Route Foundry licence terms
In plain terms: you may use Route Foundry on your own Apple devices. The routes and files you create are yours, entirely. The app is a navigation aid — you remain responsible for where you go and how you get there. It is provided without warranty, and our liability is limited to what you paid for it.
1. Who this is between
This agreement is between you and Divith Technologies, Kumta, Karnataka, India ("we", "us"), the developer and publisher of the Route Foundry iPhone application ("the App"). By downloading, installing or using the App you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, do not install or use the App.
Your privacy is governed by the Route Foundry privacy policy, which forms part of this agreement.
2. Licence
We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to install and use the App on Apple-branded devices that you own or control, in accordance with the App Store Terms of Service and the Usage Rules in Apple's Media Services Terms and Conditions.
The App is licensed, not sold, to you. We and our licensors retain all right, title and interest in the App itself, including its code, design and trade marks. No rights are granted other than those expressly stated here.
3. What you may not do
- Copy, distribute, sell, rent, lease or sublicense the App, except as the App Store Usage Rules permit.
- Reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the App, except to the extent that applicable law expressly permits despite this restriction.
- Remove or obscure any copyright, trade mark, attribution or map-data credit displayed by the App.
- Use the App in breach of any law, or in breach of the licence attached to map or routing data you import.
You are responsible for having the right to use any map pack, routing pack or route file you import. The App does not download such data on your behalf and does not grant you rights in it.
4. Trial, purchase and refunds
The App is free to download and includes a 21-day trial of every feature. Nothing is metered during the trial and time is its only limit. Nothing is charged when the trial ends — there is no subscription and no automatic renewal of any kind. The trial simply stops.
Continuing to create, edit, record or import after the trial requires a single one-time in-app purchase ("the unlock"), sold through the Apple App Store at the price Apple displays for your storefront.
What happens if you do not buy it. Nothing you made is taken away or deleted. Every route already in your library stays open and readable, its statistics and elevation profile stay visible, and every route can still be exported as a standard GPX file, at any time, with or without the unlock. What stops is making new things: creating, editing, recording, importing offline packs, and exporting the FIT, TCX, KML and project formats.
What "one-time" means. The unlock is permanent for the App on your Apple Account, and is restored on your other devices and on a reinstall through Apple's Restore Purchases. There is no renewal, no expiry and no re-purchase. It is verified on your device, so it keeps working with no connection.
What "one-time" does not mean. It is a purchase of the App as it exists, not a promise that every feature will exist forever or that any particular third-party service will remain available. Features may be added, changed or removed between versions, and services outside our control — Apple's mapping services, or the public terrain dataset described in clause 7 — may change their terms, restrict access or shut down. We will not charge you again for the App if that happens, and your routes remain yours and exportable regardless, but we cannot warrant the continued availability of anything we do not operate.
Refunds are handled by Apple, under the App Store Terms of Service — we cannot issue, approve or refuse one. Request a refund at reportaproblem.apple.com. Where Apple refunds a purchase, the unlock ends and the App returns to the state described above; your routes are still not deleted. Nothing here limits any statutory right of withdrawal or refund you have as a consumer.
Apple handles the payment in full. We never receive your card, bank or Apple Account details, and we hold no record of your purchase — see the privacy policy.
5. Safety
The App is a route planning aid, not an authority, and it is not a navigation device. It does not provide turn-by-turn guidance. Roads, trails, access rights and conditions change. Map data, elevation data and routing results can be incomplete, out of date or simply wrong. Satellite positioning can be inaccurate or unavailable.
You are solely responsible for your own safety and for the safety of those with you. Obey all traffic law, signage, access restrictions and local guidance. Keep your attention on the road or the terrain rather than on the screen, and do not operate the App while riding or driving. Carry means of navigation and communication that do not depend on your phone's battery. Do not rely on the App or on a route planned with it as your only means of navigation in remote terrain, in poor weather, or in any situation where a navigational error could cause harm.
A route the App produces or displays is a suggestion. It is not a certification that a way is passable, legal, safe or open to you. Elevation figures are derived from a terrain model, not surveyed, and are estimates.
6. Your routes and files
Everything you create in the App — routes, waypoints, notes and recorded tracks — belongs to you. We claim no ownership of it and no licence over it. We do not receive it: the App has no backend, and nothing is uploaded to us.
