DRAFT

Terms of Use

Keep your eyes on the road.

Last updated August 28, 2026

These are the terms you agree to when you use the DRAFT app or draftbiking.com. We have kept them short and readable, because terms nobody reads protect nobody. If you don't agree with them, don't use DRAFT.

• DRAFT records rides and shows a live map. That is all it is. It is not a navigation app, not a safety device, and not a medical device.
• You are responsible for riding safely — the road, the traffic and your own limits are yours to judge, never the app's.
• Be decent. The only thing you can type that another person reads is your name on a cheer. We have zero tolerance for abusing it.
• It's free, and it's best-effort. We can't promise the service is always up or always right, and nothing in it is worth taking a risk for.

Who you're agreeing with

DRAFT is made by Firm Air LLC ("we", "us"). These terms cover the DRAFT iPhone and Apple Watch app and the draftbiking.com website, including the pages your supporters use to watch you ride. "You" means whoever is using them.

How we handle your data is a separate document, and it is the one to read next: the Privacy Policy.

Safety comes first, and it is not close

DRAFT is used on a bike, in traffic. Please read this section even if you skip the rest.

• Don't ride and stare. Set the ride going, put the phone away, and ride. If you need to look at something, stop somewhere safe first.
• DRAFT is not navigation. It draws where you have been and, at an event, where the course goes. It will never tell you a turn is safe, that a road is open, or that a route is suitable for you. Follow the road, the signage and the marshals — not a line on a screen.
• Obey the law and ride within your ability. Traffic laws, helmet laws and event rules are yours to follow. DRAFT does not know about any of them.
• The live map is best-effort, and a supporter must never read it as a safety signal. A dot that stops moving almost always means a phone lost signal, ran out of battery, or went into a pocket the wrong way. It does not mean anything has happened to a rider, and the absence of a dot never means anything is wrong.
• DRAFT will not call anyone for you. Rides can be flagged afterwards for a jolt that looked like an incident, on your own report card. That is a note in your history, not an alert, not a notification to anybody, and not an emergency service. In an emergency, call your local emergency number.
• It is not a medical device. Heart rate comes from a consumer watch; power, grade, calories-adjacent numbers and effort are estimates from a model. Don't use any of it to make a medical or training-risk decision. Talk to a doctor about your heart, not to a bike app.

Using DRAFT

DRAFT is free. You don't need an account — the app works as a guest from the first ride, and signing in with Apple or Google is an optional way to carry your history to a new phone.

We give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use the app on devices you own or control, for your own riding. In return, please don't:

• copy, resell, rent or redistribute the app, or try to reverse-engineer it beyond what the law specifically allows;
• scrape, bulk-download, or hammer our backend, or try to enumerate riders, bibs, events or tracking links you weren't given;
• use somebody else's tracking link, view key, bib or team page without their say-so;
• use DRAFT to break the law, to follow a person who does not want to be followed, or to interfere with an event or its organisers.

DRAFT talks to our servers over the internet. Your carrier's data charges, your battery and your phone's own limits are between you and them.

Your rides, and who gets to see them

Your ride data is yours. We store it so we can show it back to you, and we don't sell it or advertise against it — the Privacy Policy has the detail.

Sharing is always something you do on purpose, and it works by handing someone a private link. That means the link is the permission: whoever holds it can see what it opens. Send them thoughtfully, the way you would a house key. If a link gets somewhere you didn't intend, you can regenerate your event view key in the app, which immediately stops the old one working.

Training rides have no live audience at all. At an event you pick who can follow you — private, your team, or publicly findable by name and bib — and you can tighten that whenever you like.

Cheers, and what we won't tolerate

At an event, someone already allowed to watch you can send a cheer: one of four fixed kinds, plus an optional short name for themselves. That name is the only text one person can put in front of another anywhere in DRAFT. It is capped at 20 characters and stripped of anything but ordinary name characters, and there is no free-form messaging in the app — no chat, no comments, no profiles, no photos.

We have zero tolerance for objectionable content and for abusive behaviour. Don't use the name field — or any other part of DRAFT — to harass, threaten, impersonate somebody, advertise, or send anything hateful, obscene or otherwise objectionable. There is no warning system and no strikes: we will remove the content and we may permanently bar the device or account behind it.

