Terms of Service

1. Who we are and what these Terms cover

HERide, Inc. (“HERide,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) is a Georgia corporation headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. HERide operates a technology platform that connects riders with independent driver-partners.

These Terms of Service govern your use of the HERide driver app, the HERide driver portal, and related services (together, the “Platform”) as an independent driver-partner. Our privacy policy at getheride.com/legal/driver-privacy is incorporated by reference. Any separate Independent Contractor Agreement you sign during onboarding also applies; if it conflicts with these Terms on a specific point, that agreement controls on that point.

2. Independent contractor relationship

You are an independent contractor. You are not an employee, agent, joint venturer, or partner of HERide, and nothing in these Terms creates an employment relationship.

• You decide whether, when, where, and how often to use the Platform. You are under no obligation to go online, to accept any trip request, or to be available at any particular time.
• You provide your own vehicle, smartphone, data plan, fuel, insurance, maintenance, and all other equipment and expenses. HERide does not reimburse them unless expressly agreed in writing.
• You control the manner and means of performing transportation services, including your route, subject to law, rider requests, and the safety standards in these Terms.
• You may provide services for other transportation platforms or businesses, including HERide’s competitors, at any time.
• You are not eligible for employee benefits, unemployment insurance, workers’ compensation, or overtime from HERide, and HERide does not withhold income or payroll taxes on your behalf.
• You are responsible for reporting and paying all applicable federal, state, and local taxes on your earnings, including self-employment tax.

3. Eligibility and driver community

HERide is a rideshare service created for women, and our driver community is made up of women. Driver applications are individually reviewed against this mission and against the safety and quality standards below. HERide reserves the right to decline any application.

To drive on HERide you must, at minimum and at all times:

• Meet the minimum age required by applicable law and by our insurance requirements;
• Hold a valid, unrestricted driver’s license, and have the driving experience required by applicable law;
• Hold and maintain personal automobile insurance meeting or exceeding the minimums required by Georgia law and by HERide, naming you as a covered driver of the vehicle you use;
• Have the legal right to work as an independent contractor in the United States;
• Own or have documented permission to use the vehicle you drive, with valid registration and, where required, a rideshare or transportation network company permit;
• Pass and continue to pass HERide’s background screening;
• Meet HERide’s vehicle standards and pass vehicle inspection.

4. Onboarding and required documents

Before you can be approved you must complete HERide’s onboarding:

• Account creation and phone verification by one-time passcode;
• Document upload — driver’s license, vehicle registration, insurance declarations page, profile photo, and vehicle photos;
• Electronic signature of your onboarding document set, which includes your Independent Contractor Agreement, your background-check consent and disclosure, an IRS Form W-9, and a motor vehicle record authorization. These are delivered through our e-signature provider, and your electronic signature has the same legal effect as a handwritten one;
• Background screening (section 5);
• Vehicle inspection (section 6);
• Payout account setup (section 14).

You must provide accurate, complete, and current information, and must promptly update HERide when any document expires, is suspended, revoked, or materially changes. Submitting false or altered documents is grounds for immediate and permanent deactivation and may be reported to authorities.

5. Background checks and ongoing screening

Your consent

You authorize HERide and its consumer reporting agencies to obtain consumer reports and investigative consumer reports about you — including criminal history, identity verification, and driving records — for the purpose of evaluating you for, and continuing, your engagement as a driver-partner. You will receive the disclosure and authorization required by the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act and applicable state law separately, and your signature on those documents governs the screening.

Recurring re-screening

Screening is not a one-time event. You consent to periodic re-screening for as long as your account remains active — currently on approximately a 90-day cycle, subject to change to meet legal requirements or platform policy. You must remain continuously eligible, not merely eligible on the day you applied.

Results and adverse action

If a report contains information that may affect your eligibility, HERide will follow the FCRA’s pre-adverse action and adverse action process: you will receive a copy of the report and a summary of your rights, and a reasonable opportunity to dispute or explain the information before a final decision is made. Results flagged for review do not automatically deactivate your account.

Your duty to self-report

You must notify HERide within 24 hours if you are arrested for or charged with a felony, a violent or sexual offense, a drug offense, or any offense involving driving under the influence, or if your driver’s license or insurance is suspended, revoked, or cancelled. Continuing to drive after such an event is a material breach of these Terms.

