Terms of Use
Last updated: September 2026
These terms govern your use of the Mini Detour iOS app and the minidetour.com website. By using either one, you agree to them. The English version is authoritative.
What Mini Detour does
Mini Detour fits errands into a drive you were making anyway. You give it a route — a destination, or a round trip that brings you back to your starting point — and say what you need to do: a pharmacy, a parcel point, a supermarket, a bakery, an EV charger, and so on. It ranks places near your route by how much time each one adds to the drive, and by whether it should still be open when you get there. It works on iPhone and in CarPlay. On the iPhone it plans and then hands the stops to a navigation app; in CarPlay it can also do the driving guidance itself. It is a planning tool and nothing more: it does not sell, book, reserve or hold anything for you at the places it suggests. The website describes the app and hosts these terms and the Privacy Policy.
Who can use it, and what you may do with it
We grant you a personal, non-transferable licence to use Mini Detour on Apple devices you own or control, for your own non-commercial trip planning, under the rules of the App Store Terms of Service. There is no account and no sign-up — your access is tied to your Apple Account, not to anything we hold. You need an Apple Account to subscribe, so you must be old enough to have one where you live. Mini Detour is made for adults who drive. It is not directed at children.
Subscription and billing
Mini Detour requires an auto-renewable subscription, monthly or yearly. There is no free version and no free trial: without a subscription the app will not plan a trip. The price, the billing period and any applicable tax are shown in the App Store, in your own currency, before you confirm. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation. Subscriptions renew automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel at any time in your App Store settings. Refunds are handled by Apple under the App Store terms; we cannot issue them ourselves, and we never see your payment details. One exception to "no subscription, no planning": once we have confirmed your subscription, the app keeps working for a while without being able to reach Apple, so a bad signal does not look like an expired subscription. That window ends three days after the expiry date Apple gave us, or fourteen days after the last confirmation if Apple gave us no expiry date. After that the app locks until it can check again. You may still see our former name, Drive Charge Eat, in the subscription's technical identifiers — it is the same app and the same publisher.
What the app needs from your phone
Mini Detour needs iOS 17 or later and an internet connection. Planning a trip is not an offline operation: the routing and the place search happen on our servers and at map providers, so with no connection there is no plan. Location is optional. Leave the starting point empty and the app plans from where you are, which needs location permission. Type a starting point and the app plans from that, even if your phone knows exactly where you are — what you type wins. Round trips work the same way: the loop starts and ends at whatever starting point you give it, not necessarily at your current position. One thing to know about the current build: the location permission prompt only appears through CarPlay. On a phone that has never been connected to CarPlay you may never be asked, and an empty starting point then simply produces an error — so type one. While you navigate in CarPlay, the app keeps reading your location in the background so the trip stays current with the screen off, and it plays spoken directions through the car audio. What is sent, and to whom, is set out in the Privacy Policy.
Opening hours, detour times and other estimates
This is the section to read twice. Opening hours come from Google's place data. They can be wrong, out of date, or missing — a public holiday, a shop that changed its hours last week, a pharmacy that closed early. When we have no hours for a place, we show it anyway with an "opening hours unknown" warning: we do not hide it and we do not guess. Detour times, arrival times and time-at-the-stop are estimates built from routing data and typical durations, not promises. Traffic, roadworks, parking and your own pace will move them. Treat what the app tells you as something to check, not something to count on — especially when the stop matters and closing time is close. If being turned away would be a real problem, call ahead.
Driving safely, and who is doing the navigating
Plan before you drive. Do not use the iPhone app while the car is moving. The CarPlay interface is the one built to be used in the car, and you should use it only as CarPlay itself permits. Road signs, signals and the law always win over anything on a screen — including the speed limits and lane hints shown in CarPlay, which come from crowd-sourced map data and can be out of date or simply wrong. Two different things can happen when you set off. In CarPlay, Mini Detour can guide you itself: it draws the route, follows your position and speaks the directions. On the iPhone, tapping "Start driving" opens another app — Apple Maps, Waze, Google Maps or A Better Routeplanner — with your stops in a link, and from that moment that app is doing the navigating, not us: its own terms and privacy policy apply, and we do not control the route it chooses. Those apps do not all accept the same thing. Apple Maps and Google Maps take the chain of stops, Google up to a limited number of them; Waze takes only the first stop, and the app tells you so before you pick it; A Better Routeplanner takes only the final destination and plans its own charging stops. However you drive, how you drive is your responsibility.
Where the information comes from
Mini Detour does not own the map. In the errand planner, places, opening hours and EV charging points all come from Google Maps Platform. Search and address lookup come from Apple Maps. Routes come from Google, from Stadia Maps and from the open-source Valhalla engine. Road detail such as speed limits and lane hints comes from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors), fetched through public Overpass servers run by volunteers. When you plan a charging trip in CarPlay, the app additionally uses Open Charge Map for charging points and Apple Weather for conditions along the route (weatherkit.apple.com/legal-attribution). Those providers' terms apply to their data alongside ours. Mini Detour itself is independent: it is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by any shop, chain, carrier, restaurant, fuel or charging network, or vehicle manufacturer that appears in it. Nobody pays to be listed. All brand names and trademarks belong to their owners, and the app refers to them in text only.
