Ridepair, Inc. – Terms of Service

Last Updated: 1 December 2024

Welcome to Ridepair, where you Get Paid to Pair!

Our goal at Ridepair, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, is to build communities through ridesharing, and to reduce automotive emissions in the process.  It’s carpooling reinvented and is good for the environment!

These are our Terms of Service (“Terms”) and, along with our Privacy Policy, they together comprise our “User Agreement”. Our goal is to be completely transparent and help you understand how Ridepair works.

  1. Who can use our Services

Our Services means all aspects of the Ridepair mobile application and the software and systems powering the applications.

To use our Services you must be a real human who is at least 18 years old. All references to “you” and “your” in the User Agreement will mean both you, the end user and/or for accounts you created on behalf of another person, company, organization, government or other legal entity, the person who has legal authority to create and/or operate the account. 

  1. Data Protection and Privacy

Our Privacy Policy describes what information you share with us, when it is shared, and how we handle it when you use our Services.   

  1. Content

You are responsible for Your Content. Do not share anything that you wouldn’t want others to see, that would violate this Agreement, or that may expose you or us to legal liability. You are solely responsible for Your Content, and, therefore, you agree to indemnify, defend, release, and hold us harmless from any claims made in connection with Your Content.

Content in the context of Ridepair includes profile photos and other information about you and, optionally, your vehicles, to help us continue to improve our pairing services so that the platform can pair you with appropriate other users. You represent and warrant to us that the information you provide to us or any other user is accurate, including any information submitted through other social-media channels such as Facebook, Instagram and others.

The content included on your profile should be relevant to the intended use of our Services, such as you personal interests and similar. You may not upload any Prohibited Content, and your content must further comply with our Community Guidelines. 

You are responsible for the Content you share through our Services including ensuring that you have the right to use the Content, and that it complies with laws, rules, regulations and the User Agreement.

Identity Verification: To user our platform, we need to verify your identity, and we do so using the service ID Scan (https://idscan.net), which includes capturing photos of the front and back of your government-issued identification – typically a driver’s license – as well as a selfie of you.  

If you share Content that you do not have the right to use or that violates laws, rules, regulations or the User Agreement, we have the right to remove it and we will remove it.

We do not tolerate harassment, intimidation, defamation, threats, hateful content, sexual content, nudity, child sexual exploitation, sexual abuse, promotion of suicide or self harm, intellectual property theft, or other illegal activities.

You own the Content you share through our Services and grant Ridepair a license to use the Content under the following conditions: 

  • Friends Only Content means Content you shared only with your friends on Ridepair. On a voluntary basis, some people may choose to share their Friend Only Content with Ridepair so that it can be used for communication, commercial and marketing purposes.
  • Globally Shared Content means Content you shared with everyone on Ridepair. In exchange for using our Services, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable license to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute the content you share with a Globally Shared Content in any and all media or distribution methods. This license authorizes us to make your Globally Shared Content available to the rest of the world and to let others do the same. You agree that this license includes the right for Ridepair to provide, promote, and improve our Services and to make Globally Shared Content available to other companies, organizations or individuals for the syndication, broadcast, distribution, promotion or publication on other media and services. Such additional uses by Ridepair, or other companies, organizations or individuals, is made with no compensation paid to you with respect to the Globally Shared Content as the use of our Services by you is hereby agreed as being sufficient compensation.

  1. Reporting Violative Content 

We are not under an obligation to monitor the Content people share through our Services.  Nevertheless, we want our Services to be a place where people can connect, enjoy ridesharing together, and express their real selves while feeling safe. Content that violates another person’s rights, or does not comply with laws, rules, regulations or the User Agreement (“Violative Content”) is prohibited. If you see Violative Content, you can report it by visiting our website and reporting the violative content.  

If you believe your Content has been copied in a way that infringes your intellectual property rights, you can report this directly to us from our website.

  1. SMS Text Messaging

Users of our platform may, at their sole discretion, use the text-messaging features offered by our platform to register for our service, login to our service, receive two-factor authentication codes, and communicate with other users on our service. Users may opt-out of our text-messaging services at any time.

  1. Ending our Services

We may temporarily or permanently suspend your account and prevent your use of our Services if we have determined that you have shared Violative Content or used our Services in a way that violates another person’s rights, or does not comply with laws, rules, regulations or the User Agreement.

To protect you, other users and our Services, we may temporarily suspend your account in the event that we detect abnormal activity which could present technical or security risks to you, other users or our Services. 

We will delete your account if it is inactive for more than one year. Before we do, we will let you know so that you can stop the deletion if you want.

You may delete your account at any time by going to your profile and choosing the account deletion option.

  1. License to use our Services

Our Services are protected by copyright, trademark, trade secret and other laws around the world. Nothing in the User Agreement gives you a right to use the Ridepair name or any of the Ridepair trademarks, logos, domain names, other distinctive brand features, and other proprietary rights. 

During the time you are using our Services, Ridepair gives you a personal, worldwide, royalty-free, non-assignable and non-exclusive license to use the software provided to you as part of our Services. This license has the sole purpose of enabling you to use and enjoy our Services in a manner consistent with the User Agreement. This license comes to an end when you stop using our Services.

Ridepair is free to use any feedback, comments or suggestions you may provide regarding our Services.

  1. Limitation of Liability

By using our Services you agree that Ridepair, its affiliates, related companies, officers, directors, employees, agents representatives, partners and licensors, liability is limited to the maximum extent permissible in your country of residence. 

  1. Applicable law and jurisdiction

To the extent that these Terms allow you or Ridepair to initiate litigation in a court, both you and Ridepair consent to the exclusive jurisdiction the United States and United States law. You and Ridepair agree that all claims and disputes (whether contractual or otherwise), arising out of or relating to the Terms or User Agreement will be litigated exclusively in the United States, unless this is prohibited by the laws of the country where you reside. 

  1. General

Ridepair may update the User Agreement at any time. If we make an update that impacts either parties rights or obligations, we will let you know approximately 30 days before the update goes into effect. If you keep using our services after the 30 days, you are agreeing to our updated User Agreement. If you do not want to agree, you must stop using our Services.  

The User Agreement is between you and Ridepair’s parent company, Ridepair, Inc. 

  1. Contact or Questions

Hearing from you makes us and our Services better. Whether you have a question about any part of the User Agreement, a comment or feedback about our Services, we want to hear from you. 

You can reach us by email at [email protected].