6. Vehicle standards and inspection

• Your vehicle must be safe, clean, mechanically sound, free of cosmetic damage that affects safety or rider experience, and compliant with all applicable safety and emissions requirements.
• Your vehicle must pass a HERide inspection before you may accept trips. Inspection may be completed through the HERide driver portal by submitting required photographs — exterior, interior, license plate, and VIN — and attesting to the accuracy of the plate and VIN. A HERide inspector reviews the submission against your application documents and approves or rejects it.
• Submitting photographs of a vehicle other than the one you drive, or misrepresenting a plate or VIN, is fraud and results in permanent deactivation.
• You must re-inspect on the schedule HERide sets, and must submit a new inspection whenever you change vehicles. Adding or changing a vehicle requires HERide approval before you drive it.
• HERide may require a re-inspection at any time in response to a rider report or a safety concern.

Premium tiers — including HERide LuxHERy and HERide Black — carry stricter vehicle standards, such as a maximum vehicle age, an approved list of makes and models, minimum seating capacity, and for HERide Black a black exterior. Participation is opt-in. If your vehicle does not meet the published standard for a tier, your opt-in will be declined and you will continue to receive standard trip requests. Eligibility is re-evaluated as your vehicle ages or changes.

7. Document expiration and automatic deactivation

Your driver’s license, insurance, registration, and any required permit must be valid at all times. If a required document expires, the Platform may automatically place your account on hold and prevent you from going online until you upload a current document. This is a safety and compliance control, not a disciplinary action, and access is restored when valid documents are received and verified.

8. Going online, trip offers, and dispatch

Going online

You are online and eligible to receive trip requests only when you set yourself online in the app, are within a serviced area, meet all eligibility requirements, and have completed payout onboarding. HERide may prevent you from going online if a required check, document, or payout setup is incomplete.

Trip offers

Trip requests are offers you may accept or decline. Some offers may be marked as higher-priority — late-night trips, high-value trips, or trips matching a program you participate in — and may be presented with distinct alerts. Declining offers does not by itself result in penalty, but chronic non-response while online may affect the offers you receive.

Scheduled rides and claims

Where scheduled rides are offered, you may claim an upcoming trip in advance. A claim is a commitment: it removes the trip from other drivers’ queues and the rider is told a driver is assigned. If you cannot fulfill a claimed trip, release it as early as possible through the app. Repeatedly claiming and abandoning scheduled trips, or failing to appear for one, may result in loss of access to scheduled rides or deactivation.

Contracted and program trips

Some trips are dispatched under a contract or program — senior transportation, medical transportation, corporate accounts, or accessible transportation fulfilled by a partner network. These may carry additional requirements on training, documentation, trip verification, scheduling, and pay, and may be routed only to drivers assigned to that program. Program rules control for those trips.

9. Your obligations while driving

• Drive safely and lawfully. Obey all traffic, licensing, and transportation network company laws. Do not use a handheld device while driving.
• Never drive under the influence of alcohol, drugs, or any substance that impairs your driving. HERide has zero tolerance, and a credible report of impaired driving results in immediate suspension pending investigation.
• Verify your rider at pickup. Where the app presents rider verification tools — a rider’s HERVerify photo or a pickup code — use them to confirm you are transporting the correct person.
• Follow the app’s navigation and designated pickup zones, particularly at airports and venues. Do not pick up outside an authorized rideshare zone. You are responsible for citations, fines, and penalties you incur.
• Transport only the rider who booked and their authorized companions, within the vehicle’s seatbelt capacity. Do not allow anyone else to drive your vehicle or ride along while you are on a HERide trip.
• Accept service animals. Refusing a rider with a service animal is unlawful and results in deactivation.
• Do not discriminate against a rider on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, or any other protected characteristic.
• Do not harass, threaten, solicit, or contact a rider outside the app for any purpose other than returning lost property through HERide.
• Start and end each trip in the app at the correct times and locations. Do not start a trip before the rider is in the vehicle or extend a trip beyond the drop-off.
• Do not request or accept cash. HERide is cashless; all fares are collected through the app.