What your device contacts, and where our servers are
Most requests go through our own proxy servers instead of leaving your phone for the map companies directly. There are two of them, both hosted on Fly.io: one in Paris, France, one in Ashburn, Virginia, United States. Which one your phone uses is decided by where the car is — a longitude test on your current position, not your language, your account or where you live. So a European phone driving in North America sends its coordinates to the Virginia server, and an American phone driving in Europe sends them to Paris. Those servers forward the query and hold the answer in memory briefly so a repeated lookup costs nothing; they write no account, no profile and no trip history to disk. What we cannot speak for is the hosting layer underneath: our host may keep ordinary connection logs such as IP address, time and path. Their retention is [FLY.IO LOG RETENTION]. Two things do not go through us at all. When CarPlay is connected, your device queries the volunteer Overpass servers directly for speed limits and lane detail — as often as every eight seconds while you navigate — sending your position and identifying the app by name. And when you hand a drive over to another app, your stops and destination travel inside the link that opens it.
What you may not do
Do not resell, sublicense or rent the app or the results it produces. Do not use it to build or feed a competing database — no scraping, no bulk extraction, no automated querying of the app or of our servers. Do not reverse-engineer, decompile or modify the app, except where the law expressly allows it. Do not try to work around the subscription, and do not use unlock codes meant for App Review. Do not put load on our servers, or on the volunteer OpenStreetMap servers the app relies on, beyond ordinary personal use. And do not use Mini Detour for commercial fleet dispatch or delivery routing: it is neither built nor licensed for that.
Your stops and settings stay on your phone
Saved stops, your home address, recent destinations, your vehicle settings and the diagnostic logs all live on your device. We keep no account, no profile and no copy of them. That cuts both ways: if you delete the app or lose the phone, that data is gone and we cannot restore it for you. There is no single "erase everything" button. You can clear your home address, and forget saved stops one at a time. The last computed trip is cleared when you end a trip in CarPlay. The list of recent destinations built up in CarPlay has no clear at all. Deleting the app is the only complete erasure — with one exception: a small record used for App Review access is kept in the iOS keychain and survives deletion of the app. The diagnostic logs deserve a word of their own. They record places and coordinates from your trips. The app keeps the last ten launches and deletes older files. They are readable through the Files app by anyone holding your unlocked phone, and from any computer your phone is trusted to, over Finder or iTunes file sharing. Their contents are also written to the iOS system log, which means the same places and coordinates can appear in a system diagnostic report. Nothing uploads them on its own: they leave the device only when you send them. Look at what is in them before you send them to anyone, including us. The Privacy Policy explains the rest.
Availability, and changes to the app and these terms
We may add, change or remove features, and we may suspend or discontinue the service. The app depends on our proxy servers and on third-party map services; any of them can be slow, rate-limited or down, and when they are, Mini Detour cannot plan a trip. We do not promise uninterrupted or error-free service. If we shut the service down for good while you are paying for it, your remedy runs through Apple's subscription and refund process. We may also update these terms. The date at the top changes when we do, and continuing to use the app afterwards means you accept the new version.
The app is provided as is
Mini Detour is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, to the maximum extent the law allows. We are not liable for indirect or consequential loss arising from your use of it: a shop that turned out to be closed, a missed appointment or parcel deadline, extra distance driven, fuel or electricity spent, a fine, or anything else that follows from relying on third-party data. Where liability cannot be excluded, it is limited to what you paid for the subscription in the twelve months before the claim. Nothing here excludes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded.
Apple
This agreement is between you and the publisher of Mini Detour, not Apple. Apple is not responsible for the app or its content and has no obligation to furnish maintenance or support for it. If the app fails to conform to any warranty, you may notify Apple and Apple will refund the purchase price; beyond that, and to the maximum extent the law allows, Apple has no other warranty obligation. Apple is not responsible for addressing any claim you or a third party may have relating to the app, including product-liability, consumer-protection and intellectual-property claims. You confirm that you are not located in a country subject to a US Government embargo and are not on any US Government list of prohibited or restricted parties. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and may enforce them against you. Your use of the app must also comply with the App Store Terms of Service.
Governing law, your consumer rights and disputes
These terms are governed by French law. Nothing in them removes the protection of the mandatory consumer-law rules of the country where you live, and nothing in them excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded. If something goes wrong, write to us first at [CONTACT EMAIL] and we will try to settle it directly. If that fails and you bought the subscription as a consumer, you may refer the dispute free of charge to our consumer mediator: [CONSUMER MEDIATOR]. Consumers in the EU may also use the European Commission's online dispute resolution platform. Mediation is optional, and using it costs you no rights: you keep the right to bring the dispute before whichever courts the consumer rules of your country allow. Refunds remain Apple's to grant, because Apple is the seller.
Publisher, hosting and contact
Mini Detour is published by LyteFast, SAS, 60 rue François Ier, 75008 Paris, France — RCS Paris 988 054 227. This website is hosted by Netlify, Inc., 101 2nd Street, San Francisco, CA 94105, United States. The app's backend servers are hosted by Fly.io, Inc., 2261 Market Street #4990, San Francisco, CA 94114, United States, in Paris, France and in Ashburn, Virginia, United States; their addresses still carry our former brand (drivechargeeat-backend.fly.dev and drivechargeeat-backend-us.fly.dev). Questions about these terms? Email [CONTACT EMAIL].
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