RidgeLink Terms of Service

Effective date: August 3, 2026 · Ridge Link LLC

Effective date: August 3, 2026

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are a binding agreement between you and Ridge Link LLC, a Wyoming limited liability company ("RidgeLink," "we," "us"), governing your use of the RidgeLink app, website, and services (together, the "Service"). Please read Sections 8–16 carefully — they describe serious risks you accept, rights you give up, and limits on our liability. If you do not agree to these Terms, do not use RidgeLink.

1. Acceptance and eligibility

By creating an account, checking the acknowledgment box, tapping "I Understand," or using RidgeLink, you accept these Terms and our Privacy Policy. You must be at least 16 years old to use RidgeLink (see Section 12 for rules that apply to riders under 18). We record which version of these Terms you accepted and when.

2. Your account

You are responsible for your account, for keeping your credentials secure, and for everything done under your account. Provide accurate information and keep it current. One account per person; you may not sell, transfer, or share an account. You may delete your account at any time in the app (Profile → Danger Zone).

3. Subscriptions and purchases

RidgeLink Pro is an optional subscription billed through the app-store platform you purchased on, under that platform's payment terms. Prices may change prospectively. Subscriptions renew until canceled through your platform account settings; refunds are governed by the platform's policy. Zone Tips purchases are payments to the selling rider, processed by our payment provider; Section 11.6 and Section 8.4 apply to any spot you buy access to.

4. Acceptable use

You agree not to: break the law using RidgeLink; harass, threaten, or defraud other riders; post content you don't have rights to; spoof GPS or submit fabricated tracks; scrape, reverse engineer, or interfere with the Service; access another rider's account or data; use RidgeLink to organize or encourage unlawful riding (including trespass and riding closed areas); or use the Service if you are legally barred from doing so. We may remove content, withhold game recognition, and suspend or terminate accounts at our discretion, with or without notice, for conduct that violates these Terms or endangers riders or the Service.

5. Your content

You keep ownership of content you post (tracks, photos, reports, pins, posts). You grant Ridge Link LLC a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, display, reproduce, and distribute that content as needed to operate, promote, and improve the Service, consistent with your visibility settings. You are responsible for what you post (see Section 11.5). We may remove content at our discretion.

6. Privacy

Our Privacy Policy (ridgelinkv2.vercel.app/privacy.html) describes what we collect and how we use it, and is part of these Terms.

7. Third-party services and data

The Service includes data and services from third parties (map tiles, OpenStreetMap contributors, government agencies, weather and snow data providers, event organizers, payment processors, app-store platforms). We do not control them, and their availability and accuracy are not guaranteed. Third-party terms may apply to your use of their content.

8. Assumption of risk; rider responsibility

8.1 Riding is dangerous. RidgeLink supports snowmobiling, side-by-side and ATV riding, dirt-bike and enduro riding, mountain biking, backcountry skiing, and hiking. These activities are inherently and unavoidably dangerous. They cause serious personal injury, permanent disability, and death, and they cause loss of and damage to property. Hazards include, without limitation: terrain, rocks, trees, stumps, holes, water crossings, cliffs and drop-offs, tree wells, cornices, avalanches, changing snow and ice, weather, darkness, altitude, wildlife, other riders and vehicles, mechanical failure, becoming lost, and being far from help. Many hazards are unmarked, unmapped, and not visible until you are on top of them.

8.2 You accept these risks. You knowingly and voluntarily assume all risks of injury, death, illness, and property loss arising from your use of RidgeLink and from any ride, hike, trip, route, event, meetup, challenge, or game activity you undertake — whether or not that risk is described here, and whether or not it arises from information RidgeLink displayed, failed to display, or displayed incorrectly.

8.3 You are in command of your ride. You alone decide where to go, how fast to travel, when to turn around, and whether an activity is within your ability, fitness, training, experience, and your machine's capability. You are responsible for wearing a helmet and appropriate protective gear; carrying appropriate equipment (including, in the backcountry, a satellite communicator or personal locator beacon, avalanche equipment, food, water, fuel, and repair supplies); checking weather, avalanche, fire, and closure information from official sources before you go; obeying all applicable laws; and riding only where you are legally permitted to ride.

8.4 Legal access and land status are your responsibility. RidgeLink displays land-ownership, wilderness, trail, route, and territory information that is approximate, incomplete, and sometimes wrong. Boundaries shown in RidgeLink are not surveys and are not legal determinations. The appearance of a trail, route, track, hex, ride, zone, or sponsor zone in RidgeLink is not permission to be there, and is not a representation that access is legal, open, in season, or safe. Before you ride, confirm access with the landowner or managing agency. Do not enter private property without permission. Do not travel closed roads or trails, closed seasons, wilderness or other non-motorized areas, or areas closed for fire, wildlife, or wet conditions.

