RidgeLink Terms of Service

Effective date: August 3, 2026 · Ridge Link LLC

Effective date: August 3, 2026

Canada section added September 15, 2026. Section 21 (Riders in Canada) and the Québec notices placed before Sections 13 to 18 were added on that date. Sections 1 to 20 are unchanged, and the effective date above is unchanged. If you live in Canada, read Section 21: it changes how Sections 13 to 18 apply to you. Version française : ridgelink.app/terms-fr.html.

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 — sledlines@gmail.com.

21. Riders in Canada

21.1 Who this section is for, and how it fits with the rest. This section applies to you if you live in Canada. It is part of these Terms and it adds to them. Where it conflicts with anything else in these Terms, this section prevails. Nothing in it takes away a right you have under the law of your province or territory, and nothing elsewhere in these Terms operates against you to the extent that law does not permit it. In this section, "your province" means the province or territory where you live. This Section 21 survives termination of these Terms, together with the sections listed in Section 17.

21.2 Your statutory rights come first. Sections 13, 14, 15 and 16 do not exclude or limit any warranty, condition, right or remedy that the law of your province does not permit to be excluded or limited. Where that law forbids the exclusion, the Section does not apply to you at all; where it permits the exclusion only in part, the Section applies only that far. This includes, without limiting what else may apply to you, the Consumer Protection Act (Québec), the Consumer Protection Act, 2002 (Ontario), the Business Practices and Consumer Protection Act (British Columbia), the Consumer Protection Act (Alberta) and The Consumer Protection and Business Practices Act (Saskatchewan). If you are an Ontario consumer, we do not exclude the deemed warranty that services supplied under a consumer agreement are of a reasonably acceptable quality. If you are a British Columbia consumer, any purported waiver or release of the Business Practices and Consumer Protection Act in these Terms is void and we do not rely on one.

21.3 Liability, release and indemnity — what we do not ask you to give up. Riding is dangerous and Section 8 explains why. Section 8 is there so that you can judge a risk before you take it. It is a warning, not a renunciation of any claim you may have against us.

(a) If you live in Québec. Sections 13, 14 and 15 do not apply to you, and Section 16 applies only as narrowed below.

• We do not exclude or limit our liability to you for bodily or moral injury, and we could not do so if we tried (article 1474 of the Civil Code of Québec). No release, no exclusion, no cap and no indemnity in these Terms operates against a claim for bodily or moral injury.
• We do not exclude or limit our liability for the consequences of our own act or the act of our representative (section 10 of the Consumer Protection Act). That covers material and economic loss as well, not only injury to the person.
• We do not exclude or limit our liability for an intentional or gross fault (article 1474 of the Civil Code of Québec).
• The US$100 limit in Section 15(c) does not apply to you.
• Section 16 reaches only a claim caused by your own unlawful conduct or by your own failure to observe these Terms. You never owe us a defence, an indemnity or our legal fees for a claim arising from our own act or fault, and never for a claim you bring against us.
• Nothing in these Terms is a renunciation of a right the Consumer Protection Act gives you (section 262 of that Act).

(b) If you live elsewhere in Canada. Sections 13, 14, 15 and 16 apply to you only so far as the law of your province permits, and in no case do we exclude or limit our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence where the law of your province does not permit that exclusion, or for fraud, fraudulent misrepresentation, gross negligence or wilful misconduct. Where a limit in Section 15 is not permitted against you, it simply does not apply; the rest of these Terms stays in force.

(c) What this means in practice. If you are hurt, these Terms do not stand between you and a court. We will not plead Section 13, 14, 15 or 16 against a consumer in Canada beyond what the law of that consumer's province allows.

21.4 Where and how you can bring a claim. Section 18 does not apply to you as a consumer. The mandatory consumer-protection and privacy laws of your province apply to your use of RidgeLink and are not displaced by Section 18's choice of Wyoming law. You may bring a claim in the courts of the province or territory where you live, and we will not ask a court to move, stay or dismiss it on the ground that you agreed to Section 18. If you live in Québec, that includes the Small Claims Division of the Court of Québec. Section 18 continues to apply to matters that are not consumer matters.

