These Terms & Conditions (“Terms”) are an agreement between you and the operator of Michigan Bus (“Provider,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) governing your use of the Michigan Bus mobile application and its supporting services (together, the “App”). Please read them carefully.
By downloading, accessing, or using the App, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the App.
1. Important Status of the App
Michigan Bus is an independent, unofficial transit-information app. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or operated by the University of Michigan, its transit services, or any other transit agency.
University names, logos, transit route names, and other third-party marks are the property of their respective owners. Their appearance is for identification and informational purposes and does not imply endorsement.
2. Eligibility
You must be at least 13 years old to use the App. If you have not reached the age of legal majority where you live, you may use the App only with permission from a parent or legal guardian who agrees to these Terms on your behalf.
You may not use the App if applicable law prohibits you from doing so.
3. App Store License
The App is licensed, not sold. Your license to the App is governed by Apple’s Standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement (“Apple Standard EULA”), unless a different end-user license agreement is presented through the App Store. These Terms supplement the Apple Standard EULA and govern the App’s features and supporting services. If these Terms conflict with the Apple Standard EULA regarding the license to the App, the Apple Standard EULA controls.
Subject to these Terms and the Apple Standard EULA, we grant you a limited, personal, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, and non-sublicensable right to use the App on Apple-branded devices that you own or control, as permitted by Apple’s usage rules, solely for personal, noncommercial transit-information purposes.
4. Transit Information Is Not Guaranteed
The App displays routes, stops, schedules, estimated arrivals, vehicle positions, service status, walking estimates, and related information obtained from third-party sources and automated calculations. This information may be delayed, incomplete, inaccurate, unavailable, or changed without notice. A vehicle marker or arrival estimate may not reflect a vehicle’s actual position or arrival time.
Do not rely on the App as your only source of transit information. Confirm time-sensitive trips, accessibility needs, service disruptions, and safety information with official sources. Allow extra travel time.
The App is not an emergency, navigation-safety, dispatch, or accessibility-assurance service. It does not guarantee that any route, stop, vehicle, path, or facility is operating, safe, legal, or accessible. In an emergency, contact the appropriate emergency service.
5. Use the App Safely
You are responsible for your surroundings and for complying with traffic, campus, and transit rules. Do not interact with the App while driving, cycling, crossing a street, boarding, or in any situation where distraction could create risk. Map paths and stop locations may not reflect construction, closures, hazards, or permitted pedestrian routes.
Location-based stop detection and Live Activity behavior are conveniences only. They may fail because of location accuracy, permissions, background settings, battery restrictions, connectivity, operating-system behavior, or service availability.
6. Acceptable Use
You agree not to:
- use the App in violation of law or the rights of another person;
- interfere with, disrupt, damage, probe, or circumvent the App, its servers, or their security;
- access nonpublic endpoints or operator features without authorization;
- use automated means to scrape, copy, overload, or extract data from the App or supporting services, except as expressly permitted by us in writing or by applicable law;
- reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or attempt to derive source code from the App, except to the limited extent a restriction is prohibited by law or allowed by an applicable open-source license;
- impersonate another person, misrepresent affiliation, or use the App to harass, threaten, stalk, or harm anyone; or
- reproduce, modify, distribute, sell, sublicense, or commercially exploit the App or its content except as expressly permitted by these Terms.
We may use reasonable technical measures to enforce these restrictions and protect service availability.
7. Location, Live Activities, and Device Permissions
Some features request permission to use device location or Live Activities. You choose whether to grant these permissions and can change them in the App or iOS Settings. Denying a permission may prevent the related feature from working.
Live Activity updates are estimates and may be stale, delayed, throttled, or ended by iOS, Apple Push Notification service, the App, or our server. Frequent Updates is controlled by iOS and is not guaranteed.
Our handling of information is described in the App’s Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into these Terms by reference.
8. Saved Places and Local Data
The App may let you save places, labels, aliases, coordinates, preferences, and destination history on your device. You are responsible for the information you enter and for maintaining device security and backups. Do not enter information you do not have the right to use.
Local data may be lost if you delete or reset the App, replace or restore your device, encounter a software failure, or if Apple changes its storage or backup behavior. We are not responsible for recovering local data.
9. Third-Party Services and Data
The App depends on services and information provided by third parties, including Apple services and public transit-data sources. Third-party terms and privacy policies may apply. We do not control and are not responsible for third-party services, data, outages, changes, or acts.
Third-party transit information remains subject to the rights and restrictions of its source. You may not extract or reuse it in a manner that violates applicable law, source terms, or third-party rights.
Links or references to third-party services do not constitute an endorsement. You access them at your own risk.
