Groundwind terms of use

Terms of use.

These terms are an agreement between you and Groundwind Inc. They cover the Groundwind app, this site, the spots we build and everything else we offer (together, "Groundwind"). Using Groundwind means you agree to them, so please read them. If you don't agree, don't use Groundwind. Our privacy policy says what happens to your information.

Last updated 2 November 2026

1. Out there, the decisions are yours

Groundwind predicts the wind at head height, where your scent goes, the thermals, the habitat, where game may move and when, routes, sight lines and shooting lanes. Every one of those is worked out from forecasts, models and public data. They can be wrong, sometimes badly, above all in light and changing wind. Your own eyes and a puff of powder at your spot come first.

• It isn't a navigation or safety device. Carry a map, a compass and a way to call for help, and don't rely on Groundwind in an emergency. A phone can die, lose its fix or lose its data.
• Forecasts can be late, incomplete or missing. That includes weather by satellite, which depends on texting networks we don't control. What's saved on your phone ages while you're out of signal.
• Boundaries and rules shown are for reference only. That includes property lines, Crown and public land, parks, closures, management units, military land and hunting regulations. They can be out of date or wrong. It's up to you to know the law where you hunt, carry the right licences and tags, and get permission to be on private land.
• Hunt safely. Follow firearm, bow and treestand safety, and the laws where you are.

Nothing in Groundwind is legal advice, and nothing in it means it's legal, safe or allowed to hunt, shoot or travel somewhere.

2. Who can use it

You must be at least 13. If you're under the age of majority where you live, a parent or guardian must agree to these terms for you. An account is for one person. Keep the email you sign in with secure, because anyone who can read it can sign in as you. You're responsible for what happens under your account.

3. What you can use it for

Groundwind is for your own hunting, scouting and time outdoors, and your party's. Using it in a guiding, outfitting or other business needs our written OK first.

4. The rules

When you use Groundwind, don't:

• Copy, sell, rent or pass on the app, its maps, its data files or the spots we build. The exception is sharing a spot or pins with people you hunt with, the way the app lets you.
• Download in bulk, scrape, or use bots or scripts to collect anything from Groundwind. Saving a spot to your phone for offline use, as the app does, is fine.
• Decode, take apart or reverse engineer the app or its data files, except where the law allows it despite this term.
• Use anything from Groundwind to build, train, tune, test or benchmark a product, service or model that competes with Groundwind or does what it does. That includes its wind, scent, habitat and other outputs, its data files and its methods.
• Get around limits, locks or access controls, or open spots and files that weren't shared with you.
• Overload, attack or interfere with Groundwind or the people who use it.
• Send false wind checks or junk on purpose.
• Use Groundwind to break the law, to harass anyone, or in a way that puts other people at risk.

5. Your pins, log and checks

What you put into Groundwind stays yours: your pins, notes, hunt log, tracks, wind checks and feedback. You give us permission to store, copy and process it as needed to run Groundwind for you. That covers keeping it on your account, getting it to your other phones, and delivering what you send to your party.

Shared wind checks. When you choose to share your wind checks, you give Groundwind Inc. a worldwide, royalty-free, permanent licence to use, copy, analyse and change them to improve Groundwind, including to train and test our models. We can also use and keep what we learn from them. We never show your checks to other hunters. If you switch sharing off, we stop receiving them. If you ask us to delete the ones we hold, we will, but a model that has already learned from them keeps what it learned.

Ideas. If you send us feedback or ideas, we can use them without owing you anything.

You confirm you have the right to everything you put into Groundwind.

6. Sharing with others

A spot built for you is kept behind a private link, and anyone with that link can open it. Your party sees what you send it. You choose who gets your links and who joins your party, and you're responsible for that choice. Don't share a spot you don't have the right to share, and don't post spot links publicly.

7. Paid features

Some features, such as HD spots, may cost money. Before you pay, we'll show you the price, what's included, how long it lasts and the refund terms. Prices are in the currency shown, plus any taxes. A payment provider handles payment, and we never see your card number. We may change prices for future purchases, but never for one you've already made.

8. Other people's data

Groundwind's maps, imagery, elevation, forest, weather and regulations come from governments and companies, under their own licences, and we credit them. They can change or stop, and when they do, we may have to change or drop a layer.

9. What's ours

Groundwind Inc. or the people who license to us own the following:

• the app and this site
• our models and methods, and the wind and scent they work out
• the data files and the spots we build
• the Groundwind name and mark

We give you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use them under these terms, and we can end it if you break them. Nothing else is granted.

10. The beta, changes and stopping

Groundwind is in beta. Features will change, some will break, and some may go away. We may suspend or end your access if you break these terms, or to protect Groundwind or the people who use it. You can stop using Groundwind at any time and delete your account in the app. If these terms end, sections 1, 4, 5, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15 still apply.

11. No promises

As far as the law allows, Groundwind is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied. That includes warranties of accuracy, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We don't promise that Groundwind will be accurate, complete, available or free of errors. We don't promise you'll see game, get a shot, or fill a tag.

12. Limits on our liability

As far as the law allows, Groundwind Inc. and its owners, staff and suppliers aren't liable for the following:

• any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages
• lost hunts, tags, trips or travel costs, or lost data
• injury, loss or damage from relying on Groundwind's predictions, maps or boundaries

For any claim about Groundwind, our total liability is the greater of what you paid us in the 12 months before the claim, or 50 Canadian dollars.

13. Your rights where you live

Some places, including Québec, don't allow some of the exclusions and limits in sections 11 and 12. Where they don't, those sections apply only as far as the law allows. Nothing in these terms takes away rights you have under consumer protection laws that can't be waived.

14. If you misuse it

Say you break these terms or the law using Groundwind, and someone makes a claim against us because of it. Then, as far as the law allows, you'll cover our reasonable costs and losses from that claim.

15. Law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada that apply there. Disputes go to the courts of Ontario, unless consumer protection laws where you live give you the right to bring them there. Before anything formal, write to us. Most things can be sorted out by email.

16. Changes to these terms

When these terms change, we'll post the new version here with a new date. If a change matters, we'll tell you in the app or by email before it takes effect. Using Groundwind after that means you accept the new terms.

17. Everything else

These terms and our privacy policy are the whole agreement between you and us about Groundwind. If a court finds part of them unenforceable, the rest still stands. If we don't enforce a term right away, we can still enforce it later. We may transfer these terms to a company that takes over Groundwind. You may not transfer them without our OK.

18. Contact

Groundwind Inc., Ontario, Canada. hello@groundwind.app. Questions about your information go to privacy@groundwind.app.