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Terms of Service

Last updated: September 2026

warning1. Assumption of Risk & Climbing Safety Disclaimer

Climbing, mountaineering, and bouldering are inherently dangerous activities that carry significant risks of severe physical injury, paralysis, or death.

All grades, reach assessments, "short-friendliness" ratings, beta notes, intermediate holds, and GPS coordinates published on this site are subjective personal opinions provided by community members for informational and discussion purposes only. They do not constitute professional safety advice, official route topo documentation, or guarantees of difficulty or safety.

You are solely responsible for your own safety, route inspection, choice of protection, spotters, crash pads, and personal judgment. You agree to hold this website, its creators, and contributors harmless from any accidents, injuries, or damages resulting from the use of content found here.

2. User-Generated Content & Ownership License

When you submit content to our platform—including climb reviews, beta suggestions, star ratings, climber heights, morphological notes, and coordinates—you retain your underlying moral authorship.

However, by submitting content anywhere on this website, you grant us an exclusive, irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, transferable, and fully sublicensable license to host, store, cache, use, reproduce, modify, adapt, reformat, translate, create derivative works from, publish, publicly display, distribute, syndicate, compile, and commercialize such content in any medium, platform, application, publication, or technology now known or later developed, without compensation or attribution obligation to you.

You represent and warrant that any content you submit does not infringe the intellectual property rights, privacy, or legal rights of any third party. We reserve the right to edit, moderate, reformat, or remove any submission at our sole discretion.

3. Acceptable Use & Directory Submissions

You agree not to:

  • Submit false, defamatory, offensive, or malicious route information or beta.
  • Submit private property locations without lawful access or trespass warnings.
  • Automate, scrape, script, or overload our submission forms or databases.
  • Attempt to bypass rate limits, spam prevention mechanisms, or security filters.

4. External Links (UKClimbing / OpenStreetMap)

Our website links to third-party services such as UKClimbing.com (UKC) and OpenStreetMap. We do not operate, control, or endorse these third-party platforms and assume no responsibility for their content, uptime, or privacy practices.

5. Governing Law & Contact

These Terms are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws applicable in our operating jurisdiction in Europe. For inquiries regarding these Terms, please contact us via our contact form.