8.5 Other riders are strangers. RidgeLink lets riders find one another, plan ride days, join groups, and respond to community posts. We do not screen, vet, background-check, supervise, train, or verify the identity, skill, certifications, equipment, or fitness of any rider, host, group, or event. Any decision to meet, ride with, follow, assist, or rely on another person is yours alone and is made at your own risk.

9. RidgeClaim ("Turf")

9.1 It is a game. RidgeClaim is a game played with map hexes. Turf standing is a game score. It has no cash value and confers no property right, ownership interest, easement, license, access right, priority, or claim of any kind in the real world. Holding a hex does not mean you may lawfully be there. Another rider holding a hex does not mean you may not.

9.2 The rules of the game are the rules of the road. Nothing about RidgeClaim modifies Section 8. Do not trespass, cross private land without permission, enter a closed or restricted area, ride a non-motorized trail, exceed a speed limit, ride at night without proper lighting, ride while impaired, ride an area beyond your ability, or ride in conditions you would otherwise avoid, in order to claim, defend, or take turf. If you cannot reach ground legally and safely, do not go.

9.3 Notifications and prompts are not instructions. Game notifications (such as "another rider took your hexes") are not instructions to ride, not a representation that an area is open, legal, in season, or safe, and not an invitation to hurry.

9.4 Sponsor zones. A sponsor zone is a decoration on a map and, where a sponsor offers something of value, a promotion governed by its own published rules. It is not a race, not a timed event, not a challenge to arrive first, and not a representation that the area is open, legal, in season, safe, or suitable for your sport, machine, or ability. We do not verify land status, ownership, closures, or conditions inside a sponsor zone. Sponsors are not responsible for your conduct and we are not responsible for a sponsor's promotion.

9.5 Fair play. Claims score only from GPS tracks of rides you actually rode, under the sport you actually rode. No GPS spoofing, fabricated or imported tracks, or automation. We may reject claims, remove turf, reset standings, and suspend accounts, in our sole discretion, for cheating or for using the game to encourage or perform unlawful or unsafe riding.

9.6 Turf is public. Hexes you hold are shown to other users with your rider name (and chosen color). Start and end areas of a ride are trimmed before scoring, but no trimming is perfect: do not record rides you do not want associated with ground on a public map. Deleting a ride releases the hexes it still holds.

10. Safety features are not emergency services

10.1 Not 911, not rescue, not dispatch, not monitoring. Safety Check-In, overdue escalation, location sharing, and nearby-rider alerts are convenience features. RidgeLink is not an emergency service, monitoring service, dispatch service, alarm service, emergency-response provider, or search-and-rescue organization. RidgeLink does not contact 911, any public-safety answering point, law enforcement, search and rescue, or any other agency on your behalf, and public agencies cannot receive RidgeLink messages. In an emergency, call 911 or activate a satellite SOS device.

10.2 Not a satellite communicator. RidgeLink runs on your phone over cellular and internet networks. It is not a satellite messenger, personal locator beacon, avalanche transceiver, or two-way radio, and must not be substituted for one. If you travel beyond cellular coverage, carry a satellite communicator or PLB and leave a trip plan with a person by other means.

10.3 No guarantee an alert is sent, arrives, or is acted on. A check-in, location update, or overdue alert may be late, incomplete, inaccurate, or never sent — for reasons including: absent or intermittent coverage; a dead, damaged, submerged, powered-off, or locked phone; battery-saver, low-power, airplane, or Do-Not-Disturb modes; operating-system limits on background execution; location permission denied or revoked; GPS error or loss of fix; carrier, push, or internet outages; our own outages, maintenance, defects, or failures of scheduled monitoring jobs; and a contact's phone being off, unreachable, or ignored.

10.4 No one owes you a response. Emergency contacts and nearby riders are volunteers. They have no obligation of any kind to monitor RidgeLink, to respond, to search, or to render aid, and RidgeLink undertakes no duty to monitor you, to observe that you are overdue, to alert anyone, or to arrange or perform any rescue. In remote terrain or out of season, nearby-rider alerts may reach no one at all.

10.5 Text-message alerts. SMS delivery of emergency-contact alerts is not currently enabled. If and when enabled, delivery depends on carriers and is not guaranteed.

10.6 Your emergency contacts. By adding a person as an emergency contact you confirm you have their permission to provide their name and phone number for this purpose and to send them alerts. You are responsible for telling them what RidgeLink is, what it is not, and what you expect of them.

10.7 Set your own margin. Return times, grace periods, and check-in intervals are values you choose. Choose them conservatively, and always leave a trip plan with someone who is not relying on this app.

11. Maps, trails, conditions, and user content

11.1 Nothing in RidgeLink is authoritative. Maps, imagery, elevation data, land-ownership and wilderness boundaries, motorized-use layers, trails, trailheads, tracks, race and practice listings, snow depth, weather, forecasts, avalanche information, and hazard pins are provided "as is," for general information and planning only. They are frequently out of date, incomplete, imprecise, or wrong. They are not navigational instruments, not surveys, not legal determinations of access, and not a substitute for official maps, published closures, current forecasts, local knowledge, and your own judgment on the ground.

