This is an English translation for convenience. The Czech version is binding.

Terms of Use

DRIVE&JOY mobile application (iOS and Android) and the driveandjoy.cz website

Effective from: 11 November 2026 · Version 1.22

These Terms explain how DRIVE&JOY works, what we expect from you and what you can expect from us. By using the app or the website you agree to them. If there is anything you do not agree with, do not use the service.

They are written so that a driver can understand them, not just a lawyer. Where laws are mentioned, it is because they really do apply.

1. Who operates the service

Below, we refer to ourselves as “we” or DRIVE&JOY, and to you as “you” or “member”.

2. What DRIVE&JOY is — and what it is not

DRIVE&JOY is a community platform for car enthusiasts. It brings members together around events, routes, garages, drive telemetry and shared communication.

What we do:

• we operate the app and the website and give you space for your content,
• we organise or co-organise our own events and sell admission to them,
• we act as an intermediary for content that other members add to the platform.

What we do not do:

• we do not sell vehicles or broker them as a dealer. The “For sale” section is a member-to-member classifieds area — the rules are in the separate document Listing Rules; the sale of parts on a club wall is an agreement between club members (Article 10),
• we do not verify the technical condition, origin or ownership of vehicles discussed on the platform,
• we are not a party to any agreement made between two members,
• we do not provide driver training, advice or any guarantee of the safety of your driving.

Driving is always your responsibility. Features such as drive recording, lap times, guidance or leaderboards are for enjoyment and analysis — they are not an incentive to break the road traffic rules. On public roads, Act No. 361/2000 Coll. applies, not our statistics.

JOY Roads routes are a suggestion, not a guarantee. We verify the description, surface, closures and winter maintenance of roads from public sources and from OpenStreetMap data, but conditions change. Before you drive, review the route and follow the road signs.

3. Who can use the service

• An account may be created by a person aged 18 years or over; you confirm this when you register. Artificial intelligence features are available only from the age of 18 (section 11).
• Anything that is a contract — booking an event, a subscription, submitting a listing — may be entered into only by a person with full legal capacity. A younger member needs the consent of a legal representative for this.
• One person = one account. Your account is personal and may not be lent or sold.
• A person whose account we have previously closed for breaching these Terms may not create an account.

4. Registration, account and security

Registration is free. When you register, you enter an e-mail address and a password, or you use Sign in with Apple (on iPhone) or with Google.

• Give truthful details in your profile. Your display name does not have to be the name on your identity card, but it must not impersonate anyone else. Names reserved for the team or administrators (DRIVE&JOY, team, admin, moderator, support) cannot be set.
• You are responsible for access to your account. Do not share your password with anyone.
• If you suspect that someone has gained access to your account, let us know at info@driveandjoy.cz.

How we handle your data is described in the Privacy Policy.

5. Membership and levels

DRIVE&JOY has three membership levels:

The scope of each level may change over time as the app develops. We do not make substantial cuts to a period you have already paid for without compensating you.

Ride with your crew without JOY+: without a JOY+ membership you can post one drive per calendar month via "Ride with your crew", for up to 5 people including yourself. A drive posted while you had JOY+ keeps its scope after the membership ends. A cancelled drive counts towards the monthly limit. The walkie-talkie and location sharing in a drive are free for all levels; we do not guarantee their availability, and under heavy load we may temporarily switch the walkie-talkie to short messages sent after you finish speaking.

Benefits that the membership offer states we have yet to launch (for example a discount on merch until we launch the shop) are not part of the subscription until we launch them. We do not guarantee a launch date for them.

Partner benefits

• As a JOY+ or JOY+ PRO member, you can use discounts, codes, vouchers and enquiries with DRIVE&JOY partners only after your first subscription payment. During the free trial you can see them in the app but cannot use them; the app will show you from when you can.
• Vouchers for annual membership come only with an annual subscription, one per year. A code or voucher is intended only for you: do not resell or share it.
• The benefit is provided by the partner. Its terms (scope, validity, combining with other offers) are in the benefit detail in the app; the partner is responsible for delivering the benefit. If a partner ends the partnership or changes the benefit, we will adjust it in the app; this does not give rise to any entitlement to compensation.
• We receive codes and vouchers from partners in limited numbers. When they run out, we will replenish them as soon as we can; we do not guarantee that a code can be issued on request at any time.

