Terms of Use

The short version

Coast is a riding coach. It records a ride on your phone, scores how smoothly you rode, and shows you on a map where the rough moments were. These terms are the agreement between you and us about using it.

Two things matter more than anything else on this page, so they are not buried at the bottom.

The rest of this page covers what Coast does, what you are buying if you buy Coast Pro, and what we promise and deliberately do not. Using Coast means you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, delete the app. What deleting it does and does not remove is set out under Your rides and your data below, and in full in the privacy policy.

Who we are

Coast is published by Vibe6 Digital LLP, and these terms are an agreement between you and Vibe6 Digital LLP (“we”, “us”). You can reach us at the email address at the bottom of this page.

What Coast is, and what it is not

Coast records a ride you start yourself, using your phone's GPS and motion sensors, and turns it into a score out of 100. The score is based on the hard brakes and hard launches it picked up, how firmly you braked and pulled away the rest of the time, and how far you rode. Afterwards it draws your route with the rough moments pinned where they happened, and estimates how much further the energy you braked away could have carried you. You pick whether you are on a scooter or in a car, because the two brake and pull away very differently, and Coast asks you which at the start of every ride rather than trusting a setting.

A ride records from the moment you tap Start until you tap Stop, including while your phone is locked or you are using another app. On Android a notification stays in place while it records, if Coast's notifications are allowed; on iPhone the system shows its location indicator. That is how Coast 1.1 works; Coast 1.0 records a ride only while Coast is open and in front.

What the free app does. It records and scores every ride, keeps every ride on your phone, and draws the full route map for each ride, with the rough moments pinned on it. History lets you open the three most recent; older rides stay on your phone and open with Coast Pro.

What Coast Pro adds.

• The full history you already have.
• Trends built from it, and the coaching across rides that Trends leads to, once Trends is showing more rides than the free three. Below that neither is locked, because there would be nothing behind the lock.
• The full coaching on each ride: what cost you, what to change next time, how the ride compares with your earlier ones, and a breakdown screen with a speed graph you can explore. Without Pro you get the ride's own finding where there is one to give — how many rough moments it had and roughly what they cost you in range — and an invitation to unlock the rest. On a ride with no rough moments, or one too short or too patchy to score, there is no count to give and Coast says that instead.
• Replay, which plays a ride back along its route and shows where your speed went.

Nothing is deleted to make you buy — if you want older rides gone, Settings → Delete All Rides erases them whether or not History is showing them to you.

The purchase screen in the app shows the price and the period before you buy. If a later version of Coast changes what Coast Pro includes, the purchase screen in that version is the current list.

What Coast is not:

• Not a navigation app. It never tells you where to go.
• Not a speedometer you should rely on. The number comes from GPS.
• Not a dashcam, a crash detector, or an emergency service.
• Not something that records on its own. It never starts a ride by itself, and outside a ride you started it records nothing.
• Not a cloud service. There is no account and no server of ours, so there is nothing to log into and nothing to recover.
• Not a safety device. That one has its own section, and it is the next one.

Riding safely

If we had to delete everything else on this page, we would keep this.

Coast is a coaching aid, not a safety device

Coast cannot see other vehicles, pedestrians, potholes, weather, or traffic lights. It does not know where the road goes or what the speed limit is. It will never warn you about anything in front of you, because it cannot: everything it tells you is worked out afterwards, from readings your own phone took.

Do not ride as though something is watching the road for you. Nothing is.

Set the phone up before you move, then leave it alone

• Tap Start and answer which vehicle you are on before you set off, while you are stationary. When you arrive, come to a stop first and end the ride after.
• Once the ride has started, lock the phone. The ride keeps recording with the phone locked, in a mount or put away, until you tap Stop. You do not need Coast on screen, and nothing on it needs you while you are moving.
• Coast does not end a ride for you. There is no time limit and no automatic stop when you stand still. If you forget to tap Stop, the ride keeps recording, and using battery, until you do, and whatever you did after you arrived becomes part of it. End the ride once you have stopped.
• If Coast is shut down before you tap Stop — for example the phone closes it to free memory or save battery, or it is force-stopped — that ride is not saved to History.
• Recording uses battery. A ride uses GPS at its highest accuracy and the motion sensors the whole way, and on Android keeps the phone's processor awake while it records. Plan for that on a long ride.

