Last updated: 9 March 2026
These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern the use of the online services offered under the PhotoRadar brand via the website photoradar.io and related pages, tools, maps, dashboards, payment flows and support channels (collectively, the "Service").
Provider:
Tim Geithner
Sole proprietorship
Scheuerfelder Strasse 33
96450 Coburg
Germany
E-mail: photoradar@email.de
Phone: +49 179 1044546
These Terms apply to free users, registered users, paying customers, and business users, unless a separate written agreement (for example an enterprise or API agreement) expressly overrides them. In the event of a conflict, that separate written agreement prevails.
PhotoRadar is no longer limited to a single image geolocation feature. Depending on availability, your plan, your region and the current product setup, the Service may include in particular:
Some features run entirely in your browser. Other features require uploads or requests to our servers or to third-party providers. Some features may be marked as beta, experimental, preview, premium, limited or enterprise-only. We may add, modify, suspend or discontinue features at any time in accordance with section 11.
You may use the Service only if you have the legal capacity to enter into binding agreements or, where permitted by applicable law, if you use the Service with the consent of a parent or legal guardian.
Certain features require a user account. You must provide accurate and complete information, keep your login credentials confidential, and promptly notify us of any suspected unauthorized access or misuse of your account.
You are responsible for activities carried out through your account unless you prove that you were not responsible for the misuse. You may not share access credentials, circumvent access restrictions, or create accounts in a misleading or fraudulent manner.
We may offer parts of the Service free of charge, including limited analyses, limited tool uses, limited file sizes, restricted result views, or other test or trial access. Free access may be limited by account status, usage history, tool type, time window, technical controls or abuse-prevention measures.
Paid plans may unlock additional or unlimited tool access, higher monthly quotas, additional analysis modes, export functionality, larger uploads, premium world/map features, support benefits or other premium entitlements. The exact feature set, price, billing interval and any plan-specific restrictions are determined by the pricing information and checkout flow shown at the time of purchase.
We may also offer one-time Top-Up packages for additional AI location-search credits. Unless expressly stated otherwise at the time of purchase, Top-Up credits are non-recurring, are added to the relevant account after successful payment, and expire 12 months after purchase if unused. Top-Up credits do not by themselves create a subscription and do not automatically renew.
Usage limits, feature gates, rate limits, file-size caps, mode access, batch access, export access and similar entitlements may be technically enforced. We may refuse or delay access where limits are reached, payment is overdue, abuse is detected, or technical safeguards are triggered.
Free use does not require the conclusion of a paid contract. A paid contract is concluded when you submit a binding order via the checkout flow (for example by clicking a button such as "buy", "subscribe", "upgrade" or similar) and we accept that order, for example by displaying a confirmation page, sending an order confirmation, or activating the purchased entitlement.
Payments are processed via Stripe or another payment provider designated in the checkout flow. Additional terms and privacy notices of the payment provider may apply to payment processing.
Subscription plans renew automatically for successive billing periods unless cancelled before renewal. Unless otherwise stated in the checkout flow, cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. You may typically manage subscription changes through your account area, the billing portal, or by contacting us.
Plan upgrades, downgrades, billing changes, plan migration timing and proration may depend on the payment-provider setup, the plan selected and the current checkout or billing-portal logic. The version shown to you at the time of the change request is controlling for that change.
All prices, currencies, taxes and billing intervals are those displayed at the time of purchase. If taxes are required by law, they will be charged as indicated during checkout.
Unless mandatory law requires otherwise, fees already paid are generally non-refundable once the relevant digital service has begun to be performed.
However, we may from time to time advertise or grant additional voluntary refund or money-back policies. If such an offer is expressly presented on the pricing page, in the checkout flow, in a separate policy, or in an individual communication, that voluntary offer applies in accordance with its stated conditions and in addition to your mandatory legal rights.
Unless expressly stated otherwise in such an offer, voluntary refund policies do not automatically apply to renewed billing periods, enterprise/custom arrangements, abuse cases, or fully consumed one-time top-up packages.
If you are a consumer, you may have a statutory right of withdrawal for paid digital services or digital content under applicable law.
Where legally permitted, we may begin providing the Service immediately after purchase if you expressly request immediate performance and acknowledge that your withdrawal right may expire or be reduced once performance has begun or has been fully completed, depending on the applicable legal rules for the purchased service.
Any legally required withdrawal instructions and model withdrawal information are provided separately during checkout, in the order confirmation and/or in a separate withdrawal notice.
You may use the Service only for lawful purposes and only in a way that respects the rights, safety and legitimate interests of others.
In particular, you must not:
We may investigate suspected misuse and take proportionate protective action, including blocking requests, limiting features, suspending accounts, cancelling paid access for cause, preserving logs, or reporting unlawful activity where required or permitted by law.
You retain any rights you have in the images, screenshots, text, metadata, prompts, exports and other content that you upload or submit to the Service ("User Content").
You grant us, for the duration necessary to provide the Service and operate the platform, a non-exclusive, worldwide, non-transferable, royalty-free right to host, store, reproduce, process, modify for technical purposes, transmit and display User Content to the extent necessary to:
You represent and warrant that you are authorized to use the User Content, that your use of the Service is lawful, and that the User Content does not infringe copyright, trademark, database rights, trade secrets, personality rights, privacy rights, data-protection law or other third-party rights.
