Terms of Use

Draft — under legal review. These terms describe how Multimodal Mondays works today and are being reviewed before final publication. Text in [brackets] is still to be filled in.

Last updated: October 22, 2026

Welcome to Multimodal Mondays. These Terms of Use ("Terms") are an agreement between you and [Multimodal Mondays legal entity name] ("Multimodal Mondays," "we," "us," or "our"). They cover the website at multimodalmondays.com, the Multimodal Mondays app (including when it's installed to your home screen), and everything offered through them (together, the "Service").

By creating an account, logging a trip, sharing a photo, buying a membership, or otherwise using the Service, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you don't agree, please don't use the Service.

Contents: 1. Who can use it · 2. Your account · 3. How points work · 4. Honest Logging Policy · 5. Monday photos & Photo Release · 6. Rewards · 7. The Monthly Monday Raffle · 8. Memberships & billing · 9. Referrals & bonuses · 10. Community guidelines · 11. Your content · 12. Organizations & reward partners · 13. Your safety · 14. Suspension & termination · 15. Disclaimers · 16. Limitation of liability · 17. Indemnity · 18. Disputes · 19. Changes · 20. Contact

1. Who can use Multimodal Mondays

You must be at least 13 years old to use the Service. If you're under 13, please don't create an account or send us any information. If we learn that someone under 13 has an account, we'll delete it.

If you're at least 13 but under 18 (or under the age of majority where you live), you may use the Service only with the permission of a parent or legal guardian, who must review and agree to these Terms — including the Photo Release in Section 5 — on your behalf. Some features, such as buying a membership, require a parent or guardian to complete the purchase. If you're a parent or guardian who lets a teen use the Service, you're responsible for their use of it.

2. Your account

• During the pilot, creating an account requires an invite or pilot access code.
• Give us accurate information (your real name and an email you control) and keep it up to date.
• One account per person. Accounts are personal — don't share, sell, or transfer yours, and don't log trips on someone else's account.
• Keep your password secure. You're responsible for activity on your account; tell us right away at lauren@multimodalmondays.com if you think someone else has accessed it.

3. How points work

• You earn points by logging the ways you got around each day. Walking, biking, bus/train, rolling (e.g. wheelchair), running, and scooting/skating earn full points — and triple points on Mondays. Carpooling earns partial points; driving earns none. You can also earn bonus points (for example, sharing a Monday photo, completing a monthly reflection, a 30-day streak, or a successful referral).
• Points count toward rewards only while you have rewards access — through a paid membership, a pilot access grant, or an employer or organization that sponsors your access. Points you earn without rewards access still show in your stats and on leaderboards, but they never become redeemable later, even if you join afterward.
• Pilot participants who received pilot access have rewards access through December 31, 2027, unless it ends sooner under these Terms.
• Points are not money. They have no cash value, aren't your property, can't be sold, transferred, gifted, or combined between accounts, and can't be exchanged for cash.
• We may change how many points an activity earns, what rewards cost, or how bonuses work. We may also correct point balances that are wrong because of a bug, a mistake, or a violation of these Terms.
• Points may expire or be forfeited if your account is closed, terminated, or inactive for [period]. [Confirm expiration policy.]

4. Honest Logging Policy

5. Monday photos & Photo Release

On Mondays, you can share a photo of how you got around. Monday photos appear on the community photo collage (shown to other signed-in users, along with your city and the modes you logged), can be turned into a downloadable, shareable graphic, and may be featured by us as described below.

Photo Release

By submitting a photo to Multimodal Mondays, you grant Multimodal Mondays and those acting on our behalf a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, transferable, and sublicensable right to use, reproduce, display, publish, distribute, crop, edit, adapt, and create derivative works from that photo — including any person's image or likeness in it — in any media now known or later developed, for any purpose related to Multimodal Mondays. This includes, for example: the in-app community collage and shareable graphics; our website and social media accounts; newsletters and emails; marketing, advertising, and promotional materials; presentations, press, and reports to partners, funders, or grant programs; and materials about the Multimodal Mondays Active Transportation Grant.

