Globetta Terms of Use

Effective date: 11.11.2026.

1. Who we are and what these terms cover

1.1. These terms are an agreement between you and Daniel Makaov, Boschstraße 24/3/5, 1190 Wien, Austria ("we"), on the use of the Globetta mobile app (the "app"). Full details about us are in the legal notice: https://globetta.org/impressum.

1.2. By downloading or using the app you accept these terms. How we handle your data is described in the Privacy Policy: https://globetta.org/privacy.

1.3. If you are a consumer, these terms do not limit the rights granted to you by mandatory consumer protection law — Austrian law or the law of the country where you live.

1.4. Contact: support@globetta.org or "Settings → Contact Support".

2. What the app is

2.1. Globetta is a personal travel journal: a globe and a detailed map, country and city marks, trips and routes, offline maps, a journal with photos and voice notes, documents with expiry dates, country information, friends.

2.2. The app works without an account and mostly offline: your data is stored on your phone. An account is needed for syncing between devices and for friends.

2.3. Some features rely on third-party services: detailed map, terrain, weather, air quality, trail routing, points of interest along a route (section 10).

2.4. The app is free. Additional features are available with a Premium subscription (section 6). From the version in which ads are enabled, the free version shows ads (section 7).

3. Age

3.1. You must be at least 16 years old to use the app.

4. Account

4.1. An account is created with an email address and a password. Use your own valid email and keep your password secret. Tell us if you believe someone else is using your account.

4.2. One account per person. Accounts may not be transferred.

4.3. You can delete your account at any time in the app: "Settings → Account → Delete Account". What is deleted is described in the Privacy Policy. Deleting your account does not cancel an Apple subscription (section 6.4).

5. Your content and community rules

5.1. Everything you put into the app remains yours: marks, trips, entries, photos, voice notes, profile, messages. You grant us only the rights without which the app cannot work: to store and sync what you send to the server, and to show your profile to other people to the extent described in the Privacy Policy. These rights last as long as we store the content.

5.2. You are responsible for your content. Do not post or send anything through the app that breaks the law or infringes the rights of others.

5.3. Community rules. Online friends (search by username, requests, people's cards) are available only after you accept the community rules in the app. We have zero tolerance for objectionable content and for people who post it. Not allowed: insults, threats, bullying and harassment; hate speech; sexual content, and never in any form involving minors; calls for violence or self-harm; spam and fraud; impersonation; other people's personal data without consent. The app does not let you save or send obvious insults.

You can report a person or their content on the person's card — "Report". There you can also "Block": the person immediately disappears from your friends and search, cannot see you and cannot send you a request; the list of blocked people is in "Settings → Account → Blocked". We review reports within 24 hours and may remove content, remove the offender from the community or close the account — without warning in case of a serious violation. Contact: support@globetta.org, also available in the app ("Contact Support").

5.4. Decisions on reports. We will inform you of any decision affecting your content or account, with reasons. If you disagree, write to support@globetta.org within 6 months and a human will review the decision. This does not affect your right to go to court. Anyone, including people without an account, can notify us of illegal content at the same email.

5.5. Travel companions and chat — once they become available in the app. We do not vet users and are not responsible for meetings or joint trips. Use ordinary caution when making arrangements with strangers.

6. Premium subscription

6.1. Premium is a paid subscription. What it includes is shown on the purchase screen before you buy. From the version in which ads appear, Premium removes them. Options: monthly and yearly. The title, duration and full renewal price are shown on the purchase screen before you buy.

6.2. The subscription is sold by Apple through the App Store; payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. The App Store terms (Apple Media Services Terms) also apply.

6.3. Auto-renewal. The subscription renews automatically for the same period at the current price unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the new period begins.

6.4. How to cancel. "iOS Settings → [your name] → Subscriptions → Globetta" or "Manage Subscription" on the Premium screen in the app. Access continues until the end of the paid period. After that, everything you have added stays — countries, trips, diary and photos; only Premium features are locked. Deleting the app or your account does not cancel the subscription.