Priority sign-up for DRIVE&JOY events

• Priority is not a benefit guaranteed by the subscription. Whether a particular event has it will be stated in the event’s details; where it does, the following points apply.
• For selected DRIVE&JOY events with a limited number of places, we open sign-ups first to JOY+ and JOY+ PRO members, at least 48 hours before everyone else. We state the times for members and for everyone in the event’s details in advance (Czech time). Entitlement to priority for an event arises only when the event is published in the app.
• Priority means an earlier sign-up time; it is not a guarantee of a place or a discount. We allocate places in the order in which sign-ups reach our server; once capacity is reached, we add people to the waiting list.
• We assess entitlement at the moment the sign-up is received, based on the active membership of the account from which you open the sign-up. You can send a priority sign-up only via the button in the app and it is non-transferable: one account, one car per event.
• We do not shorten a priority window once it has started. If there is a fault or abuse, we may temporarily suspend sign-ups; if we suspend them during a priority window, we will extend it by at least the length of the suspension.
• Only attendance that has been confirmed and paid for under the terms of the particular event is binding. We will state the payment deadline in the e-mail with payment instructions, usually 7 days after it is sent; if the deadline passes without payment, we may cancel the unpaid sign-up.
• If you have your subscription refunded, we may cancel your priority sign-up that has not yet been paid for. Cancellation or expiry of the subscription has no effect on a sign-up already accepted.
• Automated submission, false information and reselling a place are grounds for cancelling the sign-up.

Some features have capacity limits at each level (for example the number of active listings, photos or cars in your garage). The limits are part of the description of the level in the app itself.

Some benefits belong to the content owner: a vehicle’s Build story can be created only by a member with JOY+, and other members see it on that member’s vehicle regardless of their own level. On the vehicle of a member without JOY+, others do not see it.

Season, Joy points, status and rewards

• For activity in the app you receive Joy points, milestones and badges, and for things done with other people also status (Steel, Aluminium, Carbon, Titanium, Carbon ceramic). They have no monetary value and cannot be bought, exchanged for money or transferred to another account; the only exception is the one-off gift of a route credit (A route for a friend, see below).
• Point values and caps are set out in the points overview in the app. We usually change them at the start of a season; we will announce any change to your disadvantage at least 14 days in advance, while improvements may apply immediately. We may introduce anti-abuse measures (for example a cap on two-person drives with the same person, or team confirmation of routes) even during a season, with at least 14 days’ notice.
• Status grows from what you do with people (confirmed attendance at events, ratings with confirmed attendance, drives with other members, routes confirmed by the team, a track day at a recognised circuit, first steps in the app), from the thanks you receive (“Thanks”, at most 60 status points per season) and from counted Joy of the Day weeks (at most 65 status points per season). Status cannot be bought and does not go down; we may reduce it only in cases of abuse, always with a reason.
• Joy of the Day: the stamp for a day does not depend on whether you answer correctly. Three stamps in a week from Monday to Sunday (Prague time) make a counted week.
• Events: we add points for attendance after the event has ended, and only if you confirmed “I’m going” before it ended; at DRIVE&JOY events where the team confirms attendance on site, for attendance confirmed by the team.
• Drives: we add points after the end of a drive that was posted at least one hour before the meet and had a planned length of at least 30 minutes — to a participant for confirmed attendance, provided they joined before the meet, and to the organiser only if at least one other member took part in the drive. You get points for at most three drives per week. Pair cap: from drives on which only the two of you go — the organiser and a single confirmed participant — with the same person, whichever of you organises the drive, we add points for at most four within 30 days; for each further such drive neither of you gets points and the app states the reason next to it. The cap applies to drives that end on 27 October 2026 at 00:05 or later; earlier drives by the same pair for which points were awarded also count towards the four.
• A rating of an event or of a drive’s organiser earns points regardless of the rating you give, only after an event or drive you were signed up for, and at most as many times per month as the points overview states.
• Thanks: you can thank a fellow participant in a drive that has taken place (the organiser or a confirmed participant) or in a DRIVE&JOY event at which the team confirmed attendance for both of you (for an event, only a member with a public profile) within 7 days of its end, once per person for the same drive or event. For each thank-you you receive you get 5 Joy points and 5 status points, at most twice per season from the same person and in total at most 60 Joy points and 60 status points per season. Thanks are for someone who really helped you or with whom you drove: arranged thanks (for example exchanging Thanks for points) are abuse. An admin may then cancel a specific thank-you and reverse the points for it, always with a reason; in the notice you will see the reason and how to lodge an objection (see Automated checks and objections).
• JOY Roads routes: we add points for completing a route for the first time only after you send us the recorded drive for checking and the team confirms it, for at most two routes completed on the same day. When checking, the team sees only the trace of the drive within the route corridor, without speed or times. A drive we do not confirm does not count and you will see the reason in the app. Until we launch route checks, we do not award points for routes.
• Rewards of value (for example a free JOY Roads route) are issued only after a check by an admin. You will see in the app, under Season, that a reward is awaiting a check or that we have not issued it.
• A route for a friend: a credit for a free JOY Roads route from a season reward that you have not yet redeemed can be given once to another member: a member with neither JOY+ nor JOY+ PRO whose account is more than 30 days old, with whom in the last 365 days you have been on a drive that has taken place (as organiser or confirmed participant) or at a DRIVE&JOY event at which the team confirmed attendance for both of you (for an event, only a member with a public profile), and with whom there is no block or mute between you. The gift cannot be taken back and you do not keep the credit after giving it. The recipient redeems the credit on a paid JOY Roads route that is neither included in their plan nor unlocked. If we remove your reward because of abuse, the unused gift is forfeited; a route the recipient has already unlocked stays with them. If you close your account before the recipient redeems the credit, the gift lapses; if the recipient closes their account, the credit stays spent.
• Hall of Fame and titles: the DRIVE&JOY team chooses who goes into the Hall of Fame at the end of the season and awards the Honorary member title by invitation; there is no entitlement to inclusion or to the title. Founders, admins and other people on the DRIVE&JOY team are not eligible for the Hall of Fame and do not receive the Honorary member title. We show you to others in the Hall of Fame only with your consent. We may remove a title only if we give a reason; you can lodge an objection as with other decisions (see Automated checks and objections).
• Status perks: from the Carbon status level you can request the perk of your status level during the season (from Carbon a drive with the founders, from Titanium a route proposal for JOY Roads, at Carbon ceramic a vote on the flagship route). Perks are handled by people: we assess the request, we do not guarantee a date or an outcome, and we may decline to fulfil a request, in which case we will write you a note on it. For each perk you may have only one request per season that is pending or has been fulfilled; if we do not fulfil it, you can request it again.
• Albums, the showcase, the profile cover, the garage sign, share images, Car’s trail, Year in DRIVE&JOY and the shared season goal have no monetary value and do not give rise to an entitlement to any benefit.
• Automated checks and objections: caps and the weekly monitor (an unusual increase in points, mutual thanks, thanks from accounts less than 30 days old, or point-earning drives on which no one had a recorded drive) only alert an admin; the decision to remove points, badges, rewards, status or a title and to cancel thanks is always made by a human. In the notice you will see the reason and how to lodge an objection: write to info@driveandjoy.cz and a different admin will assess the objection within 30 days. If an automated check contributed to the decision, we will say so. You can also take a dispute to the Czech Trade Inspection Authority (Česká obchodní inspekce) or to court.
• Abuse (for example invented drives and routes, sham drives, arranged thanks, “I’m going” without attending, or several accounts belonging to one person): we may reverse points, cancel thanks, remove badges, rewards, a title and status and exclude you from the season leaderboard, always stating the reason.
• End of the season: the last day of the season is stated in the app. Points for activity from a finished season that we add within seven days after it ends belong to that season; after that, the new season is counted from zero.