We may use a photo with or without your name, display name, or city, and we aren't required to use it at all.

By submitting a photo, you also confirm and agree that:

• you took the photo, or otherwise own or have all the rights needed to grant this release;
• every identifiable person in the photo has agreed to its being shared and used this way — and, for anyone under 18 (other than you), their parent or guardian has agreed;
• you won't be paid or credited for any use of the photo, and you won't have any right to inspect or approve the final materials it appears in;
• you release Multimodal Mondays and those acting on our behalf from any claims related to use of the photo as described here, including claims for invasion of privacy, right of publicity, defamation, or copyright infringement, to the fullest extent permitted by law.

If you're under 18: your parent or legal guardian must agree to this Photo Release on your behalf before you submit a photo. By allowing you to submit photos, they confirm that they have read and agree to it, for you and for themselves.

Changing your mind: you can ask us to take a photo down at any time by emailing lauren@multimodalmondays.com. We'll remove it from the app and stop using it in new materials within a reasonable time. We can't recall materials already printed, published, or distributed, or posts others have already shared.

Photo rules

• Photos must be family-friendly: no nudity or sexual content, violence, hate symbols, harassment, illegal activity, or anything else inappropriate for a general audience.
• Don't post photos that show private information (like someone's home address, license plate, or ID), or that show people who haven't agreed to be photographed.
• Never take a photo while you are driving, biking, scooting, or otherwise in motion in traffic.
• Every photo is automatically screened (including by an AI image-review service) before it can appear publicly, and may also be reviewed by a person. We can hide or remove any photo for any reason.

6. Rewards

• Rewards (discounts, products, experiences, and similar perks) are offered by independent local businesses, organizations, and other partners. Redeeming a reward is between you and that partner. The partner — not Multimodal Mondays — is responsible for the reward itself, including its quality, safety, availability, and any of its own terms.
• Rewards may have limited quantities, locations, expiration dates, or eligibility rules, and can change or end at any time. Once points are redeemed, they generally can't be returned.
• Reward codes and instructions are sent to the email on your account. Codes are for your personal use only and may not be sold or transferred.
• You're responsible for any taxes that may apply to rewards or prizes you receive.

7. The Monthly Monday Raffle

Starting in January 2027, members who share a photo every Monday of a month may be entered into that month's Monthly Monday Raffle. The raffle is governed by its Official Rules [link to Official Rules — to be published], which control if they conflict with these Terms. [Alternate free method of entry / "no purchase necessary" terms to be confirmed.] Void where prohibited. Entries earned through activity that violates the Honest Logging Policy are void.

8. Memberships & billing

• Logging trips, sharing photos, and viewing the community board are free. A paid membership (currently $25 per year or $3 per month) is what makes your points count toward rewards and enters you in the raffle.
• Payments are processed by Stripe. We don't receive or store your full card number.
• Memberships renew automatically at the end of each billing period, at the then-current price, until you cancel. You can cancel anytime from the app (Rewards tab → manage membership). Cancellation takes effect at the end of your current billing period, and you keep rewards access until then.
• If we change membership prices, we'll tell you in advance, and the new price applies starting with your next renewal after the notice.
• [Refund policy to be confirmed — e.g., "Except where required by law, payments are non-refundable and we don't provide refunds or credits for partial periods."]
• 10% of membership revenue funds the Multimodal Mondays Active Transportation Grant, which supports projects that make communities more walkable, bikeable, and transit-friendly. [Confirm how and when grant funds are distributed.] Membership fees are not charitable donations and are not tax-deductible.
• Your employer or an organization may sponsor your rewards access. Sponsored access lasts only as long as the sponsor keeps it active and you remain linked to that sponsor.

9. Referrals & bonuses

You can earn bonus points when someone you invite with your referral code joins. Referrals must be real people you actually know or reached out to. Referring yourself, creating fake or duplicate accounts, or trading or selling referral codes isn't allowed, and bonuses earned that way will be removed. We may change or end referral and bonus programs at any time.

