Terms of Use

Pedaltales is operated by Kontekst Software UG (haftungsbeschränkt), Maria-Theresia-Allee 19, 52064 Aachen, Germany ("we"). Using the website or the app means you accept these terms. Our privacy policy explains how we handle your data.

Pedaltales is a private archive of your route-based outdoor activities: you import GPX files or record a tour in the app, and it becomes part of a map of everything you have done. You can record who was on a tour with you, and keep a list of friends.

It is free of charge and carries no ads. We may add, change, or remove features. We would rather keep it free, but we do not promise that it will stay free forever — if that changes, you will hear about it before it affects you, and you can export your tours and leave.

You sign in with your email address, without a password. Keep access to that mailbox secure: anyone who can read it can sign in as you. One account is for one person. You must be at least 16, or have your parent's or guardian's consent.

Your tours, tracks, and profile text remain yours. You grant us only the permission we need to run the service: to store your content, process it, and show it back to you and to the people you add to a tour as participants. We claim no ownership, and we do not use your routes to train models or sell them on.

You are responsible for having the right to upload what you upload, and for the email addresses you enter when you add a participant or send a friend request — add only people who were actually there, or whom you actually know.

• Do not use Pedaltales to track, surveil, or expose another person, or to upload someone else's route data without their agreement.
• Do not use it to harass anyone, including through participant invitations or friend requests.
• Do not try to break, overload, or circumvent the service, read other people's data, or scrape it in bulk.
• Do not upload anything unlawful, and do not use the service for anything unlawful.

We run Pedaltales with care but cannot promise it is always available. Maintenance, failures, and outages at our providers can interrupt it. Keep your own copies of anything you cannot afford to lose — the GPX files you imported, and the tours the mobile app can export as GPX.

You can stop at any time and delete your account from your profile; see the privacy policy for what that deletes. We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms, or discontinue the service entirely, giving you reasonable notice and the chance to get your data out unless the breach makes that impossible.

Because the service is provided free of charge, we are liable only for intent and gross negligence. This limitation does not apply to liability for injury to life, body, or health, to liability under the German Product Liability Act, or where German law otherwise forbids limiting it. We are not liable for lost data where you could reasonably have kept your own copy.

Pedaltales is a record of where you have been, not a navigation or safety tool. Decisions about where and how to go outside are yours. Map data comes from OpenStreetMap contributors and may be incomplete or wrong.

German law applies. If you are a consumer, this does not take away the protection of mandatory law in your country of residence.

We will post changes here and update the date at the top. For material changes we will tell you in the app or by email; if you do not agree, you can delete your account.

Questions about these terms: info@kontekst.app.