6. JOY+ subscription

The subscription is taken out in the store of the platform on which you use the app — not with us. We do not see your payment details.

On iPhone (App Store)

• JOY+ and JOY+ PRO subscriptions are taken out and billed through the App Store (Apple).
• The subscription renews automatically unless you cancel it at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. The price and the length of the period are always shown on the purchase screen.
• Cancellation and management of the subscription take place in your Apple Account settings, not in the app. Deleting your account in the app does not cancel the subscription (section 14).
• The subscription is tied to your Apple Account. If you restore the purchase (“Restore purchase”) in the app while signed in to a different DRIVE&JOY account, the membership moves to that account and the original account loses it.
• Refunds are handled by Apple under its own rules. We have no access to this process, but we will gladly advise you where to turn.
• Purchases in the App Store are subject to Apple’s terms as well as these Terms.

On Android (Google Play)

• JOY+ and JOY+ PRO subscriptions are taken out and billed through Google Play (Google), as soon as the Android app offers them (from 21 October 2026 at the earliest). Until then, the Android app shows what membership includes but does not offer a purchase and we do not charge you anything.
• The subscription renews automatically unless you cancel it. The price and the length of the period are always shown on the purchase screen.
• You can cancel the subscription at any time on Google Play in the Subscriptions section; your membership then remains valid until the end of the paid period. Deleting your account in the app does not cancel the subscription (section 14).
• You change your level and plan in the app, not on Google Play; the app will tell you in advance what a change means. Switching from JOY+ to JOY+ PRO takes effect immediately: Google Play will charge you a pro rata share of the difference for the rest of the paid period, and further payments are for JOY+ PRO. Switching from JOY+ PRO to JOY+ takes effect from the renewal date. A different plan at the same level (monthly or annual) takes effect immediately and Google Play will charge you the new price at your next payment, the date of which does not change.
• If you pause the subscription on Google Play, your membership remains valid until the end of the paid period and is not valid for the duration of the pause.
• The subscription is tied to the Google Account through which you bought it. If you restore the purchase (“Restore purchase”) in the app while signed in to a different DRIVE&JOY account, the membership moves to that account and the original account loses it.
• Refunds are handled by Google under the Google Play rules. We will gladly advise you where to turn.
• Purchases on Google Play are subject to the Google Play terms as well as these Terms.