6.5. Free trial. If a free trial is offered, its duration is shown on the purchase screen before you buy. Unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the trial ends, the paid period begins. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when you purchase a subscription.

6.6. Restoring purchases. On a new phone or after reinstalling, tap "Restore Purchases" on the Premium screen. The subscription is restored for the same Apple Account; if you sign in to your Globetta account, Premium works on all your devices with that account.

6.7. Right of withdrawal and refunds. The right of withdrawal (14 days in the EU) and refunds are handled by Apple as the seller under its own rules: https://reportaproblem.apple.com. We cannot refund App Store purchases ourselves.

6.8. Price changes. Apple will notify you of a price increase in advance and, where required, ask for your consent. If you do not agree, the subscription will not renew.

6.9. Changes to Premium. We develop the app and may change what Premium includes where this is reasonable and does not materially worsen Premium for you — for example, if a third-party data provider stops its service. We will announce material changes in advance; you may cancel the subscription (section 6.4).

7. Advertising (from the version in which it is enabled)

7.1. The free version shows Google AdMob ads. Banners appear in lists and settings, never over the map or next to buttons. Full-screen ads appear only after a completed action (for example, an offline map downloaded or a GPX exported), at most once per two such actions, and never at launch. There are no ads in the widget or Live Activity.

7.2. Personalised ads only with your consent (Privacy Policy, section 9). To change your choice: "Settings → Ad Settings".

7.3. Advertisers are responsible for their ads and products. Ads may lead to other sites where their own terms apply.

7.4. Premium removes ads.

8. Routes, mountains, weather — safety notice

8.1. Information in the app is for reference only. This applies to maps, routed trails, elevation profiles, travel times, weather and air quality, points of interest along a route (water, shelters, places of worship), offline maps, country information (emergency numbers, plugs, currencies, documents), document expiry reminders and the Schengen 90/180 day count: it is based on your own records and does not replace an official calculation or the decision of border authorities.

8.2. The app is not a navigation device and does not replace common sense, experience, official sources or local rules. In particular:

• trails are routed automatically from OpenStreetMap data. They may cross closed, private, damaged, dangerous or seasonally impassable sections, glaciers, scree, fords or cliffs — and may miss a path that exists;
• travel time is an estimate from distance, ascent and pace. It does not account for weather, snow, your fitness or load;
• elevation profiles are computed from digital terrain models and may differ from reality, especially on steep slopes;
• weather is a forecast; in the mountains it changes faster than any forecast;
• a water source may be dry or unsafe to drink, a shelter closed or ruined; points of interest are mapped by volunteers and may be incomplete or outdated;
• an offline map reflects the state on the day it was downloaded;
• your phone may run out of battery, lose signal or break;
• check emergency numbers and entry rules with official sources.

8.3. You decide whether and where to go. Before setting out: check the route against official maps and with local services, check the forecast and avalanche conditions, register with mountain rescue where customary, carry a paper map, a compass or a separate GPS device, enough food, water and warm clothing, and tell someone your route and expected return time.

9. Offline maps and acceptable use

9.1. Offline maps are downloaded by a person, by tapping, for a trip area or along a route, within the app's limits (zoom, size, one part at a time).

9.2. You must not:

• automatically or massively extract maps, terrain or other data through the app or by bypassing it;
• use the app or its servers as a data source for other services;
• circumvent the app's limits, including access to Premium;
• reverse engineer, decompile or modify the app, except where expressly permitted by law;
• interfere with the app or the servers it connects to.

10. Third-party data and sources

10.1. The app shows data from open and third-party sources. Rights holders and licences: "Settings → About → Data Sources & Licenses" and the ⓘ button on the detailed map. Main sources:

• OpenStreetMap — © OpenStreetMap contributors, database licensed under ODbL 1.0 (map, trails, points of interest);
• OpenMapTiles and OpenFreeMap — map schema and tiles;
• Mapterhorn — terrain and elevation profiles (mapterhorn.com/attribution), including Copernicus WorldDEM-30: "produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The organisations in charge of the Copernicus programme by law or by delegation do not incur any liability for any use of the Copernicus WorldDEM-30.";
• Open-Meteo — weather and air quality (including Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service data), CC BY 4.0;
• Geoapify — trail routing; points of interest — OpenStreetMap data via an Overpass server;
• Natural Earth — public domain; Noto Sans font — SIL OFL 1.1; Maki icons — CC0.

