The deal in plain English

Who you’re agreeing with

These terms are between you and Karan Manoharan, an individual based in London, UK, who runs pubmaxxing.com. Using the site means you accept them. If you don’t, don’t use it. Questions go to support@pubmaxxing.com.

What PUBMAXX is

A map of pubs with prices on it, plus tools to plan a night with your mates. Prices come from three places: baseline records, prices logged by people standing in the pub, and old prices read out of dated, sourced archives. Baseline prices show their publisher when one is recorded and say when none is. That last lot is history. It is what a pint cost years ago, never a price for tonight, and it never moves the map. Heritage facts are cited, never invented. Nothing here is a booking service, and we’re not the pub. We don’t sell you drinks, take payment, or hold a table for you.

Age and alcohol

The map and existing contribution tools don’t use age to block an account. Social is live by default and may return to preview during an emergency rollback. Full access needs a signed-in account, a claimed handle and an 18+ answer. The date of birth you gave at onboarding decides when it is present; otherwise, one recorded self-assertion can answer the access question. We do not run a separate hosted age check. Pubs decide who they serve. Nothing in the app is designed to encourage you to drink more. Know your limits, and know the facts at drinkaware.co.uk. Getting home safely, and how much you drink on the way, is your call and your responsibility.

Your account

Browsing doesn’t need an account or analytics. First visit asks you to tap Allow or No thanks for optional usage analytics. You get the same app either way. If you allow them, we use a persistent device identifier and collect browser, operating system and device type, screen size, referrer and campaign details, plus app performance and the closed product events described in our privacy notice. PostHog deletes analytics events 12 months after collection and pseudonymous person and device records 12 months after their last activity. Handle is needed to finish signup. Date of birth is optional. Full name, gender and sex are optional. We collect and store date of birth, full name, gender and sex as private details for existing account tools. Social adult access does not use full name, gender or sex. Date of birth stays until you delete your profile. Full name, gender and sex stay until you edit or clear them, or delete your profile. Deleting your profile removes these private identity fields and clears its editable public details, while keeping your authentication account, public handle and handle-keyed contribution history. Only your handle is public. Social uses a private product account tied to your Supabase sign-in and stable profile. PUBMAXX doesn’t use your email or handle to join accounts. Social content returns to preview during an emergency rollback. Full access also needs a claimed handle and an 18+ answer. The date of birth you gave at onboarding decides when it is present; otherwise, one recorded self-assertion can answer the access question. We do not run a separate hosted age check. Your date of birth, documents and verification status aren’t public profile fields or badges. Keep your sign-in to yourself, use a handle that isn’t someone else’s identity, and don’t hand the account to anyone else. You can stop using it whenever you like, and ask us to delete your account and its private profile data. See the privacy notice.

Social Crews

A Social Crew takes its name from the linked Planned Night title. Its owner chooses one visibility setting: private, friends-only, or open. While a plan is open, anyone can see its title, the pub or place it starts at, its start time, how many people are in it, and the host handle. Close the plan and it drops out of the public list. Active members who remain Mutual with the owner can read the roster and Crew-bound Plan. A private Crew stays with the owner and those active members. Friends visibility gives the owner’s current Mutuals a limited preview, not the roster or full Plan.

Owners and cohosts can invite eligible Mutuals and decide Join Requests. An invitation is for its named recipient and ends at its expiry. A request is for its requester. Blocks stop access in either direction. Do not invite people who do not want to join, share Crew details outside its visibility, or use another person’s account.

The owner controls visibility and ownership changes. The owner can change roles. The owner or a cohost can remove a non-owner member within their authority. Members can leave, but an owner must transfer ownership first. Leaving or removal doesn’t erase the membership, invitation or decision history. Current members can still read Crew-bound Plan data under the Crew rules.

