ShadeScout AR — Terms of Service
By installing or using ShadeScout AR you agree to these terms.
The app
ShadeScout AR uses augmented reality to forecast shade and help you find comfortable outdoor spots at venues. The AR overlay shows live shadow boundaries and forecasts how shade will move over the next 4 hours. Verdicts are advisory only and do not guarantee shade availability. Weather, season, and structural changes can affect actual shade in ways the forecast may not capture.
What you can do
- Use ShadeScout AR for personal, non-commercial purposes
- Save your favorite spots
- Contribute tree tags to the shared database
- Cancel your subscription via App Store or Play Store
What you may not do
- Reverse-engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract source code
- Submit fraudulent or intentionally inaccurate tree tags designed to manipulate the shade database
- Scrape or republish the crowdsourced shade/tree database
- Rely on ShadeScout AR as a substitute for professional advice or safety assessment
Subscriptions
ShadeScout AR Premium is an auto-renewable subscription, offered as $2.99 per month or $19.99 per year (United States pricing; your local price is shown in the App before you purchase).
Premium includes future shade forecasting (up to 4 hours ahead), unlimited saved spots, shade-arrival alerts (not yet delivered on Android 12 and later in the current build), and the Spot Recommender. AI shade explanations are planned and not yet in the app. Free users can view current shade only and save one spot.
Payment is charged to your App Store or Google Play account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew at the same price and period unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of the current period.
You can manage or cancel your subscription at any time in your device's App Store or Google Play account settings. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. Refunds are processed by Apple or Google under their respective terms.
The crowdsourced shade database
When you submit a tree tag, its location and dimensions are stored with your anonymous account ID, and a nightly job merges nearby tags into per-venue tree records that do not carry your account ID. You grant Glippin Toys, LLC a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, store, and incorporate those merged per-venue tree records into the shared map database and any models trained on it.
If you delete your account in the app, your saved spots are removed and the app asks our servers to delete the tree tags stored under your anonymous account ID. The merged per-venue tree records built from earlier tags do not carry your account ID and remain.
Disclaimers
THE APP IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND. ShadeScout AR IS NOT LIABLE FOR YOUR COMFORT, SAFETY, OR HEALTH DECISIONS BASED ON SHADE FORECASTS. FORECASTS ARE ADVISORY AND BEST-EFFORT. ACTUAL SHADE CONDITIONS MAY DIFFER SIGNIFICANTLY FROM FORECASTS DUE TO WEATHER, STRUCTURAL CHANGES, OR OTHER FACTORS OUTSIDE OUR CONTROL.
Changes
We may update these terms. Continued use after updates take effect means you accept them.