Terms of Use
Effective September 5, 2026
These terms are the agreement between you and Glassing, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, for Glassing — the iOS app, the watch app, and the web map at glassing.app. Using any of them means agreeing to these terms. If you do not agree, do not use them.
Privacy is covered separately, by the Privacy Policy, which is part of this agreement.
1. Read this part
Glassing is a map, not a guide, and not a safety device.
Glassing shows terrain, elevation, slope angle, contours, trails, land ownership and place names drawn from public data sources. That data is incomplete, out of date in places, and wrong in places. Elevation models are approximations; slope angles computed from them are approximations of approximations; a trail on the map may not exist on the ground, and a trail on the ground may not be on the map. Coordinates and distances are as good as your phone's GPS, which degrades under canopy, in canyons, and in bad weather.
Every layer in Glassing is decision support, not a guarantee. It tells you what a data set says, with the date it says it. It does not tell you what is true today, on that slope, under that snow.
You are responsible for your own decisions in the backcountry. Do not use Glassing as your only means of navigation. Carry a map and compass and know how to use them.
Slope and terrain layers are not avalanche forecasts. They are terrain visualization. They cannot see snowpack, weather, wind loading, recent avalanche activity, or anything happening today. Consult your regional avalanche center and official land-manager information before traveling in avalanche terrain.
Land-ownership boundaries are not permission to enter. Public-lands data shows what a national data set records about ownership and management, at the accuracy that data set carries. Boundaries are approximate, parcels change hands, and an access flag in the data is a description rather than a right. It is not a legal survey, it is not a permission, and it is not a defense to trespass. Closures, permits, seasons, unit boundaries and hunting regulations are the land manager's to publish and yours to check; Glassing does not enforce them and may not reflect them.
Private parcels come from county tax rolls, and what a card says is a record, not a contact. Where Glassing draws private ground, it shows what a county assessor publishes about a taxlot: its size, its county, a published access page where one exists, and — where the roll's owner is a company — that company's name. Where the owner is a person, no name is shown; the parcel's own street address stands in its place. Rolls lag sales by months and boundaries are approximate, so the card may describe a taxlot as it was rather than as it is. It is not permission to enter, it is not an invitation, and it is not a way to find anybody.
Your phone can fail. Batteries die in the cold, screens break, GPS drifts, and software has bugs. Plan for the trip you are on without it.
Nothing in the app is emergency, medical, legal, or hunting-regulation advice.
2. Your license to use Glassing
Glassing, LLC grants you a personal, non-transferable, non-exclusive license to use Glassing on Apple-branded devices you own or control, as permitted by the App Store Terms of Service. You may not sell, rent, sublicense, or redistribute the app; reverse-engineer it except as the law allows regardless of contract; or remove attribution and license notices from map data it displays.
Glassing, LLC keeps all rights in the app itself — its code, design, cartography and brand.
3. Accounts
Glassing works fully without an account. To put your data on more than one device, create one with Sign in with Apple; that is the only sign-in offered, and an account exists for no purpose other than syncing your own data to you. The same account signs you in to the web map.
Keeping access to your Apple Account secure is yours to do, since it is the key to your Glassing account. You can delete your Glassing account from inside the app or from the web map at any time; the Privacy Policy says what that removes.
Glassing, LLC may suspend or close an account being used to attack the service or break these terms. You will be told, and where it is reasonably possible you will get a chance to take your data out first — though your data is already on your own phone, and GPX export needs nobody's help.
4. Your content stays yours
Everything you create in Glassing — waypoints, routes, tracks, trips, notes, photos — is yours. Glassing, LLC claims no ownership of it.
Signing in grants the narrow permission the service needs to run: to store, transmit and hand back your content, on your instruction, so it reaches your own devices. That permission covers nothing else. Your content is not analyzed, aggregated, published, used to train anything, or shared with anyone, unless you ask for it. Two things ask:
- A share link publishes the one record it names to anyone holding the link, until it expires or you revoke it. Making one grants Glassing, LLC permission to show that record on the share page for as long as the link lives. Section 6a says the rest.
- Importing a file on the web map sends the place names in that file, and nothing else, to a hosted model that proposes an icon for each one. The Privacy Policy names the model and what it does not keep.
The permission ends when you delete the content or the account.
What you store is yours to be responsible for — in particular, having the right to store photos you add and data you import.
5. Acceptable use
Do not use Glassing to break the law. Do not attack, overload, or attempt to gain unauthorized access to the servers or to another user's data. Do not scrape or bulk-download the map data the service serves beyond your own ordinary use of the app.
Do not use owner information from the map to contact, solicit, approach or harass anyone, and do not extract it from the app or the map files to build anything with.
Do not share a link to content you have no right to publish, and do not use a share link to publish where another person lives, works, hunts or camps without their consent.
6. Map data and attribution
Glassing displays data from public and open sources, including the U.S. Geological Survey, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, OpenStreetMap contributors, county assessors as compiled by Oregon state agencies, and others named on the app's attribution screen. Those sources keep their own licenses, and those licenses bind you too.
OpenStreetMap-derived data is licensed under the Open Database License 1.0. Using it carries obligations: attribute OpenStreetMap contributors, keep any derived database under the same license, and do not remove or obscure the attribution. The attribution screen inside the app and the credits on the web map are part of these terms.
Public-domain government data is not warranted by its publishers and is not warranted by Glassing, LLC.
6a. Share links
On the web map you can make a link to one waypoint, route, track or trip. A share link is the whole authorization: whoever holds it can open it, with no account, until it expires or you revoke it.
- What it shows is that record — its name, its notes, and every coordinate in it, never its photographs — on a page Glassing serves.
- You choose its life: a day, a week, thirty days, or until revoked. Revoking is immediate. A link that has expired or been revoked shows nothing and says nothing about whether it ever existed.