What you post

Social post text goes to OpenAI for omni moderation after we store it. The post stays held from feeds and direct reads until OpenAI returns a decision. If that check is unavailable or gives no usable decision, the post remains held. Social photos are resized, stripped of embedded metadata, kept private, and sent with the post text to OpenAI for moderation. Profile pictures use the same OpenAI omni moderation on owned storage bytes before they are publicly addressable; if that check fails, the upload is refused and your previous picture stays. Readers may report a profile picture; only a named staff member may hide or restore it, and hiding never deletes the stored file. Photo tags need the tagged person’s approval and can be withdrawn. Signed photo delivery links are short lived.

Comments and quote posts also stay held until an OpenAI moderation decision. Post authors choose who may comment and can lock comments later. Saves are private. Reposts and quotes never make their source visible to someone who cannot read it. Feature requests keep staff status and response history without becoming a vote. Social feeds stay chronological, not popularity-ranked, and no interaction can buy reach or change a pub or price ranking.

Prices, notes, photos, plans, stories: you keep ownership of all of it. By posting it you give us permission to store it, show it in the app, and use it as part of the price and heritage data the map is built from, including in aggregate figures like the Pint Index. That permission is free of charge, worldwide, and lasts as long as the content is up; delete the content, or ask us to, and it ends, except for anonymous aggregate figures already published and copies other people saved.

When you post, you’re telling us that:

• It’s yours to post, or you have permission to post it.
• The price is one you actually saw, at that pub, for that drink, around now, not a guess, a memory from last year, or a joke.
• Photos don’t show people who’d rather not be on a public map.

Using it fairly

Don’t:

• Log prices you didn’t see, or spray a figure across venues to move the map. Submissions are rate-limited and a price only reaches the map once a second, independent person backs it up.
• Post anything illegal, hateful, harassing, or that exposes someone’s private details.
• Scrape at a volume that costs us money, hammer the API, or try to get around rate limits, sign-in, or moderation.
• Use the app to advertise, spam, or push a venue up the list. Nobody pays to rank, and that includes doing it by hand.
• Impersonate someone else, or pretend to be us.

We can hide or remove content, and suspend an account, when something’s clearly broken these rules. If you think we’ve got it wrong, email us and say so. We’d rather fix it than argue about it.

Invites and referral milestones

You can share one account invite link. A referral counts only when someone follows it, signs up and makes a first accepted contribution. Self-referrals, second accounts made for yourself and circular referrals between two accounts don’t count.

A referral milestone is a mark of honour. Reaching one puts a line on your own account page and does nothing else. It buys no feature, no tier and no discount, and nothing on PUBMAXX is held back from anyone who has invited nobody.

We record the private edge and the milestone. We do not record, and cannot grant, any paid feature from either.

How to read prices

A current price names and links its publisher when its record does. When no publisher is recorded for a price, we say so beside it. Prices logged by people carry the day they were seen. Other current prices share the date for their dataset. Pubs change prices, run happy hours, charge differently on a match day, and make mistakes. People logging prices can make mistakes too. A figure here is a good steer, not a quote, and the pub is under no obligation to honour it. Check at the bar.

All of that is about the price a pub is charging now. Where we show what a pint used to cost, that figure is a dated record of the past, taken from a source we name and link. It says nothing about tonight, and we never let it stand in for the current price.

Opening hours, transport times, heritage facts and weather come from third-party sources. We cite them and we don’t make them up, but we can’t promise they’re current or complete.

The app comes as it is

PUBMAXX is free and comes as it is. We work on it constantly, which means features change, move, or disappear, and the site will sometimes be down. We don’t promise it will be available, uninterrupted, error-free, or that any particular pub, price or feature will still be there tomorrow.

Where our responsibility ends

To the extent the law allows, we’re not liable for what happens when you act on something you read here: a price that had changed, a pub that was shut, a route that took longer than you thought, or a night that went sideways. That includes lost money, lost time, and anything indirect.

Nothing in these terms limits liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud, or for anything else the law doesn’t let us exclude. If you’re a consumer, your statutory rights under UK consumer law stand whatever this page says.

Changes and endings

We may update these terms as the app changes; the date at the top moves when we do, and carrying on using the site means you accept the update. You can stop using PUBMAXX at any time. We may suspend or end access where these terms are being broken, or if we stop running the service.

These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have jurisdiction.