10. HERVerify

HERVerify is a live selfie taken with the front camera. It is used two ways:

Your photo

You may be asked to take one when you go online, to confirm that the person driving is the approved account holder. Your photo is never shown to riders.

The rider’s photo

Where the rider has completed HERVerify, her photo appears on your trip screen so you can identify her at pickup. It is visible for the length of that trip only.

You may not screenshot, photograph, copy, save, publish, or share a rider’s HERVerify photo. Doing so is a serious breach of section 19 and results in permanent deactivation.

11. Teen trips and in-vehicle streaming

Where HERide offers Teen Accounts, trips for teen riders may include a live video and audio stream from inside your vehicle to the teen’s parent or guardian, published from your device’s front-facing camera and microphone for the duration of the trip.

• You will be asked to consent in the app before any stream begins, and you may decline. Declining does not penalize your account, but the trip will not proceed with streaming enabled.
• The stream is live only. It is not recorded or stored by HERide, and it ends when the trip ends.
• If you accept a teen trip with streaming, you must position your device so the camera has the intended view of the cabin, and you must not disable, obscure, or interrupt the stream during the trip.
• You are on notice that your voice and image are transmitted live to the guardian for the duration of the trip, and you consent to that transmission for that purpose.

12. Safety features and incident reporting

The driver app includes safety tools, including an in-app SOS button and, where enabled, escalation to a professional emergency dispatch service that can request emergency response to your location.

Report any accident, injury, threat, assault, or other safety incident to HERide immediately at support@getheride.com or through in-app support, and to law enforcement where appropriate. You must cooperate with HERide’s investigation. HERide may suspend your account during an investigation.

You may use a dash camera where permitted by law. You are solely responsible for complying with Georgia and other applicable recording and consent laws, for disclosing recording to riders, and for the security of any footage. Do not publish, post, sell, or share footage of a rider, and do not use footage for any purpose other than your own safety and incident documentation.

13. Earnings

How you are paid

For each completed trip you earn the trip fare less HERide’s service fee, plus any applicable tolls, surcharges, incentives, and 100% of rider tips. Your service fee percentage is determined by the driver plan assigned to your account; drivers on certain contracted programs are paid on a different commission split, shown in your app and in your plan. Fares are calculated from the city and vehicle-type rate card in effect at the time of booking.

Cancellation and no-show compensation

Where a rider cancels after you have accepted and traveled toward pickup, or where a rider does not appear and the trip is ended as a no-show, you may be credited a cancellation or no-show fee in accordance with the fee windows and amounts in effect for that trip type and city. Fees attributable to driver fault — where the cancellation reason indicates the driver did not arrive or could not be reached — are not credited to you.

Adjustments and reversals

HERide may adjust, withhold, or reverse earnings where a trip was fraudulent, where a fare was miscalculated, where a rider payment is charged back or reversed, where a fare adjustment is made after review of a rider dispute, or where earnings resulted from a violation of these Terms. We will identify any adjustment in your earnings history.

No guarantee of earnings

HERide makes no representation or guarantee regarding the number of trips you will receive or the amount you will earn. Any earnings figures shown in marketing, recruiting, or projections are illustrative and are not a promise.

14. Payouts, payment account, and taxes

• Payout account required. You must complete onboarding with HERide’s payments partner, including identity verification and any required tax and bank information. Until your payout account is fully verified and enabled, you may be prevented from going online and cannot receive payouts. This requirement comes from financial regulation, not HERide preference.
• Payout schedule. Earnings accrue to your in-app balance and are paid out on HERide’s regular payout cycle to the bank account or debit card you connect. Where instant or on-demand withdrawal is offered, a fee may apply and is disclosed before you confirm.
• Accuracy. You are responsible for the accuracy of your payout details. HERide is not responsible for funds misdirected because you provided incorrect information.
• Taxes. HERide does not withhold taxes. Where required, you will receive an IRS Form 1099. You are responsible for your own tax obligations and filings.
• Offsets. HERide may offset amounts you owe — reversed fares, incentive clawbacks for fraud, or fees you agreed to — against your balance.