11.2 Third-party data comes from sources we do not control and do not continuously verify. Some layers are inferred rather than confirmed — a mapped way indicates a mapped way, not a legal right of access.

11.3 Rider-generated content is created by other riders and is not verified by us. Treat every rider report as one person's opinion about one moment in time. The absence of a hazard pin does not mean there is no hazard.

11.4 Offline maps are a cached copy that ages immediately. They do not update, do not reflect closures or new hazards, and do not replace a map and compass.

11.5 Your content. You are responsible for what you post. Do not post content that discloses another person's private property or home location, encourages trespass or unlawful riding, identifies a rider without consent, or is unlawful, harassing, or infringing.

11.6 Zone Tips. A purchased spot's description and location come from the selling rider, not from us. We do not verify that a spot is accurate, legal to access, open, or safe. Section 8.4 applies fully to purchased spots.

12. Age; minors

12.1 You must be at least 16 to create an account. RidgeLink is not directed to children under 16. 12.2 If you are 16 or 17, you may use RidgeLink only with the knowledge and permission of a parent or legal guardian who reviews and agrees to these Terms with you — including Sections 8–16 — and supervises your use. 12.3 Nothing in RidgeLink authorizes anyone to operate a vehicle they are not legally licensed, permitted, certified, or old enough to operate. State and local OHV age, supervision, safety-certificate, registration, and helmet laws are your (and your guardian's) responsibility. 12.4 Prize eligibility in challenges or sponsor promotions is limited to riders 18 and older.

13. Disclaimer of warranties

RidgeLink is provided "as is" and "as available," with all faults and without warranty of any kind. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express, implied, or statutory, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, and accuracy. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free; that any alert will be sent or delivered; that any location will be accurate; or that any map, route, boundary, condition, hazard, forecast, event, or rider report is accurate, current, complete, or safe to rely on. No advice or information obtained from RidgeLink or any RidgeLink user creates any warranty.

14. Release

To the fullest extent permitted by law, you release, waive, and discharge Ridge Link LLC, its member(s), officers, employees, contractors, agents, sponsors, and data providers (the "Released Parties") from all claims, demands, damages, actions, and causes of action of every kind — including claims for personal injury, disability, death, emotional distress, property damage or loss, rescue and evacuation costs, medical expenses, citations and fines, and economic loss — arising out of or relating to: (a) your use of RidgeLink; (b) any ride, hike, trip, meetup, group ride, event, challenge, or RidgeClaim activity; (c) any inaccurate, incomplete, missing, delayed, or misleading map, route, boundary, land-status, conditions, hazard, weather, avalanche, or event information; (d) any failure, delay, or non-delivery of a check-in, overdue alert, location update, or notification, or any person's failure to respond to one; and (e) the acts or omissions of any other user. This release applies to claims arising from the ordinary negligence of a Released Party, and binds you and your heirs, family, executors, administrators, assigns, and next of kin. This release does not extend to gross negligence, willful misconduct, or any liability that cannot be released under applicable law.

15. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law: (a) no Released Party is liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost data, loss of goodwill, or business interruption, however caused and on any theory of liability; (b) no Released Party is liable for personal injury, death, or property damage arising from your participation in any activity, whether or not you planned, navigated, recorded, scored, or learned of that activity using RidgeLink; and (c) the total aggregate liability of the Released Parties for all claims relating to the Service will not exceed the greater of (i) the amount you paid us in the twelve months preceding the event giving rise to the claim, or (ii) US$100. These limits apply even if a limited remedy fails of its essential purpose. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain exclusions or limitations; in that case liability is limited to the maximum extent permitted by law.

16. Indemnity

You will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the Released Parties from any claim, demand, loss, liability, damage, cost, or expense (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising from your use of RidgeLink, your content, your rides and activities, your entry onto any land, your violation of these Terms or of any law, or your injury to any person or property.

17. Changes; termination

We may update these Terms. For material changes to Sections 8–16 we will notify you in the app and require your acknowledgment before you continue using the affected features. We may suspend or terminate the Service or your access at any time for violation of these Terms; you may stop using RidgeLink and delete your account at any time. Sections 5, 8–16, 18, and 19 survive termination.

18. Governing law; venue

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Wyoming, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. Any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Wyoming, and you consent to their jurisdiction.

19. General

If any provision of these Terms is held unenforceable, the rest remain in effect and the provision will be enforced to the maximum extent permissible. These Terms plus the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and Ridge Link LLC about the Service. We may assign these Terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale; you may not assign them. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver.

20. Contact

Ridge Link LLC, 114 Drum Dr, Douglas, WY 82633, USA — sledlines@gmail.com.