These terms cover your use of Tracks. By creating an account you agree to them. They are short on purpose.
Your account
You need an account to use Tracks, you must be at least 13 years old to create one, and you are responsible for what happens under it. Give accurate information when you sign up, and keep your sign-in details to yourself.
What you post
The things other riders can see — your display name, your username and your profile — are yours to choose, within these limits. You agree not to use:
- language that is obscene, hateful, harassing, threatening or sexually explicit;
- a name that impersonates another person, a company, or the MTA;
- anything that promotes illegal activity or infringes someone else’s rights.
Tracks checks names for offensive language when you choose them. That check is not perfect, which is what reporting is for. We may remove or change a name that breaks these rules, and may suspend or delete the account behind it.
Reporting and blocking
Every rider’s profile has Report and Block. Reporting sends us the reason and anything you add; you can block the rider at the same time. You can also report by email to trackssubwayapp@gmail.com — include the username so it can be found. Reports are reviewed and acted on within 24 hours.
Blocking a rider removes them from everywhere you see in Tracks, along with their friend requests, and unfriends you if you were friends. They are not told. You can unblock them any time in Settings › Blocked riders.
Using the app fairly
You agree not to:
- falsify rides, spoof your location, or otherwise manipulate the leaderboards;
- use a modified client, scrape other riders’ data, or attempt to access accounts that are not yours;
- interfere with the service or the servers behind it.
What Tracks is not
Tracks is a game about riding the subway. It is not a navigation or trip-planning tool, it has no live service information, and it should not be relied on to catch a train, to know whether a line is running, or to find your way anywhere. Use the MTA’s own information for that.
Route detection is a best guess made from GPS, and it will sometimes be wrong. That is a known and accepted property of the app, not a defect.
Availability
Tracks is provided as-is, with no warranty. It is an independent project and may change, break, or stop being available. To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for any loss arising from your use of it.
Ending things
You can delete your account at any time from Settings › Delete my account. We may suspend or terminate an account that breaks these terms.
Changes
These terms may change. The date at the top will change with them, and continuing to use Tracks after that means you accept the new version.