10.2. GPX files contain source attributions (OpenStreetMap — ODbL; elevations — Mapterhorn and Copernicus). Keep these lines when sharing a file: the attribution obligation passes to the recipient.

10.3. Third-party services operate under their own rules and may change or stop. We will try to replace a source; if a Premium feature is materially affected, section 6.9 applies.

11. Rights in the app

11.1. The app, its code, design and texts, except your content and third-party data, belong to us. We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use the app on Apple devices that you own or control, as permitted by the App Store Usage Rules.

11.2. Open-source components are distributed under their own licences; the texts are on the "Data Sources & Licenses" screen.

12. Warranty and updates

12.1. If you are a consumer, you have statutory rights in case of defects of the app (in Austria under the Consumer Warranty Act, VGG). These terms do not limit them.

12.2. We provide the updates needed to keep the app working and secure. Please install them: we are not liable for defects that an installed update would have prevented, if we informed you of the update and the consequences of not installing it.

12.3. Your data is stored primarily on your phone. Make regular backups: "Settings → Data → Save Backup".

13. Liability

13.1. We are liable without limitation for damage caused intentionally or by gross negligence, and for injury to life, body or health regardless of the degree of fault.

13.2. We are not liable for damage caused by slight negligence, other than injury to life, body or health, to the extent permitted by applicable law.

13.3. Liability under product liability law and any other liability that cannot be limited by law remains unaffected.

14. Changes to these terms and to the app

14.1. We may change these terms for a valid reason, such as a change in law, new features or changes to third-party services. We will announce any change that materially affects your rights in the app at least 30 days before it takes effect and explain what changes. If you do not agree, you may stop using the app, delete your account and cancel your subscription before that date.

14.2. We may change, add and remove features of the free version.

15. Term and termination

15.1. This agreement lasts as long as you use the app. You may end it at any time by deleting your account and the app. Cancel a subscription separately (section 6.4).

15.2. We may suspend your account or social features in case of serious or repeated violations of these terms (section 5.3), with prior warning where possible. If you paid for Premium and access is suspended through no fault of yours, you may request a refund for the unused period via Apple (section 6.7); we cannot refund App Store purchases ourselves. This does not limit your statutory rights.

15.3. If we discontinue the app, we will give at least 30 days' notice and an opportunity to save your data. Data on your phone remains yours.

16. Governing law and disputes

16.1. Austrian law applies, excluding its conflict-of-law rules and the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. If you are a consumer living in another country, you keep the protection of the mandatory provisions of that country's law (Art. 6(2) Rome I Regulation).

16.2. If you are a consumer, you may sue in the courts of your place of residence, and we may sue you only there. For businesses, the competent court is the court having subject-matter jurisdiction in Vienna.

16.3. Please write to us first: support@globetta.org. We are neither willing nor obliged to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board.

17. Apple-specific terms

The app is distributed through the App Store, and Apple's standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement applies to it: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/. These terms supplement it. In addition:

17.1. These terms are concluded between you and us, not with Apple Inc. We, not Apple, are solely responsible for the app and its content.

17.2. The licence in section 11.1 applies only on Apple-branded products under your Apple Account and as permitted by the App Store Usage Rules.

17.3. We are solely responsible for providing maintenance and support for the app; Apple has no obligation to do so.

17.4. If the app fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price, if any. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation with respect to the app.

17.5. We, not Apple, are responsible for addressing any claims relating to the app, including product liability claims, claims that the app fails to conform to legal or regulatory requirements, consumer protection and privacy claims, and third-party claims of intellectual property infringement.

17.6. You represent that you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. Government embargo and are not listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.

17.7. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and may enforce them against you.

18. Contact

Daniel Makaov, Boschstraße 24/3/5, 1190 Wien, Austria
support@globetta.org · https://globetta.org