Explo
Terms of use
Explo is a free travel map and passport app. You can use it as it is, keep your map, and delete it whenever you like. Please don't rely on it as the final word on visas or travel safety: check the official source before you travel. We provide it as it is, and we do what the law requires of us and nothing in these terms takes away rights you have by law.
Using Explo
These terms apply to the Explo app for iPhone and to the website at explo.world, including the visa checker, country guides, tools, map maker, visa alerts and the optional pages at explo.world/@yourname and explo.world/my-map/. By using any of them you agree to these terms. If you don't agree, please don't use them.
- Free. Explo is free to use. There are no ads and no purchases at the time of writing. If that ever changes, we'll say so clearly in the app before you pay for anything.
- Who can use it. You must be at least 13 years old, or the age at which you can agree to this kind of service where you live if that is higher.
- No account needed. Explo works without one. Signing in with Apple or Google is optional and only used for backup and sync, as described in the privacy policy. Keep your sign-in secure. You are responsible for what happens under your account.
- The App Store. If you get Explo from the Apple App Store, Apple's standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement also applies. Apple is not responsible for Explo or for support for it. We are, and you can reach us at the address below.
- Our licence to you. We give you a personal, non-exclusive licence to use the app and the website for your own travel planning and record keeping. It can't be transferred.
Visa rules, travel advice and other travel information
Explo shows entry rules, travel advice, weather, public holidays, best months to visit, plug types, voltage, currencies and other facts about countries. This is general information, not legal, immigration, medical or safety advice.
- It can be wrong or out of date. Governments change entry rules, advice, holidays and prices without notice. Our visa data comes from an open dataset that is refreshed from time to time, and each page and screen says how recent it is. Some facts, such as plug types and the best months to visit, are curated by hand and are general guidance.
- Check before you go. Before you book or travel, confirm the rules with the embassy, the consulate or the official immigration website of the country you are going to, and check that your passport and any required documents are valid and in order. We are not responsible for being refused boarding or entry, for fees, for missed trips or for any other loss caused by relying on information in Explo.
- Alerts and notifications. Visa alerts, travel advice alerts and arrival notifications are a convenience. They may be late, may not arrive, or may not cover every change. Don't treat the lack of an alert as proof that nothing has changed.
- Your own map is yours to define. Explo lists countries and territories so you can mark them. Which places appear and how they are named or drawn is for convenience and isn't a statement of any position on borders or status.
Your content
Your content is what you put into Explo: the places you mark, your visit counts, notes, trips and, if you publish one, your public page.
- It stays yours. We don't claim ownership of it.
- What we may do with it. If you sign in, you let us store and process it to run the features you use: to back it up, sync it between your devices, show it to you on the web if you sign in there, and, only if you publish a public page, show the parts that page is set to show to anyone who has the link. That's all. We don't use it for advertising and we don't sell it. See the privacy policy for the details.
- Public pages. You are responsible for the name you choose and what you share on a public page. It must not impersonate someone else, and it must follow the fair use rules below. We can unpublish a page that breaks them.
- You can take it back. You can turn off your public page at any time, and you can delete your account in the app, which deletes what we stored for you.
Fair use
Please use Explo in good faith. Don't:
- use it to break the law, to harass or impersonate anyone, or to share anything unlawful or abusive;
- try to break, overload or get around the app, the website, the database behind it or the limits on any of them, or access anyone else's account or data;
- copy our data pages or tools in bulk with scripts (reading the site normally, search engines and sharing links are fine), or resell Explo or its data as your own service;
- remove or hide our name or the credits to the data sources we use.
You are welcome to share your map picture, link to our pages and quote short parts of them with a link back to explo.world.
Data and services from others
Explo is built on other people's open data and services, which stay under their own licences and terms:
- entry rules: the Passport Index dataset by Ilya Ilyankou (MIT licence);
- visa rule change alerts: public pages on Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA 4.0);
- travel advice: GOV.UK foreign travel advice (Open Government Licence v3.0);
- weather: Open-Meteo; public holidays: Nager.Date;
- backup, sync and sign-in: Supabase, and Sign in with Apple and Google.
These services can change or stop, and when they do, parts of Explo may be unavailable or show less. Their own terms apply to how they provide their data.
What belongs to us
The Explo name, logo, app, design, illustrations, text, photos we made and the website code belong to us or to the people who licensed them to us. Using Explo doesn't give you any ownership of them. The press kit says how you can use our name and logo when you write about Explo.
Warranties and liability
We work hard to make Explo accurate and reliable, but we provide it “as it is” and “as available”. We don't promise that it will always work, be free of errors, be available in every place or work on every device, or that the information in it is complete or current.
To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, lost profits, lost data, or costs of travel plans that change or fail, arising from your use of Explo or from relying on what it shows. Our total liability to you for any claim about Explo is limited to what you paid us for it, which for a free app is nothing.
Your legal rights are not affected. Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability that can't be excluded or limited by law, such as for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else the law doesn't let us exclude. If you are a consumer, the mandatory consumer protection rules of the country where you live still apply to you.
Changes, ending and deleting
- You can stop at any time. Delete the app, or open Passport, tap the account icon and choose Delete account. This removes what we stored for you, as the privacy policy explains.
- We may change or stop things. We may update, add or remove features, data sources or parts of the website, and we may suspend or end access for someone who seriously or repeatedly breaks these terms. If we end an account for something other than that, we'll give notice where we can.
- Changes to these terms. If we change them in a way that matters, we'll update the date above and mention it in the app's release notes. Using Explo after a change means you accept the new terms. If you don't, please stop using it.
- If part of it doesn't apply. If a part of these terms can't be enforced, the rest still applies.
Contact
Questions about these terms, a report about a public page, or anything else: support@explo.world.