Common to both

• A subscription bought on iPhone is also valid in the Android app, and vice versa. However, you always change and cancel it on the platform where you bought it: an App Store subscription on iPhone and in your Apple Account settings, a Google Play subscription in the Android app and on Google Play. While it runs, the app will not offer you a second subscription.
• Free trial. Where the store offers a free trial for the subscription, it applies only to new subscribers and its length is shown on the purchase screen. When it ends, the subscription automatically becomes a paid subscription at the price shown on the purchase screen, unless you cancel it beforehand: in the App Store no later than 24 hours before the end of the free trial, on Google Play at any time before it ends. We do not charge you anything during the free trial.
• Offer codes. If you receive a subscription code from us (for example for a free month), you redeem it in the app via “I have a membership code”, or directly in the App Store or on Google Play. The length of the free period, the price after it and who may redeem the code will be shown to you by the store when you redeem it; on Google Play the code replaces the regular free trial. When it ends, the subscription automatically becomes a paid subscription unless you cancel it beforehand, as with a free trial. You can redeem each code at most once; it is valid until the date we state for it. Do not resell it.
• By buying digital content with immediate access, you agree that performance begins immediately. Under Section 1837 of the Civil Code, you thereby lose the right to withdraw from the contract within 14 days.

Invite a friend

• You can invite a friend to DRIVE&JOY with a personal invitation from the app (by link or code), as soon as the app offers it to you. The invitation carries your first name.
• Who counts: a new account no more than 14 days old, paired with your invitation (by link, via Google Play, or by code in Profile). Each account can be paired only once, not with its own code and not with the code of someone it invited itself, nor in a circle of invitations (A invites B, B invites C, C invites A). An invitation from a member with a blocked account is not valid, and a blocked account is neither paired nor given a reward.
• Conditions: within 30 days of pairing, your friend fills in their first name and surname, region and profile photo and adds at least one car to their garage. Fulfilment is checked by our server; the app shows your friend what is still missing.
• Reward: once the conditions are met, you both get one month of JOY+ free (to the same day of the following month). Your friend gets it once; if they have a paid subscription at that moment, it is added only after that subscription ends. You get it:
• with no subscription or during a free trial, straight away; if you already have a month running from an earlier invitation, it is extended by a month. The free trial overlaps with it and continues to be governed by the store’s rules (above);
• with a paid JOY+ or JOY+ PRO subscription, only after it ends, when it is added for you; it is not forfeited;
• with permanent membership (founders, the team and membership we have assigned to you with no end date), you do not; your friend does.
• Cap: you get at most 6 months from invitations in any 12 months; this includes months waiting for a subscription to end, removed months, and months for friends who have since closed their accounts. Above the cap, your friend still gets the month, but you do not.
• What a JOY+ month for an invitation is: the JOY+ level for a month, assigned to you by us, not a subscription in the store. Nothing is charged for it, it does not renew automatically and when it ends you return to the level you otherwise have. It is not transferable and cannot be exchanged for money or for another level.
• Abuse: accounts created solely for the reward, additional accounts of your own and selling or buying codes are abuse. We will take the reward for such an invitation away from both of you; repeated abuse is dealt with as a breach of the rules (section 9).
• Changes to and end of the programme: we may change or end the programme. Months we have already granted, as well as those waiting for a subscription to end, remain yours.
• What is processed in this connection is described in the Privacy Policy (section 2.30).

Admission to physical events is not paid for in the app. You sign up for DRIVE&JOY events via the website; we confirm attendance by e-mail with payment instructions and it is governed by the terms of the particular event. Events by other organisers are subject to their own terms.

We are preparing a merch shop and will launch it soon; the app says so where the shop is shown and we are not yet accepting orders. Once we launch it, purchases in it will have their own terms and conditions.

7. Rules of conduct in the community

DRIVE&JOY is built on members behaving like adults.

We have zero tolerance for objectionable content and for users who post it or behave abusively. We remove such content and exclude such users from the platform.