Notifications during a ride

Coast pauses its own in-app messages while a ride records. A push notification can still arrive while the phone is locked mid-ride, and so can any other app's.

Ignore it until you have stopped. Nothing Coast sends needs an answer in the moment. Reaching for a mounted phone at speed to read a notification is exactly the risk this section exists to remove.

The live rough-moment count is not for reading in traffic

The ride screen shows a running count of rough moments. It is there for when you are stopped — at a light, at the end of the ride — not for glancing at while you ride. There is nothing it can tell you mid-journey that is worth a look away from the road.

If you catch yourself looking at it while moving, lock the phone. The ride keeps recording.

Never hold the phone in your hand while riding. On a two-wheeler that is one hand off the bars, and nothing on a screen is worth that.

If you use a mount, check that it holds before you go. A phone that works loose at speed is a hazard to you and to everyone behind you.

The road law is yours to follow, and Coast does not know it

You are responsible for riding legally. Coast has no knowledge of the rules where you are: it never displays a speed limit, never tells you one, and has no concept of licences, helmets, insurance, or who is allowed to ride what.

If the law where you ride says a phone may not be mounted, or may not be visible, or may not be running while you drive, then that law wins. Do not run Coast.

A score is never a reason to ride differently in traffic

Coast judges braking and acceleration against physics, not against the situation you were in. It cannot tell an emergency stop from an impatient one.

So if you have to brake hard, brake hard. Swerve. Do whatever the road needs. Coast will record it as a rough moment and your score will drop, and that is the correct outcome — take the points and stay upright. A ride you had to save is worth more than a hundred.

Do not ride to raise a score. Do not roll gently towards a hazard to protect an average. Do not treat anyone's score as something to beat on a public road.

Smoother is not the same as safer

Smooth riding is usually safer riding, which is most of the point of Coast. But smoothness is the only thing Coast measures. It knows nothing about your speed, your following distance, your lane position, or whether you were looking where you were going. A high score means you rode gently. It does not mean you rode well, and it is not permission to relax.

Scores are estimates, not measurements

Every number Coast shows you is worked out from a phone strapped to a moving vehicle. Treat it as a good indication, not as an instrument reading.

• Speed and distance come from GPS, which drifts under bridges, between buildings, and in bad weather. Coast is not a calibrated speedometer, and you should never use its speed to decide whether you are within a limit.
• Hard braking and hard launching are inferred from accelerometer and GPS readings crossing thresholds we chose. Where your phone sits, how rigid the mount is, the road surface, and the phone model itself all change what gets detected. Two phones on the same journey can score differently.
• The energy or fuel you wasted is a model's estimate, not a reading from your vehicle. Nothing in Coast is connected to the vehicle at all.
• Some rides cannot be scored, and Coast says so rather than guessing. A ride shorter than about 300 metres or a minute, or one where the tracking was too patchy to trust, shows a dash instead of a number. Trends need five scored rides before Coast will call a direction.

None of this is a measurement of you as a rider, and none of it is evidence. Do not use it as either.

Buying Coast Pro

Coast Pro is sold two ways: an annual subscription, which renews, and a one-time Lifetime purchase, which does not. The purchase screen shows the price, the period, and whether it renews, in your own currency, before you buy. That screen is the offer, and it is where the definitive list of plans lives. These terms do not override it.

Payment goes to the store, never to us. On Android the purchase is handled by Google Play; on iPhone, by Apple. Your card and billing details go to them under their own terms, and Coast never sees or handles them.

Subscriptions renew automatically until you cancel, at the price and period shown when you bought. A one-time purchase does not renew and is not charged again. If an offer includes a free trial or an introductory price, its length and what it becomes are shown on that same purchase screen; unless you cancel before it ends, it converts to the full price and renews from there.

Cancelling happens in your store account, not in Coast. We cannot cancel a subscription for you and the app has no button that can. What it has, once you have bought, is a Manage in Google Play or Manage in the App Store link in Settings, which opens the store's own subscription page and does nothing more. On Android, cancel under Google Play → Subscriptions; on iPhone, under your Apple ID subscription settings. Cancelling stops the next renewal; whether Coast Pro keeps working until the end of the period you already paid for is the store's rule, not ours.

Deleting the app does not cancel a subscription. If you uninstall Coast and do nothing else, the store keeps charging you. Cancel first, then delete.

