Terms of Service

Effective 16 October 2026

1. Who we are

Gorpology™ is run by Gorpology LLC, a Wyoming limited liability company ("Gorpology", "we", "us"). These terms cover the Gorpology™ app on the web at gorpology.io and in app stores ("the app"). The app helps you plan hiking and mountaineering trips ("quests"), record and log them, keep a journal, track gear and readiness, explore a public catalogue of trails (the Atlas), and take part in optional game features (Seasons, contracts, collectibles and your Bokka Bot). By creating an account or using the app you agree to these terms and to our Privacy Policy.

2. Your account

Anyone can create an account, with an email address and password, or a Google account.
You must be at least 16. If you're under 18, you confirm that a parent or guardian has read these terms and agrees to them for you. When you sign up you confirm your date of birth; we check it and keep only the fact that you met the age requirement.
Give accurate details and keep your password to yourself. You're responsible for what happens under your account; tell us straight away through Options > Support or at support@gorpology.io if you think someone else has used it.

3. The outdoors is dangerous: the app is a planning aid only

Hiking and mountaineering carry real risk of injury and death. The app's information (routes, trail lines, distances, elevations, times, weather, gear lists, readiness scores, the 3D route view, other members' notes and "beta") can be incomplete, out of date or wrong. Some trail lines are drawn from map data and marked "unverified". Conditions change quickly.

Use your own judgment, training and local knowledge; check official sources, permits and closures; turn back when in doubt.
Don't rely on the app (or your phone) to navigate or to call for help. Carry a map, compass and, where appropriate, a satellite communicator, and know how to contact local emergency services.
Trips you plan or join through the app, including club trips and events, are your own decision and at your own risk. Events may have their own waivers and rules.

4. Your content

You own what you post: journal entries, photos, notes, reviews, tracks and profile details ("your content").
You give us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, copy, display and send your content as needed to run and improve the app and to show it to the people you choose: yourself, your quest party, your clubs, or everyone (for public things such as Atlas reviews and photos, and your profile card if you share it). The licence ends when you delete the content or your account, except for copies other people already received as part of a shared quest or club.
Only post content you have the right to post. Don't post anything illegal, hateful, harassing, sexually explicit, misleading about routes in a way that could put people at risk, or that shares someone else's private information without permission.
We may remove content or limit accounts that break these rules or put people at risk.
We have no tolerance for objectionable content or abusive users. The app has Report and Block tools (on reviews, photos, posts and profiles); every report is reviewed, and objectionable content and the accounts that post it are removed.

5. Using the app fairly

Don't try to break, overload or get around the app's security, or access data that isn't yours.
Don't fake your location or your activities, scrape the app, or use bots or automated tools against it, including to earn beans, complete contracts or find collectibles.
Respect land managers, closures, private land and leave-no-trace principles. Nothing in the app is permission to go anywhere.

6. Beans, items and game features

Beans are the app's in-game currency. You earn them for hikes the app can verify and for completed contracts, and you can buy bean packs. Beans, and the items, emotes, scenes and collectibles they unlock, are a limited licence to use them inside the app. They have no cash value, can't be exchanged for money, sold or traded outside the app, can't be moved to another account, and aren't your property.
Where you buy beans depends on where you are: through Apple's App Store or Google Play in the app, or through our own checkout (run by Stripe) on gorpology.io and, where the rules allow, from a link in the app. Prices can differ between the app stores and our own checkout. Prices are shown before you pay, in US dollars unless the store shows them in your currency, and any sales tax or VAT is added where it applies.
Bean packs are delivered to your account at once, and by buying one you agree that delivery starts straight away, so any right to change your mind that would otherwise apply to digital content is waived once the beans are delivered.
Refunds: for a purchase made through Apple or Google, ask that store under its refund rules. For a purchase made through our own checkout, write to support@gorpology.io within 14 days; we refund a pack whose beans are still unspent, and we may refund in other cases at our discretion or where the law requires. A refund removes the pack's beans from your account, which can leave the balance below zero until it is earned back.
We may change how beans are earned or priced, what items cost, and how Seasons, contracts and collectibles work, and Seasons end on their published dates. We may remove beans or items gained by breaking these terms. If we ever shut down the game features, unused bought beans will be handled as the law requires.

7. Connected services and third-party data

You can sign in with Google and connect services such as Strava. Those services have their own terms and privacy policies, which apply to your use of them; we only receive what you allow. The app also uses data from third parties, credited where it appears, including OpenStreetMap contributors, terrain and satellite imagery providers and weather services. That data comes "as is" from its sources and may carry its own licence terms.

8. Our app and brand

The app, its design, code, artwork, the Bokka Bots, faction lore and the Gorpology™ name and Waystone logo belong to Gorpology LLC or its licensors. You may use the app for your own personal, non-commercial use under these terms; you may not copy, resell or reverse-engineer it except where the law allows.

9. Paid events and merch

Some club experiences, events or merchandise may cost money or have their own terms, which we'll show before you sign up or pay.

10. Ending your account

You can stop using the app at any time and delete your account yourself in Options > General > Account > Delete account. That deletes your profile and your personal content for good; the Privacy Policy explains exactly what is kept. We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms or puts others at risk, and we may stop offering the app or parts of it; where reasonable we'll give notice and a chance to download your content. Sections 4 (the licence for content already shared), 6, 8 and 11 to 14 continue after your account ends.

11. No warranty

The app is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy and uninterrupted service, to the extent the law allows.

12. Limits of liability

To the extent the law allows, Gorpology LLC and its owners, staff and contractors are not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential losses, or for injury, death, loss or damage arising from trips or activities you plan or carry out using the app. Our total liability for any claim about the app is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim and US$50. Nothing here limits liability that can't be limited by law, such as for fraud or, where the law says so, for death or personal injury caused by negligence.

13. Your responsibility to us

To the extent the law allows, you agree to cover claims, losses and costs brought against Gorpology LLC by others because of content you post or because you broke these terms or the law.

14. Disputes and the law that applies

Please contact us first; most problems can be fixed through support@gorpology.io. These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Wyoming, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules, and disputes will be handled by the state or federal courts in Wyoming, except where the law where you live gives you the right to bring a claim in your own courts or under your own country's laws.

15. Apps from Apple's App Store

If you got the app from Apple's App Store: these terms are between you and Gorpology LLC, not Apple; Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for the app; Apple is not responsible for claims about the app (including product liability, legal compliance or intellectual property claims), which are ours to handle to the extent these terms say; if the app fails to meet a warranty that applies by law, you may tell Apple and Apple may refund the purchase price, if any, and has no other warranty obligation; and Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and may enforce them against you. You confirm you're not in a country under a US embargo and not on a US list of restricted parties.

16. General

These terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between you and us about the app. If a part of these terms can't be enforced, the rest still applies. If we don't enforce a term straight away, we haven't given up the right to. We may transfer these terms to a company that takes over the app; you may not transfer them without our agreement.

17. Changes

We may update these terms. If a change matters, we'll tell you in the app before it takes effect and, where needed, ask you to accept the new version before you keep using the app.

18. Contact

Questions or problems: in the app, go to Options > Support, or email support@gorpology.io. Anything else: basecamp@gorpology.io.

Gorpology LLC, 30 N. Gould St., #69979, Sheridan, WY 82801, United States. Phone: +1 307 368 9770.