Because your data is stored only on your device, keeping it is your responsibility. The App writes recordings point by point and recovers interrupted sessions, but no software can guarantee against device loss, device failure or accidental deletion. Export anything that matters, and keep a device backup.
7. Third-party components and data
The App includes open-source components, each under its own licence — MapLibre Native (BSD 2-Clause), GRDB.swift (MIT), ZIPFoundation (MIT) and Valhalla (MIT), among others. The complete list is inside the App under Settings → About → Acknowledgements, and those licences govern those components. Nothing in this agreement limits rights you have under them.
Certain features use Apple's mapping services (the online basemap, Smart Routing and place search). Your use of those features is additionally subject to Apple's own terms and privacy policy. Map or routing data you import remains subject to whatever licence it carries — for OpenStreetMap derived data, typically the Open Database Licence, which requires attribution the App displays on the map.
Terrain data. Elevation is calculated on your device from terrain images the App downloads from Terrain Tiles, a free public dataset hosted by Amazon Web Services under the AWS Open Data programme. The App sends only a tile number and never your route; see the privacy policy for exactly what that request contains. That dataset is operated by third parties, is provided without any service level agreement, and we neither control nor warrant its continued availability, accuracy or terms. If it becomes unavailable, elevation for areas you have already planned in continues to work from data cached on your device, and the rest of the App is unaffected. Its licence requires that its sources be credited, and the App does so under Settings → About → Acknowledgements.
We host no map, terrain or routing data ourselves and download none on your behalf. Offline map and routing packs are files you supply.
8. Apple-specific terms
These terms apply because the App is distributed through the Apple App Store. Apple Inc. and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of this agreement and have the right to enforce it against you.
- Not a party. This agreement is between you and us only, not with Apple. We, not Apple, are solely responsible for the App and its content.
- Maintenance and support. Apple has no obligation to furnish any maintenance or support for the App. Support is provided by us, as described on the support page.
- Warranty. In the event of any failure of the App to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price (if any) for the App. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to the App.
- Product claims. We, not Apple, are responsible for addressing any claims relating to the App, including product liability claims, any claim that the App fails to conform to a legal or regulatory requirement, and claims arising under consumer protection or similar legislation.
- Intellectual property. In the event of a third-party claim that the App infringes that party's intellectual property rights, we, not Apple, are solely responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement and discharge of that claim.
- Legal compliance. You represent that you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. Government embargo or designated as a "terrorist supporting" country, and that you are not listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
9. No warranty
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the App is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranty of any kind, whether express, implied or statutory, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, or non-infringement.
We do not warrant that the App will be uninterrupted or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or that any route, distance, elevation figure or duration estimate it produces will be accurate, complete or suitable for your purpose. We do not warrant the availability, accuracy or continuation of any third-party service or dataset the App relies on, including those named in clause 7.
Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so some of the above may not apply to you. Nothing in these terms limits or excludes rights you have as a consumer that cannot be limited or excluded by law.
10. Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, profits, revenue, goodwill or opportunity, arising out of or in connection with your use of or inability to use the App — even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.
Our total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to the App is limited to the greater of the amount you actually paid for the App or INR 1,000.
Nothing in this agreement excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for any other liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.
11. Term and termination
This licence takes effect when you install the App and continues until terminated. It terminates automatically if you materially breach it. You may terminate it at any time by deleting the App, which also deletes all data the App holds. Sections 5 through 9 and 12 survive termination.
12. Updates and changes
We may release updates that add, change or remove features. Where an update materially changes what the App stores, where it sends data, or which permissions it requires, the privacy policy is updated before that version ships.
We may amend these terms; the effective date at the top of this page changes when we do. Continuing to use the App after an amendment takes effect means you accept the amended terms. If you do not, delete the App.
13. Governing law and jurisdiction
This agreement is governed by the laws of India. Subject to the paragraph below, the courts at Kumta, Karnataka, India have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising out of or in connection with it.
If you are a consumer resident in the European Union, the United Kingdom or another jurisdiction whose law grants you the right to bring proceedings in your place of residence and to the protection of that jurisdiction's mandatory consumer law, nothing in this clause removes that right.
14. Contact
Divith Technologies, Kumta, Karnataka, India.
contactnaikprajwal@gmail.com