- You are the publisher. Where a link goes, who forwards it, and what a messaging service does with the preview is not something Glassing, LLC can control or take back.
- Deleting your account deletes every link you made.
7. Subscriptions and purchases
Glassing sells through the App Store, and Apple processes every payment. Prices, billing periods and any current offer are shown in the App Store and in the app before you buy.
Subscriptions renew automatically. A subscription renews at the end of each period unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the period ends. Your Apple Account is charged when the renewal is confirmed, within 24 hours of the end of the current period. Manage and cancel subscriptions in your Apple Account settings — Glassing, LLC cannot cancel one for you.
A free trial runs one month, once per account. An unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when a subscription is bought during it, where the law requires that to be said.
Offer codes are Apple's. A code Glassing, LLC gives you is redeemed through the App Store on Apple's terms, and what it grants is shown there before you redeem it.
Refunds are Apple's. They are handled under the App Store Terms of Service, and Glassing, LLC cannot issue one. If a paid feature is withdrawn during a period you have paid for, write to hello@glassing.app.
8. What happens when a subscription ends
Ending a subscription never takes anything away from you.
- Everything you saved keeps working. Viewing, searching, exporting, downloaded maps, and navigating to waypoints you already have all continue, free, with no time limit.
- Saving new things is what stops. Four actions need a subscription: saving a waypoint, starting a recording, downloading a map, and updating one.
- A trip in progress finishes. A recording already running always saves, and full function continues for seven days after the app is first online and sees the subscription gone — so a lapse that happens on a mountaintop is not a lapse until you are home.
- Your data stays yours. Export waypoints, routes and tracks as GPX at any time, with or without a subscription and with or without an account.
9. The service, and changes to it
Glassing, LLC will try to keep sync working and offline maps available for download, but does not promise the service will be uninterrupted or error-free, and may change or withdraw parts of it. The app is designed so that this costs you as little as possible: your data lives on your phone, works offline, and exports to GPX.
Downloaded maps keep working whether or not the servers do.
10. Warranty disclaimer
To the fullest extent the law allows, Glassing is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied — including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, or non-infringement. Glassing, LLC does not warrant that map data, elevation, slope, trails, land ownership, place names, or positions are accurate, complete, or current.
Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so parts of this may not apply to you.
11. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent the law allows, Glassing, LLC is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost data, lost profits, personal injury or death, arising out of your use of Glassing or your reliance on anything it displays. Total liability for any claim relating to Glassing is limited to the greater of the amount you paid Glassing, LLC in the twelve months before the claim, or fifty U.S. dollars.
Nothing here excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence where that exclusion is prohibited.
12. Indemnity
You agree to indemnify Glassing, LLC against claims arising from your misuse of the app, your breach of these terms, content you store that you had no right to store, or content you published with a share link.
13. Apple
You and Glassing, LLC acknowledge that this agreement is between you and Glassing, LLC only, and not with Apple; Apple is not responsible for Glassing or its content. Glassing, LLC is solely responsible for Glassing and for any maintenance and support of it; Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for Glassing. If Glassing fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price; to the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation with respect to Glassing. Apple is not responsible for addressing any claim by you or a third party relating to Glassing, including product liability, regulatory non-compliance, or consumer protection claims, or for investigating or defending any third-party claim that Glassing infringes intellectual property rights. You represent that you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. Government embargo or designated a "terrorist supporting" country, and that you are not on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of this agreement and may enforce it against you.
14. Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. Disputes will be brought in the state or federal courts located in Delaware, unless the law where you live gives you the right to bring them somewhere else — in which case it does.
15. Changes to these terms
These terms may be updated. If a change matters, the effective date above moves and the change is listed under "What changed". Using Glassing after that means accepting the new terms; if you do not, stop using the app and, if you like, delete your account.
16. Contact
Glassing, LLC — hello@glassing.app
What changed on September 5, 2026
- No private individual is named on a parcel card. §1's private-parcel paragraph is rewritten: a company owner is named, a person is not, and the parcel's own street address stands in a person's place.
- Nevada joins the eight states whose county assessors are credited.
What changed on September 4, 2026
- Private parcels are named in the safety section: a county tax roll's owner of record is a record, not a contact, and not permission to enter.
- Share links get a section of their own (§6a) and the exceptions in §4 that make them honest: a link publishes one record on your instruction, and an imported file's place names go to a model for icon suggestions.
- Acceptable use forbids using owner information to contact or harass anyone, and publishing where another person lives, hunts or camps.
- Attribution names county assessors among the sources.
- The trial runs one month, the length Apple's configuration actually carries, where the previous version said 30 days. Offer codes are named as Apple's.
- Account deletion is reachable from the web map as well as the app.
- Apple's section states that Glassing, LLC alone is responsible for maintenance and support, which Apple's minimum terms require.
- Indemnity covers content published with a share link.
What changed on September 3, 2026
- One subscription. Glassing sells a single yearly plan. The monthly plan and the lifetime one-time purchase were withdrawn before either was ever offered, and the sentences about them are gone.
What changed on August 23, 2026
- Land ownership is named in the safety section, with the plain statement that a boundary or an access flag in the data is not permission to enter.
- "Decision support, not a guarantee" is stated as the rule the layers are read by, rather than left implied.
- Subscriptions get real terms: auto-renew and its 24-hour windows, the trial, one trial per account, and refunds as Apple's.
- A new section says what expiry does — everything saved keeps working, four save-shaped actions stop, a trip in progress finishes, and GPX export never stops.
- The Open Database License is named, with the obligations it carries.
- The watch app and the web map's account are inside the agreement's scope.
- The voice follows DESIGN.md §2a: the subject is Glassing or Glassing, LLC. Sentences kept in legal register are marked in the source.