reverse engineer ARIVD except where applicable law expressly permits it; or
  • in any way that could harm ARIVD, its users or its service providers.

We may restrict or suspend access where we reasonably believe ARIVD is being misused or where doing so is necessary to protect users, the service or other people.


19. Early Access and beta versions

ARIVD may make beta, test or Early Access versions available before a full public release.

These versions may:

  • contain unfinished features;
  • contain errors;
  • change without notice;
  • experience interruptions;
  • have limited availability; or
  • be withdrawn or replaced.

If you participate in testing, feedback you provide may be used to improve ARIVD.

You should be particularly cautious about relying on beta functionality for important safety decisions.


20. Availability and changes to ARIVD

We aim to keep ARIVD available and functioning, but we do not promise uninterrupted availability.

We may need to:

  • maintain the service;
  • fix faults;
  • improve security;
  • change features;
  • update the app;
  • modify third-party integrations; or
  • temporarily suspend parts of the service.

Where a significant change materially affects users, we will take reasonable steps to explain it.


21. Third-party services

ARIVD relies on or may interact with third-party services, including services relating to:

  • cloud infrastructure;
  • authentication;
  • databases;
  • push notifications;
  • mapping;
  • directions;
  • device location; and
  • mobile operating systems.

For example, ARIVD currently uses technology provided by Google/Firebase and may open external services such as Google Maps.

Those services may also be subject to their own terms and privacy policies.

ARIVD is not responsible for the independent operation of a third-party service outside our control.


22. Google Play and app stores

If you download ARIVD through Google Play or another app store, your use of that store is also subject to the store provider’s applicable terms.

The app-store provider may have separate rules concerning:

  • downloads;
  • updates;
  • payments;
  • refunds;
  • account access; and
  • device compatibility.

23. Privacy

Your privacy is important to ARIVD.

Our Privacy Policy explains:

  • what personal information we process;
  • how location and movement information may be used;
  • how trusted-contact information is handled;
  • when location may be shared;
  • who information may be shared with; and
  • your data-protection rights.

You should read the Privacy Policy alongside these Terms.

Privacy Policy:
https://arivd.app/privacy-policy/


24. Intellectual property

ARIVD and its associated:

  • name;
  • branding;
  • logo;
  • software;
  • website;
  • interface;
  • graphics;
  • text;
  • design; and
  • other original materials

are owned by or licensed to the operator of ARIVD unless stated otherwise.

You are granted a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use ARIVD for its intended purpose in accordance with these Terms.

You do not acquire ownership of ARIVD’s intellectual property by using the service.


25. Feedback

If you provide suggestions, bug reports or other feedback about ARIVD, we may use that feedback to:

  • investigate problems;
  • improve the app;
  • develop existing features; or
  • create new features.

Providing feedback does not give you ownership of any subsequent ARIVD development based on general suggestions or ideas you provide.


26. Suspension or termination

You may stop using ARIVD at any time.

Where account-deletion functionality is available, you may request or initiate deletion in accordance with ARIVD’s account and privacy processes.

We may suspend or terminate access where reasonably necessary, including where:

  • these Terms are seriously or repeatedly breached;
  • ARIVD is being deliberately misused;
  • another person’s safety or privacy is being put at risk;
  • security requires it;
  • we are legally required to do so; or
  • ARIVD or a relevant part of the service is discontinued.

Where appropriate and reasonably possible, we will provide notice.


27. Our responsibility to you

We will provide ARIVD with reasonable care and skill and will not exclude or restrict any rights or liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or restricted.

ARIVD is nevertheless dependent on devices, networks, location services, operating systems, user permissions and third-party infrastructure that are not entirely within our control.

Subject to your statutory rights and to the extent permitted by law, we are not responsible for losses caused solely by circumstances outside our reasonable control where we have taken reasonable care.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability where doing so would be unlawful.

In particular, nothing in these Terms is intended to exclude liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence or to remove rights that consumers have under applicable law.


28. Your statutory rights

If you use ARIVD as a consumer, you may have statutory rights relating to digital content and services.

These Terms do not replace or remove those rights.

Under the Consumer Rights Act 2015, consumer services are subject to a requirement of reasonable care and skill, certain liability cannot be excluded, and unfair consumer terms are not binding.


29. Paid services

ARIVD may currently provide some services free of charge or as part of Early Access or testing.

If paid features, subscriptions or other purchases are introduced, the relevant:

  • price;
  • billing arrangements;
  • renewal terms;
  • cancellation arrangements; and
  • any additional purchase terms

will be made clear before you agree to pay.

Any mandatory consumer rights relating to a purchase will continue to apply.


30. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms where reasonably necessary, for example because:

  • ARIVD features change;
  • technology changes;
  • security requirements change;
  • our business arrangements change; or
  • legal or regulatory requirements change.

The latest version will be published on arivd.app with an updated date.

For material changes, we will take reasonable steps to notify affected users where appropriate.

Where the law requires renewed agreement to revised Terms, we will request it.


31. If part of these Terms is unenforceable

If any part of these Terms is found to be unlawful or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will continue to apply to the extent permitted by law.


32. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales, subject to any mandatory consumer protections that apply to you.

Nothing in this section removes any right you may have as a consumer to bring proceedings in a court that has jurisdiction under applicable law.


33. Contact us

If you have questions about these Terms or ARIVD, contact:

MATTHEW ADRIAN NESBITT

Email:

support@arivd.app

Website:

arivd.app