Lore Terms of Service

Effective date: July 27, 2026

Last updated: July 29, 2026

Lore is an independent product operated by Erick Dronski. These Terms govern your use of the Lore iOS app, the Lore website at lore-web-liart.vercel.app, and related services (together, "Lore"). By creating an account, purchasing Lore+, or using Lore, you agree to these Terms and the Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use Lore.

The iOS application is also licensed under Apple's Standard End User License Agreement. These Terms govern Lore's accounts, content, services, and purchases. Mandatory consumer rights and Apple's Standard EULA control if they conflict with these Terms.

Questions can be sent to esdronski@gmail.com.

1. Eligibility and accounts

You may browse Lore without an account. You must be at least 13 years old to create an account. You are responsible for providing accurate account information, protecting your credentials, and activity under your account.

The iOS app supports email and password, Sign in with Apple, Google, and Facebook accounts. The website may expose a smaller set of sign-in methods. Do not share an account in a way that defeats purchase, security, or usage controls.

You may delete your account in the iOS app under Profile > Settings or on the website under Profile > Account. Deleting the account does not cancel an Apple subscription; Apple billing must be managed separately. Lore may retain a limited, account-detached Apple purchase record for restoration, transaction processing, and duplicate-claim prevention as described in the Privacy Policy.

2. What Lore provides

Lore is an informational city, architecture, and history guide. Depending on your device, location, permissions, account, and purchase status, it may provide a living map, camera-based nearby-place scanner, place cards, historical deep dives, walking tours, narration, a visit journal, photos, and badges.

Coverage is curated city by city. Lore does not promise that every place, street, city, or object is recognized. Scanner direction, AR placement, map positions, historical facts, generated routes, translations, and narration may be approximate, incomplete, unavailable, or wrong.

Journal notes, journal photos, and web Lore entries are private to your account in the current release. They are not published to other travelers.

Other public contribution and media-submission features, including public photo submission and the website contribution form, are not part of the current release. Lore may add them later under additional contributor and moderation terms.

3. Safe use

Pay attention to your surroundings. Do not use the scanner, map, or tour while driving, cycling, crossing traffic, entering restricted areas, or in any situation that requires your full attention. Do not trespass, obstruct others, or rely on Lore for navigation, emergency response, engineering, legal, safety, or accessibility decisions.

Camera, location, heading, and AR results are best-effort. You remain responsible for where you walk, what you photograph, and how you use information shown by Lore.

4. Lore+ and App Store purchases

Lore offers free functionality and may offer the following Apple in-app purchases where available:

Lore may also offer fixed-duration, non-renewing Trip Passes if they appear in the App Store purchase sheet. The App Store purchase sheet shows the controlling localized price, duration, taxes, availability, and any introductory offer before you confirm payment. Website prices are reference information and may not reflect your storefront.

Eligible monthly or annual subscribers may be offered a 7-day free introductory trial when the App Store shows one. Eligibility is determined by Apple. When a trial ends, the subscription begins at the displayed price unless canceled.

Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation. Monthly and annual subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Apple may charge the renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel at Apple Subscriptions. Canceling stops the next renewal and does not normally end access already paid for.

Apple handles App Store payment credentials, billing disputes, cancellation, and refund requests under Apple's policies. Lore cannot cancel an Apple subscription by deleting a Lore account. Purchase restoration requires the Apple Account that made or received the purchase.

Lore+ currently unlocks unlimited deep dives, curated walking tours, and full-story narration. Free scanning, place cards, the daily free deep-dive allowance, visits, journal features, and badges remain available without Lore+. Features may evolve, but Lore will not misrepresent what a purchase unlocks at the time of sale.

