Terms of Service

These are the terms for using Flown and Found. They’re short because the deal is simple: it’s a free beta, use it honestly, and the photos belong to the photographers.

1. What Flown and Found is

Flown and Found lets you upload your flight logbook and finds photographs of the specific aircraft you flew. To do that it searches several aviation photography sites: Planespotters.net, JetPhotos.com, Airliners.net, Airplane-Pictures.net and OneSpotter.com. Where a photograph looks like it was taken on a day you were flying that aeroplane, we say so and link you to it on the site that holds it. The thumbnails shown in your aircraft gallery, and in the public gallery anybody can see without an account, come from the Planespotters.net API. Every photograph, everywhere, carries its photographer’s name.

Flown and Found is run by Christopher Trott, a sole trader in the United Kingdom.

2. This is a beta

Flown and Found is an early, free, validation-stage product. That means:

• It is provided as-is, with no guarantees it will be available, fast, or bug-free.
• Photo matches are not guaranteed to be from your flight. A photo is matched to one of your flights when it was taken at that flight’s airport on the day you were there, and its colour shows how sure we are. The pictures in your aircraft gallery are matched by registration only, so they show the aircraft, not necessarily on your day. Matches rest on other websites’ records and can be wrong, so don’t rely on one as proof of anything.
• Not every aircraft has a photo. Coverage depends entirely on what photographers have uploaded to our sources.
• Features may change, break, or be removed while we learn what works.

3. The free service can change or end

While in beta, the service is free. We may change what the free service includes, introduce limits, or withdraw the service entirely, at any time. If we ever shut down, we will give reasonable notice so you have time to download your data first.

You do not have to wait for that notice. The Account page has two download buttons you can use at any time. Download everything (JSON) gives you every flight in your logbook, everything waiting in your review queue, and the details of any photo we have matched to one of your own flights (its source, its photographer, and where and when it was taken). Download my flights only (CSV) gives you just the flights, laid out as a spreadsheet. Neither includes the wider photo library those matches are drawn from: that is shared reference data, not something that is yours, the same way the airport list is not yours. Your logbook data remains yours and deletable at all times either way, see the Privacy Policy.

4. Your account

Keep your login details to yourself and tell us if you think your account has been compromised. You’re responsible for what happens under your account. You must be 18 or over.

5. Your logbook data

You may only upload logbook data that is yours to upload: your own logbook, or one you have clear permission from the owner to upload. Your flight records remain your data. We claim no ownership of them and use them only to run the service, as described in the Privacy Policy.

6. The photos belong to the photographers

Every photograph you see through Flown and Found belongs to the photographer who took it. We do not host, own, or license these photos. The thumbnails we display come from the Planespotters.net API and carry their attribution, and every link takes you to the photograph’s own page on the site that holds it, which may be Planespotters.net, JetPhotos.com, Airliners.net, Airplane-Pictures.net or OneSpotter.com.

You must not use Flown and Found to download, copy, republish, or commercially use any photograph. If you want to use a photo, follow the link and deal with the photographer or the source site on their terms. We are a discovery tool, not a photo library.

7. Acceptable use

Don’t:

• upload data that isn’t yours to upload;
• attempt to access other users’ data or probe the service’s security;
• scrape, bulk-download, or hammer the service or the photo sources through it;
• use the service for anything unlawful.

We can suspend or close accounts that break these terms.

8. Liability

Flown and Found is a free beta service. To the fullest extent the law allows, we exclude liability for losses arising from your use of it, including inaccurate matches, downtime, or loss of data. Nothing in these terms excludes liability that cannot legally be excluded (for example, for fraud). Practical translation: keep your original logbook; this service is a companion to it, not a replacement for it.

9. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms as the product evolves. If we make meaningful changes, we’ll update the date at the top and flag it on the site. Continuing to use the service after a change means you accept the updated terms.

10. Governing law

These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have jurisdiction. Nothing here removes protections you have as a consumer under applicable law.

Contact

Questions about these terms: support@flownandfound.com.