Terms of use

About these terms

These terms apply when you use Gruzo at gruzo.app, in the browser or as an installed app. By creating an account or downloading a route, you accept them. How we handle your data is described in the privacy policy.

Your account

You sign in with a code we email you. An account is for one person. Keep access to your email address to yourself: anyone who can read your email can sign in as you.

Riding the routes

You ride every route at your own risk. The routes on Gruzo are made by route builders and riders, and describe how a route was at the time it was mapped. Paths close, fields get ploughed, bridges wash out, and access rules change. The surface data (unpaved, paved, path) comes from OpenStreetMap and can be wrong.

• Check the route before you go, and take what you see on the ground over what is on the map.
• Follow traffic rules and local access rules, and stay off private land and closed paths.
• Respect nature, farmers, walkers and other trail users.
• Ride within your ability and your equipment, and prepare for the weather and the distance.

Routes and GPX files

Each route belongs to the route builder who made it; routes without a builder are shown as Gruzo Selection. You may download routes and use them for your own rides. You may not republish, sell or bulk-download them, or pass them off as your own.

Some builders sell a route on their own website. You buy it from the builder, not from Gruzo, and the builder's terms apply to that purchase.

Verified rides, XP and the Wall of Fame

When you verify a ride, you confirm that you rode it yourself and that the file is the real recording of that ride. Don't upload someone else's ride, an edited file or a file you generated. We may reject or remove rides that look faked, and recalculate XP, levels, Territory and Wall of Fame standings.

XP, levels and Wall of Fame rankings are a game on top of the routes. We may change how they're calculated, and when we do, everyone's standing is recalculated with the same rules.

If you join the Wall of Fame, the name you choose must not pretend to be someone else, and must not be offensive or advertise anything. We may change or remove a name that breaks this.

Using Gruzo fairly

Don't try to break or overload Gruzo, get around its security, or scrape its routes or data.

What we promise, and what we don't

Gruzo is a free service that we build with care, but we offer it as it is. We can't promise it will always be available or free of errors, and we may change, add or stop features.

As far as the law allows, we're not liable for injury, damage or loss caused by riding a route, by errors in a route or its data, or by Gruzo being unavailable. Nothing in these terms limits our liability where the law doesn't allow that, such as for intent or gross negligence, or your rights as a consumer.

Ending your account

You can stop using Gruzo and delete your account at any time; see Delete your data. If you seriously or repeatedly break these terms, we may suspend or close your account.

Changes and applicable law

If these terms change, we update this page and the date at the top. For significant changes we'll tell you in the app or by email before they take effect.

These terms are governed by Belgian law. If you live elsewhere in the EU, you keep the protection your own country's consumer law gives you.

Contact

Questions about these terms: hello@gruzo.app.