Terms of use

These terms cover the RidePulse app on Android and iPhone, made and operated by Bitfuzed (PVT) LTD (“BitFuzed”, “we”). By using RidePulse you agree to them; if you don’t, please don’t use the app. If you got RidePulse from the App Store, Apple’s Licensed Application End User License Agreement also applies. How we handle information is in our privacy policy.

1. A screening tool, not a diagnosis

• RidePulse measures vibration with your phone’s sensors and compares it with patterns that often go with common problems. Its findings are possibilities, each with a confidence, and its suggested next steps are things to have checked. It doesn’t inspect your car, and it can miss a fault or report one that isn’t there.
• A good score doesn’t mean a car is safe, roadworthy or free of faults. Don’t rely on RidePulse to decide whether a car is safe to drive.
• Comparisons with other cars are statistics from other users’ measurements, which vary with their phones, placement and roads. Treat them as a rough guide.
• If you’re buying a car, a RidePulse pre-purchase check is a starting point, not a substitute for an inspection by a qualified mechanic.

2. Safety comes first

• The driver must never use the phone while driving. The steady-speed, braking and pre-purchase tests and the comfort drive are meant to be run by a passenger, while the driver only drives.
• Obey all traffic laws and speed limits. Test only on safe, legal roads, in conditions that allow it. RidePulse never asks you to drive faster than the limit; skip any speed band that isn’t legal or safe where you are.
• Brake only when it’s safe, and never brake hard with traffic behind you.
• Put the phone where it can’t slide or fly around (flat on a seat or in a non-slip pad on the console), never where it blocks the driver’s view, controls or airbags.
• Do the idle test parked, with the parking brake on, outdoors or in a well-ventilated place. Never run an engine in a closed garage.
• Automatic drive recording needs no attention while you drive. Leave the phone alone until you’ve stopped.
• The driver is responsible for the car and how it’s driven at all times.

3. Who can use RidePulse

You need to be at least 13, and old enough where you live to agree to these terms, or have a parent or guardian agree for you.

4. Your account

• You can use RidePulse as a guest, or sign in with Google, Apple, or an email address and password. Keep your sign-in details to yourself; you’re responsible for what’s done with your account.
• As a guest your data is only on your phone; if you lose the phone or uninstall the app, it’s gone. Sign in to keep a backup.
• You can delete your account at any time (see how).

5. RidePulse Pro and the pre-purchase report

• Free: the idle test, the comfort drive, scores and spectrum, comparisons, and your last 5 runs in history. Older runs are kept and come back with Pro.
• RidePulse Pro adds the steady-speed and braking tests with findings, the pre-purchase check, full history, change alerts and before-and-after comparisons. It’s a subscription, monthly or yearly, sold and billed by Google Play or the App Store. Prices are shown in the app before you buy and vary by country.
• If a free trial is offered, the app shows its length and the price that follows before you start, as the store reports them. Unless you cancel before the trial ends, the store charges that price.
• Payment is charged to your Google Play or App Store account when you confirm the purchase, or when a trial ends. A subscription renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; your account is charged for the renewal within 24 hours before it ends.
• Manage or cancel it in your store account: on Android, Google Play → Payments & subscriptions; on iPhone, Settings → your name → Subscriptions. Deleting the app or your account doesn’t cancel it.
• A pre-purchase report is a single purchase, not a subscription: each one covers one pre-purchase check and its PDF report.
• You don’t need an account to buy. Restore Purchases works with the store account you paid with. A purchase made while signed in also works on your other phones signed in to the same account; signing out removes that from the phone.
• Refunds are handled by the store you bought from, under its refund policy.

6. Reports you share

A RidePulse report describes one test of one car at one moment, with the limits in section 1. If you share it, for example with someone buying or selling a car, share it as it is: don’t change it or present it as a professional inspection.

7. Data you share with the community

If you choose a sharing level that contributes data (see the privacy policy), you let us use that data to build anonymous statistics, such as comparisons and the road quality map, and to improve RidePulse. Statistics already made from it stay after you lower your level or delete your account, because they can’t be traced back to you.

8. Fair use

Don’t upload made-up or manipulated measurements, use scripts or modified apps to send data, try to break into or overload our servers, or use RidePulse to harm anyone. We may refuse uploads, remove shared data or suspend accounts that do. If you find a bug, please tell us.

9. Our content

The app, Dash, the voice prompts, the analysis and the statistics belong to us or our licensors. You may use them only to use RidePulse. Your own notes and measurements remain yours; you let us store and process them to run the app for you.

10. Changes and availability

We keep improving RidePulse and may change, add or remove features, with notice in the app for anything that changes what Pro includes. Comparisons appear only once enough cars of a model have been measured, and the service may be unavailable at times for maintenance.

11. Liability

RidePulse is provided “as is”. We work hard to make its measurements careful and its wording honest, but we can’t promise it will be error-free or that it will find every fault. To the extent the law allows, we aren’t liable for indirect or consequential losses, including repair costs, the price you pay for a car, or the results of how a car is driven while testing, and our total liability is limited to what you paid us for RidePulse in the previous twelve months. Nothing here limits rights you have under consumer law that can’t be limited.

12. Changes to these terms

If these terms change, we’ll update the date above and, for significant changes, tell you in the app before they take effect. Using RidePulse after that means you accept the new terms.

13. Contact

Bitfuzed (PVT) LTD · contact@bitfuzed.com