The Grid Society — Terms of Service

Effective date: 08/11/26

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are a binding agreement between you and The Grid Society App, Inc., a Delaware corporation ("The Grid Society," "we," "us," or "our"). They govern your access to and use of The Grid Society mobile application, our websites, and any related services (together, the "Service").

Read section 9 carefully. It covers drives, meets, and other real-world activities, and it limits our liability for what happens at them. Read section 17 carefully as well. It requires most disputes to go to individual arbitration and waives your right to a jury trial and to participate in a class action.

By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

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1. Who can use the Service

You must be at least 18 years old to create an account. By using the Service you represent that you are 18 or older, that you have the legal capacity to enter into this agreement, and that you are not barred from using the Service under the laws of your jurisdiction.

The Service is currently offered in the United States. We make no representation that it is appropriate or available elsewhere.

2. Your account

You are responsible for the accuracy of the information you provide when you register, and for keeping it current. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your login credentials and for all activity that occurs under your account. Tell us promptly at [SUPPORT EMAIL] if you believe your account has been accessed without your permission.

One person, one account. Do not share your account, sell it, or transfer it to anyone else.

3. City availability

The Service opens on a city-by-city basis. Some features, including local feeds, meets, drives, and local member discovery, become available in your area only after that area meets our internal thresholds for activation. Until then your access may be limited to features that do not depend on local membership.

We decide which areas to activate and when, in our sole discretion. We do not guarantee that any particular area will ever be activated, and we may deactivate an area at any time.

4. Acceptable use

You agree not to use the Service to do any of the following, and not to encourage or assist anyone else in doing them.

4.1 Illegal or dangerous driving. You may not use the Service to organize, promote, advertise, coordinate, recruit for, document, or celebrate street racing, speed contests, exhibitions of speed, drifting or burnouts on public roads, takeovers, sideshows, road blocking, or any other driving conduct that violates applicable traffic or criminal law. This prohibition applies to posts, photos, videos, comments, messages, event listings, drive routes, and build descriptions.

4.2 Use while driving. Do not interact with the Service while operating a vehicle. If you are logging a drive, start the session before you begin moving and do not handle your device again until you have safely stopped. Follow all applicable laws regarding device use and mounting while driving.

4.3 Other prohibited conduct. You may not harass, threaten, stalk, defame, or impersonate anyone. You may not post content that is unlawful, hateful, sexually explicit, or that infringes anyone's rights. You may not scrape, crawl, reverse engineer, or attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Service. You may not use the Service to send spam or unsolicited commercial messages, to collect other members' personal information, or to interfere with the operation of the Service.

4.4 Enforcement. We may remove content, suspend or terminate accounts, and report conduct to law enforcement, at our discretion and without notice. We are not obligated to monitor the Service, but we may.

5. Your content

You keep ownership of everything you post, including photos, videos, build details, routes, comments, and messages ("Your Content").

By posting Your Content, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, transferable license to host, store, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, publicly display, and distribute Your Content in connection with operating, promoting, and improving the Service. This license lets us do things like display your build in the app, feature a drive route on a map, and use screenshots of the Service in our own marketing.

This license continues for content you have shared with others or that has been incorporated into parts of the Service that other members rely on, even after you delete it or close your account. Otherwise it ends when you remove the content.

You represent that you own or have the necessary rights to Your Content, and that it does not infringe anyone's rights or violate any law.

We do not endorse Your Content or anyone else's, and we are not responsible for it.

6. Vehicle and build information

The Service lets you record details about your vehicles, including make, model, year, modifications, parts, planned purchases, and ownership history. You control what you enter and what you make visible to other members.

We may use this information in aggregated and de-identified form to understand our membership, improve the Service, and inform which brands we partner with. Our handling of personal information is described in our Privacy Policy at [PRIVACY POLICY URL].

Do not enter your vehicle identification number, license plate, insurance details, or other sensitive identifiers in public fields.

