Terms of Use

Last updated: July 2, 2026

These Terms of Use (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of Place, a product of Nature Tools, LLC (“Nature Tools,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). By downloading, installing, accessing, subscribing to, or using Place, you agree to these Terms.

If you do not agree to these Terms, do not use Place.

1. What Place Is

Place is an interpretive landscape-information tool. It brings together terrain, geology, hydrology, ecology, land-status context, recreation information, weather, air, light, astronomical information, maps, reports, and related public or licensed datasets for selected locations.

Place is designed to help users explore and understand landscapes. It is not a substitute for professional judgment, current official information, field preparation, or common sense.

2. Not a Navigation or Emergency Service

Place is not a navigation, emergency-response, rescue, dispatch, or safety-monitoring service. Do not rely on Place as your only source for route finding, trip planning, weather warnings, wildfire information, avalanche conditions, river conditions, road status, closures, hazards, emergency communication, or survival decisions.

Always carry appropriate maps, navigation tools, emergency communication equipment, supplies, and backup plans. Follow current instructions from land managers, emergency officials, weather services, and other authoritative sources.

3. Land Ownership, Boundaries, and Access

Land ownership, protected-area boundaries, management designations, easements, access routes, hunting or fishing districts, closures, and similar information may be incomplete, generalized, delayed, or inaccurate.

Place does not provide legal boundary, title, trespass, access, regulatory, or land-survey advice. You are responsible for verifying ownership, permission, closures, easements, regulations, and access rules with current authoritative sources before entering land or making legal or safety decisions.

4. Environmental and Modeled Information

Some values shown by Place are measured, while others are modeled, interpolated, estimated, summarized, or derived from third-party datasets. Coverage, resolution, accuracy, and update frequency vary by layer, provider, country, and region.

Weather, streamflow, snow, fire, air quality, terrain, habitat, geology, species, climate, visibility, and other environmental information can change rapidly or contain errors. Treat Place as an interpretive aid, not as a definitive or real-time authority.

5. Outdoor Activities and Personal Responsibility

Outdoor activities involve inherent risks, including changing weather, difficult terrain, wildlife, water, fire, falling rock, unstable slopes, exposure, remoteness, equipment failure, and limited communications.

You are solely responsible for evaluating conditions, your experience, your equipment, applicable laws, and whether an activity is appropriate. Place does not guarantee that a route, location, activity, access point, waterbody, trail, or landscape is safe, open, legal, suitable, or reachable.

6. Accounts, Subscriptions, and Purchases

Some Place features may require an account, paid subscription, in-app purchase, or platform entitlement. Prices, billing periods, trials, renewals, cancellation rules, and refund eligibility are shown at the time of purchase and may also be governed by the app marketplace or payment provider used for the transaction.

Subscriptions may renew automatically unless canceled through the platform where they were purchased. Deleting the app does not necessarily cancel a subscription.

7. License and Acceptable Use

Subject to these Terms and any applicable payment, Nature Tools grants you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use Place for lawful personal, educational, research, field, or professional purposes.

You may not:

• copy, resell, sublicense, rent, or commercially redistribute Place except as expressly permitted;
• reverse engineer, bypass security, interfere with licensing, or attempt unauthorized access;
• scrape, bulk-extract, mirror, or republish datasets or service outputs in violation of provider terms;
• use Place to violate laws, trespass, harass others, damage property, or endanger people or wildlife;
• misrepresent Place output as an official survey, legal determination, emergency advisory, or guaranteed fact; or
• use the service in a way that disrupts, overloads, damages, or impairs Place or its providers.

8. Location, Device Sensors, and User Data

Place may process location, map selections, routes, saved places, device heading, camera information, elevation, imported files, photographs, notes, or other information when you use related features.

You are responsible for the information you choose to import, save, export, share, or publish. Precise locations may reveal private travel patterns, sensitive species locations, research sites, private property, or other sensitive information. Review location data before sharing it publicly.

