Last updated: 10 October 2026
These are the rules for using Skedaddle. They cover how you behave in the app, what you can post, and where responsibility sits when you take your family out. By using Skedaddle you accept them.
The short version: be decent, keep your own children safe, and report anything that is not right. We remove content and block people who abuse this, and there are no exceptions.
Skedaddle is distributed through Apple's App Store, so the licence for the software is Apple's standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement, the same one that comes with every app you download there.
This page sits alongside that licence and covers the things particular to Skedaddle: how you use it, what you post, and keeping your family safe.
You must be 18 or over. The app is for adults. Children are never users of it. They come into it only as the people you are planning a day out for, and we keep as little about them as we can, which the privacy policy explains in full.
Skedaddle does two things. It suggests places and activities near you, and it lets you share a plan so that other parents can join you.
Please read the rest of this section carefully, because it is the part people assume the opposite of.
We are not a party to any meeting, plan or arrangement made through the app. We do not organise meet-ups, we do not supervise them, and we do not attend them. Anything that happens when you meet someone is between you and them.
We do not check anyone. We carry out no background checks, no criminal record checks, no identity checks, and no other kind of check on the people who use Skedaddle. Nobody here has been approved, verified or vetted by us, and you should not treat someone's presence in the app as any kind of assurance about them.
Place and activity suggestions are ideas, not recommendations we have checked. They come from open and third party map data, including OpenStreetMap and Overture, and from places other parents have suggested. We do not visit, inspect or verify them, and we cannot promise a place is accurate, suitable, safe, open or accessible. You alone decide whether a place or an activity is right for you and for your children.
There is no tolerance for objectionable content or for abusive behaviour on Skedaddle.
When you use the app you agree that you will not:
If you break these rules we will remove the content and we may block you from the app permanently. We aim to act on every report within 24 hours. Where something looks like a criminal offence, or like a risk to a child, we may report it to the police or to another authority, and we will cooperate with them.
You keep ownership of anything you post, such as a place you suggest, a plan you share, or a photo. By posting it you give us permission to show it in the app to other parents, for as long as it is there.
You are responsible for what you post, and for having the right to post it. Do not post a photograph of someone else's child.
We may review, hide, edit or remove anything posted through the app, and we may do it without telling you first, if we think it breaks these rules or the law.
This is the most important section on this page.
You choose where to go and who to meet. Those are your decisions, and you are responsible for judging whether a place or an activity is suitable and safe for you and for your children, before and during your visit. That includes hazards such as open water, tides, cliffs and terrain, traffic, weather, and anything else about a place or its surroundings.
You are responsible for supervising your own children at all times. Nobody else on Skedaddle is responsible for your children.
Weather, wind and tide times in the app come from third party forecasters. They are a guide, they can be wrong, and they are never a substitute for looking at the conditions in front of you and making your own judgement.
The safety notice in the app, and the note shown when a place is suggested to you, are part of these terms.
Every plan in the app can be hidden, reported, or its author blocked, from the menu on the plan itself.
When you report something we receive the report and a copy of what you reported. We look at it, and we decide what to do, which may be to remove the content, to block the person, or to pass it to the police or another authority. We keep reports for longer than we keep ordinary plans, so that we can act on them and cooperate with the authorities if we have to. The privacy policy explains that.
If you believe a child is in immediate danger, call 999. Please do not wait for us.
Skedaddle is free to download and free to use. Skedaddle Plus unlocks every place across Britain and the whole rainy-day library. There are three ways to start, and you choose which:
Seven days with everything unlocked. Nothing is charged, and nothing renews. It is not a subscription with a free period at the front: there is no card, no trial that turns into a payment, and nothing to cancel. On day eight you carry on with the free version unless you decide to buy Plus. One free week per Apple ID.
This one is a subscription, and it renews. Your App Store account is charged £3.99 when you buy it and again each year, unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the year is up.
To cancel, open your iPhone's Settings, tap your name at the top, then Subscriptions, then Skedaddle. You can also get there from the Plus screen in the app. Cancelling stops the next payment; you keep Plus until the year you have already paid for runs out.
If we ever change the price, we will tell you in the app before it takes effect, and Apple will ask you to agree to it before charging the new amount.
One payment, and it is yours. Nothing recurring, nothing to cancel.
Apple takes the payment, so the purchase runs through your App Store account and refunds are handled by Apple, not by us. Request one through Apple's own refund page or from your purchase history. Do email us anyway if something was not what you expected, and we will help where we can.
If you are in the UK or the EU, buying a subscription or a one off unlock is a distance contract, and you normally have 14 days to change your mind. Digital content you start using straight away is an exception to that, and Apple asks you to agree to begin immediately when you buy. Your statutory rights are not affected, and Apple's refund process is how you exercise them.
Got a new phone, or reinstalled? Open the Plus screen in the app and tap Restore purchase. It comes back at no cost.
We may change this page, for example when the app gains a feature these terms do not cover. When we make a significant change we will say so in the app before it takes effect, and we will update the date at the top. If you carry on using Skedaddle after a change takes effect, you are accepting it. If you do not agree to it, please stop using the app.
These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have jurisdiction. If you live somewhere else, you keep the rights your own country's consumer law gives you, and nothing here takes those away.
A real person reads every one. For help with the app, the support page says what to include.
Skedaddle is made by Danny Hearn and operated by Deeply Human Design Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales (company number 14615013, registered office: 10 Weston Lane, Totnes, TQ9 5UN). VAT number GB 432624024.