Refunds are the store's to give, under Google's or Apple's policy, not ours. If you think you were charged wrongly, ask them first. You are welcome to write to us as well and we will help where we can, but we cannot issue a refund ourselves.

Restoring a purchase. Coast Pro follows the store account you bought it with, not the phone. Reinstalling or moving to a new phone on the same account, then tapping Restore Purchase in Settings, brings it back. That needs an internet connection so the store can be asked. The button is hidden once Coast Pro is active, because there is nothing left to restore.

Codes. On iPhone, Redeem a code on the purchase screen opens Apple's own code sheet; a code redeemed there is an App Store offer, handled by Apple under Apple's terms. On Android, we sometimes hand out a code that unlocks Coast Pro without a purchase — for judges, testers, and reviewers. It is entered under Have a code? on the purchase screen, and Coast simply remembers on that phone that it was accepted. Such a code unlocks the app on that Android device only, does nothing on iPhone, is not a purchase, and can stop working in a later version.

Your rides and your data

Your rides are yours. We make no claim on them, and we could not: they are recorded on your phone, stored in the app's own private storage, and never uploaded to us. There is no Coast account and no server of ours holding a copy.

To delete a single ride, open it from History and tap Delete this ride, then confirm — deletion lives on the ride's own screen, not as a swipe in the list, so that it is a decision rather than a slip. To erase everything at once, use Settings → Delete All Rides, which reaches rides History is not showing you, so it is the one to use on the free tier.

Deleting Coast removes the app's storage and the rides in it. Two things about that differ on iPhone, and the privacy policy sets them out in full: Apple's Offload App deliberately keeps an app's data, so it does not delete your rides; and if your rides were part of an iCloud or computer backup, restoring that backup can bring them back. Deleting rides inside Coast removes them from the phone, but it cannot reach into a backup that has already been made — that is managed in your Apple account's backup settings. On Android, Coast switches automatic backup off, so there is no copy of your rides off the phone to come back.

What we cannot do is recover anything for you. Nothing is on a server of ours, so if you lose the phone or wipe it, we have nothing to restore from. Export anything you want to keep first — Settings → Your data → Export My Ride Data hands your raw ride files to your phone's share sheet. Anything you share that way is in the hands of wherever you send it.

What the app does send, and to whom, is set out in full in the privacy policy.

Using Coast properly

• Ride legally. Do not use Coast in any way that breaks the law where you are, or that encourages anyone else to.
• Coast is licensed to you personally. You may use it on devices you own or control, under the rules your store account carries. You may not sell it, rent it out, or pass it on apart from that account.
• Do not use Coast to judge anybody else. It is built to show one rider their own riding. It is not built to monitor, rate, discipline, or price anyone — not employees, not learner drivers, not family, not for insurance. It is not accurate enough for that, and it was never designed for it.
• Do not record someone else's ride without telling them.
• Do not try to unlock Coast Pro without paying for it, fake a purchase, or defeat the paywall. A code we gave you, or an offer code redeemed through Apple, is fine; that is us unlocking it.
• Do not decompile, tamper with, or repackage the app, except where the law where you live expressly allows it.
• Coast's code, design, and name are ours. Map data is © OpenStreetMap contributors; the map's tiles come from OpenFreeMap, in the OpenMapTiles schema, and its style is adapted from CARTO's; the fallback map's tiles are © CARTO or © Esri. Coast uses the Inter, Space Grotesk and Space Mono typefaces under the SIL Open Font License.

What we do not promise

Coast is a small app made by a very small team, and we would rather say this plainly than let you find it out:

• No uptime and no support guarantee. We read the email address at the bottom of this page and we do reply, but we cannot promise a reply within any particular time, or a fix for any particular problem.
• The map depends on others. Map data comes from OpenFreeMap's servers, and the fallback map's from CARTO's or Esri's. If those services change or go away, the map can stop drawing, and we do not control them. A map with no signal is not guaranteed either: Coast can draw only what it still has stored, and what it stores is limited in size (and, for the fallback map, in age).
• Recording depends on your phone. Coast asks the system to keep a ride you started recording with the phone locked, but the system, a battery saver, or the phone maker's own power management can still stop it, and we cannot prevent that.
• Purchase status depends on the store being reachable. Coast will not revoke Coast Pro because one network call failed, but a fresh install with no connection may not see your purchase until it can check.
• Features can change. We may add, change, or remove parts of Coast, including parts of Coast Pro, in later versions. If we ever remove something you paid for and you are unhappy about it, tell us, and take a refund up with your store.
• Coast is provided as it is, with whatever faults it has. We do not warrant that it is free of bugs, that it will run on every phone, or that any score it produces is correct.