7. Location, drive tracking, and telemetry

Some features rely on location data, including local feeds, meets, drives, and drive logging. You control location permissions through your device settings, and turning them off will limit those features.

Telemetry is informational only. Speed, distance, elevation, duration, and any other measurements the Service displays are estimates derived from your device's sensors. They are not calibrated instruments, they may be inaccurate or delayed, and they are not a substitute for your vehicle's own gauges or for your own judgment. Never rely on the Service for any safety-critical purpose. Do not use displayed speed to determine whether you are driving lawfully.

We do not offer, and you may not attempt to create, any feature or content that ranks or rewards members on the basis of maximum speed, acceleration, or similar performance achieved on public roads.

8. Meets, drives, and other events

8.1 We are a listing platform. Events, meets, cruises, and drives that appear on the Service are, unless we expressly state otherwise in writing, organized by members or third parties. We do not plan, host, supervise, staff, inspect, insure, or control them. Listing an event does not mean we have vetted it, its organizer, its route, or its location.

8.2 You participate at your own risk. Driving and attending automotive gatherings involve inherent risks, including risk of vehicle collision, property damage, serious bodily injury, and death, arising from your own conduct, the conduct of other participants and third parties, road and weather conditions, and the condition of vehicles present. You knowingly and voluntarily assume all such risks.

8.3 Your responsibilities. You are solely responsible for operating your vehicle safely and lawfully, for maintaining a valid driver's license, current registration, and the insurance coverage required in your jurisdiction, for the mechanical condition and roadworthiness of your vehicle, and for obeying all traffic laws, posted limits, and property rules at all times. Nothing on the Service authorizes you to disregard any of these.

8.4 Release. To the fullest extent permitted by law, you release and hold harmless The Grid Society, its officers, directors, employees, contractors, and agents from any claim, demand, damage, loss, or expense of any kind arising out of or relating to your participation in, travel to or from, or presence at any event, meet, or drive listed on or coordinated through the Service, whether caused by negligence or otherwise.

8.5 Organizers. If you list an event, you are solely responsible for it. That includes obtaining any permits, permissions, or property owner consent required, complying with applicable law, and any harm arising from the event. You will indemnify us for claims arising out of events you organize.

9. Brand partners, offers, and discount codes

The Service may make discounts, offers, and promotions from third-party brands available to members.

Those brands are independent third parties. They, not we, are responsible for their products, pricing, inventory, fulfillment, shipping, warranties, returns, and customer service. We do not manufacture, inspect, endorse, or guarantee any partner product, and we make no representation about the quality, safety, legality, or fitness for any purpose of anything you buy through a partner offer. Any dispute about a purchase is between you and that brand.

Discount codes issued to you are personal, single-use unless stated otherwise, non-transferable, and have no cash value. Do not sell, publish, or redistribute a code, including to coupon aggregation sites. We may cancel any code and may suspend or terminate accounts that misuse them.

Offers may change or end at any time. We may earn a commission or fee when you use a partner offer.

10. Fees

Membership is currently free. If we introduce paid features, we will disclose the price and terms before you are charged, and any purchase made through a mobile app store will also be governed by that store's terms. Unless we say otherwise or the law requires it, fees are non-refundable.

11. Communications

By creating an account you agree that we may contact you about the Service, including account, security, transactional, and service messages. You may also receive push notifications, which may include content from brand partners. You can control push notifications in your device settings and can opt out of marketing emails using the unsubscribe link in those emails. You cannot opt out of essential transactional and service messages while you hold an account.

12. Our intellectual property

The Service, including its software, design, text, graphics, logos, and the marks THE GRID SOCIETY and GS, is owned by us or our licensors and is protected by intellectual property law. We grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use the Service for your own personal, non-commercial purposes, subject to these Terms. You get no other rights.

13. Copyright complaints

If you believe content on the Service infringes your copyright, send a notice with the information required by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to [DMCA AGENT NAME AND EMAIL]. We may remove content and terminate repeat infringers.

14. Third-party services

The Service may link to or interoperate with third-party sites and services. We do not control them and are not responsible for them. Your use of them is governed by their terms.