Unless we expressly state otherwise in a separate notice and obtain any required consent, we do not use your uploads to train our own or third-party generative AI models.
Some features of the Service run locally on your device inside your browser. Other features require server-side processing or the involvement of third-party providers. Depending on the feature used, your data may be processed through providers such as Supabase, Stripe, Mapbox, Google services, OpenAI services, Gemini/Google AI services, webcam or traffic-camera data providers, weather providers, geocoding providers or similar technical partners.
We may route processing through third-party APIs, infrastructure providers or data sources where necessary to provide the requested function. We may also replace, add or remove subprocessors or technical providers if reasonably necessary to operate, secure or improve the Service.
Some browser-based tools may depend on specific browser capabilities, local memory, Canvas APIs, file APIs or device performance. We do not guarantee that every feature will work on every device, operating system or browser combination.
The Service may generate location candidates, confidence scores, metadata insights, reverse-image results, labels, extracted text, web entities, summaries, exports, map overlays, camera listings and similar outputs.
All such outputs are provided on an as is and as available basis and are often probabilistic, heuristic, estimated, incomplete, delayed or dependent on third-party data. In particular:
You must independently review outputs before relying on them. The Service is not legal advice, safety advice, emergency guidance, compliance advice, investigative authority, or a guaranteed evidence tool. It must not be used as the sole basis for decisions that may materially affect legal rights, safety, law enforcement, immigration, employment, reputation or personal freedom.
We strive to keep the Service available and secure, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted availability, error-free operation, or a particular response time.
Maintenance, updates, outages, API failures, third-party service interruptions, browser limitations, storage errors, network issues or abuse-protection mechanisms may temporarily restrict or interrupt the Service.
We may define and change fair-use rules, quotas, file-size limits, supported formats, storage limits, request limits, anti-abuse measures and technical restrictions where reasonably necessary for security, performance, fairness, legal compliance or product development.
We may change, improve, replace or discontinue features for the future. If a change materially and adversely affects an active paid subscription, we will provide appropriate advance notice where reasonably possible and, if legally required, a right to cancel before the change takes effect.
Where available, we may provide access to analysis history, invoices, messages, export functions or similar account data. Export formats, export scope and historical retention may depend on your plan, technical limits and the specific feature.
You are responsible for reviewing and lawfully using any exported files, including CSV, JSON, GeoJSON, image exports, derived metadata and similar output. You must ensure that any downstream use complies with applicable law and third-party rights.
Where self-service deletion functionality is available, you may delete certain account data yourself. We may also delete or anonymize data where no longer needed, where storage periods expire, where accounts are deleted, or where required for technical cleanup or legal compliance. Statutory retention obligations remain unaffected.
The Service, including its software, interface, layout, databases, selection and arrangement of content, branding, trademarks, logos, documentation and non-user-generated outputs, is protected by intellectual-property laws.
Except to the extent expressly permitted by us or by mandatory law, you may not copy, sell, rent, license, publish, publicly display, reverse engineer, extract substantial parts of databases, or otherwise commercially exploit the Service or its components.
You may stop using the Service at any time. You may cancel paid subscriptions in accordance with section 5.
We may suspend or terminate free or paid access, in whole or in part, if there is a valid reason, including material breach of these Terms, non-payment, fraud suspicion, unlawful conduct, security risk, abusive usage, repeated infringement complaints, or technical necessity.
Where appropriate, we may first limit or suspend access instead of terminating it immediately. Termination for cause does not affect claims already accrued. Upon termination, your right to use the affected Service ends. Access to history, exports, paid features or stored items may also end, subject to legal retention obligations.
We are liable without limitation for damage caused by intent or gross negligence, for injury to life, body or health, and under the German Product Liability Act where applicable.
In cases of simple negligence, we are liable only for the breach of an essential contractual obligation (cardinal duty), and in that case only for the foreseeable damage typical for the contract.
To the extent permitted by law and subject to the mandatory liability rules above, we are not liable for in particular:
Any further liability is excluded to the extent permitted by law.
Information on the processing of personal data, cookies, storage periods, recipients and your rights is set out in our Privacy Policy. The Privacy Policy is not part of these Terms as contractual content, but it accompanies the use of the Service.
We are neither obliged nor willing to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board.
These Terms and any contractual relationship between you and us are governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG).
If you are a consumer, this choice of law applies only insofar as it does not deprive you of the protection afforded by mandatory provisions of the law of the country in which you have your habitual residence.
If you are a merchant, a legal entity under public law or a special fund under public law, the exclusive place of jurisdiction for disputes arising out of or in connection with the contractual relationship is our registered seat, provided mandatory law does not provide otherwise.
The contract language is English. If translations of these Terms are provided, the English version prevails in the event of inconsistencies, to the extent legally permissible.
If any provision of these Terms is or becomes invalid or unenforceable, the validity of the remaining provisions remains unaffected. In place of the invalid or unenforceable provision, the applicable statutory provision shall apply.