1. Eligibility
You must be at least 13 years old to use PeakList. If you are under the age of majority where you live, you may use PeakList only with permission from a parent or legal guardian who agrees to these Terms. You may not use PeakList if you are prohibited from doing so under applicable law.
2. Accounts and Security
You are responsible for the accuracy of information you provide and for activity that occurs through your account. Keep your device, email account, Apple account, Google account, and PeakList credentials secure. Notify us if you believe your account has been compromised. We may refuse, suspend, restrict, or terminate access where reasonably necessary to protect users, the service, or legal compliance.
3. License to Use PeakList
Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use PeakList for personal, lawful, non-commercial purposes. We reserve all rights not expressly granted.
You may not:
- Reverse engineer, decompile, modify, or attempt to derive the source code of PeakList except where law expressly permits.
- Resell, rent, sublicense, commercially exploit, or redistribute PeakList or its content.
- Scrape, harvest, bulk export, or use automated systems to access PeakList except through features we provide.
- Interfere with security, authentication, billing, entitlement, rate-limit, or access-control systems.
- Upload malicious code, attempt unauthorized access, or disrupt the app or backend services.
- Use PeakList to violate law, infringe rights, harass others, misrepresent yourself, or submit harmful content.
4. User Content and Public Sharing
"User Content" means content you enter, upload, generate, submit, import, publish, or share through PeakList, including profile text, display names, social links, hike logs, notes, tags, photos, captions, route files, Strava activity imports, custom routes, snapped routes, waypoints, meeting spots, public plan links, live plan edits, participant names or status, food selections, nutrition planning values, gear or trip plans, to-do queues, trail reports, access reports, PeakList Global efforts, public standings, holder titles, leaderboard identity, support messages, moderation reports, and similar material.
You keep ownership of your User Content, subject to the rights you grant below. You grant PeakList a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, copy, process, transmit, display, publish, adapt for formatting, moderate, remove, and otherwise use your User Content as needed to provide PeakList, operate public features according to your visibility choices, provide support, maintain backups, enforce these Terms, and comply with law. This license ends when your content is deleted from active systems, except that copies may remain in backups, logs, legal records, cached views, public shares already accessed by others, or records we must retain.
You represent that you have the rights and permissions needed to submit your User Content, including consent from any person shown or identified in photos or text. Do not publish exact home addresses, private contact information, sensitive location information, or content you do not want others to see.
Public profiles, public hike logs, public photos, recent activity, public trail reports, public achievements, public PeakList Global standings, holder titles, leaderboard entries, live shared plan content, and public plan links may be visible to other users or anyone with access to a link or public app surface. Treat public links, public standings, and public leaderboard or map entries as public. Public pages, standings, and shared links may be copied, cached, linked, indexed, screenshotted, or viewed outside PeakList. You are responsible for reviewing visibility settings before publishing, sharing, or joining public standings.
5. Community Rules and Moderation
You agree not to submit or publish content that is unlawful, threatening, harassing, abusive, hateful, discriminatory, sexually exploitative, defamatory, deceptive, spammy, invasive of privacy, infringing, dangerous, or otherwise harmful. You may not impersonate others, manipulate reports, manipulate PeakList Global submissions or standings, submit false trail, access, hazard, or emergency information, evade blocks, abuse support channels, or use PeakList to target another person.
We may review, hide, remove, restrict, or preserve content; limit profile visibility; block interactions; investigate reports; suspend accounts; or terminate access when we believe it is appropriate. We are not required to monitor all content, and we are not responsible for user-submitted content or user interactions. Reporting and blocking tools are provided to support user safety, but they are not emergency services.
6. Outdoor Information Is Not Official
PeakList aggregates hiking lists, mountain data, trail information, routes, maps, conditions, weather, alerts, air quality, wildfire, streamflow, daylight, astronomy, access notes, photos, community reports, and other information from public sources, third parties, app data, and users. Some of those sources are authoritative or government-operated, but PeakList is not itself an authoritative source. Information shown in PeakList may be transformed, summarized, cached, delayed, unavailable, incomplete, outdated, inaccurate, or inconsistent with official sources.
Custom Route, Snap, route previews, route summaries, trail matching, and trail endpoint connections are estimates from available data and provider responses. A snapped or generated route does not mean a trail is open, legal, maintained, continuous, passable, or safe.
PeakList is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or responsible for any hiking club, list-certification organization, land manager, emergency service, map provider, government agency, public data provider, or content source unless expressly stated. List completion tracking in PeakList is unofficial and for personal use and enjoyment.
You are solely responsible for verifying routes, closures, parking rules, fees, permits, private land restrictions, road access, weather, alerts, daylight, avalanche or wildfire risk, water crossings, hunting seasons, trail conditions, and other conditions with official sources and local knowledge before acting. You are also responsible for deciding whether your skills, health, equipment, party, route, timing, and current field conditions make an activity appropriate.
