These terms, together with the Competition Rules and the Privacy Notice, govern your use of PeakShot. By creating an account you accept them. During the beta the service is operated by its founder; a limited company is planned before public launch and these terms will be reissued in its name.

PeakShot is in beta. It is provided as-is and as-available, free of charge, with no warranty of availability, uptime or uninterrupted operation. Features may change, break or be withdrawn; routes may be taken offline (including seasonal safety closures of serious routes in winter conditions); competitions may be rescheduled. We work hard to protect your walks, photos and scores, but during a beta you accept the possibility of bugs and data loss.

• You must be 18 or over and resident in the UK.
• One account per person. Sign-in is by emailed magic link, so keep your email account secure — anyone with access to it can access your PeakShot account.
• You are responsible for what happens under your account, and the information you give us must be accurate.

Play fair and be decent. In particular, you must not attempt to cheat the competition (see the disqualification grounds in the Rules), attempt to discover, extract or publish Photo Zone locations, interfere with the service or other members’ data, or post abusive or unlawful content. We may suspend or close accounts that break these terms.

You keep the copyright in your photos. You grant PeakShot the display licence described in the Competition Rules — storage, processing for judging and verification, and display for competition purposes. You confirm that you took each photo yourself, in the app, and that it does not infringe anyone else’s rights. We may remove content that breaks these terms or the Rules.

Taking the Fell Pledge at signup is a condition of using PeakShot. In it you commit to taking responsibility for your own safety on the hill: planning properly, carrying the right kit, checking the mountain forecast, and turning back when conditions say so. The pledge is not ceremony — it is the basis on which a photography game can responsibly exist on real mountains. The mountain decides.

Hillwalking and scrambling are hazardous activities that can cause serious injury or death. You choose your routes, judge the conditions, and are solely responsible for your own safety and navigation at all times.

• PeakShot is a game, not a navigation or safety device. Do not rely on it to navigate, to judge conditions, or to get you off a hill. Carry a paper map and compass and know how to use them.
• Phones fail on mountains: batteries die, screens break, GPS drifts, signal disappears. The app is designed to cope with that; your safety plan must not depend on the app at all.
• Check a proper mountain weather forecast before you go, and never let a shot window, score or leaderboard tempt you onto ground you are not equipped or experienced for. No photo is worth an accident, and no rule of ours ever requires one.

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded under the law of England and Wales, including liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence. Subject to that, we are not liable for what happens on your walks, and the service’s information (routes, difficulty grades, safety notes, weather) is provided in good faith as general guidance, not as advice you can rely on in place of your own judgement.

You can delete your account at any time, self-serve, from your settings. We can suspend or close accounts that break these terms, and we can wind down the beta itself — if we do, we will give reasonable notice so you can export your data.

These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have jurisdiction over any dispute arising from them or from your use of PeakShot.