Terms
Pond Hopping · draft of 24 September 2026
This is a draft and has not been reviewed by a lawyer. It is here because an app that asks people to put their holidays into it ought to say plainly what it promises and what it does not. Treat it as a statement of intent until it carries a later date and this paragraph is gone.
Pond Hopping is made by Eend. It is free, it is in testing, and it is small enough that the person who wrote it reads the email. hello@eend.app
What this is
A personal travel log. You put trips, photographs, notes, flights and bookings into it and it keeps them, draws them on a map and — if you ask it to — writes them up. What the privacy page says about where that goes is part of these terms; where the two disagree, the privacy page is the one to believe, because it is the one kept in step with the code.
Your account
- Signing in is a code sent to your email address. There is no password to lose, and anybody who can read your email can get into your account — so the address you use is the security.
- One person, one account. Do not hand it to somebody else.
- You must be 13 or older.
- You can delete it at any time, and everything in it goes with it: how to delete your account.
What you put in stays yours
Your photographs, your words, your trips. Putting them into Pond Hopping does not give anybody else a claim on them. What is needed to run the app — holding a file, resizing it, showing it back to you, showing it to somebody you shared a trip with — is all that is taken, it lasts as long as you keep the thing, and it ends when you delete it.
Nothing you put in is used to advertise to you, sold, or handed to anybody for marketing. Nothing you put in is used to train anybody's model — the AI services named on the privacy page are sent your photographs and words in order to answer a question about them, and that is the whole of it.
What you put in must be yours to put in
- Do not upload things you have no right to upload.
- Do not put other people's private information into a trip you then share.
- Do not use it to harass anybody, or for anything unlawful.
- Do not attack the service, work around its limits, or hammer its APIs.
An account doing any of that can be suspended. Where there is a person to ask, they get asked first.
Sharing
A trip is private until you share it. When you share one — with a named person or with a link — you are responsible for what is in it, including anything about somebody else. A link can be revoked and stops working immediately; it cannot un-see what somebody already read.
What is written for you
The app can write up a trip, suggest places and read booking emails. All of that is done by a machine and it gets things wrong. A story may state something that did not happen, a suggested hotel may be shut, and an itinerary read out of an email may have the wrong time on it. Check anything that matters — a flight, a check-in, a booking reference — against the confirmation itself. What the app writes is not advice and is not a booking.
You can edit anything it writes. What you write yourself is never overwritten: earlier versions of your own words are kept so they can be put back.
What is promised
Honestly: not much, and it is better to say so. This is a free app in testing, run by one person. There is no uptime guarantee, features change, and a thing that worked last week may be different this week. It is provided as it is, without warranties.
What IS promised is the part that matters most: your data is not sold, not mined for advertising, and not kept after you delete it, and if that ever changes the privacy page changes with it and the app says so.
Keeping your own copy
Please do not let this be the only place your photographs exist. Backups are cycled and the service is young; a travel log is a lovely thing to have and a terrible thing to rely on.
Ending it
You can stop using Pond Hopping at any time and delete your account. It can be withdrawn too, or closed down — if that happens, there will be notice and a way to get your things out, not a page that stops resolving one morning.
Liability
To the extent the law allows, Eend is not liable for indirect or consequential loss arising from the use of Pond Hopping — a missed flight, a lost booking, a trip that went wrong. Nothing here limits liability for death, personal injury, or fraud, and nothing here takes away rights you have as a consumer that cannot be taken away.
Law
These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales.
Changes
If these change, the date at the top changes and the app says so.