7. Outdoor Risk and Safety
Hiking, mountaineering, winter travel, backcountry travel, driving to trailheads, route finding, and outdoor recreation involve inherent risks, including injury, illness, death, exposure, getting lost, rescue costs, property loss, wildlife encounters, severe weather, lightning, floods, falls, water crossings, wildfire, avalanche, ice, snow, heat, dehydration, hypothermia, poor visibility, road hazards, equipment failure, communication failure, and changing trail conditions. You voluntarily assume all risks related to your outdoor activities, preparations, omissions, and decisions.
PeakList does not provide professional guiding, rescue, emergency, medical, legal, navigation, meteorological, hydrological, fitness, hydration, nutrition, or safety advice. PeakList is not a substitute for field judgment, training, local weather insight, official warnings, land-manager instructions, emergency communications, or carrying appropriate maps, navigation tools, clothing, food, water, emergency supplies, and communication options. In an emergency, contact local emergency services immediately. Do not delay emergency action because of anything shown or not shown in PeakList.
9. Planning, Conditions, Health, Food, Water, and Route Imports
Plan Builder, Review Plan Factors, Food Library, nutrition planning, gear checklists, carry plans, group weight summaries, Water Calculator, Custom Route, Snap, weather cards, Trails, trail reports, access reports, road or parking notes, daylight and astronomy panels, safety recommendations, minimum or target recommendations, and similar planning outputs are informational aids only. They may be based on assumptions, inferred factors, user-entered data, cached data, bundled USDA FoodData Central-derived data, third-party data, generalized models, provider route calculations, or incomplete trail and weather context. Labels such as "minimum," "target," "safer," "needs review," or similar wording are not safety guarantees.
Apple Health imports, Strava imports, GPX/TCX/FIT imports, hike stats, route tracks, activity summaries, route streams, snapped routes, custom routes, distance, duration, elevation, pace, Water Calculator, Food Library calories, macronutrients, sodium values, calories-per-day values, effort estimates, and related outputs are informational only. They may be incomplete, incorrect, outdated, provider-transformed, or unsuitable for your body, health, equipment, route, group, timing, season, weather, terrain, nutrition needs, water availability, or conditions. PeakList does not provide medical, dietary, fitness, hydration, nutrition, training, rescue, or emergency advice. Consult qualified professionals where appropriate.
You are responsible for ensuring that any imported route, workout, Strava activity, file, health-related data, food selection, or nutrition information is accurate, lawful to use, and appropriate to save or share. You are also responsible for complying with Strava's terms and any other third-party terms that apply to connected accounts, imported activities, exported files, or source data.
10. PeakList Global and Competitive Telemetry
PeakList Global is an optional, map-first competitive telemetry feature built around in-app Navigate efforts on official PeakList trail data and, where expressly enabled by PeakList, validated Strava imports that pass official PeakList route checks. Public competition classes are Peak Holder, Trail Holder, and Trail Segment Holder. The app may also show Personal Best, targets, achievements, metadata leaderboards, and similar statistics. PeakList Global is intended for recreation, personal motivation, and community comparison. It is not an official race, sanctioned athletic event, safety certification, hiking-club certification, land-manager record, or professional timing service.
PeakList Global eligibility is determined by PeakList systems. Manual logs, duplicated logs, imported GPX, Apple Health, FIT, TCX, bulk import, web import, custom external routes, edited files, Strava imports that are not validated or not enabled for Global, or other unsupported sources may be saved to personal history where supported, but they are not eligible for public PeakList Global standings unless we expressly provide otherwise. A confirmed Strava import is not automatically eligible. Validated Strava imports may be eligible only when PeakList enables that source and server-side route, segment, summit, duplicate, telemetry-quality, and integrity checks pass. A saved hike log does not guarantee that a PeakList Global effort will be accepted, public, ranked, retained, or displayed.
PeakList may use automated and manual review to determine whether an effort is navigated, not navigated, needs review, or rejected. Review may consider source, route identity, checkpoint or summit matching, route-match score, GPS quality, speed, pace, elevation, telemetry consistency, duplicate submissions, account state, visibility settings, public opt-in, season rules, and other integrity signals. We may delay, queue, retry, reject, remove, correct, recalculate, merge, split, hide, demote, restore, or reclassify efforts, titles, scores, ranks, standings, achievements, events, and analytics where we believe it is appropriate.
If you opt into public PeakList Global standings, you authorize PeakList to display public standing information such as your display name, profile image or initials, relevant profile identity, title, route or peak name, scope, score, elapsed time, achieved date, rank, summary telemetry, and recent public activity. Raw GPS tracks and private validation telemetry are not intended to be displayed publicly, but public standings can reveal sensitive information about where, when, and how you hike. Do not opt into public standings or publish related content if that information is sensitive for you.