Our handling of personal information is also governed by the Nature Tools Privacy Policy.

9. Third-Party Data and Services

Place may display, query, link to, or depend on third-party maps, datasets, APIs, weather services, government sources, scientific databases, app stores, payment systems, and other providers.

Third-party content remains subject to the provider’s own terms, licenses, availability, attribution requirements, and privacy practices. Nature Tools does not control and is not responsible for third-party services, interruptions, changes, errors, or omissions.

10. Reports, Interpretations, and Automated Output

Place may generate summaries, suitability indicators, reports, interpretations, comparisons, or other automated output. These outputs are informational and may be incomplete or wrong.

Do not use Place output as the sole basis for legal, regulatory, safety, emergency, medical, financial, engineering, environmental-compliance, or land-management decisions.

11. Intellectual Property

Place, its software, design, branding, documentation, original text, organization, and other Nature Tools content are owned by Nature Tools or its licensors and are protected by intellectual-property laws.

Third-party datasets, maps, imagery, names, and trademarks remain the property of their respective owners. Nothing in these Terms transfers ownership of Place or third-party content to you.

12. Feedback

If you submit ideas, suggestions, corrections, or other feedback, you grant Nature Tools permission to use that feedback without restriction or compensation. This does not give us ownership of your photographs, field notes, or other user-created content.

13. Availability, Changes, and Updates

We may add, modify, suspend, restrict, or discontinue features, data sources, integrations, pricing, or access. We may issue updates that are required for continued operation, security, compatibility, or licensing.

We do not guarantee uninterrupted access, permanent availability of any dataset, compatibility with every device, or continued support for every operating-system version.

14. Disclaimer of Warranties

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, PLACE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE,” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, AVAILABILITY, MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

Nature Tools does not warrant that Place will be error-free, uninterrupted, complete, current, safe for any particular activity, or suitable for any specific decision or purpose.

15. Limitation of Liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, NATURE TOOLS AND ITS OWNERS, EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS, LICENSORS, AND SERVICE PROVIDERS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES; LOSS OF DATA, PROFITS, REVENUE, BUSINESS, OR GOODWILL; PERSONAL INJURY; PROPERTY DAMAGE; TRESPASS; FINES; OR LOSSES ARISING FROM RELIANCE ON PLACE, THIRD-PARTY DATA, OR OUTDOOR DECISIONS.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, NATURE TOOLS’ TOTAL LIABILITY FOR CLAIMS RELATING TO PLACE WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF THE AMOUNT YOU PAID FOR PLACE DURING THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM OR USD $50.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain warranty exclusions or liability limitations, so some provisions may not apply to you.

16. Indemnification

To the extent permitted by law, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless Nature Tools and its owners, employees, contractors, licensors, and service providers from claims, losses, liabilities, and expenses arising from your misuse of Place, violation of these Terms, unlawful conduct, trespass, or infringement of another person’s rights.

17. Suspension and Termination

We may suspend or terminate access if you violate these Terms, misuse the service, interfere with systems or providers, fail to pay applicable charges, or create legal, security, or operational risk.

You may stop using Place at any time. Termination does not automatically cancel subscriptions purchased through an app marketplace or other payment platform.

18. Governing Law and Venue

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Montana, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Any dispute not subject to a mandatory alternative process will be brought in a court of competent jurisdiction located in Missoula County, Montana, unless applicable law requires otherwise.

19. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms. The revised Terms become effective when posted or on a later date stated in the notice. Continued use of Place after the effective date constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms where permitted by law.

20. General Terms

If any provision is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in effect. Failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. These Terms, together with applicable purchase terms and the Privacy Policy, form the agreement governing your use of Place.

21. Contact

Questions about these Terms may be sent to:

Nature Tools, LLC
Missoula, Montana
radd@nature-tools.com

This document is a practical working draft and should be reviewed by qualified legal counsel before relying on it as final legal advice.