Terms of use

Last updated: 2026-10-01

1. What you agree to

These terms govern the use of Fugaz (fugaz.app), operated from Spain by Diego Herrero, a natural person. Saving your profile means accepting this text; if you disagree with any of it, the way to not accept it is to not use the app.

The service is free. There is no subscription, no payment and nothing to cancel: you can leave the map and delete your profile from the app or bot. Some identity, access and moderation records persist as explained in the privacy policy.

2. Who can use it

People aged 18 or over, only. The form asks you to confirm it and without that confirmation no profile is saved. It is not a formality: this puts people on a map who are going to meet in person.

If we find a profile belonging to a minor, we delete it without warning. And if you think somebody you see on the map is one, report them with the reason looks underage: it is one of the six reasons in the form and we look at it before any other.

3. What you may not post or do

What you write on your profile — your name, what you tell about yourself, your social handles — and your group's photo, if your group sends one, is seen by people who don't know you. On that, the list is short and does not reward creative reading:

• Nothing sexual. No photos, no offers, no innuendo in the "something about you" field. Fugaz is not a dating app and even less a shop window.
• No child sexual abuse or exploitation. No child sexual abuse material, no content that sexualizes minors, no contacting a minor for sexual purposes. We remove the account and report it to the authorities: see the child safety standards.
• No harassment, threats or hate based on origin, sex, orientation, religion, disability or any other condition.
• Do not impersonate anyone — not another person, not a company, not us.
• No spam, advertising or selling, and that includes selling illegal things. A profile is not an ad.
• Nothing unlawful, and nothing about another person that they haven't told you that you can post.
• Do not automate the app or the bot: no bulk accounts, no scraping the map, no posting positions that are not where you actually are.

Beyond the profile, the rule that covers everything else: what you wouldn't do walking up to someone in the street, don't do here either. Group chat and contact through WhatsApp or Telegram are conversations between people and we do not read them proactively. If somebody crosses the line in one, report them from their profile card: what you report is the person, not a single message (section 4).

4. How we moderate

We are few and no report is decided by a machine: a person looks at it, and there is no automated decision-making in the sense of art. 22 GDPR. When enabled, an automatic photo check blocks sexual, violent or self-harm content before publication and can reject it without prior human review. If it is disabled, photos can be published without that check and remain subject to later reports. If you think a rejection was wrong, write to us and a person will review it.

How you tell us

Every profile card has a button to report that person. What you report is the person: there is currently no way to report a message, a conversation, a group, a story or a photo on its own. You pick one of six reasons — spam or selling, sexual content, harassment, impersonation, looks underage, or something else — and you can add a note. When you send the report we keep a copy of what was reported: what their profile card showed (name, text, photo and handles), so it can still be reviewed after the original profile has expired.

If you and that person have a one-to-one conversation on Fugaz, we add up to its latest 20 messages to the copy as context, because messages delete themselves after 72 hours and the report may be reviewed later. Messages from group chats are not copied. The copy never includes location.

You do not need an account or any relationship with the person to report them. You can report the same person once every 24 hours: repeating it sooner does not speed anything up.

On what criteria we decide

We hold what was reported against the list in section 3, and two questions settle almost every case: does this happen to a specific person? and does it hold up out of context? A disagreement is not harassment; a group photo at the beach is not sexual content. Where the two reasons that have a victim — harassment and minors — leave us in doubt, we decide in favour of the person reporting.

There are two outcomes: removing the person from the app, or dismissing the report. No intermediate sanctions and no escalating warnings, on purpose: with presences that last hours, a warning arrives once the content is already gone.

5. What happens next, and for how long

• What

  Removal from the app

  Effect

  You leave the map immediately and cannot post yourself again

  How long

  3 years

• What

  Copy of what was reported (the profile card and, if any, your one-to-one conversation)

  Effect

  Only we see it, so the case can be reviewed

  How long

  90 days

• What

  Record of the decision (without a copy of the content)

  Effect

  Evidence of what was reported and what was decided

  How long

  2 years

• What

  Blocking another person (your call, not ours)

  Effect

  They stop appearing to you, stop seeing you on the map and cannot contact you. They are not told

  How long

  1 year

Removal lasts three years, and it is deliberately neither shorter nor permanent: identity here is ephemeral, so with no cost of re-entry a one-day removal would mean nothing — while a permanent one would not be defensible. It attaches to your internal identity in Fugaz, not to your number or your email: we store no new data to enforce it.

If we remove you, the bot tells you and gives you the address to appeal (legal@fugaz.app). Messages you had already exchanged with other people are not deleted because of this: they expire on their own, on their own clocks.

6. How to appeal a decision

If we remove you and you think we got it wrong, write to legal@fugaz.app and tell us what happened. It is reviewed by someone other than whoever decided, whenever we are more than one, and if the appeal is right we undo the removal. You get an answer.

This replaces no other route: you can go to court, and on data protection matters you can complain to the Spanish data protection authority (aepd.es).

7. Blocking somebody needs no permission from us

Besides reporting, any profile card or chat lets you block that person. Neither of you sees the other on the map and their way of contacting you is cut off; they are not told and cannot find out. Nobody reviews it and you owe us no explanation: it is your call and it takes effect immediately.

It exists because the two solve different problems: reporting is for what shouldn't happen to anyone, and blocking is for what you don't want happening to you, which does not need justifying to us.

8. What Fugaz does not do

To appear here you must sign in with your email and password, with your Google or Apple account, or through the bot, with a WhatsApp number or a Telegram account. This authenticates access, but does not verify the profile's claims: we do not check the name, age, photo or linked handles. What you see on a card was declared by that person.

If you sign in with email and password, looking after the password is up to you: do not share it or reuse one from another service. Whatever somebody does signing in with it counts as done from your account, so if you suspect somebody else knows it, change it through “Forgot your password?” and write to us. That is also the only way to recover access, and it goes through the account's email address: if you lose that email, or your Google or Apple account, or your phone, we may be unable to give the account back, because we hold no other data to check that it is you.

Some cards carry the badge "Invited by someone we know". It means only that: the person came in with the code of a buddy or of an institution (a hostel, say) we work with. It is not a guarantee of identity or conduct: neither the inviter nor Fugaz answers for what that person does or posts.

And not everything on the map is people. While the app gets going there may be sample groups, which carry a notice on their card, and illustrative dots that give a sense of the area without standing for anyone in particular; the map says so itself. The numbers we give —how many people are in a group, how many groups are nearby— are always real.

Meeting a stranger is your decision and the risk is real. Meet in public places, tell somebody where you're going, and if something feels off, leave. We do not organise the meetings, we are not at them, and we are not liable for what happens at them or for what each person posts. What we do is section 4: remove whoever needs removing when we are told.

9. The service, as it is

Fugaz is offered as it is, with no availability guarantee: it can break, it can be down for maintenance and it can stop existing. If the service ends, we will process remaining data under the privacy policy and any continuing legal duties. None of this limits the rights the law gives you as a consumer.

You can stop using it whenever you like, in two ways that need no notice to us: leave the map and delete your profile, from the app or, if you use the bot, by sending it deactivate or delete profile. We can remove you for the reasons in section 4.

10. Changes, governing law and contact

If we change anything material we change the date in the header, and the form asks you to accept again. The Spanish version is the binding one; the translations exist so it can be understood, not to replace it.

Spanish and European Union law apply. For anything about these terms, including appealing a decision, write to legal@fugaz.app.