Waze Terms of Use

This is Waze's Terms of Use — the legal agreement that governs how you can use the Waze GPS navigation app and website, including what Waze can do with your data and the map edits, reports, and content you contribute. The most important thing to know is that when you contribute anything to Waze — like reporting an accident, editing a map, or submitting a photo — you give Waze a permanent, irrevocable license to use that content however they choose, even if you later delete your account. If Waze's navigation gives you bad directions and something goes wrong, the most they are legally obligated to pay you is $100.

This document constitutes Waze's Terms of Use governing access to and use of the Waze navigation application and website (waze.com), operating under a contractual framework with Waze Mobile Limited (an Israeli-incorporated Google subsidiary), with choice of law designated as the State of California for U.S. users and Israel for non-U.S. users. The most significant obligations include users granting Waze a broad, perpetual, royalty-free, worldwide, irrevocable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display any User Content submitted through the platform, and users accepting that their real-time location data, driving patterns, and community-contributed map edits are continuously collected and shared. Notably, the Terms include a broad disclaimer of all warranties and a limitation of liability capping Waze's total liability at the greater of the fees paid by the user in the twelve months preceding the claim or $100 USD — an unusually low ceiling for a navigation service where reliance on inaccurate routing could have safety consequences. The document engages GDPR (for EU/EEA users), CCPA (for California residents), COPPA (users under 13 are prohibited), Israeli privacy law, and FTC Act Section 5 consumer protection standards; material compliance considerations include adequacy of consent mechanisms for real-time location tracking, the legality of the broad User Content license under GDPR Article 6 and 7, and the tension between the perpetual irrevocable content license and GDPR Article 17 right to erasure.