Outora Terms of Use
The short version
Outora exists to get you outside — and the outdoors is gloriously real, which means it isn't risk-free, and no app changes that. These terms put the honest version in enforceable form. Out there, the judgment and the risk are yours: Outora motivates adventures; it doesn't navigate them, and it's never a safety tool. In here, the honor system runs on trust — so be straight with it, and good to your fellow Explorers. And while we build, the app comes as-is. Your history stays yours — step away anytime and it's waiting for you; delete your account and it's actually gone.
1. Agreement and eligibility
By creating an account (including a guest account) or using Outora, you agree to these Terms of Use and to the Outora Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use Outora.
You must be at least 13 years old to use Outora. If you are under the age of majority where you live, you may use Outora only with a parent or guardian's permission, and adventures only under appropriate adult supervision.
2. What Outora is — and is not
Outora is where you discover outdoor adventures, check in at real-world locations, earn badges, and build a record of your outdoor history.
Outora is not a navigation, wayfinding, safety, or emergency tool. It is not a substitute for maps, route planning, weather judgment, appropriate equipment, physical preparation, or common sense. Location data, coordinates, pins, difficulty indications, trail information, and any other content in Outora are provided for motivation and record-keeping, may be inaccurate, incomplete, or out of date, and must never be relied on for navigation or safety decisions. Always carry and know how to use appropriate navigation tools, and always tell someone where you're going.
3. Assumption of outdoor risk
Outdoor activity — including but not limited to hiking, climbing, scrambling, and travel to and from trailheads, summits, fire towers, waterfalls, and other outdoor locations — is inherently dangerous. Risks include, without limitation: falls, injury, illness, hypothermia, heat illness, wildlife, falling objects, weather, terrain and trail conditions, water hazards, getting lost, equipment failure, remoteness from medical care, and the actions of other people. These risks can result in serious injury, disability, or death.
By using Outora you acknowledge and voluntarily assume all risks of outdoor activity you undertake, whether or not an activity was discovered through, recorded in, or motivated by Outora. You are solely responsible for evaluating your own fitness, skills, equipment, the weather, the conditions, and the suitability of any adventure, and for all decisions you make outdoors. Outora does not inspect, maintain, verify, or control any real-world location.
You are also solely responsible for where you go: for confirming legal access, respecting private property, closures, permits, regulations, and posted rules, and for complying with all applicable laws. An adventure's presence in Outora is not a representation that access is legal, open, safe, or appropriate for you.
4. Accounts
- Guest accounts are real accounts: your progress is yours from the first check-in, and upgrading to a registered account keeps the same account and history.
- You are responsible for your account and for keeping your credentials secure. You must provide accurate information (including an email address you control, if you register one) and use Outora as one person — one account per Explorer.
- Trail names and handles must not impersonate others or squat protected names; certain names are reserved, and Outora may decline or reclaim names that violate this section.
5. Explorer conduct
You agree not to:
- misrepresent check-ins or manipulate location signals (the check-in and honor-claim systems exist because we trust Explorers; abusing that trust is a violation of these terms);
- upload content that is unlawful, infringing, hateful, or harassing, or that violates another person's privacy or rights;
- use Outora to plan or commit unlawful acts, including trespass;
- probe, disrupt, overload, reverse engineer, scrape at scale, or otherwise interfere with the service, other Explorers' data, or our providers;
- resell or commercially exploit the service or its data except as expressly permitted (see Section 7).
We may suspend or terminate accounts for material violations of this section. That is a protective measure for the community, not a punishment mechanic — and it is the only circumstance in which any part of your Outora history can be taken out of your reach by us.
6. Your content
“Your content” means what you contribute: check-in photos, your trail name and avatar, ratings, data-problem reports, and similar contributions.
- It stays yours. You retain ownership of your content.
- Service license: you grant Outora a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, display, and process your content as needed to operate, back up, secure, improve, and provide the service to you — for example, storing a check-in photo in your history, or using a data report to fix a mis-pinned peak. This license ends for content that is deleted (subject to backup aging, as described in the Privacy Policy), except for anonymized data reports and anything we must retain by law.
- Anything beyond operating the service — such as featuring your photos elsewhere in Outora or in Outora's materials — happens only under the separate photo-licensing consent described in the Privacy Policy, which you may decline or withdraw at any time without affecting your experience.
- You are responsible for your content: contribute only what you created or have the right to contribute, and don't include other people's personal information without their permission.
