Terms of sale
Last updated: 12 October 2026.
1. Who you are buying from, and who charges you
Two different parties, and it is worth being clear about which is which.
Stripe is the merchant of record for this sale. Payment runs through Stripe Managed Payments, which means Stripe is the party that takes your payment, issues your receipt and handles VAT in your country. The receipt you get will come from Stripe.
The driving guides are published and licensed by Tom Sonecki, a sole trader (Einzelunternehmen) in Hamburg, Germany. The address is in the Impressum. I write the guides, I hold the rights to the editorial content, I answer questions about them, and I am the one who refunds you.
So: Stripe for the charge, me for the guide.
2. What you are buying
A single licence to the driving guide you bought, delivered twice: the current edition as a download the moment you pay, and the rechecked 2027 edition of the same guide, emailed to the address you bought with by 1 May 2027 at no further charge (section 8). The 2027 Edition is every guide on sale in one purchase, together with every guide first published while the 2027 Edition is on sale. A guide on sale when you buy is delivered as above; a guide published later is emailed to the address you bought with when it is published, in its current edition.
Each driving guide is a separate product with its own page, and this page governs all of them, so the files are named here for what they are rather than by filename: inside the zip each carries the name of its own region, and the readme in the zip lists them. The download contains:
- the guide PDF: a cover and contents, a key map of every road, one page per road, the drive-score rubric and a closing page
- the Start Here page, the same roads as a self-contained HTML file
gpx/, one GPX track per road that is open. A road the guide tells you not to drive ships no track on purpose, so this folder can hold fewer tracks than the guide holds roadsLICENCE.txtandREADME.txt
You are buying files, not access to a service. There is nothing to log in to, and the files you download never expire.
3. Price
EUR 26.99 for one guide, or EUR 79.00 for the 2027 Edition, including VAT, charged once. Stripe may show the amount in your own currency at checkout. There is no subscription and no recurring charge.
4. Delivery
The download starts on the page you return to after paying, and the same link is emailed to the address you give at checkout, usually within a minute of payment. A link works for 30 days, as many times as you need. When it expires, put the address you paid with into the form at outforadrive.com/en/redownload and fresh links are emailed straight back, or write to info@outforadrive.com and I will send one. There is no limit on how many times.
If the email has not arrived within an hour, check the spam folder, then use that form or write to me.
5. What you may do with it
The full text is in LICENCE.txt in the zip. In short:
You may use the routes for your own driving for as long as you like, load them onto any number of your own devices, print the guide for your own use, and show a friend the guide or drive a route together.
Please do not post the guide PDF, the Start Here page, or the zip as a whole anywhere people can download them, and do not sell them or include them in anything you sell. Tolls change every year and roads close, sometimes for years. Keeping this accurate is the work, and the next edition is what pays for it.
You may give a guide as a present. Buy it as usual, then write to info@outforadrive.com with the name and email address of the person it is for: a download link of their own is emailed to them, the rechecked 2027 edition goes to that address too, and the licence passes to them.
The GPX tracks are different, and deliberately so. They come from OpenStreetMap and carry the Open Database Licence (ODbL). They are open data and they are not mine to restrict: you may copy, adapt and republish them, commercially or not, as long as you credit OpenStreetMap contributors and keep them under the same licence. Every GPX file repeats that in its own metadata.
What is not open data, and stays mine: the writing, the drive scores and the rule behind them, the toll, season and closure research, the places worth stopping for, and the design of the guides.
6. Cancellation, and why the refund policy is better than it
This is digital content delivered immediately. Under EU law, a consumer's statutory right of withdrawal for digital content lapses once delivery has begun with the consumer's express consent and acknowledgement that the right is lost (§ 356 (5) BGB, implementing Directive 2011/83/EU). The checkout asks for that consent, because otherwise it cannot deliver the file immediately, and the delivery email confirms it.
My own refund policy is more generous than the statutory right and does not depend on it: ask within 30 days and you get your money back, with no form and no reason needed. Nothing in this section takes that away.
7. What the guide does and does not claim
The guide is desk research, done carefully and shown working. It is not a first-hand account.
- The guide you download today is dated to the 2026 season, and its rechecked edition to 2027. Where a fact has a published source, the page names it. Tolls change, gates open late, and roads close without notice. Check anything that would ruin your day before you rely on it.
- The drive score is a published formula applied to my own judgement of three ratings. It compares roads against each other. It is not a promise about any one of them.
- Not every road has an operator to cite: most of those without one are free public roads with no toll or gate to confirm. Their pages say so.
- Nothing in the guides contains timings, rankings by speed, or the locations of police or speed cameras, and it never will. Drive within the law and within the conditions. Where a road has a noise limit or the operator bans timed runs, the page prints that, because it is information you need.
To the extent the law allows, the guide is supplied as it is, and I do not accept liability for a journey that did not work out. Nothing here limits liability for injury to life, body or health, for intent or gross negligence, or anything else that cannot be limited by law. Your statutory rights as a consumer are unaffected.
8. Editions and changes
The guide is dated. Buying it now includes the rechecked 2027 edition of the guide you bought: every toll, gate hour and opening date checked again for 2027, emailed to the address you bought with by 1 May 2027, at no further charge. If you find something wrong, write to me and it goes into that edition rather than into a file you have already downloaded. Editions after 2027 are not included.
9. Typefaces and third-party material
Archivo, IBM Plex Mono and Source Serif 4, all under the SIL Open Font Licence 1.1. Icons from the Lucide set, ISC licence. Route geometry from OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
10. Law and contact
German law applies, without prejudice to the mandatory consumer protections of the country you live in. Questions, corrections, refunds and complaints: info@outforadrive.com.
I am not obliged to take part in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board, and I do not.
The Impressum is a legal requirement and is linked from every page of the site.