Data & Contributor Terms

The deal, in one paragraph

BoatScore, rides, your trip reports and the map's next 12 hours need no subscription. The full forecast is a paid subscription; the App Store shows the current plans. The rides you take are shared; shared rides feed our research into how boats ride and how water behaves, improve the forecast and the score, and may build shared features such as a conditions map. You keep ownership of your data. You can stop contributing at any time by taking no rides, and delete your account at any time, with or without a subscription. If your subscription ends, you keep everything the free plan has. Your boats, trips and saved spots stay on your phone, and the alerts you had on come back, on the phone that switched them off, when you subscribe again.

Who can use RideScore

You must be at least 18, or the age of majority where you live if that is higher, to accept these terms and to subscribe. A parent or guardian may let a younger person use RideScore; the parent or guardian accepts these terms for that person and is responsible for that use.

Arbitration and class-action waiver

Disputes are resolved by binding individual arbitration under the American Arbitration Association's Consumer Rules; you and we waive jury trials and class actions. Small-claims court remains available. You may opt out within 30 days of first accepting by emailing [email protected].

Sharing

A ride shares. Every ride you take is uploaded. If you do not want a ride shared, do not start it. Your boats and their BoatScores work without a ride, and so does the map. The Helm's gauge runs only during a ride, on every plan; a subscription adds the full forecast, the Helm's forecast line and its extra pages.

Data we receive is stored against your account identifier. Other users cannot read it. Solitary Labs can, and does: we read and process it for our research into how boats ride and how water behaves, to check and improve the forecast and the score, to build the features of RideScore, and to run the service. It is not published, and it is not sold as your data — what we may sell is aggregated statistics, described below — but it exists, it is linked to your account, and valid legal process can reach it.

A ride is the one sharing choice there is: a ride is shared when you take it, and nothing is shared when you do not.

What is ever shown publicly

Today the water conditions on the map come from public weather data and our physics, not from anyone's rides; how your boat is expected to ride them is refined by the rides people take. A shared surface, if we build one, shows conditions by area, only where enough boats have been that its numbers could not reasonably be traced to any one of them. Never dots. Never track lines. Never names — we do not have your name. Your own rides appear to others only when you choose to share them.

What you grant us

You keep ownership of your data. When you take a ride, you grant Solitary Labs a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable license to host, store, process, analyze, and create derived and aggregated works from the ride data your device uploads, including its exact positions. It covers the rides you have already recorded as well as the ones you record from now on, for these purposes only:

• Operating, improving and extending RideScore and what we build from it — the forecast, the map, the score, how the app understands your boat and the water you run, features built on where boats have been, and the accuracy of all of it.
• Producing aggregated and anonymized outputs: conditions by area, how hull types and models ride, and comparable fleet-scale statistics.
• Publishing, licensing, and selling those aggregated and anonymized outputs to third parties — bounded by the limits below, which are part of this grant.
• Research and development on how boats ride and how water behaves, including work that becomes part of our patents and our proprietary index.
• Showing your rides, and what we learn from them, back to you — and to other people only when you choose to share them.
• This license survives deletion only for aggregates already computed and already de-identified, which cannot be unwound retroactively. It does not extend to your identified raw data after you delete it.

What we will not do

• We will not sell your raw data. Not your tracks, not your telemetry, not your rides, to anyone, in identified or pseudonymous form.
• We will not sell or share your location for advertising or cross-context behavioral advertising.
• We will not show your boat or your track on any shared surface unless you choose to share it, and what we do show there is built so that it could not reasonably be used to identify you or your boat.
• We will not profile you for advertising, or make automated decisions about you with legal or similarly significant effects. Tuning the forecast and the score to your boat and your rides is the product, not profiling.
• We will not hand your data to a boat manufacturer, dealer, insurer, or law-enforcement agency except under valid legal process, described in the Privacy Policy.

