Terms of Use
These terms cover your use of the TrailForge app and this website. By using either, you agree to them. TrailForge is provided by Byte-Sized Systems.
The one that actually matters. TrailForge gives training and fuelling guidance, not medical advice. Its recommendations follow published sports-nutrition consensus and general training principles — they are not personalised clinical advice, and no doctor or dietitian has reviewed your situation. Use your own judgement, and talk to a qualified professional before making significant changes, especially if you have a medical condition, take medication, are pregnant, or have a history of gastrointestinal or cardiovascular problems.
Pre-release software
TrailForge is distributed through Apple TestFlight and is pre-release software. It will contain defects. Features may change or be withdrawn without notice, and a beta build stops working 90 days after it is uploaded — that is Apple's rule, not ours. Keep anything you can't afford to lose backed up elsewhere; during the beta we cannot guarantee your data will survive every change.
Your account
You may use TrailForge as a guest or sign in with Apple or Google. You are responsible for keeping access to your device and sign-in provider secure. You must be at least 16 to use the app.
Guest accounts are tied to that installation. If you sign out of a guest session, delete the app, or lose the device without first linking an Apple or Google account, that data cannot be recovered — there is no identifier left to recover it with. The app warns you before this happens.
Acceptable use
- Don't attempt to break, overload, reverse-engineer or gain unauthorised access to the service or its backend.
- Don't upload unlawful content, or content you have no right to use.
- Don't use the service to build a competing dataset, or scrape it automatically.
- Respect the terms of the services you connect — Garmin's and Strava's terms continue to apply to your data on their platforms.
Your content
Your training data, routes and plans remain yours. You grant us only the limited permission needed to store, process and display that data back to you so the app can function. We claim no ownership, and we do not use your content to promote TrailForge without asking you first.
Third-party services
TrailForge depends on services we don't control — Garmin, Strava, Apple WeatherKit, Mapbox and Apple's push notifications among them. If one of those changes its terms, its pricing or its availability, the corresponding feature may degrade or disappear. We are not responsible for those services, and connecting them is your choice.
Availability
We aim to keep TrailForge running but make no uptime promise. We may suspend the service for maintenance, or discontinue it entirely. If we discontinue it, we will give reasonable notice and a way to retrieve your data.
Disclaimers and liability
TrailForge is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind to the fullest extent the law allows. Distances, elevation, pace, grade-adjusted pace, calorie estimates, forecasts and fuelling figures are estimates derived from third-party data and models. They can be wrong. Do not rely on them for navigation, for safety, or as your only input to a decision in the mountains.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, lost data, or loss arising from your reliance on the app's estimates or guidance. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited — including for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud. If you are a consumer, your statutory rights are unaffected.
Payment
TrailForge is currently free to use and contains no purchases or subscriptions. If that changes, we will tell you clearly before any charge applies, and you will never be charged without agreeing first.
Ending it
You can stop using TrailForge at any time and ask us to delete your account — see the privacy policy for how. We may suspend or end your access if you materially breach these terms.
Changes
We may update these terms. If a change materially affects you, we will say so in the app before it takes effect. Continuing to use TrailForge afterwards means you accept the updated terms.
Governing law
These terms are governed by Norwegian law, and disputes fall to the Norwegian courts. If you are a consumer resident elsewhere in the EEA, you keep the protection of the mandatory consumer law of your country of residence.