5. Acceptable use

You may use Lore for personal, lawful, non-commercial purposes. You may not:

• probe, disrupt, overload, or circumvent Lore's security, authentication, quotas, purchase checks, or rate limits;
• scrape, crawl, bulk-download, or systematically extract Lore content or data;
• reverse engineer Lore except where applicable law expressly permits it;
• use Lore or its camera features for surveillance, facial recognition, harassment, stalking, or identification of people;
• infringe intellectual property, privacy, publicity, or other rights;
• resell, sublicense, or commercially redistribute Lore or its content without written permission; or
• use Lore in violation of law, these Terms, or applicable third-party terms.

Lore may limit or suspend access reasonably necessary to protect users, the service, providers, or legal rights.

6. Your private content

You keep the rights you already hold in journal notes, photos, and web Lore that you save. You give Lore a limited, non-exclusive licence to host, store, back up, process, resize, and display that content back to you only as needed to operate, secure, and support the private features you choose. That licence ends when the content or account is deleted, subject to limited backup, security, transaction, and legal retention described in the Privacy Policy.

You are responsible for content you save and must have the right to use it. Do not use Lore to store unlawful content, malware, another person's confidential information without permission, or material that infringes intellectual property, privacy, publicity, or other rights. Private storage is provided as a product feature, not as the sole archival backup for important material.

The current release does not publish journal notes, journal photos, or private web Lore to other travelers. If Lore later offers a public contribution or sharing feature, it will present the applicable visibility, consent, moderation, and content terms before that feature is enabled.

7. Content and intellectual property

Lore and its original software, design, curation, copy, branding, and databases are protected by intellectual-property and other laws. These Terms give you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to use Lore on devices you own or control, consistent with Apple usage rules. No ownership rights are transferred to you.

Some historical text, images, maps, videos, and source links come from third parties and remain subject to their licenses and terms. Attribution and source links are provided where available, but coverage is incomplete. External services are responsible for their own content and availability. Your private content is covered by Section 6.

If you believe content in Lore infringes your rights, email esdronski@gmail.com with the work, the Lore content or URL at issue, your contact information, the basis for your request, and a statement that the information is accurate and you are authorized to act.

8. Privacy

Lore's Privacy Policy explains what data Lore processes, camera and location behavior, service providers, retention, and deletion. By using optional permissions or cloud identification, you direct Lore to process the data needed for that feature.

9. Third-party services and Apple

Lore depends on Apple, Supabase, Google Cloud, Vercel, map and content providers, and external links. Their own terms may apply, and their availability can affect Lore.

Apple is not responsible for maintaining or supporting Lore. Erick Dronski, not Apple, is responsible for Lore and for addressing claims about Lore, subject to applicable law and Apple's Standard EULA. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of the Apple license terms and may enforce those terms.

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

10. Availability, changes, and termination

Lore may add, change, pause, or discontinue features, cities, providers, or content. Internet access, compatible hardware, permissions, and third-party services may be required. Lore does not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free operation.

You may stop using Lore at any time and may delete your account. Lore may suspend or terminate access for a material Terms violation, abuse, security risk, legal requirement, or discontinuation of the service. Terms that by their nature should survive termination, including intellectual-property protections, disclaimers, and payment obligations already incurred, will survive.

11. Disclaimers and responsibility

To the extent permitted by law, Lore is provided "as is" and "as available" without warranties of accuracy, availability, fitness for a particular purpose, merchantability, or non-infringement. Historical and generated content may contain errors. Lore is not a substitute for professional, official, navigational, or safety information.

To the extent permitted by law, the operator is not responsible for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising from use of or inability to use Lore. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability or consumer rights that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.

12. General terms

If a provision is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in effect. Failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not transfer your rights under these Terms without permission; Lore may transfer these Terms as part of a reorganization, financing, acquisition, or sale of the service, subject to applicable law.

Lore may update these Terms to reflect product, provider, or legal changes. Material changes will receive reasonable notice through Lore or the website and will apply prospectively. Continued use after the effective date means you accept the updated Terms.

13. Contact

• Operator: Erick Dronski
• Email: esdronski@gmail.com
• Support: lore-web-liart.vercel.app/support