10. Community guidelines

When using the Service, please don't:

• harass, bully, threaten, or impersonate anyone;
• post anything unlawful, hateful, sexual, violent, or that infringes someone else's rights;
• use the Service for spam or commercial solicitation we haven't approved;
• scrape, copy, or collect data from the Service, or use automated tools to access it;
• interfere with, probe, or try to bypass the Service's security or limits, or access accounts or data that aren't yours;
• submit false information in any website form, including on behalf of a person or business without their knowledge.

11. Your content

You keep ownership of what you submit — trip logs, photos, monthly reflections, and other content. Besides the Photo Release in Section 5, you give us permission to store, process, and display your content as needed to run and improve the Service (for example, showing your stats to you, or counting your trips in city leaderboards and aggregate impact numbers). Your monthly reflections are private to you unless you tell us otherwise; we may use them in de-identified or aggregate form, and may quote them only with your permission.

If you send us feedback or ideas, we may use them without any obligation to you.

12. Organizations & reward partners

• Businesses and organizations that submit a reward offer, partner interest form, or organization sign-up confirm they're authorized to act for that business and that the information is accurate.
• A submitted reward offer is a proposal. We review it before it goes live and may edit details (such as point cost or listing text) in consultation with you. Once a reward is live, you agree to honor redemptions made while it's listed, under the terms shown with it.
• By submitting reward photos, logos, or descriptions, you give us permission to display them in the app, on the partner map, and in promotional materials about Multimodal Mondays and your reward.
• Organizations that sponsor employees or members see only aggregate participation information, not individual trip logs, unless an individual separately agrees.
• If you nominate a business as a potential reward partner, we may contact that business and mention that a community member suggested it (without naming you unless you've told us we can).
• Additional terms may apply under a separate written agreement with an organization or partner; if so, that agreement controls for that relationship.

13. Your safety

Multimodal Mondays encourages walking, biking, transit, and other active ways of getting around, but you are solely responsible for your own safety and for deciding which routes, modes, and conditions are right for you. Follow all traffic laws, wear appropriate safety gear, and never use the app while driving, biking, or otherwise in motion. We don't plan, check, or recommend routes, and nothing in the Service is medical, fitness, or safety advice. Talk to a doctor before starting a new physical activity if you have any health concerns. You use active transportation at your own risk.

14. Suspension & termination

You can stop using the Service at any time, and you can ask us to delete your account by emailing lauren@multimodalmondays.com. If you have a paid membership, cancel it first so you aren't charged again.

We may suspend or end your access — and forfeit your points — if you violate these Terms (including the Honest Logging Policy), if required by law, or if we need to protect the Service, our partners, or other users. We may also change, pause, or discontinue any part of the Service; if we discontinue paid memberships entirely, we'll [describe any pro-rated refund]. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (including the Photo Release for photos already submitted, and Sections 15–18) will survive.

15. Disclaimers

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We don't guarantee that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or secure, that points or stats will always be accurate, or that any particular reward will be available. We aren't responsible for rewards, products, or services provided by partners or other third parties.

16. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Multimodal Mondays and its owners, team members, and partners won't be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, points, or rewards, arising from or related to the Service — including any injury or loss that occurs while walking, biking, riding transit, or otherwise traveling. Our total liability for any claim related to the Service won't exceed the greater of (a) the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim arose, or (b) $50. Some places don't allow these limits, so they may not fully apply to you.

17. Indemnity

To the extent permitted by law, you agree to defend and hold harmless Multimodal Mondays from claims, losses, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising from your content (including photos you submit), your violation of these Terms, or your violation of anyone else's rights.

18. Disputes & governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of [State], without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Before filing any claim, you agree to first contact us at lauren@multimodalmondays.com and try to resolve it informally for at least 30 days. [Choose dispute forum: courts located in [County, State], or individual arbitration with a small-claims carve-out and class-action waiver.]

19. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms as the Service changes. We'll update the "Last updated" date above and, for meaningful changes, notify you in the app or by email before they take effect. Continuing to use the Service after changes take effect means you accept the updated Terms.

20. Contact

Questions about these Terms? Email lauren@multimodalmondays.com.
[Mailing address]