Terms of Service

Effective date: 1 June 2026 · Last updated: 10 August 2026

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern your use of the Caminantes mobile application (the “App”), operated by AFK Ventures (“we”, “us”, “our”), a business based in Denmark. Caminantes is published on Google Play under the developer name “Caminantes Project”. By downloading, accessing, or using the App, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the App.

1. Eligibility

You must be at least 13 years old (or the minimum digital-consent age in your country) to use the App. By using it, you confirm you meet this requirement.

2. Licence to use the App

We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the App for your own non-commercial use, subject to these Terms.

3. No warranty: the App and its data are provided “as is”

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the App and all content within it, including routes, stages, distances, elevation figures, points of interest, accommodation, contact details, and weather information, are provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, completeness, or non-infringement. We do not warrant that the App will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that any data is correct or current.

4. Navigation, accuracy and assumption of risk

• The App is a supplementary aid. Trail conditions, waymarking, distances, and facilities change; data may be wrong or outdated.
• You are solely responsible for your own route choices, navigation, safety, physical fitness, equipment, and decisions in the field.
• Always follow official waymarking and local guidance, carry appropriate maps and supplies, check conditions, and know your limits.
• Walking the Camino and similar routes involves inherent risks (terrain, weather, exertion, injury, becoming lost). You voluntarily assume these risks.

5. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, AFK Ventures and its operators shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss, injury, getting lost, property damage, or other harm, arising out of or relating to your use of (or inability to use) the App or your reliance on any data it provides, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law (including, where applicable, liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud). Where liability cannot be excluded, it is limited to the minimum permitted by law.

6. User-generated content

The App lets you submit content about points of interest (such as information, photos, and a venue's public contact details) (“User Content”). You are solely responsible for the content you submit, and you represent that:

• you have the right to submit it and to grant us the licence below;
• it is accurate to the best of your knowledge and not misleading;
• it does not infringe anyone's rights, is not unlawful, hateful, harassing, obscene, or otherwise objectionable, and does not contain private personal data of other people (submit only a venue's official, public contact details, never a private individual's).

By submitting User Content, you grant us a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, non-exclusive, transferable, and sublicensable licence to use, store, host, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, publicly display, and distribute your User Content, in any media now known or later developed, for any purpose connected with our business, including operating, improving, and promoting the App and our services (for example, in marketing materials and printed or digital guides). This licence continues with respect to content you have already submitted even if you later stop using the App. Submitted content is reviewed before it is published; we may decline, edit, or remove any content at our sole discretion. We do not guarantee the accuracy of User Content and are not liable for it.

We may also create, use, and commercialise aggregated and/or anonymised data derived from the App and from User Content (for example, compiled points-of-interest and route information) that does not identify any individual. We do not sell your personal data, see our Privacy Policy.

7. Messaging

The App lets you exchange direct messages with people you have added as Compañeros, and to create group conversations. You may only add your own Compañeros to a group; members of a group need not be Compañeros with one another.

Messages are subject to the same conduct rules as the rest of the App (see section 9). To limit spam and automated abuse, the App enforces a minimum interval between messages and applies escalating temporary restrictions, up to permanent exclusion from messaging, to accounts that send at an unrealistic volume.

Groups and administrators. Whoever creates a group is its administrator and may appoint others. Administrators may rename the group and remove members. Any member may leave; if the last administrator leaves, the role passes to the longest-standing remaining member. Leaving a group is not permanent: any remaining member who is your Compañero may add you back, so blocking, not leaving, is the way to end contact. A group conversation is retained even if every member leaves it.

Messages you send become part of the recipients' conversation. You may delete your own message for everyone within 5 minutes of sending it. After that, and after you delete your account, your messages remain in the conversations they were sent to. Deleting an account removes your profile and unlinks your past messages from you: your name, your picture and the internal account reference stored on each message are all deleted, so the messages cannot be traced back to you or to any account and are shown as sent by a former caminante. We keep the text because a conversation belongs to everyone in it: removing one participant's messages would rewrite the others' record of an exchange they took part in, and would let a user erase evidence of their own harassment. See our Privacy Policy for the data details.

Messages are not end-to-end encrypted. Do not use the App's messaging for information you need to keep confidential from us, and do not rely on it for anything safety-critical or time-critical: delivery is not guaranteed.

8. Reporting and moderation

You can report content you believe violates these Terms using the in-app report option. We review reports and may remove content and take action against accounts as described below. We are not obligated to monitor User Content but reserve the right to do so.

9. Acceptable use: prohibited conduct

You agree not to:

• break the law or these Terms, or infringe others' rights;
• submit objectionable, infringing, or false content;
• attempt to disrupt, overload, or exploit the App or its backend, including automated or excessive requests, scraping, or abusing reads/writes;
• reverse-engineer, tamper with, or circumvent security or app-attestation measures;
• access the App by any means other than the official published application.

10. Suspension and termination

We may, at our sole discretion and without notice, suspend, ban, or terminate your account or access, and remove content, if we believe you have violated these Terms, abused or exploited the service, or created risk or cost to us or other users. You may stop using the App and delete your account at any time (see our Privacy Policy for deletion).

11. Third-party services

The App relies on third-party services including Google Firebase (accounts, database, storage), Mapbox (maps and search), and Open-Meteo (weather). Their content and availability are outside our control and are subject to their own terms; we are not responsible for them.

12. Indemnification

To the extent permitted by law, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless AFK Ventures and its operators from any claims, damages, or expenses arising from your use of the App, your User Content, or your violation of these Terms.

13. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. For material changes, we will give you at least 30 days' advance notice before they take effect, by in-app notice and/or email, and update the “Last updated” date above. If you do not agree to the updated Terms, you must stop using the App and may delete your account. Continued use of the App after the changes take effect means you accept the updated Terms.

14. Dispute resolution

Nothing in this section affects the mandatory consumer-protection rights you have under the laws of your country of residence. In particular, if you are a consumer in the EU/EEA or the UK, you keep the right to bring proceedings in the courts of your home country, and this section does not apply to you to the extent it would override those rights.

If you are a resident of the United States, then to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law: (a) any dispute or claim relating to these Terms or the App will be resolved by binding individual arbitration rather than in court (except that either party may bring an individual claim in small-claims court); and (b) you and we waive any right to participate in a class, collective, consolidated, or representative action. If this class-action waiver is found unenforceable, the remainder of this section still applies to the extent permitted.

15. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of Denmark, without regard to conflict-of-law rules, and subject to any mandatory consumer-protection rights you have in your country of residence.

16. Contact

Questions about these Terms? Email hello@caminantes.co.