Terms of Service

1. Who we are

Mapcove (the app for iOS, Android and the web, and the website at mapcove.app — together, the "Service") is operated by Arvydas Bertašius, an independent software developer based in Lithuania ("we", "us"). You can reach us any time at [email protected].

By using the Service you agree to these terms. If you don't agree with them, please don't use the Service.

2. What Mapcove is

Mapcove is a personal atlas: an app for saving places you care about, organising them with your own categories, tags, notes, photos and lists, and finding them again. It is a private collection, not a social network.

The app is local-first: your data lives in a database on your device and the core features work without an account and without a connection. On the free plan your collection stays there — an account is an identity (shared lists, the ideas board, buying Pro), not a backup. An optional paid subscription (Mapcove Pro) adds cloud backup and sync, and other extras, on top.

3. Your account

• An account is optional — the core app works fully without one.
• You must be at least 14 years old (or the minimum age of digital consent in your country, if higher) to create an account.
• Sign up with a working email address and keep your credentials to yourself — you're responsible for activity that happens under your account. Tell us immediately if you believe someone else has accessed it.
• On the free plan, one device is actively signed in at a time: signing in on a new device signs out the previous one. Pro removes this limit.
• We may suspend or close accounts that violate these terms, abuse the Service, or attempt to interfere with its operation.

4. Free plan and Mapcove Pro

The core of Mapcove — pinning, organising, searching and viewing your places, plus import, export and the on-device automatic backup — is free and not capped.

Mapcove Pro is an optional paid subscription for features that cost real money to run (for example cloud backup and sync of your whole collection, photos included, offline maps, shared lists and reminders). When you subscribe:

• Billing is handled entirely by the app store you bought it through (Google Play or the Apple App Store). We never see or store your payment card details.
• Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled. You can cancel any time in your store's subscription settings; you keep Pro until the end of the period you've paid for.
• Refunds follow the policies of the store you purchased through, plus any statutory rights you have where you live.
• Prices may change. If a price change affects an existing subscription, the store will notify you and ask for your consent as its rules require — a change never applies silently to a period you've already paid for.
• If Pro features are discontinued while you have an active subscription, you'll be entitled to a proportional refund for the unused time, through the store's mechanisms.

5. Your content stays yours

Everything you put into Mapcove — places, coordinates, names, notes, photos, categories, tags, lists — is your content. We claim no ownership of it.

If you subscribe to Pro, you give us the limited, revocable permission we need to store, back up, transmit and display your content solely to provide the Service to you (for example, keeping your backup and syncing it to your devices). On the free plan we hold no copy of your collection at all. This permission ends when you delete the content or your account. We never use your content for advertising, never sell it, and never train AI models on it.

• Export: you can export your full collection (CSV, GPX, KML or a complete backup) at any time, free — no lock-in, ever.
• Import: only import data you have the right to use. You're responsible for the content of files you import.
• Your responsibility: keep your own copies of anything irreplaceable. We take backups seriously, but no online service can promise perfect, uninterrupted storage — the export feature exists so you're never dependent on us.

6. Acceptable use

Don't:

• break the law while using the Service, or store content it is unlawful for you to hold;
• probe, overload, disrupt or attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Service, other users' accounts or data;
• scrape the Service, resell it, or use it to build a competing dataset;
• reverse engineer the app except where the law expressly allows it regardless of this clause;
• use the Service to harass anyone or to publish someone's private information without consent.

7. Ideas board and bug reports

The in-app ideas board is the one shared surface in an otherwise private app. Feature requests you submit are reviewed before they become visible to other users, and votes are public counts. Bug reports stay private between you and us.

• Don't post unlawful, offensive or private-information content. We may edit for clarity, decline, or remove submissions at our discretion.
• By submitting an idea you grant us a perpetual, royalty-free permission to use it — including building it into Mapcove — without obligation or compensation. (Otherwise we couldn't safely build the features you ask for.)

8. Maps, search and location

Map imagery, map data and place search results come from third-party sources and are provided for general orientation only. They can be incomplete, inaccurate or out of date, and offline map downloads reflect the world as of when they were made.

9. Third-party services

The Service is built on a small number of third-party components:

• Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License; map tiles served by OpenFreeMap.
• Place search (geocoding) is powered by Photon by komoot.
• App distribution and billing are provided by Google Play and the Apple App Store under their own terms, with subscription management by RevenueCat.
• Hosting and storage providers are listed in the Privacy Policy.

Those services have their own terms and availability — if one of them changes or disappears, some features may change with it.

10. Intellectual property

The Mapcove app, website, name, logo and design are ours. These terms give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the app on your devices. They don't give you any right to our branding or to the Service's code beyond what open licences attached to specific components provide.

11. No warranties

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available". We work hard on it, but we can't promise it will be uninterrupted, error-free or fit for a particular purpose, and we make no warranty about the accuracy of map or search data. Nothing in this section limits warranties or guarantees that consumer law in your country requires — those always apply.

12. Limitation of liability

To the extent the law allows, our total liability for claims arising out of the Service is limited to the greater of €50 or the amount you paid us for the Service in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim.

This limit does not apply where the law says it can't — including liability for intent or gross negligence, for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or your statutory consumer rights, none of which these terms reduce.

13. Ending things

• You can leave any time: export your data, then delete your account in the app — server-side data is removed immediately. No account? Just uninstall; your data was only ever on your device.
• We can end or suspend your access if you materially breach these terms (immediately for serious abuse, otherwise with notice and a chance to fix the problem).
• If Mapcove ever shuts down, we'll give at least 30 days' notice by email so you can export everything. Because the app is local-first, your collection stays readable on your device even after the server goes away.

14. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms as the Service evolves. For material changes we'll give reasonable advance notice — in the app or by email if you have an account — before they take effect. If you keep using the Service after a change takes effect, that means you accept it; if you don't accept it, stop using the Service and delete your account.

15. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the law of the Republic of Lithuania. If you are a consumer in the EU or elsewhere, you also keep the protection of any mandatory consumer-protection rules of the country where you live, and you may bring proceedings in your home courts where the law gives you that right.

If something's wrong, please email us first — most problems are fixed faster with a message than with a procedure. EU consumers can also contact their national consumer-protection authority (in Lithuania, the State Consumer Rights Protection Authority).

16. Contact

Questions about these terms: [email protected]. Every email is read and answered by a real person.