What we may do with aggregates

We may sell conditions and boat-ride statistics built from many users' rides to other companies. Always aggregated and anonymized. Never your individual rides, tracks, or precise location.

These bounds are part of these terms, and we are bound by them:

• Aggregated and anonymized only: built so that nothing in them could reasonably be used to identify you, your account, your device, or your individual vessel.
• Never individual rides or tracks. No track line, no ride record, no trip — yours or anyone's — leaves this company in any licensed or published output.
• Never the position of any ride. Outputs cover areas, never points, and we publish or license an area only where enough boats have been that its numbers could not reasonably be used to pick out a ride, a boat or a person; where there are too few, we widen the area or leave it out.
• Never raw telemetry. Not your raw sensor archive, not the raw NMEA bus log, not the per-second series.
• Never for advertising, ad measurement, or profiling of you.
• If we ever want to go beyond these five bounds, we will ask you again in the app. A posted update to these terms is not enough for that.

Deletion

• Delete a trip: deleting a trip in the Trips list deletes it from this phone, from your iCloud, and from our servers promptly, normally within a few days, and from our backups within 12 months. Summaries it counted toward, which hold nothing about you, are kept.
• Delete your account and all of your data: Settings > Delete account > Delete my account and data, behind two confirmations. It signs this phone out at once, and promptly, normally within a few days, removes everything stored under your account, including your rides and everything derived from them, your boats, your alerted spots and alert settings, your subscription and sign-in records, your device keys and notification tokens, and your uploaded archives. If you signed in with Apple, it also tells Apple to disconnect RideScore from your Apple ID. Records that carry nothing saying they were yours — crash reports, service counters and logs — are not touched. It cannot be undone.
• Stop contributing: do not start a ride. Rides already uploaded stay until you delete the trip or your account, as above.
• Aggregates already computed and already de-identified are not reconstructed to remove a contributor, because they no longer contain a contributor.

Your contribution

We still count your hours, and you can still see the total. Contributor hours are your hours of ride data on the water that the server received. There is no per-ride zeroing and no all-or-nothing rule. A ride is never wasted.

Hours are counted against the account that owns the boat — one tally per boat. Running someone else's boat with your own phone contributes data and helps the map; it does not add a second tally for the same water.

Contributing is never a penalty. Taking no rides, deleting a ride, or exercising any privacy right never downgrades the app you have or degrades the service you get.

Your subscription — what it costs

Your RideScore Pro subscription includes the full forecast on the map and at every spot, every Helm page during a ride, and the best-days planner and its alerts. Without one, you can add as many boats as you like and see and share their BoatScores, see the map for the next 12 hours, record rides with the live gauge, read and share your trip reports, restore a purchase, manage your subscription, sign in with Apple and delete your account.

• RideScore's prices are shown in the app before you buy, in your country's currency, and may change; the price you see at purchase is the price you pay for that period.
• The App Store shows any introductory offer for new subscribers. The subscription renews automatically at the price shown, and keeps renewing until it is canceled.
• Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation. Renewal is charged within 24 hours of the end of the current period unless you cancel at least 24 hours before it ends.
• Cancel any time in Settings > your name > Subscriptions on your device. Canceling stops the next renewal; it does not refund the period you are in, and refunds are handled by Apple, not by us.
• A subscription is the only way to get the full forecast, your spots and their alerts, and every Helm page.
• We can change the price of a future renewal of the annual or monthly plan. Apple tells you and asks you to agree before an increase takes effect, and if you do not agree the subscription simply stops renewing instead of costing more.
• We may offer some customers a discount or a promotional price for a limited time. The price shown to you at purchase is your price.

Data quality and fair use

The shared data is a commons, and poisoning it hurts everyone. You agree not to submit falsified data, spoof your location, automate or fabricate rides, or attempt to manipulate the aggregates. We validate every upload for physical plausibility and uploads carry a check from Apple's App Attest that they come from a genuine copy of RideScore. We may reject data, exclude it from your contribution total, and terminate an account that does this. Where we reject your data and you ask why, we will tell you.