15. Location tracking while you drive

Location collection while you are online is a condition of using the Platform. You may turn off location permission at any time in your device settings, but you will not be able to go online or complete trips. Your location is not tracked for HERide’s purposes when you are offline. See the driver privacy policy for how this data is used, shared, and retained.

16. Notifications and communications

You agree to receive operational messages by push notification, SMS, email, and in-app alert — trip offers, dispatch alerts, safety notices, document and compliance reminders, payout notices, and account decisions. These are necessary to operate your account and cannot be fully disabled while your account is active. Message and data rates may apply. Marketing messages are separate and you may opt out of them at any time.

Calls and messages between you and a rider may be routed through a masked number and may be logged for safety and support purposes.

17. Ratings, reputation, and quality standards

Riders rate you after each trip, and you rate riders. HERide maintains a driver reputation view showing your rating, completed trips, and related metrics, and maintains a rider Reliability Score you may see when receiving a request.

You must maintain the minimum star rating, acceptance and completion standards, and community standards HERide publishes for your market. Falling below a minimum standard may result in a warning, temporary suspension, required coaching, or deactivation. Serious violations — safety, discrimination, fraud, impairment, harassment, or a failed background re-screen — may result in immediate deactivation without a prior warning.

18. Referral programs

Where HERide offers driver referral rewards, the referred driver must be genuinely new, must complete the qualifying activity described in the offer, and must remain in good standing. Self-referrals, duplicate accounts, fabricated identities, and other abuse void the reward, and HERide may reverse paid rewards and deactivate the accounts involved.

19. Rider information and confidentiality

• Rider names, photos, phone numbers, addresses, trip details, and HERVerify photos are confidential. Use them only to complete the trip.
• Do not save, copy, publish, post to social media, sell, or otherwise disclose rider information or images.
• Do not contact a rider after a trip except through HERide to return lost property.
• Do not use HERide rider information to market your own or a third party’s products or services.

These obligations survive deactivation and termination of your account.

20. Insurance

Your insurance

You must maintain, at your own expense and for the entire time you use the Platform, automobile liability insurance that meets or exceeds the minimums required by Georgia law and by HERide’s published requirements, covering you as a driver of the vehicle you use. You must provide proof on request and upload a current declarations page whenever your policy renews or changes.

Tell your insurer you drive for a TNC

Personal auto policies commonly exclude losses that occur while a vehicle is used to carry passengers for a fee. You are responsible for telling your insurer that you drive for a transportation network company and for obtaining a rideshare endorsement or other coverage if your policy requires it. Failing to do so may leave you personally uninsured during a trip.

HERide maintains a commercial automobile liability policy through Vouch Insurance Services that meets the transportation network company insurance requirements of Georgia law. This coverage applies to your use of a vehicle in connection with trips arranged through the Platform, in periods as Georgia’s TNC framework defines them.

This coverage applies only while you are using the Platform as described above. It is not a substitute for your own automobile insurance, which you must maintain at all times, and it does not cover personal use of your vehicle, use for another transportation platform, or use while your account is deactivated or suspended.

A certificate of insurance and a summary of coverage are available on request from support@getheride.com. In the event of an accident during a trip, report it to HERide immediately under section 12 so the claim can be routed to the correct policy.

21. Lost property

If a rider leaves an item in your vehicle, report it in the app and keep it secure. You may be asked to return it, and a return fee may be credited to you for your time. Keeping, using, or disposing of a rider’s property is theft and results in permanent deactivation.

22. Your license to use the Platform

Subject to these Terms, HERide grants you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use the driver app for the sole purpose of providing transportation services arranged through the Platform. You may not share your account, allow another person to drive under your account, reverse-engineer or modify the app, scrape or extract data, use bots or emulators, or falsify your location or trip data. Account sharing is a serious safety violation and results in permanent deactivation.

All Platform software, content, trademarks, and design are owned by HERide or its licensors. If you give us feedback or suggestions, you grant us a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free license to use them.

23. Suspension, deactivation, and appeal

You may stop using HERide at any time. HERide may suspend or deactivate your account, with or without notice, for breach of these Terms, failure to maintain eligibility, safety concerns, fraud, legal requirement, or extended inactivity.

