Terms of Service

Version 1Effective 18 August 2026

These terms govern your use of the GPSLarp application and website. Please read section 6 on withdrawal and section 9 on what this software does and does not promise — they are the two that most often matter later.

01Who you are contracting with

Your contract is with the operator identified in the Impressum — a sole proprietor established at Bolleystrasse 9, 8006 Zürich, Switzerland, trading as GPSLarp. Where these terms say "we" or "us", they mean that operator. "You" means the person entering into the contract.

These terms apply to consumers. If you are acting in the course of a trade, business or profession, the consumer-specific provisions in sections 6 and 13 do not apply to you.

02What the service is

GPSLarp is a desktop application for macOS on Apple Silicon that changes the GPS position a paired iPhone reports, so that applications on that phone read the coordinates you choose. It is licensed for your use, not sold to you. You get a non-exclusive, non-transferable right to install and use it on devices you own or control, for as long as this contract is in force.

A Windows version is written but has never been run on Windows hardware, and is not offered. Nothing in this contract promises it. If it is released, this section will say so before it is sold.

Using it requires an Apple device paired to your computer, an internet connection for sign-in and for the map, place-search and routing features, and administrative privileges on your computer to start the device tunnel.

03Account and eligibility

An account is required. Accounts are provided through our authentication provider; you are responsible for keeping your credentials secure and for activity under your account.

You must be at least 16 years old, and have legal capacity to enter into this contract. One person may hold one account. Do not share an account, and do not create additional accounts to obtain the free allowance more than once.

04The free allowance

A limited free allowance lets you establish whether the product works with your hardware before paying. It is counted both per account and per device, so creating a second account on the same computer does not reset it.

The current size of the allowance is the one shown in the application at the time you use it, and that is the figure that governs. We deliberately do not restate a number here: a number in a contract that disagrees with the number the software enforces is worse than no number, and it is the software you actually meet.

To count per device, the application computes a one-way hash of device characteristics on your own machine and sends only that hash; see the Privacy Policy, section 3. We may change the size of the free allowance for future customers; a change never reduces an allowance you have already been granted.

05Subscription and billing

Price: CHF 4.90 per month. The operator is not registered for VAT and adds none (see the Impressum), and receives CHF 4.90. Where our payment processor acts as merchant of record it may be obliged to collect local tax in your country; the total shown on the checkout page before you confirm is the amount that will be charged, and that figure governs.
Billing cycle: Monthly, in advance. The first period starts when your payment succeeds.
Renewal: Automatic, on the same day each month, until you cancel.
Payment method: Card or other method offered at checkout, processed by Stripe. We never receive your card number.
Currency: Swiss francs. If your card is denominated in another currency, your bank sets the conversion rate and may add its own fee, which we do not control and do not receive.

Payment is taken by Stripe on our behalf. By subscribing you authorise recurring charges of CHF 4.90 per month to your chosen payment method until the subscription ends.

If a renewal payment fails

You keep access for the period you have already paid for. If a renewal payment fails, your access continues while the payment is retried, and ends at the end of the period you last paid for if it is not resolved. We do this deliberately: an expired card should not cut off service on a day you have already paid for.

Price changes

We may change the price. You will be notified at least 30 days before a change takes effect, and the change applies from your next billing period. If you do not accept it, cancel before that period begins — continuing to use the subscription after the notice period is acceptance of the new price.

06Right of withdrawal

You may withdraw from this contract within 14 days without giving any reason.

Where this right comes from is not the same everywhere

If you are a consumer in the EU or EEA, this is your statutory right under the Consumer Rights Directive (2011/83/EU).

If you are a consumer in Switzerland, the honest position is that Swiss law gives you no statutory right of withdrawal for a purchase like this one — the cooling-off period in Art. 40a ff. of the Swiss Code of Obligations covers doorstep and telephone sales, not ordinary online purchases. Rather than offer Swiss customers less, we grant you the same 14-day right contractually, on the terms in this section. It binds us in the same way, but it is a promise we make rather than a law we are quoting.

The withdrawal period

It runs for 14 days from the day the contract is concluded — that is, from the day your subscription starts.

How to withdraw

Tell us clearly that you are withdrawing, either by email to privacy@gpslarp.com or by post to the address in the Impressum. Any unambiguous statement is enough; you do not have to use a particular form of words, and you do not have to give a reason. Sending your notice before the 14 days expire is enough to meet the deadline — the deadline is met by dispatch, so it does not matter when we get round to reading it.

How it interacts with getting access immediately

Access begins as soon as your payment succeeds, because that is plainly what you are buying — you should not have to wait 14 days for a product you paid for today. At checkout you therefore expressly request that performance begins immediately, and you acknowledge that once the service has been fully supplied the right of withdrawal is lost.