The following are prohibited in particular:

• insults, threats, harassment, bullying and targeted attacks on a particular person,
• hateful content — incitement to hatred or violence against a group or individual on the basis of race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age or health condition,
• sexual content, nudity and any content depicting or exploiting children,
• violence and its glorification, encouraging self-harm,
• illegal content — content promoting criminal activity, drugs, weapons or stolen goods,
• fraud and deception — false identity, impersonating another member or DRIVE&JOY, fraudulent offers, phishing,
• spam and advertising — bulk messaging, commercial communications without our agreement, links to third-party services in unsolicited messages,
• other people’s content without rights — photos, texts and videos you are not authorised to use,
• other people’s personal data without consent — another person’s phone number, address, registration plate or photo,
• circumventing technical measures — automated data harvesting (scraping), attempts to access other people’s accounts, load and security testing without our agreement,
• dangerous driving behaviour — encouraging racing on public roads or sharing content that glorifies it.

This applies wherever content is created: in your profile, garage, community posts, on a club wall, in chat, at events and in listings.

To protect others from spam, you can send at most 30 messages per minute and create or publish at most 3 public clubs within 24 hours. During its first 7 days, a new account can start at most 20 new private conversations per 24 hours, and each member can invite at most 50 people to clubs per 24 hours. On the wall of one club you can write at most 10 posts and 100 comments per 24 hours. We send notifications of new messages from one member in one conversation at most once per minute; you still receive all the messages themselves.

A short summary of these rules can be found in the app in the Forum, in the Chat category, in the topic “Community rules”. The wording of these Terms is binding.

8. Your content

What you upload stays yours. Photos of your car, texts, Build stories, recorded drives — all of it remains yours and we make no claim of ownership over it.

So that we can display it in the app at all, by uploading content you grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to use it to the extent necessary to operate the service: storing it, showing it to other members according to your visibility settings, converting it to other formats and sizes, creating previews, and showing it on a public page on driveandjoy.cz and in the preview card when a link is shared, if you have chosen public display (for a listing it is preselected when you submit it and you can switch it off). The basic details of a public drive (name, date, region and your first name as organiser) and of a public club (name, focus, number of members and cover photo) are shown on the link page even when the link is sent by another member; what exactly the page shows is described in the Privacy Policy (section 3.6).

• The licence applies worldwide for as long as you keep the content on the platform.
• Deleting the content or your account ends the licence and we remove the content from the app and from public pages. The exceptions are messages and attachments you have sent in a conversation with other people: after your account is closed they stay there without your name, so that the others’ conversation history stays intact, and the licence to them continues for as long as the conversation exists. If you do not want to leave them there, delete them before closing your account. Deleting a conversation on your side (the “Delete” option in the Messages list) does not remove your messages: the conversation stays unchanged for its other participants and the licence to your messages in it continues. You will then no longer see your messages from before the deletion and you cannot delete them for the others; if you want to delete them or report someone else’s, do so beforehand. Also excepted are events you have added to the event catalogue: after your account is closed they stay in it with no link to your account, and the licence to them continues for as long as we keep them in the catalogue. You cannot delete them yourself; write to us and we will delete them. Also excepted are drives you have organised: after your account is closed they stay without your name (upcoming ones as cancelled), so that participants do not lose their history, and the licence to their name and description continues for as long as we keep them. Also excepted are routes you have shared and other members have saved: their copies stay with those members even after you delete your plan or stop sharing, without your name after your account is closed, and the licence to them continues for as long as they have them saved. For a short time content may persist in operational backups and in the caches of third-party networks — that is beyond our control. What still remains with us after content or an account is deleted (for example a copy of a reported message kept with the report, or excerpts of messages and notifications about your activity in other members’ notification history) and for how long is described in the Privacy Policy.
• We do not use content to train artificial intelligence models and we do not sell it to third parties.
• For marketing use beyond the operation of the service (for example your photo in an advert) we will always ask you separately.

Car from the community. When you switch on “My car can appear in Joy of the Day” for your car, you give us royalty-free, non-exclusive permission to use details of the car and one photo of it in the “Car from the community” Joy of the Day question, which is seen in the app by members for whom Joy of the Day is running (even if you later switch the car to private). Before use, we edit the photo so that the registration plate cannot be seen and we store it without metadata. The permission applies until you withdraw it: you switch it off in the car detail and we delete future questions featuring your car and the photo; questions that have already been shown remain with text only. The permission also ends when the car passes to another owner. There is no entitlement to inclusion in Joy of the Day. If we use a photo you uploaded for the car, you warrant that you hold the necessary rights to it.

You are responsible for the content you upload. Upload only what you have the rights to.

9. Moderation, reporting and blocking

9.1 Reporting

Every post and comment (including on a club wall), listing, profile, message, drive, car, club and its announcements, group and community event can be reported in the app. A report reaches a moderator, not the author — the author does not find out who reported them.