If your account is deactivated, you may request a review by contacting support@getheride.com. We will explain the reason where we are able to do so consistent with safety, privacy, and legal obligations, and will consider information you provide. Earnings you have already accrued will be paid out in the ordinary course, less any amounts properly owed to HERide.

24. Disclaimers

THE PLATFORM IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE.” TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, HERIDE DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. HERIDE DOES NOT WARRANT UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE OPERATION, THE ACCURACY OF NAVIGATION, ESTIMATES, OR DISPATCH, OR THE CONDUCT, IDENTITY, OR CREDITWORTHINESS OF ANY RIDER.

25. Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, HERIDE AND ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AND AGENTS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, LOST EARNINGS OPPORTUNITY, LOST DATA, PERSONAL INJURY, OR PROPERTY DAMAGE ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF THE PLATFORM, WHETHER BASED IN CONTRACT, TORT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, HERIDE’S TOTAL LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OR THE PLATFORM WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF THE TOTAL AMOUNTS PAID TO YOU BY HERIDE IN THE SIX MONTHS PRECEDING THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR FIVE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS ($500).

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so parts of this section may not apply. Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited by law.

26. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless HERide and its officers, directors, employees, and agents from any claim, loss, liability, damage, fine, penalty, or expense, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, arising from your provision of transportation services, your use of the Platform, your operation of a vehicle, your breach of these Terms, or your violation of any law.

27. Dispute resolution and arbitration

Informal resolution first

Before starting a formal proceeding, contact us at support@getheride.com with a written description of the dispute and the relief you seek, and give us 30 days to resolve it informally.

Binding individual arbitration

If the dispute is not resolved informally, you and HERide agree that any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms, your relationship with HERide, or your use of the Platform — including disputes about classification, compensation, deactivation, or discrimination — will be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association (“AAA”), under whichever AAA rules apply to the dispute — its Employment/Workplace Arbitration Rules for claims arising out of your working relationship with HERide, and its Commercial Arbitration Rules otherwise — rather than in court. HERide pays the arbitration filing and administrative fees beyond the amount those rules assign to you. Arbitration will take place in Fulton County, Georgia, or another mutually agreed location, or by videoconference.

Class and collective action waiver

Claims may be brought only in an individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or member in any purported class, collective, consolidated, or representative proceeding. The arbitrator may not consolidate claims or preside over a representative proceeding. If this waiver is found unenforceable as to a particular claim, that claim proceeds in court and the remainder stays in arbitration.

Your right to opt out

You may opt out by emailing support@getheride.com with your name, the email and phone number on your account, and a clear statement that you opt out of arbitration, within 30 days of first accepting these Terms. Opting out will not affect your ability to drive on HERide and will not be held against you in any way.

Exceptions

Either party may bring an individual claim in small-claims court, and either party may seek injunctive relief in court to protect intellectual property or confidential information. Nothing in this section prevents you from filing a charge or claim with a government agency, or waives any right that cannot be waived by law, including any right to bring a representative action that applicable law makes non-waivable.

Governing law and venue

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Georgia, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules, and by the Federal Arbitration Act as to this section. For any dispute not subject to arbitration, you and HERide consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Fulton County, Georgia.

28. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms as our service and legal obligations change. When we make a material change, we will update the “Last updated” date and notify you in the app, by email, or by requiring you to accept the revised Terms before you next go online. Changes are not retroactive. Continuing to use the Platform after the effective date means you accept the revised Terms. If you do not accept them, stop using the Platform.

29. General

• Entire agreement: these Terms, the privacy policy, your Independent Contractor Agreement, and any program terms that apply to you form the entire agreement between you and HERide.
• Severability: if a provision is held unenforceable, the rest remains in effect.
• No waiver: our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver.
• Assignment: you may not assign these Terms. We may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.
• Force majeure: neither party is liable for failures caused by events beyond its reasonable control.
• Survival: sections 2, 13, 14, 19, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, and 29 survive termination.

30. How to reach us

• Driver support, legal notices, and arbitration opt-out: support@getheride.com
• Privacy questions and data requests: privacy@getheride.com
• Driver portal: driver-portal.getheride.com
• HERide, Inc., Atlanta, GA