What RideScore is — and what it is not

RideScore is about ride comfort. It is not a safety tool.

RideScore is a conditions index. It is a measurement of how rough the water is, and a forecast of how a given hull is expected to ride it, calibrated to a reference boat. It is a number, produced by our own proprietary physics, calibration and aggregation pipeline.

RideScore is not advice. It does not tell you whether to go out. It is not a go/no-go determination, not a safety rating, not a seaworthiness assessment, not navigation guidance, and not a substitute for the official marine forecast, for charts, or for your own judgment.

The Radar, Currents, Sea temperature and weather layers are planning aids. They can be late, incomplete or wrong, and they are not a substitute for official warnings or for your own judgment.

The operator is responsible for the vessel. Conditions change faster than any forecast. Forecasts are wrong. The water where you are is not always the water in the model. You are responsible for deciding whether to go, where to go, how fast to run, and when to turn around — and for the boat, the crew, and everyone aboard.

The forecast is a model. Where the fleet has not yet ridden, the number comes from physics priors and public weather data, and the app labels how confident it is.

Assumption of risk

Boating is inherently dangerous and can result in injury, death and property damage. Conditions can change suddenly and differ from any forecast. You voluntarily assume all risks of your activities on the water, and you, not Solitary Labs, decide whether, where, when and how to operate any vessel.

No warranty

The service is provided "as is," without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, and non-infringement. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Solitary Labs LLC is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss arising from your use of, or reliance on, RideScore numbers, forecasts, or maps. Some jurisdictions do not allow these limits, so they may not apply to you. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law.

An alert may not arrive, or may arrive late.

Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Solitary Labs LLC's total liability for all claims relating to RideScore is limited to the greater of what you paid us in the 12 months before the claim arose, or US $100.

Our intellectual property

The RideScore index, the physics and calibration pipeline behind it, the hull normalization, the aggregation methods, the map, the software, and the RideScore name are ours. Your data is yours; what we build from the fleet is ours. Nothing in these terms transfers our intellectual property to you, and nothing transfers yours to us beyond the license above.

Changes to these terms

We may change these terms. When we do, we post the new version at solitarylabs.com/terms with a new date, and the app asks you to accept it before you carry on. If you do not accept, stop using RideScore: your rides stay on your phone and in your iCloud, and we will delete your account on request to [email protected]. A change does not apply to a dispute that arose before it took effect. Going beyond the five bounds on aggregated statistics needs your agreement in the app, as set out above.

The rest of the legal terms

• Whole agreement. These terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between you and Solitary Labs about RideScore, alongside Apple's license agreement for the app itself.
• If part is unenforceable, the rest stays in force, and that part is enforced as far as the law allows. If the class-action waiver is found unenforceable for a dispute, the arbitration section does not apply to that dispute.
• No waiver. If we do not enforce a term straight away, we have not given it up.
• Transfer. You may not transfer these terms. We may transfer them to a company that takes over RideScore, which is then bound by them and by the Privacy Policy.
• Ending. You can stop at any time: take no more rides, delete the app, or delete your account. We may suspend or close an account that breaks the fair-use rules above or the law, or to protect the service. If we ever shut RideScore down, we will say so in the app at least 30 days ahead and keep account deletion working until it closes.
• What survives. What you grant us, what we will not do, the bounds on aggregates, arbitration, no warranty, the limitation of liability and our intellectual property survive the end of these terms.
• Things outside our control. We are not responsible for delays or outages caused by events outside our reasonable control, including outages of the public weather data the forecast depends on.

Contact and governing law

Solitary Labs LLC, a South Carolina limited liability company.

South Carolina law governs these terms, subject to the arbitration section; courts in Charleston County, South Carolina.

Questions about these terms: [email protected].