Trust & safety

Everyone in the car goes to school.

tag. is closed to the general public on purpose. Every account starts with a verified college email, every profile is a real student, and every ride leaves a rating behind.

.edu, verified, required

You can't post a trip, join one, or message anyone until your college email is confirmed. No .edu, no account. It's the hard gate everything else sits behind.

Real names, faces, and cars

Before you share a ride you see who you're riding with: name, photo, campus, the driver's car, and the ratings other students left them.

Ratings after every ride

Both sides rate each other once the trip is done. Good people become visible. People who shouldn't be on tag. don't stay on tag.

Talk without sharing numbers

Each trip has its own message thread for the driver and confirmed riders. Coordinate pickup without giving a stranger your phone number.

One campus at a time

tag. opens school by school, starting with UC Berkeley. A small, dense network of classmates beats a sprawling anonymous one.

Help when something's wrong

Report any user from the app, or reach a human at support@ride-tag.com. In an emergency, always call 911 first.

The legal shape of it

Why cost-sharing is not rideshare.

When you order a rideshare, you're hiring a commercial driver. The trip exists because you paid for it, the driver is working, and the price includes their time and profit. That model comes with a lot of law attached, and it should.

tag. is built on a different fact: the trip was happening anyway. The driver chose the destination and the time before any rider showed up. Riders don't buy a ride, they chip in on costs that already existed: gas, and tolls when there are any. The driver ends the day with covered costs, never a profit.

That's why the language in tag. never says "fare," "earnings," or "book a driver." Drivers post trips and split gas. Riders tag along. The flat $1.50 fee goes to tag. for running the platform, not to the driver.

It's also why the split math is enforced by the app rather than negotiated in the car: shares are computed from real costs so the total can never quietly become a payday. Keeping drivers non-commercial keeps insurance simpler, keeps the law on everyone's side, and keeps tag. what it is: students sharing a drive.

Straight answers

What tag. does and doesn't do.

tag. does

  • ✓ Verify every user's college email before they can participate.
  • ✓ Show profiles, cars, and ratings before you commit.
  • ✓ Hold rider payments until both sides confirm the ride happened.
  • ✓ Take reports seriously and remove accounts that break trust.

tag. doesn't

  • · Run driving-record or criminal background checks. Riding is your call, informed by profiles and ratings.
  • · Employ, dispatch, or supervise drivers. Trips are private plans between students.
  • · Insure trips. Drivers carry their own license and insurance, like any private car trip.

We'd rather tell you this plainly here than bury it in the terms. Ride with people you're comfortable with, and use the ratings.

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