Terms

The rules for using Forklist. It is a free app made by one person, and this is written to be read rather than to be survived.

Last updated 27 August 2026

Using it at all

Using Forklist means accepting what is on this page. If you do not, do not use it — there is nothing here you are locked into and nothing you have paid for.

You need to be 13 or older to have an account, and you need a Google account to sign in, because that is the only way in.

What you post

What you write stays yours. Nothing here claims ownership of your notes, your ratings or your pins.

What you do give is permission to store them and show them to the people you chose to show them to — which is what the app has to be allowed to do in order to be the app. That permission is exactly as wide as the audience you picked and no wider: a note set to Just you is displayed to nobody else, and changing a note's audience changes who can see it from that moment.

Delete your account and what you wrote goes with it. The privacy page sets out precisely what is removed and the one thing that is not.

What not to post

There is no moderation team here. There is one person and an automatic rule that hides anything three different people report. That makes the list short and the enforcement blunt:

• Nothing illegal, and nothing that exists to harass, threaten or abuse somebody.
• Nothing about a person's home. This is a map of places to eat. Pinning where somebody lives is not what it is for and will be removed.
• No impersonation. Do not put a name on a note that suggests you are somebody else.
• No spam and no advertising. A pin for a place you own is fine and welcome; twenty of them is not.
• Nothing you do not have the right to post.

Break these and the note goes, and if it is deliberate the account goes too. That decision is one person's judgement, and if you think it was wrong you can say so and it will be looked at again.

Reporting

The ▲ and report controls on a note are for exactly this. Three different people reporting the same note hides it pending review — which means it can be used to hide something briefly and unfairly, and reports that turn out to be false are themselves a reason to lose an account.

Groups and their passwords

A group password protects other people's private pins, which makes it a credential no matter how casually it gets shared. Choosing one, and deciding who gets the link, means taking responsibility for who ends up inside. Whoever started a group can replace its link, which stops the old one working without removing anyone already in.

What is not promised

Forklist is provided as it is. It is a free app built in the evenings, and plainly:

• It may be down. There is no uptime guarantee and no support contract.
• It may lose data. Backups exist, but do not keep something here that exists nowhere else.
• What is on the map is somebody's opinion, including the opening hours and ratings, which come from Google and may be wrong. Check before you travel.
• Features may change or be removed, including ones you liked.

To the extent the law allows it, nothing here is liable for what follows from using the app — a wasted journey, a closed restaurant, a bad meal. Some places do not allow that exclusion to go all the way, and where that is true, this goes as far as it is allowed and no further.

Your data, and what you can do with it

What is collected, who can read each row and what leaves the site are set out on the privacy page, which is written from the schema rather than from a template. Two of the rights it describes are buttons rather than requests. Download my data, in Settings → Account, hands you a copy of everything held about you (GDPR Article 15, and Article 20 in the same file). Delete my account and pins, in Settings → Leaving, erases the account and what you wrote (Article 17). Neither costs anything and neither needs a reason. The cookies page names the two cookies and everything kept in your browser beside them.

Ending it

You can delete your account at any moment, from Settings → Leaving, and you do not have to say why. An account may be removed from this end for breaking the rules above, or if the app itself shuts down — in which case there will be notice and a way to get your data out first.

Changes

If these terms change materially, the date at the top changes and the change is described rather than quietly applied. Continuing to use the app after that means accepting the new version.