The Guinness Map Terms of Service
These Terms cover the Guinness Map website, our iOS and Android apps, and everything in them (“the Service“). Using the Service means you accept them. We've kept the tone plain, but these are the actual terms and they're binding.
The short version: be over the legal drinking age, post honestly, don't be a nuisance, and understand that we can remove content and accounts. If you buy advertising, the money side is in the Advertising section.
Who can use it
You must be of legal drinking age where you live, and at least 18, to use the Service. If you're not, please don't.
Your account
Keep your login details to yourself. You're responsible for what happens under your account. You can delete it at any time from your profile. We can suspend, ban or delete an account that breaks these Terms, and we may do so without notice where the breach is serious. If you think we've got it wrong, email us and we'll look again.
What you post
You own what you post. You're also responsible for it, including that it's truthful and yours to share.
By posting, you grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide licence to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute and display that content in connection with the Service and its promotion, including on social media. This licence lasts as long as the content is on the Service, and continues afterwards only for copies already used in promotional material. Deleting your content ends the licence for all future use.
Please don't use the Service to:
- Break the law.
- Infringe anyone else's intellectual property.
- Post false, misleading or defamatory content.
- Review a pub you own, work for, or compete with, as if you were a customer.
- Harass, threaten or harm anyone.
- Scrape, disrupt or overload the Service.
Moderation
We may review, refuse, edit or remove any content, at our discretion and without notice, including content we think is false, misleading, low-quality, off-topic, defamatory or otherwise objectionable. We may tell you when we do, but we're not obliged to. Removal doesn't entitle you to a refund or compensation. We're not responsible for content posted by other people, and relying on it is at your own risk.
Reporting content
If a review about your pub is defamatory or false, or if something infringes your copyright or trade mark, email contact@theguinnessmap.com with the link, what's wrong with it, and how to reach you. For copyright claims, include enough detail to identify the work and a statement that you own it or act for the owner. We'll review it and act where appropriate.
Claiming a pub
If you claim a pub as its owner or representative, you confirm you're authorised to do so. An approved claim lets you add a description, website link and listed price, say whether you serve Guinness 0.0, set a cover photo, reply publicly to reviews, and see that listing's view and click stats. Anything you add must be accurate. Claiming a pub does not let you edit or remove reviews: you can post and delete your own reply, but the review itself stays. We can revoke a claim at any time, particularly if it was made without authority.
Advertising
Pubs can buy advertising campaigns through the Service. Payment is taken by Stripe when you check out. Prices and campaign length are shown before you pay.
Campaigns are a one-off payment for a fixed period. Nothing renews automatically and no recurring charge is set up. We'll email you before a campaign ends so you can choose to buy another. Campaigns are non-refundable once live, except where we fail to run the campaign or the law gives you a refund right that can't be excluded. If we cancel a live campaign for reasons other than your breach of these Terms, we'll refund the unused portion.
Some campaigns are sold on a city-exclusive basis. Where they are, exclusivity applies only to the city and period stated at checkout.
Advert content must be accurate, lawful, and about the pub being advertised. We can reject or pull creative that isn't. Campaign statistics come from our own measurement and are provided in good faith as an estimate.
Merchandise
Merchandise is sold through Shopify, and their checkout terms and our store's delivery and returns policy apply to those orders.
The apps
We grant you a personal, non-transferable, revocable licence to use our apps on devices you control. Apple and Google are not parties to these Terms and have no responsibility for the apps or for support. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms as they apply to the iOS app, and may enforce them against you. Any dispute about the app is with us, not with them. You confirm you're not in a country subject to a US government embargo or on a US prohibited-parties list.
Our content
The Service, its design, branding and features are ours and protected by intellectual property law. Map data is provided by Mapbox and used under their terms. The Guinness Map is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or associated with Guinness or Diageo plc.
No warranties
The Service is provided “as is“ without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We don't promise it will be uninterrupted, error-free or secure, and we don't guarantee that pub information, opening times or reviews are accurate.
Liability
We're not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, data or goodwill, arising from your use of the Service.
Our total liability to you for any claim is capped at the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, or fifty pounds sterling. Nothing here excludes liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that can't be excluded by law. If you're a consumer, you keep your statutory rights and nothing in these Terms limits them.
Indemnity
If someone brings a claim against us because of what you posted or because you broke these Terms, you agree to cover our reasonable costs and damages. This doesn't apply where you're a consumer acting outside a business.
Ending things
You can stop using the Service and delete your account whenever you like. We may suspend or end your access if you break these Terms, or if we discontinue the Service. Sections that by their nature should survive termination, including the content licence for material already used, liability, indemnity and governing law, do survive.
Governing law
These Terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction. If you're a consumer resident elsewhere, you keep the protection of the mandatory laws of your country of residence and may bring proceedings there.
General
If a provision is unenforceable, the rest still applies. Our not enforcing something isn't a waiver of it. You may not transfer your rights under these Terms; we may transfer ours to a successor of the business. These Terms and our Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between us. We're not liable for failures caused by events outside our reasonable control.
Changes
We may update these Terms. For material changes we'll give reasonable notice in the app or by email before they take effect. Continuing to use the Service after that means you accept them.
Contact
Effective Date: August 14, 2026