Moderators are DRIVE&JOY admins and members of the community whom we have authorised to moderate.

If you do not have an account (typically when your photos have been used without consent), write to info@driveandjoy.cz. This channel is also available without registering.

9.2 What we do

We assess reported content without undue delay, within 24 hours at the latest. Depending on the severity, we then:

• leave the content alone if it does not break the rules,
• hide or delete the content (we cancel a drive, even if it has already taken place, withdraw a listing or event, hide a car or club from the community, hand over the management of a club to another member),
• or block the account — you will then no longer see its profile, cars, drives and listings in the community; we cancel its upcoming drives and hand its clubs over to another member.

We record every decision with its reason. We tell the author of any content we act on, in the app, what we have done and why. Whoever reported the content is told in the app how we decided. If we block your account, we send you an e-mail with the reason, the length of the block and how to object (info@driveandjoy.cz), provided your address accepts mail. When you try to sign in, the app shows you that the account is blocked and where to send an objection. You can send an objection once, by e-mail to info@driveandjoy.cz; it is assessed by a different person from the one who made the original decision.

If we suspect a criminal offence, we may refer the matter to the law enforcement authorities.

9.3 Blocking

You can block any member. You will stop seeing each other’s content — including in a group, club, drive or event chat you are both part of (the exception for drive organisers and club admins is described below) — and you cannot message each other or invite each other to groups and clubs. In a drive or club you are both part of, the blocked member appears to you as “Hidden member”, without a name, photo or car, and you appear the same way to them. A drive’s organiser and a club’s founder and moderators, however, see all participants and members by name, including those they have blocked or who have blocked them. A block also cancels any pending follow request. Blocking is one-sided and can be undone at any time — you do not have to justify it to anyone.

Muting is milder: you stop seeing the muted member’s activity in the Overview and in drives and you do not receive notifications from them. The muted member does not find out. They remain in search, in follow lists and in the community Garages, following does not end automatically and you still receive their invitation to a group or club (without a notification). Their messages keep coming; if you want quiet there too, mute the conversation (for now, the other participants can technically read that a conversation has been muted, Privacy Policy 2.12) or block them.

Nobody can add you to a group chat without your consent: you receive an invitation, which you accept or decline. After you decline, the same member cannot send you another group invitation for 30 days, and the same club can invite you again no sooner than 30 days after its previous invitation.

9.4 Our role

Content is placed on the platform by members. We are not its authors and we have no obligation to actively search for breaches. The fact that we publish something in the app does not mean that we vouch for it — the check before publication is described in the Listing Rules and is expressly a basic check.

9.5 Automatic filter

Before saving, we automatically compare the texts you write in the app — messages, names and descriptions of groups and clubs, club announcements, posts and polls on a club wall, comments, drive details, your profile bio and location, a car’s nickname and modifications, Build log entries and service records — against a list of terms we do not allow in the community (for example racial and homophobic slurs). The app rejects text containing such a term and lets you edit it. The filter is only an aid: it does not replace reporting or moderation, and the fact that a text passes it does not mean that it does not break the rules.

9.6 Drives, groups and clubs

• Drives. A drive’s organiser may reject a request to join or remove a participant and does not have to give a reason. You then cannot join that drive again. The car limit the organiser sets does not count their own car. After the meet time you cannot join the drive and the organiser can no longer approve a pending request; they can still reject it. By joining a drive you agree to the safety code the app shows you; we store the version and time of your consent. Anyone who can see a public drive can share it by link. An organiser’s link to a private or club drive is an invitation — send it only to people you want on the drive. A moderator may cancel a drive that breaks the rules even without a report, even if it has already taken place; we then take away the points for it.
• Walkie-talkie and location in a drive. The walkie-talkie is subject to the same rules of conduct as written content (section 7). The driver should focus on driving: operate the walkie-talkie only when the traffic situation safely allows it, or leave it to a passenger; do not use your hands while driving where road traffic rules prohibit it. The location of others is shown only approximately and with a delay — do not rely on it instead of watching the road yourself. A voice message can be reported like any other content.
• Groups. A group admin can invite other members, cancel pending invitations and remove members. A removed member stops receiving the group’s messages and can no longer write in it; the group history they have already seen is no longer shown to them.
• Clubs. A club’s founder and moderators may remove a member. A removed member cannot return to the club on their own, not even through a link to the club, until a club admin invites them again or lifts the ban. Anyone who can see a public club can share it by link. A link to a private club is an invitation valid for 7 days — send it only to people you want in the club. If the founder does not manage the club or abuses its management, we may hand over the management of the club to another accepted member; the founder stays in the club as a member and we write to them with the reason and where to send an objection.
• Club wall. Only club members can see the wall; announcements of a public club can also be seen by people outside the club. A club’s founder and moderators can delete any post or comment on their club’s wall, pin one post, end a poll and set the wall so that only admins can post; in doing so they also see posts by members they have blocked or who have blocked them. Nobody can see the names of those who voted in a poll. After you leave a club, your posts and comments on the wall remain as “Former member”, without a name or photo; you can delete them when you leave.
• Forum. A moderator can pin a topic so that it stays at the top of the overview and lock it so that no new replies can be added. A locked topic remains available to read and follow, can be reported, and you can still delete your own post in it.

