Legal
Terms of Service
What WayFinder is
WayFinder is supplementary, camera-based scene information for blind and low-vision people. You ask a question or open the camera; the app takes one photo, sends it to the WayFinder backend, and Google Gemini — a third-party AI service — produces a spoken description of what is in the frame. Nothing is sent until you have agreed to the separate AI Data Use disclosure.
Safety and limitations
AI analysis can be inaccurate, incomplete, delayed, or unavailable. It may miss stairs, holes, traffic, moving objects, overhead hazards, or other dangers.
- Keep using a white cane, guide dog, orientation and mobility skills, human assistance, and your own judgement.
- Do not cross streets, enter traffic, or navigate stairs based solely on WayFinder output.
- Do not use WayFinder as a replacement for emergency services.
- Stop when the app says it cannot see or cannot verify a scene.
The full safety statement lives on a separate page: Safety & Limitations.
Eligibility and account
You must be at least 13 years old. You are responsible for safeguarding the sign-in account you use (Apple or Google) and for activity performed through it. Creating an account requires affirmatively agreeing to these Terms and acknowledging the Privacy Policy; no account is created without that agreement.
Acceptable use
Do not attempt to abuse, overload, bypass quotas, compromise, or unlawfully reverse-engineer the service. Do not use it to infringe another person's privacy or rights. Automated access against the API is not permitted except through the official app binary.
Availability
WayFinder requires an internet connection for visual analysis. Service can be interrupted for maintenance, provider failures, quota enforcement, or technical problems. Offline, WayFinder does not replay an old scene answer as current and does not guess.
Lifetime analysis quota
Each authenticated account receives a fixed lifetime allowance of successful Gemini visual analyses, currently 25. There is no subscription, payment, upgrade, purchase, or quota-reset path, and there is no way to buy more. Once the allowance is spent, further requests are refused before Gemini is called. The backend is the authority for this count; the app only displays it.
Third-party AI processor
To produce scene descriptions, WayFinder sends one photo and, when present, your typed or transcribed question text to Google Gemini. This is described in detail in the AI Data Use disclosure and in the Privacy Policy. Google's processing of that data is governed by WayFinder's Google Cloud agreement, which is identified and linked on that page.
Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms. Each version carries an explicit version number and effective date at the top of this page. A material change to these Terms will require you to accept the new version inside the app before continuing to use WayFinder. We will communicate material changes through the app or website.
Liability
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Elizabeth Tahirova is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or personal-injury damages arising from use of the software. Nothing in these Terms excludes rights or liabilities that cannot legally be excluded — in particular, liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence cannot be excluded under the law of many countries, and nothing here attempts to.
Privacy
Use is also governed by the Privacy Policy and the AI Data Use disclosure.
Who you are contracting with
WayFinder is provided by Elizabeth Tahirova, an individual developer. "WayFinder" is the name of the app, not of a company; there is no incorporated entity behind it. These Terms are an agreement between you and Elizabeth Tahirova.
The contact address for all notices, including legal notices, is support@way-finder.tech. No postal address is published. If you need one — for example to serve a formal notice, or to exercise a data-protection right that requires it — request it at that address and it will be provided to you.
Governing law and disputes
These Terms deliberately do not choose a governing law, name a court, or require arbitration, and they contain no class-action waiver. Which law applies, and where a dispute may be brought, is therefore decided by the ordinary conflict-of-laws rules of your own jurisdiction.
This is a considered choice rather than an omission. Stating a jurisdiction that has not been confirmed with a lawyer would be a claim we cannot stand behind, and for consumers in the EEA and the UK a choice-of-law clause cannot in any case remove the protections of local consumer law. If a future version adds one, it will be published as a new version of these Terms under the process described above.
Your rights over your data
You can erase your history and delete your account at any time from inside the app, and by email if you no longer have the app installed — see Account deletion. The Privacy Policy describes what is stored and for how long.
Where the GDPR, the UK GDPR or a comparable law applies to you, the following rights exist by law and are not granted or limited by these Terms. The controller is Elizabeth Tahirova, contactable at support@way-finder.tech. Google acts as a processor for the AI analysis, as described in AI Data Use.
- Legal basis. Your account, its history and its usage counter are processed to perform this agreement with you. The transmission of a photo to a third-party AI service is done on the separate consent you give on the AI Data Use screen, and you may withdraw that consent at any time in Settings without losing your account.
- Access and portability. Your history is visible in the app. Ask at the contact address for a copy in a machine-readable form.
- Rectification. Ask at the contact address to have inaccurate personal data corrected.
- Erasure. Delete Account inside the app erases your account, your history, your usage records and your sign-in identity. See Account deletion.
- Objection and restriction. Ask at the contact address.
- Withdrawing consent. Settings → Legal & Privacy → AI Data Use. Withdrawal stops future transmission immediately and does not affect processing that already took place.
- Complaint. You may complain to your national data-protection supervisory authority.
These Terms were written without professional legal review. They describe what the software actually does and promise nothing beyond that, but a lawyer in your market may identify clauses that a local consumer-protection regime requires. That review is recommended and has not been carried out.
Contact
Email support@way-finder.tech.