If it happens to you

• Stop it immediately yourself. On your event screen, turn Cheers off. It takes effect at once, it applies to everyone, and senders are not told — so there is no reaction for anyone to work against.
• Tell us: privacy@firmair.com. Include the event and roughly when it happened. We read these and we act on them — we can remove content and block the sender from the event.

Events

Events in DRAFT are set up by their organisers or by us on an organiser's behalf. Taking part in an event, being eligible for it, your bib and everything else about the ride itself is between you and that organiser — we are not the organiser, and being visible in DRAFT is not an entry, a registration or a permission to ride.

Course routes, distances and rest-stop positions come from the organiser's own files. They can be wrong or out of date. The road wins, every time.

DRAFT is not a timing system. There is no ranking, no placing and no corrected time, by design — this is built for participation rides. Nothing DRAFT shows should be used to settle a result.

Apple Health, watches and sensors

If you allow it, DRAFT writes your finished rides into Apple Health on your phone as cycling workouts. It writes only; it never reads your Health data back on the phone. You can withdraw that permission in the iOS Health app at any time.

On Apple Watch, DRAFT runs a workout session purely to read your live heart rate during a ride, and discards that session rather than saving it. The Watch app needs your paired iPhone and does nothing on its own.

Bluetooth cadence sensors are third-party hardware. Pairing, charging, mounting and calibrating them is between you and their maker, and DRAFT is fully usable without one.

What belongs to whom

The DRAFT app, the website, the name, the logo and everything we made stay ours. Your ride data stays yours; you give us only the permission we need to store it, process it, and show it to the people you have chosen to share it with.

The service can change, and can go down

DRAFT is a free service that we develop actively. Features can change or be removed, and the service can be interrupted for maintenance or by problems outside our control. We'll give notice where we reasonably can, particularly for anything that affects an event day. If we ever discontinue DRAFT, we will give you a way to get your ride data out first.

No warranty

DRAFT is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, 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 or the service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free, or that any measurement, position, estimate or arrival time it shows will be accurate.

Some places don't allow disclaimers like that one. Where that's true, it applies to you only as far as the law allows.

Limits on liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, Firm Air LLC will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, of profits, or of ride history, arising out of your use of DRAFT — and our total liability for any claim relating to DRAFT is limited to one hundred U.S. dollars (US $100).

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

You agree to indemnify Firm Air LLC against claims arising from your own misuse of DRAFT or your breach of these terms.

Ending it

You can stop using DRAFT whenever you like, and delete everything from Settings › Account › Delete account. We can suspend or end access for someone who abuses the service, breaks these terms, or puts other riders at risk.

If you got DRAFT from the App Store

Apple requires that a few things be said plainly when an app ships with its own terms, so:

• This agreement is between you and Firm Air LLC only — not Apple. Apple is not responsible for DRAFT or its content.
• Apple has no obligation to provide any maintenance or support for DRAFT. Support is ours: privacy@firmair.com.
• If DRAFT fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple and Apple will refund the purchase price — which for DRAFT is zero, as the app is free. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to DRAFT.
• We, not Apple, are responsible for addressing any claim relating to DRAFT, including product liability claims, any claim that it fails to conform to a legal requirement, claims under consumer protection or privacy law, and any third-party claim that it infringes intellectual property rights.
• You confirm that you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. Government embargo or designated as "terrorist supporting", and that you are not on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
• Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and, once you accept them, Apple has the right to enforce them against you.

Riders under 18

Younger riders take part in participation events too. If you're under 18, a parent or guardian should set DRAFT up, hold the account, and agree to these terms with you.

The legal fine print

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Ohio, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, and any dispute will be brought in the state or federal courts located in Franklin County, Ohio. If any part of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest stays in force.

If we change these terms, we'll update this page and the "last updated" date above, and call out anything meaningful in the app. Continuing to use DRAFT after a change means you accept the new version.

Contact

Questions, abuse reports, or anything else about these terms: privacy@firmair.com.

Firm Air LLC, Ohio, United States.