We do not ask you to waive the right in exchange for immediate access. If you withdraw during the 14 days, you owe a proportionate amount for the period already supplied, and we refund the rest. On a CHF 4.90 monthly price that proportion is a few centimes per day, so in practice a withdrawal in the first two weeks returns most of what you paid. We refund using the same payment method you used, without a fee, without delay and at the latest within 14 days of receiving your notice.

The right of withdrawal applies to the conclusion of the contract, not to each automatic renewal. To stop future renewals, use section 7.

07Cancellation and what happens next

You can cancel at any time, without giving a reason, without a notice period and without a cancellation fee, through the billing portal reachable from the application.

Cancellation takes effect at the end of the period you have already paid for. You keep full access until then, and you are not billed again. We do not pro-rate or refund the remainder of a period you cancel in the middle of, except where you are exercising the right of withdrawal under section 6 or where the law requires it.

When the paid period ends, the application returns to the free tier. Your saved locations remain in your account. Cancelling a subscription does not delete your account — to do that, and to understand exactly what deletion does and does not remove, see the Privacy Policy, section 9.

08Acceptable use

You are responsible for what you do with a tool that changes the location your phone reports. You agree not to use GPSLarp:

to commit fraud, or to deceive anyone into a transaction or decision they would not otherwise make — including insurance, employment, benefits, or location-verified attendance;
to obtain a financial or contractual advantage you are not entitled to, such as evading geographic pricing or licensing restrictions;
to stalk, harass, impersonate, or endanger any person, or to interfere with emergency services;
in breach of the terms of another service. Many applications prohibit location spoofing and enforce their own penalties, up to permanent account loss — see section 9;
in breach of any law that applies to you;
to circumvent the licence, entitlement, or free-allowance checks, or to resell, sublicense, or redistribute the software;
to reverse-engineer the software, except to the extent that applicable law expressly permits it despite this restriction.

These are conditions of the licence in section 2. Breaking them ends your right to use the software.

09Warranties and what we do not promise

The software is provided as is. To the extent permitted by law, we exclude implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. Specifically, we do not promise:

that spoofing will go undetected. Whether another application notices depends entirely on that application, not on us. Some run their own detection and enforce their own rules regardless of method. We cannot and do not promise immunity from another company's ban policy, and losing an account elsewhere is not a defect in this product;
continued compatibility. The product depends on interfaces Apple provides and can change or remove in any iOS or macOS update, without notice to us;
uninterrupted availability. Sign-in, billing and the map, search and routing features depend on third-party services, some of them public and free, which can be slow or unavailable;
fitness for any safety-critical, navigational, medical, or legal purpose. Do not rely on this software for anything where being wrong matters.

Your statutory rights survive this section

If you are a consumer, nothing here removes the rights the law gives you. In the EU and EEA that includes the right to have digital content and services conform to the contract, and the remedies that follow when they do not (Directive (EU) 2019/770). Where a mandatory rule of your national law conflicts with anything in this section, that rule prevails and the rest of these terms stay in force.

10Liability

We are liable without limitation for damage caused intentionally or by gross negligence, for death or personal injury, and wherever mandatory law imposes liability that cannot be excluded.

Otherwise, and to the extent permitted by law, our liability for any claim arising out of this contract is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim. We are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, lost profits, lost data, or for the acts of third parties — including the consequences another service imposes on you for using this one. You remain responsible for your own use of the software under section 8.

11Suspension and termination

We may suspend or terminate your access if you materially breach these terms, in particular section 8, or where we are legally required to. Where the breach can be put right and the circumstances allow, we will tell you what is wrong and give you a reasonable opportunity to fix it before acting.

If we terminate a paid subscription for a reason that is not your breach, we refund the unused part of the period you paid for. If we terminate for your material breach, we do not.

You may terminate at any time under section 7.

12Changes to the service and these terms

We may change or discontinue features. Where a change materially reduces what you get from a paid subscription, we will tell you at least 30 days in advance, and you may cancel with effect from the date of the change and receive a refund of the unused part of your current period.

We may amend these terms for a valid reason — a change in the law, in the service, or in how it is provided. You will be notified at least 30 days before an amendment takes effect. If you do not accept it, you may cancel before it takes effect; continuing to use the service afterwards means you accept the new version. Changes to how we handle personal data are governed by the Privacy Policy, not by this section, and a change in what we collect requires fresh consent rather than notice.

13Governing law and jurisdiction

Swiss law applies, excluding its conflict-of-laws rules and the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. The place of jurisdiction is Zürich, Switzerland.

If you are a consumer, that clause does not take anything away from you

A choice of law cannot deprive a consumer of the protection of the mandatory provisions of the law of the country where they habitually reside. If you are a consumer resident in the EU or EEA, those provisions continue to apply to you, and you may bring proceedings in the courts of your own country of residence. We may bring proceedings against a consumer only in the courts of the country where that consumer is resident.

If a provision of these terms is or becomes invalid, the rest remains in force.

Contact

Questions about these terms, cancellation, or a withdrawal notice: privacy@gpslarp.com. Postal address is in the Impressum.