Terms of Service

Last updated: 2026-11-10

1. About these terms

Darbil is a mobile application for finding, recording and sharing off-road routes and places, and for sending an alert to nearby users when you need help. These terms are an agreement between you and the operator of Darbil. By creating an account, or by continuing to use the app, you accept them. If you do not accept them, please do not use the app.

2. Who may use Darbil

You must be 18 or older to create an account. We do not verify age. Darbil can share where you are or have been with other people — for example a place or route you make public, or how far away you are when you send an alert — so please do not create an account for anyone below this age. If we learn that an account belongs to someone younger, the operator of Darbil will remove it by hand.

3. Your account

You need an account to use Darbil. Keep your password to yourself and let us know if you think someone else has used your account. You are responsible for what happens under your account, except where it is our fault or where you have told us your account was compromised and we have had a reasonable chance to act.

4. What you share

You keep ownership of what you add to Darbil — your places, routes, posts, photos, notes, ratings and comments. You give us permission to store it, show it inside Darbil to the people who can see it (see the Privacy Policy, section 5), and include it in the app's maps and lists. This permission exists only to run the service. We do not sell your content and we do not license it to anyone else.

Posts and comments on posts are always public. Comments on a place or route are public for as long as that place or route is public. Places and routes are private until you make them public, but every place you add, private or not, also marks the area around it on your exploration map, which other users can see unless you change who can (see the Privacy Policy, section 5). Once public, other users can see them and save them, and can export a public route or place as a GPX file to keep. Once another user has saved your route, you can no longer delete it; you can make it private instead, and our server then stops sending it to the people who saved it; a copy their phone already holds may stay until their app next refreshes. Please only share what you are willing for others to keep.

A route recording continues while Darbil is in the background. If you do not answer the "Route recording still open" reminder, which appears 3 hours after you start and 3 hours after each time you choose "Continue Recording", Darbil stops the recording about 10 minutes later and saves it to your account as a private route, or when Darbil next starts, if your phone closed it in the meantime. If the recording is paused when the reminder's deadline passes, it is stopped and saved when you resume or when Darbil next starts, if your phone closed it in the meantime. If the recording has too little movement to be a route, it is stopped and nothing is saved. If your phone closes Darbil while it is recording, the last few points may be missing.

5. Acceptable use

When using Darbil, please do not:

• Send a false emergency alert, or use the alert feature for anything other than a genuine need for help.

• Post content that is unlawful, hateful, threatening, harassing or sexual, or that targets another person.

• Post someone else's private information, or share another person's location without their agreement.

• Upload content you do not have the right to share, including maps or routes taken from another service.

• Deliberately publish a route that is dangerous or that crosses land you know you may not enter.

• Attempt to break, overload, scrape or reverse-engineer the app or its servers, or use another person's account.

This list is not exhaustive. If something is clearly harmful to other users, please assume it is not allowed.

Darbil has zero tolerance for objectionable content and abusive users. Content that breaks these terms may be hidden or taken down, and the account that posted it may be suspended.

6. Reporting and moderation

You can report a place, route, post, comment, message, emergency alert or user from inside the app, and you can block another user. Older comments on routes cannot be reported. To review reports, the operator of Darbil can open any place, route, post, comment, message, alert or profile, even a private one; for a message, that includes up to five messages before and after it. Our server log records each item opened this way and who opened it, but not each look at the list of reports, which shows a short excerpt of each. The operator can also read our database directly, and that is not recorded item by item. We may hide content that breaks these terms: a post or comment is hidden from everyone if we take it down, and from everyone but its author while reports about it are reviewed; a message is withheld from both people in the conversation, and a place or route is made private, which its owner can undo. Hidden content is kept, not erased, until the account that made it is deleted, and we do not tell you when we hide something, except for the note the app shows the author of a post that is hidden while reports about it are reviewed. If we act against your content and you think we were wrong, email support@darbil.app and we will look again.

Darbil checks some of the text you write against a list of words that are not allowed. This covers posts, comments, the names and descriptions of places and routes, route notes, and your name, username, bio and country. If a text contains a word on the list, our server does not save it and the app asks you to change it. The check does not cover messages, alerts, reports, folder names or photos.

When three different people have an open report on the same post, comment, public place or public route, our server hides it at once, before we have looked at it. Other users can no longer see it, but its author still can. It stays hidden until the operator of Darbil restores it or takes it down. Our server emails the operator about new reports, so that reports are seen quickly.

If we act on a report about a person, we clear that person's bio, profile picture and cover picture. Their name and username stay. A bio we clear is erased; the picture files stay in our storage but are no longer linked to the profile. Taking something down does not by itself suspend an account.

We may suspend an account that breaks these terms. The operator of Darbil decides this by hand. While an account is suspended, it cannot use Darbil: it cannot post, send messages, or send or receive emergency alerts, and any alert it had active is ended. It can still delete the account and sign out. Suspending an account does not delete its content. If you think we suspended your account by mistake, email support@darbil.app and we will look again. If we restore an account, our server accepts it again at once; the app may need to be closed and opened again before it works.

