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Terms of Service

Last updated: May 20, 2026

These are the terms for using ValidaTrip and the ValidaTrip “Send to Google Maps” Chrome extension. They are written to be read. The short version: the service is free, the validation is best-effort, you own what you paste, and you check before you travel.

This is not legal advice. If you want a lawyer to look at the trip you’re planning, hire one. For the terms of using this site, these are the rules.

Acceptance

By using ValidaTrip you agree to these terms. If you don’t agree, don’t use the site or the extension.

Eligibility

You need to be at least 13 years old and able to enter a contract where you live. If you’re using ValidaTrip on behalf of an organisation, you’re telling us you have permission to bind it to these terms.

Your account

You can use ValidaTrip without signing in. If you create an account, you’re responsible for the email and password you sign up with and for what happens under your account. Sign-up is single-step (no email confirmation), so the email you choose at sign-up is the email you’ll need at sign-in. You can sign out from the account menu and delete trips at any time.

Your content

The recommendations and trip data you paste belong to you. You give ValidaTrip a limited, worldwide, royalty-free licence to process, enrich, store, and display that content back to you and (for any trip you choose to share) to the people you share the trip link with. We don’t use your trip content to train models, sell it, or share it for advertising. You’re responsible for having the right to paste what you paste.

Validation is best-effort, not a guarantee

ValidaTrip checks hours, closures, holidays, and booking links by querying third-party providers — Google Places, OpenStreetMap / Nominatim, Ticketmaster, and Nager.Date — and by normalising your paste with an LLM provider (OpenAI or Google Gemini). All of these can be wrong, stale, or unavailable. A place we marked open may be closed on the day; a place we marked closed may be open. The validation is a head start, not a promise.

Verify any place that matters to your trip before you go — call the venue, check their own site, or look up your booking. Don’t rely on ValidaTrip alone for time-sensitive or money-sensitive decisions.

AI-generated output

ValidaTrip uses an LLM to turn pasted text into structured trip items (titles, categories, neighborhoods, booking notes). LLM output can be wrong, miscategorised, or fabricated. Don’t treat any ValidaTrip output as professional travel, legal, or medical advice.

The “Send to Google Maps” extension

The ValidaTrip Chrome extension is a separate, optional tool. It runs entirely in your own browser and drives the Google Maps Save UI in your signed-in Google account to create a private saved list from a ValidaTrip trip. We don’t receive the places it saves. Using the extension is also subject to Google’s Terms of Service; don’t use it in a way that violates them. See the extension section of our Privacy Policy for what data it touches (and what it doesn’t).

Acceptable use

Don’t use ValidaTrip to:

• upload illegal content, or content you don’t have the right to use;
• impersonate someone else, harass anyone, or share content that targets another person;
• scrape, bulk-download, or otherwise abuse the validation pipeline (the LLM and provider quotas behind it cost real money);
• run automated traffic against the site beyond ordinary first-party use;
• reverse-engineer, repackage, or distribute the extension in a way that defeats Google’s anti-abuse protections;
• interfere with the site’s security, rate limiting, or other users’ trips.

Third-party services

To validate a trip we share parts of your trip data (place names, cities, dates) with the providers listed in the Privacy Policy. Each provider’s own terms govern how that part of the transaction works. ValidaTrip is not responsible for outages, errors, or changes at those providers.

No warranty

ValidaTrip is provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. We don’t warrant that the service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or accurate.

Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, ValidaTrip and its operators are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, or goodwill, arising out of or in connection with your use of the service — including any travel decision you made on the basis of what ValidaTrip showed you. Our total aggregate liability for any claim relating to the service is capped at the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim. Since ValidaTrip is free, that cap is zero.

Termination

You can stop using ValidaTrip at any time and delete your trips from the dashboard. We can suspend or terminate accounts that violate these terms or that abuse the service in a way that threatens its availability for everyone else. Sections that by their nature should survive termination — content licence, no warranty, limitation of liability, governing law — survive.

Changes

We may update these terms. When we do, we’ll change the “last updated” date at the top of this page. If a change is material we’ll try to give reasonable notice on the site. Continuing to use ValidaTrip after a change takes effect is your acceptance of the new terms.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the United States and, where state law applies, the State of California, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. Any dispute arising out of or in connection with these terms or ValidaTrip will be brought in the state or federal courts located in San Francisco County, California, and you and ValidaTrip consent to that jurisdiction.

Contact

Questions about these terms: reach the ValidaTrip team via www.validatrip.com. See also our Privacy Policy.