- Copyright complaints: if you believe content in Outora infringes your copyright, send a notice to privacy@outora.app identifying the work, the material, and your contact information, with a good-faith statement of unauthorized use; we will review and remove infringing content and may terminate repeat infringers' accounts. [Designated copyright agent — to be named here at publication.]
7. Outora's content and data sources
The Outora app, brand, design, badges, and curated content are owned by Outora or its licensors and are protected by intellectual-property laws. We grant you a personal, non-transferable, revocable license to use the app for your own non-commercial use as an Explorer.
Adventure data in Outora is built from public and licensed sources, credited on Outora's Data Sources page, plus Outora's own curation. Some underlying source data remains subject to its own license terms (for example, OpenStreetMap data under the Open Database License); nothing in these terms restricts rights you have directly under those licenses from the original sources.
8. The service, features, and changes
- Outora is under active development. Features may be added, changed, or removed, and the service may be unavailable at times. Where these terms or the Privacy Policy say a future feature “may” exist, that is a possibility, not a promise.
- Some features may in the future be offered as optional paid additions. Paid options add extras; the core Explorer experience — checking in, earning badges, momentum, journey progress, claiming your history, basic sharing — is not something we charge for. That's a design commitment, stated here so it's on the record (and Section 10's disclaimers still apply to it, as to everything else).
- We may update these terms. If we make material changes, we will post the new version with a new date and version identifier and notify you in the app; continued use after the effective date is acceptance. The version you accepted is recorded.
9. Termination
You can stop using Outora at any time, and you can delete your account in-app at any time (deletion works as the Privacy Policy describes). We may suspend or terminate accounts as described in Section 5, or discontinue the service; if we discontinue Outora entirely, we will make reasonable efforts to give notice in advance.
10. Disclaimers
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW: OUTORA IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE,” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY, OR AVAILABILITY. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, OUTORA MAKES NO WARRANTY THAT ANY LOCATION DATA, COORDINATES, ROUTES, DIFFICULTY INFORMATION, OR OTHER CONTENT IS ACCURATE, COMPLETE, CURRENT, OR SAFE TO RELY ON, AND NO WARRANTY THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, OR SECURE.
11. Limitation of liability
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW: OUTORA AND ITS OWNERS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AND AGENTS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF DATA, PROFITS, OR GOODWILL; AND WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY PERSONAL INJURY, DEATH, OR PROPERTY DAMAGE ARISING FROM OUTDOOR ACTIVITY OR FROM RELIANCE ON ANY CONTENT IN THE SERVICE. IN ALL CASES, OUTORA'S TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNTS YOU PAID OUTORA IN THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM AROSE AND (B) FIFTY U.S. DOLLARS (US $50).
SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW CERTAIN EXCLUSIONS OR LIMITATIONS, SO SOME OF THE ABOVE MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU; IN THAT CASE, LIABILITY IS LIMITED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT THE LAW PERMITS. NOTHING IN THESE TERMS EXCLUDES LIABILITY THAT CANNOT LAWFULLY BE EXCLUDED.
12. Indemnification
You agree to indemnify and hold Outora harmless from claims, damages, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising from your content, your violation of these terms, your violation of law or third-party rights, or your outdoor activity — except to the extent caused by Outora's own willful misconduct.
13. Governing law and disputes
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of New York, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. Disputes will be resolved in the state or federal courts located in New York, and both sides consent to their jurisdiction. [Venue county — set at publication.] You and Outora each waive any right to a jury trial and agree claims may be brought only individually, not as a class — to the extent permitted by law.
14. App platform terms (Apple)
If you use Outora on an Apple device: these terms are between you and Outora, not Apple; Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for the app and no warranty obligation beyond any refund of the purchase price (Outora is free); Apple is not responsible for addressing claims relating to the app (including product liability, regulatory claims, and IP claims); you must comply with the App Store terms of service and applicable usage rules; and Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms, entitled to enforce them against you. You represent that you are not located in an embargoed country and are not on any U.S. government restricted-party list.
15. General
If any provision of these terms is held unenforceable, the rest remain in effect. These terms plus the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and Outora about the service. We may assign these terms in connection with a change of ownership of Outora; you may not assign them. Our not enforcing a provision is not a waiver. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (including 3, 6–7, and 10–14) survive.
16. Contact
privacy@outora.app · [Outora LLC — formation pending]