10. Vehicle listings

The “For sale” section has its own, stricter rules. Before you submit a listing or message a seller, read the Listing Rules. They form an integral part of these Terms.

In short: DRIVE&JOY is not a party to the transaction. We do not sell, we do not broker payment or booking, and we do not verify who owns a car or what condition it is in.

Selling on a club wall. You offer a car on a club wall by linking to your listing in “For sale” (the For sale › Car option) — the Listing Rules apply to it. You can offer parts and accessories directly on the wall: only club members see them and we do not check them before publication. The sale of a part is an agreement between you and the buyer. DRIVE&JOY is not a party to the sale, does not broker payment or handover and does not verify the origin or condition of a part or who owns it. The rules in Article 7 apply here too: among other things, offering stolen or illegal items is prohibited.

11. Artificial intelligence features

Some features — Wingman, JOY Coach, the drive planner and the drive summary — use a language model. The following applies to them:

• 18 and over only. Artificial intelligence features may be used only by a user aged 18 or over (the model provider’s terms require this). You confirm this in the consent before you first use them.
• The model makes mistakes. Treat answers, analyses and suggested routes as ideas, not as fact. Verify them before you act on them.
• This is not professional advice. It is not technical, service, legal or medical advice. Consult a professional about any work on your car or any decision affecting safety.
• The drive analysis is not there to make you faster on the road. JOY Coach is a tool for circuit work. It must not be used as a guide to going faster on public roads and it never takes precedence over traffic rules, the organiser’s instructions and your own judgement.
• Do not send it other people’s personal data or anything confidential. What you write to the model leaves our systems — who it is passed to and how long it is stored is set out in the Privacy Policy, section 2.17.
• Do not misuse it. The features are to be used for what they are intended for. Automated querying, circumventing limits or attempts to extract other people’s data from the model are grounds for blocking or closing your account.
• Limits. The number of queries is limited according to membership level. Each feature has its own limit, the drive planner both a daily and a monthly one; on Free the planner is for trying out only and that allowance does not renew, and Wingman has a daily limit on Free. Wingman, JOY Coach and the planner also share a common daily cap and, on JOY+ and JOY+ PRO, a monthly per-member cost safeguard. The features also have a daily per-member cost budget: on paid levels each feature has one, on Free only Wingman; for Wingman, JOY Coach and the planner, the spending of all three counts towards it. The drive summary does not count towards the common cap or the monthly safeguard; of the per-member limits, only its own daily limit and budget apply to it. For all members together there is also an overall daily service cap, which also stops the drive summary. The main limits are listed in the membership offer. Where the membership offer lists a feature as unlimited (JOY+ PRO), the feature has no membership limit; even there, however, a safety cap against automated and excessive use (a daily and monthly number of queries and a monthly per-member cost safeguard) and the overall daily service cap apply. The safety cap is set so that normal personal use does not exhaust it. When you exhaust a limit, the app tells you so, and on paid levels also when the limit renews. We may change the limits when providers’ prices change or when someone misuses a feature.
• Fastest route without AI. The Fastest route type in the planner does not use a language model and does not count towards the limits of the artificial intelligence features. To prevent misuse, it has only its own daily cap on the number of planning runs.
• A feature may not always be available. It is temporarily switched off during a provider outage, once your limit or budget is exhausted, or once the overall daily service cap is exhausted. Membership does not create any entitlement to its uninterrupted availability.
• Your content does not train models. Under our contracts, data passed to the model provider must not be used for training (see section 8 and the Privacy Policy, section 2.17).
• Report a problematic answer. Each answer has a “Report answer” button. Use it when the output is offensive, dangerous or obviously nonsensical — it reaches a moderator, not the model. What is stored with a report is set out in the Privacy Policy, section 2.17.

12. Service availability

We try to keep the app and the website running. We do not, however, promise uninterrupted operation without errors.

• We may temporarily interrupt the service for maintenance, an update or a security incident.
• We may change, add and discontinue individual features. We will let you know about significant changes in the app or by e-mail.
• The app requires a supported device and an internet connection. You bear the data costs.