PeakList Global titles, scores, Segment Bests, targets, achievements, badges, streaks, metadata leaderboards, and leaderboard positions have no cash value, property value, prize value, transferable value, or guaranteed availability. They may change or disappear because of season resets, scoring changes, trail-data corrections, privacy settings, account status, moderation, technical issues, audits, data-source changes, or corrected errors. Unless we separately publish official contest rules for a specific promotion, PeakList Global does not award prizes and does not create a sweepstakes, contest, employment relationship, sponsorship, endorsement, or right to compensation. If PeakList ever runs a separate promotion, sweepstakes, contest, or raffle, it will be governed by separate official rules, and Apple will not be a sponsor or participant unless expressly stated in those rules.
You agree not to cheat, spoof GPS, use a vehicle or lift for competitive submissions, edit files to improve standing, submit another person's activity as your own, create duplicate or misleading efforts, interfere with validation systems, use bots or scripts, abuse offline queues, exploit software bugs, or encourage unsafe behavior for rankings. You remain solely responsible for obeying laws, permits, closures, private-property rules, land-manager instructions, trail etiquette, and safety judgment. Do not trespass, speed, separate from your group, hike beyond your ability, ignore conditions, or take unreasonable risks to improve a title, score, target, achievement, or leaderboard position.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, PeakList is not liable for scoring decisions, validation decisions, disqualifications, lost titles, lost ranks, lost achievements, leaderboard errors, delayed submissions, offline queue failures, telemetry errors, public visibility choices, user disputes, or decisions you make because of PeakList Global.
11. Alpine Plant ID
Alpine Plant ID is an educational identification aid. It may be wrong or incomplete. Do not rely on Plant ID results to determine whether a plant is edible, poisonous, medicinal, protected, invasive, allergenic, safe to touch, legal to collect, or safe for animals. Verify plant information with qualified experts and official sources.
12. Purchases, Subscriptions, Trials, and Pro Features
PeakList may offer free features and optional paid features. Current paid options may include monthly and annual auto-renewable PeakList Pro subscriptions with a 14-day free trial where eligible, and a lifetime non-consumable purchase. Available products, prices, trial eligibility, taxes, currencies, and terms are shown in the App Store purchase sheet and may change.
All iOS purchases are processed by Apple through the App Store. We do not control Apple's payment processing and do not receive your payment card details. Your purchase is also subject to Apple's terms, policies, and account settings.
Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled through your Apple account settings before renewal under Apple's rules. Deleting the app or deleting your PeakList account does not cancel an App Store subscription. You are responsible for managing cancellations, renewals, payment methods, and refund requests through Apple where required.
Refunds for App Store purchases are generally handled by Apple. We may help investigate entitlement issues, but we cannot guarantee refunds, trial eligibility, price adjustments, or App Store decisions. If Apple reports a refund, revocation, billing retry, grace period, or expiration, PeakList may update your Pro access accordingly.
13. Feature Limits, Quotas, and Downgrades
Free and Pro features may have limits, quotas, or eligibility rules, including limits for tracked lists, cloud hike logs, photo storage, uploads, public plan sharing, live shared plans, location snapshots, Plant ID, Strava integration, route calculations, route snapping, saved routes, Food Library and nutrition planning, PeakList Global submissions or public standings, history, exports, maps, analytics, games, to-do queues, planning tools, and other capabilities. We may add, remove, change, enforce, or waive limits at any time.
If Pro access expires, is canceled, is refunded, is revoked, or cannot be verified, some content may remain stored but editing, uploading, sharing, exporting, syncing, viewing, or creating additional Pro-limited items may be restricted. We are not responsible for loss of access to paid features caused by App Store issues, network failures, account mismatch, device settings, expired payment methods, or entitlement verification problems.
14. Sync, Storage, Imports, and Backups
PeakList may store data locally on your device and may sync supported data through cloud services when you are signed in. Sync may fail, lag, duplicate, conflict, overwrite, merge imperfectly, or become unavailable. Live shared plan edits, Strava imports, Food Library selections, nutrition planning values, and PeakList Global submissions may conflict, lag, queue, retry, fail, duplicate, be superseded, or be overwritten by later validated data. Local and cloud data may differ. Imports, exports, offline maps, cached content, route calculation cache, Strava disconnects, device backups, app reinstalls, sign-outs, account deletion, and device changes may affect data availability.
You are responsible for keeping independent copies of important data where appropriate. Disconnecting Strava stops future Strava import access but does not automatically delete hike logs or PeakList Global records you already saved or submitted from Strava. We do not guarantee that any user data, public content, offline download, route file, imported activity, food plan, photo, game state, achievement, or plan will be preserved permanently.