15. Suspension and termination

You may stop using the Service and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate your access at any time, with or without notice, including if we believe you have violated these Terms or created risk or legal exposure for us or other members.

Sections that by their nature should survive termination will survive, including sections 5, 8, 9, 12, 16, 17, and 18.

16. Disclaimers and limitation of liability

16.1 As is. The Service is provided "as is" and "as available." To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy, and any warranty arising from course of dealing or usage of trade. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, secure, error-free, or that any data it displays will be accurate.

16.2 No liability for members or third parties. We are not responsible for the conduct of any member or third party, online or offline.

16.3 Cap. To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total liability arising out of or relating to the Service or these Terms will not exceed the greater of one hundred dollars ($100) or the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim.

16.4 Excluded damages. We will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue, data, or goodwill, even if we were advised of the possibility.

16.5 Limits on limits. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain exclusions or limitations, so parts of this section may not apply to you. Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited by law.

17. Dispute resolution and arbitration

Please read this section carefully. It affects your legal rights.

17.1 Informal resolution first. Before filing a claim, contact us at [LEGAL EMAIL] with a written description of the dispute and the relief you seek. If we cannot resolve it within sixty days, either of us may proceed.

17.2 Binding arbitration. Except as stated below, any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service will be resolved by final and binding individual arbitration administered by [ARBITRATION PROVIDER] under its consumer arbitration rules. The arbitration will take place in San Diego County, California, or by videoconference at your election. The arbitrator's decision may be entered as a judgment in any court of competent jurisdiction.

17.3 Class action waiver. You and we agree to bring claims only in an individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any class, collective, consolidated, or representative proceeding. The arbitrator may not consolidate claims or preside over any form of representative proceeding.

17.4 Exceptions. Either party may bring an individual claim in small claims court, and either party may seek injunctive relief in court to protect intellectual property rights.

17.5 Opt out. You may opt out of this arbitration agreement by emailing [LEGAL EMAIL] within thirty days of first accepting these Terms, stating your name and that you are opting out of arbitration. Opting out does not affect any other part of these Terms.

17.6 Jury trial waiver. To the extent any dispute proceeds in court rather than arbitration, both parties waive any right to a jury trial.

18. Indemnification

You will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless The Grid Society and its officers, directors, employees, contractors, and agents from any claim, liability, damage, loss, or expense, including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising out of or relating to your use of the Service, Your Content, your violation of these Terms or of any law, your participation in or organization of any event or drive, or your operation of any vehicle.

19. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to its conflict of laws rules. Subject to section 17, the state and federal courts located in San Diego County, California will have exclusive jurisdiction, and both parties consent to venue there.

20. Apple and Google

These Terms are between you and The Grid Society only, not with Apple Inc. or Google LLC. The app store operator is not responsible for the Service or its content.

We, not the app store operator, are solely responsible for providing any maintenance and support for the app, and for addressing any claim that the app fails to conform to any applicable warranty. To the extent any warranty is not effectively disclaimed and the app fails to conform, you may notify the app store operator, which may refund your purchase price, if any, and will have no other warranty obligation.

We, not the app store operator, are responsible for addressing any third-party claim that the app or your use of it infringes intellectual property rights, and any claim relating to product liability, legal or regulatory compliance, or consumer protection.

You represent that you are not located in a country subject to a United States government embargo or designated as a terrorist-supporting country, and that you are not on any United States government list of prohibited or restricted parties.

Apple Inc. and Google LLC and their subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce them against you.

21. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. If a change is material, we will give notice through the Service or by email before it takes effect. Continuing to use the Service after a change takes effect means you accept the updated Terms. If you do not accept them, stop using the Service and delete your account.

22. General

These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between you and us about the Service. If any provision is held unenforceable, the rest remains in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms; we may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.

23. Contact

The Grid Society App, Inc. 8 The Grn STE A, Dover DE, 19901 Griffin@thegridsociety.com