Terms of Use

Effective date: 19 August 2026 · Applies to the Detour Android application and this website.

1. Acceptance of these terms

By downloading, installing or using Detour, you agree to these Terms of Use. If you do not agree, do not use the app. These terms are an agreement between you and Ran Werker ("we", "us"), the provider of Detour.

2. What Detour is

Detour is an Android app that lets you save places you come across, and shows you which of your saved places lie along a route you are about to take. It suggests matches for what you saved, calculates a route for planning purposes, and hands navigation over to a separate navigation app such as Google Maps or Waze.

Detour is not a navigation app, is not a real-time driving assistant, and does not give turn-by-turn directions.

3. Eligibility

You must be at least 13 years old to use Detour. If you use Detour while driving a vehicle, you must hold a valid licence to drive it. Detour is not intended for children.

4. Your responsibilities

• You are responsible for how and when you use Detour, and for using it safely and lawfully.
• You are responsible for the content you save — the names, notes and links you enter or share into the app.
• You are responsible for the device you use, its permissions, and any mobile data costs.
• You are responsible for keeping your own copies of anything you would not want to lose. Saved places live on your device; if you lose, wipe or replace the device, they may be gone.

5. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• use Detour for any unlawful purpose, or to record other people without the consent that the law where you are requires;
• attempt to interfere with, overload or gain unauthorised access to Detour's servers or the services it depends on, or to use its endpoints outside the app;
• reverse engineer, decompile or attempt to extract keys or credentials from the app, except to the extent this cannot be prohibited by law;
• resell, redistribute or commercially exploit the app or the data it produces without our permission;
• use Detour in a way that breaks the terms of the third-party services it uses, including Google Maps Platform, Waze and Google Play.

6. Safe use and driving

Detour is designed to be used before you drive — you save places while you are reading or watching something, and you choose your stops while parked. Interacting with a phone while driving is dangerous and is illegal in many places.

• Do not tap the floating button, review suggestions, edit a place or pick stops while your vehicle is moving.
• Always obey traffic laws, road signs and actual road conditions, even where they contradict anything Detour or your navigation app shows.
• Never divert your attention from the road to look at a suggestion. A saved place will still be there when you stop.

You alone are responsible for your driving and for the consequences of using a mobile device while driving.

7. Accuracy of information

Detour depends on speech recognition, automated place recognition and third-party map data. All of these get things wrong. A transcript may mishear a name, a suggestion may point to a different branch of the same chain, an address or a set of coordinates may be outdated, and a business may have moved or closed.

That is why Detour always shows you a confirmation card and never saves a place without your confirmation. Check the details before you rely on them. Routes, distances and travel times are estimates for planning, not guarantees, and Detour does not verify that any place is open, accessible, or suitable for you.

8. Third-party services

Detour relies on services operated by others — speech-to-text and language-model providers, Google Maps Platform for place and route data, a hosting provider for its backend, and the navigation app you choose to open. We do not control those services, and their availability, accuracy, pricing and terms can change or be withdrawn.

When Detour hands off to Google Maps or Waze, you leave Detour and that app's own terms and privacy policy apply. What data each provider receives is described in the Privacy Policy.

9. Intellectual property

Detour, its name, logo, design, and the software behind it are owned by Ran Werker and are protected by intellectual property law. These terms give you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the app on devices you control, for your own non-commercial use. They do not transfer any ownership to you.

Map data, place information and business details displayed through Detour belong to their respective providers and are subject to those providers' terms.

10. Your saved places

The places, names and notes you save are yours. They are stored on your device, and in the current version Detour does not upload them to us — we do not have them, do not review them, and claim no ownership of them. You are responsible for making sure that anything you save does not infringe someone else's rights.

11. Availability and changes to the app

Detour is provided as-is and as-available. We may change, suspend or discontinue any part of it — including features that depend on third-party services — with or without notice, and we may stop supporting older versions of the app or older versions of Android. We do not promise that the app will be available without interruption or free of errors.

12. Disclaimer of warranties

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Detour is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, or non-infringement. We do not warrant that the app will meet your requirements, that suggestions or routes will be accurate, or that defects will be corrected.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties, so parts of this section may not apply to you, and nothing here limits rights you have as a consumer that cannot be waived by agreement.

13. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost data, lost profits, lost time, missed opportunities, or the cost of substitute services, arising out of or connected with your use of Detour — including any inaccurate suggestion, route or place information, any unavailability of the app or of a third-party service, and any loss of places stored on your device.

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud.

Detour is free to use in the current version. Where the law permits a cap on our total liability, that cap is the total amount you have paid us for Detour in the twelve months before the claim.

14. Termination

You may stop using Detour at any time by uninstalling it, which removes its data from your device. We may suspend or end your access to Detour or to its backend services if you breach these terms or use the service in a way that harms it or its other users. Sections that by their nature should survive — intellectual property, disclaimers, limitation of liability and governing law — survive termination.

15. Governing law and jurisdiction

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Israel, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, and the competent courts of Tel Aviv-Yafo have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising from them.

If you are a consumer, this does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory consumer laws of the country where you live.

16. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms as Detour develops. When we do, we will change the effective date at the top of this page and publish the new version here. If a change is material, we will make that clear on this page. Continuing to use Detour after the change means you accept the updated terms.

17. Contact

See also the Privacy Policy.