Ending this

You can end it at any time. Stop using Coast, or delete it. If you have a subscription, cancel it in your store account first — deleting the app does not stop the billing.

We may stop. We may stop distributing Coast, stop supporting a version of it, or stop the app altogether. If we do, a copy already installed on your phone keeps working as it is for as long as your phone and the stores let it, and your rides stay on your phone; anything to do with money you already paid remains the store's to decide, under its refund policy.

We may end your licence if you break the rules under Using Coast properly — for example by tampering with the app or faking a purchase. Ending your licence does not touch the rides on your phone; those are yours, and you can delete or export them as set out above.

The parts of these terms that are meant to outlive the agreement — what we do not promise, Where you stand legally, and the sections about your data — carry on applying after it ends.

Where you stand legally

These terms are between you and Vibe6 Digital LLP. They are not an agreement with Apple or with Google. The store you installed from handles payment, billing, and refunds; support for the app itself is us, at the address below, and not the store.

To the fullest extent the law where you live allows, we are not liable for loss or damage arising out of your use of Coast — including collisions, injury, fines, damage to a vehicle or a phone, ride data you lose, or decisions you made because of something a score told you. Where we are liable, our total liability will not exceed the total amount you have ever paid for Coast Pro. Payment goes to the store rather than to us, as set out above, so that amount is whatever the store charged you for it; and if you have never bought Coast Pro, it is nothing.

Which law applies. Coast is published from India, and these terms are governed by the law of India. If you are a consumer, that does not take away the protection of the consumer law of the country you live in, and it does not stop you bringing a claim in the courts there.

None of that takes away rights you have and cannot give up. Consumer law in many countries gives you protections that a document like this cannot remove, and nothing here excludes our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or for fraud. Where something in these terms conflicts with a right you cannot waive, that right wins and the rest of these terms still stands.

For the iPhone version

Coast on iPhone is licensed under Apple's standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement. The following applies in addition to it and to everything above.

Licence, not sale. Coast is licensed to you, not sold. The licence covers Apple-branded devices you own or control, and is subject to the App Store Usage Rules in Apple's Media Services Terms and Conditions.

Apple provides no support. Apple has no obligation whatsoever to provide any maintenance or support for Coast. If you need help, write to us at the address below.

Warranty, and what Apple's part in it is. If Coast fails to conform to any warranty that applies to it, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund what you paid for it. To the maximum extent permitted by law, that is Apple's entire warranty obligation for Coast. Any other claim, loss, liability, damage, cost or expense arising from a failure to conform to a warranty is ours to answer, not Apple's.

Claims about the app are ours, not Apple's. Apple is not responsible for addressing any claim you or a third party has relating to Coast or to your possession or use of it — including product liability claims, any claim that Coast fails to meet a legal or regulatory requirement, and claims under consumer protection, privacy or similar law. Apple is likewise not responsible for investigating, defending, settling or discharging any claim that Coast infringes someone else's intellectual property.

Where you are. Apple requires every app to ask this, so: by using Coast you confirm that you are not in a country the U.S. government has placed under embargo or named as supporting terrorism, and that you are not on any U.S. government list of prohibited or restricted parties.

Apple can enforce this. Apple and Apple's subsidiaries are third party beneficiaries of these terms for the iPhone version, and on your acceptance of them Apple has the right to enforce them against you.

Age

You must be at least 13 to use Coast; if you are under 13, do not use it. Where the law where you live sets a higher age, such as 16, for agreeing to terms like these on your own, use Coast below that age only with a parent or guardian who agrees to these terms for you.

You must also be old enough to hold the store account you buy through, and old enough — and licensed, where a licence is required — to legally ride or drive whatever you are recording. Coast does not check any of this and cannot: it has no idea who is holding the phone.

Coast is not directed at children.

Changes to these terms

If Coast changes in a way that makes something here untrue, these terms will be updated and the “Last updated” date at the top will change. Material changes will be noted in the app release notes. Continuing to use Coast after an update means you accept the revised terms.

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