21.5 No arbitration; no class-action waiver. These Terms do not require you to arbitrate anything, and they do not restrict your right to take part in a class action, to be a member of a class, or to go before a court or a consumer tribunal. We will not add an arbitration clause or a class-action waiver for riders in Canada.

21.6 RidgeLink Pro in Canada — what is sold, and by whom.

• RidgeLink Pro is sold as a monthly subscription or as an annual subscription. The billing period you choose, and its price, are shown to you before you buy.
• On iPhone, RidgeLink Pro is bought through Apple's in-app purchase. Apple is the merchant of record for that purchase: Apple shows you the total price, in your storefront's currency, before you confirm; Apple charges your Apple Account; Apple renews the subscription; and Apple's own terms of sale apply to the transaction.
• On the RidgeLink website, RidgeLink Pro is sold by Ridge Link LLC and payment is processed by Stripe. We are the merchant of record for that purchase. Section 21.7 sets out the disclosures for it.
• Your subscription follows your account, not your device. A subscription bought either way gives you Pro everywhere you sign in.

If you obtained RidgeLink through Apple's App Store, Apple's standard licence terms also apply to your licence to use the app; where those terms and these Terms conflict about the app licence, these Terms govern to the extent Apple's terms permit, and nothing in either instrument excludes or limits our liability for personal injury, or for bodily or moral injury, where applicable law does not permit that exclusion or limitation.

21.7 Distance-contract disclosures (website purchases). When you subscribe on the RidgeLink website, we show you the price, the currency, the billing period and the trial terms before you confirm the purchase, and we give you the whole of the following in the written copy we send you by email as soon as you have subscribed:

We send you a written copy of this contract by email as soon as you subscribe — naming us, what you bought, the price and currency, when the first and subsequent charges fall, how to cancel, and a link to these Terms. If we do not deliver that copy, you may cancel the contract and obtain a refund on the terms your province's distance-contract rules provide, including, in Ontario, within 30 days of entering into it.

21.8 Free trials, renewal and cancellation.

• Free trial on iPhone. Where Apple offers you a free trial, Apple shows you its length, the price that applies when it ends, and the date it ends, on the purchase sheet before you confirm. Apple manages the trial and the conversion to a paid subscription and notifies you under its own terms. You are not charged anything during the trial.
• Free trial on the RidgeLink website. Your first RidgeLink Pro subscription bought on our website includes a 30-day free trial, with no payment card required. If you have not given us a card by the end of the trial, the subscription simply ends and nothing is charged. If you have given us a card, we email you about three days before the trial ends, telling you the date it ends, the exact amount and currency that will then be charged, and how to cancel. Nothing is charged if you cancel before that date.
• Renewal. A subscription renews at the end of each billing period, for the same amount, until you cancel. We do not change the price of a period you have already begun.
• Cancelling on iPhone. Cancel in your Apple Account subscription settings, at least 24 hours before the period ends. Refunds on that path are requested from Apple at reportaproblem.apple.com and are decided by Apple under its policy.
• Cancelling on the RidgeLink website. Cancel from Profile → Cancel subscription. Cancelling is available at any time, and requires no phone call, no email, no chat and no reason.
• You may cancel a subscription, or its renewal, at any time — before or after a renewal date — without charge and without penalty. Cancelling stops every future charge, and your Pro access runs to the end of the period you have already paid for.
• If you live in Québec, you may end the subscription at any time, even if a term was specified, and you owe us nothing for ending it.
• Where a store's policy gives you less than your province's law gives you — for example if Apple declines a refund your province entitles you to — tell us. We will honour what your province's law requires.

