map.name

Terms

The agreement between you and us for using map.name. Written to be read, because terms nobody reads protect nobody.

map.name is operated by BNDDIGITAL LIMITED, Ground Floor, 71 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin, Ireland. These terms cover the map.name apps on iOS and Android and map.name on the web. By using map.name you accept them. Last updated 8 September 2026.

Your account

• You need to be at least 13 to have an account.
• You sign in with Google or Apple, so keeping that account secure keeps this one secure.
• Your handle is your address here. Some handles are reserved: names that clash with our own pages, names that could be mistaken for us, and other people's brands. If you hold a trademark and want the matching handle, write to us.
• We can reclaim a handle where we consider it necessary, and give you a different one. This is for cases like impersonation, a name that infringes someone's rights, a name that breaks these terms, a name reserved in error, or a legal requirement. Where we do it, we will tell you, we will give you a working handle, and your captures, your notes and your Rewinds are unaffected: only the address changes. Links to your old address stop resolving, so if you have published anything under it, tell people it has moved.
• One person, one account. Do not share your account with others.

Publishing

Everything is private until you publish it. When you publish, you decide block by block what becomes public, and you are responsible for what you put out under your name. Do not publish other people's work as your own, anything unlawful, or private information about someone who has not agreed to it.

Published pages are public web pages. Search engines and AI assistants can read them, and copies may persist beyond our control once they are out. Unpublishing removes a page from map.name and tells search engines it is gone, but we cannot recall a copy somebody already made.

Writing made with map.name

map.name drafts written pieces, called Rewinds, from your own captures. Two things follow from that, and both are deliberate.

• Your notes are never rewritten. Where a piece quotes something you wrote, it quotes it word for word, and a published version pins the exact wording it quoted.
• A public piece needs your voice in it. Publishing publicly requires you to write the opening, one connecting thought and the closing yourself. Private and link-only pieces require nothing. This is not us checking your work: it is what keeps a page published under your name genuinely yours.

Machine drafted text can be wrong. Read a piece before you publish it, because once it carries your name it is your writing.

Acceptable use

Do not use map.name to:

• break the law, or infringe somebody else's rights
• upload malware, or attack or probe the service
• scrape or bulk download other people's content, or run automated traffic beyond ordinary use
• impersonate anyone, or misrepresent your connection to them
• resell access, or use the service to build a competing dataset

We may throttle unusual load to keep the service working for everyone. Saving things is never blocked by this: heavy processing simply waits its turn.

Paid plans

• The core of map.name is free: capturing, organising, searching and reading are not paywalled.
• Alchemist is a paid plan billed through Stripe. Prices are shown before you pay, in your own currency where we can.
• You can cancel at any time and keep the plan until the end of the period you have paid for. We do not delete anything when a plan ends: your work stays yours and stays exportable.
• Statutory rights to a refund, including EU and UK withdrawal rights, apply and are not affected by anything here.

Reporting something

Every published page carries a way to report it. If something breaks these terms or your rights, tell us at admin@map.name and we will look at it. We can remove content and suspend accounts, and we will say what we did and why.

Ending it

You can delete your account at any time, and the delete your account page explains exactly what happens and when. We may suspend or close an account that seriously or repeatedly breaks these terms, and other than in clear cases of abuse we will tell you first and give you a chance to export your work.

What we do not promise

We work hard to keep map.name available and your data safe, and we take encrypted backups. We cannot promise the service will never be unavailable or that machine written text will always be right. map.name is provided as it is, and you should keep your own copy of anything you would be upset to lose. Exporting is free and takes one click, which is the honest way to make that promise keepable.

Nothing here limits liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud, or for anything else the law does not allow us to limit. Beyond that, our liability is limited to what you paid us in the twelve months before the problem arose.

The legal bits

These terms are governed by the laws of Ireland, and the Irish courts have jurisdiction. If you are a consumer elsewhere in the EU or UK, you keep the protections of your own country's law. If any part of these terms turns out to be unenforceable, the rest still stands.

If we change these terms in a way that affects you, we will say so in the app rather than quietly updating the date at the top of this page.