Terms of Use

Effective date: 2026-10-02

These terms govern your use of the Klipr Climbing app and KliprClimbing.com ("the service"), operated by Nick Armel, operating as Klipr Climbing ("we", "us"). By using the service you agree to them.

If Klipr Climbing becomes a company, these terms and this policy will transfer to it and we will notify you.

1. Eligibility

You must be at least 16 years old to use the service. If you are under the age of majority where you live, you confirm a parent or guardian permits your use.

2. Accounts

You are responsible for your account and for activity under it. Give accurate information, keep your sign-in details secure, and tell us promptly at [email protected] if you suspect unauthorised use. Usernames are unique; we may reclaim or change a username that is offensive, misleading or infringing.

3. Your content and our licence to it

"Your content" includes routes, photos, hold markings, names, grades, gym entries, avatars and anything else you submit.

You keep ownership of your content. You grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, reproduce, resize, display and distribute your content as needed to operate, promote and improve the service, and to let other users view it. You confirm you have the right to give this licence, including the right to any photo you upload.

Your content is public. Profiles, likes, attempts and sends, public routes, photos and gyms can be seen by anyone, including people who are not signed in. Do not submit anything you want to keep private.

After you delete your account. When we process your account deletion, we delete your profile, username, avatar image and sign-in account. The routes and route photos you published, and your activity on routes (attempts, sends and likes), are kept but anonymised: they are no longer linked to you and are shown under a "Deleted climber" placeholder. The licence above continues for any content that is kept. Details are on the Account Deletion page. You can delete an individual route you created in the app while your account exists.

4. Prohibited content and conduct

Do not use the service to:

• post content that is unlawful, hateful, harassing, sexually explicit, violent or that exposes private information about others;
• upload photos showing people (particularly children) without their permission, or that contain personal information;
• infringe anyone's copyright, trademark or other rights;
• impersonate others or misrepresent a gym's information;
• post false, spammy or abusive gym entries or route data;
• interfere with the service, scrape it at scale, or attempt to bypass its security, access rules or app-integrity checks;
• click on ads artificially or interfere with ad delivery.

We may remove content and restrict or end accounts that break these rules.

5. Reporting and takedown

To report content that breaks these terms or infringes your rights, email [email protected] with a description, where the content appears (route name, username, gym), and why you are reporting it. For copyright claims, include the information needed to identify the work and your contact details. We review reports and may remove content or take other action.

In-app reporting is not available yet; reports are made by email as described above.

6. Advertising

The service shows ads supplied by third parties. We are not responsible for advertisers' products or sites. How ad data is handled is described in the Privacy Policy.

7. Climbing is dangerous

Climbing and bouldering carry a risk of serious injury or death. You use the service and any route information at your own risk, and you are solely responsible for your safety.

Routes, grades, hold markings, gym details and other information are created by users. They are not verified by us, may be wrong or out of date, and are not safety advice or instruction. Always use proper equipment, follow the rules and staff directions of the gym or area, and use your own judgment. Do not use the app while climbing.

8. No warranty

The service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy and non-infringement. We do not promise the service will be uninterrupted or error-free.

9. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for loss of data, profits or goodwill, or for any injury arising from climbing or from reliance on user-generated content. Our total liability for any claim relating to the service is limited to the greater of the amounts you paid us in the 12 months before the claim and US$100. Some jurisdictions do not allow some of these limits, so they may not apply to you.

10. Termination

You may stop using the service and delete your account at any time (see Account Deletion). We may suspend or end your access if you break these terms or if we must do so by law, or if we discontinue the service. Sections that by nature should survive (content licence, disclaimers, liability, governing law) survive termination.

11. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, and disputes will be resolved in the state and federal courts located in Harris County, Texas, except where local consumer law gives you other rights. If you are a consumer in the EU/EEA or UK, you keep the mandatory consumer-protection rights and the right to bring proceedings in the courts of the country where you live.

12. Changes

We may change these terms. The effective date above will be updated and, for material changes, we will give notice in the app or on the website. Continued use after a change means you accept it.

13. Privacy and your data rights

Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle personal data, including the legal bases, retention and the rights available to people in the EU/EEA and UK.

14. Contact

Nick Armel, operating as Klipr Climbing [email protected]