7. Important: the alert feature is not an emergency service

Darbil is not a rescue service and not a substitute for calling the emergency services. An alert is sent by notification, in widening circles — first within 1 km of where you sent it, then 10 km, then 15 km — to Darbil users whose last known position, as our server last stored it, is inside the circle and whose phone has registered for Darbil's notifications. If nobody offers help, the next circle is alerted after about 2 minutes (at once if nobody is inside a circle), and after the widest one Darbil keeps alerting anyone whose last known position comes within 15 km, until someone offers help or the alert ends. Their last known position may be out of date. There may be nobody within 15 km of you, and their phones may have no signal, be switched off or have notifications turned off. People you have blocked, and people who have blocked you, are never alerted. Nobody has to respond, and we do not check whether anyone arrives.

Please know these limits before you rely on an alert. To send one you need a mobile-data or Wi-Fi connection, and Darbil needs a position for you. Your phone looks for your position each time you open the alert screen, and again when you send if the position it has is more than two minutes old. An alert is sent only from a position your phone found in the last two minutes; if there is none — for example because location is off for Darbil — the alert is not sent, and the app tells you so. If Precise Location is off for Darbil in your phone's settings, your phone gives Darbil only your approximate location, so the alert is sent from that approximate position, and its circles and the distance helpers see are measured from it. Without a connection the alert is not sent, and it is not saved to send later. The alert asks for a photo taken with your camera; you can send it without one only if Darbil cannot use the camera.

The alert button does not open while a route is recording, is paused or is waiting to be saved: stop the recording and save or discard it first. During a recording, the alert screen can still be opened from a notification about someone else's alert, and an alert can be sent from there.

Our server refuses a new alert within 30 minutes of your last one. On your phone, the app also keeps you from sending another while yours is active, and for 30 minutes after you cancel it ("Cancel SOS"); it may also make you wait 30 minutes after an alert ends by itself. An alert ends by itself after 2 hours. If you send again while your alert is active, from about the same place, and no one has offered to help yet, our server does not create a second alert: it gives you back the active one, still at the place you first sent it from, with the situation and vehicle you just chose, and no one is notified again. If the app tells you an alert could not be sent, it may still have been sent: on a weak connection our server can receive it while its answer to your phone is lost. While you are signed out, whether you signed out or your session ended, you cannot cancel an active alert from the app, and it keeps reaching people until someone offers help or it ends; when you sign in again, the app asks our server for your active alert, shows it, and you can cancel it.

People who receive your alert see how far away you are, not where you are on a map, so tell a helper where you are in your messages. As soon as one person offers to help, no more notifications are sent for your alert, even if that person never comes, until everyone who offered has withdrawn or deleted their account; the screen of your alert tells you when someone has offered. Someone who only signs out has not withdrawn. Until it ends, your alert stays in the "Nearby Alerts" list, where any other signed-in user within 30 km can still see it and offer help; before they offer, the app tells them that an offer stops further notifications for your alert. So offer help ("Offer Help") only if you can give it, and withdraw ("Cancel Help Offer") if you cannot.

Always contact the official emergency services first when there is a risk to life. Treat Darbil as an additional way of reaching people nearby, never as your only plan. We do not guarantee that an alert will be delivered, seen or answered, and we are not responsible for the conduct of anyone who does respond.

8. Maps and route data

The default map in Darbil ("Satellite") is Apple Maps. The other map styles, the map on a route's page and when you import a GPX file, and offline maps come from Stadia Maps, built on OpenStreetMap data and, for most styles, OpenMapTiles; some styles are designed by Stamen Design. Weather comes from MET Norway. If you open a place in Apple Maps or Google Maps, that app's or website's own terms apply. Maps and routes can be out of date, incomplete or wrong. Terrain changes, tracks disappear, and conditions vary. You are responsible for judging whether a route is safe for you, your vehicle and the conditions on the day.

9. Availability and no warranty

Darbil is provided as it is. We work to keep it running and accurate, but we do not promise that it will always be available, that it will work offline, that your data will always sync, or that the information in it is correct. Features may change or be withdrawn. Our database is backed up once a day, and each backup copy is kept for 8 days. If our database is lost or damaged, it can be restored from one of those copies, but changes made after that copy may be lost.

10. Limitation of liability

To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for loss or damage arising from your use of Darbil — including anything that happens on a trip, an alert that is not answered, a route that turns out to be unsuitable, or content posted by another user. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, including liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or for fraud.

11. Ending your use of Darbil

You can delete your account at any time from Settings. Please read section 12 of our Privacy Policy first: it says exactly what is removed and what is not.

12. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. When we do, we post the updated date at the top of this page. The date changes only when the text changes.

13. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of Kuwait, and the courts of Kuwait have jurisdiction over any dispute. If you have a problem, please contact us first at support@darbil.app — most things are quicker to fix directly.

14. Contact

Questions about these terms: support@darbil.app