10. Our Intellectual Property
Except for third-party materials, the App—including its software, design, graphics, arrangement, and original content—is owned by Provider or its licensors and is protected by intellectual-property laws. These Terms do not transfer ownership to you. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.
If you voluntarily send feedback or suggestions, you grant us a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free right to use them without restriction or compensation, provided that this does not grant us ownership of personal information contained in the feedback.
11. Service Changes and Availability
We may add, change, suspend, limit, or discontinue any part of the App at any time. We do not promise that the App will always be available, error-free, secure, or compatible with every device or operating-system version. Updates may be required to continue using the App.
We may establish reasonable usage limits or block requests that threaten security, violate these Terms, or impair the service for others.
12. Suspension and Termination
You may stop using the App at any time and may delete it from your device.
We may suspend or terminate access to the supporting services if you materially violate these Terms, create legal or security risk, or misuse the App. Where practicable and legally required, we will provide notice and an opportunity to address the issue.
Upon termination, the license granted by these Terms ends. Sections that by their nature should survive—including intellectual property, disclaimers, limitations of liability, dispute terms, and general provisions—will survive.
13. Disclaimer of Warranties
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE APP AND ALL TRANSIT INFORMATION ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE,” WITH ALL FAULTS. PROVIDER AND ITS LICENSORS DISCLAIM ALL EXPRESS, IMPLIED, AND STATUTORY WARRANTIES, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY, QUIET ENJOYMENT, AND AVAILABILITY.
WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE APP WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, SECURE, CURRENT, OR ACCURATE, OR THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED. NO ORAL OR WRITTEN INFORMATION CREATES A WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY STATED IN THESE TERMS.
Some jurisdictions do not allow certain warranty exclusions. In that case, the exclusions apply only to the extent permitted by law. You may have legal rights that vary by jurisdiction.
14. Limitation of Liability
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, PROVIDER AND ITS LICENSORS, SERVICE PROVIDERS, AND REPRESENTATIVES WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES; LOSS OF DATA, PROFITS, USE, OR GOODWILL; MISSED TRANSPORTATION; DELAY; PERSONAL INJURY OR PROPERTY DAMAGE ARISING FROM RELIANCE ON TRANSIT OR LOCATION INFORMATION; OR THE COST OF SUBSTITUTE SERVICES, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE APP OR THESE TERMS, EVEN IF ADVISED THAT SUCH DAMAGE WAS POSSIBLE.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE TOTAL LIABILITY OF PROVIDER AND THE PARTIES LISTED ABOVE FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE APP OR THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID DIRECTLY TO PROVIDER FOR THE APP DURING THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM OR (B) US $100.
These limitations do not apply to liability that cannot legally be excluded or limited, which may include liability for fraud, willful misconduct, gross negligence, death, or personal injury in some jurisdictions.
15. Governing Law and Disputes
Except where the law where you live requires otherwise, these Terms and disputes arising from them are governed by the laws of the State of Michigan, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Subject to any rights you have under mandatory local law, the state and federal courts located in Washtenaw County, Michigan will have exclusive jurisdiction, and you consent to their jurisdiction.
Nothing in these Terms limits mandatory consumer protections or your right to bring a claim in a forum that applicable law requires. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.
16. Apple-Specific Terms
You acknowledge that these Terms are between you and Provider, not Apple. Provider, not Apple, is responsible for the App and its content, subject to the Apple Standard EULA. Apple has no obligation to furnish maintenance or support for the App beyond any obligation imposed by applicable law.
To the extent permitted by law and subject to the Apple Standard EULA, Provider—not Apple—is responsible for addressing claims relating to the App, including product-liability, legal-compliance, and intellectual-property claims. If the App fails to conform to an applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple may refund the purchase price, if any, as provided by the Apple Standard EULA and applicable law.
You represent that you are not located in a country or region subject to a U.S. government embargo and are not listed on a U.S. government restricted-party list, except to the extent this representation is prohibited by applicable law.
Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms as they relate to the App license. Upon your acceptance, Apple has the right to enforce those provisions against you.
17. Changes to These Terms
We may update these Terms to reflect changes to the App, law, or our operations. We will revise the effective date and provide additional notice when required. Changes apply prospectively from their stated effective date. If you do not agree to updated Terms, stop using the App.
18. General
If a court finds part of these Terms unenforceable, that part will be enforced to the maximum extent permitted and the remainder will remain in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without our written consent; we may assign them in connection with a reorganization, merger, acquisition, or transfer of the App, subject to applicable law. These Terms, the Privacy Policy, and the Apple Standard EULA are the entire agreement concerning their subject matter and supersede prior statements on that subject.
19. Contact and Support
Questions, complaints, and claims regarding the App should be directed to:
- Email: legal@casal.ai