Make shared travel feel safe, warm, and real.
Last Updated: May 16, 2026 ? Version 1.0
TravelFar exists for people who want to go, but not alone. These Guidelines explain how we keep the community respectful, trustworthy, and focused on travel companionship.
Safety Comes First
We take safety seriously. If you violate these Guidelines, we may remove content, warn you, limit features, suspend your account, permanently ban you, preserve evidence, or contact authorities where required or appropriate.
Community Norms
TravelFar is for finding travel buddies and shared trips. Friendly connection is welcome; unwanted flirting, harassment, hate, impersonation, fake profiles, or off-purpose messaging are not.
- TravelFar is not a dating app.
- Communicate respectfully.
- Do not use hate or dehumanizing language.
- Be authentic.
- Keep messages, profiles, and trips travel-focused.
Prohibited Content and Conduct
Violence, threats, stalking, coercion, sexual misconduct, scams, illegal activity, spam, commercial promotion, scraping, bots, ban evasion, and attempts to bypass moderation or security are prohibited.
- Violence, threats, stalking, coercion, physical misconduct, sexual misconduct, or encouraging harm.
- Sexual content, explicit images, sexual solicitation, sex work promotion, pornography, or unsolicited sexual messages.
- Any use of TravelFar by or involving people under 18.
- Illegal activity, scams, fake trips, fake emergencies, fraud, spam, or attempts to obtain money, documents, codes, or account access.
- Commercial promotion, influencer recruiting, affiliate links, lead generation, marketplace behavior, or unsolicited advertising.
- Platform manipulation, scraping, bots, ban evasion, vulnerability probing without permission, or attempts to bypass blocks, rate limits, moderation, or security controls.
Profiles
Profiles should represent you honestly. Your main photo should clearly show you, you must be at least 18, and you should not put private documents, payment details, home addresses, or phone numbers in your profile.
- Your main profile photo should clearly show you.
- You must be at least 18 years old.
- Do not put phone numbers, home addresses, hotel addresses, payment details, passport details, or private documents in your profile.
- Your name should be your real name or real nickname.
- Your travel intro, languages, homebase, countries, travel styles, and safety preferences should be honest and kept reasonably current.
Chats
Protect your privacy, keep early planning inside TravelFar where possible, and do not pressure people to move apps, meet alone, share private photos, pay money, or reveal personal information.
- Protect your privacy.
- Keep early planning inside TravelFar where possible.
- Do not pressure someone to move to another app, meet alone, share private photos, pay money, or reveal personal information.
- Messages should be relevant to travel, friendship, trip planning, or safe coordination.
- If someone says no, stops replying, blocks you, or seems uncomfortable, leave them alone.
Trips
Trips must be legal, realistic, and described honestly. TravelFar does not operate tours, hold deposits, book transport, book accommodation, or guarantee hosts, applicants, trips, or outcomes.
- Trips must be legal, realistic, and described honestly.
- Hosts should keep applicants updated and avoid misleading people about costs, accommodation, transport, or who else is joining.
- Participants should review details carefully, verify plans independently, and communicate early if they need to cancel.
- Respect visibility and safe-space settings.
- Meet in public first, tell someone you trust your plans, and manage bills, bookings, deposits, and shared expenses carefully outside TravelFar.
- TravelFar does not facilitate payments, hold deposits, book transport, book accommodation, or guarantee any host, applicant, trip, or outcome.
Blocking and Reporting
If someone makes you uncomfortable, block them. If someone violates the Guidelines, report them through TravelFar so we can review what happened. Reports should be honest and specific.
Moderation and Appeals
TravelFar may use automated checks, abuse signals, rate limits, reports, and human review. If you believe we made a mistake, contact support@travelfar.app with enough detail for review.
How to Be a Good TravelFar Member
Write messages with real travel context, be clear about budget and boundaries, accept that no reply is enough, choose public first meetups, and leave people better than you found them.
- Write messages that show real travel intent and context.
- Be clear about your budget, comfort zone, timing, and boundaries.
- Accept that a no or no reply is enough.
- Choose public first meetups and keep friends or family informed.
- Leave people better than you found them, even if the trip does not work out.
