Group ride terms

Vriscos GPS Tracker · last updated 11 Nov 2026 · version 2026-11-11

These terms apply to everyone who hosts or joins a group ride in the Vriscos app, together with our Privacy policy. By starting or joining a ride you accept them.

1. What a group ride is

A host plans a route (start, stops, end) and starts a ride with at least one of their own Vriscos GPS trackers. Friends join with the ride code and share their phone's location from the Vriscos app until the ride ends. Everyone on the ride sees everyone on one map.

2. Joining

• Sharing a location works only in the Vriscos app on a phone, not from a web link.
• Every rider gives their name and mobile number. The mobile number is verified by an OTP (one time per phone).
• Other riders and the host see your name, location and speed on the ride — never your mobile number.
• Family can follow a ride with the family watch link (map only, no speeds). They don't join and can't share.

3. The host's promise

• Everyone on the ride knows and agrees to share their location with this group.
• Group rides are not used to track staff, delivery riders, customers, renters or family members.
• The host rides with the group on the planned route.

4. During the ride

• Stay with the route. A rider more than 5 km from the route for 20 minutes stops sharing and is told why. They can rejoin once they are back within 5 km of the route.
• Stopping is fine. After 2 hours stopped, a rider is asked "Keep sharing?". No answer in 15 minutes stops their sharing.
• Breaks and SOS. "Take a break" (1 hour, once more for another hour) and an SOS pause these checks for that rider.
• Detours. If the whole group leaves the route with the host, nobody is removed; the host updates the route (up to 3 times a ride). Not updated within an hour, the ride pauses and locations are hidden.
• The host. If the host leaves the route alone or doesn't answer "Still riding?", the ride ends for everyone.
• The end. A ride ends at the end point, when the host ends it, or at twice the planned riding time.
• SOS alerts the people on the ride. It does not replace emergency services — in an emergency call 112.

5. Reports and holds

• A rider whose phone was added without asking can report it from the ride. Their sharing stops at once and that host can't add their phone again. A report made by mistake can be undone within 15 minutes.
• Vriscos checks rides for misuse (leaving the route alone, a rider never near the route, the same one phone again and again, reports). The host is warned after each event.
• Three events in 30 days, or two reports, put the host's group rides on hold until Vriscos support turns them back on. Riders are never told who reported.

6. What Vriscos keeps, and for how long

For the safety of riders and for legal requests, Vriscos keeps a record of every group ride for 60 days:

• the ride, its route and the host's name and mobile number;
• each rider's name and verified mobile number;
• when each rider joined and left, and why (left the route, no answer, report…);
• each rider's full location path during the ride;
• reports, warnings and holds.

Only the Vriscos admin team can open these records, and every time they do it is written in our audit log. We share them only with the police or other authorities on a valid legal request, or when needed to protect someone's safety. After 60 days they are deleted automatically.

The group video and group card are available to riders for 24 hours after the ride.

7. Your responsibility

• Ride safely and follow traffic law. Don't use the phone while riding.
• Vriscos shows locations as the phones and trackers report them. Signal, GPS and battery can delay or stop updates; Vriscos is not responsible for accidents, losses or decisions made from the map.
• Misuse of group rides can lead to group rides being stopped on the account and, where the law requires, to the records above being given to the authorities.

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