21.9 Changes to these Terms and to prices, for riders in Canada. For riders in Canada, the only parts of this agreement we may change on notice are: (a) the price of a subscription; (b) what a Pro subscription includes; (c) the third-party data sources we use; and (d) the acceptable-use rules in Section 4. Nothing else may be changed unilaterally — in particular we do not change the cancellation terms, the refund terms, or Sections 21.3, 21.4 or 21.5 to your detriment.

If a change increases your obligations or reduces ours, we give you written notice at least 60 days before it takes effect, in a separate notice, drawn up clearly and legibly, setting out the clause as it reads now, the clause as it will read, the date the change takes effect, and your right to refuse it. You may refuse the change and cancel the contract without cost, penalty or cancellation indemnity, at any time up to 30 days after it takes effect, and we refund the unused part of any period you have prepaid. A price change on the website applies only to a renewal that falls after that notice. On iPhone, a price change takes effect only through Apple's own consent flow, and Apple will ask you.

21.10 Langue / Language. These Terms and our Privacy Policy are published in French at ridgelink.app/terms-fr.html and ridgelink.app/privacy-fr.html, and a link to the French version appears at the top of each English page. If the English and French versions differ on any point and you live in Québec, the French version governs. In every case, where a difference between the versions would deprive you of a right or a remedy, the version more favourable to you applies.

21.11 What RidgeLink does not do in Canada. Read this before you subscribe. It is the honest list, and some of it is about the map itself, not only about optional features.

• Motorized trail networks — most of Canada has none in RidgeLink. In Canada, RidgeLink draws snowmobile and quad trail networks only in Québec — the FCMQ and FQCQ club networks, from the province's open data — and in Alberta, from the province's Crown Land Trails (and the Alberta lines draw only when you are zoomed well in). In every other province and territory — Ontario, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Atlantic Canada and the three territories — RidgeLink shows no motorized trail network at all. You get the base map, the land and terrain layers described below, and whatever mountain-bike, dirt-bike, ATV/two-track and hiking ways OpenStreetMap contributors have mapped in your area. We may add provinces later. We do not promise to, and you should not subscribe on the expectation that we will.
• Weather: three things we advertise do not work in Canada. The long-range outlook (a Pro feature) is built from United States government climate products — NOAA's Climate Prediction Center and the 1991–2020 US Climate Normals. Weather radar (a Pro feature) is the United States NEXRAD mosaic. The storm-alert banner reads the United States National Weather Service. None of the three has Canadian coverage: in Canada the outlook and the alerts return nothing, and the radar layer is blank except, at most, a thin band on the Canadian side of the border where a United States radar happens to reach. What does work in Canada: the daily and 16-day forecast, the Canadian snow pillows described below, group last-known-location sharing, custom trail colours and unlimited offline map areas.
• Landowner names. RidgeLink never shows the name of a private landowner anywhere in Canada. That feature is sourced from United States county and state records and has no Canadian equivalent, and we do not intend to build one.
• United States agency map layers. The Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management and other United States federal and state route, ownership and OHV-designation layers stop at the border.
• Snow stations. The SNOTEL network is operated by the United States Department of Agriculture and covers the United States. In Canada, the snow-station layer shows only the British Columbia and Alberta snow pillows carried in the same feed, and those stations report a snow depth once a day, not hourly like the United States stations. Most of Canada has no station in RidgeLink at all.
• Emergency-contact text messages. Text-message delivery of emergency-contact alerts is switched off, in Canada and everywhere else. Section 10.5 applies.
• Stolen-vehicle alerts. Not available in Canada.
• Zone Tips. Zone Tips are sold on our website in United States dollars, and seller payout accounts can be opened only in the United States. We do not open a payout account for a rider whose billing address is in Canada, and we do not sell a Zone Tip to a rider whose billing address is in Canada. We do not market Zone Tips in Canada.

The RidgeLink app's own interface is in English. These Terms and our Privacy Policy are available in French.

