popup is an early map you are welcome to explore, free, with no account. Most of the popups on it are invented samples while it is being built — labelled as samples, and not worth going anywhere for. Use the map with your eyes and your attention on the real street you are on.
What this is
popup.app is operated by the maker of popup ("we", "us"). Using the site means accepting these terms. If you do not accept them, do not use it.
popup is under active development and offered as it is. Features appear and change, and it may be unavailable at any time without notice.
Samples and real popups
Most of the businesses standing in the world today are fictional, generated to show what the map is for. Their names, hours, offers, pictures, prices and positions are invented, and any resemblance to a real business is coincidental. They are labelled as samples on the map, in search and on their pages.
Real popups are businesses we have invited and checked. What they say about themselves — where they are, when they are open, what they offer — is theirs, not ours, and we do not warrant it. Nothing on this map is an offer from us, a recommendation, or a promise that anything is open.
If you have a popup
Businesses join by invitation or by asking us, and we check each one before it is listed. If you have a popup:
- What you register must be true and yours to use: a business you run, a name you have a right to, and your own email address.
- Pop up only where you are really standing and really open, and only somewhere you are allowed to trade. Pack up when you close.
- What you put on your page — words, links and pictures — must be yours to publish and not unlawful, misleading or someone else's. You keep it; you let us show it on popup.app and in the app for as long as it is up.
- Pictures are of what you sell, your stand and your work. No nudity or sexual content, violence or gore, hate, weapons, drugs, or anything else you may not sell where you trade. No one else's personal details, and no pictures of people who haven't agreed to be on your page.
- Every picture is checked automatically before it is shown, first in the app and then on our server. A picture the check won't take is not uploaded or kept. One it isn't sure about waits, seen only by you, until a person at popup has looked. Automatic checks make mistakes: if one refuses a picture that follows these terms, write to us.
- Anyone can report a page or a picture. We read every report by hand. We may take down a picture or part of a page that breaks these terms straight away, and we will email you to say what came down and why.
- Your account is the email address it was registered with: anyone who can open that inbox can sign in. Keep it to yourself, and use "Sign out everywhere" if a device is lost.
- Being listed is free. We may decline a request, and we may take a popup off the map or close an account that breaks these terms, puts anyone at risk, or that we have reason to think is not what it claims to be.
Featuring a pop up
- While you are out, you can pay to feature that pop up: your photo above your gem, a stone that can be seen from further away, and the first places in search nearby. It is always labelled Sponsored. The price is shown before you pay.
- You pay once for one pop up, and it lasts until you pack up, or until the night reaches its limit and we pack it up for you. It does not carry over to your next pop up, and you can't buy a position, a number of views or a result.
- Payment is taken by Stripe on its own page; we never see your card. You are featured only once Stripe confirms the payment.
- If your pop up is over before the payment is confirmed, we refund it in full, automatically. Once you have been featured, packing up early doesn't refund the rest of the night. If we take your popup off the map for breaking these terms, we don't refund the night it happened. If something on our side stops you being featured, write to us and we will refund it.
What we keep about your account, and how to have it deleted, is on the privacy page.
Use it safely
This is a first-person map that wants your eyes. Do not use popup while driving, cycling, or crossing a road. Do not follow it anywhere you would not otherwise go. You are responsible for your own safety and for obeying the law where you are, and the map is never a substitute for looking up.
What you may not do
- Break the law with it, or use it to harass, stalk or endanger anyone.
- Attack it: no attempts to break in, overload it, probe for holes beyond ordinary use, or get at data that is not yours. If you find a vulnerability, tell us — see below — and we will thank you for it.
- Scrape it wholesale, resell it, or strip out the map data's attribution.
- Impersonate a business, register a name you have no right to, or pop up somewhere you are not.
Map data
The map is built on OpenStreetMap data, which is licensed under the Open Database License and is © OpenStreetMap contributors; it is served through OpenFreeMap and OpenMapTiles, with terrain from AWS Open Data. Those licences travel with the data: if you use it, honour them. The attribution is in the app, under the info button.
Everything else — the design, the code, the name and the wordmark — is ours, and these terms do not give you a licence to it.
No warranty, and the limit of what we owe
popup is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose, merchantability, non-infringement, or that anything on it is accurate, current or uninterrupted. To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for any loss arising out of your use of the site; where liability cannot be excluded, it is limited to one hundred US dollars. Some jurisdictions do not allow these exclusions, in which case they apply to you only as far as the law permits.
Changes and ending
We may change these terms; the date at the top says when we last did, and continuing to use the site after that means accepting the change. We may suspend or stop the site, or anyone's access to it, at any time. You can stop using it at any time. Exploring needs nothing from you but closing the tab; if you have a popup, write to us and we will close your account.
Law
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, and the state and federal courts of California are where any dispute belongs.
Contact
hello@popup.app, or security@popup.app for a vulnerability.