13. Liability

What we are liable for: the operation of our own platform and harm we cause by breaching our obligations.

What we are not liable for:

• content posted by members and its truthfulness,
• members’ conduct outside the platform — including how a transaction you agree on turns out,
• the condition, origin or freedom from legal defects of any vehicle,
• damage arising while driving, at a third-party event or when using data from the app (recorded drives, lap times, navigation, notifications and warnings — including those on the car’s display) — the data is indicative and does not replace the driver’s attention,
• the accuracy of the app’s own navigation. Instructions, the speed limit, speed camera alerts, closures and traffic jams are indicative and may be incomplete or out of date. Road signs, police instructions and the actual situation on the road always take precedence. A speed camera alert is only a reminder of known locations, not an aid to avoiding enforcement, and you as the driver are responsible for following the rules of the country you drive in,
• a notification or warning failing to appear. They are not vehicle safety or diagnostic systems — they are calculated from what the app has at that moment (location, data from a connected adapter, your settings), and their silence does not mean that everything is fine. Follow the instruments in the car, not the app,
• a missed STK (vehicle inspection), motorway vignette or service. Reminders in the garage are only an aid: they are calculated from the dates and mileage you enter in the garage and may not reach you in time (for example if you have notifications switched off or the details in your garage are out of date). You, as the vehicle’s owner or keeper, are responsible for keeping track of deadlines,
• outages of third-party services (the App Store, Google Play, payment gateways, map data, notification delivery),
• lost profit and indirect damage.

If you are a consumer, nothing in these Terms limits your statutory rights. Nor do we limit liability for harm caused intentionally or through gross negligence, or for harm to a person’s natural rights.

Indemnity: if anyone brings a claim against us because of your content or your breach of the rules, you undertake to cooperate with us and to reimburse the costs we reasonably incur.

14. Ending your membership

By you: you can delete your account at any time directly in the app (Settings → Account → Delete account). Deletion is irreversible — you lose your garage, recorded drives, access to conversations and event history. Messages you have sent to others stay with them without your name (Privacy Policy, section 2.12). Events you have added to the event catalogue stay in it with no link to your account (section 8). Upcoming drives you are organising are cancelled and their participants and those who have asked to join receive a notification; the drives stay in participants’ history without your name (section 8). Listings are deleted together with their photos.

Deleting your account does not in itself cancel a subscription taken out through the App Store or Google Play. Cancel that in your Apple Account settings, or on Google Play in the Subscriptions section, otherwise it will keep running. Deleting your account does not cancel sign-ups for DRIVE&JOY events either (Privacy Policy, section 3.8).

By us: we may block or close your account if

• you breach these Terms or the Listing Rules,
• you use the service for fraud or harm other members,
• your conduct endangers the operation or security of the platform.

In the case of a less serious breach we hide or delete the content and write to you with the reason. We block accounts for serious or repeated breaches; we send you the reason, the length of the block and how to object by e-mail; when you try to sign in, the app shows you that the account is blocked and the contact for objections. In such a case we do not refund the remaining part of a paid subscription, unless the law requires it.

After an account is closed we delete data in accordance with the Privacy Policy; we are required by law to keep some documents for longer.

15. Changes to the Terms

We may change the Terms — typically when a feature is added or the law changes.

• We will let you know of a significant change in the app or by e-mail at least 14 days in advance.
• If you do not agree with a change, you may close your account before it takes effect. By using the service after the change takes effect, you accept the Terms.
• We make minor adjustments (typos, clarifications of wording) without notice.

The current version is always at driveandjoy.cz/en/legal/podminky. The effective date is stated in the header.

16. Governing law and dispute resolution

The relationship between you and DRIVE&JOY is governed by the law of the Czech Republic, in particular Act No. 89/2012 Coll., the Civil Code. Disputes are decided by the Czech courts. If you are a consumer, this does not deprive you of protection under the law of the country of your habitual residence.

Before going to court, let us try to reach an agreement — write to info@driveandjoy.cz.

Out-of-court resolution of consumer disputes is handled by:

Czech Trade Inspection Authority (Česká obchodní inspekce)

Štěpánská 796/44, 110 00 Praha 1

www.coi.cz · adr.coi.cz

Supervision of compliance with consumer protection regulations is also carried out by the Czech Trade Inspection Authority (Česká obchodní inspekce).

17. In closing

• If any provision of these Terms is invalid, the rest continues to apply.
• These Terms, together with the Listing Rules and the Privacy Policy, form the entire agreement between you and DRIVE&JOY on the use of the service.
• Have a question? info@driveandjoy.cz