21.12 Trails, permits and land in Canada. Section 8.4 applies in full. In Canada it means these things in particular:

• The Québec snowmobile and quad networks shown in RidgeLink come from the province's open data (the FCMQ and FQCQ club networks). They are centrelines only — not grooming status, not open or closed status, and not current conditions. Riding a club trail requires a valid trail permit, and many of those trails cross private land under agreements the clubs renew each year. A line on our map is neither a permit nor the landowner's permission.
• Crown land, national and provincial parks, wildlife reserves and ZECs, Indigenous reserve and treaty lands, and Alberta's Public Land Use Zones each have their own access, season and vehicle rules, set by someone other than us.
• Provincial and territorial law — not "state law" — governs your machine, your licence, your training certificate, your registration, your insurance, your helmet, where you may ride, when, and how fast. Québec's Act respecting off-highway vehicles is one example: mandatory civil-liability insurance, a training certificate for riders aged 16 and 17, a minimum age of 18 to drive a side-by-side, and restrictions on night-time trail use.
• The appearance of a trail in RidgeLink is not permission to be there.

The Québec trail and land data is used under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (Données Québec and the Ministère des Ressources naturelles et des Forêts), and the Alberta data under the Open Government Licence – Alberta ("Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Alberta"). Those licensors provide their data without warranty, do not endorse RidgeLink, and are not responsible for what we do with it. A current list of sources and licences is published at ridgelink.app/data-licences. A licence to use trail data is not an authorization to enter or cross land — see Section 8.4.

21.13 Emergency numbers in Canada — and what RidgeLink does and does not do for you. Section 10 applies in full.

RidgeLink is not an emergency service, and we never contact 911, a public-safety answering point, the police, the RCMP, search and rescue, or any other agency on your behalf. Public agencies cannot receive RidgeLink messages at all (Section 10.1).

What RidgeLink does do, so that you are not misled in the other direction: if you start a Safety Check-In and you have added an emergency contact who also has a RidgeLink account, we may send that person an in-app alert and a push notification when your trip goes overdue, if it escalates, if you trigger an SOS, and when you check in safe. If you switched on nearby-rider alerts for that trip, riders near your last known position may be sent a similar alert. These are conveniences addressed to volunteers. They are not monitoring, and Sections 10.3 and 10.4 apply to them in full: no alert is guaranteed to be sent, to arrive, or to be acted on, and nobody who receives one owes you any response. Text-message delivery of these alerts is switched off (Sections 10.5 and 21.11).

In an emergency, call 911 — or, where 911 service is not available, the local police, RCMP detachment or emergency number for the area you are in — or activate a satellite SOS device.

For avalanche information in Canada, use Avalanche Canada (avalanche.ca) or your regional forecast centre. RidgeLink does not carry Canadian avalanche forecasts, and nothing in RidgeLink is one. Avalanche pins on the map are posted by other riders: each is one rider's report of one moment (Section 11.3), not a forecast, and the absence of a pin means nothing. The slope-angle shading is computed from a terrain model and is not an avalanche forecast either.

21.14 Riders under the age of majority in Canada. The age of majority is 18 in most provinces and 19 in British Columbia and some territories. If you are under the age of majority where you live:

• We do not assert the release in Section 14 or the indemnity in Section 16 against you, and we do not rely on a parent's or guardian's signature as a waiver of your own right to sue.
• A subscription must be bought by, or with the consent of, a parent or guardian who accepts these Terms.
• Section 12's minimum age of 16 still applies to you, as do the provincial rules described in Section 21.12.

21.15 Privacy in Canada. Our Privacy Policy explains what we collect and why, who our service providers are, that your information is stored and processed in the United States, the rights you have under the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act and, in Québec, under the Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private sector, and how to reach the person in charge of the protection of personal information. If you are not satisfied with our answer, you may complain to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, to the Commission d'accès à l'information du Québec, or to the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta or British Columbia.

21.16 How to reach us, and how to complain. Write to sledlines@gmail.com. We acknowledge a complaint within five business days and answer within 30 days. You may also contact the consumer-protection office of your province — in Québec, the Office de la protection du consommateur.