15. Third-Party Services and Content
PeakList relies on Apple frameworks and services, App Store, HealthKit, MapKit, StoreKit, Sign in with Apple, Google sign-in, Firebase, Supabase, Cloudflare, Resend, Strava, GraphHopper, OpenStreetMap contributors, PlantNet, USDA FoodData Central, NOAA/NWS, Open-Meteo, USGS, NASA FIRMS, AirNow, U.S. Naval Observatory, public weather and environmental data providers, map and route data, trail and access datasets, Wikimedia Commons, open source libraries, and other services or content sources. These third parties may change, restrict, charge for, or discontinue their services or data. Their terms, licenses, attribution requirements, and privacy policies may also apply.
Some photos, mountain descriptions, list references, map data, weather data, trail data, food and nutrition reference data, imported activities, and environmental data come from public or third-party sources and remain subject to their own licenses, attributions, disclaimers, and restrictions.
If you downloaded PeakList from Apple's App Store, Apple's App Store terms and standard licensed application terms apply to the extent required. Apple is not responsible for providing maintenance or support for PeakList. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms for App Store distribution purposes where applicable.
16. Intellectual Property and Takedowns
PeakList, including its design, interface, code, compiled app, proprietary datasets, text, graphics, trademarks, and other materials, is owned by Nathan Sobol or licensed to us, except for third-party content and User Content. You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, or create derivative works from PeakList except as permitted by these Terms or applicable law.
If you believe content in PeakList infringes your rights, contact [email protected] with enough detail for us to identify the content and review the issue. We may remove or restrict content at our discretion or as required by law.
17. Privacy
Our Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect information. By using PeakList, you acknowledge that information will be handled as described in the Privacy Policy.
18. Availability and Changes to PeakList
PeakList may be modified, interrupted, suspended, limited, or discontinued at any time. We may change features, datasets, maps, public APIs, service providers, quotas, eligibility rules, scoring rules, validation thresholds, season definitions, prices, Pro benefits, and support channels. We are not liable for outages, data source changes, provider failures, App Store issues, network failures, scoring or validation changes, or unavailable features.
19. Termination
You may stop using PeakList at any time. We may suspend, restrict, or terminate your access if we believe you violated these Terms, created risk, infringed rights, abused support or public features, manipulated PeakList Global, interfered with billing or security, or used PeakList unlawfully. Termination may result in loss of access to accounts, synced data, public features, public standings, Pro functionality, and support channels, subject to applicable law and App Store rules.
20. Warranty Disclaimer
PeakList is provided "as is" and "as available." To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including warranties of accuracy, reliability, availability, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that PeakList will be uninterrupted, secure, error-free, current, complete, timely, compatible with emergency needs, or suitable for any particular hike, route, plan, condition, device, user, group, location, season, weather event, or purpose.
21. Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, Nathan Sobol and PeakList will not be liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost data, lost profits, lost access, lost titles, lost ranks, lost achievements, PeakList Global scoring or validation decisions, injury, death, property damage, rescue costs, fines, trespass, missed objectives, route errors, Custom Route or Snap errors, navigation errors, weather exposure, trail or road condition errors, water or hydration decisions, gear or carry decisions, plan assumptions, health decisions, plant identification mistakes, public sharing consequences, user interactions, emergency response or non-response, third-party services, subscription interruptions, or reliance on app content.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total liability for any claim relating to PeakList or these Terms will not exceed the greater of the amount you paid to PeakList through the App Store for the affected service in the 12 months before the claim or 100 US dollars. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain exclusions or limits, so some limits may not apply to you.
22. Indemnification
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Nathan Sobol and PeakList from and against claims, liabilities, damages, losses, costs, and expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising from your use of PeakList, your User Content, your PeakList Global submissions or public standings, your outdoor activities, your planning or field decisions, your reliance on or disregard of app content, your violation of these Terms, your violation of law, or your infringement of another person's rights.
23. Changes to These Terms
We may update these Terms from time to time. When we make material changes, we will update the effective date and may provide notice in the app, by email, through App Store metadata, or by other reasonable means. Your continued use of PeakList after updated Terms become effective means you accept the updated Terms. If you do not agree, stop using PeakList.
24. Governing Law and Venue
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of New Hampshire, without regard to conflict-of-law rules, unless applicable law requires otherwise. You agree to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the state and federal courts located in New Hampshire for disputes arising from or relating to PeakList or these Terms, unless applicable law requires a different forum.
25. Miscellaneous
These Terms and the Privacy Policy form the entire agreement between you and us regarding PeakList. If any provision is found invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without our consent. We may assign these Terms as part of a merger, acquisition, reorganization, asset transfer, or by operation of law.
26. Contact
For support, privacy requests, account deletion requests, refund or entitlement questions, copyright concerns, legal notices, takedown requests, or questions about these Terms, contact:
Email: [email protected]
Please include enough information for us to understand your request and verify your identity where required.